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birth charts with Zeus in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Jehan-Rictus (excerpt)
Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand, initially Gabriel Randon, who took the pseudonym Jehan Rictus (Jehan-Rictus with a hyphen from 1922), was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on September 21, 1867, and died in Paris on November 6, 1933. He was a French poet, famous for his works composed in the language of the common people of Paris of his time.
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The Orsini affair comprised the diplomatic, political and legal consequences of the "Orsini attempt" (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris.
Biography of Aribert of Anhalt (excerpt)
Prince Aribert Joseph Alexander of Anhalt (1866–1933) was the regent of Anhalt from September to November 1918 for his underage nephew, Joachim Ernst. During the German revolution, he abdicated on his nephew's behalf on 12 November 1918, ending the House of Ascania's rule.
Biography of Helene Stöcker (excerpt)
Helene Stöcker (13 November 1869 – 24 February 1943) was a German feminist, pacifist, journalist, author, and gender activist.She successfully campaigned to keep same sex relationships between women legal, but she was unsuccessful in her campaign to legalise abortion.She was a pacifist in Germany and joined the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
Biography of André Spire (excerpt)
André Spire (28 July 1868 – 29 July 1966) was a French writer, poet, and Zionist activist.Born into a Jewish middle-class family, he pursued literature and law, then entered the Council of State in 1894. He became involved in Dreyfus Affair politics and social welfare, founding a society to aid workers.
Biography of Alice Hegan Rice (excerpt)
Alice Hegan Rice, also known as Alice Caldwell Hegan, was an American novelist born on January 11, 1870, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. She gained fame with her 1901 novel "Mrs.Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," which was adapted into a play and four films.
Biography of Marcel Boulenger (excerpt)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger, born on September 9, 1873, in Paris 8th arrondissement and died on May 21, 1932, in Chantilly, was a French novelist, journalist, and fencer. He notably wrote several pastiches and "literary fakes," autobiographies attributed to imaginary characters, the most famous being Souvenirs du marquis de Floranges (1811-1834), preceded by a detailed biography of this fictional character, a hoax that deceived several scholars (reminiscent of Pierre Louÿs' feat with his Chansons de Bilitis).
Biography of Afonso V of Portugal (excerpt)
Afonso V (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was king of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Africa.
Biography of Mary Slessor (excerpt)
Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women's rights and protecting native children.
Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
Biography of Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (excerpt)
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (24 February 1883 – 17 December 1973) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Vatican Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969, and Dean of the College of Cardinals from 1972 until his death.
Biography of Carlos, Duke of Madrid (excerpt)
Don Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este (Spanish: Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidro José Francisco Quirico Antonio Miguel Gabriel Rafael; French: Charles Marie des Douleurs Jean Isidore Joseph François Cyr Antoine Michel Gabriel Raphaël; 30 March 1848 – 18 July 1909) was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain as Carlos VII from 1868 (his father's Spanish renunciation), and holder of the Legitimist claim to the throne of France under the name Charles XI after the death of his father in 1887.
Biography of Johanna Tesch (excerpt)
Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s. After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country.
Biography of Viktor von Sprösser (excerpt)
Viktor Felix Sprößer, born January 15, 1853, in Heilbronn and died December 26, 1925, in Stuttgart, was a Württemberg lieutenant general during World War I. The son of a merchant, he married Amalie Pfann.After completing his studies, he joined the Württemberg army in 1871 and advanced through the ranks.
Biography of Gustav Landauer (excerpt)
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. As an avowed pacifist, Landauer advocated the principle of "non-violent non-cooperation" in the tradition of Étienne de La Boétie and Leo Tolstoy.
Biography of Giuseppe Checchia Rispoli (excerpt)
Giuseppe Checchia Rispoli (San Severo, April 21, 1877 – Rome, November 30, 1947) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist. He graduated in 1900 with a degree in natural sciences, and earned his teaching qualification in 1908. He taught geology and paleontology at the universities of Palermo (from 1908), Cagliari (from 1926), and Rome (holding the chair of paleontology from 1928 and of geology from 1935).
Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
Biography of Antoni Ojrzynski (excerpt)
Antoni Ojrzyński (June 8, 1871 – July 16, 1967) was a Polish pharmacist, librarian, and book collector, as well as an active figure in tourism. After studying pharmacy, he worked in various pharmacies across Poland and opened his own in Nałęczów in 1898, later moving to Warsaw.
Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy.In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
Biography of Artur Dinter (excerpt)
Artur Dinter (Mulhouse, June 27, 1876 – Offenburg, Baden, May 21, 1948) was a German writer, philosopher, and politician. Initially a proponent of scientism, he later became a propagandist for an Aryan Christianity (Geistchristentum), founding a new unitarian German church, the Deutsche Volkskirche.
Biography of Lucien von Römer (excerpt)
Lucien Sophie Albert Marie von Römer (23 August 1873 – 23 December 1965) was a Dutch physician, botanist, and writer who often wrote about homosexuality, arguing it was an innate characteristic. Born in Kampen, Netherlands, he studied medicine at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, receiving his medical license in 1903.
Biography of Jean Verdier (Cardinal) (excerpt)
Jean Verdier, PSS (February 19, 1864 – April 9, 1940), was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of Paris from 1929 until his death and elevated to cardinalate in the same year. Born to a humble family in Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, Verdier studied at the seminary in Rodez before joining the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1886.
Biography of Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S.Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
Biography of Charles Murray (poet) (excerpt)
Charles Murray, born on September 28, 1864, and passing away on April 12, 1941, was a Scottish poet renowned for writing in the Doric dialect of Scots. Much of his poetry was penned during his time in South Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer.
Biography of Ludwik Krzywicki (excerpt)
Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki (1859-1941) was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist, and sociologist, and an early proponent of sociology in Poland. Born into an aristocratic family in Płock, he developed early interests in psychology, philosophy, and natural sciences, influenced by Darwin and others.
Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel.His main field of interest was electrochemistry.He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
Biography of Jean Daragon (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Émile Daragon (February 14, 1870 – April 7, 1923) was a French actor. Married to actress Marguerite Moreno, he left the stage to become a horse trader. Paul Léautaud mentioned this decision in his Journal littéraire (February 10, 1909), quoting Moreno:
Biography of Irma LeVasseur (excerpt)
Irma LeVasseur (January 20, 1877 – January 18, 1964) was a Canadian physician, a pioneer in pediatric medicine, and the first French-Canadian woman to become a doctor. Born in Quebec, she had to study medicine in the United States as it was prohibited for women in Canada.
Biography of Mentona Moser (excerpt)
Mentona Moser (19 October 1874 – 10 April 1971) was a Swiss social worker, communist functionary and writer. Born into wealth, she disapproved of high society, and became involved in philanthropic work, helping to launch the Swiss Communist Party and one of the first birth control clinics in Zürich.
Biography of María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Albert Capellani (excerpt)
Albert Capellani, born on August 23, 1874, in Paris 4th and died on September 26, 1931, in Paris 17th, was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. Long forgotten, he is now regarded as one of the greatest pioneers of world cinema, directing the first feature-length film adaptations of major works of French literature.
Biography of Mabel Forrest (excerpt)
Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest, born on 6 March 1872 near Yandilla, Queensland, was an Australian writer and journalist. She began writing early, but her first book, The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories, was published only in 1904. Her approximate time of birth comes from one of her poems, "When I Was Born", in which Forrest writes that she was born at night, in the early hours before sunrise.
Biography of Marie Heim-Vögtlin (excerpt)
Marie Heim-Vögtlin (7 October 1845 in Bözen – 7 November 1916 in Zürich) was the first female Swiss physician and a co-founder of the first Swiss gynaecological hospital. She received a private education in the Romandie and Zürich. After her fiancé left her, she decided to study medicine at the University of Zürich, which caused a national scandal.
Biography of Ada Nilsson (excerpt)
Ada Konstantia Nilsson (September 21, 1872 – May 23, 1964) was one of Sweden's first female medical doctors and a feminist activist.She co-founded the magazine Tidevarvet in 1923. Born in Södra Säms in 1872, she grew up on a farm.After her father's death, she moved to Stockholm.
Biography of Tina Di Lorenzo (excerpt)
Tina Di Lorenzo (born December 4, 1872 in Turin – died March 25, 1930 in Milan) was an Italian stage and silent film actress. The daughter of a Sicilian marquis and an actress, she was raised in Noto and began acting as a teenager, sometimes alongside her mother.
Biography of Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
Biography of Édouard Brissaud (excerpt)
Édouard Brissaud, born April 15, 1852, in Besançon and died December 19, 1909, in Paris, was a renowned French physician specializing in neurology, anatomo-pathology, and medical history. A student of Charcot, Broca, and Lasègue, he later became a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and a hospital physician.
Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch.
Biography of Abbé Chaupitre (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Victor Chaupitre, known as Abbé Chaupitre, born on October 22, 1859, in Gennes-sur-Seiche and died on April 21, 1934, in Naples, was a French Catholic priest and homeopath. Homeopathy, initiated by Hippocrates and developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 19th century, gained popularity in France, notably through healings within Napoleon III's circle.
Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor.She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
Biography of Frieda Lawrence (excerpt)
Frieda Lawrence (August 11, 1879 – August 11, 1956) was a German author and wife of the British novelist D.H.Lawrence.
Biography of Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
Biography of Mathilde of Saxony (1863) (excerpt)
Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (19 March 1863 – 27 March 1933), was the third child of George of Saxony and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal. As a young girl, she was quiet and gentle but not considered attractive.
Biography of Georg von Küchler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.
Biography of Joseph Teissier (excerpt)
Joseph Teissier, also known as Louis Anne Marie Joseph Teissier, was born in Lyon on October 1, 1851, and died there on June 13, 1926. He was a French doctor noted for co-authoring an extensive "Treatise on Internal Pathology" with Alphonse Laveran.
Biography of Louis Thévenet (excerpt)
Louis François Joseph Marie Thévenet, born in Bruges on February 12, 1874, and died in Halle on August 16, 1930, was a Belgian painter, also a watercolorist and draftsman. He was the brother of painter Pierre Thévenet and opera singer Cécile Thévenet. |
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