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Horoscopes with Apollon in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Henri Lafont (excerpt)
Henri Chamberlin, known as Henri Lafont, born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on April 22, 1902, and executed by firing squad at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on December 26, 1944, was a career criminal and a French collaborator who, during World War II, served as the head of the French Gestapo (the "Carlingue") under German occupation.
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Biography of Theos Casimir Bernard (excerpt)
Theos Casimir Hamati Bernard (10 December 1908 – October 1947) was an American explorer and author known for his work on yoga and religious studies (particularly in Tibetan Buddhism). He was the nephew of Pierre Arnold Bernard, "Oom the Omnipotent", and like him became a yoga celebrity.
Biography of Ricardo Flórez (painter) (excerpt)
Ricardo Flórez Gutiérrez de Quintanilla, born on May 7, 1893, in Lima, Peru, and died on October 20, 1983, in Tomayquichua, was a distinguished Peruvian painter. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima under Teófilo Castillo and Daniel Hernández, he began his career as a professor there.
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Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.
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Biography of Enrique Iturriaga (excerpt)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero (born April 3, 1918, in Lima, Peru – died November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer, professor, pianist, rector, teacher, and music critic. Iturriaga studied composition, music theory, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music (1945-1950). He then continued his studies in Paris under Arthur Honegger.
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Biography of William Steinberg (excerpt)
William Steinberg (born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg) was a German conductor born on August 1, 1899, in Cologne and died on May 16, 1978, in New York. After studying under Hermann Abendroth, he became Otto Klemperer's assistant at the Cologne Opera in 1924. ![]()
Biography of Sheila Darcy (excerpt)
Sheila Darcy (born Rebecca Benedict Heffener August 8, 1914 – February 24, 2004), also known as "Rebecca Wassem", was an American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s. Born Rebecca Benedict Heffener in York, Pennsylvania, Darcy moved to Hollywood when she was 18 to pursue a career in acting.
Biography of George Stigler (excerpt)
George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an influential American economist and 1982 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his leadership in the Chicago school of economics. Born in Renton, he graduated from the University of Washington and Northwestern University before earning a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1938.
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Biography of William Randolph Hearst Jr. (excerpt)
William Randolph Hearst Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.
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Biography of Hans Werner Richter (excerpt)
Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer. Born the son of a fisherman in Neu Sallenthin on the island of Usedom, Richter worked first in a bookshop in Swinemünde (now Świnoujście in Poland) and later moved to Berlin.
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Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad. During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
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Biography of Hugh Carleton Greene (excerpt)
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG OBE (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. His time of birth comes from the biography "A Variety of Lives: A Biography of Sir Hugh Greene", Michael Tracey' (Bodley Head, 1983).
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Biography of Joseph L. Rauh Jr. (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Rauh Jr. (January 3, 1911 – September 3, 1992) was one of the United States' foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers. In his early career, he served as a lawyer in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and a clerk to Supreme Court justices Benjamin N.
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Biography of Alexis Grüss Senior (excerpt)
Alexis Grüss Senior, born on March 30, 1909, in Briey and deceased on February 3, 1985, in Paris 12th arrondissement, was a French circus artist from a prominent circus family in France. He was particularly known for his work with various circus companies, including Gruss-Jeannet, Radio-Circus, and Cirque Medrano.
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Biography of Lucía Sánchez Saornil (excerpt)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class Madrilenian family, she taught herself from an early age and began writing poems for the burgeoning Futurist and Ultraist movements.
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Biography of Pilar de Zubiaurre (excerpt)
Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Basque Country (Spain), July 24, 1884 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 1970) was a Basque intellectual, writer, pianist, and art dealer and manager who lived in exile in Mexico for more than thirty years as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Ernst Sorge (excerpt)
Ernst Sorge (* February 25, 1899, in Vieselbach; † April 28, 1946, in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was a German glaciologist, polar explorer, and geoscientist. He made significant contributions to glaciology with his glacier observations at the Eismitte station in Greenland. Sorge grew up in Berlin and studied geography and sciences before becoming a teacher.
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Biography of Carmen Montoriol (excerpt)
Carme Monturiol i Puig (25 June 1892 – 26 July 1966) was a Spanish writer, translator, storyteller, poet, and playwright from Barcelona. Born into a bourgeois family with intellectual and artistic influences, she grew up with a fascination for theater and music, becoming a concert pianist at 20.
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Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
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Biography of Jürgen Fehling (excerpt)
Jürgen Karl Geibel Fehling (born March 1, 1885, in Lübeck; died June 14, 1968, in Hamburg) was a German theater director and actor. Coming from a prestigious family in Lübeck, he initially studied theology and law before turning to theater in 1909.
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Biography of Adelchi Negri (excerpt)
Adelchi Negri (16 July 1876 – 19 February 1912) was an Italian pathologist and microbiologist born in Perugia. He studied medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia, where he was a pupil of Camillo Golgi (1843–1926). After graduation in 1900, he became an assistant to Golgi at his pathological institute.
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Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Francesco Camusso (excerpt)
Francesco Camusso (9 March 1908 – 23 June 1995) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. His time of birth comes from him. Camusso was born in Cumiana, Piedmont, and is ranked among the best Italian climbers ever. In his second year as professional, he won the 1931 Giro d'Italia.
Biography of Étienne Michelin (excerpt)
Étienne Michelin, born on January 4, 1898 in Clermont-Ferrand and died on August 27, 1932 (at the age of 34) in Saint-Genès-Champanelle (Puy-de-Dôme), the eldest son of Édouard Michelin and father of François Michelin, was co-manager of the Michelin manufacturing company since 1928. ![]()
Biography of Aida Lafuente (excerpt)
Aida de la Fuente Penaos (25 February 1915 in León – 13 October 1934 in Oviedo), better known as Aida Lafuente, was a Spanish communist militant who died in the Revolution of 1934 in Asturias after the repression by the Second Spanish Republic.
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Biography of Frida Leider (excerpt)
Frida Leider (April 18, 1888 – June 4, 1975) was a German dramatic soprano, renowned for her performances in Wagner's roles, especially Isolde and Brünnhilde. She also portrayed characters such as Beethoven's Fidelio, Mozart's Donna Anna, and Verdi's Aida and Leonora. She made over 80 recordings, mainly for Polydor and HMV.
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Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Biography of Pierre-Louis Flouquet (excerpt)
Pierre-Louis Flouquet, born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on February 21, 1900, and died in Dilbeek on October 25, 1967, was a Belgian abstract painter and poet. Settled in Brussels from 1910, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts during World War I.
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Biography of Natalie Sumner Lincoln (excerpt)
Natalie Sumner Lincoln (October 4, 1881 – August 31, 1935) was an American novelist who wrote mystery and crime novels mostly set in her native Washington, D.C. Natalie Sumner Lincoln was the daughter of Dr. Nathan Smith Lincoln, Civil War physician and White House physician to US President James A.
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Biography of Ernst David Bergmann (excerpt)
Ernst David Bergmann (October 18, 1903 – April 6, 1975) was an Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist, often considered the father of the Israeli nuclear program. Born in Germany, he studied chemistry at the University of Berlin and earned his Ph.D. in 1927.
Biography of Sandie Lindsay (excerpt)
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on May 14, 1879, in Glasgow, died on March 18, 1952, was a distinguished Scottish academic and peer. Starting his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Lindsay also worked at the University of Manchester before joining Balliol College, Oxford, where he became master.
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Biography of Vicente Segura (excerpt)
General Vicente Segura Martínez was a Mexican military officer and bullfighter who participated in the Mexican Revolution. Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, on December 12, 1883, he inherited a large fortune and built a bullring in his hometown. On January 27, 1907, he received his bullfighting alternative from Antonio Fuentes Zurita, with Ricardo Torres Reina "Bombita" as witness.
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Biography of Teodoro Picado Michalski (excerpt)
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica for four years (1944 to 1948).
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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.
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Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
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Biography of Antonio Monteiro (mathematician) (excerpt)
António Aniceto Monteiro (1907–1980) was a mathematician born in Portuguese Angola who later emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and finally to Argentina in 1950. Monteiro is best known for establishing a school of algebraic logic at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
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Biography of Delmer Daves (excerpt)
Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for his Westerns such as "Broken Arrow" (1950), "The Last Wagon" (1956), "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), and "The Hanging Tree" (1959).
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Biography of Liliana Amon (excerpt)
Liliana Amon, born Maria Liliana Brandstetter on June 23, 1892 in Linz, was an Austrian writer and muse. A model for Egon Schiele in 1909, she was also portrayed in literary works by Robert Musil and Franz Werfel. Active in Vienna’s artistic circles, she frequented cafés and met figures like Franz Werfel and Anton Kuh, who wrote the "Ten Commandments of Bibiana" inspired by her.
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Biography of Emmanuel de Blommaert (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Blommaert de Soye (15 October 1875 – 12 April 1944) was a Belgian horse rider who competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he won the bronze medal in the individual jumping competition, riding Clomore, and finished sixths with the Belgian team in the team jumping event.
Biography of Louis Alloin (excerpt)
Louis Alloin was a French politician, born on August 3, 1906, in La Clayette, Saône-et-Loire, and died on December 28, 1978, in Nice. He initially pursued studies in arts, crafts, and commerce and managed a hosiery business. During the Occupation of France in World War II, Alloin was actively involved in the Resistance and led the Liberation Committee of Bron in 1944.
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Biography of Loretta King Hadler (excerpt)
Loretta King Hadler (August 20, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress, best known for the brevity of her career and her work with director Ed Wood. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she performed in Mister Roberts at the Sombrero Playhouse during March 1954 with Don Taylor and Marshall Thompson.
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Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners. In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Sassy (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Sassy, born on July 29, 1915, in Tunis and died on December 9, 1992, in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French director, stage director, and screenwriter. Coming from a Corsican family, he was actively involved in the Resistance during World War II and received several honors.
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Biography of Tewhida Ben Sheikh (excerpt)
Tewhida Ben Sheikh (January 2, 1909 – December 6, 2010) was the first modern Tunisian woman to become a physician and a pioneer in women’s medicine, particularly in contraception and abortion access. Born in Tunis, she attended the Lycée de la rue de Russie and later earned her medical degree from the Faculté de médecine de Paris in 1936.
Biography of Mary Jane Croft (excerpt)
Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916 – August 24, 1999) was an American actress best known for roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Miss Daisy Enright on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks, Mary Jane Lewis on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, and Clara Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
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Biography of Harry Liedtke (excerpt)
Harry Liedtke (born October 10, 1882, in Königsberg, Province of East Prussia, German Empire; died April 28, 1945, in Bad Saarow) was a German actor. After his father's death in 1896, Harry Liedtke (the seventh child in a family of twelve) lived in an orphanage.
Biography of Johnny Lucadello (excerpt)
John Lucadello (February 23, 1919 – October 30, 2001) was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a second baseman, he appeared in 239 Major League games for the St. Louis Browns (1938–1941; 1946) and New York Yankees (1947). The 5 ft 11 in (1.
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Biography of Hugo Fischer (politician) (excerpt)
Hugo Fischer (born January 17, 1902, in Munich, died July 11, 1979, in Holzkirchen) was a German politician and chief of staff of the NSDAP Reich Propaganda Directorate. Fischer joined the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in Hitler's 1923 coup, receiving the Golden Party Badge and the Blood Order.
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Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
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Biography of Erwin Vierow (excerpt)
General Erwin Vierow (15 May 1890 – 1 February 1982) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and in the infantry and by the outbreak of World War II he had reached the rank of Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht. |
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