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birth charts 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. in ![]()
Biography of Robert Charroux (excerpt)
Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau (April 7, 1909 – June 24, 1978). He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme. Charroux was a pioneer of the theory of ancient astronauts, publishing at least six non-fiction works in this genre in the last decade of his life, including One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (1963, 1970), Forgotten Worlds (1973), Masters of the World (1974), The Gods Unknown (1964, 1974) and Legacy of the Gods (1965, 1974).
Biography of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (excerpt)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 4, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and influenced by Martin Heidegger, but his philosophy tended to focus on the phenomenological and corporeal foundations of perception.
Biography of Buckminister Fuller (excerpt)
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was the second President of Mensa. Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how." Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to improve humanity's condition that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do.
Biography of Maurice Druon (excerpt)
Maurice Druon (b.April 23, 1918 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 1460) - d.April 14, 2009) is a French novelist, politician, and member of Académie française. He was born in Paris. He is the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he wrote the Chant des Partisans, which, with music composed by Anna Marly, was used as an anthem by the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Biography of Harpo Marx (excerpt)
Arthur Marx (previously Adolph Marx), popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry.
Biography of George Sanders (excerpt)
George Sanders (born George Henry Sanders) (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Early life Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, of British parents.In 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, when Sanders was 11, the family returned to Britain and, like his brother, he attended Brighton College, a boys' independent school in Brighton.
Biography of Pablo Casals (excerpt)
Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is perhaps best remembered for the recording of the Bach: Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.
Biography of René Allendy (excerpt)
René Félix Allendy, born February 19, 1889 in Paris and died in 1942, was a French physician, homeopath, psychoanalyst and author. Works (extracts) La Psychanalyse et les névroses. (En collaboration avec René Laforgue, préface de Henri Claude). Payot, 1924. Le problčme de la destinée, étude sur la fatalité intérieure, Paris, Gallimard, 1927, (220 pages)
Biography of Guy Lux (excerpt)
Maurice Guy, best known as Guy Lux, born June 21, 1919 in Paris, died June 13, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French former actor, producer and TV host. He was famous also with the Schmilblick. The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 50s.
Biography of Gabriel Péri (excerpt)
Gabriel Péri (Peri) (February 9, 1902, Toulon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) — December 15, 1941, Fort Mont-Valérien) was a prominent French Communist journalist and politician. He was born to a Corsican family.Forced to give up his studies at an early age, he immersed himself in political activities, and wrote for newspapers in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles.
Biography of Eugčne Freyssinet (excerpt)
Eugčne Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer.He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrčze, France.He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where he designed several bridges until the First World War intervened.
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water.
Biography of Jack Benny (excerpt)
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!"
Biography of Fritz Lang (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer.One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the BFI.
Biography of W. H. Auden (excerpt)
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973, pronounced /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/) who signed his works W.H.Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content.
Biography of Raymond Abellio (excerpt)
Raymond Abellio is the pseudonym of French writer Georges Soulčs.He was born November 11, 1907 in Toulouse, and died August 26, 1986 in Nice. Abellio went to the Ecole Polytechnique and then took part in the X-Crise Group.He advocated far-left ideas, but like many other technocrats, he joined the Vichy regime during the Second World War and became in 1942 a member of Eugčne Deloncle's far-right MSR party.
Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue (excerpt)
Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. He was born in Paris, France.As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail.His work spanned numerous literary movements.
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Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.The name comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to "cool water", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city.The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census, while the metropolitan area has a population of 9,354,580.
Biography of Anthony Burgess (excerpt)
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 — November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist.Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England.
Biography of Totň (excerpt)
Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totň (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1898 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)–15 April 1967) or as Antonio De Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter.
Biography of Erich von Manstein (excerpt)
Erich von Manstein (November 24, 1887 – June 9, 1973) served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces (Wehrmacht). During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military strategists.
Biography of David Ben-Gurion (excerpt)
David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel.After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world.
Biography of Germaine Holley (excerpt)
Germaine Holley, born October 8, 1904 in Besançon is a French astrologer and author. Works (in French) L'Astrologie ŕ la recherche des clés de la destinée ; Astrologie entre deux čres (Poissons-Verseau) ; Astrologie pour de nouvelles générations (avec Charles Vouga) ; Astrologie, karma et rythmes cosmiques ; Astrologie, dynamique de l'évolution ; Astrologie : au-delŕ de la rencontre ; Lecture astrologique des années 90, les grandes mutations mondiales.
Biography of Grant Lewi (excerpt)
William Grant Lewi II (June 8, 1902 – July 14, 1951) was an American astrologer and author. Best known for his books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What, Lewi has been described as "the father of modern astrology in America".
Biography of Edith Stein (excerpt)
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate) – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz.In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934.
Biography of Carlo Carrŕ (excerpt)
Carlo Carrŕ (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.
Biography of Rafael Trujillo (excerpt)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961) ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Officially, he was president only from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military Dictator.
Biography of Maurice Papon (excerpt)
Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant, known for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, later reconverted as a Gaullist politician. He is best known as prefect of police of Paris during the 1950s and 1960s, treasurer of the Gaullist Party and member of the French government under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Biography of Elizabeth Arden (excerpt)
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.
Biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair (excerpt)
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist and activist. She is best known for the lawsuit Murray v.Curlett which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling and ended the practice of daily prayer in American public schools.
Biography of Pamela Travers (excerpt)
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist and journalist, popularly remembered for her sequence of novels about Mary Poppins. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (née Morehead).
Biography of Ruth Gordon (excerpt)
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Emmy Award-winning American actress and writer.She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude.
Biography of Neville Lancelot Goddard (excerpt)
Neville Lancelot Goddard (February 19, 1905 – October 1, 1972), generally known as Neville, was a Barbadian author who wrote on the Bible, mysticism, and self-help. Early life Goddard was born in Barbados on February 19, 1905, to Joseph Nathaniel and Wilhelmina Goddard.
Biography of Theda Bara (excerpt)
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress.Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death." In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia.
Biography of A. J. Cronin (excerpt)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896–January 6, 1981) was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century.His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
Biography of Benjamin Britten (excerpt)
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. Life Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician.His birthday, 22 November, is the feast-day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts very early in life.
Biography of Morarji Desai (excerpt)
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Hindi: मोरारजी देसाई) (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress.
Biography of Benjamin Péret (excerpt)
Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899.He enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed.He saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war.
Biography of Josef Albers (excerpt)
Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 26, 1976) was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.
Biography of Emmanuel Roblčs (excerpt)
Emmanuel Roblčs (born May 4, 1914 in Oran, Algeria, died February 22, 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. Selected bibliography La Vallée du paradis (1940) Travail d'homme (1942) La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story
Biography of Jânio Quadros (excerpt)
Jânio da Silva Quadros (January 25, 1917, in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul —February 16, 1992, in Săo Paulo) was a Brazilian politician who served briefly as President of Brazil in 1961. Career Quadros's meteoric career can be attributed to his widespread use of populist rhetoric and his extravagant behavior.
Biography of Charles Laughton (excerpt)
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899–15 December 1962) was an English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director.He became an American citizen in 1950.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor.
Biography of Peter Lorre (excerpt)
Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born László Löwenstein, was an Hungarian - born actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in many American films. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M.
Biography of Stewart Granger (excerpt)
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Biography of Jim Thorpe (excerpt)
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (22 May 1887 – 28 March 1953) was an American athlete.Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball.
Biography of Thor Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (7,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
Biography of Jonas Salk (excerpt)
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine (the eponymous Salk vaccine). During his life he worked in New York, Michigan, Pittsburgh and California.
Biography of Emmanuel Bove (excerpt)
Emmanuel Bove (April 20, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de Paris V4E 9713) - July 19, 1945) was a French writer of Jewish descent. Biography Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on April 20, 1898 in Paris to a Russian father and a Luxembourgish mother.
Biography of Patachou (excerpt)
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer.
Biography of Henry de Montherlant (excerpt)
Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels. His early successes were works such as the tetralogy Les jeunes filles (1936–1939) and Les célibataires (1934). |
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