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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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 Madeleine Renaud (excerpt)
Madeleine Renaud was a distinguished actress and a major figure in French theater in the 20th century. She was born on February 21, 1900 in Paris and died there on September 23, 1994. In 1940 Madeleine Renaud married the actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994).
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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 Noël Roquevert (excerpt)
Noël Bénévent, best known as Noël Roquevert, born December 18, 1892 in Doué-la-Fontaine (Maine-et-Loire), died November 6, 1973 in Douarnenez (Finistère), was a French actor. Filmography (extracts) 1921 - 1939 1921 : Les Trois Mousquetaires, de Henri Diamant-Berger - Rôle : Une figuration à confirmer ![]()
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 Bangalor Venkata Raman (excerpt)
Dr. Bangalore Venkata Raman, born August 8, 1912 in Bangalore, was a most renowned astrologer, especially for his predictive skill. He was the author of numerous books of instruction and research papers in the field of Indian Vedic Astrology (Jyotish), and traveled all over the world giving lectures. ![]()
Biography of Immanuel Velikovsky (excerpt)
Immanuel Velikovsky (June 10, 1895 (NS) – November 17, 1979) is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on prehistory, in particular, the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Biography of Régine Pernoud (excerpt)
Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909 in Château-Chinon - 22 April 1998 in Paris) was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc. She is the aunt of French TV host Georges Pernoud ("Thalassa").
Biography of Mario Altéry (excerpt)
Mario Altéry, born Philippe Altare September 12, 1900 in Nice and died in 1974 in Hyères, was a French singer (tenor), the father of singer Mathé Altéry. ![]()
Biography of Jean Galtier-Boissière (excerpt)
Jean Galtier-Boissière (b. December 26, 1891-January 22, 1966) was a writer, polemist, and journalist from Paris, France. He founded Le Crapouillot and wrote for Le Canard enchaîné. Bibliography (extracts) Croquis De Tranchées. 1917 Loin De La Rifflette. Baudinière, 1921 La fleur au fusil.
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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 René Fonck (excerpt)
René Paul Fonck (26 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the Great War as the top Allied fighter ace. His 75 (72 solo and three shared and a further 52 'probable' victories) victories also ranked him second only to Manfred von Richthofen, (80 planes confirmed shot down) as the top ace of the conflict. ![]()
Biography of Willy Brandt (excerpt)
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969 – 1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964 – 1987. His most important legacy is the Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union.
Biography of René Laurentin (excerpt)
Abbé René Laurentin, born October 19, 1917 in Tours (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on September 10, 2017 in Paris, was a French theologist, historian, journalist, writer and priest. Books (extracts) Vie de Bernadette (1978), Vie authentique de Catherine Labouré, (1981), ![]()
Biography of Maurice Estève (excerpt)
Maurice Estève, born May 2, 1904 in Culan (Cher), died June 29, 2001 in Culan, is a French painter of School of Paris. Modern School of Paris The School of Paris describes, not an art movement or a learning institution, but instead is more indicative of the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century.
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Biography of Félix Labisse (excerpt)
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He was born in Marchiennes. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work. ![]()
Biography of Martin Niemöller (excerpt)
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came. Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.
Biography of Mila Parély (excerpt)
Mila Parély (7 October 1917 (source for her birth time: archives of Paris) – 14 January 2012) was a French actress best known for the roles of Belle's sister in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu. ![]()
Biography of Totò (excerpt)
Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò (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 Paul Touvier (excerpt)
Paul Touvier (3 April 1915 - 17 July 1996) was convicted of crime against humanity for his Collaborationist role during Vichy France. Early Life He was born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Alpes de Haute-Provence, in south-western France. As a teenager, Touvier was known for chasing girls, which caused the elder Touvier, a devout Catholic who was sympathetic to the ideas of Marshall Petain, to push his son into joining the "Milice", the militia of the Vichy regime. ![]()
Biography of Renée Falconetti (excerpt)
Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 12, 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
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Biography of Karl Jaspers (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community, and a jurist father.
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Biography of Ansel Adams (excerpt)
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. His studio, which is owned by the Adams family, is the “Ansel Adams Gallery.” Life Childhood Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams. ![]()
Biography of Brassaï (excerpt)
Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 (birth time source: Romanian National Archive - Brasov, exatract at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Brassai_time_of_birth.jpg – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, author, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Isoroku Yamamoto (excerpt)
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku.) (4 April 1884 – 18 April 1943) was Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, graduate of Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of U.S. Naval War College and Harvard University (1919–1921).
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Biography of Julien Green (excerpt)
Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998), was a French born American author of several novels including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French, but was not a French citizen. ![]()
Biography of Kim Philby (excerpt)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. ![]()
Biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (excerpt)
Isabelle Eberhardt (17 February 1877–21 October 1904) was an explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For the time she was an extremely liberated (but troubled) individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam.
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Biography of John Barrymore (excerpt)
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 14, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 29, 1942 in Los Angeles, California), was an American actor. He gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III, and is frequently called the greatest actor of his generation. ![]()
Biography of Fulgencio Batista (excerpt)
General Fulgencio Batista (pronounced or ) y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician. Batista was the de facto military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and thus the eminence grise of Cuban politics for that era, and the de jure President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 after having won election.
Biography of Alain Bernardin (excerpt)
Alain Bernardin (Jaunuary 9, 1916 in Dijon - September 15, 1994) has opened Le Crazy Horse Saloon in 1951. It has been personally operated by him for decades until his death by suicide in 1994. The Paris Crazy Horse occupies a portion of a traditional Parisian building at 12 Avenue George V (with the Roman numeral "V" spoken in French as "Cinq").
Biography of Gino Severini (excerpt)
Gino Severini (April 7, 1883 (birth time source: Gauquelin, 6:30 AM Rome time)) – February 26, 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. At an early stage in his artwork, he was exposed to Impressionist ideas.
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Biography of Jascha Heifetz (excerpt)
Jascha Heifetz (IPA: ) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) who was one of the most pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century. Early life Heifetz was born of Jewish descent in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. ![]()
Biography of Jacob Levy Moreno (excerpt)
Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno (born Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 1889; died New York, USA, May 14, 1974) was a leading psychiatrist, theorist and educator. During his lifetime Dr. Moreno was recognized at Harvard University as one of the greatest social scientists in the world.
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903. ![]()
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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.
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Biography of Lon Chaney (excerpt)
Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. ![]()
Biography of Georges de la Fouchardière (excerpt)
Georges de la Fouchardière, born February 1, 1874 in Châtellerault, died in 1946, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extracts) Le Diable dans le Bénitier. Montaigne. Hors-d'Œuvre..Payot&Cie 1919 L'Affaire Peau-de-Balle (La Machine à galoper). Librairie des lettres, 1919. Petit guide du parfait parieur aux courses Editions du siècle 1923 ![]()
Biography of Nedo Nadi (excerpt)
Nedo Nadi (June 9, 1893 – January 29, 1940) was an Italian fencer, widely regarded as the most versatile ever. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most gold medals ever in fencing at a single Games - five.
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Biography of Charles Boyer (excerpt)
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated French actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood films, and made a long successful career. His most famous role was in the 1944 film Gaslight.
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Biography of Fritz Perls (excerpt)
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964. ![]()
Biography of Fréhel (singer) (excerpt)
Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; July 13, 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 3, 1951) was a French singer and actress. Born in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris. ![]()
Biography of René Bousquet (excerpt)
René Bousquet (11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French civil servant, who served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police from May 1942 to the 31 December 1943. René Bousquet was born to a radical-socialist notary in Montauban. ![]()
Biography of Pat Nixon (excerpt)
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – June 22, 1993), also commonly known as Patricia Nixon, was an American educator and the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. ![]()
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.
Biography of Théo Varlet (excerpt)
Théo Varlet, born March 12, 1878 in Lille and died in 1938, was a French poet, writer and translator. Selected works Poetry 1898. Heures de Rêve, Lille. 1905. Notes et Poèmes, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1906. Notations, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1911. Poèmes choisis, Cassis.
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Biography of Marcel Dassault (excerpt)
Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 129) - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch aircraft company.
Biography of Shirley Jackson (excerpt)
Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916, San Francisco, California - August 8, 1965, Bennington, Vermont) was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson. ![]()
Biography of André Caplet (excerpt)
André Caplet (November 23, 1878 – April 22, 1925) was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy. Caplet was born in Le Havre, Normandy. He was a friend of Debussy and he orchestrated part of Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien (Bernac 1978, p.
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Biography of Michael Collins (Irish leader) (excerpt)
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. |
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