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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 William N. Robson (excerpt)
William N.Robson, born October 8, 1906 in Pittsburgh and died April 10, 1995, was an American director and producer of radio programs.He was a significant figure of the golden age of radio. Involved in entertainment from an early age, he began as a journalist before moving into writing and production.
Biography of Jeff Alexander (conductor) (excerpt)
Jeff Alexander, born Myer Goodhue Alexander (July 2, 1910 – December 23, 1989), was an American conductor, arranger, and composer for film, radio, and television. He began performing at a young age in vaudeville as a singer and dancer before turning to piano and composition.
Biography of Peter Levathes (excerpt)
Peter Levathes (July 28, 1911 – January 9, 2002) was an American film and advertising executive, best known for briefly running 20th Century Fox. Levathes was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Washington.He attended Harvard University and studied law at Georgetown University.
Biography of Emrich Nicholson (excerpt)
Emrich Nicholson (September 4, 1913 – February 25, 2001) was an American art director who worked for Paramount and Universal Studios.He was also a mural painter and designer, notably contributing to the 1939 New York World’s Fair. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1948 for art direction on the film One Touch of Venus.
Biography of Clinton Rossiter (excerpt)
Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III (September 24, 1917 – July 11, 1970) was an American historian and political scientist at Cornell University from 1947 to 1970. He authored around twenty books, including The American Presidency, and received major honors such as the Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for Seedtime of the Republic.
Biography of Louis Bessières (excerpt)
Louis Bessières, born 23 August 1913 in Bagnères-de-Luchon (Haute-Garonne) and died 22 November 2011 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, was a French songwriter and composer known for his work in song and film music.After a stay in Brazil, he settled in Tourrettes-sur-Loup. Described by Jacques Canetti as a modest and highly talented artist, he showed a strong interest in film music.
Biography of Charles August Steuber Heinle (excerpt)
Charles August Steuber Heinle (December 25, 1916 – July 23, 2012) was an American publishing executive and entrepreneur best known for his role in marketing and expanding the Pimsleur Language Programs, a self-study audio method for language learning. He contributed to the promotion and growth of these language-learning programs, helping to make them widely accessible.
Biography of Sidney Fernbach (excerpt)
Sidney Fernbach (August 4, 1917 – February 15, 1991) was an American physicist who played a significant role in the development of computational physics. He studied at Temple University and the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as a physicist in the United States.
Biography of Bill Hosokawa (excerpt)
William Kunpei Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was an American writer and journalist of Japanese descent.During World War II he was interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, where he served as editor of the camp newspaper, The Heart Mountain Sentinel.
Biography of Cyrus Colter (excerpt)
Cyrus Colter (January 8, 1910 – April 15, 2002) was an American author who began his literary career later in life after working as a lawyer and public servant. He started writing short stories at the age of 50, often focusing on the lives of working- and middle-class African Americans.
Biography of Alice Eleanor Jones (excerpt)
Alice Eleanor Jones Nearing (March 30, 1916 – November 6, 1981) was an American science fiction writer and journalist.Her work is noted for its strong feminist themes. Born in Philadelphia, she studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Ph.D.
Biography of Karlis Ulmanis (excerpt)
Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis, born 4 September 1877 and died 20 September 1942, was a Latvian politician and a major figure in the country’s political life during the interwar period of independence. He notably served as Latvia’s first prime minister following the proclamation of independence in November 1918.
Biography of Ralph K. Rottet (excerpt)
Ralph Kaspar Rottet (February 25, 1911 – November 26, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer and naval aviator who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He distinguished himself during World War II as commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 31.
Biography of Elliott Montroll (excerpt)
Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916, Pittsburgh – December 3, 1983, Chevy Chase) was an American scientist and mathematician. Educated at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned his PhD in 1939, he early specialized in statistical mechanics and integral equations applied to imperfect gases.
Biography of Maurice Goldman (composer) (excerpt)
Maurice Goldman (April 20, 1910 – February 2, 1984) was an internationally known American composer and conductor.His work focused largely on Yiddish and Hebraic music, while incorporating elements of classical, jazz, and American folk traditions. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Cleveland in a rabbi’s family, he showed musical talent at an early age, singing, playing piano, and composing by the age of five.
Biography of Charlie Ventura (excerpt)
Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 – January 17, 1992) was an American tenor saxophonist and bandleader from Philadelphia.He became a prominent figure in the jazz scene of the 1940s. He performed with bands led by Gene Krupa and Teddy Powell, and was named best tenor saxophonist by DownBeat magazine in 1945.
Biography of Kermit Gordon (excerpt)
Kermit Gordon (July 3, 1916 – June 21, 1976) was an American economist and public official. He served as Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget from 1962 to 1965 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Biography of John D. Butzner Jr. (excerpt)
John Decker Butzner Jr. (October 2, 1917 – January 20, 2006) was a United States federal judge. He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit after previously working as a district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Biography of Federico Caffè (excerpt)
Federico Caffè (born January 6, 1914; disappeared April 15, 1987; declared dead October 30, 1998) was a notable Italian economist associated with the Keynesian school. He graduated in economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1936.After World War II he studied at the London School of Economics, where he encountered Keynesian ideas and observed the policies of the British Labour government.
Biography of Adrian Marks (excerpt)
Robert Adrian Marks (February 18, 1917 – March 7, 1998) was a U.S.Navy pilot.He became known for rescuing 56 crewmen of the USS Indianapolis after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes. Defying orders not to land in open ocean, he landed his aircraft and tied survivors to the wings to save them.
Biography of Don C. Faith Jr. (excerpt)
Don Carlos Faith Jr. (August 26, 1918 – December 1, 1950) was a United States Army officer who served in World War II and the Korean War. A lieutenant colonel, he commanded the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division.
Biography of E. Digby Baltzell (excerpt)
Edward Digby Baltzell Jr.(November 14, 1915 – August 17, 1996) was an American sociologist and academic.He is best known for his studies of the American Protestant elite and for popularizing the acronym “WASP”. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, he experienced both privilege and financial hardship during his youth.
Biography of Willy Böckl (excerpt)
Wilhelm Richard Böckl (born January 27, 1893, died April 22, 1975) was an Austrian figure skater and one of the leading male skaters of the interwar period. He won four World Championships, six European titles, and two silver medals at the Winter Olympics.
Biography of James T. Wiley (excerpt)
James Thomas Wiley (August 2, 1918 (Wikipedia has August 7 in error) – May 3, 2000) was a U.S.Army Air Forces and U.S.Air Force officer and fighter pilot, a member of the 332nd Fighter Group’s 99th Pursuit Squadron, known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
Biography of Kira Kirillovna of Russia (excerpt)
Kira Kirillovna Romanova, born May 9, 1909, in Paris and died September 8, 1967, in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, was a Russian princess later made a grand duchess by decision of her father. She was the second daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna.
Biography of Joseph Goss (excerpt)
Joseph Franklin Goss (November 13, 1914 – August 5, 2005) was an American special effects artist. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Creative Technical Crafts for his work on Battlestar Galactica, shared with John Dykstra and Richard Edlund.
Biography of Charles DeBow (excerpt)
Charles DeBow (February 13, 1918 – April 4, 1986) was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Force and a combat fighter pilot, part of the Tuskegee Airmen, the renowned African American aviators. He commanded the 301st Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group and was among the 1,007 documented pilots of the program.
Biography of Alexander Kolchak (excerpt)
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, born on 4 November 1874 in the Julian calendar, corresponding to 16 November 1874 in the Gregorian calendar, and died on 7 February 1920, was a Russian naval officer, polar explorer, and leader of the White movement during the Russian Civil War.
Biography of Edward S. Aarons (excerpt)
Edward Sidney Aarons (September 11, 1916 – June 16, 1975) was an American writer who authored more than eighty novels between 1936 and 1975.He also wrote under pseudonyms, notably Edward Ronns and Paul Ayres. He began his career writing stories for detective magazines before gaining recognition for his spy novels.
Biography of Charles II of Navarre (excerpt)
Charles II, known as “the Bad,” was born on October 10, 1332, in Évreux and died on January 1, 1387, in Pamplona. He became Count of Évreux in 1343 and King of Navarre in 1349, holding both titles until his death.
Biography of Barnet M. Levy (excerpt)
Barnet Mortimer Levy (January 13, 1917 – March 7, 2014) was an American oral pathologist and professor who taught in the United States and Mexico. He worked to integrate basic scientific research into dentistry, viewing oral health as inseparable from overall health.
Biography of Agnes Macphail (excerpt)
Agnes Campbell Macphail, born March 24, 1890, and died February 13, 1954, was a Canadian politician and journalist.She was the first woman elected to Canada’s House of Commons. She served as a federal Member of Parliament from 1921 to 1940, playing a pioneering role in women’s political representation in Canada.
Biography of Thérèse Casgrain (excerpt)
Thérèse Forget-Casgrain, also known as Thérèse Casgrain or Mrs.Pierre Casgrain, was born Marie-Thérèse Forget on July 10, 1896, in Montreal and died in the same city on November 3, 1981.She was a Quebec reformer, feminist, and politician. From the 1920s to the 1940s, she campaigned alongside other women for the recognition of women’s rights in Quebec.
Biography of Rae Luckock (excerpt)
Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock, known as Rae Luckock, born on 15 October 1893 and died on 24 January 1972, was a Canadian feminist, social justice activist, and peace activist. Along with Agnes Macphail, she was one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1943.
Biography of Ebba Haslund (excerpt)
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen, born on 12 August 1917 and died on 10 July 2009, was an American-Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, children’s author, literary critic, radio speaker, and politician. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo from 1958 to 1961, then for Akershus from 1961 to 1965.
Biography of Leonard L. Northrup Jr. (excerpt)
Leonard “Lynn” L. Northrup Jr. (March 18, 1918 – March 24, 2016) was an American engineer and a pioneer in the commercialization of solar thermal energy. He played a key role in developing early industrial applications of solar technology in the United States.
Biography of Turid Haaland (excerpt)
Turid Haaland, born on June 23, 1908, and died on October 12, 1979, was a Norwegian actress. She made her stage debut in 1926 at the Norwegian Theater in Runar Schildt's play Den store rolla. She played the daughter of a couple portrayed by her real parents, Mally Carenius Haaland and Ingjald Haaland, who were both actors.
Biography of Gonzalo Rojas (excerpt)
Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro, born on December 20, 1916 in Lebu, Chile, and died on April 25, 2011, was a Chilean poet.His work belongs to the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the 20th century. In his youth, he was involved with the surrealist group Mandrágora and published his first book of poems in 1948.
Biography of Mary Lou Petty (excerpt)
Mary Lou Petty, also known by her married name Mary Lou Skok, born on April 5, 1915 in Spokane, Washington, and died on April 2, 2014, was an American competition swimmer. She competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she placed fourth in the 400-meter freestyle.
Biography of Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (excerpt)
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, born on 10 January 1871 in Vienna and died on 8 April 1955 in Linz, was an Austrian poet and novelist.She is known for her historical romances, notably Die Hochzeit von Quedlinburg. The daughter of Baron Heinrich Hypolith von Handel-Mazzetti, who died before her birth, she received a strong education in history and languages.
Biography of Jean Rogers (excerpt)
Jean Rogers, born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren on March 25, 1916 in Belmont, Massachusetts, and died on February 24, 1991 in Sherman Oaks, was an American actress. She is best remembered for playing Dale Arden in the science-fiction serials Flash Gordon and Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars.
Biography of Harry Stewart (excerpt)
Harry Stewart, born Harry Skarbo on October 21, 1908 in Tacoma, Washington, and died on May 20, 1956, was an American entertainer, singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is best known for his character Yogi Yorgesson, a comic caricature of a Swedish American.
Biography of Milt Woodard (excerpt)
Milton P. Woodard, born on June 4, 1911 in Tacoma, Washington, and died on March 3, 1996, was an American sportswriter and sports executive. He served as president of the American Football League from July 1966 until its merger with the NFL in 1970.
Biography of Donald E. Hillman (excerpt)
Donald Edison Hillman, born on August 24, 1918 in Seattle, Washington, and died on March 16, 2012, was an American military aviator.A World War II flying ace and prisoner of war, he was credited with destroying five enemy aircraft. After studying at Broadway High School, the University of Washington, Virginia Military Academy, and Stanford University, where he earned a business degree in 1939, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1940.
Biography of Helene Scheu-Riesz (excerpt)
Helene Scheu-Riesz, born September 18, 1880, and died January 8, 1970, was an Austrian women’s rights activist, pacifist, children’s writer, and publisher.She was active in the Austrian women’s movement and co-founded the first Viennese Women’s Club in 1900. She later became involved in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Biography of Hermila Galindo (excerpt)
Hermila Galindo Acosta, also known as Hermila Galindo de Topete, born on 2 June 1886 and died on 18 August 1954, was a Mexican writer and feminist. She was an early advocate of causes then considered radical, such as sex education in schools, women’s suffrage, and divorce.
Biography of Claude Alvin Villee Jr. (excerpt)
Claude Alvin Villee Jr.(February 9, 1917, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – August 7, 2003) was an American biologist and long-time professor at Harvard University. He studied at Franklin and Marshall College and later at the University of California, beginning his career in 1941 at Berkeley as a research assistant before becoming an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina.
Biography of Elwood Zimmerman (excerpt)
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman, born on December 8, 1912 and died on June 18, 2004, was an American entomologist.He is best known for two major multivolume series devoted to insects and beetles. His principal works are Insects of Hawaii, published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, and Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), published by Australia's CSIRO.
Biography of George Forsythe (excerpt)
George Elmer Forsythe, born on January 8, 1917 in State College, Pennsylvania, and died on April 9, 1972, was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst.He founded and led Stanford University’s Computer Science Department. He came to Stanford in 1959 in the Mathematics Department, then served as professor and chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1965 until his death.
Biography of Lester Asheim (excerpt)
Lester Eugene Asheim, born on January 22, 1914 in Spokane, Washington, and died on July 1, 1997 in Chapel Hill, was an American librarian and scholar of library science and film history. The American Library Association named him among the 100 most important library leaders of the 20th century. |
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