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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 Olivier Messiaen (excerpt)
Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death.
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Biography of Giorgio Morandi (excerpt)
Giorgio Morandi (June 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting with an idiom related to Cézanne and to Cubism, with a brief digression into a Futurist style in 1914.
Biography of Juno Jordan (excerpt)
Juno Jordan, born June 8, 1884 in Saville, Ohio, was an American writer and numerologist. ![]()
Biography of Jules Supervielle (excerpt)
Jules Supervielle (January 16, 1884 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 53, Johanne Archambault) - May 17, 1960) was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay. Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century. ![]()
Biography of Alexis Carrel (excerpt)
Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912. Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, next to Lyon, Carrel practiced in France and in the United States at the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. ![]()
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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 Swami Paramananda Saraswati (excerpt)
Swami Paramananda Saraswati, born February 15, 1907, died December 4, 1972, was a guru and Vedanta teacher. Vedanta (Devanagari: वेदान्त, Vedānta) is a spiritual tradition within Hinduism that is elucidated and explained in the Upanishads and is, like those manuscripts, concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality (Brahman). ![]()
Biography of Vercors (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Bruller (February 26, 1902 - June 10, 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.
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Biography of Oswald Mosley (excerpt)
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. Family and early life Mosley was the eldest of three sons of Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet, of Ancoats (1874–1928), and his wife, Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (1874–1950), the second child of Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote, of Market Drayton, Shropshire. ![]()
Biography of Sibilla Aleramo (excerpt)
Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy. Life and career Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont, she was forced to drop out of school at 16 and marry the man who raped her. ![]()
Biography of Gert Fröbe (excerpt)
Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe (German pronunciation: ) (February 25, 1913 – September 5, 1988) was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz. ![]()
Biography of Armando Testa (excerpt)
Armando Testa, born March 23, 1917, is an Italian executive and advertising director.
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Biography of Cesare Pavese (excerpt)
Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country. Early life and education Cesare Pavese was born in Santo Stefano Belbo, in the province of Cuneo. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Gabriel-Péri (excerpt)
Mathilde Rose Thérèse Gabriel-Péri (7 June 1902 – 16 December 1981) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958. ![]()
Biography of Robert Debré (excerpt)
Robert Debré (December 7, 1882 in Sedan (Ardennes) (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - April 29, 1978 in Kremlin-Bicêtre) was a French physician (pediatrician) of note. He gave his name to the most important pediatric hospital in Paris (19th district). A member of the Académie de Médecine, he was a colleague and close friend of professors Jean Quenu and Albert Besson.
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Biography of Paul Ricoeur (excerpt)
Paul Ricœur (born February 27, 1913 in Valence France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died May 20, 2005 in Chatenay Malabry, France) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
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Biography of Walter Cronkite (excerpt)
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (born November 4, 1916) is a retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America," because of his professional experience and kindly demeanor.
Biography of Alfred Witte (excerpt)
Alfred Witte (Born 2 March 1878, 21:12 LMT, Hamburg – died 4 August 1941, 4:01 MET, Hamburg) was a German surveyor, astrologer, an amateur astronomer, and the founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of astrological midpoints for precision in astrological analysis and prediction.
Biography of Francis Ponge (excerpt)
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. Life Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France, in 1899. He studied law at Paris and literature at Strasbourg.
Biography of Désire-Emile Inghelbrecht (excerpt)
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (born, Paris, 17 September 1880 (birth time source: André Barbault, original source unknown), died Paris, 14 February 1965) was a French composer, conductor and writer. Life and career Inghelbrecht was the son a viola-player, studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made his debut as a conductor in 1908 at the Théâtre des Arts. ![]()
Biography of Louis Blériot (excerpt)
Louis Blériot (1 July 1872 in Cambrai, France (birth time source: Janine Tissot, birth certificate on-line) – 1 August 1936 in Paris, France) was a French inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed the English Channel, receiving a prize of 1000 British pounds for doing so. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Messmer (excerpt)
Pierre Messmer (born Vincennes, March 20, 1916, died August 29, 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. Career Senior civil servant in the colonial administration, he listened Charles de Gaulle's call and joined the Free French Forces in July 1940.
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Biography of Aaron Copland (excerpt)
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.
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Biography of René Margotton (excerpt)
René Margotton, born November 18, 1915 in Roanne, is a French painter and illustrator. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Dupré (excerpt)
Marcel Dupré (May 3, 1886 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – May 30, 1971), was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen (Normandy, France). Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen.
Biography of Henri Gouchon (excerpt)
Henri Joseph Gouchon, born March 1, 1898 in Roure, Italy (birth time source: Lescaut, Cahiers Astrologiques No.195, 1994, and Dreuille, Auréas) , died October 5, 1978, also known as "Sélénius" or "Régulus", was an astrologer and author. He was a specialist of primary directions and mundane astrology.
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Biography of Jane Wyman (excerpt)
Jane Wyman (January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress. Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best known film roles in Johnny Belinda, for which she won an Oscar, and Magnificent Obsession opposite Rock Hudson.
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Biography of Jean Nouguès (excerpt)
Jean Nouguès, born April 25, 1875 in Bordeaux, died August 28, 1932 in Paris, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
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Alberta (/ælˈbɜːrtə/) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. English is the official language of the province. In 2016, 76.0% of Albertans were anglophone, 1. ![]()
Biography of Jean Hélion (excerpt)
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.
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Biography of Tristan Derème (excerpt)
Tristan Derème (February 13, 1889, Marmande, France – October 24, 1941), born Philippe Huc, was a French poet and writer. He had lived in Paris, but would often return to Oloron-Sainte-Marie, where his mother lived. Here, he would recuperate through writing poetry.
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Biography of Georges Bernanos (excerpt)
Georges Bernanos (February 20, 1888, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 5, 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.
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Biography of François Dalle (excerpt)
François Dalle, born March 18, 1918 in Hesdin (died August 9, 2005) served as CEO of L'Oréal between 1957 and 1984. He became the company's CEO after the death of its founder, Eugène Schueller, in 1957. He oversaw one of the most exciting periods of the company's history in expanding and internationalising the range of brands and managing aggressive international expansion.
Biography of Luc Bérimont (excerpt)
André Leclercq, best known as Luc Bérimont, born September 16, 1915 in Magnac-sur-Touvre, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1983, was a French author and poet. Works (extracts) Poetry Domaine de la nuit (ronéotypé aux Armées et préfacé par le sergent Maurice Fombeure, 1940). ![]()
Biography of Roger Frison-Roche (excerpt)
Roger Frison-Roche (February 10, 1096 in Paris - December 17, 1999 in Chamonix) is a French writer and explorer. Bibliography (extracts) L'Appel du Hoggar (1937) Premier de cordée (1938) La Grande Crevasse (1948) La Piste oubliée (1950) La Montagne aux écritures (1952) ![]()
Biography of Jean Dasté (excerpt)
Jean Dasté (September 18, 1904 in Paris, France - October 15, 1994 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) was an actor and theatre director. Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85. ![]()
Biography of Andres Segovia (excerpt)
Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña (17 March 1893–3 June 1987) was a Spanish classical guitarist born in Linares, Spain who is considered to be the father of the modern classical guitar movement by most modern music scholars. In recognition of his contributions to music and the arts, Segovia was ennobled on 24 June 1981 by King Juan Carlos I, who elevated Segovia into the first hereditary Marquess of Salobreña, formally styled as "El señor don Andrés Torres Segovia, marqués de Salobreña" (the Most Illustrious Lord The Marquess of Salobreña). ![]()
Biography of Gayelord Hauser (excerpt)
Dr. Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984), popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist, self-help author, and promoter of "the natural way of eating" during the mid-20th century. He promoted foods rich in Vitamin B and discouraged consumption of sugar and white flour. ![]()
Biography of Jean Lurçat (excerpt)
Jean Lurçat (July 1, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 6, 1966) was a French painter and tapestry designer. He was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara. One of his lithographs is titled "Bacchus" and is currently on display in San Francisco. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Fresnay (excerpt)
Pierre Fresnay (April 4, 1897 - January 9, 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. ![]()
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Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico and the most-populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the world. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). ![]()
Biography of Alain Daniélou (excerpt)
Alain Daniélou (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, October 4, 1907–Lonay Switzerland, January 27, 1994) was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to, and adept of Shaivite Hinduism. His mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was from an old family of the Norman nobility; a fervent Catholic, she founded a religious order for women teachers in civilian costume under the patronage of St. ![]()
Biography of Albert Dieudonné (excerpt)
Albert Dieudonné (26 November 1889 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) - 19 March 1976) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist. Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine" in which he also appeared as a major character.
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Biography of Léo Lagrange (excerpt)
Léo Lagrange (born Bourg (Gironde), on 28 November 1900 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, his birth certificate, available on-line) - died Évergnicourt, on 9 June 1940) was a French Socialist Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front (1936-1938).
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Biography of Max Jacob (excerpt)
Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. Born in Quimper, Brittany, France, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. ![]()
Biography of Olga Solbelli (excerpt)
Olga Solbelli (11 May 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 85 films between 1939 and 1967. She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna. Filmography (extracts) 1967 Assalto al tesoro di stato Madame Angot 1966 Les colts de la violence ![]()
Biography of Cecil Beaton (excerpt)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Born in Hampstead to a society family, Beaton was fascinated by the society magazines and the images within. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Angénieux (excerpt)
Pierre Angénieux (Saint-Héand, 14 July 1907 in Saint-Héand (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, Saint-Héand archives on-line) - 26 June 1998) was a French engineer and optician, one of the inventors of the modern zoom lenses, and famous for introducing the Angénieux retrofocus. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Bussières (excerpt)
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982), was a French film actor, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in over 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille, France and died in Paris, France. Selected filmography Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980) ![]()
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation. |
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