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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 Ian MacGregor (excerpt)
Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, KBE (September 21, 1912 - April 13, 1998) was a Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel and his robust conduct of the 1984-1985 miner's strike while managing the National Coal Board.
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Biography of Antonio Segni (excerpt)
Antonio Segni (2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician who was the 48th and 51st Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964. Adhering to the centrist Christian Democratic party (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana – DC), he was the first Sardinian ever to become Prime Minister of Italy. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Calleia (excerpt)
Joseph Calleia (August 4, 1897 – October 31, 1975), was a Maltese singer, composer, and actor, both on Broadway and in film. Calleia played against some Hollywood greats, including John Wayne, William Holden, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Bette Davis, Jane Russell, Mario Lanza, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Alan Ladd and Anthony Quinn. ![]()
Biography of Anneliese Uhlig (excerpt)
Anneliese Uhlig, born on August 27, 1918 in Essen (source not archived), is a German and American journalist and actress. Filmography (extract) * 1937: Stimme des Blutes (Carmine Gallone) * 1937: Manege (Carmine Gallone) * 1939: Die Stimme aus dem Äther (Harald Paulsen)
Biography of Josephine Tey (excerpt)
Josephine Tey was one of many pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25, 1896 Inverness – February 13, 1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. Life and work She was born in Inverness, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham, before becoming a teacher. ![]()
Biography of Eduardo Ciannelli (excerpt)
Eduardo Ciannelli, sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli, (30 August 1888 - 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. Early life Ciannelli was born in Lacco Ameno, the son of a doctor who owned a health spa.
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Biography of Amelita Galli-Curci (excerpt)
Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano. She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century. Biography She was born as Amelita Galli into an upper-middle-class family in Milan, where she studied piano in her youth. ![]()
Biography of Mario Bava (excerpt)
Mario Bava (July 30, 1914 – April 25, 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films. Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. The son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who became a pioneer of special effects photography and subsequently one of the great cameramen of Italian silent pictures, Mario Bava's first ambition was to become a painter. ![]()
Biography of Anthony Powell (excerpt)
Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE (December 21, 1905–March 28, 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. According to his memoirs, Powell rhymes with pole (not towel).
Biography of Christian Dovéro (excerpt)
Christian Dovéro, born on May 25, 1919 in Lyon (birth time source: Lescaut), is a French politician.
Biography of Lukas Ammann (excerpt)
Lukas Ammann, born September 29, 1912 in Basel, is a Swiss actor, film director and screenwriter. Filmography (actor) (extract) Herr Goldstein (2005) .. Abi Goldstein "Tatort" .. Erwin Bader (1 episode, 2000) - Mord am Fluss (2000) TV episode .
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Biography of Léon Gaultier (excerpt)
Léon Gaultier, born on February 1, 1915 in Bourges (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on July 18, 1997 (age 82), was a French politician, collaborator, and author. Publications Léon Gaultier, Catalina de Erauso, Paris, J. Picollec, 1980 (ISBN 978-2-8647-7011-4 et 2864770113, OCLC 7255341).
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Biography of Gaston Monnerville (excerpt)
Gaston Monnerville (2 January 1897, Cayenne, French Guiana, France - 7 November 1991, Paris) was a French politician and lawyer. The grandson of a slave, he grew up in French Guiana and went to Toulouse to complete his studies. A brilliant student, he became a lawyer in 1918 and worked with César Campinchi, a lawyer who later became an influential politician.
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Biography of Patrick White (excerpt)
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), an Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.
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Biography of Carl Zuckmayer (excerpt)
Carl Zuckmayer (December 27, 1896 – January 18, 1977) was a German writer and playwright. Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he (like many other high school students) finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for the Army. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Bryan Owen (excerpt)
Ruth Bryan Owen (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan and mother of Helen Rudd Brown. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s (and the South's) first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Glasgow (excerpt)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Life and career Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. ![]()
Biography of Sam Snead (excerpt)
Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of 4 decades. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within six months of each other in 1912.
Biography of Dugald Baird (excerpt)
Sir Dugald Baird (November 16, 1899 in Beith - 1986) graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1922. His early experiences attending births in the Glasgow slums and in the city's Royal Maternity Hospital shaped his interest in the social and economic influences on the health of women, their babies, and across generations. ![]()
Biography of Faye Emerson (excerpt)
Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress. She is remembered as an actress in many Warner Bros. films beginning in 1941. She was born in tiny Elizabeth in Allen Parish in south central Louisiana. ![]()
Biography of Giacinto Scelsi (excerpt)
Giacinto Scelsi, Count of Ayala Valva (La Spezia, January 8, 1905 (source not archived) – Rome, August 9, 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, as paradigmatically exemplified in his revolutionary Quattro Pezzi su una nota sola (1959). ![]()
Biography of Henri Cartan (excerpt)
Henri Paul Cartan (Nancy, July 8, 1904 – August 13, 2008) was a son of Élie Cartan, and was, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, then at the ENS, receiving his doctorate in mathematics.
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Biography of Saro Urzi (excerpt)
Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, Catania, January 19, 1913 (source for his date and time of birth: Michel Gauquelin) - San Giuseppe Vesuviano, November 1, 1979) was an Italian actor. Biography Born in Sicilia, he moved to Rome to seek his fortune.
Biography of Roger Caillois (excerpt)
Roger Caillois (3 March 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 21 December 1978), was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on subjects as diverse as gems, play and the sacred. ![]()
Biography of Abel Gance (excerpt)
Abel Gance (French: ; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927). ![]()
Biography of Edward R. Murrow (excerpt)
Edward R. "Ed" Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and television and radio figure. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.
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Biography of Robert Goffin (excerpt)
Robert Goffin (21 May 1898 - 27 June 1984) was a Belgian lawyer, author, and poet, credited with writing the first "serious" book on jazz, Aux Frontières du Jazz in 1932.Life Robert Goffin was born in Ohain, Belgium in 1898. His mother was unmarried, and his pharmacist grandfather supported them.
Biography of William Andrew Hart (excerpt)
William Andrew Hart, born September 9, 1904 in Dumbarton, died October 18, 1992, was a Scottish Roman Catholic Priest, the Bishop of Dunkeld.
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Biography of Conrad Albrecht (excerpt)
Conrad Albrecht (* 7 October 1880 in Bremen; † 18 August 1969 in Hamburg) was a German admiral during World War II. Military career Albrecht entered the Kaiserliche Marine in 1899 as a sea-cadet and served as a Korvettenkapitän and commander of a torpedo boat flotilla in Flanders during World War I. ![]()
Biography of Margaret Lockwood (excerpt)
Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990) was an English actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough movie, The Wicked Lady. Early life Margaret Mary Lockwood Day was born in Karachi, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan), to an English administrator of a railway company and his Scottish wife.
Biography of Barbara Washburn (excerpt)
Barbara Washburn, born November 10, 1914 in Boston, wife of Henry Bradford Washburn, was the first woman to climb Mt. McKinley.
Biography of Ernst Issberner-Haldane (excerpt)
Ernst Issberner-Haldane, born July 3, 1923 in Kolbert, Poland, is a German palmist, author, yoga teacher, and astrologer.
Biography of Alain Girard (excerpt)
Alain Girard, born March 13, 1914 in Paris, died January 11, 1996 in Paris, was a French author, educator and teacher. ![]()
Biography of Giulio Carlo Argan (excerpt)
Giulio Carlo Argan (May 17, 1909, Turin - November 11, 1992, Rome) was an Italian art historian, author, and politician. He was the first Communist mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979. Selected bibliography Studi e note, Roma 1955; Salvezza e caduta nell’arte moderna, Milano 1964;
Biography of John D. MacDonald (excerpt)
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916–December 28, 1986) was an American author. A prolific writer of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida, McDonald's best-known works include the popular and critically-acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. ![]()
Biography of Miguel Angel Asturias (excerpt)
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 18, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
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Biography of Louis Seigner (excerpt)
Louis Seigner, born June 23, 1903 in Arcisse near Saint-Chef, Isère, died January 20, 1991 (in a fire) in Paris, was a French comedian and actor. He is the father of Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathilde Seigner and Marie-Amelie Seigner, actresses and singer.
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Biography of Bill Peet (excerpt)
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on The Jungle Book, Song of the South, Cinderella, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Goliath II, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other stories.
Biography of Thomas Narcejac (excerpt)
Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau (Paris, 28 April 1906 - Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (Rochefort-sur-Mer, 3 July 1908 - Nice, 1998) wrote. They were French writers of police stories, some of which became films by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Biography of Magda Olivero (excerpt)
Magda Olivero (born March 25, 1910) is considered by many to be one of the greatest sopranos of the verismo-school of singing. She was born in Saluzzo, Italy. Her early teachers found her voice wanting. Yet, she persevered, eventually studying with Luigi Gerussi. ![]()
Biography of Naomi Mitchison (excerpt)
Naomi May Margaret Mitchison (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 Edinburgh – 11 January 1999 at Carradale) was a Scottish novelist and poet. She was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1981; she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, CBE since 5 October 1964 (but never apparently used that style herself). ![]()
Biography of Ernest Ansermet (excerpt)
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (November 11, 1883 – February 20, 1969) was a Swiss conductor. Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians.
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Biography of Gaston Litaize (excerpt)
Gaston Gilbert Litaize (August 11, 1909 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- August 5, 1991) was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris.
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Biography of Walter Scheel (excerpt)
Walter Scheel (born 8 July 1919) is a German politician (FDP). As of 2009, he is the oldest German president alive and the second longest-lived German head of state after Emperor Wilhelm I. Biography Scheel was born in Solingen (now in North Rhine-Westphalia).
Biography of Charles Jayne (excerpt)
Charles Jayne, born October 9, 1911 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, died December 31, 1985, was an Amercian professionnal sideralist astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Esclangon (excerpt)
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Le Poët in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university.
Biography of Pierre Chigot (excerpt)
Pierre Chigot, born October 21, 1910 in Limoges, is a French painter and stained glass painter. ![]()
Biography of Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (excerpt)
Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (13 May 1886, Paris - 9 October 1970, Paris) was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur and editor of Pasteur's complete works.
Biography of Henri Meijers (excerpt)
Henri Meijers, born on December 2, 1879 in Maastricht (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), was a Dutch champion cyclist. He won at the Olympics in Paris, in 1924.
Biography of David Read (ecclesiastic) (excerpt)
David Read, born on January 2, 1910 in Cupar, died on January 7, 2001, was an American and Scottish ecclesiastic and author. |
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