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Horoscopes with Cupido in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Cupido 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 André Salvat (excerpt)
André Salvat (16 May 1920 – 9 February 2017) was a colonel in the French Army. He was a veteran of World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. He was made a Companion of the Liberation for his World War II service.
Biography of Rajka Bakovic (excerpt)
Rajka Baković (September 2, 1920 – December 29, 1941) was a Croatian student and a member of the anti-fascist resistance movement in the Nazi-puppet state of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). She and her sister, Zdenka (collectively known as the Baković sisters), used their family newsstand at Nikolićeva Street No.
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Biography of Enzo Tortora (excerpt)
Enzo Tortora (30 November 1928 – 18 May 1988 (cancer)) was an Italian TV host on national RAI television, who was unjustly convicted of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking in 1985, and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Biography of Michele Greco (excerpt)
Michele Greco (12 May 1924 – 13 February 2008) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia and a convicted murderer. Greco died in prison while serving multiple life sentences. His nickname was Il Papa ("The Pope") due to his ability to mediate between different Mafia families. ![]()
Biography of Konstantin Simonov (excerpt)
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, journalist, and a war poet. He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me. During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War.
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Biography of Tikhon Khrennikov (excerpt)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June (O.S. 28 May) 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
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Biography of Eloisa Cianni (excerpt)
Eloisa Cianni (born 21 June 1932 in Rome) is an Italian former actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Ciani was born in Rome as Aloisa Stukin, with the surname derived from her Polish adoptive father Stanislaus Stukin, who had married her mother Ida Furnace.
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Biography of Jean Erdman (excerpt)
Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director. Career Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus, the Speaking Fate in Punch and the Judy and the One Who Speaks in Letter to the World, Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. ![]()
Biography of Lydia Litvyak (excerpt)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921, in Moscow – 1 August 1943, in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from five to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in her 66 combat sorties.
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Biography of Antonio Buero Vallejo (excerpt)
Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916, Guadalajara - April 29, 2000, Madrid) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Rock (excerpt)
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor. Based in Silicon Valley, California, he was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. Rock was a member of Apple Inc.'s board when Steve Jobs was ousted in the 1980s.
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Biography of Al Purdy (excerpt)
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works.
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Biography of François-Yves Guillin (excerpt)
François-Yves Guillin (7 September 1921 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 October 2020) was a French resistance fighter, doctor, and historian. At the start of World War II, Guillin was a student at the Lycée Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse, where he published Gaullist propaganda in 1940.
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Biography of Marcel Zanini (excerpt)
Marcel Zanini (real name Zannini, born September 9, 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a French jazz musician. His family arrived in Marseille in 1930 and settled there. His father was Neapolitan and his mother was Greek. He began learning the clarinet in 1942 and joined the orchestra of Leo Missir in 1946. ![]()
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.
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Biography of Gertrude Tompkins Silver (excerpt)
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins, founder of Smooth-On, Inc. ![]()
Biography of Andrei Voznesensky (excerpt)
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Вознесе́нский, May 12, 1933 – June 1, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.
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Biography of Fazil Iskander (excerpt)
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (Russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; Abkhazian: Фазиль Абдул-иҧа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life. He authored various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which features a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".
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Biography of Nikolai Kryuchkov (excerpt)
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (Russian: Николай Афанасьевич Крючков; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1932 and 1993. Awards Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980) Stalin Prize the first degree (1941) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950) ![]()
Biography of George Steiner (excerpt)
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
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Biography of Harriet Andersson (excerpt)
Harriet Andersson (born 14 February 1932) is a Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often plays impulsive, working class characters. Harriet Andersson began her acting career as a 15-year-old student at Calle Flygare stage school.
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Biography of Ramón Valdés (excerpt)
Ramón Esteban Gómez Valdés y Castillo (2 September 1924 – 9 August 1988) was a Mexican actor and comedian. He is best remembered for his portrayal of Don Ramón. He is also recognized as one of Mexico's best comedians. Born in Mexico City, he was raised in a humble and large family that moved to Ciudad Juárez when he was aged two.
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Biography of Jacqueline de Chambrun (excerpt)
Jacqueline de Chambrun (1920-2013) was a French physician and activist. She was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She campaigned for abortion rights as well as human rights for the homeless and undocumented immigrants in France. De Chambrun was a paediatrician.
Biography of Max Douy (excerpt)
Max Douy is a French chief decorator, born June 20, 1914 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Seine) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 2, 2007 (aged 93) in Nogent -on-Marne (Val-de-Marne). He collaborates on a continuous basis with Claude Autant-Lara, carrying out meticulous work for Le Rouge et le Noir.
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Biography of Joseph Ortiz (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Ortiz, nicknamed Joey, born April 4, 1917 in Guyotville (Algeria)(now Aïn Benian)(birth certificate, André Barbault) and died February 15, 1995 in Toulon (Var, France), was, January 24, 1960, one of the leaders of the rioters of the Barricade Week in Algiers , with the deputy Pierre Lagaillarde, Guy Forzy, Jean-Baptiste Biaggi, Marcel Ronda and the student unionist Jean-Jacques Susini.
Biography of Jean Roulland (excerpt)
Jean Roulland (29 March 1931 – 14 February 2021) was a French sculptor. Biography Roulland was one of the artists in the Groupe de Roubaix , alongside Eugène Dodeigne, Germaine Richier, Alfred Manessier, and André Lanskoy. He attended the École des beaux-arts de Roubaix and worked in a ceramics factory before dedicating himself to sculpture full-time in 1960. ![]()
Biography of Sara Ginaite (excerpt)
Sara Ginaite-Rubinson (17 March 1924 – 2 April 2018) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born Canadian author and academic. During the Second World War she was a resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, becoming a Jewish partisan in 1942. She was about to complete her secondary school education when Germany invaded Lithuania in 1941.
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Biography of Albert Barillé (excerpt)
Albert Barillé (14 February 1920 – 5 February 2009) was a French television producer, creator, screenwriter, cartoonist, and founder of Procidis. He is the creator of the puppet animated series Les Aventures de Colargol, and the series Once Upon a Time.
Biography of Karl Shapiro (excerpt)
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968).
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Biography of Kirill Lavrov (excerpt)
Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov (Russian: Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Лавро́в; 15 September 1925 – 27 April 2007) was a well-known Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor and director. In 1989, Kirill Lavrov was unanimously elected the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in St.
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Biography of Gianfranco Funari (excerpt)
Gianfranco Funari (21 March 1932 - 12 July 2008) was an Italian TV host, writer, stand-up comedian and actor. Funari was born in Rome, where his father was a coachman. After working as a croupier in casinos in Hong Kong and Saint Vincent, he was introduced to stand-up comedy by actor Oreste Lionello, who had spotted him doing an amateur performance in a Roman nightclub.
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Biography of Beverly Michaels (excerpt)
Beverly Michaels (December 28, 1928 – June 9, 2007) was an American B-movie actress and cheesecake model of the 1950s. In 1951, Michaels caught the attention of independent film director and producer Hugo Haas. Haas showcased Michaels in the 1951 film noir Pickup.
Biography of Francis Bonnardel (excerpt)
Francis Bonnardel, born January 24, 1928 in Bagnolet (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 22), is a former French boxer. Bonnardel was also a sucessfull jockey.
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Biography of Lilian Rolfe (excerpt)
Lilian Vera Rolfe, MBE (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945) was an Allied secret agent in the Second World War. Second World War At the onset of the Second World War, Rolfe worked at the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro before going to London, England in 1943 to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
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Biography of Dore Hoyer (excerpt)
Dore Hoyer (12 December 1911 – 31 December 1967) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War.
Biography of Jacques Puisais (excerpt)
Jacques Puisais (8 June 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 December 2020) was a French oenologist and taste philosopher born in Poitiers. Holder of a PhD in chemistry, he directed the laboratoire départemental et régional d'analyse in Tours.
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Biography of Annette Chalut (excerpt)
Annette Chalut (née Annette Brigitte Weill; born 29 April 1924 in Paris) is a French physician who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Annette Weill was born in Paris, the daughter of Pierre Weill, a veteran of the First World War, and his wife Emma Alexandre.
Biography of Douglas Wilmer (excerpt)
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series Sherlock Holmes. He is mainly associated with the role of Sherlock Holmes, which he first played in the BBC's 1964 production of "The Speckled Band".
Biography of Auguste Caulet (excerpt)
Auguste Caulet, born October 15, 1926 in Montpellier (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), is a French former boxer.
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Biography of Juhan Smuul (excerpt)
Juhan Smuul (18 February 1922 – 13 April 1971) was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Smuul was born in Koguva village on the island of Muhu to Jüri and Ruudu Schmuul. He had three older sisters: Salme, Linda, and Liisa and one younger sister, Aliide, as well as six half-siblings from his father's first marriage.
Biography of Claude Simonet (excerpt)
Claude Simonet, born June 27, 1930 in Mortagne-au-Perche, is a French footballer who later became a leader. He was president of the French Football Federation from February 19, 1994 to February 12, 2005. ![]()
Biography of Lucebert (excerpt)
Lucebert (Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994) was a Dutch artist and writer who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement. He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA group at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1949.
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Biography of Andrée De Jongh (excerpt)
Andrée Eugénie Adrienne De Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comète) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. ![]()
Biography of Nonna Mordyukova (excerpt)
Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Но́нна (Ноябри́на) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star of films like director Denis Yevstigneyev's Mama and Nikita Mikhalkov's 1980s hit Family Relations.
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Biography of Georgine Darcy (excerpt)
Georgine Darcy (January 14, 1931 – July 18, 2004) was an American dancer and actress best known for her role as "Miss Torso" in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window. She also had a regular role in the 1960–1961 sitcom Harrigan and Son.
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Biography of Georges Perros (excerpt)
Georges Poulot, known as Georges Perros, born August 31, 1923 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2722; Wikipedia gives August 23, an error) and died in Paris (Laënnec hospital) on January 24, 1978 (cancer of the larynx), is a French writer and actor.
Biography of Jean Maheu (excerpt)
Jean Maheu (24 January 1931 – 9 January 2022) was a French government official. Life and career Maheu was the son of Director-General of UNESCO René Maheu and Inès Allafort du Verger. He studied at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris and at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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Biography of Hubert Faure (excerpt)
Hubert Faure (28 May 1914 – 17 April 2021) was a French soldier during World War II. He was a member of the Kieffer commandos.
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Biography of Richard Proenneke (excerpt)
Richard Louis Proenneke (May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1969–1999) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
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Biography of Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac (excerpt)
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac, née Hiltermann, alias Touty, (17 January 1919 – 2 October 2001) was a member of the Dutch-Paris network during the French Resistance. Captured by the Nazi she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation Suzanne Hiltermann moved to China in the 1960s. |
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