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birth charts 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. in ![]()
Biography of Diana Barnato Walker (excerpt)
Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 – 28 April 2008) was a pioneering English aviator.In World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 260 Spitfires.
Biography of Allyn Ann McLerie (excerpt)
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. Life and career McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897–1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888–1926).
Biography of Sally Miller Gearhart (excerpt)
Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist.In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country.
Biography of Jean Cardot (excerpt)
Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate.The act indicates "midnight", which can be interpreted as 00:00 or 23:59) – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor, born in Saint-Étienne, France. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
Biography of Yury Trifonov (excerpt)
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose".He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. In 1973, Trifonov published the historical novel The Impatient Ones.
Biography of Violette Szabo (excerpt)
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.
Biography of Dora Dougherty Strother (excerpt)
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.
Biography of Henri Delauze (excerpt)
Henri Germain Delauze, born September 17, 1929 in Cairanne (Vaucluse), died February 14, 2012 in Marseilles, was a French engineer, diver and entrepreneur, founder of the COMEX company. COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012.
Biography of Eric Laithwaite (excerpt)
Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was a British electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system. He became professor of heavy electrical engineering at Imperial College London in 1964 where he continued his successful development of the linear motor.
Biography of Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France.
Biography of Roland Lefranc (excerpt)
Roland Lefranc is a French painter and lithographer born February 4, 1931 in Carcagny (Calvados)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), who lived in Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (Calvados) where he died August 24, 2000. If maritime Lower Normandy is the dominant theme in Roland Lefranc's painting, it recreates trips to the island of Alderney (1965), in the Lot (where the part of his work on the theme cattle markets4) and in Spain - Valence, Vinaròs - (1966), in the Pyrénées-Orientales (1967), in Switzerland and the Netherlands (1977), in the Pays de Caux and on the beaches of Upper Normandy (Étretat, Yport, Vaucottes, Pourville and Dieppe in 1981), in Peru and Bolivia (1989), in Russia (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in 1990), in Italy (Venice in 1990 and 1993), in China where he painted the Great Wall (July-August 1991, then, at the invitation of the Chinese Embassy in Paris, in 1999), in Ireland (July 1992), in Madeira (1993), in Provence that, out of admiration for a master of region, he calls “Le pays de Seyssaud” 4 (August 1993), in Brittany (Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1994, the islands of Sein and Molène in 1996), in the United States (New York where his theme Favorite is Central Par k in November 1994), in London (March 1995), on the Îles de Ré, Noirmoutier and Jersey (1995), in Vietnam and Cambodia (December 1995 - January 1996), in Paris in 1997, in Morocco (Essaouira in June 1999) ), L'Armada de Brest in Rouen in July 1999.
Biography of Marianne Grunberg-Manago (excerpt)
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist.Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago studied biochemistry and, in 1955, while working in the lab of Spanish-America biochemist Severo Ochoa, she discovered the first nucleic-acid-synthesizing enzyme.
Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II.She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.Her experiences and those of numerous other German opponents of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany were described in her 1973 book Résistance – Erinnerungen deutscher Antifaschisten (Résistance — Memories of German Antifascists).
Biography of Eileen Kramer (excerpt)
Eileen Kramer (born 8 November 1914) is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, immediately decided on a career change to dance.
Biography of Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983).
Biography of Pierre Barbizet (excerpt)
Pierre Barbizet born in Arica (Chile) on September 20, 1922 and died on January 19, 1990 in Marseille is a French pianist and musical teacher. He is notably known for having been the partner of the violinist Christian Ferras and for having directed from 1963 until his death the conservatory of Marseille which has since bears his name.
Biography of Jacques Fournier (civil servant) (excerpt)
Jacques Fournier, born May 5, 1929 in Épinal and died August 14, 2021, is a senior French civil servant. Jacques Fournier spent his youth and studied in French Algeria. A former student of the ENA, he was appointed legal adviser of the French Embassy in Morocco (1961-1964).
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice).
Biography of Madeleine Damerment (excerpt)
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French spy in World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive.Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit in France during World War II but was arrested upon arrival by the Gestapo, who knew she was coming.
Biography of Ernesto Colnago (excerpt)
Ernesto Colnago (born 9 February 1932 in Cambiago) is an Italian entrepreneur and inventor who founded in 1952 and still runs the bicycle manufacturing company Colnago Ernesto & C.S.r.l. Colnago began working for the Gloria Bicycle Company in Milan in 1945 when he was 13 years old.
Biography of Tina Anselmi (excerpt)
Tina Anselmi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (25 March 1927 – 1 November 2016) was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II who went on to become an Italian politician. She was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in an Italian government.
Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her.
Biography of Johan Galtung (excerpt)
Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist, and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970.
Biography of Polina Gelman (excerpt)
Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II.
Biography of Doc Severinsen (excerpt)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American jazz trumpeter who led the band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his time on The Tonight Show.
Biography of Horst Sindermann (excerpt)
Horst Sindermann (5 September 1915 – 20 April 1990) was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany. Sindermann was born in a traditional family in Dresden as the son of the Saxon Social Democratic politician Karl Sindermann.
Biography of Freeman Dyson (excerpt)
Freeman Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician notable for his contributions across a broad spectrum of science, ranging from quantum field theory to astrophysics. Born in England December 15, 1923, he displayed an early proclivity for mathematics and physics, leading him to study at Cambridge and then move to the United States for postgraduate work.
Biography of Michel Laclotte (excerpt)
Michel Laclotte (France, 27 October 1929 – 10 August 2021) was a French art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting. Career His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the École du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966.
Biography of Adalet Agaoglu (excerpt)
Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature.She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories. As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey.
Biography of Jerrie Cobb (excerpt)
Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, 1931 – March 18, 2019) was an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13", a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts. She was the first to complete each of the tests.
Biography of Suzanne Martel (excerpt)
Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Biography of Franco Cristaldi (excerpt)
Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s. In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.
Biography of Darya Dyachenko (excerpt)
Darya Grigorievna Dyachenko (2 April 1924 – 2 April 1944) was a member of the underground Komsomol guerilla organization based in Mykolaiv and the head of the partisan group's youth chapter. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 1 July 1958 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.
Biography of Maureen Dunlop de Popp (excerpt)
Maureen Adele Chase Dunlop de Popp (26 October 1920 – 29 May 2012), née Dunlop, was an Anglo-Argentine pilot who flew for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War II, and became notable as a pin-up on the cover of the Picture Post magazine.
Biography of Raymond Bourgine (excerpt)
Raymond Bourgine (1925-1990) was a French journalist and politician.He served as editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles from 1966 to 1990 and as French Senator from 1977 to 1990. In 1945, Bourgine started writing for Paris-Matin, followed by La Vie française in 1946 and Aux Écoutes de la Finance in 1947, before becoming its editor-in-chief in 1948.
Biography of Öztürk Serengil (excerpt)
Öztürk Serengil (2 May 1933 – 11 January 1999) was a Turkish actor and comedian.He is mostly known as one of the famous comedians in Turkish films. He was born in Artvin, Turkey on 2 May 1933 as the son of a teacher.
Biography of Albert Bouvet (excerpt)
Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé.
Biography of Cato Bontjes van Beek (excerpt)
Cato Bontjes van Beek (14 November 1920 – 5 August 1943) was a German member of the Resistance against the Nazi regime. Unlike many others Cato did not join the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM) youth organisation.Through her brother Tim, she met Luftwaffe Sergeant Helmut Schmidt, the future Chancellor of Germany, who from 1937 was stationed in Bremen-Vegesack for his military service and during this time had an intense friendship with the Bontjes van Beek family.
Biography of Monique Morelli (excerpt)
Monique Morelli, born Monique Dubois in Béthune on December 14, 1923 (according to her birth certificate, Wikipedia gives another date of birth) and died in Montmartre on April 27, 1993, is a French singer, whose repertoire of realistic inspiration at her beginnings has become an anthology of poetic song.
Biography of Pauline Dubuisson (excerpt)
Pauline Dubuisson, born March 11, 1927 in Malo-les-Bains (Nord) and died September 22, 1963 in Essaouira (Morocco), is known to have been at the center of a news item from the 1950s. Tried in 1953 in Paris for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Félix Bailly, she inspired the main character of Henri-Georges Clouzot's film, La Vérité (1960).
Biography of Siegfried Lenz (excerpt)
Siegfried Lenz (17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre.In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth.
Biography of Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance.Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.Pauliac's father, Roger Pauliac, died in 1916 in the Battle of Verdun.
Biography of Pierre Chateau-Jobert (excerpt)
Pierre Yvon Alexandre Jean Chateau-Jobert (alias Conan) is a senior officer of the French army, fighter of the Second World War (and as such, companion of the Liberation) and the wars of Indochina and Algeria, born in Morlaix on February 3, 1912, and died in Caumont-l'Éventé in Calvados on December 29, 2005 at the age of 93.
Biography of Laure Gatet (excerpt)
Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 - 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France.After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research.
Biography of Denis Peploe (excerpt)
Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (25 March 1914 – 22 May 1993) was a Scottish artist and sculptor known for his landscapes. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and the Special Operations Executive where he was hurt in a motorcycle accident.
Biography of Dixie Evans (excerpt)
Mary Lee "Dixie" Evans (August 28, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was an American burlesque dancer and stripper. Career Evans was best known for a burlesque parody she performed as Marilyn Monroe.Evans entered show-business as a model and later chorus girl before becoming a star dancer.
Biography of Geneviève de Galard (excerpt)
Geneviève de Galard Terraube, born on April 13, 1925, in Paris and died on May 30, 2024, was a French military nurse known as "the Angel of Dien Bien Phu" during the Indochina War. Graduating in 1950, she became an Air Force nurse in 1952.
Biography of Yuri Bondarev (excerpt)
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter.He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71). His first successes in literature, the novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959) were part of a new trend of war fiction which dispensed with pure heroes and vile villains in favor of emphasizing the true human cost of war. |
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