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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Simone Le Port (excerpt)
Simone Le Port (born 3 July 1920 Inguiniel, died June 2009) was a member of the French resistance and a peace activist. Originally from Inguiniel, Simone Le Port joined the Resistance as a liaison.Her husband Semaphorist became responsible for the air operations bureau of Morbihan (then Loire-Inferieure and Maine-et-Loire).
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Biography of Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (excerpt)
Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (31 March 1913 – 24 May 2004), better known as Mari Pepa Colomer, was one of the pioneers of Spanish aviation. She was the first female flight instructor in Spain and the first Catalan woman (third Spanish woman) to earn a pilot's license.
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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 Edgar Hilsenrath (excerpt)
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor.He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp.
Biography of Bill Austin (excerpt)
William Lee Austin (October 18, 1928 – May 22, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a lineman for the New York Giants for seven seasons, was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for three seasons, (1966–1968) and one for the Washington Redskins in 1970.
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Biography of Jeanne Brousse (excerpt)
Jeanne Brousse (née Maurier; 12 April 1921 – 19 October 2017), known as Jeannette, was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. She was a member of the French Resistance during WWII and she is a member of the Righteous Among The Nations.
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 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 Sherry Britton (excerpt)
Edith Zack (July 28, 1918 – April 1, 2008), better known by the stage name Sherry Britton, was an American burlesque performer of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Britton had an 18-inch (46 cm) waist, and was once said to have a "figure to die for." She got her stage name from a liquor store on a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry.
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Biography of Jean Vercoutter (excerpt)
Jean Vercoutter (January 20, 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 16, 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s.Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges.
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Biography of Yvette Lundy (excerpt)
Yvette Lundy (22 April 1916 – 3 November 2019) was a French resistance fighter during the French Resistance of World War II. She provided the inspiration for the character of Mademoiselle Lise Lundi in the 2009 film Korkoro, written and directed by Tony Gatlif. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Jannin (excerpt)
Suzanne Henriette Jannin, also Suzanne Henriette Delvoye, (1912–1982) was a French dentist, a resistance fighter in World War II, and an air force pilot in Indochina.After receiving her military pilot's licence in 1948, she gave up dentistry to devote herself to aviation.
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Biography of Taos Amrouche (excerpt)
Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer.In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. She was born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, the only daughter in a family of six sons.
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Biography of Yvette Lévy (excerpt)
Yvette Henriette Lévy (née Dreyfuss; born 21 June 1926 in Paris) is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust.In July 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.She survived and now educates youths about her experiences.
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Biography of Serge Ravanel (excerpt)
Serge Ravanel, born Serge Asher on May 12, 1920 in Paris where he died on April 27, 2009, was a French resistance fighter. Awards Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Companion of the Liberation, by decree of January 18, 1946 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm
Biography of Frank Bernard (writer) (excerpt)
Bernard Frank, born October 11, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died November 3, 2006 in Paris, is a French writer and journalist. He died on November 3, 2006, of a devastating heart attack while he was in the company of a friend in a restaurant in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
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Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
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Biography of Tatiana Markus (excerpt)
Tetyana Yosypivna Markus (also trans.as Tatiana, 21 September 1921 – 29 January 1943) was a member of the anti-Nazi underground in Kiev. Biography Markus was born in the Shtetl of Romny to a large Jewish family.A few years after her birth, her family moved to Kiev.
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Biography of Hubert Germain (excerpt)
Hubert Germain, born August 6, 1920 in Paris (birth certificate n° 1312, Didier Geslain) and died October 12, 2021 in the same city, is a French resistance fighter and politician. Engaged in the Free French Forces during World War II, he then pursued a political career, during which he was mayor of Saint-Chéron in Essonne and deputy for the fourteenth district of Paris (13th arrondissement).
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Biography of Bill Hardman (excerpt)
William Franklin Hardman, Jr.(April 6, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio – December 5, 1990 in Paris, France) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop.He was married to Roseline and they had a daughter Nadege. Hardman grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and worked with local players including Bobby Few and Bob Cunningham; while in high school he appeared with Tadd Dameron, and after graduation he joined Tiny Bradshaw's band.
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Biography of Imants Ziedonis (excerpt)
Imants Ziedonis (3 May 1933 – 27 February 2013) was a Latvian poet, screenwriter and writer who first rose to fame during the Soviet era in Latvia. Ziedonis was born in the Sloka fisherman's district of Jūrmala, Latvia.He was educated at the University of Latvia in Riga where he earned a degree in philology in 1959.
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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.
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Biography of Galina Petrova (excerpt)
Galina Petrova (Russian: Галина Петрова; 9 September 1920 – 4 December 1943) was a medic and Chief Petty Officer in the 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. She died during a bombing attack on 4 December 1943 less than a month after she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation. ![]()
Biography of Ken Clark (actor) (excerpt)
Kenneth Donovan Clark (June 4, 1927 – June 1, 2009) was an American B movie actor. He appeared in movies in the United States and Europe, including the Secret Agent 077 trilogy, South Pacific, and a number of Spaghetti Westerns. Acting career
Biography of Maurice Faivre (excerpt)
Maurice Faivre (19 March 1926 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 November 2020) was a French Général and political scientist. He fought for France in the Algerian War, on which he published numerous works. Awards Cross for Military Valour (1957)
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Biography of Ivo Caprino (excerpt)
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix In 1970, Caprino and his small team of collaborators, started work on a 25-minute TV special, which eventually became The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.
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Biography of Paulette Fink (excerpt)
Paulette Weill Oppert Fink (1911–2005) was a French-Jewish nurse and resistance worker during the Second World War. She later emigrated to the United States where she helped to raise money in support of the new State of Israel. An executive member of the National Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal, she was elected chair in December 1960.
Biography of René Gilson (excerpt)
René Gilson, born September 8, 1921 in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) and died June 6, 2018 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais)1, was a French film critic and director.
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Biography of Frederick Stafford (excerpt)
Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies. Film career In 1964 French director André Hunebelle discovered Stafford on holiday at a hotel in Bangkok and asked him "How would you like to make movies with me." Stafford replied, "Why not."
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Biography of Marguerite Bervoets (excerpt)
Marguerite Bervoets, born in La Louvière, (6 March 1914 - 7 August 1944) was a Belgian resistance fighter during World War 2. On 8 August 1942 Marguerite and another resistance member, Cécile Detournay, went to the edge of Chièvres Airfield for the purpose of photographing newly installed anti-aircraft guns.
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Biography of Jeannette Guyot (excerpt)
Jeannette Guyot (February 26, 1919 – April 10, 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women.She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war. ![]()
Biography of Carol Emshwiller (excerpt)
Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K.Dick Award.Ursula K.Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction".
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Biography of Marija Bursać (excerpt)
Marija Bursać (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar. ![]()
Biography of Zivia Lubetkin (excerpt)
Zivia Lubetkin (Polish: Cywia Lubetkin, nom de guerre: Celina; 9 November 1914–11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance group Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB).
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Biography of Ivo Garrani (excerpt)
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor.In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
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Biography of Marc Dudicourt (excerpt)
Marc Dudicourt (6 March 1932 – 1 May 2021) was a French actor. Son of an industrial designer, he came to live in Paris with his family when he was eleven years old.Passionate about Walt Disney and the cartoon, he decided to become a designer and was hired by Jean Image in his drawing workshop.
Biography of Edmond Maudière (excerpt)
Edmond Maudière, born November 9, 1926 in Aÿ and died April 3, 2023, was a figure of the Resistance. He had notably participated in the defense of the Glières plateau (Haute-Savoie) during the Second World War.
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Biography of Lois Gunden (excerpt)
Lois Gunden (February 25, 1915-2005) was the fourth of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel.Gunden was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana.In 1941, when she was 26 years old, she was teaching English for the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France when the Nazi occupation began.
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Biography of Paulette Duhalde (excerpt)
Paulette Duhalde (July 23, 1921 – April 23, 1945) was a French Resistance fighter, who operated under the alias of "Jojo" with the Jeanne Network in France's Normandy region during World War II. Betrayed to the Gestapo by a spy within the network, she was arrested, tried, sentenced to five years in prison, and jailed at Fresnes before being deported to a prison facility in Aachen, Germany.
Biography of Mimi Perrin (excerpt)
Mimi Perrin, born Jeannine Quintard on February 2, 1926 in Saint-Maurice and died on November 16, 2010 in Paris 10th district, is a French pianist, singer and translator. After her musical career, she became one of the translators from English most in demand by the publishing world.
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Biography of Joan McCracken (excerpt)
Joan Hume McCracken (December 31, 1917 – November 1, 1961) was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Sylvie ("The Girl Who Falls Down") in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! She also was noted for her performances in the Broadway shows Bloomer Girl (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Dance Me a Song (1950), and the films Hollywood Canteen (1945) and Good News (1947). ![]()
Biography of Roy Haynes (excerpt)
Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer.He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz.In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz drumming.
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Biography of Sonja Wigert (excerpt)
Sonja Wigert (11 November 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960. She was a spy for Swedish intelligence during World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal portrayed her in the film The Spy.
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Biography of Edward Faulkner (excerpt)
Fielden Edward Faulkner II (born February 29, 1932 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American film and television character actor. He is most known for his roles in John Wayne films, including Hellfighters, The Green Berets, Rio Lobo, McLintock! and The Undefeated. He also played small roles on other films and TV series including Dragnet and The Tim Conway Show.
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Biography of Marianne Koch (excerpt)
Marianne Koch (German: ⓘ; born 19 August 1931) is a German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician. ![]()
Biography of Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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Biography of Ferruccio Amendola (excerpt)
Ferruccio Amendola (July 22, 1930 – September 3, 2001) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Turin to actors Federico Amendola and Amelia Ricci and the nephew of director and screenwriter Mario Amendola, he was among Italy's most accomplished actors who worked for cinema and television and also did extensive voice dubbing work.
Biography of Jérémie Bressieux (excerpt)
Jérémie Bressieux, born November 8, 1914 in Bougé, died October 28, 2005 in Paris, was a French aviator. He joined the Air Force in August 1935 and obtained his pilot's license 4 months later at the Ambérieu school.In November 1937, he was assigned to GC I/5 in Reims.
Biography of John Karlen (excerpt)
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz; May 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was an American character actor who played multiple roles on the ABC serial Dark Shadows on and off from 1967 to 1971. In 1971, Karlen starred as the male lead in Daughters of Darkness. |
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