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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 Erna de Vries (excerpt)
Erna de Vries, born Erna Korn on October 21, 1923, was a German Holocaust survivor who passed away on October 24, 2021.Growing up in a mixed religious family, she faced increasing persecution under the Nazis. After her father’s death, her family’s business was seized, and her education was disrupted. ![]()
Biography of Alexis Smith (actress) (excerpt)
Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies.
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Biography of Gene Reynolds (excerpt)
Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal (April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor, best known as a developer and producer of the TV series MASH. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he served in the U.S.Navy during World War II and later studied history at UCLA. ![]()
Biography of Roald Aas (excerpt)
Roald Edgar Aas (25 March 1928 – 18 February 2012) was a speed skater and cyclist from Norway.He was born in Oslo.Aas was the number two speed skater in Norway through the entire 1950s—initially after Hjalmar Andersen, later after Knut Johannesen. ![]()
Biography of Ann Richards (actress) (excerpt)
Shirley Ann Richards (13 December 1917 (Wikipedia gives 20 December, by mistake) – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress and author, prominent in 1930s Australian cinema with Cinesound Productions and later in Hollywood as an MGM starlet. Notable works include "It Isn't Done" (1937), "Dad and Dave Come to Town" (1938), "An American Romance" (1944), and "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).
Biography of Michel Décaudin (excerpt)
Michel Décaudin, born on April 22, 1919, in Roubaix and passed away on March 5, 2004, in Paris, was a French literature professor. After teaching at various high schools and colleges, he became a professor at the University of Toulouse (1957-1969), then at Paris X-Nanterre, and finally at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he was named professor emeritus in 1984.
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Biography of Diego Fabbri (excerpt)
Diego Fabbri (July 2, 1911 – August 14, 1980) was an Italian playwright known for his works on Catholic religious themes. He graduated in economics from the University of Bologna in 1936 and began his writing career in 1928 with "The Flowers of Pain." In 1940, he wrote several notable plays.
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Biography of Claude Stavisky (excerpt)
Claude Stavisky was a French magician, illusionist, and conjurer, born on July 28, 1926, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and died in 2006. He was the son of Alexandre Stavisky, a French financier and swindler whose actions led to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair.
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Biography of Angela Jurdak Khoury (excerpt)
Angela Jurdak Khoury (September 24, 1915 - May 29, 2011) was a Lebanese diplomat and college professor based in Washington, D.C. Career Khoury taught sociology at the American University of Beirut beginning in 1938, the university's first woman instructor.She served as assistant director of the Allied Powers Radio Poll for Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine during World War II.
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Biography of Janis Carter (excerpt)
Janis Carter (born Janis Elinore Dremann, October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994) was an American stage and film actress active in the 1940s and 1950s. She transitioned to television in the mid-1950s, co-hosting the NBC daytime game show "Feather Your Nest" with Bud Collyer.
Biography of Annette Strauss (excerpt)
Annette Louise Greenfield Strauss (January 26, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her.
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Biography of Muriel Siebert (excerpt)
Muriel Faye Siebert (September 12, 1928 – August 24, 2013) was an American businesswoman who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms.
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Biography of José G. Tormos Vega (excerpt)
José Guillermo Tormos Vega (born February 23, 1925), known as Joselín, was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from January 2, 1977, to February 22, 1984. He is credited with establishing the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes as a museum. ![]()
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer.Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929.Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
Biography of Morag Beaton (excerpt)
Morag Beaton (2 July 1926 – 1 April 2010) was a Scottish-Australian dramatic soprano renowned for her role as Turandot, which she performed more frequently in Australia than any other soprano to date. Her operatic career spanned from 1965 to 1983, with notable roles including Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin" and Venus in "Tannhäuser."
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Biography of Robert Bruce Merrifield (excerpt)
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for inventing solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). Born in Polytechnic, Texas, he later moved to California and graduated from UCLA. ![]()
Biography of Florence Resnikoff (excerpt)
Florence Lisa Resnikoff (7 April 1920 – 8 April 2013) was an American artist and educator in metals and jewelry. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she started making jewelry in 1948 and was a founding member of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco in 1951.
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Biography of Luigi Gui (excerpt)
Luigi Gui (26 September 1914 – 26 April 2010) was an Italian politician and philosopher. Gui was born in Padua (Veneto).He graduated in philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan.He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II.
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Biography of Richard Crane (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Ollie Crane (June 5, 1918 – March 9, 1969) was a character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television.His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films made in the 1940s. Early years and career Crane was born in New Castle, Indiana.
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Biography of Joachim Peiper (excerpt)
Joachim Peiper (30 janvier 1915 – 14 juillet 1976) était un officier allemand de la Schutzstaffel (SS) et criminel de guerre. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il fut l'adjoint personnel de Heinrich Himmler, chef de la SS, et commandant de chars dans la Waffen-SS, où il incarna l'idéologie nazie en encourageant des crimes de guerre.
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Biography of George J. Eade (excerpt)
George James Eade, born October 27, 1921, in Lockney, Texas, and passed away on August 26, 2018, was a four-star general in the U.S. Air Force. He served as Deputy Commander in Chief of the United States European Command from 1973 to 1975.
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Biography of François Bordes (excerpt)
Henri Louis François Bordes, born on December 30, 1919, in Rives, Lot-et-Garonne, and died on April 30, 1981, at the age of 61, in Tucson, Arizona, was a French prehistorian who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Paleolithic era and developed a new approach to the study of archaeological artifact assemblages.
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Biography of John Yeon (excerpt)
John Yeon (October 29, 1910 – March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century.He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism. Largely self-taught, Yeon’s wide ranging activities encompassed planning, conservation, historic preservation, art collecting, and urban activism. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Ferrater (excerpt)
Gabriel Ferrater i Soler (20 May 1922 – 27 April 1972) was a Catalan author, translator, and linguistics scholar. His poetic work, deeply influential in post-war Catalonia, includes three collections: "Da nuces pueris" (1960), "Menja't una cama" (1962), and "Teoria dels cossos" (1968), later combined into "Les dones i els dies," a landmark in Catalan literature. ![]()
Biography of Franz Weber (activist) (excerpt)
Franz Weber (27 July 1927 – 2 April 2019) was a Swiss environmentalist and animal welfare activist who began his career as a journalist. After studying at the Sorbonne, he became deeply involved in environmental conservation starting in 1965, notably through his efforts to protect the Engadine Valley of the Lakes in Switzerland, which was eventually declared a National Conservation Region.
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Biography of Raymonde Allain (excerpt)
Raymonde Allain, born June 22, 1912, in Paris and died July 27, 2008, in the same city, was a French actress and presenter. Crowned Miss Bretagne in 1927, she became Miss France in 1928.Daughter of actor Henri Allain, she married pianist Alec Siniavine in 1938.
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Biography of Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois (excerpt)
Philippe Charles d'Orléans, petit-fils de France, Duke of Valois (16 July 1664 – 8 December 1666) was a French prince and Grandson of France. He was styled Duke of Valois at the time of his birth. He was a short lived nephew of Louis XIV.
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Biography of Lisa Della Casa (excerpt)
Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.
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Biography of Monique de la Bruchollerie (excerpt)
Monique Yver de la Bruchollerie, born April 20, 1915 in Paris and died December 15, 1972, was a French pianist from a family of distinguished musicians. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at eleven and won first prize in piano in 1931 under Isidore Philipp.
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Biography of Rodolfo Acosta (excerpt)
Rodolfo Pérez Acosta (July 29, 1920 – November 7, 1974) was a Mexican-American character actor who became known for his roles as Mexican outlaws or American Indians in Hollywood western films.He was sometimes credited as Rudolfo Acosta. After the war, Acosta worked in stage and film, leading to a role in John Ford's 1947 film "The Fugitive".
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Biography of Agostinho Neto (excerpt)
António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist politician and poet. His time of birth comes from a Facebook post from the official account of the Consular General of Angola. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974).
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Biography of Elsa Lystad (excerpt)
Elsa Lystad (9 July 1930 – 26 December 2023) was a renowned Norwegian film and stage actress. She received the Leonard Statuette, the King's Medal of Merit, the Amanda Honorary Award, and the Gullruten award. Lystad made her stage debut in 1956 and had her breakthrough in the mid-1960s, becoming a central figure in Norwegian film, theatre, television, and radio.
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Biography of Jean-Jacques Morvan (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Morvan, born on January 7, 1928, in Paris (Wikipedia makes a mistake about his city of birth). and died on September 4, 2005, was a versatile French artist: painter, sculptor, engraver, writer, actor, journalist, critic, and songwriter. He witnessed the battles for the liberation of Paris in 1944 and assisted deportees returning from Nazi camps, an experience that deeply affected his sensitivity.
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Biography of Antoine Sanguinetti (excerpt)
Antoine Sanguinetti, born on May 9, 1917, in Cairo and died on July 20, 2004, in Bastelicaccia, was a French fleet vice-admiral and political activist. Graduating from the Naval Academy in 1939, he joined the French Forces fighting during World War II and later commanded the aircraft carrier Clemenceau.
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Biography of Billy Walker (musician) (excerpt)
William Marvin Walker (January 14, 1929 – May 21, 2006) was an American country music singer and guitarist best known for his 1962 hit, "Charlie's Shoes". Nicknamed The Tall Texan, Walker had more than 30 charting records during a nearly 60-year career, and was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Biography of Halina Birenbaum (excerpt)
Halina Birenbaum (Warsaw, 15 September 1929) is a Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activist. Life Born in Warsaw, to Jakub Grynsztajn and Pola formerly Perl, née Kijewska, she was the youngest of three and the only daughter.After the occupation of Poland by Germany, the family's home was in area that was part of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Biography of Lynn Compton (excerpt)
Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (December 31, 1921 – February 25, 2012) was an American jurist, law enforcement officer, and United States Army officer during World War II, serving as a paratrooper in "Easy Company" of the 506th Infantry Regiment within the 101st Airborne Division.
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Biography of Noël Vandernotte (excerpt)
Noël Vandernotte was a French rower born on December 25, 1923, in Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and passed away on June 18, 2020, in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès (Bouches-du-Rhône). As a coxswain, he won two bronze medals in Berlin in 1936, making him one of the youngest Olympic medalists in history at the age of twelve, surpassed only by Dimitrios Loundras, who was 10 years and 218 days old when he finished third in team parallel bars at the 1896 Olympics.
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Biography of Wah Chang (designer) (excerpt)
Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews.
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Biography of Lina Òdena (excerpt)
Paulina Òdena García, better known as Lina Òdena, was born in Barcelona on January 22, 1911. She was a communist leader and militiawoman in the Spanish Civil War who committed suicide on September 14, 1936, near Granada to avoid capture by fascists.
Biography of Leopold Flam (excerpt)
Leopold Flam (16 March 1912 – 29 September 1995) was a Belgian philosopher and author. Together with Alphonse De Waelhens, Chaïm Perelman and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the 1960s until the 1980s. His time of birth comes from "the press."
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Biography of Hermann Gmeiner (excerpt)
Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who founded SOS Children's Villages.Born in Alberschwende, Austria, he was deeply affected by the loss of his mother and his experiences as a soldier in WWII. In 1949, with just 600 Austrian schillings, he established the first SOS Children's Village in Imst, Tyrol.
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Biography of Joan Weldon (excerpt)
Joan Weldon (born Joan Louise Welton on August 5, 1930 – February 11, 2021) was an American actress and singer active in film, television, and theatre. Raised by her grandmother in San Francisco after early loss, Weldon began her career singing with the San Francisco Grand Opera Company and the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.
Biography of Hollis B. Chenery (excerpt)
Hollis Burnley Chenery (January 6, 1918 – September 1, 1994) was an American economist recognized for his pioneering contributions to development economics. He held positions at Stanford and Harvard before serving as vice president for development policy at the World Bank. Chenery's research, notably his collaboration with Alan Strout on "Foreign assistance and economic development," influenced aid strategies, emphasizing poverty-focused approaches.
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Biography of Lucien Barjon (excerpt)
Lucien, Émile, Vincent, Bargeon, known by his stage name Lucien Barjon, was a French actor, born on March 11, 1916, in Sète, and died on December 31, 2000, in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Originally an engineer for bridges and roads, he decided to pursue acting and appeared in numerous films and television series.
Biography of Benny Kalama (excerpt)
Benjamin Kapena Kalama (1916 – 1999) was an American singer known for his falsetto voice. He played a pivotal role in Alfred Apaka's career, working as his coach and music arranger. Kalama, born in Hawai'i, showcased his musical talents early, playing trombone in school bands.
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Biography of Jacques Martin (comics) (excerpt)
Jacques Martin, born on September 25, 1921, in Strasbourg, France, and died on January 21, 2010, in Orbe, Switzerland, was a French comic book author. A realistic illustrator, he is best known for his ancient adventure series Alix, published from 1948, and his contemporary espionage series Lefranc, which appeared four years later.
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Biography of Noel Neill (excerpt)
Noel Darleen Neill (November 25, 1920 – July 3, 2016) was an American actress, pin-up girl, and model.She played Lois Lane in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs.Superman (1950), as well as the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman.
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Biography of Georges Beaucourt (excerpt)
Georges Beaucourt, born April 15, 1912, in Roubaix and died February 27, 2002, in Douai, was a French international footballer who later became a coach and then a senior executive at Charbonnages de France. A student in advanced mathematics at Lycée Faidherbe in Lille, he won several French school and university championships.
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Biography of Josep Vallverdú (excerpt)
Josep Vallverdú i Aixalà (born 9 July 1923) is a Catalan poet, novelist, playwright, linguist and essayist. His time of birth comes from the biography Finestra i espill, Volume 5 of Biblioteca Global, by Josep Vallverdú (Edited by M. Carme Calderó; Editorial Fonoll, 2008; via Google Books). |
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