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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 Richard Devon (excerpt)
Richard Devon, born Richard Gibson Ferraiole on December 11, 1926, in Glendale, California, was an American character and voice actor.From the late 1940s to 1991, he performed in hundreds of stage, radio, film, and television roles. Raised in a modest family of Italian descent, Devon worked early on as a stable hand and riding instructor—skills that served him well in his many roles in Westerns.
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Biography of Bob Hammer (excerpt)
Howard Robert Hammer (March 3, 1930 – December 26, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Indianapolis, he began performing in Michigan at age 15 and later studied at Michigan State University and the Manhattan School of Music. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Bates (excerpt)
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She began her career in radio serials before signing a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. Her filmography includes roles in both minor parts and significant appearances in horror and noir films such as The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
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Biography of Daniel Gonzague (excerpt)
Daniel Gonzague, born on May 16, 1930, in Joinville-le-Pont, is a French designer and engraver of postage stamps. In 1956, as a young postal worker, he achieved early recognition by winning the competition for the first stamp in the EUROPA series, launched by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
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Biography of Joyce Collins (pianist) (excerpt)
Joyce Collins (born May 5, 1927 in Battle Mountain, Nevada – died January 3, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, vocalist, and educator. She began performing at 15 while attending Reno High School and played in clubs during college in San Francisco.
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Biography of Frank Foster (jazz musician) (excerpt)
Frank Benjamin Foster III (born September 23, 1928 – died July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. After studying at Wilberforce University, he joined Detroit’s jazz scene before being drafted to Korea in 1951.
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Biography of Ormond McGill (excerpt)
Ormond Dale McGill, born on June 15, 1913 in Palo Alto, California, and died on October 19, 2005, was an American stage hypnotist, magician, and author, known as the "Dean of American Hypnotists." His time of birth comes from him, in his book "The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill", by Ormond McGill (Crown House, 2005).
Biography of Gael Turnbull (excerpt)
Gael Turnbull, born April 7, 1928, in Edinburgh and passed away on July 2, 2004, was a Scottish poet and a key figure in the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. He grew up in Northern England and Canada, where he moved with his family during World War II.
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Biography of Rufina Gasheva (excerpt)
Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva (October 14, 1921 – May 1, 2012) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator in the famed all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches." She flew 848 combat missions and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Dick Rathmann (excerpt)
James Merwin "Dick" Rathmann (January 6, 1926 – February 1, 2000) was an American racing driver known for competing in both NASCAR and open-wheel series. As a teen, he swapped identities with his brother Jim to help him race underage — a switch that stuck for life.
Biography of Dick Grove (musician) (excerpt)
Richard Dean Grove (December 18, 1927 – December 26, 1998) was an American musician, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best remembered as the founder of the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, whose students included Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barry Manilow.
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Biography of Marcos Calderón (excerpt)
Marcos Calderón (11 July 1928 – 8 December 1987) was a Peruvian football coach and player. During his tenure the Peru national team won the Copa América 1975 and reached the second round of the 1978 World Cup. He was born in Lima in 1928 and died when he was coach to Alianza Lima in a terrible aviation crash that occurred on 8 December 1987 that killed most of the team's promising squad.
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Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
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Biography of Aharon Appelfeld (excerpt)
Aharon Appelfeld (born Ervin Appelfeld, February 16, 1932, in Jadova, Kingdom of Romania (now Stara Zhadova in Ukraine) – died January 4, 2018, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. As a child, he lost his mother during the Romanian invasion in 1941, was deported to Transnistria, escaped, and survived in hiding before joining the Soviet army.
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Biography of Ernest Becker (excerpt)
Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author, best known for The Denial of Death, which earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents, he served in World War II and helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp.
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Biography of Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
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Biography of Mikiso Hane (excerpt)
Mikiso “Miki” Hane (January 16, 1922 – December 8, 2003) was a Japanese American professor of history at Knox College, where he taught for over 40 years. He wrote and translated over a dozen books, wrote many articles, and was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 1991.
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Biography of Tex Beneke (excerpt)
Tex Beneke (born Gordon Lee Beneke, February 12, 1914 – died May 30, 2000) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader best known for his work with Glenn Miller. He performed the sax solo on In the Mood and sang on Chattanooga Choo Choo, iconic hits of the big band era.
Biography of Med Flory (excerpt)
Meredith Irwin Flory, known professionally as Med Flory, was born on August 27, 1926, in Logansport, Indiana, and died on March 12, 2014, in Hollywood. A jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and actor, he began playing clarinet as a child, served as a pilot during World War II, and later earned a philosophy degree from Indiana University.
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Biography of Jean Rouverol (excerpt)
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter, and author who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, creator of the Andy Hardy character.
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Biography of Alexander Trocchi (excerpt)
Alexander Trocchi (July 30, 1925, Glasgow – April 15, 1984, London) was a Scottish intellectual and novelist, also a significant member of the Situationist International. Born to an Italian father and a Scottish mother, he lived mostly in Paris from 1950 to 1956, co-editing the English-language literary journal Merlin, which featured Sartre, Genet, and Ionesco.
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Biography of R. F. Lucchetti (excerpt)
Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, better known as R. F. Lucchetti, was a Brazilian writer born on January 29, 1930, in Santa Rita do Paso and died on April 4, 2024, in Ribeirão Preto. He was widely known for his vast output of pulp fiction and popular novels.
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Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
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Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
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Biography of Mario Orozco Rivera (excerpt)
Mario Orozco Rivera (January 19, 1930 – November 20, 1998) was a Mexican painter and muralist, and one of the last exponents of social Mexican muralism inspired by David Alfaro Siqueiros. He painted numerous murals, especially in Veracruz, and later directed the Taller Siqueiros in Cuernavaca.
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Biography of Vern Olsen (excerpt)
Vern Jarl Olsen (March 16, 1918 – July 13, 1989) was an American professional baseball player and a left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1939–42; 1946). Born in Hillsboro, Oregon, Olsen excelled in the minor leagues (23, 19, and 18 wins from 1937 to 1939).
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Biography of Adriaan Morriën (excerpt)
Adriaan Morriën (Velsen, June 5, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 7, 2002) was a Dutch poet, writer of short prose, essayist, translator, and critic.Morriën made his debut in 1935, shortly before its closure, in the magazine Forum, led by Menno ter Braak and E.
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Biography of Shoji Sadao (excerpt)
Shoji Sadao (January 2, 1927 – November 3, 2019) was a Japanese American architect best known for his collaborations with R.Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. Born in Los Angeles, he and his family were interned during World War II at Gila River.
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Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
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Biography of Bruce Glover (excerpt)
Bruce Herbert Glover (May 2, 1932 – March 12, 2025) was an American character actor, best known for playing the assassin Mr.Wint in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Born in Chicago with English, Czech, and Swedish roots, he served in the U.S.
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Biography of Barron Patterson McCune (excerpt)
Barron Patterson McCune (February 19, 1915 – September 10, 2008) was a U.S. federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, practiced privately, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1948.
Biography of Sossen Krohg (excerpt)
Sossen Krohg (December 18, 1923 – February 12, 2016) was a Norwegian playwright and actress, active in theater, film, and television. Born in Kristiania (Oslo), she was the daughter of journalist Kristoffer Anker Olsen. She was married to skier Thorleif Schjelderup (1943-1947) and painter Guy Krohg (1949).
Biography of Erling Christie (excerpt)
Erling Christie (19 May 1928 — 3 September 1996) was a Norwegian author. Christie was among the pioneers of modernism in Norway both as a poet and a critic. Christie published five poetry collections in his life, and these were collected in the posthumous collection Samlede dikt (Aschehoug 1998).
Biography of Nikki Bridges Flynn (excerpt)
Noriko Bridges Flynn (née Sawada; February 11, 1923 – February 7, 2003), known as "Nikki", was a Japanese American civil rights activist and writer. Born in California to Japanese parents, she was interned during World War II at Poston for three years, an experience that deeply shaped her activism.
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Biography of John Paul Jones (artist) (excerpt)
John Paul Jones (November 18, 1924 – September 25, 1999) was an American painter and printmaker, regarded as one of the country’s leading printmakers during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1962, he was featured in Time Magazine, affirming his national prominence. The following year, the Brooklyn Museum held a major retrospective of his prints and drawings.
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Biography of Luis Olmo (excerpt)
Luis Rodríguez Olmo, born August 11, 1919, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was the first Puerto Rican to play and hit a home run in a World Series. He debuted in 1938 and joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, enjoying a standout season in 1945.
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Biography of Jackie Kelso (excerpt)
John Joseph Kelson Jr., born February 27, 1922 in Los Angeles and died April 28, 2012 in Beverly Hills, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist, known professionally as Jackie Kelso. He began studying clarinet at eight and switched to alto sax at fifteen, encouraged by Chico Hamilton.
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Biography of Jim Aton (excerpt)
James G. Aton (born April 26, 1925 – died September 16, 2008), known as Jim or Jimmy Aton, was an American jazz bassist, pianist, vocalist, and composer. He performed with Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Bill Evans, and appeared in films like Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957) and Roustabout (1964).
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Biography of Pete Candoli (excerpt)
Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli, June 28, 1923 – died January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter known for his high-note range and vibrant stage presence—earning him the nickname “Superman.” He rose to fame in the 1940s playing with big bands led by Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey, and Stan Kenton.
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Biography of Janine Bazin (excerpt)
Janine Bazin (January 29, 1923 – May 31, 2003) was a French film and television producer. She was married to André Bazin, a renowned film critic and historian, and was involved in the Travail et Culture association, linked to the French Communist Party.
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Biography of Leroy Vinnegar (excerpt)
Leroy Vinnegar (July 13, 1928 – August 3, 1999) was an American jazz bassist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana. A self-taught musician, he rose to fame in 1950s Los Angeles for his signature walking bass lines, earning him the nickname The Walker.
Biography of Harold Wertz (excerpt)
Harold Wertz, born on August 3, 1927, in Denison, Texas, and died on November 21, 1999, in San Diego, was an American child actor best known for his role in Our Gang. Raised in Long Beach, he joined the series in 1932 as “Bouncy,” following the departure of earlier chubby child characters.
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Biography of Ariadna Welter (excerpt)
Ariadna Welter, sometimes Ariadne Welter (born June 29, 1930 in Mexico City – died December 13, 1998) was a Mexican actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She starred in The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) by Luis Buñuel and in the horror classic El Vampiro (1956).
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Biography of Tommy Bond (actor) (excerpt)
Thomas "Tommy" Bond (September 16, 1926 – September 24, 2005) was an American actor best known for his dual roles in Our Gang as both Tommy and the bully Butch. Discovered at age 4, he appeared in 27 shorts of the series and became the first actor to portray Jimmy Olsen in the Superman serials of 1948 and 1950.
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Biography of Bernie Hamilton (excerpt)
Bernie Hamilton, born June 12, 1928, in Los Angeles and died December 30, 2008, was an American actor best known for his role as Captain Dobey in the TV series Starsky & Hutch. He was also the younger brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton.
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Biography of Tonino Guerra (excerpt)
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer, and screenwriter who collaborated with renowned directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, and Federico Fellini. Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Guerra began writing poetry during his internment in a German prison camp during World War II.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
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Biography of Addison Farmer (excerpt)
Addison Gerald Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa – February 20, 1963, New York City) was an American jazz bassist and the twin brother of trumpeter Art Farmer. After a difficult early life marked by his parents' divorce and his father's death, he moved to Phoenix with his family, then to Los Angeles in 1945 with his brother Art.
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Biography of Stanley F. Schmidt (excerpt)
Stanley F.Schmidt (January 21, 1926 – August 13, 2015) was an American aerospace engineer and pioneer of the Schmidt-Kalman filter, widely used in air and space navigation, notably in the Apollo missions. Born in Hollister, California, he began training in the Navy Air Corps in 1944 and earned an engineering degree from Marquette University in 1946, followed by an M.S. |
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