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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 Wilber Brotherton Huston (excerpt)
Wilber Brotherton Huston (October 2, 1912 – May 25, 2006) was an American scientist and NASA mission director who coordinated seven satellite launches.He won the first Edison Scholarship Contest at the age of sixteen.Huston died in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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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.
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 Paul Ottino (excerpt)
Paul Ottino (born April 2, 1930, in Nice – died September 25, 2001, in Paris) was a French ethnologist known for his critical and reflective anthropological approach. After briefly working in colonial administration in Madagascar, he joined the ORSTOM institute and focused on fieldwork in Madagascar and French Polynesia.
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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 Alberto Buccicardi (excerpt)
Alberto Buccicardi, born on May 11, 1914, and died on December 8, 1970, was a Chilean football player, coach, and later sports journalist. He coached Universidad Católica multiple times, leading the club to its first national title in 1949 and to a tournament win in Catalonia the following year.
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Biography of Howard Roberts (musician) (excerpt)
Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist and studio musician. A self-taught player, he began performing professionally at 15 and moved to Los Angeles in 1950, becoming part of the city's vibrant after-hours jazz scene.
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Biography of Jocelyn Gill (excerpt)
Jocelyn Gill (October 29, 1916 – April 26, 1984) was an American astronomer who worked for NASA.She graduated from Wellesley College in 1938 and earned her PhD from Yale in 1959 after teaching at several colleges. She held academic roles at Smith College and Arizona State University, and worked as a research assistant at Yale.
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Biography of François Neuens (excerpt)
François Neuens (September 6, 1912 – August 27, 1985) was a Luxembourgish professional road cyclist. He won two stages of the 1939 Tour de France. During World War II, he claimed two victories in the Tour de Luxembourg. Neuens also competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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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.
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Biography of Pilar Del Rey (excerpt)
Pilar Bougas (May 26, 1929 – February 23, 2025), professionally known as Pilar Del Rey, was an American actress whose career spanned from the late 1940s until 1990. She is best remembered for playing Mrs. Obregón in the 1956 epic film Giant, alongside James Dean.
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Biography of David Steindl-Rast (excerpt)
Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.(born July 12, 1926), is an American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer.He is dedicated to interfaith dialogue and examines the intersection of spirituality and science. Born in Vienna, Austria, into a Catholic family, he emigrated to the United States in 1952 after earning a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Vienna.
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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 Kit Horn (excerpt)
Kit Horn (November 10, 1929 – March 25, 2010) was an American big wave surfer and a pioneer in popularizing surfing in California and Oahu, Hawaii. Born in Hollywood, California, he began surfing at age 11. He later attended the University of Southern California, where he was a competitive swimmer and graduated in 1959.
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Biography of Robert W. Tucker (excerpt)
Robert Warren Tucker (born August 25, 1924 – died February 7, 2025) was an American realist writer and professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Biography of Del Martin (activist) (excerpt)
Dorothy "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an iconic lesbian couple from San Francisco, known for their pioneering work in feminism and gay rights. They met in 1950, moved in together in 1953, and cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first lesbian political and social organization in the U.S.
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Biography of John Kellogg (actor) (excerpt)
John Kellogg (June 3, 1916 – February 22, 2000) was an American film, stage, and television actor.Some sources, including ancestry.com, list his birth name as Giles Vernon Kellogg, Jr. He began acting in the 1930s under the name Giles V.Kellogg, notably in the comedy Brother Rat.
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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.
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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 Jack Hanlon (excerpt)
Jack Clem Hanlon (February 15, 1916 – December 13, 2012) was an American child actor best known for his roles in Our Gang and silent films.He began acting at age 10, debuting in Buster Keaton’s The General. He appeared in two Our Gang shorts in 1927 and starred in The Shakedown (1929).
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Biography of Dottie Frazier (excerpt)
Dottie May Frazier (July 16, 1922 – February 8, 2022) was an American diving pioneer, the first female scuba instructor and the first woman to own a dive shop in the U.S. She survived the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and graduated from high school in 1939.
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Biography of Odile de Vasselot de Régné (excerpt)
Odile de Vasselot de Régné (January 6, 1922 – April 21, 2025) was a French Resistance fighter and consecrated laywoman. Born into a military family, she joined the Resistance during WWII, first as a liaison agent, then in the Comet network, helping Allied airmen escape to Spain.
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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 Larry Bunker (excerpt)
Lawrence Benjamin Bunker (November 4, 1928 – March 8, 2005) was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist.A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the 1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Born in Long Beach, California, Bunker was a key figure on the West Coast jazz scene.
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Biography of J. J. Johnson (trombonist) (excerpt)
J. J. Johnson (born January 22, 1924 – died February 4, 2001), born James Louis Johnson, was an American jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. A bebop pioneer on trombone, he began in big bands with Benny Carter and Count Basie, and played at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in 1944.
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Biography of Phyllis Coates (excerpt)
Phyllis Coates, born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas, died on October 11, 2023 in Woodland Hills, California. She was an American actress best known for portraying Lois Lane in Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and the first season of Adventures of Superman.
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Biography of Leslie Irvin (serial killer) (excerpt)
Leslie "Joe Goebbels" Irvin, born April 2, 1924, and died November 9, 1983, was an American serial killer whose spree from December 1954 to March 1955 left six people dead in Indiana and Kentucky. His crimes, marked by close-range shootings during robberies, shocked the region and drew intense media attention.
Biography of Jack Donner (excerpt)
Jack Donner (born Jake Doner; October 29, 1928 – September 21, 2019) was an American actor whose career in film, theater, and television spanned more than six decades. A Los Angeles native, he began acting in the 1950s with roles in The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, and spent seven seasons in New York regional theater.
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Biography of Maxime Faget (excerpt)
Maxime "Max" Faget (August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer and key figure in early spaceflight.He designed the Mercury spacecraft and contributed to the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. After serving as a submariner, Faget joined NACA and later became part of NASA’s founding Space Task Group.
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Biography of Thelma Eisen (excerpt)
Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (May 11, 1922 – May 11, 2014) was a standout outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1944 to 1952.Known for her speed and defensive prowess, she played 966 games and stole 674 bases. An All-Star in 1946, she made the playoffs seven times and won a championship in 1944.
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Biography of Lassie Lou Ahern (excerpt)
Lassie Lou Ahern (June 26, 1920 – February 15, 2018) was an American silent film actress, discovered by Will Rogers. She began acting in 1923 and starred in several Our Gang films alongside her sister Peggy. Ahern enjoyed a versatile career in the 1920s, appearing in comedies, dramas, and action serials, with a standout role as Little Harry in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927).
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Biography of David A. Burchinal (excerpt)
David Arthur Burchinal (April 17, 1915 – August 17, 1990) was a four-star general in the United States Air Force.He served as Deputy Commander in Chief of the United States European Command from 1966 to 1973. A Brown University graduate, he began pilot training in 1939.
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Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
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Biography of Jimmy Wyble (excerpt)
James Otis Wyble (January 25, 1922 – January 16, 2010) was an American guitarist known for his work in both jazz and Western swing. He began his career in Texas and joined Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys before serving in World War II.
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Biography of Jack Larson (excerpt)
Jack Larson, born February 8, 1928 in Los Angeles and died September 20, 2015, was an American actor, librettist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for playing photographer and cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the Adventures of Superman TV series (1952–1958).
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Biography of George McFarland (excerpt)
George McFarland (October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993) was an American actor best known for playing "Spanky" in the Our Gang (aka The Little Rascals) comedy shorts. He began acting at age three and quickly became one of the series’ most iconic figures, appearing in numerous shorts and the 1936 feature General Spanky.
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Biography of Isidore Partouche (excerpt)
Isidore Partouche (born April 21, 1931 in Trézel – died April 30, 2025 in Paris) was a French entrepreneur and the founder of the Partouche Group, one of Europe’s leading casino operators. Born into a Sephardic Jewish merchant family from Oran, he began his career in Algeria as a radio electrician and became the first distributor of Philips.
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Biography of Butch Voris (excerpt)
Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris (September 17, 1919 – August 10, 2005) was a U.S. Navy aviator, World War II flying ace, and founder of the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Over a 22-year career, he flew a wide range of aircraft, from biplanes to jets, and later contributed to the development of the F-14 Tomcat and Apollo Lunar Module at Grumman.
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Biography of Vi Redd (excerpt)
Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, vocalist, and educator. Born in Los Angeles to jazz drummer Alton Redd, she was mentored early by her great-aunt Alma Hightower and began playing saxophone as a child.
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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). ![]()
Biography of Don DeFore (excerpt)
Donald DeFore, born August 25, 1913, and died December 22, 1993, was an American actor best known for his roles in the sitcoms The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1957) and Hazel (1961–1965), earning an Emmy nomination for the former. He married singer Marion Holmes in 1942; they had five children and remained married until his death.
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Biography of Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (excerpt)
Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (born July 14, 1931, in Santo Anastácio – died December 1, 2024, in Campinas) was a Brazilian electronic engineer, physicist, and public intellectual. A graduate of ITA and PhD from the Sorbonne, he worked at Bell Labs, taught at major universities in Brazil and France, and pioneered the use of lasers for material studies in Brazil.
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Biography of Gustave Brickner (excerpt)
Gustave Adolph "Gus" Brickner was a famous swimmer hailing from Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the United States.Born Feb.10, 1912 to Gustave Adolph Brickner Sr.(1889 - 1918) and Philamena "Minnie" Buchrop (1885 - 1968).One of Five siblings, Gus's father died at age 29 when Gus was 6 years old.
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 Howard Madole (excerpt)
Howard Madole, born April 29, 1923, and died January 29, 2015, was an American architect best known for his work in Sedona and Phoenix, Arizona. Called "the first architect of Sedona," he played a key role in shaping the area’s growth in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Biography of Pat Flaherty (racing driver) (excerpt)
George Francis "Pat" Flaherty (January 6, 1926 – April 9, 2002) was an American racing driver best known for winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1956. He began racing roadsters in 1946 and later competed in the AAA/USAC Championship, with 19 career starts and three wins, including the 1956 Indy 500.
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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 Norman Granz (excerpt)
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.He founded Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo labels, and launched the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. A champion of racial equality, he insisted on integrated audiences at his events.
Biography of Easley Blackwood Jr. (excerpt)
Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr., born April 21, 1933, in Indianapolis and died January 22, 2023, in Chicago, was an American concert pianist, composer, and music professor known for his work on microtonal tuning systems and traditional harmony. He studied with Messiaen, Hindemith, and Boulanger, and taught at the University of Chicago for forty years.
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Biography of Marthe Gautier (excerpt)
Marthe Gautier, born on September 10, 1925 in Montenils and died on April 30, 2022 in Meaux, was a French physician, pediatrician, and honorary research director at INSERM, specializing in pediatric cardiology. In 1959, she played a crucial role in identifying the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, working with Raymond Turpin and, to a lesser extent, Jérôme Lejeune. |
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