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Horoscopes with Kronos in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Kronos in Taurus. 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 Predrag Matvejevic (excerpt)
Predrag Matvejević (7 October 1932 – 2 February 2017) was a Yugoslav writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region which has been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Biography of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (excerpt)
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (16 April 1940 – 23 April 1975) was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann is considered an important forerunner of the German so-called Pop-Literatur. He published nine books of poems in the 1960s, dealing with the appearance of the present culture and the sensual experience of active subjectivity.
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Biography of Jan Palach (excerpt)
Jan Palach (11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies. ![]()
Biography of Franca Rame (excerpt)
Franca Rame (18 July 1929 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her. ![]()
Biography of Frank Zane (excerpt)
Frank Zane (born June 28, 1942) is a retired American professional bodybuilder, scientist, and author. He is a three-time Mr. Olympia, and his physique is considered one of the greatest in the history of bodybuilding due to his meticulous focus on symmetry and proportion.
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Biography of Lamonte McLemore (excerpt)
Lamonte McLemore (born September 17, 1939) is an American vocalist. He was a founding member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. McLemore married Lisa Harvey and had a daughter named Ciara. In 2014, he wrote and published his autobiography with Robert-Allan Arno, From the Hobo Flats to The 5th Dimension - A Life Fulfilled in Baseball, Photography, and Music.
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Biography of Fatih Erkoç (excerpt)
Mehmet Fatih Erkoç (born 7 April 1953) is a Turkish jazz and pop music singer and composer. Fatih Erkoç is the son of Hasan Erkoç, an oud musician. He gave a violin to his son when Fatih was three years old. Fatih studied at Istanbul Municipality Conservatory.
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Biography of Moungi Bawendi (excerpt)
Moungi Gabriel Bawendi (Arabic: منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961) is a American-French-Tunisian chemist. He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots.
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Biography of Joe Chambers (jazz drummer) (excerpt)
Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea.
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Biography of Giampiero Galeazzi (excerpt)
Gian Piero Galeazzi (18 May 1946 – 12 November 2021), also known as Giampiero Galeazzi, was an Italian competition rower, sport journalist, commentator, and television personality. Life and career Born in Rome, Galeazzi graduated in statistics, then he was a competition rower, becoming a junior world champion and participating in Mexico Olympics in 1968. ![]()
Biography of Paul Greengard (excerpt)
Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.
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Biography of Nicolas Philibert (excerpt)
Nicolas Philibert (born 10 January 1951 in Nancy (birth certificate n° 145)) is a French film director and actor. He received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2023 for Sur l'Adamant. Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth.
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Biography of Blaze Starr (excerpt)
Blaze Starr (born Fannie Belle Fleming; April 10, 1932 – June 15, 2015) was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also known for her affair with Louisiana Governor Earl Kemp Long.
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Biography of Kristien Hemmerechts (excerpt)
Kristien Hemmerechts (born 27 August 1955) is a Belgian writer. Life Kristien Hemmerechts studied Germanic philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). Afterwards, she studied literary science in Amsterdam for a year. In Amsterdam she met her first husband—who was British—with whom she married in 1978. ![]()
Biography of Gladys Zender (excerpt)
Gladys Rosa Zender de Meier (née Zender Urbina; born October 19, 1939) is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who became the first Latin American to win the Miss Universe title. She was crowned Miss Peru Universe 1957 by Miss Peru Universe 1956, Lola Sabogal Morzán.
Biography of Francis Graille (excerpt)
Francis Graille was born on April 25, 1955 in Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire). Local correspondent for AFP in Le Puy, then regional manager for the NRJ group, he discovered television at Télé Lyon Métropole where he was Jérôme Bellay's deputy. He then founded Concept TV and then Visual TV, a television production company closely linked to Canal +. ![]()
Biography of Xavier Grall (excerpt)
Xavier Grall (1930–1981) was a journalist and poet from Brittany, France, who was a strong advocate of Breton nationalism during the Third Emsav. His work glorifies a mystical Brittany. Bretonism Grall rediscovered his Breton identity in the 1970s, leaving Paris permanently in 1973, returning to Brittany to live at Bossulan Farm in Nizon, just outside Pont-Aven.
Biography of Bernard Faivre d'Arcier (excerpt)
Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, born July 12, 1944, in Albertville, is a French civil administrator. Former director of theater and shows for the Ministry of Culture and the Festival d'Avignon, he is vice-president of the Biennales de Lyon. He is one of the main initiators of the French Capital of Culture label.
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Biography of Vincent Darré (excerpt)
Vincent Darré, born January 13, 1959 in Paris, is a French stylist and interior designer. He is, for several years, the assistant and right arm of Karl Lagerfeld. He moved from the field of fashion to decoration during the 2000s. A regular contributor to L'Officiel since 2013 as a "curator" for several issues a year, he integrates his drawings and invites his friends Bernard Chapuis, Philippe Azoury and Paquita Paquin to participate in the magazine.
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Biography of Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin (excerpt)
Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin is a French navigator, son of a long-distance captain from Vannes and a mother from Saint-Malo. He was born in Paris on July 2, 1920 and died on November 10, 2009 in La Turballe. Family He is the brother of the painter Yahne Le Toumelin (born in 1923), the brother-in-law of the academician Jean-François Revel (1924-2006) and the uncle of the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (born in 1946) and the author Eve Ricard.
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Biography of Roger Boussinot (excerpt)
Roger Boussinot, alias Emmanuel Le Lauraguais and Roger Mijema, is a French writer, critic, film historian and director, born May 2, 1921 in Tunis and died May 14, 2001 in Bassanne, in his recognizable house with blue shutters. A scholar historian close to the libertarian movement, he published in 1967 an Encyclopedia of Cinema followed by a Dictionary of synonyms, analogies and antonyms and, in 1982, an alphabet book, The Words of Anarchy.
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Biography of Sara Berenguer Laosa (excerpt)
Sara Berenguer Laosa (Barcelona, 1 January 1919 – Montady, 8 June 2010) was a Spanish Catalan militant anarcho-syndicalist, anarcha-feminist, and writer active in the Mujeres Libres movement. Selected works Entre el sol y la tormenta, Barcelona, Seuba, 1988, OCLC 462218486 462218486. Femmes d’Espagne en lutte, le courage anonyme au quotidien de la guerre civile à l’exil, Atelier de création libertaire, 2011, OCLC 780276113 780276113, notice éditeur.
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Biography of Ivars Godmanis (excerpt)
Ivars Godmanis (born 27 November 1951) is a Latvian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Latvia from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2009. He was the first Prime Minister of Latvia after the country restored its independence from the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Geraldine McEwan (excerpt)
Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown; 9 May 1932 – 30 January 2015) was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner".
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Biography of Franca Valeri (excerpt)
Alma Franca Maria Norsa OMRI (31 July 1920 – 9 August 2020), known professionally as Franca Valeri, was an Italian actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director. Life and career Born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa, she managed to survive the Holocaust in Milan with her non-Jewish mother due to a fake I.
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Biography of Lone Maslocha (excerpt)
Anna Louise Christine "Lone" Maslocha, also Masłocha, née Mogensen (26 October 1921 – 3 January 1945) was a Polish-born Danish photographer who became a resistance fighter during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. She was associated with the Polish-English intelligence service and with the Danish resistance movement Holger Danske and worked for the prominent Danish resistance member Citronen.
Biography of Masayuki Uemura (excerpt)
Masayuki Uemura (20 June 1943 – 6 December 2021) was a Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor. He was known for his work as an employee of Nintendo from 1971 to 2004, most notably for serving as a key factor in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Biography of Joan Pringle (excerpt)
Joan Pringle (born June 2, 1945) is an American actress. Pringle is known for her roles on General Hospital (1963), The White Shadow (1978), and Original Sin (2001). One of Pringle's best known roles was portraying vice principal Sybil Buchanan in the TV series The White Shadow.
Biography of Émile Viollat (excerpt)
Émile Viollat, born June 19, 1937 in Combloux, and died August 7, 2012 in Passy, was a French alpine skier, member of the Club des Sports de Megève.
Biography of Shinji Miyazaki (excerpt)
Shinji Miyazaki (宮崎 慎二, Miyazaki Shinji, born October 7, 1956) is a Japanese composer and arranger. He was born in Kobe, and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku for much of his childhood. He developed a taste for pop music, which eventually led him to study musical arrangement and piano instruction at the Shobi College of Music.
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Biography of Peter Lawson Jones (excerpt)
Peter Lawson Jones is an American actor, philanthropist and politician of the Democratic party. A resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, he formerly served as a county commissioner in Cuyahoga County. Political career Jones served on the Shaker Heights city council, and in 1994, he was the running mate for gubernatorial candidate Rob Burch.
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Biography of Wanda Hjort Heger (excerpt)
Wanda Maria Heger (née Wanda Maria von der Marwitz Hjort; 9 March 1921 – 27 January 2017) was a Norwegian social worker noted for her efforts to help Norwegian and other prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Background Wanda Hjort was the oldest of Johan Bernhard Hjort's six children.
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Biography of Sibylle Lewitscharoff (excerpt)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 16 April 1954) is a German author. Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013. Early life Lewitscharoff was born and grew up in Stuttgart with a father who was a doctor of Bulgarian origin and a German mother.
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Biography of Stefanie Zweig (excerpt)
Stefanie Zweig (19 September 1932 – 25 April 2014) was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany.
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Biography of Brigitte Sy (excerpt)
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956 in Paris) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. Life and career She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. ![]()
Biography of Julian May (excerpt)
Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom) and Galactic Milieu Series books.
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Biography of Tony Evans (pastor) (excerpt)
Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American Christian pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States. Evans serves as senior pastor to the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
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Biography of Bernard Bigot (excerpt)
Bernard Bigot (French pronunciation: ; 24 January 1950 – 14 May 2022) was an academic, civil servant, and he served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. Bigot held Ph.D.'s in physics and chemistry. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.
Biography of Jacques Plante (lyricist) (excerpt)
Jacques Plante, born on August 14, 1920 in Paris 17th arrondissement and died on July 16, 2003 in Paris 20th arrondissement, is a French lyricist and publisher. He wrote for many famous French singers (Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Georges Guétary, Line Renaud. ![]()
Biography of Joanna Barnes (excerpt)
Joanna Barnes, born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Hingham with her two younger sisters, having attended Milton Academy and Smith College, where she graduated in 1956 as a Phi Beta Kappa member with a major in English. She won a poetry award at college, which paved her way from writing to acting.
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Biography of Arthur Nestrovski (excerpt)
Arthur Rosenblat Nestrovski is a Brazilian composer, guitarist, critic, writer, and editor, born on December 26, 1959 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. He notably held the position of artistic director for both the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and the Campos do Jordão Festival for over a decade.
Biography of Alexandra Lapierre (excerpt)
Alexandra Lapierre, born November 14, 1955, is a French writer, author of novels, short stories and biographies. Alexandra Lapierre's latest novel, Belle Greene, recounts the exceptional fate of the greatest collector of manuscripts and old books of the Belle Epoque, the first director of the fabulous library of magnate J.
Biography of Denis Baudouin (excerpt)
Denis Baudouin, born February 14, 1923 in Paris (Seine) and died October 20, 1995 in Suresnes, is a French politician. Parliamentary mandate July 24, 1984 - July 24, 1989: MEP
Biography of Yves Ballot (excerpt)
Yves Ballot is a French architect born July 21, 1956 in Marseille. He studied at the Versailles school of architecture from which he graduated in 1986. He obtained a post of assistant professor in 1994 and taught at the Clermont-Ferrand school of architecture for 3 years.
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Biography of Éric Lombard (excerpt)
Éric Lombard, born on May 16, 1958, in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French business executive. He served as the head of BNP Paribas Cardif from 2004 to 2013 and as CEO of Generali France from 2013 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been the CEO of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
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Biography of Pino D'Angiò (excerpt)
Giuseppe Chierchia (August 14, 1952 – July 6, 2024), known as Pino D'Angiò, was an Italo disco artist famous for his 1980 hit "Ma quale idea". Born in Pompei, he spent his childhood in the US and Canada, returning to Italy in 1963.
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Biography of Alice Parizeau (excerpt)
Alice Parizeau, OC (née Alicja Poznańska; 25 July 1930 – 30 September 1990) was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist. Early life Her parents were Stanislaw Poznański (1894 - 1943) and Rebeka (Bronislawa Breina) Kestenberg (1892-1943) Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust, both in Otwock, Poland according to the testimony of Kestenberg's brother, Yehuda Adam Kestenberg, recorded in Yad Vashem.
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Biography of Esther Kinsky (excerpt)
Esther Kinsky (born 12 September 1956 in Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry. Life and works Esther Kinsky grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and read Slavonic studies at Bonn. She works as a literary translator from the Polish, English and Russian languages into German and as the author of prose and poetry. ![]()
Biography of Jeffrey Sachs (excerpt)
Jeffrey David Sachs, born on November 5, 1954, is an American economist and public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. He is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, focusing on sustainable development and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Biography of Katyna Ranieri (excerpt)
Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian singer. Biography Ranieri was born in Follonica in 1925. She had her first hit in 1954 at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una canzone da due soldi". |
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