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Horoscopes with Neptune in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (excerpt)
Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie (born 19 July 1929, died November 22, 2023) was a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry. One of the leading historians of France, Le Roy Ladurie has been called the "standard-bearer" of the third generation of the Annales school and the "rock star of the medievalists", noted for his work in social history.
Biography of Julius Rosenberg (excerpt)
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were Jewish American communists who were executed in 1953 after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
Biography of Jacques Borel (excerpt)
Jacques Borel, born April 9, 1927 in Courbevoie (birth time source: Didier Geslain), is a French businessman and entrepreneur (Restoroute, Wimpy, Arche...). ![]()
Biography of Alberto Ascari (excerpt)
Alberto Ascari (July 13, 1918 – May 26, 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport. Early life Born in Milan, Ascari was the son of Antonio Ascari, a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos. ![]()
Biography of Michel Butor (excerpt)
Michel Butor (b. 14 September 1926 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 86), died on 24 August 2016) is a French post-World War II writer. Life and work Michel Marie Francois Butor was born in Mons-en-Baroeul. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. ![]()
Biography of Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (excerpt)
Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (Louis Henri Joseph; 13 April 1756 - 30 August 1830) was the Prince of Condé from 1818 to his death. He was the brother-in-law of Philippe Égalité and nephew of Victoire de Rohan. Life He was the only son of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé and his wife, Charlotte de Rohan.
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Biography of Dick Savitt (excerpt)
Richard "Dick" Savitt (born March 4, 1927) is a 6’ 3" and 185-pound right-handed American male former tennis player. Savitt was ranked 2nd in the world in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title. ![]()
Biography of Ike Quebec (excerpt)
Ike Abrams Quebec (born August 17, 1918 in Newark, New Jersey, died on January 16, 1963) was a jazz tenor saxophonist. His surname is pronounced KYOO-bek. Critic Alex Henderson writes, "Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to down-home blues, sexy ballads, and up-tempo aggression. ![]()
Biography of Jean Lecanuet (excerpt)
Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (March 4, 1920 - February 21, 1993) was a French politician. He was born to a family of modest means, and gravitated towards literature during his studies. He received his diploma at the age of 22, becoming the youngest agrégé (full professor) in France. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Cherubini (excerpt)
Luigi Cherubini (September 8 or September 14, 1760 (birth time source: Barbault, E. Sanchez, BC)– March 15, 1842) was an Italian born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.
Biography of Erma Bombeck (excerpt)
Erma Louise Bombeck (February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996), born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life humorously from the mid-60's until the late 90's. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.
Biography of George Abell (excerpt)
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA. He worked as a research astronomer, teacher, administrator, popularizer of science and education, and skeptic. Abell received his B.S. (1951), M.S. (1952) and Ph.D. (1957) from the California Institute of Technology.
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Biography of Manuel Fraga Iribarne (excerpt)
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (born November 23, 1922) is a Spanish politician from the northwest region of Galicia. Fraga's career as one of the key political figures in Spain straddles both General Franco's dictatorial regime and the subsequent democracy. He was the President of Galicia from 1990 to 2005 and is currently a Senator. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (excerpt)
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (May 16, 1763 - November 14, 1829), was a French pharmacist and chemist. Early life Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, France. His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory assistant to an apothecary in Rouen (1777-1779), and after various vicissitudes he obtained an introduction to A.
Biography of Pierre Viansson-Ponté (excerpt)
Pierre Viansson-Ponté, born on August 2, 1920 in Clisson (Loire-Atlantique) (birth time source: Gauquelin, Didier Geslain), died on May 7, 1979 (cancer), was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extract) Risques et Chances de la Ve République, Plon, 1959
Biography of Rod Amateau (excerpt)
Rodney "Rod" Amateau (December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film and television director. Among programs that he directed were CBS's sitcoms The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman, and The New Phil Silvers Show, an unsuccessful attempt by comedian Phil Silvers to return to a regular series.
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Biography of Marc Cassot (excerpt)
Marc Cassot, born June 16, 1923 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)), died on January 21, 2016 in Paris, is a French actor and comedian. He is the voice of American actor Paul Newman and "Albus Dumbledore" (Harry Potter series) in France. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Bergonzi (excerpt)
Carlo Bergonzi (born 13 July 1924) is an Italian operatic tenor. Although he performed and recorded various bel canto and verismo roles, he is above all associated with the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, including a large number of his lesser-known works which he helped revive. ![]()
Biography of Yasuhiro Nakasone (excerpt)
Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘 Nakasone Yasuhiro, born May 27, 1917) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A contemporary of Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister.
Biography of Ann Landers (excerpt)
Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman) was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America.
Biography of Laird Koenig (excerpt)
Laird Kœnig, born September 24, 1927 in Seattle, is an Amercian author and screenwriter. Works (writer) (extract) Lady Against the Odds (1992) (TV) (teleplay) Tennessee Nights (1989) (screenplay) ... aka Black Water ... aka Tennessee Waltz (USA) The Fulfillment of Mary Gray (1989) (TV) (teleplay)
Biography of Joseph Fontanet (excerpt)
Joseph Fontanet (February 9, 1921 - February 2, 1980) was a French politician. He was first elected to Parliament in 1956 as MP for Savoie. In his 17 years in Parliament he held various cabinet positions including Health, Labour and Employment, and trade and industry. ![]()
Biography of Alain Touraine (excerpt)
Alain Touraine (3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland. ![]()
Biography of Rossano Brazzi (excerpt)
Rossano Brazzi (September 18, 1916 – December 24, 1994) was an Italian actor. Brazzi was born in Bologna, and attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, a city in which he lived since the age of four. He made his film debut in a 1939 Italian film. ![]()
Biography of Tony Benn (excerpt)
Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn (born 3 April 1925) is a British Labour Party politician, former Cabinet Minister and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition. With his successful campaign to renounce his inherited title (inherited from his father, a politician who had been made a Labour peer in 1942), Benn was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.
Biography of Jean Poperen (excerpt)
Jean Poperen, born January 9, 1925 in Angers, died August 23, 1997, was a French politician, member of Parti Socialiste (PS).
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Biography of Piotr Kowalski (excerpt)
Piotr Kowalski was an artist, sculptor, and architect. He was born 2 March, 1927, possibly in Lvov, and died 7 January 2004 in Paris. Piotr worked in non-traditional materials including electronic and mechanical devices, neon, large earth works, explosions and other natural phenomena including plant growth and gravity.
Biography of Alain Vanzo (excerpt)
Alain Vanzo (April 2, 1928 - January 27, 2002) was a French opera singer and composer, virtually the only French tenor of international standing of the postwar era. Life and career Vanzo was born in Monte Carlo, Monaco, the son of an Italian father and a French mother.
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Biography of Michel Habib-Deloncle (excerpt)
Michel Habib-Deloncle, born November 26, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, died October 26, 2006 in Paris, was a French politician. ![]()
Biography of Sergei Parajanov (excerpt)
Sergei Parajanov (Armenian: Սերգեյ Փարաջանով; Russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Параджа́нов, sometimes spelled Paradzhanov or Paradjanov January 9, 1924 — July 20, 1990) was Soviet Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He invented his own cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism (the only sanctioned art style in the USSR).
Biography of Jean Hugon (excerpt)
Jean Hugon, born July 22, 1919 in Marseille, died in 1990, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Samuel Alderson (excerpt)
Samuel W. Alderson (October 21, 1914 – February 11, 2005) was an inventor best known for his development of the crash test dummy, a device which, during the last half of the twentieth century, was widely used by automobile manufacturers to test the reliability of automobile seat belts and other safety protocols. ![]()
Biography of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (excerpt)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (November 30, 1918 – May 2, 2014) was a Golden Globe-winning American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series and associated spin-offs. ![]()
Biography of Joseph de Maistre (excerpt)
Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (French pronunciation: 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat. He defended hierarchical societies and a monarchical State in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Despite his close ties with France, Maistre was a subject of the King of Piedmont-Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821). ![]()
Biography of Pope Leo XII (excerpt)
Pope Leo XII (August 22, 1760 – February 10, 1829), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829. Life Della Genga was born of a noble family in Spoleto; his family was from La Genga, a small town in what is now the province of Ancona, then part of the Papal States.
Biography of James Jones (excerpt)
James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. Life Jones was born and raised in Robinson, Illinois, the son of Ramon and Ada M. (nee Blessing) Jones. ![]()
Biography of Nigel Hawthorne (excerpt)
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. ![]()
Biography of June Whitfield (excerpt)
Dame June Rosemary Whitfield DBE (11 November 1925 – 29 December 2018) was an English radio, television and film actress. Her big break was a lead in the BBC Light Programme radio comedy Take It from Here from 1953. Television roles soon followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career.
Biography of Raymond Jean (writer) (excerpt)
Raymond Jean, born on November 21, 1925 in Marseille, is a French writer. Bibliography Le bois vert, Seghers, 1953 Les ruines de New-York, Albin Michel, 1959 La conférence, Albin Michel, 1961 Les grilles, Albin Michel, 1963 Nerval, Seuil, 1964 La littérature et le réel : de Diderot au "Nouveau roman", Albin Michel, 1965 Le village, Albin Michel, 1966 Eluard, Seuil, 1966 La vive, Seuil, 1968 Pour Gabrielle, Seuil, 1971 Les deux printemps, Seuil, 1971
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Biography of Louis Nucera (excerpt)
Louis Nucera, born July 17, 1928 in Nice, died August 9, 2000 in Carros, was a French writer. He won Prix Interallié in 1981 and Grand Prix de littérature de l'Académie française in 1993. Selected works 1981 : Le Chemin de la Lanterne
Biography of Walter Hof (excerpt)
Walter Hof, born June 17, 1917 in Cologne, is a German astrologer and author.
Biography of Louis Calaferte (excerpt)
Louis Calaferte, born July 14, 1928 in Turin, Italy, died May 2, 1994 in Dijon, France, was a French writer, novelist and poet. Bibliography Novels * Requiem des innocents, 1952 , éditeur : Collection Folio (No 3388) (2000), Gallimard, (ISBN 2070410013) ![]()
Biography of Jose Greco (excerpt)
José Greco (December 23, 1918 – December 31, 2000) was a flamenco dancer and choreographer. He was born Costanzo Greco in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy of Italian parents. He was raised in New York City from the time he was 10 years old. ![]()
Biography of Sada Thompson (excerpt)
Sada Thompson (born September 27, 1927) is an award-winning American stage, film and television actress. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Thompson first appeared on television in 1954 in a Goodyear Television Playhouse production. She made her Broadway debut in 1959 in the musical Juno. ![]()
Biography of Hélie de Saint Marc (excerpt)
Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc (11 February 1922 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 209) – 26 August 2013) was a member of the French resistance and later a military officer who was courtmartialed for participating in the Generals' Putsch against Charles de Gaulle. ![]()
Biography of Henry Silva (excerpt)
Henry Silva (September 23, 1926 – September 14, 2022) was an American actor. A prolific character actor, Silva was a regular staple of international genre cinema, usually playing criminals or gangsters. His notable film appearances include ones in Ocean's 11 (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Johnny Cool (1963), Sharky's Machine (1981), and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). ![]()
Biography of Godfrey Hounsfield (excerpt)
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE, FRS, (August 28, 1919 – August 12, 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
Biography of Jacques Antoine (excerpt)
Jacques Antoine (born 14 March 1924) is a French writer of game shows. He had successes in the 1980s with Treasure Hunt and Interceptor, and in the 1990s with Fort Boyard and The Crystal Maze. Credits (extract) 1. À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) (screenplay) (story) ![]()
Biography of Jean-Michel Charlier (excerpt)
Jean-Michel Charlier (October 30, 1924 - July 10, 1989) was a Belgian script writer best known as a writer of realistic European comics. He was a co-founder of the famed European comics magazine Pilote. Biography Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium in 1924.
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Biography of Pierre Magnan (excerpt)
Pierre Magnan, born September 19, 1922 in (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), died on April 28, 2012 in Voiron, Isère, is a French writer. Works (selection) Chronique d'un château hanté, Denoël, 2008 Laure du bout du monde, Denoël, 2006 Ma Provence d'heureuse rencontre : Guide secret, Denoël, 2005 |
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