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Horoscopes with Pluto in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in
Biography of Raymond Bourgine (excerpt)
Raymond Bourgine (1925-1990) was a French journalist and politician. He served as editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles from 1966 to 1990 and as French Senator from 1977 to 1990. In 1945, Bourgine started writing for Paris-Matin, followed by La Vie française in 1946 and Aux Écoutes de la Finance in 1947, before becoming its editor-in-chief in 1948.
Biography of Harriet Andersson (excerpt)
Harriet Andersson (born 14 February 1932) is a Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often plays impulsive, working class characters. Harriet Andersson began her acting career as a 15-year-old student at Calle Flygare stage school.
Biography of Fernando del Paso (excerpt)
Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 - November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and won several international awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007) Guadalajara International Book Fair), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for Palinurus of Mexico, the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976).
Biography of Marc Ferro (excerpt)
Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema. His Ukrainian-Jewish mother died during the Holocaust.
Biography of Anne Beaumanoir (excerpt)
Anne Beaumanoir (born 30 October 1923) is a French neurophysiologist. For her aid to Jews in Brittany during the Second World War, she as well as her parents were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. A militant communist who was involved with the French Resistance during the Second World War, she was imprisoned for supporting the FLN in the Algerian War.
Biography of Gisèle Guillemot (excerpt)
Gisèle Guillemot is a French resistance fighter, born February 24, 1922 in Mondeville (Calvados) and died January 31, 2013 in Paris. Resisting the German occupation during World War II, she became responsible for the Patriotic Youth Front for Calvados. Then a member of the FTPF, she took part in sabotage against German trains.
Biography of Bernard Ziegler (excerpt)
Bernard Ziegler (12 March 1933 – 4 May 2021) was a French pilot and engineer, who served in Airbus as senior vice president for engineering, well known for his evangelical zeal for the application of the fly-by-wire system in the Airbuses.
Biography of Pierre Sidos (excerpt)
Pierre Sidos (6 January 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 2020) was a French far right nationalist, neo-Pétainist, and antisemitic activist. One of the main figures of post-WWII nationalism in France, Sidos was the founder and leader of the nationalist organizations Jeune Nation (1949–1958) and L'Œuvre Française (1968–2013).
Biography of Liane Berkowitz (excerpt)
Liane Berkowitz (7 August 1923 – 5 August 1943) was a German resistance fighter of the Red Orchestra organisation. Arrested and sentenced to death, she was executed shortly after she gave birth to a daughter in custody. In the context of breaking the Red Orchestra group, Liane Berkowitz was arrested and charged on 26 September 1942.
Biography of Amos Oz (excerpt)
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Biography of Red Garland (excerpt)
William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of piano playing.
Biography of Yuri Bondarev (excerpt)
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71). His first successes in literature, the novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959) were part of a new trend of war fiction which dispensed with pure heroes and vile villains in favor of emphasizing the true human cost of war.
Biography of Ilaria Occhini (excerpt)
Ilaria Occhini (28 March 1934 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films. Born in Florence, niece and daughter of novelists, Occhini started her film career at 19 with the Luciano Emmer's comedy film Terza Liceo with the stage name Isabella Redi, then attended the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957.
Biography of Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac (excerpt)
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac, née Hiltermann, alias Touty, (17 January 1919 – 2 October 2001) was a member of the Dutch-Paris network during the French Resistance. Captured by the Nazi she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation Suzanne Hiltermann moved to China in the 1960s.
Biography of Lucebert (excerpt)
Lucebert (Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994) was a Dutch artist and writer who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement. He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA group at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1949.
Biography of Ivan Sidorenko (excerpt)
Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Сидоре́нко; 12 September 1919 – 19 February 1994) was a Red Army officer and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who served during World War II. He was one of the top Soviet snipers in the war, with five hundred confirmed kills.
Biography of Harry Meyen (excerpt)
Harry Meyen (born Harald Haubenstock; 31 August 1924 – 15 April 1979 (suicide)) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he also worked as a theatre director in West Germany.
Biography of Marianne Joachim (excerpt)
Marianne Joachim (born Marianna/Marianne Prager: 5 November 1921 - 4 March 1943) was a Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed at Plötzensee on 4 March 1943 following an arson attack the previous summer on the party propaganda department's (ironically named) "Soviet Paradise" exhibition in Berlin's "Lustgarten" pleasure park.
Biography of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (excerpt)
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (28 April 1918 – 20 September 2001) was an East German communist propagandist and host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (German: The Black Channel) from 21 March 1960 to 30 October 1989. As host of Der Schwarze Kanal, which ran for 20 minutes every Monday night, Schnitzler edited together extracts of Western television footage and recorded caustic, virulently anti-Western commentary over it.
Biography of Nando Gazzolo (excerpt)
Ferdinando "Nando" Gazzolo (October 16, 1928 – November 16, 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Savona, the son of the actor and voice actor Lauro Gazzolo and EIAR radio announcer Aida Ottaviani Piccolo, Gazzolo debuted at young age on radio, and in 1948, at twenty years old, he started his acting career entering the stage company led by Antonio Gandusio.
Biography of Alina Janowska (excerpt)
Alina Janowska (16 April 1923 – 13 November 2017) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1946 and 2017. She debuted in theatre in 1943. From 1945 to 1965 she was employed in the Warsaw theater Teatr Syrena.
Biography of Roland Lefranc (excerpt)
Roland Lefranc is a French painter and lithographer born February 4, 1931 in Carcagny (Calvados)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), who lived in Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (Calvados) where he died August 24, 2000. If maritime Lower Normandy is the dominant theme in Roland Lefranc's painting, it recreates trips to the island of Alderney (1965), in the Lot (where the part of his work on the theme cattle markets4) and in Spain - Valence, Vinaròs - (1966), in the Pyrénées-Orientales (1967), in Switzerland and the Netherlands (1977), in the Pays de Caux and on the beaches of Upper Normandy (Étretat, Yport, Vaucottes, Pourville and Dieppe in 1981), in Peru and Bolivia (1989), in Russia (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in 1990), in Italy (Venice in 1990 and 1993), in China where he painted the Great Wall (July-August 1991, then, at the invitation of the Chinese Embassy in Paris, in 1999), in Ireland (July 1992), in Madeira (1993), in Provence that, out of admiration for a master of region, he calls “Le pays de Seyssaud” 4 (August 1993), in Brittany (Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1994, the islands of Sein and Molène in 1996), in the United States (New York where his theme Favorite is Central Par k in November 1994), in London (March 1995), on the Îles de Ré, Noirmoutier and Jersey (1995), in Vietnam and Cambodia (December 1995 - January 1996), in Paris in 1997, in Morocco (Essaouira in June 1999) ), L'Armada de Brest in Rouen in July 1999.
Biography of Horst Sindermann (excerpt)
Horst Sindermann (5 September 1915 – 20 April 1990) was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany. Sindermann was born in a traditional family in Dresden as the son of the Saxon Social Democratic politician Karl Sindermann.
Biography of Michel Marot (architect) (excerpt)
Michel Marot (born in Troyes on January 29, 1926 and died on August 24, 2021) is a French architect. He entered the National School of Fine Arts in 1945, graduated in 1950. After graduating, he went to Harvard to study. He was awarded the Prix de Rome on his return in 1954 for the program "An African research center in Kano, in British Nigeria".
Biography of Monique Morelli (excerpt)
Monique Morelli, born Monique Dubois in Béthune on December 14, 1923 (according to her birth certificate, Wikipedia gives another date of birth) and died in Montmartre on April 27, 1993, is a French singer, whose repertoire of realistic inspiration at her beginnings has become an anthology of poetic song.
Biography of Kitty Courbois (excerpt)
Catharina Anna Petronella Antonia "Kitty" Courbois (13 July 1937 – 11 March 2017) was a Dutch actress and author. In 2010 she was awarded the Medal of Merit. Selected filmography 1994 Old Tongues Sitske Sake 1995 Last Call Berta Bouwmeester 1998 Scratches in the Table Oma 1999 Duinzicht boven 2000 Cross Fate 2001 Monte Carlo Weduwe van Tuyl van Serooskerken
Biography of Bess Myerson (excerpt)
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Jewish Miss America. Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
Biography of Frunzik Mkrtchyan (excerpt)
Mher Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Մհեր Մկրտչյան), better known by the name Frunzik (Armenian: Ֆրունզիկ; Russian: Фрунзик; 4 July 1930 – 29 December 1993), was an Armenian stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widely considered as one of the greatest actors of the Soviet period among Armenians and the USSR as a whole, as evidenced by his victory of the prestigious People's Artist of the USSR award in 1984.
Biography of Yvette Lundy (excerpt)
Yvette Lundy (22 April 1916 – 3 November 2019) was a French resistance fighter during the French Resistance of World War II. She provided the inspiration for the character of Mademoiselle Lise Lundi in the 2009 film Korkoro, written and directed by Tony Gatlif.
Biography of Yury Trifonov (excerpt)
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. In 1973, Trifonov published the historical novel The Impatient Ones.
Biography of Leigh Brackett (excerpt)
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973).
Biography of Edoardo Vianello (excerpt)
Edoardo Vianello (born 24 June 1938) is an Italian singer, composer and actor. He's considered one of the most popular Italian singers of the Sixties. Born in Rome, Vianello started his career in 1956. His first successes came in 1961, with "Il capello" ("Hair") and "Pinne fucile ed occhiali" ("Fins, spear, and goggles"), which both charted up to the 2nd position in the Italian Hit Parade.
Biography of Jean Maheu (excerpt)
Jean Maheu (24 January 1931 – 9 January 2022) was a French government official. Life and career Maheu was the son of Director-General of UNESCO René Maheu and Inès Allafort du Verger. He studied at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris and at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Biography of Haya Harareet (excerpt)
Haya Harareet (or Hararit, originally Neuberg) (20 September 1931 – 3 February 2021) was an Israeli actress and screenwriter. She is best remembered for playing Esther, Ben Hur's love interest in the eponymous 1959 film. Career Harareet began her career in Israeli films with Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography of Corrado Augias (excerpt)
Corrado Augias (born 26 January 1935) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also a member of the European Parliament in 1994–1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left. Born in Rome, Augias became popular in Italy as host of several shows dealing with mysteries and cases of the past, such as Telefono giallo and Enigma.
Biography of Albert Moses (excerpt)
Albert Moses, KStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017) was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for the role "Ranjeet Singh" in television sitcom Mind Your Language. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced and directed his first.
Biography of Eric Laithwaite (excerpt)
Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was a British electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system. He became professor of heavy electrical engineering at Imperial College London in 1964 where he continued his successful development of the linear motor.
Biography of Rauf Denktas (excerpt)
Rauf Raif Denktas (27 January 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus. He occupied this position as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus between the declaration of the de facto state by Denktas in 1983 and 2005, as the president of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus between 1975 and 1983 and as the president of the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration between 1974 and 1975.
Biography of Linda Nochlin (excerpt)
Linda Nochlin (née Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art historian, she became well known for her pioneering 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists.
Biography of Tina Anselmi (excerpt)
Tina Anselmi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (25 March 1927 – 1 November 2016) was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II who went on to become an Italian politician. She was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in an Italian government.
Biography of Ellis Marsalis Jr. (excerpt)
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of a musical family, with sons Branford and Wynton rising to international acclaim.
Biography of Walter Chiari (excerpt)
Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles. In 1951 Luchino Visconti offered him the role of the young lover, in Bellissima; he continued in the theater, in the musical comedy with Delia Scala in 1956 with Buonanotte Bettina and in 1958 with Il gufo e la gattina, and in 1960 with Sandra Mondaini, Ave Ninchi and Alberto Bonucci with Un mandarino per Teo, all by Garinei and Giovannini, but also in the prose theater, acting in 1965 with Gianrico Tedeschi in the comedy Luv by Murray Schisgal and, in 1966, with Renato Rascel in La strana coppia by Neil Simon.
Biography of Michel Lorain (excerpt)
Michel Lorain (1934-2021), father of Jean-Michel Lorain, is the son of Marie Lorain, restaurateur who founded La Côte Saint Jacques in Joigny on the banks of the Yonne in 1945. Michel Lorain apprenticed with a pastry chef then succeeded his mother at the Côte Saint Jacques in 1958 with his sommelier wife Jacqueline.
Biography of Gianfranco Funari (excerpt)
Gianfranco Funari (21 March 1932 - 12 July 2008) was an Italian TV host, writer, stand-up comedian and actor. Funari was born in Rome, where his father was a coachman. After working as a croupier in casinos in Hong Kong and Saint Vincent, he was introduced to stand-up comedy by actor Oreste Lionello, who had spotted him doing an amateur performance in a Roman nightclub.
Biography of Laure Gatet (excerpt)
Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 - 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France. After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research.
Biography of Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983).
Biography of Ernesto Colnago (excerpt)
Ernesto Colnago (born 9 February 1932 in Cambiago) is an Italian entrepreneur and inventor who founded in 1952 and still runs the bicycle manufacturing company Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l. Colnago began working for the Gloria Bicycle Company in Milan in 1945 when he was 13 years old.
Biography of Renato Balestra (excerpt)
Renato Balestra (born May 3, 1924) is an Italian fashion designer. Born in Trieste, Renato Balestra comes from a family of architects and engineers. After a childhood steeped in the Mid-European cultural environment of the area, he too began studying for a degree in civil engineering.
Biography of Lois Gunden (excerpt)
Lois Gunden (February 25, 1915-2005) was the fourth of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel. Gunden was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana. In 1941, when she was 26 years old, she was teaching English for the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France when the Nazi occupation began.
Biography of Maureen Dunlop de Popp (excerpt)
Maureen Adele Chase Dunlop de Popp (26 October 1920 – 29 May 2012), née Dunlop, was an Anglo-Argentine pilot who flew for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War II, and became notable as a pin-up on the cover of the Picture Post magazine. |
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