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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Walter Gotell (excerpt)
Walter Jack Gotell (15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love.
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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.
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Biography of John S. Bull (excerpt)
John Sumter Bull, Ph.D. (September 25, 1934 – August 11, 2008), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, mechanical and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. Bull was selected in 1966 as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5. ![]()
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.
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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.
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Biography of Donald H. Peterson (excerpt)
Donald Herod Peterson (October 22, 1933 – May 27, 2018) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969.
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Biography of Luis de Pablo (excerpt)
Luis de Pablo Costales (born 28 January 1930 in Bilbao) is a Spanish composer belonging to the generation of Spanish composers named by Cristóbal Halffter as Generación del 51. He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for composition in 1991. In Spain, he founded several organizations: Nueva Música, Tiempo y Música, and Alea and organized several contemporary music concert series, for example, the Forum Musical and Bienal de Música Contemporánea de Madrid.
Biography of Shelby Foote (excerpt)
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
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Biography of Manfred Gerlach (excerpt)
Manfred Gerlach (8 May 1928 – 17 October 2011) was a German jurist and politician, and the longtime leader of the East German Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Chairman of the Council of State and was thus head of state of East Germany from 6 December 1989 to 5 April 1990. ![]()
Biography of Nikolay Basov (excerpt)
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Никола́й Генна́диевич Ба́сов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.
Biography of Guy Doleman (excerpt)
Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand-born actor. Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia. He was cast in Long John Silver (1954) but passed on the role because it meant he had to wear contact lenses – Rod Taylor took the part instead.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 Tony Dallara (excerpt)
Antonio Lardera (born 30 June 1936), better known by his stage name Tony Dallara, is an Italian former singer, actor and television personality. Dallara was born in Campobasso in southern Italy, but grew up in Milan. After working as barman and clerk, he began his musical career in the band Rocky Mountains (the future group I Campioni); his singing style was inspired, in particular, by American singers such as Frankie Laine and Tony Williams.
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Biography of Billy Davis Jr. (excerpt)
Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of the 5th Dimension. Along with his wife Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with "I Hope We Get to Love in Time", "Your Love", and "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)".
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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.
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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 Robert Misrahi (excerpt)
Robert Misrahi (born 3 January 1926) is a French philosopher who specialises in the work of 17th Century Dutch thinker Baruch Spinoza. Born in Paris to Turkish-Jewish immigrants, Misrahi studied at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he became a protege of Jean-Paul Sartre.
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 Marguerite de Launay (excerpt)
Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, baronne de Staal (30 August 1684 – 15 June 1750) was a French author. She was implicated in the Cellamare Conspiracy of Giulio Alberoni against Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent for Louis XV of France, and was sent in 1718 to the Bastille, where she remained for two years.
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Biography of Jerrie Mock (excerpt)
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world, which she did in 1964. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the "Spirit of Columbus" and nicknamed "Charlie.
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Biography of Madeleine Damerment (excerpt)
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French spy in World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive. Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit in France during World War II but was arrested upon arrival by the Gestapo, who knew she was coming.
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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.
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Biography of Polina Gelman (excerpt)
Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II.
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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 Paulo Freire (excerpt)
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 (the source for his birth time comes from his biography by Ana Maria Araújo Freire) – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar.
Biography of Lise Levitzky (excerpt)
Elisabeth Levitsky or Lise Levitzky, born March 5, 1926 in Pau and died October 3, 2022 in Quillio, is a French painter of Russian origin. She was the first wife of Serge Gainsbourg. Painter of the R Group, she is a friend of Jean Leppien and Dali, whom she meets with Gainsbourg.
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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).
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Biography of Jerrie Cobb (excerpt)
Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, 1931 – March 18, 2019) was an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13", a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Irina Bogacheva (singer) (excerpt)
Irina Petrovna Bogacheva (Богачёва, Ирина Петровна; 2 March 1939 – 19 September 2019) was a Russian mezzo-soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre and a professor of voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Trained in Leningrad and at La Scala in Milan, she performed leading roles of the Russian and Italian repertoire at major international opera houses.
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Biography of Dora Dougherty Strother (excerpt)
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.
Biography of Janine Niépce (excerpt)
Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a French photographer, author, and journalist. Her career spanned developing films for the French Resistance to covering the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. She is a distant relative of Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography.
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Biography of Heiner Carow (excerpt)
Heiner Carow (19 September 1929 – 1 February 1997) was a German film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film So Many Dreams was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.
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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.
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Biography of Lill-Babs (excerpt)
Barbro Margareta Svensson (9 March 1938 – 3 April 2018), known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best known and popular singers.
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Biography of Adalet Agaoglu (excerpt)
Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories. As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey.
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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.
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Biography of Antoni Ros-Marbà (excerpt)
Antoni Ros-Marbà (born on April 2, 1937 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Spanish conductor and composer from Catalonia. He began his musical education at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona. He studied conducting with Eduard Toldrà, Sergiu Celibidache, and Jean Martinon. ![]()
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 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.
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Biography of Cécile Cerf (excerpt)
Cécile Cerf (12 January 1916 – 29 December 1973) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. During World War II, Cerf played an active role in the Main-d'œuvre immigrée groups under the aegis of the FTP-MOI resistance movement.
Biography of Abdi Ipekçi (excerpt)
Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.
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 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.
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Biography of Doc Severinsen (excerpt)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American jazz trumpeter who led the band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his time on The Tonight Show.
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Biography of Jadwiga Apostol (excerpt)
Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (22 December 1913 – 2 February 1990) was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II, and a writer in postwar Poland. Under the German occupation of Podhale, Apostoł (nom-de-guerre Barbara Spytkowska) became the co-founder of the Polish resistance group called the Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska), a.
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Biography of Diana Barnato Walker (excerpt)
Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 – 28 April 2008) was a pioneering English aviator. In World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 260 Spitfires. |
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