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birth charts 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. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Mae Brussell (excerpt)
Mae Magnin Brussell (May 29, 1922 – October 3, 1988) was an American radio personality and conspiracy theorist.She was the host of Dialogue: Conspiracy (later renamed World Watchers International).She was a radio host.Most of her work on the radio focused on the assassination of President John F. ![]()
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 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 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.
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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 Vasily Shukshin (excerpt)
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Shukshin main interest lay in the situation of ordinary, simple people in the present-day Soviet Union.
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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 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.
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.
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Biography of Ruth Berghaus (excerpt)
Ruth Berghaus (2 July 1927 – 25 January 1996) was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director. In 1954, Berghaus married the composer Paul Dessau, whose works for the theater she directed. Her association with the Berliner Ensemble culminated with her directorship of that theater until 1977.
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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.
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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 Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (excerpt)
Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (4 September 1925 (Wikipedia gives 5 September), Ergué-Gabéric – 12 July 2001) was a French soldier, businessman, author, and publisher. At the age of 17, Bolloré decided to join in the Free French Forces in England.He sailed across the English Channel in a small boat and met up with his brother René who had arrived in England few months earlier.
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Biography of Maria Tallchief (excerpt)
Elizabeth Marie Tallchief (Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was the first Native American (Osage Nation) to hold the rank, and is said to have revolutionized ballet.
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Biography of Jean Cardot (excerpt)
Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate.The act indicates "midnight", which can be interpreted as 00:00 or 23:59) – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor, born in Saint-Étienne, France. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Robert Loggia (excerpt)
Salvatore "Robert" Loggia (January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988).
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Biography of Jacques Fournier (civil servant) (excerpt)
Jacques Fournier, born May 5, 1929 in Épinal and died August 14, 2021, is a senior French civil servant. Jacques Fournier spent his youth and studied in French Algeria. A former student of the ENA, he was appointed legal adviser of the French Embassy in Morocco (1961-1964). ![]()
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.
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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 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.
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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. She was the first to complete each of the tests.
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Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her. ![]()
Biography of Martha Vickers (excerpt)
Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar; May 28, 1925 – November 2, 1971) was an American model and actress. Early life Vickers was born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan; her father was an automobile dealer.She began her career as a model and cover girl.
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Biography of Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France.
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 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.
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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 Sally Miller Gearhart (excerpt)
Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist.In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Bastid (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Bastid is a French writer, director and screenwriter born February 4, 1937 in Montreuil (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate). Jean-Pierre Bastid first of all devotes himself to cinema; after studying at IDHEC, he was Jean Cocteau's assistant on Le Testament d'Orphée (1960).
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Biography of Allyn Ann McLerie (excerpt)
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. Life and career McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897–1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888–1926).
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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.
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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 Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II.She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.Her experiences and those of numerous other German opponents of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany were described in her 1973 book Résistance – Erinnerungen deutscher Antifaschisten (Résistance — Memories of German Antifascists).
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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.
Biography of Pierre Barbizet (excerpt)
Pierre Barbizet born in Arica (Chile) on September 20, 1922 and died on January 19, 1990 in Marseille is a French pianist and musical teacher. He is notably known for having been the partner of the violinist Christian Ferras and for having directed from 1963 until his death the conservatory of Marseille which has since bears his name.
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Biography of Albert Bouvet (excerpt)
Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé.
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Biography of Leiji Matsumoto (excerpt)
Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士, Matsumoto Reiji, born Akira Matsumoto 松本晟, January 25, 1938 – February 13, 2023) was a Japanese manga artist, creator of several anime and manga series.His wife Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Matsumoto was famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999.
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Biography of Cato Bontjes van Beek (excerpt)
Cato Bontjes van Beek (14 November 1920 – 5 August 1943) was a German member of the Resistance against the Nazi regime. Unlike many others Cato did not join the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM) youth organisation.Through her brother Tim, she met Luftwaffe Sergeant Helmut Schmidt, the future Chancellor of Germany, who from 1937 was stationed in Bremen-Vegesack for his military service and during this time had an intense friendship with the Bontjes van Beek family.
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.
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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.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.
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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 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.k.a.
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Biography of Rasim Ojagov (excerpt)
Rasim Ojagov (Azerbaijani: Rasim Ocaqov; 22 November 1933, Shaki, Azerbaijani SSR – 11 July 2006, Baku, Azerbaijan) -Azerbaijani film director and camera operator, Honoured Art Worker of Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1964), People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982), laureate of the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Biography of Henri Delauze (excerpt)
Henri Germain Delauze, born September 17, 1929 in Cairanne (Vaucluse), died February 14, 2012 in Marseilles, was a French engineer, diver and entrepreneur, founder of the COMEX company. COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012.
Biography of Marianne Grunberg-Manago (excerpt)
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist.Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago studied biochemistry and, in 1955, while working in the lab of Spanish-America biochemist Severo Ochoa, she discovered the first nucleic-acid-synthesizing enzyme.
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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 Claudio Magris (excerpt)
Claudio Magris (born 10 April 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996. Life Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978. ![]()
Biography of Eileen Kramer (excerpt)
Eileen Kramer (born 8 November 1914) is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, immediately decided on a career change to dance.
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Biography of Enzo Jannacci (excerpt)
Vincenzo Jannacci (3 June 1935 – 29 March 2013), more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci (Italian pronunciation: ), was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian.He is regarded as one of the most important artists in the post-war Italian music scene. |
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