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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. ![]() ![]()
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.
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Biography of Wanda Hendrix (excerpt)
Dixie Wanda Hendrix (November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981) was an American film and television actress. Career and marriages She made her first film, Confidential Agent, in 1945 at the age of 16 and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in "B" pictures.
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Biography of Jean Lartéguy (excerpt)
Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 2011) was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions.
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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 Valeria Fabrizi (excerpt)
Valeria Fabrizi (born 20 October 1936) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. Born in Verona, in 1956 Fabrizi made her acting debut in the revue Campione senza valore. The same year, she had her first leading role in the comedy play Carlo non farlo.
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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.
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 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.
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Biography of Ferdinand Piëch (excerpt)
Ferdinand Karl Piëch (17 April 1937 – 25 August 2019) was an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 2002–2015.
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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.
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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 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 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).
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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 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.
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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).
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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.
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Biography of Anna Maria Ferrero (excerpt)
Anna Maria Ferrero (18 February 1935 – 21 May 2018) was an Italian actress. Born Anna Maria Guerra, she changed her last name to Ferrero in honor of the composer Willy Ferrero. Her film debut came at the age of 15 in Il cielo è rosso (1950), and she was soon cast in such films as Il duca di Sant'Elmo (1950) and Il Cristo proibito (1951), the only movie directed by the noted writer Curzio Malaparte.
Biography of Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
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 Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
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.
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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.
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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 Beatriz Aguirre (excerpt)
Beatriz Ofelia Aguirre Valdez (March 23, 1925 – September 29, 2019) was a Mexican film and television actress. She died on 29 September 2019 at the age of 94. Filmography Film roles 1947 The Tiger of Jalisco Rosita 1949 The Perez Family Clara 1950 Over the Waves Lolita 1953 Flight 971 Enfermera 1960 My Mother Is Guilty Lucía Arellano
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Josep Soler i Sardà (excerpt)
Josep Soler i Sardà (born 25 March 1935 in Vilafranca del Penedès) is a Spanish composer, writer and music theorist, one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51. He studied composition and orchestration with Cristòfor Taltabull, and was also a pupil of René Leibowitz in Paris.
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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). ![]()
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 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.
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 Erol Büyükburç (excerpt)
Erol Büyükburç (22 March 1936 – 12 March 2015) was a Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor. While studying in university, he entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. Later, he began singing in various jazz bands. During his compulsory military service in Urfa he served in the officers' clup as a singer.
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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.
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 Chris Blackwell (excerpt)
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music.
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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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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. ![]()
Biography of Dixie Evans (excerpt)
Mary Lee "Dixie" Evans (August 28, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was an American burlesque dancer and stripper. Career Evans was best known for a burlesque parody she performed as Marilyn Monroe. Evans entered show-business as a model and later chorus girl before becoming a star dancer.
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Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance. Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
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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.
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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 Muazzez Ilmiye Çig (excerpt)
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (née İtil; born 20 June 1914) is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received world-wide media coverage in 2006 with her assertion - outlined in her book from the previous year - that the headscarf worn by Arab women did not originate in the Muslim world, but was actually worn five thousand years earlier by Sumerian priestesses as a means of initiating young men into sex.
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.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Silvan (illusionist) (excerpt)
Silvan (born May 18, 1937) is an Italian illusionist, writer and television personality. Life and career Born Aldo Savoldello in Venice, Silvan started his career at 20 years old and made his television debut in 1956, in the RAI show Primo applauso ("First applause"). ![]()
Biography of Lima Duarte (excerpt)
Ariclenes Venâncio Martins (born March 29, 1930 (his approximate birth time comes from this article, in which it is indicated that he is Scorpio rising)), known professionally as Lima Duarte, is a Brazilian actor. He played a number of characters in Brazilian telenovelas, such as Zeca Diabo in O Bem-Amado and Sinhozinho Malta in Roque Santeiro.
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Biography of Sonny Shroyer (excerpt)
Otis Burt "Sonny" Shroyer Jr. (born August 28, 1935) is an American actor and singer who has appeared in various television and movie roles. He is known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Enos Strate in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
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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. |
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