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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Darya Dyachenko (excerpt)
Darya Grigorievna Dyachenko (2 April 1924 – 2 April 1944) was a member of the underground Komsomol guerilla organization based in Mykolaiv and the head of the partisan group's youth chapter. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 1 July 1958 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.
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.
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 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 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. ![]()
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. ![]()
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 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.Pauliac's father, Roger Pauliac, died in 1916 in the Battle of Verdun.
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Biography of Simone Le Port (excerpt)
Simone Le Port (born 3 July 1920 Inguiniel, died June 2009) was a member of the French resistance and a peace activist. Originally from Inguiniel, Simone Le Port joined the Resistance as a liaison.Her husband Semaphorist became responsible for the air operations bureau of Morbihan (then Loire-Inferieure and Maine-et-Loire).
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Biography of Renzo Montagnani (excerpt)
Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario.His first cinema success was his dramatic role in Metello (1970), but he later switched to the commedia all'italiana with his roles in the last two chapters of the Amici miei series (1982 and 1985).
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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. ![]()
Biography of George Andrew Olah (excerpt)
George Andrew Olah (born Oláh György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian and American chemist.His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids.For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." He was also awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society and F.A.
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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 Öztürk Serengil (excerpt)
Öztürk Serengil (2 May 1933 – 11 January 1999) was a Turkish actor and comedian.He is mostly known as one of the famous comedians in Turkish films. He was born in Artvin, Turkey on 2 May 1933 as the son of a teacher.
Biography of Michel Laclotte (excerpt)
Michel Laclotte (France, 27 October 1929 – 10 August 2021) was a French art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting. Career His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the École du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966.
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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 Francisco Ibáñez (excerpt)
Francisco Ibáñez Talavera (15 March 1936 – 15 July 2023) was a Spanish comic book artist and writer. Ibáñez was one of the most prolific and well-known authors in Spain, with popular comics such as Mort & Phil, Rompetechos, 13, Rue del Percebe, El botones Sacarino, Pepe Gotera y Otilio, and Chicha, Tato y Clodoveo.
Biography of Isabelle Pierre (singer) (excerpt)
Isabelle Pierre, stage name of Nicole Lapointe born June 9, 1936 in Rouyn-Noranda, is a singer, host, illustrator and comic book author from Quebec, best known for the song Le temps est bon in 1971. After 1974, becoming Nicole Lapointe again, she never returned to her job as an interpreter.
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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 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 Michael Learned (excerpt)
Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981).She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. ![]()
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 Suzanne Martel (excerpt)
Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Biography of Pauline Dubuisson (excerpt)
Pauline Dubuisson, born March 11, 1927 in Malo-les-Bains (Nord) and died September 22, 1963 in Essaouira (Morocco), is known to have been at the center of a news item from the 1950s. Tried in 1953 in Paris for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Félix Bailly, she inspired the main character of Henri-Georges Clouzot's film, La Vérité (1960).
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Biography of James Best (excerpt)
Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, he performed not only in feature films but also in scores of television series, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows.
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Biography of Bill Hardman (excerpt)
William Franklin Hardman, Jr.(April 6, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio – December 5, 1990 in Paris, France) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop.He was married to Roseline and they had a daughter Nadege. Hardman grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and worked with local players including Bobby Few and Bob Cunningham; while in high school he appeared with Tadd Dameron, and after graduation he joined Tiny Bradshaw's band. ![]()
Biography of Sherry Britton (excerpt)
Edith Zack (July 28, 1918 – April 1, 2008), better known by the stage name Sherry Britton, was an American burlesque performer of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Britton had an 18-inch (46 cm) waist, and was once said to have a "figure to die for." She got her stage name from a liquor store on a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry.
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Biography of Jeanne Brousse (excerpt)
Jeanne Brousse (née Maurier; 12 April 1921 – 19 October 2017), known as Jeannette, was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. She was a member of the French Resistance during WWII and she is a member of the Righteous Among The Nations. ![]()
Biography of Edgar Hilsenrath (excerpt)
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor.He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Biography of Clodovil Hernandes (excerpt)
Clodovil Hernandes (17 June 1937 – 17 March 2009) was a Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter, and politician. Hernandes made his debut of fame as a fashion stylist during the 60s and 70s, after which he was invited to work on television.
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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.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s.Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges. ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Lenz (excerpt)
Siegfried Lenz (17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre.In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth.
Biography of Bill Austin (excerpt)
William Lee Austin (October 18, 1928 – May 22, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a lineman for the New York Giants for seven seasons, was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for three seasons, (1966–1968) and one for the Washington Redskins in 1970.
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Biography of Hubert Germain (excerpt)
Hubert Germain, born August 6, 1920 in Paris (birth certificate n° 1312, Didier Geslain) and died October 12, 2021 in the same city, is a French resistance fighter and politician. Engaged in the Free French Forces during World War II, he then pursued a political career, during which he was mayor of Saint-Chéron in Essonne and deputy for the fourteenth district of Paris (13th arrondissement).
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Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
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Biography of Hannie Schaft (excerpt)
Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945) was a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. She became known as 'the girl with the red hair' (Dutch: Het meisje met het rode haar). Her secret name in the resistance movement was "Hannie".
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Biography of Éliane Plewman (excerpt)
Éliane Sophie Plewman (6 December 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a British agent of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and member of the French Resistance working in the "MONK circuit" in occupied France during World War II. She was involved in a number of highly successful sabotage missions but was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, and later executed by the SS at Dachau Concentration Camp.
Biography of Frank Bernard (writer) (excerpt)
Bernard Frank, born October 11, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died November 3, 2006 in Paris, is a French writer and journalist. He died on November 3, 2006, of a devastating heart attack while he was in the company of a friend in a restaurant in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Zivia Lubetkin (excerpt)
Zivia Lubetkin (Polish: Cywia Lubetkin, nom de guerre: Celina; 9 November 1914–11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance group Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB).
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Biography of Jeannette Guyot (excerpt)
Jeannette Guyot (February 26, 1919 – April 10, 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women.She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war. ![]()
Biography of Ron Masak (excerpt)
Ronald Alan Masak (born July 1, 1936) is an American actor.He began as a stage performer, and much of his work was in theater until he transitioned to film and television, where he became a familiar character actor. Film As with many performers, it was the Army that provided Ron with a platform from which to display his all-around talents for performing, writing and directing.
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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.
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Biography of Tatiana Markus (excerpt)
Tetyana Yosypivna Markus (also trans.as Tatiana, 21 September 1921 – 29 January 1943) was a member of the anti-Nazi underground in Kiev. Biography Markus was born in the Shtetl of Romny to a large Jewish family.A few years after her birth, her family moved to Kiev.
Biography of Francis Bayer (excerpt)
Francis Bayer (11 July 1938 – 2 January 2004) was a French composer and musicologist. Life Born in Villerville (Calvados), it was only after having undertaken postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Paris, studies that led him to a doctorate, that Bayer decided to devote himself to musical composition.
Biography of Janet Munro (excerpt)
Janet Neilson Horsburgh (28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972), known as Janet Munro, was a British actress. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film Life for Ruth (1962).
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Biography of Frederick Stafford (excerpt)
Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies. Film career In 1964 French director André Hunebelle discovered Stafford on holiday at a hotel in Bangkok and asked him "How would you like to make movies with me." Stafford replied, "Why not."
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Biography of Shintaro Katsu (excerpt)
Shintaro Katsu (29 November 1931 – 21 June 1997) was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker.He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, and the Zatoichi series. Life and career Born Toshio Okumura (奥村 利夫 Okumura Toshio) on 29 November 1931. ![]()
Biography of Carol Emshwiller (excerpt)
Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K.Dick Award.Ursula K.Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction". ![]()
Biography of Freeman Dyson (excerpt)
Freeman Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician notable for his contributions across a broad spectrum of science, ranging from quantum field theory to astrophysics. Born in England December 15, 1923, he displayed an early proclivity for mathematics and physics, leading him to study at Cambridge and then move to the United States for postgraduate work. |
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