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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 Serge Ravanel (excerpt)
Serge Ravanel, born Serge Asher on May 12, 1920 in Paris where he died on April 27, 2009, was a French resistance fighter. Awards Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Companion of the Liberation, by decree of January 18, 1946 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm ![]()
Biography of François Bott (excerpt)
François Bott (26 June 1935 – 22 September 2022) was a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, Une minute d’absence (2001), won the Académie Française's Prix de la Nouvelle.
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Biography of Galina Petrova (excerpt)
Galina Petrova (Russian: Галина Петрова; 9 September 1920 – 4 December 1943) was a medic and Chief Petty Officer in the 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. She died during a bombing attack on 4 December 1943 less than a month after she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation.
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Biography of Barbe (cartoonist) (excerpt)
André-François Barbe, dit Barbe, born February 14, 1936 in Nîmes, and died in Paris on February 9, 2014, is a French humor and erotic illustrator and comic book author.
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Biography of Ivo Caprino (excerpt)
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix In 1970, Caprino and his small team of collaborators, started work on a 25-minute TV special, which eventually became The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.
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Biography of Johan Galtung (excerpt)
Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist, and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970.
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Biography of Marija Bursać (excerpt)
Marija Bursać (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar.
Biography of Glen Duncan (excerpt)
Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an Anglo-Indian family.He studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter. In 1990 Duncan moved to London, where he worked as a bookseller for four years, writing in his spare time.
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Biography of Ivo Garrani (excerpt)
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor.In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
Biography of Maurice Faivre (excerpt)
Maurice Faivre (19 March 1926 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 November 2020) was a French Général and political scientist. He fought for France in the Algerian War, on which he published numerous works. Awards Cross for Military Valour (1957)
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Biography of Mikk Mikiver (excerpt)
Mikk Mikiver (4 September 1937 – 9 January 2006) was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor and theater director. Mikiver was born in Tallinn, Estonia.He graduated from the State Conservatory of Tallinn in 1961.He then went on to appear in many Estonian films and was a highly regarded dramatic actor.
Biography of Marion Brown (excerpt)
Marion Brown (September 8, 1935 (some sources give 1931) – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist.He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai.
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Biography of Joan McCracken (excerpt)
Joan Hume McCracken (December 31, 1917 – November 1, 1961) was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Sylvie ("The Girl Who Falls Down") in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! She also was noted for her performances in the Broadway shows Bloomer Girl (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Dance Me a Song (1950), and the films Hollywood Canteen (1945) and Good News (1947). ![]()
Biography of Roy Haynes (excerpt)
Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer.He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz.In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz drumming.
Biography of Robert Fabre (excerpt)
Robert Fabre, born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) and died December 23, 2006 in the same city, was a French pharmacist and politician. He was named the third man to have signed with François Mitterrand and Georges Marchais, as president of the Mouvement des radicals de gauche, the program of Union de la Gauche, on November 27, 1973.
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Biography of Yvette Lévy (excerpt)
Yvette Henriette Lévy (née Dreyfuss; born 21 June 1926 in Paris) is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust.In July 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.She survived and now educates youths about her experiences.
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Biography of Juanita Coulson (excerpt)
Juanita Ruth Coulson (née Wellons) (born February 12, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer most well known for her Children of the Stars books, published from 1981 to 1989. She was a longtime editor of the science fiction fanzine Yandro.
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Biography of Geneviève de Galard (excerpt)
Geneviève de Galard Terraube, born on April 13, 1925, in Paris and died on May 30, 2024, was a French military nurse known as "the Angel of Dien Bien Phu" during the Indochina War. Graduating in 1950, she became an Air Force nurse in 1952.
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Biography of Imants Ziedonis (excerpt)
Imants Ziedonis (3 May 1933 – 27 February 2013) was a Latvian poet, screenwriter and writer who first rose to fame during the Soviet era in Latvia. Ziedonis was born in the Sloka fisherman's district of Jūrmala, Latvia.He was educated at the University of Latvia in Riga where he earned a degree in philology in 1959.
Biography of François Augiéras (excerpt)
François Augiéras is a French writer, born in Rochester (New York State) on July 18, 1925 and died in Périgueux on December 13, 1971.
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Biography of Paulette Duhalde (excerpt)
Paulette Duhalde (July 23, 1921 – April 23, 1945) was a French Resistance fighter, who operated under the alias of "Jojo" with the Jeanne Network in France's Normandy region during World War II. Betrayed to the Gestapo by a spy within the network, she was arrested, tried, sentenced to five years in prison, and jailed at Fresnes before being deported to a prison facility in Aachen, Germany.
Biography of Hugh Cruttwell (excerpt)
Hugh Cruttwell (31 October 1918 – 24 August 2002) was an influential English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hugh Percival Cruttwell was born in Singapore, but lived in England from the age of eight.He was educated at King's School, Bruton, in Somerset, and studied history at Hertford College, Oxford.
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Biography of Lou Albano (excerpt)
Louis Vincent Albano (July 29, 1933 – October 14, 2009) was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name, "Capt." Lou Albano. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969 before becoming a manager until 1995.
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Biography of Anatoli Pristavkine (excerpt)
Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin (Russian: Анато́лий Игна́тьевич Приста́вкин, 17 October 1931, Lyubertsy — 11 July 2008, Moscow) was a Russian writer and public figure. He started a career as a writer in 1961 and later became a lecturer at a university.Pristavkin's novel "The Inseparable Twins" was successful in the Soviet Union, and describes the miserable conditions of orphans' life in an orphanage near Moscow during the years of World War II and the re-settlement to Chechnya in 1944, as Chechens had been deported.
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Biography of Franco Cristaldi (excerpt)
Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s. In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.
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Biography of Yvonne Rainer (excerpt)
Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental. Her work is sometimes classified as minimalist art. Rainer currently lives and works in New York.
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Biography of Lana Gogoberidze (excerpt)
Lana Gogoberidze (Georgian: ლანა ღოღობერიძე) (born October 13, 1928, Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director and politician. Educated at Tbilisi State University and Moscow State University of Cinematography, Gogoberidze headed Director's Studio at the Rustaveli Theatre School, Tbilisi, in 1975.She was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 1995.
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Biography of Unity Mitford (excerpt)
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite closely associated with Adolf Hitler. A staunch supporter of Nazism, fascism, and antisemitism, she was part of Hitler's inner circle. After World War II broke out, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, sustaining severe brain damage.
Biography of René Gilson (excerpt)
René Gilson, born September 8, 1921 in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) and died June 6, 2018 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais)1, was a French film critic and director. ![]()
Biography of Violette Szabo (excerpt)
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.
Biography of John Karlen (excerpt)
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz; May 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was an American character actor who played multiple roles on the ABC serial Dark Shadows on and off from 1967 to 1971. In 1971, Karlen starred as the male lead in Daughters of Darkness. ![]()
Biography of Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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Biography of Eddie Vinson (excerpt)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L.Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product, necessitating shaving it off; enamoured of the look, Vinson maintained a shaved head thereafter.
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Biography of Sonja Wigert (excerpt)
Sonja Wigert (11 November 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960. She was a spy for Swedish intelligence during World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal portrayed her in the film The Spy.
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Biography of Greg Hemingway (excerpt)
Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. A good athlete and a crack shot, Gloria longed to be a typical Hemingway hero and trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her gaining a license, as it also cost her her medical license in America.
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Biography of Michel Demazure (excerpt)
Michel Demazure (born 2 March 1937) is a French mathematician. He made contributions in the fields of abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and computer vision, and participated in the Nicolas Bourbaki collective. He has also been president of the French Mathematical Society and directed two French science museums.
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Biography of Marc Dudicourt (excerpt)
Marc Dudicourt (6 March 1932 – 1 May 2021) was a French actor. Son of an industrial designer, he came to live in Paris with his family when he was eleven years old.Passionate about Walt Disney and the cartoon, he decided to become a designer and was hired by Jean Image in his drawing workshop.
Biography of Mimi Perrin (excerpt)
Mimi Perrin, born Jeannine Quintard on February 2, 1926 in Saint-Maurice and died on November 16, 2010 in Paris 10th district, is a French pianist, singer and translator. After her musical career, she became one of the translators from English most in demand by the publishing world. ![]()
Biography of Mark Goddard (excerpt)
Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936) is an American actor who has starred in a number of television programs.He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space (1965–1968).He also played Detective Sgt.
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Biography of Gary Raymond (excerpt)
Gary Barrymore Raymond (born 20 April 1935) is an English film, television and theatre actor. Gary Raymond was born in Brixton, London, to theatrical parents, both of whom were variety artistes.The youngest of three brothers, Gary and his brother Robin are twins, Robin being twenty minutes older.
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Biography of Edward Faulkner (excerpt)
Fielden Edward Faulkner II (born February 29, 1932 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American film and television character actor. He is most known for his roles in John Wayne films, including Hellfighters, The Green Berets, Rio Lobo, McLintock! and The Undefeated. He also played small roles on other films and TV series including Dragnet and The Tim Conway Show.
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Biography of Henepola Gunaratana (excerpt)
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk.He is often affectionately known as Bhante G. Early life Henepola Gunaratana was born Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Ukkubanda December 7, 1927, in the small Sri Lankan village of Henepola.He had only a fourth grade education in Sri Lanka.
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Biography of Lyubov Shevtsova (excerpt)
Lyubov Shevtsova (Russian: Любовь Шевцова; September 8, 1924 – February 9, 1943) was a Soviet partisan and a member of the Young Guard, an underground anti-Nazi organization in Krasnodon during World War II. She participated in spreading leaflets, helped Soviet prisoners of war hide from the Germans, and participated in burning down the Labour Exchange building, which contained documents with the names of people that were to be deported and forced into hard labour for Germany.
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Biography of Doris Duranti (excerpt)
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini.
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Biography of Dagmar Lahlum (excerpt)
Dagmar Mohne Hansen Lahlum (10 March 1923, Norway – 28 December 1999) was a member of the Norwegian resistance in Oslo during World War II and was later recruited (unofficially) to work for MI5. In April 1943, when British double agent Eddie Chapman was drinking with German officers in The Ritz bar at Skillebekk, which was also popular with members of the Norwegian national socialist party, his eye fell on the attractive Dagmar, who – complete with a décolletage and high heels – was smoking Craven A's with an ivory mouthpiece. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Pépin (excerpt)
Jacques Pépin (born December 18, 1935) is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist.After having been the personal chef of French President Charles de Gaulle, he moved to the US in 1959 and after working in New York's top French restaurants, refused the same job with President John F.
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Biography of Ferruccio Amendola (excerpt)
Ferruccio Amendola (July 22, 1930 – September 3, 2001) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Turin to actors Federico Amendola and Amelia Ricci and the nephew of director and screenwriter Mario Amendola, he was among Italy's most accomplished actors who worked for cinema and television and also did extensive voice dubbing work. ![]()
Biography of François Gros (excerpt)
François Gros (born 24 April 1925 in Paris) is a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France. His scientific career concerned genes and their role in regulating cellular functions. Honorary professor at the Collège de France, member of the Institute of France, he was also director of the Pasteur Institute (1976-1982) and advisor to Prime Ministers Pierre Mauroy and Laurent Fabius (1981-1985).
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Biography of Pearl Primus (excerpt)
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Auffray (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Auffray, born July 24, 1926 in Caen and died March 22, 2022, was a French physicist and historian of science. A specialist in quantum physics and mathematical physics, he is the author of popular science books. Jean-Paul Auffray is the son of the industrialist Henry Auffray and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran. |
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