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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. in ![]()
Biography of Robert Cade (excerpt)
James Robert Cade (September 26, 1927 – November 27, 2007) was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida.
Biography of Duilio Del Prete (excerpt)
Duilio Del Prete (25 June 1938 – 2 February 1998) was an Italian actor and singer-songwriter. Del Prete was born in Cuneo, Piedmont. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote political songs and recorded an album of Jacques Brel's covers; he also wrote songs for several artists.
Biography of Donny MacLeod (excerpt)
Donald B. MacLeod, commonly known as Donny MacLeod and Donny Bee, was a Scottish television presenter renowned for his role on the BBC 1 afternoon show "Pebble Mill at One." Born on July 2, 1932, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, he pursued higher education in Glasgow and Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen before teaching art at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.
Biography of Danny Lynch (baseball) (excerpt)
Matthew Daniel Lynch Jr.(February 7, 1926 – June 30, 1978) was an American professional baseball player.He briefly played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs in 1948. A native of Dallas, Texas, Lynch served as a paratrooper in the U.S.Army during World War II.
Biography of Emmaline Henry (excerpt)
Emmaline Henry (November 1, 1928 – October 8, 1979) was an American actress best known for her role as Amanda Bellows, the wife of Dr.Alfred Bellows, on the hit 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Henry began her career as a singer in her teens before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s.
Biography of Bruce Alger (excerpt)
Bruce Reynolds Alger (June 12, 1918 – April 13, 2015) was an American politician, real estate agent and developer, and a Republican U.S.representative from Texas, the first to have represented a Dallas district since Reconstruction. He served from 1955 until 1965.Though born in Dallas, Alger was reared in Webster Groves, Missouri, a small suburb of St.
Biography of Rosalyn Drexler (excerpt)
Rosalyn Drexler (born November 25, 1926) is an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Although she has had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps best known for her pop art paintings and as the author of the novelization of the film Rocky, under the pseudonym Julia Sorel.
Biography of Gene Taylor (bassist) (excerpt)
Calvin Eugene "Gene" Taylor (March 19, 1929 – December 22, 2001), was an American jazz double bassist.He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and began his career in Detroit, Michigan.Taylor worked with Horace Silver from 1958 until 1963. He then joined Blue Mitchell's quintet, with whom he recorded and performed until 1965.
Biography of Renata Pallottini (excerpt)
Renata Pallottini, born on March 28, 1931, in São Paulo, and passing on August 7, 2021, in the same city, was a Brazilian playwright, essayist, poet, theater professor, and translator. She was renowned for her award-winning works in poetry, theater, essays, fiction, children’s literature, and theater theory, playing a significant role in Brazilian literature and theater.
Biography of Edith Pfau (excerpt)
Sister Edith Pfau, S.P., (1 July 1915 – 14 December 2001) was an American painter, sculptor, and art educator known for her religious works and commissions. Born Alberta Henrietta Pfau in Jasper, Indiana, she began drawing at a very early age.Later in her life she recalled, "I always was attracted to faces.
Biography of Ulf Aas (excerpt)
Ulf Aas (14 September 1919 – 16 December 2011) was a Norwegian illustrator and journalist.He worked for the newspaper Aftenposten from 1948 (full-time from 1977). He has contributed with illustrations to more than 200 books.He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
Biography of Anton van der Waals (excerpt)
Antonius van der Waals (born October 11, 1912, in Rotterdam; died January 26, 1950, in Scheveningen) was a spy for the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) during World War II. He was responsible for the deaths of 83 resistance members and played a key role in the Englandspiel, which led to the deaths of numerous Dutch agents sent from England.
Biography of Jacques Roubaud (excerpt)
Jacques Roubaud (December 5, 1932 – December 5, 2024) was a French poet, writer, and mathematician, and a member of Oulipo.He created a diverse body of work blending poetry, prose, essays, and the application of mathematics to literature. Fascinated by fixed poetic forms such as the sonnet and the sestina, he experimented with literary constraints, contributing to significant works like Le Grand Incendie de Londres.
Biography of Matías Prats Cañete (excerpt)
Matías Prats Cañete (4 December 1913 - 8 September 2004) was a renowned Spanish radio and television journalist known for his sports commentary. Starting his career post-Spanish Civil War on Radio Algeciras, he later narrated bullfights and football matches on RNE in Málaga.
Biography of Ken Thorne (excerpt)
Kenneth Thorne (26 January 1924 – 9 July 2014) was a British television and film score composer. Early life Thorne was born in Dereham, a town in the English county of Norfolk.Thorne began his musical career as a pianist with the big bands of England during the 1940s, playing at night clubs and the dance halls.
Biography of Jane Bryan (excerpt)
Jane Bryan (born Jane O'Brien, June 11, 1918 – April 8, 2009) was an American actress groomed by Warner Bros. to become a leading lady. However, she retired from acting in 1940 at age 22 and later became a philanthropist and arts patron.
Biography of Mary Hamilton (activist) (excerpt)
Mary Lucille Hamilton (October 13, 1935 – November 11, 2002) was an African-American civil rights activist notable for her case, Hamilton v.Alabama, which addressed racial discrimination in courtroom etiquette. Raised by her grandmother, she was educated in Iowa and Colorado, earning a B.S.
Biography of Gussie Moran (excerpt)
Gertrude "Gussie" Moran was an American tennis player active in the 1940s and 1950s, ranking 4th nationally. Born and died in California, she experienced family tragedy during World War II. Known for her Wimbledon 1949 attire, designed by Ted Tinling, it featured visible lace-trimmed knickers, causing a stir and earning her the nickname "Gorgeous Gussie." The incident led to a debate in Parliament and a temporary career setback.
Biography of Skeete Davis (excerpt)
Skeeter Davis (born Mary Frances Penick on December 30, 1931 – died September 19, 2004) was an American country singer-songwriter known for crossover pop hits like The End of the World (1962).She started in the late 1940s as part of the Davis Sisters before signing with RCA Victor.
Biography of Benny Kalama (excerpt)
Benjamin Kapena Kalama (1916 – 1999) was an American singer known for his falsetto voice. He played a pivotal role in Alfred Apaka's career, working as his coach and music arranger. Kalama, born in Hawai'i, showcased his musical talents early, playing trombone in school bands.
Biography of Carlo Fruttero (excerpt)
Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. Fruttero was born in Turin, Italy. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. The duo were also editors of the science-fiction series Urania from the 1960s to the 1980s, and of the comic-strip magazine Il Mago.
Biography of Jean Morin (1916-2008) (excerpt)
Jean Morin (June 23, 1916 - September 6, 2008) was a magistrate of the Court of Audit, a member of the Resistance, a senior civil servant, Secretary General of the Merchant Navy, and in retirement, a director or chairman of numerous companies, often focused on maritime professions, or those in advertising.
Biography of Arve Opsahl (excerpt)
Arve Opsahl (14 May 1921 – 29 April 2007) was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian. Opsahl began his career as a comedian in 1942, and played numerous roles both on stage and in more than forty movies.
Biography of Claude Tresmontant (excerpt)
Claude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 - 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher skilled in Hebrew and ancient Greek. He taught medieval and scientific philosophy at the Sorbonne and won the Grand Prize of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1987.
Biography of Luigi Pareyson (excerpt)
Luigi Pareysón (4 February 1918 – 8 September 1991) was an Italian philosopher, best known for challenging the positivist and idealist aesthetics of Benedetto Croce in his 1954 monograph, Estetica. Teoria della formatività (Aesthetics. A Theory of Formativity), which builds on the hermeneutics of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Biography of Régine Skorka (excerpt)
Régine Skorka-Jacubert, Rivka Skorka or Régine Skorka by her maiden name, born January 24, 1920 in Zagórów and died December 1, 2016 in Nancy, was a French resistance fighter, arrested by the Gestapo in June 1944, deported to Auschwitz and Holocaust survivor.
Biography of Dave Niehaus (excerpt)
David Arnold Niehaus (February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010) was an American sportscaster.He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus the Ford C.
Biography of Jay Stewart (excerpt)
Jay Stewart Fix (September 6, 1918 – September 17, 1989), known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. He was probably best known as the announcer on the long running game show Let's Make a Deal, in which he appeared throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography of Franz Hack (excerpt)
Franz Hack (February 3, 1915 - June 9, 1997) was a German officer who served in the Deutsches Heer (German Army) during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
Biography of Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (excerpt)
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (born November 14, 1934) is a Mexican American educator, artist, and historian from El Paso, Texas.She is the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group.Guerrero has also been involved with the Catholic Church and has been nicknamed the "Dancing Missionary" in religious circles.
Biography of Abraham Bueno de Mesquita (excerpt)
Abraham "Appie" Bueno de Mesquita (July 23, 1918, in Amsterdam – August 19, 2005, in Lelystad) was a Dutch comedian, actor and stage artist, well known for his ability to make funny faces. In World War II, Bueno de Mesquita was imprisoned in the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, Belgium on account of being Sephardi Jewish, and was scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz.
Biography of Alta Little (excerpt)
Alta Lucille Little (May 21, 1923 – March 10, 1999) was an American baseball player, playing as a first baseman and pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1947 to 1948. Born in Gas City, Indiana, she grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and joined her sisters' softball team at age 11.
Biography of Aurora Picornell (excerpt)
Aurora Picornell Femenias (1 October 1912 – 5 January 1937) was a Spanish seamstress, unionist, and feminist activist, known as "La Pasionaria of Majorca." She organized the seamstresses' union in the Balearic Islands and joined the Communist Party of Spain. She was politically active from a young age, publishing articles in the communist newspaper "Nuestra palabra" at 16.
Biography of Michel Ciment (excerpt)
Michel Ciment (26 May 1938 – 13 November 2023) was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Michel Ciment was born in Paris on 26 May 1938.He was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the president of FIPRESCI.
Biography of Ángeles Flórez Peón (excerpt)
Ángeles Flórez Peón, born on November 17, 1918, also known as Maricuela, is a Spanish activist and writer.She serves as the honorary president of the Socialist Youth of Asturias and is considered the last living Spanish socialist militiawoman. Born in Blimea, she began working at age 9.
Biography of Carroll Pratt (excerpt)
Carroll Holmes Pratt (April 19, 1921 – November 11, 2010) was an American sound engineer who, along with laugh track inventor Charley Douglass, pioneered the use of prerecorded laughter. Carroll Pratt was influenced early by his father, a sound engineer.After serving in the U.S.
Biography of Willard Scott (excerpt)
Willard Herman Scott Jr. (March 7, 1934 – September 4, 2021) was an American weather presenter, radio and TV personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, with a 68-year career, including 65 years at NBC. He was best known as the Today show’s weatherman, celebrating US centenarians, and as the creator and first performer of McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald.
Biography of Ørnulf Gulbransen (excerpt)
Ørnulf Gulbransen (19 December 1916 – 20 February 2004) was a renowned Norwegian flautist and music educator.He significantly influenced Norwegian music for over 50 years, both as a soloist and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Gulbransen debuted in 1938 and played with Filharmonisk Selskaps orkester from 1941 to 1971.
Biography of Ethel Fisher (excerpt)
Ethel Fisher (7 June 1923 – 2017) was an American painter known for her work in abstraction and representational genres, including large-scale portraiture and architectural paintings. She studied at the Art Students League in the 1940s and gained success as an abstract artist in the late 1950s.
Biography of Ojars Vacietis (excerpt)
Ojārs Vācietis (born November 13, 1933 — November 28, 1983) was a Latvian writer and poet.He is often considered one of the most famous and influential poets in the Latvian SSR. His father Oto Vācietis was a servant.Vācietis studied in Trapane primary school and later in Gaujiena secondary school.
Biography of Henry Charbonneau (excerpt)
Henry Charbonneau (pseudonym: Henry Charneau) (12 December 1913 in Saint-Maixent-l'École (birth certificate n° 64), Deux-Sèvres – 2 January 1983 in La Roche-sur-Yon) was a French far right politician and writer. The son of a soldier, Charbonneau initially came to political activism as a member of the Action Française before embarking on a varied career with a number of far right groups.
Biography of Uri Ilan (excerpt)
Uri Ilan (17 February 1935 – 13 January 1955) was an Israeli soldier captured by the Syrians during Operation Zarzar on the Golan Heights who took his own life in captivity, after being captured in a covert operation. He became a symbol of courage and patriotism in Israel.
Biography of Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (excerpt)
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (24 January 1930 – 9 December 2009) was a Guatemalan military officer who served as the 36th president of Guatemala from 1974 until 1978. A member of the National Liberation Movement, he previously served as General Staff of the Army from 1970 to 1972 and Minister of national defence from 1972 to 1973 under President Carlos Arana Osorio.
Biography of Johnny Sain (excerpt)
John Franklin "Johnny" Sain (September 25, 1917 – November 7, 2006) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951. He was the runner-up for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in the Braves' pennant-winning season of 1948, after leading the National League in wins, complete games and innings pitched.
Biography of Pietro Ingrao (excerpt)
Pietro Ingrao (30 March 1915 – 27 September 2015) was an Italian politician and journalist involved in the Italian resistance movement. He was a leading figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) for many years. Born in Lenola, Lazio, Ingrao joined the PCI in 1940 and participated in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II.
Biography of Bernard Ullmann (excerpt)
Bernard Ullmann (January 13, 1922 – December 31, 2008) was a French journalist and senior reporter. Family The second son of Lisette de Brinon's first marriage, Ullmann was married twice. He had two children, Laurence and Pierre-Guillaume, from his first marriage, and then Emmanuel with Marie-Berthe Gaborit de Montjou.
Biography of Shirley Hazzard (excerpt)
Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist known for her incisive prose and deep exploration of human relationships. Born in Sydney, she moved globally, reflecting her cosmopolitan upbringing in her writing. Hazzard worked at the United Nations, which inspired her critical nonfiction works about the organization.
Biography of Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (excerpt)
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico), also called Giandomenico d'Imola (15 June 1692 – 18 August 1768), was an Italian Rococo style painter from Florence. According to the contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Ferretti was a pupil of the Bolognese painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Others say he worked with painter Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.
Biography of Jean Valton (excerpt)
Jean Valton, born on July 14, 1921, in Bry-sur-Marne and died on June 21, 1980, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French chansonnier, impressionist, and comedian. He is known for his participation in the TV shows Le Francophonissime and Les Jeux de 20 heures.
Biography of Fritz Rentrop (excerpt)
Fritz Rentrop, born on November 19, 1917, in Münster, Westphalia, and presumed dead on February 2, 1945, was an officer of the Waffen-SS during World War II, holding the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. |
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