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Horoscopes with Sun in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in
Biography of Doug Drabek (excerpt)
Douglas Dean Drabek, born on July 25, 1962, is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach, currently serving as the pitching coach for the Reno Aces, a Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played in MLB for teams like the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and others from 1986 to 1998, winning the National League Cy Young Award in 1990.
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (excerpt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman, notable as a congressman from New York and later as the Under Secretary of Commerce. He was the fifth of six children born to Franklin D.
Biography of David Ruelle (excerpt)
David Pierre Ruelle (born 20 August 1935) is a Belgian mathematical physicist, naturalized French. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens, Ruelle coined the term strange attractor, and developed a new theory of turbulence. Honors and awards
Biography of Guy Krohg (excerpt)
Guy Krohg (27 July 1917 – 19 October 2002) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and scenographer. He was born in Oslo, the son of painter Per Krohg and grandson of Christian Krohg and Oda Krohg. He was married to Lilian Smith from 1940, and to actress Sossen Krohg from 1949.
Biography of Sabina Ciuffini (excerpt)
Sabina Ciuffini, born on August 4, 1950, in San Juan, is an Italian showgirl and TV host. Daughter of Yvonne Giannini and granddaughter of the playwright and politician Guglielmo Giannini, Sabina was born in Argentina but moved to Rome with her parents in 1954.
Biography of Philippe la Chapelle (excerpt)
Philippe Céleste (Philippe) la Chapelle ('s Gravenhage, August 1, 1882 - Amsterdam, July 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor. He was born the son of the writer Suze la Chapelle-Roobol and Celestinus Philippus la Chapelle. He is the grandfather of actress Nel Kars.
Biography of Denise Ginollin (excerpt)
Denise Ginollin, born Églantine Denise Reydet on July 30, 1907, in Paris, was a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party, she served as a Deputy of Seine from 1945 to 1946 in the Constituent Assembly, then continued as a Deputy until 1951 in the first legislature of the Fourth Republic.
Biography of Aruna Irani (excerpt)
Aruna Irani, born on August 18, 1946, is an Indian actress with over 500 films in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati cinema, mostly in supporting roles. Her time of birth was provided by her during a telephone conversation. She won two Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actress for "Pet Pyaar Aur Paap" (1985) and "Beta" (1992), and holds the record for the most nominations in this category (10).
Biography of James Wade (basketball) (excerpt)
James Wade (born August 15, 1975), known as Coco, is an American-French basketball assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). With the Chicago Sky, Wade won the WNBA's Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year awards in 2019 and 2022 respectively, and led the Sky to their first WNBA Championship in 2021.
Biography of Carlo Bonacini (excerpt)
Carlo Bonacini (born August 15, 1867, in Modena, Italy, and died January 1, 1944, in Modena) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. After graduating in 1888 in Pisa, he started his teaching career in middle schools, the Technical Institute, and Muratori Classical Lyceum in Modena.
Biography of Leo Samberger (excerpt)
Leo Samberger (14 August 1861 - 8 April 1949), a German painter and portraitist from Munich, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a founding member of the Munich Secession. During World War II, he moved to Geitau before returning to Munich, where he died in 1949.
Biography of Louise Petrén-Overton (excerpt)
Hedvig Louise Beata Petrén-Overton, born August 12, 1880, and passed away January 14, 1977, was a Swedish mathematician and the first woman in Sweden to earn a doctorate in mathematics. Growing up as one of twelve children in a family with strong mathematical heritage, she was left free to focus on her studies.
Biography of Elinor Ostrom (excerpt)
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E.
Biography of Bjarne Nerem (excerpt)
Bjarne Arnulf Nerem, born on July 31, 1923, in Oslo, Norway, and passing on April 1, 1991, in Oslo, was a notable Norwegian jazz musician, skilled in tenor and alto saxophones and clarinet. He followed the style of Lester Young and Stan Getz and gained international acclaim.
Biography of Andrew Marr (excerpt)
Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British journalist and broadcaster. Beginning his career as a political commentator, he subsequently edited The Independent newspaper from 1996 to 1998 and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 to 2005.
Biography of Geoffrey Horne (excerpt)
Geoffrey Horne, born August 22, 1933, in Buenos Aires, is an American actor, director, and acting coach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His credits include "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Bonjour Tristesse", "The Strange One", "Two People", and episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits".
Biography of Émile Dehelly (excerpt)
Émile Léon Auguste Dehelly, born on August 7, 1871, in Fresnoy-le-Grand (Aisne) and died on September 4, 1969, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French actor and a member of the Comédie-Française. Coming to Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) with his father when he was young, he was drafted with the number 104 during his military conscription in 1893 in Maintenon.
Biography of Eugčne Letendre (excerpt)
Eugčne Letendre, born on August 10, 1931, in Louvigné-du-Désert (Ille-et-Vilaine) and died on April 24, 2014, in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer (Manche), was a French professional cyclist. He was a professional from 1954 to 1963 and a teammate of Jacques Anquetil. After his cycling career, he opened a moving company in Asničres-sur-Seine.
Biography of Pedro Ruiz (actor) (excerpt)
Pedro Ruiz (born 17 August 1947) is a Spanish radio presenter, actor, screenwriter and comedian. Radio As an RJ, Pedro has anchored various programmes. Television In 1972, Pedro Ruiz started his television career at Televisión Espańola by presenting the show Estudio Estadio. In 1974, he appeared in the show żLe conoce usted.
Biography of Anushka Sen (excerpt)
Anushka Sen (born 4 August 2002) is an Indian television actress and model known for portraying the role of Meher in the children fantasy show, Baal Veer. She has also played Manikarnika Rao/Rani Lakshmi Bai in the Indian historical drama television series Jhansi Ki Rani.
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 Barbara Rudnik (excerpt)
Barbara Rudnik (July 27, 1958 – May 23, 2009) was a celebrated German actress who began her career in Munich after being discovered by film students. He time of birth comes from her. She was notable for her roles in various productions and films since her debut in 1978.
Biography of Claude Sainval (excerpt)
Claude Sainval was a French director, theater manager, and actor, born Claude Duxbury Mac Connel in Strasburg, Germany (Wikipedia makes a mistake) on August 13, 1911, and died in Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle (Gard) on March 28, 1994. The son of Olivier Duxbury Mac Connel and Marianne Mac Connel, née Ungemach, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Fénelon and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
Biography of Adam Nimoy (excerpt)
Adam B. Nimoy, born on August 9, 1956, is an American television director, best known as the son of actors Leonard Nimoy and Sandra Zober. His time of birth comes from the biography of his father ""I Am Not Spock." As it's from his fahter, we can assign an A for the reliability of this information.
Biography of Joan Weldon (excerpt)
Joan Weldon (born Joan Louise Welton on August 5, 1930 – February 11, 2021) was an American actress and singer active in film, television, and theatre. Raised by her grandmother in San Francisco after early loss, Weldon began her career singing with the San Francisco Grand Opera Company and the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.
Biography of Eugčne Mage (excerpt)
Eugčne Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
Biography of Henry Lafont (excerpt)
Henry Lafont, born on August 10, 1920, in Cahors, France, was a notable French aviator and the last French veteran of the Battle of Britain. He developed an early interest in flying, obtaining his pilot's license before joining the Armée de l'Air flying school in 1938.
Biography of Carl Switzer (excerpt)
Carl Dean Switzer (August 8, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American singer, child actor, dog breeder, and guide. He was best known for his role as Alfalfa in the short subjects series Our Gang. Switzer began his career as a child actor in the mid-1930s appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.
Biography of Padre Cruz (excerpt)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ (29 July 1859 – 1 October 1948), known as Father Cruz, was a Portuguese Catholic priest celebrated for his apostolic zeal and charity. He visited prisons and hospitals, helped the poor, and ministered to many, earning a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime.
Biography of Ray Dalio (excerpt)
Raymond Thomas Dalio, born on August 8, 1949 in Queens, New York, is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He founded Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, in New York in 1975 and has been its co-chief investment officer since 1985.
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer. Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929. Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
Biography of Yvonne de Bark (excerpt)
Yvonne de Bark, born on August 8, 1972, in Munich, is a German film and TV actress and author. Initially studying Sports and English to become a teacher, she switched to drama school, leading to roles in "Sons of Trinity" and "Zeit des Schweigens" (Time of Silence).
Biography of Suresh Wadkar (excerpt)
Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (born 7 August 1955 in Kolhapur) is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films. His birth time comes from him.
Biography of Dawnn Lewis (excerpt)
Dawnn Jewel Lewis (born August 13, 1961) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jaleesa Vinson–Taylor on the NBC television sitcom A Different World from the series beginning in 1987 until the end of its fifth season in 1992, in addition to co-writing the opening theme song for the series.
Biography of Harvey Brooks (physicist) (excerpt)
Harvey Brooks (August 5, 1915 – May 28, 2004) was an American physicist, renowned for integrating science into public policy and shaping national science policies under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He made significant contributions to the theory of semiconductors and metal band structure, and was the dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Biography of Zack Cozart (excerpt)
Zachary Warren Cozart (born August 12, 1985) is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Angels. The Reds selected Cozart in the second round of the 2007 MLB draft.
Biography of André Paradis (writer) (excerpt)
André Paradis, born on August 22, 1939, in Sivry-Courtry, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, and passed away on March 15, 2024, was a Guyanese writer, essayist, novelist, and short story writer. A Guyanese writer and English teacher, André Paradis was born in Sivry-Country in the Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France region.
Biography of Arne Korsmo (excerpt)
Arne Korsmo, born on August 14, 1900, died on August 29, 1968, was a prominent Norwegian architect and proponent of the international architectural style. He completed his education at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1926 and went on to collaborate with leading architects in Oslo.
Biography of Ghislaine Alajouanine (excerpt)
Ghislaine Alajouanine, born on July 28, 1948 in Chambon-sur-Voueize, is a French social entrepreneur. Coming from a family originating in Creuse, she studied law and economics, earning a DESS in economic sciences. She began her career in the construction industry, then focused on financing syndication for clinics in Canada.
Biography of Amparo Alvajar (excerpt)
María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, commonly known as Amparo Alvajar (August 11, 1916 - May 1998), was a multifaceted Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, also notable for her work as a translator for international organizations. Born in A Coruńa, she was deeply involved in the political and cultural movements of her time, working initially in the Second Republic's secret services.
Biography of Sylvia Nasar (excerpt)
Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Biography of Marian Langiewicz (excerpt)
Marian Langiewicz (August 5, 1827 – May 11, 1887), was a key figure in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. Born in Krotoszyn, he was educated in Posen, Breslau, and Prague, and worked as a lecturer to earn a living.
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Řygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
Biography of Zofia Posmysz (excerpt)
Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka (née Posmysz; 23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022) was a Polish journalist, novelist, and author. She was a resistance fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, Passenger from Cabin 45, became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, subsequently translated into 15 languages.
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The Beaune coach crash occurred on 31 July 1982 on the French A6 motorway near Beaune, in the Côte-d’Or département of east-central France. It is the second deadliest road traffic collision in France's history after the 2016 Nice truck attack. 53 people died, including 46 children (44 on the coach and 2 in a car).
Biography of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (excerpt)
Angel Maturino Reséndiz (August 1, 1959 – June 27, 2006), also known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s. Some also involved sexual assault.
Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
Biography of Cesare Luporini (excerpt)
Cesare Luporini (August 20, 1909 – April 9, 1993) was an Italian philosopher, historian of philosophy, and politician. Born in Ferrara and raised in Florence, he graduated from the University of Florence in 1933, studying under Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Billot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828 - 31 May 1907) was a French general and politician. Educated at Saint-Cyr, he maintained republican beliefs while advancing his career under Napoleon III, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1859. He distinguished himself in the Mexican expedition and the Franco-Prussian War, achieving the rank of general and participating in key battles.
Biography of Marc Moulin (musician) (excerpt)
Marc Moulin, born on August 16, 1942, in Uccle and passed away in Ixelles on September 26, 2008, was a Belgian pianist, composer, radio host, producer, humorist, and columnist. Son of sociologist Léo Moulin and poet Jeanine Moulin, he was musically trained in Ixelles and held degrees in political and economic sciences. |
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