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Horoscopes with Vertex in LibraYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Vertex in Libra. 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 Pål Vik (excerpt)
Pål Vik (born June 2, 1949, in Oslo) was one of Norway’s most dominant basketball players of the 1970s. He grew up in Eiksmarka, Bærum, and graduated from Eikeli Gymnasium in 1968. He played 15 seasons for Bærum Basketballklubb (1963–1978), securing 10 consecutive national championships (1969–1978).
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Biography of Paul Barry (American football) (excerpt)
Paul F. Barry (August 7, 1926 – December 28, 2014) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at the University of Tulsa and was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1949 NFL draft.
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Biography of Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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Biography of David Pogue (excerpt)
David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. His time of birth comes form him, in his book "The World According to Twitter" by David Pogue (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009). ![]()
Biography of Ken Jackson (American football) (excerpt)
Kenneth Gene "the Tall Texan" Jackson (April 26, 1929 – January 28, 1998) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). A native of Austin, Texas, Jackson played college football at The University of Texas and then pro football for seven seasons for the Dallas Texans, the Baltimore Colts and the Montreal Alouettes.
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Biography of Roger Newdigate (excerpt)
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (31 May 1719 – 23 November 1806), was an English politician who served in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was also a noted collector of antiquities. Born in Nuneaton, he inherited the title of 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and Harefield in 1734 after his brother's early death.
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Biography of Robinson Faria (excerpt)
Robinson Mesquita de Faria, born on April 12, 1959, in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, is a Brazilian politician. He is married to Julianne Faria and has six children. His son, Fábio Faria, is married to Patrícia Abravanel, daughter of Silvio Santos.
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Biography of Cristhiane Neves (excerpt)
Cristhiane Neves do Nascimento (born August 12, 1985) is a Brazilian Paralympic taekwondo athlete. Originally from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, she practiced muay thai and jiu-jitsu before a motorcycle accident in 2014 led to the amputation of her left arm below the elbow.
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Biography of Hilde Diesen (excerpt)
Hilde Diesen (born May 23, 1949, in Oslo) is a Norwegian visual artist, illustrator, and author. She studied drawing and painting at the Fachhochschule für Design in Münster, Germany, and debuted at the Høstutstillingen in 1979. She has held several solo exhibitions in Norway and Germany and participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Biography of Lew Welch (excerpt)
Lewis Barrett Welch Jr. (August 16, 1926 – c. May 23, 1971) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation. He published and performed extensively during the 1960s and taught poetry at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1965 to 1970.
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Biography of Bradley Hauser (excerpt)
Bradley "Brad" Hauser (born March 28, 1977) is a retired American long-distance runner. He finished fourteenth at the 1996 World Junior Championships and 21st at the 1999 World Championships, both in the 10,000 metres; and also finished fifteenth in the short race at the 2001 World Cross Country Championships.
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Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (April 1, 1903 – July 31, 1993) was Mexico’s first female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolutionary cultural renaissance. In 1964, she received the Premio José Clemente Orozco for her contributions to photography and cultural preservation.
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Biography of Roger Brown (defensive tackle) (excerpt)
Roger Lee Brown (May 1, 1937 – September 17, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions (1960–1966) and the Los Angeles Rams (1967–1969). He played college football for the Maryland State Hawks.
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Biography of Andy Granatelli (excerpt)
Anthony "Andy" Granatelli (March 18, 1923 – December 29, 2013) was an American businessman, most prominent as the CEO of STP as well as a major figure in automobile racing events. Granatelli was born in Dallas, Texas. Along with his brothers Vince and Joe, he first worked as an auto mechanic and "speed-shop" entrepreneur, modifying engines such as the flathead Ford into racing-quality equipment.
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Biography of Erich Barnes (excerpt)
Erich Theodore Barnes (July 4, 1935 – April 29, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers (1956–1958), where he was a two-way player.
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Biography of Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America.
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Biography of Andrew Newell (skier) (excerpt)
Andrew "Andy" Newell (born November 30, 1983) is a former American cross-country skier. He began competing internationally in 2001 and made his World Cup debut in the 2003-04 season. His top results include a 5th place in the sprint at the 2007 World Championships and a 16th place at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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Biography of Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (excerpt)
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (31 March 1939 – 20 May 2024) was a German footballer who played as a defender. Known for his athleticism and versatility, he earned the nickname "Volkswagen" and was regarded as one of the best left-backs of his era, alongside legends like Giacinto Facchetti.
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Biography of Sverre Indris Joner (excerpt)
Sverre Indris Joner (born July 19, 1963) is a Norwegian musician, composer, and arranger, frequently performing on piano and percussion. Born in Oslo and raised in Bergen, he graduated from the University of Oslo and the Cervantes Conservatory in Havana, Cuba.
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Biography of Varlin (painter) (excerpt)
Willy Leopold Guggenheim, known as Varlin (born March 16, 1900, and died October 30, 1977), was a Swiss painter. His figurative work emphasized the fragility of everyday life. Born in Zurich, he lost his father and elder sister at the age of twelve, shaping his artistic vision.
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Biography of Jean Plaskie (excerpt)
Jean Plaskie (born 24 August 1941 in Laeken, Brussels; died 18 September 2017) was a Belgian football player. He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and Belgium. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean-Marie Trappeniers.
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Biography of Bill Jackson (television personality) (excerpt)
Bill Ray Jackson (September 15, 1935 – January 17, 2022) was an American television personality, cartoonist, and educator. He was best known for having hosted the children's programs The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show and Gigglesnort Hotel. His time of birth comes from him, in the autogiography "The Only Kid on the Carnival: An Extraordinary Childhood" by Bill Jackson (iUniverse, 2008).
Biography of Roger Birkman (excerpt)
Roger Winfred Birkman was an American organizational psychologist, born on February 1, 1919, and died on March 26, 2014. He is best known as the creator of The Birkman Method, a workplace psychological assessment. After studying at the University of Houston, he became a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II, where he developed an interest in psychological differences and their impact on performance.
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Biography of Ron Whitehead (excerpt)
Ron Whitehead (born November 23, 1950) is an American poet, author, and activist. Born on a farm in Kentucky, he studied at the University of Louisville and Oxford. His date and time of birth come from him, in an interview in December 2023.
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Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I. He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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Biography of Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
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Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
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Biography of Achille Valenciennes (excerpt)
Achille Valenciennes (August 9, 1794, Paris – April 13, 1865, Paris) was a French zoologist specializing in fish and mollusks. After leaving his studies to support his family, he worked at the Jardin des Plantes as a taxidermist and became an assistant to Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Lamarck.
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Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death. At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
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Biography of Pauline Pô (excerpt)
Pauline Pô (August 28, 1904 – October 16, 1979) was a French actress and the winner of the 1921 Miss France contest, then called La plus belle Femme de France. Originally from Ajaccio, she first won the Miss Corse title in 1920 before being crowned Reine de Beauté des Provinces de France in 1921.
Biography of Michelle Vian (excerpt)
Michelle Vian (born Michelle Marie Léglise, June 12, 1920 – December 13, 2017) was a French translator and poet, known for her role alongside Boris Vian. Married to Boris Vian from 1941 to 1953, she contributed to his writing and introduced him to Anglo-American literature.
Biography of Marcel-Louis Baugniet (excerpt)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet, born on March 18, 1896, in Liège and passed away on February 1, 1995, in Brussels, was a Belgian avant-garde artist. A painter, he also worked with collages, ceramics, illustration, tapestries, furniture design, and art criticism. He studied at the Brussels Academy alongside Paul Delvaux and René Magritte before training in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger.
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Biography of Edmund Keeley (excerpt)
Edmund Leroy "Mike" Keeley (born February 5, 1928, in Damascus, Syria, and died February 23, 2022) was an American novelist, translator, essayist, poet, and the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University. He was a noted expert on the Greek poets C.
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Biography of Bobby Plump (excerpt)
Bobby Gene Plump (born September 9, 1936) was a member of the Milan High School basketball team that won the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) state tournament in 1954. Named "Mr. Basketball" in 1954, he was recognized as one of the most significant Hoosiers of the 20th century by Indianapolis Monthly Magazine and as one of Indiana's 50 greatest sports figures by Sports Illustrated.
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Biography of Jeffrey Smoke (excerpt)
Jeffrey Smoke (born December 3, 1977) is an American sprint canoer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He finished seventh in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event. A native of Niles, Michigan, Smoke's parents William and Marcia (since divorced) competed in the Summer Olympics. ![]()
Biography of Étienne Balsan (excerpt)
Fulcran Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878, Paris – March 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) was a French gentleman rider, horse breeder, and influential figure in high society. The son of industrialist Auguste Balsan, he left his military career to focus on horse breeding and racing, particularly at his Royallieu estate near Compiègne.
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Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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Biography of João Falcão (excerpt)
João Barreto Falcão Neto (September 20, 1958 – present) is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and composer, renowned for his prolific work in theater, film, and television. He was married to writer Adriana Falcão, with whom he has two daughters: Clarice and Maria Isabel Falcão.
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Biography of Maria Pascoli (excerpt)
Mariù Pascoli was the pseudonym of Italian writer and poet Maria Pascoli (1 November 1865 – 5 December 1953). She was the sister of poet Giovanni Pascoli, whom she assisted until his death, preserving his archives in the house that bears his name.
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Biography of Felipe Montemayor (excerpt)
Felipe Angel Montemayor (February 7, 1928 – February 4, 2025) was a Mexican professional baseball player. He played 64 games with the Pittsburgh Pirates in MLB in 1953 and 1955 and spent 14 seasons in his home country. Born in Monterrey and nicknamed Clipper, he was a left-handed batter and thrower, standing 6'2" (1.
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Biography of Harika Avcı (excerpt)
Harika Avcı, born Nermin Ocak, is a Turkish singer and actress, born on February 2, 1960, in Izmir. Her time of birth comes her, from a mutual friend. She began her career in Turkish cinema and music, quickly making a name for herself in the entertainment industry.
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Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
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Biography of Wilhelm Cuno (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (July 2, 1876 – January 3, 1933) was a German businessman and politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for 264 days. His term was marked by the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the onset of hyperinflation in Germany.
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Biography of Philip Cochran (excerpt)
Philip Gerald Cochran (January 29, 1910 – August 26, 1979) was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing tactical air combat, air transport, and air assault techniques, particularly in Burma as co-commander of the 1st Air Commando Group.
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Biography of Carolyn Hunt (politician) (excerpt)
Carolyn Joyce Hunt (née Leonard; born July 3, 1937, in Mingo, Iowa) is an American educator and politician. As the wife of Jim Hunt, she served as Second Lady of North Carolina (1973–1977) and First Lady twice (1977–1985, 1993–2001). She is the longest-serving First Lady in North Carolina history and part of the first governor–first lady duo to serve two four-year terms.
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Biography of David R. Vance (excerpt)
David R. Vance (born August 22, 1940, in Logansport, Indiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who has won more than 3,000 races. Vance has won three training titles at Churchill Downs, three at Keystone Racetrack and two at the now defunct Garden State Park.
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Biography of Jan-Carl Raspe (excerpt)
Jan-Carl Raspe (born July 24, 1944 – died October 18, 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group. He was born in Seefeld in Tirol, then part of Germany (now Austria).
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Biography of Daniel Gonzague (excerpt)
Daniel Gonzague, born on May 16, 1930, in Joinville-le-Pont, is a French designer and engraver of postage stamps. In 1956, as a young postal worker, he achieved early recognition by winning the competition for the first stamp in the EUROPA series, launched by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). |
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