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Horoscopes with Vulcanus in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus in Gemini. 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 Harvey J. Alter (excerpt)
Harvey James Alter (born September 12, 1935) is an American medical researcher, virologist, and physician who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Alter is the chief of the infectious disease section and the associate director for research of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Biography of Fuat Güner (excerpt)
Aziz Fuat Güner (born 1 April 1948), better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. In 1966, he met Mazhar Alanson, and soon the two formed the band "Kaygısızlar" ("The Carefree") inspired by the Beatles.
Biography of Masashi Sada (excerpt)
Masashi Sada (Sada Masashi, born 10 April 1952) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and a film producer. Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and they made their debut as recording artists a year afterward.
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Biography of Aydin Dogan (excerpt)
Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish billionaire media tycoon, business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor - best known as the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates, a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. The Doğan Media Holding he founded incorporates the newspapers Posta, Hürriyet, Radikal, Fanatik and Turkish Daily News, and 21 TV channels in Turkey and abroad.
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Biography of Ted Gioia (excerpt)
Ted Gioia (born 21 October 1957) is an American jazz critic and music historian. Gioia is an editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians and has authored a number of books on jazz such as The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, The History of Jazz and Delta Blues. ![]()
Biography of Amos Oz (excerpt)
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Biography of Garry Pastore (excerpt)
Garry Pastore (born December 2, 1961) is an American actor, stuntman, writer, and filmmaker. Pastore has acted in over 60 television and feature films since the early 1980s. His acting film credits include The Irishman (2019), Shooting Heroin (2019), Mob Town (2019), The Week Of (2018), Sarah Q (2018), Who's Jenna (2018), Do the Right Thing (1989), Goodfellas (1990), A Bronx Tale (1993), Carlito's Way (1993), Donnie Brasco (1997), Cop Land (1997), Witness to the Mob (1998), The Yards (2000), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Rob the Mob (2014).
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Biography of Eloisa Cianni (excerpt)
Eloisa Cianni (born 21 June 1932 in Rome) is an Italian former actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Ciani was born in Rome as Aloisa Stukin, with the surname derived from her Polish adoptive father Stanislaus Stukin, who had married her mother Ida Furnace.
Biography of David Marciano (excerpt)
David Marciano (born January 7, 1960, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Raymond Vecchio in the television series Due South and Detective Steve Billings in the FX police drama The Shield. His big break came two years later as a guest star in Wiseguy, playing a mobster impersonating Lorenzo Steelgrave.
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Biography of Jean Erdman (excerpt)
Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director. Career Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus, the Speaking Fate in Punch and the Judy and the One Who Speaks in Letter to the World, Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. ![]()
Biography of Laurence Equilbey (excerpt)
Laurence Equilbey (born 6 March 1962) is a French conductor, particularly known for her work in the choral repertoire. Equilbey studied piano and flute in her early life. She undertook formal music education in Paris, Vienna, London and Scandinavia. Her teachers included Eric Ericson, Denise Ham, Colin Metters and Jorma Panula.
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Biography of Moctar Ouane (excerpt)
Moctar Ouane, born October 11, 1955 in Bidi (Mali), is a Malian politician. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on May 2, 2004 in the government of Ousmane Issoufi Maïga. He was reappointed to this post by President Amadou Toumani Touré in the governments of Modibo Sidibé of October 3, 2007 and April 9, 2009.
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Biography of Kike Elomaa (excerpt)
Ritva Tuulikki "Kike" Elomaa (née Sainio; born 16 July 1955, in Lokalahti) is a Finnish professional female bodybuilding champion, pop singer, and member of the Finnish Parliament. In 1981, Kike defeated Rachel McLish at the IFBB Ms. Olympia. Following her wildly successful contest campaign in 1981, she competed only three more times, placing third at the 1982 IFBB Ms.
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Biography of Jean-Luc Coatalem (excerpt)
Jean-Luc Coatalem (18 September 1959, Paris) is a French journalist and writer. In 2001, Je suis dans les mers du Sud, a very personal essay that he drew from an investigation on Paul Gauguin, was distinguished by numerous awards, including the Prix Breizh 2002 and was translated into English and Chinese. ![]()
Biography of Lydia Litvyak (excerpt)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921, in Moscow – 1 August 1943, in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from five to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in her 66 combat sorties.
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Biography of Giorgio Faletti (excerpt)
Giorgio Faletti (25 November 1950 – 4 July 2014) was an Italian writer, actor, comedian and singer-songwriter. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europe, South America, China, Japan, Russia and United States.
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Biography of Michael Gwisdek (excerpt)
Michael Gwisdek (born 14 January 1942) is a German actor and film director. He began his acting career in East Germany and has appeared in more than 130 films and television shows since 1968. His debut film as a director, Treffen in Travers, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. ![]()
Biography of Susan Cooper (excerpt)
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes.
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Biography of Antonio Buero Vallejo (excerpt)
Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916, Guadalajara - April 29, 2000, Madrid) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. ![]()
Biography of Sue Klebold (excerpt)
Susan Francis Klebold (née Yassenoff; born March 25, 1949) is an American author and activist. She is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999. She is the author of A Mother's Reckoning, a book about the signs she missed of Dylan's mental state.
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Biography of Al Purdy (excerpt)
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Rock (excerpt)
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor. Based in Silicon Valley, California, he was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. Rock was a member of Apple Inc.'s board when Steve Jobs was ousted in the 1980s.
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Biography of François-Yves Guillin (excerpt)
François-Yves Guillin (7 September 1921 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 October 2020) was a French resistance fighter, doctor, and historian. At the start of World War II, Guillin was a student at the Lycée Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse, where he published Gaullist propaganda in 1940.
Biography of Michel Reynaud (excerpt)
Michel Reynaud, born May 4, 1950 in Talence (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died June 27, 2020 in Villejuif, is a French psychiatrist and addictologist, university professor - hospital practitioner who worked to structure addictology as a discipline in France during his university career , then by creating the Addictions Actions Fund and the Addict'Aide portal: the addiction village.
Biography of Oribe (hairdresser) (excerpt)
Oribe Canales (September 13, 1956 in Jaruco, Cuba – 17 December 2018), known professionally as Oribe, was a Cuban-born American hairstylist. His name is pronounced oh-REE-beh, since it's a Spanish name, but the brand is pronounced or-BAY, because when he moved to the US, people in his hometown couldn't say it properly and the mispronunciation stuck.
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Biography of Marcel Zanini (excerpt)
Marcel Zanini (real name Zannini, born September 9, 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a French jazz musician. His family arrived in Marseille in 1930 and settled there. His father was Neapolitan and his mother was Greek. He began learning the clarinet in 1942 and joined the orchestra of Leo Missir in 1946. ![]()
Biography of Jeannette Walls (excerpt)
Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018.
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Biography of Tanya Huff (excerpt)
Tanya Sue Huff (born 26 September 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood Ties. ![]()
Biography of Jon Lindstrom (excerpt)
Jon Robert Lindstrom (born October 18, 1957 in Medford, Oregon) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and musician. He is well known for his role as Kevin Collins on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital and its spin-off Port Charles.
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Biography of John Lewis (excerpt)
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. ![]()
Biography of Yelena Kuzmina (actress) (excerpt)
Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina 17 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) – 15 October 1979) was a Soviet actress. She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978. She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes (1946, 1948, 1951) and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950.
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Biography of Gertrude Tompkins Silver (excerpt)
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins, founder of Smooth-On, Inc.
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Biography of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (excerpt)
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary (birth time source: a YouTube video. There is no original source. 3:52 GMT corresponds to 3:52 AM legal time) ; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol), was an Austrian political scientist and journalist. ![]()
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.
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Biography of Mesut Yilmaz (excerpt)
Ahmet Mesut Yilmaz (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two prime-ministerial terms lasted just months (in 1991 and 1996), while the third ran from June 1997 to January 1999.
Biography of Sieglinde Hofmann (excerpt)
Sieglinde Hofmann (born 14 March 1945) was a German militant and member of both the Socialist Patients' Collective and the Red Army Faction. Hofmann was among the group of terrorists who took part in the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. She walked along the road that Schleyer's convoy was passing pushing a pram laden with guns.
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Biography of Gidsken Jakobsen (excerpt)
Gidsken Nilsine Jakobsen (1 August 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. At the age of 20, Jakobsen became only the second Norwegian woman to be awarded a pilot's license (after Dagny Berger in 1927), having achieved the highest position of the ten students attending the course.
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Biography of Uli Jon Roth (excerpt)
"Uli Jon Roth" was born Ulrich Roth on 18 December 1954 and is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and designer of the Sky Guitar.
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Biography of Liesbeth List (excerpt)
Elisabeth Dorathea List, generally known as Liesbeth List (December 12, 1941 – March 25, 2020) was a Dutch singer, stage actress and television personality. She became popular during the 1960s and frequently collaborated with Ramses Shaffy. She also sang Jacques Brel's chansons in Dutch translation. ![]()
Biography of Andrei Voznesensky (excerpt)
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Вознесе́нский, May 12, 1933 – June 1, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.
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Biography of Fazil Iskander (excerpt)
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (Russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; Abkhazian: Фазиль Абдул-иҧа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life. He authored various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which features a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".
Biography of Melody Beattie (excerpt)
Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships. Born Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was a full-blown alcoholic by age 13, and a drug addict by 18.
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Biography of Osman Kavala (excerpt)
Osman Kavala (born 2 October 1957) is a Turkish businessperson, activist and philanthropist who has supported numerous civil society organizations in Turkey since the early 1990s. Kavala is the founder and chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, an Istanbul-based nonprofit arts and culture organization.
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Biography of Toni Servillo (excerpt)
Marco Antonio Servillo (born 25 January 1959 in Afragola, Campania), known as Toni Servillo, is an Italian actor and theatrical director. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo. He has won the European Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for both Gomorrah and Il Divo and in 2013 for The Great Beauty, as well as winning the David di Donatello for Best Actor four times from 2002 to 2013.
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Biography of Harriet Andersson (excerpt)
Harriet Andersson (born 14 February 1932) is a Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often plays impulsive, working class characters. Harriet Andersson began her acting career as a 15-year-old student at Calle Flygare stage school.
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Biography of Nikolai Kryuchkov (excerpt)
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (Russian: Николай Афанасьевич Крючков; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1932 and 1993. Awards Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980) Stalin Prize the first degree (1941) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950)
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Biography of Anton Zeilinger (excerpt)
Anton Zeilinger (born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist who in 2022 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and John Clauser for their outstanding work involving experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science. ![]()
Biography of George Steiner (excerpt)
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
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Biography of Joan Guinjoan (excerpt)
Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (28 November 1931 – 1 January 2019) was a Catalan composer and pianist. His time of birth comes from the biography Joan Guinjoan: testimonio de un músico de José Luis García del Busto SGAE, 2001. Born in Tarragona, Guinjoan studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona.
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Biography of Jacqueline de Chambrun (excerpt)
Jacqueline de Chambrun (1920-2013) was a French physician and activist. She was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She campaigned for abortion rights as well as human rights for the homeless and undocumented immigrants in France. De Chambrun was a paediatrician. |
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