Advertisements
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planet in House
Planet in Sign
Advertisements
|
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. ![]() ![]()
![]()
Biography of Madeleine Damerment (excerpt)
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French spy in World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive. Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit in France during World War II but was arrested upon arrival by the Gestapo, who knew she was coming.
![]()
Biography of Jerrie Mock (excerpt)
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world, which she did in 1964. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the "Spirit of Columbus" and nicknamed "Charlie. ![]()
Biography of Amy Madigan (excerpt)
Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress and musician. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime. Her other film credits include Love Child (1982), Places in the Heart (1984), Field of Dreams (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), The Dark Half (1993), Pollock (2000), and Gone Baby Gone (2007).
![]()
Biography of Nando Gazzolo (excerpt)
Ferdinando "Nando" Gazzolo (October 16, 1928 – November 16, 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Savona, the son of the actor and voice actor Lauro Gazzolo and EIAR radio announcer Aida Ottaviani Piccolo, Gazzolo debuted at young age on radio, and in 1948, at twenty years old, he started his acting career entering the stage company led by Antonio Gandusio. ![]()
Biography of Paulo Freire (excerpt)
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 (the source for his birth time comes from his biography by Ana Maria Araújo Freire) – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar.
![]()
Biography of Polina Gelman (excerpt)
Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II. ![]()
Biography of Yuri Shevchuk (excerpt)
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk (born 16 May 1957, Yagodnoye, Magadan Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachev in 1980. He is best known for his distinctive gravelly voice.
Biography of Patrick Ryecart (excerpt)
Patrick Ryecart (born 9 May 1952 in Warwickshire) is an English actor. Among his notable credits in London are Jack Absolute in The Rivals, with Michael Hordern as his father and Geraldine McEwan as Mrs Malaprop, and Lord Goring in Peter Hall's An Ideal Husband.
![]()
Biography of Andrew Klavan (excerpt)
Andrew Klavan (born July 13, 1954) is an American writer of crime and suspense novels and a conservative commentator. Klavan has been nominated for the Edgar Award five times and has won twice. Klavan has also worked in film and as an essayist and video satirist.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
![]()
Biography of Nina Kiriki Hoffman (excerpt)
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955 in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983. She has since published over 200 in various anthologies and magazines.
Biography of Daniel Bardet (excerpt)
Daniel Bardet, born February 28, 1943 in Gisors (Eure), died in April 2022, was a French comic book writer.
![]()
Biography of Fernando del Paso (excerpt)
Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 - November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and won several international awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007) Guadalajara International Book Fair), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for Palinurus of Mexico, the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976).
![]()
Biography of Helma Knorscheidt (excerpt)
Helma Knorscheidt (born 31 December 1956 in Nauendorf, Saxony-Anhalt) is an East German shot putter. She competed for the sports club SC Chemie Halle during her active career. As a veteran Helma Knorscheidt (now married Teuscher) is active as well. She took part at several World Masters Athletics Championships and European Veterans Athletics Championships.
![]()
Biography of Jerrie Cobb (excerpt)
Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, 1931 – March 18, 2019) was an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13", a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts. ![]()
Biography of Karen Joy Fowler (excerpt)
Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club that was made into a movie of the same name.
![]()
Biography of Bob Meyer (excerpt)
Robert Bernard Meyer (born August 4, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1960. Meyer pitched for the Yankees (1964), Los Angeles Angels (1964), Kansas City Athletics (1964), Seattle Pilots (1969), and Milwaukee Brewers (1970). ![]()
Biography of Connie Willis (excerpt)
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer—most recently the "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear (2010).
![]()
Biography of Melih Gökçek (excerpt)
İbrahim Melih Gökçek (born 20 October 1948) is a Turkish politician who served as the Mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. ![]()
Biography of Bess Myerson (excerpt)
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Jewish Miss America. Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life. ![]()
Biography of Johanna Drucker (excerpt)
Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital aesthetics. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
Biography of Jennifer Byrne (excerpt)
Jennifer Victoria Byrne (born 5 March 1955) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and former book publisher. She currently hosts the monthly ABC television program First Tuesday Book Club, later renamed The Book Club. In the mid-1990s Byrne worked as a publishing director at Reed Books.
![]()
Biography of Irina Bogacheva (singer) (excerpt)
Irina Petrovna Bogacheva (Богачёва, Ирина Петровна; 2 March 1939 – 19 September 2019) was a Russian mezzo-soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre and a professor of voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Trained in Leningrad and at La Scala in Milan, she performed leading roles of the Russian and Italian repertoire at major international opera houses. ![]()
Biography of Simon Rattle (excerpt)
Sir Simon Denis Rattle OM CBE (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018.
![]()
Biography of Claudie Hunzinger (excerpt)
Claudie Hunzinger, born April 9, 1940 in Colmar in Haut-Rhin, France, is a visual artist and a French novelist. Writing is central to his work. Nature is very present in his journey. She publishes stories and novels, and receives the Prix Femina for her writings in 2022.
Biography of Didier Varrod (excerpt)
Didier Varrod, born September 8, 1960 in Pau (Basses-Pyrénées), is a French journalist, producer, radio and television host, screenwriter, writer and director.
![]()
Biography of Dora Dougherty Strother (excerpt)
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.
Biography of Janine Niépce (excerpt)
Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a French photographer, author, and journalist. Her career spanned developing films for the French Resistance to covering the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. She is a distant relative of Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography.
![]()
Biography of Barry Diller (excerpt)
Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.
![]()
Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.
Biography of Gigi Sabani (excerpt)
Luigi Sabani, best known as Gigi Sabani (5 October 1952 – 4 September 2007) was an Italian TV impersonator, host and singer. Born in Rome, Sabani made his television debut in the late 1970s as an impersonator: his most famous imitations included those of Adriano Celentano and Mike Bongiorno.
![]()
Biography of Red Garland (excerpt)
William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of piano playing.
![]()
Biography of Klaus Siebert (excerpt)
Klaus Siebert (29 April 1955 – 24 April 2016) was a German biathlete and biathlon coach who raced for East Germany. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, Siebert won a silver medal on the relay with the East German relay team. ![]()
Biography of Lydie Dattas (excerpt)
Lydie Dattas is a French poet born March 19, 1949 in Paris (birth certificate n° 723, Marin de Charette). Publications (selection, in French) Noone, Paris, Mercure de France, coll. « Poésie », 1970, 64 p. (BNF 35204726) La Nuit spirituelle, Paris, Orbey, France, Éditions Arfuyen, coll. ![]()
Biography of Juliet Marillier (excerpt)
Juliet Marillier (born 27 July 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. She was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a BA in languages and a Bachelor of Music (honours). Marillier taught music at the high school and university levels and has also served as a choral conductor and opera singer.
![]()
Biography of Adalet Agaoglu (excerpt)
Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature. She also wrote essays, memoirs, and short stories. As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey.
![]()
Biography of Lill-Babs (excerpt)
Barbro Margareta Svensson (9 March 1938 – 3 April 2018), known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best known and popular singers.
![]()
Biography of Heide Rosendahl (excerpt)
Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl (née Rosendahl; born 14 February 1947) is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump. She set a world record in the long jump at 6.84 m in 1970 that stood for almost six years.
Biography of Didier Schuller (excerpt)
Didier Schuller is a senior French official and politician born on June 8, 1947 in Paris (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n ° 3137).
![]()
Biography of Johanna Klier (excerpt)
Johanna Klier (née Schaller, also known as Schaller-Klier, born 13 September 1952 in Artern, Bezirk Halle, East Germany) is a retired hurdler and Olympic gold medallist. Under her maiden name, she won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 100 m hurdles.
![]()
Biography of Antoni Ros-Marbà (excerpt)
Antoni Ros-Marbà (born on April 2, 1937 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Spanish conductor and composer from Catalonia. He began his musical education at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona. He studied conducting with Eduard Toldrà, Sergiu Celibidache, and Jean Martinon.
![]()
Biography of Eiji Aonuma (excerpt)
Eiji Aonuma (born March 16, 1963 in Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He works for Nintendo as the project manager of their The Legend of Zelda series. Aonuma is also one of the deputy general managers of Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development division, having served that role since 2019.
Biography of Maria Chiara (excerpt)
Maria Chiara (born 24 November 1939 in Oderzo) is an Italian lyric soprano. Chiara made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in Otello. Chiara frequently performed roles from the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi, including Aida, Violetta Valéry in La traviata, and the title roles in Tosca and Madama Butterfly.
![]()
Biography of Thomas Schlamme (excerpt)
Thomas David Schlamme (born May 22, 1950) is an American television director, known particularly for his collaborations with Aaron Sorkin. He is known for his work as executive producer on The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as well as his work as director on Sports Night.
Biography of Abdi Ipekçi (excerpt)
Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.
![]()
Biography of Omar da Fonseca (excerpt)
Omar da Fonseca (born 20 October 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football commentator and former player.
![]()
Biography of Dina Boluarte (excerpt)
Dina Boluarte, born on May 31, 1962, is a Peruvian politician, lawyer, and the first female President of Peru since December 2022. Previously, she served as the first vice president and minister under President Pedro Castillo and worked at the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status from 2007 to 2022. ![]()
Biography of John Trudell (excerpt)
John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz.
![]()
Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
Biography of Raymond Bourgine (excerpt)
Raymond Bourgine (1925-1990) was a French journalist and politician. He served as editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles from 1966 to 1990 and as French Senator from 1977 to 1990. In 1945, Bourgine started writing for Paris-Matin, followed by La Vie française in 1946 and Aux Écoutes de la Finance in 1947, before becoming its editor-in-chief in 1948. |
House in Sign
Advanced Search
Other Search Tools
Advertisements
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To add this celebrity to your favourites, please create an account.
To get your compatibility ratings with this celebrity, please create an account.