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birth charts 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 Carmen Ollé (excerpt)
Carmen Ollé, born July 29, 1947 in Lima, is a Peruvian poet, novelist, and literary critic, considered a central figure in contemporary feminist poetry and a member of the Hora Zero movement. She graduated in Language and Literature from San Marcos University and taught literature while also advocating for women’s rights and directing cultural institutions across Peru and abroad.
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Biography of Gilberto Aceves Navarro (excerpt)
Gilberto Aceves Navarro, born September 24, 1931, and died October 21, 2019, was a renowned Mexican painter and sculptor, also serving as a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and the Academy of San Carlos. He held over two hundred solo exhibitions during his career.
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Biography of Margaret Weis (excerpt)
Margaret Edith Weis, born March 16, 1948, is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories. She is best known for co-creating the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world with Tracy Hickman while at TSR, Inc. In 1999, Pyramid magazine named her one of the Millennium's Most Influential Persons, recognizing her pivotal role in creating the gaming fiction genre.
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Biography of Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (excerpt)
Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (born July 14, 1931, in Santo Anastácio – died December 1, 2024, in Campinas) was a Brazilian electronic engineer, physicist, and public intellectual. A graduate of ITA and PhD from the Sorbonne, he worked at Bell Labs, taught at major universities in Brazil and France, and pioneered the use of lasers for material studies in Brazil.
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Biography of Edmund Warren Perry Jr. (excerpt)
Edmund Warren Perry Jr.was a writer of both creative and nonfiction works and a museum professional with expertise in American history, popular culture, and literature. He authored two published plays: Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War (Smithsonian, 2009) and The Sitters (2007).
Biography of José Manuel Fortuny (excerpt)
José Manuel Fortuny Arana (born March 22, 1916 – died March 18, 2005) was a key communist leader in Guatemala and a close adviser to President Jacobo Árbenz during his government from 1951 to 1954. Active in leftist politics since the 1940s, Fortuny founded the Guatemalan Communist Party and later led the Guatemalan Party of Labor (PGT) until the U.S.-backed coup of 1954.
Biography of Massimo Olcese (excerpt)
Massimo Olcese, born on October 27, 1957 in Genoa, was an Italian comedian and actor.He graduated from the Teatro Stabile drama school and worked in both theater and cinema. He became best known to the public as part of the comedy duo Chiquito y Paquito, alongside Adolfo Margiotta.
Biography of Silvio Conrado (excerpt)
Silvio Enrique Conrado Gómez (18 February 1945 – 17 February 2018) was a Nicaraguan economist and director of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) from 2002 until his death. He also served as President of Nicaragua’s Central Bank from 2006 to 2010.
Biography of Josefina Niggli (excerpt)
Josefina Niggli (13 July 1910 – 17 December 1983), born Josephine Niggli, was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist and playwright.She was the first—and for a time the only—Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes, before the Chicano movement. Her work dealt progressively with gender, race, and cultural identity.
Biography of David Brudnoy (excerpt)
David Barry Brudnoy, born June 5, 1940, was a respected American talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004.His program on WBZ radio showcased his libertarian views, presented in a calm, courteous style. Thanks to WBZ’s powerful signal, he built a loyal audience across the U.S.
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Biography of Daniel J. Terra (excerpt)
Daniel J. Terra (June 8, 1911 – June 28, 1996) was an American chemist, businessman, and art collector of Italian descent. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1931 and founded Lawter Chemicals in Chicago in 1940. The global success of his ink and chemical firm enabled him to support his deep interest in art and culture, building a major art collection and supporting Chicago art institutions. ![]()
Biography of Robert Aickman (excerpt)
Robert Fordyce Aickman, born on 27 June 1914 and died on 26 February 1981, was an English writer and conservationist.He co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, which helped save and restore Britain’s inland canal system. As a writer, he was best known for his supernatural fiction, which he called “strange stories.” His work is noted for psychological depth, occult themes, and literary richness, often compared to M.
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Biography of Joice Mujuru (excerpt)
Joice Runaida Mujuru (née Mugari), born April 15, 1955, in Mount Darwin, is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician.Known by her nom-de-guerre Teurai Ropa Nhongo, she served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 2004 to 2014. Previously a government minister and Vice-President of ZANU–PF, she was seen as a likely successor to President Robert Mugabe.
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Biography of Liliana Cosi (excerpt)
Liliana Cosi, born August 15, 1941 in Milan, is an Italian ballerina and former prima ballerina of La Scala.Coming from a modest background, she joined the La Scala ballet school and graduated in 1958 with honors from Wally Toscanini. She trained further in the Soviet Union and rose to prominence in 1965 with her performance in Swan Lake at the Kremlin.
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Biography of Brunella Gasperini (excerpt)
Brunella Gasperini, pen name of Bianca Robecchi (Milan, 22 December 1918 – Milan, 7 January 1979), was an Italian journalist and novelist. She lived between Milan and San Mamete, on Lake Lugano. After a short teaching stint, she began writing in the 1950s for Il Corriere della Sera and various Rizzoli magazines.
Biography of Dorothy Morrison (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy Morrison (January 3, 1919 – October 18, 2017) was an American stage and screen actress. As a child, she appeared in several silent-era Our Gang short films created by Hal Roach. She was part of the series during the 1920s alongside her older brother Ernie Morrison, famously known as Sunshine Sammy.
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Biography of Alicia Brandet (excerpt)
Alicia Brandet, born Alicia Mowat on January 8, 1943, in New York, raised in Los Angeles, was an American actress known for her roles in 1960s Italian comedies such as The Dolls (1965), I due evasi di Sing Sing (1964), and Weekend, Italian Style (1966).
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Biography of Lillian Somoza Debayle (excerpt)
Lillian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa, born Lillian Ada de la Cruz Somoza Debayle on May 3, 1921, was a member of Nicaragua’s powerful Somoza family. Daughter of dictator Anastasio Somoza García and sister of presidents Luis and Anastasio Somoza Debayle, she married Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaragua’s longtime ambassador to the U.S.
Biography of Belford Hendricks (excerpt)
Belford Cabell "Sinky" Hendricks (June 11, 1909 (Wikipedia has May in error) – September 24, 1977) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, conductor, and producer, who also used aliases like Bill Henry. He is best remembered for his soft-R&B hits of the 1950s, co-written with Clyde Otis and Brook Benton, and for his refined, versatile arrangements.
Biography of Kate Wilhelm (excerpt)
Kate Wilhelm, born June 8, 1928, in Toledo, Ohio, and died March 8, 2018, was an American author known for her work in science fiction, mystery, and suspense. Her novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang earned the Hugo and Locus Awards and remains one of her best-known works.
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Biography of Luis Felipe Salomão (excerpt)
Luis Felipe Salomão (born March 18, 1963, in Salvador) is a Brazilian magistrate and currently the vice president of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).He served as National Justice Ombudsman from 2022 to 2024. Educated at UFRJ, he began his career as a lawyer and was later appointed judge in Rio de Janeiro's Court of Justice.
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Biography of Donna Andrews (author) (excerpt)
Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Early life and education Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series) and studied English and drama at the University of Virginia. Career Her first book, Murder with Peacocks (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia.
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Biography of Sidney C. Wolff (excerpt)
Sidney Carne Wolff (born 6 June 1941 in Sioux City, Iowa) is an American astrophysicist, researcher, author, and educator. She was the first woman in the U.S. to lead a major observatory. Wolff contributed to the development of six major telescopes and served as Director of both Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
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Biography of Connie Booth (excerpt)
Connie Booth, born December 2, 1940, in Indianapolis, is an American actress and writer. Based in the UK, she became known for playing Polly Sherman in the BBC series Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese. She ended her acting career in 1995 to work as a psychotherapist until her retirement.
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Biography of Sandy West (excerpt)
American drummer, singer and songwriter, Sandy West (July 10, 1959 – October 21, 2006) was a founding member of The Runaways, the first all-teenage female hard rock band to achieve global commercial success in the 1970s. Born Sandra Sue Pesavento in Long Beach, California, she received her first drum kit at age 9.
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Biography of John McGraw (brigadier general) (excerpt)
John Robert McGraw (January 4, 1912 – June 19, 1976) was a U.S.Air Force brigadier general and flight surgeon during World War II.Born in Pennsylvania, he earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. After briefly practicing medicine, he joined the Army in 1937.
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Biography of Lee Kunzman (excerpt)
Lee Kunzman (November 29, 1943 (Wikipedia has 1944 in error) – February 27, 2025) was an American racing driver in the USAC and CART series, with 48 career starts spanning from 1969 to 1980, including multiple Indianapolis 500 appearances. He recorded 21 top-ten finishes, with a career-best 2nd place in Atlanta in 1979.
Biography of Gard Øyen (excerpt)
Gard Øyen (born December 14, 1943 in Oslo) is a Norwegian actor. He has performed for many years at major national venues, including the Norwegian National Traveling Theater, the National Theater in Bergen, and the Oslo New Theater. He comes from an artistic family: his father was actor Øyvind Øyen, and his siblings are Roald, Torill, and Jardar Øyen.
Biography of Torill Thorstad Hauger (excerpt)
Torill Thorstad Hauger (22 November 1943 – 4 July 2014) was a Norwegian novelist, illustrator, and author of historical children's literature. Born in Oslo, she studied ethnology, German, folklore, and archaeology at the University of Oslo, and worked at the National Antiquities Museum from 1966 to 1971.
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Biography of Emilio Pericoli (excerpt)
Emilio Pericoli, born January 7, 1928, in Cesenatico, Italy, died April 9, 2013.He was an Italian singer whose success was closely linked to the Sanremo Music Festival. He gained international fame with his cover of Betty Curtis’s Al di là, which reached No.
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Biography of Lisa See (excerpt)
Lisa See, born 18 February 1955, is an American novelist known for exploring Chinese and Chinese-American heritage, often through women’s experiences.Her debut, On Gold Mountain (1995), recounts her family’s multigenerational story. Her bestsellers include Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls (and its sequel Dreams of Joy), and most recently Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023), based on a real 15th-century female physician in Ming China.
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Biography of Luis Somoza Debayle (excerpt)
Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle (born 18 November 1922 in León – died 13 April 1967) served as Nicaragua’s president from 1957 to 1963, succeeding his father Anastasio Somoza García after his assassination. The Somoza family was then the country’s ruling dynasty.
Biography of Joseph Oliger (excerpt)
Born on September 3, 1941, in Indiana, Joseph E. Oliger was an American computer scientist and expert in numerical methods. Raised on a farm in Greensburg, he earned an M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1973.
Biography of Armando Araújo (excerpt)
Armando Bento de Araújo Filho, known as Armandinho, was born on April 6, 1949, in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, and died on May 27, 2024, in Macau. He was a Brazilian composer, jazz drummer, and percussionist. He inherited his musical talent from his father, also nicknamed Armandinho, a guitarist and cavaquinho player who wrote the First Method for Cavaquinho and performed with icons like Carmen Miranda and Francisco Alves during Brazil’s golden radio era.
Biography of Jay Livingston (excerpt)
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known for his songwriting partnership with Ray Evans, specializing in film scores and theme songs. Born in McDonald, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, he had an older sister and a younger brother, Alan W.
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Biography of Marina Kondratyeva (excerpt)
Marina Viktorovna Kondratyeva, born 1 February 1934 in Leningrad and died 8 July 2024 in Moscow, was a legendary Bolshoi ballerina. Described as “airy, poetic, and spiritual,” she starred in roles such as Juliet, Giselle, and Anna Karenina, and also performed in modern ballets and world premieres. ![]()
Biography of Jack Randall (ichthyologist) (excerpt)
John Ernest “Jack” Randall (born May 22, 1924 in Los Angeles – died April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on coral reef fishes. He described over 800 species and published 11 books and more than 900 scientific and popular articles.
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Biography of José de Abreu (actor) (excerpt)
José Pereira de Abreu Júnior, born on May 24, 1946, in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, Brazil, is a renowned Brazilian actor best known for his work in TV Globo soap operas. He began acting in 1967 while studying law in São Paulo, but his career was paused due to political activism against the military regime.
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Biography of Claudete Troiano (excerpt)
Claudete Troiano, born October 29, 1953, in São Paulo, is a Brazilian journalist, television presenter, and former actress.She currently hosts the daily morning show Vou te Contar on RedeTV!. She began her career at age seven on TV Excelsior’s Carrossel, then joined Bandeirantes where she hosted youth programs and acted in telenovelas until 1974.
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Biography of John Anthony West (excerpt)
John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author and lecturer best known for promoting the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. He began his career as a Manhattan copywriter and science-fiction writer, earning a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962.
Biography of Toril Brekke (excerpt)
Toril Brekke, born 24 June 1949 in Oslo, is a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, children’s author, biographer, translator, and literary critic. She is the daughter of poet Paal Brekke and painter Bjørg Rasmussen, and was married to writer Martin Indregard and later to professor Jon Bing.
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Biography of Francisco Urcuyo (excerpt)
Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños (July 30, 1915 – September 14, 2001) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as Vice President under Anastasio Somoza Debayle from 1967 to 1972 and briefly as president in 1979. He presided over the Chamber of Deputies from 1978 to 1979 and was handpicked by Somoza to succeed him upon his resignation on July 17, 1979.
Biography of David Young (poet) (excerpt)
David Pollock Young, born December 14, 1936, and died May 3, 2025, was an American poet, translator, editor, literary critic, and professor.He published 11 books of poetry and translated works from Italian, Chinese, German, Czech, Dutch, and Spanish. He co-founded FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, which he edited for 50 years, and contributed major anthologies on prose poetry and magical realism.
Biography of Tony Towle (excerpt)
Tony Towle (born June 13, 1939, in Manhattan, New York) is an American poet associated with the New York School. He began writing poetry in 1960 and was described by John Ashbery as “one of the New York School’s best-kept secrets.” His time of birth comes from him.
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Biography of Beth Carvalho (excerpt)
Beth Carvalho, born May 5, 1946, and died April 30, 2019, was a Brazilian samba singer, composer, guitarist, and cavaquinho player. Raised in a middle-class Rio family, she began with bossa nova but quickly devoted herself entirely to samba. Her breakthrough came in 1968 with Andança, launching a long career highlighting neglected composers like Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho, and Portela’s Old Guard, while remaining loyal to her school, Mangueira.
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Biography of Birgitte of Gloucester (excerpt)
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen on 20 June 1946 in Odense, Denmark, is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, grandson of King George V. Educated in Lausanne, Cambridge, and Copenhagen, she worked at the Danish Embassy in London before marrying Prince Richard in 1972, becoming Her Royal Highness Princess Richard of Gloucester.
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Biography of Lucille Soong (excerpt)
Lucille Soong (born September 5, 1935 in Tianjin) is a Chinese-American actress best known as Jenny Huang in Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020). Born into a wealthy family, she fled political turmoil in China and was discovered by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong.
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Biography of Helen Bøsterud (excerpt)
Helen Marie Bøsterud (born 15 February 1940 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. She was elected to the Storting from Akershus County, serving from 1977 to 1993, and held the position of Minister of Justice from 1986 to 1989 in Gro Harlem Brundtland’s second cabinet.
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Biography of Eugene Gordon Lee (excerpt)
Eugene Gordon Lee (October 25, 1933 – October 16, 2005) was an American actor best known as a child for playing Porky in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1939. He was cast by producer Hal Roach due to his resemblance to co-star George McFarland (Spanky), and appeared in 42 episodes as Spanky's younger brother, becoming part of the show's most popular lineup alongside Alfalfa.
Biography of Henri Guédon (excerpt)
Henri Guédon, born on May 22, 1944, in Fort-de-France and died on February 12, 2006, in Paris, was a French jazz musician and painter, known as a pioneer of Afro-Caribbean jazz and salsa in France. After moving to Paris in 1964, he gained recognition through fusion concerts and founded the first Caribbean Jazz Big Band in 1970. |
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