Elvira Pagã, 1920-2003 (Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer and painter)

* Elvira Pagã was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status-quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse on 8 May 2003, aged 82, in Rio de Janeiro.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, 6 September 1920, 06:00 (6am) BZT2 (+3), Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil (24s07, 49w20). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Uma Mulher Chamada Elvira PagÃ" by Thiago De Menezes (Clube de Autores, 2010), p. 18: "Elvira nasceu no dia 06 de setembro de 1920 às 6:00 horas. Foi a terceira filha do casal José Cozzolino, um descendente de italianos nascido nos estados Unidos, mais precisamente no Brooklin e de Regina Maria Olivieri, natural de Castro, Paraná... nasceram em Itararé."

Translation: Elvira was born on 6 September 1920 at 6:00 am. She was the third daughter of the couple José Cozzolino, a descendant of Italians born in the United States, more precisely in Brooklyn, and Regina Maria Olivieri, born in Castro, Paraná ... born in Itararé.

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Ferdinando de' Medici, 1663–1713 (Italian patron of the arts and music)

* Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, is remembered today primarily as a patron of music.

An excellent musician himself (sometimes called "the Orpheus of princes"), he attracted top musicians (like the Baroque composers Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti) to Florence and thus made it an important musical centre. Moreover, through his patronage of Bartolomeo Cristofori, Ferdinando made possible the invention of the piano in 1700. All this courtesy of Neptune unaspected on his MC.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 9 August 1663 NS, 21:58 (9:58) LMT (-0:45), Florence, Italy (43n46, 11e15). ASC: 1 Taurus. RR: B (from biography, although medical records are indicated). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Medicina & storia, Volumes 3-4" (Edizioni Polistampa, 2003), p. 28: "Alle '9 hore e 58 minuti' della sera, Margherita Luisa d'Orléans aveva infatti partorito 'un bel Principino', al quale era stato dato il nome del nonno Ferdinando." Translation: At "9:58" in the evening, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans had indeed given birth to "a nice young Prince", who was given the name of his grandfather Ferdinand.

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