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birth charts with Proserpina in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of William Cullen Bryant (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Life Youth and education Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque.
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Biography of Anton Diabelli (excerpt)
Anton Diabelli (September 5, 1781 – April 7, 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations. ![]()
Biography of Charles Albert of Sardinia (excerpt)
Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto) (October 2, 1798 (source not archived) – July 28, 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his distant cousin Charles Felix, and his name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First War of Independence (1848–1849).
Biography of Richard James Morrison (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac. ![]()
Biography of Gouverneur Morris (excerpt)
Gouverneur Morris (January 30, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its "signers". ![]()
Biography of William Bligh (excerpt)
Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch. ![]()
Biography of Caroline Bonaparte (excerpt)
Maria Annunziata Carolina (Marie Annonciade Caroline) Murat (née Bonaparte) (25 March 1782 (birth time source: André Barbault, on his website) – 18 May 1839), better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. ![]()
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Monterey (Spanish: Monterrey; Ohlone: Aacistak) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under both Spain (1804 to 1821) and Mexico (1822 to 1836). ![]()
Biography of Thomas Taylor (excerpt)
Thomas Taylor (15 May 1758 - 1 November 1835) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. Biography Born in London, Taylor was educated at St. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Webster (excerpt)
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. ![]()
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Portsmouth is an independent city in Virginia southwest and across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. As of the 2010 census, the population was 95,535. It is part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth are historic and active U. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Tieck (excerpt)
Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. ![]()
Biography of Dominique Vandamme (excerpt)
General Dominique-Joseph René Vandamme (Cassel, 5 November 1770 - Cassel, 15 July 1830) was a French military officer, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He was a brutal and violent soldier, renowned for insubordination and looting. Napoleon once said to him, "If I had two of you, the only solution would be to have one hang the other. ![]()
Biography of Arnaud Berquin (excerpt)
Arnaud Berquin (25 September 1747 in Bordeaux — 21 December 1791 in Paris) was a French children's author and playwright. His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfans (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale. ![]()
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The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a major port and tourist destination. Its population of 854 (2016) is one of the smallest of any capital city. ![]()
Biography of Henry John Temple (excerpt)
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Popularly nicknamed "Pam", he was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. ![]()
Biography of Angelo Mai (excerpt)
Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782–September 8, 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts. These he was able to discover and publish, first while in charge of the Ambrosian library in Milan and then in the same role at the Vatican Library. ![]()
Biography of Roger B. Taney (excerpt)
Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced /ˈtɔːni/ TAW-nee; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. ![]()
Biography of Francois Joseph Talma (excerpt)
François Joseph Talma (January 15, 1763 - 1826) was a French actor. He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, gave him a good English education. He returned to Paris, where for a year and a half he practised dentistry.
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Biography of Charlemagne Oscar Guet (excerpt)
Charlemagne-Oscar Guet, born in Meaux February 24, 1801 (source not archived) and died November 29, 1871 in Paris, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
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Harrisburg is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,395, it is the 10th most populous city in the Commonwealth (or 13th most populous area if including townships and boroughs). ![]()
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Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. The population is 15,764, as of the 2010 US Census. Bennington is the most populous town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont (after Essex and Colchester) and the sixth-largest municipality in the state including the cities of Burlington, Rutland, and South Burlington. ![]()
Biography of James Stirling (Royal Navy officer) (excerpt)
Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (28 January 1791–23 April 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Governor of Western Australia (1828–38) and on his own initiative signed Britain's first limited treaty with Japan in 1854. ![]()
Biography of Franz Grillparzer (excerpt)
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. Early life Franz Grillparzer was born in Vienna, Austria. His father, E.J. Grillparzer, was a severe pedant and a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, and was an advocate of some standing. ![]()
Biography of Achille Etna Michallon (excerpt)
Achille-Etna Michallon (October 22, 1796-1822) was a French painter, the son of French sculptor Claude Michallon (1751-1799). He won Prix de Rome in 1817. ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Haydon (excerpt)
Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. Biography Haydon was born in Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley, rector of Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail.
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Biography of Edouard Mortier (excerpt)
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, 1st Duc de Trévise (13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835) was a French general and, Marshal of France under Napoléon I. Mortier was born at Le Cateau-Cambrésis on 13 February 1768, son of Charles Mortier (1730 – 1808) and wife Marie Anne Joseph Bonnaire (b. ![]()
Biography of Jean Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (13 May 1754 – 14 February 1807) was a French cavalry general of the Napoleonic wars. He came from an old noble family of France whose military tradition extended for several centuries. Efforts by the French Revolutionary government to remove him from his command failed when his soldiers refused to give him up.
Biography of Hans-Christian Oeser (excerpt)
Hans-Christian Oeser, born on June 14, 1791 in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), died in 1850, was a German writer and teacher. ![]()
Biography of Armand Carrel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel (May 10, 1800 – July 25, 1836) was a French writer. He was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. ![]()
Biography of William H. Seward (excerpt)
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 (birth time source: Penfield) – October 10, 1872) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860 – yet his very outspokenness may have cost him the nomination.
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Biography of Ferdinand Raimund (excerpt)
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; June 1, 1790, Vienna – September 5, 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist. Life and work He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jakob Raimann. In 1811, he acted at the Theater in der Josefstadt, and, in 1817 at the Leopoldstädter Theater. ![]()
Biography of David Brewster (excerpt)
Sir David Brewster, FRS (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school. At the age of twelve, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, being intended for the clergy. ![]()
Biography of Winfield Scott (excerpt)
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 (birth time source: Lescaut, Penfield) – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate him the best American commander of his time. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Dumas (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste André Dumas (16 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.
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Biography of Laure Junot d'Abrantes (excerpt)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès (November 6, 1784–1838) was the wife of French general Jean-Andoche Junot. She was born Laure (Laurette) Martin de Permond at Montpellier. She was the daughter of Charles Martin de Permond and his wife Panoria, to whom during her widowhood the young Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of marriage - such at least is the version presented by the daughter in her celebrated Memoirs.
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Biography of Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune (excerpt)
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Comte Brune (13 March 1763 (Lescaut gives 15 March, Wikipedia 13 March) – 2 August 1815) was a French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France. The son of a lawyer, he was born at Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze. ![]()
Biography of Stephen Decatur (excerpt)
Stephen Decatur, Jr. /dɪˈkeɪtər/, (5 January 1779 – 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, Worcester county, the son of a U. ![]()
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Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.
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Biography of Jean-Antoine Chaptal (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup (June 5, 1756 – July 30, 1832) was a French chemist and statesman. Early life Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Nogaret, Lozère, as the son of an apothecary, he studied chemistry at the University of Montpellier, obtaining his doctorate in 1777, when he settled in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Bertin (excerpt)
Edouard Bertin, born October 7, 1797 in Paris, died in 1871, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Sadi Carnot (physicist) (excerpt)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: ; 1 June 1796 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines. ![]()
Biography of Augustin Thierry (excerpt)
Augustin Thierry (or Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, 10 May 1795 - 22 May 1856) was a French historian. He was born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, the elder brother of Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry. He had no advantages of birth or fortune, but was distinguished at the Blois Grammar School, and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1811.
Biography of Wilhelm Pfaff (excerpt)
Wilhelm Pfaff, born on December 5, 1774 in Stuttgart, died in 1835, was a German astrologer, philosopher, and author (source: Heinz Specht). ![]()
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Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. ![]()
Biography of Heinrich Steinway (excerpt)
Henry E. Steinway (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871) was a German piano manufacturer and the founder of Steinway & Sons. Steinway was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in Wolfshagen im Harz, Germany, and had a hard and poor childhood, because by the age of 15, his mother, father, and all of his siblings were dead from disease and tragedy. ![]()
Biography of George Crabbe (excerpt)
George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and naturalist. Biography He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge. ![]()
Biography of Clemens Brentano (excerpt)
Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano (September 9, 1778 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC) – July 28, 1842) was a German poet and novelist. He was born at Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz, Germany. His sister was Bettina von Arnim, Goethe's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian descent. ![]()
Biography of Henri Gatien Bertrand (excerpt)
Henri-Gatien, Comte Bertrand (28 March 1773 – 31 January 1844), French general, was born at Châteauroux, Indre as a member of a well-to-do bourgeois family. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he had just finished his studies at the Prytanée National Militaire, and he entered the army as a volunteer.
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Biography of Willem Bilderdijk (excerpt)
Willem Bilderdijk (Amsterdam, September 7, 1756 - Haarlem, December 31, 1831), Dutch poet, the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. |
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