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Horoscopes with Proserpina in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Vincent van Gogh (excerpt)
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch pronunciation: (help·info)) (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers and after a brief spell as a teacher, became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region.
Biography of Nikola Tesla (excerpt)
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. He was born an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Biography of Sigmund Freud (excerpt)
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 (birth time source: his birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital.
Biography of Helena Blavatsky (excerpt)
Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. Early years She was born in the house of her mother's parents in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire).
Biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, from several biorgaphies) – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism.
Biography of Abraham Lincoln (excerpt)
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was President of the United States from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe (excerpt)
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, rectified time) – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction.
Biography of Frédéric Chopin (excerpt)
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; French: Frédéric François Chopin March 1 1810, Zelazowa Wola (birth time source: Astrodatabank, the source is unverified, some authors give February 22) – October 17, 1849, Paris) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period.
Biography of Victor Hugo (excerpt)
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives of the city of Besançon) – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, and dramas in verse and prose.
Biography of Arthur Rimbaud (excerpt)
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. His influence on modern literature, music and art has been pervasive. Early life and work Arthur Rimbaud was born into the provincial middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in the Ardennes département in northeastern France.
Biography of Oscar Wilde (excerpt)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.
Biography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (excerpt)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, or Dostoevski listen (help·info)) (November 11 1821 – February 9 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy.
Biography of Karl Marx (excerpt)
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a Prussian philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Biography of Charles Baudelaire (excerpt)
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 31, 1867) was an influential nineteenth century French poet. He was also a critic and translator. Life and work Baudelaire was born in Paris. His father, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, died early in Baudelaire's life in 1827.
Biography of Queen Victoria (excerpt)
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901.
Biography of Thomas Edison (excerpt)
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Biography of John D. Rockefeller (excerpt)
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the oil industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind.
Biography of Jules Verne (excerpt)
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Biography of George Sand (excerpt)
George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 (birth time source: birth certificate, Astrodadabank) – June 8, 1876). Life Born in England to a father of aristocratic lineage (a granddaughter of Maurice, comte de Saxe and a distant relative of Louis XVI) and a commoner mother, Sand was raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother at the family estate, Nohant, in the French region of Berry, a setting later used in many of her novels.
Biography of Charles Darwin (excerpt)
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was already eminent as an English naturalist when he proposed and provided evidence for the theory that all species have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.
Biography of Leo Tolstoy (excerpt)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 1828 – November 20 1910) (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, IPA: listen (help·info)), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer.
Biography of Elisabeth of Bavaria (excerpt)
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 – September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle.
Biography of Richard Wagner (excerpt)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as he later came to call them). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself.
Biography of Mark Twain (excerpt)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Biography of Charles Dickens (excerpt)
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.
Biography of Guy de Maupassant (excerpt)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (IPA: ) (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement.
Biography of Giuseppe Verdi (excerpt)
iuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century and went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini.
Biography of Ramakrishna (excerpt)
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae) , (February 18, 1836 (birth time source: LMR, Astrodatabank, from a biography) – August 16, 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century.
Biography of Emily Dickinson (excerpt)
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century.
Biography of Tchaikovsky (excerpt)
Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский, Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij; listen (help·info)) (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. Although not a member of the group of Russian composers usually known in English-speaking countries as 'The Five', his music has come to be known and loved for its distinctly Russian character as well as for its rich harmonies and stirring melodies.
Biography of Franz Liszt (excerpt)
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc; pronounced /lɪst/, in English: list) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano.
Biography of Louis Pasteur (excerpt)
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever (childbed), and he created the first vaccine for rabies.
Biography of Emily Brontë (excerpt)
Emily Jane Brontë /bɹɑnti/ (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second oldest of the three Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte and older than Anne.
Biography of Louis Vuitton (excerpt)
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy LVMH.PA more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton, is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 4, 1821-February 27, 1892), who designed and manufactured luggage, as a Malletier during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger.
Biography of Lewis Carroll (excerpt)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
Biography of Florence Nightingale (excerpt)
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 (birth time source: Robert Jansky, Astrodatabank, another source gives 8:45 AM) – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing and a noted statistician.
Biography of Napoleon III (excerpt)
Napoléon III of France, born Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of the French Republic from 1848 to 1851, then from 2 December 1851 to 2 December 1852 the ruler of a dictatorial government, then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III, to 1870.
Biography of Charles Naudin (excerpt)
Charles Naudin was a French botanist born August 14, 1815 in Autin (birth time source: http://www.archives71.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php.arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTYtMDUtMDYiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6MTtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6NzA4OTI7czoxNjoidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbCI7YjoxO3M6MjE6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWxfbW9kZSI7czo0OiJwcm9kIjt9#uielem_move=-714%2C62&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=151&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=, page 51, BC). Biography Naudin studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, at Limoux, and at the University of Montpellier from which he graduated in 1837. The following year he was working as a private tutor; he obtained his doctorate in 1842.
Biography of Soren Kierkegaard (excerpt)
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: , but usually Anglicized as ; Listen (help·info)) 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticized both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church.
Biography of Paul Verlaine (excerpt)
Paul-Marie Verlaine (March 30, 1844 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, R. H. Oliver) – January 8, 1896) is considered one of the greatest French poets of the "fin de siècle". Career Early life Born in Metz, he was educated at lycée in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service.
Biography of Hildegard of Bingen (excerpt)
Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 (birth time source: http://dsa.pagesperso-orange.fr/hb.html) – 17 September 1179), also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German magistra and later, abbess. Hildegard of Bingen was an artist, author, counselor, dramatist, linguist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, poet, political consultant, prophet, visionary, and a composer of music.
Biography of J. P. Morgan (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric.
Biography of Emile Zola (excerpt)
Émile Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. More than half of Zola's novels were part of a set of 20 collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart.
Biography of Charlotte Brontë (excerpt)
Charlotte Brontë (IPA: ) (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. Charlotte Brontë was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell.
Biography of Paul Cézanne (excerpt)
Paul Cézanne (, January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Biography of Sarah Bernhardt (excerpt)
Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – March 26, 1923) was a stage actress born in Paris. Often referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world," she made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the United States.
Biography of Andrew Carnegie (excerpt)
Andrew Carnegie (last name pronounced /kɑɹ'nɛgi/, /'kɑɹnʌgi/) (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. Carnegie is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America, Scotland and other countries throughout the world.
Biography of Gustave Flaubert (excerpt)
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for "le mot juste" ("the precise word"). |
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