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birth charts with Proserpina in VirgoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Virgo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (excerpt)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; 4 December (O.S.22 November) 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group. He began writing poetry early; his first collection, Orda (The Horde, 1922), "shows startling maturity" and "contains most of the few short poems which have made him famous." After 1922 he devoted himself to traveling and writing, and his later work, both verse (the collection Ten' druga, or The Shadow of a Friend, 1936) and prose (many adventure stories and the novel Voina, or War, 1931) reflects his delight in what he found in his travels, particularly in Georgia.
Biography of Frederick Sanger (excerpt)
Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in physics), the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences.
Biography of André Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
Biography of Arthur Bernède (excerpt)
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany.In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played Fantômas in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously.
Biography of Carmen Conde (excerpt)
Carmen Conde Abellán (15 August 1907 in Cartagena – 8 January 1996 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.
Biography of Jacques Pills (excerpt)
Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 7 January 1906, Tulle, France – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor.His impresario was Bruno Coquatrix.In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Mon ami Pierrot".
Biography of Adolphe Ferrière (excerpt)
Adolphe Ferrière (Geneva, 1879 - Geneva, 1960) was one of the founders of the movement of the progressive education.His time of birth comes from Taeger Vol.2 p.544, JON (Nr.355, without source). He shortly worked in a school in Glarisegg (TG, CH) and later founded an experimental school ('La Forge') in Lausanne, Switzerland, but Adolphe Ferrière had to quickly abandon teaching due to his deafness.
Biography of Saadat Hasan Manto (excerpt)
Saadat Hasan Manto (11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana active in British India and later, after the partition, in Pakistan. Writing mainly in the Urdu language, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches.
Biography of Randolfo Pacciardi (excerpt)
Randolfo Pacciardi (1 January 1899 – 14 April 1991) was an Italian politician and journalist, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI).He was also an officer who fought during World War I and in the Spanish Civil War. Pacciardi's line of collaboration with the other left parties led to the entrance of PRI in the first Republic government cabinets of Italy (1947).
Biography of Manfred von Ardenne (excerpt)
Manfred von Ardenne (20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher and applied physicist and inventor.He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology.From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik.
Biography of Artem Mikoyan (excerpt)
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan (5 August (O.S. 23 July) 1905 – 9 December 1970) was a Soviet Armenian aircraft designer, who cofounded the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau along with Mikhail Gurevich. Honours and awards Some of his awards and honours include: Twice Hero of Socialist Labour
Biography of André Hornez (excerpt)
André Hornez (12 May 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 March 1989) was a French lyricist and screenwriter. Lyricist of Paul Misraki in the years 1930-1940 for which he writes many songs lyrics like Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux .
Biography of Élie de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élie Robert de Rothschild (29 May 1917 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 August 2007) was the guardian of the French branch of the Rothschild family banking dynasty. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from 1946 to 1974.
Biography of Jean Dubuisson (excerpt)
Jean Dubuisson (September 18, 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 22, 2011) was a French architect who is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the French post-World War II years. Beyond a classical culture gained at the École des Beaux Arts and on his travels in Italy and Greece, Dubuisson was strongly influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and Walter Gropius.
Biography of Marcel Meys (excerpt)
Marcel Meys, born July 12, 1909 in Saint-Julien-de-l'Herms (Isère)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 4), died on December 15, 2021 (age 112) was a French supercentenaire. He becomes the oldest French man on October 13, 2019, the date of the death of Roger Auvin.
Biography of Rostislav Zakharov (excerpt)
Rostislav Vladimirovich Zakharov (1907–1984) was a Russian choreographer, ballet dancer and opera director. He was a professor at the Russian Academy of the Arts (GITIS) in Moscow (1951–1983), was awarded the USSR State Prize twice and designated the People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Biography of James Bond (ornithologist) (excerpt)
James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was an American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean, having written the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936.He served as a curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Biography of Étienne Piquiral (excerpt)
Étienne Piquiral (June 15, 1901 – March 13, 1945) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Perpignan and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.
Biography of Ilse Dörffeldt (excerpt)
Ilse Dörffeldt (23 March 1912 – 14 September 1992) was a German sprinter who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her 4 × 100 m team set a world record in the semifinals and led the final until a missed exchange in the final leg.
Biography of Vladimir Zeldin (excerpt)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Зельдин; 10 February (O.S. 28 January) 1915 – 31 October 2016) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and cinema actor. A centenarian, he was among the longest-serving stage performers and continued acting up until his death.
Biography of Müzeyyen Senar (excerpt)
Müzeyyen Senar (16 July 1918 – 8 February 2015) was a Turkish classical music performer, known as the "Diva of the Republic". Senar began her musical career in 1931, entering the Anadolu Musiki Cemiyeti ("Anatolia Musical Association") in Üsküdar, where she was educated by kemenche virtuoso Kemal Niyazi Seyhun and oud player Hayriye.
Biography of Isaak Dunayevsky (excerpt)
Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January (O.S. 18 January) 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.
Biography of Roland Moisan (excerpt)
Roland Henri Honoré Moisan, said Moisan, born in Reims on November 26, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French cartoonist and journalist. He entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1927.
Biography of Constantine P. Cavafy (excerpt)
Constantine Peter Cavafy also known as Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet, journalist and civil servant from Alexandria. He was also a homosexual whose work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace."
Biography of Faustina Kowalska (excerpt)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Secretary of Divine Mercy".
Biography of Willem Drees (excerpt)
Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
Biography of Luigi Lucheni (excerpt)
Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Luigi Lucheni was born Louis Luccheni in Paris on April 22, 1873.His father, unknown, and his mother, Luigia Laccheni, left the baby to a foundling hospital.The child was moved to Italy in August 1874 and transferred between orphanages and foster families.
Biography of Lise London (excerpt)
Lise London (15 February 1916 – 31 March 2012) was a French Communist politician and activist. She participated in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance during World War II. She was the widow of Artur London, a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský Trial.
Biography of Bess Houdini (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a.
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
Biography of Günther Krupkat (excerpt)
Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905, Berlin – 14 April 1990, Berlin) was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany. He wrote his first novel, Od, at age 19, having been inspired by Soviet writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1923 novel Aelita.
Biography of Hasan Âli Yücel (excerpt)
Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 in Istanbul – 26 February 1961) was a Turkish writer, teacher and politician who served as Minister of National Education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946.He is remembered for his reforms of the education system, and the foundation of Village Institutes.
Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (21 June (O.S. 8 June) 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).
Biography of Carl Einstein (excerpt)
Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic. Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken.
Biography of Anni Albers (excerpt)
Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was an American textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves.
Biography of Jean Lenoir (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Lenoir pseudonym for Jean Bernard Daniel Neuberger (26 February 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 19 January 1976) was a French songwriter, whose work included chansons and romantic light film songs. Lenoir was born in Paris.His most famous song, for which he wrote both melody and lyrics, was Parlez-moi d'amour (1930).
Biography of Mildred Harnack (excerpt)
Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack (née Fish; 16 September 1902 – 16 February 1943) was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Together with her husband Arvid, the writer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the National Socialists' expected downfall or overthrow.
Biography of Violet Brown (excerpt)
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017.
Biography of Eugénie Dauzat (excerpt)
Eugénie Dauzat, born Eugénie Licheron on December 6, 1900 in Neuville (Puy-de-Dôme)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 9) and died January 12, 2013 in Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme), aged 112 years and 37 days, is a supercentenaire, wrongly considered as the oldest of the French, twice.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V.Volodarsky (Russian: В.Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician.He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Elsa Andersson (aviation pioneer) (excerpt)
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922 (age 24)) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside.Her mother died when she was aged six.
Biography of Niña de la Puebla (excerpt)
Dolores Jiménez Alcántara (20 July 1908 (source: her Spanish Wikipedia page), in La Puebla de Cazalla, Seville – 14 June 1999, Malaga), known as "Niña de la Puebla "(in Spanish: "The girl from La Puebla"; La Puebla is her birthplace) was one of the greatest flamenco and Andalusian copla singers.
Biography of Léon Agel (excerpt)
Léon Agel, pen name of Léon André Angelliaume, born December 19, 1910 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died January 24, 1999 in Hyères, is an editor and French lyricist working Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.
Biography of Valeska Gert (excerpt)
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement.
Biography of Mikhail Yanshin (excerpt)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (2 November (20 October O.S.) 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast.As a young man he worked as a carpenter.
Biography of Mireille Havet (excerpt)
Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist. She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier.She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923.
Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris.He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Philippe Kieffer (excerpt)
Philippe Kieffer MBE MC (24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962), capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces. Liberation of France On 6 June 1944, at 0731, the Bérets verts ("Green berets") landed in Ouistreham, Benouville, Amfreville and Bavant, designated as Sword Beach.
Biography of Sante Geronimo Caserio (excerpt)
Sante Geronimo Caserio (9 September 1873 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic.Caserio was born in Motta Visconti, Lombardy. |
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