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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Marga von Etzdorf (excerpt)
Margarete (Marga) von Etzdorf (1 August 1907 - 28 May 1933 (suicide, age 25) was a German aircraft pilot, notable for being the first woman hired to fly for an airline, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan. ![]()
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.
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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.
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Biography of Viktor Nekrasov (excerpt)
Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (Russian: Ви́ктор Плато́нович Некра́сов, Viktor Platonovič Nekrasov) (17 June 1911, Kiev – 3 September 1987, Paris) was a Russian writer, journalist and editor. After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Nekrasov took advantage of the first wave of destalinization to publish In the Home Town (1954), a novel which marked a departure from the Stalin-era socialist realism in Soviet literature.
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Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
Biography of Praxille Gydé (excerpt)
Praxille Gydé (born 5 September 1907 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2048.Wikipedia gives 1908)) was a French boxer, who was European flyweight champion between November 1932 and June 1935. After making his professional debut in March 1924, he won the vacant European flyweight title in November 1932, stopping Willi Metzner in the eighth round. ![]()
Biography of Jean Hyppolite (excerpt)
Jean Hyppolite (January 8, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 26, 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers.
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 Mikhail Koltsov (excerpt)
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (June 12 (O.S.May 31) 1898 – February 2, 1940), born Moisey Haimovich Fridlyand (Russian: Моисей Хаимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet Journalist, Bolshevik Revolutionary and a NKVD Agent. On 19 December 1937, Mikhail Koltsov published an article criticizing some aspects of the purges.
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Biography of Lise de Baissac (excerpt)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality.She was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
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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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Biography of Bruno Freindlich (excerpt)
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (sometimes Freundlich) (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.
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Biography of Leonid Kantorovich (excerpt)
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
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.
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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 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 Alexandre Tansman (excerpt)
Alexandre Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman; 11 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origin.He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life, being granted French citizenship in 1938.
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Biography of Erwin Geschonneck (excerpt)
Erwin Geschonneck (27 December 1906 – 12 March 2008) was a German actor.His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Immediately following the war, Geschonneck acted in theaters in Hamburg, Germany, and made his film debut in 1947 in In jenen Tagen. ![]()
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.
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Biography of William Grant Still (excerpt)
William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly 200 works, including five symphonies and nine operas. Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers", Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. ![]()
Biography of Léa Roback (excerpt)
Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice. A polyglot and a suffragist, she was a pioneer of feminism in Quebec. A Syndicalist, Communist and a Marxist, she opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal.
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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 Jutta Graae (excerpt)
Jutta Regitse Pilegaard Graae (28 April 1906 – 25 March 1997) was a Danish bank employee who became a member of the Danish resistance during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. After first working as a contact for the resistance worker Ebbe Munck in Stockholm, she became so deeply involved in illegal activities that she had to move to Stockholm herself in September 1943.
Biography of Théo Kerg (excerpt)
Théo Kerg (2 June 1909 – 4 March 1993) was a Luxembourgian painter and sculptor who specialized in modern art. Kerg was born to a schoolmaster and his wife in Niederkorn, in south-western Luxembourg, Théo Kerg attended school in Esch-sur-Alzette.He moved to Paris, France, in 1929 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Sorbonne and the Institut d'art et d'archéologie.
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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 Gret Palucca (excerpt)
Gret Palucca, born Margarethe Paluka (8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993), was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925. Palucca was born in Munich.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909.
Biography of Louis Bénech (lyricist) (excerpt)
Louis Bénech, born September 24, 1875 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), city where he died on March 19, 1925 in his home in the 10th arrondissement, physician, is a French lyricist, composer and publisher.
Biography of Marc Beigbeder (excerpt)
Marc Beigbeder, born August 11, 1916 in Salies-de-Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died March 2, 1997 in Paris, is a French philosopher, essayist, journalist and polemicist. Close to Emmanuel Mounier and personalist thinkers, he was an important contributor to the magazine Esprit alongside Jean-Marie Domenach.
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Biography of Louis Scutenaire (excerpt)
Louis Scutenaire (29 June 1905 – 15 August 1987) was a poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant.Born Jean Émile Louis Scutenaire in Ollignies, Belgium; died in Brussels. Louis Scutenaire is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the Belgian Surrealist movement, along with René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte and his own wife Irène Hamoir.
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Biography of Ilya Ehrenburg (excerpt)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (26 January (O.S.14 January) 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles.He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War).
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Biography of Emmy Hennings (excerpt)
Emmy Hennings (born Emma Maria Cordsen, 17 January 1885 – 10 August 1948) was a performer and poet. She was also the wife of celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball. Hennings was born on 17 January 1885 in Flensburg, German Empire, describing herself later as "a seaman's child".
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Biography of Olga Zhizneva (excerpt)
Olga Andryevna Zhiznyeva (sometimes Olga Zhizneva) (Russian: Ольга Андреевна Жизнева; April 17, 1899 (Gregorian calendar) – November 10, 1972) was a famous Soviet actress. Selected filmography Property of the Republic (1971) as Princess Tikhvinskaya Late Flowers as Princess Priklonskaya (1969) We'll Live Till Monday as Melnikov's Mother (1968)
Biography of Malcolm Renfrew (excerpt)
Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew (October 12, 1910 – October 12, 2013) was an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985. Renfrew is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon, including the first paper on the subject.
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Biography of Alexei Rykov (excerpt)
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician most prominent as Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. Rykov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, and after it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions in 1903, he joined the Bolsheviks—led by Vladimir Lenin.
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Biography of Charles Quef (excerpt)
Charles Paul Florimond Quef (1 November 1873, Lille – 2 July 1931, Paris) was a French organist and composer. He studied at the conservatory in Lille, and later he attended the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne and Alexandre Guilmant. ![]()
Biography of Lilli Henoch (excerpt)
Lilli Henoch (26 October 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines. Henoch set world records in the discus (twice), the shot put, and the 4 × 100 meters relay events. ![]()
Biography of Pavel Cherenkov (excerpt)
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934. In 1934, while working under S. ![]()
Biography of Grigori Sokolnikov (excerpt)
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Sokolnikov was arrested on 26 July 1936.He was sufficiently broken under interrogation, either through torture or more probably through threats to harm his young wife and daughter, that he not only incriminated himself, but was made to confront Bukharin, in Lazar Kaganovich's office, and accuse him of being part of a conspiracy to restore capitalism in the USSR.
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Biography of Yakov Zeldovich (excerpt)
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich ForMemRS (Belarusian: Я́каў Бары́савіч Зяльдо́віч, Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич; 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987), also known as YaB, was a Soviet physicist, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena. ![]()
Biography of Laurie Lee (excerpt)
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire. His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991).
Biography of Marie-Louise Meilleur (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (née Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a French Canadian supercentenarian.Meilleur is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's oldest recognized living person.
Biography of Serge Arcouët (excerpt)
Serge-Marie Arcouët born in Nantes on March 18, 1916 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on January 28, 1983 in the same city, is a French author of detective or spy novels. He signed under the pen names Terry Stewart, Serge Laforest, Russ Rasher and John-Silver Lee (collective pseudonym he shares with Pierre Ayraud and Léo Malet). ![]()
Biography of Bach (actor) (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882 (birth time source : Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 1953), known by his stage name of Bach, was a French actor, singer and music hall performer. Selected filmography The Regiment's Champion (1932) The Blaireau Case (1932) Bach the Millionaire (1933) Bach the Detective (1936)
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.
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Biography of Samuil Marshak (excerpt)
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Samuil Yakovlevich Marchak) (Russian: Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; 3 November (O.S. 22 October) 1887 – 4 July 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer of Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults.
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Biography of Giuseppe Di Vittorio (excerpt)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 11, 1892 – November 3, 1957), was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I. ![]()
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 Grove (cartoonist) (excerpt)
William Nolgrove, known as William Napoléon Grove or simply Grove, born July 5, 1901 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died in 1975 in Cannes, is a French cartoonist, known for his long collaboration with Le Canard enchaîné.
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Biography of Mark Bernes (excerpt)
Mark Naumovich Bernes (Russian: Ма́рк Нау́мович Берне́с) (October 8 (O.S.September 25) 1911, Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – August 16, 1969, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet actor and singer of Jewish ancestry (his father's last name was Neumann), who performed some of the most poignant songs to come out of World War II, including Dark Night (Russian: Тёмная ночь, Tyomnaya noch; 1943) and Cranes (Russian: Журавли, Zhuravli; 1969).
Biography of Ernest Daltroff (excerpt)
Ernest Daltroff, (November 17, 1867, Sainte-Cécile, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - February 3, 1941, New York) , was a French perfumer and the founder of Parfums Caron in 1904. In his thirties, he memorised the captivating scents of flowers, fruits and spices and developed an exceptional olfactory memory, without any formal training, he chose to embark on the profession of perfumer. |
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