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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 Dorothy L. Sayers (excerpt)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet.She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
Biography of Marcel Cachin (excerpt)
Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 – 12 February 1958) was a French politician. In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF).In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914.
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 Katherine Dunham (excerpt)
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist.Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years.
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 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 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 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 Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher.He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant.Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
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 Sébastienne Guyot (excerpt)
Sébastienne Guyot (26 April 1896 – 21 August 1941) was a French engineer who specialized in aerodynamic flying.She was born in Pont l'Abbé in the Finistère. A teacher, Guyot resigned in 1917 to prepare for the competition of the Ecole Centrale of the Paris Lycée Jules-Ferry when she learned that the school would accept girls into its ranks.
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 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 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 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 Mikhail Isakovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January (O.S. 7 January) 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory.He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
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 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 Jean Erdman (excerpt)
Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director. Career Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus, the Speaking Fate in Punch and the Judy and the One Who Speaks in Letter to the World, Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson.
Biography of Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
Biography of Mary Ellis (pilot) (excerpt)
Mary Ellis (née Wilkins; 2 February 1917 – 24 July 2018) was a British ferry pilot, and one of the last surviving British women pilots from the Second World War. In October 1941, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary, and was posted to a pool of women flyers based in Hamble in Hampshire.
Biography of Gustave Humery (excerpt)
Gustave Humery (aka Tiger Humery), born December 18, 1908 in Valenciennes (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 722), died July 6, 1976, is a former French boxer.
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 Henri Laurens (excerpt)
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Paris archives V4E6278) – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. Later Laurens was drawn to a new gathering of artistic creativity in Montparnasse. From 1915 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Takashi Shimura (excerpt)
Takashi Shimura (Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He is particularly noted for his appearances in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).
Biography of Alexander Vertinsky (excerpt)
Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Вертинский, 21 March (O.S.9 March) 1889 — 21 May 1957) was Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. By November 1920, Vertinsky decided to leave Russia with the bulk of his clientele.
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 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 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 Fyodor Sergeyev (excerpt)
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
Biography of Willy Birgel (excerpt)
Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate, Arno Müller, vol 2) – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a German theatre and film actor. Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to movies rather late.
Biography of Robert Blémant (excerpt)
Robert Léon Arthur Blémant, known as Monsieur Robert, born on Februray 13, 1911 in Valenciennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 15, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence (killed by Antoine Guérini), was a French policeman.
Biography of Mikhail Tomsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
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 Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
Biography of Abel Decaux (excerpt)
Abel Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist and composer.He studied organ with Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant, and composition with Jules Massenet.He served as organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris, for 25 years until 1923, when he went to the US to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Biography of Nikolay Bogolyubov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 (gregorian calendar) – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems; he was the recipient of the 1992 Dirac Prize.
Biography of Valery Larbaud (excerpt)
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet. Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some prix Goncourt votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works.
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 Maurice de Rothschild (excerpt)
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France. Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless Adolphe Carl von Rothschild (1823–1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.
Biography of Robert Auzelle (excerpt)
Robert Auzelle, born on June 9, 1913 in Coulommiers (birth time source: Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives June 8), died on December 22, 1983 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner.
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso.Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. |
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