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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 Emilio Pujol (excerpt)
Emili Pujol Vilarrubí (10 September 1886 – 21 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar. Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain.He began his studies with Francisco Tárrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age.
Biography of Yelena Kuzmina (actress) (excerpt)
Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina 17 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) – 15 October 1979) was a Soviet actress.She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978.She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes (1946, 1948, 1951) and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950.
Biography of Mikhail Artsybashev (excerpt)
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Арцыба́шев, Polish: Michał Arcybaszew) (November 5, 1878 – March 3, 1927) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism.He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator.
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.
Biography of Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bermejillo (excerpt)
Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bermejillo, born December 17, 1879 in Madrid and died August 22, 1924 in Saint-Nectaire (France), is a Spanish soldier and diplomat. He is the son of the first Marquis of Valtierra, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Sagaseta de Ilurdoz and de Dońa Dolores Bermejillo y García Menocal.
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.
Biography of Max Born (excerpt)
Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław) – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany) was a German physicist and mathematician. A remarkable theoretical physicist, he is best known for his major contribution to quantum physics. He was the first to interpret the square of the modulus of the wave function as the probability density of presence.
Biography of Iva Toguri D'Aquino (excerpt)
Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II on The Zero Hour radio show.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S.11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer.He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope.
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 Archbishop Luka (excerpt)
Archbishop Luka (Luke, Russian: Архиепи́скоп Лука́, born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky, Russian: Валенти́н Фе́ликсович Во́йно-Ясене́цкий; May 9, 1877 (gregorian calendar) in Kerch – June 11, 1961, Simferopol) was an outstanding surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church, and an archbishop of Simferopol and of the Crimea since May 1946.
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.
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.
Biography of Judith Auer (excerpt)
Judith Auer, née Vallentin (19 September 1905 – 27 October 1944) was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933 and the KPD was banned by the new régime, Auer eventually found herself working for AEG at the Kabelwerk Oberspree ("cable works"), first as a shorthand typist, and later as a buying agent.
Biography of Else Heims (excerpt)
Else Heims (born October 3, 1878 in Berlin, died February 20, 1958 in Santa Monica) is a stage and screen German actress. During the period of National Socialism (Nazism) she had to emigrate via London to the United States. After the war, she commuted between the US and Europe.
Biography of Louis Ganne (excerpt)
Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxičres-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
Biography of Léon Spilliaert (excerpt)
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist. Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfumer, and his wife Léonie (née Jonckheere).From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing.
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 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 Boris Lyatoshinsky (excerpt)
Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
Biography of Isabella Abbott (excerpt)
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii.The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science, she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She authored eight books and over 150 publications.
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.
Biography of Pyotr Kapitsa (excerpt)
Pyotr Kapitsa, born July 8, 1894 (gregorian calendar), died April 8, 1984, was a Soviet physicist known for his research in low-temperature physics. His time of birth comes from Les Cahiers Astrologiques, n° 22. He worked with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge before the Soviet Union prevented his return to Britain.
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).
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
Biography of Marius Casadesus (excerpt)
Marius Casadesus (October 24, 1892 – October 13, 1981) was a French violinist and composer.He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaďde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
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 Felix de Weldon (excerpt)
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian-born American sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in Arlington County, Virginia and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
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 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 Florence Harding (excerpt)
Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G.Harding. Florence first married Pete De Wolfe and had a son, Marshall.
Biography of Nikolai Semashko (excerpt)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (September 20 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Russian statesman who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union, an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the RSFSR (1945).
Biography of Grigor Kozintsev (excerpt)
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (22 March (O.S.9 March) 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director.He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Biography of Frank Glasgow Tinker (excerpt)
Frank Glasgow Tinker (July 14, 1909 – June 13, 1939) was an American volunteer fighter pilot for the Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Espańola ("Air Forces of the Spanish Republic"; FARE), during the Spanish Civil War. Tinker was credited officially with shooting down eight enemy aircraft and was the highest-scoring American air ace of the war.
Biography of Gladys McConnell (excerpt)
Gladys McConnell (October 22, 1905 – March 4, 1979) was an American film actress and aviator. Her film career was brief, about four years from the late silent to early sound era (1926 – 1930).She sometimes used the professional name Gladys Morrow.
Biography of Lilian Rolfe (excerpt)
Lilian Vera Rolfe, MBE (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945) was an Allied secret agent in the Second World War. Second World War At the onset of the Second World War, Rolfe worked at the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro before going to London, England in 1943 to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Biography of Norman Hartnell (excerpt)
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
Biography of Janis Rudzutaks (excerpt)
Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Rudzutaks was suddenly expelled from the Politburo and Central Committee on 24 May 1937, on the same day as the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Biography of Hannah Höch (excerpt)
Hannah Höch (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.
Biography of Lee Ya-Ching (excerpt)
Li Xiaqing pronounced Lee Ya Ching, also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist. She was the first Chinese woman to be granted a civil aviation license in China, in 1936, and also co-founded its first civilian flying school.
Biography of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (excerpt)
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary (birth time source: a YouTube video.There is no original source.3:52 GMT corresponds to 3:52 AM legal time) ; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol), was an Austrian political scientist and journalist.
Biography of Leslie Kish (excerpt)
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. In 1997, the American Statistical Association gave Kish their Wilks Memorial Award.The award citation read: "For being a truly outstanding statistician, who has had a profound influence on sample survey practice throughout the world.
Biography of László Rajk (excerpt)
László Rajk (8 March 1909 in Székelyudvarhely, – 15 October 1949 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an important organizer of the Hungarian Communists' power (for example, organizing the State Protection Authority (ÁVH)), but he eventually fell victim to Mátyás Rákosi's show trials.
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.
Biography of La Nińa de los Peines (excerpt)
Pastora Pavón Cruz, known as La Nińa de los Peines (Seville, Spain, 10 February 1890 - 26 November 1969), is considered the most important woman flamenco singer of the 20th century.She was a sister of singers Arturo Pavón and Tomás Pavón, also an important flamenco singer, and aunt to Arturo Pavón, the first flamenco pianist.
Biography of Yolande Beekman (excerpt)
Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman (7 January 1911 – 13 September 1944 (age 32)) was a British spy in World War II who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Special Operations Executive. She was a member of SOE's Musician circuit in occupied France during World War II where she operated as a wireless operator until arrested by the Gestapo.
Biography of Joseph Ortiz (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Ortiz, nicknamed Joey, born April 4, 1917 in Guyotville (Algeria)(now Aďn Benian)(birth certificate, André Barbault) and died February 15, 1995 in Toulon (Var, France), was, January 24, 1960, one of the leaders of the rioters of the Barricade Week in Algiers , with the deputy Pierre Lagaillarde, Guy Forzy, Jean-Baptiste Biaggi, Marcel Ronda and the student unionist Jean-Jacques Susini.
Biography of Marie-Thérčse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérčse 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.
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). |
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