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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 Lyonel Feininger (excerpt)
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist.He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art.
Biography of Fernande Olivier (excerpt)
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him.
Biography of Pierre Cartier (jeweller) (excerpt)
Pierre Camille Cartier was born March 10, 1878 and died October 27, 1964. Grandson of Louis-François Cartier, he is the founder of the London and New York branches of the Cartier house. Family Pierre is the son of Alfred Cartier (1841-1925) and the grandson of Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904).
Biography of Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kirill Kondrashin (excerpt)
Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, (Russian: Кири́лл Петро́вич Кондра́шин, Kirill Petrovič Kondrašin; 6 March (O.S.21 February) 1914 – 7 March 1981) was a Soviet and Russian conductor. In the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, Kondrashin was the conductor for Van Cliburn, who won the first prize.
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.
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 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 Henry Barraud (excerpt)
Henry Barraud (sometimes Henri) (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux.He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (excerpt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.(August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman, notable as a congressman from New York and later as the Under Secretary of Commerce.He was the fifth of six children born to Franklin D.
Biography of Eva Gouel (excerpt)
Eva Gouel, also known as Marcelle Humbert, born February 27, 1885 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and died of cancer on December 14, 1915 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was Pablo Picasso's second companion during his cubist period, from 1912 to 1915.
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 Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Biography of Aaron Soltz (excerpt)
Aaron Aleksandrovich Soltz (10 March 1872 (22 March Gregorian calendar) - 30 April 1945) was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet politician and lawyer. He was informally known as the "conscience of the Party". While partially responsible for the Soviet repressions he was one of very few high-ranking Joseph Stalin loyalists who openly objected to the Great Purge; he died in a psychiatric clinic after years of involuntary commitment.
Biography of Édouard de Max (excerpt)
Eduard Alexandru Max, known as Édouard de Max, born February 14, 1869 in Iași (Moldavia region in Romania), and died October 28, 1924 in Paris, is a French theater and film actor of Romanian origin. He protected André Gide who wrote Saul for him, as well as Jean Cocteau, then 19 years old (1908), and whose style fascinated him.
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 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 Adélaïde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
Biography of Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (excerpt)
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (1886–1937) was a Russian revolutionary and economist. A member of the governing Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and its successor, the All-Union Communist Party, Preobrazhensky is remembered as a leading voice for the rapid industrialisation of peasant Russia through a concentration on state-owned heavy industry.
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 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 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 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 Rose Valland (excerpt)
Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art.
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 Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
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.
Biography of Yvor Winters (excerpt)
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 in Chicago, Illinois – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.In 1926, Winters married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis, also from Chicago and a fellow tuberculosis sufferer.After leaving Colorado he taught at the University of Idaho and then began the doctoral program at Stanford University.
Biography of Joseph Ortiz (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Ortiz, nicknamed Joey, born April 4, 1917 in Guyotville (Algeria)(now Aïn 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 Léon Bérard (physician) (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Bérard (17 February 1870, in Morez – 2 September 1956, in Lyon) was a French surgeon and oncologist.He was the younger brother of Hellenist scholar Victor Bérard (1864–1931). He studied medicine in Lyon.Obtaining his doctorate in 1896.In 1898 he earned his agrégation in surgery, later being assigned as a surgeon to Lyon hospitals (1901).
Biography of Israël Querido (excerpt)
Israël Querido (1 October 1872, Amsterdam – 5 August 1932, Amsterdam) was a Dutch naturalist novelist. His novels are sympathetic to workers and the Socialist movement.
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 Olga Bergholz (excerpt)
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz (May 16 (O.S.May 3) 1910 – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet poet, writer, playwright and journalist.She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.
Biography of Dore Hoyer (excerpt)
Dore Hoyer (12 December 1911 – 31 December 1967) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer.She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War.
Biography of Ivan Teodorovich (excerpt)
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich (Russian: Ива́н Адольфо́вич Теодо́рович; Polish: Iwan Adolfowicz Teodorowicz) (September 10 (O.S.August 29), 1875 in Smolensk – September 20, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik activist, and the first Commissar for Food when the Council of People's Commissars was established (October - November 1917).
Biography of Alexey Shchusev (excerpt)
Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev (8 October (O.S. 26 September) 1873 – 24 May 1949) was an acclaimed Russian and Soviet architect whose works may be regarded as a bridge connecting Revivalist architecture of Imperial Russia with Stalin's Empire Style. There are two notable Constructivist designs of Shchusev: the Ministry of Agriculture or Narkomzem in Moscow (1928–1933) and the Institute of Resorts in Sochi (1927–1931), considered to be a major source for Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium.
Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
Biography of Alexey Eisner (excerpt)
Alexey Eisner (18 October 1905 (5 October O.S.), in St.Petersburg – 30 November 1984, in Moscow), was a Russian poet, translator and writer. His poem "Looming Autumn, Yellow Bushes .." was published in 1932 and became a textbook and was very popular in literary émigré circles.
Biography of María Conesa (excerpt)
María Conesa, also known as La Gatita Blanca (The White Kitten) (December 12, 1892 – September 9, 1978), was a Spanish-born Mexican stage, television, film actress and vedette. She was one of the principal stars of the Revue and Vaudeville in México and Latin America in the early 20th century.
Biography of Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (excerpt)
Stanley Bréhaut Egerton Ryerson (March 12, 1911 – 25 Apr 1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist.His parents were Edward Stanley Ryerson and Tessie De Vigne, a well-off middle-class family in Toronto. Ryerson could trace his paternal lineage back to Egerton Ryerson, a leading Methodist in nineteenth century Toronto.
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 Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
Biography of Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (excerpt)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (12 August 1881 (gregorian calendar) – 23 July 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on 12 August 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate. |
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