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Horoscopes 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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Salomėja Nėris (excerpt)
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Salomėja Nėris was awarded the State Literature Prize in 1938. She was a member of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis.
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Biography of Horst Sindermann (excerpt)
Horst Sindermann (5 September 1915 – 20 April 1990) was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany. Sindermann was born in a traditional family in Dresden as the son of the Saxon Social Democratic politician Karl Sindermann.
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Biography of Mykola Skrypnyk (excerpt)
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk (also known in Russian as Nikolai Alekseevich Skripnik, 25 January , 1872 – 7 July 1933) was a Ukrainian Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine.
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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.
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Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Biography of Elena Stasova (excerpt)
Yelena Dmitriyevna Stasova (15 October (3 October old style) 1873 – 31 December 1966) was a Russian communist revolutionary who became a political functionary working for the Communist International (Comintern). She was a Comintern representative to Germany in 1921. From 1927 to 1937 she was the president of International Red Aid (MOPR).
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Biography of Lina Radke (excerpt)
Karoline "Lina" Radke-Batschauer (18 October 1903 – 14 February 1983) was a German track and field athlete. She was the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women. Together with her husband, Lina Radke was one of the pioneers of female athletics in the mid-1920s.
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.
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Biography of Rosina Anselmi (excerpt)
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania. Born in Catania into a family of stage actors, Anselmi began acting with her father Alessandro, then with Nino Martoglio in some comedies written by him.
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Biography of Alfhild Hovdan (excerpt)
Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years. She is known for initiating the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, a present from the city of Oslo to the people of London, in recognition of their assistance during World War II.
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Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis. ![]()
Biography of Colleen Moore (excerpt)
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
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Biography of Jeanne Paquin (excerpt)
Jeanne Paquin (1869 (birth certificate, Didier Geslain – 1936) was a leading French fashion designer, known for her resolutely modern and innovative designs. She was the first major female couturier and one of the pioneers of the modern fashion business. Jeanne Paquin was the first couturier to send models dressed in her apparel to public events such operas and horse races for publicity.
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Biography of Mitsuyo Maeda (excerpt)
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世 Maeda Mitsuyo, born November 18, 1878 – November 28, 1941), a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda, was a Japanese judōka (judo expert) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions, also being one of the first documented mixed martial artists of the modern era for he frequently challenged practitioners of other arts and sports.
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Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss. ![]()
Biography of Diana Mosley (excerpt)
Diana, Lady Mosley (née Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003) was a British aristocrat, fascist, writer and editor. She was one of the Mitford sisters and eventually, the wife of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
Biography of Otto Nebel (excerpt)
Otto Nebel (25 December 1892 – 12 September 1973) was a German painter and poet, born in Berlin, Germany. The artist liked to experiment especially with the linocut, a great favorite among the German Expressionists and a medium that they imbued with new life.
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Biography of Elizabeth Mernin (excerpt)
Elizabeth "Lily" Mernin (16 November 1886 - 18 February 1957) was an Irish intelligence agent known as the "Little Gentleman" or "Lt. G.". She was a member of the Keating branch of the Gaelic League, and through this her cousin, Piaras Béaslaí, introduced her to Michael Collins in 1918.
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Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre.
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Biography of Ruth Law Oliver (excerpt)
Ruth Law Oliver (May 21, 1887 - December 1, 1970) was a pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. She was inspired to take up flying by her brother, parachutist and pioneer movie stuntman Rodman Law (1885–1919), with whom she challenged herself to physically keep up during their childhood.
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Biography of Máté Zalka (excerpt)
Máté Zalka (April 23, 1896 – June 11, 1937) was a Hungarian writer, soldier and revolutionary. His real name was Béla Frankl. He fought in the Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Russians. Subsequently, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War.
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Biography of Louise Thaden (excerpt)
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Biography of Marina Raskova (excerpt)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the USSR to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor, the first female navigator in the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Ruby Dandridge (excerpt)
Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her radio work in her early days of acting. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium.
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Biography of Dorothy Rice Sims (excerpt)
Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist. She met Hal Sims when he chartered her plane; they later married. Their home in Deal, New Jersey, described in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as reminiscent "of the castles of the feudal barons in medieval days" became a headquarters for bridge experts.
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Biography of Henriette Bie Lorentzen (excerpt)
Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955). ![]()
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer. Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
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Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her.
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Biography of Mary Bell (aviator) (excerpt)
Mary Teston Luis Bell (3 December 1903 – 6 February 1979) was an Australian aviator and founding leader of the Women's Air Training Corps (WATC), a volunteer organisation that provided support to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.
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Biography of Giuseppe Borgese (excerpt)
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic. In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino.
Biography of Ben Nye (excerpt)
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr. (January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.
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Biography of Suzanne Belperron (excerpt)
Suzanne Belperron (26 September 1900 – 28 March 1983), born in Saint-Claude, France, was an influential 20th-century jewellery designer based in Paris. She worked for the Boivin and Herz jewellery houses before the outbreak of World War II. Subsequently, she took over the Herz company, renaming it Herz-Belperron.
Biography of Vecihi Hürkus (excerpt)
Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish aviation engineer and aviation pioneer, who fought during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence. He designed and manufactured the first airplane in Turkey, and also founded the country's first airline company. ![]()
Biography of Jean Batten (excerpt)
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world.
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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).
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Biography of Mercedes de Acosta (excerpt)
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich.
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Biography of Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983).
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Biography of Alfred Touny (excerpt)
Alfred Touny (24 October 1886 – April 1944) was a French soldier, lawyer and businessman who became one of the leaders of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45). He was arrested by the Gestapo towards the end of the war and shot.
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Biography of Pauline Gower (excerpt)
Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower Fahie (22 July 1910 – 2 March 1947) was a British pilot and writer who established the women's branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Gower made use of her high-level connections to propose the establishment of a women's section in the new Air Transport Auxiliary —the ATA would be responsible for ferrying military aircraft from factory or repair facility to storage unit or operational unit—to the authorities.
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Biography of Federico Moreno Torroba (excerpt)
Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 1891 – 12 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his important contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century composers for the instrument.
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Biography of Elly Beinhorn (excerpt)
Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot. In the 1930s, she set many distance records. In her later years, Elly Beinhorn lived in Ottobrunn, Bavaria, near Munich. Her son, Dr. Bernd Rosemeyer, lives in the same area and has enjoyed a successful career as an orthopaedist.
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Biography of Ernst Busch (field marshal) (excerpt)
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch (6 July 1885 – 17 July 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II who commanded the 16th Army (as a Generaloberst) and Army Group Centre. His time of birth comes from Jacques de Lescaut, who states that he knows his birth certificate.
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Biography of Marie Gasquet (excerpt)
Marie Gasquet (1872–1960) was a French regionist writer from Provence. Marie Gasquet was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône in 1872. Her father, Marius Girard, was a Provençal poet. Her godfather was Frédéric Mistral. She moved to Paris where she worked for Flammarion and became a successful novelist.
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Biography of Charlotte Möhring (excerpt)
Charlotte Möhring (born 31 March 1887 - died 19 October 1970 in Berlin) was a German aviator and the second German woman to receive a pilot's license. Möhring was a passenger on a flight from Johannisthal to Döberitz on board a Rumpler Taube. ![]()
Biography of Mary Eaton (excerpt)
Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was an American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s, probably best known today from her appearance in the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929). A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Biography of Carlos Casagemas (excerpt)
Carles Antoni Cosme Damià Casagemas i Coll (Carlos Casagemas) (September 27, 1880, in Barcelona, Spain – February 17, 1901, in Paris, France) was a Spanish painter and poet. He is known for his friendship with Pablo Picasso, who painted several portraits of Casagemas. ![]()
Biography of Rebeca Matte Bello (excerpt)
Rebeca Matte Bello (October 29, 1875 – May 15, 1929) was a Chilean sculptor. Her sculptures are in the collection of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, including her sculpture Icarus and Daedalus, which resides outside the museum. Career In 1899, she displayed a statue entitled "Horace" at the Salon in Paris, a work showing the physical and psychological rigidity associated with an epileptic seizure.
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Biography of Gabriel Grovlez (excerpt)
Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was an eminent French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic. As a solo pianist and accompanist Grovlez toured through Europe. He was professor of piano at the Schola Cantorum from 1899 to 1909, choir director and deputy conductor of the Opéra Comique (1905–1908), and musical director at the Théâtre des Arts (1911–1913) where he was responsible for the first performances of Albert Roussel's Le Festin de l'araignée, Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'oye, and a number of baroque operas.
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 Robert Hale Merriman (excerpt)
Robert Hale Merriman (November 17, 1908 – c. April 2, 1938) was an American doctoral student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. |
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