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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 Georges Pitoëff (excerpt)
Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue, near Geneva, Switzerland.Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre.
Biography of Albert Naud (excerpt)
Albert Léopold Naud, born May 8, 1904 in Graves (Charente) and died February 20, 1977 in Paris 13th arrondissement, is a journalist, a political activist, an assize lawyer and a French resistance fighter. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Académie française, twice, in 1968 and 1975-1976.
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Biography of Mathilde Franck (excerpt)
Rosalind Mathilde Franck (6 September 1885 – 29 November 1956) was one of the earliest French women aviators, having learnt to fly in the summer of 1910.Her last flight was on 1 August 1910 in a Maurice Farman biplane when she took off from Boldon Flatts, Cleadon Village in the northeast of England.
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Biography of Trude Hesterberg (excerpt)
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress and singer. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964. Selected filmography The Rosentopf Case (1918) The Story of a Maid (1921) Fridericus Rex (1922) The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
Biography of Joan Riudavets Moll (excerpt)
Joan Riudavets Moll (born December 15, 1889 in Es Migjorn Gran in the Balearic Islands and died March 5, 2004 in the island of Menorca in the Balearic archipelago following a cold, was the male dean of humanity since November 2003. ![]()
Biography of Ricarda Huch (excerpt)
Ricarda Huch (18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual.Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play.Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.
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Biography of Walter Mehring (excerpt)
Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic.He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country. From the 1920s, he published lyric poetry and satirical prose in various magazines and newspapers such as the famous Weltbühne or Das Tage-Buch .
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Biography of Max Pallenberg (excerpt)
Max Pallenberg (born 18 December 1877 in Vienna as Max Pollack – 26 June 1934 in Karlovy Vary) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien and (as of 1911) Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater.
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Biography of Louise Magadur (excerpt)
Louise Magadur (21 April 1899 - 12 May 1992) was a French resistance fighter, Communist and Holocaust survivor. Magadur was born on 21 April 1899 in Pont-Croix in Finistère, France.Her father was a miller and she was the fourth child of a family of six.
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Biography of Simone Barillier (excerpt)
Simone Germaine Barillier, born April 1, 1917 in Clichy and died September 14, 2013 (aged 96) in Eaubonne, is a French actress. She was elected Miss France in Paris on June 30, 1934, among 32 candidates. The jury, gathered in the salons of the Bridge-Club, avenue des Champs-Élysées, is chaired by the painter Paul Chabas.
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Biography of Henriette Dibon (excerpt)
Henriette Dibon, also known as Farfantello, (9 August 1902 - 9 September 1989) was a French poet, journalist, and short story writer. A member of the Félibrige, she wrote both in Provençal and French. She won three literary prizes from the Académie française.
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Biography of Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani (excerpt)
Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani (31 October 1896 – 11 August 1991) was an Italian politician. She was a member of the Christian Democratic Society and became a minister. Life Guidi Cingolani was born in Rome in 1896. She was a member of the Popular Party and the Young Women of Catholic Action.
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Biography of Rosa Manus (excerpt)
Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus was born 20 August 1881 and died either at Auschwitz or Ravensbruck in 1942.She was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and female suffragist and was involved in women's movements and anti-war movements. She served as the President of the Society for Female Suffrage, the Vice President of the Dutch Association for Women's Interests and Equal Citizenship, and was one of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as well as its secretary.
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Biography of Lothar Schreyer (excerpt)
Lothar Schreyer (1886 in Blasewitz – 1966 in Hamburg) was a German artist, writer, editor, stage designer and gallery owner.He was the first Master of the stagecraft workshop at the Bauhaus art school. Schreyer was born in Blasewitz in 1886.He studied art history at University of Heidelberg and then law at universities in Berlin and Leipzig.
Biography of Félix Paquet (excerpt)
Félix Paquet, is a French actor born on April 23, 1906 in Lille and died on June 5, 1974 in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.He rests in the Batignolles cemetery in Paris. Actor and singer, Félix Paquet was also the secretary of Maurice Chevalier, for whom he gave up his career.
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Biography of Lothar Müthel (excerpt)
Lothar Müthel (né Lothar Max Lütcke; 18 February 1896 – 4 September 1964) was a German stage and film actor and director. Müthel was born in Berlin, where he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt, Schauspielschule, Berlin.Following the Anchluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, Müthel was appointed as director of the Burgtheater in Vienna.
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Biography of Sebastian Haffner (excerpt)
Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian.As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not only with Adolf Hitler but also with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled.
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Biography of Virginia Dale (excerpt)
Virginia Dale (born Virginia Paxton; July 1, 1917 – October 3, 1994) was an American actress and dancer. While working with her sister, Frances, to form the dancing Paxton Sisters in New York City, she was discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a contract with 20th Century Fox.
Biography of Adrien Caillard (excerpt)
Charles Adrien Caillard born March 23, 1872 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died October 8, 1942 in Nice, is an actor and director of French theater and cinema, He directed around thirty films between 1909 and 1926 and starred in eight films between 1909 and 1941.
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Biography of Philippe Auboyneau (excerpt)
Philippe Auboyneau (9 November 1899 – 22 February 1961) was an officer in the French Navy. As an admiral, he was commander of the Free French naval forces in the Pacific and the Mediterranean during the Second World War. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for his service to the country.
Biography of Jean Gau (excerpt)
Jean Gau is a French navigator, born February 17, 1902 in Sérignan (Hérault) and died February 14, 1979 in Pézenas (Hérault). ![]()
Biography of Paul Citroen (excerpt)
Roelof Paul Citroen (15 December 1896 – 13 March 1983) was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps. Early life
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Biography of Unity Mitford (excerpt)
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite closely associated with Adolf Hitler. A staunch supporter of Nazism, fascism, and antisemitism, she was part of Hitler's inner circle. After World War II broke out, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, sustaining severe brain damage. ![]()
Biography of Corrie ten Boom (excerpt)
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Bloch (excerpt)
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.
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Biography of Robert Faesi (excerpt)
Robert Faesi (10 April 1883 Zürich – 10 September 1972, Zollikon) was a Swiss writer and academic concerned with Literature and language. Life Son of the businessman Heinrich Friedrich Faesi, Robert Faesi was born into a well established and affluent Zürich family.After successfully completing his schooling, he initially studied Law, before switching to German studies. ![]()
Biography of Henri Le Fauconnier (excerpt)
Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings. ![]()
Biography of Roman Bohnen (excerpt)
Roman Aloys Bohnen (November 24, 1901 – February 24, 1949) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Of Mice and Men (1939), The Song of Bernadette (1943), and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). ![]()
Biography of Bernard Malamud (excerpt)
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.
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Biography of Mary Church Terrell (excerpt)
Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC.
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Biography of Ethel Catherwood (excerpt)
Ethel Hannah Catherwood (April 28, 1908 – September 26, 1987) was a Canadian athlete. Born in Hannah, North Dakota, United States, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she excelled at baseball, basketball and track and field athletics.
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Biography of Karl Vollmöller (excerpt)
Karl Gustav Vollmöller (or Vollmoeller; 7 May 1878 – 18 October 1948) was a German philologist, archaeologist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and aircraft designer. He is most famous for the elaborate religious spectacle-pantomime The Miracle and the screenplay for the celebrated 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel), which made a star of Marlene Dietrich.
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Biography of François Balsan (excerpt)
François Balsan, born June 25, 1902 in Châteauroux and died November 25, 1972 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French industrialist, explorer, ethnographer and writer, president of the Society of French explorers. Some of his works have been published under the pseudonym of Jacques Termant.
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Biography of Pierre Cathala (excerpt)
Pierre Cathala (1888 (birth certificate n° 49) – 1947) was a French politician. He served as the French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944. Pierre Cathala was born on 22 September 1888 in Montfort-sur-Meu, Brittany, France. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, and in Bayonne where he became friends with Pierre Laval.
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Biography of August Momber (excerpt)
August Momber (born May 16, 1886 in Danzig, † May 17, 1969 in Karlsruhe) was a German actor and director.He was a student of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.Momber worked as a lecturer at the theater college in Leipzig, among others.
Biography of Pericle Patocchi (excerpt)
Pericle Patocchi, born March 11, 1911 in Lugano and died April 13, 1968 in Leukerbad, is a Swiss writer and teacher. Pericle Patocchi was born in Lugano, to a Swiss father and an Italian mother of Spanish origin.He was educated in Varese and Milan, but from 1926 he attended the College of Sion where he graduated.
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Biography of Monica Wichfeld (excerpt)
Monica Emily Wichfeld (née Massy-Beresford; 12 July 1894 – 27 February 1945) was a leading member of the Danish resistance during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War. Arrest, imprisonment and death In late 1942 telephone transmissions between Jacob and other resistance members were intercepted by Gestapo wiretaps and led to the arrest of Jacob in Århus. ![]()
Biography of Henri Deglane (excerpt)
Henri Deglane (22 June 1902 – 7 July 1975) was a French wrestler.He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and AWA World Champion. In May 1931, Deglane faced Ed "Strangler" Lewis for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in Montreal in a two-out-of-three falls match.
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Biography of Cyriel Buysse (excerpt)
Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer. Buysse married the Dutch widow Nelly Dyserinck in 1896 and spent winters in The Hague in the Netherlands, where his son René Cyriel was born in 1897, while staying at his rural estate in Afsnee in Belgium during summer.
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Biography of Marthe Tesson (excerpt)
Marthe Marie Tesson, born January 22, 1892 in Le Havre and died December 23, 1971 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French metalworker and a member of the French Resistance. She was elected to the municipal council of Bobigny in 1925.
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Biography of Bricktop (excerpt)
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984), better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.
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Biography of Esther Hill (excerpt)
Esther Marjorie Hill (May 29, 1895 – January 7, 1985) was a Canadian architect and the first woman to graduate in architecture from the University of Toronto (1920). Career Hill struggled during her early career because of her gender.Backlash was felt from men in the architecture business, and opportunities were lacking for Hill.
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Biography of Dona Drake (excerpt)
Dona Drake (November 15, 1914 – June 20, 1989) was an American singer, dancer, and film actress, known for her ethnic roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Often presenting herself as Mexican, she also performed under the names Una Novella and Rita Novella. ![]()
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 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 Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
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Biography of Émilienne Moreau-Évrard (excerpt)
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard (4 June 1898 – 5 January 1971) was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the "Brutus" Resistance network during World War II and later, a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. Moreover, she is one of only six women recipients of the Ordre de la Libération.
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Biography of Henri Adeline (excerpt)
Henri Adeline (born May 8, 1898 in Verdun - died May 1, 1971 in Châlons-sur-Marne) is a French general and resistance fighter. He fought in the ranks of the French army during the two world wars, and enlisted from 1943 in the maquis of Dordogne then, during the Liberation, fought in the southwest and against the German pockets of Royan and La Rochelle.
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Biography of Edmond Locard (excerpt)
Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle. ![]()
Biography of Cécile Sauvage (excerpt)
Cécile Sauvage, “poet of motherhood”, is a French woman of letters, born in La Roche-sur-Yon on July 20, 1883 and died in Paris on August 26, 1927. A student at the Lycée de Digne, she sent a manuscript Les Trois Muses to La Revue forézienne, whose editor was Pierre Messiaen. |
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