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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Eva Jessye (excerpt)
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor.She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance.She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
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Biography of Ilektra Apostolou (excerpt)
Ilektra Apostolou (Greek: Ηλέκτρα Αποστόλου, 1912 - 26 July 1944) was a member of the Young Communist League of Greece, United Panhellenic Organization of Youth and the Communist Party of Greece, participating in the Greek Resistance. She was also a proponent of woman's rights.
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Biography of Severo Ochoa (excerpt)
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Biography of Fernand Desvagers (excerpt)
Fernand Desvagers, born June 8, 1915 in La Fresnais, died September 28, 1956 in Dinan, was a French marine rifleman.He took part in the landing on the beach at Colleville-sur-Orne on June 6, 1944.On November 1, 1944, he landed at Flushing, on the island of Walcheren.
Biography of Ida Danis (excerpt)
Ida Danis, born 18 February 1893 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actress, known for her roles in silent films. She was the sister of director Pierre Danis. She passed away at the age of 28 from tuberculosis in Arcachon on April 9, 1921. ![]()
Biography of Victor Jory (excerpt)
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Biography of Armel Guerne (excerpt)
Armel Guerne, born in Morges (Switzerland) on April 1, 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) on October 9, 1980, is a French-language poet and translator, of a Swiss father and a French mother. During World War II, he was a member of the Prosper-PHYSICIAN network of the British secret service Special Operations Executive, alongside Francis Suttill "Prosper", the head of the network.
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Biography of Elizabeth McCombs (excerpt)
Elizabeth Reid McCombs (née Henderson, 19 November 1873 – 7 June 1935) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919.
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Biography of Jacques Canetti (excerpt)
Nessim Jacques Canetti (30 May 1909, Ruse, Bulgaria – 7 June 1997, Suresnes) was a French music executive and a talent agent.Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Mathilde (Mazal) (née Arditti) Canetti.He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905–1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911–1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute. ![]()
Biography of Kurt Kreuger (excerpt)
Kurt Kreuger (July 23, 1916 – July 12, 2006) was a Swiss-reared German actor.Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox.He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Personal life Kreuger was a successful real estate investor, primarily in properties in Beverly Hills, California.
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Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
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Biography of Maria Blondeau (excerpt)
Maria Blondeau, born Émélie Blondeau 4 June 1873 in La Neuvillette (Marne) and died on May 1, 18911 in Fourmies, was a worker in a cotton mill, considered the most emblematic figure of the deaths of the Fourmies shooting in 1891.
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Biography of Bill Bowerman (excerpt)
William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
Biography of Michel de Camaret (excerpt)
Michel de Camaret, born January 18, 1915 in Vienna and died June 24, 1987, is a soldier, resistant, free French, diplomat, and French politician, member of the National Front (FN). He is a Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Arnoldo Foà (excerpt)
Arnoldo Foà OMRI (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer.He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014. Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foà was an atheist in his adult life.
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Biography of Curt Sachs (excerpt)
Curt Sachs, born June 29, 1881, and died February 5, 1959, was a German musicologist and a founder of modern organology, the study of musical instruments.He co-created the Hornbostel–Sachs system with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied music but earned a doctorate in art history.
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Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War. ![]()
Biography of Ilse Stöbe (excerpt)
Ilse Frieda Gertrud Stöbe (17 May 1911 in Berlin – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Life Ilse Stöbe grew up in a working-class home in Berlin.Stöbe was the only daughter of carpenter Max Stöbe and his wife Frieda, née Schumann.
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Biography of Silvio Zavala (excerpt)
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909, in Mérida, Yucatán.He studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, where he received a Ph.D.
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Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry.
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Biography of Victoria Ocampo (excerpt)
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 (her birth time had been displayed on the Spanish Wikipedia, without an original source.) – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual.Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
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Biography of Claude Cahun (excerpt)
Claude Cahun (born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. ![]()
Biography of Brian Donlevy (excerpt)
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s.He usually appeared in supporting roles.Among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942).
Biography of Roger Bastide (sports journalist) (excerpt)
Roger Jean Bastide, born June 2, 1917 in Marseille, died August 29, 1999, was a French sports journalist. ![]()
Biography of Albertina Rasch (excerpt)
Albertina Rasch (January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer. Career Rasch began performing before the age of fourteen.During the American “dance craze” of the 1910s, she left Vienna for the United States, appearing in shows at the New York Hippodrome, also known as “the National Amusement Institution of America” and the Winter Garden. ![]()
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 André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918. ![]()
Biography of Zenta Maurina (excerpt)
Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology.She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. Born to doctor Roberts Mauriņš, Zenta spent her childhood in Grobiņa, where, at the age of six, she contracted polio, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. ![]()
Biography of Fanny Cradock (excerpt)
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, known as Fanny Cradock, was an influential English television cook and writer, prominent from the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in Leytonstone, Essex, she became renowned for her television shows and cookbooks which popularized more elaborate cooking. With her fourth husband, Johnnie Cradock, she often portrayed a comic domestic dynamic that captivated audiences.
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Biography of Evert Taube (excerpt)
Axel Evert Taube (12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer.He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.
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Biography of Willy van Hemert (excerpt)
Willy van Hemert (29 March 1912 – 26 June 1993) was a Dutch actor and theatre and television director, but is best known as a songwriter who penned two winning Dutch songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Van Hemert was born in Utrecht in 1912 as Willem Catharinus van Hemert.
Biography of André de Richaud (excerpt)
André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer.After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away.
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Biography of Zofia Nalkowska (excerpt)
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 17 December 1954, in Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
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Biography of Sheila Sherlock (excerpt)
Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock DBE, FRCP FRCPE FRS HFRSE FMGA FCRGA (31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001) was a British physician and medical educator who is considered the major 20th-century contributor to the field of hepatology (the study of the liver).
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Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924.In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence.
Biography of Claude Bonnier (excerpt)
Claude Bonnier is an aeronautical engineer, French resistance fighter, born November 4, 1897 in Paris and died February 10, 1944 in Bouscat, in the suburbs of Bordeaux. Role in the Resistance He quickly joined the Resistance and settled first in Algiers then joined London in 1943.
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Biography of Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
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Biography of Vladimir Pozner (excerpt)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (Russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent.His family fled the pogroms to take up residence in France.Pozner expanded on his inherited cultural socialism to associate both in writing and politics with anti-fascist and communist groups in the inter-war period.
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Biography of Rex Bell (excerpt)
Rex Bell, born George Francis Beldam on October 16, 1903, was an American actor and politician, predominantly known for his roles in Western films. His film debut was in 1928's "Wild West Romance." Notably, he starred in the 1930 movie "True to the Navy," alongside Clara Bow, whom he married in 1931.
Biography of Georges Bergé (excerpt)
Georges Bergé (Belmont, January 3, 1909 - Mimizan, September 15, 1997) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying the Free French forces in 1940, he set up a company of French paratroopers with whom he carried out the first clandestine missions on occupied French territory.
Biography of Roger Bucher (excerpt)
Roger Bucher, born November 4, 1911 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), was an Army volunteer who became second-in-command rifleman to serve in the 1st BFMC.He was a member of the Kieffer commando. 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos was a Fusiliers Marins commando unit of the Free French Navy, raised in 1942, which served during the Second World War.
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Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten.They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
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Biography of Temple Bailey (excerpt)
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
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Biography of Sverre Matheson Halbo (excerpt)
Sverre Matheson Halbo (25 December 1899 – 27 July 1991) was a Norwegian jurist and officer. He was a genealogist and wrote several books about his family. He worked in the Norwegian Goldsmiths' Association for 36 years. Halbo helped start the national association Build your country after the end of the war in 1945 and was chairman of the board for 14 years in the association. ![]()
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical.Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
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Biography of Frits Went (excerpt)
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went ForMemRS (June 18, 1863 – July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist. Went was born in Amsterdam. He was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism. ![]()
Biography of Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St.Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956).
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Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years. |
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