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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 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.
Biography of Mary Hallaren (excerpt)
Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was an American soldier and the third director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) at the time that it became a part of the United States Army.As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the U.S.
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.
Biography of Elisabeth Schumacher (excerpt)
Elisabeth Schumacher (née Hohenemser; 28 April 1904 – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a German artist, photographer. and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the Berlin based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Abwehr, during the Third Reich.
Biography of Madeleine Barot (excerpt)
Madeleine Barot (4 July 1909 in Châteauroux – 28 December 1995 in Paris) was a French activist and theologian, who was influential in Protestant, humanist, and human rights movements.
Biography of Erwin Villain (excerpt)
Erwin Karl Fritz Villain (born on November 3, 1898, in Berlin-Treptow; † July 1, 1934, in Berlin-Lichterfelde) was a German doctor and a leader in the SA.He was among those killed during the so-called Röhm Putsch. Erwin Villain grew up in Köpenick, son of the deputy headmaster Robert Villain.
Biography of Elena Fortún (excerpt)
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo (November 18, 1886, Madrid – May 8, 1952, Madrid) was a Spanish author of children's literature known by her pen name Elena Fortún. She gained fame with her series starting with "Celia, lo que dice" (1929), which became classics of Spanish literature.
Biography of Kate Jordan (excerpt)
Kate Jordan (23 December 1862 – 20 June 1926) was an Irish-American novelist and playwright. Early life and education Kate Jordan was born in Dublin on 23 December 1862.She was the daughter of the academic, Michael James Jordan, and Catherine Jordan (née Mulvey).
Biography of Salote Tupou III (excerpt)
Salote Tupou III, born on March 13, 1900, in Nukuʻalofa (Tonga) and died on December 16, 1965, in Auckland (New Zealand), was the Queen of Tonga from 1918 to 1965. Born in 1900, Salote Tupou III was the daughter of King George Tupou II and his first wife, Lavinia Veiongo, who passed away in 1902.
Biography of Amado Nervo (excerpt)
Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator.He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism.
Biography of Carl Oberg (excerpt)
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.
Biography of Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904.She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary.
Biography of William Goyen (excerpt)
Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence his work for his entire life. In World War II he served as an officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific, where he began work on one of his most important and critically acclaimed books, The House of Breath.
Biography of Achille Paroche (excerpt)
Nicolas Achille Paroche (born March 1, 1868, in Sery, Ardennes, and died May 27, 1933, in Signy-l'Abbaye) was a French sport shooter who won Olympic medals and world championships in rifle and pistol shooting. Initially a soldier, he excelled at the 1900 Paris Olympics, winning four medals.
Biography of Lilla Hansen (excerpt)
Lilla Georgine Hansen (1 April 1872 - 11 June 1962) was Norway's first female architect. Background Georgine Marie Hansen was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Georg Martin Hansen (1828-1915) and Maren Paulowna Victoria Bülow (1838-1898).She studied at the Royal Drafting School (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) under Herman Major Schirmer, graduating in 1894.
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.
Biography of Marjorie Grene (excerpt)
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 - March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher who focused on existentialism and the philosophy of science, particularly biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978 and was an Honorary University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech from 1988 until her death.
Biography of Gabriel Narutowicz (excerpt)
Gabriel Józef Narutowicz, born into a Polish noble family on March 29, 1865 and assassinated on December 16, 1922, was the first President of Poland, serving from December 11, 1922, for only five days. A distinguished hydroelectric engineer, he led the construction of Europe's first hydroelectric power plants and was a professor in Zurich.
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.
Biography of Vahida Maglajlic (excerpt)
Vahida Maglajlić (17 April 1907 – 1 April 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan recognized as a People's Hero of Yugoslavia for her part in the struggle against the Axis powers during World War II. She was the only Bosnian Muslim woman to receive the order.
Biography of Beverly Cleary (excerpt)
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950.
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.
Biography of Priscilla Lane (excerpt)
Priscilla Lane (born Priscilla Mullican; June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995) was an American actress, and the youngest sibling in the Lane Sisters' family of singers and actresses. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties (1939) co-starring with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Saboteur (1942), an Alfred Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine; and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), in which she portrays Cary Grant's fiancée and bride.
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.
Biography of Franz Radziwill (excerpt)
Johann Franz Wilhelm Eduard Radziwill (* 6.Februar 1895 in Strohausen, heute Rodenkirchen in der Wesermarsch; † 12.August 1983 in Wilhelmshaven) war ein deutscher Künstler des Magischen Realismus.Sein Œuvre umfasst verschiedene Schaffensperioden: ein expressionistisches Frühwerk, ein magisch-realistisches Hauptwerk und ein symbolistisches Spätwerk.
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.
Biography of Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Biography of E. B. White (excerpt)
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer.He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.
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.
Biography of Mary McLeod Bethune (excerpt)
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.
Biography of Arne Johnson (excerpt)
Arne Johnson (3 May 1907, Oslo – 12 July 1994, Oslo) was a Norwegian designer, illustrator, stamp artist and painter. He studied at the SHKS in Oslo and undertook study trips to Paris in 1930, to Berlin in 1932-1933, to London in 1934-1935, to Portugal and Italy in 1938 and to East Africa in 1972.
Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
Biography of Hermelinda Urvina (excerpt)
Hermelinda Urvina Mayorga (26 September 1905 – 20 September 2008) was an Ecuadorian pilot.She was the first Ecuadorian woman to obtain a pilot's license, issued in the United States in 1932. Personal life Urvina was born to José Belisario Urvina and Felicidad Mayorga in the city of Ambato, Ecuador on 26 September 1905.
Biography of Louis Gasnier (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously successful film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914) and capped his output with the notorious low-budget exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936) which was both a critical and box office failure.
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.
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.
Biography of Willibald Nagel (excerpt)
Willibald Nagel (19 June 1870 – 13 November 1911) was a German physiologist, best known for his work in the field of sensory physiology. Born in Tübingen, Nagel earned doctorates in sciences (1892) and medicine (1893), obtaining his habilitation two years later at the University of Freiburg as an assistant to physiologist Johannes von Kries.
Biography of Olga Sanfirova (excerpt)
Olga Aleksandrovna Sanfirova (2 May (O.S. 19 April) 1917 – 13 December 1944) was a captain and squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945, making her the first Tatar woman awarded the title.
Biography of Frederik IX of Denmark (excerpt)
Frederik IX (Danish: Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg; 11 March 1899 – 14 January 1972) was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972. Frederik was born into the House of Glücksburg during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX.
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 Eugène Ogé (excerpt)
Eugène Ogé (5 May 1861, Paris – 24 March 1936, Paris) was a French poster artist and illustrator. He began as an apprentice to Charles Verneau (1850-1950), a printer who specialized in posters, and became a lithographer.During this period he made the acquaintance of several notable poster artists, including Adolphe Léon Willette, Jean-Louis Forain and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Biography of Gloria Guinness (excerpt)
Gloria Guinness (née Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, August 27, 1912 – November 9, 1980) was a Mexican socialite and a contributing editor for Harper’s Bazaar from 1963 to 1971. A muse and friend of Truman Capote, she was photographed by Cecil Beaton and Slim Aarons and dressed by Balenciaga and Givenchy.
Biography of Otto Nagel (excerpt)
Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Berlin-Wedding, Nagel was the son of a carpenter and social democrat.
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.
Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
Biography of Martín Adán (excerpt)
Martín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a renowned Peruvian poet born on October 27, 1908, in Lima. Known for his profound and hermetic poetry, Adán faced alcoholism and financial struggles, with much of his later life spent in sanitariums.
Biography of Vicki Garvin (excerpt)
Victoria Garvin (December 18, 1915 – June 11, 2007) was an American political activist, Pan-Africanist, and self-described "working class internationalist." While growing up in a working-class family during the height of the Great Depression, Garvin was exposed early on to the realities of both proletariat and racial exploitation.
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.
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.
Biography of Otto Bartning (excerpt)
Otto Bartning (born 12 April 1883 in Karlsruhe; died 20 February 1959 in Darmstadt) was a Modernist German architect, architectural theorist and teacher. In his early career he developed plans with Walter Gropius for the establishment of the Bauhaus.He was a member of Der Ring. |
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