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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Sady Zañartu (excerpt)
Sady Zañartu (May 6, 1893 – March 5, 1983) was a Chilean writer who created foundational works in the genres of Criollismo, historical anecdote, and patriotic valorization of the nation. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1974. Sady Zañartu, born in Taltal, Chile, was the younger of two sons to parents who were farmers and miners.
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Biography of Leonard Schapiro (excerpt)
Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro CBE (22 April 1908 in Glasgow – 2 November 1983 in London) was the leading British scholar of the origins and development of the Soviet political system. He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies.
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Biography of María Arias Bernal (excerpt)
María Arias Bernal, known as María Pistolas (1884–1923), was a Mexican schoolteacher and revolutionary agitator during the Mexican Revolution. Supporting President Francisco I. Madero until his assassination by Victoriano Huerta, Arias notably defended Madero’s tomb against Huerta's regime. She founded the Women's Loyalty Club to promote Madero's legacy and led protests.
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Biography of Robert de Saint Jean (excerpt)
Robert de Saint Jean (12 June 1901 – 16 January 1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like the latter, he kept a diary which he published and allows to understand the French cultural life over several decades.
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Biography of Sarmiza Bilcescu (excerpt)
Sarmiza or Sarmisegetuza or Sarmisa Bilcescu (later Bilcescu-Alimănişteanu; 27 April 1867 – 26 August 1935) was a Romanian lawyer, the first woman ever to study law and a PhD in law from the Faculty of Law of Paris (University of Paris), and the first one in her country to practice law.
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Biography of Anthony Warde (excerpt)
Anthony Warde (born Benjamin Schwartz; November 4, 1908 (Wikipedia has an error) – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in over 150 movies from 1937 to 1964. Early years Born as Benjamin Schwartz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day 1909, Warde was raised in Danbury, Connecticut. ![]()
Biography of Grace Coolidge (excerpt)
Grace Anna Coolidge, born Goodhue (1879-1957), was the wife of the 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and served as First Lady from 1923 to 1929. A University of Vermont graduate, she taught deaf children before marrying Calvin Coolidge in 1905. Known for avoiding politics, she focused on supporting causes like the Red Cross and remained active in public life, even after her son's death in 1924.
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Biography of Emil Schaudt (excerpt)
Johann Emil Schaudt, (* August 14, 1871 in Stuttgart; † April 6, 1957 in Berlin) was a German architect, predominantly designing commercial and administrative buildings in Hamburg and Berlin. / Life Schaudt studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna.
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Biography of Catherine Drinker Bowen (excerpt)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American biographer and writer. Born into a Quaker family on the Haverford College campus, she initially studied music but ultimately chose writing as her career. Despite having no formal writing education, she became a bestselling biographer, known for doing her own research and sometimes interviewing without taking notes.
Biography of Georges Blanck (excerpt)
Georges Blanck, born October 21, 1914 in Pierrefontaine-lès-Blamont (Doubs), died January 8, 1990, was a French aviator, fighter pilot and instructor.
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Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
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Biography of Fernando Tambroni (excerpt)
Fernando Tambroni Armaroli (25 November 1901 – 18 February 1963) was an Italian politician. A member of Christian Democracy, he served as the 36th Prime Minister of Italy from March to July 1960. He also served as Minister of the Interior from July 1955 until February 1959, Minister of Budget and Treasury from February 1959 to March 1960, and Minister of the Merchant Navy from August 1953 until July 1955.
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Biography of Avoth Yeshurun (excerpt)
Avoth Yeshurun (1904–1992; Hebrew אבות ישורון, born Yehiel Perlmutter) was a celebrated modern Hebrew poet and winner of the Israel Prize for literature in 1992. His time of birth comes from his daughter. Born on Yom Kippur in 1904 in Ukraine, he grew up speaking Yiddish and moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925, where he initially worked in various manual jobs.
Biography of Francine Mussey (excerpt)
Francine Mussey, born Marcelle Fromholt on October 6, 1897, in Paris 18th, and died on March 26, 1933, in Paris 15th, was a French actress. An actress who found success during the silent film era, Francine Mussey married Jean-Pierre Stock, one of the rowing champions.
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Biography of Waclaw Berent (excerpt)
Wacław Berent (Warsaw, 28 September 1878 (his time of birth comes from the biography Hanna Muszyńska-Hoffmann "In the circle of Berent") – 19 November or 22 November 1940, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.
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Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
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Biography of Lyne de Souza (excerpt)
Marie Émilienne Caisson, known as Lyne de Souza, was a French actress and music-hall artist. Born in Nice on February 24, 1914, she was crowned Miss Côte d'Azur in 1931 and Miss France in 1932. The daughter of a lawyer and a distant relative of Gabriel Fauré, she married Dr.
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Biography of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (excerpt)
Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia (Spanish: Don Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón-Segovia y Battenberg; French: Jacques Léopold Isabellin Henri Alexandre Albért Alphonse Victor Acace Pierre Paul Marie de Bourbon; 23 June 1908 – 20 March 1975) was the second son of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.
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Biography of Georges Fourest (excerpt)
Georges Fourest is a French writer and poet, born in Limoges on April 6, 1864, and died in Paris on January 25, 1945. Georges Fourest pursued law studies at the University of Toulouse, then in Paris, but did not practice as a lawyer, humorously declaring himself as a "lawyer.
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Biography of Hilda Anthony (excerpt)
Hilda Anthony (born Hilda Madeline Elizabeth Antonietti; July 13, 1886 – April 17, 1962) was a British actress born in Chile. She appeared in four silent films and numerous stage productions in London. Born in Santiago, Chile, to Italian music professor Daniele Antonietti and British musician Grace Emma Bolton Antonietti, her family was deeply rooted in the arts.
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Biography of Paulette Nardal (excerpt)
Paulette Nardal, born on October 12, 1896, in Le François, Martinique, and died on February 16, 1985, in Fort-de-France, was a French woman of letters and journalist. An activist for the black cause alongside her sister Jeanne, she was one of the inspirations behind the literary movement of Négritude and the first black woman to study at the Sorbonne.
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Biography of Per Aabel (excerpt)
Per Pavels Aabel (25 April 1902 – 22 December 1999) was a Norwegian actor, artist, dancer, choreographer and instructor. Per Aabel was the son of Hauk Aabel, a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film, and the actress Svanhild Johannessen.
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Biography of Alice Orlowski (excerpt)
Alice Orlowski (30 September 1903 – 21 May 1976) was a German concentration camp guard at several of the Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945) during World War II. After the war, a Polish court convicted of her crimes against humanity, and she served 10 years in prison in Poland.
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Biography of Jean Carmen (excerpt)
Jean Carmen, born Jean Carmean on April 7, 1913, was an American actress known for her work in film, stage, and radio. She used the stage name Julia Thayer at times. Carmen starred on Broadway in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and had notable roles in 1930s films, including the 1937 western serial "The Painted Stallion."
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Biography of Hans-Gustav Felber (excerpt)
Hans-Gustav Felber (July 8, 1889 – March 8, 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. From 15 October 1939 Felber was the chief of staff of the 2nd Army, becoming chief of staff of the Army Group Centre in February 1940.
Biography of Franz Hack (excerpt)
Franz Hack (February 3, 1915 - June 9, 1997) was a German officer who served in the Deutsches Heer (German Army) during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
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Biography of Art Lund (excerpt)
Arthur Lund (1915-1990) was an American baritone singer and actor. A graduate in aerological engineering, he began his career as a high school math teacher and musician, eventually working with Benny Goodman and Harry James. His solo hit "Mam'selle" topped the Billboard chart in 1947.
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Biography of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (excerpt)
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (22 October 1859 – 23 November 1949) was a member of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. He married Infanta María de la Paz of Spain and was also made an Infante of Spain.
Biography of Clarice Taylor (excerpt)
Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress. She is best known for playing Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son and the mother of Cliff Huxtable, Anna Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
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Biography of Margarete Buber-Neumann (excerpt)
Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
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Biography of Montagu Norman (excerpt)
Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. Son heure de naissance vient de Taeger Vol.
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Biography of Annie S. D. Maunder (excerpt)
Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) FRAS (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun's 11-year cycle. She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time.
Biography of Ilse Trautschold (excerpt)
Ilse Gertrud Trautschold (1906-1991) was a German actress and cabaret performer. Born in Charlottenburg, the daughter of an actor, she began her career as a choir singer at 14 and trained at the Volksbühne Berlin. She joined the leftist Berlin cabaret "Die Wespen" in 1926 and performed in various theaters and films during the Nazi era.
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Biography of Jean Brusselmans (excerpt)
Jean Brusselmans (13 June 1884 - 9 January 1953) was a Belgian painter. He developed his own style and, whereas he is often considered a representative of Flemish Expressionism, he refused to associate himself with any art movement. He was not very well known during his life, and had difficulties selling his work, but posthumously he was recognized as one of important Belgian painters of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Ferhat Abbas (excerpt)
Ferhat Abbas (24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence.
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Biography of Nadeschda Gernet (excerpt)
Nadeschda Gernet, also Nadezhda, Russian: Надежда Николаевна Гернет, (April 18, 1877 (gregorian calendar) – January 1, 1943), was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate. She extended the calculus of variations to further functions on the basis developed by her instructor, David Hilbert, and was one of the first to include inequalities in the calculus of variations.
Biography of Michele Saponaro (excerpt)
Michele Saponaro (San Cesario di Lecce, January 2, 1885 – Milan, October 28, 1959) was an Italian writer and biographer. After initially writing in a veristic style, with works like "Le novelle del verde" (Naples, Bideri, 1908, which was presented by Luigi Capuana), and the collection of autobiographical novellas "Rosolacci" (Ancona, Puccini, 1912), he ventured into novels with "La vigilia" (1914), "Peccato" (Milan, Treves, 1919), "Un uomo: l'adolescenza" (1924, 1925, 1983), "Io e mia moglie" (1928, 1929, 1930), "Il cerchio magico" (1939), and many others.
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Biography of María Enriqueta Camarillo (excerpt)
María Enriqueta Camarillo (also known as María Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra) (1872–1968) was a Mexican poet-novelist, short story writer and translator. She was widely recognized for her works, with schools and libraries named after her, as well as a bust by Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure erected in Hidalgo Park in Mexico City in her honor.
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Biography of María Martínez Sierra (excerpt)
María de la O Lejárraga García (December 28, 1874 – June 28, 1974), known by the pseudonym María Martínez Sierra, was a Spanish feminist writer, dramatist, translator, and politician. Born into a wealthy family in San Millán de la Cogolla, she later moved to Carabanchel Bajo.
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Biography of Gerrit Rietveld (excerpt)
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Born in Utrecht, he apprenticed with his joiner father and worked as a draughtsman. In 1917, he opened his furniture workshop and joined the De Stijl movement, creating iconic designs like the Red and Blue Chair.
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Biography of Maurits Sabbe (excerpt)
Maurits Sabbe, born Maurice Charles Marie Guillaume Sabbe (Bruges, 9 February 1873 – Antwerp, 12 February 1938), was a Flemish man of letters and educator who became curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Life He was a son of Julius Sabbe and the eldest of seven children.
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Biography of Antonio Guiteras (excerpt)
Antonio Guiteras y Holmes, a significant Cuban politician of the 1930s, was born on November 22, 1906, in Pennsylvania, USA. A fervent advocate of revolutionary socialism, he played a key role in the government formed after deposing Cuban President Gerardo Machado in 1933.
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Biography of Marguerite Young (excerpt)
Marguerite Vivian Young (August 26, 1908 – November 17, 1995) was an American novelist and academic. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. In her later years, she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors.
Biography of Julien Gouet (excerpt)
Julien Gouet, born on October 21, 1910, in Fillé and died on December 15, 1988, was a French Catholic priest who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Paris from 1966 until his death on December 15, 1988.
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Biography of Tito Guízar (excerpt)
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino, known professionally as Tito Guízar, born on April 8, 1908, and died on December 24, 1999, was a Mexican singer and actor. He was among the few Mexicans who made a mark in the early days of Hollywood, along with Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro, Lupe Vélez, and José Mojica.
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Biography of Lou Henry Hoover (excerpt)
Lou Hoover, born Henry (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944), was an American philanthropist, geologist, and First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as President Herbert Hoover's wife. An active community volunteer, she notably led the Girl Scouts of the USA and was an advocate for women's rights and independence. ![]()
Biography of Janis Rozentals (excerpt)
Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 - December 26, 1916) was a celebrated Latvian painter. Born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus, Courland, Russian Empire, he embarked on his career early in Riga and then at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. He set up an art studio in Saldus in 1899 but moved to Riga in 1901.
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Biography of Regina Ullmann (excerpt)
Regina "Rega" Ullmann (14 December 1884 – 6 January 1961) was a Swiss poet and writer. Life Ullmann was the second daughter of a Jewish-Austrian embroidery businessman, Richard Ullmann, and his German wife Hedwig. She was born in the Swiss town of St.
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Biography of Ragnhild Butenschøn (excerpt)
Ragnhild Butenschøn (21 September 1912 – 3 September 1992) was a renowned Norwegian sculptor known for her church art. Born in Kristiania, she lost her mother at eleven and was raised by relatives. Trained by Vilmos Aba-Novák in Budapest and Wilhelm Rasmussen in Oslo, she married publisher Barthold A.
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Biography of Francis Popy (excerpt)
François Joseph Popy, known as Francis Popy, was a French composer born on July 1, 1874, in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon and died in Belleville (now Belleville-en-Beaujolais) on January 29, 1928. His music is representative of the Belle Époque. The Later Years |
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