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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 Annot (artist) (excerpt)
Annot, born Anna Ottilie Krigar-Menzel on December 27, 1894, in Berlin, was a German painter, art teacher, art writer, and pacifist. Descending from a family of academics and artists, she pursued artistic training in Berlin and became involved in avant-garde art groups. ![]()
Biography of Louella Parsons (excerpt)
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She was the first writer of a dedicated column on motion pictures in the United States, writing one in 1914 for the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Biography of Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (excerpt)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (1885–1964) was a German astronomer and a pupil of Felix Klein.He collaborated with Albert Einstein and proposed experiments to test the general theory of relativity through astronomical observations of gravitational redshift. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic and Göttingen University.
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Biography of Emily Murphy (excerpt)
Emily Murphy was a trailblazing Canadian writer and the first female magistrate in the British Empire, celebrated for her advocacy for women's rights. Born into a family of legal professionals in 1868, she honed her legal acumen early on. The third of six children, her family's influence included a Supreme Court judge and a senator, which immersed her in legal debates from a young age.
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Biography of Karel Zeman (excerpt)
Karel Zeman (November 3, 1910 – April 5, 1989) was a Czech animator and director known for his innovative animated films. After studying in France and working in advertising, he returned to Czechoslovakia and began creating animated films with puppets for brands like BATA and Tatra.
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Biography of David Webster (opera manager) (excerpt)
Sir David Lumsden Webster KCVO FRCM (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970. He played a key part in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies.
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Biography of Mario Zagari (excerpt)
Mario Zagari (14 September 1913 – 29 February 1996) was an Italian socialist politician, who served in the Italian Parliament and in the European parliament as well as in the Italian governments in various capacities. Early life and education Zagari was born in Milan on 14 September 1913. ![]()
Biography of Aldo Fabrizi (excerpt)
Aldo Fabrizi, born Aldo Fabbrizi on November 1, 1905, and passing on April 2, 1990, was an acclaimed Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and comedian. Best known for his role as the priest in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist drama "Rome, Open City," and for his comedic partnerships with Totň, Fabrizi began his career on stage in 1931 in Rome.
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Biography of Jacob Israël de Haan (excerpt)
Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 – 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish writer, lawyer, and journalist who moved to Palestine in 1919, becoming more religious and the political spokesman for the Haredim in Jerusalem. He was assassinated in 1924 by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah due to his anti-Zionist activities. ![]()
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 Théophile Moreux (excerpt)
Théophile Moreux, known as Abbé Moreux, born on November 20, 1867, in Argent-sur-Sauldre and died on July 13, 1954, in Bourges, was a French priest, astronomer, and meteorologist. He is famous for his numerous popular science publications in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Léontine Zanta (excerpt)
Léontine Zanta, born on February 14, 1872, in Mâcon, and died on June 15, 1942, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French educator, journalist, novelist, and speaker.She was notably the first French woman to earn a doctorate in philosophy in 1914. Her father was a professor who ensured she received a philosophy education.
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Biography of W. Nelson Francis (excerpt)
W. Nelson Francis (October 23, 1910 – June 14, 2002) was an American author, linguist, and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University, where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics.
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Biography of Jean Decoux (excerpt)
Jean Decoux (5 May 1884 – 21 October 1963) was a French Navy admiral who was the Governor-General of French Indochina from July 1940 to 9 March 1945, representing the Vichy French government. Tributes and Legacy A street in Bétheny, in the Marne department, honors the memory of Jean Decoux in a neighborhood named after illustrious sailors.
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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 Friedel Apelt (excerpt)
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED).During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee.
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Biography of Lou Bandy (excerpt)
Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (April 19, 1890 – June 24, 1959), known as Lou Bandy, was a popular Dutch singer and conferencier between the world wars. Raised in The Hague, he worked various jobs before starting his entertainment career in 1915. Initially performing with his brother as The Bandy Brothers, he later pursued a solo career.
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Biography of Raffaele Bendandi (excerpt)
Raffaele Bendandi (1893–1979), an Italian clockmaker, was known for his earthquake predictions. Self-taught, he became interested in planetary motion and seismology after witnessing a solar eclipse in 1905. Bendandi theorized, without scientific backing, that earthquakes were caused by planetary alignments. He gained fame for his predictions, notably the one in 1924, which missed by two days.
Biography of Francesco Marzolo (engineer) (excerpt)
Francesco Marzolo (February 2, 1892 – Padua, September 2, 1982) was an Italian engineer. Starting from the academic year 1930-31, he became a professor, alongside his brother-in-law Ettore Scimemi, appointed to the Chair of Technical Hydraulics at the University of Padua, later renamed Hydraulic Constructions.
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Biography of Louis Davids (excerpt)
Louis Davids, born Simon David on December 19, 1883, in Rotterdam, was a seminal figure in Dutch entertainment as an actor, singer, and comedian. He began performing at a young age in Groningen and achieved early fame as a child prodigy. Alongside his sister Rika, he formed a successful duo, performing across the Netherlands and later, with his subsequent duo partners, including his second sister Henriëtte and later his partner Margareth Whitefoot, known as Margie Morris.
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Biography of Hans Thirring (excerpt)
Hans Thirring (23 March 1888 – 22 March 1976) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. His approximate time of birth comes from Sandra Belcsak.
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Biography of August Bach (excerpt)
August Bach (30 August 1897 – 23 March 1966) was a German politician who led the Christian Democratic Union in East Germany from 1958 to 1966. August Bach was born in Rheydt.From 1915 to 1918 he served in German army.After the War he studied History at the University of Berlin.
Biography of Ernest Sacquépée (excerpt)
Ernest Eugčne Joseph Sacquépée was born on March 14, 1874, in Nielles-lčs-Ardres, to Ernest Louis Frédéric Sacquépée, a teacher, and Hubertine Henriette Philomčne Callart. He resided in Moulle. Ernest began his career as a student at the military health school in Lyon, voluntarily enlisting for three years on November 6, 1893.
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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.Gallen, but in 1902, following her father's death in 1887, she and her mother moved to Munich, where she first read such influential poets such Ina Seidel, Hans Carossa, Ludwig Derleth and Rainer Maria Rilke. ![]()
Biography of Ramón Acín (excerpt)
Ramón Acín Aquilué (August 30, 1888, Huesca, Aragon, Spain – August 6, 1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, painter, sculptor, writer, and avant-garde artist murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. A friend of director Luis Buńuel, Acín funded and co-produced "Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932).
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Biography of Suhayr al-Qalamawi (excerpt)
Sahier al-Qalamawi (Arabic: سهير القلماوي; July 20, 1911 – May 4, 1997) was a significant literary figure and politician from Egypt who shaped Arabic writing and culture through her writing, feminist activism, and advocacy. She was one of the first women to attend Cairo University and in 1941 became the first Egyptian woman to earn her Master of Arts Degree and PhD for her work in Arabic literature.
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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.
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Biography of Thurman Tucker (excerpt)
Thurman Lowell Tucker (September 26, 1917 – May 7, 1993) was an American professional baseball player. A center fielder, Tucker played in Major League Baseball for nine seasons in the American League with the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. In 701 career games, Tucker recorded a batting average of .255 and accumulated 24 triples, nine home runs, and 179 runs batted in (RBI).
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Biography of Walter Ruttmann (excerpt)
Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis.
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Biography of Jack Pickford (excerpt)
John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933), known professionally as Jack Pickford, was a Canadian-American actor, film director and producer.He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford. After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children began working as child actors on the stage.
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Biography of Smith Ely Jelliffe (excerpt)
Smith Ely Jelliffe (October 27, 1866 – September 25, 1945) was an American neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst based in New York City. After initial training in botany and pharmacy, he transitioned to neurology in the mid-1890s and later delved into psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
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Biography of Anna de Waal (excerpt)
Anna de Waal (25 November 1906, Culemborg – 22 March 1981, Arnhem), was a Dutch politician (Catholic party) and geographer. She was state secretary of education in 1953–1957. De Waal was the first female government secretary or minister in the Netherlands. ![]()
Biography of Akira Ifukube (excerpt)
Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, May 31, 1914 – February 8, 2006) was a renowned Japanese composer, famously known for scoring several Godzilla movies and creating the monster's iconic roar. His birth time comes from an online biography at akiraifukube.org which is currently unavailable.
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Biography of Alf Lřvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Lřvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Lřvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strřm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
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Biography of Clare Winger Harris (excerpt)
Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891 – October 26, 1968) was a pioneering science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines.
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Biography of Véra Sergine (excerpt)
Véra Sergine (Marie Roche) was a French actress, born Marie, Marguerite, Aimée Roche, on August 18, 1884, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and died on August 19, 1946, in Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes). Véra Sergine was born at 88 Rue Claude Bernard at 11 o'clock in the evening.
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Biography of Cat Thompson (excerpt)
John Ashworth "Cat" Thompson (February 10, 1906 – October 7, 1990) was an American basketball player. He won the Utah state championship with Dixie High School team and finished second in the High School National Tournament in 1925.In college, he played for 3 seasons for Montana State, during which time his team had a record of 102-11.
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Biography of Pat O'Dea (excerpt)
Patrick John "Kangaroo Kicker" O'Dea (16 March 1872 – 5 April 1962) was an Australian rules and American football player and coach. An Australian by birth, O'Dea played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
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Biography of Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao (excerpt)
Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (29 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós.
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Biography of Paolo Fortunati (excerpt)
Paolo Fortunati, born on April 26, 1906, in Talmassons and passed away on January 27, 1980, in Bologna, was an Italian politician and statistician. He graduated in law from the University of Padua in 1927 and became a professor of statistics at the Universities of Ferrara and Palermo, eventually becoming a full professor and director of the Statistics Institute at the University of Bologna.
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Biography of Claude Sainval (excerpt)
Claude Sainval was a French director, theater manager, and actor, born Claude Duxbury Mac Connel in Strasburg, Germany (Wikipedia makes a mistake) on August 13, 1911, and died in Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle (Gard) on March 28, 1994. The son of Olivier Duxbury Mac Connel and Marianne Mac Connel, née Ungemach, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Fénelon and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
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Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S.16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
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Biography of Margo Scharten-Antink (excerpt)
Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma").
Biography of André Even (painter) (excerpt)
André Even, born on May 16, 1918, in Pont-Aven and died on March 14, 1997, in Lorient, was a French painter.Initially trained as a mechanic, he discovered painting through artists visiting his father's shop. During World War II, he left Pont-Aven and became a missionary.
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Biography of Arnold Heim (excerpt)
Arnold Heim, born on March 20, 1882, in Zurich and died on May 27, 1965, in the same city, was a Swiss geologist. The son of geologist Albert Heim and physician and writer Marie Heim-Vögtlin, he conducted pioneering studies on the links between sedimentation and tectonics at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sauvage (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, born in 1908 and passed away in 1991, was a French Catholic bishop who led the diocese of Annecy from 1962 to 1987. Initially a teacher and seminary superior, he was appointed by Pope John XXIII shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
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Biography of Silvan Tomkins (excerpt)
Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory. Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
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Biography of Horst Caspar (excerpt)
Horst Joachim Arthur Caspar, born January 20, 1913, in Radegast, Germany, was a distinguished German actor recognized for his theatre and film work during the 1930s and 1940s. Despite being part-Jewish under the Nazi regime, he continued his acting career with protection from influential figures.
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Biography of Angela Piskernik (excerpt)
Angela Piskernik (27 August 1886 – 23 December 1967) was an Austro-Yugoslav botanist and conservationist, noted for her efforts in natural preservation.Born in Bad Eisenkappel, Southern Carinthia, Austria, she earned a Ph.D.in botany from the University of Vienna. Her work spanned teaching in secondary schools and working for the museum in Ljubljana.
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Biography of Evert Rinsema (excerpt)
Evert Rinsema, born on August 28, 1880, in Gorredijk and died on July 4, 1958, in Heerenveen, was a Dutch cobbler and poet closely associated with the De Stijl art movement. Brother to the visual artist Thijs Rinsema, he lived in Drachten and spent his free time immersed in the works and biographies of great philosophers. |
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