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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 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.
Biography of Werner Zimmermann (excerpt)
Werner Zimmermann (born June 21, 1893, in Lyss; died August 29, 1982, in Ringgenberg) was a Swiss life reformer, follower of Silvio Gesell's Freiwirtschaft economic theory, naturist, and writer. His time of birth comes from von Klöckner in "Sterne und Mensch".
Biography of Ildebrando Pizzetti (excerpt)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, musicologist, and music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880.He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella.
Biography of Federico Borrell (excerpt)
Federico Borrell García (3 January 1912 – 5 September 1936) was a Spanish Republican and anarchist militiaman during the Spanish Civil War, believed to be the subject in Robert Capa's famous photo, The Falling Soldier. Born in Benilloba, he worked at a mill in Alcoi and founded a local branch of the anarchist FIJL.
Biography of Gilberto Owen (excerpt)
Gilberto Owen Estrada, born on May 13, 1904, in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, was a renowned poet and diplomat. He spent his early years in Toluca and moved to Mexico City in 1923, where he worked in the Secretaría de la Presidencia and became a part of the influential group Los Contemporáneos.
Biography of Cornelia Sorabji (excerpt)
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer.She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University.Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system.
Biography of Henri Lebasque (excerpt)
Henri Lebasque, born on September 25, 1865 in Champigné and died on August 7, 1937 in Le Cannet, was a French painter and engraver. Coming from a humble background, he studied in Angers before moving to Paris and enrolling at the Académie Colarossi.
Biography of Alberto Vargas (excerpt)
Alberto Vargas is a Peruvian painter, illustrator and designer, born February 11, 1896 in Arequipa and died December 30, 1982 in Los Angeles.He is particularly known for his drawings of pin-ups. Alberto Vargas, born in Arequipa, was the son of a successful photographer.
Biography of Jean Périer (excerpt)
Jean Périer was a French actor and singer born on February 2, 1869, in Paris and passed away on November 1, 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was the first performer of the role of Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy in 1902.
Biography of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (excerpt)
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.Born into Siena's aristocracy, his early research focused on Etruscan centers near his family lands. Disgusted by Italian fascism, he converted to communism after World War II and co-founded the magazine "Società" in 1945.
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.
Biography of Sara Berner (excerpt)
Sara Berner (born Lillian Ann Herdan; January 12, 1912 – December 19, 1969) was an American actress.Known for her expertise in dialect and characterization, she began her career as a performer in vaudeville before becoming a voice actress for radio and animated shorts.
Biography of Annie M.G. Schmidt (excerpt)
Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt (20 May 1911 – 21 May 1995) was a Dutch writer.She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers.
Biography of Josep Maria Sert (excerpt)
Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Barcelona, 21 December 1874 – 27 November 1945, buried in the Vic Cathedral) was a Spanish muralist, the son of an affluent textile industry family, and friend of Salvador Dalí. He was particularly known for his grisaille style, often in gold and black.
Biography of Ernst Gall (excerpt)
Ernst Emil Max Gall, born on February 17, 1888, in Danzig, West Prussia, and died on August 5, 1958, in Munich, was a German art historian and monument restorer. He studied law in France and art history in Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1915.
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.
Biography of Albert van der Heide (politician) (excerpt)
Albert van der Heide (Leeuwarden, April 7, 1872 - The Hague, July 29, 1953), baptized Albertinus, was a Dutch socialist pastor and later a member of the Tweede Kamer. In his youth, he was part of the Frisian movement and a friend of Dirk Troelstra.
Biography of Harold Abrahams (excerpt)
Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics, a victory famously depicted in the film Chariots of Fire.
Biography of Liliana Amon (excerpt)
Liliana Amon, born Maria Liliana Brandstetter on June 23, 1892 in Linz, was an Austrian writer and muse. A model for Egon Schiele in 1909, she was also portrayed in literary works by Robert Musil and Franz Werfel. Active in Vienna’s artistic circles, she frequented cafés and met figures like Franz Werfel and Anton Kuh, who wrote the "Ten Commandments of Bibiana" inspired by her.
Biography of René Montis (excerpt)
René Montis, stage name of René Émile Louis Maunoury, was a French actor and producer, born on December 20, 1888 in Pantin and died on March 2, 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. An actor until the early 1930s, René Montis later became a production director and producer.
Biography of Simone Michel-Lévy (excerpt)
Simone Michel-Lévy, born on January 19, 1906, in Chaussin and hanged on April 13, 1945, in Flossenbürg, was a prominent figure in the French Resistance during World War II. Starting her career in the PTT (Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Services) in 1924, she used her position to establish a secret information agency within the Regional Telephone Directorate in Paris.
Biography of Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.
Biography of Jan Tinbergen (excerpt)
Jan Tinbergen (12 April 1903 – 9 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
Biography of Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (excerpt)
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (2 May 1897 – 16 January 1989) was a Dutch economist, feminist and radio broadcaster. As the first woman to attain a doctorate in economics in the Netherlands, her work focused on the impact of working women on the economy.
Biography of Johan Carp (excerpt)
Johan Herman Carp (19 July 1893 – 18 November 1979) was a Dutch national socialist lawyer and influential ideologue within the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in the Netherlands. Before World War II, Carp was a department head in the provincial government of South Holland and evolved into a key theorist and personal advisor to NSB leader Anton Mussert.
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.
Biography of Francisco Ferrer (excerpt)
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
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.
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.
Biography of Antonia Maymón (excerpt)
Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez (18 July 1881 – 20 December 1959) was a Spanish rationalist pedagogue, militant naturist, anarchist, and feminist who published books on various topics. Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez was born to a family from Aragon.She studied to be a teacher in the 'Escuela Normal Femenina' of Zaragoza, a city where she also married professor Lorenzo Lagoon, an anarchist.
Biography of Mary Carlisle (excerpt)
Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter; February 3, 1914 – August 1, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her roles in 1930s musical-comedy films. She starred in over 60 Hollywood films, gaining attention in 1932 as a WAMPAS Baby Star.
Biography of Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, KCVO, JP, DL (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20. Honours Acton was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Member (fourth class) in 1901.
Biography of Harald of Denmark (excerpt)
Prince Harald of Denmark (Harald Christian Frederik; 8 October 1876 – 30 March 1949) was a member of the Danish Royal Family. He was the third son and fourth child of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Lovisa of Sweden, and thus brother to Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway.
Biography of Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (excerpt)
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
Biography of Arthur Biram (excerpt)
Arthur Yitzhak Biram, born on August 13, 1878, in Bischofswerda, Saxony, was a German-born Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator. He studied languages and philosophy at the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig, where he earned a doctorate in 1902. Biram founded the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1913 and served as its first principal.
Biography of André Nicolle (excerpt)
André Nicolle is a French actor born June 1, 1885 in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, city where he died on February 25, 1945 at his home in the 16th arrondissement.
Biography of Joseph Sullivan (British politician) (excerpt)
Joseph Sullivan (16 September 1866 – 13 February 1935) was a Scottish Labour Party politician, MP from 1922 to 1924 and 1926 to 1931.Born in Glasgow to Irish parents, he worked as a coal miner and became a prominent figure in the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union.
Biography of Gerty Cori (excerpt)
Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.
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.
Biography of Alice Zeppilli (excerpt)
Alice Zeppilli (28 August 1881 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists 1885) – 14 September 1969) was a French operatic soprano of Italian heritage who had an active international singing career from 1901 to 1930. The pinnacle of her career was in the United States where she enjoyed great popularity between 1906 and 1914; particularly in the cities of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
Biography of Renate Müller (excerpt)
Renate Müller (26 April 1906 – 7 October 1937) was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage. One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi Party to appear in films that promoted their ideals, but refused.
Biography of Santiago Rusiñol (excerpt)
Santiago Rusiñol y Prats (Barcelona, February 25, 1861-Aranjuez, June 13, 1931) was a prominent painter of Catalan modernism, as well as a Spanish writer and playwright who wrote in Catalan. Coming from a textile industrial family, he studied painting in Barcelona before living in Paris at Montmartre with Ramón Casas and Ignacio Zuloaga.
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 Alfredo Varelli (excerpt)
Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 13 August 1914 (Wikipedia and IMDb have 31 August) – 18 August 1996) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Varelli was born Alfredo Ciavarella and debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film Vecchia guardia.
Biography of Germán Valdés (excerpt)
Germán Genaro Cipriano Teodoro Gómez Valdés y Castillo (19 September 1915 – 29 June 1973), known professionally as Tin-Tan, was a Mexican actor, singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.
Biography of George Dantzig (excerpt)
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and for his other work with linear programming.
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 Buñuel, Acín funded and co-produced "Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932).
Biography of Neil Munro (writer) (excerpt)
Neil Munro (April 2, 1864 (Wikipedia has a mistake) – December 22, 1930) was a Scottish journalist, editor, author, and critic. Initially recognized for serious literature, Munro is best known today for humorous stories about characters like Captain Para Handy of the Vital Spark.
Biography of Jan Romein (excerpt)
Jan Marius Nicolas Romein (30 October 1893 – 16 July 1962) was a Dutch historian, journalist, literary scholar and professor of history at the University of Amsterdam. A Marxist and a student of Huizinga, Romein is remembered for his popularizing books of Dutch national history, jointly authored with his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor.
Biography of Max Bense (excerpt)
Max Bense, a German philosopher, publicist, and writer (7 February 1910 in Strasbourg – 29 April 1990 in Stuttgart), was known for integrating the natural sciences, art, and philosophy in his work. He aimed to unite humanities and natural sciences through his concept of existential rationalism. |
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