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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 André Strohl (excerpt)
André Strohl, born March 20, 1887, in Poitiers and died March 10, 1977, in Paris, was a French physician, co-discoverer of Guillain-Barré syndrome in 1916. Son of Henry Strohl, he was of Alsatian and Bordeaux descent and initially inclined towards sciences. A brilliant student, he earned degrees in natural sciences and physics before completing his doctorates in medicine in 1913 and physics in 1914.
Biography of Isabelle of Orléans (1878) (excerpt)
Princess Isabelle of Orléans (Isabelle Marie Laure Mercédès Ferdinande; 7 May 1878 – 21 April 1961) was a member of the French Orleanist royal family and Duchess of Guise by marriage. Born at Château d'Eu in France, she was the daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain.
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 Inez Asher (excerpt)
Inez Asher, born Inez Harriett Silverberg on January 1, 1911, was an American novelist and television writer.Her time of birth comes from her birth certificate, which lacks the exact hour but states that she was born on January 10, and from the local newspaper, which reports her birth on December 31, 1910.
Biography of William Tubbs (excerpt)
William Tubbs (May 10, 1907 – January 25, 1953) was an American stage and film actor.He appeared in a number of European films in the years after the Second World War, including several by Roberto Rossellini. Bibliography Bondanella, Peter.The Films of Roberto Rossellini.
Biography of Carlos Enríquez (excerpt)
Carlos Enríquez Gómez (August 3, 1900 – May 2, 1957), was a Cuban painter, illustrator and writer of the Vanguardia movement (the Cuban Avant-garde).Along with Víctor Manuel, Amelia Peláez, Fidelio Ponce, Antonio Gattorno, and other masters of this period, he was involved in one of the most fertile moments in Cuban culture.
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 Josephine White Bates (excerpt)
Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 20 October 1934) was a Canadian-American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of several works including A Blind Lead (1886), Bunch-Grass Stories (1892), and Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity (1912).
Biography of Fred M. Wilcox (excerpt)
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.
Biography of Enrique Iturriaga (excerpt)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero (born April 3, 1918, in Lima, Peru – died November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer, professor, pianist, rector, teacher, and music critic. Iturriaga studied composition, music theory, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music (1945-1950).He then continued his studies in Paris under Arthur Honegger.
Biography of Knut Blom (excerpt)
Knut Blom (February 14, 1916 – February 6, 1996) was a prominent Norwegian judge who served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1968 until his retirement in 1986. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he completed his law degree in 1939 and began his legal career in Melbu.
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer.Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929.Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
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.
Biography of Josip Murn (excerpt)
Josip Murn, also known as Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 – 18 June 1901), was a Slovene symbolist poet and a pioneer of modernism in Slovene literature alongside Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette. Born in Ljubljana, he was raised in foster care and later became a prominent poet, recognized for his high-quality work from a young age.
Biography of Adelqui Migliar (excerpt)
Adelqui Migliar (5 August 1891 – 6 August 1956), also known as Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954.
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 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 Andrea Palma (actress) (excerpt)
Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, professionally known as Andrea Palma, was a pioneering Mexican actress, born on April 16, 1903, and passing on October 6, 1987.She emerged as the first major female star of Mexican cinema after starring in "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934).
Biography of Arturo Uslar Pietri (excerpt)
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was a prominent Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, TV producer, and politician. Born in Caracas to parents with diverse cultural backgrounds, Uslar Pietri played a significant role in Venezuelan politics and culture.
Biography of Edmée Jarlaud (excerpt)
Edmée Jarlaud, born Edmée Jeanne Jacob on July 10, 1910 in Paris 20th and died in April 1939 in Beynes (Yvelines), was a French aviator who broke several records including that of female endurance on a glider (5 hours) on September 15, 1937.
Biography of Céleste Albaret (excerpt)
Céleste Albaret, born on May 17, 1891, and died on April 25, 1984, was the devoted servant of Marcel Proust.Married in 1913 to Odilon Albaret, Proust's driver, she became the writer's servant at 23. She supported him daily until his death in 1922, contributing to his literary work.
Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
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 Henry H. Arnold (excerpt)
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force, the only officer to achieve five-star rank in two U.S. military branches.
Biography of Hermann Gmeiner (excerpt)
Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who founded SOS Children's Villages.Born in Alberschwende, Austria, he was deeply affected by the loss of his mother and his experiences as a soldier in WWII. In 1949, with just 600 Austrian schillings, he established the first SOS Children's Village in Imst, Tyrol.
Biography of Arnold Sommerfeld (excerpt)
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, ForMemRS (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. He served as doctoral supervisor and postdoc supervisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30 other famous physicists and chemists.
Biography of Helena Kuipers-Rietberg (excerpt)
Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (Winterswijk, 1893 – Ravensbrück, 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German occupying forces.
Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
Biography of Emilia Ortiz (excerpt)
Emilia Ortiz Pérez (Tepic, Nayarit, February 10, 1917 – Tepic, Nayarit, November 24, 2012) was a Nayarit Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolors she made of the indigenous groups in her area, and the caricatures she created from an early age of political figures and those she knew.
Biography of Felix Schlag (excerpt)
Felix Oscar Schlag (September 4, 1891 – March 9, 1974) was a German born American sculptor who was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004. He was born to Karl and Teresa Schlag in Frankfurt, Germany where as a young man, he served in the German army of World War I.
Biography of Albert Kluyver (excerpt)
Albert Jan Kluyver (3 June 1888 – 14 May 1956) was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist renowned for his pivotal work on biochemical unity. His 1926 paper, "Die Einheit in der Biochemie" ("Unity in Biochemistry"), co-authored with Hendrick Jean Louis Donker, established the concept that all organisms are biochemically similar, famously summarized by Kluyver's aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same".
Biography of Korbinian Brodmann (excerpt)
Korbinian Brodmann (17 November 1868 – 22 August 1918) was a pioneering German neuropsychiatrist renowned for mapping the cerebral cortex and identifying 52 distinct regions, known as Brodmann areas, based on their histological characteristics. Born in Hohenfels, Germany, Brodmann studied medicine across various universities, receiving his medical diploma in Freiburg in 1895 and his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1898.
Biography of Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war.
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 Joachim Lemelsen (excerpt)
Joachim Lemelsen (26 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during World War II who rose to army-level command.Wikipedia has 28 September in error. During Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, troops of the XLVII Motorized Corps under his command executed the criminal Commissar Order, prompting Lemelsen to complain: "Soon the Russians will get to hear about the countless corpses lying along the routes taken by our soldiers (..).
Biography of Daniel Schorr (excerpt)
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.
Biography of Ugo D'Alessio (excerpt)
Ugo D'Alessio, born Pasquale D'Alessio (Naples, 26 August 1909 – Naples, 16 February 1979), was an Italian actor.Born in Naples into a family of artists, he made his debut at the age of eight in the comedy "Un grazioso equivoco" under his uncle Giuseppe's direction.
Biography of Jo Giaever Tenfjord (excerpt)
Johanne Giæver Tenfjord (13 August 1918 – 12 June 2007) was a Norwegian librarian, educator, children's writer and translator. Personal life She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Harald Birger Giæver (1873-1943) and Rut Berger (1893-1959).Her brother was publisher Knut T.
Biography of Lina Òdena (excerpt)
Paulina Òdena García, better known as Lina Òdena, was born in Barcelona on January 22, 1911. She was a communist leader and militiawoman in the Spanish Civil War who committed suicide on September 14, 1936, near Granada to avoid capture by fascists.
Biography of Suzan Rose Benedict (excerpt)
Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942) was the first woman awarded a Ph.D.in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College. Career at Smith College Suzan returned to Smith as an associate professor after receiving her PhD.
Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932.
Biography of Leonard Ornstein (excerpt)
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (12 November 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – 20 May 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist. Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leiden. He subsequently carried out Ph.D. research under the supervision of Lorentz, concerning an application of the statistical mechanics of Gibbs to molecular problems.
Biography of Mabel Osgood Wright (excerpt)
Mabel Osgood Wright (January 26, 1859 – July 16, 1934) was an American ornithologist and writer.She was an early leader in the Audubon movement who wrote extensively about nature and birds. Early years and education Mabel Osgood was the daughter of Samuel and Ellen Haswell (Murdock) Osgood.
Biography of Roy Barcroft (excerpt)
Roy Barcroft (born Howard Harold Ravenscroft; September 7, 1902 – November 28, 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. From 1937 to 1957, he appeared in more than 300 films for Republic Pictures. Film critic Leonard Maltin acclaimed Barcroft as "Republic Pictures' number one bad guy".
Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
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 Óscar Murúa (excerpt)
José Óscar Francisco Murúa Robledo (January 25, 1898 – April 1, 1980) was a prominent Guatemalan artist born to Spanish immigrants. In 1903, his family moved from Guatemala to Madrid, Spain, where he later studied Commerce. Returning to Guatemala in 1915, he settled in Antigua Guatemala in 1946, focusing on rebuilding a property into a hotel.
Biography of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (excerpt)
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well-off in education, housing, employment, and pay, and was often known as the "Red Countess".
Biography of Blas Infante (excerpt)
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas, born on 5th July 1885 in Gand, was a prominent Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian, and musicologist, revered as the "father of Andalusia" by regional nationalists. He played a crucial role in promoting Andalusian autonomy, being a key figure in the 1918 regionalist assembly in Ronda which adopted Andalusia's flag and emblem. |
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