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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 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 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 Rudolf Mendel (excerpt)
Rudolf Mendel (* October 18, 1907, in Berlin; † December 13, 1979, in the same city) was a German politician (CDU). Mendel attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium and completed a commercial apprenticeship at AEG. During the National Socialist period, he was persecuted and forced into labor during the war.
Biography of Gustav Waldau (excerpt)
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor.He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Life and Work Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at age 14.He was promoted to officer in the Infantry-Leib-Regiment.
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 Gabriel Nigond (excerpt)
Gabriel Nigond, born on February 24, 1877, in Châteauroux and died on January 4, 1937, was a French writer, poet, and playwright. Son of an engineer, he published his first poetry collection at 17.He frequented literary circles in Paris and developed a strong friendship with Marcel Schwob.
Biography of Marcel Rouff (excerpt)
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Geneva – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer.With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).
Biography of Christian Herter (excerpt)
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939.
Biography of Gaston Baugnies de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Gaston Baugnies de Saint-Marceaux, born August 2, 1914 in Paris 17th and died May 2, 1986, was a French aviator. Commander of the Legion of Honor and holder of the highest French and Soviet distinctions, Gaston de Saint-Marceaux left the Air Force with the rank of Brigadier General, to which he was appointed on January 1, 1965.
Biography of Julio Antonio Mella (excerpt)
Julio Antonio Mella McPartland (born Nicanor McPartland; 25 March 1903 – 10 January 1929) was a Cuban political activist, journalist, communist revolutionary, and one of the founders of the original Communist Party of Cuba. His time of birth comes from the biography "Eine Biografie" de Christine Hatzky (Vervuert Verlag, 2004).
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.
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 Christabel Pankhurst (excerpt)
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE (22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913.
Biography of Fritz Loewe (excerpt)
Fritz Loewe (11 March 1895 in Berlin - 27 March 1974 in Heidelberg, Victoria) was a German polar explorer, glaciologist, geophysicist and meteorologist. After emigrating from Nazi Germany he founded the first Meteorological Institute in Australia at the University of Melbourne. Fritz Loewe, born to judge Eugen Loewe and Hedwig Loewe, served as an artillery radio operator in WWI, receiving the Iron Cross.
Biography of Georges Victor-Hugo (excerpt)
Georges Victor-Hugo, born Georges Charles Victor Léopold Hugo on August 16, 1868, in Brussels, was a French painter and skipper who died on February 5, 1925, in Paris. The son of Charles Hugo and grandson of Victor Hugo, he was raised by his grandfather after his father's death when he was 3 years old.
Biography of Alfred Redl (excerpt)
Alfred Redl (14 March 1864 – 25 May 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer who rose to head the Evidenzbureau, the counterintelligence wing of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was one of the leading figures of pre-World War I espionage; his term in office was marked by radical innovations and the use of advanced technology to ensnare foreign spies.
Biography of Émile Dehelly (excerpt)
Émile Léon Auguste Dehelly, born on August 7, 1871, in Fresnoy-le-Grand (Aisne) and died on September 4, 1969, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French actor and a member of the Comédie-Française. Coming to Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) with his father when he was young, he was drafted with the number 104 during his military conscription in 1893 in Maintenon.
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 Aleksander Kakowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Kakowski (5 February 1862 – 30 December 1938) was a Polish politician, diplomat, a member of the Regency Council and, as Cardinal and Archbishop of Warsaw, the last titular Primate of the Kingdom of Poland before Poland fully regained its independence in 1918.
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 Edmund Lowe (excerpt)
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor.His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Lowe was born in San Jose, California.His father was a local judge.His childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose.
Biography of Jean Bertrand (aviator) (excerpt)
Jean Bertrand, born on October 3, 1907 in Courban and reported missing on August 26, 1944 (aged 37), was a French aviator. He actively participated in the campaign of France and won during the single day of May 14, 1940 3 aerial victories.
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 Laura Montoya (excerpt)
María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui, also known as Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was born on May 26, 1874, in Jericó, Colombia, and died on October 21, 1949. Her time of birth comes from the biography "La Madre Laura".
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 Léopold Survage (excerpt)
Léopold Survage, a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin, born in 1879 in Finland, played a significant role in the Russian avant-garde movement before settling in Paris. There, he interacted with artists like Modigliani and delved into abstract cinema. His work was influenced by music, leading to his concept of "Rythmes colorés" aimed at combining art and film.
Biography of Gualtiero Tumiati (excerpt)
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.
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 Isidro Fabela (excerpt)
José Isidro Fabela Alfaro (29 June 1882 – 12 August 1964) was a Mexican judge, politician, professor, writer, publisher, governor of the State of Mexico, diplomat, and delegate to the now defunct League of Nations. Fabela was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico State.
Biography of Gertrud Luckner (excerpt)
Gertrud Luckner (born Jane Hartmann; 26 September 1900 – 31 August 1995) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
Biography of Grete Weil (excerpt)
Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer. She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She studied German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. In 1932, she began writing her dissertation, and also completed her first story, "Erlebnis einer Reise" (Experience of a trip).
Biography of Rakel Seweriin (excerpt)
Rakel Seweriin, née Solberg (26 June 1906 – 17 September 1995) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.She was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1953 to 1955. She was born in Hof as a daughter of Casper Fredrik Solberg (1870–1932) and Zefra Eliagna Natterstad (1871–1949).
Biography of Manuel Pertegaz (excerpt)
Manuel Pertegaz Ibáñez (18 May 1918 - 30 August 2014), known as Manuel Pertegaz, was a renowned Spanish fashion designer. He was asked to succeed Christian Dior in 1957 but chose to remain in Spain, becoming its leading couturier by the 1960s.
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 Tina Modotti (excerpt)
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.
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 Ingeborg Waern Bugge (excerpt)
Ingeborg Wærn Bugge (5 March 1899 – 26 January 1991) was a Swedish architect.She was one of the first formally educated female architects in Sweden.She designed residential buildings and schools, and worked on renovation projects for churches. Work In 1929, she started her own architectural firm with another alumna from the Royal Institute of Technology, Kjerstin Göransson-Ljungman .
Biography of Dagmar Myhrvold (excerpt)
Dagmar Myhrvold (April 19, 1898 – April 21, 1972) was a Norwegian actress. After attending Sofie Bernhoft's school, Myhrvold spent a year studying theater in Copenhagen.In 1916 she was able to make her debut as a participant in Edvard Drabløs's touring theater.
Biography of Geneviève Aclocque (excerpt)
Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes.She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.” An ordinance of wool makers at Chartres allowed women to participate in trade.
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 Aino Ackté (excerpt)
Aino Ackté (originally Achte; 24 April 1876 – 8 August 1944) was a Finnish dramatic soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field. Aino Ackté, born in Helsinki to mezzo-soprano Emmy Achté and conductor-composer Lorenz Nikolai Achté, trained under her mother before studying at the Paris Conservatory.
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 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 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 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 Lucien Barjon (excerpt)
Lucien, Émile, Vincent, Bargeon, known by his stage name Lucien Barjon, was a French actor, born on March 11, 1916, in Sète, and died on December 31, 2000, in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Originally an engineer for bridges and roads, he decided to pursue acting and appeared in numerous films and television series.
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.
Biography of Edith Pfau (excerpt)
Sister Edith Pfau, S.P., (1 July 1915 – 14 December 2001) was an American painter, sculptor, and art educator known for her religious works and commissions. Born Alberta Henrietta Pfau in Jasper, Indiana, she began drawing at a very early age.Later in her life she recalled, "I always was attracted to faces.
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 António Cabreira (excerpt)
D. António Tomás da Guarda Cabreira de Faria e Alvelos Drago da Ponte ComSE (30 October 1868 – 21 November 1953) was a Portuguese mathematician, polygraph and publicist. A member of the aristocratic Cabreira family, António Cabreira was a claimant to the Miguelist noble titles of Count of Lagos and Viscount of Vale da Mata, which he used. |
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