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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 Augusto Leguía (excerpt)
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo, born on February 19, 1863, in Lambayeque and died on February 6, 1932, in Lima, was a Peruvian statesman who served as President of the Republic twice: from 1908 to 1912, and then from 1919 to 1930.
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Biography of Ray Corrigan (excerpt)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan (born Raymond Benitz; February 14, 1902 – August 10, 1976) was an American actor most famous for appearing in many B-Western movies (among these the Three Mesquiteers and Range Busters film series). He also was a stuntman and frequently acted as silver screen gorillas using his own gorilla costumes.
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Biography of Eleanor Steber (excerpt)
Eleanor Steber (Wheeling, July 17, 1914 – Langhorne, October 3, 1990) was an American operatic soprano, recognized as one of the first major opera stars to achieve significant success with training and a career based in the United States. The daughter of William Charles Steber, Sr.
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Biography of Fanny Moser (scientist) (excerpt)
Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 – 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German zoologist. Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in Schaffhausen. In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg, where she studied medicine.
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Biography of Luis Ernesto Ramos Yordán (excerpt)
Luis Ernesto Ramos Yordán (February 2, 1915 – January 27, 2005) was a Puerto Rican physician, legislator, and President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1977. Early years Ramos Yordán was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on February 2, 1915.
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Biography of Adolphe Zimmern (excerpt)
Adolphe Zimmern, born on September 26, 1871, in Paris, and died on April 12, 1935, at the age of 63, was a French electro-radiologist. He was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and the Director of the Medical Electrotherapy Institute of Paris.
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Biography of Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (excerpt)
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (July 17, 1918 – December 6, 2003) was a military officer and politician who served as the 35th president of Guatemala from 1970 to 1974. A member of the National Liberation Movement, his government enforced torture, disappearances, and killings against political and military adversaries, as well as common criminals.
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Biography of Otto Wagener (excerpt)
Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Wagener (29 April 1888 – 9 August 1971) was a German major general and, for a period, Adolf Hitler's economic advisor and confidant. Otto Wagener was a German industrialist's son and military officer. After serving in World War I, he became involved in Freikorps activities and later joined the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1929.
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Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
Biography of Richard Smart (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Palmer Kaleioku Smart (1913–1992) was an American musical theatre actor and owner of the Parker Ranch in Hawaii. Born in Honolulu, he was raised by his grandmother after losing both parents. He became involved in theatre during high school and had a successful Broadway and nightclub career.
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Biography of Arthur Greiser (excerpt)
Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in occupied Poland and numerous other crimes against humanity.
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Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
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Biography of Madge Bellamy (excerpt)
Madge Bellamy (born Margaret Derden Philpott; June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy’s career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.
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Biography of Siegfried Oberndorfer (excerpt)
Siegfried Oberndorfer, a Jewish-German physician and cancer researcher, was born on June 24, 1876, in Munich and passed away in 1944 in Istanbul. He studied medicine in Munich and Kiel, becoming a doctor in 1900. After working as a ship's doctor, where he halted a plague outbreak, he returned to Germany in 1902.
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Biography of Casamayor (excerpt)
Casamayor (pen name of Serge Fuster, born November 28, 1911, in Algiers and died October 29, 1988, in Paris) was a French magistrate and writer. He authored about twenty books, mainly on justice. As a lieutenant in Sedan in 1940, he recounted his experiences in "Disobedience" (1968).
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Biography of Louis de Vries (actor) (excerpt)
Louis de Vries, born Levi de Vries, (Amsterdam, October 18, 1871 - Nice, March 10, 1940) was a Dutch actor. De Vries came from a background of Jewish diamond workers. His parents were Samuel de Vries and Saartje Philip Peper, both of whom were deaf-mute.
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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.
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Biography of Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (excerpt)
Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (13 February 1878 – 21 May 1969) was an Austrian Archduke from the Habsburg-Lothringen-Toskana line, a military officer, painter, and photographer. He served as an officer until the end of World War I, after which he retired to Salzburg to pursue his artistic interests.
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Biography of Francisco Vales Villamarín (excerpt)
Francisco Vales Villamarín (Betanzos, La Coruña, 7 May 1891 - id., 25 August 1982) was a Spanish historian and professor, serving as the perpetual secretary of the Real Academia Gallega and the official chronicler of Betanzos. He studied in Santiago de Compostela and became a teacher in La Coruña until his retirement in 1961. ![]()
Biography of Alejandro Freundt Rosell (excerpt)
Alejandro Freundt Rosell (Lima, February 22, 1895 - August 24, 1970) was a Peruvian magistrate, diplomat, university professor, and politician. He presided over the Superior Court of Piura and served as Minister of Justice and Worship under the government of Manuel Odría (1952-1955).
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Biography of Irène Bordoni (excerpt)
Irène Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
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Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig.
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Biography of André Daven (excerpt)
André Daven (13 March 1899 - 17 November 1981) was a French film producer, actor and director. In the mid-1920s he was the artistic director of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris when Josephine Baker was hired to appear there. During the German occupation of France during the Second World War he went to the United States where he produced four films.
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Biography of Stefan Wiechecki (excerpt)
Stefan Wiechecki, known by his pen name Wiech (10 August 1896 – 26 July 1979), was a Polish writer and journalist, best known for his humorous feuilletons that depicted the everyday life of Warsaw and highlighted the city's dialect. Born on 10 August 1896, he began as a court reporter in interwar Poland, capturing the unique personalities of Warsaw's poorer districts.
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Biography of Edilio Rusconi (excerpt)
Edilio Rusconi (November 11, 1916 – July 10, 1996) was an Italian publisher, journalist, writer, and film producer. Born in Milan, he spent part of his childhood in Brussels before returning to Milan for his studies. He graduated in Literature in 1940 and began as a writer before turning to journalism.
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Biography of Yann Goulet (excerpt)
Yann Goulet, whose real name was Jean Gustave René, was born on August 20, 1914, in Saint-Nazaire, and died on August 22, 1999, in Bray. He was a French-Irish sculptor and political activist involved in the Breton movement, and through this, he was involved in collaboration.
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Biography of Joseph Plavcan (excerpt)
Joseph Michael Plavcan (July 15, 1908 – February 7, 1981) was an American painter and teacher from Erie, Pennsylvania. Born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents, he studied art at the Erie Public Library and under George Ericson. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1928.
Biography of François Coulet (excerpt)
François Coulet, born on January 16, 1906, in Montpellier and died on June 11, 1984, in Paris at the age of 78, was a diplomat who joined General de Gaulle and the Free French Forces in June 1940. Appointed as the Commissioner of the Republic, he was stationed in Bayeux in June 1944.
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Biography of Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (excerpt)
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, British Ceylon – 18 June 1953, United States) was a Ceylonese author, occultist, freemason and theosophist. The fourth president of the Theosophical Society, Jinarajadasa was one of the world's foremost Theosophical authors, having published more than 50 books and more than 1600 articles in periodicals during his life.
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Biography of Hugh Carleton Greene (excerpt)
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG OBE (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. His time of birth comes from the biography "A Variety of Lives: A Biography of Sir Hugh Greene", Michael Tracey' (Bodley Head, 1983).
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Biography of Theos Casimir Bernard (excerpt)
Theos Casimir Hamati Bernard (10 December 1908 – October 1947) was an American explorer and author known for his work on yoga and religious studies (particularly in Tibetan Buddhism). He was the nephew of Pierre Arnold Bernard, "Oom the Omnipotent", and like him became a yoga celebrity.
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Biography of Henri Lafont (excerpt)
Henri Chamberlin, known as Henri Lafont, born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on April 22, 1902, and executed by firing squad at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on December 26, 1944, was a career criminal and a French collaborator who, during World War II, served as the head of the French Gestapo (the "Carlingue") under German occupation.
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Biography of Nunzio Filogamo (excerpt)
Nunzio Filogamo (20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated.
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Biography of William Steinberg (excerpt)
William Steinberg (born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg) was a German conductor born on August 1, 1899, in Cologne and died on May 16, 1978, in New York. After studying under Hermann Abendroth, he became Otto Klemperer's assistant at the Cologne Opera in 1924.
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Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.
Biography of Ricardo Flórez (painter) (excerpt)
Ricardo Flórez Gutiérrez de Quintanilla, born on May 7, 1893, in Lima, Peru, and died on October 20, 1983, in Tomayquichua, was a distinguished Peruvian painter. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima under Teófilo Castillo and Daniel Hernández, he began his career as a professor there.
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Biography of Gustav Landauer (excerpt)
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. As an avowed pacifist, Landauer advocated the principle of "non-violent non-cooperation" in the tradition of Étienne de La Boétie and Leo Tolstoy.
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Biography of Hans Werner Richter (excerpt)
Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer. Born the son of a fisherman in Neu Sallenthin on the island of Usedom, Richter worked first in a bookshop in Swinemünde (now Świnoujście in Poland) and later moved to Berlin.
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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 George Stigler (excerpt)
George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an influential American economist and 1982 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his leadership in the Chicago school of economics. Born in Renton, he graduated from the University of Washington and Northwestern University before earning a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1938.
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Biography of William Randolph Hearst Jr. (excerpt)
William Randolph Hearst Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951. ![]()
Biography of Sheila Darcy (excerpt)
Sheila Darcy (born Rebecca Benedict Heffener August 8, 1914 – February 24, 2004), also known as "Rebecca Wassem", was an American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s. Born Rebecca Benedict Heffener in York, Pennsylvania, Darcy moved to Hollywood when she was 18 to pursue a career in acting.
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Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad. During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
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Biography of Joseph L. Rauh Jr. (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Rauh Jr. (January 3, 1911 – September 3, 1992) was one of the United States' foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers. In his early career, he served as a lawyer in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and a clerk to Supreme Court justices Benjamin N.
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Biography of Alexis Grüss Senior (excerpt)
Alexis Grüss Senior, born on March 30, 1909, in Briey and deceased on February 3, 1985, in Paris 12th arrondissement, was a French circus artist from a prominent circus family in France. He was particularly known for his work with various circus companies, including Gruss-Jeannet, Radio-Circus, and Cirque Medrano.
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Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Francesco Camusso (excerpt)
Francesco Camusso (9 March 1908 – 23 June 1995) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. His time of birth comes from him. Camusso was born in Cumiana, Piedmont, and is ranked among the best Italian climbers ever. In his second year as professional, he won the 1931 Giro d'Italia.
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Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
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Biography of Lucía Sánchez Saornil (excerpt)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class Madrilenian family, she taught herself from an early age and began writing poems for the burgeoning Futurist and Ultraist movements.
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Biography of Pilar de Zubiaurre (excerpt)
Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Basque Country (Spain), July 24, 1884 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 1970) was a Basque intellectual, writer, pianist, and art dealer and manager who lived in exile in Mexico for more than thirty years as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War. |
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