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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. in
Biography of A. J. Cronin (excerpt)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896–January 6, 1981) was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
Biography of Gustavo Rol (excerpt)
Gustavo Adolfo Rol (20 June 1903-22 September 1994) was an Italian thinker and teacher with a great interest in parapsychology and other extraordinary phenomena. His devotees consider him to have been a great spiritual master and have testified to various miraculous feats he supposedly accomplished.
Biography of Elizabeth Arden (excerpt)
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.
Biography of Pope Paul VI (excerpt)
Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978.
Biography of Patachou (excerpt)
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer.
Biography of Ka'Iulani, Princess of Hawaii (excerpt)
Victoria Kawekiu Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kaʻiulani Cleghorn, Crown Princess of Hawaii (October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and held the title of crown princess. Kaʻiulani became known throughout the world for her intelligence, beauty and determination.
Biography of Gaston Dominici (excerpt)
Gustave Dominici, born January 22, 1877 in Digne-les-Bains, became famous with "Dominici Affair". The 1952 slaying of a vacationing family in rural France sent shock waves through the country for years. The crime was dubbed "The Dominici Affair" after Gaston Dominici, the French peasant who was jailed for the death of the couple and their 10-year-old daughter.
Biography of Emmanuel Roblès (excerpt)
Emmanuel Roblès (born May 4, 1914 in Oran, Algeria, died February 22, 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. Selected bibliography La Vallée du paradis (1940) Travail d'homme (1942) La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story
Biography of Eugene O'Neill (excerpt)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888–November 27, 1953) was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. O'Neill's plays were among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
Biography of Harpo Marx (excerpt)
Arthur Marx (previously Adolph Marx), popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry.
Biography of Benjamin Britten (excerpt)
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. Life Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. His birthday, 22 November, is the feast-day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts very early in life.
Biography of Sukarno (excerpt)
Achmed Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of Indonesia. He helped the country win its independence from the Netherlands and was President from 1945 to 1967, presiding with mixed success over the country's turbulent transition to independence.
Biography of Attila József (excerpt)
Attila József (April 11, 1905 - December 3, 1937) was one of the most outstanding Hungarian poets in the 20th century. The native form of this personal name is József Attila. This article uses the Western name order. His birth time comes from himself in the book "By The Danube: Selected Poems of Attila József", translated by John Bátki and published in 2008 by Corvina Books Ltd..
Biography of Roberto Rossellini (excerpt)
Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 – June 3, 1977) was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement. Life and work Born into a bourgeois family living in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived in via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy.
Biography of Guy des Cars (excerpt)
Guy des Cars (May 6, 1911 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - December 21, 1993, Paris) was a French writer. His son, Jean des Cars is a also a journalist and writer. Bibliography (extracts) - L'impure ( 1946 ) - La demoiselle d'opéra ( 1948 )
Biography of Jean Carteret (excerpt)
Jean Carteret, born March 27, 1906 in Charleville-Mézières, died in 1980, was a French astrologer, poet and writer. For his time of birth, himself said 9:40 am.
Biography of Paul Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith.
Biography of Thor Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (7,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
Biography of Benjamin Péret (excerpt)
Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899. He enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed.
Biography of Bernard Montgomery (excerpt)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (IPA: /məntˈgʌmərɪ əv ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887–24 March 1976), often referred to as "Monty", was a British Army officer. He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign during World War II, and troops under his command were largely responsible for the expulsion of Axis forces from North Africa.
Biography of Maurice Papon (excerpt)
Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant, known for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, later reconverted as a Gaullist politician. He is best known as prefect of police of Paris during the 1950s and 1960s, treasurer of the Gaullist Party and member of the French government under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Biography of Morarji Desai (excerpt)
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Hindi: मोरारजी देसाई) (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress.
Biography of Germaine Holley (excerpt)
Germaine Holley, born October 8, 1904 in Besançon is a French astrologer and author. Works (in French) L'Astrologie à la recherche des clés de la destinée ; Astrologie entre deux ères (Poissons-Verseau) ; Astrologie pour de nouvelles générations (avec Charles Vouga) ; Astrologie, karma et rythmes cosmiques ; Astrologie, dynamique de l'évolution ; Astrologie : au-delà de la rencontre ; Lecture astrologique des années 90, les grandes mutations mondiales.
Biography of Carlo Carrà (excerpt)
Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.
Biography of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (excerpt)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 4, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and influenced by Martin Heidegger, but his philosophy tended to focus on the phenomenological and corporeal foundations of perception.
Biography of Marina Tsvetaeva (excerpt)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Мари́на Ива́новна Цвета́ева, Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva) (9 October 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet and writer. Her time of birth comes from herself, in letters she had sent to Yuri Ivask.
Biography of Vivian Robson (excerpt)
Vivian Robson, born May 26, 1890 in Birmingham, died December 31, 1942, was a British mathematician and astrologer, and the curator of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum.
Biography of Anthony Burgess (excerpt)
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 — November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England.
Biography of Jack Benny (excerpt)
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!"
Biography of Jacqueline de Romilly (excerpt)
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (March 26 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 18 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française.
Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue (excerpt)
Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. He was born in Paris, France. As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail. His work spanned numerous literary movements.
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old.
Biography of Graham Greene (excerpt)
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English playwright, novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.
Biography of Pamela Travers (excerpt)
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist and journalist, popularly remembered for her sequence of novels about Mary Poppins. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (née Morehead).
Biography of Stewart Granger (excerpt)
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Biography of Grant Lewi (excerpt)
William Grant Lewi II (June 8, 1902 – July 14, 1951) was an American astrologer and author. Best known for his books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What, Lewi has been described as "the father of modern astrology in America".
Biography of Lanza del Vasto (excerpt)
Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29, 1901 – January 5, 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist. He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Murcia, Spain. A western disciple of Mohandas K.
Biography of George Sanders (excerpt)
George Sanders (born George Henry Sanders) (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Early life Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, of British parents. In 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, when Sanders was 11, the family returned to Britain and, like his brother, he attended Brighton College, a boys' independent school in Brighton.
Biography of Francis Poulenc (excerpt)
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.
Biography of Otto Hahn (excerpt)
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
Biography of Theda Bara (excerpt)
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death.
Biography of Alain Bernardin (excerpt)
Alain Bernardin (Jaunuary 9, 1916 in Dijon - September 15, 1994) has opened Le Crazy Horse Saloon in 1951. It has been personally operated by him for decades until his death by suicide in 1994. The Paris Crazy Horse occupies a portion of a traditional Parisian building at 12 Avenue George V (with the Roman numeral "V" spoken in French as "Cinq").
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi).
Biography of Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója).
Biography of Diana Vreeland (excerpt)
Diana Vreeland (December 29, 1902, Paris (birth time source: his birth certificate. Wikipedia is wrong), – August 22, 1989, New York City) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Biography of Madeleine Renaud (excerpt)
Madeleine Renaud was a distinguished actress and a major figure in French theater in the 20th century. She was born on February 21, 1900 in Paris and died there on September 23, 1994. In 1940 Madeleine Renaud married the actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994).
Biography of Michèle Alfa (excerpt)
Alfreda Bassignot, best known as Michèle Alfa (sometimes Michèle Alpha) born August 20, 1911 in Gujan-Mestras, died August 24, 1987 in Le Vésinet, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1932 : La Poule de René Guissart 1932 : La Belle Aventure de Reinhold Schünzel et Roger Le Bon : Jeanne
Biography of Gino Severini (excerpt)
Gino Severini (April 7, 1883 (birth time source: Gauquelin, 6:30 AM Rome time)) – February 26, 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. At an early stage in his artwork, he was exposed to Impressionist ideas.
Biography of Peter Townsend (excerpt)
Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF (November 22, 1914 – June 19, 1995) was Equerry to King George VI 1944–1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II 1952–1953. He was born 1914 in Rangoon, Burma and educated at Haileybury School.
Biography of Henry de Montherlant (excerpt)
Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels. His early successes were works such as the tetralogy Les jeunes filles (1936–1939) and Les célibataires (1934). |
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