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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 Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
Biography of Miles Franklin (excerpt)
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), was an Australian writer and feminist.She achieved early fame with her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901 by Blackwoods of Edinburgh. Although she continued writing throughout her life, her next major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
Biography of Carl Thorp (excerpt)
Carl Thorp (14 November 1912 – 18 December 1989) was an American artist who became known for Impressionist landscapes of California, sometimes referred to as California Scene Painting, as well as New York City, Boston and New Orleans Cityscapes. He was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 14, 1912.
Biography of Gabriel de Gravone (excerpt)
Gabriel de Gravone, born Antoine Paul André Faggianelli on November 21, 1887, in Ajaccio, and died on December 5, 1972, in Marseille, was a French theater and film actor, as well as a director. Son of a postal worker, he began acting as a child and later studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire de Paris, including under Sarah Bernhardt.
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.
Biography of Jan Duiker (excerpt)
Jan Duiker (March 1, 1890 – February 23, 1935) was a leading Dutch architect of the Modern movement Het Nieuwe Bouwen.He partnered with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. Recommended by Hendrik Berlage for the Zonnestraal project, Duiker and Bijvoet left a major mark on Dutch modernist architecture.
Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
Biography of Jacques Andrieux (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques Andrieux (Lorient, August 15, 1917 - Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, January 21, 2005) was a French military officer and Companion of the Liberation. A pilot who refused to accept defeat in 1940, he fled to England and fought throughout the war in the Royal Air Force, achieving several aerial combat victories.
Biography of Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer.He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W.Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Biography of Giuseppe Gola (botanist) (excerpt)
Giuseppe Gola (Novara, February 26, 1877 – Padua, July 25, 1956) was an Italian botanist. After earning a medical degree from the University of Turin in 1900, he developed a passion for botany and obtained a degree in natural sciences in 1902.
Biography of Sigrun Svenningsen (excerpt)
Sigrun Svenningsen (June 23, 1902 – February 24, 1971) was a Norwegian actress. Svenningsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the traveling salesman Sigurd Svenningsen (1875–1901) and Karen Beate Hoff (1869–.).She had a successful stage career, including as the lead actress at the Chat Noir cabaret in the 1920s.
Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
Biography of Joe Vosmik (excerpt)
Joseph Franklin Vosmik, born April 4, 1910, was an outfielder for various Major League Baseball teams, including the Cleveland Indians and Brooklyn Dodgers, playing primarily in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a key player in the Dodgers' 1941 National League Pennant win.
Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
Biography of Heinrich Rickert (excerpt)
Heinrich John Rickert (German: ; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians. Life Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart.
Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
Biography of Erich Brauer (excerpt)
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist.As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer.He often signed his art work "Chiram".
Biography of Irčne Bordoni (excerpt)
Irčne 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.
Biography of Antoinette Sasse (excerpt)
Antoinette Sasse, born Antoinette Kohn on June 18, 1897, was a French artist known for her Fauvism style paintings and significant role in the French Resistance during World War II. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Paris, she studied under notable artists including Henri Matisse.
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.
Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
Biography of Johanna Tesch (excerpt)
Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s. After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country.
Biography of Guido Piovene (excerpt)
Guido Piovene (27 July 1907 – 12 November 1974) was an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Vicenza into a noble family, Piovene graduated in philosophy in Milan and then devoted himself to journalism, notably collaborating with Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Tempo.
Biography of Helene Stöcker (excerpt)
Helene Stöcker (13 November 1869 – 24 February 1943) was a German feminist, pacifist, journalist, author, and gender activist.She successfully campaigned to keep same sex relationships between women legal, but she was unsuccessful in her campaign to legalise abortion.She was a pacifist in Germany and joined the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
Biography of Louis Castin (excerpt)
Louis Castin, born August 25, 1918 in Montluçon, died July 26, 1979 in Lyon, was a French aviator, a flying ace in World War II.
Biography of Jan van Zutphen (excerpt)
Johannes Andries "Jan" van Zutphen (October 8, 1863 – June 7, 1958) was a Dutch trade unionist and co-founder of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium, known for defending workers' rights and fighting tuberculosis. Coming from a modest background, he first worked as a carpenter and diamond cutter before joining the socialist movement.
Biography of Laureto Tieri (excerpt)
Laureto Tieri (born February 24, 1879, in Bolognano, and died 1952 in Florence) was an Italian physicist. He graduated in physics from the University of Rome in 1903, where he worked as an assistant to Pietro Blaserna and was a lecturer in experimental physics.
Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Biography of Bernhard Weiss (police executive) (excerpt)
Bernhard Weiss (30 July 1880 – 29 July 1951) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. Known for defending parliamentary democracy against extremists, Weiss was born in Berlin into a prominent Jewish family. He served as Deputy Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and later became Vice President of the entire Berlin police force.
Biography of Henri Abraham (excerpt)
Henri Azariah Abraham (12 July 1868 – 22 December 1943) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the field of radioelectricity. He taught at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris, shaping French scientific education. After becoming an agrégé in physics in 1889, he earned his doctorate in 1892 and taught at top Parisian schools before joining the ENS, where he succeeded Jules Violle as head of the physics lab.
Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
Biography of Ludwig Aschoff (excerpt)
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (10 January 1866 – 24 June 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
Biography of James Tiptree Jr. (excerpt)
Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987), better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. From 1967 until her death, she published under this male pseudonym, whose true identity was only revealed in 1977.
Biography of Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (excerpt)
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist involved in Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II.
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.
Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
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. |
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