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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 Craig Rice (writer) (excerpt)
Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; June 5, 1908 – August 28, 1957) was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories, described by book critic Bill Ruehlmann as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction, she wrote the binge and lived the hangover."
Biography of Gerrit Mannoury (excerpt)
Gerrit Mannoury (17 May 1867 – 30 January 1956) was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and communist. He is known as the central figure in the signific circle, the Dutch counterpart to the Vienna Circle.
Biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer.He later became an American citizen. Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.
Biography of Carl Hambro (excerpt)
Carl Joachim Hambro (7 June 1914 – 19 February 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, essayist, translator, and Romance philologist.The son of Conservative politician C.J.Hambro, he pursued a philological career, graduating in 1939. During World War II, he lectured at Oslo Commerce School and the Norwegian College in Uppsala.
Biography of Heinrich Köhler (excerpt)
Franz Heinrich Köhler (born September 29, 1878, in Karlsruhe – died February 6, 1949) was a German politician. He served as Minister of Finance of the Weimar Republic in 1927/1928 and as Staatspräsident of the Republic of Baden in 1923/1924 and 1926/1927.
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 Fritz Pregl (excerpt)
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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 Peter Schaap (SD member) (excerpt)
Pieter (Peter) Schaap (Zandvoort, June 18, 1902 – Groningen, June 29, 1949) was a Dutch collaborator of the SD, one of the German police organizations under the authority of Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He was a fanatical persecutor of Jews and shot numerous people dead.
Biography of Wilhelm Wigand (excerpt)
Wilhelm Wigand (born July 2, 1895, in Barth; died April 22, 1945, in Großkrausnik) was a German politician (NSDAP). After obtaining his Abitur, he participated in World War I, where he was wounded and decorated.From 1918 to 1920, he was a French prisoner of war.
Biography of Anna Honzáková (excerpt)
Anna Honzáková (born 16 November 1875 in Kopidlno – died 13 October 1940 in Prague) was the first female doctor to graduate from Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, on 17 March 1902. She was the third Czech woman to obtain a medical degree, after Bohuslava Kecková and Anna Bayerová, who studied in Switzerland as their degrees were not recognized in their homeland.
Biography of Charles Loupot (excerpt)
Charles Loupot, born in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) on July 20, 1892, and died in Les Arcs-sur-Argens (Var) on October 18, 1962, was a French poster artist and graphic designer. Charles Loupot, whose career spanned from 1916 to 1960, is one of the major creators in the history of posters during the interwar period, alongside Cassandre, Jean Carlu, and Paul Colin.
Biography of Antonio Brivio (excerpt)
Antonio Brivio Sforza (born December 27, 1905, and died January 20, 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder.His greatest achievements in motorsport include victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (1932), the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935), and the Mille Miglia (1936).
Biography of Gildardo Magaña (excerpt)
Gildardo Magaña Cerda (born March 7, 1891, died December 13, 1939) was a Mexican general, politician, and revolutionary. Born into a liberal trading family in Zamora, Michoacán, Magaña studied economics in the United States before joining the anti-reelectionist movement in Mexico in 1911.
Biography of Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (excerpt)
Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (March 18, 1902 – September 10, 1938) was an Argentine educator and the first wife of former Argentine president Juan Perón. Born in Buenos Aires, she was the daughter of Tomasa Erostarbe and Cipriano Tizón, a photographer.
Biography of Jean Astier de Villatte (excerpt)
Jean Astier de Villatte (Soturac, November 25, 1900 – 13th arrondissement of Paris, October 6, 1985) was a French engineer and military officer, Companion of the Liberation. A civil company administrator, he was mobilized in 1939 and chose to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces.
Biography of Teddy Kollek (excerpt)
Theodor "Teddy" Kollek (27 May 1911 – 2 January 2007) was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Her time of birth comes from the testimony of an astrologer.
Biography of Honoré Jackson (excerpt)
William Henry Jackson (May 3, 1861 – January 10, 1952), also known as Honoré Jackson or Jaxon, was the secretary to Louis Riel during the North-West Rebellion in 1885.His time of birth comes from his father, as mentioned in the biography "Honore Jaxon: Prairie Visionary" by Donald B.
Biography of Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin.Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
Biography of André Lalande (philosopher) (excerpt)
Pierre André Lalande (July 19, 1867 – November 15, 1963) was a French philosopher known for his work in logic and methodology of science. He ranked first in the philosophy agrégation in 1888 and taught at several prestigious high schools before becoming a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1906.
Biography of Herbert Assmann (excerpt)
Herbert Assmann (born November 25, 1882, in Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland), died February 27, 1950, in Oldenburg) was a German internist and university professor. Son of Edwin Assmann and Anna Emma Laura Steimmig, he studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich, and Königsberg, earning his doctorate in 1905.
Biography of Louis Anquetin (excerpt)
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861, in Étrépagny – died August 19, 1932, in Paris) was a French painter.A pioneer of Synthetism, he was friends with Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. In 1882, he moved to Paris, joining Léon Bonnat's studio, where he befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography of Alexander Mountbatten (excerpt)
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
Biography of Dalmacio Iglesias (excerpt)
Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (5 December 1879 – 13 January 1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919).
Biography of Hermann Voss (anatomist) (excerpt)
Christian Heinrich Emil Hermann Voss (October 13, 1894 – January 19, 1987) was a German anatomist known for his medical academic work and textbooks, but also notorious for his experiments during the Third Reich. Born in Berlin, he studied at several universities before completing his doctorate in 1919.
Biography of Jo Bouillon (excerpt)
Jo Bouillon (May 3, 1908 – July 9, 1984) was a French composer, conductor, and violinist, best known as the fourth husband of Joséphine Baker. Born to a musicologist in Montpellier, he led Jo Bouillon et son orchestre from 1936 to 1947 before accompanying artists like Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Joséphine Baker.
Biography of Marcel Gitton (excerpt)
Marcel Gitton, born on April 20, 1903, in Versailles and died on September 5, 1941, in Paris, whose real name was Marcel Giroux, was a French politician. As the third-ranking member of the French Communist Party (SFIC) at the beginning of World War II, he was one of the communist politicians who opposed the party’s official line in 1939-1940 following the German-Soviet Pact.
Biography of Paul Berthier (composer) (excerpt)
Paul Berthier (June 23, 1884 – February 6, 1953) was a French organist and composer, known for his contributions to sacred music. A student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, he co-founded the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois choir in 1906.
Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
Biography of Albert Hahn (excerpt)
Albert Pieter Hahn (17 March 1877 – 3 August 1918) was a Dutch political cartoonist, caricaturist, poster artist and book cover designer; well known for his socialist and antimilitaristic viewpoints. Some of his drawings, especially those of the railroad strikes of 1903, have been regularly used in history textbooks.
Biography of Anton Faistauer (excerpt)
Anton Faistauer (February 14, 1887, Salzburg – February 13, 1930, Vienna) was an Austrian Neo-Impressionist painter. He is the creator of a fresco in the Mozart House, an opera hall located in Salzburg, and of portraits, such as that of Archduchess Rosemary Zu Salm und Salm-Salm.
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 Justus Koch (excerpt)
Ernst Friedrich Adolf Justus Koch (* November 5, 1891 in Magdeburg; † May 30, 1962 in Düsseldorf) was a German lawyer and notary. During the Weimar Republic, he specialized in copyright law and played a central role in founding the German Society for the Exploitation of Musical Copyright (Stagma).
Biography of Amanda Labarca (excerpt)
Amanda Labarca Hubertson (5 December 1886 – 2 January 1975) was a Chilean diplomat, educator, writer, and feminist, committed to advancing women’s rights in Latin America and promoting women’s suffrage in Chile. For her time of birth, sources leave some doubt as to whether she was born at the beginning or end of the day.
Biography of Lucian Zabel (excerpt)
Lucian Zabel (Lucien), born Gerhard Zabel (* May 26, 1893, in Kolberg - † April 24, 1936, in Berlin), was a German commercial graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich before becoming a student of Julius Klinger in Berlin.
Biography of Maurice Maillot (excerpt)
Maurice Maillot, born on September 18, 1906, in Rethel and deceased on February 8, 1968, in Paris, was a French film actor. The son of a Reims-based garment maker, he also played rugby with the SSPP before making his screen debut in 1930.
Biography of Joaquín Gallegos Lara (excerpt)
Joaquín Gallegos Lara (Guayaquil, April 9, 1909 – November 16, 1947) was an Ecuadorian writer. His most famous novel is "Las cruces sobre el agua" ("The Crosses on the Water"), a historical novel that describes the general strike of November 1922 in Guayaquil and the subsequent repression.
Biography of Jean Krämer (excerpt)
Jean Krämer (occasionally spelled Kremer or Kraemer), born March 11, 1886, in Kastel near Mainz, and died January 17, 1943, in Berlin, was a German architect active in Berlin and its surroundings. He favored elements of Expressionism with a turn toward New Objectivity.
Biography of Ignacio Zuloaga (excerpt)
Ignacio Zuloaga Zabaleta (Éibar, July 26, 1870 – Madrid, October 31, 1945) was a prominent Spanish painter of the 20th century, hailed by Parisian critics as "the last great master of the Spanish School of painting." Born into a family of renowned artisans, he was the only one among five siblings to pursue the arts, following the footsteps of his father Plácido Zuloaga, a famous damascene craftsman, and his uncle Daniel Zuloaga, a ceramist.
Biography of Wilhelm Abegg (excerpt)
Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Abegg, born on 29 August 1876 in Berlin and died on 18 October 1951 in Baden-Baden, was a German politician. He was the founder of the modern Prussian police after World War I and served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Prussia until his exile to Switzerland in 1933.
Biography of Juanito Valderrama (excerpt)
Juan Valderrama Blanca (25 May 1916 – 12 April 2004), better known as Juanito Valderrama, was a Spanish flamenco and folk singer.Although he was known for singing copla, he always claimed to be a flamenco singer. Born in Jaén, Juanito's recording career began in 1935 and lasted more than 60 years.
Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)
Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.
Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
Biography of Varlin (painter) (excerpt)
Willy Leopold Guggenheim, known as Varlin (born March 16, 1900, and died October 30, 1977), was a Swiss painter.His figurative work emphasized the fragility of everyday life. Born in Zurich, he lost his father and elder sister at the age of twelve, shaping his artistic vision.
Biography of Agnes Günther (excerpt)
Agnes Günther (born Agnes Breuning, 21 July 1863 – 16 February 1911) was a German writer. Life Agnes Breuning was a daughter of Hermann Otto Breuning, a businessman and banker, and his wife Anna Maria Barrell, who came from England.Agnes attended schools in Geneva and London.
Biography of Nino Salvaneschi (excerpt)
Nino Salvaneschi (Pavia, December 3, 1886 – Turin, November 24, 1968) was an Italian writer, journalist, and poet. He began his journalism career very young, working for several newspapers and co-founding Guerin Sportivo. After World War I, he expressed pacifist ideals in his book Uccidiamo la guerra.
Biography of Émile Chautard (excerpt)
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-born American actor and film director. Born in Paris, he began his career at the Odéon Theatre as an actor before transitioning to directing. He entered cinema in 1910, adapting works such as Eugénie Grandet by Balzac.
Biography of Porfirio Díaz Ortega (excerpt)
Deodato Lucas Porfirio Díaz Ortega (October 18, 1873 – December 28, 1946) was the fourth child of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Delfina Ortega. A military engineer, he contributed to several important projects in Mexico and had eight children. His time of birth comes from the biography Verdad y mito de la Revolución Mexicana, Volume 1, by Ignacio Muñoz (Ediciones Populares, 1960).
Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice. |
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