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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 Louis Perrée (excerpt)
Louis Léonce Théophile Perrée, born on March 25, 1871, in Paris (3rd arrondissement) and died on March 1, 1924, in Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure), was a French fencer specializing in épée. Career Louis Perrée participated in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he won the silver medal.
Biography of Paul Arnault (military) (excerpt)
Paul Arnault, born on August 21, 1911, in Cherbourg (Manche) and died on November 9, 1988, in Avignon (Vaucluse), was a French military officer. As an officer in the Foreign Legion, he was an early combatant in World War II, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia and was soon made a Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Christina Broom (excerpt)
Christina Broom, born on December 28, 1862, in London and passed away on June 5, 1939, in Margate, was a Scottish photographer, recognized as the UK’s first female photojournalist. After the failure of her family business in 1903, she taught herself photography and started selling postcard prints near Buckingham Palace.
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.
Biography of Ludwig Finckh (excerpt)
Ludwig Finckh (* March 21, 1876 in Reutlingen; † March 8, 1964 in Gaienhofen) was a German writer and physician. Born into a modest family, Finckh initially studied law but switched to medicine, earning his doctorate in 1904.He moved to Gaienhofen, where he formed a friendship with Hermann Hesse.
Biography of Charles Trowbridge (actor) (excerpt)
Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1888 (Wikipedia has 1882 in error) – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, he was the older brother of actor Jack Rockwell and cousin of author John Townsend Trowbridge. Before acting, he ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii and worked in architecture.
Biography of Émile Brumpt (excerpt)
Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt, born on March 10, 1877, in Paris and died on July 7, 1951, was a renowned French parasitologist, considered the leading figure in his field during his time. Of Alsatian and Spanish descent, he studied natural sciences and medicine, and joined an expedition in Africa with explorer Du Bourg de Bozas, documenting cases of malaria.
Biography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 3, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography.He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught.
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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 Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
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 David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité.
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 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.
Biography of Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
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 Erminio Spalla (excerpt)
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
Biography of Jean Rudolf von Salis (excerpt)
Jean Rudolf von Salis (12 December 1901 – 14 July 1996) was a Swiss historian. He gained prominence with his weekly "Weltchronik" (English: world chronicle) radio broadcasts from 1940 until 1947. As von Salis never wrote English publications and his works were rarely translated, he is little known outside of the European historical sciences.
Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
Biography of Georges Bruhat (excerpt)
Georges Bruhat (21 December 1887 – 1 January 1945) was a French physicist known for his contributions to optics and for authoring a renowned four-volume physics textbook series. He studied at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne, completing a PhD in optics under Aimé Cotton.
Biography of Wilhelm Vocke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Vocke, born on February 9, 1886, in Aufhausen, and died on September 19, 1973, in Frankfurt am Main, was a German financial expert. He grew up in Mosbach and studied law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rostock, and Berlin. From 1919 to 1939, Vocke was a member of the board of the Deutsche Reichsbank.
Biography of Naomi W. Randall (excerpt)
Naomi Harriet Ward Randall (born October 5, 1908 – died May 17, 2001) was a songwriter, author, and leader in the Primary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1957, she wrote the lyrics to the hymn "I Am a Child of God", originally created as a children's song and now translated into over 90 languages.
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 Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
Biography of Willy Rosen (excerpt)
Willy Rosen (18 July 1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.
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 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 Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (excerpt)
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (February 2, 1903 - January 12, 1996) was a renowned Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics. He studied advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, earning a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry. Influenced by Emmy Noether, he published the influential "Moderne Algebra" at 27.
Biography of Jean Bassompierre (excerpt)
Jean Bassompierre, born on October 23, 1914, in Honfleur (Calvados) and executed by firing squad on April 20, 1948, at 7:10 a.m. at Fort de Montrouge (Seine), was a French military figure and far-right activist. His role in armed collaboration with the Third Reich during World War II led to his execution at the end of the war.
Biography of Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (excerpt)
Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Jeanne) Bieruma Oosting (5 February 1898 – 14 July 1994) was a Dutch sculptor, engraver, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator, glass artist, painter, illustrator and book designer. She studied at the School of Arts and Applied Arts in Haarlem, the Academy of Art in The Hague and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
Biography of Eduard Spranger (excerpt)
Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, he was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. A humanist, he developed a philosophical pedagogy as a counter to the experimental, psychology-oriented theories of his time.
Biography of Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled.In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin.
Biography of Emlyn Williams (writer) (excerpt)
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, and actor. Born into a Welsh-speaking working-class family, he only learned English at age eight. Thanks to Sarah Grace Cooke’s encouragement, he earned a scholarship to study French and Italian at Oxford.
Biography of Evangeline Walton (excerpt)
Evangeline Walton (November 24, 1907 – March 11, 1996), born Evangeline Wilna Ensley, was an American fantasy writer.She is known for her ability to bring historical and mythological subjects to life with eloquence, humor, and compassion. Born in Indianapolis to an educated Quaker family, she suffered from chronic respiratory illnesses and was privately educated.
Biography of María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Hugo Fischer (politician) (excerpt)
Hugo Fischer (born January 17, 1902, in Munich, died July 11, 1979, in Holzkirchen) was a German politician and chief of staff of the NSDAP Reich Propaganda Directorate. Fischer joined the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in Hitler's 1923 coup, receiving the Golden Party Badge and the Blood Order.
Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician.After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
Biography of Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (excerpt)
Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (born August 13, 1878, in Leiden and passed away on October 13, 1957, in Heerlen) was a professor of paleobotany at the University of Groningen from 1932 to 1950. Born in Leiden, he was the son of a tailor, Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans, and Anna Elisabeth Maria Verbrugge.
Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Biography of Hans Andreas Bugge (excerpt)
Hans Andreas Bugge (born October 1, 1906, in Oslo, died April 25, 1942, near Iceland) was a Norwegian officer (frigate captain) and aviator who participated in the Norwegian Naval Air Service during World War II. Bugge was educated at the Naval Academy and the Naval Flight School.
Biography of Drucilla Strain (excerpt)
Drucilla Anna Strain (24 February 1913 – 19 January 1994) was an American musical theater actress and Ziegfeld Girl. The daughter of Robert Strain and Anna Fallon, she debuted on Broadway in 1929 in Follow Thru. She later appeared in several iconic musicals, including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) and On Your Toes (1936).
Biography of Lock Martin (excerpt)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr.(October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with gigantism.Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth. Martin would eventually grow to over 7 feet tall by adulthood, though his exact height was reported inconsistently.
Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Roland Alibert de Falconnet (excerpt)
Roland Alibert, born on February 27, 1917, in Paris, and killed in action on May 17, 1944, at Casa Chiara de Liri, was a French resistance fighter. He was killed while leading his men from the 11th Marching Battalion during the Italian campaign.
Biography of Pierrette Madd (excerpt)
Pierrette Madd, stage name of Paulette Poggionovo, was a French actress from the silent film era, born in Charenton-le-Pont on August 9, 1893, and passed away in Cannes on August 22, 1967. An actress and operetta singer, Pierrette Madd—the younger sister of Jane Pierly—had a brief film career during the 1920s, exclusively under the direction of Henri Diamant-Berger.
Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908. |
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