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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Mariano Ruiz-Funes (excerpt)
Mariano Ruiz-Funes García, born on February 24, 1889, in Murcia and died in 1953 in Mexico City, was a Spanish criminologist and politician. After studying law at the Central University of Madrid, he became a professor at the University of Murcia, specializing in criminal law, and received the Lombroso Prize in 1927 for Endocrinología y criminalidad.
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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.
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Biography of Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
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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).
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Biography of Herman Heijermans (excerpt)
Herman Heijermans (3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924) was a Dutch playwright, novelist, journalist, and writer, regarded as the greatest modern dramatist of the Netherlands. He gained international recognition, a feat unseen since Joost van den Vondel. Born in Rotterdam into a liberal Jewish family, he debuted in 1891, finding success with Ahasverus under the pseudonym "Ivan Jelakowitch." Later, as "Samuel Falkland Jr.," he published sketches of Amsterdam life.
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Biography of Clelia Mosher (excerpt)
Clelia Duel Mosher (born December 16, 1863, in Albany, died December 21, 1940, in Palo Alto) was a physician, hygienist, and women's health advocate who opposed Victorian stereotypes about women's physical limitations. She studied at Wellesley College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, earning a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1893 and a master’s degree in 1894.
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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.
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Biography of Élisabeth Casteret (excerpt)
Élisabeth Casteret (born Élisabeth Martin on May 13, 1905, in Paris; died on May 6, 1940, in Saint-Gaudens) was a French caver and the wife of Norbert Casteret. She moved to Saint-Gaudens after her father’s retirement and met her future husband, Norbert Casteret, there.
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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.
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Biography of Robert Wlérick (excerpt)
Joseph François Robert Wlérick, known as Robert Wlérick, was born on April 13, 1882, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on March 7, 1944, in Paris.He was a French sculptor. Born into a family of cabinetmakers, he was encouraged by his teacher Ismaël Morin to pursue his artistic talents.
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Biography of Lucien Andriot (excerpt)
Lucien Andriot (November 19, 1892 – March 19, 1979) was a French cinematographer who built most of his career in the United States. A member of the American Society of Cinematographers, he was sometimes credited as Lucien N. Andriot. He began in France between 1909 and 1913, working on silent short films directed by Victorin Jasset, often starring his sister, actress Josette Andriot.
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Biography of Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
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Biography of Antonio Irineo Villarreal (excerpt)
Antonio Irineo Villarreal González (July 16, 1877 in Lampazos, Mexico – December 16, 1944 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and soldier.Opposed to Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship from 1903, he published liberal magazines and was imprisoned.After his release, he fled to the U.S.
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Biography of Tjalling Koopmans (excerpt)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources.
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Biography of Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
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Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
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Biography of Albert Volk (excerpt)
Albert Volk (* September 13, 1882, in Frankfurt am Main; † March 16, 1982, in Heilbronn) was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After World War I, he created several war memorials in his workshop in Weinsberg. From 1926 until the end of World War II, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before returning to Weinsberg in 1945, where he actively contributed to artistic and cultural reconstruction.
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Biography of Gershom Scholem (excerpt)
Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Kabbalah. He became the first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Biography of Antoni Clavé (excerpt)
Antoni Clavé (5 April 1913 – 31 august 2005) was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.
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Biography of Leon Krynski (excerpt)
Leon Paweł Wawrzyniec Kryński (born February 20, 1866, in Warsaw; died October 8, 1937, in Warsaw) was a Polish surgeon and urologist. Born into a Warsaw family, he studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, earning his doctorate in 1891. After advancing his skills in Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Paris, and Vienna, he became a professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1901.
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Biography of Michel Lejeune (linguist) (excerpt)
Michel Lejeune, born in Paris on January 30, 1907, and died in the same city on January 27, 2000, was a renowned French linguist and Hellenist. He was the brother of the famous cartoonist Jean Effel and the father of writer Philippe Lejeune.
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Biography of Piet Meertens (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (6 September 1899 – 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar specializing in literature, dialectology, and ethnology. He founded the institutes that later merged into the Meertens Instituut, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he served as director until 1965.
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Biography of Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
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Biography of George Hodel (excerpt)
George Hill Hodel (October 10, 1907 – May 17, 1999) was an American physician and a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia".He was never charged, though police considered him a serious suspect, and two of his children believed he was guilty.
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Biography of Walter Blume (aircraft designer) (excerpt)
Walter Blume (10 January 1896 – 27 May 1964) was an engineer and German fighter ace of World War I. During World War I, he flew with two fighter squadrons, Jagdstaffel 26 and Jagdstaffel 9 gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and the Pour le Merite.
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Biography of Jean Grenier (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Grenier (February 6, 1898 – March 5, 1971) was a French philosopher and writer.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Brittany, where he befriended Louis Guilloux and Max Jacob. A philosophy graduate in 1922, he taught at the Algiers high school, mentoring Albert Camus, who dedicated several works to him, inspired by Grenier’s Les Îles (1933).
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Biography of Ernst Troeltsch (excerpt)
Ernst Troeltsch, born on February 17, 1865, in the Haunstetten district of Augsburg, and died on February 1, 1923, in Berlin, was a German philosopher, Protestant theologian, and sociologist. A representative of the German historicist movement, he was closely aligned with Max Weber's perspectives on the sociology (and history) of religions.
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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.
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Biography of Robert Pferdmenges (excerpt)
Robert Pferdmenges (27 March 1880 – 28 September 1962) was a German banker and CDU politician, known for his close friendship with Konrad Adenauer.He served as a member of the Bundestag from 1950 to 1962. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he worked in London for Disconto-Gesellschaft, eventually becoming branch manager.
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Biography of Oscar Grimes (excerpt)
Oscar Ray Grimes Jr. (April 14, 1915 – May 19, 1993) was an American utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938–1942), New York Yankees (1943–1946) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946). Grimes batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Minerva, Ohio.
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Biography of Eloísa Díaz (excerpt)
Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (June 25, 1866 – November 1, 1950) was a Chilean medical doctor and the first woman to obtain a medical degree in South America. Born in Santiago, Chile, Díaz attended several schools before enrolling in the University of Chile's School of Medicine in 1880, following a law allowing women to study at the university.
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Biography of Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis.
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Biography of Charles Derennes (excerpt)
Charles Derennes, born on August 4, 1882, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on April 27, 1930, in Paris, was a French writer. The son of a teacher and Breton writer, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and studied at the lycée in Talence.
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Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
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Biography of Juventino Rosas (excerpt)
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (January 25, 1868 – July 9, 1894) was a renowned Mexican composer and violinist, best known for his piece Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves). Born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato (now Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas), he began as a street musician, performing with dance bands in Mexico City.
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Biography of Günter Eich (excerpt)
Günter Eich, born on February 1, 1907, in Lebus and died on December 20, 1972, in Salzburg, was a German writer and playwright. Husband of the novelist and poet Ilse Aichinger, and trained as a sinologist, he was one of the participants in the Group 47.
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Biography of Hans Grundig (excerpt)
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Born in Dresden, he trained as an interior decorator before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (1920–1921) and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1922–1923).
Biography of Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S.Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
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Biography of Herta Gotthelf (excerpt)
Herta Gotthelf (6 June 1902 – 13 May 1963) was a German journalist and SPD politician.Before 1933, she was editor-in-chief of the SPD women's magazine Genossin, and after 1945, she became a key figure in the SPD’s reconstruction. Born in Breslau, she joined the SPD in 1918 after earlier involvement with the Spartacus League.
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Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
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Biography of Jane Poupelet (excerpt)
Jane Poupelet (born 19 April 1874 in Clauzure, a hamlet in Saint-Paul-Lizonne, Dordogne, and died 17 October 1932 in Talence, Gironde) was a French sculptor and illustrator. She also excelled in animal sculpture and created female nudes. Artistic Technique To create her unique works, Jane Poupelet developed her own technique: she first shaped a piece in clay, then cast it in plaster.
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Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S.in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
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Biography of Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
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Biography of Philip Cochran (excerpt)
Philip Gerald Cochran (January 29, 1910 – August 26, 1979) was an officer in the U.S.Army Air Corps and U.S.Army Air Forces. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing tactical air combat, air transport, and air assault techniques, particularly in Burma as co-commander of the 1st Air Commando Group.
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Biography of Herbert Myrick (excerpt)
Herbert Myrick, born on 20 August 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, was an American writer, editor, and businessman known for his influential work in agricultural publishing.He was the owner of the Phelps Publishing Company and served as editor-in-chief of the New England Homestead.
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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.
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Biography of Heinrich Seufferheld (excerpt)
Heinrich Seufferheld (* January 27, 1866, in Weinsberg; † February 20, 1940, in Tübingen) was a German draftsman, painter, and etcher. From 1909 to 1933, he served as a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he reformed university-level drawing education.
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Biography of Gustave André (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Gustave André, born on November 21, 1908, in Chabeuil and executed by the Germans by machine gun on August 29, 1944, in Limonest, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation. He was a schoolteacher in Chabrillan and a member of the BCRA.
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Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli. |
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