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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 Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
Biography of Amalia Solórzano (excerpt)
Amalia Alejandra Solórzano Bravo (July 10, 1911 – December 12, 2008) was the First Lady of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. She was the wife of president Lázaro Cárdenas, the mother of the thrice ex-presidential candidate and former Head of Government of the Federal District, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, and the grandmother of the former Governor of Michoacán, Lázaro Cárdenas Batel.
Biography of Gaston Schnegg (excerpt)
Gaston Jacques Schnegg (September 4, 1866 – November 25, 1953) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Bordeaux, he won two sculpture prizes before moving to Paris in 1887, where he joined his older brother Lucien in Alexandre Falguière’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of Martin Luserke (excerpt)
Martin Otto Rudolf Luserke, born May 3, 1880 in Berlin and died June 1, 1968 in Meldorf, Holstein, was a German reform educator, bard, storyteller, writer, and theatre practitioner. A leading figure in German progressive education, he is seen as a forerunner of today’s experiential learning.
Biography of Anzia Yezierska (excerpt)
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist, known for her stories about Jewish immigrants in New York. Born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
Biography of Arne Thomas Olsen (excerpt)
Arne Thomas Olsen (3 December 1909 – 26 June 2000) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer, and theatre director.A central figure at Studioteatret, he helped launch the group in 1945 after secretly studying Stanislavski’s work during the Nazi occupation. Originally trained in mathematics, Olsen worked in insurance for fourteen years before committing fully to theatre.
Biography of Anna von Palen (excerpt)
Anna von Palen, born Anna Wilhelmine Emilie von Paledzki on May 26, 1875 in Perleberg, made her stage debut in 1894 in Gardelegen under the name Anna Paulsen.She later performed in Bautzen, Bielefeld, Gleiwitz, Heidelberg, and Riga, settling in Berlin in 1912.
Biography of Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (pilot) (excerpt)
Zdzisław Krasnodębski, known as Król, born July 10, 1904, in Wola Osowińska and died July 3, 1980, in Toronto, was a Polish pilot, founder and commander of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, and leader of the 1st Fighter Group. He began his military career at 16 during the Polish-Soviet War, later becoming a fighter officer in Warsaw’s 111th Squadron.
Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
Biography of Wilibald Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wilibald Gurlitt (March 1, 1889, Dresden – December 15, 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. The son of art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, he studied at Heidelberg and Leipzig, focusing on philosophy and musicology, particularly 16th- and 17th-century music. Trained in violin and organ, he also studied composition with Karl Straube, organist in Leipzig.
Biography of Albert Verwey (excerpt)
Albert Verwey, born May 15, 1865, in Amsterdam and died March 8, 1937, in Noordwijk aan Zee, was a Dutch poet and essayist. A self-taught writer influenced by Spinoza, he published his first collection, Persephone, and co-founded the review De Nieuwe Gids in 1885 with Willem Kloos, leaving it in 1889.
Biography of Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
Biography of Carl Theodor Sørensen (excerpt)
Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one of the greatest landscape architects of the 20th century. A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.
Biography of Marco Antonio Campos (excerpt)
Marco Antonio Campos (9 July 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a Mexican comedian, actor, and singer best known as Viruta in the double act Viruta y Capulina with Gaspar Henaine. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo Viruta y Capulina along with Gaspar Henaine.
Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions.Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
Biography of Gab Sorère (excerpt)
Gabrielle Bloch (29 November 1877 – 14 July 1961), known as Gab Sorère, was a French art promoter, filmmaker, stage designer, and choreographer of the Belle Époque. In partnership with Loïe Fuller, she pioneered the transformation of stage performance into abstract displays of moving light.
Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
Biography of Hermann Dietrich (excerpt)
Hermann Robert Dietrich (December 14, 1879 – March 6, 1954) was a German politician from the German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic. In 1930, he succeeded Paul Moldenhauer as Finance Minister during the Great Depression.
Biography of Ricardo Flores Magón (excerpt)
Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (known as Ricardo Flores Magón; September 16, 1873 – November 21, 1922) was a Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His time of birth comes from him, in his book "Magonismo y vida comunal mesoamericana: a 90 años de la muerte" by Ricardo Flores Magón.
Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
Biography of Preston Foster (excerpt)
Preston Foster, born August 24, 1900, and died July 14, 1970, was an American actor whose career spanned stage, film, radio, and television.He was also a vocalist and performed in nightclubs and on the radio. Born in New Jersey, he worked as a clerk before transitioning to vaudeville and Broadway.
Biography of Albert Brasseur (excerpt)
Jules Dumont, known as Albert Brasseur (February 12, 1860 – May 13, 1932), was a French actor, opera singer, and theatre director.The son of the famous comedian Jules Brasseur, he was initially destined for a military career before a chance event led him to the stage, where he debuted at 17 in La Fleur d’Oranger.
Biography of Gaston Baty (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty was a theater practitioner, born in Pélussin (Loire) on May 26, 1885, and died in the same town on October 13, 1952. He was one of the founders of the theatrical "Cartel" in 1927, alongside Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Georges Pitoëff.
Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Binnie Barnes (excerpt)
Gertrude Maud Barnes, born March 25, 1903, in London, and died July 27, 1998, known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose film career spanned from 1923 to 1973. She became a leading lady in productions such as The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Last of the Mohicans, and In Old California.
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.
Biography of Raoul Auger (excerpt)
Raoul Auger, born in Paris on May 24, 1904, and deceased on February 9, 1991, was a French illustrator and artist.He also worked under the pseudonym J.-P.Ariel, notably for youth books published by Hachette. Initially trained as a technical draftsman, he shifted toward graphic design and advertising.
Biography of Nelly Bodenheim (excerpt)
Nelly Bodenheim (born 27 May 1874 – died 7 January 1951) was a Dutch illustrator best known for her black-and-white silhouettes and color lithographs. She trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and studied under Jan Veth, who supported her artistic growth. She illustrated over twenty children’s books with traditional songs, fairy tales, and rhymes.
Biography of Dirk Brouwer (astronomer) (excerpt)
Dirk Brouwer, born September 1, 1902 in Rotterdam and died January 31, 1966, was a Dutch-American astronomer.He earned his PhD in 1927 from Leiden University under Willem de Sitter. He later moved to the United States and joined Yale University, where he became a leading figure in astronomy.
Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
Biography of Lorenzo Domínguez (excerpt)
Lorenzo Domínguez (born May 15, 1901, in Santiago, Chile – died March 21, 1963, in Mendoza, Argentina) was a Chilean sculptor known for his unique artistic synthesis of pre-Columbian aesthetics, Rapa Nui art, and European sculpture. After studying in Madrid during the 1920s, he taught in Santiago before settling in Argentina, where he lived and worked in Mendoza and Tucumán.
Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
Biography of Adriano Gozzini (excerpt)
Adriano Gozzini, born on April 13, 1917, in Florence and deceased on September 24, 1994, in Pisa, was an Italian physicist renowned for his work in experimental physics. He graduated in 1940 from the University of Pisa, training at the Scuola Normale Superiore under Luigi Puccianti, and later established Pisa’s first microwave spectroscopy laboratory.
Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
Biography of Henri Alméras (excerpt)
Henri Alméras (6 June 1893 – 1965) was a French perfumer, author, and painter.Born in Brittany into a military family, he excelled in chemistry and served in World War I, where he met couturier Jean Patou. After a brief stint at Dunlop, he trained in Grasse under Antoine Chiris alongside Ernest Beaux.
Biography of Juan Espejo Asturrizaga (excerpt)
Juan Espejo Asturrizaga (born July 8, 1895, in Lima – died October 29, 1965, in the same city) was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, and educator. A member of the Trujillo-based Grupo Norte, he was a close friend of César Vallejo, about whom he wrote a major biography covering the poet’s Peruvian years (1892–1923).
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Biography of Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography of Gisèle Freund (excerpt)
Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists.Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
Biography of Rudy Larriva (excerpt)
Rudolph Larriva (February 12, 1916 – February 19, 2010) was an American animator and director active from the 1940s to the 1980s. Born in El Paso, Texas, of Mexican descent, he grew up in California and graduated from John C. Fremont High School with a major in commercial art.
Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
Biography of Joseph Léon Lignières (excerpt)
Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (March 26, 1868, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – October 19, 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, the binomial authority for the Salmonella genus of bacteria. Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (born March 26, 1868, in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – died October 19, 1933, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, known for describing the Salmonella genus.
Biography of Philipp Scheidemann (excerpt)
Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (born July 26, 1865, in Cassel, died November 29, 1939, in Copenhagen) was a German statesman and SPD member.He served as the second chancellor of the Weimar Republic after Friedrich Ebert. Trained as a typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1883 and became a journalist for social-democratic newspapers.
Biography of Francisco Urcuyo (excerpt)
Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños (July 30, 1915 – September 14, 2001) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as Vice President under Anastasio Somoza Debayle from 1967 to 1972 and briefly as president in 1979. He presided over the Chamber of Deputies from 1978 to 1979 and was handpicked by Somoza to succeed him upon his resignation on July 17, 1979.
Biography of David Bruce (actor) (excerpt)
Born on January 6, 1914, in Kankakee, Illinois, as Marden Andrew McBroom, David Bruce was an American film actor.He began on stage with Peninsula Players Theatre in 1939 and adopted his stage name upon arriving in Hollywood, thanks to agent Henry Willson.
Biography of Eduard Meyer (lawyer) (excerpt)
Eduard Meyer (October 8, 1895 – December 15, 1931) was a German lawyer. He became known for his central role in a scandal involving Nazi politician Ernst Röhm in 1931-1932. His birth certificate is available on his German Wikipedia page. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Meyer served in World War I before studying law and working as a lawyer in Regensburg, where he befriended Röhm. |
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