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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 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 Norman Chaney (excerpt)
Norman Chaney (October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936) was an American actor best known for playing "Chubby" in 19 Our Gang short films from 1929 to 1931. He won a nationwide contest to replace Joe Cobb and quickly became a fan favorite in the early sound era.
Biography of Giovannino Guareschi (excerpt)
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist, best known as the creator of Don Camillo. Born into a middle-class family, he abandoned university after financial hardship and turned to journalism. He edited the satirical magazine Bertoldo until 1943, served in the army, and was later interned in a German camp for nearly two years.
Biography of Ethelene Crockett (excerpt)
Ethelene Jones Crockett (1914–1978) was an American physician and activist, the first African-American woman in Michigan to be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and the first woman to serve as president of the American Lung Association. Born in 1914, she studied at Jackson Junior College and the University of Michigan, then earned her medical degree from Howard University.
Biography of Eric Ledermann (excerpt)
Eric Kurt Ledermann (16 May 1908 – 7 May 2005) was a German psychiatrist, homeopath, naturopath, and philosopher. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he earned his medical degree from the University of Freiburg in 1932.Influenced by Alfred Adler and Jan Smuts, he embraced a vitalist philosophy.
Biography of René Tavernier (geologist) (excerpt)
René Tavernier (August 26, 1914 – November 19, 1992) was a Belgian geologist, pedologist, and stratigrapher, born in Nevele and died in Ghent. A professor of geology at Ghent University, he was a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten and co-founder of the Belgian Soil Science Society (SBSS).
Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
Biography of José M. Cabanillas (excerpt)
Born on September 23, 1901, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, José M.Cabanillas entered the U.S.Naval Academy in 1920 after prep studies in Alabama.He served on various vessels and earned a Master of Science from Yale in 1932. During World War II, he was executive officer of the USS Texas, leading key operations in North Africa and on D-Day.
Biography of Ataúlfo Argenta (excerpt)
Ataúlfo Argenta, born November 21, 1913, in Castro Urdiales, and died January 21, 1958, in Los Molinos, was a Spanish conductor and pianist.Wikipedia has November 19 in error. He studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and quickly rose to prominence. In 1946, he began conducting the Spanish National Orchestra, becoming its co-director in 1947.
Biography of Eugène Bloch (excerpt)
Eugène Bloch (10 June 1878 – 12 March 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He was a pioneer in radioelectricity and one of the first to introduce quantum mechanics in France.
Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics.
Biography of René de Castéra (excerpt)
René (d'Avezac) de Castéra (Dax, April 3, 1873 - Angoumé, Landes department, October 8, 1955) was a French composer. A student of Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Isaac Albéniz, he served as secretary of the Schola Cantorum, founder of the Édition Mutuelle, and a music critic.
Biography of Robert Busnel (excerpt)
Robert Busnel (14 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator.Standing 1.92 m tall, he played as a power forward. Busnel was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1989 and awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in 1990.
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 Carlos Monge Alfaro (excerpt)
Carlos Monge Alfaro (born May 22, 1909 in Cervantes – died April 8, 1979 in San José) was a Costa Rican educator, historian, writer, and political thinker. He was one of the founders of the University of Costa Rica, serving three terms as its rector from 1961 to 1970.
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 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 Philippe Olive (actor) (excerpt)
Philippe Olive, born Philippe Jean-Pierre Olive on January 10, 1908 in Pantin, France, was a French actor who died on June 28, 1981 in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Active in 1950s French cinema, he often played supporting roles. Notably, he portrayed the coroner in Minuit, quai de Bercy (1953) and Porthos in The Vicomte of Bragelone (1954).
Biography of Charlo (singer) (excerpt)
Charlo, born Carlos José Pérez de la Riestra on 7 July 1906 in La Piedad (now Colonia Santa Teresa), died on 30 October 1990 in Buenos Aires.He was a renowned Argentine tango singer, pianist, composer, and actor. He began law studies but left them to pursue music.
Biography of Johnnie Davis (actor) (excerpt)
John Gustave Davis (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer, and trumpeter.Born in Brazil, Indiana, into a musical family, he began playing trumpet young and joined local orchestras as a teenager. By 1933, Davis was living in New York City, where he formed his own trio and developed a talent for scat singing.
Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
Biography of Frank Graham (voice actor) (excerpt)
Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914 – September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and voice actor active during the 1940s. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of attorney Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham, with whom he toured during his youth.
Biography of Jorge Cáceres (pentathlete) (excerpt)
Jorge Cáceres (14 April 1917 – 3 December 1975) was an Argentine modern pentathlete and army general.His brother, José Rafael Cáceres Monié, served as Minister of Defense under Roberto Levingston and Alejandro Lanusse. Born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, he entered the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1925 and graduated as a second lieutenant.
Biography of Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism.
Biography of Antonio Giolitti (excerpt)
Antonio Giolitti (12 February 1915 - 8 February 2010) was an Italian politician, grandson of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. He joined the Communist Party in 1940, was arrested by the fascist regime and later acquitted. During the Resistance, he was seriously wounded and sent to France, returning to Italy only after the war.
Biography of Elbert A. Smith (excerpt)
Elbert Aoriul Smith (8 March 1871 – 15 May 1959) was a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). He served in the church's First Presidency from 1909 to 1938 and as Presiding Patriarch from 1938 to 1958.
Biography of Nellie Campobello (excerpt)
Nellie Campobello (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer known for Cartucho, a rare chronicle of the Mexican Revolution from a woman’s perspective. The book recounts her childhood in northern Mexico amid the clashes between Villistas and Carrancistas.
Biography of Suzanne Desprès (excerpt)
Suzanne Desprès (18 December 1873 – 29 June 1951) was a French actress who was born at Verdun, Meuse and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she obtained the first prize for comedy, and the second for tragedy. She then became associated with, and subsequently married, Lugné-Poe, the actor-manager, who had founded a new school of modern drama at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
Biography of Clara Grunwald (excerpt)
Clara Grunwald, born on June 11, 1877 in Rheydt and murdered in April 1943 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was a German teacher and a pioneer of Montessori education. The eldest of eleven children in a Jewish family, she began teaching in Berlin in 1896.
Biography of María Goyri (excerpt)
María Amalia Vicenta Goyri (August 29, 1873 – November 28, 1954), also known as Maria Goiri, was a Spanish writer, scholar, and philologist from a Basque family, and part of the Generation of ’14. She stood out as a pioneering advocate for women's rights.
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 Heddy Astrup (excerpt)
Hedevig (Heddy) Stang Astrup, born on April 21, 1904, and died on August 23, 1978, was a Norwegian philanthropist known as “the mother of child aid.” In 1931, she founded a local charity that became Oslo Red Cross Child Aid. She supported vulnerable children and disabled people, establishing the "Tomtebo" center in 1944 and significantly funding the Bakkebø institution and its chapel.
Biography of Fernand Mailly (excerpt)
Fernand Mailly, born Fernand Jean Paul Anne-dit-Mousset on February 26, 1873, in Le Havre, was a French actor and stage director. He died in Paris on August 20, 1942. He began his career in theater before transitioning to silent cinema, debuting in 1914 with La Dénonciatrice.
Biography of Angelo Hesnard (excerpt)
Angelo Louis Marie Hesnard, born on 22 May 1886 in Pontivy and died on 17 April 1969 in Rochefort, was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, influential in 1930s French sexology. Coming from a modest background, he educated himself through the French navy.
Biography of José Manuel Fortuny (excerpt)
José Manuel Fortuny Arana (born March 22, 1916 – died March 18, 2005) was a key communist leader in Guatemala and a close adviser to President Jacobo Árbenz during his government from 1951 to 1954. Active in leftist politics since the 1940s, Fortuny founded the Guatemalan Communist Party and later led the Guatemalan Party of Labor (PGT) until the U.S.-backed coup of 1954.
Biography of Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
Biography of Sorley MacLean (excerpt)
Sorley MacLean (* October 26, 1911 – † November 24, 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, regarded as one of the major modern Scottish poets. Born into a strict Presbyterian family on the Isle of Raasay, he was immersed in Gaelic culture and literature but later embraced socialism.
Biography of François Neuens (excerpt)
François Neuens (September 6, 1912 – August 27, 1985) was a Luxembourgish professional road cyclist. He won two stages of the 1939 Tour de France. During World War II, he claimed two victories in the Tour de Luxembourg. Neuens also competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Biography of Barthold Theodoor Willem Van Hasselt (excerpt)
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt (7 November 1896, Leiden – 5 August 1960, Wassenaar) was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and served as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951. The son of Marie Elise Prins (1875-1949) and physician Sjoerd Folkert Willem van Hasselt (1868-1934), he married Elisabeth Henriette Versteegh (1898-1957) in 1920 and Marion Elizabeth Davidson (1892-1992) in 1938.
Biography of Jean Webster (author) (excerpt)
Jean Webster, born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24, 1876, and died on June 11, 1916, was an American author best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively young female protagonists who grow intellectually, morally, and socially, while incorporating humor, witty dialogue, and subtle social critique.
Biography of Jan Olieslagers (excerpt)
Born on May 14, 1883, in Antwerp, Jan Olieslagers came from humble beginnings. After losing his father at age 11, he worked in shipyards and bicycle workshops, where he developed a passion for speed and mechanics. He became a cyclist and then, in 1902, world motorcycle speed champion.
Biography of Norman Granz (excerpt)
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.He founded Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo labels, and launched the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. A champion of racial equality, he insisted on integrated audiences at his events.
Biography of Gustave Brickner (excerpt)
Gustave Adolph "Gus" Brickner was a famous swimmer hailing from Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the United States.Born Feb.10, 1912 to Gustave Adolph Brickner Sr.(1889 - 1918) and Philamena "Minnie" Buchrop (1885 - 1968).One of Five siblings, Gus's father died at age 29 when Gus was 6 years old.
Biography of Tine van Berken (excerpt)
Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout, born on September 29, 1870 in Amsterdam and deceased on December 7, 1899, was a Dutch children's author known as Tine van Berken. Between 1894 and 1899, she published a wide array of books for girls, marked by a gentle and moral tone.
Biography of Enrico Mainardi (excerpt)
Born on May 19, 1897, in Milan, Enrico Mainardi was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor. He began touring Europe as a cello prodigy at just thirteen, gaining acclaim as a virtuoso performer. He later taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, mentoring notable cellists like Siegfried Palm and Miklós Perényi.
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 Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs.
Biography of Yvonne Dornès (excerpt)
Yvonne Dornès (born April 19, 1910, in Paris – died September 10, 1994, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French high-ranking cultural official and co-founder of the Cinémathèque française in 1936 with Henri Langlois. She also played a central role between the French Family Planning Movement and Freemasonry.
Biography of Charles J. Solomon (excerpt)
Charles Julius Solomon (February 12, 1906 – May 1, 1975) was an American bridge player, administrator, writer, and sponsor. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000. Originally a lawyer in Philadelphia, he left law to focus on bridge. In 1948, he married Margery "Peggy" Golder, daughter of philanthropist Jules Mastbaum, after teaching her the game.
Biography of Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (excerpt)
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier was born on March 27, 1875, in Annecy and passed away on May 4, 1962, in Cambridge.A Franco-German neurologist and neuropathologist, she made significant contributions to medical research. She was among the first women admitted to medical school and defended her thesis in 1900 on brain myelination. |
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