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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 Miles Franklin (excerpt)
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), was an Australian writer and feminist.She achieved early fame with her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901 by Blackwoods of Edinburgh. Although she continued writing throughout her life, her next major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
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 Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America.
Biography of Antonio Ligabue (excerpt)
Antonio Ligabue, born on December 18, 1899, in Zurich and died on May 27, 1965, in Gualtieri, was an Italian painter, engraver, and sculptor.His work is associated with naïve art and shows a strong influence from Henri Rousseau. Born in Switzerland, he experienced a troubled childhood marked by poverty, illness, and psychological disorders.
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 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 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 Bhagat Singh (excerpt)
Bhagat Singh (September 28, 1907 – March 23, 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who became a major figure in the struggle against British rule. His time and his date of birth come from his niece Virender Sindhu, in the biography "Yugdrashta Bhagat Singh aur unke mrityunjay Purkhe", published by Bhartiya Gnanpith Prakasam, Varanasi in 1968.
Biography of Irina Tweedie (excerpt)
Irina Tweedie, born Irina Tamara Karpova on 21 April 1907 in Russia and died on 23 August 1999, was a Russian-British mystic and Sufi teacher of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiya order. Exiled after the Russian Revolution, she was raised across Europe. Following her husband’s death in 1954, she embarked on a spiritual search that led her to India, where she met her teacher Radha Mohan Lal in 1961.
Biography of Robert Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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 Charles Despiau (excerpt)
Charles Alfred Marie Despiau, known as Charles Despiau, was a French sculptor born on November 4, 1874, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on October 28, 1946, in Paris. Primarily known as a portraitist with an archaic spirit and simplified features, he also received public commissions, such as the Apollo for the Palais de Tokyo in 1937.
Biography of Leonard Huxley (writer) (excerpt)
Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 3 May 1933) was a British schoolteacher, writer, and editor.He was the son of renowned zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and studied in London, St Andrews, and at Oxford. Hist time of birth comes from the book "Huxley: The Devil's Disciple", by Adrian Desmond (London: M.
Biography of Josefina Niggli (excerpt)
Josefina Niggli (13 July 1910 – 17 December 1983), born Josephine Niggli, was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist and playwright.She was the first—and for a time the only—Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes, before the Chicano movement. Her work dealt progressively with gender, race, and cultural identity.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
Biography of Stan Jones (songwriter) (excerpt)
Stanley Davis Jones, born on June 5, 1914, in Douglas, Arizona, and died on December 13, 1963, in Los Angeles, was an American songwriter best known for the Western classic Ghost Riders in the Sky, written in 1948 while working as a park ranger in Death Valley.
Biography of Eugenie Anderson (excerpt)
Eugenie Anderson, born May 26, 1909, in Adair, Iowa, and died March 31, 1997, was the first American woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level. Trained as a musician, she graduated from Carleton College and married John P.Anderson in 1929, with whom she had two children.
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.
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 Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Biography of Amedeo Girard (excerpt)
Amedeo Girard, born 12 February 1893 in Montalto Uffugo and died on 12 February 1972, was an Italian actor. Active in theatre, cinema and television, he was known as a prominent character actor in Italian performing arts. He worked with major figures such as Federico Fellini, Eduardo De Filippo and Totò, and was occasionally credited as Amedeo Girardi.
Biography of Ferdinand Zecca (excerpt)
Ferdinand Zecca was born on February 19, 1864, in Paris 10th and died on March 23, 1947, in Saint-Mandé.He was a French filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, and actor who played a key role in the early days of cinema. Coming from a family of performers, he started as a stage manager and actor before transitioning to film in 1899, making movies for Pathé and Gaumont.
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.
Biography of Friedrich Sämisch (excerpt)
Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Berlin, September 20, 1896 – Berlin, August 16, 1975) was a German chess grandmaster.He won the first Austrian Championship in Vienna in 1921, though this edition was unofficial.He also finished 3rd in the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
Biography of Willi Sänger (excerpt)
Heinrich Max Willi Sänger (born on 21 May 1894 in Berlin, Germany – died on 27 November 1944 in Brandenburg, Germany) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazis. The son of a carpenter, he joined the SPD in 1912 and switched to the Communist Party in 1919 after World War I.
Biography of Frederick Loewe (excerpt)
Frederick Loewe, born Friedrich "Fritz" Löwe on June 10, 1901, in Berlin and died on February 14, 1988, in Palm Springs, was an American composer of German origin. With lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, he formed one of Broadway’s most celebrated partnerships, creating Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, and the film musical Gigi, which won nine Academy Awards.
Biography of Maurice Murphy (actor) (excerpt)
Maurice Murphy (October 3, 1913 - November 23, 1978) was an American film actor.Initially a child actor, he graduated to playing older roles, often in action films.His brother Jack Murphy also became an actor. Early film appearances included in Stella Dallas and as the young Beau Geste in the 1926 film.
Biography of Hattie Caraway (excerpt)
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, born February 1, 1878, and died December 21, 1950, was an American politician who served as U.S.Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945.She was a groundbreaking figure in American politics. Caraway was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first to serve a full term, and the first to be reelected.
Biography of Gaston Roussel (industrialist) (excerpt)
Gaston Roussel (Auxonne, December 1, 1877 – Boulogne-sur-Seine, January 8, 1947) was a French veterinarian, physician, and industrialist, founder of France's leading pharmaceutical company. Graduating as a veterinarian in 1903, he became a doctor of medicine in 1909 with research on rabbit syphilis.
Biography of Wander de Haas (excerpt)
Wander Johannes de Haas (March 2, 1878 – April 26, 1960) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his groundbreaking contributions to physics, including the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect, and the Einstein–de Haas effect.
Biography of Alexander Robertson (chemist) (excerpt)
Alexander Robertson, born on February 12, 1896, and died on February 9, 1970, was a British chemist known for his work on natural products. He received the Davy Medal in 1952 for his research on glycosides, bitter compounds, and pigments containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms.
Biography of Johan Borgen (excerpt)
Johan Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and critic, best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Lillelord, which won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 1955. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1966. Borgen began working for Dagbladet in 1923, writing satirical columns under the pseudonym “Mumle Gåsegg,” and also contributed to Morgenbladet while translating various foreign works in the 1930s.
Biography of Félix Brunet (colonel) (excerpt)
Félix Brunet, born on January 1, 1913, in Loos and died on December 5, 1959, in Colomb-Béchar, was a French Air Force colonel and a pioneer in the use of armed helicopters in combat. A decorated WWII pilot, he fought in North Africa and later led units in Indochina, where his courage and tactical ingenuity earned him wide recognition.
Biography of José Santos Chocano (excerpt)
José Santos Chocano (born May 14, 1875 in Lima – died December 13, 1934 in Santiago, Chile) was a Peruvian poet known for his bold, lyrical celebration of Latin America’s natural and cultural identity. His time of birth comes from several biographies and from himself.
Biography of Mario Pisu (excerpt)
Mario Pisu, born 21 May 1910 in Montecchio Emilia and died 17 July 1976 in Velletri, was an Italian actor and voice actor.Known for his elegance, he began his stage and film career in 1935 with The Joker King. He often worked with theatre greats like Andreina Pagnani and Gino Cervi, and appeared in 90 films through 1976.
Biography of Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux.She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904.
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 Margaret Hodges (excerpt)
Sarah Margaret Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller.Born in Indianapolis, she graduated from Vassar College in 1932 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1937 with her husband, Fletcher Hodges Jr.
Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
Biography of Robert Boudrioz (excerpt)
Robert Boudrioz, born on February 12, 1887, in Versailles and who died on June 22, 1949, in Paris, was a French film director, screenwriter, journalist, storyteller, and songwriter. His full name was Robert Pierre Frédéric Boudriot. In 1918, he married Camille Vayssières in Bergerac.
Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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 Bertha Knight Landes (excerpt)
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, leading Seattle, Washington, from 1926 to 1928.A graduate in history and political science from Indiana University, she moved to Seattle in 1895 after marrying geologist Henry Landes.
Biography of Dr. Atl (excerpt)
Dr.Atl, born Gerardo Murillo on October 3, 1875, in Guadalajara and died on August 15, 1964, in Mexico City, was a Mexican painter, writer, and thinker who left a deep mark on his country’s artistic and intellectual life. He studied painting in Guadalajara and at Mexico’s National School of Fine Arts before earning a scholarship to study in Europe.
Biography of Dorothy Whipple (excerpt)
Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup), born February 26, 1893 in Blackburn and died September 14, 1966, was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work was widely read between the world wars and saw a revival in the 2000s.
Biography of Hawley Pratt (excerpt)
Hawley Pratt (June 9, 1911 – March 4, 1999) was an American director, animator, illustrator, and designer, best known for his work at Warner Bros.Cartoons and for co-creating the Pink Panther. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he began his career at Disney in 1933, working on Fantasia.
Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
Biography of Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded. |
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