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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 Gretel Adorno (excerpt)
Margarete "Gretel" Adorno (née Karplus, 10 June 1902 – 16 July 1993) was a German chemist and an intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School.Born in Berlin, she earned her PhD in chemistry in 1925 at Friedrich Wilhelm University. Her time of birth comes from the book "The Life and Work Of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her Contributions to Frankfurt School Theory" (University of Oklahoma, 2004).
Biography of Aoua Keïta (excerpt)
Aoua Keïta (born July 12, 1912 in Bamako – died May 7, 1980) was a Malian midwife, unionist, feminist, and a leading figure in her country’s independence movement. She was one of the first Black African women to graduate in medicine in Dakar.
Biography of Silvina Bullrich (excerpt)
Silvina Bullrich (October 4, 1915 – July 2, 1990) was a best-selling Argentine novelist, translator, screenwriter, critic, and academic. Known as la gran burguesa (“the great bourgeois lady”), she became one of Argentina’s most prominent literary figures of the twentieth century, blending feminism, social critique, and psychological depth.
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 Franco Alfano (excerpt)
Franco Alfano, born March 8, 1875 in Posillipo, Naples, and died October 27, 1954 in San Remo, was an Italian composer and pianist.He is best remembered today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) and Risurrezione (1904), and for completing Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot in 1926.
Biography of Enrico Avanzi (excerpt)
Enrico Avanzi, born on January 19, 1888, in Soiano del Lago and died on March 17, 1974, in Pisa, was an Italian geneticist and agronomist.After graduating with honors in agricultural sciences at the University of Pisa, he obtained his libera docenza in agronomy in 1917 and taught there until 1928.
Biography of Jean Déchanet (excerpt)
Jean Déchanet (born January 18, 1906, in Isches, France – died May 19, 1992, at Saint-André Abbey, Bruges, Belgium) was a French Benedictine monk known as "the Father of Christian Yoga." His time of birth comes from the book "Yoga and God: An Invitation to Christian Yoga", by Jean Déchanet (Abbey, 1975).
Biography of Les Brown (bandleader) (excerpt)
Lester Raymond Brown (March 14, 1912 – January 4, 2001) was an American jazz musician who led his big band for over six decades, later known as Les Brown and His Band of Renown. Born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania, he studied at the Conway Military Band School, the New York Military Academy, and then Duke University, where he led Les Brown and His Blue Devils.
Biography of Robert Aickman (excerpt)
Robert Fordyce Aickman, born on 27 June 1914 and died on 26 February 1981, was an English writer and conservationist.He co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, which helped save and restore Britain’s inland canal system. As a writer, he was best known for his supernatural fiction, which he called “strange stories.” His work is noted for psychological depth, occult themes, and literary richness, often compared to M.
Biography of Enzo Fiermonte (excerpt)
Enzo Fiermonte, born July 24, 1908 in Bari and died March 22, 1993 in Mentana, was an Italian actor and boxer, sometimes credited as William Bird. From 1925 to 1934, he fought professionally, recording 47 wins, 17 losses, and 2 draws, before announcing his permanent retirement in 1943.
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 Wilber Brotherton Huston (excerpt)
Wilber Brotherton Huston (October 2, 1912 – May 25, 2006) was an American scientist and NASA mission director who coordinated seven satellite launches.He won the first Edison Scholarship Contest at the age of sixteen.Huston died in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
Biography of Betty Lou Gerson (excerpt)
Betty Lou Gerson, born April 20, 1914 in Chattanooga and died January 12, 1999, was an American actress best known as the original voice of Cruella de Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1996.
Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
Biography of Mary DeWitt Pettit (excerpt)
Mary DeWitt Pettit (January 1, 1908 – May 5, 1996) was an American physician, researcher, and professor who taught at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia into a distinguished family, she descended from Connecticut governor John Treadwell and chemistry professor John Pitkin Norton.
Biography of Carmel Myers (excerpt)
Carmel Myers (April 9, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American silent film star, known for her vamp roles and her breakout performance as Iras in Ben-Hur (1925).She began her career with D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance. She thrived during the 1920s with major roles and transitioned modestly into sound films, appearing in Svengali and The Mad Genius.
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 Manfred L. Keiler (excerpt)
Born on December 7, 1908, in Berlin, Manfred L. Keiler was a German-born American painter, set designer, art educator, and author. After emigrating to the United States, he became a professor of art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, serving from 1950 to 1960.
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 Dirk Coster (excerpt)
Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist and professor of physics and meteorology at the University of Groningen.He is best known as the co-discoverer of hafnium (element 72) in 1923, alongside George de Hevesy, through X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore.
Biography of Giovanni Dalmasso (excerpt)
Giovanni Dalmasso, born on 10 July 1886 in Castagnole delle Lanze and died on 13 December 1976 in Turin, was an Italian agronomist renowned for his contributions to viticulture and enology. After graduating in agronomy in Milan and natural sciences in Pavia, he became a professor at the Conegliano wine school in 1911 and began publishing educational works that same year.
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 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 Luc Andrieux (actor) (excerpt)
Luc Andrieux, born February 12, 1917 in Agon-Coutainville, died November 26, 1977) was a French actor and assistant director.
Biography of Arthur Froehlich (excerpt)
Arthur Froehlich (May 17, 1909 – October 3, 1985) was an American architect based in Beverly Hills. He founded his own firm in 1938 after working on the Santa Anita Racetrack, and gained fame with the design of Hollywood Park Racetrack.
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 Willem Witsen (excerpt)
Willem Arnoldus Witsen (born 13 August 1860 – died 13 April 1923 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and photographer associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Influenced by James McNeill Whistler, he depicted tranquil cityscapes and rural scenes. He also created portraits and photographs of artists and cultural figures, including the French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.
Biography of Clara Eggink (excerpt)
Clara Hendrika Catharina Clementine Helène Eggink (Utrecht, April 18, 1906 - Scheveningen, March 3, 1991) was a Dutch poet, prose writer, and translator.The daughter of a ruined businessman and a remarried mother, she grew up in Rotterdam and attended a humanist girls’ high school, where she met poet J.C.
Biography of Wolfgang Friedmann (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School. Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930.
Biography of Francis Doublier (excerpt)
Francis Doublier, born April 11, 1878, in Lyon, and died April 2, 1948, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a French cinema pioneer and operator for the Lumière brothers. Orphaned young, he began working at the Lumière factories where he learned the secrets of early filmmaking.
Biography of Vittorio Giovanni Rossi (excerpt)
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi, born January 8, 1898 in Santa Margherita Ligure and died January 4, 1978 in Rome, was an Italian journalist and writer. He is buried in the Santa Margherita Ligure cemetery, where a museum dedicated to him is located inside Villa Durazzo.
Biography of Käthe Brodnitz (excerpt)
Käthe Brodnitz, born March 10, 1884 in Berlin and died March 16, 1971 in St. Petersburg (Florida), was a German scholar, writer, and early patron of expressionist poets. She supported and befriended figures such as Hugo Ball, Klabund, Emmy Hennings, and Ricarda Huch.
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 Laura Nucci (excerpt)
Laura Nucci, born Maria Laura Lodovici on February 26, 1911, in Carrara and died January 10, 1994, in Rome, was an Italian actress active in film and television. Sister of director Carlo Lodovici, she began her career working with Alessandro Blasetti, often portraying antagonists or femme fatales.
Biography of Louis Rimbault (excerpt)
Louis Rimbault (April 9, 1877 – November 10, 1949) was a French individualist anarchist, revolutionary syndicalist, and advocate of naturism and veganism. Born in Tours, he promoted a lifestyle of simplicity, non-violence, and harmony with nature through the libertarian free communities movement.
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 Manuel de Nóbrega (journalist) (excerpt)
Brazilian humorist, radio host, journalist, actor, writer, and politician, Manuel de Nóbrega was born in Niterói on February 18, 1913.He began his career in 1935 with A Hora do Café and moved to São Paulo in 1944. He became a television pioneer in the 1950s, working with TV Paulista, TV Record, and TV Tupi.
Biography of Troels Fink (excerpt)
Troels Marstrand Trier Fink (April 18, 1912, in Aabenraa – October 26, 1999, same place) was a Danish historian, son of architect Jep Fink and brother of Dan Fink. Earning his doctorate in 1941 with a thesis on South Schleswig, he dedicated much of his scholarship to the history of that region and Danish political life.
Biography of Hans Purrmann (excerpt)
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (born April 10, 1880, in Speyer; died April 17, 1966, in Basel) was a German painter, graphic artist, art collector, and writer. He studied at the Karlsruhe School of Fine Arts (1897-1899) and the Munich Academy of Arts (1900-1905).
Biography of Jutta Rüdiger (excerpt)
Jutta Rüdiger (June 14, 1910 – March 13, 2001) was a German psychologist and a senior official of the Nazi regime. From 1937 to 1945, she served as the national leader of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), the female youth organization of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Louis Fabry (excerpt)
Louis Fabry, born on April 20, 1862, in Marseille and deceased on January 26, 1939, in Les Lecques (Var), was a French astronomer and mathematician. Raised in a scholarly family, he studied at Lycée Thiers and then at École Polytechnique. He earned degrees in mathematics and physics, trained in Paris, and worked at the observatories of Nice and Marseille, where he became assistant astronomer in 1895 and retired in 1924.
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 Elisabeth Plattner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Plattner (July 9, 1899 – December 26, 1994) was a German educator, writer, and advocate of individual psychology. After studying mathematics and physics in Stuttgart, Tübingen, and Geneva, she taught in private schools in Berlin. She spent several years in Japan teaching at German schools in Tokyo before returning to Germany, where she gave courses for mothers, broadcast educational programs, and founded a language school.
Biography of John McGraw (brigadier general) (excerpt)
John Robert McGraw (January 4, 1912 – June 19, 1976) was a U.S.Air Force brigadier general and flight surgeon during World War II.Born in Pennsylvania, he earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. After briefly practicing medicine, he joined the Army in 1937.
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 Julio Allard (excerpt)
Julio Allard Pinto, born on 11 June 1885 in La Serena and died on 29 May 1975 in Viña del Mar, was a Chilean military officer and politician. He was the son of Leonidas Allard Larraguibel and Rita Pinto, and married his cousin Mercedes Aguirre Pinto, whose family were landowners in Chile’s Fourth Region.
Biography of Leonie Brandt (excerpt)
Leonie Brandt, born Gertrud Franziska Pütz on 28 October 1901 and died on 27 January 1978, was a German-Dutch actress and double agent, also known by her stage name Leonie Reiman. Before and during World War II, she spied for both Germany and the Netherlands.
Biography of Jorge Guillén (excerpt)
Jorge Guillén Álvarez (18 January 1893 – 6 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and professor, best known as a prominent member of the Generation of '27. He taught in Paris, Oxford, Seville, and later at Wellesley College in the United States, where he went into exile in 1938.
Biography of Antonio Garland Sánche (excerpt)
Antonio Geraldo Garland Sánchez, born on June 22, 1891, in Chorrillos and died on September 4, 1958, in San Isidro, was a Peruvian writer, journalist, and diplomat. His literary work spanned poetry, essays, and theater, alongside a long career in journalism.
Biography of Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (excerpt)
Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (August 2, 1887 – February 12, 1960) was a French officer and explorer born in Saint-Jean-d’Angély. He inherited his family’s cognac business before joining the cavalry at the outbreak of World War I. He fought at the Marne, Verdun, and in the trenches, later becoming a pilot and establishing an air base in Zarzis, Tunisia, where he fought against the Senussi. |
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