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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 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 Jan Hendrik van den Berg (excerpt)
Jan Hendrik van den Berg, born June 11, 1914, in Deventer and died September 22, 2012, in Gorinchem, was a Dutch psychiatrist known for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and his theory of metabletics, or the "psychology of historical change." Initially trained in education and entomology, he later studied medicine at Utrecht University, specializing in psychiatry and neurology.
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 Montague Rhodes James (excerpt)
Montague Rhodes James (born August 1, 1862, in Goodnestone – died June 12, 1936, in Eton) was an English medieval scholar, author, and academic administrator.He served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge (1905–1918), Provost of Eton College (1918–1936), and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).
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 Olga Fossati (excerpt)
Olga Fossati (born April 11, 1897, in Porto Alegre, and died in Pelotas after 1995) was a Brazilian violinist and teacher.Born into a family of musicians, she began violin lessons at six under her father, a graduate of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Fred Vlès (excerpt)
Fred Manuel Raoul Vlès (born January 22, 1885, in Le Havre and died July 2, 1944, in Dachau) was a French zoologist and biologist. He earned a doctorate in science and was a professor of biological physics at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg from 1922 until his deportation in 1944.
Biography of Ernst Stäudle (excerpt)
Ernst Stäudle (born 6 June 1913 in Heidenheim an der Brenz – died 11 July 1946) was a German Nazi military officer.He served as an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. His specific role within the SS remains poorly documented, but his rank suggests a mid-level command position.
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 Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin.He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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 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 Philip J. Corso (excerpt)
Philip James Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was a U.S. Army officer who served from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and held key intelligence positions during his military career. In 1997, he published The Day After Roswell, claiming involvement in the study of alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell Incident.
Biography of Richard Müller (socialist) (excerpt)
Richard Müller, born December 9, 1880, and died May 11, 1943, was a German socialist, lathe-operator, and union activist. A leader of the 1918 German Revolution, he helped organize mass strikes against World War I and championed the workers’ council movement.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (excerpt)
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1862 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter born in Groningen.She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under August Allebé. Her aunt, the painter Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, supported her artistic education.
Biography of Margarete Berent (excerpt)
Margarete Berent (born July 9, 1887 in Berlin – died June 23, 1965 in New York) was the first woman lawyer in Prussia. She co-founded the Association of Women Jurists and the Association of German Women Academicians, advocating for women’s access to legal professions.
Biography of Moritz Geiger (excerpt)
Moritz Geiger (26 June 1880 – 9 September 1937) was a German philosopher, student of Edmund Husserl, and a key figure in the Munich school of phenomenology. He began in law, then moved to literature, philosophy, and psychology, studying with Theodor Lipps and Wilhelm Wundt.
Biography of Willem Weissenbruch (excerpt)
Willem Weissenbruch, born on 4 February 1864 in The Hague, Netherlands, and deceased in 1941, was a Dutch etcher, painter, scenic designer, and draftsman. He was the son of painter Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Suzanna Petronella Geertruida Schouw, who later married. Willem began his career as a set painter in The Hague, studying under J.
Biography of Karl Kristian Steincke (excerpt)
Karl Kristian Vilhelm Steincke, born August 25, 1880 and died August 8, 1963, was a Danish politician from the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Justice and Social Affairs across several Stauning Cabinets from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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 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 Auguste Cammissar (excerpt)
Auguste Cammissar, born in Strasbourg on 10 July 1873 and who died in the same city on 27 December 1962, was an Alsatian painter and also a stained-glass artist. He taught at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and was a member of the Saint-Léonard circle.
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 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 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 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 Ferris Webster (excerpt)
Ferris Webster was born on April 29, 1912, and died on February 4, 1989. He was an American film editor with around 72 credits and received three Academy Award nominations for Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963). |
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