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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. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Francisco Guerra Navarro (excerpt)
Francisco Guerra Navarro, born 11 June 1909 in Canary Islands, Spain, died 3 August 1961, was a Spanish writer and journalist.
Biography of Pedro Badanelli (excerpt)
Pedro Badanelli, born on 11 June 1899 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) and died on 1 May 1985 in Buenos Aires, was a Spanish priest, writer, poet, jurist, theologian, and professor. In pre-Republican Madrid, he was close to major literary figures, especially Jacinto Benavente, with whom he maintained a lifelong correspondence.
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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.
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Biography of Betsy van Vloten (excerpt)
Elizabeth “Betsy” van Vloten, born July 12, 1862 in Deventer and died February 21, 1946 in Haarlem, was a Dutch poet and writer. She was the daughter of scholar Johannes van Vloten and sister to translators Martha and Kitty. She was close to the “Tachtigers” literary circle, where she connected with writers like Frederik van Eeden and Frank van der Goes, enjoying both intellectual and social interactions with them.
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Biography of Jack Heinz (excerpt)
Henry John Heinz II, born July 10, 1908, in Pittsburgh and died February 23, 1987, in Hobe Sound, Florida, was an American business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company founded by his grandfather. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he held various company roles before becoming president in 1941, leading its international expansion and major acquisitions.
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Biography of Daniel Vorländer (excerpt)
Daniel Vorländer (11 June 1867 in Eupen – 8 June 1941 in Halle) was a German chemist and a pioneer in liquid crystal research. He studied chemistry at Kiel, Munich, and Berlin, and later became a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
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Biography of Denis Johnston (Irish writer) (excerpt)
William Denis Johnston (18 June 1901 – 8 August 1984) was an Irish writer born in Dublin, known mainly as a playwright, but also for essays, memoirs, literary criticism and an eccentric book on cosmology. His time of birth comes from the book "Denis Johnston: A Life by Bernard Adams" (Dublin: Lilliput, 2002).
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Biography of Walter Conz (excerpt)
Walter Conz (27 July 1872, Stuttgart - 13 May 1947, Überlingen) was a German painter and etcher, and a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. He studied in Stuttgart and then in Karlsruhe under Ernst Schurth, Caspar Ritter, Gustav Schönleber, and Leopold von Kalckreuth, also attending their master classes.
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Biography of Maria Gomes Valentim (excerpt)
Maria Gomes Valentim (July 9, 1896 – June 21, 2011) was the world’s oldest living person from November 4, 2010 until her death. Born and deceased in Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil, she lived there all her life. She was officially recognized by Guinness World Records in May 2011, after proof showed she was older than her American predecessors, themselves successors to Eugénie Blanchard.
Biography of Angelo Dessy (excerpt)
Angelo Dessy, born on July 10, 1907 in Alghero and died on January 17, 1983 in Rome, was an Italian actor. Graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in acting, he made his debut in 1940 in Augusto Genina’s L’assedio dell’Alcazar. He went on to play various minor roles.
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Biography of Karel de Nerée tot Babberich (excerpt)
Christophe Karel Henri de Nerée tot Babberich, born on 18 March 1880 in Zevenaar and died on 19 October 1909 in Todtmoos, was a Dutch symbolist artist and author influenced by Beardsley, Toorop, and the decadent movement. Born into an aristocratic family, he began drawing and writing in 1898, inspired by Baudelaire, Verlaine, and d'Annunzio.
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Biography of Paul Chack (excerpt)
Louis Paul André Chack, born in Paris on February 12, 1876, and executed at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on January 9, 1945, was a French naval officer, writer, and collaborator. A brilliant sailor, he was repeatedly decorated for heroism and courage before and during World War I.
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Biography of Pop Chalee (excerpt)
Pop Chalee, born Merina Lujan on April 17, 1906 (an error on Wikipedia), and deceased on December 11, 1993, was an American painter, muralist, performer, and singer of Taos Pueblo heritage. Her distinctive style, blending Native traditions with dreamlike imagery, made her a leading figure in 20th-century Native American art.
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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 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.
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Biography of André Corthis (excerpt)
André Corthis, born Andrée Magdeleine Husson (April 15, 1882 – August 8, 1952), was a 20th-century French writer. She spent part of her youth in Spain, which would become a recurring theme in her work. At age twelve, she began writing poetry.
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Biography of Caspar Ritter (excerpt)
Caspar Ritter (7 February 1861, Esslingen am Neckar - 18 July 1923, Ermatingen) was a Swiss painter best known for portraits of women, but he also created genre scenes and nudes. Born into a large family, he grew up in Winterthur with his grandfather, where he completed his secondary education.
Biography of Hans Habe (excerpt)
Hans Habe, born János Békessy on February 12, 1911 in Budapest and died September 29, 1977, was a Hungarian-American writer and newspaper editor. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941 and published under several pseudonyms, including Antonio Corte and Alexander Holmes.
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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.
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Biography of Henricus Cornelius Rümke (excerpt)
Henricus Cornelius Rümke, born January 16, 1893, in Leiden and died May 22, 1967, in Zurich, was a Dutch psychiatrist, author, and professor, influential in shaping psychiatry in the Netherlands. He studied medicine in Amsterdam and trained at the Valeriuskliniek, where he met his wife, Nelly Bakker.
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Biography of Milly (actress) (excerpt)
Milly, born Carla Mignone on February 26, 1905, and died September 22, 1980, was an Italian singer, actress, and cabaret performer. Her father abandoned the family in 1910, and she was raised by her mother.As a child, she performed with her brother, comedian Totò Mignone, and her sister Mity.
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Biography of Hans Brass (excerpt)
Hans Brass (9 July 1885 – 30 May 1959) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. The son of a Prussian officer, he left the Hauptkadettenanstalt to pursue art, studying briefly in Magdeburg and at Munich’s Debschitz School. He worked as a graphic artist in Berlin and married Clara Krause in 1908.
Biography of Merry Bromberger (excerpt)
Merry Marie Louis Bromberger, born in Strasbourg on July 10, 1906 and died in Boulogne-Billancourt on March 12, 1978, was a French writer and journalist, specializing in the politics of the Fourth Republic with his brother Serge Bromberger. Family Merry Bromberger is also the brother of film director Hervé Bromberger and the uncle of radio and television journalist Dominique Bromberger.
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Biography of Philipp Harth (excerpt)
Philipp Harth (born 9 July 1885 in Mainz – died 25 December 1968 in Bayrischzell) was a German sculptor best known for his animal figures in wood, stone, and bronze. Originally trained as a lithographer and sculptor, he lived in Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Rome, and taught at the progressive Odenwald School.
Biography of Günther Stapenhorst (excerpt)
Günther Gustav von Stapenhorst (June 25, 1883 – February 2, 1976) was a German naval officer turned film producer. After serving in the Imperial Navy and working in export, he entered the film industry in 1924 and joined UFA in 1928, overseeing productions like Emil and the Detectives.
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Biography of Otto Güntter (excerpt)
Otto Güntter (born 30 October 1858, died 30 March 1949) was a German philologist and the long-serving director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach. Influenced by Friedrich Theodor Vischer, he studied philosophy and modern philology in Tübingen, later continuing his education in France and England.
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Biography of Walther Gerlach (excerpt)
German physicist Walther Gerlach (August 1, 1889 – August 10, 1979) is best known for the Stern-Gerlach experiment, which demonstrated spin quantization.He completed the experiment alone before February 17, 1922, as Stern had already left for Rostock. The son of a noted hygienist, he studied in Tübingen and earned his doctorate in 1912.
Biography of Rudolf Dittler (excerpt)
Rudolf Dittler (November 2, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a German physiologist and university professor.He studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1907 and his habilitation in 1909, becoming associate professor in 1915. During World War I, he served as chief physician and commander of a medical company, receiving both classes of the Iron Cross.
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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.
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Biography of Bruno Finzi (excerpt)
Bruno Finzi, born on 12 February 1899 in Gardone Val Trompia and died on 10 September 1974 in Milan, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, and physicist. After earning a Laurea in engineering in 1920 and another in mathematics in 1921 from the University of Pavia, he became the assistant of Umberto Cisotti at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1922. ![]()
Biography of John Collier (fiction writer) (excerpt)
John Henry Noyes Collier (born 3 May 1901 in London, died 6 April 1980) was a British writer and screenwriter, best known for his short stories, many published in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.His acclaimed collection Fancies and Goodnights won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.
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Biography of Nicolás Guillén (excerpt)
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista, born July 10, 1902, in Camagüey and died July 16, 1989, in Havana, was a Cuban poet, journalist, and politician, widely regarded as Cuba’s national poet. His revolutionary ideals led to exile under Batista before returning in 1959.
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Biography of Kate Barnard (excerpt)
Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman elected to a state office in Oklahoma and the eleventh woman in the United States to hold statewide public office. Elected in 1907, she served as Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position the 1907 state constitution allowed women to hold.
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Biography of Frans de Nerée tot Babberich (excerpt)
Frans Joseph Marie de Nerée tot Babberich, born on 13 February 1882 in Zevenaar and died on 5 June 1929 in The Hague, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and sculptor. He sometimes used the pseudonym Larec Eeren, an anagram of his brother Carel's name.
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Biography of Muriel Dowding (excerpt)
Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (22 March 1908 – 20 November 1993), was an English humanitarian and animal rights activist. A vegetarian, spiritualist, and theosophist like her second husband Lord Dowding, she campaigned fiercely against vivisection and for animal welfare. She coined the term “cruelty-free” and became a pioneer of the movement.
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Biography of Günther Weisenborn (excerpt)
German writer and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was known for his politically engaged literary work and opposition to the Nazi regime. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht, Slatan Dudow, and Hanns Eisler on the play The Mother, adapted from Gorky.
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Biography of Ernst Bresslau (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau, born on 10 July 1877 in Berlin and died on 9 May 1935 in São Paulo, was a German zoologist. The son of historian Harry Bresslau, he grew up in Strasbourg from 1890, where he studied medicine and natural sciences at the university, earning his PhD in 1902.
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Biography of Willem Keesom (excerpt)
Willem Hendrik Keesom (June 21, 1876 – March 3, 1956) was a Dutch physicist born on Texel.A student of Nobel Prize laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, he devoted his work to the study of helium and molecular interactions. In 1921, he developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions, later known as Keesom interactions.
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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.
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Biography of José Storie (excerpt)
José Storie (born 2 April 1899 in Bruges – died 29 July 1961) was a Belgian painter best known for his portraits. Educated in Bruges, Brussels, and Paris, he received a thorough artistic training, though it was disrupted by World War I.
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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.
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Biography of Mario Maratelli (excerpt)
Mario Maratelli, born on November 20, 1879, in Vercelli and died on April 20, 1955, in San Germano Vercellese, was an Italian agronomist. He is best remembered for discovering and selecting the rice variety that bears his name, which became a landmark in Italian rice cultivation.
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Biography of Gianfranco Giachetti (excerpt)
Gianfranco Giachetti, born in Florence on September 17, 1888, and deceased in Rome on November 29, 1936, was an Italian stage and film actor. Raised artistically in Venice, he began his career in amateur companies before joining Ferruccio Benini’s troupe in 1914 and later Giovan Battista Bosio’s company after World War I, where he excelled in Goldoni’s plays.
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Biography of Gilda de Abreu (excerpt)
Gilda de Abreu (September 23, 1904 – June 4, 1979) was a Brazilian actress, singer, writer, and film director. Born into a wealthy family, she first built a career on stage, performing in operettas and musicals, before gaining recognition in 1936 with the romantic comedy Bonequinha de Seda, which opened the door to cinema.
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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.
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Biography of Eugène Bourgouin (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Eugène Bourgouin, born on February 12, 1880, in Reims and died on October 30, 1924, in Paris, was a French sculptor.He distinguished himself through a wide range of works, from statuary to religious and decorative objects. He first worked on the restoration of Reims Cathedral before entering the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 1901 and later the École des beaux-arts.
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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.
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Biography of Elaine Shepard (excerpt)
Elaine Elizabeth Shepard, born April 2, 1913, and died September 6, 1998, was a Broadway and film actress during the 1930s and 1940s.She began her career as a model on the West Coast before moving into film, debuting in Darkest Africa (1936).
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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.
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Biography of Ernestina de Champourcín (excerpt)
Ernestina de Champourcín (born 10 July 1905 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, died 27 March 1999 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet linked to the Generation of ’27. Born into an aristocratic family, she received a refined education and developed a passion for poetry and languages early on. |
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