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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 Waldemar A. Nielsen (excerpt)
Waldemar A. Nielsen (March 27, 1917 – November 2, 2005) was an American author and expert on philanthropy and philanthropic organizations. He became widely known for his book The Big Foundations (1972), which examined the finances and operations of major American foundations with assets exceeding $100 million.
Biography of Barney McCosky (excerpt)
William Barney McCosky (April 11, 1917 – September 6, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played from 1939 to 1953 for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Indians. A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, he appeared in over 1,100 games, primarily in center field and left field, and posted a .312 career batting average, reflecting his consistent hitting ability.
Biography of Agnes Macphail (excerpt)
Agnes Campbell Macphail, born March 24, 1890, and died February 13, 1954, was a Canadian politician and journalist.She was the first woman elected to Canada’s House of Commons. She served as a federal Member of Parliament from 1921 to 1940, playing a pioneering role in women’s political representation in Canada.
Biography of Mary Lou Petty (excerpt)
Mary Lou Petty, also known by her married name Mary Lou Skok, born on April 5, 1915 in Spokane, Washington, and died on April 2, 2014, was an American competition swimmer. She competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she placed fourth in the 400-meter freestyle.
Biography of Kermit Gordon (excerpt)
Kermit Gordon (July 3, 1916 – June 21, 1976) was an American economist and public official. He served as Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget from 1962 to 1965 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Biography of Kenneth E. Stager (excerpt)
Kenneth E. Stager (January 28, 1915 – May 13, 2009) was an American ornithologist who served as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. A specialist in birds, he conducted field research and contributed to the study of island ecosystems.
Biography of Jimmy Jackson (racing driver) (excerpt)
James Merriman Jackson (July 25, 1910 – November 25, 1984) was an American racing driver. He took part in two Indianapolis 500 races that counted toward the World Drivers’ Championship between 1950 and 1960. His best finish was 15th place, and he scored no championship points.
Biography of Thérèse Casgrain (excerpt)
Thérèse Forget-Casgrain, also known as Thérèse Casgrain or Mrs.Pierre Casgrain, was born Marie-Thérèse Forget on July 10, 1896, in Montreal and died in the same city on November 3, 1981.She was a Quebec reformer, feminist, and politician. From the 1920s to the 1940s, she campaigned alongside other women for the recognition of women’s rights in Quebec.
Biography of Anton Afritsch (journalist) (excerpt)
Anton Afritsch (8 December 1873 in Klagenfurt – 7 July 1924 in Graz) was an Austrian journalist and politician. He is best remembered as the initiator of the Kinderfreunde movement.
Biography of G. T. Fleming-Roberts (excerpt)
G. T. Fleming-Roberts (April 19, 1910 in Indianapolis – October 6, 1968 in Nashville, Indiana) was an American pulp fiction writer. He specialized in mystery and detective stories during the pulp magazine era. A prolific author, he published in numerous popular magazines, known for his inventive plots, clever twists, and original narrative devices.
Biography of Alma Johanna Koenig (excerpt)
Alma Johanna Koenig, born on August 18, 1887 in Prague and died on June 1, 1942 in Maly Trostenets, was an Austrian writer. Born into a Jewish family, she grew up in Vienna and was largely self-educated after leaving school for health reasons.
Biography of Robert E. Galer (excerpt)
Robert Edward Galer (October 23, 1913 – June 27, 2005) was a United States Marine Corps naval aviator. He distinguished himself during World War II, particularly in the Battle of Guadalcanal, where his bravery in aerial combat earned him the Medal of Honor.
Biography of Reunald Jones (excerpt)
Reunald Jones Sr. (December 22, 1910 – February 26, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter who worked in big bands and as a studio musician. He served as lead trumpet with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1952 to 1957. A native of Indianapolis, he studied at the Michigan Conservatory and played with territory bands before working in the 1930s and 1940s with numerous ensembles, including those of Chick Webb, Don Redman, and Duke Ellington.
Biography of Maurice Goldman (composer) (excerpt)
Maurice Goldman (April 20, 1910 – February 2, 1984) was an internationally known American composer and conductor.His work focused largely on Yiddish and Hebraic music, while incorporating elements of classical, jazz, and American folk traditions. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Cleveland in a rabbi’s family, he showed musical talent at an early age, singing, playing piano, and composing by the age of five.
Biography of Hanns Albin Rauter (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (born February 4, 1895, died March 24, 1949) was a high ranking Austrian born SS official and Nazi war criminal. From 1940 to 1945, he served as Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands, making him the top authority for security and policing during the occupation.
Biography of James T. Wiley (excerpt)
James Thomas Wiley (August 2, 1918 (Wikipedia has August 7 in error) – May 3, 2000) was a U.S.Army Air Forces and U.S.Air Force officer and fighter pilot, a member of the 332nd Fighter Group’s 99th Pursuit Squadron, known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
Biography of Donald E. Hillman (excerpt)
Donald Edison Hillman, born on August 24, 1918 in Seattle, Washington, and died on March 16, 2012, was an American military aviator.A World War II flying ace and prisoner of war, he was credited with destroying five enemy aircraft. After studying at Broadway High School, the University of Washington, Virginia Military Academy, and Stanford University, where he earned a business degree in 1939, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1940.
Biography of Harry Stewart (excerpt)
Harry Stewart, born Harry Skarbo on October 21, 1908 in Tacoma, Washington, and died on May 20, 1956, was an American entertainer, singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is best known for his character Yogi Yorgesson, a comic caricature of a Swedish American.
Biography of Clinton Rossiter (excerpt)
Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III (September 24, 1917 – July 11, 1970) was an American historian and political scientist at Cornell University from 1947 to 1970. He authored around twenty books, including The American Presidency, and received major honors such as the Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for Seedtime of the Republic.
Biography of Karlis Ulmanis (excerpt)
Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis, born 4 September 1877 and died 20 September 1942, was a Latvian politician and a major figure in the country’s political life during the interwar period of independence. He notably served as Latvia’s first prime minister following the proclamation of independence in November 1918.
Biography of Ebba Haslund (excerpt)
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen, born on 12 August 1917 and died on 10 July 2009, was an American-Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, children’s author, literary critic, radio speaker, and politician. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo from 1958 to 1961, then for Akershus from 1961 to 1965.
Biography of Cyrus Colter (excerpt)
Cyrus Colter (January 8, 1910 – April 15, 2002) was an American author who began his literary career later in life after working as a lawyer and public servant. He started writing short stories at the age of 50, often focusing on the lives of working- and middle-class African Americans.
Biography of Kira Kirillovna of Russia (excerpt)
Kira Kirillovna Romanova, born May 9, 1909, in Paris and died September 8, 1967, in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, was a Russian princess later made a grand duchess by decision of her father. She was the second daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna.
Biography of Mary Ellen Smith (excerpt)
Mary Ellen Spear Smith, born on October 11, 1863 in Tavistock, Devon, and died on May 3, 1933 in Vancouver, was a Canadian politician in British Columbia. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, as well as the first female cabinet minister and the first female Acting Speaker of a legislative assembly in the British Empire.
Biography of Rae Luckock (excerpt)
Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock, known as Rae Luckock, born on 15 October 1893 and died on 24 January 1972, was a Canadian feminist, social justice activist, and peace activist. Along with Agnes Macphail, she was one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1943.
Biography of Elwood Zimmerman (excerpt)
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman, born on December 8, 1912 and died on June 18, 2004, was an American entomologist.He is best known for two major multivolume series devoted to insects and beetles. His principal works are Insects of Hawaii, published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, and Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), published by Australia's CSIRO.
Biography of Bob Hamilton (golf) (excerpt)
Robert T.Hamilton (January 10, 1916 – December 6, 1990) was an American professional golfer from Evansville, Indiana.He was one of the notable players of his era. He won ten professional titles, including one major, the 1944 PGA Championship, where he defeated Byron Nelson in the final.
Biography of Edward S. Aarons (excerpt)
Edward Sidney Aarons (September 11, 1916 – June 16, 1975) was an American writer who authored more than eighty novels between 1936 and 1975.He also wrote under pseudonyms, notably Edward Ronns and Paul Ayres. He began his career writing stories for detective magazines before gaining recognition for his spy novels.
Biography of Hermila Galindo (excerpt)
Hermila Galindo Acosta, also known as Hermila Galindo de Topete, born on 2 June 1886 and died on 18 August 1954, was a Mexican writer and feminist. She was an early advocate of causes then considered radical, such as sex education in schools, women’s suffrage, and divorce.
Biography of Milt Woodard (excerpt)
Milton P. Woodard, born on June 4, 1911 in Tacoma, Washington, and died on March 3, 1996, was an American sportswriter and sports executive. He served as president of the American Football League from July 1966 until its merger with the NFL in 1970.
Biography of Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (excerpt)
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, born on 10 January 1871 in Vienna and died on 8 April 1955 in Linz, was an Austrian poet and novelist.She is known for her historical romances, notably Die Hochzeit von Quedlinburg. The daughter of Baron Heinrich Hypolith von Handel-Mazzetti, who died before her birth, she received a strong education in history and languages.
Biography of Rosemary Lynch (excerpt)
Sister Rosemary Lynch, born on March 18, 1917 in Phoenix, Arizona, and died on January 9, 2011, was an American Franciscan sister committed to nonviolence and social justice. She attended St. Mary’s parish schools in Phoenix, then joined the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity in 1932 and affirmed her vows in 1934.
Biography of Amélie Diéterle (excerpt)
Amélie Diéterle, the stage name of Amélie Laurent, was born on February 20, 1871, in Strasbourg, France, and died on January 20, 1941, in Cannes. A French stage actress, operetta singer, and art collector, she achieved considerable fame during the Belle Epoque and remained prominent into the early Roaring Twenties.
Biography of Louise McKinney (excerpt)
Louise McKinney, née Crummy on 22 September 1868 and died on 10 July 1931, was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women’s rights activist. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislature in the British Empire.
Biography of Amélie Murat (excerpt)
Amélie Murat, born on December 19, 1882, in Chamalières, France, and died on March 8, 1940, in Clermont-Ferrand, was a French novelist and poet.Orphaned at a very young age, she was raised with her sister Jeanne by their maternal grandmother and developed a passion for poetry during childhood.
Biography of Isabelle Crombez (excerpt)
Marie Isabelle Victorine-Ghislaine Crombez, also known as the Countess de La Baume-Pluvinel, born on 30 October 1858 in Brussels and died on 7 February 1911 in Paris, was a Belgian author and salon hostess. She published her works under the masculine pseudonym Laurent Évrard.
Biography of Lester Asheim (excerpt)
Lester Eugene Asheim, born on January 22, 1914 in Spokane, Washington, and died on July 1, 1997 in Chapel Hill, was an American librarian and scholar of library science and film history. The American Library Association named him among the 100 most important library leaders of the 20th century.
Biography of Léon Brillouin (excerpt)
Léon Nicolas Brillouin, born on August 7, 1889 in Sèvres (birth certificate n° 104) and died on October 4, 1969 in New York, was a French-American physicist. He is best known for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, wave theory, and information theory.
Biography of Emma Roldán (excerpt)
Emma Roldán, born Emma Roldán Reyna on February 3, 1890, in San Luis Potosí and died on August 29, 1978, was a Mexican character actress and costume designer.Wikipedia incorrectly gives her year of birth as 1893. Known for playing sharp-tongued and domineering matriarchs, she appeared in several major films by Fernando de Fuentes, including El prisionero trece, El compadre Mendoza, and Allá en el Rancho Grande.
Biography of Jean Rogers (excerpt)
Jean Rogers, born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren on March 25, 1916 in Belmont, Massachusetts, and died on February 24, 1991 in Sherman Oaks, was an American actress. She is best remembered for playing Dale Arden in the science-fiction serials Flash Gordon and Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars.
Biography of Carlos Riquelme (excerpt)
Carlos Riquelme Tovar, born on May 13, 1912 in Mexico City and died on May 17, 1990 in the same city, was a Mexican actor. Nominated three times for the Ariel Award, he appeared in about 160 films between 1939 and 1989.
Biography of Edward Shearman Ross (excerpt)
Edward Shearman Ross, born on September 1, 1915 and died on March 16, 2016, was an American entomologist. Trained at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as curator of insects at the California Academy of Sciences before receiving his Ph.D.
Biography of Eleanor Maccoby (excerpt)
Eleanor Emmons Maccoby, born on May 15, 1917, in Tacoma, Washington, and died on December 11, 2018, was an American psychologist specializing in developmental psychology and gender studies. Her research focused on sex differences, child development, social development, and parent-child relationships.
Biography of Helene Scheu-Riesz (excerpt)
Helene Scheu-Riesz, born September 18, 1880, and died January 8, 1970, was an Austrian women’s rights activist, pacifist, children’s writer, and publisher.She was active in the Austrian women’s movement and co-founded the first Viennese Women’s Club in 1900. She later became involved in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Biography of Marthe Simard (excerpt)
Marthe Marie Amélie Angèle Simard, born Caillaud on April 6, 1901 in Bordj Menaïel and died on March 28, 1993, was a Franco-Canadian politician.She was the first French woman to sit in a parliamentary assembly. Living in Quebec, she founded the Free France Committee of Quebec in December 1940, during World War II.
Biography of Victor Bérard (excerpt)
Victor Bérard, born on 10 August 1864 in Morez and died on 13 November 1931 in Paris, was a French diplomat, politician, and Hellenist. A former student of the École normale supérieure in Paris, he carried out archaeological work as a member of the French School at Athens from 1887 to 1890.
Biography of Simonne Vidal (excerpt)
Simonne Vidal, born on 14 February 1894 in Dieppe and died on 2 July 1944 in Lyon, was the wife of the historian and Resistance fighter Marc Bloch. She played an important role in her husband’s work, notably as his secretary and research assistant, while also volunteering in a hospital during both world wars.
Biography of Jacques Rouché (excerpt)
Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché, born on November 16, 1862 in Lunel and died on November 9, 1957 in Paris, was a French patron of the arts and music. He is best known for having managed the Paris Opera for several decades.
Biography of Carlos López Moctezuma (excerpt)
Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda, born on November 19, 1909, in Mexico City and died on July 14, 1980, in Aguascalientes, was a Mexican actor. Trained in the theater under Virginia Fábregas and Fernando Soler, he made his stage debut in Antígona, where he met actress Josefina Escobedo, who later became his wife.
Biography of Claude Alvin Villee Jr. (excerpt)
Claude Alvin Villee Jr.(February 9, 1917, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – August 7, 2003) was an American biologist and long-time professor at Harvard University. He studied at Franklin and Marshall College and later at the University of California, beginning his career in 1941 at Berkeley as a research assistant before becoming an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. |
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