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Horoscopes 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 Henri Gouchon (excerpt)
Henri Joseph Gouchon, born March 1, 1898 in Roure, Italy (birth time source: Lescaut, Cahiers Astrologiques No.195, 1994, and Dreuille, Auréas) , died October 5, 1978, also known as "Sélénius" or "Régulus", was an astrologer and author. He was a specialist of primary directions and mundane astrology.
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Biography of Jean Nouguès (excerpt)
Jean Nouguès, born April 25, 1875 in Bordeaux, died August 28, 1932 in Paris, was a French musician and composer.
Biography of Neville Chamberlain (excerpt)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his appeasement policy regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding part of Czechoslovakia to German dictator Adolf Hitler. ![]()
Biography of Jean Hélion (excerpt)
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.
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Biography of Tristan Derème (excerpt)
Tristan Derème (February 13, 1889, Marmande, France – October 24, 1941), born Philippe Huc, was a French poet and writer. He had lived in Paris, but would often return to Oloron-Sainte-Marie, where his mother lived. Here, he would recuperate through writing poetry.
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Biography of Georges Bernanos (excerpt)
Georges Bernanos (February 20, 1888, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 5, 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.
Biography of Luc Bérimont (excerpt)
André Leclercq, best known as Luc Bérimont, born September 16, 1915 in Magnac-sur-Touvre, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1983, was a French author and poet. Works (extracts) Poetry Domaine de la nuit (ronéotypé aux Armées et préfacé par le sergent Maurice Fombeure, 1940). ![]()
Biography of Roger Frison-Roche (excerpt)
Roger Frison-Roche (February 10, 1096 in Paris - December 17, 1999 in Chamonix) is a French writer and explorer. Bibliography (extracts) L'Appel du Hoggar (1937) Premier de cordée (1938) La Grande Crevasse (1948) La Piste oubliée (1950) La Montagne aux écritures (1952) ![]()
Biography of Andres Segovia (excerpt)
Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña (17 March 1893–3 June 1987) was a Spanish classical guitarist born in Linares, Spain who is considered to be the father of the modern classical guitar movement by most modern music scholars. In recognition of his contributions to music and the arts, Segovia was ennobled on 24 June 1981 by King Juan Carlos I, who elevated Segovia into the first hereditary Marquess of Salobreña, formally styled as "El señor don Andrés Torres Segovia, marqués de Salobreña" (the Most Illustrious Lord The Marquess of Salobreña). ![]()
Biography of Jean Dasté (excerpt)
Jean Dasté (September 18, 1904 in Paris, France - October 15, 1994 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) was an actor and theatre director. Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85. ![]()
Biography of Gayelord Hauser (excerpt)
Dr. Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984), popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist, self-help author, and promoter of "the natural way of eating" during the mid-20th century. He promoted foods rich in Vitamin B and discouraged consumption of sugar and white flour. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Fresnay (excerpt)
Pierre Fresnay (April 4, 1897 - January 9, 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. ![]()
Biography of Jean Lurçat (excerpt)
Jean Lurçat (July 1, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 6, 1966) was a French painter and tapestry designer. He was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara. One of his lithographs is titled "Bacchus" and is currently on display in San Francisco. ![]()
Biography of Alain Daniélou (excerpt)
Alain Daniélou (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, October 4, 1907–Lonay Switzerland, January 27, 1994) was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to, and adept of Shaivite Hinduism. His mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was from an old family of the Norman nobility; a fervent Catholic, she founded a religious order for women teachers in civilian costume under the patronage of St. ![]()
Biography of Albert Dieudonné (excerpt)
Albert Dieudonné (26 November 1889 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) - 19 March 1976) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist. Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine" in which he also appeared as a major character.
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Biography of Léo Lagrange (excerpt)
Léo Lagrange (born Bourg (Gironde), on 28 November 1900 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, his birth certificate, available on-line) - died Évergnicourt, on 9 June 1940) was a French Socialist Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front (1936-1938).
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Biography of Max Jacob (excerpt)
Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. Born in Quimper, Brittany, France, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. ![]()
Biography of Cecil Beaton (excerpt)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Born in Hampstead to a society family, Beaton was fascinated by the society magazines and the images within. ![]()
Biography of Olga Solbelli (excerpt)
Olga Solbelli (11 May 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 85 films between 1939 and 1967. She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna. Filmography (extracts) 1967 Assalto al tesoro di stato Madame Angot 1966 Les colts de la violence ![]()
Biography of Pierre Angénieux (excerpt)
Pierre Angénieux (Saint-Héand, 14 July 1907 in Saint-Héand (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, Saint-Héand archives on-line) - 26 June 1998) was a French engineer and optician, one of the inventors of the modern zoom lenses, and famous for introducing the Angénieux retrofocus. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Bussières (excerpt)
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982), was a French film actor, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in over 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille, France and died in Paris, France. Selected filmography Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980)
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Biography of Alain (philosopher) (excerpt)
Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain (Mortagne-au-Perche, March 3, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - Le Vésinet, June 2, 1951) was a French philosopher, journalist and pacifist. Alain entered lycée d'Alençon in 1881 and studied there for five years. ![]()
Biography of Franz Lehár (excerpt)
Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, mainly known for his operettas. Lehár was born in Komárno (Hungarian: Komárom then in Austria-Hungary, now Slovakia) as the eldest son of a bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian army. ![]()
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
Biography of Dom Neroman (excerpt)
Don Néroman (sometimes spelled Dom Néroman, pen-name of Pierre Rougié) was born June 18, 1884 in Gramat, Lot department, France (birth time source: Dreuille, Auréas, and Patrice Guinard), and died in 1953. Néroman was among those astrologers who sought to eliminate superstitions from astrology and develop its scientific components.
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Biography of Evelyn Nesbitt (excerpt)
Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 – January 17, 1967) was an artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry K. Thaw. Early life She was born Florence Evelyn Nesbit in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1884.
Biography of Antoine Guérini (excerpt)
Antoine Guérini (1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)-1967), was one of the most powerful gangsters of France in the 40s. ![]()
Biography of Max Frisch (excerpt)
Max Rudolf Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment. ![]()
Biography of Marie José of Belgium (excerpt)
Princess Marie José of Belgium (Marie José Charlotte Sophie Louisa Amélie Henriette Olga Gabrielle) (4 August 1906 – 27 January 2001), was the last Queen of Italy. Her thirty-five day reign as queen consort earned her the affectionate nickname the May Queen.
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Biography of Cab Calloway (excerpt)
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s.
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Biography of Madeleine Barbulée (excerpt)
Madeleine Barbulée, born Marie-Madeleine Eugénie Barbulée September 2, 1910 in Nancy (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died January 1, 2001 in Paris, was a French actress. Filmographiy (extracts ) Mémoires en fuite (2000) (TV) .. Tante Marie Bob Million (1997) (TV) .
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Biography of Viviane Romance (excerpt)
Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was also elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. ![]()
Biography of Louis Hémon (excerpt)
Louis Hémon (12 October 1880 – 8 July 1913), was a francophone writer best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine. He was born in Brest, France. In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand secondary schools.
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Biography of Glenn Miller (excerpt)
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big bands".
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Biography of Clement Attlee (excerpt)
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. ![]()
Biography of Habib Bourguiba (excerpt)
Habib Bourguiba (August 3, 1903–April 6, 2000) was a Tunisian statesman and the Founder and First President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 to November 7, 1987. He is often compared to Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk because of the pro-Western reforms enacted during his presidency.
Biography of Alois Irlmaier (excerpt)
Alois Irlmaier, born in Siegsdorf (Germany) on June 8, 1894 (birth time source: original source unknown), was a German psychic.
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Biography of Léonce Perret (excerpt)
Léonce Perret (March 14, 1880 – August 14, 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Shackleton (excerpt)
Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions had been as third officer on Captain Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. ![]()
Biography of André Bellec (excerpt)
André Bellec, born February 12, 1914 in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique)(birth time source: Didier Geslain), died October 3, 2008 in Pontpoint (Oise), was a French singer, a member of the group Les Frères Jacques.
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Biography of Greer Garson (excerpt)
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, (London, September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an English-American actress who was very popular during the years of the Second World War. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs.
Biography of René Hardy (excerpt)
René Hardy (October 31, 1911 in Mortrée (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 12, 1987 in Melle) was a French resistant during World War II. He was captured by the Gestapo and agreed to work with Klaus Barbie although it is not clear what this implied. ![]()
Biography of Imre Nagy (excerpt)
Imre Nagy (June 7, 1896 – June 16, 1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later. ![]()
Biography of Émile Allais (excerpt)
Émile Allais (born February 25, 1912; died October 17, 2012) was a former champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered the first great French alpine skier.
Biography of Léon Lasson (excerpt)
Léon Lasson was a French astrologer born September 17, 1901, near Grenoble in St Bueil (38), died in 1989. He is the author of "Astrologie mondiale : Quinze ans de paix sur l'Europe," 1938, and "Ceux qui nous guident," 1946.
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Biography of Kathe Kollwitz (excerpt)
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.
Biography of André Martinet (excerpt)
André Martinet (Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 - Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics. His wife, Jeanne Martinet, is a recognized semiotician. Martinet agregated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: La Gémination consonantique d'origine expressive dans les langues germaniques and La Phonologie du mot en danois.
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Biography of Friedrich Murnau (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931), was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era. A figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been lost, but most still survive.
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Biography of Mabel Normand (excerpt)
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1897 - February 23, 1930) was an American film actress, screenwriter, and the most popular screen comedienne of the silent film era. Her later career was marked by several successive scandals, including the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, whom she was with only minutes before he was shot and killed.
Biography of Léon Vannier (excerpt)
Dr Leon Vannier (October 30, 1880-1963) was one of the major figures in modern French homoeopathy, practising in Paris from 1905 until the year of his death. He founded the journal L'Homoeopathie Francaise in 1912 and was the author of many books, including a substantial materia medica. |
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