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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Panaďt Istrati (excerpt)
Panait Istrati (Romanian pronunciation: ; sometimes rendered as Panaďt Istrati; August 10, 1884 – April 18, 1935) was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work. ![]()
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Bakersfield is a charter city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. ![]()
Biography of Selma Lagerlof (excerpt)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in the most common translation The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the literal translation would be "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.
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Biography of Frances Yates (excerpt)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (1899–1981) was a noted British historian. She taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years. Yates' father, a devout Anglican, was a naval engineer who began working in the shipyards as a teenager & supervised the construction of British warships in the years leading up to World War I. ![]()
Biography of Friedrich Paulus (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942. ![]()
Biography of Antal Doráti (excerpt)
Antal Doráti (April 9, 1906 – November 13, 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer. Doráti was born Antal Deutsch in Budapest, where his father was a violinist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner for composition and Béla Bartók for piano. ![]()
Biography of Margaret Sanger (excerpt)
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children.
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Biography of Raymond Aron (excerpt)
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known to the broad public for his skeptical analyses of the post-war vogue in France for ideologies that took their inspiration from the Marxism and Communist tradition.
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Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (excerpt)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox. ![]()
Biography of André Salmon (excerpt)
André Salmon (October 4, 1881, Paris (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) - March 12, 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer in Provence) was a French poet, art critic and writer. He was one of the defenders of cubism, with Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal.
Biography of André Costeseque (excerpt)
André Costeseque, born October 7, 1903 in Nantes, is a French astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of René Floriot (excerpt)
René Edmond Floriot (* October 20, 1902 in Paris - † December 22, 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French lawyer. Life "Son of a Paris municipal clerk, Floriot studied law at the Sorbonne, started practicing before his 21st birthday. In the 1930s, he prospered by winning divorces for the wealthy in a week, though the cumbersome process usually takes two to three years in France. ![]()
Biography of Alexander Sutherland Neill (excerpt)
Alexander Sutherland Neill (October 17, 1883 - September 23, 1973) was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school, which remains open and continues to follow his educational philosophy to this day. He is best known as an advocate of personal freedom for children. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Brasseur (excerpt)
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (December 22, 1905 in Paris – died August 16, 1972 in Bruneck-Brunico, Italy) was a French actor and director. Both his father, Albert Brasseur, and his grandfather, Jules Brasseur, were actors as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. ![]()
Biography of Jeanette MacDonald (excerpt)
Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and Maytime).
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Biography of Michel Simon (excerpt)
Michel Simon (9 April 1895, Geneva, Switzerland (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- 30 May 1975, Bry-sur-Marne, France), was a Swiss actor. The actor François Simon is his son. Early years Simon used to say about himself that he was born in 1895 and, "as misfortune never comes singly, cinema was born the same year". ![]()
Biography of Marie Bell (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne Bellon, best known as Marie Bell, born December 23, 1900 in Bordeaux, died August 15, 1985, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1924 : Paris 1928 : La Valse de l'adieu 1928 : Madame Récamier 1929 : Figaro 1930 : L'Homme qui assassina : Lady Falkland
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Biography of Robert Musil (excerpt)
Robert Musil born Robert Edler von Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate) – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. ![]()
Biography of André Claveau (excerpt)
André Claveau (29 December 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 4 July 2003) was born in Paris and was a very popular singer in France from the 1940s to 1960s. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep my love) with music composed by Pierre Delanoë and lyrics by Hubert Giraud. ![]()
Biography of Douglas Fairbanks (excerpt)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 (birth time source: Nella Webb) – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926). ![]()
Biography of Hermann Rorschach (excerpt)
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 Zurich - 2 April 1922 Herisau) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known, from his name, as the Rorschach inkblot test. When he was in high school, Rorschach was called Klecks, or "inkblot," by his friends. ![]()
Biography of Juan Ramon Jimenez (excerpt)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer, Spain, 24 December 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was the idea of poesía pura (Spanish for "pure poetry"). A prolific author, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse de Châteaubriant (excerpt)
Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (25 March 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for La Bričre in 1923. ![]()
Biography of Victor Mature (excerpt)
Victor Mature (29 January 1913 – 4 August 1999) was an American film actor. Early life Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean Italian-speaking father, Marcellino Gelindo Maturi, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Maturi. Discovered while on stage at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, his first leading role was as a fur-clad caveman in One Million B. ![]()
Biography of Virginie Hériot (excerpt)
Virginie Hériot (July 25, 1890 in Le Vésinet - August 28, 1932 in Arcachon) was a female French sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she was a crew member of the French boat l'Aile VI which won the gold medal in the 8 metre class. ![]()
Biography of Denise Grey (excerpt)
Jeanne Verthuy, best known as Denis Grey, was a French actress, born September 17, 1896 in Châtillon, Aosta, Italy, died January 13, 1996, in Paris, France. She has a daugther, Suzanne Grey, actress born June 28, 1917, born December 13, 2005. Filmography (extracts)
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Biography of Gustav Meyrink (excerpt)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem. Childhood Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). He was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen and actress Maria Wilhelmina Adelheyd Meier.
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Biography of Paul Foster Case (excerpt)
Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th Century and author of numerous books on Tarot and Qabalah. Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons he wrote for associate members of Builders of the Adytum. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Roehm (excerpt)
Ernst Julius Röhm, also spelled Ernst Roehm in English, (Munich November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was a German military officer and later the commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, also known as the SA. Early career Röhm's parents, Julius and Emilie (née Baltheiser) Röhm, had three children. ![]()
Biography of André Maurois (excerpt)
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, (July 26, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 9, 1967) was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947.
Biography of Hans Geisler (excerpt)
Hans Geilser, born October 12, 1910, is a German journalist, author, occulist and astrologer.
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Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (excerpt)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her time of birth comes directly from her own words, noted in her personal diary, which was published and made available for the first time in 2022, on page 52.
Biography of Léon-Joseph Suenens (excerpt)
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens (July 16, 1904—May 6, 1996) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel from 1961 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962. Suenens was a leading liberal voice at the Second Vatican Council, and an advocate of reform in the Church. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Wolfe (excerpt)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, – September 15, 1938) was an acclaimed American novelist of the early 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. ![]()
Biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent (excerpt)
The Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of George V and Mary of Teck. He held the title of Duke of Kent from 1934 until his death in 1942.
Biography of George Cukor (excerpt)
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood. (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936). ![]()
Biography of Hans Hartung (excerpt)
Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 8 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion. Life Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany into an artistic family.
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Biography of Marion Davies (excerpt)
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Even during her career, her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career. In her posthumously published memoirs, Davies claimed she wasn't an actress, knew nothing about politics, and described herself as a "silly, giggly idiot," but this is in keeping with her modest, self-deprecating personality.
Biography of Inayat Khan (excerpt)
Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 (Madras time is applied) – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. He initially came to the West as a representative of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Keitel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the High Command of the Armed Forces, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal. ![]()
Biography of Manolete (excerpt)
Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez (July 4, 1917 in Córdoba, Spain (birth time source: Starkman, Bordoni) - August 28, 1947 in Linares, Spain), better known as Manolete, was a famous Spanish bullfighter. He rose to prominence shortly after the Spanish Civil War and is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time.
Biography of Irčne Jeanning (excerpt)
Irčne Jeanning, born June 10, 1903 in Asničres, Hauts-de-Seine, is a French actress. Filmography (extracts ) # Dédé la musique (1939) # Les deux combinards (1938) # Belle étoile (1938) # Claudine ŕ l'école (1937) # La tour de Nesle (1937) # Le faiseur (1936) ... aka "Mercadet" - USA ![]()
Biography of Noël-Noël (excerpt)
Noël-Noël (9 August 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966. Filmography (extracts) 1930 : La Prison en folie, de Henry Wulschleger – Rôle : Yves Larsac ![]()
Biography of Edouard Vuillard (excerpt)
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 12, 1868 - June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis. Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.
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Biography of Paul Signac (excerpt)
Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 (birth time source: Arno Müller) - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863 He started his career in architecture, but he abandoned this at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter. ![]()
Biography of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (excerpt)
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres (6 July 1877 - 18 February 1949) served, briefly, as the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then — from 1931 to 1936—as its President. Alcalá-Zamora was born in Priego de Cordoba, Spain, son of Manuel Alcalá-Zamora y Caracuel (brother of Gregorio (d.
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Biography of Bill W. (excerpt)
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895 – 24 January 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics achieve sobriety. According to the AA Twelfth tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W. ![]()
Biography of André Danjon (excerpt)
André-Louis Danjon (April 6, 1890 – April 21, 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen. Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the Moon's image into two identical side-by-side images. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Barber (excerpt)
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music. ![]()
Biography of Eugene Guillevic (excerpt)
Eugčne Guillevic (Carnac, Morbihan, France, August 5, 1907 – Paris, March 19, 1997) (IPA: ) was one of the more important French poets of the second half of the 20th century. Professionally he went under just the single name "Guillevic". |
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