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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 Manuel de Falla (excerpt)
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor.
Biography of Jean Hamburger (excerpt)
Jean Hamburger (July 15, 1909 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - February 1, 1992) was a distinguished French physician, surgeon and essayist. He is particularly known for his contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal transplantation in France in 1952. ![]()
Biography of Henri-Pierre Roché (excerpt)
Henri-Pierre Roché (May 28, 1879 – April 9, 1959) was a French author who was involved with the Dada movement. Born in Paris, France, Henri-Pierre Roché was a respected journalist as well as an art collector and dealer. At the turn of the 20th century, he became close friends with a number of young artists from the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris including: Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Marie Vassilieff, Max Jacob, and Pablo Picasso.
Biography of Marcel André (excerpt)
Marcel André (Marcel, Auguste, Victor André), born on January 2, 1885 in Paris 2e (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate), died on October 13, 1974 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian, and the father of actor Michel André.
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Biography of André Beucler (excerpt)
André Beucler, born February 23, 1898 in Saint-Petersbourg and died February 26, 1985, was a French writer. Awards 1957 Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres. 1981 Prix de l'Académie française pour De Saint-Pétersbourg à Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1982 Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
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Biography of Henri-Georges Clouzot (excerpt)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (November 20, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 12, 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized as among the greatest films from the 1950s.
Biography of André Dalibert (excerpt)
André Dalibert, born on March 11, 1908 in Sourdeval-la-Barre (Manche), died on June 7, 1997 in Grainville-sur-Odon (Calvados), was a French actor and singer. Partial filmography * 1950 : Le Passe-Muraille de Jean Boyer * 1950 : Le Rosier de Madame Husson de Jean Boyer - (Célestin, un conseiller communal) ![]()
Biography of John Dewey (excerpt)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. ![]()
Biography of Keenan Wynn (excerpt)
Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor. Early life and career He was born in New York, New York as Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn, the son of Jewish American vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn, and his Irish-American Catholic wife, the former Hilda Keenan, but took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood. ![]()
Biography of Richard Wilhelm (excerpt)
Richard Wilhelm (May 10, 1873, Stuttgart, Germany - March 2, 1930, Tübingen, Germany) was a German translator. He translated many philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English. ![]()
Biography of Octavio Paz (excerpt)
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. Later life In India, Paz completed several works, including El mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian) and Ladera este (Eastern Slope). ![]()
Biography of Cecil B. de Mille (excerpt)
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Biography Early life DeMille was born while his parents, Henry Churchill deMille (1853–1893), a dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church from Washington, North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853–1923), who was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in England but converted to her husband's faith, were vacationing in Ashfield, Massachusetts. ![]()
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had directly led to the war. ![]()
Biography of Ted Williams (excerpt)
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) also nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox. ![]()
Biography of Miguel de Unamuno (excerpt)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain. Miguel de Unamuno was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. ![]()
Biography of Henri Bosco (excerpt)
Henri Bosco (November 16, 1888 - May 4, 1976) was a French writer. He was born in Avignon. He died in Nice. He was buried at the cemetery of Lourmarin. Bibliography (extracts) Pierre Lampédouze, 1924 Le Sanglier, 1932 Le Trestoulas et L'Habitant de Sivergues, 1935
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Biography of Anna May Wong (excerpt)
Anna May Wong (or Wong Liu Tsong, traditional Chinese: 黃柳霜; pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng, January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned film, television, stage, and radio.
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Biography of Evelyn Waugh (excerpt)
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy, that convey his conservative and Catholic opinions. ![]()
Biography of Lilli Palmer (excerpt)
Lilli Palmer, born Lillie Marie Peiser, (May 24, 1914 – January 27, 1986) was a German actress. She was also a painter and a writer. Palmer, who took her surname from an English actress she admired, was one of three daughters born to Dr.
Biography of Zoë Fontana (excerpt)
Zoe Fontana, born May 16, 1911 in Traversetolo, died in 1978, was an Italian fashion designer, the founder of the house of Haute Couture Sorelle Fontana, with her two sisters Micol Fontana and Giovanna Fontana.
Biography of Barbara Ivanova (excerpt)
Barbara Ivanova, born March 25, 1917 in Moscou, was a famous Russian psychic.
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Biography of Andrew Wyeth (excerpt)
Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, and regionalist artist. He is one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public. ![]()
Biography of Thelma Todd (excerpt)
Thelma Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was a popular American actress of the late 1920s and early 1930s film. Appearing in over 40 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. ![]()
Biography of Fatty Arbuckle (excerpt)
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized criminal prosecution that ended his career.
Biography of Swami Narayanananda (excerpt)
Swami Narayanananda (12 April 1902 – 26 February 1988) was born in a village in Coorg, Karnataka state, South India. From an early age he practised regular meditation. After finishing his studies, he renounced the world in 1929 and joined the Ramakrishna Mission.
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Biography of Sun Yat-sen (excerpt)
Sun Yat-sen or Sun Zhongshan (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the Father of Modern China. Sun played an instrumental role in the eventual collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. ![]()
Biography of Foujita (excerpt)
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治 Fujita Tsuguharu, November 27, 1886–January 29, 1968) was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied French oil techniques to Japanese-style paintings. In 1910 when he was twenty-four years old Foujita graduated from what is now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
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Biography of Roger Lapébie (excerpt)
Roger Lapébie (Bayonne, January 16, 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°35) – Pessac, October 12, 1996) was a French racing cyclist who won the 1937 Tour de France. In addition, Lapébie won the 1934 and 1937 editions of the Critérium National. ![]()
Biography of Risë Stevens (excerpt)
Risë Stevens (pronounced "REE-sah") (born June 11, 1913, New York City) is a retired American mezzo-soprano who captured a wide popular audience at the height of her career (1940-1960). She studied at New York's Juilliard School of Music for three years. She went to Vienna, where she was trained by Marie Gutheil-Schoder and Herbert Graf. ![]()
Biography of Charles Rigoulot (excerpt)
Charles Rigoulot (November 3, 1903 – August 22, 1962) was an French weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver, and actor who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in in Le Vésinet, Rigoulot became French champion in 1923 and won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight class in 1924. ![]()
Biography of Achille Liénart (excerpt)
Achille Liénart (February 7, 1884—February 15, 1973) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930. Born in Lille, Liénart studied at College Saint-Joseph, the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Collège de Sorbonne, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. ![]()
Biography of Gough Whitlam (excerpt)
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (/gɒf/, pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Whitlam entered Federal Parliament in 1952, winning a by-election for the Division of Werriwa in New South Wales. ![]()
Biography of René Étiemble (excerpt)
Étiemble (René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble, born Mayenne 26 January 1909, died Vigny, 7 January 2002) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. Known commonly by his family name alone, Etiemble was Professor of comparative literature at the Sorbonne from 1956 to 1978. ![]()
Biography of Gina Manès (excerpt)
Gina Manès (7 April 1893, Paris, France (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) - 6 September 1989, in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France) was a French film actress. She appeared in the silent film Coeur fidèle (1923), directed by Jean Epstein and played the title role in the film Thérèse Raquin (1928) directed by Jacques Feyder.
Biography of Léa Papin (excerpt)
Christine Papin (8 March 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 July 2001) were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933. ![]()
Biography of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (excerpt)
Consuelo, Countess of Saint-Exupéry (born Suncín de Sandoval; April 16, 1901 – May 28, 1979), was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, married to the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Wikipedia incorrectly lists 10 April 1901. Born into a wealthy family in El Salvador, she studied in the United States, Mexico, and France.
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Biography of Marcel Prévost (excerpt)
Eugene Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 (birth time and city source: Gauquelin, vol 6) – 1941) was a French author and dramatist. He was born in Toulouse, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882. ![]()
Biography of Paul Dukas (excerpt)
Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy.
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Biography of Léon Boëllmann (excerpt)
Léon Boëllmann (September 9, 1862, Ensisheim in the Alsace – October 11, 1897, Paris) was a French composer. His compositions include works for organ, piano, chamber music, songs, and church chorales. Boëllmann was an early musical talent and was accepted in 1871—9 years old—at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Francisque Poulbot (excerpt)
Francisque Poulbot was a French drawer and illustrator born February 6, 1879 in Saint-Denis. He has created the famous "Poulbot de Paris".
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Biography of Huey P. Long (excerpt)
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.
Biography of Pierre Guéguen (excerpt)
Pierre Guéguen, born March 29, 1889 in Perros-Guirec, died in 1965, was a French poet, writer and critic. ![]()
Biography of Francis Ambrière (excerpt)
Francis Ambrière, pseudonym of Charles Letellier, was a man of letters, born on September 27, 1907, in Paris and died on July 2, 1998, in Le Touquet. A novelist, journalist, and editor, he is best known for his novel Les Grandes Vacances, which depicts the lives of French prisoners of war and won the 1940 Prix Goncourt, awarded in 1946. ![]()
Biography of René Quinton (excerpt)
René Joseph Quinton (1866–1925) was a French biologist, aviation pioneer and decorated World War I soldier. In his biology career, he developed a treatment based on seawater injections that he called sérum de Quinton, which has been abandoned by medicine. An aviation pioneer, he was vice-president of the Ligue Aéronautique de France and a proponent of the development of aviation in France. ![]()
Biography of Pierre de Bénouville (excerpt)
Pierre de Bénouville, born August 8, 1944 in Amsterdam, died Demceber 4, 2001 in Paris, was a French resistant, General, politician, and writer. Awards * Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur * Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 6 avril 1945
Biography of Oléo (actress) (excerpt)
Oléo, born Baptistine Émilienne Françoise Lapeyre, June 19, 1906 in Gimont (Gers) (bortn 12:00 AM, archives n° 25), died February 21, 1978 in Paris, was a French comedian and actress, the wife of Raoul Arnaud. Filmography (extracts) * 1924 Une vie sans joie, de Jean Renoir : une fille
Biography of Claire Santagostini (excerpt)
Claire Santagostini, born May 9, 1898 in Paris, ided on January 14, 1986 (age 87), was a French astrologer and author of books about astrology, especially for beginners.
Biography of Sybil Leek (excerpt)
Sybil Leek (February 22, 1917 - October 26, 1982) was an English witch, astrologer, psychic, and occult author. She wrote more than 60 books on occult and esoteric subjects. She was dubbed "Britain’s most famous witch" by the BBC. Sybil Leek was born in Stoke-On-Trent to a well-to-do family.
Biography of Léon-Etienne Duval (excerpt)
Léon-Etienne Duval (November 9, 1903—May 30, 1996) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Algiers in Algeria from 1954 to 1988, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Léon-Etienne Duval was born in Chenex near Annecy, and there attended the seminary before going to Rome, where he studied alongside Marcel Lefebvre at the Pontifical French Seminary.
Biography of Joë Bousquet (excerpt)
Joë Bousquet (Narbonne, March 19, 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Jany Bessière, birth certificate) - Carcassonne, September 28, 1950) was a French poet. Wounded on May 27, 1918 at Vailly near the Aisne battlelines at the end of the First World War, he was paralysed for the rest of his life, and lived a life largely bedridden, surrounded by his books. |
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