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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 Pierre Renoir (excerpt)
Pierre Renoir (March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother.
Biography of Jean-Denis Malclès (excerpt)
Jean-Denis Malclès, born May 15, 1912 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died May 30, 2002, was a French artist, painter, décorator and poster designer. ![]()
Biography of Carlos Salzedo (excerpt)
Carlos Salzedo (April 6, 1885-1961), was a harpist, composer and conductor, born in Arcachon, France, after whom the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine is named. Life France Carlos Salzedo was born Charles Moise Léon Salzedo on April 6, 1885 at 11:30 a. ![]()
Biography of André Jousseaume (excerpt)
André Jousseaume (27 July 1894 in Yvré-l'Évêque – 26 May 1960) was a French equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and another gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Biography of André Thirion (excerpt)
André Thirion, born April 18, 1907 in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, died in 2001 in Levallois-Perret, was a French author and surrealist.
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Biography of Michel Pécheux (fencer) (excerpt)
Michel Pécheux (May 24, 1911 – August 29, 1985) was a French fencer. Pécheux competed in the Men's Team Épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal for France. He was a team gold medalist at London in 1948, once again in épée. ![]()
Biography of Franz von Papen (excerpt)
Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen (help·info) (29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Catholic politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler) in 1932. To many historians, Papen was also a key member in the small clique of right-wing politicians who "jobbed Adolf Hitler into power by backstairs intrigue" . ![]()
Biography of Elias Canetti (excerpt)
Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria (birth time source: Alois Treindl, birth certificate)–14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. Life Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse). ![]()
Biography of Franz Völker (excerpt)
Franz Völker (born March 31, 1899 in Neu-Isenburg, Germany; died December 4, 1965 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career. He excelled in particular as a performer of the operas of Richard Wagner. He was discovered by the conductor Clemens Krauss and he studied singing at Frankfurt, where he made his début as Florestan in Beethoven's only operatic work, Fidelio, in 1926. ![]()
Biography of René Pleven (excerpt)
René Pleven (April 15, 1901 – January 13, 1993) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement. ![]()
Biography of André Suarès (excerpt)
André Suarès was one of the pseudonyms used by Félix-André-Yves Scantrel (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) a French poet and critic. From 1912 onwards, he was one of the four "pillars" of the Nouvelle Revue Française, along with André Gide, Paul Claudel and Paul Valéry.
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Biography of Lionel Barrymore (excerpt)
Lionel Barrymore (April 12, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film. Personal life Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore (née Blythe). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-uncle (or great-uncle) of Drew Barrymore.
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Biography of Burl Ives (excerpt)
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice. had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. ![]()
Biography of André Dhôtel (excerpt)
André Dhôtel, born September 1, 1900 in Attigny (Ardennes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died July 22, 1991 in Paris, was a French writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He won the Prix Femina in 1955 for his novel "Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais". ![]()
Biography of René Sudre (excerpt)
René Sudre, born April 1880 in Angoulême, died in 1968, was a French parapsychologist, science author, professor and commentator. ![]()
Biography of Salvatore Quasimodo (excerpt)
Salvatore Quasimodo, born August 20, 1901 in Modica, died June 14, 1968, was an Italian poet. Works (extract) Acque e terre, Edizioni di "Solaria", Firenze 1930 Oboe sommerso, Edizioni di "Circoli", Genova 1932 Erato e Apòllìon, pref. di S.Solmi, Scheiwiller, Milano 1938
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Biography of Félix Kir (excerpt)
Canon Félix Kir (January 22, 1876 (birth time source: Richard Pellard, birth certificate) - April 26, 1968) was a French Catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician. He was born at Alise-Sainte-Reine on the Côte-d'Or. He entered a small seminary at Plombières-lès-Dijon in 1891 and was ordained 1901. ![]()
Biography of François Coty (excerpt)
François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc.
Biography of André Couder (excerpt)
André Couder (November 27, 1897, Alençon - January 16, 1979, Paris) was a French engineer and astronomer. ![]()
Biography of Eamon de Valera (excerpt)
Éamon de Valera (born Edward George de Valera) 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. Co-owner of one of the Irish Press Newspapers, he served in public office from 1917 to 1973, holding the various Irish prime ministerial and presidential offices. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Piccard (excerpt)
Auguste Antoine Piccard (January 28, 1884 – March 24, 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland. Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born. ![]()
Biography of Gerard Croiset (excerpt)
Gerard Croiset (March 10, 1909, Laren – July 20, 1980, Utrecht) was a Dutch parapsychologist, psychometrist (a person who purports to be able to read information from a held object), and a psychic. Croiset said he began to become aware of his gifts while a youth working for a watch repairer.
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Biography of René Sarvil (excerpt)
René Sarvil (18 January 1901 - 31 March 1975) was a French actor and lyricist. Sarvil was born in Toulon, France and died in 1975 in Marseille. Partial filmography Notre Dame van de sloppen (1940) Cyrano de Bergerac (1946) Oriental Port (1950) Sergil Amongst the Girls (1952) ![]()
Biography of Walther Rathenau (excerpt)
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 – June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic. Political career Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism and fully integrate themselves into mainstream German society.
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Biography of Gaby Morlay (excerpt)
Blanche Pauline Fumoleau, best known as Gaby Morlay, born June 8, 1893 in Angers (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) and died July 4, 1964 in Nice (cancer), was a French actress and comedian. She was the wife of French politician Max Bonnafous. ![]()
Biography of Lawrence Welk (excerpt)
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music. ![]()
Biography of Vyacheslav Molotov (excerpt)
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов, Vjačeslav Mihajlovič Molotov; 9 March, 1890 (Gregorian calendar) – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Latécoère (excerpt)
Pierre-Georges Latécoère (August 25, 1883 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) – August 10, 1943 in Paris) was a pioneer of aeronautics. Born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, he studied in the École Centrale Paris and, after the First World War, started a business in aeronautics.
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Biography of Gitta Mallasz (excerpt)
Gitta Mallasz (June 21, 1907 – May 25, 1992) was a Hungarian graphic designer and an artist. Today, she is best known for her transcription of a series of extraordinary spiritual instructions, of which she was one of the recipients in Hungary during World War II.
Biography of René Hell (excerpt)
René Hell, born René, Jules Legendre in Orbec, Calvados, May 1, 1891 and died in Paris October 11, 1965, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) * 1945 : Au petit bonheur de Marcel L'Herbier * 1945 : Mission spéciale de Maurice de Canonge - film tourné en deux époques - ![]()
Biography of Raoul Wallenberg (excerpt)
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947.) was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He was of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family. Inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith (1941), he worked to save the lives of Hungarian Jews from being sent to death camps in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. ![]()
Biography of Jean Sablon (excerpt)
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne March 25, 1906 – February 24, 1994 at Cannes-La-Bocca was a popular French singer. Jean SablonThe son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris. ![]()
Biography of John Wooden (excerpt)
John Wooden, known as "the Wizard of Westwood," was a renowned American basketball coach and player. He achieved unprecedented success at UCLA, winning ten NCAA national championships in 12 years, including a record-breaking seven straight titles. Wooden's teams set a record with 88 consecutive wins.
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Biography of Eugène Tisserant (excerpt)
Eugène Tisserant (full name: Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant) (24 March 1884–21 February 1972) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1936, Tisserant was a prominent and long-time member of the Roman Curia. He was also, for a time, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. ![]()
Biography of Johann Georg Elser (excerpt)
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 - 9 April 1945) was a German opponent of Nazism. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939. Vocational career and social life special issue stamp from Deutsche Post, 100. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Yersin (excerpt)
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (September 22, 1863 (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, email)–March 1, 1943) was a French (born Swiss) physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis). ![]()
Biography of Claude Farrère (excerpt)
Claude Farrère (Lyon, April 27, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 363) – Paris, June 21, 1957) was a prolific French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki. One of his novels, Les civilisés ("The Civilized Ones") won the first Prix Goncourt, for 1905.
Biography of Cäsar von Arx (excerpt)
Cäsar von Arx, born on May 23, 1895 in Basel, died on July 14, 1949 in Niedererlinsbach, was a Swiss writer, playwright and director. Selected publications * Laupen, 1914 * Der Heilige und Abigail, 1915 * Leier und Schwert, 1915 ![]()
Biography of Renée Carl (excerpt)
Renée Carl (10 June 1875 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She appeared in 186 films between 1907 and 1937. At least 150 of the films she appeared in were directed or co-directed by Louis Feuillade.
Biography of Agnes Anne Abbott (excerpt)
Agnes Anne Abbott, born August 19, 1897 in Potsdam, died in 1992, was a German artist and painter. She grew up in Berlin and worked in both watercolor and oils. Between 1927 and 1974, she had fourteen exhibitions at Wellesley College in Massachusetts (she spent her summers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts). ![]()
Biography of Erich Honecker (excerpt)
Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was a German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989. After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes committed during the Cold War. ![]()
Biography of Georges Carpentier (excerpt)
Georges Carpentier (January 12, 1894 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 28, 1975) was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man," he stood 5 ft 11½ in (1. ![]()
Biography of Hans Jurgen Eysenck (excerpt)
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 in Berlin, Germany - September 4, 1997 in London, UK) was a psychologist best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals.
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Biography of André Alerme (excerpt)
André Alerme, born September 9, 1877 in Dieppe, died February 2, 1960 in Montrichard, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (selection) * 1925 : Amour et carburateur de Pierre Colombier * 1931 : Le Blanc et le Noir de Robert Florey - (Georges Samoy) ![]()
Biography of René de Castries (excerpt)
René de la Croix de Castries (6 August 1908, la Bastide-d'Engras, Gard (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 3) - 17 July 1986) was a French historian. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1972. ![]()
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen (excerpt)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest personalities in the history of Norway.
Biography of Aimé Barelli (excerpt)
Aimé Barelli, born May 1, 1917 in Lantosque (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 13, 1995 in Monaco, was a musician, conductor, composer, singer and jazz trumpet player of Monaco.
Biography of Ersilio Tonini (excerpt)
Ersilio Tonini (born July 20, 1914) is an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia from 1975 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. Biography Ersilio Tonini was born in San Giorgio Piacentino, and studied at the seminary in Piacenza. ![]()
Biography of Emperor Taisho (excerpt)
Emperor Taishō (大正天皇, Taishō-tennō.), KG (August 31, 1879 – December 25, 1926) was the 123rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from July 30, 1912, until his death in 1926. His personal name was Yoshihito (嘉仁, Yoshihito. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Jabès (excerpt)
Edmond Jabès, born in Cairo on April 16, 1912 and died in Paris on January 2, 1991, was a French writer and poet of Egyptian Jewish origin, and one of the most significant voices in postwar French literature. His date and time of birth come from his father, as reported in the book "Performance in Postmodern Culture", edited by Charles Caramello and Michel Benamou (Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977). |
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