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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 Éric Nessler (excerpt)
Éric Nessler, born on May 20, 1898 in Luneville (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1976, was a French glider. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (excerpt)
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, (November 3, 1912 in Paris - December 11, 1996 in Paris), whose real name was Marie-Claude Vogel, was a member of the French Resistance. Photographer Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's father, Lucien Vogel, an editor, created the magazine Vu in 1928; her mother, Cosette de Brunhoff, sister of the creator of Babar the Elephant, was a fashion photographer.
Biography of Jeanne Maréchal (excerpt)
Jeanne Maréchal, born Jeanne Prunier on March 30, 1895 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), is a French journalist, one of the founders, with her husband Maurice Maréchal and Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier, of Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical weekly newspaper in France. ![]()
Biography of Ty Cobb (excerpt)
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a baseball player and is regarded by historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era and as one of the greatest players of all time. ![]()
Biography of Hans Fallada (excerpt)
Hans Fallada (born July 21, 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, died February 5, 1947 in Berlin) was one of the best-known German writers of the 20th Century. He wrote primarily novels of social criticism, and his most famous work is the novel, Little Man, What Now. ![]()
Biography of Hugo Wolf (excerpt)
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique. ![]()
Biography of Henri Dorgères (excerpt)
Henri-Auguste d'Halluin (February 6, 1897 – January 22, 1985), known by the pseudonym Henri Dorgères, was a French political activist. He is best known for his Comités de Défense Paysanne. Henri Dorgères was born in 1897, in Wasquehal, a small town in northeast France. ![]()
Biography of Andrée Tainsy (excerpt)
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (April 26, 1911 (birth time source: André Dekoster, birth certificate) – December 19, 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. ![]()
Biography of Max Linder (excerpt)
Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Birth and early career Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Jewish wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater and as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Lanvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Lanvin (b. Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Paris, January 1, 1867–d. Paris, July 6, 1946) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the Lanvin fashion house. One of the most influential designers of the 1920s and '30s, Jeanne Lanvin's skillful use of intricate trimmings, virtuoso embroideries and beaded decorations in clear, light, floral colors became a Lanvin trademark. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Pignon (excerpt)
Édouard Pignon, born February 12, 1905 in Bully-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais), died May 14, 1993 in La Couture-Boussey (Eure), was a French painter.
Biography of Stéphane Gsell (excerpt)
Stéphane Gsell, born on February 7, 1864 in Paris (source not archived), died on January 1, 1932, was a French archaeologist, historian, and author. Selected works Fouilles dans la nécropole de Vulci, exécutées et publiées aux frais du prince de Torlonia 18911 ![]()
Biography of Jim Backus (excerpt)
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913—July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III, of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause, and Thurston Howell, III, on the 1960s hit sitcom Gilligan's Island. ![]()
Biography of Yves Congar (excerpt)
Yves Marie Joseph Cardinal Congar (April 13, 1904-June 22, 1995) was a French Dominican priest and theologian. Born in Sedan, in northeast France, in 1904, Congar's home was occupied by the Germans for much of World War I. During this time he kept extensive, illustrated diaries recording the occupation, which provide a unique historical insight into the war from a child's point of view.
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Biography of Aimé Maeght (excerpt)
Aimé Maeght (27 April 1906, Hazebrouck, northern France (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 September 1981) was a French art collector and editor. He founded the Galerie Maeght in Paris and New York, and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice (southern France).
Biography of André Jarrot (excerpt)
André Jarrot, born December 13, 1909 in Lux, (Saône-et-Loire), died April 21, 2000 in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), is a French politician and motorcycle racer. ![]()
Biography of Henry Calvin (excerpt)
Henry Calvin (May 25, 1918 - October 6, 1975) was an American comic actor best known for his role as Sergeant Garcia on Walt Disney's live-action television series Zorro (1957-1959). Life and career Born Wimberly Calvin Goodman on May 25, 1918 in Dallas, Texas, the future actor sang in the choir of his local Baptist church as a child; he was often the featured soloist. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf Otto (excerpt)
Rudolf Otto (September 25, 1869–6 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Life Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther's understanding of the Holy Spirit, and his habilitation on Kant.
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Biography of Jean Absil (excerpt)
Jean Absil (October 23, 1893 (source: Steinbrecher) – February 2, 1974) was a Belgian modernist music composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Absil was born in Hainaut, Belgium. He originally studied organ and harmony at the Brussels Conservatory , but upon graduating, decided to concentrate on composition instead.
Biography of André Arnaud (excerpt)
Maurice Denuc, best known as André Arnaud, born August 14, 1918 (or 1916) in Fumel, died in 1994, was a French famous radio host, reporter and journalist. He was kwown also as Patrice Clément. ![]()
Biography of Jérôme Carcopino (excerpt)
Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteen member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure and educated at the École normale supérieure where he specialised in history.
Biography of Johann Petursson (excerpt)
Johann K. Petursson, was born in Dalvík, Iceland in February 9, 1913, dead November 26, 1984, was known as "The Viking Giant", and as "Jóhann Risi" (Johann the Giant) and "Jóhann Svarfdælingur" (Johann from Svarfaðardalur) in his native country of Iceland.
Biography of Raymond Isidore (excerpt)
Raymond Isidore, best known as Picassiette, born September 8, 1900, died September 7, 1964, was a French artist. Few artists can claim to live and breathe their work to the same extent as Raymond Isidore (1900--1964), whose house in Chartres was also his masterpiece. ![]()
Biography of André Jacquemin (excerpt)
André Jacquemin, born September 3, 1904 in Epinal and died September 18, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter and engraver. ![]()
Biography of Sterling Hayden (excerpt)
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor and decorated Marine Corps officer and an Office of Strategic Services' agent during World War II. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
Biography of Albert Devèze (excerpt)
Albert Joseph Charles Devèze (6 June 1881, Ypres, West Flanders (source: lescaut) - 28 November 1959, Brussels) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister. Devèze was a doctor in law and a lawyer. He was a liberal municipality Council member in Schaerbeek and in Ixelles and a member of parliament for the district of Brussels (1912–1939 and 1946–1958) and for the district of Verviers (1939–1946). ![]()
Biography of Fiorello Laguardia (excerpt)
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as "the Little Flower," the translation of his Italian first name, Fiorello, and, most likely, a reference to his short stature. ![]()
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Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi) is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is Japan's fourth-largest incorporated city and the third most populous urban area. Located on the Pacific coast on central Honshu, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, and Chiba. ![]()
Biography of Leopold Stokowski (excerpt)
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his freehand performing style that spurned the traditional baton. Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. ![]()
Biography of Prince Aly Khan (excerpt)
Prince Ali Solomone Aga Khan (June 13, 1911 – May 12, 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly representing Pakistan, for which he served as U.N. ambassador (1958-1960). Best known however as a racehorse owner and jockey, he was a son of Aga Khan III, the head of the Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV.
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Biography of Maurice Couve de Murville (excerpt)
Maurice Couve de Murville (January 24, 1907 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut, André Barbault) - December 24, 1999) was a French politician, and Prime Minister of France for 11 months from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. ![]()
Biography of Eleonora Duse (excerpt)
Eleonora Duse (October 3, 1858–April 21, 1924), was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse. Early life, acting career Eleonora Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and entered acting (her family's profession) as a child. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt.
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Biography of José Charlet (excerpt)
José Charlet, born October 19, 1916 in Bourg-en-Bresse, died March 19, 1993, was a French artist, painter, architect and sculptor.
Biography of André Stibio (excerpt)
André Stibio, born on May 15, 1901 in Marseille, died in 1970, was a French journalist and author. ![]()
Biography of Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Victoria (Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary; 6 July 1868 – 3 December 1935), also called "Toria", was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth child and second daughter of Edward VII. Early life Princess Victoria was born on the 6 July 1868 at Marlborough House, London. ![]()
Biography of Léon Frapié (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Frapié (born January 27, 1863 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 1949 Paris) was a French novelist. He first contributed to magazines and newspapers, then a few novels. He is most known for the 1904 Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle. ![]()
Biography of Paul Morand (excerpt)
Paul Morand (b. March 13, 1888, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - d. July 24, 1976) was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (his candidature was initially rejected by de Gaulle, the only instance of a President ever exercising his right to vet electees to the academy.
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Biography of Marcel Lévesque (excerpt)
Marcel Lévesque, born on December 6, 1877 in Paris (birth time source: birth certificate, Michel Gauquelin), died on February 16, 1962 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, was a French actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) 1909 : L'Arrestation de la duchesse de Berry réalisé par le Film d'Art ![]()
Biography of Oleg Cassini (excerpt)
Oleg Cassini (April 11, 1913 – March 17, 2006) was a French-born American fashion designer noted for being chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her state wardrobe in the 1960s. He became the exclusive costume designer for his then wife the actress Gene Tierney.
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Biography of Marie Lenéru (excerpt)
Marie Lenéru, born on June 2, 1875 in Brest, died on September 1918 in Lorient, was a French playwright and writer. ![]()
Biography of Richard E. Byrd (excerpt)
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer, aviator and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Claimed North Pole flight, 1926 On May 9, 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F-VII Tri-motor called the Josephine Ford. ![]()
Biography of René Barthélemy (excerpt)
René Barthélemy, born March 10, 1889 in Nangis, died 1954 in Antibes, was a French engineer, member of Académie des Sciences, and television specialist.
Biography of Raoul Cléry (excerpt)
Raoul Cléry, born December 27, 1907 in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent and died August 26, 2004 in Toulouse, was a French military and athlete (a fencer). ![]()
Biography of Mamie Eisenhower (excerpt)
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower (November 14, 1896 – November 1, 1979) was the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Early life Born in Boone, Iowa, Mamie Doud moved with her family to Colorado when she was seven. ![]()
Biography of Edna Ferber (excerpt)
Edna Ferber (15 August 1885 - 16 April 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright. Early years Ferber was born in 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia (Neumann) Ferber. After living in Chicago, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa, at age 12 Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University. ![]()
Biography of Jussi Björling (excerpt)
Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling (sometimes spelled as "Bjoerling" in English-language sources) (5 February 1911 – 9 September 1960) was a Swedish operatic tenor, Grammy Awarded for Best Classical Vocal Performance 1960 . Björling was born in Borlänge, Sweden in February 1911.
Biography of Edmond Céria (excerpt)
Edmond Céria, born January 26, 1884 in Evian and died June 24, 1955 in Paris, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Geneviève Picon (excerpt)
Geneviève Picon, born November 13, 1916 in Nantes and died February 8, 1996, was a French art historian. ![]()
Biography of Christopher Isherwood (excerpt)
Christopher Isherwood (Disley, August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist. Life and work Born Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood, he would legally shorten his name on becoming an American Citizen at Los Angeles, California, on November 8, 1946. The son of a British Lieutenant-Colonel belonging to the upper gentry, he was born in his family's ancestral seat, Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire (now in Greater Manchester) in the northwest of England, and spent his childhood in various towns where his father was stationed.
Biography of Benoît-Léon Deutsch (excerpt)
Benoît-Léon Deutsch, born on January 10, 1892 in Boulogne-sur-Mer (source for his time of birth: Lescaut), died in 1982, was a French theater director and comedian. |
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