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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 Wilhelm Brückner (excerpt)
Wilhelm Brückner (11 December 1884 in Baden-Baden – 18 August 1954 in Herbsdorf, Upper Bavaria) was until 1940 Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant. Brückner grew up in Baden-Baden and also did his Abitur there. Afterwards he studied law and economics in Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany), Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich.
Biography of Eudes Picard (excerpt)
Eudes Picard, born February 13, 1867 in Meylan, is a French astrologer and author. He has written books about medical astrology and judiciary in astrology. ![]()
Biography of François de la Rocque (excerpt)
François de La Rocque (1885–1946) was leader of the French right-wing league named the Croix de Feu from 1930-1936, before forming the more moderate Parti Social Français (1936-1940), seen as a precursor of Gaullism . The Croix de Feu and the February 6, 1934 crisis ![]()
Biography of Harivansh Rai Bachchan (excerpt)
Harivanshrai "Bachchan" Shrivastav (November 27, 1907 – January 18, 2003) was a distinguished Hindi poet of Chhayavaad literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. He is best known for his early work Madhushala (मधुशाला). He is also the father of Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bachchan. ![]()
Biography of Robert A. Millikan (excerpt)
Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. Education Millikan received a Bachelor's degree in the classics from Oberlin College in 1891 and his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1895 – he was the first to earn a Ph. ![]()
Biography of Bruno Coquatrix (excerpt)
Bruno Coquatrix, (August 5, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 1, 1979) was a French songwriter and music impresario who owned the famed Paris Olympia music hall. Born at Ronchin, Nord, after purchasing the Paris Olympia in 1954, he was instrumental in recognizing and exposing the talent of up-and-coming performers and brought international stars to Parisian audiences. ![]()
Biography of La Goulue (excerpt)
La Goulue (meaning The Glutton), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre.
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Biography of André Dewavrin (excerpt)
Andre Dewavrin (9 June 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 21 December 1998) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II. He was born in France, the son of a businessman. ![]()
Biography of Yuan Shikai (excerpt)
Yuan Shikai (Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, becoming the Emperor of the Empire of China (1915–1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform.
Biography of André Rouxel (excerpt)
André Rouxel, born December 8, 1915 in Saint-Mandé near Paris, died May 20, 2004 in Tours, was a French military fighter and businessman. Awards (in French) • Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur • Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 24 mars 1945 • Croix de Guerre 39/45 (3 citations) ![]()
Biography of Elsa Morante (excerpt)
Elsa Morante (August 18, 1912 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia (History). Biography Elsa Morante was born in Rome in 1912, and except for a period during World War II, would reside in her home city until her death in 1984. ![]()
Biography of Dixie Lee Ray (excerpt)
Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914–January 2, 1994) was the seventeenth governor of Washington State in the United States, and the first woman to hold that position (for one term, from 1977 until 1981). She was born Marguerite Ray; at twelve, she changed her name to "Dixy Lee". ![]()
Biography of Marcel Vallée (excerpt)
Marcel Vallée (born Paris, January 15, 1880 - died Fontaine-le-Port, October 31, 1957) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. Filmography (extracts) * Short movies with Max Linder ![]()
Biography of Nino Rota (excerpt)
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – April 10, 1979) was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy. ![]()
Biography of Glenn Seaborg (excerpt)
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (Swedish: Glenn Teodor Sjöberg) (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements," contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed the actinide concept and was the first to propose the actinide series which led to the current arrangement of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
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Biography of Jacqueline Susann (excerpt)
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 21, 1974, New York City) was an American author known for her best selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 movie and a short lived TV series.
Biography of Reynaldo Hahn (excerpt)
Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1874 – January 28, 1947) was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie. The fine craftsmanship, remarkable beauty, and originality of his works capture the insouciance of la belle époque. ![]()
Biography of Birgit Nilsson (excerpt)
Birgit Nilsson (May 17, 1918 – December 25, 2005) was a Swedish soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. Overview Birgit Nilsson came from a rural background and had to work hard to gain acceptance in the world of music, but made so strong an imprint on a number of roles that her name came to be identified with a repertory, the "Nilsson repertory," and it was a broad one. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Canaris (excerpt)
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (January 1, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was a German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. Early life and World War I Canaris was born in Aplerbeck, near Dortmund, in Westphalia, the son of wealthy industrialist Carl Canaris and his wife Auguste (née Popp). ![]()
Biography of Joan Blondell (excerpt)
Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, (August 30, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. ![]()
Biography of Giorgio Abetti (excerpt)
Gregorio Giuseppe Abettro (October 5, 1882 – August 21, 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. He was born in Wayne, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abettro. He was educated at the Universities; WIlliam Paterson University and University of Romano. He began his career at the Collegio Ramapo observatory in Mahwah as an assistant astronomer. ![]()
Biography of Henri de Régnier (excerpt)
Henri François Joseph de Régnier (December 28, 1864 - May 23, 1936) was a French symbolist poet considered one of the foremost of France during the early 20th century. He was born at Honfleur (Calvados) on the 28th of December 1864, and was educated in Paris for the law. ![]()
Biography of Jean de la Varende (excerpt)
Jean Balthazar Marie Mallard de La Varende Agis de Saint-Denis, baron Agis de Saint-Denis, « vicomte » de La Varende, best known as Jean de la Varende, born May 24, 1887 in Chamblac, Eure, and died June 8, 1959 in Paris, was a French writer. ![]()
Biography of Charles Nungesser (excerpt)
Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser (March 15, 1892 - presumably on or after May 8, 1927) was a French ace pilot and adventurer, best remembered as a rival of Charles A. Lindbergh. Nungesser mysteriously disappeared while trying to be the first person to complete a non-stop transatlantic flight, in his case flying with wartime comrade Francois Coli from Paris to New York City on The White Bird. ![]()
Biography of Ronald Colman (excerpt)
Ronald Colman (February 9, 1891 – May 19, 1958) was an English Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actor. Early years Born in Richmond, Surrey, England ,like fellow actor Reginald Denny, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser, he was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. ![]()
Biography of Philip Johnson (excerpt)
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA and later (1978), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979.
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Biography of André Guinebert (excerpt)
André Guinebert, born June 22, 1902 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) and died July 23, 1990 in Miré (Maine-et-Loire), was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Alain Gerbault (excerpt)
Alain Gerbault (1893-1941) was a French aviator and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life. ![]()
Biography of Aga Khan III (excerpt)
Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.
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Biography of Adolphe Pégoud (excerpt)
Adolphe Célestin Pégoud (13 June 1889 - 31 August 1915) was a well known French aviator who became the first fighter ace. Pegoud served in the French Army from 1907 to 1913. Immediately thereafter he began flying, earned his pilot's certificate, and in a few months, on 21 September 1913, as a test pilot for Louis Bleriot, in a Bleriot model XI monoplane and in a series of test flights exploring the limits of airplane maneuvers, he flew a loop, believing it to be the world's first. ![]()
Biography of Henri Génès (excerpt)
Henri Génès (July 2, 1919 in Tarbes (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- August 22, 2005 in Paris) was a French actor and singer. He was the symbol of the good humor of the South West of France, and he played in more than 80 movies in more than 50 years.
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Biography of Albert Sézary (excerpt)
Albert Sézary was born in Algiers December 26, 1880, and studied in Paris. After an outstanding scholastic career he became an interne des hôpitaux d’Alger in 1901. In 1903 he moved to Paris where he became an externe in 1904 and an intern in 1905.
Biography of Molly Weir (excerpt)
Mary Weir, better known as Molly (17 March 1910 (birth time source: British Entertainers, third edition, Frank C. Clifford) - 28 November 2004) was an accomplished Scottish stage actress, best known to legions of children as the long-running (1977-1984) character Hazel the McWitch the Scottish Ghost in the BBC TV series, Rentaghost.
Biography of André Bruno (excerpt)
André Bruno (October 3, 1879 in Premery (58) - 1973) was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1913 Deux petites âmes de poupées 1923 l'Affaire Blaireau 1934 les Précieuses ridicules 1938 Hôtel du Nord de Marcel Carné 1938 Entrée des artistes de Marc Allégret 1939 Pièges de Robert Siodmak
Biography of Charles E. O. Carter (excerpt)
Charles Ernest Owen Carter (1887 (birth time source: Given by him in "Symbolic Directions in Modern Astrology.") - 1968) was an English astrologer and astrological writer. Generally regarded as one of the masters of astrology during his lifetime, Carter's work, especially his insistence on first principles, remains a powerful influence on astrology and astrologers to this day. ![]()
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Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the State of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The city formed as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named.
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Biography of Léon Rothier (excerpt)
Léon Rothier (December 26, 1874 – December 6, 1951) was a French musician, predominantly an opera singer in the bass range, of the early 20th century. Rothier was born in 1874 in Reims, in the Champagne-Ardenne région of northern France. In this city he began his career as a violinist, but afterwards traveled to the Conservatoire de Paris to study voice. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Gentile (excerpt)
Giovanni Gentile (pronounced ; May 30, 1875 – April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher, a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as 'the philosopher of Fascism', and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini. He also devised his own system of philosophy, Actual Idealism. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Peynet (excerpt)
Raymond Peynet, born November 16, 1908 in Paris, died January 14, 1999 in Mougins, was a French cartoonist, artist and illustrator. ![]()
Biography of Alfonso XIII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XIII (Alfonso León Fernando Maria Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbon y Austria-Lorena) (May 17, 1886 – February 28, 1941), King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, was proclaimed King at his birth. He reigned from 1886-1931. ![]()
Biography of Cécile Brunschvicg (excerpt)
Cécile Brunschvicg, born Cécile Kahn on 19 July, 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48), and died 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine was a French feminist politician. She was born into a bourgeois republican family of confessing Jews.
Biography of Henri Decaë (excerpt)
Henri Decaë (31 juillet 1915, St. Denis, France - 1987) gained fame as a cinematographer entering the film industry as a sound engineer and sound editor. He was a photojournalist in the French army during World War II. After the war he began making documentary shorts, directing and photographing industrial and commercial films.
Biography of René Bergeron (excerpt)
René Bergeron, born October 7, 1890 in Paris (birth certificate n° 5347) and died March 13, 1971 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) 1929-1939 * 1929 : Le Capitaine Fracasse d'Alberto Cavalcanti et Henry Wulschleger * 1930 : La Douceur d'aimer de René Hervil ![]()
Biography of Simon Wiesenthal (excerpt)
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 – Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who hunted down Nazi war criminals, after surviving the Holocaust. Following four and a half years in the concentration camps of Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. ![]()
Biography of Franz Gürtner (excerpt)
Franz Gürtner (26 August 1881 - 29 January 1941) was a German Minister of Justice in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich. Detesting the cruel ways of the Gestapo and SA in dealing with prisoners of war, he protested unsuccessfully to Hitler, nevertheless staying on in the cabinet, hoping to reform the establishment from within. ![]()
Biography of Robert Ripley (excerpt)
Robert LeRoy Ripley (February 22, 1890 - May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, who created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, featuring odd 'facts' from around the world. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little known facts about unusual and exotic sites, but what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that Ripley also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small town American trivia, ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by Ripley's drawings. ![]()
Biography of Julio Romero de Torres (excerpt)
Julio Romero de Torres ( November 9, 1874 – May 10, 1930 ) was a Spanish painter. He was born and he died in Córdoba, Spain, where he lived most of his life. As the son of well known painter Rafael Romero Barros, director of Córdoba's Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Julio began his training at the Escuela de Bellas Artes from the age 10. ![]()
Biography of Mario Del Monaco (excerpt)
Mario del Monaco (Florence July 27, 1915 - October 16, 1982 in Mestre) was an Italian tenor and is regarded by his admirers as one of the greatest tenors of the 20th Century. Del Monaco was born to a musical upper-class Florentine family. ![]()
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Bordeaux is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019). Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the fifth-largest in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille with its immediate suburbs and closest satellite towns. ![]()
Biography of Manuel Azana y Diaz (excerpt)
Dr. Manuel Azaña Díaz (Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid, January 10, 1880 – November 3, 1940, Montauban, France) was a Spanish politician, the second and last President of the Second Spanish Republic. He had previously served as Minister of War in the first government of the Republic (April-June 1931), and as Prime Minister between June 1931 and September 1933, prior to becoming President (May 1936 - April 1939). |
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