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birth charts 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. in ![]()
Biography of Robert Shaw (excerpt)
Robert Shaw (April 30, 1916 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, BC) – January 25, 1999) was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M.
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.
Biography of Arthur Ford (excerpt)
Arthur Ford (January 8, 1896 (death certificate gives 1896 and not 1897) – January 4, 1971) was an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient and in 1955 founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Biographer Allen Spraggett called him American Spiritualism's near pope and society's clairvoyant, comparable with the 19th century medium Daniel Dunglas Home.
Biography of Robert Young (excerpt)
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 - July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles in two long-running television series, Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.
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 Robert Preston (excerpt)
Robert Preston (June 8, 1918–March 21, 1987) was an award-winning American stage and film actor. Early life Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a garment worker.After attending Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, California, he studied acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
Biography of Joaquín Nin-Culmell (excerpt)
Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (September 5, 1908 – January 14, 2004) was a Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of composer Joaquín Nin and singer Rosa Culmell, he grew up in New York and Europe, studying at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatoire under Paul Dukas and Manuel de Falla, earning a first prize in composition in 1934.
Biography of Hans Wilsdorf (excerpt)
Hans Wilsdorf (March 22, 1881 - July 6, 1960) was a German watchmaker, and the founder of Rolex and Tudor. Born in Kulmbach, Bavaria and orphaned as a child, Wilsdorf worked for a Swiss watch manufacturer in La Chaux-de-Fonds.In 1905, he moved to London and set up his own business, wanting to provide quality timepieces at affordable prices.
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 Dom Helder Camara (excerpt)
Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (February 7, 1909, Fortaleza, Ceará, North East Brazil - August 27, 1999 Recife) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife. He retired as archbishop in 1985, and lived to see many of his reforms rolled back by his conservative successors.
Biography of Karel Capek (excerpt)
Dr.Karel Čapek (pronounced (help·info)) (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century.He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R.
Biography of André Roussin (excerpt)
André Roussin, (January 22, 1911 - November 3, 1987), was a French playwright and journalist. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française April 12, 1973. Bibliography (extract, in French) 1933 Patiences et impatiences 1944 Am Stram Gram 1945 Une grande fille toute simple
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 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 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 Anne Osmont (excerpt)
Anne Osmont, born August 2, 1872 in Toulouse, died May 13, 1953 in Paris, was a Franch author, occultist, clairvoyant and lecturer.
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 Wilhelm Kempff (excerpt)
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a world-renowned German virtuoso pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well-known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he recorded at least once.
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.
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.
Biography of Rodolfo Gucci (excerpt)
Rodolfo Gucci, born July 16, 1912 in Florence, died May 16, 1983 (cancer), was one of two sons (with Maurizio Gucci his brother) of Guccio Gucci, the founder of the Italian famous fashion empire Gucci.
Biography of Monique Mélinand (excerpt)
Monique Mélinand, born March 9, 1916 in Paris (birth certificate n° 394), died on May 16, 2012 in Paris, was a French actress. Filmography * 1927 : Âmes d'enfants de Jean-Benoît Lévy et Marie Epstein * 1938 : Entrée des artistes de Marc Allégret
Biography of Woody Hayes (excerpt)
Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for winning five national titles and 13 Big Ten championships in 28 years at Ohio State University. Early years Born in Clifton, Ohio, Hayes played center at Newcomerstown High School in Newcomerstown, Ohio.
Biography of Marcel Boussac (excerpt)
Marcel Boussac (April 17, 1889 – March 21, 1980) was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history. Born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, Boussac made a fortune in textile manufacturing.
Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan (excerpt)
Jayaprakash Narayan (Devanāgarī: जयप्रकाश नारायण; October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP, was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution.
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 René Jeanne (excerpt)
René Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born on January 5, 1887 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died on November 1, 1969 in Paris. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti. Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938.
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 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 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).
Biography of Sessue Hayakawa (excerpt)
Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū., June 10, 1889 - November 23, 1973) was an Academy Award-nominated Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films.Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
Biography of Edwin H. Land (excerpt)
Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor.Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, instant polaroid photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. Early years Edwin was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Harry and Helen Land.
Biography of Hjalmar Schacht (excerpt)
Dr.Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939.Schacht was one of the primary drivers of Germany's policy of redevelopment, reindustrialization and rearmament, and was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations.
Biography of Paul Tortelier (excerpt)
Paul Tortelier (March 21, 1914 - December 18, 1990) was a French cellist and composer. Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots.He was encouraged to play the cello by his father and mother, and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire.
Biography of Albert Kesselring (excerpt)
Albert Kesselring (20 November 1885 (source: Britannica encyclopedia) - 16 July 1960) was a Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II.Nicknamed "Smiling Albert", he was one of the most skilful generals of Nazi Germany.He commanded air forces in the invasions of Poland, France, the Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa.
Biography of Johannes Vehlow (excerpt)
Johannes Vehlow, born September 21, 1890 à Rügenwalde, died March 6, 1958 in Berlin, was a German editor, author and astrologer.
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 Mario Monicelli (excerpt)
Mario Monicelli (May 16, 1915 – November 29, 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style). Early life and education Monicelli was born in Rome (source: Bordoni), raised in Viareggio (Tuscany) and was the youngest son of the Mantuan journalist Tommaso Monicelli.
Biography of Jean Simon (general) (excerpt)
Jean Simon, born on April 29, 1912 in Brest (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on September 28, 2003 in Cherbourg, was a French general.
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 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (excerpt)
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.(January 29, 1874 (birth time source: R.Fosdick "John D.Rockefeller" p.5) – May 11, 1960) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family.He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D.
Biography of Abigail van Buren (excerpt)
Pauline Phillips (born July 3, 1918 as Pauline "Popo" Esther Friedman) is an advice columnist who founded the "Dear Abby" in 1956.The current Dear Abby is her first-born child and only daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now writes under the pen name of Abigail Van Buren, which was also used by Pauline.
Biography of Heinrich Brüning (excerpt)
Dr.Heinrich Brüning (November 26, 1885 – March 30, 1970) was a German politician during the Weimar Republic.He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932. Early life Born in Münster in Westphalia, Brüning lost his father when he was one year old and thus his elder brother Hermann Joseph played a major part in his upbringing.
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 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 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 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (excerpt)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., KBE, DSC, K.st.j.(December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. Birth Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.was born in New York City, the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first wife, Anna Beth Sully.
Biography of Jacques Ellul (excerpt)
Jacques Ellul (January 6, 1912 (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 184/87)–May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the interaction between Christianity and politics.
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 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.D. |
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