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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 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 Jean Guéhenno (excerpt)
Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno, best known as Jean Guéhenno, born March 25, 1890 in Fougères, died September 22, 1978 in Paris, was a French author and literary critic. Works (extract) 1927 : L’Évangile éternel, Étude sur Michelet (Grasset) 1928 : Caliban parle (Grasset)
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 Eugène Milon (excerpt)
Eugène Milon, born September 23, 1859 in Loury, died in 1917, was a French carpenter. He was one of the managers who had built the Tour Eiffel in Paris.
Biography of Maya Perez (excerpt)
Maya Perez, born August 2, 1905 in Georgetown, Guyana, is a psychic and author.
Biography of François Marty (excerpt)
Gabriel Auguste François Cardinal Marty (18 May 1904 - February 16, 1994) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris. He was born in Vaureilles, Pachins, in France.His family were farmers.His first baptismal name was Gabriel but he used his second one, François, to avoid confusion with a classmate also named Gabriel Marty.
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 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Vilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf) (11 November 1882 - 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death.He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden. He was born in Stockholm and at birth created Duke of Skåne.
Biography of Paul Reynaud (excerpt)
Paul Reynaud (October 15, 1878 (6:00 pm) - September 21, 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Alliance Démocratique center-right party.
Biography of Pierre-Louis (actor) (excerpt)
Pierre-Louis, born Pierre Amourdedieu June 14, 1917 in Le Mans and died January 11, 1987 in Paris, was a French actor, comedian, film director, radio host and TV host. Filmography (extract) comme actor * 1931 : La Tragédie de la mine (Kameradschaft) de Georg-Wilhelm Pabst : Georges
Biography of Paul Langevin (excerpt)
Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 – December 19, 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation.He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots.
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 Jean-François Fonson (excerpt)
Frantz Fonson, best known as Jean-François Fonson, born on January 22, 1870, died in 1924, was a Belgian author, playwright, theater director, actor, and journalist.
Biography of James Pike (excerpt)
James Albert Pike (February 14, 1913 - September 1969) was an American Episcopal bishop, prolific writer, and one of the first mainline religious figures to appear regularly on television. His outspoken views on many theological and social issues made him one of the most controversial public figures of his time.
Biography of René Seyssaud (excerpt)
René Seyssaud, born on June 15, 1867 in Marseille, died on Saint-Chamas, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Roger Bésus (excerpt)
Roger Bésus, born January 18, 1915 in Bayeux, died February 17, 1994 in Rouen, was a French writer and sculptor. Bibliography (extract) Novels * Un homme pour rien, Arc-en-ciel, 1947 * Le Refus, Le Seuil, 1952 * Cet homme qui vous aimait, Le Seuil, 1953
Biography of François d'Astier de la Vigerie (excerpt)
François d'Astier de La Vigerie, born in Le Mans March 7, 1886 and died in Paris October 9, 1956, was a French military man.He is the brother of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie and of Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie.He was a member of Ordre de la Libération.
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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (excerpt)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer, known for his sharp dialogue, use of voice-over narration, and narrative flashbacks. He directed screen legends like Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Biography of Frances Parkinson Keyes (excerpt)
Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 – July 3, 1970) was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs.Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys." Life and Career Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, she married Henry Keyes in 1903.
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 Édouard Dujardin (excerpt)
Édouard Dujardin (November 10, 1861–1949) was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés. Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in France near Blois, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.
Biography of Mika Waltari (excerpt)
Mika Toimi Waltari (pronunciation (help·info)) (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen in Finnish) . Early life Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five.
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 François Capoulade (excerpt)
François Capoulade, born March 1, 1891 in Crepy-en-Valois, was a French violinist.
Biography of René Pottier (cyclist) (excerpt)
René Pottier (5 June 1879 in Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45) – 25 January 1907 in Levallois-Perret (suicide by hanging)) was a French racing cyclist Pottier won Bordeaux–Paris in 1903 before turning professional. He came second in Paris–Roubaix 1905 and Bordeaux–Paris 1905, then third in 1906’s Paris–Roubaix, before winning the Tour de France in 1906.
Biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post (excerpt)
Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company later becoming the wealthiest woman in America when her fortune reached approximately USD$250 million, more than 1 billion of today's dollars.
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 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 H. L. Mencken (excerpt)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (Baltimore, September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
Biography of Richard Boone (excerpt)
Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns. He was best known as the star of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.
Biography of Rebecca West (excerpt)
Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892–15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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 Jean Effel (excerpt)
Jean Effel, real name François Lejeune (12 February 1908 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 10 October 1982 Paris) was French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.Mostly he considered himself to be journalist and political commentator.His pseudonym is created by his initials F.
Biography of Corrado Gini (excerpt)
Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927.
Biography of Barbara Billingsley (excerpt)
Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes; December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010) was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in Three Guys Named Mike (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Invaders from Mars (1953) and was featured in the 1950s movie The Careless Years, opposite Natalie Trundy before appearing in recurring TV roles such as The Brothers.
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 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 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 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 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 Mary Welsh Hemingway (excerpt)
Mary Welsh Hemingway (April 5, 1908 – November 26, 1986) was an American journalist and the fourth wife (and widow) of Ernest Hemingway. Born in Minnesota, Welsh was a daughter of a lumberman.When she was 32, she married Lawrence Miller Cook, a drama student from Ohio.
Biography of Jean-Albert Grégoire (excerpt)
Jean-Albert Grégoire, born July 7, 1899 in Paris, died in 1992 in Paris, was a French engineer, scientist and inventor.
Biography of Léon Mathot (excerpt)
Léon Mathot (6 March 1885, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein.
Biography of Charles Vanel (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Vanel , known as Charles Vanel (August 21, 1892 in Rennes, France - April 15, 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. Filmography (extract) Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur), 1953. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, 1955.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Aumont (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Aumont (5 January 1911 – 30 January 2001) was a French actor. Early life Aumont was born in Paris as Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons to Alexandre Salomons, owner of La Maison du Blanc (a linen department store) and Suzanne Cahen.His mother's uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr.
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 Felix Wankel (excerpt)
Felix Heinrich Wankel, Hon.DEng (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer.He was the inventor of the Wankel engine. Wankel was born in Lahr, Germany, in the upper Rhine Valley.Since his mother was widowed in World War I, Wankel received no university education or even an apprenticeship.
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 François Bloch-Lainé (excerpt)
François Bloch-Lainé, born March 25, 1912 in Paris, died February 25, 2002 in Paris, was a French civil servant. He is the father of Jean-Michel Bloch-Lainé. Awards Médaille de la Résistance Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur Bibliography François Bloch-Lainé, fonctionnaire, financier, citoyen, ouvrage sous la direction de Michel Margairaz, Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2005, 270 p (ISBN 2-11-094797-7) |
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