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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 Julius Streicher (excerpt)
Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II.He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine.His publishing firm released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which purported to warn about insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and the second largest city of Thurston County. It is located 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Seattle, the state's most populous city, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
Biography of Wolfgang Pauli (excerpt)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900, in Vienna – December 15, 1958, in Zurich) was an Austrian physicist known for his formulation of the exclusion principle in quantum mechanics, or the Pauli exclusion principle, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945.
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 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 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 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 Alfred Métraux (excerpt)
Alfred Métraux (1902-1963), often described as "an ethnographer's ethnographer," was one of the most significant anthropologists and human rights leaders of the twentieth century. Early life Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1902, he spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 Jean Vigo (excerpt)
Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Alfred Eisenstaedt (excerpt)
Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 24, 1995) was a German American photographer and photojournalist.He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera.He is best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day.
Biography of André Hardellet (excerpt)
André Hardellet, born on February 13, 1911 in Vincennes, died on July 24, 1974 in Paris, was a French writer. Publications (extracts) La Cité Montgol. Paris, Seghers, 1952, poèmes Le Luisant et la Sorgue. Paris, Seghers, 1954, poèmes
Biography of Francis Pélissier (excerpt)
Francis Pélissier (13 June 1894 - 22 February 1959) was a French professional road racing cyclist from Paris.He was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier, and the older brother of Tour de France stage winner Charles Pélissier.
Biography of Jacques Hélian (excerpt)
Jacques Hélian, born Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian, June 8, 1912 in Paris, and died June 30, 1986, was a French musician and conductor.
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 Eugène Cosserat (excerpt)
Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat (4 March 1866 (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin Vol 2/2632) – 31 May 1931) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Born in Amiens, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1883 to 1888. He was on Science faculty of Toulouse University from 1889 and director of its observatory from 1908, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Biography of Hubert Humphrey (excerpt)
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.(May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B.Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip.He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action.
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 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 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 Noël Devaulx (excerpt)
Noël Devaulx, born December 9, 1905 in Brest, died in June 1995, was a French novelist and writer. Selected works Le pressoir mystique, 1948 (nouvelle), Sainte Barbegrise, 1952 (nouvelle), Bal chez Alféoni, 1955 (contes), Le manuscrit inachevé, , Le visiteur insolite (contes), 1985.
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 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 Charles Pacôme (excerpt)
Charles Pacôme (born 5 November 1902 in Bergues) was a French wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling. Olympics Pacôme competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the lightweight class. He received a silver medal in 1928.
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 Régis Beton (excerpt)
Régis Beton, born February 3, 1901 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, is a French former Catholic priest |
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