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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 Martha Angelici (excerpt)
Martha Angelici (May 22, 1907, Cargèse - September 11, 1973, Ajaccio) was a French operatic soprano of Corsican origin, particularly associated with the French lyric repertoire. While still very young she moved with her family to Belgium, where she studied voice in Brussels with Alfred Mahy.
Biography of Mario Bava (excerpt)
Mario Bava (July 30, 1914 – April 25, 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films. Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy.The son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who became a pioneer of special effects photography and subsequently one of the great cameramen of Italian silent pictures, Mario Bava's first ambition was to become a painter.
Biography of Georg Schnéevoigt (excerpt)
Georg Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia. Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s.He was principal cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902.
Biography of Gustave Garrigou (excerpt)
Cyprien Gustave Garrigou (b. 24 September 1884, Vabres-l'Abbaye, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), d. 23 January 1963, Paris) was one of the best professional racing cyclists of his era. He rode the Tour de France eight times and won once. Of 117 stages, he won eight, came in the top ten 96 times and finished 65 times in the first five.
Biography of Adolphe Appia (excerpt)
Adolphe Appia (* September 1, 1862 in Geneva; † February 29, 1928 in Nyon), son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia, was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. Adolphe Appia was a Swiss theorist and pioneer of modern stage design.
Biography of Beniamino Gigli (excerpt)
Beniamino Gigli (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian singer, widely regarded as one of the greatest operatic tenors of all time. He was blessed with a voice of immense beauty and technical facility but, regrettably, he was not always the most tasteful and stylish of singers, especially in the latter stages of his career.
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
Biography of Bert Haanstra (excerpt)
Bert Haanstra (31 May 1916 – 23 October 1997) was a Dutch film and documentary director and Academy Award winner. Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947.He won international acclaim with his short documentary Spiegel van Holland / Mirror of Holland, for which he received the Grand Prix du court métrage at the Cannes-festival of 1951.
Biography of Takahito Mikasa (excerpt)
Takahito, Prince Mikasa (三笠宮崇仁, Mikasa-no-miya Takahito Shinnō., born December 2, 1915) is the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei.He is a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the only surviving paternal uncle of Emperor Akihito.With the death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu (Kikuko) on December 17, 2004, Prince Mikasa became the oldest living member of the Japanese imperial family.
Biography of André Morice (excerpt)
André Morice, born October 11, 1900 in Nantes and died January 17, 1990 in Nantes, was a French politician and businessman. He was Minister, several times (1947-1957).
Biography of Frédéric Lefèvre (excerpt)
Frédéric Lefèvre, born on May 7, 1889 in Izé (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1949 in Paris, was a French novelist, writer, and critic. Publications (extract) La jeune poésie française, Rouart et Cie, Fribourg-Paris, 1917. La poésie dans nos poètes
Biography of Jean Verdier (excerpt)
Jean Gaston Verdier, born August 6, 1886 in Tourcoing, died on November 23, 1975, was a French engineer, author and astrologer.
Biography of Ewald von Kleist (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8, 1881 – c.November 13, 1954) was a leading German field marshal during World War II. Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
Biography of Aguigui Mouna (excerpt)
André Dupont, best known as Aguigui Mouna, born in Meythet (Haute-Savoie) October 1, 1911 and died in Paris, May 8, 1999, was a French burlesque philosopher, activist, agitator, showman and humorist. Bibliography Cavanna, Cabu et Anne Galois, Aguigui Mouna, Gueule ou crève, Dossiers d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, 2004 (ISBN 2905212349)
Biography of Oskar Schlemmer (excerpt)
Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 – April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school.In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
Biography of Marcel Achard (excerpt)
Marcel Achard (July 5, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - September 4, 1974) was a French playwright, screenwriter and author. He was born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, a Rhône département town and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career immediately following World War I.
Biography of Paul Vanden Boeynants (excerpt)
Paul Emile François Henri Vanden Boeynants (22 May 1919 – 9 January 2001) was a Belgian politician.He served as the 41st Prime Minister of Belgium for two brief periods (1966–68 and 1978–79). Vanden Boeynants (called "VDB" by journalists) was born in Forest / Vorst, a municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Biography of Arthur Godfrey (excerpt)
Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until an on-camera incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual decline; the then-ubiquitous Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show through most of the decade but by the early 1960s found himself reduced to hosting an occasional TV special.
Biography of Edgar Faure (excerpt)
Edgar Faure (August 18, 1908 – March 30, 1988) was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist. Career Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon.He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time.
Biography of Jose Lobato (excerpt)
Jose Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato, born April 18, 1882 in Taubaté, died July 4, 1948 in Sao Paulo, was a Brazilian editor, author, novelist and painter.
Biography of Vivian Kellems (excerpt)
Vivien Kellems, (born June 7, 1896 in Des Moines, Iowa; died 1975) was a Connecticut industrialist who fought the U.S.federal government for over 25 years over withholding under 26 USC §3402, and other aspects of income tax in the United States.
Biography of Charles Dawes (excerpt)
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States.For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Biography of Gabriel Fournier (excerpt)
Gabriel Fournier, born on May 26, 1893 in Grenoble, died on April 13, 1963 in Grenoble, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (excerpt)
John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (24 May 1917–25 October 2002) was a British peer and writer, the son of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford. Known in his youth as Ian, the Duke, later known by his courtesy title of Lord Howland, married three times, firstly to Clare Gwendolyn (Bridgman) Hollway, on 6 April 1939.
Biography of Michel Leiris (excerpt)
Julien Michel Leiris (April 20, 1901 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, J.Tissot, birth certificate) – September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Michel Leiris obtained his baccalauréat in philosophy in 1918 and after a brief attempt at studying chemistry, he developed a strong interest in jazz and poetry.
Biography of Vera Vergani (excerpt)
Vera Vergani, born February 19, 1895 in Milan, died September 22, 1989 in Procida, Naples, Campania, was an Italien actress. Trivia: Great-grand mother of Inti Carboni and Jana Carboni. Mother of producer Leo Pescarolo and assistant director Vera Pescarolo, grandmother of costume designer Elisabetta Montaldo, sister of writer Orio Vergani, aunt of journalist Guido Vergani, mother-in-law of director Giuliano Montaldo.
Biography of Joyce Grenfell (excerpt)
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter. Early life Born in London, she was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper) and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne, the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railroad millionaire.
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States.He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Felix Timmermans (excerpt)
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children in the family.He died in Lier, aged 60.He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems.
Biography of Simon Carmiggelt (excerpt)
Simon Carmiggelt (October 7, 1913 – November 30, 1987) was a Dutch writer who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances. Simon Johannes Carmiggelt was born on 7 October 1913 in S'gravenhage, the second son of Herman Carmiggelt and Jeanne Bik.
Biography of Finn Malmgren (excerpt)
Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (January 9, 1895 in Falun (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) - June 1928) was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer. Malmgren studied in Göteborg, Sundsvall and Stockholm.In 1912 he started to study at the Uppsala University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1916.
Biography of Jean Aerts (excerpt)
Jean Aerts (Laken, 8 September 1907 – Bruges, 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships. In 1935, Aerts captured first place and the gold medal at the professional World Cycling Championship in Floreffe, Belgium.
Biography of Gottfried Feder (excerpt)
Gottfried Feder (27 January 1883 – 24 September 1941) was an economist and one of the early key members of the Nazi party. He was their economic theoretician. Initially, it was his lecture in 1919 that drew Hitler into the party .
Biography of Maurice Gamelin (excerpt)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872, Paris - 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values.
Biography of Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education
Biography of Richard Halliburton (excerpt)
Richard Halliburton (9 January 1900 – presumed dead after 24 March 1939) was an American traveler, adventurer and author.Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history--thirty-six cents -- Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career.
Biography of Richard Helms (excerpt)
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973.He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to the United States Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities.
Biography of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (excerpt)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke. Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
Biography of Tove Jansson (excerpt)
Tove Marika Jansson (Finland Swedish pronunciation: ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.
Biography of Léon Gaultier (excerpt)
Léon Gaultier, born on February 1, 1915 in Bourges (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on July 18, 1997 (age 82), was a French politician, collaborator, and author. Publications Léon Gaultier, Catalina de Erauso, Paris, J. Picollec, 1980 (ISBN 978-2-8647-7011-4 et 2864770113, OCLC 7255341).
Biography of Alfredo Stroessner (excerpt)
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Strössner or Strößner (November 3, 1912, Encarnación – August 16, 2006, Brasília), was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989. His lengthy rule was the 11th-longest ever by state leaders other than monarchs.
Biography of Alfred Landé (excerpt)
Alfred Landé (13 December 1888 (birth time source: collection Gauquelin)–30 October 1976) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor an explanation of the Zeeman Effect. Life and Achievements Alfred Landé was born on 13 December 1888 in Elberfeld, Rhineland, Germany, today part of the city of Wuppertal.
Biography of Anthony Blunt (excerpt)
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire – 26 March 1983, Westminster, London), , (Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979), was a British spy, art historian, Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1947-74), and Surveyor of the King's Pictures (1945-72).
Biography of Abel Gance (excerpt)
Abel Gance (French: ; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).
Biography of Bill Manhoff (excerpt)
Bill Manhoff or Wilton Manhoff, born June 25, 1919 in Newark, New Jersey, died June 19, 1974 in Los Angeles, was an American screenwriter, author and producer. Filmography (extract) "Sanford and Son" (1 episode, 1974) - Hello Cousin Emma... Goodbye Cousin Emma (1974) TV episode (writer)
Biography of Steve Passeur (excerpt)
Etienne Morin, best known as Steve Passeur, born September 24, 1899 in Sedan, was a French author and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1975) - La moitié du plaisir (1975) TV episode (earlier screenplay "Le jeu de la vérité")
Biography of Erskine Caldwell (excerpt)
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903, Moreland, Georgia – April 11, 1987) was an American author. Caldwell was born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia, the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. His early childhood was spent moving from state to state across the South, as his father found a position in one church after another.
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire.
Biography of Julien Carette (excerpt)
Julien Carette (23 December 1897 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 20 July 1966) was a French film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1964. Selected filmography * Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Biography of Bill Hardie (excerpt)
Bill Hardie, born August 21, 1916 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish fiddler and teacher. |
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