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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Henri Cartan (excerpt)
Henri Paul Cartan (Nancy, July 8, 1904 – August 13, 2008) was a son of Élie Cartan, and was, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, then at the ENS, receiving his doctorate in mathematics. ![]()
Biography of Walther Model (excerpt)
Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: ) (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German general and later field marshal during World War II.He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
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Biography of Florence Farr (excerpt)
Florence Beatrice Emery (née) Farr (7 July 1860—29 April 1917) was a British West End leading actress, composer and director.She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of a secret occult order, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw.
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Biography of Saro Urzi (excerpt)
Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, Catania, January 19, 1913 (source for his date and time of birth: Michel Gauquelin) - San Giuseppe Vesuviano, November 1, 1979) was an Italian actor. Biography Born in Sicilia, he moved to Rome to seek his fortune.
Biography of Madeleine de Rauch (excerpt)
Madeleine de Rauch, born Augsut 25, 1896, was a French artist and designer. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Maria Giulini (excerpt)
Carlo Maria Giulini (May 9, 1914 – June 14, 2005) was an Italian conductor, and violist. Biography Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy and studied the viola and composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He later studied conducting with Bernardino Molinari.
Biography of William Fisk Harrah (excerpt)
William Fisk Harrah (September 2, 1911 – June 30, 1978) was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos. Early years and education William Harrah was born in South Pasadena, California, the son of a lawyer and politician.From his early years, William was a driven individual. ![]()
Biography of Nelly Sachs (excerpt)
Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
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Biography of Antonio Segni (excerpt)
Antonio Segni (2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician who was the 48th and 51st Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964. Adhering to the centrist Christian Democratic party (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana – DC), he was the first Sardinian ever to become Prime Minister of Italy.
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Biography of Magda Olivero (excerpt)
Magda Olivero (born March 25, 1910) is considered by many to be one of the greatest sopranos of the verismo-school of singing.She was born in Saluzzo, Italy.Her early teachers found her voice wanting.Yet, she persevered, eventually studying with Luigi Gerussi.Olivero made her operatic debut in 1932 on Turin radio in Cattozzo’s oratorio I misteri dolorosi.
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Biography of Giuseppe Meazza (excerpt)
Giuseppe "Peppino" Meazza (Italian pronunciation: ; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979), also known as il Balilla, was an Italian footballer playing mainly for Internazionale in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club.He led Italy to win two World Cups: in 1934 and in 1938, winning the Golden Ball Award in 1934.
Biography of Meta Neuberger (excerpt)
Meta Neuberger, born February 1912 in New York, is an American physicist, teacher, professor at Pennsylvania State University. She has worked in the fields of lasers and electro-optics. ![]()
Biography of Benedetto Croce (excerpt)
Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866, Pescasseroli, Italy – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade. His influence on Antonio Gramsci is quite notable. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Glasgow (excerpt)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Life and career Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. ![]()
Biography of Douglas Haig (excerpt)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander (field marshal) during World War I.He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War.
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Biography of Pierre Weiss (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Weiss (March 25, 1865 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - October 24, 1940) was a French physicist who developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the Molecular or Mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory.
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Biography of Italia Almirante Manzini (excerpt)
Italia Almirante, born June 3, 1890 in Taranto and died September 16, 1941 in São Paulo, Brazil, was an Italian actress.She was Amerigo Manzini's wife.She is the cousin of Luigi Almirante. Filmography (extract) # L'ultimo dei Bergerac (1934) (as Italia Almirante Manzini) ..
Biography of John D. MacDonald (excerpt)
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916–December 28, 1986) was an American author. A prolific writer of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida, McDonald's best-known works include the popular and critically-acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear.
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Biography of Bill Peet (excerpt)
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on The Jungle Book, Song of the South, Cinderella, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Goliath II, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other stories.
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Biography of Jack Teagarden (excerpt)
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905–January 15, 1964) was an influential jazz trombonist and vocalist. Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians.Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone.
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Biography of Marcel Thil (excerpt)
Marcel Thil, born May 25, 1904 in Saint-Dizier, died August 14, 1968 in Cannes, was a French boxer and world champion. Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Marcel Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen. ![]()
Biography of Sam Snead (excerpt)
Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of 4 decades.He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within six months of each other in 1912. ![]()
Biography of Henri Nassiet (excerpt)
Henri Nassiet, born February 24, 1895 in Bègles, died April 16, 1977 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extracts) Actor Maman Pierre (1922) de Maurice Challiot Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936) de Claude Heymann L'Innocent (1937) de Maurice Cammage ![]()
Biography of Eduardo Ciannelli (excerpt)
Eduardo Ciannelli, sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli, (30 August 1888 - 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. Early life Ciannelli was born in Lacco Ameno, the son of a doctor who owned a health spa. ![]()
Biography of Hans Driesch (excerpt)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (October 28, 1867 - April 16, 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach.He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. Early years Driesch began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg.
Biography of Carl Ahues (excerpt)
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. He was Berlin champion in 1910.He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg.In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4-5th in Scarborough (Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3-5th in Liege (Savielly Tartakower won).
Biography of Ralph Maxwell Lewis (excerpt)
Ralph Maxwell Lewis (1904 - January 1987), the son of Harvey Spencer Lewis, was the Imperator of Rosicrucian organisation Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) from 1939 to 1987.In Fédération Universelle des Ordres et Sociétés Initiatiques, FUDOSI, he was known with the nomen mysticum Sar Validivar. ![]()
Biography of Sophie Tucker (excerpt)
Sophie Tucker (13 January 1886 – 9 February 1966) was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress.Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.
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Biography of Francis Lopez (excerpt)
Francisco Lopez, best known as Francis Lopez, born June 15, 1916 in Montbéliard (Doubs) and died January 15, 1995 in Paris, was a French musician and composer. Selected works Opérettes 1945 : La Belle de Cadix (Casino Montparnasse) 1947 : Andalousie (Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique) ![]()
Biography of Brian Aherne (excerpt)
Brian Aherne (May 2, 1902 – February 10, 1986) was an Oscar-nominated British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood. Early life and stage career He was born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in Birmingham, the son of William de Lacy Aherne by his spouse Louise née Thomas.
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Biography of John Coolidge (excerpt)
John Coolidge (September 7, 1906 – May 31, 2000) was the first son of U.S.President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge. Coolidge went to Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania with his brother, Calvin Jr., and graduated in 1924.He was playing tennis with his brother on the White House grounds when Calvin suffered a blister on his toe, which became infected, resulting in his death a week later. ![]()
Biography of Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (excerpt)
Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (13 May 1886, Paris - 9 October 1970, Paris) was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur and editor of Pasteur's complete works. ![]()
Biography of Hermann von Keyserling (excerpt)
Hermann Alexander Graf Keyserling (July 20, 1880, in Könno (Kõnnu), Russian Empire, – April 26, 1946, in Innsbruck, Austria) was a wealthy philosopher from the aristocratic Baltic German Keyserling family. He married Goedela von Bismarck-Schönhausen, granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck. His son Arnold Keyserling was a renowned philosopher as well.
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Biography of Amelita Galli-Curci (excerpt)
Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano.She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century. Biography She was born as Amelita Galli into an upper-middle-class family in Milan, where she studied piano in her youth.
Biography of Josephine Tey (excerpt)
Josephine Tey was one of many pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25, 1896 Inverness – February 13, 1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. Life and work She was born in Inverness, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham, before becoming a teacher.
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Biography of Alexandre Dumaine (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumaine, born August 26, 1895 and died April 2, 1974, was a French Chef, the Chef of « l'Hostellerie de la Côte d’Or », in Saulieu, Bourgogne.
Biography of Ian MacGregor (excerpt)
Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, KBE (September 21, 1912 - April 13, 1998) was a Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel and his robust conduct of the 1984-1985 miner's strike while managing the National Coal Board.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio.He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor.Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area. ![]()
Biography of Stefan George (excerpt)
Stefan Anton George (July 12, 1868 – December 4, 1933) was a German poet, editor, and translator. George was born in Bingen (Büdesheim) in Germany.He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
Biography of Gustave C. Ekstrom (excerpt)
Gustave C. Ekstrom, born June 1, 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, died May 30, 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an American professional astrologer, author, lecturer and healer. ![]()
Biography of Georges Bidault (excerpt)
Georges-Augustin Bidault (October 5, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 27, 1983) was a French politician and active in the French Resistance and Organisation armée secrète (OAS). Bidault was born in Moulins, Auvergne. He studied in the Sorbonne and became a college history teacher.
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Biography of Ernie Pyle (excerpt)
Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II.Ernie Pyle was the uncle to the actor Denver Pyle, famous for his role of Uncle Jesse on the Dukes of Hazard. ![]()
Biography of Orane Demazis (excerpt)
Henriette Marie-Louise Burgart, best known as Orane Demazis, born September 4, 1894 in Oran, Algeria, died December 25, 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French actress. She was the wife of actor Marcel Pagnol. They have had a son, Jean-Pierre Burgart, born in 1933. ![]()
Biography of Jean Drapeau (excerpt)
Jean Drapeau (Montreal, 18 February 1916 – 12 August 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986. During his tenure as mayor he was responsible for the construction of the Montreal Metro system and the Place des Arts concert hall, for conceiving Expo 67, for securing the 1976 Summer Olympics, and for helping to bring Major League Baseball to Montreal with the creation of the Montreal Expos.
Biography of Brice Parain (excerpt)
Brice Parain, born on March 10, 1897 in Courcelles-sous-Jouarre, died on March 20, 1971, was a French philosopher and writer. Publications (extract) * Essai sur la misère humaine, Grasset, 1934 * Retour à la France, Grasset, 1936 ![]()
Biography of Gutzon Borglum (excerpt)
John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as other public works of art. Background Gutzon Borglum was born in Bear Lake Hot Springs, Idaho. ![]()
Biography of Paul Robert (excerpt)
Paul Charles Jules Robert (19 October 1910, Orléansville, French Algeria (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut, birth certificate) - 11 August 1980, Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France), usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best-known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française (1953), often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert (1967).
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Biography of Gaston Monnerville (excerpt)
Gaston Monnerville (2 January 1897, Cayenne, French Guiana, France - 7 November 1991, Paris) was a French politician and lawyer. The grandson of a slave, he grew up in French Guiana and went to Toulouse to complete his studies.A brilliant student, he became a lawyer in 1918 and worked with César Campinchi, a lawyer who later became an influential politician.
Biography of Roger Caillois (excerpt)
Roger Caillois (3 March 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 21 December 1978), was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on subjects as diverse as gems, play and the sacred. ![]()
Biography of Anneliese Uhlig (excerpt)
Anneliese Uhlig, born on August 27, 1918 in Essen (source not archived), is a German and American journalist and actress. Filmography (extract) * 1937: Stimme des Blutes (Carmine Gallone) * 1937: Manege (Carmine Gallone) * 1939: Die Stimme aus dem Äther (Harald Paulsen) |
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