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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 Wim Sonneveld (excerpt)
Willem 'Wim' Sonneveld (June 28, 1917 - March 8, 1974) was a Dutch cabaret artist and singer.Together with Toon Hermans and Wim Kan, he is considered to be one of the 'Great Three' of Dutch cabaret.Sonneveld is generally viewed as a Dutch cultural icon for his work and legacy in theatre, musicals and music.
Biography of Ottavio Bottecchia (excerpt)
Ottavio Bottecchia (born San Martino di Colle Umberto, Italy, 1 August 1894 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died Gemona, Italy, 14 June 1927) was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France. He was found dead by the roadside; the reason remains a mystery.
Biography of Walter Hieber (excerpt)
Walter Hieber was an inorganic chemist, known as the father of metal carbonyl chemistry. He was born 18 December, 1895 and died 29 November, 1976.Hieber's father was Johannes Hieber, an influential evangelical minister and politician. Hieber was educated at Tübingen, Würzburg, and Heidelberg.
Biography of Gustav Grundgens (excerpt)
Gustaf Gründgens (December 22, 1899 – October 7, 1963) was one of Germany's most famous actors of the 20th century, leading theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His single most famous role was that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust in 1956/57, which is still considered by many to have been the best interpretation of the role ever given.
Biography of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906-1940) (excerpt)
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf, in English, William Frederick Francis Joseph Christian Olaf; 4 July 1906 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 26 May 1940) was the eldest child and son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Biography of Yves Lanvin (excerpt)
Yves Lanvin, born October 11, 1901 in Colombes, is a French businessman, the nephew of Jeanne Lanvin (born Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Paris, January 1, 1867–died Paris, July 6, 1946), a French fashion designer and the founder of the Lanvin fashion house. History of Lanvin House
Biography of Leonard Borwick (excerpt)
Leonard Borwick (26 February 1868 – 15 September 1925) was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Early training and debuts Born in Walthamstow, Essex, of a Staffordshire family, Leonard Borwick studied piano under Henry R.
Biography of Alfred Desenclos (excerpt)
Alfred Desenclos (7 February 1912, Le Portel, France – 31 March 1971), was a French composer of classical (modern) music.A self-described "romantic," his music is highly expressive and atmospheric while rooted in a rigorous compositional technique. Desenclos had to work as an industrial designer until the age of 20 to help support his family.
Biography of Xavier Cugat (excerpt)
Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'Asís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Catalan-Cuban-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba.A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music.
Biography of Claire Waldoff (excerpt)
Claire Waldoff (born October 21, 1884 in Gelsenkirchen; January 22, 1957) (Clara Wortmann) was a German singer.She was a famous cabaret singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s. Wortmann was born as the eleventh child in a German family of 16 children in 1884.
Biography of Maxwell Taylor (excerpt)
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-20th century. Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. World War II Taylor's rise to the highest echelons of U.S.
Biography of Armand Salacrou (excerpt)
Armand Camille Salacrou (9 August, 1899 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – 23 November, 1989) was a French dramatist. He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surrealists.
Biography of Henri Langlois (excerpt)
Henri Langlois (13 November 1914, İzmir, Ottoman Empire (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often credited with providing the ideas that lead to the development of the auteur theory.
Biography of Aureliano Pertile (excerpt)
Aureliano Pertile (Montagnagna, November 9, 1885) was an Italian opera singer. He was one the leading tenors in the early 20th century.
Biography of Carveth Wells (excerpt)
Carveth Wells, born July 16, 1911 in Cheltenham, was an explorer, world traveler, author and radio commentator. Selected works Around the World With Bobby & Betty Bermuda in Three Colors Bermuda in Three Colors Exploring the World With Carveth Wells
Biography of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (excerpt)
Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (August 13, 1907 – July 30, 1967), often referred to as Alfried Krupp, was a member of the 400-year Krupp dynasty of industrialists in Germany, and head of the Krupp company, which is now part of ThyssenKrupp, during World War II.
Biography of George Antheil (excerpt)
George Antheil (July 8, 1900 (source : Rudhyar) – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. A self-described "Bad Boy of Music", his modernist compositions amazed and appalled listeners in Europe and the US during the 1920s with their cacophonous celebration of mechanical devices.
Biography of Vincent Lopez (excerpt)
Vincent Lopez (30 December 1895 – 20 September 1975) was an American bandleader and pianist. Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1917.On November 27, 1921 his band began broadcasting on the new medium of entertainment radio; the band's weekly 90-minute show on Newark, NJ station WJZ boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio.
Biography of Greet Hofmans (excerpt)
Greet Hofmans (23 June 1894, Amsterdam – 16 November 1968, Amsterdam) was a faith healer and hand layer.For nine years she was a friend and advisor of Queen Juliana, often residing at Palace Soestdijk. Hofmans was introduced on the initiative of Prince Bernhard in 1948 to treat the eye sickness of Princess Marijke Christina.
Biography of Thomas Ferguson Rodger (excerpt)
Thomas Ferguson Rodger, born in Glasgow November 4, 1907, is a Scottish professor, psychiatrist and author.
Biography of Aquilino Ribeiro (excerpt)
Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL (Sernancelhe, Carregal, September 13, 1885 - Lisbon, May 27, 1963) was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelist of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960.
Biography of John Masefield (excerpt)
John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and many memorable poems, including "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".
Biography of Yves Rocard (excerpt)
Yves-André Rocard (Vannes, 22 May 1903 – 16 March 1992 in Paris) was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France. After obtaining a double doctorate in mathematics (1927) and physics (1928) he was awarded the professorship in electronic physics at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
Biography of Eleanor Clark (excerpt)
Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer.Clark was born in Los Angeles.She attended Vassar College in the 1930s and was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and her sister Eunice Clark.
Biography of Leon Orthel (excerpt)
Leon Orthel, born October 4, 1905 in Roosendaal, was a Dutch pianist and composer.
Biography of L. Knegt (excerpt)
L. Knegt, born December 26, 1882 in Delftshaven-Rotterdam, died in 1957, was a Dutch professional astrologer and author.
Biography of Marc Lawrence (excerpt)
Marc Lawrence (December 17, 1909 – November 27, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types.He has also been credited as F.A.Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C.Lawrence. Personal life Lawrence was born as Max Goldsmith in the Bronx, New York, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith.
Biography of Julio Gallo (excerpt)
Julio Gallo (March 21, 1910 – May 2, 1993) was one of the founders of the E & J Gallo Winery. Biography He was born on March 21, 1910 in Oakland, California to Joseph Gallo, Sr.He had two brothers: his partner in the wine business, Ernest Gallo; and his youngest brother, Joseph Edward Gallo.
Biography of Berthold Beitz (excerpt)
Berthold Beitz, born September 26, 1913 in Kruckow, is a German businessman. He has worked for Mineralölfirma Royal Dutch Shell, for Krupp and for National Olympic Committee.
Biography of John L. Lewis (excerpt)
John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960.A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s.
Biography of Nobuhito Takamatsu (excerpt)
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu of Japan (高松宮宣仁親王, Takamatsu no miya Nobuhito Shinnō., January 3, 1905 - February 3, 1987) was the third son of HIM Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and HIM Empress Teimei and a younger brother of the HIM Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).
Biography of Xavier Vallat (excerpt)
Xavier Vallat (December 23, 1891 in Villedieu (Vaucluse - 6 January 1972 in Annonay (Ardèche)), French politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews.
Biography of Aneurin Bevan (excerpt)
Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-20th century and was the Minister of Health responsible for the formation of the National Health Service.
Biography of David Rousset (excerpt)
David Rousset (January 18, 1912 — December 13, 1997) was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary award. A survivor of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, he is famous for his books about concentration camps.
Biography of Pierre Baudis (excerpt)
Pierre Baudis, born May 11, 1916 in Decazeville (Aveyron)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died January 5, 1917 in Toulouse, was a French politician, the former Mayor of Toulouse (1971-1983), the father of French politician, President of CSA (2000-2007), himself Mayor of Toulouse (1983-2000) and former journalist Dominique Baudis.
Biography of François Porché (excerpt)
François Porché, born November 21, 1877 in Cognac, died in 1944, was a French writer, poet and literary critic.
Biography of Émile Vuillermoz (excerpt)
Émile-Jean-Joseph Vuillermoz (23 May 1878 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 2 March 1960) was a French critic in the areas of music, film, drama and literature.He was also a composer, but abandoned this for criticism. Early life Émile Vuillermoz was born in Lyon in 1878.
Biography of Drew Pearson (excerpt)
Andrew Russell Pearson (December 13, 1897–September 1, 1969), known professionally as Drew Pearson, and born in Evanston, Illinois, was one of the most well-known American newspaper and radio journalists of his day.He was best known for his muckraking syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round".
Biography of Ewald Banse (excerpt)
Ewald Hermann Banse, born May 23, 1883 in Brunswick, died October 31, 1953, was a German author and professor, specialist of military science.
Biography of Jean Wiener (excerpt)
Jean Wiener, born March 19, 1896 in Paris, died June 8, 1982 in Paris, was a French pianist and composer. His daugther is Elisabeth Wiener. Filmography (extract) La Femme de nulle part (1922) L'Âne de Buridan (1932) L'Homme à l'Hispano (1933)
Biography of Maurice de Canonge (excerpt)
Maurice de Canonge, born on March 18, 1894 in Toulon, died on January 10, 1979 in Paris, was a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) Film director 1931 : Olive se marie 1931 : Olive passager clandestin avec Lilian Baron et Raymond Lucy
Biography of Marthe Mellot (excerpt)
Marthe Mellot (February 16, 1870 in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (Nièvre)- August 13, 1947 in Paris) was a French film actress. Selected filmography Les Misérables (1934) The Last Billionaire (1934) Justin de Marseille (1935) Land Without Stars (1946)
Biography of Georges Sadoul (excerpt)
Georges Sadoul (born Nancy 1904, died Paris 1967) was a French journalist and cinema writer. Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932.He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises. He is the author of l'Histoire générale du cinéma, a comprehensive work on world cinema.
Biography of Heinrich Gottlieb Heer (excerpt)
Gottlieb Heinrich Heer, born February 2, 1903 in Ronchi dei Legionari, Italy, died in 1967, was a German writer.
Biography of Claude Autant-Lara (excerpt)
Claude Autant-Lara (5 August 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d’Oise – 5 February 2000 in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes), was a French film director and later MEP. He was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist.As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless".
Biography of Charles Koechlin (excerpt)
Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin (November 27, 1867–December 31, 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. Koechlin was born in Paris, and was the youngest child of a large family.His mother’s family came from Alsace and he identified with that region; his maternal grandfather had been the noted philanthropist and textile manufacturer Jean Dollfus, and Koechlin inherited his strongly developed social conscience.
Biography of Pierre Chaillet (excerpt)
Pierre Chaillet, born May 13, 1900 in Scey-en-Varais, Doubs, died in 1972, was a French theologian and professor.
Biography of Lucien Michard (excerpt)
Lucien Michard, born November 17, 1903 in Epinay-sur-Seine, is a French cyclist. He won a Gold Medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924.
Biography of Charles de Jean (excerpt)
Charles de Jean, born February 7, 1888 in Montclar, Aveyron, is a French physician, a member of the Académie des Sciences.
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The Johnstown Flood (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on May 31, 1889. It was the result of the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam situated 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, made worse by several days of extremely heavy rainfall. |
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