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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Maurice Tourneur (excerpt)
Maurice Tourneur (February 2, 1876 – August 4, 1961) was an important international film director and screenwriter. Life Born Maurice Thomas in Paris 17e, France, his father was a jeweler.As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the theater.
Biography of Jean Urruty (excerpt)
Jean Urruty, born October 22, 1912 in Saint-Palais, died August 16, 2002, was a French Basque pelota champion.Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan, or pelote in French (from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat (Argentine paleta and pala corta), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, pilotaleku or pilota plaza in Basque, frontó in Catalan) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.
Biography of Robert Aron (excerpt)
Robert Aron (May 25, 1898 - April 19, 1975) was a French writer who authored a number of works on politics and history. Early life The son of an established stockbroker, Robert Aron was from an upper-class Jewish family with origins in Eastern France. ![]()
Biography of Hugo Black (excerpt)
Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 (borth time source: Vena Naughton) – September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist.A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971.
Biography of Bernard Saint-Hillier (excerpt)
ernard Saint-Hillier (29 December 1911 — 28 July 2004) was a French general. Saint-Hillier graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1933 and was affected to the 11th Chasseurs alpins Battalion. In 1938, he joined the French Foreign Legion with the rank of captain. He sided with the Fighting French and took part in the East African Campaign with the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade. ![]()
Biography of Alec Douglas-Home (excerpt)
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964 (as Sir Alec Douglas-Home).
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Biography of Hans Luther (excerpt)
Hans Luther (10 March 1879 – 11 May 1962) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. Biography Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg.He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918.
Biography of Yves Baudrier (excerpt)
Yves Baudrier, born February 11, 1906 in Paris and died November 9, 1988, was a French musician and composer. Works (extract) * Raz de Sein (1936), pour orchestre * La Dame ŕ la licorne (1937), pour piano
Biography of Rose Murphy (excerpt)
Rose Murphy, born January 8, 1913 in Lima, Ohio, was an American singer, actress and pianist. She acted in a few films, as A Wave, a Wac and a Marine, and George White's Scandals. ![]()
Biography of George M. Cohan (excerpt)
George Michael Cohan (pronounced "Coe-han") (July 3, 1878–November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy.
Biography of Frederick Beavis (excerpt)
Frederick J. Beavis (October 8, 1914 - July 11, 1997) was a longtime city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, who briefly served as interim mayor of the city in 1978. Beavis operated the Beavis Bros. Roofing Co. with his brothers before becoming a full-time politician. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Cardonnel (excerpt)
Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Počmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône ŕ l'Arno (1920)
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Biography of Willis Eugene Lamb (excerpt)
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr.(July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum".Lamb and Polykarp Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron.
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Biography of Franco Bordoni (excerpt)
Franco Bordoni-Bisleri (January 18, 1913 in Milano - September 15, 1975 near Chiavari) was an italian aviator and racing car driver. Bordoni's grandfather was Felice Bisleri (1851-1921) who had started and owned the family-run maker of the Ferro-China-Bisleri amaro (drink).Franco studied at Collegia San Carlo, became civil pilot (1936) but failed in his efforts to join the Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica).
Biography of Malcolm McAlpine (excerpt)
Sir Malcolm McAlpine, born June 19, 1877 in Hamilton, was a British businessman, the director and chairman of Sir Robert Mc Alpine and Sons.
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Biography of B. J. Vorster (excerpt)
Balthazar Johannes Vorster (13 December 1915 - 10 September 1983), better known as John Vorster ("FOUR-stir"), served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and as President from 1978 to 1979. He was known as a notorious and near-fanatic adherent of the apartheid system, but concluded a pragmatic foreign policy to improve co-existence between the white minority government with neighboring Mozambique and Angola.
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Biography of Louis Chadourne (excerpt)
Louis Chadourne, born on June 7, 1890 in Brive-la-Gaillarde (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1925 in Ivry, was a French writer and poet. Works (extract, in French) Commémoration d'un mort de printemps, Imprimerie Sainte-Catherine, Bruges, 1917 (počme). Le Maître du navire, avec deux bois de Daragnčs, L'Édition française illustrée, Paris, 1919 ; avec une postface de Thierry Fourneau, Farrago-Léo Scheer, Tours, 2002 (roman).
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Biography of Marion Zioncheck (excerpt)
Marion Anthony Zioncheck (December 5, 1900 – August 7, 1936), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in 1936.He represented Washington's 1st congressional district as a Democrat. Zioncheck was born in Kęty, Poland, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and arrived in Seattle, Washington with his parents four years later.
Biography of David Fyfe Anderson (excerpt)
David Fyfe Anderson, born June 8, 1904 in Cumnock, was a Scottish physician, professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
Biography of Rodolphe Peugeot (excerpt)
Rodolphe Peugeot, born April 2, 1902 in Seloncourt, is a French industrialist, an auto manufacturer and executive.
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Biography of Gian Carlo Menotti (excerpt)
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian composer and librettist.Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. ![]()
Biography of Mazo de La Roche (excerpt)
Mazo de la Roche (January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time. Early life Mazo de la Roche was the only child of William Roche, a salesman, and Alberta (Lundy) Roche.
Biography of Luc Estang (excerpt)
Luc Estang, born November 12, 1911 in Paris, died in 1992 in Paris, was a French writer and poet.
Biography of Harry Gordon (excerpt)
Harry Gordon (July 11, 1893—January, 1957) was a popular Scottish entertainer, comedian and impressionist, touring throughout Scotland and further afield. From the 1920s through the 1950s Gordon also produced a large number of recordings, including several under assumed names. He was known as the Laird of Inversnecky, a fictional Scottish town he used in his comic routines.
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Biography of Clemente Estable (excerpt)
Clémente Stable, born May 23, 1894 in Santa Lucía, was an Uruguayan educator, scientist, writer, and philosopher. Bibliography ·Bayley, Alondra. Clemente Estable, Universidad de la República. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Montevideo, 1980. ·Clemente Estable, Psicología de la Vocación, 1967. ·Liberati, Jorge. Los Pedagogos Nacionales. Clemente Estable, Revista Conversación, Nş11, Montevideo, oct 2005. ![]()
Biography of Laurindo Almeida (excerpt)
Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917, Săo Paulo, Brazil–July 26, 1995, Van Nuys, California) was a Brazilian guitarist. Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing. ![]()
Biography of Henri Goetz (excerpt)
American painter born in New York in 1909, Henri Goetz will be naturalized French in 1949. ![]()
Biography of Albert Claude (excerpt)
Albert Claude (August 23, 1898 – May 22, 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974.He studied medicine at the University of Liege (Belgium). During the winter of 1928-29 he worked in Berlin, first at the Institut für Krebsforschung, and then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Dahlem. ![]()
Biography of Jacinto Benavente (excerpt)
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Marchand (excerpt)
Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent.He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.
Biography of Karl Baisch (excerpt)
Karl Baisch, born January 28, 1869 in Gaildorf, died January 8, 1943 in Stuttgart, was a German physician, gynecologist, researcher, and author. ![]()
Biography of Robert Ballanger (excerpt)
Robert Ballanger, born November 2, 1912 in Nantes, died January 26, 1981 in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), was a French politician, member of PCF (Parti Communiste Français). He was President of communist group in National Assembly of France (1964-1981).
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Biography of Oswald Pohl (excerpt)
Oswald Pohl (June 30, 1892 - June 7, 1951) was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the Endlösung. Early years Pohl was born in Duisburg-Ruhrort as the son of blacksmith Hermann Otto Emil Pohl and his wife Auguste Pohl (née Seifert); he was the fifth of a total of eight children. ![]()
Biography of Tullio Levi-Civita (excerpt)
Tullio Levi-Civita (March 29, 1873 — December 29, 1941) (pronounced /'levi ˈʧivita/) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity but who also made significant contributions in other areas.
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Biography of Wendy Barrie (excerpt)
Wendy Barrie (18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British actress who worked in British and Hollywood films. Early life Marguerite Wendy Jenkins was born in Hong Kong to British parents. Her father was a successful lawyer, and she was educated in elite schools in England and Switzerland. ![]()
Biography of Henry Cowell (excerpt)
Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario.His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s: Henry Cowell's music covers a wider range in both expression and technique than that of any other living composer.
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Biography of Frederick Lindemann (excerpt)
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH (5 April 1886 – 3 July 1957) was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill. He advocated the wartime carpet bombing of German cities, and was a strong doubter of the existence of the Nazi "V" weapons program.
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Biography of Charles Lapicque (excerpt)
Charles Lapicque, born October 6, 1898 in Theizé, Rhône (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died July 15, 1988 in Orsay, was a French painter of School of Paris (La Nouvelle Ecole de Paris), scientist and engineer. Slected bibliography (in French)
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Biography of Mario Riva (excerpt)
Mario Riva (26 January 1913 – 1 September 1960), was a Italian film actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1941 and 1960. He was born in Rome, Italy and died in Verona, Italy after falling from a stage. Selected filmography * Il Vigile (1960)
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Biography of Georges Vedel (excerpt)
Georges Vedel (July 5, 1910 – February 21, 2002) was a French public law professor from Auch, France. Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law .” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies. ![]()
Biography of Jean Piccard (excerpt)
Jean Felix Piccard (Basel, Switzerland, January 28, 1884 – January 28, 1963, Minneapolis, Minnesota), also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist.He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon. ![]()
Biography of Simone Genevois (excerpt)
Simone Genevois, born on February 13, 1912 in Paris, died on December 16, 1995 in Ascona, Switzerland, was a French actress. She was the spouse of Jacques Pathé (1931), and later of André Conti (1936). Filmography (extracts) 1913 : Le Collier de Kali de Victorin Jasset ![]()
Biography of Gustave Samazeuilh (excerpt)
Gustave Samazeuilh, born on June 2, 1877 in Bordeaux, died on August 4, 1967, was a French musician, composer, and critic. ![]()
Biography of Hector Hetherington (excerpt)
Hector Hetherington, born July 21, 1888 in Cowdenbeath, was a Scottosh teacher, writer and Professor of philosophy.
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Biography of Walter Hampden (excerpt)
Walter Hampden is the artist name of Walter Hampden Dougherty (June 30, 1879 in Brooklyn – June 11, 1955 in Los Angeles) was a U.S. actor and theatre manager. He was the younger brother of the American painter Paul Dougherty (1877-1947).
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Biography of Helmut Knochen (excerpt)
Helmut Knochen (March 14, 1910 – April 4, 2003) was the senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and Sicherheitsdienst in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France during the World War II. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany.Before joining the Nazi Party in 1932, he worked as a teacher and editor.
Biography of Alfred Coste-Floret (excerpt)
Alfred Coste-Floret, born April 9, 1911 in Montpellier (Hérault), died January 9, 1990 in Paris, was a French politician (Christian democracy). He is the twin brother of Paul Coste-Floret, also a politician.
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Biography of Aldo Palazzeschi (excerpt)
Aldo Palazzeschi (2 February 1885 - 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. Biography He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family in Florence, and studied accounting and acting before he published his first book of poetry, I cavalli bianchi (in English, The White Horses) in 1905 using his maternal grandmother's name as a pseudonym. ![]()
Biography of Hester Dowden (excerpt)
Hester Dowden, born May 3, 1868 in Dublin, died in 1949, was a professional medium whose psychic development was marked by the successive appearance of five spirit personalities: "Peter," "Eyen," "Astor," "Shamar," and "Johannes." She was later known for her experiments in automatic writing. ![]()
Biography of Heinrich Hoffman (excerpt)
Heinrich Hoffmann (September 12, 1885 in Fürth - December 11, 1957 in Munich) was a German photographer best known for his many published photographs of Adolf Hitler.Hoffmann joined the NSDAP in 1920 and was chosen by its new leader Hitler as his official photographer. |
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