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Horoscopes with Admetos in AquariusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Admetos in Aquarius. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Alfred Fouillée (excerpt)
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Academy of Moral Science for his work on Plato and Socrates.
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Biography of Léon Say (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say (June 6, 1826 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 21, 1896 in Paris), French statesman and economist, was born in Paris. The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Yersin (excerpt)
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (September 22, 1863 (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, email)–March 1, 1943) was a French (born Swiss) physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis). ![]()
Biography of Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) (excerpt)
Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. He produced his first composition after receiving piano lessons when he was only seven.
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Biography of André Chantemesse (excerpt)
André Chantemesse (October 13, 1851 - February 25, 1919) was a French bacteriologist. After graduation from the University of Paris in 1884, he traveled to Berlin to study bacteriology at the laboratory of Robert Koch (1843-1910). Chantemesse is primarily known for his collaborative work done with Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen (excerpt)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest personalities in the history of Norway. ![]()
Biography of Hugo Wolf (excerpt)
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Frémy (excerpt)
Edmond Frémy (February 22, 1814 - February 3, 1894) was a French chemist. Frémy was born at Versailles, entered Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac's laboratory in 1831, and was employed at the École Polytechnique in 1834 and at the Collège de France in 1837.
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Biography of Louis Péricaud (excerpt)
Louis Jean Péricaud, born on June 10, 1835 in La Rochelle (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on November 12, 1909 in Paris, was a French comedian, playwright, director, and author.
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Biography of Eugène Gigout (excerpt)
Eugène Gigout (23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ. Eugène Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris for 62 years.
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Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals. ![]()
Biography of Émile Bourquelot (excerpt)
Émile Bourquelot (21 June 1851 – 26 January 1921) was a French chemist, and professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris. He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons. Bourqelot became the Chief Pharmacist at the Laënnec Hospital in 1887, where he established a laboratory to conduct his research into carbohydrate chemistry.
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Biography of Henry-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (excerpt)
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) was born Henry-Gustave Joly in Épernay, France. His father family was one of the traditional Huguenot families and his mother, a Catholic. First a Huguenot himself, Henri-Gustave converted to Anglicanism when he got married in 1856.
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Biography of François de Curel (excerpt)
François, Vicomte de Curel (June 10, 1854 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - 1928), French dramatist, was born at Metz, Moselle. Biography He was educated at the École centrale Paris as a civil engineer, the family wealth being derived from smelting works. ![]()
Biography of Arsène Houssaye (excerpt)
Arsène Houssaye (March 28, 1814 - February 26, 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon. His real surname was Housset. In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pécheresse. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Fromentin (excerpt)
Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer. He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. ![]()
Biography of Eleonora Duse (excerpt)
Eleonora Duse (October 3, 1858–April 21, 1924), was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse. Early life, acting career Eleonora Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and entered acting (her family's profession) as a child. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt. ![]()
Biography of Albert Edelfelt (excerpt)
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 (birth time source: "Kyosti Tarvainen argues by email, that the date is 21 July Gregorian Calendar: "Finland was at that time a part of Russia. But we used the new time systems (since we were earlier a part of Sweden). ![]()
Biography of Octave Mirbeau (excerpt)
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.
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Biography of Léon Germain Pelouse (excerpt)
Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 - July 31, 1891) was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Léon Frapié (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Frapié (born January 27, 1863 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 1949 Paris) was a French novelist. He first contributed to magazines and newspapers, then a few novels. He is most known for the 1904 Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle.
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Biography of Eugène Thirion (excerpt)
Eugène Thirion, born on May 19, 1839 in Paris, died on January 19, 1910 in Montigny-sur-Loing, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Charles Nègre (excerpt)
Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880) was a French painter and photographer.
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Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves. ![]()
Biography of Théodore Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 - December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. ![]()
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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Renan (excerpt)
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, biblical scholar and critic, and historian of religion. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. ![]()
Biography of Percival Lowell (excerpt)
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. ![]()
Biography of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (excerpt)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria. ![]()
Biography of Georges Feydeau (excerpt)
Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862 - 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as La Belle Epoque. He was known for his many lively farces. Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zelewska.
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Biography of Émile Goudeau (excerpt)
Émile Goudeau, born on August 29, 1849 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died in 1906, was a French journalist, novelist, and poet. Publications (selection) 1878 : Fleurs du bitume 1884 : Poèmes ironiques 1884 : La Revanche des bêtes ![]()
Biography of Jules-Élie Delaunay (excerpt)
Jules-Élie Delaunay (June 13, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe. ![]()
Biography of Gaëtan de Rochebouët (excerpt)
Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët (French pronunciation: ; born 16 March 1813 in Angers, died 23 Ferbruary 1899 in Paris) was a French general who served as Prime Minister for less than a month in late 1877. On June 29, 1877, Patrice de MacMahon dissolved the House after being outvoted. ![]()
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Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: About this soundRepública de Nicaragua (help·info)), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. ![]()
Biography of Paul Féval (excerpt)
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857).
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Biography of Christina Rossetti (excerpt)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, which tells of two sisters tempted by goblin men to buy strange fruit. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Clément (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Clément, born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died February 26, 1903 in Paris, was a French singer, author and activist, a member of The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris). ![]()
Biography of Jay Gould (excerpt)
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. Although he was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, modern historians have discounted various myths about him and evaluated his career more positively. ![]()
Biography of Nikolaus Otto (excerpt)
Nikolaus August Otto (June 10, 1832 Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau - January 26, 1891 Cologne) was the German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e. ![]()
Biography of André Gedalge (excerpt)
André Gedalge (27 December 1856 - 5 February 1926), was an influential French composer and teacher. André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools. ![]()
Biography of Marie Lafarge (excerpt)
Marie-Fortunée Lafarge, née Capelle (January 15, 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 7, 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person convicted largely on direct forensic toxicological evidence. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Krupp (excerpt)
The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp in modern times, merged with Thyssen AG in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp AG, a large industrial conglomerate. ![]()
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature").
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Biography of Robert Browning (excerpt)
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Youth Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, on May 7, 1812, the first son of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Allais (excerpt)
Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer, journalist and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i. ![]()
Biography of Octave Gréard (excerpt)
Octave Gréard (April 18, 1828 (birth time source: Choisnard, birth certificate) - April 25, 1904) was a noted French educator. Gréard was born in Vire, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and had a long career in education. He was largely responsible for the establishment of schools for girls and played a significant role in reforming the baccalauréat. ![]()
Biography of Gustaf V of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustav V (Oscar Gustav Adolf) (16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
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Biography of André Antoine (excerpt)
André Antoine (31 January 1858, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)(birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) - 19 October 1943, Le Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the inventor of modern mise en scène in France. ![]()
Biography of Rodolphe Salis (excerpt)
Rodolphe Salis, born May 19, 1851 in Châtellerault (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1897, was a French artist, owner and host of French cabaret Le Chat Noir. Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th-century cabaret in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Paul Schützenberger (excerpt)
Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 - 26 June 1897), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779-1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809-1881) professor of chemical medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated MD from the University of Strasbourg in 1855, but his interests lay in physical and chemical science. |
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