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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 William Thomson (excerpt)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE (26 June 1824 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
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Biography of Arthur Edward Waite (excerpt)
Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 (birth time source: the biography available on the website https://www.holisticshop.co.uk/) – 19 May 1942) was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider-Waite-Smith or Waite-Smith deck). ![]()
Biography of Rui Barbosa (excerpt)
Rui Barbosa de Oliveira (November 5, 1849 – March 1, 1923) was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician. Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the 2nd Hague Conference, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague". ![]()
Biography of Paul Hankar (excerpt)
Paul Hankar (11 December 1859 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 351, André Dekoster) - 17 January 1901) was a Belgian architect and designer who, along with Victor Horta and Henry Van de Velde, is considered one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century. ![]()
Biography of Johanna Spyri (excerpt)
Johanna Spyri (German pronunciation: ) (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. ![]()
Biography of Louis Buffet (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Buffet, born in Mirecourt (Vosges) October 26, 1818 and died in Paris July 7, 1898, was a French politician. In 1890, he is member of Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).
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Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.)
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Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes. ![]()
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
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Biography of Charles Richet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 (birth time source: birth certificate, Gauquelin) – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913.
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Biography of Marie-Adolphe Carnot (excerpt)
Marie Adolphe Carnot (27 January 1839 – 20 June 1920) was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic.
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Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects. ![]()
Biography of Philippe Dautzenberg (excerpt)
Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, Brussels, 20 December 1849 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 466, André Dekoster) - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, in other words, he was a biologist who specialized in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks.
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Biography of George, King of Saxony (excerpt)
George (German: Friedrich August Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Karl Maria Nepomuk Baptist Xaver Cyriacus Romanus; 8 August 1832 – 15 October 1904) was a King of Saxony of the House of Wettin. Life George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He was the second son of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and his wife Princess Amelia of Bavaria (1801–1877), daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825).
Biography of Frédéric Gérard (excerpt)
Frédéric Gérard, born on December 24, 1860 in Athis-Mons (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1938, was the French director of Lapin Agile, a famous Montmartre cabaret, at 22 Rue des Saules, 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally called "Cabaret des Assassins". ![]()
Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (excerpt)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
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Biography of Frédéric Desmons (excerpt)
Frédéric Desmons (October 14, 1832 in Brignon, Gard (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 4, 1910) was a French Calvinist priest and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution.
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Biography of Gilles de la Tourette (excerpt)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French physician and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. He was born in "the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, in the district of Châtellerault near the city of Loudun, France", and died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. ![]()
Biography of Wilkie Collins (excerpt)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in Westminster. ![]()
Biography of Maria Feodorovna (excerpt)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, rectified from approx. time) – 13 October 1928), christened Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel; her siblings included Alexandra (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece.
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Biography of Charles Zidler (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Zidler, born on December 29, 1831 in Saint-Cloud (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 10, 1897 in Paris 9e, was a French artist manager, one of the founders of Moulin Rouge, a famous cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
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Biography of Franz Brentano (excerpt)
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 (birth time source: Arno Müller, Vol. 2., BC) – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud (whose doctoral dissertation he helped supervise), Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, and Thomas Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but countless others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts. ![]()
Biography of Paul Broca (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Broca (/broʊˈkɑː/ or /ˈbroʊkə/; 28 June 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Solvay (excerpt)
Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: ; 16 April 1838 (birth time source: André Dekoster) – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21. ![]()
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
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Biography of Charles Debierre (excerpt)
Charles Debierre, born on October 31, 1853 in Ételfay (Somme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 8), died on March 8, 1932 in Lillie (Nord), was a French politician, and also the Grand Maître of Grand Orient de France, the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
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Biography of Gustave Lanson (excerpt)
Gustave Lanson (August 5, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 15, 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Biography Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death. ![]()
Biography of Emilio Salgari (excerpt)
Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation: , but often erroneously pronounced ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. For over a century, his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures.
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Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864.
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Biography of Charles Lamoureux (excerpt)
Charles Lamoureux (pronounced: ; 28 September 1834 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 21 December 1899) was a French conductor and violinist. Life He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier. ![]()
Biography of Pietro Mascagni (excerpt)
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (Italian: ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. ![]()
Biography of Emma Calvé (excerpt)
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 (birth time source: birth certificate), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Arnaud (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor. Life Arnaud was born at La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at Angers, he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of François Rude.
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Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Delpech (excerpt)
Noël Antoine Gabriel Auguste Delpech, born on December 22, 1846 in Bonnac, Ariège (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 11, 1935 in Toulouse, was a French professor, politician, and author. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1902 and 1903.
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Biography of Louis Lafferre (excerpt)
Louis Lafferre (10 May 1861 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 28 February 1929) was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Lafferre was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and began his political career as a local councillor in Narbonne.
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Biography of Henri de Dion (excerpt)
Earl Henri de Dion (born near Montfort-l'Amaury on 18 December 1828, died in Paris on 13 April 1878) was a French engineer who contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He was an alumnus of the École Centrale Paris and specialised in metallic constructions, such as those of the Exposition Universelle (1878).
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Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
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Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
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Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century". ![]()
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816.
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Biography of Louis Lucipia (excerpt)
Louis Adrien Lucipia, born on November 18, 1843 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 459), died on May 21, 1904, was a French journalist, writer, and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1895-1896) and (1898-1900).
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Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works. ![]()
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.
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Biography of André Léo (excerpt)
Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 50 AD86) – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names. In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo in Paris.
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Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity. |
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