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birth charts with Apollon in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo.
Biography of Beatrice Webb (excerpt)
Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 22, 1858 - April 30, 1943) was an English socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield.
Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director.He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher.
Biography of William Michael Rossetti (excerpt)
William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Biography of Albert Baertsoen (excerpt)
Albert Baertsoen, born in Gand January 9, 1866 in died in Ghent in 1922, was a Belgian painter. Works (extract) * Chalands sous la neige (Musée de Bruxelles) * Un canal à Termonde * La Tamise près de Londres
Biography of Arthur Sullivan (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W.S.Gilbert, including such continually-popular works as H.M.S.Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado.
Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar.Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins.
Biography of Gaston Paris (excerpt)
Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (August 9, 1839 – March 5, 1903), known as Gaston Paris, was a French writer and scholar. Biography Paris was born at Avenay (Marne). In his childhood, he learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn (1856) and at the École des chartes.
Biography of Paul Georges Dieulafoy (excerpt)
Paul Georges Dieulafoy (November 18, 1839 – August 16, 1911) was a French physician and surgeon. He is best known for his study of acute appendicitis and his description of Dieulafoy's lesion, a rare cause of gastric bleeding. Life, studies, and career
Biography of Alfred Harmsworth (excerpt)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865 (source for his time of birth: David Hamblin)–August 14,1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market.
Biography of Heinrich Mann (excerpt)
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 12 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933. Life and work
Biography of Paul Deussen (excerpt)
Paul Jakob Deussen (German pronunciation: ; January 7, 1845 – July 6, 1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar.He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer.He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda.In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft).
Biography of Vincent d'Indy (excerpt)
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Life D'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion.He had piano lessons from an early age but, to please his family, studied law.
Biography of Jean de Reszke (excerpt)
Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, (14 January 1850 – 3 April 1925) was a Polish operatic tenor. He was born in Warsaw in 1850. His parents were Poles; his father was a state official and his mother a capable amateur singer, their house being a recognized musical centre.
Biography of Adolphe Deslandres (excerpt)
Adolphe Édouard Marie Deslandres, born January 22, 1840 in Paris and raised in Batignolles-Monceau, died July 30, 1911 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract) * Bajazet et le Joueur de flûte, cantate, 1858 * Ivan IV, cantate, 1860
Biography of Florenz Ziegfeld (excerpt)
Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl".
Biography of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (excerpt)
Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (Philippe Eugène Ferdinand Marie Clément Baudouin Léopold Georges (French) or Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris (Dutch); 24 March 1837-17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his wife Louise Marie d'Orleans (1812-1850).
Biography of Ada Negri (excerpt)
Ada Negri (February 3, 1870 - January 11, 1945) was an Italian poet. She was born in Lodi into an artisan family to Giuseppe Negri, and his wife Vittoria Cornalba, and became a village school-teacher. Her first book of poems, Tempeste (1891), tells the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty.
Biography of Bernarr MacFadden (excerpt)
Bernarr Macfadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden (16 August 1868 – 12 October 1955) was an influential exponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories.He additionally founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications. Born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, Bernarr Macfadden changed his first and last names to give them a greater appearance of strength.
Biography of Georges Courteline (excerpt)
Georges Courteline (June 25, 1858 – June 25, 1929) was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth.During the time of the Paris Commune, at age 13, he was sent to study at Collège de Meaux and after graduation in 1876, he went on to serve in the French military before taking a job as a civil servant.
Biography of Henry Lerolle (excerpt)
Henry Lerolle, born October 4, 1848 in Paris, died in 1929, was a French painter.
Biography of Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (excerpt)
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (December 22, 1862 - November 23, 1950) was a French physician who was a native of Bordeaux. He was an associate professor at Val-de-Grâce, as well as medical inspector general with the French Army. Later he attained the chair of epidemiology at Collège de France.
Biography of Etienne-Jules Marey (excerpt)
Étienne-Jules Marey (March 5, 1830 – May 21, 1904) was a French scientist and chronophotographer, born in Beaune, France. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.
Biography of A.P. Sinnett (excerpt)
A.P.Sinnett (18 January 1840 - 26 June 1921) was an author and Theosophist. Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age 22 who is a teacher.
Biography of Hippolyte Taine (excerpt)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian.He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Biography of Jan Toorop (excerpt)
Jean Theodoor Toorop (Poerworedjo, Java, December 20, 1858 — The Hague, Netherlands, March 3, 1928), better known as Jan Toorop, was a Dutch painter whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau. Born in Java, Toorop moved with his family to the Netherlands in 1872, and he studied in Delft and Amsterdam.
Biography of Paul Bourget (excerpt)
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (September 2, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 25, 1935), was a French novelist and critic. Biography He was born in Amiens in the Somme département of Picardie, France.His father, a professor of mathematics, was later appointed to a post in the college at Clermont-Ferrand, where Bourget received his early education.
Biography of Pierre De Geyter (excerpt)
Pierre Chretien De Geyter (also known as Pierre Chrétien Degeyter) (Ghent, Belgium, 8 October 1848 (birth time source: André Dekoster, birth certificate n° 2547) – Saint-Denis, France, 26 September 1932) was a socialist (who later became a communist) and a composer, known for writing the music of The Internationale.
Biography of Paul Mansion (excerpt)
Paul Mansion, born June 3, 1844 in Huy, died April 16, 1919 in Ghent, was a Belgian mathematician, the father of philosopher Augustin Mansion. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Biography of Alfred Werner (excerpt)
Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a professor at the University of Zurich.He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry.
Biography of Ludwig Boltzmann (excerpt)
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 (birth time source: Starkman quotes Ruth Lewin Sime's biography "Lise Meitner, A Life in Physics" and rectified his time of birth) – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).
Biography of William James Mayo (excerpt)
William James Mayo, M.D.(June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic.He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s.
Biography of Jacques de Dixmude (excerpt)
Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude (February 24, 1858, Stavelot (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – November 24, 1928) was a Belgian general. He founded Albertville in Congo in 1894.His role in The Congo Free State was questioned in the Casement report.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867 – September 16, 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist.His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907.
Biography of Castro Alves (excerpt)
Antônio de Castro Alves (March 14, 1847 - July 6, 1871), more commonly known as Castro Alves, was a Brazilian poet best remembered for his abolitionist and republican poems, and is considered one of the most important Brazilian poets of the 19th century.
Biography of Paul Sabatier (excerpt)
Paul Sabatier (November 5, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – August 14, 1941) was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1905.
Biography of Kurt Eisner (excerpt)
Kurt Eisner (14 May 1867 – 21 February 1919) was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918. He is used as an example of charismatic authority by Max Weber.
Biography of Paul Vidal (excerpt)
Paul Antoine Vidal (16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher. Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse.He studied at the conservatoires in Toulouse and in Paris, under Jules Massenet in the latter.He won the Prix de Rome in 1883, one year before Claude Debussy did.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Faure, born January 15, 1830 in Moulins, died in 1914, was a French baritone.
Biography of Marguerite Audoux (excerpt)
Marguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father.
Biography of Charles Lavigerie (excerpt)
Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie (31 October 1825–26 November 1892) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Carthage and Algiers and primate of Africa. Born at Bayonne, he was educated at St Sulpice, Paris. Ordained a priest in 1849, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at the Sorbonne from 1854 to 1856.
Biography of Richard Garnett (excerpt)
Richard Garnett C.B. (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet.He was son of Richard Garnett, an assistant keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Born at Lichfield in England, and educated at a school in Bloomsbury, he entered the British Museum in 1851 as an assistant librarian.
Biography of Ker-Xavier Roussel (excerpt)
Ker-Xavier Roussel (December 10, 1867 - June 6, 1944) was a French painter associated with Les Nabis. Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend Édouard Vuillard, he also studied at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart.
Biography of Ella Young (excerpt)
Ella Young (December 26, 1867 – 1956) was an Irish poet, political activist, and mystic. Born in County Antrim, she grew up in Dublin and attended the Royal University. Her interest in Theosophy led her to become an early member of the Hermetic Society, and her acquaintance with "Æ" (George William Russell) led to her becoming one of his select group of protegés, known as the "singing birds." Her nationalist sentiments also led her to a friendship with Patrick Pearse, and she had a supporting role in the Easter Rising; as a member of Cumann na mBan, she smuggled rifles and other supplies in support of Republican forces.
Biography of Paul-Jean Toulet (excerpt)
Paul-Jean Toulet (5 June 1867, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques - 6 September 1920) was a French poet. He was a descendant of Charlotte Corday, and son of a wealthy man living in Mauritius. He was most famous for his opus describing La vie parisienne.
Biography of Wilhelm Dilthey (excerpt)
Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 – October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
Biography of Joaquim Nabuco (excerpt)
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (Recife, August 19, 1849 — Washington, D.C., January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer and statesman. Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son of a wealthy landowner named Jose Thomas Nabuco (1849-1910), who was a major political figure in the Brazilian Empire, becoming a lifetime senator and counselor of state.
Biography of Hugo Eckener (excerpt)
Dr.Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868–14 August 1954) was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and was commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history.
Biography of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (excerpt)
Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (26 August 1826 – 21 September 1875) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and devoted her life to literature. Early life Alexandra was born in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and of his wife Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. |
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