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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 Blanche Willis Howard (excerpt)
Blanche Willis Howard (July 20, 1847 – October 7, 1898) (married name: Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel) was an American writer whose novels developed out of the genre of Sentimentalism to Realism to the New Woman.Her first novel, One Summer, and subsequent novels received critical praise.
Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy.
Biography of Onno Klopp (excerpt)
Onno Klopp (9 October 1822 – 9 August 1903) was a German historian best known for his comprehensive work Der Fall des Hauses Stuart (The Fall of the House of Stuart). Educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen, Klopp worked as a teacher before settling in Hanover in 1858, where he became close to King George V, who appointed him Archivrat.
Biography of Paul Oudin (excerpt)
Paul Oudin, a French physician born in Épinal on November 29, 1851, and died in Paris on November 10, 1923, is famous for inventing the Oudin coil, a pioneer in the use of high-frequency currents in medicine. In 1876, he became a hospital extern and obtained his medical degree in 1880.
Biography of Albert van der Heide (politician) (excerpt)
Albert van der Heide (Leeuwarden, April 7, 1872 - The Hague, July 29, 1953), baptized Albertinus, was a Dutch socialist pastor and later a member of the Tweede Kamer. In his youth, he was part of the Frisian movement and a friend of Dirk Troelstra.
Biography of Cura Santa Cruz (excerpt)
Manuel Ignacio Santa Cruz Loidi (1842–1926) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. For some 35 years he served on apostolic mission in Colombia, where he was heading a parish in rural interior of the Pasto province; for some 15 years he held also various minor posts in Jamaica.
Biography of Albert Mérat (excerpt)
Albert Mérat (March 23, 1840 - January 16, 1909) was a French poet.Born into a family of lawyers, he initially studied law before working at the Seine prefecture, where he met Paul Verlaine and Léon Valade. He co-wrote his first collection Avril, mai, juin in 1863 with Valade.
Biography of Jeanne Fallières (excerpt)
Jeanne Fallières, born Jeanne Bresson on May 24, 1849, in Nérac, was the wife of Armand Fallières, President of the French Republic from 1906 to 1913. Coming from a family of lawyers, she married Armand in 1868, and they had two children.
Biography of Johannes Orth (excerpt)
Johannes Orth (14 January 1847 – 13 January 1923 in Berlin) was a German pathologist born in Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Bonn, receiving his habilitation in 1872 while an assistant to Eduard von Rindfleisch at Bonn.
Biography of Harriet E. Wilson (excerpt)
Harriet E.Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Biography of Xavier Privas (excerpt)
Antoine Paul Taravel, known as Xavier Privas (27 September 1863 – 6 February 1927) was a French singer, poet, goguettier and composer. Life Antoine Paul Taravel was born in Lyon on 27 September 1863.He made his debut in the goguette of the Caveau Lyonnais in 1888, where he obtained great success.
Biography of Hans Huber (composer) (excerpt)
Hans Huber (28 June 1852 – 25 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.
Biography of William Rockefeller Jr. (excerpt)
William Avery Rockefeller Jr.(May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier.Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller.He was also a part owner of Anaconda Copper, which was the fourth-largest company in the world by the late 1920s.
Biography of Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (German: Elisabeth Maria Maximiliana; 28 May 1860 – 7 February 1881) was the Duchess of Braganza and wife of Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza. Life Elisabeth was a Princess of Thurn and Taxis by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Princess of Braganza, and titular Queen consort of Portugal through her marriage to Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920.
Biography of Emily Murphy (excerpt)
Emily Murphy was a trailblazing Canadian writer and the first female magistrate in the British Empire, celebrated for her advocacy for women's rights. Born into a family of legal professionals in 1868, she honed her legal acumen early on. The third of six children, her family's influence included a Supreme Court judge and a senator, which immersed her in legal debates from a young age.
Biography of Marian Langiewicz (excerpt)
Marian Langiewicz (August 5, 1827 – May 11, 1887), was a key figure in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. Born in Krotoszyn, he was educated in Posen, Breslau, and Prague, and worked as a lecturer to earn a living.
Biography of Antoine Marfan (excerpt)
Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, known as Antoine Marfan, born in Castelnaudary, France, on June 23, 1858, and died in Paris on February 11, 1942, was a French pediatrician and a founding figure in the field of pediatrics in France. Despite initial reluctance from his father, also a doctor, Marfan pursued medical studies in Toulouse and then in Paris.
Biography of Francisco Ferrer (excerpt)
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
Biography of François Ernest Fournier (excerpt)
François Ernest Fournier, born on May 23, 1842, in Toulouse and died on November 6, 1934, in Paris, was a French vice admiral, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and a military medalist. He joined the Navy in 1859.During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he commanded a company of sailors and took part in the battles of Villiers and the Fort of Rosny, getting wounded at the Battle of Le Bourget.
Biography of Charlotte Wolter (excerpt)
Charlotte Wolter (March 1, 1834, in Cologne - June 14, 1897, in Hietzing) was an Austrian actress who began her artistic career in Budapest in 1857. She is buried in an honorary grave at the Central Cemetery in Vienna (group 32 A, number 20), as per her wish, in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most famous role.
Biography of Noël Ballay (excerpt)
Dr. Noël Eugène Ballay, born on July 14, 1847, in Fontenay-sur-Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and died on January 27, 1902, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was a French explorer and colonial administrator, serving as the second Governor-General of French West Africa (AOF). After completing his education in medicine, Ballay participated in exploratory missions alongside Savorgnan de Brazza in the Ogooué region during the 1870s and represented France at the Berlin Conference in 1885.
Biography of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (excerpt)
Louis IV (German: Ludwig IV.Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892.Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family.
Biography of Théophile Labat (excerpt)
Henri Jean Théophile Labat, born March 20, 1834, in Lormont, and died September 10, 1896, in Bordeaux, was a French military engineer, economist, and Polytechnique graduate. He specialized in naval construction, pioneering in hauling techniques, and was recognized for his innovations. Politically, he served as a deputy of the Gironde from 1893 to 1896, focusing on economic and tax issues.
Biography of Charles Lartigue (excerpt)
Charles Lartigue (born October 14, 1834, in Toulouse and died February 24, 1907, in Le Mans) was a French engineer who gave his name to a monorail system, known as the Lartigue monorail system. Charles François Marie-Thérèse Lartigue was born on October 14, 1834, in Toulouse.
Biography of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa (excerpt)
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo (Madrid, June 8, 1845 – Madrid, August 27, 1922) was a Spanish archaeologist, collector, and politician. A Grandee of Spain, he was the chief delegate of the Traditionalist Communion (the official political party of Carlism) from 1890 to 1898 and from 1913 to 1919.
Biography of Joseph Sullivan (British politician) (excerpt)
Joseph Sullivan (16 September 1866 – 13 February 1935) was a Scottish Labour Party politician, MP from 1922 to 1924 and 1926 to 1931.Born in Glasgow to Irish parents, he worked as a coal miner and became a prominent figure in the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union.
Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
Biography of Antonio, Duke of Galliera (excerpt)
Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera (Antonio Maria Luis Felipe Juan Florencio de Orleans y Borbón; 26 February 1866 (Wikipedia has 23 in error) – 24 December 1930), was a member of the Spanish and French royal families.He was the son of Antoine d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain.
Biography of Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, KCVO, JP, DL (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20. Honours Acton was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Member (fourth class) in 1901.
Biography of Jules Crépieux-Jamin (excerpt)
Jules Crépieux-Jamin, born in Arras on December 28, 1858, and died in Rouen on October 24, 1940, was a handwriting expert and one of the first French graphologists, who contributed to the development of this technique. He became famous for his books and his role in the Dreyfus Affair.
Biography of Marcus Samuel (excerpt)
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, JP (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.
Biography of Gaston La Touche (excerpt)
Gaston de La Touche, born on October 22, 1854, in Saint-Cloud, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. He began taking drawing lessons in 1864, but his studies were interrupted by the 1870 war. In 1875, he exhibited his first bas-relief medallion at the Salon, later befriending Édouard Manet and admiring Émile Zola, whose works he illustrated.
Biography of Jean Périer (excerpt)
Jean Périer was a French actor and singer born on February 2, 1869, in Paris and passed away on November 1, 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was the first performer of the role of Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy in 1902.
Biography of Félix Léon Edoux (excerpt)
Félix Léon Edoux born May 29, 1827 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) and died October 13, 1910 in Paris was a French engineer and industrialist. Edoux is best known for having designed a hydraulic lift he baptized "elevator" in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel ordered from Edoux the elevator which was to connect the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower, and which would operate until 1983.
Biography of Euphrosine Beernaert (excerpt)
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life Beernaerts was born at Ostend in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in Brussels.She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.
Biography of Neil Munro (writer) (excerpt)
Neil Munro (April 2, 1864 (Wikipedia has a mistake) – December 22, 1930) was a Scottish journalist, editor, author, and critic. Initially recognized for serious literature, Munro is best known today for humorous stories about characters like Captain Para Handy of the Vital Spark.
Biography of Janis Rozentals (excerpt)
Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 - December 26, 1916) was a celebrated Latvian painter.Born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus, Courland, Russian Empire, he embarked on his career early in Riga and then at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. He set up an art studio in Saldus in 1899 but moved to Riga in 1901.
Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps.
Biography of Thérèse Schwartze (excerpt)
Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 - 23 December 1918) was a renowned Dutch portrait painter born in Amsterdam. Trained initially by her father, Johan Georg Schwartze, she furthered her studies at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten and in Munich under Gabriel Max and Franz von Lenbach.
Biography of Alix Joffroy (excerpt)
Alix Joffroy, born on December 16, 1844, in Stainville (Meuse) and died on November 24, 1908, in Paris, was a French neurologist, neuropathologist, and psychiatrist, a student of Charcot, and the second holder of the chair of clinical mental illnesses and the brain at Sainte-Anne.
Biography of Smith Ely Jelliffe (excerpt)
Smith Ely Jelliffe (October 27, 1866 – September 25, 1945) was an American neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst based in New York City. After initial training in botany and pharmacy, he transitioned to neurology in the mid-1890s and later delved into psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
Biography of Georges Rayet (excerpt)
Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy.
Biography of Diederik Korteweg (excerpt)
Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician best known for the Korteweg–de Vries equation, developed with Gustav de Vries. Initially studying at a military academy, he switched to the Polytechnical School of Delft for engineering but ultimately pursued mathematics.
Biography of Santiago Rusiñol (excerpt)
Santiago Rusiñol y Prats (Barcelona, February 25, 1861-Aranjuez, June 13, 1931) was a prominent painter of Catalan modernism, as well as a Spanish writer and playwright who wrote in Catalan. Coming from a textile industrial family, he studied painting in Barcelona before living in Paris at Montmartre with Ramón Casas and Ignacio Zuloaga.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Billot (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828 - 31 May 1907) was a French general and politician.Educated at Saint-Cyr, he maintained republican beliefs while advancing his career under Napoleon III, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1859. He distinguished himself in the Mexican expedition and the Franco-Prussian War, achieving the rank of general and participating in key battles.
Biography of Oscar Pletsch (excerpt)
Oscar Pletsch (March 26, 1830 - January 12, 1888) was a German illustrator.Born in Berlin to a poor family, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Ludwig Richter and Eduard Bendemann. Pletsch worked in Dresden and then Berlin, specializing in genre paintings and illustrations, mainly depicting children.
Biography of Felix Dahn (excerpt)
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (February 9, 1834 – January 3, 1912) was a German law professor, nationalist author, poet, and historian. Born in Hamburg, he studied law and philosophy in Munich and Berlin, becoming a professor of German Law. Dahn wrote extensively, influencing German historiography of the European Migration Period with works like "Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples."
Biography of Eberhard Nestle (excerpt)
Eberhard Nestle (May 1, 1851, Stuttgart - March 9, 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, and orientalist. He edited the Novum Testamentum Graece and was the father of Erwin Nestle. He studied at the University of Tübingen, focusing on Hebrew and Greek texts of the Book of Ezekiel, and later worked in orientalism and textual criticism of the New Testament.
Biography of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (excerpt)
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923) was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
Biography of Eugénie of Sweden (excerpt)
Eugénie of Sweden and Norway (24 April 1830 - 23 April 1889) was a Swedish-Norwegian princess, the only daughter of King Oscar I and Joséphine of Leuchtenberg. Frail in health, she never married but was recognized as an amateur artist.She founded the Animal Rights Association in 1882. |
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