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birth charts with Kronos in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Kronos in Pisces. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist.Many of her novels are set in her home state of California.Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Biography of Jan Verkade (excerpt)
Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus (Jan) Verkade (18 September 1868 - 19 July 1946), afterwards Willibrord Verkade O.S.B., was a Dutch Post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter. A disciple of Paul Gauguin and friend of Paul Sérusier, he belonged to the circle of artists known as 'Les Nabis.'
Biography of Martha van Vloten (excerpt)
Martha van Eeden-van Vloten (18 February 1857 – 4 June 1943) was a Dutch translator known for her translations of children's literature, including the Grimm brothers' fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen's stories. Born in Deventer, she was the eldest child of literary scholar Johannes van Vloten.
Biography of Michel Eyraud (excerpt)
Gouffé Case The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France.On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing.Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Vladimir Vernadsky (excerpt)
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский, Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March (O.S. 28 February) 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.
Biography of Frits Went (excerpt)
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went ForMemRS (June 18, 1863 – July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist. Went was born in Amsterdam. He was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism.
Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy. He participated in the Tunisian campaign and held several commands, including the destroyer 23 and the armored cruiser Edgar Quinet.
Biography of Charles Pigeon (excerpt)
Charles Pigeon, born on March 29, 1838, in Le Mesnil-Lieubray (Seine-Maritime) and died on March 18, 1915, in Paris, was a French inventor and entrepreneur. While Charles Pigeon did not technically invent the kerosene lamp, he was the first to produce and market a portable kerosene lighting device that was patented, non-flammable, and non-explosive.
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
Biography of Gustav Nachtigal (excerpt)
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa.He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa.His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.
Biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.
Biography of Yon-Lug (excerpt)
Yon-Lug, born Constant Jacquet in Oullins, near Lyon, on October 4, 1864, and died in Brévannes on May 25, 1921, was a French composer and cabaret singer. It was at the behest of François Trombert, a native of Lyon and owner of the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts in Montmartre since 1893, that Constant Jacquet moved to Paris.
Biography of Elizabeth McCombs (excerpt)
Elizabeth Reid McCombs (née Henderson, 19 November 1873 – 7 June 1935) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919.
Biography of Ida Dehmel (excerpt)
Ida Dehmel (born Ida Coblenz: 14 January 1870 – 29 September 1942) was a German lyric poet and muse, a feminist, and a supporter of the arts. After 1933 she was persecuted on account of her Jewishness: in 1942, large scale deportations of Jews began from the city where she had made her home.
Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
Biography of Paul Viardot (excerpt)
Paul Viardot (20 July 1857 – 1 December 1941) was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London. His time of birth comes from Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863, Second Edition, by Barbara Kendall-Davies (Cambridge Scholars, 2014).
Biography of Aleksander Swietochowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Świętochowski (16 January 1849 – 25 April 1938) was a Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period that followed the January 1863 Uprising. He was widely regarded as the prophet of Polish Positivism, spreading in the Warsaw press the gospel of scientific inquiry, education, economic development, and equality of rights for all, without regard to sex, class, ethnic origin or beliefs.
Biography of Ermete Zacconi (excerpt)
Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia.
Biography of Maria Konopnicka (excerpt)
Maria Konopnicka, a significant Polish poet, novelist, and women's rights activist, was born in Suwałki on May 23, 1842. Educated at home and in Warsaw, she debuted as a writer in 1870. Konopnicka's marriage to Jarosław Konopnicki was strained due to her literary pursuits, leading to their separation in 1878.
Biography of Félix Decori (excerpt)
Felix Decori, born on March 1, 1860, in Paris and died of a heart attack at the Élysée Palace on October 18, 1915, was a French lawyer and politician. Politics and the Élysée A friend of Raymond Poincaré, he appointed Decori at the very beginning of the war as the civil Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, where he dealt with political and diplomatic matters.
Biography of Stanislaw Nowodworski (excerpt)
Stanisław Marian Nowodworski (born October 11, 1873, in Warsaw, died September 22, 1931, in Warsaw) was a Polish lawyer, politician, Minister of Justice, and senator in the first term of the Second Polish Republic. After studying law at the University of St.
Biography of E. Armand (excerpt)
Émile Armand (March 23 (March 26 for Wikipedia), 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.
Biography of Sarmiza Bilcescu (excerpt)
Sarmiza or Sarmisegetuza or Sarmisa Bilcescu (later Bilcescu-Alimănişteanu; 27 April 1867 – 26 August 1935) was a Romanian lawyer, the first woman ever to study law and a PhD in law from the Faculty of Law of Paris (University of Paris), and the first one in her country to practice law.
Biography of Alexis Rouart (excerpt)
Alexis Rouart, an influential figure in the French art scene, was known for his work as a music editor and his significant role as an art collector.Notably, he served as a muse for the renowned Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, featuring in various portraits.
Biography of Consuelo Zavala (excerpt)
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist, teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico, authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado.
Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
Biography of Eleanor Marx (excerpt)
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. Her time of birth comes from the biography "Eleanor Marx" (Lawrence & Wishart, 1972, Vol.
Biography of Georges Wague (excerpt)
Georges Wague, born Georges Marie Valentin Waag on January 14, 1874, in Paris, was a French mime, teacher, and silent film actor. Raised by devout parents, he turned to the arts, studying at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. He pioneered "cantomime," a blend of song and mime, and became known for his performances in Pierrot.
Biography of Émile Duployé (excerpt)
Émile Duployé, born on September 10, 1833, in Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, and died on May 9, 1912, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (now in Val-de-Marne), was a French ecclesiastic. He is the author of the Duployé shorthand technique, which was widely used in France in the early 20th century.
Biography of Enid Yandell (excerpt)
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait busts and monuments.She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments.
Biography of Pierre-Victor Stock (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Stock, born July 22, 1861 in Paris 18th, died in 1943, was a French publisher, one of the leaders of the publishing house Stock, which now belongs to the Lagardère group. Stock was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, author of Voltaire and Rousseau.
Biography of Jean Compagnon (carpenter) (excerpt)
Jean Compagnon, born January 20, 1837 in Reyrieux and died November 17, 1900 in Paris, was a carpenter who participated in the construction of several remarkable bridges and viaducts as well as the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Sahib (painter) (excerpt)
Louis Ernest Lesage, known under the pseudonym of Sahib or Ned (Paris, January 8, 1847 - May 31, 1919), was a French watercolor painter and caricaturist illustrator.
Biography of Lydia Welti-Escher (excerpt)
Lydia Welti-Escher, born Augusta Clementine Lydia Escher on July 10, 1858, in Zurich, and died by suicide on December 12, 1891, in Geneva, was one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century Switzerland. Her time of birth comes from her, in Lydia Welti-Escher: (1858 - 1891) ; Biographie ; Quellen, Materialien und Beiträge by Alfred-Escher-Stiftung (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2009).
Biography of Henri Deterding (excerpt)
Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, KBE (19 April 1866 – 4 February 1939) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company.
Biography of Auguste Tuaillon (excerpt)
Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon, known as Boffy, bornMarch 18, 1873 at Esmoulières and died in November at Paris, is a French dwarf chansonnier. Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon was about five years old when his growth slowed down or stopped.His significant muscular weakness preventing him from taking part in agricultural work, Auguste earned some money by performing from the age of fifteen as a fairground attraction in Luxeuil-les-Bains and Nancy.
Biography of Alexine Tinne (excerpt)
Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara.She was an early photographer. Tinne, a pioneering photographer from The Hague, worked with several renowned photographers and embarked on an African expedition in 1861.
Biography of Francesco Saverio Nitti (excerpt)
Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and political figure, serving as Prime Minister of Italy from 1919 to 1920. A member of the Italian Radical Party, he opposed fascism and dictatorship throughout his career.
Biography of Margo Scharten-Antink (excerpt)
Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma").
Biography of Pol Neveux (excerpt)
Pol Neveux, born on August 25, 1865, in Reims (Marne), and died on March 26, 1939, in Garches (then in Seine-et-Oise, now in Hauts-de-Seine), was a French writer and librarian. He served as the Inspector General of the Libraries of France and was a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Biography of Sophia Hayden (excerpt)
Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career World's Columbian Exposition She is best known for designing The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when she was just 21.
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 Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
Biography of Eugène Mage (excerpt)
Eugène Abdon Mage, born July 30, 1837, in Paris, was a French naval officer and explorer who disappeared at sea off the coast of Brittany on the night of December 18-19, 1869. Joining the Naval School at 13, he embarked on extensive cruises across the Americas and the Pacific, ascending to ensign by September 1855.
Biography of Sidónio Pais (excerpt)
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais CavC OA CavA (pronounced ; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divisive figures in modern Portuguese history, he was referred to by the writer Fernando Pessoa as the "President-King", a description that stuck in later years and symbolizes his regime.
Biography of Anne W. Armstrong (excerpt)
Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20, 1872 – March 17, 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman, active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel, This Day and Time, an account of life in a rural Appalachian community.
Biography of Maximilian Oberst (excerpt)
Maximilian Oberst (October 6, 1849 – November 18, 1925) was a German physician and surgeon born in Regensburg. He studied medicine in Munich, and from 1874 to 1877 was an assistant in the surgical department at a hospital in Augsburg.From 1877 he worked as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle, obtaining his habilitation in 1881.
Biography of Alexandre Promio (excerpt)
Jean Alexandre Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director. He is mentioned as a pioneer in film and was the director for Sweden's first Newsreel. The newsreel was shown for King Oscar II:s arrival at the General Art and Industrial Exposition on 15 May 1897.
Biography of Stéphen Sauvestre (excerpt)
Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre (26 December 1847 – 18 June 1919) was a French architect. He is notable for being one of the architects contributing to the design of the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France. |
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