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Horoscopes 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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Pierre Louÿs (excerpt)
Pierre Louÿs (December 10, 1870 - June 6, 1925) was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection. ![]()
Biography of Louise Abbéma (excerpt)
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 (and not 1858, as commonly said); 1927) was a French painter and designer, born in Etampes. Abbéma began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran.
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Biography of Maurice Leblanc (excerpt)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway.
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Biography of Pope Benedict XV (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus PP. XV), (Italian: Benedetto XV), (November 21, 1854 – January 22, 1922), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14). ![]()
Biography of Léon Delacroix (excerpt)
Léon Frédéric Gustave Delacroix (27 December 1867, Bruxelles - 15 October 1929, Baden-Baden) was a Belgian statesman. Before entering politics, he wad a renowned lawyer, and served as president of the Belgian Court of Cassation from 1917 to 1918. In the context of reconstruction after World War I, he was appointed Prime Minister and served from 1918 to 1920. ![]()
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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into three other counties: Denton, Parker, and Wise. ![]()
Biography of Arturo Toscanini (excerpt)
Arturo Toscanini (pronounced ) (March 25, 1867 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He was considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time.
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Biography of Louise Michel (excerpt)
Louise Michel (1830 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) - 1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She sometimes used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre. Louise Michel was born at the Château of Vroncourt (Haute-Marne) on 29 May 1830, the daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel, and the son of the house, Etienne Charles Demahis.
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Biography of Alexander III of Russia (excerpt)
Alexander III (10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 14 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Early life Alexander was born at St Petersburg, the second son of Tsar Alexander II by his wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) .
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Biography of Paul Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith. ![]()
Biography of Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx (excerpt)
Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx, born March 3, 1838, Le Houga, died December 12, 1920, Le Houga, was a French musician and composer. Opéra bouffe La Dot mal placée (Livret : Georges Mancel), trois actes (1873) Les Saturnales (Livret : Albin Valabrègue), trois actes (1887) ![]()
Biography of Hetty Green (excerpt)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street. ![]()
Biography of Félix Faure (excerpt)
Félix François Faure (30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was President of France from 1895 until his death. Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker. Having started as a tanner and merchant at Le Havre, he acquired considerable wealth, was elected to the National Assembly on 21 August 1881, and took his seat as a member of the Left, interesting himself chiefly in matters concerning economics, railways and the navy.
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Biography of Robert Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Oxford – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. ![]()
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New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets.
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Biography of William McKinley (excerpt)
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. ![]()
Biography of Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója). ![]()
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. ![]()
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British Columbia (BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. In the 2016 Census, the province's recorded population was 4,648,055, making it Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire during the creation of the original British colonies in Canada. ![]()
Biography of Clément Ader (excerpt)
Clément Ader (April 2, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 5, 1925) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. The inventor Ader innovated in a number of domains of electrical and mechanical engineering. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Hodler (excerpt)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter. Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. ![]()
Biography of Paul Deschanel (excerpt)
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (February 13, 1855 - April 28, 1922) was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.
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Biography of George Westinghouse (excerpt)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846–12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system.
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Biography of Tristan Corbière (excerpt)
Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean, near Morlaix in Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died. ![]()
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The source comes from legendsofamerica.com when John Sutter first arrived on August 13, 1839. Some other sources give August 12. Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's estimated 2019 population of 513,625 makes it the sixth-largest city in California and the ninth-largest capital in the United States. ![]()
Biography of Léon Gambetta (excerpt)
Léon Gambetta (April 2, 1838, Cahors - December 31, 1882, Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War. Youth and education He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genoese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie.
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Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil". ![]()
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi).
Biography of Crazy Horse (Sioux chief) (excerpt)
Crazy Horse ( literally "His-Horse-is-Crazy") (December 4, 1842 (source: Penfield) – September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Caillebotte (excerpt)
Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – February 21, 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer. Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
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Biography of Wild Bill Hickok (excerpt)
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. ![]()
Biography of Józef Wieniawski (excerpt)
Józef Wieniawski (23 May 1837 in Lublin – 11 November 1912 in Brussels) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Lublin, the younger brother of the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski. After Franz Liszt, he was the first pianist to publicly perform all the études by Chopin. ![]()
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Rockford is a U.S. city in Winnebago County, Illinois, located in the far northern part of the state. Situated on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County (a small portion of the city is located in Ogle County). ![]()
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
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Biography of Léon Bloy (excerpt)
Léon Bloy (Périgueux, July 11, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Bourg-la-Reine, November 3, 1917) was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet. His works reflect a deepening devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and most generally a tremendous craving for the Absolute.
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903. ![]()
Biography of Vittorio Orlando (excerpt)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 13, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation. ![]()
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. ![]()
Biography of Georges de la Fouchardière (excerpt)
Georges de la Fouchardière, born February 1, 1874 in Châtellerault, died in 1946, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extracts) Le Diable dans le Bénitier. Montaigne. Hors-d'Œuvre..Payot&Cie 1919 L'Affaire Peau-de-Balle (La Machine à galoper). Librairie des lettres, 1919. Petit guide du parfait parieur aux courses Editions du siècle 1923 ![]()
Biography of Maurice Barrès (excerpt)
Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, an anti-semite nationalist politician and agitator. Leaning towards the far-left in his youth as a Boulangist deputy, he progressively developed a theory close to Romantic nationalism and shifted to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, leading the Anti-Dreyfusards alongside Charles Maurras. ![]()
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Biography of Luigi Pirandello (excerpt)
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936), an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the curious name of Kaos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily). ![]()
Biography of Léon Gaumont (excerpt)
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments.
Biography of Eugène Caslant (excerpt)
Eugène Caslant, born December 1, 1865 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, died in 1940, was a French engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Vacher (excerpt)
Joseph Vacher (November 16th, 1869, Beaufort, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper or L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888. ![]()
Biography of Léon Daudet (excerpt)
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 30 June 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active Orléanist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Move to the right Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist. ![]()
Biography of Cecil John Rhodes (excerpt)
Cecil John Rhodes, PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. ![]()
Biography of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (excerpt)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey (Mostaganem, 25 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 July 1942) was a French general during the First World War. Early life He was born in Mostaganem in what is today Algeria, the son of an officer of cavalry in the Chasseurs d'Afrique. ![]()
Biography of Alexandra of Denmark (excerpt)
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Carolina Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen Consort to Edward VII of the United Kingdom and thus Empress of India during her husband's reign, 1901 to 1910. Her family had been relatively obscure until her father was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin to the Danish throne. |
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