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birth charts with Kronos in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Kronos in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Arthur Knight (film critic) (excerpt)
Arthur Knight, born September 3, 1916 and died July 25, 1991, was an American film critic, historian, professor, and television host.He is best known for his book The Liveliest Art (1957), a widely used academic reference on film history. After graduating from the City College of New York in 1940, he began his career as an assistant film curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later served in the U.S.
Biography of Edmund Clowney (excerpt)
Edmund Prosper Clowney (July 30, 1917 – March 20, 2005) was an American theologian, educator, and pastor. Born in Philadelphia, he received an extensive theological education at Wheaton College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Yale Divinity School, later earning a Doctor of Divinity.
Biography of Rick Young (excerpt)
Rick Young (March 3, 1934 – March 20, 2026), known as “The Ragin’ Cajun,” was an American bullfighter and rodeo clown affiliated with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Born in Houston, Texas, he grew up on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, Louisiana.
Biography of Vassar Miller (excerpt)
Vassar Miller (July 19, 1924 – October 31, 1998) was an American writer and poet.She served as Poet Laureate of Texas, notably from 1988 to 1989. Born in Houston, she had cerebral palsy and began writing at a young age using a typewriter.
Biography of Jay Stevens (excerpt)
Jay Karl Stevens (November 11, 1953 – February 19, 2025) was an American freelance writer and social historian. Born into a farming family in Vermont, he grew up in Springfield, studied at Kimball Union Academy, and later attended the University of Vermont.
Biography of David Riondino (excerpt)
David Riondino (June 10, 1952 – March 29, 2026) was an Italian multi-talented artist, known as a singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, and director. He began his career in the 1970s with the musical ensemble Collettivo Victor Jara before making his solo debut in 1979.
Biography of Olga Vasilyeva (politician) (excerpt)
Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, sometimes transliterated Vasilieva, born on January 13, 1960, in Bugulma, is a Russian politician and historian. She served in Vladimir Putin’s government as Minister of Education and Science from 2016 to 2018, then as Minister of Education from May 2018 to January 2020.
Biography of Hunter von Leer (excerpt)
Hunter von Leer (born April 3, 1944 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American former actor who appeared in films, television series, and television movies.He graduated from Indiana State University in 1968. After completing his studies, he moved to California, where he briefly worked as a high school teacher while attempting to break into the entertainment industry, initially as a stuntman.
Biography of George Fischoff (excerpt)
George Allan Fischoff (August 3, 1938 – February 20, 2018) was an American pianist and composer. He is best known as the writer or co-writer of several hit songs, including Lazy Day, 98.6, Run to My Lovin' Arms, Ain't Gonna Lie, and Georgia Porcupine.
Biography of Bill Blackbeard (excerpt)
William Elsworth Blackbeard, known as Bill Blackbeard (April 28, 1926 – March 10, 2011), was an American writer and editor, and the founder of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art. He assembled a vast collection of American newspaper comic strips and cartoons, totaling around 2.5 million items spanning from 1894 to 1996.
Biography of Pietro Citati (excerpt)
Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic, born in Florence into a noble Sicilian family. Educated in Turin and at the University of Pisa, he became a leading figure in Italian literary criticism.
Biography of Eddie Reese (excerpt)
Edwin Charles Reese, born July 23, 1941, is an American Hall of Fame college and Olympic swimming coach and a former University of Florida swimmer.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest swimming coaches in history. He led the University of Texas men’s swimming and diving team for more than four decades, winning 15 NCAA team championships between 1978 and 2024.
Biography of Terry Gilkyson (excerpt)
Terry Gilkyson, born June 17, 1916 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and died October 15, 1999 in Austin, Texas, was an American folk singer and songwriter.His career combined performing, songwriting, and numerous collaborations. After varied early experiences, including work on a ranch in Arizona and service in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he moved to California to pursue music.
Biography of Per S. Enger (excerpt)
Per Engebret Stockfleth Enger, born 24 February 1929 in Oslo and died 19 November 2018, was a Norwegian zoophysiologist.He was the son of painter Erling Enger and office clerk Aud Stockfleth. He earned his dr.philos.degree in 1963 with a thesis titled Single unit activity in the fish auditory system, focusing on the auditory system of fish.
Biography of Gerry Staley (excerpt)
Gerald Lee Staley (August 21, 1920 – January 2, 2008) was an American right handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1942 minor league draft, he began pitching regularly in the major leagues in 1947. During his career he played for teams including the Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox.
Biography of Martha Hennessy (excerpt)
Martha Hennessy (bornOctober 14, 1955 (Wikipedia has July 11 in error)) is an American Catholic peace activist and member of the Catholic Worker Movement, co-founded by her grandmother Dorothy Day. Raised in Vermont, she is the daughter of Tamar Day Hennessy and comes from a family deeply involved in social activism.
Biography of Sidney Simon (excerpt)
Sidney A. Simon (May 21, 1917 – August 4, 1997) was an American artist who worked as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and official war artist. Born in Pittsburgh to Eastern European immigrant parents, he showed early artistic talent and received extensive training, including at the University of Pennsylvania and other leading institutions.
Biography of Jim Honochick (excerpt)
George James John Honochick (August 19, 1917 – March 10, 1994) was an American professional baseball umpire whose Major League career lasted from 1949 to 1973. During that time, he officiated six World Series and four All-Star Games. He is also known for calling three no-hitters, including one by Virgil Trucks in 1952, as well as those by Jack Kralick and Sonny Siebert.
Biography of John M. Stephens (excerpt)
John Morley Stephens (November 17, 1932 in Valparaiso, Indiana – June 18, 2015) was an American cinematographer known for his innovative techniques in action photography. He became one of the pioneers of several technical devices designed to capture dynamic film sequences.
Biography of Dave Ragan (excerpt)
David William Ragan Jr., born August 7, 1935 in Daytona Beach, Florida, and died March 13, 2018, was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour. He attended the University of Florida, where he excelled as a collegiate golfer, winning the SEC individual championship in 1956 and earning All-American honors.
Biography of John F. Long (excerpt)
John F. Long (17 May 1920 – 29 February 2008) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist who played a major role in the development of the West Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. He is best known as the founder and principal developer of Maryvale, a large urban village spanning Phoenix and Glendale, and is often referred to as the “Father of the West Valley.”
Biography of Stephen Wainwright (excerpt)
Stephen A.Wainwright (October 9, 1931 – December 12, 2019) was an American zoologist and comparative biomechanist at Duke University.His work applied principles from mechanics and engineering to biological form and function, helping establish the field. He co-authored Mechanical Design in Organisms in 1976, a foundational text linking biomechanics and functional morphology.
Biography of Nadia Wheatley (excerpt)
Nadia Wheatley (born April 30, 1949) is an Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biographies, and historical studies.She is best known for My Place, a classic children’s book, and for her acclaimed biography of Charmian Clift. Her work also includes historical fiction such as A Banner Bold.
Biography of Jane Piper (excerpt)
Jane Gibson Piper (August 21, 1916 – August 8, 1991) was an American artist known for her abstract still lifes.Her work was influenced by the French modernist tradition, particularly Matisse and Cézanne, with a strong emphasis on color. She focused on spatial organization and the expressive use of color rather than realistic representation.
Biography of Park Young-sun (excerpt)
Park Young-sun, born on January 22, 1960 in Changnyeong County, South Gyeongsang Province, is a South Korean journalist turned politician.She is a member of the Democratic Party and served four terms in the National Assembly. Under President Moon Jae-in, she was appointed Minister of SMEs and Startups, a position she held from April 2019 to 2021.
Biography of Samuel Herschel Schulman (excerpt)
Samuel Herschel Schulman (July 8, 1928 – July 5, 2019) was the last surviving American crew member of the ship Exodus 1947, which attempted to bring Holocaust survivors to Mandatory Palestine. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Jewish immigrants from Poland, he moved to Paris in 1932 and survived the Holocaust in hiding in central France.
Biography of Nan Grey (excerpt)
Nan Grey (July 25, 1921 (Wikipedia has 1918 in error) – July 25, 1993), born Eschal Loleet Grey Miller, was an American film actress.She rose to prominence in the 1930s after being discovered in Hollywood as a teenager. She made her film debut in 1934 and soon appeared in several notable productions, including films alongside John Wayne.
Biography of Kinuyo Someya (excerpt)
Kinuyo Someya, born on July 5, 1954, is a Japanese politician. Running as an independent, she was elected mayor of Shimada in 2013, becoming the first woman to hold that office in the city and one of the first female mayors in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Biography of Will Insley (excerpt)
Will Insley (October 15, 1929 – August 12, 2011) was an American painter, architect, and theorist known for geometric abstraction.His work is characterized by large-scale visual structures and architectural forms. He studied at Amherst College and later earned a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1955.
Biography of Maja Haderlap (excerpt)
Maja Haderlap, born on 8 March 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach, Carinthia, is a bilingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer.She is best known for her multiple-award-winning novel Angel of Oblivion, which explores the transgenerational trauma of Carinthia’s Slovene minority. Her family history was deeply marked by the Second World War: her grandmother was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, while her father, as a child, was tortured by the Nazis to reveal where his own father, a Slovene partisan, was hiding.
Biography of Cécile DeWitt-Morette (excerpt)
Cécile DeWitt-Morette was a French physicist and mathematician born on December 21, 1922, in Paris and died on May 8, 2017, in Austin at the age of 94. Her work stood at the crossroads of mathematics and physics, notably focusing on the path integral in quantum physics.
Biography of Red Munger (excerpt)
George David “Red” Munger (October 4, 1918 – July 23, 1996) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who spent about a decade in Major League Baseball, mainly with the St.Louis Cardinals. He notably played in the 1946 World Series, where he pitched a complete-game victory in Game 4 against the Boston Red Sox, contributing to his team’s championship.
Biography of Phyllis A. Balch (excerpt)
Phyllis A.Balch, née Henning (18 septembre 1930 – 31 décembre 2004), est une auteure américaine spécialisée en nutrition, connue pour son ouvrage ŕ succčs Prescription for Nutritional Healing. Née dans l’Indiana, elle devient consultante en nutrition dans les années 1970 et s’impose comme une figure majeure du conseil diététique, ses livres se vendant ŕ plusieurs millions d’exemplaires.
Biography of Richard Derr (excerpt)
Richard Derr (June 15, 1917 – May 8, 1992) was an American actor who worked in stage, film, and television, performing both leading and supporting roles. Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, he began acting in local theater while working as a bank clerk and later served three years in the Army Transport Service during World War II.
Biography of Morton Lachman (writer) (excerpt)
Morton Lachman, born March 20, 1918 and died March 17, 2009, was an American comedy writer and producer.He worked with comedian Bob Hope for more than twenty years before moving into television production. He was involved in the production of several successful sitcoms, including All in the Family, Kate & Allie, One Day at a Time, and Sanford.
Biography of Eleonora Mitrofanova (excerpt)
Eleonora Valentinovna Mitrofanova (born June 11, 1953) is a Russian diplomat. She has served as Russia’s ambassador to Bulgaria since 2021 and was the first woman to hold the position of First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, she held key roles in Russian diplomacy, including First Deputy Minister from 2003 to 2009 and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
Biography of Margaret Read MacDonald (excerpt)
Margaret Read MacDonald (born January 21, 1940) is an American storyteller, folklorist, and children’s book author.She has published more than 65 books on stories and storytelling, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. Widely regarded as a leading figure in storytelling, she has performed internationally and is known for creating accessible folktale versions designed to be easily shared with children.
Biography of Yelena Osipova (activist) (excerpt)
Yelena Andreyevna Osipova, born on November 11, 1945, is an artist and political activist from Saint Petersburg.She is known for her protest placards on current political issues and for her support of victims of violence and state repression. Her artistic style, at once gentle, fluid, direct, and sometimes close to satirical drawing, is related to primitivism.
Biography of Len Gridley Everett (excerpt)
Len Gridley Everett (April 18, 1925 – November 25, 1984) was an American painter. Born in Burlington, Iowa, he grew up near Monmouth, Illinois, and graduated from Kirkwood High School. During World War II he served in the United States Navy before studying at the State University of Iowa, where he earned a BFA in 1950 and an MFA in 1952.
Biography of Robert Baker Aitken (excerpt)
Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was an American Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 with his wife Anne Hopkins Aitken. He received Dharma transmission from Koun Yamada in 1985, while choosing to remain a lay practitioner.
Biography of Nolan Van Way (excerpt)
Nolan Royce Van Way (January 10, 1931 – April 3, 2016) was an American operatic singer, first a baritone and later a tenor, whose stage career in opera and Broadway musicals spanned half a century. He performed in multiple languages and began his career as a baritone after studying at Indiana University School of Music.
Biography of Gene Brewer (excerpt)
Gene Brewer (born Gene R. Brewer on July 4, 1937 in Muncie, Indiana) is an American writer best known as the author of the K-PAX novel series. The books tell the story of a man who claims to be an extraterrestrial visitor from a planet called K-PAX.
Biography of Sharon Smith Kane (excerpt)
Sharon Smith Kane (February 18, 1932 – November 3, 2021) was an American cartoonist and children’s book author and illustrator, known as one of the youngest syndicated cartoonists in the country. She began publishing at an early age and gained attention as a teenager, leading to a syndication contract at 17.
Biography of Betsy Ann Hisle (excerpt)
Betsy Ann Hisle (born Juanita J.Hisle; May 30, 1917 – September 20, 1978) was an American child actress known for appearing in Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924), The Way of All Flesh (1927), and Sorrell and Son (1927).Born in Seattle to parents who had moved west from Iowa, she showed artistic talent from an early age and began dance lessons after recovering from illness as a toddler.
Biography of Steve Cook (bowler) (excerpt)
Steve Cook, born January 13, 1957, is a retired American ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). A left-hander, he was also known as the largest physical presence on the PBA Tour, standing 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall and weighing about 260 pounds.
Biography of Kiyoko Ono (excerpt)
Kiyoko Ono (February 4, 1936 – March 13, 2021) was a Japanese gymnast and politician.She competed in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics, winning a team bronze medal in 1964. She later pursued a political career with the Liberal Democratic Party, serving in the House of Councillors from 1986 to 2007.
Biography of Maurizio Gasparri (excerpt)
Maurizio Gasparri (born July 18, 1956) is an Italian politician. Born in Rome to a family of Campanian origin, he initially worked as a journalist and became editor-in-chief of Il Secolo d’Italia. A member of the Italian Social Movement and later National Alliance, he rose as a prominent figure within the Italian right, holding leadership roles in the party’s youth organization during the 1980s.
Biography of Bruce McNorton (excerpt)
Bruce Edward McNorton (born February 28, 1959) is an American former professional football player who played as a cornerback for the Detroit Lions in the NFL. He played college football at Georgetown College from 1978 to 1981. After his playing career, he became a high school coach at Pontiac Northern and later worked as a scout for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2000 to 2022, primarily covering the southern United States.
Biography of Arvo Ojala (excerpt)
Arvo Oswald Ojala (February 21, 1920 – July 1, 2005) was an American actor and Hollywood technical advisor specializing in fast-draw revolver techniques.He is best known for playing the man shot by Marshal Matt Dillon in the opening sequence of the television series Gunsmoke.
Biography of Rollie McKenna (excerpt)
Rosalie Thorne “Rollie” McKenna (November 15, 1918 – June 14, 2003) was an American photographer known for her portraits of writers and artists.Her subjects included Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and Truman Capote. After a childhood marked by family instability, she studied history and later art history. |
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