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birth charts with Neptune in AriesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Aries. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Arthur Machen (excerpt)
Arthur Machen (play /ˈmækən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror.
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Biography of Maurice Gamelin (excerpt)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872, Paris - 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Pinchon (excerpt)
Émile-Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, born April 17, 1871 in Amiens, died in 1953, was a French cartoonist, painter and illustrator. Selected Bibliography (albums only) Bécassine, textes de Caumery (Maurice Lauguereau), Gauthier puis Gauthier-Languereau à partir du 4. L'enfance de Bécassine, 1913 ![]()
Biography of Lincoln Steffens (excerpt)
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works. ![]()
Biography of Pope Gregory XIV (excerpt)
Pope Gregory XIV (February 11, 1535 – October 16, 1591), born Niccolò Sfondrati, was Pope from December 5, 1590 to October 16, 1591. Early career He was born at Somma Lombardo (now in the province of Varese, then part of the Duchy of Milan), in the highest stratum of Milanese society, but was known for his modest lifestyle and stringent piety. ![]()
Biography of Elisabeth of Hungary (excerpt)
Elisabeth of Hungary (German: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, Hungarian: Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, July 7, 1207 – November 17, 1231) was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and a Catholic saint. According to tradition, she was born in the castle of Sárospatak, Hungary, on July 7, 1207, according to a different tradition she was born in Preßburg, Kingdom of Hungary (modern-day Bratislava, Slovakia), where she lived at the Bratislava Castle until the age of four. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education ![]()
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire. ![]()
Biography of Charles Dawes (excerpt)
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Marie de La Condamine (excerpt)
Charles Marie de La Condamine (27 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations.
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Biography of Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon (excerpt)
Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon (July 8, 1708 – November 22, 1775) was a French dramatist and writer. Born at the château de Voisenon, in Voisenon, near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him.
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Biography of Georges Urbain (excerpt)
Georges Urbain (b. 12 April 1872; d. 5 November 1938 in Paris) - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. The discoverer of the element Lutetium, number 71. He discovered it in 1907.
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Biography of Cyriel Verschaeve (excerpt)
Cyriel Verschaeve (April 30, 1874 - November 8, 1949) was a noted Flemish clergyman and writer who was condemned for collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War. Born in Ardooie to a staunch Roman Catholic family, he began training to be a priest at a small seminary in Roeselare in 1886, before moving on to Bruges in 1892 to complete his studies. ![]()
Biography of Harry K. Thaw (excerpt)
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 - February 22, 1947) was the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. He is best known for murdering the architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 in a jealous rage. Early life
Biography of Jules Drach (excerpt)
Jules Drach, born March 13, 1871 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, died March 7, 1949 in Cavalaire Sur Mer, was a French mathematician, member of Academie des Sciences.
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Biography of Nellie Bly (excerpt)
Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. ![]()
Biography of Algernon Blackwood (excerpt)
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English writer of fiction dealing with the supernatural, who was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
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Biography of John Charles Fields (excerpt)
John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC (May 14, 1863 - August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. First awarded in 1936, the medal has been awarded since 1950 every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians to two to four recipients under the age of 40. ![]()
Biography of Émile Bernard (excerpt)
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897.
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Biography of Pierre Weiss (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Weiss (March 25, 1865 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - October 24, 1940) was a French physicist who developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the Molecular or Mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory. ![]()
Biography of Albert Calmette (excerpt)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette (July 12, 1863 – October 29, 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Caillaux (excerpt)
Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911. ![]()
Biography of Pope Clement VIII (excerpt)
Pope Clement VIII (February 24, 1536 – March 3, 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was Pope from January 30, 1592 to March 3, 1605. Early life and education Pope Clement VIII in pietre dure by Jacopo Ligozzi.Born at Fano to an undistinguished Florentine family, the Aldobrandini, whose fortune he was to make, he studied law under his father, an able jurist; his ecclesiastical career was as a lawyer: successively consistorial advocate, auditor of the Sacra Rota Romana and the Datary. ![]()
Biography of R.B. Bennett (excerpt)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett PC KC (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930 to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years. ![]()
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Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans 560.3 km2 (216.3 sq mi) with 120.9 km2 (46.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Anne de Camargo (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo (15 April 1710, Brussels – 1770) sometimes known simply as La Camargo, was a French/Belgian dancer. Her father, Ferdinand Joseph de Cupis, earned a scanty living as violinist and dancing-master, and from childhood she was trained for the stage. ![]()
Biography of Reginald Fessenden (excerpt)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—possibly the first— transmissions of voice and music. In his later career he received hundreds of patents for devices in fields such as high-powered transmitting, sonar, and television. ![]()
Biography of Gutzon Borglum (excerpt)
John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as other public works of art. Background Gutzon Borglum was born in Bear Lake Hot Springs, Idaho. ![]()
Biography of Benedetto Croce (excerpt)
Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866, Pescasseroli, Italy – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Glasgow (excerpt)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Life and career Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. ![]()
Biography of Cândido Rondon (excerpt)
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon (May 5, 1865 – January 19, 1958) was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations.
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Biography of Jim Corbett (excerpt)
James John Corbett (September 1, 1866 in San Francisco, California – February 18, 1933 in Bayside, Queens) was a heavyweight boxing champion. He was best known as "Gentleman Jim", the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. ![]()
Biography of Douglas Haig (excerpt)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander (field marshal) during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War.
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Biography of André Chaumeix (excerpt)
André Chaumeix (6 June 1874, Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme – 23 February 1955) was a French academician, journalist, and literary critic. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1930. ![]()
Biography of Stefan George (excerpt)
Stefan Anton George (July 12, 1868 – December 4, 1933) was a German poet, editor, and translator. George was born in Bingen (Büdesheim) in Germany. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Pottecher (excerpt)
Maurice Pottecher, born October 19, 1867 in Bussang, Vosges, died in 1960 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, was a French writer and poet. ![]()
Biography of Charles Proteus Steinmetz (excerpt)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German- American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. ![]()
Biography of Hans Driesch (excerpt)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (October 28, 1867 - April 16, 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. Early years Driesch began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg. ![]()
Biography of Edith Hamilton (excerpt)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally acclaimed author, regarded as one of the most prominent classicists of her time in the United States. Her time of birth comes from the book "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton", by Victoria Houseman (Princeton University Press, 2023). ![]()
Biography of Edward William Bok (excerpt)
Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876. ![]()
Biography of Theodosius II (excerpt)
Theodosius II (Latin: Flavius Theodosius Junior; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450), commonly surnamed Theodosius the Younger, or Theodosius the Calligrapher, was the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from 408 to 450. He is mostly known for promulgating the Theodosian law code, and for the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. ![]()
Biography of Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer. ![]()
Biography of Charles de Bourbon-Charolais (excerpt)
Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais (19 June, 1700 – 23 July, 1760) was a French noble. As a member of the reigni prince of the Blood. A son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, he was made governor of Touraine in 1720.
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Biography of Michael Sadler (educationist) (excerpt)
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI (3 July 1861 – 14 October 1943) was a British historian, educationalist and university administrator. He worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds. He was a champion of the public school system. Early life and education ![]()
Biography of Frank Wedekind (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism, and he was a major influence on the development of epic theatre. ![]()
Biography of Vincent Scotto (excerpt)
Vincent Scotto, (born April 21, 1874 in Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died November 15, 1952 in Paris), was a French composer from Marseille. Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris.
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Biography of Ernest Seillière (excerpt)
Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 - 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic. Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914.
Biography of Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (excerpt)
Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son of David Sime Cargill, founder of the Burmah Oil Company. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and in 1890 went to Burma to work in the Rangoon office of his father's company, returning to Glasgow three years later. |
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