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birth charts with Neptune in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Edward Weston (excerpt)
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th century American photographer.He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. ![]()
Biography of Gunther Plüschow (excerpt)
Gunther Plüschow (February 8, 1886 – January 28, 1931) was a German aviator, aerial explorer and author from Munich, Bavaria.His feats include the only escape by a German prisoner of war in either world war from Britain back to Germany; he was the first man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air.
Biography of Carl Ahues (excerpt)
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. He was Berlin champion in 1910.He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg.In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4-5th in Scarborough (Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3-5th in Liege (Savielly Tartakower won).
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Biography of Amelita Galli-Curci (excerpt)
Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano.She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century. Biography She was born as Amelita Galli into an upper-middle-class family in Milan, where she studied piano in her youth. ![]()
Biography of Sophie Tucker (excerpt)
Sophie Tucker (13 January 1886 – 9 February 1966) was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress.Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (excerpt)
Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (13 May 1886, Paris - 9 October 1970, Paris) was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur and editor of Pasteur's complete works. ![]()
Biography of Hermann von Keyserling (excerpt)
Hermann Alexander Graf Keyserling (July 20, 1880, in Könno (Kõnnu), Russian Empire, – April 26, 1946, in Innsbruck, Austria) was a wealthy philosopher from the aristocratic Baltic German Keyserling family. He married Goedela von Bismarck-Schönhausen, granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck. His son Arnold Keyserling was a renowned philosopher as well.
Biography of Arthur Devère (excerpt)
Arthur Devère (24 June 1883 – 23 September 1961) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1913 and 1956. Selected filmography Carnival in Flanders (1935) Le Jour se lève (1939) Girls in Distress (1939) Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951) The Smugglers' Banquet (1952) ![]()
Biography of Valentine Hugo (excerpt)
Valentine Hugo (1887 – 1968) was an artist. She was born Boulogne-sur-Mer and died in Paris. Hugo studied painting in Paris, and in 1919 married French illustrator Jean Hugo (1894-1984), great-grandson of Victor Hugo. She collaborated with him on ballet designs including Jean Cocteau's Maries de la Tour Eiffel (1921), and in 1926 executed 24 wood engravings after maquettes by Jean Hugo for Romeo and Juliette.
Biography of Henri Meijers (excerpt)
Henri Meijers, born on December 2, 1879 in Maastricht (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), was a Dutch champion cyclist. He won at the Olympics in Paris, in 1924.
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Biography of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (excerpt)
Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, GCB, MC (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) was a French military hero of World War II and commander in the First Indochina War. Early life Born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds (Vendée), he graduated from school in 1911 (5th of his promotion in Saint-Cyr), fought in World War I and was wounded twice.
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Biography of André Brulé (excerpt)
André Brulé (Bordeaux, 26 September 1879 – Paris, 14 February 1953), born André Gresely, was a French theatre and film actor. He was married to Ghislaine Dommanget, a French comedy actress, but the couple later divorced and she married Louis II, Prince of Monaco. He was the creator of Arsène Lupin for the French Stage in 1908. Filmography * Retour de flamme (1943) ..
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Biography of Willard Straight (excerpt)
Willard Dickerman Straight (January 31, 1880 – December 1, 1918) was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York.His father had been a faculty member at Oswego Normal School.He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture.
Biography of Ernst Issberner-Haldane (excerpt)
Ernst Issberner-Haldane, born July 3, 1923 in Kolbert, Poland, is a German palmist, author, yoga teacher, and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Ansermet (excerpt)
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (November 11, 1883 – February 20, 1969) was a Swiss conductor. Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland.Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians.
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Biography of Conrad Albrecht (excerpt)
Conrad Albrecht (* 7 October 1880 in Bremen; † 18 August 1969 in Hamburg) was a German admiral during World War II. Military career Albrecht entered the Kaiserliche Marine in 1899 as a sea-cadet and served as a Korvettenkapitän and commander of a torpedo boat flotilla in Flanders during World War I. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Maritain (excerpt)
Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher.Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906.An author of more than 60 books, he is responsible for reviving St.
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Biography of Jacques Copeau (excerpt)
Jacques Copeau (February 4, 1879, Paris birth time source: Didier Geslain, Arielle Aumont, birth certificate) – October 20, 1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist.Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Beck (excerpt)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. ![]()
Biography of Frank Lloyd (excerpt)
Frank Lloyd (23 September 1886, Glasgow, UK - 10 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, United States) was an Academy Award-winning film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Bryan Owen (excerpt)
Ruth Bryan Owen (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan and mother of Helen Rudd Brown. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s (and the South's) first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district.
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Biography of Ernst Heinrich Heinkel (excerpt)
Ernst Heinkel (January 24, 1888 – January 30, 1958) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. Early life He was born in Grunbach and as a young man became an apprentice machinist at a foundry.He initially became interested in aviation through a fascination with zeppelins, and in 1909 attended an international airshow in Frankfurt am Main.
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Biography of Werner von Fritsch (excerpt)
Werner Thomas Ludwig Freiherr von Fritsch (4 August 1880 – 22 September 1939) was a prominent Wehrmacht officer, member of the German High Command, and the second German general to be killed during World War II. Early life Von Fritsch was born in Düsseldorf (birth certificate). ![]()
Biography of Giacomo Matteotti (excerpt)
Giacomo Matteotti (22 May 1885 – 10 June 1924) was an Italian socialist politician.On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. ![]()
Biography of Fernand de Brinon (excerpt)
Fernand de Brinon (August 26, 1885 – April 15, 1947) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. He claimed to have had five private talks with Adolf Hitler between 1933 - 1937. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Esclangon (excerpt)
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Le Poët in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university.
Biography of Thomas J .J. Ram (excerpt)
Thomas J.J.Ram, born December 19, 1884 in Haarlem, died October 7, 1961, was a Dutch journalist, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Anita Loos (excerpt)
Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author. On pronouncing her name, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse. However, I myself pronounce my name as if it were spelled luce, since most people pronounce it that way and it was too much trouble to correct them." ![]()
Biography of Max Josef Metzger (excerpt)
Max Josef Metzger (born 3 February 1887; executed 17 April 1944) was born in Schopfheim in Baden, Germany. Metzger became a Roman Catholic priest and worked as a military chaplain for the forces of Imperial Germany during World War I.During that war he began to see peace work as an urgent task.
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Biography of Claudius Dornier (excerpt)
Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier born in Kempten im Allgäu (May 14, 1884 - December 5, 1969) was a German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH. His legacy remains in the few aircraft named after him, including the Dornier Do 18 and the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane.
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Biography of Léon Bérard (excerpt)
Léon Bérard (6 January 1876 in Sauveterre-de-Béarn – 24 February 1960 in Saint-Étienne) was a French politician and lawyer. He was Minister of Public Instruction in 1919 and from 1921 to 1924, and Minister of Justice from 1931 to 1932 and was elected to the Académie française in 1934.
Biography of Ellen McCaffery (excerpt)
Ellen McCaffery, born March 26, 1885 in Hereford, died February 21, 1953, was an American astrologer, professor and author of astrology articles and books. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Papini (excerpt)
Giovanni Papini (January 9, 1881 - July 8, 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist. Early life Born in Florence as the son of a modest furniture retailer (and former member of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts) from Borgo degli Albizi, Papini was baptized secretly to avoid the aggressive atheism of his father, and he lived a rustic, lonesome, and precociously introspective childhood. ![]()
Biography of Lord Dunsany (excerpt)
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (London, UK, 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. ![]()
Biography of Hideyo Noguchi (excerpt)
Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo., November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口清作, Noguchi Seisaku.), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911. Early life Noguchi Hideyo was born in Inawashiro, Fukushima prefecture in 1876.
Biography of Victor Benjamin Neuburg (excerpt)
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (6 May 1883 - 30 May 1940) was an English poet and writer. He also wrote on the subjects of theosophy and occultism. He was an associate of Aleister Crowley and the publisher of the early works of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas.
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Biography of Frances Perkins (excerpt)
Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S.Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.In addition she also made history as the first woman and first known LGBT person to serve in the U.S.
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Biography of Francis de Croisset (excerpt)
Francis de Croisset (born Franz Wiener, January 22, 1876 - November 8, 1937) was a Belgium-born French playwright and opera librettist. His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin (1905), based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette (1923). He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné.
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Biography of Louis Massignon (excerpt)
Louis Massignon (July 25, 1883–October 31, 1962) was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate.
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Biography of Emile Mathis (excerpt)
Émile Ernest Charles Mathis, born March 15, 1880 in Strasbourg, died August 3, 1956 in Genève, is a French engineer and businessman, founder of firm Mathis.Mathis produced cars between 1910 and 1950.History Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling Fiat, De Dietrich and Panhard-Levassor, among other makes from his Auto-Mathis-Palace. ![]()
Biography of Mohammad Mosaddegh (excerpt)
Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (Persian: مُحَمَد مُصَدِق, IPA: ( listen)*), also spelled Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967), was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 until being overthrown in a coup d'état. His administration introduced a wide range of social reforms but is most notable for its nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/AIOC) (later British Petroleum or BP). Mosaddegh was removed from power in a coup on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the United States CIA at the request of the British MI6 which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh. ![]()
Biography of Sinclair Lewis (excerpt)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women. ![]()
Biography of Dino Campana (excerpt)
Dino Campana (20 August 1885 - 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet.His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti orfici ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. ![]()
Biography of Ninon Vallin (excerpt)
Ninon Vallin (September 8, 1886 - November 22, 1961) was a French soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta, and recitals during a career which lasted for more than four decades. Career Ninon Vallin was born at Montalieu-Vercieu (in Isère), and studied at the Lyons Conservatoire.
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Biography of Henri Béraud (excerpt)
Henri Béraud (born 21 September 1885 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died 24 October 1958 in Saint-Clément-des-Baleines) was a French novelist and journalist. He was sentenced to death -later commuted to life imprisonment- for collaboration with the Germans, in 1945.
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Biography of Alfredo Casella (excerpt)
Alfredo Casella (Turin, July 25, 1883 - Rome, March 5, 1947) was an Italian composer. Life The Casella family included a good many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin. ![]()
Biography of Marius Jacob (excerpt)
Alexandre Jacob (September 27, 1879 – August 28, 1954), known as Marius Jacob, was a French anarchist illegalist. A clever burglar equipped with a sharp sense of humour, capable of great generosity towards his victims, he became one of the models for Maurice Leblanc's character Arsene Lupin. ![]()
Biography of Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (excerpt)
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French moralist, essayist, and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born in Aix-en-Provence. His family was poor though noble; he was educated at the college of Aix, where he learned little—neither Latin nor Greek—but by means of a translation acquired a great admiration for Plutarch. He entered the army as sub-lieutenant in the king's regiment, and served for more than ten years, taking part during the War of the Polish Succession in the Italian campaign of Marshal Villars in 1733, and in the disastrous expedition to Bohemia in support of Frederick II of Prussia's designs on Silesia, in which the French were abandoned by their ally. ![]()
Biography of Arnold Rothstein (excerpt)
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), nicknamed "the Brain", was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York. Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, conspiring in the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
Biography of Max Steiner (excerpt)
Max Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was a Vienna-born American composer of music for theatre productions and films.He was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as such is often referred to as "the father of film music". |
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