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Horoscopes 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 Umberto Boccioni (excerpt)
Umberto Boccioni (October 19, 1882–August 16, 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor and a member of the Futurist movement. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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Biography of Konrad Adenauer (excerpt)
Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer (IPA: ), January 5, 1876 – April 19, 1967) was a German statesman. Although his political career spanned 60 years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949–1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966.
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Biography of Constantin Brancusi (excerpt)
Constantin Brâncuşi, or Brancusi, (February 19, 1876 (March 2 (New Style) – March 16, 1957, pronounced ), was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor, born in Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, whose sculptures blend simplicity and sophistication that led the way for modernist sculptors. ![]()
Biography of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (excerpt)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's method for the wave equation is named after him. Childhood Born in Paris, d'Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer.
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Biography of W. C. Fields (excerpt)
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1879 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. ![]()
Biography of Paul Géraldy (excerpt)
Paul Lefèvre, best known as Paul Géraldy (Mars 6, 1885 in Paris - 1983 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French writer and poet. Bibliography (extracts) Poetry Les petites âmes (1908) Toi et moi (1912) Vous et moi (1960) Theater Aimer, (1921) Robert et Marianne, (1925) Duo, d'après Colette, (1938)
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Biography of Boris Karloff (excerpt)
Boris Karloff (23 November, 1887 – 2 February, 1969) was an English actor who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best known for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein. ![]()
Biography of Robert Schuman (excerpt)
Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 – September 4, 1963) was a noted Luxembourg-born German-French politician, a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) who is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union. Robert Schuman's father, Jean-Pierre Schuman (1837–1900), was born a French citizen in Évrange, Lorraine, just across the border with Luxembourg. ![]()
Biography of Fritz Haarmann (excerpt)
Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was a notorious serial killer born in Hanover, Germany. Crimes From 1919 to 1924, Haarmann committed at least 24 murders, and possibly many more. Haarmann's victims were young male vagrants and male prostitutes who hung around railway stations, whom Haarmann would lure back to his apartment and then kill by biting through their throats in a kind of sexual frenzy. ![]()
Biography of Marie of Romania (excerpt)
Princess Marie of Edinburgh (Marie Alexandra Victoria; later Queen of Romania; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was a member of the British Royal Family who became the queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania. Early life She was born on October 29, 1875, at Eastwell Park in Kent, the eldest daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia.
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Biography of Raimu (excerpt)
Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire (December 18 (source Imdb), 1883 - September 20, 1946). Born in Toulon in the Var département, he made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theater scene.
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Biography of Muhammad Iqbal (excerpt)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (علامہ محمد اقبال / Allama Muḥammad Iqbāl; November 9, 1877 - April 21, 1938), commonly referred to as Allama Iqbāl (علامہ اقبال, ʿAllāma meaning "The Learned One") in Pakistan, was a Lahori Muslim poet, philosopher and politician in British India. ![]()
Biography of Emmy Noether (excerpt)
Amalie Emmy Noether (March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935) was a German-born Jewish mathematician, said by Einstein in eulogy to be "n the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Biography of Margaret of Valois (excerpt)
Marguerite de Valois (May 14, 1553 – May 27, 1615), "Queen Margot" (La reine Margot) was Queen of France and Navarre. Early life Born Marguerite de Valois at the Royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and nicknamed Margot by her brothers, she was the daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.
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Biography of Felix Yusupov (excerpt)
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston 23 March (O.S. 11 March) 1887 – 27 September 1967), was a Russian aristocrat, prince and count from the Yusupov family. He is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and marrying the niece of Tsar Nicholas II.
Biography of Alma Mahler (excerpt)
Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (born Schindler) (31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men.
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Biography of Pope Pius XII (excerpt)
Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death. ![]()
Biography of Raoul Dufy (excerpt)
Raoul Dufy (June 3, 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 23, 1953) was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.
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Biography of Bernard Montgomery (excerpt)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (IPA: /məntˈgʌmərɪ əv ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887–24 March 1976), often referred to as "Monty", was a British Army officer. He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign during World War II, and troops under his command were largely responsible for the expulsion of Axis forces from North Africa. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Kirchner (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art.
Biography of Yram (theosopher) (excerpt)
Dr Marcel Louis Forhan, best known as Yram, was a French writer and occultist. Yram is the pen name of a French occultist who, like Fox and Muldoon, learned to project at will. Unlike the others he '.. became sated with ordinary phenomena.
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Biography of Pablo Casals (excerpt)
Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is perhaps best remembered for the recording of the Bach: Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.
Biography of René Allendy (excerpt)
René Félix Allendy, born February 19, 1889 in Paris and died in 1942, was a French physician, homeopath, psychoanalyst and author. Works (extracts) La Psychanalyse et les névroses. (En collaboration avec René Laforgue, préface de Henri Claude). Payot, 1924. Le problème de la destinée, étude sur la fatalité intérieure, Paris, Gallimard, 1927, (220 pages) ![]()
Biography of Eugène Freyssinet (excerpt)
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where he designed several bridges until the First World War intervened.
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Biography of Leopold Mozart (excerpt)
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as for writing the violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.
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Biography of Heitor Villa-Lobos (excerpt)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 - November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas brasileiras ("Brazilian Bach-pieces").
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Biography of Proclus (excerpt)
Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Greek philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most elaborate, complex, and fully developed Neoplatonic systems.
Biography of Ka'Iulani, Princess of Hawaii (excerpt)
Victoria Kawekiu Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kaʻiulani Cleghorn, Crown Princess of Hawaii (October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and held the title of crown princess. Kaʻiulani became known throughout the world for her intelligence, beauty and determination.
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Biography of P. D. Ouspensky (excerpt)
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 5 (OS), 1878, Moscow (March 17 NS (Gregorian calendar) - October 2, 1947, Lyne Place, Surrey, England), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky) was a Russian philosopher who invoked geometry in his discussions of psychology and higher dimensions of existence. ![]()
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Helsinki is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 657,674. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located 179 kilometres (111 mi) to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Musters (excerpt)
Pauline Musters or Princess Paulina (February 26, 1876 in Ossendrech - March 1, 1895 in New York) is, at 2 ft (61cm), recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest woman ever recorded. Born in The Netherlands, she died in New York City. ![]()
Biography of Josef Albers (excerpt)
Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 26, 1976) was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue (excerpt)
Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. He was born in Paris, France. As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail. His work spanned numerous literary movements. ![]()
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Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. Its population in 2019 was approximately 498,042, making it the tenth-largest English district by population. Liverpool's metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the United Kingdom with a population of 2.24 million.
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Biography of Elizabeth Arden (excerpt)
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto. ![]()
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Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Carrà (excerpt)
Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.
Biography of Gaston Dominici (excerpt)
Gustave Dominici, born January 22, 1877 in Digne-les-Bains, became famous with "Dominici Affair". The 1952 slaying of a vacationing family in rural France sent shock waves through the country for years. The crime was dubbed "The Dominici Affair" after Gaston Dominici, the French peasant who was jailed for the death of the couple and their 10-year-old daughter.
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Biography of Edward Kelley (excerpt)
Edward Kelley or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot (August 1, 1555–1597) was a convicted English criminal and self-declared spirit medium who worked with John Dee in his magical investigations. Besides the professed ability to summon spirits or angels on a crystal ball, which John Dee so valued, Kelley also claimed to possess the secret of transmuting base metals into gold.
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Biography of Theda Bara (excerpt)
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death. ![]()
Biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky (excerpt)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September (O.S. 30 August) 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. ![]()
Biography of Sonia Delaunay (excerpt)
Sonia Delaunay (née Terk) (1885 – 1979) was a Ukrainian-French artist, she married the artist Robert Delaunay, with whom she founded the movement Orphism, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.
Biography of Jim Thorpe (excerpt)
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (22 May 1887 – 28 March 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball. ![]()
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Bari (Italian: Barese: Bare; Latin: Barium; Ancient Greek: Βάριον, romanized: Bárion) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples (and the third after Palermo, if Insular Italy is included), a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas. ![]()
Biography of Otto Hahn (excerpt)
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
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Biography of Henry V of England (excerpt)
Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422) was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422. ![]()
Biography of Marie Noël (excerpt)
Marie Rouget, best known as Marie Noël, born February 16, 1883 in Auxerre, died December 23, 1967 in Auxerre, was a French poet and author. She was a friend of French politician Léon Noël (1888-1987). Works (extracts) Les Chansons et les Heures (1920) ![]()
Biography of David Ben-Gurion (excerpt)
David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. ![]()
Biography of Erich von Manstein (excerpt)
Erich von Manstein (November 24, 1887 – June 9, 1973) served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces (Wehrmacht). During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military strategists.
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Biography of Pamela Colman Smith (excerpt)
Pamela Colman Smith (February 16, 1878—September 18, 1951) was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. Pamela Colman SmithSmith was born in Pimlico, Middlesex (now London), England the daughter of an American merchant from Brooklyn, Charles Edward Smith and his Jamaican wife Corinne Colman. |
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