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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 Ty Cobb (excerpt)
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a baseball player and is regarded by historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era and as one of the greatest players of all time. ![]()
Biography of Max Linder (excerpt)
Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Birth and early career Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Jewish wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater and as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country. ![]()
Biography of Jérôme Carcopino (excerpt)
Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteen member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure and educated at the École normale supérieure where he specialised in history.
Biography of Albert Devèze (excerpt)
Albert Joseph Charles Devèze (6 June 1881, Ypres, West Flanders (source: lescaut) - 28 November 1959, Brussels) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister. Devèze was a doctor in law and a lawyer. He was a liberal municipality Council member in Schaerbeek and in Ixelles and a member of parliament for the district of Brussels (1912–1939 and 1946–1958) and for the district of Verviers (1939–1946). ![]()
Biography of Fiorello Laguardia (excerpt)
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as "the Little Flower," the translation of his Italian first name, Fiorello, and, most likely, a reference to his short stature. ![]()
Biography of Leopold Stokowski (excerpt)
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his freehand performing style that spurned the traditional baton. Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air.
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Biography of Marcel Lévesque (excerpt)
Marcel Lévesque, born on December 6, 1877 in Paris (birth time source: birth certificate, Michel Gauquelin), died on February 16, 1962 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, was a French actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) 1909 : L'Arrestation de la duchesse de Berry réalisé par le Film d'Art ![]()
Biography of Paul Morand (excerpt)
Paul Morand (b. March 13, 1888, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - d. July 24, 1976) was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (his candidature was initially rejected by de Gaulle, the only instance of a President ever exercising his right to vet electees to the academy. ![]()
Biography of René Barthélemy (excerpt)
René Barthélemy, born March 10, 1889 in Nangis, died 1954 in Antibes, was a French engineer, member of Académie des Sciences, and television specialist.
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Biography of Marie Lenéru (excerpt)
Marie Lenéru, born on June 2, 1875 in Brest, died on September 1918 in Lorient, was a French playwright and writer. ![]()
Biography of Edna Ferber (excerpt)
Edna Ferber (15 August 1885 - 16 April 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright. Early years Ferber was born in 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia (Neumann) Ferber. After living in Chicago, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa, at age 12 Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University.
Biography of Edmond Céria (excerpt)
Edmond Céria, born January 26, 1884 in Evian and died June 24, 1955 in Paris, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Sebastian of Portugal (excerpt)
Sebastian I, King of Portugal "the Desired" (in Portuguese, Sebastião I, pronounced , o Desejado; born in Lisbon, January 20, 1554; presumed to have died at Alcazarquivir, August 4, 1578) was the sixteenth king of Portugal and the Algarves. He was the son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Spain.
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Biography of Saint-Georges de Bouhélier (excerpt)
Stéphane-Georges Lepelletier de Bouhélier, best known as Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, born on May 19, 1876 in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), died on December 20, 1947 in Montreux (Switzerland), was a French poet, novelist, and playwright, the son of journaliste and author Edmond Lepelletier.
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Biography of Alcide de Gasperi (excerpt)
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer.
Biography of Jacques Duboin (excerpt)
Jacques Duboin, born September 17, 1878 in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died March 17, 1976 in Versailles, was a French businessman, industrialist, bankier and politician. (* Wikipedia gives 1879 but other sources give 1878). Bibliography (extract) 1923 : Réflexions d'un « Français moyen » (Payot, éd.) ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (Cassis, France, January 20, 1716 – April 30, 1795) was a French writer and numismatist. Barthélemy was born at Cassis, in Provence, and began his classical studies at the College of Oratory in Marseilles. He took up philosophy and theology at the Jesuits' college, and finally attended the seminary of the Lazarists. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Porsche (excerpt)
Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric), the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles.
Biography of Llewellyn George (excerpt)
Llewellyn Worldwide (formerly Llewellyn Publications) is a New Age publisher, currently based in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Llewellyn's mission is to "serve the trade and consumers worldwide with options and tools for exploring new worlds of mind & spirit, thereby aiding in the quests of expanded human potential, spiritual consciousness, and planetary awareness.
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Biography of P. G. Wodehouse (excerpt)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. ![]()
Biography of Natalie Clifford Barney (excerpt)
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist. Barney's salon was held at her home on Paris's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation.
Biography of Hélène Dieudonné (excerpt)
Hélène Dieudonné, born December 24, 1887 in Paris (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died September 29, 1880 in Chaumont-en-Vexin (Oise), was a French actress and comedian. Selected filmography 1959 : Le travail c'est la santé de Louis Grospierre ![]()
Biography of Ernst Hanfstaengl (excerpt)
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (Munich, February 2, 1887 (birth time source not archived) - November 6, 1975) worked for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. Early Life Ernst Hanfstaengl, nicknamed "Putzi", was born in Munich, Germany, the son of a wealthy German art publisher, Edgar Hanfstaengl, and an American mother. ![]()
Biography of Jose Clemente Orozco (excerpt)
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera.
Biography of René Giffey (excerpt)
René Henri Giffey, born on March 8, 1884 in Paris, died on September 1, 1965, was a French draftsman, cartoonist, author, and illustrator.
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Biography of Guy Favières (excerpt)
Guy Favières, born Guy Jean Marie Perret June 1, 1876 in Paris (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) and died March 30, 1963, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1912 : La Reine Élisabeth (Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth) de Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton et Gaston Roudès ![]()
Biography of Georges Mandel (excerpt)
Georges Mandel (June 5, 1885—July 7, 1944) was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader. Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Seine-et-Oise, the son of a tailor: his family (not related to the Rothschild banking dynasty) was Jewish, and had fled from Alsace in to preserve their French citizenship when Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German Empire at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Biography of Maria Ouspenskaya (excerpt)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Russian: Мария Успенская; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Early life Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia to a lawyer father. ![]()
Biography of Karl Hofer (excerpt)
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (11 October 1878 in Karlsruhe – 3 April 1955 Berlin (West)) was a German expressionist painter. One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", who influenced him. ![]()
Biography of François d'Astier de la Vigerie (excerpt)
François d'Astier de La Vigerie, born in Le Mans March 7, 1886 and died in Paris October 9, 1956, was a French military man. He is the brother of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie and of Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie.
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Biography of Léon Mathot (excerpt)
Léon Mathot (6 March 1885, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. ![]()
Biography of Saint-John Perse (excerpt)
Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Léger, also Alexis Saint-Legér Léger) (31 May 1887 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 194) – 20 September 1975) was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry. ![]()
Biography of Béatrix Dussane (excerpt)
Béatrix Dussane, born Béatrice Dussan March 9, 1888 in Paris and died March 3, 1969 in Paris, was a French actress, author and comedian. She was the wife of French author and journalist Lucien Coulond. Theater (extract) Comédie-Française * 1903 : Les Précieuses ridicules de Molière : Toinette ![]()
Biography of Edouard Beaupré (excerpt)
Edouard Beaupré (January 9, 1881 – July 3, 1904) was a circus and freak show giant, wrestler, strongman, and a star in Barnum and Bailey's circus. Life Beaupré was the eldest of 20 children born to Gaspard and Florestine (born Piché) Beaupré in the newly founded parish of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was the first child to be baptized in the parish. ![]()
Biography of Dioclétien (excerpt)
Diocletian (Latin: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus; c. 22 December 244 – 3 December 311), was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305. Born to an Illyrian family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the emperor Carus.
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Biography of Renee Vivien (excerpt)
Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn (June 11, 1877-November 18, 1909) was a British poet who wrote in the French language. She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school.
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Biography of Aubert Frère (excerpt)
Aubert Frère, born August 21, 1881 in Grévillers (Pas-de-Calais), died June 13, 1944 in Struthof, Bas-Rhin, was a French General.
Biography of Maurice-René Frechet (excerpt)
Maurice Fréchet (September 2, 1878 – June 4, 1973) was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. ![]()
Biography of Franz Marc (excerpt)
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement. Career Marc was born of Wilhelm and Sophie Marc, Wilhelm a professional landscape painter and Sophie a strict Calvinist. Marc was born in 1880, in the German town of Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich starting in 1900. ![]()
Biography of Frances Parkinson Keyes (excerpt)
Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 – July 3, 1970) was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys." Life and Career Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, she married Henry Keyes in 1903.
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Biography of Anton Webern (excerpt)
Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known proponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical technique later known as total serialism.
Biography of Pierre Hamp (excerpt)
Henri Bourrillon, best known as Pierre Hamp, born on April 23, 1876 in Nice (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate), died on November 19, 1962 in Le Vésinet, was a French writer. Bibliography (extract in French) Ch. Baillat, J.
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Biography of E. M. Forster (excerpt)
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 in Marylebone, London – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.
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Biography of Rómulo Gallegos (excerpt)
Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history. Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas to Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin.
Biography of Octave François Landtsheer (excerpt)
Octave François Landtsheer, born March 18, 1877 in Lebbeke, was a Belgian astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Victor Segalen (excerpt)
Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 21, 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux. ![]()
Biography of Alla Nazimova (excerpt)
Alla Nazimova (Russian & Ukrainian: Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Russian: Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон, Ukrainian: Міріам Эдес Аделаїда Левентон; June 4, 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian/American theater and film actress, screenwriter, and producer. She is often known as just Nazimova, and was also known as Alia Nasimoff. ![]()
Biography of Corrado Gini (excerpt)
Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927.
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Biography of Robert Kemp (excerpt)
Robert Kemp (8 October 1879, Paris - 3 July 1959) was a French journalist and literary critic, writing for L'Aurore, La Liberté, Le Temps and Le Monde (successor to Temps). On 29 November 1956 he was elected to seat 5 of the Académie française. ![]()
Biography of Émile Henriot (writer) (excerpt)
Émile Henriot (French pronunciation: ; 3 March 1889, Paris – 14 April 1961, Paris) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic. Life A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the First World War. |
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