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Horoscopes with Pluto in AriesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Aries. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Paul Durand-Ruel (excerpt)
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Blind (excerpt)
Mathilde Blind (21 March 1841 - 1896) (born Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including The Prophecy of St. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D. ![]()
Biography of John Batterson Stetson (excerpt)
John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 - February 18, 1906) was a U.S. hatter, hat manufacturer, and, in the 1860s, the inventor of the cowboy hat. He founded the John B. Stetson Company as a manufacturer of headwear; the company's hats are now commonly referred to simply as Stetsons. ![]()
Biography of Emma Lazarus (excerpt)
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American Jewish poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour. ![]()
Biography of Mily Balakirev (excerpt)
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, pronounced (listen); 2 January 1837 – 29 May 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Biography of Carlos Finlay (excerpt)
Carlos Juan Finlay (born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barrés; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe, Cuba – August 20, 1915, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research. Early life and education Finlay was born in Puerto Principe, Cuba, of French and Scottish descent.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Laurens (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838 – 1921), was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Born in Fourquevaux (not Fourqueux), he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression. ![]()
Biography of Constantijn Huygens (excerpt)
Constantijn Huygens (September 4, 1596, The Hague - March 28, 1687, The Hague) was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He is often considered a member of what is known as the Muiderkring, a group of leading intellectuals gathered around Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, who met regularly at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam.
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Biography of Joseph Gurney Cannon (excerpt)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate. ![]()
Biography of Jules Lachelier (excerpt)
Jules Lachelier, born May 27, 1832 in Fontainebleau, died January 26, 1918 in Paris, was a French philosopher and author. Publications * Du fondement de l'induction suivi de Psychologie et Métaphysique et de Notes sur le pari de Pascal, Paris, Alcan, 1924. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Kergomard (excerpt)
Pauline Kergomard, born Marie Pauline Jeanne Reclus April 24, 1838 in Bordeaux (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in 1925 in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), is a teacher and writer, and the founder of nursery classes in France. Works (extract) Galerie enfantine illustres (1879) ![]()
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon. ![]()
Biography of Bret Harte (excerpt)
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Life and career He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart. He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart.
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Biography of François-Désiré Mathieu (excerpt)
François-Désiré Mathieu (27 May 1839 at Einville-au-Jard, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 26 October 1908, London) was a French bishop and Cardinal. Born of a humble family, he made his studies in the diocesan school and the seminary of the Diocese of Nancy, and was ordained priest in 1863. ![]()
Biography of Charles de Freycinet (excerpt)
Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French pronunciation: ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française. ![]()
Biography of Tomas Masaryk (excerpt)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech pronunciation: ), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, also was Moravian patriot. ![]()
Biography of Paul Bert (excerpt)
Paul Bert (October 19, 1833 - November 11, 1886) was a French physiologist and politician. Life He was born at Auxerre (Yonne). He entered the École polytechnique at Paris with the intention of becoming an engineer; then changing his mind, he studied law; and finally, under the influence of the zoologist, Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865), he took up physiology, becoming one of Claude Bernard's most brilliant pupils. ![]()
Biography of Kenelm Digby (excerpt)
Sir Kenelm Digby (July 11 (July 21, Gregorian calendar), 1603 – June 11, 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".
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Biography of Alfred Espinas (excerpt)
Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist. ![]()
Biography of Emile Gaboriau (excerpt)
Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction. Life Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime. He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866).
Biography of Claude Quillet (excerpt)
Claude Quillet, born on May 8, 1602 in Chinon, died in 1661 in Paris, was a French physician and poet. ![]()
Biography of Chauncey Depew (excerpt)
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. Biography He was born on April 23, 1834.
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Biography of Louis Boussenard (excerpt)
Louis Henri Boussenard (4 October 1847 – 11 September 1911) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his popularity, forty volumes of his collected works were published in Imperial Russia in 1911. ![]()
Biography of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (excerpt)
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (born December 8, 1832, died April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. ![]()
Biography of Guido Verbeck (excerpt)
Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (or Verbeek) (23 January 1830 – 10 May 1898) was a Dutch political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan. He was one of the most important o-yatoi gaikokujin (foreign advisors) serving the Meiji government and contributed to many major government decisions during the early years of the reign of Emperor Meiji. ![]()
Biography of Anton Rubinstein (excerpt)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the czar of Russia. ![]()
Biography of Eugene Field (excerpt)
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 3, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by a cousin, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts. ![]()
Biography of Paul Reclus (excerpt)
Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (Orthez, March 7, 1847 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut)) – Paris, 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of Jacques Reclus and brother of Elijah Elisha Onesimus and Armand Reclus.
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Biography of John Wesley Powell (excerpt)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.
Biography of Edouard Alexandre Sain (excerpt)
Edouard Alexandre Sain, born on May 13, 1830 in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1910, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Charles XV of Sweden (excerpt)
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth. ![]()
Biography of Pope Alexander VII (excerpt)
Pope Alexander VII (February 13, 1599 – May 22, 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from April 7, 1655 until his death. Early life Born in Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V (1605–1621), he was privately tutored and eventually received doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Siena. ![]()
Biography of Jean Richepin (excerpt)
Jean Richepin (English pronunciation: /ˈʒɑːn riːʃˈpæn/; 4 February 1849 - 12 December 1926), French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Medea (Algeria). At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions—first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedore--and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent.
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Biography of Charles Floquet (excerpt)
Charles Thomas Floquet (October 2, 1828 - January 18, 1896) was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied law in Paris, and was called to the bar in 1851. The coup d'état of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet, who had, while yet a student, given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Branly (excerpt)
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (October 23, 1844 - March 24, 1940) was a French inventor and physicist. He was the physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is primarily known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890. ![]()
Biography of Albert Anker (excerpt)
Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. Life Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48. ![]()
Biography of Valentin Joseph Boussinesq (excerpt)
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille). ![]()
Biography of Daniel Chester French (excerpt)
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920) at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, Assistant US Treasury Secretary and author of a book that described the French drain. ![]()
Biography of John Booker (excerpt)
John Booker, born April 3, 1601 in Manchester, died April 8, 1667, was a British author and astrologer.
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Biography of Eugène Le Roy (excerpt)
Eugène Le Roy, born on November 29, 1836 in Hautefort (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 6, 1907 in Montignac, was a French writer. Publications Le Moulin de Frau (1891), paru en feuilleton dans L'Avenir de la Dordogne du 2 avril au 21 août 1891 puis chez Fasquelle en 1905. ![]()
Biography of Henry Edward Armstrong (excerpt)
Henry Edward Armstrong FRS (6 May 1848 – 13 July 1937) was an English chemist. Although Armstrong was active in many areas of scientific research, such as the chemistry of naphthalene derivatives, he is remembered today largely for his ideas and work on the teaching of science. ![]()
Biography of William Quantrill (excerpt)
William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in Kentucky where he was mortally wounded in a Union ambush in May 1865, aged 27. ![]()
Biography of Edmond de Goncourt (excerpt)
Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. He was born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt in Nancy. Biography He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Baillaud (excerpt)
Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (14 February 1848 – 8 July 1934) was a French astronomer. Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris. He worked as an assistant at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1872. ![]()
Biography of James Tissot (excerpt)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. Tissot was born at Nantes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three.
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Biography of Jean Mounet-Sully (excerpt)
Mounet-Sully (July 27, 1841 (Wikipedia gives February) - 1916), a French actor, was born at Bergerac. His birth name was Jean-Sully Mounet: "Mounet-Sully" (without the "Jean") was a stage name. He entered the Conservatoire at the age of twenty-one, where he took first prize for tragedy.
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Biography of Emile Reynaud (excerpt)
Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris.
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Biography of Ignacio Cervantes (excerpt)
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh (Havana, 31 July 1847 – Havana, 29 April 1905) was a Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music. A child prodigy, he was taught by pianist Juan Miguel Joval, later by composer and tutor Nicolás Ruiz Espadero in 1859, and by the visiting American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. |
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