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Horoscopes with Pluto in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in
Biography of Cecil B. de Mille (excerpt)
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Biography Early life DeMille was born while his parents, Henry Churchill deMille (1853–1893), a dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church from Washington, North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853–1923), who was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in England but converted to her husband's faith, were vacationing in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Biography of Francisque Poulbot (excerpt)
Francisque Poulbot was a French drawer and illustrator born February 6, 1879 in Saint-Denis. He has created the famous "Poulbot de Paris".
Biography of Paul Dukas (excerpt)
Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy.
Biography of Kyösti Kallio (excerpt)
Kyösti Kallio (April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth President of Finland (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and had previously been Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times .
Biography of Milton Hershey (excerpt)
Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was a confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the “company town” of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Early life Hershey was born on a farm near Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the only surviving child of Henry and Fanny Hershey (Hershey’s middle name comes from his mother’s maiden name, Snavely).
Biography of Achille Liénart (excerpt)
Achille Liénart (February 7, 1884—February 15, 1973) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930. Born in Lille, Liénart studied at College Saint-Joseph, the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Collège de Sorbonne, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
Biography of René Boylesve (excerpt)
René Boylesve (born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau) (April 14, 1867 - January 14, 1926) was a French author. He was born in La Haye-Descartes and died in Paris.
Biography of Léon Boëllmann (excerpt)
Léon Boëllmann (September 9, 1862, Ensisheim in the Alsace – October 11, 1897, Paris) was a French composer. His compositions include works for organ, piano, chamber music, songs, and church chorales. Boëllmann was an early musical talent and was accepted in 1871—9 years old—at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris.
Biography of René Ghil (excerpt)
René Ghilbert, best known as René Ghil, born September 27, 1862 in Tourcoing and died September 15, 1925 in Niort, was a French poet, author and symbolist. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
Biography of Léon Jouhaux (excerpt)
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike.
Biography of Robert Musil (excerpt)
Robert Musil born Robert Edler von Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate) – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
Biography of André Maginot (excerpt)
André Maginot (French pronunciation: ; 17 February 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 January 1932) was a French civil servant, soldier, and Member of Parliament. He is undoubtedly best known for his advocacy for the string of forts that would be known as the Maginot Line.
Biography of Emile Verhaeren (excerpt)
Emile Verhaeren (Sint-Amands May 21, 1855 – Rouen November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. He was born in a Flemish, but French-speaking, middle-class family.
Biography of Marcel Prévost (excerpt)
Eugene Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 (birth time and city source: Gauquelin, vol 6) – 1941) was a French author and dramatist. He was born in Toulouse, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882.
Biography of Willa Cather (excerpt)
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.
Biography of René Quinton (excerpt)
René Joseph Quinton (1866–1925) was a French biologist, aviation pioneer and decorated World War I soldier. In his biology career, he developed a treatment based on seawater injections that he called sérum de Quinton, which has been abandoned by medicine. An aviation pioneer, he was vice-president of the Ligue Aéronautique de France and a proponent of the development of aviation in France.
Biography of Cécile Chaminade (excerpt)
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (Paris, August 8, 1857 – April 13, 1944) was a French composer and pianist. Biography Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical education.
Biography of Guillaume Seznec (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec, born May 1, 1878 in Plomodiern, has been conviced of murder where the victim is Pierre Quéméneur, a French politician, May 26, 1923. References « Affaire Seznec. Pas de recours devant la cour européenne », Le Télégramme, 14 juin 2007
Biography of Friedrich Schwickert (excerpt)
Friedrich Schwickert, born September 16, 1857 in Cesky Krumlov and died in 1930, was an Austrian author, naval officer and astrologer. He wrote under the name of Sinbad.
Biography of Alberto Santos-Dumont (excerpt)
Alberto Santos-Dumont (July 20, 1873 – July 23, 1932) was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. He spent most of his adult life in France. His contributions to aviation took place while he was living in Paris, France.
Biography of Paul Painlevé (excerpt)
Paul Painlevé (5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. Biography Early life Painlevé was born in Paris.
Biography of Madame Fraya (excerpt)
Valentine Dencausse, best known as Madame Fray, born May 20, 1871 in Villeneuve-de-Marsan (40), was a French chiromancer. She was reputed to have had psychic abilities.
Biography of Isaac Albeniz (excerpt)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz i Pascual (pronounced ) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music. Born in Camprodon, Catalonia (Europe), Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four.
Biography of Firmin Gémier (excerpt)
Firmin Gémier, born Firmin Tonnerre February 21, 1869 in Aubervilliers and died November 26, 1933 in Paris, was a French actor, comedian, film director and theater director. Selected filmography # La fusée (1933) .... Etienne Girbal ... aka Grandeur and Decadence (USA) ... aka Grandeur et décadence (France: alternative title)
Biography of Karl Abraham (excerpt)
Karl Abraham (3 May 1877 - 25 December 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil' . He founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925.
Biography of Henri Ghéon (excerpt)
Henri Ghéon (March 15, 1875 - June 13, 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic. Brought up by a devout Roman Catholic mother, he lost his faith in his early teens, while still at the Lycée in Sens.
Biography of Nicholas Roerich (excerpt)
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (misspelled surname) (Russian: Николай Константинович Рерих), was a Russian painter, theosophist and philosopher. He was the father of Tibetologist George de Roerich (a.k.a. Yuri Roerich) and artist Svetoslav Roerich.
Biography of David Young Cameron (excerpt)
Sir David Young Cameron RA (28 June 1865 – 16 September 1945) was a Scottish painter and, with greater success, etcher, mostly of townscapes and landscapes in both cases. He was a leading figure in the final decades of the Etching Revival.
Biography of Paul Fort (excerpt)
Paul Fort (February 1, 1872 - April 20, 1960) was a French poet. Born on in Reims, Marne département, France, he became an important part of the artistic community of Montparnasse. By 1912 his accomplishments and influence were such that Paul Verlaine gave him the title "Prince of the Poets.
Biography of Ruben Dario (excerpt)
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 10, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and influential poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío and is also known as The Father of Modernism. His poetry brought vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time.
Biography of Sun Yat-sen (excerpt)
Sun Yat-sen or Sun Zhongshan (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the Father of Modern China. Sun played an instrumental role in the eventual collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
Biography of Christiaan Huygens (excerpt)
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced /ˈhaɪgənz/ in English, IPA: in Dutch) (April 14, 1629 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – July 8, 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens, a friend of René Descartes.
Biography of René Maizeroy (excerpt)
René Maizeroy, born May 2, 1856 in Metz, died in 1918, was a French author. Works (extracts) La Fête (1893) Mauvais mirage (Le) Frisson nouveau (Le) A l'ombre Parvenu La Vraie et l’autre Celle qu’on n’achète pas
Biography of Karl Brandler-Pracht (excerpt)
Karl Brandler-Pracht, born February 11, 1864 in Vienna and died September 10, 1939 in Berlin, was an author, astrologer, occultist, psychic and sometimes actor of German and Austrian descent.
Biography of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Beatrice (also Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
Biography of Nicholas Culpeper (excerpt)
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 i.e. 28 October, Gregorian calendar (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, H.C.G. Matthew & Brian Howard Harrison's book, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy" (Oxford UP, 2004), p. 602: "Culpeper, Nicholas .
Biography of Michel Zévaco (excerpt)
Michel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) (1 February 1860, Ajaccio - 8 August 1918, Eaubonne) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist. Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892.
Biography of Charles Pathé (excerpt)
Charles Pathé (December 26, 1863 – December 26, 1957) was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries. The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. In 1894, together with his brother Émile, he formed Pathé Records.
Biography of Amélie of Orléans (excerpt)
Amélie of Orleans (28 September 1865 - 25 October 1951) was the eldest daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris and his wife and cousin Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans. She was Queen consort of Portugal, and was known by her subjects by the name of Maria Amélia.
Biography of René Warcollier (excerpt)
René Warcollier, born April 8, 1881 in Ormonville-Le-Rogue, died May 23, 1952 in Paris, was a French chemical engineer, parapsychologist and author. Works (extracts) "Experimental Telepathy" 1938 "La Matapsychique" 1940 "Miracles of the Will" 1912 (with Edmond Duchatel)
Biography of Lucien Cuénot (excerpt)
Lucien Cuénot (21 october 1866-1951) was a French biologist. In the first half of the 20th century, Mendelism was not a popular subject among French biologists. Cuénot defied popular opinion and shirked the “pseudo-sciences” as he called them. Upon the rediscovery of Mendel's work by Correns, Devries, and Tschermak, Cuénot proved that Mendelism applied to animals as well as plants.
Biography of Henry de Monfreid (excerpt)
Henry de Monfreid (14 November 1879, Leucate - 13 December 1974) was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child. "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying in 1974 at the age of 95.
Biography of Stephen Crane (writer) (excerpt)
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.
Biography of André Rivoire (excerpt)
André Rivoire, born in Vienne May 5, 1872 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) and died in Paris August 19, 1930, was a French poet and author. Bibliography Collectif, André Rivoire, le poète, sa vie, son œuvre, Blanchard Frères, Vienne, 1932.
Biography of Gabriel Pierné (excerpt)
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (Metz, 16 August 1863 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Ploujean, Finistère, 17 July, 1937) was a French composer, conductor, and organist. Pierné was the organist at Saint Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890-1898, succeeding his teacher César Franck, and himself being succeeded by another distinguished Franck pupil, Charles Tournemire.
Biography of Wilhelm Carl Keppler (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Keppler, born December 14, 1882 in Heidelberg (birth time source: Steinbrecher, BC), died June 13, 1960, was a German engineer and industrialist, Hitler's personal advisor and the chief liaison between the Nazi party and the business world.
Biography of François Albert-Buisson (excerpt)
François Albert-Buisson (French pronunciation: ; 3 May 1881, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme – 21 May 1961, Aix-en-Provence) was a French entrepreneur, industrial, consular magistrate, economist, politician, historian. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1955.
Biography of George Eastman (excerpt)
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
Biography of Marie-Eugène Debeney (excerpt)
Marie-Eugène Debeney (5 May 1864 – 8 November 1943) was a French Army general. Several streets in his birthplace are named after him Life Marie-Eugène Debeney was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain. A student at Saint-Cyr, Marie-Eugène Debeney became Lieutenant des Chasseurs in 1886.
Biography of Maurice Paléologue (excerpt)
Maurice Paléologue (13 January 1859—18 November 1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. Paléologue was born in Paris as the son of Alexandru Paleologu, a Wallachian Romanian revolutionary who had fled to France after attempting to assassinate Prince Gheorghe Bibescu during the 1848 Wallachian revolution; Alexandru was one of three illegitimate children of Elisabeta Văcărescu of the Văcărescu family of boyars - he and his siblings were later adopted by Zoe Văcărescu, Elisabeta's mother, who gave the children her maiden name Paleologu. |
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