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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Paul Reynaud (excerpt)
Paul Reynaud (October 15, 1878 (6:00 pm) - September 21, 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Alliance Démocratique center-right party. ![]()
Biography of Asta Nielsen (excerpt)
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 - 24 May 1972), also known as Die Asta, was a Danish actress, mostly appearing in German silent films during the 1910s and 1920s. She was nicknamed The Silent Muse. Early life, education and stage ![]()
Biography of Butch Cassidy (excerpt)
Butch Cassidy (13 April 1866 – circa 7 November 1908), born Robert LeRoy Parker, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber and leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Life as a criminal 1880-1887 — first incidents, becoming a robber
Biography of Joseph de Tonquédec (excerpt)
Joseph de Tonquédec, born December 27, 1868 in Morlaix, died November 21, 1962, was a French theologist, exorcist of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris, and Jesuit priest. Works (extract) * G. K. Chesterton, ses idées et son caractère, Nouvelle Librairie nationale, Paris, 1920, 118 p.
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Biography of Moina Mathers (excerpt)
Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson (February 28, 1865-July 25, 1928) was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 19th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. ![]()
Biography of Charles F. Kettering (excerpt)
Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of over 300 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. ![]()
Biography of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Vilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf) (11 November 1882 - 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden. He was born in Stockholm and at birth created Duke of Skåne. ![]()
Biography of Hjalmar Schacht (excerpt)
Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939. Schacht was one of the primary drivers of Germany's policy of redevelopment, reindustrialization and rearmament, and was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations.
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Biography of Maurice Maeterlinck (excerpt)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Dix (excerpt)
Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. ![]()
Biography of Jules Berry (excerpt)
Jules Paufi, best known as Jules Berry, born Febrary 9, 1883 in Poitiers, died April 23, 1951 in Paris, was a French actor and director. He has been married three times, with actresses Jane Marken, Suzy Prim and Josseline Gaël. Filmography (extract) ![]()
Biography of John Galsworthy (excerpt)
John Galsworthy OM (pronounced /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. ![]()
Biography of Guy Ballard (excerpt)
Guy Warren Ballard (July 28, 1878 - December 29, 1939) was an American mining engineer who became, with his wife, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, the founder of the "I AM" Activity. Ballard was born in Burlington, Iowa and married his wife in Chicago in 1916. ![]()
Biography of Zoltan Kodaly (excerpt)
Zoltán Kodály (Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán); December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist, and philosopher. Life Born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galanta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a stationmaster and keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child.
Biography of Marcel Brulé (excerpt)
Marcel Brulé, born January 31, 1883 in Amiens and died in 1946, was a French physician, member of Académie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Albert Marquet (excerpt)
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement. Life and work Marquet was born in Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Decorative Arts School, where he met Henri Matisse. ![]()
Biography of Enrique Granados (excerpt)
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña (July 27, 1867 – March 24, 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados was also a talented painter in the style of Francisco Goya. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Magre (excerpt)
Maurice Magre, born March 2, 1877 in Toulouse, died December 11, 1941 in Nice, was a French writer et poet. Works (extract) Poetry La Chanson des hommes, Bibliothèque Charpentier - 1898 Le Poème de la jeunesse, 1901 Les Lèvres et le secret, 1906 ![]()
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Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about three million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Abel (excerpt)
Alfred Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937), was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. Abel is also known as the “Lewis Stone of German films. ![]()
Biography of Marie Emile Fayolle (excerpt)
Marie Émile Fayolle (Le Puy, France, 14 May 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 27 August 1928) was a Marshal of France. Fayolle studied at the École polytechnique, where he graduated with the class of 1873. During his career he served in the artillery. ![]()
Biography of Paul Landowski (excerpt)
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor. His best-known work is the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born in Paris to Polish refugees of the January Uprising.
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Biography of Hugo Becker (excerpt)
Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker) (February 13, 1863 – July 30, 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist.
Biography of François Charpentier (author) (excerpt)
François Charpentier (15 February 1620 – 1702) was a French archaeologist and man of letters. Biography Charpentier was born in Paris, and intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a French East India Company, to draw up an explanatory account of the project for Louis XIV. ![]()
Biography of Septimius Severus (excerpt)
Septimius Severus (Latin: Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus; 11 April 146 – 4 February 211), also known as Severus, was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
Biography of Charles Guérin (excerpt)
Charles Guérin, born December 29, 1873 in Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), died March 17, 1907 in the same city, was a French poete and writer. Publications (extract) * L'Agonie du Soleil (Joies grises), 1894 * Le Sang des Crépuscules, 1895 ![]()
Biography of Jean Picard (astronomer) (excerpt)
Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Armstrong Robinson (excerpt)
Hugh Armstrong Robinson, born May 13, 1881 - 1963, Neosho, Missouri. Robinson was pioneer in the earliest days of aviation, combining his skills of inventor, pilot, and daredevil. Among other things, he is said to have been the third person to successfully fly an aircraft after the Wright Brothers in a plane of his own design and construction and the first person to make an air-sea rescue. ![]()
Biography of Georges Enescu (excerpt)
George Enescu (known in France as Georges Enesco) (August 19, 1881, Liveni – May 4, 1955, Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, preeminent Romanian musician of the 20th century, and one of the greatest performers of his time. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Chardonne (excerpt)
Jacques Boutelleau, best known as Jacques Chardonne, born in Barbezieux January 2, 1884 and died in La Frette-sur-Seine May 29, 1968, was a French writer. He was a member of Barbezieux group, with Geneviève Fauconnier, Henri Fauconnier, Maurice Delamain, Jacques Delamain and Germaine Boutelleau. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Zukor (excerpt)
Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913. In 1897, he married Lottie Kaufman; they had two children, Eugene J.
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Biography of Jean Moréas (excerpt)
Jean Moréas (born Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, Ιωάννης Α. Παπαδιαμαντόπουλος; April 15, 1856 - April 30, 1910), was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth. Background Moréas was born into a distinguished Athenian family. ![]()
Biography of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (excerpt)
Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (February 15, 1612 (source not archived) – September 9, 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal. He was born into the aristocracy in Neuville-sur-Vanne in Champagne, France. He joined the military at the age of thirteen and had a successful career where he was noted for his ability and his piety. ![]()
Biography of Abel Faivre (excerpt)
Jules-Abel Faivre, born March 30, 1867 in Lyon and died in 1945 in Nice, was a French painter, caricaturist and illustrator. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Pascoli (excerpt)
Giovanni Pascoli (December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar. Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (rechristened "San Mauro Pascoli" after his death), into a wealthy family. He had a tragic childhood, struck by the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers, and the subsequent economical decline of the family. ![]()
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Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and the second largest city of Thurston County. It is located 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Seattle, the state's most populous city, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. ![]()
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Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border and 110 miles (177 km) north of the Nevada border. ![]()
Biography of Hans Wilsdorf (excerpt)
Hans Wilsdorf (March 22, 1881 - July 6, 1960) was a German watchmaker, and the founder of Rolex and Tudor. Born in Kulmbach, Bavaria and orphaned as a child, Wilsdorf worked for a Swiss watch manufacturer in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1905, he moved to London and set up his own business, wanting to provide quality timepieces at affordable prices. ![]()
Biography of H. L. Mencken (excerpt)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (Baltimore, September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Chausson (excerpt)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 – June 10, 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family. His father made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s .
Biography of David Yule (excerpt)
Sir David Yule (1858-1928) was a British businessman. Though born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent most of his life in India. David Yule joined Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., which was begun by his uncle, Andrew. His uncle, George Yule, was a president of the Indian National Congress.
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Biography of Ernest Rutherford (excerpt)
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In early work he discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation, proving that the former was essentially helium ions.
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Biography of François de Harlay de Champvallon (excerpt)
François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth archbishop of Paris. Biography Early years Harlay de Champvallon was born in Paris, the nephew of François de Harlay, archbishop of Rouen, he was presented to the abbey of Jumièges immediately on leaving the Collège de Navarre, and he was only twenty-six when he succeeded his uncle in the archiepiscopal see. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Baruch (excerpt)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (pronounced /bəˈɹuk/) (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965) was a Jewish-American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. ![]()
Biography of Max Klinger (excerpt)
Max Klinger (February 18, 1857 - July 5, 1920) was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right.
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Biography of MacGregor Mathers (excerpt)
MacGregor Mathers, born in Hackney, United-Kingdom, on January 8, 1854, was a British astrologer, occultist and author. He founded the mystical organization The Golden Dawn. ![]()
Biography of Svante Arrhenius (excerpt)
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. The Arrhenius equation, lunar crater Arrhenius and the Arrhenius Labs at Stockholm University are named after him. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Rateau (excerpt)
Auguste Camille Edmond Rateau, born October 13, 1863 in Royan, died January 13, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a famous French engineer. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur Membre de l'Académie des sciences (1918) Books Considérations sur les turbo-machines (1892) ![]()
Biography of Max von Laue (excerpt)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was strongly opposed to National Socialism. ![]()
Biography of Germain Nouveau (excerpt)
Germain Nouveau born and died in Pourrières, Var, in France (31 July 1851 - 4 April 1920), was a French poet, associated with the symbolist movement. He was a friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine. In 1874 he traveled to London with Rimbaud. |
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