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birth charts 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 Eugène Cosserat (excerpt)
Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat (4 March 1866 (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin Vol 2/2632) – 31 May 1931) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Born in Amiens, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1883 to 1888. He was on Science faculty of Toulouse University from 1889 and director of its observatory from 1908, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Biography of Cécile Brunschvicg (excerpt)
Cécile Brunschvicg, born Cécile Kahn on 19 July, 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48), and died 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine was a French feminist politician. She was born into a bourgeois republican family of confessing Jews.
Biography of Feodor Chaliapin (excerpt)
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin; February 13 1873 – April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer.The possessor of a large and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an international career and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form. During the first phase of his career, Chaliapin endured direct competition from three other great basses: the powerful Lev Sibiriakov (1869–1942), the more lyrical Vladimir Kastorsky (1871–1948), and Dmitri Buchtoyarov (1866–1918), whose voice lay between the extremes exemplified by Sibiriakov and Kastorsky.
Biography of Jean Renaud de Segrais (excerpt)
Jean Renaud de Segrais (August 22, 1624 - March 15, 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. In 1662, he was elected a member of the Académie française. Works (selection) Poetry Ode à M. Chapelain, about the victories of Mgr le duc d'Anguien (1647)
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 Jules Bois (excerpt)
Henri Antoine Jules-Bois (or simply Jules Bois), born in (September 29, 1868, Marseille (source not archived) - July 2, 1943, New York), was a French writer and journalist with an interest in the occult. He wrote Le Satanisme et la magie (Satanism and Magic).
Biography of Esprit Fléchier (excerpt)
Esprit Fléchier (June 10, 1632 – February 16, 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Life He was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in the département of Vaucluse, in the Comtat Venaissin, and brought up at Tarascon by his uncle, Hercule Audiffret, superior of the Congrégation des Doctrinaires.
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 Carl Sandburg (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."
Biography of André Bellessort (excerpt)
André Bellessort (1866–1942) was a French writer. Bellessort was a not only a poet and essayist but also a traveller who went to Chile, Bolivia and Japan. He is known for his influence on his pupils as a teacher in hypokhâgne in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, notably related in Robert Brasillach's memories, Notre avant-guerre.
Biography of Ettore Bugatti (excerpt)
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer. He came from a notably artistic family with its roots in Milan.He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer.
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 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.
Biography of André Siegfried (excerpt)
André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics. He was born in Le Havre, France, to Jules Siegfried, the French minister of commerce.
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 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.
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 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.
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 J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.(September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist.He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon.He was the son of banking tycoon, J.
Biography of Chaim Weizmann (excerpt)
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, (27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Zionist leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel.He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.
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.” His most famous performance is his role as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
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 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.In 1876 he published Dixains réalistes, a parody of the Parnassians.
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 Jean Sinoël (excerpt)
Jean Sinoël, born Jean Léonis Blès (Sinoël is an anagram), August 13, 1868 in Sainte-Terre (Gironde), and died August 30, 1949 in Paris, was a French actor and singer. Discography * 1909 : o Ça fume à la bastoche o Si qu'on saurait o Moi j'fait du crochet o On ne peut pas tout avoir o Y a des apaches dans la maison,
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.
Biography of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (excerpt)
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and founder of the Futurist movement. Childhood and adolescence Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (some documents give his name as "Filippo Achille Emilio") spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father (Enrico M.) and his mother (Amalia Grolli) lived together more uxorio (as if married).
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 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 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 Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs.At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris.
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.
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Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic). Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
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 Langevin (excerpt)
Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 – December 19, 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation.He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots.
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire, England.It has an economy with large tourism, financial and commercial sectors.The river Aire flows through the city. Leeds was a small manorial borough in the 13th century, becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries, then a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important.
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 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 Lillian Russell (excerpt)
Lillian Russell (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, Lillian Russell became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.
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 Augustus John (excerpt)
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher.For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. |
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