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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 Félix Fénéon (excerpt)
Félix Fénéon (29 June 1861 at 4:00 AM (source : Joan U. Halperin, "Félix Fénéon, œuvres plus que complètes"), Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist, journalist and art critic during the late 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, and ardently promoted them.
Biography of Gordon Lang (excerpt)
Gordon Lang, born October 31, 1864 in Fyvie, Scotland, died December 5, 1945, was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1938-1942). He was also a writer. ![]()
Biography of Carlos I of Portugal (excerpt)
Carlos I (pronounced ; Eng. Charles), the Diplomat (also known as the Martyr) (Port.O Diplomata and o Martirizado) - (Lisbon, September 28, 1863 - Lisbon, February 1, 1908) named Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Victor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão de Bragança Sabóia Bourbon e Saxe-Coburgo-Gota was the 33rd (or 34th or 35th according to some historians) and penultimate King of Portugal and the Algarves. ![]()
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time. ![]()
Biography of Georges Rouault (excerpt)
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. Childhood and education Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother encouraged his love for the arts, and in 1885 the fourteen-year-old Rouault embarked on an apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer, which lasted until 1890. ![]()
Biography of Eugen d'Albert (excerpt)
Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert (April 10, 1864 – March 3, 1932) was a German pianist and composer. Origins D'Albert was born in Glasgow to an English mother and a French/Italian father, Charles Louis Napoleon d'Albert, a dancer, pianist and music arranger who had formerly been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden.
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Biography of Pierre Albert-Birot (excerpt)
Pierre Albert-Birot (April 22, 1876 in Angoulême - July 25, 1967 in Paris) is a French avant-garde author. Born in Angoulême, he moved to Paris in 1894. There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong.
Biography of Ada Muir (excerpt)
Ada Muir, born June 4, 1874 in Birmingham, was a British astrologer, publisher and author. She lived in Vancouver, Canada. ![]()
Biography of Gottfried Feder (excerpt)
Gottfried Feder (27 January 1883 – 24 September 1941) was an economist and one of the early key members of the Nazi party. He was their economic theoretician. Initially, it was his lecture in 1919 that drew Hitler into the party .
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Biography of Georg Schnéevoigt (excerpt)
Georg Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia. Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. He was principal cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902. ![]()
Biography of Emil Nolde (excerpt)
Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great watercolour painters of the 20th century.
Biography of Bangalore S. Rao (excerpt)
Bangalore S. Rao, born February 12, 1856 in Srikakulam, died in March 1937, was an Indian author and professional astrologer.
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Biography of Agustín Moreto (excerpt)
Agustín Moreto y Cavana (April 9, 1618, Madrid - 28 October 1669), was a Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist and playwright. He was of Italian descent. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized at Madrid on 9 April 1618.
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Biography of Emmanuel de Martonne (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Martonne, born in Chabris (Indre), April 1st, 1873 and died in Sceaux July 24, 1955, was a French geographer and author. Works (extract) Recherches sur l'évolution morphologique des Alpes de Transylvanie (Karpates meridionales), Paris, Delagrave, 1906. Traité de géographie physique : Climat, Hydrographie, Relief du sol, Biogéographie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1909 (réédité). ![]()
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections. ![]()
Biography of Joaquín Turina (excerpt)
Joaquín Turina (9 December 1882 (birth time source: Barbault, birth certificate) – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Biography Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy (between Verona, Brescia and Mantova). He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. ![]()
Biography of Louis Aubert (excerpt)
Louis François Marie Aubert (born Paramé (Ille-et-Vilaine), 19 February 1877, - died Paris, 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age.
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Biography of Maxime Weygand (excerpt)
Maxime Weygand (January 21, 1867 - January 28, 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II. Though not as infamous as Philippe Petain, Weygand is remembered for initially fighting the German invasion of France in 1940, then surrendering to and collaborating with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime. ![]()
Biography of George Santayana (excerpt)
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid – September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U. ![]()
Biography of Georg Groddeck (excerpt)
Georg Groddeck (October 13, 1866 Bad Kösen – June 10, 1934 Knonau, near Zurich) was a physician and writer. "Who draws the conclusion, that I mentally medicate a human who has broken his leg, is very true – but I adjust the fracture and dress the wound. ![]()
Biography of Ivar Kreuger (excerpt)
Ivar Kreuger (Kalmar, Sweden, March 2, 1880 – March 12, 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businessmen of Europe. Negotiating match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, he finally controlled two thirds of the worldwide match production, and became known as the "Match King". ![]()
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California. ![]()
Biography of John Gadbury (excerpt)
John Gadbury (January 10, 1628–1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or disciple, and a defender in the 1650s, of William Lilly, he eventually turned against Lilly and denounced him in 1675 as fraudulent. ![]()
Biography of Ewald von Kleist (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8, 1881 – c. November 13, 1954) was a leading German field marshal during World War II. Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Jose Lobato (excerpt)
Jose Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato, born April 18, 1882 in Taubaté, died July 4, 1948 in Sao Paulo, was a Brazilian editor, author, novelist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Louis Pergaud (excerpt)
Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté. His most famous work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (English: "War of the Buttons"), written in 1912. ![]()
Biography of Lincoln Steffens (excerpt)
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Pinchon (excerpt)
Émile-Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, born April 17, 1871 in Amiens, died in 1953, was a French cartoonist, painter and illustrator. Selected Bibliography (albums only) Bécassine, textes de Caumery (Maurice Lauguereau), Gauthier puis Gauthier-Languereau à partir du 4. L'enfance de Bécassine, 1913
Biography of Arthur Machen (excerpt)
Arthur Machen (play /ˈmækən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror.
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Biography of Maurice Gamelin (excerpt)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872, Paris - 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values.
Biography of Samuel Parchment (excerpt)
Samuel Parchment (Ewarton, February 1, 1881) iwas a British astrologer and occultist. He published in 1933 "Astrology, Mundane and Spiritual". He led the San Francisco Center Rosicrucian Fellowship in the 1930's. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education ![]()
Biography of Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (excerpt)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711), commonly called Boileau, was a French poet and critic. Boileau was born in the rue de Jérusalem, in Paris. He was brought up to the law, but devoted to letters, associating himself with La Fontaine, Racine, and Molière. ![]()
Biography of Martin Buber (excerpt)
Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.
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Biography of Eleanor Farjeon (excerpt)
Eleanor Farjeon (pronounced /ˈfɑrdʒən/) (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published.
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Biography of Edmond Haraucourt (excerpt)
Edmond Haraucourt, born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont, died in 1941 in Paris, was a French writer, composer and poet. Bibliography (extract) L’Âme nue, 1885 Amis, 1887 - Collection "In Extenso" N°17 Seul, roman en vers, 1890 La Passion, pièce évangélique en vers, 1890
Biography of Gaston Caudron (excerpt)
Gaston Caudron (January 18, 1882 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, archives - December 10, 1915) and his brother René Caudron (July 1, 1884 - September 27, 1959), were born in Favières, Somme. They were French aviators and industrialists, the founders of The Caudron Airplane Company. ![]()
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire. ![]()
Biography of George Jean Nathan (excerpt)
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and editor. Early life Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Sylva (excerpt)
Marguerite Sylva (also known as Marguerita Sylva) (2 July 1875, Brussels – 21 February 1957, Glendale, California) was a Belgian born mezzo-soprano who achieved fame not only on the opera stage but also in operetta and musical theatre. She was particularly known for her performances in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, which she sang over 300 times in the course of her career. ![]()
Biography of Josephin Peladan (excerpt)
Joséphin Péladan (March 28, 1858 – June 27, 1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. He claimed that a Babylonian King left the title of "Sâr" to his family. Péladan wrote a novel, Le vice suprème (1884), that was interwoven with Rosicrucian and occult themes.
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Biography of Henri Giraud (excerpt)
Henri Honoré Giraud (18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949) was a French general who fought in World War I and World War II. Captured in both wars, he escaped each time. After his second escape, he joined the Free French Forces. ![]()
Biography of Charles Dawes (excerpt)
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Biography of Georges Urbain (excerpt)
Georges Urbain (b. 12 April 1872; d. 5 November 1938 in Paris) - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. The discoverer of the element Lutetium, number 71. He discovered it in 1907. ![]()
Biography of Elias Ashmole (excerpt)
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617 (2 June, Gregorian calendar) – 18 May 1692), was a celebrated English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.
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Biography of Robert Esnault-Pelterie (excerpt)
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (November 8, 1881–December 6, 1957) was a pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He was born in Paris, the son of a textile industrialist. He was educated at the Faculté des Sciences, studying engineering at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, born March 1, 1624 in Chabanais and died November 11, 1688 in Versailles, was a French agricultural scientist and landscape architect. ![]()
Biography of Mario Ancona (excerpt)
Mario Ancona (1860-1931) was an Italian baritone, born in Livorno, Tuscany to a Jewish family. A master of bel canto singing, he enjoyed an international reputation as a star of what is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age of Opera".
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Biography of Cyriel Verschaeve (excerpt)
Cyriel Verschaeve (April 30, 1874 - November 8, 1949) was a noted Flemish clergyman and writer who was condemned for collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War. Born in Ardooie to a staunch Roman Catholic family, he began training to be a priest at a small seminary in Roeselare in 1886, before moving on to Bruges in 1892 to complete his studies. ![]()
Biography of Pope Innocent XI (excerpt)
Pope Innocent XI (May 18, 1611 – August 12, 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 1676 to 1689. Early life He was born at Como in 1611, and was educated there by the Jesuits. He studied law at Rome and Naples, held successively the offices of protonotary apostolic, president of the apostolic chamber, commissary of the Marco di Roma, and governor of Macerata; in 1647, Pope Innocent X (1644–55) made him Cardinal Deacon with the title of Santi Cosma e Damiano. |
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