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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 Harry K. Thaw (excerpt)
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 - February 22, 1947) was the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. He is best known for murdering the architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 in a jealous rage. Early life
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Biography of Maximilien Luce (excerpt)
Maximilien Luce (March 13, 1858 – February 6, 1941) was a French artist associated with Neo Impressionism. A printmaker, painter, and anarchist, Luce is best known for his pointillist canvases. He grew up in the working class Montparnasse, and became a painter of landscapes and urban scenes which frequently emphasize the activities of people at work. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Schumpeter (excerpt)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics. Life Born in Třešť, Moravia (now Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1883 to Catholic ethnic German parents.
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Biography of Curt John Ducasse (excerpt)
Curt John Ducasse (July 7, 1881, Angoulême, France - September 3, 1969) was a philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and his influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Babinski (excerpt)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (November 17, 1857, Paris – October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
Biography of Jules Drach (excerpt)
Jules Drach, born March 13, 1871 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, died March 7, 1949 in Cavalaire Sur Mer, was a French mathematician, member of Academie des Sciences.
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Biography of John Charles Fields (excerpt)
John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC (May 14, 1863 - August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. First awarded in 1936, the medal has been awarded since 1950 every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians to two to four recipients under the age of 40. ![]()
Biography of John Aubrey (excerpt)
John Aubrey (March 12 (March 22, Gregorian calendar), 1626–June 7, 1697) was an English antiquary and writer, best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives and as the discoverer of the Aubrey holes in Stonehenge.
Biography of Max Beckmann (excerpt)
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 (birth time source: starfish-astrologie.blog.de (no longer available)) – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. ![]()
Biography of Algernon Blackwood (excerpt)
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English writer of fiction dealing with the supernatural, who was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
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Biography of Pierre Weiss (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Weiss (March 25, 1865 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - October 24, 1940) was a French physicist who developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the Molecular or Mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory. ![]()
Biography of Albert Calmette (excerpt)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette (July 12, 1863 – October 29, 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
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Biography of Jean-Marie Guyau (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Guyau (Laval, France, October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset, . ![]()
Biography of Émile Bernard (excerpt)
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897.
Biography of Carl Ahues (excerpt)
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4-5th in Scarborough (Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3-5th in Liege (Savielly Tartakower won). ![]()
Biography of Joseph Caillaux (excerpt)
Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.
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Biography of André Lefaur (excerpt)
André Lefaur (25 July 1879 - 5 December 1952) was a French film and theatre actor, notably working several times with director Sacha Guitry. Partial filmography 1911 - La Vénus d'Arles 1913 - L'homme qui assassina 1918 - Ainsi va la vie (short) 1918 - The Tenth Symphony 1920 - Une fleur dans les ronces 1922 - Monsieur Lebidois propriétaire 1926 - Le mariage de Rosine 1927 - Chouchou poids plume 1931 - His Highness Love ![]()
Biography of Auguste Herbin (excerpt)
Auguste Herbin (April 29, 1882 - January 30/31 1960) was a French painter. Biography Born in Quiévy, Nord, he studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille, from 1898 to 1901, when he settled in Paris. The initial influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism visible in paintings that he sent to the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 gradually gave way to an involvement with Cubism after his move in 1909 to the Bateau-Lavoir studios, where he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris; he was also encouraged by his friendship with Wilhelm Uhde.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area.
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Biography of Eugène-Louis Doyen (excerpt)
Eugène-Louis Doyen (December 16, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – November 21, 1916) was a French surgeon who was a native of Reims. He was the son of Octave Doyen (1831–1895), who served as mayor of Reims. Eugène Doyen studied medicine in Reims and Paris, and later opened a private medical institute in Paris that attracted a wealthy clientele. ![]()
Biography of R.B. Bennett (excerpt)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett PC KC (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930 to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years. ![]()
Biography of Kees Van Dongen (excerpt)
Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen (January 26, 1877 – May 28, 1968), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. ![]()
Biography of Elbert Hubbard (excerpt)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia. ![]()
Biography of Reginald Fessenden (excerpt)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—possibly the first— transmissions of voice and music. In his later career he received hundreds of patents for devices in fields such as high-powered transmitting, sonar, and television. ![]()
Biography of Gutzon Borglum (excerpt)
John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as other public works of art. Background Gutzon Borglum was born in Bear Lake Hot Springs, Idaho.
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Biography of Amelita Galli-Curci (excerpt)
Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano. She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century. Biography She was born as Amelita Galli into an upper-middle-class family in Milan, where she studied piano in her youth.
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Biography of Florence Farr (excerpt)
Florence Beatrice Emery (née) Farr (7 July 1860—29 April 1917) was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of a secret occult order, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw.
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Biography of Nellie Bly (excerpt)
Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. ![]()
Biography of Benedetto Croce (excerpt)
Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866, Pescasseroli, Italy – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade. ![]()
Biography of Emil Fischer (excerpt)
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Lorentz (excerpt)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Glasgow (excerpt)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Life and career Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
Biography of André Messager (excerpt)
André Charles Prosper Messager (30 December 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) – 24 February 1929), was a French composer, organist, pianist, conductor and administrator. His stage compositions included ballets and 30 opéra comiques and operettas, among which Véronique, had lasting success, with Les p'tites Michu and Monsieur Beaucaire also enjoying international success.
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Biography of Conrad Albrecht (excerpt)
Conrad Albrecht (* 7 October 1880 in Bremen; † 18 August 1969 in Hamburg) was a German admiral during World War II. Military career Albrecht entered the Kaiserliche Marine in 1899 as a sea-cadet and served as a Korvettenkapitän and commander of a torpedo boat flotilla in Flanders during World War I.
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Biography of Jim Corbett (excerpt)
James John Corbett (September 1, 1866 in San Francisco, California – February 18, 1933 in Bayside, Queens) was a heavyweight boxing champion. He was best known as "Gentleman Jim", the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. ![]()
Biography of Douglas Haig (excerpt)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander (field marshal) during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War. ![]()
Biography of Cândido Rondon (excerpt)
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon (May 5, 1865 – January 19, 1958) was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations. ![]()
Biography of Frederik van Eeden (excerpt)
Frederik Willem van Eeden (April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, Netherlands – June 16, 1932 in Bussum) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885. ![]()
Biography of Stefan George (excerpt)
Stefan Anton George (July 12, 1868 – December 4, 1933) was a German poet, editor, and translator. George was born in Bingen (Büdesheim) in Germany. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
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Biography of André Chaumeix (excerpt)
André Chaumeix (6 June 1874, Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme – 23 February 1955) was a French academician, journalist, and literary critic. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1930. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Esclangon (excerpt)
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Le Poët in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university.
Biography of Henri Meijers (excerpt)
Henri Meijers, born on December 2, 1879 in Maastricht (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin), was a Dutch champion cyclist. He won at the Olympics in Paris, in 1924.
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Biography of Jacques Copeau (excerpt)
Jacques Copeau (February 4, 1879, Paris birth time source: Didier Geslain, Arielle Aumont, birth certificate) – October 20, 1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger. ![]()
Biography of Emile Roux (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Emile Roux (b. December 17, 1853, Confolens (Charente), France, d. November 3, 1933, Paris) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Beck (excerpt)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.
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Biography of Willard Straight (excerpt)
Willard Dickerman Straight (January 31, 1880 – December 1, 1918) was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. His father had been a faculty member at Oswego Normal School. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture.
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Biography of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (excerpt)
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (28 August 1619 – 5 April 1679) was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism. Biography Early life Anne Geneviève was the only daughter of Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, and the sister of Louis, Grand Condé. ![]()
Biography of Frank Marshall (chess player) (excerpt)
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944), was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909–1936, and was one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada from ages 8 to 19. ![]()
Biography of Hans Driesch (excerpt)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (October 28, 1867 - April 16, 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. Early years Driesch began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg. ![]()
Biography of Charles Proteus Steinmetz (excerpt)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German- American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. |
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