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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 Hans Pfitzner (excerpt)
Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist.His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Biography Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer.
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.
Biography of Lucien Febvre (excerpt)
Lucien Febvre (July 22, 1878 - September 11, 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. Biography Lucien Febvre born and brought up in Nancy, a northeastern part of France.His father was a philologist, who introduced Febvre to the study of ancient texts and languages, which played a significant influenced Febvre’s way of thinking.
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 Wilhelm Adam (excerpt)
Wilhelm Adam (September 15, 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served as chief of staff for the Reichswehr in the period before Adolf Hitler. Adam was born on in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907.
Biography of Axel Munthe (excerpt)
Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (October 31, 1857, Oskarshamn, Sweden - February 11, 1949, Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele (1929), an autobiographical account of his work and life. Munthe had an international character, speaking several languages (Swedish, English, French, Italian,fluently, and German at least passably), growing up in Sweden, attending medical school and opening his first practice in France, being married to an English aristocrat, and spending most of his adult life in Italy.
Biography of Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph.Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer." He gained the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office in 1898.
Biography of Andreas Gryphius (excerpt)
Andreas Gryphius (October 12, 1616 - July 16, 1664) was a German lyric poet and dramatist. Gryphius was born as Andreas Greif in Głogów (Großglogau) in Silesia, where his father was a clergyman.The family name was Greif, latinized, according to the prevailing fashion, as Gryphius.
Biography of Prosper Poullet (excerpt)
Prosper Antoine Marie Joseph, Viscount Poullet (5 March 1868–3 December 1937) was a Belgian politician. Born in Leuven, Poullet studied law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was later a professor at the university. He was of member of K.A.V. Lovania Leuven, a catholic student fraternity associated with the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen.
Biography of Beatrice Webb (excerpt)
Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 22, 1858 - April 30, 1943) was an English socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield.
Biography of Raymond Roussel (excerpt)
Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.
Biography of John Dryden (excerpt)
John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
Biography of Léon Bérard (excerpt)
Léon Bérard (6 January 1876 in Sauveterre-de-Béarn – 24 February 1960 in Saint-Étienne) was a French politician and lawyer. He was Minister of Public Instruction in 1919 and from 1921 to 1924, and Minister of Justice from 1931 to 1932 and was elected to the Académie française in 1934.
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.
Biography of Christopher Nicholson Johnston (excerpt)
Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (October 18, 1857–1934) was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency) between two by-elections in 1916 and 1917. He stood down as an MP when he became a Senator of the College of Justice, a senior judicial post.
Biography of Ramsay MacDonald (excerpt)
James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.He rose from humble origins to become the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924. His first government lasted less than one year.
Biography of Lord McGowan (excerpt)
Lord McGowan, born June 3, 1874 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman, the CEO of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is a British chemical subsidiary of a Dutch conglomerate and one of the largest chemical producers in the world.
Biography of Francis de Croisset (excerpt)
Francis de Croisset (born Franz Wiener, January 22, 1876 - November 8, 1937) was a Belgium-born French playwright and opera librettist. His opera librettos include Massenet's Chérubin (1905), based on his play of the same name, and Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette (1923). He married, in 1910, Marie-Thérèse Bischoffsheim, the widow of banking heir Maurice Bischoffsheim and the daughter of Count and Countess Adhéaume de Chevigné.
Biography of Albert Baertsoen (excerpt)
Albert Baertsoen, born in Gand January 9, 1866 in died in Ghent in 1922, was a Belgian painter. Works (extract) * Chalands sous la neige (Musée de Bruxelles) * Un canal à Termonde * La Tamise près de Londres
Biography of Margot Asquith (excerpt)
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916).
Biography of Heinrich Daath (excerpt)
Heinrich Daath, born September 19, 1872 in Peterborough, was a British author and astrologer, author of Medical Astrology.
Biography of Rockwell Kent (excerpt)
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882–March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.Kent lived much of his early life in and around New York City, and moved in his mid-40s to an Adirondack farmstead that he called Asgaard where he lived and painted until his death.
Biography of Bernarr MacFadden (excerpt)
Bernarr Macfadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden (16 August 1868 – 12 October 1955) was an influential exponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories.He additionally founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications. Born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, Bernarr Macfadden changed his first and last names to give them a greater appearance of strength.
Biography of Georges Courteline (excerpt)
Georges Courteline (June 25, 1858 – June 25, 1929) was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth.During the time of the Paris Commune, at age 13, he was sent to study at Collège de Meaux and after graduation in 1876, he went on to serve in the French military before taking a job as a civil servant.
Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher.
Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist.He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923.From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Biography of Michael Sadler (educationist) (excerpt)
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI (3 July 1861 – 14 October 1943) was a British historian, educationalist and university administrator. He worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds. He was a champion of the public school system. Early life and education
Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer.
Biography of Hélène Dutrieu (excerpt)
Hélène Dutrieu (10 July 1877 – 26 June 1961), was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital. Biography Hélène Dutrieu was born on 10 July 1877 in Tournai, Belgium, the daughter of a Belgian Army officer.
Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.
Biography of Florenz Ziegfeld (excerpt)
Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl".
Biography of Alfred Harmsworth (excerpt)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865 (source for his time of birth: David Hamblin)–August 14,1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market.
Biography of Abd-ar-Rahman III (excerpt)
Abd-ar-Rahman III (Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh; Arabic: عبد الرحمن الثالث; 11 January 889 – 15 October 961) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus.Called al-Nasir ("the Defender of the Faith"), he ascended the throne when he was twenty-two years of age and reigned for half a century as the most powerful prince of Iberia.
Biography of Roger Karl (excerpt)
Roger Karl, born Roger Trouvé April 29, 1882 in Bourges (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, archives, page 166 of the online archives and died May 4, 1984, was a French actor and comedian. He was also a painter (he used the name Michel Balfort).
Biography of Jean-Dominique Cassini (excerpt)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as Giandomenico Cassini or Jean-Dominique Cassini, was born in Perinaldo, near Sanremo, at that time in the Republic of Genova.
Biography of Heinrich Mann (excerpt)
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 12 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933. Life and work
Biography of Auguste Louis Fauchard (excerpt)
August Louis Fauchard, born March 5, 1881, was a French organist and composer.
Biography of Pierre-Daniel Huet (excerpt)
Pierre Daniel Huet (February 8, 1630 – January 26, 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. Life He was born in Caen in 1630, and educated at the Jesuit school there.
Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director.He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Biography of Charles Delestraint (excerpt)
Charles Delestraint (12 March 1879 - 19 April 1945) was a French Army general and member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was born in Biache Saint-Waast, Pas-de-Calais. Delestraint was captured in the beginning of the World War I and spent it as a prisoner of war.
Biography of Karl Schoch (excerpt)
Karl Schoch, born March 5, 1873 in Briesen (Mark), died November 19, 1929 in Berlin, was a German actuary and astrologer. He collected tables compiling planetary phenomena for antique dates.
Biography of Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (excerpt)
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (December 22, 1862 - November 23, 1950) was a French physician who was a native of Bordeaux. He was an associate professor at Val-de-Grâce, as well as medical inspector general with the French Army. Later he attained the chair of epidemiology at Collège de France.
Biography of Ada Negri (excerpt)
Ada Negri (February 3, 1870 - January 11, 1945) was an Italian poet. She was born in Lodi into an artisan family to Giuseppe Negri, and his wife Vittoria Cornalba, and became a village school-teacher. Her first book of poems, Tempeste (1891), tells the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty.
Biography of James George Frazer (excerpt)
Sir James George Frazer FRS FRSE FBA (1 January 1854, Glasgow– 7 May 1941, Cambridge), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details similar magical and religious beliefs across the globe.
Biography of Emile Borel (excerpt)
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (January 7, 1871 in Saint-Affrique, France – February 3, 1956 in Paris, France) was a French mathematician and politician. Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory.
Biography of Joe Sacramento (excerpt)
Joe Sacramento, born on July 14, 1874 in Cincinnati, Ohio (birth time source: Astrology Bulletina), was an American circus exhibit, the fattest man in the world.
Biography of Marguerite Audoux (excerpt)
Marguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father.
Biography of Ella Young (excerpt)
Ella Young (December 26, 1867 – 1956) was an Irish poet, political activist, and mystic. Born in County Antrim, she grew up in Dublin and attended the Royal University. Her interest in Theosophy led her to become an early member of the Hermetic Society, and her acquaintance with "Æ" (George William Russell) led to her becoming one of his select group of protegés, known as the "singing birds." Her nationalist sentiments also led her to a friendship with Patrick Pearse, and she had a supporting role in the Easter Rising; as a member of Cumann na mBan, she smuggled rifles and other supplies in support of Republican forces.
Biography of Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo.
Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar.Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins. |
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