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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 Louis Haeusser (excerpt)
Louis Haeusser, born November 6, 1881 in Bönnigheim, was a German Messiah and guru, a self-appointed new Christ. ![]()
Biography of Louis Barthou (excerpt)
Jean Louis Barthou (25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Early years He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and served as Deputy from that constituency. He was an authority on trade union history and law. ![]()
Biography of Clovis Vincent (excerpt)
Famous neurosurgeon. One of the most eminent medical personality of France in his time.
Biography of John Hazelrigg (excerpt)
John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author.
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Biography of James Mark Baldwin (excerpt)
James Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861 – November 8, 1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Dupont (excerpt)
Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, born in Caen March 1, 1878 and died (tuberculosis) in Le Vésinet August 1, 1914, was a French composer. Selected works 1895 Airs de ballet (2) Pavane Aria Piano 1897 Feuillets d'album Valse Fughette ![]()
Biography of Antoine Bourdelle (excerpt)
Antoine Bourdelle (October 30, 1861, Montauban (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 1, 1929), originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was a French sculptor and teacher. Career Antoine Bourdelle (pronounceed an-twahn boor-dell) was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne. He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop. ![]()
Biography of Armand Cortes (excerpt)
Armand Cortes, born August 16, 1880 in Nîmes, died November 19, 1948 in San Fransisco, was an American actor. Filmography (extract) Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (uncredited) .. Hotel clerk Allergic to Love (1944) .. Doctor Uncertain Glory (1944) (uncredited) .. Detective with Commissioner The Song of Bernadette (1943) (uncredited) . ![]()
Biography of Harry Lauder (excerpt)
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 - 26 February 1950), known professionally as Harry Lauder, was a notable Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!" Early life Henry Lauder was born at Portobello, Edinburgh in the home of his maternal grandfather, Henry McLennan. ![]()
Biography of Kurt von Schleicher (excerpt)
Kurt von Schleicher (7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Schleicher was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, the son of a Prussian officer and a shipowner's daughter. ![]()
Biography of Emile Vandervelde (excerpt)
Emile Vandervelde (1866 in Ixelles – 1938) was a Belgian statesman, born at Ixelles. He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and became doctor of laws in 1885 and doctor of social science in 1888.
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Biography of Paul Hazard (excerpt)
Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard (30 August 1878, Noordpeene, Nord — 12 April 1944, Paris), was a French scholar, professor and historian of ideas. Hazard was the son of a school teacher. Starting in 1900, he attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Mauss (excerpt)
Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist . Background Mauss was born in Epinal to a Jewish family, and studied philosophy at Bordeaux, where his uncle Émile Durkheim was teaching at the time and agregated in 1893.
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Biography of Oscar Troplowitz (excerpt)
Oscar Troplowitz (January 18, 1863, Gleiwitz (Gliwice), Kingdom of Prussia – April 27, 1918, Hamburg) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur who purchased Beiersdorf AG, which was then a laboratory and chemist's shop in Hamburg from Paul Carl Beiersdorf in 1890. ![]()
Biography of Jane Darwell (excerpt)
Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.
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Biography of Alfred Deakin (excerpt)
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 in Melbourne, Australia – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the protection of rights at work.
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Biography of Lodewijk Mortelmans (excerpt)
Lodewijk Mortelmans (born 5 February 1868, Antwerp; died 24 June 1952, Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. He was from a family of five children born to Isabella and Charles Mortelmans. Mortelmans' father was a printer, and his elder brother, Frans, was a painter.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich von Siemens (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich von Siemens (September 5, 1872 in Berlin – September 9, 1941 in Heinendorf near Potsdam) was a German Entrepreneur and politician. Carl Friedrich is the youngest son of Werner von Siemens by his second wife and relative Antonie Siemens and nephew of Carl Siemens and William Siemens. ![]()
Biography of Charles Le Goffic (excerpt)
Charles Le Goffic (July 14, 1863 in Lannion (birth time source: email and http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/consult.aspx.image=090025478950888) - February 12, 1932 in Lannion) was a French poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française.
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Biography of Eric Temple Bell (excerpt)
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883, Peterhead, Scotland - December 21, 1960, Watsonville, California) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his given name and his fiction as John Taine. ![]()
Biography of Siegbert Tarrasch (excerpt)
Siegbert Tarrasch (March 5, 1862 – February 17, 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Tarrasch was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Prussian Silesia. Having finished school in 1880, he left Breslau to study medicine in Halle.
Biography of Horatio Bottomley (excerpt)
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Horatio Bottomley was born in Birmingham on 23 March 1860. He was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent 14 years growing up in an orphanage. ![]()
Biography of John Pell (excerpt)
John Pell (11 March 1611 (source: Martin Harvey in Nativitas I, "His youngest uncle guessed 'about noon.'" ) – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician. Early life He was born at Southwick in Sussex. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of thirteen. ![]()
Biography of D. T. Suzuki (excerpt)
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木大拙貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, October 18, 1870 – July 12, 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West.
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Biography of George Arliss (excerpt)
George Arliss (April 10, 1868 - February 5, 1946) was an English Academy Award-winning actor, author, playwright and film maker who found success in America. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award. Born George Augustus Andrews in London, England, he began his acting career on the stage in the English provinces in 1887. ![]()
Biography of Georges Eekhoud (excerpt)
Georges Eekhoud (May 27, 1854, Antwerp, Belgium – May 29, 1927, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes. ![]()
Biography of Julian Aguirre (excerpt)
Julian Aguirre, born January 28, 1868 in Buenos Aires, died in 1924, was a Brazilian musician, guitarist and composer. ![]()
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). ![]()
Biography of Mary Garden (excerpt)
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 - 3 January 1967), was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and retired to Scotland. ![]()
Biography of Pope Alexander VIII (excerpt)
Pope Alexander VIII (April 22, 1610 – February 1, 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 1689 to 1691. Early life Pietro Ottoboni was born of a noble Venetian family, and was the son of Marco Ottoboni, chancellor of the Republic of Venice. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. ![]()
Biography of William S. Hart (excerpt)
William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1870 – June 23, 1946) was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Biography Hart was born in Newburgh, New York; to James Howard Hart (1829–1902) and Katherine Diédricht Hart (1833–1909). William had 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
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Biography of Don Marquis (excerpt)
Don Marquis (born July 29, 1878, in Walnut, Illinois - died December 29, 1937, in New York City) was an American humorist, journalist and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. ![]()
Biography of Tony Garnier (excerpt)
Tony Garnier (August 13, 1869 Lyon – January 19, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule, France) was a noted architect and city planner. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon. Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects. In 1901, after extensive study of sociological and architectural problems, he began to formulate an elaborate solution to the perceived issues concerning urban design. ![]()
Biography of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (excerpt)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. He was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper.
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Biography of Charles Van Lerberghe (excerpt)
Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 at Ghent, Belgium, died 26 October 1907 in Brussels) was a Flemish (Belgian) symbolist poet writing in French. ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Wagner (excerpt)
Siegfried Wagner (Tribschen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 6 June 1869 - 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was a very productive opera composer and was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. ![]()
Biography of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
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Biography of John McGraw (baseball) (excerpt)
John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873 – February 25, 1934), nicknamed "Little Napoleon" and "Muggsy," was a Major League Baseball player and manager. Much-lauded as a player, McGraw was one of the standard-bearers of dead-ball era major league baseball. Known for having fists as quick as his temper, McGraw used every advantage he could get as both a player and manager. ![]()
Biography of Jean Cras (excerpt)
Jean Émile Paul Cras (pronounced ) (22 May 1879 - September 14, 1932) was a 20th century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages.
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Biography of Joseph Hislop (excerpt)
Joseph Hislop (b. Edinburgh, 5 April 1884; d. Sweden, 6 May 1977) was a Scottish tenor singer notable both in opera and oratorio, who had an international career and was one of the fine and really outstanding British singers of his generation.
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Biography of Caran d'Ache (cartoonist) (excerpt)
Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш), meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; "kara dash" meaning black stone). While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, he went on to create "stories without words" and as a contributor to newspapers such as the Lundi du Figaro, he is sometimes hailed as one of the precursors of comic strips.
Biography of Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
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Biography of Harry Baur (excerpt)
Harry Baur (born 12 April 1880 as Henri-Marie Baur in Paris – died 8 April 1943 in Paris) was a French actor. He was killed by the Gestapo during World War II. Baur gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Abel Gance's 1936 biopic Un grand amour de Beethoven (Beethoven's Great Love), and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934).
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Biography of Lieven Gevaert (excerpt)
Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist. His father died when he was only three years old. He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods.
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Biography of Vittorio Ambrosio (excerpt)
Vittorio Ambrosio (July 28, 1879 – November 19, 1958) was an Italian general who served in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, Ambrosio served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany.
Biography of Richard Willstatter (excerpt)
Richard Martin Willstätter (August 13, 1872 – August 3, 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dumas (excerpt)
Georges Dumas (6 March 1866—12 February 1946) was French doctor and psychologist. His main work is the The Treatise of Psychology (1923-1924, Le Traité de Psychologie). He wrote many articles and leaded the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Mac Orlan (excerpt)
Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 – June 27, 1970) was a French novelist and songwriter. His novel Quai des Brumes was the source for Marcel Carné's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin.
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Biography of Elsa Maxwell (excerpt)
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883, Keokuk, Iowa – November 1, 1963, New York City) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era (). |
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