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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Stefan Zweig (excerpt)
Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria – February 23, 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Life Zweig was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer) Zweig, the daughter of an Italian banking family.
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Biography of Thomas Mann (excerpt)
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
Biography of Cheiro (excerpt)
Cheiro (November 1, 1866 - October 8, 1936), was one of the most famous and colorful occult figures of the early Twentieth Century. Born in Dublin, Ireland as William John Warner, Cheiro also went by the name Count Louis Hamon (or Count Leigh de Hamong), claiming a noble ancestry that may or may not have been accurate.
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Biography of Jeanne Weber (serial killer) (excerpt)
Jeanne Weber, born October 7, 1874 in Kérity (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1910, was a French serial killer. She strangled 10 children, including her own. After she was convicted in 1910, she hanged herself in her cell.
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Biography of Rudyard Kipling (excerpt)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888).
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Biography of Alois Alzheimer (excerpt)
Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer (born 14 June 1864, Marktbreit, Bavaria; died 19 December 1915, Breslau, Silesia) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
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Biography of H. G. Wells (excerpt)
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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Biography of Joseph Conrad (excerpt)
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s (albeit always with a Polish accent).
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Biography of Jean Jaurès (excerpt)
Jean Léon Jaurès—full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès — (September 3, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Michel Gauquelin) – July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. He was one of the first social democrats: within the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), he opposed Jules Guesde's refusal of socialist participation in bourgeois governments. ![]()
Biography of Vincenzo Lancia (excerpt)
Vincenzo Lancia (Fobello August 24, 1881 (birth time source: Gauquelin vol 1, who gave 24 October, most probably in error) – Turin February 15, 1937) was an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of car making company Lancia. Vincenzo Lancia was born in the small village of Fobello on August 24, 1881, close to Turin.
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Biography of Alfred Adler (excerpt)
Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement.
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Biography of Alan Alexander Milne (excerpt)
Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
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Biography of Paul Valéry (excerpt)
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
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Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (excerpt)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American author, who wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her best-known book is Little House on the Prairie.
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Biography of Douglas MacArthur (excerpt)
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II, receiving the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula. ![]()
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The State of Colorado is a state in the Mountain West region of the United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. ![]()
Biography of Wanda Landowska (excerpt)
Wanda Landowska (July 17, 1879 (gregorian calendar) – August 16, 1959), was a Polish (later a naturalized French citizen) harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (excerpt)
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (November 27, 1635 - April 15, 1719) was the morganatic second wife of Louis XIV of France. Origins Françoise d'Aubigné was born in prison at Niort, owing to the incarceration there of her father Constant d'Aubigné as a Huguenot.
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Biography of George Bernard Shaw (excerpt)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856–2 November 1950) was a world-renowned Irish author. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. His first success was as a music and literary critic, but he was drawn to drama and authored more than sixty plays during his career.
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Biography of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (excerpt)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1 May 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.
Biography of Mary Eastey (excerpt)
Mary Towne Eastey (also spelled Esty, Easty, Estey, or Estye) (August 24, 1634 – September 22, 1692) was a victim of the Salem witch trials of 1692. Mary's sisters, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Cloyce, were also accused of witchcraft; Rebecca was executed, but Sarah was not.
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Biography of Christina, Queen of Sweden (excerpt)
Christina (Swedish: Kristina) (18 December 1626 – 19 April 1689), later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg.
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Biography of Nina Ricci (designer) (excerpt)
Maria (Nina) Ricci (born Maria Nielli; 14 January 1883 – 30 November 1970) was a French fashion designer of Italian origin. Life and work Maria Nielli was born in Turin, Italy in 1883, she moved to Florence, Italy with her family at age 5 and then to France in 1895 at age 12. ![]()
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Turin is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga Hill.
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Biography of Max Planck (excerpt)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 in Kiel, Germany – October 4, 1947 in Göttingen, Germany) was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century.
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Biography of Louis Lumière (excerpt)
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers. (Appropriately, "lumière" translates as "light" in English.
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Biography of Mark Antony (excerpt)
Marcus Antonius (in Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N) (January 14, 83 BC – August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, despite his blood ties, through his mother Julia, to the branch of Caesars opposed to the Marians and murdered by them.
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Biography of Herbert Hoover (excerpt)
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted economic modernization.
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Biography of Theo van Gogh (art dealer) (excerpt)
Theo van Gogh (May 1, 1857 – January 25, 1891) was the younger brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and a successful art dealer. Beginning in 1880, Theo's unfailing financial support allowed his brother to devote himself entirely to painting.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He was described by Mme de Sévigné as « Le Nord » as he was cold and unemotional.
Biography of Orion (astrologer) (excerpt)
Orion was a British astrologer born October 9, 1858 in Melton Mowbray.
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Biography of Max Heindel (excerpt)
Max Heindel - born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. He died on January 6, 1919 at Oceanside, California, United States. Among the students of his teachings, he is said to be the greatest western mystic of the twentieth century.
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Biography of John Locke (excerpt)
John Locke, (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory.
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Biography of Maréchal de France Ferdinand Foch (excerpt)
Ferdinand Foch OM GCB (October 2, 1851 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 20, 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French Army" in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Gustav Holst (excerpt)
Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - May 25, 1934, London) was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, his early work was influenced by Ravel, Grieg, Richard Strauss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, but most of his music is highly original, with influences from Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes. ![]()
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Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.
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Biography of Alfred Jarry (excerpt)
Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. ![]()
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The source for the date and the time of this event comes from Marc Penfield, on the website astrologysoftware.com Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.
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Biography of Cyrano de Bergerac (excerpt)
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac (6 March 1619 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story, most notably the play by Edmond Rostand which bears his name (see Cyrano de Bergerac (play)).
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Biography of Wilhelm II, German Emperor (excerpt)
William II or Wilhelm II (born Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Viktor von Preußen; English: Prince Frederick William Albert Victor of Prussia) (27 January 1859–4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (German: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.
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Biography of René Lalique (excerpt)
René Jules Lalique was born in Ay, Marne, France on April 6, 1860 (birth time source: Didier Geslain), and died May 5, 1945. He was a glass designer, renowned for his stunning creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and, in the latter part of his life, automobile hood ornaments. ![]()
Biography of Ambroise Vollard (excerpt)
Ambroise Vollard (3 July 1866, Saint-Denis, La Réunion (birth time source: Emmanuel Le Bret, Didier Geslain, civil registrar, and also in the biography of Jean Pierre Morel "C'était Ambroise Vollard" Editions Fayard 2007) – 21 July 1939 in Versailles, France) is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Biography of José Rizal (excerpt)
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield quotes him in "Jose Rizal: life, works, and writings" by Gregorio F. Zaide (National Book Store, 2003), p. 1 "..between eleven und twelve o'clock at night") – December 30, 1896, Bagumbayan), was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era.
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Biography of Suzanne Valadon (excerpt)
Suzanne Valadon (September 23, 1865 – April 7, 1938) was a French painter. In 1894 Valadon was the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of fifteen, but a year later, a fall from a trapeze ended that career. ![]()
Biography of Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (excerpt)
Antony or Antonie (October 24, 1632 - August 30, 1723), full name Thonius Philips van Leeuwenhoek (pronounced 'vahn Layvenhook') was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology". Born the son of a basket maker, at age 16 he secured an apprenticeship with a Scottish cloth merchant in Amsterdam.
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Biography of Alexander Fleming (excerpt)
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1945, for which he shared a Nobel Prize with Florey and Chain.
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Biography of Jean Racine (excerpt)
Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille). Racine was primarily a tragedian, though he did write one comedy. Life Born in La Ferté-Milon (Aisne), Racine was orphaned at the age of three(or 4) and received a classical education courtesy of his grandmother.
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Biography of Napoléon, Prince Imperial (excerpt)
Napoléon IV, Prince Imperial (Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph), (16 March 1856 – 1 June 1879), Prince Imperial, Fils de France, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, he accompanied his father to the front and first came under fire at Saarbrücken.
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Biography of Arnold Schoenberg (excerpt)
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development.
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Biography of Emiliano Zapata (excerpt)
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) became a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. |
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