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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff (excerpt)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (August 30, 1852 – March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in chemistry.His research on chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure and crystallography is credited to be his major work.
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Biography of Marcel Journet (excerpt)
Marcel Journet (July 25, 1868 – September 7, 1933), was a French bass.He enjoyed a prominent career in European and American opera houses in New York City and Chicago. Journet was born in Grasse, southern France, and reputedly studied at the Paris conservatory.
Biography of Wilhelm Knappich (excerpt)
Wilhelm Knappich, born October 9, 1880 in Vienne, died December 28, 1970, was an Austrian astrologer and author. Selected Bibliography * Die Astrologie im Weltbild der Gegenwart (1948) * Der Mensch im Horoskop (1951) * Horoskop und Himmelshäuser - Grundlagen und Altertum, zusammen mit Walter Koch (1959) ![]()
Biography of Emil Berliner (excerpt)
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German naturalized American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). ![]()
Biography of Lucien Guitry (excerpt)
Lucien Germain Guitry (13 December 1860 – 1 June 1925) was a French actor and comedian, the father of Sacha Guitry. Lucien Guitry was born in Paris.In 1885 he was appearing in Saint Petersburg, where he lived for a few years, at the French Theatre (or Mikhaylovsky Theatre. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Pearson (excerpt)
Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, most noted for founding the Daily Express. Early life Pearson was born in Wells to Arthur Cyril and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell (Lyte) Pearson and educated at the prestigious Winchester College in Hampshire. ![]()
Biography of Lise Meitner (excerpt)
Lise Meitner, ForMemRS (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics.Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Biography of Remy de Gourmont (excerpt)
Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne (birth time source: birth certificate, remydegourmont.org/) - September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars. (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.) ![]()
Biography of Avery Hopwood (excerpt)
Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 - July 1, 1928), who was born in Cleveland and graduated from the University of Michigan, was one of the most successful playwrights of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. ![]()
Biography of Guglielmo Zorzi (excerpt)
Guglielmo Zorzi, born on January 31, 1879 in Bologna, died on October 4, 1967, was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Filmography (director) (extract) 1928 La vena d'oro 1925 La bocca chiusa 1924 Il riscatto 1924 La via del dolore 1924 Il cammino delle stelle
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Biography of Warner Oland (excerpt)
Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish American actor most remembered for his role as Charlie Chan. Biography He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden.He claimed that his vaguely Asian appearance was due to possessing some Mongolian ancestry,:1 though his known ancestry contains no indication that this was so.
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Biography of Warwick Deeping (excerpt)
George Warwick Deeping (May 28, 1877–April 20, 1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer.His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Rutherford Crockett (excerpt)
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914) was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, the illegitimate grandson of a farmer. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879.After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. ![]()
Biography of Alessandro Moreschi (excerpt)
Alessandro Moreschi (November 11, 1858 - April 21, 1922) was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings. Life Alessandro Moreschi was born into a large Roman Catholic family in the town of Monte Compatri, near Frascati.
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Biography of Henri Moissan (excerpt)
Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852, Paris – February 20, 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Biography The family Moissan originated from Toulouse and moved to Paris, where Moissan was born September 28, 1852, the son of a lesser officer of the eastern railway company and a seamstress.
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Biography of Ben Turpin (excerpt)
Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869 – July 1, 1940) was a comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films. Birth Turpin was born Bernhard Turpin or Bernard Turpin in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a candy store owner. Vaudeville He worked in Vaudeville, Burlesque, and Circuses. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Gerlier (excerpt)
Pierre-Marie Gerlier (January 14, 1880—January 17, 1965) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1937 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937. Biography Pierre-Marie Gerlier was born in Versailles, and was a lawyer before deciding to pursue an ecclesiastical career.
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Biography of Adriano Marinetti (excerpt)
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Biography of Ethelbert Nevin (excerpt)
Ethelbert Nevin, born in November 25, 1862, in Edgeworth (PA) was an American musician and composer. He is best known for his song "The Rosary". ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Perrin (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Perrin (September 30, 1870 – April 17, 1942) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.He was born in Lille, France where he attended the École Normale Supérieure.He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode rays and X-rays.
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Biography of Paul Le Flem (excerpt)
Paul Le Flem (March 18, 1881 - July 31, 1984) was a French composer and musician.Born in Alençon, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and André Jolivet. ![]()
Biography of Charles Tournemire (excerpt)
Charles Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include many organ works, eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen for piano, but by far the best known piece from his pen is L'Orgue Mystique.
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Biography of David Belasco (excerpt)
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier. ![]()
Biography of William Burrell (excerpt)
Sir William Burrell (July 9, 1861 (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright collection) - March 29, 1958) was a Glaswegian shipping merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1861. He was the third of nine children in a family, which ran a shipping business.
Biography of Henri Paucot (excerpt)
Henri Paucot, born on December 27, 1877 in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, was a French physician and obstetrician, a member of the Academie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of C. H. Douglas (excerpt)
Major C.H.(Clifford Hugh) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE, (January 20, 1879–September 29, 1952) , was a British engineer and pioneer of the Social Credit economic reform movement. Education and engineering career C.H.Douglas was born in either Edgeley or Manchester, the son of Hugh Douglas and Louisa Hordern. ![]()
Biography of Pope Innocent XII (excerpt)
Pope Innocent XII (March 14, 1615 – September 27, 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli was Pope from 1691 to 1700.He was the successor of Pope Alexander VIII (1689–91). His date and time of birth come from "Insediamenti albanesi in val di Crati Volume 2°" by Italo Sarro (Nuova Santelli Edizioni sas, 2012).
Biography of Elbert Benjamine (excerpt)
C.C.Zain, born Elbert Benjamine (Dec 12, 1882 - Nov 18, 1951) was a prominent astrologer, occult author, and the founder of the Church of Light.His interest in occultism began when, at the age of 18, he joined the Brotherhood of Light, where he studied occult and spiritual topics, eventually becoming one of the organization's leaders.
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Biography of Gabrielle Dorziat (excerpt)
Gabrielle Dorziat (real name: Marie Odile Léonie Gabrielle Sigrist) was a French actress born in Epernay, France on January 25 in 1880 and died in Biarritz on November 30, 1979. She performed many years on stage before becoming a movie actress in 1936. ![]()
Biography of August Vermeylen (excerpt)
August Vermeylen (May 12, 1872 in Brussels (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut) – January 10, 1945 in Ukkel) was a Belgian writer and literature critic.In 1893 he founded the journal Van Nu en Straks (English: Today and Tomorrow). ![]()
Biography of Fannie Farmer (excerpt)
Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose Boston Cooking-School Cook Book became a widely used culinary text. Biography Farmer was born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer, an editor and printer.
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Biography of Ludwig Ganghofer (excerpt)
Ludwig Ganghofer (July 7, 1855 - July 24, 1920) was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Biography Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works.In 1875, he entered Munich Polytechnic as a student of mechanical engineering, but eventually changed his major to history of literature and philosophy, which subjects he studied in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Peter Debye (excerpt)
Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in MMaastricht, Netherlands, Debye attended the Aachen University of Technology, Rhenish Prussia just 30 km away in 1901.
Biography of Sewell L. Avery (excerpt)
Sewell L.Avery, born November 4, 1874 in Saginaw, Michiga, was an American entrepreneur and businessman, the President of Gypsum Co.in Chicago.
Biography of Robert William Johnstone (excerpt)
Robert William Johnstone, born August 11, 1879 in Edinburgh, was a Scottish physician, gynecologist and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Schwob (excerpt)
(Mayer André) Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 12 February 1905) was a French writer and poet. He was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine on 23 August 1867. He was the brother of Maurice Schwob and uncle of Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob). The birth record does not contain the time. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Hamy (excerpt)
Maurice Théodore Adolphe Hamy, born October 31, 1861 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, died April 9, 1936, was a French astronomer.He was President of Bureau des Longitudes, a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25, 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation.
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Biography of Henri Bremond (excerpt)
Henri Bremond (31 July 1865 – 17 August 1933) was a French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists. Biography He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence.He served his novitiate in England, and took orders in 1892. ![]()
Biography of Georges Leygues (excerpt)
Georges Leygues (French pronunciation: ; 26 October 1857 – 2 September 1933) was a French politician of the Third Republic. During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line.
Biography of James Baum (excerpt)
James Baum, born November 14, 1875 in San Fransisco, was an American executive of the Los Angeles Times.The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States.
Biography of Jean-Louis Faure (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Faure, born October 27, 1863 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, died October 1944 in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, is a French surgeon, the brother of author and historian Élie Faure. Selected works Leçons de clinique et de technique chirurgicale, 1905 Sur la chirurgie de guerre, 1916
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Biography of Albert Ritchie (excerpt)
Albert Cabell Ritchie (August 29, 1876 – February 24, 1936), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 49th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1920 to 1935. Ritchie campaigned for, but did not win, the Democratic presidential nomination in both 1924 and 1932. ![]()
Biography of Sven Hedin (excerpt)
Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865 – November 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician.His achievements include the production of the first detailed maps of vast parts of Pamir, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet, the ancient Silk Road, and the Himalayas. ![]()
Biography of August Bier (excerpt)
August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia.After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn, Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on a series of 6 patients for lower extremity surgery. ![]()
Biography of Georges Catroux (excerpt)
Georges Catroux (29 January 1877 – 21 December 1969) was a French Army general and diplomat who served in both World War I and World War II, and served as Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur from 1954 to 1969. Catroux was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne.
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Biography of Lucien Descaves (excerpt)
Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist.A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
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Biography of Gustave Kahn (excerpt)
Gustave Kahn (December 21, 1859 – September 5, 1936) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. Kahn was born in Metz. He claimed to have invented the term vers libre, or free verse; he was in any case one of the first European exponents of the form; he wrote rhymed verse as well.
Biography of Maurice Feltin (excerpt)
Maurice Feltin (15 May 1883 - 27 September 1975) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1949 to 1966, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. Born in Delle, Territoire-de-Belfort, Maurice Feltin studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris before being ordained a priest on 3 July 1909.
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Biography of Olive Schreiner (excerpt)
Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - December 11, 1920), was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women.
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Biography of Hanns Heinz Ewers (excerpt)
Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 in Düsseldorf – 12 June 1943 in Berlin) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels.While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself. |
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