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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 Rudolf Ganz (excerpt)
Rudolph Ganz (24 February 1877 – 2 August 1972) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne. Biography Ganz was born in Zurich, Switzerland. A pupil of Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, he became head of piano studies at the Chicago Musical College in 1901.
Biography of Auguste Lameere (excerpt)
Auguste Alfred Lucien Lameere is a Belgian entomologist, born on June 12, 1864 in Ixelles (source for his time of birth: Lescaut), and died in 1942. He was a professor and dean (1906–1907) of the faculty of sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Biography of Charles Granval (excerpt)
Charles Granval, born Charles, Louis Gribouval December 21, 1882 in Rouen, died July 28, 1943 in Paris, was a French comedian and actor. He married actresses Berthe Bovy and Madeleine Renaud (a son, Jean-Pierre Granval). Filmography (selection) * 1917 : Le Traitement du hoquet de Raymond Bernard
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Biography of Henry Bordeaux (excerpt)
Henri Bordeaux (27 January 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut) - 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambéry bar.
Biography of Marie Koenen (excerpt)
Marie Koenen, born on January 19, 1879 in 's-Hertogenbosch (birth time source: Lescaut), died on July 11, 1959 in Maastricht, was a Dutch novelist. Selected publications 1912 - De witte burcht 1916 - Sproken en legenden ![]()
Biography of Victor Boucher (excerpt)
Victor Louis Armand Boucher, born August 24, 1877 in Rouen and died February 21, 1942 in Ville-d'Avray, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) 1913 : La Petite Chocolatière de André Liabel 1914 : L'Idée de Françoise de Emile Chautard
Biography of Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Renouard, seigneur de Villayer (June 24, 1607 in Nantes – March 5, 1691 in Paris) was a member of the French Conseil d'État, which had been delegated special legal authorities by the absolutist reigning King Louis XIV. In 1653 as the tenant of the Paris City Post, Renouard de Villayer ordered letter boxes to be set up at different places in Paris.
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Biography of Georges Theunis (excerpt)
Georges Emile Léonard Theunis (28 February 1873, Liège - 4 January 1966, Brussels) was the 24th Prime Minister of Belgium from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1941 until 1944.
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Biography of Hamish MacCunn (excerpt)
Hamish MacCunn (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916), Scottish romantic composer, was born in Greenock, the son of a shipowner, and was educated at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.
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Biography of Emile Muselier (excerpt)
Emile Henry Muselier (Marseilles, 17 April 1882 - Toulon, 2 September 1965) was a French admiral who led the Free French Naval Forces (Forces navales françaises libres, or FNFL) during World War II. He was responsible for the idea of distinguishing his fleet from that of Vichy France by adopting the Cross of Lorraine, which later became the emblem of all of the Free French.
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Biography of Paul Harel (excerpt)
Paul Harel, born on May 18, 1854 in Échauffour, died in 1927, was a French poet and innkeeper. Selected publications Sous les pommiers, poésies, 1879 Gousses d'ail et fleurs de serpolet, 1881 Les Vingt-Huit Jours du caporal Ballandard, 1882 Rimes de broche et d’épée, 1883 Aux champs, 1886 Gustave Le Vavasseur, 1888 La Hanterie, 1889 Souvenirs d’auberge, 1894 Gorgeansac. ![]()
Biography of Ronald Ross (excerpt)
Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.
Biography of Octave Aubry (excerpt)
Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris - 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian. Life Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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Biography of Gregori Chmara (excerpt)
Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara (Ukrainian: Григорій Михайлович Хмара, Russian: Григорий Михайлович Хмара; 29 July 1878 – 3 February 1970) was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades. Biography Born in Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Chmara began his career in 1910 at the Moscow Art Theater. ![]()
Biography of Johann Erasmus Kindermann (excerpt)
Johann Erasmus Kindermann (29 March 1616 – 14 April 1655) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century. Life Kindermann was born in Nuremberg and studied music from an early age; at 15 he already had a job performing at Sunday afternoon concerts at the Frauenkirche (he sang bass and played violin).
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Biography of Cy Young (excerpt)
Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. During his 22-year baseball career (1890-1911), he pitched for five different teams. Young was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. ![]()
Biography of Arnold Dolmetsch (excerpt)
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th century revival of interest in Early Music.
Biography of J.W. Bulmer (excerpt)
J.W. Bulmer,, born August 8, 1881 in Halifax, died in 1936, was a British businessman, entrepreneur, and textile magnate.
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Biography of William K.L. Dickson (excerpt)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish photographer, director, screenwriter, actor and inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France. ![]()
Biography of Abel Bonnard (excerpt)
Abel Bonnard (December 19, 1883 – May 31, 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Born in Poitiers, Vienne, his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literature, he was a graduate of the École du Louvre and a member of the École Française de Rome.
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Biography of Emile Picard (excerpt)
Charles Émile Picard (24 July 1856 - 12 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924. Picard's mathematical papers, textbooks, and many popular writings exhibit an extraordinary range of interests, as well as an impressive mastery of the mathematics of his time.
Biography of Walter Devoe (excerpt)
Walter Devoe, born March 11, 1874 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was an American spiritual healer and author.
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Biography of Paul Otlet (excerpt)
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (23 August 1868 (birth time source: act n°3914, André Dekoster) – 10 December 1944) was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation".
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Biography of Gabriel Signoret (excerpt)
Gabriel Signoret (November 15, 1878 (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – March 16, 1937, in Paris, France) was a French silent film actor. He starred in some 70 films between 1910 and 1938. In 1920 he appeared in Guy du Fresnay's Flipotte. His brother Jean Signoret (born 1886) was also an actor.
Biography of Camille Bert (excerpt)
Camille Léon Louis Bertrand, best known as Camille Bert, born in Orléans December 27, 1880 and died in Paris June 18, 1970, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1911 : Au fil de l'eau de Max André 1911 : Le Roi de Louis Feuillade
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Biography of Conrad Noel (excerpt)
Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel (12 July 1869 - 2 July 1942) was a prominent British Christian Socialist. His father was the poet Roden Noël. Born in London, Noel was ordained in the Church of England and officiated in various parishes until 1910, when he became the vicar of Thaxted in Essex until his death in 1942.
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Biography of Bernard Zweers (excerpt)
Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. ![]()
Biography of Daniel C. Roper (excerpt)
Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1, 1867 – April 11, 1943) was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina. His father, John Wesley Roper, was a leader of the Scotch Boys of the Confederate Army.
Biography of Henri Billet (excerpt)
Henri Billet, born February 3, 1882 in Châteauroux, was a French physician, a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Biography of Charles de Chambrun (excerpt)
Charles de Chambrun, born Charles Pineton de Chambrun February 10, 1875 in Washington D.C. and died November 6, 1952, is a French writer and diplomat. Awards Grand officier de la Légion d'Honneur Works Charles de Chambrun Lettres à Marie, Pétersbourg-Pétrograd, 1914-1918 (1941) Ataturk et la Turquie nouvelle (1939) À l'école d'un diplomate : Vergennes (1944) L’Esprit de la diplomatie (1944) Traditions et souvenirs (1952) Marie de Rohan Chabot (sous le nom de Marie de Chambrun) Le Roi de Rome, Plon, 1941 Marie de Rohan Chabot (sous le nom de Princesse Lucien Murat) Raspoutine et l'aube sanglante, De Boccard, s. ![]()
Biography of El Espartero (excerpt)
Manuel García Cuesta, known as "El Espartero", born January 18, 1865 in Seville and died May 27, 1894, was a Spanish matador. A matador or torero is the main performer in bullfighting events in Spain, some Spanish-speaking countries and France. ![]()
Biography of Enrico De Nicola (excerpt)
Enrico Roberto De Nicola (November 9, 1877 – October 1, 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and the first provisional Head of State of the newborn republic in 1946–1948. Enrico De Nicola was born in Napoli, and became famous as one of the most esteemed penal lawyers in Italy. ![]()
Biography of Victor Herbert (excerpt)
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
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Biography of Marcel Sembat (excerpt)
Marcel Sembat, born October 19, 1862 in Bonnières-sur-Seine, died in 1922 in Chamonix, was a French politician, socialist and member of SFIO. Bibliography (extract) Lefebvre, Denis, Marcel Sembat : socialiste et franc-maçon, Paris, Editions Bruno Leprince, 1995, 186 p.
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Biography of Niels Ryberg Finsen (excerpt)
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science.
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Biography of Arturo Bocchini (excerpt)
Arturo Bocchini (12 February 1880 - 20 November 1940), was head of the Italian police (Polizia di Stato ) from 1927, under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Under his direction police took a strict control in the life of Italians, also due to the help of OVRA the secret police, controlled in some way by Bocchini.
Biography of Jean Rodor (excerpt)
Jean Rodor, born on April 26, 1881 in Sète (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certifricate), died in 1967 in Paris, was a French singer and lyricist.
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Biography of Lottie Dod (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lottie" Dod (24 September 1871 – 27 June, 1960) was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887.
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Biography of Max Dearly (excerpt)
Max Dearly (1874-1943) was a French actor. Selected filmography Madame Bovary (1934) The Last Billionaire (1934) Les Misérables (1934) A Rare Bird (1935) Parisian Life (1936)
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Biography of Philippe Quinault (excerpt)
Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. He was educated by the liberality of Tristan L'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen. ![]()
Biography of Louis Couturat (excerpt)
Louis Couturat (January 17, 1868 – August 3, 1914) was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Life Born in Paris and raised in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure. He held professorships, first at the University of Toulouse, then subsequently at the Collège de France. ![]()
Biography of Louis Gillet (excerpt)
Louis Gillet (11 December 1876, Paris - 1 July 1943, Paris) was a French art historian and literary historian. Works * Raphaël, 1907 * Watteau, 1921 * Trois variations sur Claude Monet, 1927 * Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.
Biography of Joseph Calmette (excerpt)
Joseph Calmette, born on September 1, 1873 in Perpignan, died on August 16, 1952 in Toulouse, was a French historian and writer, a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1934).
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Biography of Marcus Loew (excerpt)
Marcus Loew (May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Biography Born into a poor Jewish family in New York City, he was forced by circumstances to work at a very young age and thus had little formal education.
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Biography of Georges Lefebvre (excerpt)
Georges Lefebvre (7 August 1874–28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française ("The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution”), which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period.
Biography of Arthur Hannequin (excerpt)
Arthur Hannequin, born October 27, 1856 in Pargny-sur-Saulx (Marne), died July 5, 1905, was a French physicist , professor of philosophy and sciences and author. ![]()
Biography of John Tweed (excerpt)
John Tweed, born January 21, 1869 in Glasgow, died November 12, 1933 in London, was a Scottish sculptor. ![]()
Biography of Camille Jullian (excerpt)
Camille Jullian (March 15, 1859 - December 12, 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Biography Jullian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France.
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Biography of John Rabe (excerpt)
John Rabe (November 23, 1882 – January 5, 1950) was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and succour Chinese civilians during the event.
Biography of Nicolas Pietri (excerpt)
Nicolas Pietri (February 2, 1862, Sartène, Corsica, France) was a French politician, business man and art amateur. |
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