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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 Henry Jean-Marie Levet (excerpt)
Henry Jean-Marie Levet (January 13, 1874 (birth time source: Lescaut)–December 15, 1906) was a French poet, journalist, and diplomat. Selected bibliography Le Drame de l'allée, chez l'auteur, 1897. Dédicace à Francis Jourdain. Le Pavillon, collection bibliophile de l'Aube, 1897. ![]()
Biography of Louis Cyr (excerpt)
Louis Cyr (born Cyprien-Noé Cyr, 1863–1912) was a famous French Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with three fingers and carrying 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg) on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness chairman Ben Weider, the strongest man ever to have lived. ![]()
Biography of Maxime Maufra (excerpt)
Born in Nantes on May 17, 1861, died on May 23, 1918, Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. Biography Douarnenez Paysage d'Octobre (1896), Dallas Museum of Art Maufra first began painting at 18. He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes: the brothers Leduc. ![]()
Biography of Louis Brocq (excerpt)
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Biography of John Carteek (excerpt)
John Carteek, born January 22, 1861 in Rockland, Michigan, was an American wrestler. ![]()
Biography of Prince Francis of Teck (excerpt)
Prince Francis of Teck, GCVO, DSO (9 January 1870 – 22 October 1910), was a member of the British Royal Family, the brother of Queen Mary. Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick, known as "Frank" was born at Kensington Palace and educated at Wellington College, Cheltenham College (Stone, 1912, p.
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Biography of Yves Delage (excerpt)
Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity.
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Biography of Ernest Duchesne (excerpt)
Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed. ![]()
Biography of Alfred North Whitehead (excerpt)
Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Pissarro (excerpt)
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 (birth time source: Scholfield) – 10 July 1944) was a French painter, printmaker and wood engraver. Eldest son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he was born in Paris and studied with his father. His works employ techniques of Impressionism and its successor, Neo-impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX.
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Biography of Theodore William Richards (excerpt)
Theodore William Richards (January 31, 1868 – April 2, 1928) was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements. ![]()
Biography of Alida Rouffe (excerpt)
Alida Rouffe, born Joséphine Marie Rouffe March 20, 1874 in Bordeaux and died November 21, 1949 in Marseille, was a French comedian, actress and singer. Filmography 1931 : Marius de Alexandre Korda : Honorine Cabanis 1931 : Mam'zelle Nitouche de Marc Allégret : La mère supérieure 1932 : Toine de René Gaveau 1932 : Fanny de Marc Allégret : Honorine Cabanis 1932 : Paris Soleil de Jean Hémard : Tante Maria 1935 : Cigalon de Marcel Pagnol : Sidonie 1936 : Topaze de Marcel Pagnol : Baronne Pitart-Vergnolles 1936 : César de Marcel Pagnol : Honorine Cabanis 1937 : Le Chanteur de minuit de Léo Joannon : Marceline
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Biography of Theodor Loos (excerpt)
Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 in Zwingenberg – 27 June 1954 in Stuttgart) was a German actor. The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipzig, and after that for his uncle, an art dealer in Berlin.
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Biography of Francesco Severi (excerpt)
Francesco Severi (13 April 1879, Arezzo - 8 December 1961, Rome) was an Italian mathematician. Severi was born in Arezzo, Italy. He is famous for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He became the effective leader of the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
Biography of Lelio Colista (excerpt)
Lelio Colista (13 January 1629, Rome – 13 October 1680, Rome) was an Italian Baroque composer and lutenist. Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican library, Colista early received an excellent musical education, probably at the Seminario Romano.
Biography of Ben Kilpatrick (excerpt)
Ben Kilpatrick (January 5, 1874- March 12, 1912) was an American outlaw during the closing days of the American Old West. He was a member of the Wild Bunch gang led by Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay. He was arrested for robbery and served about 10 years of his 15 year sentence.
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Biography of Georges Dorignac (excerpt)
Georges Dorignac, born November 8, 1879 in Bordeaux, died in 1925, was a French artist and painter.
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Biography of Lewis Spence (excerpt)
James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence (25 November 1874 (source for his time of birth: Steinbrecher) - 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, whose efforts as a compiler of Scottish folklore have proved more durable than his efforts as a poet and occult scholar. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Renard (excerpt)
Maurice Renard (28 February 1875 - 18 November 1939) was a French writer. Overview Maurice Renard was born in Châlons-en-Champagne. He was the author of the archetypal mad scientist novel Le Docteur Lerne - Sous-Dieu (1908), which he dedicated to H. G.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Esteva (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Esteva, born September 14, 1880 in Reims and died January 11, 1951 in Reims, was a French military officer and politician. ![]()
Biography of Frank B. Kellogg (excerpt)
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.
Biography of Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (excerpt)
Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (October 1, 1871—January 13, 1951) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Vicar General of Rome, Secretary of the Holy Office, and Dean of the College of Cardinals.
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Biography of Maurice Schutz (excerpt)
Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film actor and comedian. He starred in some 91 films between 1918 and 1952. Filmography (selection) 1910 : Nick Winter l'adroit détective de Paul Garbagni 1914 : Le Train des bois - une production Pathé -
Biography of Armand Lurville (excerpt)
Armand Lurville, sometimes called André Lurville, born Armand Barouch Josephson on March 21, 1875 in Paris, died on September 25, 1955 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1956 Gervaise Le président du tribunal (uncredited) 1948 Ruy Blas L'archevêque (as Lurville) 1946 Un revenant
Biography of André Savignon (excerpt)
André Savignon (born 1 January 1878 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 5) - died January 10, 1947) was a French author and journalist. His parents were (Eugène) Michel Savignon and (Louise) Isabelle Varanguien de Villepin.
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Biography of Esaias Reusner (excerpt)
Esaias Reusner (the Younger) (29 April 1636, Löwenberg in Silesia, now Lwówek Śląski, Poland – 1 May 1679, Berlin, Germany) was a German lutenist and composer. His first lute teacher was his father Esaias (lutenist to the Prince of Bernstadt). He was a child prodigy and together with his father he traveled and performed at various courts.
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Biography of Laura Mancini (excerpt)
Laura Mancini (6 May 1636 – 8 February 1657) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin. She was the eldest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. ![]()
Biography of Christian Lange (excerpt)
Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism. He was born in Stavanger, and received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Oslo in 1893. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Blondel (excerpt)
Maurice Blondel (2 November 1861, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 June 1949, Aix-en-Provence) was a French philosopher. Blondel developed a "philosophy of action” that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion.
Biography of Emile Baumann (excerpt)
Emile Baumann (born in September 24 1868 in Lyon, France) was a French novelist. Selected works (in French) Le Baptême de Pauline Ardel (1913) La Paix du septième jour (1918) Job le prédestiné (1922) Abel et Caïn (1930) La Vie terrible d’Henry de Groux (1936)
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Biography of Henri Breuil (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil, was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, China with Teilhard de Chardin, Ethiopia, Somaliland and especially Southern Africa. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Loisy (excerpt)
Alfred Firmin Loisy (28 February 1857 – 1 June 1940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation myth, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting scripture. ![]()
Biography of Edgar Lee Masters (excerpt)
Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1869 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. ![]()
Biography of Georges Lecomte (excerpt)
Georges Lecomte (9 July 1867 - 27 August 1958) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. Lecomte was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. In 1924 he was elected to the Académie française, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1946.
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Biography of David Dunbar Buick (excerpt)
David Dunbar Buick, born September 17, 1854 in Arbroath and died March 5, 1929, was a Scottish-born American inventor best known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He was born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland moving to Detroit, Michigan at the age of two when his parents emigrated to the United States.
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Biography of Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (excerpt)
Charles Amadeus of Savoy (French: Charles Amédée de Savoie) (12 April 1624 – 30 July 1652) was a French military leader and magnate and Duke of Nemours. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and Queen of Portugal. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Dhorme (excerpt)
Édouard Paul D'horme, best known as Edouard Dhorme, born January 15, 1881 in Armentières (Nord), died January 19, 1966 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes), was a French writer, historian, assyriologist, and translator of the Bible. Selected publications * Études bibliques. Choix de textes religieux assyro-babyloniens, transcription, traduction, commentaire, Paris, 1907
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Biography of Vilhelm Herold (excerpt)
Vilhelm Christoffer Herold (born March 19, 1865 in Hasle (Bornholm) – died December 15, 1937 in Copenhagen) was an operatic tenor, voice teacher and theatre director. Herold created the role of David in Carl Nielsen's opera Saul og David (Oslo 1902). ![]()
Biography of Jan Sluijters (excerpt)
Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters (17 December 1881, 's-Hertogenbosch – 8 May 1957, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter. Sluijters (in English often spelled "Sluyters") was a leading pioneer of various post-impressionist movements in the Netherlands. He experimented with several styles, including fauvism and cubism, finally settling on a colorful expressionism. ![]()
Biography of Ibn Saud (excerpt)
Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Saud (15 January 1875 – 9 November 1953), known in the West as Ibn Saud (sometimes Saoud or Séoud), was the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, the "third Saudi state".
Biography of Gabriel Bertrand (excerpt)
Gabriel Bertrand, born May 17, 1867 in Paris, died June 20, 1962, was a French chemist and biologist.
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Biography of Jules Cornet (excerpt)
Jules Cornet, born on March 4, 1865 in La Louvière, died in 1929, was a Belgian geologist.
Biography of Pierre Rehm (excerpt)
Pierre Rehm, born on January 2, 1884 in Versailles, Yvelines (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin), was a French physician, surgeon, and a member of the Academy of Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Arnoux (excerpt)
Alexandre Arnoux, born on February 27, 1884 in Digne (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on January 5, 1973 in Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French novelist, poet, and playwright, member of the Académie Goncourt (1947). Selected works Poetry L'Allée des mortes (1906)
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Biography of Paul Delmet (excerpt)
Paul Julien Delmet (born June 17, 1862, in Paris and died October 24, 1904, in Paris) was a French composer and singer, renowned for his popular romances. Born to a laundress, he adopted the name Delmet after his mother remarried. Noticed for his soprano voice, he sang in the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul choir and later worked as a music engraver while learning harmony. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf Friml (excerpt)
Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as being a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Puiseux (excerpt)
Pierre Henri Puiseux (July 20, 1855 – September 28, 1928) was a French astronomer. Born in Paris, son of Victor Puiseux, he was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure before starting work as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1885. He worked on the aberration of light, asteroids, lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project.
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Biography of Edmond Malherbe (excerpt)
Edmond Malherbe, born on August 21, 1870 in Paris, died on March 7, 1963 in Corbeil-Essonnes (91), was a French musician and composer. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Louis Forain (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Forain (October 23, 1852 - July 11, 1931) was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher. Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals but wanting to expand his horizons, enrolled at the École des Beaux Arts, studying under Jean-Léon Gérôme as well as another sculptor/painter, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
Biography of Gustave Cohen (excerpt)
Gustave Cohen, born in Brussels, Belgium, December 24, 1879 and died in Paris, June 11, 1958, was a French historian specialist in medieval France, teacher and author. Bibliography Écrivains français en Hollande dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, Librairie ancienne Édouard Champion, 1920 |
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