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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 Henri Maspero (excerpt)
Henri Paul Gaston Maspero (15 December 1883 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 17 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. ![]()
Biography of Albert Caquot (excerpt)
Albert Irénée Caquot (1 July 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 November 1976) was considered as the "best living French engineer" during half a century. He received the “Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)” (military honor) and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur (1951). ![]()
Biography of Sarah Knauss (excerpt)
Sarah DeRemer Knauss (née Clark; September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian. Knauss is the oldest person ever from the United States, and widely reported as the second-oldest fully documented person ever. She was recognized as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, until her death. ![]()
Biography of Jane Toppan (excerpt)
Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who is known to have committed twelve murders in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901; she confessed to a total of thirty-one murders.
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Biography of Gerrard Winstanley (excerpt)
Gerrard Winstanley (19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. Winstanley was one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers for their beliefs, and for their actions. ![]()
Biography of Leopold Godowsky (excerpt)
Leopold Godowsky (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher. One of the most highly regarded performers of his time, he became known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing, principles later propagated by Godowsky's pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Richardson (excerpt)
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 novels, she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique.
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Biography of Marie Marvingt (excerpt)
Marie Marvingt (20 February 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 14 December 1963) was a French athlete, mountaineer, aviator and journalist. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements including those of swimming, cycling, mountain climbing, winter sports, ballooning, flying, riding, gymnastics, athletics, rifle shooting and fencing.
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Biography of Charles Debierre (excerpt)
Charles Debierre, born on October 31, 1853 in Ételfay (Somme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 8), died on March 8, 1932 in Lillie (Nord), was a French politician, and also the Grand Maître of Grand Orient de France, the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe. ![]()
Biography of Max Eitingon (excerpt)
Max Eitingon (26 June 1881 – 30 July 1943) was a Belarusian-German medical doctor and psychoanalyst, instrumental in establishing the institutional parameters of psychoanalytic education and training. Eitingon was cofounder and president from 1920 to 1933 of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic. He was also director and patron of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag (1921-1930), president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (1927-1933), founder and president of the International Training Committee (1925-1943), and founder of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Society (1934) and of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Israel.
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Biography of Gustave Lanson (excerpt)
Gustave Lanson (August 5, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 15, 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Biography Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death.
Biography of Georges-Albert Puyou de Pouvourville (excerpt)
Georges-Albert Puyou de Pouvourville (also called Matgioi), born on August 7, 1861 in Nancy, died on December 30, 1939 in Paris, was a French writer and Taoist specialist. Works Le Tao de Laotseu, traduit du chinois par Matgioi, Librairie de l'Art indépendant, 1894, 46 pp.
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Biography of Gaston Habrekorn (excerpt)
Gaston Habrekorn, born on March 30, 1866 in Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on December 9, 1917, was a French songwriter, cabaret singer, and author. He was the owner of Le Bataclan, a famous French cabaret. ![]()
Biography of Pedro Paulet (excerpt)
Pedro Paulet Mostajo (July 2, 1874 in Arequipa, Peru – 1945 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Peruvian scientist who allegedly in 1895 was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system. ![]()
Biography of Emilio Salgari (excerpt)
Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation: , but often erroneously pronounced ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. For over a century, his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures.
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Biography of O'Galop (excerpt)
O'Galop, pseudonym of Marius Rossillon (June 8, 1867 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-January 2, 1946) was a French artist and cartoonist, best known for creating Bibendum, the Michelin Man. O'Galop began his career around 1893, drawing cartoons for magazines. He is also a pioneer in animation and created about 40 animated films between 1910 and 1927. ![]()
Biography of Pietro Mascagni (excerpt)
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (Italian: ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. ![]()
Biography of Smedley Butler (excerpt)
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Emma Calvé (excerpt)
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 (birth time source: birth certificate), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London. ![]()
Biography of George Edward Moore (excerpt)
George Edward "G. E." Moore OM, FBA (/mʊər/; 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy. ![]()
Biography of Lu Xun (excerpt)
Lu Xun (Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer.
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Biography of Remigio Cabello (excerpt)
Remigio Cabello, born on November 22, 1872 in Valladolid (birth time source: Castellanos, birth certificate), died on May 16, 1936, was a Spanish typographer and socialist politician, the founder of the Socialist Group of Valladolid. He was President of the Socialist Party. ![]()
Biography of Riccardo Zandonai (excerpt)
Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian composer. Biography Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria–Hungary. As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he entered the Pesaro Conservatorio in 1899 and completed his studies in 1902; he completed the nine-year curriculum in only three years.
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Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919.
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Biography of Arthur Groussier (excerpt)
Arthur Groussier (16 August 1863, Orléans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 741) - 6 February 1957) was a French politician. At first he joined the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France (FTSF). In 1890 he joined the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR). ![]()
Biography of Oldfield Thomas (excerpt)
(Michael Rogers) Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (February 21, 1858 in Millbrook, Bedfordshire – June 16, 1929) was a British zoologist. Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878.
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Biography of Jean Veber (excerpt)
Jean Veber (13 February 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Career overview Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his brother Pierre urged him to join the staff of the newspaper Gil Blas.
Biography of Pâquerette (actress) (excerpt)
Marguerite Jeanne Puech, best known as Pâquerette, born on March 27, 1876 in Paris, died on May 6, 1965, was a French actress. Selected filmography (fr) 1954 : French Cancan de Jean Renoir : Mimi Prunelle, ex-reine du Cancan 1955 : Le Fil à la patte de Guy Lefranc : L'habilleuse
Biography of Leila Waddell (excerpt)
Leila Ida Nerissa Bathurst Waddell, also known as Laylah, (10 August 1880 – 13 September 1932) was a violinist, daughter of Irish immigrants to Australia, David Waddell of Bathurst and Randwick. She became a famed Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley, and a powerful historical figure in magick and Thelema in her own right.
Biography of Jules Grandjouan (excerpt)
Jules Grandjouan, born on December 2é, 1875 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 12, 1968 in Nantes, was a French painter, draftsman, poster artist, and trade unionist. ![]()
Biography of Josef Suk (composer) (excerpt)
Josef Suk (4 January 1874 in Křečovice – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. Biography Though he did not start composing until 1891, Josef Suk was well-trained in music. He was taught organ, violin, and piano by his father, Josef Suk senior, and he was trained further in violin by the Czech violinist Antonín Bennewitz. ![]()
Biography of William Walker Atkinson (excerpt)
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q.
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Biography of Louis Lafferre (excerpt)
Louis Lafferre (10 May 1861 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 28 February 1929) was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Lafferre was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and began his political career as a local councillor in Narbonne.
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Biography of Albert Roussel (excerpt)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French: ; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. ![]()
Biography of Alexander von Zemlinsky (excerpt)
Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (October 14, 1871, Vienna – March 15, 1942, Larchmont, New York) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Early life Zemlinsky was born in Vienna to a highly multicultural family. Zemlinsky's grandfather, Anton Semlinski, emigrated from Žilina, Hungary (now in Slovakia) to Austria and married an Austrian woman.
Biography of Robert Wiene (excerpt)
Robert Wiene (German: ; 27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was an important film director of the German silent cinema. He is particularly known for directing the influential German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. ![]()
Biography of Madame de Brinvilliers (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (2 July 1630 (source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Madeleine_Dreux_d%27Aubray) – 17 July 1676) was a French aristocrat accused of three murders. She was convicted on the strength of letters written by her dead lover and a confession obtained by torture, so her guilt remains uncertain.
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Biography of Harry Ford Sinclair (excerpt)
Harry Ford Sinclair (July 6, 1876 in Benwood, West Virginia - November 10, 1956 in Pasadena, California) was an American industrialist, founder of Sinclair Oil. He was implicated in the 1920s Teapot Dome Scandal, and served six months in prison for jury tampering. ![]()
Biography of Wallace Stevens (excerpt)
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Biography of Wilhelm Stenhammar (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Beecham (excerpt)
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 1879 – 8 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was also closely associated with the Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras. ![]()
Biography of Charles Hamilton (writer) (excerpt)
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres.
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Biography of Alexandre Zévaès (excerpt)
Alexandre Bourson, best known as Alexandre Zévaès, born on May 24, 1873 in Moulins, Alllier (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 238), died on February 20, 1953 in Paris, was a French socialist politician, lawyer, writer, and historian.
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Biography of Francis Jourdain (excerpt)
Francis Jourdain (2 November 1876 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC) – 31 December 1958) was a painter, furniture maker, interior designer, maker of ceramics, and other decorative arts, and a left-wing political activist. Early years Francis Jourdain was born on 2 November 1876, son of the architect Frantz Jourdain.
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Biography of Anders Zorn (excerpt)
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etcher. Among Zorn's portrait subjects were King Oscar II of Sweden, and three American Presidents, Grover Cleveland, William H. ![]()
Biography of John Rogan (excerpt)
John William Rogan (February 16, 1868 – September 12, 1905) was an American man who was the tallest person ever recorded until passed by Robert Wadlow. Biography Rogan, the son of William Rogan, a former slave, was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on February 16, 1868.
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Biography of Robert W. Chambers (excerpt)
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. During World War I he wrote war adventure novels and war stories, some of which showed a strong return to his old weird style, such as "Marooned" in Barbarians (1917). ![]()
Biography of Wilfred Trotter (excerpt)
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter, FRS (3 November 1872 – 25 November 1939) was a British surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery. He was also known for his studies on social psychology, most notably for his concept of the herd instinct, which he first outlined in two published papers in 1908, and later in his famous popular work Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
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Biography of Louis Thirion (composer) (excerpt)
Louis Thirion, born on February 13, 1879 in Baccarat, died on July 4, 1966 in Nancy, was a French composer and musician.
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Biography of Annie Pétain (excerpt)
Annie Pétain (born Alphonsine Berthe Eugénie Hardon on 5 October 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – died on 30 January 1962) was the wife of the French military commander and political leader Philippe Pétain who ruled Vichy France between 1940 and 1944. |
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