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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. in ![]()
Biography of Louis Chevrolet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a Swiss-American race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the Frontenac Motor Corporation. On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with Durant and investment partners William Little (maker of the Little automobile) and Dr.
Biography of Lluís Companys (excerpt)
Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: ; June 21, 1882 – October 15, 1940) was a Spanish politician.He was the President of Catalonia (Spain), from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. He was a lawyer and leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) political party.
Biography of Andrey Vyshinsky (excerpt)
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; Polish: Andrzej Wyszyński) (10 December 1883 – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and for the Nuremberg trials.
Biography of André Bloch (excerpt)
André Bloch (14 January 1873, in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960, in Paris) was a French composer and music educator.He studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris.In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier.
Biography of Marie-Louise Meilleur (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (née Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a French Canadian supercentenarian.Meilleur is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's oldest recognized living person.
Biography of Avel Yenukidze (excerpt)
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze (19 May 1877—30 October 1937) was a prominent "Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Soviet Central Committee in Moscow. In 1932, along with Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov, Yenukidze co-signed the infamous "Law of Spikelets".
Biography of Alfred Korzybski (excerpt)
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.
Biography of Mikhail Tomsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
Biography of Harriet Shaw Weaver (excerpt)
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1 September 1876 – 14 October 1961) was a political activist and a magazine editor.She was a patron of Irish writer James Joyce. In 1911 she began subscribing to The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, a radical periodical edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe.
Biography of Kamo (Bolshevik) (excerpt)
Kamo, real name Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosian (27 May 1882 – 14 July 1922), was an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. He died in 1922 after being hit by a truck while riding a bicycle in Tiflis.
Biography of Vasily Rozanov (excerpt)
Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Рóзанов; 2 May 1856 – 5 February 1919) was one of the most controversial Russian writers and philosophers of the pre-revolutionary epoch. Rozanov tried to reconcile Christian teachings with ideas of healthy sex and family life, though as his adversary Nikolai Berdyaev put it, "to set up sex in opposition to the Word".
Biography of Marcel Cachin (excerpt)
Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 – 12 February 1958) was a French politician. In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF).In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914.
Biography of Georgi Dimitrov (excerpt)
Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov, also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov (18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician. He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria, from 1946 to 1949. Dimitrov led the Communist International from 1934 to 1943. He was a theorist of capitalism who expanded Lenin's ideas by arguing that fascism was the dictatorship of the most reactionary elements of financial capitalism.
Biography of Anne Conway (philosopher) (excerpt)
Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679) was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Gottfried Leibniz. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy, with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns that lead some to think of it as unique among seventeenth-century systems.
Biography of Francesco Provenzale (excerpt)
Francesco Provenzale (15 September 1624 in Naples – 6 September 1704 in Naples) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere Nicolo Grimaldi (detto Nicolini)'.
Biography of Adolphe Ferrière (excerpt)
Adolphe Ferrière (Geneva, 1879 - Geneva, 1960) was one of the founders of the movement of the progressive education.His time of birth comes from Taeger Vol.2 p.544, JON (Nr.355, without source). He shortly worked in a school in Glarisegg (TG, CH) and later founded an experimental school ('La Forge') in Lausanne, Switzerland, but Adolphe Ferrière had to quickly abandon teaching due to his deafness.
Biography of Arthur Bernède (excerpt)
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany.In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played Fantômas in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously.
Biography of Pompeu Fabra (excerpt)
Pompeu Fabra i Poch (Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 - Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer and grammarian.He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. In 1932, owing to his scientific prestige, he was unanimously named a professor (catedràtic) of the Republican Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (not to be confused with the later Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona created in the 1960s during the Francoist régime).
Biography of Constantine P. Cavafy (excerpt)
Constantine Peter Cavafy also known as Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet, journalist and civil servant from Alexandria. He was also a homosexual whose work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace."
Biography of Luigi Lucheni (excerpt)
Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Luigi Lucheni was born Louis Luccheni in Paris on April 22, 1873.His father, unknown, and his mother, Luigia Laccheni, left the baby to a foundling hospital.The child was moved to Italy in August 1874 and transferred between orphanages and foster families.
Biography of Mikhail Pokrovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (August 29 (O.S. August 17) 1868 – April 10, 1932) was a Russian Marxist historian. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s.
Biography of Valéria Dienes (excerpt)
Valéria Dienes (25 May 1879 – 8 June 1978) was a Hungarian philosopher, dancer, dance instructor, choreographer and one of first Hungarian woman to graduate from university.She is widely considered to be one of the most important Hungarian theorists on movement.
Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken.
Biography of Bess Houdini (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a.
Biography of Sante Geronimo Caserio (excerpt)
Sante Geronimo Caserio (9 September 1873 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic.Caserio was born in Motta Visconti, Lombardy.
Biography of Maria Andreyeva (excerpt)
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva was the stage name of Maria Fyodorovna Yurkovskaya (July 4, 1868 – December 8, 1953), a Russian/Soviet actress and Bolshevik administrator. Her father, Fyodor Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Yurkovsky (Фёдор Александрович Фёдоров-Юрковский, 1842–1915) was the director of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and her mother was an actress.
Biography of Louise de Coligny-Châtillon (excerpt)
Louise de Coligny-Châtillon, whose real name was Geneviève Marguerite Marie-Louise de Pillot de Coligny, born July 30, 1881 in Vesoul and died October 7, 1963 in Geneva (Switzerland), was one of the first French aviators. From the end of September 1914 to the middle of February 19151, she was the object of Guillaume Apollinaire's mad love, whom Marie Laurencin had rejected two years earlier, and inspired him to Poèmes à Lou.
Biography of Fyodor Sergeyev (excerpt)
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
Biography of Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (excerpt)
Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (Russian: Емельян Михайлович Ярославский, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, Мине́й Изра́илевич Губельма́н; 3 March 1878 – 4 December 1943) was an ethnic Jewish Russian Bolshevik Revolutionary, Communist Party Member, Journalist, and Historian. An atheist and anti-religious polemicist, Yaroslavsky served as editor of the atheist satirical journal Bezbozhnik (The Godless) and led the League of the Militant Godless organization.
Biography of Pierre Piobb (excerpt)
Pierre François Xavier Vincenti, known as Pierre Piobb, was a French writer and occultist from the 20th century, specializing in esoteric and occult sciences.Born in 1874, he lost his mother at his birth and his father, a senior doctor, a few years later, making him an orphan at a very young age.
Biography of Charles Depéret (excerpt)
Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929) was a French geologist and paleontologist.He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Société géologique de France and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon. Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan.
Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris.He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory.He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
Biography of Leonid Krasin (excerpt)
Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Кра́син; 15 July 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian engineer, social entrepreneur and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat. His activities during the 1905 Revolution were primarily in sourcing finance for the Bolshevik revolutionaries, including organizing bank robberies.
Biography of Louis Bénech (lyricist) (excerpt)
Louis Bénech, born September 24, 1875 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), city where he died on March 19, 1925 in his home in the 10th arrondissement, physician, is a French lyricist, composer and publisher.
Biography of Camille Marbo (excerpt)
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo (11 April 1883 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 103) – 5 February 1969) née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.He was also an naval engineer. Despite being the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.
Biography of Joseph Stilwell (excerpt)
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946, aka Shih Ti-wei/約瑟夫·華倫·史迪威 in China) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe".
Biography of Tom Mann (excerpt)
Thomas Mann (1856–1941) was an English trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement. Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Grange Road, Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery.
Biography of Lucien Capet (excerpt)
Lucien Louis Capet (8 January 1873 – 18 December 1928) was a French violinist, pedagogue, painter, and composer. His notable students include Jascha Brodsky and Ivan Galamian, both of whom became influential violin teachers of the latter part of the twentieth century.
Biography of Léo Daniderff (excerpt)
Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 15 February 1878 in Angers, France (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a foxtrot-shimmy named "Je cherche après Titine" (lyrics by Louis Mauban and Marcel Bertal), became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin's singing it in gibberish in Modern Times (1936), especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies and Chaplin did not want The Tramp to use any particular language.
Biography of Sébastien Faure (excerpt)
Sébastien Faure (born 6 January 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died 14 July 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist, author, and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism. Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist.
Biography of Howard Pyle (excerpt)
Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).
Biography of Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
Biography of Gabriel Nicolas de La Reynie (excerpt)
Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (25 May 1625 – 14 June 1709) is considered to be the founder of the first modern police force. Responsible for the execution of royal lettres de cachets, he was an enforcer of government policy such as when he ensured the corn supply of Paris, defended Protestants against persecution (even after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he saved Protestants from interference, sometimes at the risk of his own life and safety), giving aid rather than punishment to beggars and vagabonds, and seeing to the proper retrieval and care of abandoned infants, often left in the streets to die.
Biography of Ashutosh Mukherjee (excerpt)
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FRSE, FRAS, FPSL, MRIA (anglicised, originally Āśutōṣh Mukhōpādhyāẏa, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician.He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University.
Biography of Boris Galerkin (excerpt)
Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin (surname more accurately romanized as Galyorkin; 4 March (O.S. 20 February) 1871 – 12 July 1945), born in Polotsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer. Galerkins name is forever attached to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations
Biography of Bach (actor) (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882 (birth time source : Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 1953), known by his stage name of Bach, was a French actor, singer and music hall performer. Selected filmography The Regiment's Champion (1932) The Blaireau Case (1932) Bach the Millionaire (1933) Bach the Detective (1936)
Biography of Alice Pike Barney (excerpt)
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Bahá'í writer Laura Clifford Barney.
Biography of Georges Martin Witkowski (excerpt)
Georges Martin Witkowski (6 January 1867, Mostaganem, French Algeria – 12 August 1943, Lyon) was a French conductor and composer of classical music. Witkowski started out in the army, becoming a cavalry officer and meeting Louis Vierne during that time. He later studied with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, and, after settling in Lyon, was appointed director of the conservatory there in 1924. |
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