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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Boni de Castellane (excerpt)
Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (February 14, 1867 – October 20, 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading Belle Époque tastemaker and the first husband of American railroad heiress Anna Gould.
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Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
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Biography of Paul Viardot (excerpt)
Paul Viardot (20 July 1857 – 1 December 1941) was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London. His time of birth comes from Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863, Second Edition, by Barbara Kendall-Davies (Cambridge Scholars, 2014).
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Biography of Curt Sachs (excerpt)
Curt Sachs, born June 29, 1881, and died February 5, 1959, was a German musicologist and a founder of modern organology, the study of musical instruments.He co-created the Hornbostel–Sachs system with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied music but earned a doctorate in art history.
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Biography of Elizabeth McCombs (excerpt)
Elizabeth Reid McCombs (née Henderson, 19 November 1873 – 7 June 1935) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919.
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Biography of Maria Blondeau (excerpt)
Maria Blondeau, born Émélie Blondeau 4 June 1873 in La Neuvillette (Marne) and died on May 1, 18911 in Fourmies, was a worker in a cotton mill, considered the most emblematic figure of the deaths of the Fourmies shooting in 1891.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry.
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Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
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Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
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Biography of Enid Yandell (excerpt)
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait busts and monuments.She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments. ![]()
Biography of Léonie La Fontaine (excerpt)
Léonie La Fontaine (October 2, 1857 – February 26, 1949) was a Belgian pioneering feminist and pacifist. Active in the international feminism struggle, she was a member of the Belgian League for the Rights of Women, the National Belgian Women Council and the Belgian’s Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Biography of Temple Bailey (excerpt)
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
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Biography of Frits Went (excerpt)
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went ForMemRS (June 18, 1863 – July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist. Went was born in Amsterdam. He was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism.
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Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
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Biography of Anne W. Armstrong (excerpt)
Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20, 1872 – March 17, 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman, active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel, This Day and Time, an account of life in a rural Appalachian community.
Biography of Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière (excerpt)
Delly is the joint pen name of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Avignon on September 13, 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Vannes on September 6, 1876, authors of popular romance novels.
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Biography of Elizabeth Robins (excerpt)
Elizabeth Robins (August 6, 1862 – May 8, 1952) was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette.She also wrote as C.E.Raimond. Personal life A beautiful woman, Robins was pursued by many men.She admitted to a deep attraction to her close friend, the highly respected literary critic and fellow Ibsen scholar, William Archer.
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Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years. ![]()
Biography of Marie Kalff (excerpt)
Marie Kalff, born Johanna Maria Kalff on July 29, 1874, was a Dutch-born actress based in Paris.Born in Amsterdam to a bank director, she spent part of her childhood in Java. Kalff's acting career in Paris spanned from 1904 to 1929, mainly at Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau and Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Pavel Florensky (excerpt)
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P.A.Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
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Biography of Luigi Illica (excerpt)
Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier.
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Biography of Léonie Yahne (excerpt)
Léonie Yahne (born Eugénie Léonie Jahn on August 8, 1867 in Versailles, and died on April 26, 1950 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris) was a French actress of the Belle Époque, known today through the works of Toulouse-Lautrec. In a 1899 newspaper article, she was described as one of the most beautiful and famous Parisian actresses.
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Biography of Jules Durand (excerpt)
Jules Durand, born September 6, 1880 in Le Havre and died February 20, 1926 in the asylum of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, was a French libertarian trade unionist who was the victim in 1910 of a serious miscarriage of justice, sometimes called the "Dreyfus affair of working class" or the "Dreyfus affair of the poor". ![]()
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
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Biography of Bertha De Vriese (excerpt)
Bertha De Vriese (26 September 1877 - 17 March 1958) was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the school.
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Biography of Sophia Hayden (excerpt)
Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career World's Columbian Exposition She is best known for designing The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when she was just 21.
Biography of Florence Mary Taylor (excerpt)
Florence Mary Taylor CBE (née Parsons; 29 December 1879 – 13 February 1969) was the first qualified female architect in Australia. She was also the first woman in Australia to fly in a heavier-than-air craft in 1909 and the first female member of the UK's Institution of Structural Engineers in 1926.
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Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński.
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Biography of Max Born (excerpt)
Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław) – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany) was a German physicist and mathematician. A remarkable theoretical physicist, he is best known for his major contribution to quantum physics. He was the first to interpret the square of the modulus of the wave function as the probability density of presence. ![]()
Biography of Ivan Shmelyov (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev, Chmeliov, and Chmelov) (3 October (O.S.21 September) 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow.
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Biography of Dorothea Bate (excerpt)
Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. ![]()
Biography of Gervèse (excerpt)
Charles Millot alias Henri Gervèse (September 21, 1880 Vesoul - May 24, 1959 Buenos Aires) was a French naval officer, painter and illustrator. He provides drawings to various newspapers such as Le Rire, Fantasio and La Vie parisienne. He is known for his series of Navy postcards and cartoons inspired by the other famous Navy cartoonist Sahib.
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Biography of Gabriele Münter (excerpt)
Gabriele Helene Henriette Münter (born February 19, 1877, in Berlin, died May 19, 1962, in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German painter. Alongside Paula Modersohn-Becker, she is considered one of the most renowned representatives of Expressionism in Germany. Additionally, she created an extensive body of drawings, took photographs, and worked in the field of printmaking.
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Biography of Félix Decori (excerpt)
Felix Decori, born on March 1, 1860, in Paris and died of a heart attack at the Élysée Palace on October 18, 1915, was a French lawyer and politician. Politics and the Élysée A friend of Raymond Poincaré, he appointed Decori at the very beginning of the war as the civil Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, where he dealt with political and diplomatic matters.
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Biography of Dorothea Klumpke (excerpt)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
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Biography of Kate Jordan (excerpt)
Kate Jordan (23 December 1862 – 20 June 1926) was an Irish-American novelist and playwright. Early life and education Kate Jordan was born in Dublin on 23 December 1862.She was the daughter of the academic, Michael James Jordan, and Catherine Jordan (née Mulvey).
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Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax.
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Biography of Consuelo Zavala (excerpt)
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist, teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico, authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado. ![]()
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
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Biography of Alfred Machin (excerpt)
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director.He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I.He was also a pioneer of aerial filming.
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Biography of Andrejs Upits (excerpt)
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No.
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Biography of Marie de Régnier (excerpt)
Marie de Régnier (French: ; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
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Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
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Biography of Amado Nervo (excerpt)
Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator.He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism.
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Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
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Biography of Georges Wague (excerpt)
Georges Wague, born Georges Marie Valentin Waag on January 14, 1874, in Paris, was a French mime, teacher, and silent film actor. Raised by devout parents, he turned to the arts, studying at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. He pioneered "cantomime," a blend of song and mime, and became known for his performances in Pierrot.
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Biography of Isabelle Rimbaud (excerpt)
Frédérique Marie Isabelle Rimbaud, born on June 1, 1860, in Charleville and died on June 20, 1917, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French writer and the younger sister of Arthur Rimbaud. She was the universal legatee of her brother and grew up with her three siblings under the stern guardianship of their conservative mother, following their father’s abandonment.
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Biography of Anna Brigadere (excerpt)
Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 (Gregorian calendar) in Tērvete – June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia. Her first story was published in 1896.In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.
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Biography of Berthe Weill (excerpt)
Berthe Weill (Paris 1865 – 1951): 11 was a French art dealer who played a vital role in the creation of the market for twentieth-century art with the manifestation of the Parisian Avant-Garde. Although she is much less known than her well-established competitors like Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Paul Rosenberg, she may be credited with producing the first sales in Paris for Pablo Picasso: 26 and Henri Matisse: 26 and with providing Amedeo Modigliani with the only solo exhibition in his lifetime (see poster advertising the exhibition). |
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