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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 Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Jean Verdier (Cardinal) (excerpt)
Jean Verdier, PSS (February 19, 1864 – April 9, 1940), was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of Paris from 1929 until his death and elevated to cardinalate in the same year. Born to a humble family in Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, Verdier studied at the seminary in Rodez before joining the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1886.
Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
Biography of Xavier Nogués (painter) (excerpt)
Xavier Nogués i Casas (Barcelona, February 18, 1873 - Barcelona, January 28, 1941) was a Spanish painter, illustrator, ceramicist, and engraver. His work, influenced by the noucentisme movement, is known for its satirical humor, best expressed in his drawings and famous caricatures.
Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
Biography of Hans Rupe (excerpt)
Johan Hermann Wilhelm Rupe (October 9, 1866 - January 12, 1951) was a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel, specializing in terpenes, camphor, and optical activity. Born in Basel, he studied under Julius Piccard in Basel, then under Rudolf Fittig in Strasbourg and Adolf von Baeyer in Munich.
Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
Biography of Georgette Agutte (excerpt)
Georgette Agutte, born on 17 May 1867 in Paris and died on 6 September 1922 in Chamonix, was a French painter, sculptor, and art collector. She was the daughter of painter Jean-Georges Aguttes, born just a few months after his death. Agutte studied sculpture with Jean-Louis-Désiré Schrœder and began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1887.
Biography of Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
Biography of Alfred Kröner (publisher) (excerpt)
Alfred Kröner (born February 27, 1861, in Stuttgart; died January 2, 1922, in Berlin) was a German publisher and founder of the Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1904. Son of publisher Adolf von Kröner, he began his publishing career after military training, managing the magazine Die Gartenlaube in Leipzig from 1886.
Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
Biography of Joseph Teissier (excerpt)
Joseph Teissier, also known as Louis Anne Marie Joseph Teissier, was born in Lyon on October 1, 1851, and died there on June 13, 1926. He was a French doctor noted for co-authoring an extensive "Treatise on Internal Pathology" with Alphonse Laveran.
Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor.She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
Biography of Francesco Valagussa (excerpt)
Francesco Valagussa, born on August 2, 1872, in Pistoia and died on May 24, 1950, in Rome, was an Italian pediatrician and politician. Graduating in 1897, he became a professor of pediatrics in 1902 and served as the chief assistant at the pediatric clinic in Rome for twelve years.
Biography of Gipsy Smith (excerpt)
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (31 March 1860 – 4 August 1947) was a British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was an early member of The Salvation Army and a contemporary of Fanny Crosby and acquaintance of G.
Biography of Andrew Marvell (excerpt)
Andrew Marvell (born March 31, 1621, in Winestead-in-Holderness and died August 16, 1678, in London) was an English metaphysical poet and politician. An assistant to John Milton, he wrote a preface poem for the second edition of Paradise Lost and is often linked to John Donne and George Herbert.
Biography of Siegfried Oberndorfer (excerpt)
Siegfried Oberndorfer, a Jewish-German physician and cancer researcher, was born on June 24, 1876, in Munich and passed away in 1944 in Istanbul.He studied medicine in Munich and Kiel, becoming a doctor in 1900. After working as a ship's doctor, where he halted a plague outbreak, he returned to Germany in 1902.
Biography of Willy Kruyt (excerpt)
Willy Kruyt (born John William Kruyt; September 8, 1877 – July 1943) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a Christian socialist turned Communist politician. The son of a Dutch publisher and a Scottish mother, he studied theology at Utrecht and joined the League of Christian Socialists in 1910.
Biography of Pío del Río Hortega (excerpt)
Pío del Río Hortega (5 May 1882 – 1 June 1945) was a Spanish neuroscientist known for discovering microglia.Born in Portillo, Valladolid, he studied locally and earned his medical qualification in 1905. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Madrid, researching brain tumor pathology.
Biography of Fritz Rumpf (excerpt)
Fritz Rumpf, born on February 16, 1856, in Frankfurt am Main and passed away on July 23, 1927, in Potsdam, was a German painter known for his landscapes and architectural works, favoring Baroque and Rococo styles. From an intellectual family, he studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt, the Kassel Kunsthochschule, and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Biography of Gustav de Vries (excerpt)
Gustav de Vries (22 January 1866 – 16 December 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. He was born on 22 January 1866 in Amsterdam, and studied at the University of Amsterdam with the distinguished physical chemist Johannes van der Waals and with Korteweg.
Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel.His main field of interest was electrochemistry.He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
Biography of Hedda Andersson (excerpt)
Hedda Albertina Andersson (April 24, 1861 – September 7, 1950) was a Swedish physician and the second female student at Lund University, as well as the second woman in Sweden to become a university-educated physician. Born into a family of traditional folk healers, she was encouraged by her mother and grandmother to pursue formal medical education to avoid accusations of quackery.
Biography of Émile Brumpt (excerpt)
Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt, born on March 10, 1877, in Paris and died on July 7, 1951, was a renowned French parasitologist, considered the leading figure in his field during his time. Of Alsatian and Spanish descent, he studied natural sciences and medicine, and joined an expedition in Africa with explorer Du Bourg de Bozas, documenting cases of malaria.
Biography of Ludwig Finckh (excerpt)
Ludwig Finckh (* March 21, 1876 in Reutlingen; † March 8, 1964 in Gaienhofen) was a German writer and physician. Born into a modest family, Finckh initially studied law but switched to medicine, earning his doctorate in 1904.He moved to Gaienhofen, where he formed a friendship with Hermann Hesse.
Biography of Christina Broom (excerpt)
Christina Broom, born on December 28, 1862, in London and passed away on June 5, 1939, in Margate, was a Scottish photographer, recognized as the UK’s first female photojournalist. After the failure of her family business in 1903, she taught herself photography and started selling postcard prints near Buckingham Palace.
Biography of Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Biography of Louis Perrée (excerpt)
Louis Léonce Théophile Perrée, born on March 25, 1871, in Paris (3rd arrondissement) and died on March 1, 1924, in Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure), was a French fencer specializing in épée. Career Louis Perrée participated in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he won the silver medal.
Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité.
Biography of Henri Abraham (excerpt)
Henri Azariah Abraham (12 July 1868 – 22 December 1943) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the field of radioelectricity. He taught at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris, shaping French scientific education. After becoming an agrégé in physics in 1889, he earned his doctorate in 1892 and taught at top Parisian schools before joining the ENS, where he succeeded Jules Violle as head of the physics lab.
Biography of Hugo Vollrath (excerpt)
Hugo Vollrath, born April 11, 1877, in Zeitz, Germany, was a German theosophist, astrologer, and publisher. He became a pioneer of the early 20th-century revival of astrology in German-speaking countries. In 1909, he launched the theosophical magazine Prana with Austrian Brandler-Pracht, including an astrological supplement, Astrologische Rundschau, which sparked widespread interest.
Biography of Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
Biography of Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
Biography of Louis Anquetin (excerpt)
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861, in Étrépagny – died August 19, 1932, in Paris) was a French painter.A pioneer of Synthetism, he was friends with Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. In 1882, he moved to Paris, joining Léon Bonnat's studio, where he befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography of André Lalande (philosopher) (excerpt)
Pierre André Lalande (July 19, 1867 – November 15, 1963) was a French philosopher known for his work in logic and methodology of science. He ranked first in the philosophy agrégation in 1888 and taught at several prestigious high schools before becoming a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1906.
Biography of Eduard Spranger (excerpt)
Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, he was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. A humanist, he developed a philosophical pedagogy as a counter to the experimental, psychology-oriented theories of his time.
Biography of Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (excerpt)
Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (born August 13, 1878, in Leiden and passed away on October 13, 1957, in Heerlen) was a professor of paleobotany at the University of Groningen from 1932 to 1950. Born in Leiden, he was the son of a tailor, Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans, and Anna Elisabeth Maria Verbrugge.
Biography of María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
Biography of Amalia Guglielminetti (excerpt)
Amalia Guglielminetti (5 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian poet and writer born in Turin.After her father’s death in 1886, her family moved in with her grandfather, who enrolled her in a religious school. She began her literary career in 1901 with Gazzetta del Popolo and published her first poetry collection, Voci di Giovinezza, in 1903.
Biography of Albert Weisgerber (excerpt)
Albert Weisgerber (April 21, 1878 – May 10, 1915) was a German painter and wood engraver who created over 400 modern art works despite his early death. Born in St.Ingbert, he discovered his talent for drawing during school, encouraged by his parents.
Biography of Gustavo Arce Correa (excerpt)
Gustavo Arce Correa (19 February 1881 - 1966) was a Mexican lawyer, military officer, and politician, born in Tizimín, Yucatán, and died in Mexico City. He collaborated with General Salvador Alvarado during the revolutionary administration that Alvarado led in Yucatán starting in 1915, when Venustiano Carranza sent him to southeastern Mexico in command of a faction of the Constitutionalist Army.
Biography of Max Slevogt (excerpt)
Max Slevogt (8 or 20 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German impressionist painter, engraver, and illustrator, and a key figure of the "plein air" style alongside Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1885–1889) and later moved to Paris, where he was influenced by Manet.
Biography of Louis Thévenet (excerpt)
Louis François Joseph Marie Thévenet, born in Bruges on February 12, 1874, and died in Halle on August 16, 1930, was a Belgian painter, also a watercolorist and draftsman. He was the brother of painter Pierre Thévenet and opera singer Cécile Thévenet.
Biography of Henri Polak (excerpt)
Henri Polak (born 22 February 1868 in Amsterdam, died 18 February 1943 in Laren) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. The son of a Jewish diamond cutter, he began working young before moving to London, where he embraced Marxist ideas and learned about the British labor movement.
Biography of Dalmacio Iglesias (excerpt)
Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (5 December 1879 – 13 January 1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919).
Biography of Gus Bofa (excerpt)
Gus Bofa, born Charles Blanchot on May 23, 1883, in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died on September 1, 1968, was a French illustrator known for his work in satirical press and luxury illustrated books. The son of a military officer, he grew up in Bordeaux and Paris, where he met lifelong friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer.
Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T. Onions. |
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