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Horoscopes with Vulcanus in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus 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 Jāzeps Grosvalds (excerpt)
Jazeps Grosvalds (Latvian: Jāzeps Grosvalds) (24 April 1891 – 1 February 1920) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He is now regarded as one of Latvia's finest painters, bringing new ideas in Latvian art at the time, and has several works on display in the Latvian National Museum of Art.
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Biography of Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead. He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught.
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Biography of Luis Zambrano (excerpt)
Luis Zambrano (Bailadores, State of Mérida, May 1, 1901 - Tovar, State of Mérida, August 15, 1990) was a popular self-taught inventor from the State of Mérida, Venezuela, a mechanical genius. He created dozens of inventions. In 1977 he lost his right hand following an accident with a saw.
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Biography of Julian Tuwim (excerpt)
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. ![]()
Biography of Gualtiero Tumiati (excerpt)
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.
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Biography of Paul Lévy (mathematician) (excerpt)
Paul Pierre Lévy (15 September 1886 – 15 December 1971) was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him.
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Biography of Lillian Hellman (excerpt)
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952.
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Biography of Louis Bernicot (excerpt)
Louis Bernicot, born December 13, 1883 in the port of Aber Wrac'h (municipality of Landéda, North Finistčre), died November 29, 1952 in Saint-Nexans (Dordogne), is a French navigator known for his world tour solo from August 1936 to May 1938, i.
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Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war.
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Biography of António Cabreira (excerpt)
D. António Tomás da Guarda Cabreira de Faria e Alvelos Drago da Ponte ComSE (30 October 1868 – 21 November 1953) was a Portuguese mathematician, polygraph and publicist. A member of the aristocratic Cabreira family, António Cabreira was a claimant to the Miguelist noble titles of Count of Lagos and Viscount of Vale da Mata, which he used.
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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 Agostino Salvietti (excerpt)
Agostino Salvietti (22 August 1882 (Wikipedia has 28 August) - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to 1964. In 1936-37, he was among the leaders of the "Fascist Union of Operetta, Revue, and Variety Workers.
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Biography of Hugh Ramsay (excerpt)
Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Miss Nellie Patterson (1903), daughter of Ambrose Patterson, niece of Nellie Melba Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 May 1877, the son of John Ramsay.
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Biography of Rudolf Presber (excerpt)
Hermann Otto Rudolf Presber, born on July 4, 1868, in Frankfurt and died on September 30, 1935, in Potsdam, was a German writer, playwright, and screenwriter. The son of a teacher and writer, he began his writing career in high school. He studied philosophy, literature, and art history, earning a Ph.
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Biography of Achille Paroche (excerpt)
Nicolas Achille Paroche (born March 1, 1868, in Sery, Ardennes, and died May 27, 1933, in Signy-l'Abbaye) was a French sport shooter who won Olympic medals and world championships in rifle and pistol shooting. Initially a soldier, he excelled at the 1900 Paris Olympics, winning four medals.
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Biography of Genevičve Aclocque (excerpt)
Genevičve Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Genevičve Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes. She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.
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Biography of Émile Guépratte (excerpt)
Paul Émile Aimable Guépratte, born on August 30, 1856, in Granville and died on November 21, 1939, in Brest, was a French vice-admiral. Grandson of Rear Admiral Jéhenne and mathematician Charles Guépratte, he had a distinguished career in the French Navy.
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Biography of Andrea Palma (actress) (excerpt)
Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, professionally known as Andrea Palma, was a pioneering Mexican actress, born on April 16, 1903, and passing on October 6, 1987. She emerged as the first major female star of Mexican cinema after starring in "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934).
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Biography of Riccardo Bacchelli (excerpt)
Riccardo Bacchelli (19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.
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Biography of Genevičve Félix (excerpt)
Genevičve Félix, born Genevičve Abraham on February 21, 1901, in Paris 10th arrondissement (contrary to incorrect data on Wikipedia; IMDb is right), and died on November 12, 1980, in Antibes, was a French film actress. The daughter of Jean Baptiste Abraham, a gendarme, and Marie Analie Mice Brousse, a seamstress, Genevičve Simonne Marie Abraham was born in Clamart in 1899.
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Biography of Louise Lagrange (excerpt)
Louise Lagrange (19 August 1898 – 28 February 1979) was a French film actress. Lagrange was born in Oran, French Algeria, and had a film career spanning from 1907 through 1951. Beginning her career as a child actor before the First World War, she appeared in French and American films, and was in the serial Les Vampires (1915–1916).
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Biography of Édmée Chandon (excerpt)
Édmée Marie Juliette Chandon (21 November 1885 – 8 March 1944) was an astronomer known for being the first professional female astronomer in France. She worked at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941. Biography The eldest of five children, Chandon was born to Marie Duhan and merchant François Chandon on 21 November 1885 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Biography of Clara González (excerpt)
Clara González (11 September 1898 – 11 February 1990) was a Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist. She became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922. In 1922, she created the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women's rights and suffrage.
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Biography of Alexis Rouart (excerpt)
Alexis Rouart, an influential figure in the French art scene, was known for his work as a music editor and his significant role as an art collector. Notably, he served as a muse for the renowned Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, featuring in various portraits.
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Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
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Biography of Émile Bulcke (excerpt)
Émile Bulcke, born March 20, 1875 in Ostend and died October 28, 1963 in Schaerbeek, is a Belgian painter and sculptor. He was above all a portrait painter (he produced 16 portraits of the Mayor of Ostend) and a flower painter. He was a friend and student of the portrait painter Albert Cortvriendt.
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Biography of Emilie Kempin-Spyri (excerpt)
Emilie Kempin-Spyri (born March 18, 1853, in Altstetten; died April 12, 1901, in Basel; née Spyri, married name Kempin) was the first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree and to be accepted as an academic lecturer. However, as a woman she was not permitted to practice as an attorney.
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Biography of Sergei Bulgakov (excerpt)
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков; 28 July (O.S. 16 July) 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox writer and scholar David Bentley Hart has said that Bulgakov was "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century.
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Biography of Herta Ehlert (excerpt)
Herta Ehlert (née Liess; 26 March 1905 – 4 April 1997) was a female guard at many Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. During the war On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange, and began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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Biography of Emilia Fogelklou (excerpt)
Emilia Fogelklou, born July 20, 1878 in Simrishamn and died September 26, 1972 in Uppsala, is a Swedish theologian and woman of letters. In 1909, she was the first woman to graduate in theology in her country. After studying at a normal school for women, Emilia Fogelklou became the first female theology graduate in Sweden in 1909 and received an honorary doctorate in 1941.
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Biography of Alice Voinescu (excerpt)
Alice Voinescu (10 February 1885 – 4 June 1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, and translator. She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
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Biography of Jakob van Hoddis (excerpt)
Jakob van Hoddis, born Hans Davidsohn, was a German expressionist poet, born on May 16, 1887, in Berlin, and perished in 1942 at Sobibor. A friend of Georg Heym, he was a forerunner of Dadaism. As a poet, Jew, and mentally ill person, he became a symbolic victim of the Nazis' extermination policy.
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Biography of Ana María Martínez Sagi (excerpt)
Anna Maria Martínez Sagi (16 February 1907 – 2 January 2000) was a Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, feminist, and athlete. She was a national javelin champion and the first female director of a Spanish football club. During the Spanish Civil War, she followed the Durruti Column as a journalist and later went into exile in France.
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Biography of Joe Adonis (excerpt)
Joseph Anthony Doto, born Giuseppe Antonio Doto (November 22, 1902 – November 26, 1971), known as Joe Adonis, was an Italian-American mobster who was an important participant in the formation of the modern Cosa Nostra crime families in New York City and the National Crime Syndicate.
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Biography of Andrée Brabant (excerpt)
Andrée Brabant, born in Reims on May 23, 1901, and died in Toulon on November 2, 1989, was a French actress. Marie Thérčse Andrée Brabant started her career as a dancer before becoming a film actress. From 1916, she was recruited by Abel Gance to act in "Le Droit ŕ la vie.
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Biography of Domingo de Orueta y Duarte (excerpt)
Domingo de Orueta y Duarte, born January 21, 1862 in Málaga and died January 16, 1926 in Madrid, was a renowned Spanish geologist and scientist. Orphaned at a young age, he nonetheless pursued his studies with excellence, obtaining a degree in chemistry in Málaga and furthering his education in England.
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Biography of Ida Gerhardt (excerpt)
Ida Gerhardt (11 May 1905, Gorinchem – 15 August 1997, Warnsveld) was a Dutch classicist and post-symbolist poet. She attended the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam, where poet J.H. Leopold taught her Classics and left a lasting impact. She studied classical languages in Leiden and Utrecht, graduating cum laude in 1942.
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Biography of Sidónio Pais (excerpt)
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais CavC OA CavA (pronounced ; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divisive figures in modern Portuguese history, he was referred to by the writer Fernando Pessoa as the "President-King", a description that stuck in later years and symbolizes his regime. ![]()
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
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Biography of Héra Mirtel (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo (pen names, Héra Mirtel, Juliette de Boulogne, Juliette de Lotus; 24 October 1868 - 21 March 1931) was a French writer, woman of letters, militant feminist, salonnier, lecturer, and ardent suffragist. She was also a spiritist and a "believer in the Black Mass," a stock exchange gambler, a plotter for the restoration of the royalist regime in France, as well as an advisor of other women in matrimony and affairs of the heart.
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Biography of Tito Lusiardo (excerpt)
Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor. He began appearing in tango films in the 1930s such as Idolos de la radio (1934), Así es el tango (1937), Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) and Así te quiero (1942).
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Biography of Alice Milliat (excerpt)
Alice Milliat, born on May 5, 1884, in Nantes and died on May 19, 1957, in Paris, was a French swimmer, field hockey player, and rower. A co-founder and president of the Federation of French Female Sporting Societies, she is also recognized as one of the leading activists in the fight for the recognition of women's sports at an international level.
Biography of Alex Mandrčs (excerpt)
Alex Mandrčs, born on June 19, 1877, in Elbeuf and died on April 24, 1947, in Ris-Orangis, was a silent film actor. He is notably known for his role in the 1928 movie "Le mystčre de la tour Eiffel."
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Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
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Biography of Antonio Susillo (excerpt)
Antonio Susillo Fernández, born April 16, 1855 in Seville, was a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th century. Educated at the Fine Arts School in Paris and in Rome, he won numerous awards, including medals at the Paris Universal Expositions. ![]()
Biography of Gilbert Roland (excerpt)
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American actor. Born on December 11, 1905, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, he planned to become a bullfighter like his father. His family fled to the U.S. during Pancho Villa's reign, and he later moved to Hollywood.
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Biography of Paul Sacher (excerpt)
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessman. His time birth comes from the biography "Symphonie der Träume: das Leben von Paul Sacher" by Lesley Stephenson (Rüffer & Rub, 2001). At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$13 billion.
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Biography of Agustín Muńoz Grandes (excerpt)
Agustín Muńoz Grandes (January 27, 1896 – July 11, 1970) was a Spanish general and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister several times under Francisco Franco. Born in Madrid, he joined the Toledo Infantry Academy and was deployed to Morocco in 1915.
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Biography of Gert Jynge (excerpt)
Gert Hyld Jynge (1904–1994) was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and draftsman. His production mainly took place in the interwar period, i.e. from the mid-1920s until 1948, when, according to his own statement, he "gave up". He exhibited at the Autumn Exhibition for the last time in 1961.
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Biography of Ildebrando Pizzetti (excerpt)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, musicologist, and music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella. |
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