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birth charts 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. in ![]()
Biography of Carlos Torre Repetto (excerpt)
Carlos Torre Repetto (November 23, 1904 or 1905 – March 19, 1978, in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) was a great Mexican chess grandmaster. Chess Career Torre won the Louisiana Championship in New Orleans in 1923. He finished first in Detroit in 1924, ahead of Samuel Factor, Hahlbohm, Norman Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, and others, and also in Rochester the same year.
Biography of Rosa Chacel (excerpt)
Rosa Chacel Arimón, born on June 3, 1898, in Valladolid, Spain, was a prominent and sometimes controversial Spanish writer. Growing up in Madrid from 1908, she pursued education in the arts and became actively involved in feminist movements. Chacel's early literary contributions began in the 1920s, and she married painter Timoteo Perez Rubio in 1921.
Biography of Dolores Costello (excerpt)
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American actress best known for her work in silent films. Nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" by her first husband, John Barrymore, she was the mother of John Drew Barrymore and grandmother of Drew Barrymore.
Biography of Phil Nesser (excerpt)
Phillip Gregory Nesser (December 10, 1880 – May 9, 1959) was a German-American professional American football player in the Ohio League and the early National Football League (NFL) for the Columbus Panhandles.He was also a member of the Nesser Brothers, a group consisting of seven brothers who made up the most famous football family in the United States from 1907 until the mid-1920s.
Biography of Martha Sharp (excerpt)
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
Biography of Leopoldo Valentini (excerpt)
Leopoldo Valentini, born in Rome on March 4, 1907, and died in the same city on January 26, 1983, was an Italian actor. Leopoldo Valentini began his career in review theater, establishing himself as a high-quality actor both in mimetic and dramatic roles.
Biography of Alexander Imich (excerpt)
Alexander Herbert Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family.
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.
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
Biography of Tito Guízar (excerpt)
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino, known professionally as Tito Guízar, born on April 8, 1908, and died on December 24, 1999, was a Mexican singer and actor. He was among the few Mexicans who made a mark in the early days of Hollywood, along with Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro, Lupe Vélez, and José Mojica.
Biography of Álvaro Yunque (excerpt)
Álvaro Yunque (born Arístides Enrique José Roque Gandolfi Herrero in La Plata, Argentina, on June 20, 1889; died in Tandil on January 8, 1982) was an Argentine writer known from the 1920s, contributing to various magazines and publishing numerous books. A storyteller, playwright, historian, essayist, and predominantly a poet, his work spans over fifty published and numerous unpublished titles.
Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
Biography of John Russell (Australian painter) (excerpt)
John Peter Russell (16 June 1858 – 30 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. Born and raised in Sydney, Russell moved to Europe in his late teenage years to attend art school.There, he befriended fellow pupil Vincent van Gogh and, in 1886, painted the first oil portrait of the artist, now held at the Van Gogh Museum.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
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.
Biography of Erich Mielke (excerpt)
Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (December 28, 1907 – May 21, 2000) was a German communist official and head of the East German Stasi from 1957 to 1989. Known as "The Master of Fear," he was one of the most powerful and hated figures in East Germany.
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.
Biography of Tamara Karsavina (excerpt)
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet.
Biography of Barton MacLane (excerpt)
Barton MacLane (December 25, 1900 – January 1, 1969) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including his role as General Martin Peterson on the 1960s NBC television comedy series I Dream of Jeannie, with Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman.
Biography of Alexandre Promio (excerpt)
Jean Alexandre Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director. He is mentioned as a pioneer in film and was the director for Sweden's first Newsreel. The newsreel was shown for King Oscar II:s arrival at the General Art and Industrial Exposition on 15 May 1897.
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).
Biography of Lino Salini (excerpt)
Umberto Lino Salini (* December 27, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 20, 1944 in Würzburg) was a German painter and caricaturist.Salini is often compared to Heinrich Zille because he liked to choose motifs for his drawings from a specific milieu: the apple wine taverns of Sachsenhausen.
Biography of Manuel Medel (excerpt)
Manuel Medel (5 January 1906 – 14 March 1997) was a Mexican film actor. A comedian, during the late 1930s he teamed up with the rising star Cantinflas for three films. Selected filmography Such Is My Country (1937) Heads or Tails (1937) The Sign of Death (1939)
Biography of Lotte Ulbricht (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Ulbricht (née Kühn; April 19, 1903 – March 27, 2002) was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the second wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht. Born in Rixdorf, she worked as an office worker before joining the communist movement in 1919.
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S.16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
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.
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
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).
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 Raoul Breton (excerpt)
Raoul Breton, born on August 26, 1896, in Vierzon and died at sea on April 23, 1959, was a French music publisher. Initially a dancer, he ventured into music publishing in 1933, discovering talents like Damia, Mireille, and Jean Nohain. His pivotal encounter with Charles Trenet propelled Trenet to international fame.
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.
Biography of Bella Starace Sainati (excerpt)
Bella Starace Sainati (June 2, 1878 – August 4, 1958) was an Italian stage and film actress. Selected filmography The Two Mothers (1938) Naples Will Never Die (1939) Goodbye Youth (1940) Inspector Vargas (1940) Saint John, the Beheaded (1940) The Sinner (1940) First Love (1941) The Secret Lover (1941) Carmela (1942)
Biography of Louise Closser Hale (excerpt)
Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright and novelist. Career Acting Hale made her theatrical debut in Detroit in an 1894 production of In Old Kentucky.She initially acted with touring troupes in the Midwest.Her Broadway debut was in Arizona (1900).
Biography of Delphin (French actor) (excerpt)
Delphin Sirvaux, better known as Delphin, was a French dwarf actor born on October 12, 1882, in Les Fessey (Haute-Saône) and died by suicide on May 6, 1938, in Paris. Encouraged by Auguste Lamboley, another dwarf from the region, he moved to Paris and gained recognition at the 1900 Exposition and in Montmartre cabarets.
Biography of Marthe Richard (excerpt)
Marthe Richard (née Betenfeld; 15 August 1889 – 9 February 1982) was a French prostitute, spy, and later a politician who played a key role in the closure of brothels in France in 1946. Initially an apprentice tailor, she became a prostitute in 1905 and later married industrialist Henry Richer.
Biography of Trygve Klingenberg (excerpt)
Trygve Olavssøn Klingenberg (born 18 February 1900, died 12 January 1987) was a Norwegian architect.He was the brother of the architect Ørn Klingenberg, with whom he also worked in partnership. Education and work After graduating in art in 1917, Klingenberg briefly attended the War College before studying at the architecture department at NTH in 1918–22.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
Biography of Sarmiza Bilcescu (excerpt)
Sarmiza or Sarmisegetuza or Sarmisa Bilcescu (later Bilcescu-Alimănişteanu; 27 April 1867 – 26 August 1935) was a Romanian lawyer, the first woman ever to study law and a PhD in law from the Faculty of Law of Paris (University of Paris), and the first one in her country to practice law.
Biography of Karlis Skalbe (excerpt)
Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 (O.S. October 26) 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales', and his words, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom), are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Biography of Paul Ben-Haim (excerpt)
Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer.Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924.
Biography of Angela Piskernik (excerpt)
Angela Piskernik (27 August 1886 – 23 December 1967) was an Austro-Yugoslav botanist and conservationist, noted for her efforts in natural preservation.Born in Bad Eisenkappel, Southern Carinthia, Austria, she earned a Ph.D.in botany from the University of Vienna. Her work spanned teaching in secondary schools and working for the museum in Ljubljana.
Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
Biography of Ève Francis (excerpt)
Ève Francis (born Eva Louise François; 24 August 1886 – 6 December 1980) was a Belgian actress and filmmaker who spent most of her career in France. She was closely associated with writer Paul Claudel and married to critic and filmmaker Louis Delluc.
Biography of Lou Henry Hoover (excerpt)
Lou Hoover, born Henry (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944), was an American philanthropist, geologist, and First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as President Herbert Hoover's wife. An active community volunteer, she notably led the Girl Scouts of the USA and was an advocate for women's rights and independence.
Biography of Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (German: Elisabeth Maria Maximiliana; 28 May 1860 – 7 February 1881) was the Duchess of Braganza and wife of Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza. Life Elisabeth was a Princess of Thurn and Taxis by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Princess of Braganza, and titular Queen consort of Portugal through her marriage to Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920.
Biography of Adolf Olland (excerpt)
Adolf Georg Olland (13 April 1867 – 22 July 1933) was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor. Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887 (Dirk van Foreest won); shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889 (Hauptturnier); took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1891; took 5th at Groningen 1893 (Loman won); took 2nd, behind Loman, at Rotterdam 1894; shared 1st at Arnheim 1895; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1899 behind Henry Ernest Atkins; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Swiderski, at Munich 1900 (12th DSB–Congress, Hauptturnier).
Biography of Kurt Herdemerten (excerpt)
Kurt Herdemerten (* August 17, 1900, in Dresden; † December 21, 1951, in Essen) was a German mining engineer and polar explorer. Herdemerten grew up in Upper Silesia and studied geology and mining. He participated in the 1930/31 German Greenland Expedition led by Alfred Wegener, where he conducted seismic measurements of the ice sheet’s thickness.
Biography of Stanislaw Nowodworski (excerpt)
Stanisław Marian Nowodworski (born October 11, 1873, in Warsaw, died September 22, 1931, in Warsaw) was a Polish lawyer, politician, Minister of Justice, and senator in the first term of the Second Polish Republic. After studying law at the University of St.
Biography of Apollon (strongman) (excerpt)
Louis Uni, known as "Apollon," born February 21, 1862, in Marsillargues and died October 19, 1928, in Évreux, was a giant standing 1.90 m tall and weighing 120 kg, known as the first "world strength champion." At 16, he joined an Italian circus before debuting at the Folies Bergère in 1887 with impressive performances.
Biography of Maria Martins (artist) (excerpt)
Maria Martins (born Maria de Lourdes Alves; 7 August 1894 – 27 March 1973) was a Brazilian visual artist who was particularly well known for her modern sculptures. Martins had an affair with the artist Marcel Duchamp, which lasted for several years from 1946 onwards, ending with her departure for Brazil in 1951 and with his 1954 marriage to his second wife Alexina Duchamp. |
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