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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. ![]() ![]()
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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.
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Biography of Gerrit Rietveld (excerpt)
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Born in Utrecht, he apprenticed with his joiner father and worked as a draughtsman. In 1917, he opened his furniture workshop and joined the De Stijl movement, creating iconic designs like the Red and Blue Chair.
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Biography of Francis Popy (excerpt)
François Joseph Popy, known as Francis Popy, was a French composer born on July 1, 1874, in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon and died in Belleville (now Belleville-en-Beaujolais) on January 29, 1928. His music is representative of the Belle Époque. The Later Years
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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 Janis Rozentals (excerpt)
Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 - December 26, 1916) was a celebrated Latvian painter. Born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus, Courland, Russian Empire, he embarked on his career early in Riga and then at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. He set up an art studio in Saldus in 1899 but moved to Riga in 1901.
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Biography of Clare Winger Harris (excerpt)
Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891 – October 26, 1968) was a pioneering science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines.
Biography of Marcel Baril (excerpt)
Marcel Auguste André Baril (13 November 1905 – 29 January 1979) was a French weightlifter. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Ester Horn (excerpt)
Ester Horn, born Ester Lind Jynge on June 19, 1902, in Kristiania, and passed away on April 14, 1993, in Stabekk, Bærum, was a Norwegian humanist. Along with her husband Kristian Horn, she was among the founders of the Association for Civil Confirmation in 1950 and the Human-Ethical Union in 1956.
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Biography of Jacob Israël de Haan (excerpt)
Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 – 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish writer, lawyer, and journalist who moved to Palestine in 1919, becoming more religious and the political spokesman for the Haredim in Jerusalem. He was assassinated in 1924 by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah due to his anti-Zionist activities.
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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.
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Biography of Anna Tumarkin (excerpt)
Anna Tumarkin, born Anna-Ester Pavlovna Toumarkina on February 16, 1875 (Gregorian calendar), in Dubrowna, Russia (now Belarus), was a pioneering Russian philosopher. She became the first woman in Europe authorized to conduct doctoral exams and habilitations when she began teaching at the University of Bern in 1898.
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Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
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Biography of Yon-Lug (excerpt)
Yon-Lug, born Constant Jacquet in Oullins, near Lyon, on October 4, 1864, and died in Brévannes on May 25, 1921, was a French composer and cabaret singer. It was at the behest of François Trombert, a native of Lyon and owner of the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts in Montmartre since 1893, that Constant Jacquet moved to Paris.
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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 Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne. ![]()
Biography of Louella Parsons (excerpt)
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She was the first writer of a dedicated column on motion pictures in the United States, writing one in 1914 for the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Biography of Aleksander Kakowski (excerpt)
Aleksander Kakowski (5 February 1862 – 30 December 1938) was a Polish politician, diplomat, a member of the Regency Council and, as Cardinal and Archbishop of Warsaw, the last titular Primate of the Kingdom of Poland before Poland fully regained its independence in 1918.
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Biography of Stanislaw Wigura (excerpt)
Stanisław Wigura (9 April 1901 – 11 September 1932) was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.
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Biography of Pastora Imperio (excerpt)
Pastora Imperio is the artistic name of Pastora Rojas Monje (April 13, 1885, in Seville – September 14, 1979, in Madrid), a dancer from Seville and one of the most representative figures of flamenco folklore of all times. She was the great-grandmother of the Spanish actress Pastora Vega.
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Biography of Léontine Zanta (excerpt)
Léontine Zanta, born on February 14, 1872, in Mâcon, and died on June 15, 1942, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French educator, journalist, novelist, and speaker. She was notably the first French woman to earn a doctorate in philosophy in 1914. Her father was a professor who ensured she received a philosophy education.
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Biography of Concepción Aleixandre (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Aleixandre Ballester (February 2, 1862 – 1952) was a Spanish teacher, medical doctor, gynecologist, inventor, scientist, and writer. She was the first woman admitted to Spain's Gynecological Society. Born in Valencia, she initially earned a teaching degree but pursued medicine at Universidad de Valencia, graduating in 1889.
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Biography of Ludwig Renn (excerpt)
Ludwig Renn (born Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau; 22 April 1889 – 21 July 1979) was a German author. Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin. Importance Renn was one of the founders of proletarian‒revolutionary literature in Germany.
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Biography of Nesta Webster (excerpt)
Nesta Helen Webster (née Bevan, 14 August 1875 (Wikipedia is not correct) – 16 May 1960) was an English author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. Her time of birth comes from her, in "Spacious Days: An Autobiography" (Hutchinson, 1950).
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Biography of Francisco Ferrer (excerpt)
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
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Biography of Gilberto Owen (excerpt)
Gilberto Owen Estrada, born on May 13, 1904, in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, was a renowned poet and diplomat. He spent his early years in Toluca and moved to Mexico City in 1923, where he worked in the Secretaría de la Presidencia and became a part of the influential group Los Contemporáneos. ![]()
Biography of Fred Polak (excerpt)
Frederik Lodewijk Polak (May 21, 1907 – September 17, 1985) was a Dutch pioneer in futures studies and the author of the seminal work "The Image of the Future". Born in Amsterdam, he was the son of a violin builder and concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Biography of Pauline Chabanny (excerpt)
Pauline Eugenie Chabanny (born Gauthier; 20 August 1881 – 13 August 1994) was a French supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). Born as Pauline Eugenie Gauthier in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France, she took the surname Chabanny upon marriage.
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Biography of Friedel Apelt (excerpt)
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED). During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee.
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Biography of Zona Gale (excerpt)
Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known as Zona Gale Breese, was an American writer and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her works, inspired by her hometown, portrayed realistic characters and deep emotional undercurrents.
Biography of Ernest Sacquépée (excerpt)
Ernest Eugène Joseph Sacquépée was born on March 14, 1874, in Nielles-lès-Ardres, to Ernest Louis Frédéric Sacquépée, a teacher, and Hubertine Henriette Philomène Callart. He resided in Moulle. Ernest began his career as a student at the military health school in Lyon, voluntarily enlisting for three years on November 6, 1893.
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Biography of Lucina Hagman (excerpt)
Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural Kälviä.
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Biography of Luigi Fantappiè (excerpt)
Luigi Fantappiè (15 September 1901 – 28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis and the creation of the theory of analytic functionals, being a student and follower of Vito Volterra. He was born in Viterbo and graduated from the University of Pisa in 1922. ![]()
Biography of Blandine Ebinger (excerpt)
Blandine Ebinger, born Blandine Loeser on November 4, 1899, died on 25 December 1993, was a German actress and chansonniere. Introduced to Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, she thrived in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1920s, performing, writing, and composing, and recorded many of Hollaender's cabaret songs.
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Biography of Yi Bangja (excerpt)
Yi Bangja, Crown Princess of Korea (4 November 1901 – 30 April 1989) was the wife of Crown Prince Euimin, the last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire. Her birth time comes from the biography The World is One: Princess Yi Pangja's Autobiography by Pang-ja Yi (Taewon, 1973).
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Biography of Hermann Zilcher (excerpt)
Hermann Zilcher (18 August 1881 – 1 January 1948) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, and music teacher. His compositional oeuvre includes orchestral and choral works, two operas, chamber music and songs, études, piano works, and numerous works for accordion. As a music teacher, Zilcher also enjoyed an outstanding reputation. ![]()
Biography of Ramón Acín (excerpt)
Ramón Acín Aquilué (August 30, 1888, Huesca, Aragon, Spain – August 6, 1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, painter, sculptor, writer, and avant-garde artist murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. A friend of director Luis Buñuel, Acín funded and co-produced "Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932).
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Biography of Fritz Loewe (excerpt)
Fritz Loewe (11 March 1895 in Berlin - 27 March 1974 in Heidelberg, Victoria) was a German polar explorer, glaciologist, geophysicist and meteorologist. After emigrating from Nazi Germany he founded the first Meteorological Institute in Australia at the University of Melbourne. Fritz Loewe, born to judge Eugen Loewe and Hedwig Loewe, served as an artillery radio operator in WWI, receiving the Iron Cross.
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Biography of Raffaele Bendandi (excerpt)
Raffaele Bendandi (1893–1979), an Italian clockmaker, was known for his earthquake predictions. Self-taught, he became interested in planetary motion and seismology after witnessing a solar eclipse in 1905. Bendandi theorized, without scientific backing, that earthquakes were caused by planetary alignments. He gained fame for his predictions, notably the one in 1924, which missed by two days.
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Biography of Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (excerpt)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (1885–1964) was a German astronomer and a pupil of Felix Klein. He collaborated with Albert Einstein and proposed experiments to test the general theory of relativity through astronomical observations of gravitational redshift. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic and Göttingen University.
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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.
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Biography of Julio Antonio Mella (excerpt)
Julio Antonio Mella McPartland (born Nicanor McPartland; 25 March 1903 – 10 January 1929) was a Cuban political activist, journalist, communist revolutionary, and one of the founders of the original Communist Party of Cuba. His time of birth comes from the biography "Eine Biografie" de Christine Hatzky (Vervuert Verlag, 2004).
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Biography of David Webster (opera manager) (excerpt)
Sir David Lumsden Webster KCVO FRCM (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970. He played a key part in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies.
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Biography of Marcel Michelin (excerpt)
Marcel Michelin (Paris, April 12, 1886 - Ohrdruf, January 21, 1945), son of André Michelin, was a French businessman. Founder and first president in 1911 of the Association sportive Michelin (later AS Montferrand), a resistance fighter during World War II, he died in deportation at Buchenwald.
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Biography of Simone Michel-Lévy (excerpt)
Simone Michel-Lévy, born on January 19, 1906, in Chaussin and hanged on April 13, 1945, in Flossenbürg, was a prominent figure in the French Resistance during World War II. Starting her career in the PTT (Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Services) in 1924, she used her position to establish a secret information agency within the Regional Telephone Directorate in Paris.
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Biography of Godefroy Cavaignac (politician) (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (21 May 1853 - 25 September 1905) was a French politician known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, he demonstrated early republican convictions. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, he later entered the École Polytechnique and served as a civil engineer before becoming a republican deputy.
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Biography of Hélène Picard (excerpt)
Hélène Picard, born Hélène Dumarc on October 1, 1873, in Toulouse, France, initially gained recognition in her native region. She received two successive awards from the Academy of Floral Games in Toulouse. In 1903, while living in Privas, Ardèche, she published her first book, "La Feuille morte," a lyrical drama that went unnoticed nationally.
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Biography of Paul Vignaux (philosopher) (excerpt)
Paul Vignaux, born December 18, 1904, in Péronne and died August 26, 1987, in Zaragoza, was a French philosopher and medievalist, specializing in the history of medieval philosophy. A prominent trade unionist, he was instrumental in the secularization of the French Christian Workers' Confederation (CFTC).
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Biography of Achille Majeroni (excerpt)
Achille Majeroni (24 August 1881 – 12 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, son of Achille Majeroni and his second wife Graziosa Bignetti, he made his stage debut at age twelve with the Marazzi-Diligenti company. He later formed his own company, specializing in Shakespearean works.
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Biography of Joe Savoldi (excerpt)
Joseph Anthony Savoldi Jr., (born Giuseppe Antonio Savoldi; March 5, 1908 – January 25, 1974) more commonly known by his nickname "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, was an Italian-American professional wrestler, football player, and Special Ops agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.
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Biography of Emily Murphy (excerpt)
Emily Murphy was a trailblazing Canadian writer and the first female magistrate in the British Empire, celebrated for her advocacy for women's rights. Born into a family of legal professionals in 1868, she honed her legal acumen early on. The third of six children, her family's influence included a Supreme Court judge and a senator, which immersed her in legal debates from a young age. |
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