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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Holmes Herbert (excerpt)
Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman. Career Holmes Herbert never made a film in his native country but managed to appear in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era and numerous supporting roles in many classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).
Biography of Domenica Walter (excerpt)
Juliette Marie Léonie Lacaze, nicknamed Domenica, and became through her successive marriages Domenica Guillaume then Domenica Walter, born in Millau on May 19, 1898 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on June 29, 1977, is a French art collector. Juliette Lacaze, who grew up in a modest environment in Millau, worked as a cloakroom attendant in a Parisian nightclub called Le Viking.
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Biography of J.-H. Rosny jeune (excerpt)
J.-H. Rosny jeune was the pseudonym of Séraphin Justin François Boex (July 21, 1859 – July 21, 1948), a French author of Belgian origin who, along with his better known older brother J.-H. Rosny aîné, is considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.
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Biography of Harold Abrahams (excerpt)
Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics, a victory famously depicted in the film Chariots of Fire.
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Biography of Jacqueline Logan (excerpt)
Jacqueline Medura Logan (November 30, 1902 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and silent film star, known as a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922. Born in Corsicana, Texas, she moved to various locations during her childhood and initially worked as a journalist.
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Biography of Edmond Loutil (excerpt)
Eugène Edmond Loutil, known as Pierre the Hermit, born November 17, 1863 in Mohon (Ardennes) and died April 16, 1959 in Paris, is a parish priest who became honorary canon of the Paris chapter and apostolic protonotary. He was also a journalist, editor at La Croix from 1891 and a writer under the pseudonym Pierre L'Ermite.
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Biography of Ivan Daja (excerpt)
Ivan Đaja (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ђаја, French: Jean Giaja; 21 July 1884 – 1 October 1957) was a Serbian biologist, physiologist, author and philosopher. He was founder of the Chair for physiology at the Serbian Institute for Physiology, rector of the University of Belgrade, and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.
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Biography of Jacoba Hol (excerpt)
Jacoba Hol (21 September 1886 – 15 October 1964) was a Dutch physical geographer. In 1945, she was appointed professor of physical geography at the Geographic Institute at Utrecht University. This made her the first female 'normal' professor in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Fritz Genschow (excerpt)
Fritz Heinrich Wilhelm Genschow (born May 15, 1905, in Berlin; died June 21, 1977, in Berlin) was a German actor.He dedicated his work as a film director, producer, and screenwriter mainly to youth. Trained at the Reichersche Hochschule für Dramatische Kunst in Berlin, he debuted in 1924.
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Biography of Willem Elsschot (excerpt)
Willem Elsschot, born Alfons-Jozef de Ridder, was born in Antwerp on May 7, 1882, and died on May 31, 1960.A Belgian writer and poet who wrote in Dutch, he produced only 750 pages of prose, yet remains highly influential. Born into a baker's family, he left school early and held various jobs in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, and Rotterdam.
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Biography of Luis Camilo Ramírez (excerpt)
Luis Camilo Ramírez Rivas, born in Caracas on January 23, 1886, died on September 12, 1935, was a pioneering Venezuelan aviator in the early 20th century. Son of Alfredo Lucas Ramírez y Otero and Luisa Rivas Dávila y Ochoa, he was a descendant of the Venezuelan hero Luis María Rivas Dávila.
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Biography of Luis Trenker (excerpt)
Luis Trenker (born October 4, 1892 in Saint-Ulrich in Gröden (Urtijëi), Tyrol, Austria-Hungary - died April 13, 1990 in Bolzano, Italy) is an Italian-Austrian mountaineer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor, whose His career began in the last years of silent cinema and continued for more than half a century, until Heimat aus Gottes Hand, a film he made in 1979, at the age of 87.
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Biography of Rodolfo Graziani (excerpt)
Rodolfo Graziani (11 August 1882 – 11 January 1955) was a notable Italian military officer and a committed fascist. He was influential in Italy's colonial campaigns in Libya and Ethiopia, where he gained notoriety for using brutal repressive measures including concentration camps and mass executions.
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Biography of Erna Schilling (excerpt)
Erna Schilling (25 December 1884 – 2 October 1945) was a German nightclub dancer and artist's model. Embroidery by Erna Schilling The daughter of a proofreader for a publishing company, she was born in Berlin.When she was eighteen, she left home with her elder sister Gerda; the two became dancers in Berlin nightclubs. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Canfield Fisher (excerpt)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century.She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States.
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Biography of Fritz Wolffheim (excerpt)
Fritz Wolffheim (30 October 1888 – 17 March 1942) was a German communist politician and writer.He was a leading figure in the National Bolshevism tendency that was briefly influential in Germany after World War I. Wolffheim, from a prominent Jewish family, was politically active from 1909, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later the Socialist Party of America in San Francisco.
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Biography of Gerhard Rose (excerpt)
Gerhard August Heinrich Rose (30 November 1896 – 13 January 1992) was a Nazi German physician and war criminal who performed medical atrocities on concentration camp prisoners at Dachau and Buchenwald without the subjects' consent. He infected Jews, Romani people, and the mentally ill with malaria and typhus.
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Biography of Janet Flanner (excerpt)
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".
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Biography of Maria Alice of Austria-Teschen (excerpt)
Maria Alice of Austria-Teschen, born on January 15, 1893, in Pressburg (now Bratislava) and died on January 1, 1962, in Halbturn, was an Archduchess of Austria. Daughter of Archduke Frederick of Teschen and Princess Isabelle of Croÿ, she grew up in a family of nine children.
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Biography of Urania Mella (excerpt)
Urania Mella Serrano, born November 15, 1899 in Vigo, Galicia and died May 26, 1945 in Lugo, Galicia, was a Spanish politician, a pioneer of women's associations, a women's rights activist, and a victim of the Francoist dictatorship. Daughter of anarchist thinker Ricardo Mella and Esperanza Serrano, she was highly educated and socially active.
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Biography of Paul Capellani (excerpt)
Paul Henri Capellani (born September 9, 1877, in Paris 4th arrondissement and died on November 7, 1960, in Cagnes-sur-Mer) was a French theater and film actor. He was the brother of director and screenwriter Albert Capellani and the uncle of director Roger Capellani.
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Biography of Dorothy Norman (excerpt)
Dorothy Norman (née Stecker; March 28, 1905 – April 12, 1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, and arts patron known for her social activism. Her time of birth comes from her, in "Encounters: A Memoir" by Dorothy Norman (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987).
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Biography of Bob King (athlete) (excerpt)
Robert Wade King (June 20, 1906 – July 29, 1965) was an American athlete, who won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics with a jump of 1.93 m. His personal best was 1.997 m, achieved earlier that year. ![]()
Biography of Anita Brenner (excerpt)
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 22 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual who extensively wrote about Mexican art, culture, and history. Born in Mexico and educated in the U.S., she returned to Mexico post-Revolution and coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance' to describe the cultural growth.
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Biography of Kurt von Tippelskirch (excerpt)
Kurt Oskar Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Tippelskirch (9 October 1891 – 10 May 1957) was a German general in World War II, commanding several armies and Army Group Vistula. He surrendered to the US Army on May 2, 1945.Tippelskirch wrote multiple books, including "History of the Second World War" in 1951.
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Biography of Amedeo Agostini (excerpt)
Amedeo Agostini (6 March 1892, in Capugnano di Porretta Terme — 27 June 1958, in Livorno) was an Italian mathematician born in Capugnano di Porretta Terme. In 1919 he graduated at the University of Bologna, where he later worked on a freelance basis as teaching assistant and professor of History of Mathematics.
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Biography of Asbjørg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjørg Borgfelt (31 October 1900 – 5 June 1976) was a Norwegian sculptor. Personal life She was the daughter of Samuel Borgfeldt (1872-1936) and Magnhild Telma Sæther (1876-1941).In 1937 she married sculptor Per Hurum (1910–1989). Career Borgfeldt first studied art in Kristiania at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965). ![]()
Biography of Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (excerpt)
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
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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.
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Biography of Antoon Coolen (excerpt)
Antonius Franciscus Coolen, known as Antoon Coolen, was born in Wijlre on April 17, 1897, and died in Waalre on November 9, 1961.A Dutch regionalist novelist and also a journalist, he was influenced by his neighbor H.N.Ouweling in Deurne. After living in Zevenbergen, he returned to Deurne and later moved to Waalre. ![]()
Biography of E. B. White (excerpt)
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer.He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels. ![]()
Biography of Germaine Beaumont (excerpt)
Germaine Beaumont, born Germaine Battendier on October 31, 1890, in Petit-Couronne and died on March 21, 1983, in Montfort-l'Amaury, was a French journalist and novelist. She was the first woman to win the Renaudot Prize in 1930 for her novel Piège. Influenced by Virginia Woolf and Colette, she worked for various newspapers, including Le Matin and Les Nouvelles littéraires, and was one of the first women to write for Le Monde.
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Biography of Marius Chapuis (excerpt)
Marius Chapuis, a French cinema operator, was born on May 30, 1878, in Lyon and died on November 16, 1961, in Champfromier, Ain. He was one of the early promoters of the Lumière cinematograph abroad, alongside Alexandre Promio, Félix Mesguich, and Francis Doublier.
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Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
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Biography of Adelqui Migliar (excerpt)
Adelqui Migliar (5 August 1891 – 6 August 1956), also known as Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954.
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Biography of Léopold Survage (excerpt)
Léopold Survage, a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin, born in 1879 in Finland, played a significant role in the Russian avant-garde movement before settling in Paris. There, he interacted with artists like Modigliani and delved into abstract cinema. His work was influenced by music, leading to his concept of "Rythmes colorés" aimed at combining art and film.
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Biography of Saint-Granier (excerpt)
Saint-Granier, whose real name was Jean Adolphe Alfred de Granier de Cassagnac, was a French actor and singer-songwriter, born on May 27, 1890, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died on June 25, 1976, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). A creator of numerous revues, he was also a screenwriter, radio personality, and journalist.
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Biography of Daisy Fellowes (excerpt)
Daisy Fellowes, born Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glucksberg on April 29, 1890, in Paris and died on December 13, 1962, was a prominent figure in European high society, renowned for her beauty. Daughter of the Duke Decazes and heiress to the Singer fortune, she was a journalist for Harper's Bazaar and authored several novels.
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Biography of Jacques Raverat (excerpt)
Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (20 March 1885 – 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885. Raverat started at Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire in 1898.
Biography of Anne Redpath (excerpt)
Anne Redpath OBE ARA (29 March 1895 – 1965) was a Scottish painter renowned for her vibrant domestic still lifes.Born in Galashiels, her father was a tweed designer, influencing her keen sense for color. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1913, later traveling across Europe on a scholarship.
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Biography of Maurice Letulle (excerpt)
Maurice Éléonor Joseph Lucien Letulle, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in the Orne on March 19, 1853, and died in Paris on January 1, 1929, was a physician specializing in pathological anatomy and an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
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Biography of Elisabeth Lupka (excerpt)
Elisabeth Lupka (27 October 1902 – 8 January 1949) was a Nazi female guard at two prison camps during World War II. Lupka was born in Klein-Damner, German Empire (present-day Dąbrówka Mała, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland).She got married in 1934, had no children and soon divorced.
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Biography of Lucienne Radisse (excerpt)
Lucienne Radisse (4 December 1899 in Neuilly-sur-Seine – 19 January 1997 in Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French cellist and actress, the wife of journalist Jean Fannius and daughter-in-law of composer Henri Büsser, having married his son Yves in her second marriage in 1932.
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Biography of Arend Heyting (excerpt)
Arend Heyting (9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic.
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Biography of Pierre Termier (excerpt)
Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859, and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, was a prominent French geologist, specializing in tectonics and the structural synthesis of the Alps. Graduating top of his class from Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Corps des mines and quickly developed a passion for studying the Alps. ![]()
Biography of Geneviève Lantelme (excerpt)
Geneviève Lantelme, stage name of Mathilde Hortense Claire Fossey, was a French actress, celebrity, fashion icon, and courtesan of the early 20th century, born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris on May 20, 1883, and died near Rees, Germany, on July 25, 1911.
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Biography of Thierry de Martel (excerpt)
Thierry Jean Marie François de Martel, born on March 7, 1875, in Maxéville and died on June 14, 1940, in Paris, was a French physician and surgeon, and a pioneer in neurosurgery. Raised in a nationalist environment, he also excelled in rugby, becoming a French champion in 1896.
Biography of Marcel Martinet (excerpt)
Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer. Life Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the front.
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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.
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Biography of Meridel Le Sueur (excerpt)
Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900 – November 14, 1996) was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born Meridel Wharton, she adopted her stepfather's surname, Le Sueur.She grew up in a family of social activists and was influenced by Native American stories. |
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