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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 Hermann Voss (anatomist) (excerpt)
Christian Heinrich Emil Hermann Voss (October 13, 1894 – January 19, 1987) was a German anatomist known for his medical academic work and textbooks, but also notorious for his experiments during the Third Reich. Born in Berlin, he studied at several universities before completing his doctorate in 1919.
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Biography of Carl Tanzler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Tänzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel (January 12, 1877 (Wikipedia has February 8 in error) – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession with a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after her death.
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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.
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Biography of Alexandre Arquillière (excerpt)
Alexandre Arquillière was a French actor, born on April 18, 1870, in Boën-sur-Lignon and passed away on January 8, 1953, in Saint-Étienne. Originally a house painter, he later became a student at the Conservatoire. He made his stage debut at the Théâtre Libre in 1888 alongside Firmin Gémier, with whom he maintained a close relationship.
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Biography of Louis de Beaufront (excerpt)
Louis Chevreux (3 octobre 1855 - 8 janvier 1935), known as Louis de Beaufront, was a key figure in the development of the international auxiliary language Ido. Initially a strong advocate of Esperanto, he played a significant role in its early spread in Western Europe.
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Biography of Leonard Springer (excerpt)
Leonard Antony Springer (Amsterdam, January 24, 1855 – Haarlem, September 28, 1940) was a Dutch garden and landscape architect. He was the son of painter Cornelis Springer and initially trained as a nurseryman before making a name as a garden architect.
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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.
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Biography of Willem de Mérode (excerpt)
Willem de Mérode, born Willem Eduard Keuning on September 2, 1887, in Spijk, was a Dutch poet who wrote over 2,300 poems. A deeply religious man, he taught at a primary school in Uithuizermeeden until 1924, when he was accused of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old boy, leading to an 8-month prison sentence and a three-year teaching ban.
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Biography of Louis St. Laurent (excerpt)
Louis Stephen St. Laurent (February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957. Born in Quebec, he became minister of justice in 1941 and won a by-election in 1942.
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Biography of Ulises Poirier (excerpt)
Ulises Dagoberto Poirier Puelma (3 March 1897 – 9 March 1977) was a Chilean football defender. He was the second oldest player listed in the squads for the inaugural World Cup held in Uruguay in 1930. Belgian goalkeeper Jean de Bie is the only player to have participated in a World Cup finals who was born before Poirier.
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Biography of Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S. Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
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Biography of Ignacio Alcocer (excerpt)
Ignacio Alcocer Rodríguez, born on December 21, 1870, in Saltillo, was a Mexican physician and politician. He studied medicine at La Sorbonne in Paris and furthered his studies in Italy. Upon returning to Mexico, he earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine in San Luis Potosí and practiced in Saltillo for 10 years.
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Biography of Christian Bérard (excerpt)
Christian Bérard (August 20, 1902 – February 11, 1949), also known as Bebè, was a French artist, fashion illustrator, and designer. Bérard and his partner Boris Kochno, co-founder of the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, were one of the most prominent openly homosexual couples in French theater during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Biography of Paul Poiret (excerpt)
Paul Poiret (April 8, 1879, Paris, France - April 30, 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer whose contributions to 20th-century fashion have been compared to Picasso’s in art. He is credited with freeing women from the corset and was called "The King of Fashion.
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Biography of Alfonso Caso (excerpt)
Alfonso Caso y Andrade (February 1, 1896 – November 30, 1970) was a Mexican archaeologist who made significant contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. As a university student, he was part of Los Siete Sabios de México, a group of intellectuals promoting cultural activities.
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Biography of Annibale Comessatti (excerpt)
Annibale Comessatti (Udine, January 30, 1886 – Padua, September 13, 1945), was an Italian mathematician. Annibale Comessatti studied at the University of Padua with Giuseppe Veronese and Francesco Severi and graduated in 1908. He worked as an assistant to Francesco Severi. He was appointed at the University of Cagliari in 1920, and then at the University of Padua in 1922.
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Biography of Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich (excerpt)
Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich (10 mars 1907 – 29 octobre 1969) fut le 34e Président du Costa Rica, de 1962 à 1966. D'origine croate, de la ville de Punat sur l'île de Krk, il co-fonda FJ Orlich & Hnos Ltda., une grande entreprise de café au Costa Rica.
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Biography of Hermann Schmitz (industrialist) (excerpt)
Hermann Schmitz (January 1, 1881 – October 8, 1960) was a German industrialist and Nazi war criminal who served as CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945. Born in Essen, Schmitz advanced his career through roles in various companies and became involved in Nazi politics, serving in the Reichstag.
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Biography of Friedrich Naumann (excerpt)
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle.
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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.
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Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
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Biography of Tim McCoy (actor) (excerpt)
Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy (April 10, 1891 – January 29, 1978) was an American actor, military officer, TV host, and expert on American Indian life. McCoy is most noted for his roles in B-grade Western films. As a popular cowboy film star, he had his picture on the front of a Wheaties cereal box.
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Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
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Biography of Jetty Cantor (excerpt)
Jetty Cantor, born Henriëtte Frank (The Hague, May 16, 1903 - Hilversum, April 23, 1992), was a Jewish Dutch violinist, singer, and actress. With her mother working as an actress in Germany, Cantor spent part of her youth there, debuting on radio and recording her first albums, which brought her instant success.
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Biography of Therese Giehse (excerpt)
Therese Giehse (born Therese Gift, March 6, 1898 – March 3, 1975) was a German actress born in Munich to German-Jewish parents. She began her stage career in 1920 and became a prominent figure in theater, film, and political cabaret. From the late 1920s until 1933, she was a leading actress at the Munich Kammerspiele.
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Biography of Salvador Seguí (excerpt)
Salvador Seguí Rubinat (born in Lleida on September 23, 1887, and assassinated in Barcelona on March 10, 1923), known as "El Noi del Sucre" ("The Sugar Kid"), was a leading anarcho-syndicalist figure in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Catalonia during the early 20th century.
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Biography of André Dunoyer de Segonzac (excerpt)
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a renowned French painter and graphic artist. Born in Paris, he initially attended the Free Academy of Luc-Olivier Merson before moving to the Académie de La Palette. His independent approach to art began in 1906, leading to his first Salon d'Automne submission in 1908.
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Biography of James McBey (excerpt)
James McBey (23 December 1883 – 1 December 1959) was a largely self-taught Scottish artist and etcher whose prints were highly valued during the later stages of the etching revival in the early 20th century. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Aberdeen University.
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Biography of Théodore Thalès (excerpt)
Théodore Marius Jammet, known as Théodore Thalès or simply Thalès, was born on February 25, 1857, in Marseille and died on October 13, 1935, in Paris's 10th arrondissement. He was a French mime and silent film actor. Mime Thalès performed in pantomimes at the Palais de Cristal, where he enjoyed great success with the audience.
Biography of Alfonsina Pieri (excerpt)
Alfonsina Pieri (Rome, May 22, 1884 – Milan, January 11, 1959) was an Italian actress active during the silent film era. Wikipedia has January 12, 1880 in error. Coming from a renowned acting family, she performed in several plays, including the 1908 premiere of Gabriele D'Annunzio's La nave, which was a great success.
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Biography of Mario Calvino (excerpt)
Mario Calvino (Sanremo, March 26, 1875 – Sanremo, October 25, 1951) was an Italian agronomist and botanist, husband of naturalist Eva Mameli, and father of writer Italo Calvino and geologist Floriano. After graduating in agricultural sciences from Pisa in 1899, he promoted floriculture in the Imperia region.
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Biography of Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter. Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt. At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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Biography of Jacques Presser (excerpt)
Jacob (Jacques) Presser (24 February 1899 – 30 April 1970) was a Dutch historian, writer, and poet, best known for his book Ashes in the Wind (The Destruction of the Dutch Jews), which chronicled the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands during World War II.
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Biography of Walter Göttsch (excerpt)
Leutnant Walter Göttsch HoH, IC (10 June 1896—10 April 1918) was a German World War I flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories. Born in Altour, he joined the German army on 1 July 1915 and was initially assigned to Flieger-Abteilung 33.
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Biography of Gusta Noske (excerpt)
Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (Reichswehrminister) of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske was known for using army and paramilitary forces to suppress the socialist/communist uprisings of 1919.
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Biography of Leo von König (excerpt)
Leo Freiherr von König (28 February 1871 - 19 April 1944) was a German painter and a member of the Berlin Secession. He was the eldest son of Götz von König, a cavalry general, and Baroness Hertha von Cramm. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Art and later at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1897.
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Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
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Biography of Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (excerpt)
Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Jeanne) Bieruma Oosting (5 February 1898 – 14 July 1994) was a Dutch sculptor, engraver, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator, glass artist, painter, illustrator and book designer. She studied at the School of Arts and Applied Arts in Haarlem, the Academy of Art in The Hague and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
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Biography of Jan Mankes (excerpt)
Jan Mankes (August 15, 1889 – April 23, 1920) was a Dutch painter. He created around 200 paintings, 100 drawings, and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30. His delicate, detailed works include self-portraits, landscapes, and studies of birds and animals.
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Biography of Caesar Rudolf Boettger (excerpt)
Caesar Rudolf Boettger (20 May 1888 – 8 September 1976) was a German zoologist from Frankfurt am Main, specializing in malacology. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1912 and conducted expeditions in Africa and the Orient. During WWI, he served in France and Turkey.
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Biography of Alfred Braun (excerpt)
Alfred Braun (3 May 1888 (Wikipedia has 13 May in error) – 3 January 1978) was a pioneer of German radio. He became famous as a radio reporter and radio play director, among other things. He was also an actor, stage and film director, and screenwriter.
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Biography of Gabriel de Gravone (excerpt)
Gabriel de Gravone, born Antoine Paul André Faggianelli on November 21, 1887, in Ajaccio, and died on December 5, 1972, in Marseille, was a French theater and film actor, as well as a director. Son of a postal worker, he began acting as a child and later studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire de Paris, including under Sarah Bernhardt.
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Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer. He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W. Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
Biography of Piero Sraffa (excerpt)
Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
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Biography of Chief Dan George (excerpt)
Chief Dan George OC (born Geswanouth Slahoot; July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Biography of Porfirio Díaz Ortega (excerpt)
Deodato Lucas Porfirio Díaz Ortega (October 18, 1873 – December 28, 1946) was the fourth child of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Delfina Ortega. A military engineer, he contributed to several important projects in Mexico and had eight children. His time of birth comes from the biography Verdad y mito de la Revolución Mexicana, Volume 1, by Ignacio Muñoz (Ediciones Populares, 1960).
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Biography of Cécile Thévenet (excerpt)
Cécile Thévenet, born on November 22, 1872, in Bruges and died on March 15, 1956, in Meudon, was a Belgian opera singer. Cécile Anne Marie Alphonsine Thévenet was the daughter of Alphonse Constantin Thévenet and Anne Thérèse Françoise Van Vyve. She had a sister, Marie, and two brothers, Pierre and Louis Thévenet, both of whom would become painters.
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Biography of José Iturbi (excerpt)
José Iturbi Báguena (Valencia, 28 November 1895 – Los Angeles, 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, and actor, appearing in several MGM musical films, including Thousands Cheer (1943) and Anchors Aweigh (1945). His approximate time of birth comes from the online biography at joseiturbi.
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Biography of Georges Grand (excerpt)
Georges Grand, born Valentin Pierre Louis MacLeod (August 11, 1864 – March 30, 1921 in Paris), was an actor and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. The son of an English commercial representative and a writer mother known as "George Grand," he studied at Lycée Henri IV and the Faculty of Law before pursuing a theater career. ![]()
Biography of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (excerpt)
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, born on March 10, 1900 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists the date as March 8th), in San José, was a Costa Rican doctor and politician who served as President from 1940 to 1944. After studying in Europe, he returned to Costa Rica to pursue a career in medicine and politics. |
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