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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 Constantin Oddo (excerpt)
Paul Marie Constantin Oddo, born on June 6, 1860, and died on June 21, 1926, in Marseille, was a French physician and professor at the Marseille School of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine. The son of a broker and grandson of Auguste Laforęt, he spent his career at the Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille, where he became an intern in 1881.
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Biography of Erminio Spalla (excerpt)
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
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Biography of Thomas Ewing Sherman (excerpt)
Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. His time of birth comes from his mother, in "Ellen Ewing, Wife of General Sherman" by Anna (Shannon) McAllister (Benziger Brothers, 1936).
Biography of Franco Becci (excerpt)
Franco Becci (Rome, December 1, 1888 – Rome, November 5, 1951) was an Italian actor. He began his theater career in 1909 and quickly rose to prominence in Flavio Andň's company. In 1912, he joined companies performing the works of Sem Benelli, working with Gualtiero Tumiati and Arnaldo Ninchi until 1932.
Biography of Irmgard Enderle (excerpt)
Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: April 28, 1895 – September 20, 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist, and journalist. She was active in the Communist Party and later joined the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD). After the Nazis came to power, Enderle fled Germany, eventually settling in Sweden, where she continued her political activities.
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Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician. After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
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Biography of Virginia Cutler (excerpt)
Virginia Farrer Cutler (* December 17, 1905 – † May 20, 1993) was an American academic. She was the head of the Home Economics Department at the University of Utah and dean of the College of Family Living at Brigham Young University (BYU).
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Biography of Fritz Pregl (excerpt)
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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Biography of Antoni Ojrzynski (excerpt)
Antoni Ojrzyński (June 8, 1871 – July 16, 1967) was a Polish pharmacist, librarian, and book collector, as well as an active figure in tourism. After studying pharmacy, he worked in various pharmacies across Poland and opened his own in Nałęczów in 1898, later moving to Warsaw.
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Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy. In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
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Biography of Wolfgang von Gronau (excerpt)
Hans Wolfgang von Gronau (25 February 1893 – 17 March 1977) was a German aviation pioneer and Luftwaffe general. Born in Berlin to a noble family, he joined the Imperial German Navy before World War I and led a flying boat squadron.
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Biography of Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso XIII of Spain.
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Biography of Johanna Tesch (excerpt)
Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s. After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country.
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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)
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Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
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Biography of Draga Ljocic (excerpt)
Draga Ljočić Milošević (22 February 1855 – 5 November 1926) was a Serbian physician, socialist, and feminist. In 1872, she became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant.
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Biography of Suzanne Noël (excerpt)
Suzanne Noël, born Suzanne Blanche Marguerite Gros on January 19, 1878, in Laon (Aisne) and died on November 11, 1954, in Paris, was a medical doctor specializing in plastic surgery and a pioneer in the field. She is also known for founding the French chapter of the Soroptimist International service club in 1924, a women's professional and service organization established in the United States in 1921.
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Biography of Frits Zernike (excerpt)
Frits Zernike (16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1953) for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. Born in Amsterdam to mathematics teachers, he studied chemistry, mathematics, and physics at the University of Amsterdam.
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Biography of Andrea Villarreal (excerpt)
María Andrea Villarreal González (20 January 1881 – 19 January 1963) was a Mexican journalist, writer, and revolutionary, actively involved in the Mexican Revolution. She was the sister of revolutionary general Antonio I. Villarreal. Born in Lampazos de Naranjo, Nuevo León, she followed her brother into exile.
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Biography of Paul Maas (classical scholar) (excerpt)
Paul Maas (18 November 1880, in Frankfurt am Main – 15 July 1964, in Oxford) was a German scholar who, among other things, developed principles of textual criticism inherited from Karl Lachmann. He studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1903.
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Biography of Johannes Georgi (excerpt)
Johannes Georgi, born on December 14, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main and died on May 24, 1972, in Hamburg, was a German explorer, meteorologist, and glaciologist. He conducted the first in-depth meteorological measurements of the Greenland ice sheet and was the first in Europe to observe the jet stream.
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Biography of Ove Arup (excerpt)
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation offering engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. His time of birth comes from his father.
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Biography of Waldemar Erfurth (excerpt)
Waldemar Erfurth (4 August 1879 – 2 May 1971) was a German general of infantry, a writer and liaison officer to Finland during World War II Erfurth was born in Berlin. He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern.
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Biography of Abel Herzberg (excerpt)
Abel Jacob Herzberg (born September 17, 1893, in Amsterdam, died May 19, 1989, in the same city) was a Dutch lawyer, writer, playwright, and poet. The son of Russian Jews, he became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1918. After studying law in Amsterdam, he worked as a lawyer and prosecutor.
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Biography of Nelly van Doesburg (excerpt)
Nelly van Doesburg (born Petronella Johanna van Moorsel; July 27, 1899, The Hague – October 1, 1975, Meudon) was a Dutch musician, dancer, artist, and art collector. Performing under her Dada alias Pétro van Doesburg, she also painted under the pseudonym Cupera.
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Biography of Ada Nilsson (excerpt)
Ada Konstantia Nilsson (September 21, 1872 – May 23, 1964) was one of Sweden's first female medical doctors and a feminist activist. She co-founded the magazine Tidevarvet in 1923. Born in Södra Säms in 1872, she grew up on a farm. After her father's death, she moved to Stockholm.
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Biography of Ricardo Castro (pianist) (excerpt)
Ricardo Castro Herrera (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the Porfirio Díaz era. Born at Hacienda de Santa Bárbara, Durango, Castro began his music education with Pedro H.
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Biography of Felipe Pinglo Alva (excerpt)
Felipe Pinglo Alva (July 18, 1899 - May 13, 1936), musician and poet, is celebrated as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla, known for his iconic song "El Plebeyo." Born in Lima, Pinglo's upbringing in poverty and his early exposure to literature shaped his socially conscious and poetic songwriting.
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Biography of Ingeborg of Denmark (1878) (excerpt)
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise; 2 August 1878 – 12 March 1958), was a Princess of Sweden by marriage to Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland. Princess Ingeborg was a daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden, she grew up in Copenhagen as a Danish princess.
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Biography of Carry van Bruggen (excerpt)
Carry van Bruggen, pen name of Caroline Lea de Haan, was a Dutch writer born in Smilde on January 1, 1881, and died in Laren on November 16, 1932. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Justine Abbing and May. She was the elder sister of Jacob Israël de Haan, a Dutch writer, lawyer, politician, and significus (nl), who was born on December 31 of the same year.
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Biography of Erich Heckel (excerpt)
Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (excerpt)
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (born November 21, 1871, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on June 7, 1946, in Paris) was a French physician and scientist, primarily known for her discovery, alongside her mentor Paul Carnot, of hemopoietin (erythropoietin). She also initiated research that led to the development of organ transplantation.
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Biography of Anna Honzáková (excerpt)
Anna Honzáková (born 16 November 1875 in Kopidlno – died 13 October 1940 in Prague) was the first female doctor to graduate from Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, on 17 March 1902. She was the third Czech woman to obtain a medical degree, after Bohuslava Kecková and Anna Bayerová, who studied in Switzerland as their degrees were not recognized in their homeland.
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Biography of Georg von Küchler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.
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Biography of Joăo Francisco Dias (excerpt)
Joăo Francisco Dias (November 22, 1898 – March 8, 1955) was a prominent Portuguese surgeon who made significant contributions to healthcare in the Algarve region. Born in Castro Marim, he studied medicine in Coimbra, graduating in 1927. He began his career in Alcoutim in 1931, overcoming many challenges to establish a small hospital.
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Biography of Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France. In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular. Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
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Biography of Hans Kramers (excerpt)
Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch theoretical physicist (December 17, 1894, in Rotterdam – April 24, 1952, in Oegstgeest). Hendrik Kramers studied mathematics and physics at Leiden University. After earning his master’s degree in 1916, he intended to complete his PhD under the supervision of Max Born at the University of Göttingen.
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Biography of Lina Prokofiev (excerpt)
Lina Ivanovna Prokofieva (Russian: Ли́на Ива́новна Проко́фьева), born Carolina Codina Nemísskaia, (20 October 1897 – 3 January 1989) was a Spanish singer and the first wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. His time of birth comes from the biography "Sergei Prokofiev: A Soviet Tragedy" by Victor Ilyitch Seroff (Taplinger, 1979).
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Biography of Adolphe Clément-Bayard (excerpt)
Gustave Adolphe Clément, known from 1909 Clément-Bayard (22 September 1855 – 10 March 1928), was a French entrepreneur. Despite being orphaned, he became a blacksmith and a Compagnon du Tour de France. He later ventured into racing and manufacturing bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships.
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Biography of Ludwig Finckh (excerpt)
Ludwig Finckh (* March 21, 1876 in Reutlingen; † March 8, 1964 in Gaienhofen) was a German writer and physician. Born into a modest family, Finckh initially studied law but switched to medicine, earning his doctorate in 1904. He moved to Gaienhofen, where he formed a friendship with Hermann Hesse.
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Biography of Jan van Nijlen (excerpt)
Joannes Joannes-Baptista Maria Ignatius van Nijlen (Antwerp, November 10, 1884 – Vorst, August 14, 1965) was a Flemish civil servant, poet, and essayist. Van Nijlen moved frequently but lived for a long time in Uccle near Brussels. He is widely known for the line "Never board the train without your suitcase of dreams, then you'll find proper accommodation in every city.
Biography of Wilhelm Wigand (excerpt)
Wilhelm Wigand (born July 2, 1895, in Barth; died April 22, 1945, in Großkrausnik) was a German politician (NSDAP). After obtaining his Abitur, he participated in World War I, where he was wounded and decorated. From 1918 to 1920, he was a French prisoner of war.
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Biography of Gussy Holl (excerpt)
Gussy Holl (born Auguste Marie Holl on February 22, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main, German Empire; died July 16, 1966, in Salzburg, Austria) was a German silent film actress and singer. Gussy Holl briefly became a star in the early days of the Weimar Republic, appearing in films by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Richard Oswald.
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Biography of Eric Hoffer (excerpt)
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an Atheist American philosopher and social critic. A conservative moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer authored ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
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Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews.
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Biography of Enrique Flores Magón (excerpt)
Enrique Flores Magón (April 13, 1877 – October 28, 1954) was a Mexican journalist and politician associated with the Mexican Liberal Party and anarchism. His name is often linked with that of his elder brother, Ricardo Flores Magón, and the political philosophy they promoted, magonismo.
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Biography of Richard Dehmel (excerpt)
Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (November 18, 1863, in Hermsdorf, Province of Brandenburg – February 8, 1920, in Blankenese, Germany) was a German writer and poet. After being expelled from high school in Berlin due to a conflict with a teacher, he completed his education in Danzig and then studied natural sciences, economics, literature, and philosophy, submitting a thesis in economics.
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Biography of Chrix Dahl (excerpt)
Chrix Dahl (January 5, 1906 – June 16, 1994) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he was the eldest son of a naval officer and Elise Augusta Steen. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and the National Academy of Fine Arts from 1924 to 1932.
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Biography of Mabel Forrest (excerpt)
Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest, born on 6 March 1872 near Yandilla, Queensland, was an Australian writer and journalist. She began writing early, but her first book, The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories, was published only in 1904. Her approximate time of birth comes from one of her poems, "When I Was Born", in which Forrest writes that she was born at night, in the early hours before sunrise.
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excerpt)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. |
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