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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 Avery Brundage (excerpt)
Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. Born in Detroit and raised in Chicago, he overcame a difficult childhood to become a successful engineer and track star.
Biography of Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Louis Kahn (architect) (excerpt)
Louis Isadore Kahn, born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky on March 5 (O.S. February 20), 1901, in Kuressaare, Estonia, and died March 17, 1974, in New York City, was an influential Estonian-American architect based in Philadelphia. He opened his own studio in 1935 after working with several firms.
Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (excerpt)
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years.
Biography of Thekla Resvoll (excerpt)
Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll (22 May 1871 – 14 June 1948) was a Norwegian botanist and educator.A pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation, she worked closely with her sister, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. Resvoll was born in Vågå, Oppland, Norway.She initially worked as a nurse in Stockholm before studying natural history at the Royal Frederick University in Kristiania in 1894.
Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
Biography of Jan van Zutphen (excerpt)
Johannes Andries "Jan" van Zutphen (October 8, 1863 – June 7, 1958) was a Dutch trade unionist and co-founder of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium, known for defending workers' rights and fighting tuberculosis. Coming from a modest background, he first worked as a carpenter and diamond cutter before joining the socialist movement.
Biography of Aïcha (circus performer) (excerpt)
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (December 10, 1876 – July 18, 1930) was a French circus performer and the maternal grandmother of Édith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. Early Life Born in her parents' wagon in Soissons, she was the daughter of Saïd Ben Mohamed, a Kabyle acrobat from Algeria, and Margherita Bracco, an Italian acrobat.
Biography of Renato Simoni (excerpt)
Renato Simoni (Verona, 5 September 1875 – Milan, 5 July 1952) was an Italian journalist, playwright, writer, and theatrical critic, best known for collaborating with Giuseppe Adami on Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Born in Verona, Simoni lost his father in 1879 and became the family's main provider.
Biography of Sigrun Svenningsen (excerpt)
Sigrun Svenningsen (June 23, 1902 – February 24, 1971) was a Norwegian actress. Svenningsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the traveling salesman Sigurd Svenningsen (1875–1901) and Karen Beate Hoff (1869–.).She had a successful stage career, including as the lead actress at the Chat Noir cabaret in the 1920s.
Biography of Heinrich Rickert (excerpt)
Heinrich John Rickert (German: ; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians. Life Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Biography of Louis Couperus (excerpt)
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus, born on June 10, 1863, in The Hague and died on July 16, 1923, in De Steeg, was a Dutch poet and writer, considered a prominent figure in Dutch literature. Born into a wealthy patrician family, he spent part of his youth in the Dutch East Indies.
Biography of Irène Bordoni (excerpt)
Irène Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
Biography of Anneliese Maier (excerpt)
Born on November 17, 1905, in Tübingen, Germany, Anneliese Maier was a German historian of science renowned for her research on medieval natural philosophy. The daughter of philosopher Heinrich Maier, she studied natural sciences and philosophy in Berlin and Zurich from 1923 to 1926.
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
Biography of Giuseppe Gola (botanist) (excerpt)
Giuseppe Gola (Novara, February 26, 1877 – Padua, July 25, 1956) was an Italian botanist. After earning a medical degree from the University of Turin in 1900, he developed a passion for botany and obtained a degree in natural sciences in 1902.
Biography of Cor van der Lugt Melsert (excerpt)
Cornelis Dirk van der Lugt Melsert (Rotterdam, July 4, 1882 – The Hague, August 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor and director. He debuted at age 9 with the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging and graduated from the Amsterdam School of Theatre in 1902. He directed the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel from 1923 to 1938, then became head of NV Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in Amsterdam.
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.
Biography of Giovanni Minzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Minzoni (1 July 1885 – 23 August 1923) was an Italian Catholic priest and anti-fascist, murdered by fascists in 1923. Ordained in 1909, he served as a military chaplain during World War I and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
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.
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.
Biography of Antoinette Sasse (excerpt)
Antoinette Sasse, born Antoinette Kohn on June 18, 1897, was a French artist known for her Fauvism style paintings and significant role in the French Resistance during World War II. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Paris, she studied under notable artists including Henri Matisse.
Biography of Charles Joseph Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier (4 March 1865, in Orléans – 15 November 1937, in Paris) was a French zoologist. He initially taught classes at École normale (1883–85) in Orléans and at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, afterwards becoming a professor of natural history at the École normale (1887) in Grenoble.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of Laureto Tieri (excerpt)
Laureto Tieri (born February 24, 1879, in Bolognano, and died 1952 in Florence) was an Italian physicist. He graduated in physics from the University of Rome in 1903, where he worked as an assistant to Pietro Blaserna and was a lecturer in experimental physics.
Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
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.
Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
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.
Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad.During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig.
Biography of Bernhard Weiss (police executive) (excerpt)
Bernhard Weiss (30 July 1880 – 29 July 1951) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. Known for defending parliamentary democracy against extremists, Weiss was born in Berlin into a prominent Jewish family. He served as Deputy Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and later became Vice President of the entire Berlin police force.
Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Albert Carré (actor) (excerpt)
Albert Carré was a French actor, director, playwright, librettist, and theater manager, born on June 22, 1852, in Strasbourg and died on December 11, 1938, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The nephew of playwright and librettist Michel Carré (1821–1872), he was married to the soprano Marguerite Carré, née Giraud (1880–1947), first cousin of Paul Vaillant-Couturier.
Biography of Irina Paley (excerpt)
Irina Pavlovna Romanova, Princess Paley (December 21, 1903 – November 15, 1990), was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Romanov and his second wife, Olga Valerianovna von Pistohlkors. Early Life: Irina was born in Paris as her parents were exiled for marrying without Tsar Nicholas II's permission.
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 Anna Kavan (excerpt)
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; April 10, 1901 – December 5, 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer, and painter.Born into an affluent family in Cannes, she endured a lonely and unstable childhood.After marrying Donald Ferguson and living in Burma, she returned to London, where she began publishing under her married name.
Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
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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