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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 Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
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Biography of John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
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Biography of Leon Dabo (excerpt)
Leon Dabo, born Pierre-Paul-Léon Schott on July 9, 1864, in Saverne, Alsace, and died in New York on November 7, 1960, was an American painter, the son of artist Ignace Schott and Madeleine Oberlé. He was associated with the Tonalist movement and is best known for his landscapes of New York, especially the Hudson Valley.
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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.
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Biography of Henning Brütt (excerpt)
Henning Brütt (August 14, 1888 – January 24, 1979) was a German surgeon, urologist, and neurosurgeon. After studying medicine at several universities, he earned his doctorate in 1912. He became a surgeon under Hermann Kümmell and specialized in urology in 1919. In 1920, he qualified as a professor of surgery.
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Biography of Dawn Powell (excerpt)
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
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Biography of Leonetto Cappiello (excerpt)
Leonetto Cappiello, born in Livorno on 9 April 1875 and died in Cannes on 2 February 1942, was a versatile Italian artist who became a French citizen in 1930. He is recognized as the modernizer of French posters, following Jules Chéret’s influence.
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Biography of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (excerpt)
Ernst II (born 31 August 1871 in Altenburg – died 22 March 1955 in Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf) was the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and a German general active during World War I. As the only son of Prince Moritz, he inherited the duchy in 1908 after the death of his uncle, Ernst I.
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Biography of Antonio Brivio (excerpt)
Antonio Brivio Sforza (born December 27, 1905, and died January 20, 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder. His greatest achievements in motorsport include victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (1932), the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935), and the Mille Miglia (1936).
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Biography of Ludwig Aschoff (excerpt)
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (10 January 1866 – 24 June 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.
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Biography of Maly Delschaft (excerpt)
Maly Delschaft, born on December 4, 1898, in Hamburg and died on August 20, 1995, in Berlin, was a German actress active in both theater and film. Maly Delschaft began her career in theater before transitioning to silent films. Her most significant film roles were during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era.
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Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
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Biography of Luciano Kulczewski (excerpt)
Luciano Kulczewski García, born on January 12, 1896, in Temuco, Chile, and died on September 19, 1972, in Santiago, was a prominent 20th-century Chilean architect. Of Polish descent, he came from a family with a rich history; his grandfather Antoni was decorated for bravery during the 1831 November Uprising against Russia.
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Biography of Hugo Erfurth (excerpt)
Hugo Erfurth (14 October 1874 – 14 February 1948) was a German photographer famous for his portraits of cultural figures of the early 20th century. Born in Halle (Saale), he grew up in Schönau and later studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1892–1896).
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Biography of Georgette Agutte (excerpt)
Georgette Agutte, born on 17 May 1867 in Paris and died on 6 September 1922 in Chamonix, was a French painter, sculptor, and art collector. She was the daughter of painter Jean-Georges Aguttes, born just a few months after his death. Agutte studied sculpture with Jean-Louis-Désiré Schrśder and began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1887.
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Biography of Coba Ritsema (excerpt)
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (27 June 1876, Haarlem – 13 December 1961, Amsterdam) was a Dutch portrait painter. Born into an artistic family, she studied drawing in Haarlem and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1893 to 1897. She was taught by renowned artists like August Allebé and Thérčse Schwartze.
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Biography of Rirette Maîtrejean (excerpt)
Henriette Maîtrejean, known as "Rirette," was the pseudonym of Anna Estorges, born on August 14, 1887, in Tulle and died on June 11, 1968. She was a French individualist anarchist who contributed to the magazine L'Anarchie alongside Émile Armand and Albert Libertad.
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Biography of Hubert Hoffmann (excerpt)
Hubert Hoffmann (* March 23, 1904, Berlin – † September 25, 1999, Graz) was a German-Austrian urban planner, architect, author, and painter, and the grandson of architect Hubert Stier. The son of Walter Hoffmann, he studied at the Bauhaus Dessau from 1926 to 1930 under Walter Gropius.
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Biography of Alfred Döblin (excerpt)
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer, he is a key figure in German literary modernism. His śuvre spans over fifty years and includes a dozen novels (historical fiction, science fiction, urban themes), plays, radio scripts, philosophical treatises, essays, and letters.
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Biography of Francisco Rios Gonzalez (excerpt)
Francisco Ríos González, known as "El Pernales" (born July 23, 1879, in Estepa, Seville - died August 31, 1907, in Villaverde de Guadalimar, Albacete), was a famous Andalusian bandit. Born into a poor family, he started stealing at a young age. Influenced by legendary outlaws in his region, he joined fellow bandits to rob wealthy estates.
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Biography of Dörte Helm (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dörte" Helm (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter, and graphic designer. Life and Career Born to philologist Rudolf Helm and Alice Caroline Bauer, of Jewish descent, Helm studied in Berlin-Steglitz and later in Rostock. From 1915 to 1918, she attended the Kunsthochschule Kassel before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar in 1918.
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Biography of Alberto Hurtado (excerpt)
Alberto Hurtado, SJ (born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga; January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952), popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
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Biography of Alexander Mountbatten (excerpt)
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
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Biography of Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
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Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
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Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
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Biography of Rudolf Yelin (excerpt)
Rudolf Yelin, born on August 14, 1864, in Reutlingen and passed away on December 28, 1940, in Stuttgart, was a German painter best known for his religious stained glass works. He is often referred to as "The Elder" to distinguish him from his namesake son.
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Biography of Josep Lluís Sert (excerpt)
Josep Lluís Sert (May 7, 1901 – March 15, 1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture before moving to Paris in 1926 to work with Le Corbusier. Sert founded his own agency in 1929 and co-founded GATCPAC, introducing a rationalist aesthetic in Spain characterized by clean lines and abundant light.
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Biography of Pascual Custode (excerpt)
Pasquale Maria Custode del Vecchio (born in Castelnuovo di Conza, Italy, on November 21, 1873 - died in Sincelejo, Colombia, on January 23, 1928) was a Catholic priest who ministered in the departments of Sucre and Córdoba, Colombia. He served in the parishes of Sampués, Palmito, San Andrés de Sotavento, Chinú, Sahagún, and Sincelejo, where he inspired a whole generation through his dedicated and selfless service.
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Biography of Katharine Newlin Burt (excerpt)
Katharine Newlin Burt (September 6, 1882 – June 22, 1977) was an American novelist and film scenarist. She was a prolific author of Westerns and other novels, with a publishing career that spanned more than 60 years. At least seven of Burt's published works were adapted to film, and she authored the original screen stories for two more films.
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Biography of Zita of Bourbon-Parma (excerpt)
Zita of Bourbon, Princess of Parma, and later, through her marriage, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was born on May 9, 1892, in Lucca, Italy, and died on March 14, 1989, in Zizers, Switzerland. The wife of Emperor Charles I, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia.
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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.
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Biography of Louis Heijermans (excerpt)
Louis Heijermans (December 22, 1873 – July 22, 1938) was a Dutch social physician dedicated to improving the health of the poor and workers in the early 20th century. Born into a family of eleven children, he was the brother of playwright Herman Heijermans.
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Biography of Hans Jendretzky (excerpt)
Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky (July 20, 1897 – July 2, 1992) was a German Communist politician. He was a prominent figure in the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1919 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920.
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Biography of Dietrich Nasse (excerpt)
Dietrich Nasse, born on November 5, 1860, in Bonn and died on September 1, 1898, near Pontresina, was a German surgeon. He was the son of economist and politician Erwin Nasse and Hermine von Hogendorp, and the grandson of physician Christian Friedrich Nasse.
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Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
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Biography of Sarah Stewart (cancer researcher) (excerpt)
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart (August 16, 1905 – November 27, 1976) was a Mexican-American researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology research, and the first to show that cancer-causing viruses can spread from animal to animal. She and Bernice Eddy co-discovered the first polyoma virus, and SE (Stewart-Eddy) polyoma virus is named after them.
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Biography of Jürgen Wagner (excerpt)
Jürgen Wagner (born September 9, 1901, died June 27, 1947) was a German officer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He commanded the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
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Biography of Nino Salvaneschi (excerpt)
Nino Salvaneschi (Pavia, December 3, 1886 – Turin, November 24, 1968) was an Italian writer, journalist, and poet. He began his journalism career very young, working for several newspapers and co-founding Guerin Sportivo. After World War I, he expressed pacifist ideals in his book Uccidiamo la guerra.
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Biography of Sig Ruman (excerpt)
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967), known as Sig Ruman, was a German-American actor famous for his portrayals of pompous officials or villains in over 100 films. Born in Hamburg, German Empire, he studied electrical engineering before becoming an actor.
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Biography of Gaston Chérau (excerpt)
Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist. The son of an industrialist, Gaston Chérau died in Boston during a lecture tour. A journalist and chronicler, he regularly gave the press his impressions of travel.
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Biography of Ruth Landshoff (excerpt)
Ruth Landshoff-Yorck (born Ruth Levy, January 7, 1904 – January 19, 1966) was a German-American actress and writer. Life and Career Born in Berlin in 1904 to a middle-class Jewish family, she was the niece of publisher Samuel Fischer. During the Weimar Republic, she was part of Berlin’s intellectual circles and befriended figures like Bertolt Brecht and Albert Einstein.
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Biography of Alfred Kröner (publisher) (excerpt)
Alfred Kröner (born February 27, 1861, in Stuttgart; died January 2, 1922, in Berlin) was a German publisher and founder of the Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1904. Son of publisher Adolf von Kröner, he began his publishing career after military training, managing the magazine Die Gartenlaube in Leipzig from 1886.
Biography of Miguel Zacarías (excerpt)
Miguel Zacarías Nogaim (March 19, 1905 – April 20, 2006) was a Mexican film director, producer, and writer. He began his directing career in 1933 and was known for discovering new acting talent, helping launch the careers of Pedro Infante, Cantinflas, and María Félix, among others.
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Biography of Johanna Ey (excerpt)
Johanna Ey (4 March 1864 – 27 August 1947) was a German art dealer of the 1920s, nicknamed "Mutter Ey" (Mother Ey) for her support of artists like Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Born in Wickrath, she moved to Düsseldorf at 19, married, and had twelve children, eight of whom died young.
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Biography of Josette Andriot (excerpt)
Camille Élisa Andriot, known as Josette Andriot (23 August 1886 – 13 May 1942), was a French actress from the silent film era of the 1910s. Without theatrical training, she began her career in 1909 at Laboratoires Éclair, standing out as an actress thanks to her athletic skills (swimming, cycling, horse riding).
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Biography of Marie Dauguet (excerpt)
Marie Dauguet, born Julie Marie Aubert on April 2, 1860, in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont, and died on September 10, 1942, in Ville-d'Avray, was a French poet. She grew up immersed in the Vosges nature, with a love for botany and the arts. Her first collection, Ŕ travers le voile (1902), was praised by Stuart Merrill, who compared her to Verlaine.
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Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
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Biography of Anton Mussert (excerpt)
Anton Adriaan Mussert (11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch leader of the movement before and during World War II.
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Biography of Camille Paul Josso (excerpt)
Camille Paul Josso, born on June 6, 1902, in Nantes and died on October 2, 1986, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French engraver, painter, and illustrator. An orientalist painter, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in the 1930s and in Morocco. |
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