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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 Billy Cotton (musician) (excerpt)
William Edward "Billy" Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) was an English bandleader and entertainer, remembered for his success across the British dance band era and later as a popular 1950s–60s radio and TV personality. A former choirboy and drummer, he enlisted in WWI underage, serving in Gallipoli and later training as a pilot.
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Biography of Gershom Scholem (excerpt)
Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Kabbalah. He became the first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Biography of Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sibylle Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora; 18 January 1908 – 28 November 1972) was a member of the Swedish royal family and the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. Her approximate time of birth comes from the Deutsches Volksblatt newspaper, 20 January 1908, stating she was "born in the evening."
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Biography of Elisabeth Winterhalter (excerpt)
Elisabeth Hermine Winterhalter (17 December 1856 - 13 February 1952) was a German gynecologist, surgeon, feminist, and patron of the arts. She was one of Germany’s first female doctors and its first female surgeon. She shared her life with painter Ottilie Roederstein.
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Biography of Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
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Biography of Alfred Gause (excerpt)
Alfred Gause, born on February 14, 1896, in Königsberg, and died on September 30, 1967, in Bonn, was a German Generalleutnant who served in the Heer of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a prestigious decoration for extreme bravery on the battlefield or successful military leadership.
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Biography of Dorothy Mackaill (excerpt)
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, best known for her roles during the silent and pre-Code film eras. Born in Kingston upon Hull, she was raised by her father after her parents separated. She trained in London and Paris, then moved to New York at 17 to dance in the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Biography of Julius Guttmann (excerpt)
Julius Guttmann (April 15, 1880 – May 19, 1950) was a German-born rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion. The son of Jakob Guttmann, Chief Rabbi of Hildesheim, Julius moved with his family to Breslau in 1880.He studied at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and the University of Breslau.
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Biography of Gaston Calmette (excerpt)
Gaston Calmette (July 30, 1858, Montpellier – March 17, 1914, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist and the director of Le Figaro. Career The elder brother of bacteriologist Albert Calmette, he joined Le Figaro at 27 and became its director in 1902. In January 1914, he led a fierce campaign against Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, publishing compromising personal letters.
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Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities. ![]()
Biography of Ignacio Zuloaga (excerpt)
Ignacio Zuloaga Zabaleta (Éibar, July 26, 1870 – Madrid, October 31, 1945) was a prominent Spanish painter of the 20th century, hailed by Parisian critics as "the last great master of the Spanish School of painting." Born into a family of renowned artisans, he was the only one among five siblings to pursue the arts, following the footsteps of his father Plácido Zuloaga, a famous damascene craftsman, and his uncle Daniel Zuloaga, a ceramist.
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Biography of Gaston Baty (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty was a theater practitioner, born in Pélussin (Loire) on May 26, 1885, and died in the same town on October 13, 1952. He was one of the founders of the theatrical "Cartel" in 1927, alongside Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Georges Pitoëff.
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Biography of Mary Poonen Lukose (excerpt)
Mary Poonen Lukose (2 August 1886 - 2 October 1976) was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India. She was the founder of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Nagarcoil and the X-Ray and Radium Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, served as the head of the Health Department in the Princely State of Travancore and was the first woman legislator of the state.
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Biography of Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
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Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
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Biography of Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
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Biography of Margaret Wilson (novelist) (excerpt)
Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (January 16, 1882 – October 6, 1973) was an American novelist and the 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for The Able McLaughlins. Born in Traer, Iowa, she grew up on a farm and earned degrees from the University of Chicago in 1903 and 1904.
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Biography of Fritz Rumpf (excerpt)
Fritz Rumpf, born on February 16, 1856, in Frankfurt am Main and passed away on July 23, 1927, in Potsdam, was a German painter known for his landscapes and architectural works, favoring Baroque and Rococo styles. From an intellectual family, he studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt, the Kassel Kunsthochschule, and the Berlin University of the Arts.
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Biography of Joseph Léon Lignières (excerpt)
Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (March 26, 1868, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – October 19, 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, the binomial authority for the Salmonella genus of bacteria. Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières (born March 26, 1868, in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France – died October 19, 1933, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a French-Argentinian veterinarian and bacteriologist, known for describing the Salmonella genus.
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Biography of Paul Berthier (composer) (excerpt)
Paul Berthier (June 23, 1884 – February 6, 1953) was a French organist and composer, known for his contributions to sacred music. A student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, he co-founded the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois choir in 1906.
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Biography of Alfhild Tamm (excerpt)
Anna Alfhild Tamm, born May 16, 1876, in Tveta (Södertälje) and died November 1, 1959, was Sweden's first psychiatrist.A specialist in speech disorders, she played a key role in introducing psychoanalysis to the country. Graduating from the Karolinska Institute in 1905, she specialized in psychiatry and neurology before continuing her studies in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna.
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Biography of Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
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Biography of Pauline Pô (excerpt)
Pauline Pô (August 28, 1904 – October 16, 1979) was a French actress and the winner of the 1921 Miss France contest, then called La plus belle Femme de France. Originally from Ajaccio, she first won the Miss Corse title in 1920 before being crowned Reine de Beauté des Provinces de France in 1921.
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Biography of Keyes Metcalf (excerpt)
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (April 13, 1889 – November 3, 1983) was an American librarian, recognized as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the field. His time of birth comes from him, in "Random Recollections of an Anachronism: Or, Seventy-five Years of Library Work, Volume 1" by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (Readex Books, 1980).
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Biography of Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded.
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Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
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Biography of Suzanne Aron Benoit-Lévy (excerpt)
Suzanne Aron, born Benoit-Lévy on January 25, 1896, in Paris, and passed away on October 28, 1988, in Paris, was a French Jewish educator and co-founder of École Yabné in 1948 alongside Chief Rabbi Henri Schilli. During World War II, she was hidden by Jeanne Brousse, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, who also protected Rabbi Schilli's daughters. ![]()
Biography of Amalia Guglielminetti (excerpt)
Amalia Guglielminetti (5 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian poet and writer born in Turin.After her father’s death in 1886, her family moved in with her grandfather, who enrolled her in a religious school. She began her literary career in 1901 with Gazzetta del Popolo and published her first poetry collection, Voci di Giovinezza, in 1903.
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Biography of Oswald de Andrade (excerpt)
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and cultural critic, born, raised, and deceased in São Paulo. His time of birth comes from his autobiography. A founder of Brazilian modernism, he took part in the Modern Art Week and belonged to the Group of Five, alongside Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, and Menotti del Picchia.
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Biography of Alfred Weber (économist) (excerpt)
Carl David Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 – May 2, 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist whose work significantly influenced the development of modern economic geography. The younger brother of sociologist Max Weber, he was born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg.
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Biography of Heinrich Jacoby (excerpt)
Heinrich Jacoby (3 April 1889 – 25 November 1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness.His collaboration with his colleague Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), whom he met in 1924 in Berlin, played a great role in his researches.
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Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig.Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
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Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
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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.
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Biography of Maria Pascoli (excerpt)
Mariù Pascoli was the pseudonym of Italian writer and poet Maria Pascoli (1 November 1865 – 5 December 1953). She was the sister of poet Giovanni Pascoli, whom she assisted until his death, preserving his archives in the house that bears his name.
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Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist.Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
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Biography of William Arbuthnot Lane (excerpt)
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (July 4, 1856 – January 16, 1943) was a British surgeon and physician, specializing in orthopaedic, abdominal, and ENT surgery. He designed new surgical instruments to ensure maximal asepsis and introduced the "no-touch technique", which remains in use today.
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Biography of Fernande Barrey (excerpt)
Fernande Barrey (January 9, 1893, in Paris 10e – July 14, 1960, in Paris) was a French artist's model and painter. She left Picardy around 1908 for Paris, where she initially survived as a child prostitute. She later became a model for artists such as Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, who encouraged her to study painting and art history at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I.He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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Biography of Charles Derennes (excerpt)
Charles Derennes, born on August 4, 1882, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on April 27, 1930, in Paris, was a French writer. The son of a teacher and Breton writer, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and studied at the lycée in Talence.
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Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
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Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer.His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
Biography of Marcel-Louis Baugniet (excerpt)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet, born on March 18, 1896, in Liège and passed away on February 1, 1995, in Brussels, was a Belgian avant-garde artist. A painter, he also worked with collages, ceramics, illustration, tapestries, furniture design, and art criticism. He studied at the Brussels Academy alongside Paul Delvaux and René Magritte before training in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Louis Z. Rollini (excerpt)
Louis Z.Rollini, born August 26, 1866 in Paris, died July 4, 1951 in Le Vésinet, was a French film writer whose works range from La leçon du gouffre (1913), Bigorno fume l'opium (1914) and Il bacio della gloria (1913).He was the brother of film director Ferdinand Zecca.
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Biography of Lion Feuchtwanger (excerpt)
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
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Biography of Isaac José Pardo (excerpt)
Isaac José Pardo Soublette (Caracas, 14 October 1905 - 3 March 2000), was a Venezuelan intellectual of German-Jewish extraction known for his essays: Esta tierra de gracia (1955) and Fuegos bajo el agua. La invención de la utopía (1983). Also, was part of the Generation of 1928, movement against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez; founder of the party Unión Republicana Democrática (URD) in 1945, director of El Nacional, redactor of the humorist paper El Morrocoy Azul, and principal authority of the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela in 1963.
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Biography of Peggy Shannon (excerpt)
Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon; January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress.She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s. Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions.
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Biography of Hermann Kümmell (excerpt)
Hermann Kümmell (22 May 1852, Korbach, Waldeck-Pyrmont – 19 February 1937) was a German surgeon. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate at Berlin, later working as an assistant physician to Max Schede (1833-1902) at the municipal hospital in Friedrichshain.In 1883 he became chief physician of the surgical department at the "Marienkrankenhaus" in Hamburg, and in 1895 was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Allgemeinen Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf. |
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