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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 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 Jean Daragon (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Émile Daragon (February 14, 1870 – April 7, 1923) was a French actor. Married to actress Marguerite Moreno, he left the stage to become a horse trader. Paul Léautaud mentioned this decision in his Journal littéraire (February 10, 1909), quoting Moreno:
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Biography of Ferdinand Zecca (excerpt)
Ferdinand Zecca was born on February 19, 1864, in Paris 10th and died on March 23, 1947, in Saint-Mandé. He was a French filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, and actor who played a key role in the early days of cinema. Coming from a family of performers, he started as a stage manager and actor before transitioning to film in 1899, making movies for Pathé and Gaumont.
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Biography of Henry Van de Velde (excerpt)
Henry Van de Velde (born April 3, 1863, in Antwerp, Belgium; died October 15, 1957, in Oberägeri, Switzerland) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and teacher. At the end of the 19th century, alongside Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he was one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium and became a key figure in Belgian modernism.
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Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
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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 Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux. She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904. ![]()
Biography of Étienne Balsan (excerpt)
Fulcran Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878, Paris – March 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) was a French gentleman rider, horse breeder, and influential figure in high society. The son of industrialist Auguste Balsan, he left his military career to focus on horse breeding and racing, particularly at his Royallieu estate near Compiègne.
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Biography of Hans Purrmann (excerpt)
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (born April 10, 1880, in Speyer; died April 17, 1966, in Basel) was a German painter, graphic artist, art collector, and writer. He studied at the Karlsruhe School of Fine Arts (1897-1899) and the Munich Academy of Arts (1900-1905).
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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 Philipp Scheidemann (excerpt)
Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (born July 26, 1865, in Cassel, died November 29, 1939, in Copenhagen) was a German statesman and SPD member. He served as the second chancellor of the Weimar Republic after Friedrich Ebert. Trained as a typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1883 and became a journalist for social-democratic newspapers.
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Biography of Cläre Jung (excerpt)
Cläre Jung (2 February 1892 – 25 March 1981) was a German journalist, writer, and political activist. Born into a middle-class family, she became involved with Berlin’s expressionist poet circle and the journal Die Aktion, where she worked with her partner Franz Jung.
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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 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 Gabriele Possanner (excerpt)
Gabriele Possanner (27 January 1860 – 14 March 1940) was the first woman medical doctor to practice medicine in Austria. She was the daughter of the Austrian jurist Benjamin Possanner, and lived in six different cities until the age of twenty due to him moving often for his work.
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Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Karel van den Oever (excerpt)
Modestus Carolus (Karel) van den Oever, born November 19, 1879, in Antwerp and passed away on October 6, 1926, in the same city, was a Flemish poet, essayist, and playwright. He came from a Frisian merchant family that settled in Antwerp in 1842.
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 Georg Florschütz (physician) (excerpt)
Johann Georg Karl Jacob Florschütz, born on February 1, 1859, in Königsberg, Bavaria, and died on April 18, 1940, in Gotha, was a German physician, recognized as the founder of life insurance medicine in Germany. He studied medicine at Würzburg and Berlin from 1879 to 1884, earning his doctorate in 1884.
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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 Wilhelm Vocke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Vocke, born on February 9, 1886, in Aufhausen, and died on September 19, 1973, in Frankfurt am Main, was a German financial expert. He grew up in Mosbach and studied law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rostock, and Berlin. From 1919 to 1939, Vocke was a member of the board of the Deutsche Reichsbank.
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Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
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Biography of Hermann Dietrich (excerpt)
Hermann Robert Dietrich (December 14, 1879 – March 6, 1954) was a German politician from the German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic. In 1930, he succeeded Paul Moldenhauer as Finance Minister during the Great Depression.
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Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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Biography of Robert Bienaimé (excerpt)
Robert Bienaimé (15 March 1876 – 12 October 1960) was a French perfumer, notable for his work at Houbigant. Bienaimé was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and became a perfumer early in life. About 1910, he joined Houbigant, then under the control of Paul Parquet, remaining there until 1935, and created several well-known fragrances for the company.
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Biography of Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin. He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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Biography of Dorothy West (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, but born in Griffin, Georgia, she began her career in silent films in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1909 with D.
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Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
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Biography of Werner von Rheinbaben (excerpt)
Werner Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Rheinbaben (19 November 1878 – 14 January 1975) was a German diplomat and author. Rheinbaben was born in Schmiedeberg, Silesia. He was a naval attaché to Rome during 1911–1913. He later wrote of the 1914 July Crisis that it was Wilhelm von Stumm who downplayed the possibility of British intervention and strongly advised the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg to act quickly.
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Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
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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 Aldo Perroncito (excerpt)
Aldo Perroncito (18 May 1882, Turin – 1929) was an Italian pathologist. He was the son of parasitologist Edoardo Perroncito (1847–1936). He is known for research involving regeneration of peripheral nerves, kinetic behavior of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis, and studies of pellagra.
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Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
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Biography of Ludwig Schames (excerpt)
Ludwig Schames (born August 11, 1852, in Frankfurt am Main; died July 3, 1922, in the same city) was a German art dealer who supported German expressionists, notably Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, becoming his principal gallerist. Coming from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt, he initially worked as a banker in Paris, where he became fascinated by the emerging art scene.
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Biography of Jarogniew Drweski (excerpt)
Jarogniew Mikołaj Drwęski (6 December 1875 – 14 September 1921) was a lawyer, national and social activist, and the first Polish mayor of Poznań after independence. Born in Glinno to a noble family, he studied law and economics at the University of Berlin.
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Biography of Nico Rost (excerpt)
Nicolaas Rost, born on June 21, 1896, in Groningen and died on February 1, 1967, in Amsterdam, was a Dutch writer, translator, journalist, and resistance fighter. During the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Germany, working as a translator and journalist. He traveled to the Soviet Union, joined the Communist Party, and was briefly imprisoned in Oranienburg in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power.
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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 Jessie Tarbox Beals (excerpt)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was the first published female photojournalist in the U.S. and the first woman to do night photography. She became known for her news photography, notably of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and for portraits of bohemian Greenwich Village.
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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 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 James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération. A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
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Biography of Willem van Hoogstraten (excerpt)
Willem van Hoogstraten was born on March 18, 1884, in Utrecht. A Dutch violinist and conductor, he began studying the violin at eight and continued his training in Cologne and Prague. He started his career conducting at a health resort before leading the Kleefeld Orchestra from 1914 to 1918.
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Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
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Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne. He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
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Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929. This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
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Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
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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 Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis. |
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