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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 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 Lucien Schnegg (excerpt)
Lucien Schnegg (19 March 1864 – 22 December 1909) was a French sculptor, close to Auguste Rodin, though he distanced himself from Rodin’s expressive style to promote a classical aesthetic. Born in Bordeaux into a family of Bavarian cabinetmakers, Schnegg began his training as an ornamental sculptor.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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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 Herbert Myrick (excerpt)
Herbert Myrick, born on 20 August 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, was an American writer, editor, and businessman known for his influential work in agricultural publishing.He was the owner of the Phelps Publishing Company and served as editor-in-chief of the New England Homestead.
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Biography of Philipp Franck (painter) (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860 – 13 March 1944) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Encouraged by his father, Franck initially studied architecture but shifted to art after his father’s death.At 17, he enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, specializing in landscapes and fairy tale illustrations under Eduard Jakob von Steinle.
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Biography of Karolina Widerström (excerpt)
Karolina Olivia Widerström (December 10, 1856 – March 4, 1949) was a Swedish medical doctor and gynecologist, the first woman in Sweden to earn a medical degree. A strong advocate for women's rights, she fought for sexual education and female suffrage. She served as chairwoman of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and was a member of Stockholm’s city council.
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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). ![]()
Biography of Siegfried Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Siegfried Jacobsohn (born January 28, 1881, in Berlin – December 3, 1926, in Berlin) was a German journalist and theater critic. His magazine Die Weltbühne was regarded as a pacifist forum for the left. Many prominent contributors wrote for it, including Kurt Tucholsky, Kurt Hiller, Alfons Goldschmidt, Hans Reimann, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Heinrich Ströbel, Adolf Behne, Walter Mehring, Richard Lewinsohn, Friedrich Sieburg, and Carl von Ossietzky.
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Biography of Léo Taxil (excerpt)
Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil (21 March 1854 – 31 March 1907), was a French writer infamous for his anti-clerical publications and a later hoax targeting Freemasonry. Born into a Catholic, royalist family, he broke from religion in his teens and became a radical republican and satirical journalist, attacking the Church with provocative writings.
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Biography of Evelina Paoli (excerpt)
Evelina Paoli, born Lina Vianello (30 March 1878 – 28 December 1974), was an Italian actress. Born in Florence to a bourgeois family, she began her theatrical career at 18 with Achille Vitti's company and later joined Eleonora Duse's troupe, touring from 1900 to 1902.
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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.
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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 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 Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
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Biography of Julius Richard Petri (excerpt)
Julius Richard Petri (born 31 May 1852 in Barmen, Germany – died 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist, best known for inventing the Petri dish. He studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians and earned his doctorate from Charité Hospital in Berlin in 1876.
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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 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 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 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.
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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 Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
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Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
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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.
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Biography of Antonio Paoli (excerpt)
Antonio Paoli, full name Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano (born April 14, 1871, in Ponce; died August 24, 1946, in San Juan), was a Puerto Rican tenor. Nicknamed "the king of tenors," he was the first Puerto Rican to achieve international fame in the arts.
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Biography of René Navarre (actor) (excerpt)
René Navarre, a French actor, was born on July 8, 1877, in Limoges and died on February 8, 1968, in Azay-sur-Cher.He started his career in theater in Paris before transitioning to cinema in 1909, notably with Gaumont. He gained fame for his leading role in Fantômas, a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade between 1913 and 1914.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of Nicolette Hennique (excerpt)
Nicolette Hennique (Paris 8th, April 17, 1882 - Paris 16th, April 11, 1956) was a French poet.Daughter of novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont, she was born on Rue de Courcelles in Paris. She contributed to several literary magazines, including L'Ermitage, L'Hémicycle, La Revue blanche, La Revue, and Le Gaulois.
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Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler.
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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 Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of Lugné-Poe (excerpt)
Aurélien-Marie Lugné, known as Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, director, and theater manager, born in Paris on December 27, 1869, and died in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on June 19, 1940. Founder of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, he played a key role in revitalizing Parisian theater at the end of the 19th century, opposing the dominant naturalist movement.
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Biography of Jean Tilho (excerpt)
Jean Auguste Marie Tilho (May 1, 1875, Domme – April 8, 1956, Paris) was a French officer and explorer. Graduating from Saint-Cyr in 1895, he joined the Colonial Infantry and took part in border delineation missions in Africa. Between 1903 and 1907, he explored French Niger and reached Lake Chad.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
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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 Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
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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 Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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Biography of Arthur O'Connell (excerpt)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell, born on March 29, 1908, and died on May 18, 1981, was an American actor known for character roles in film, stage, and TV during the 1950s. He earned two Academy Award nominations for Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
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Biography of Joe Cantillon (excerpt)
Joseph D. Cantillon (August 19, 1861 – January 31, 1930), nicknamed "Pongo Joe", was an American baseball manager and umpire in the early 20th century. Born in Janesville, Wisconsin, he also had a long career managing in the minor leagues. His time of birth comes from him, in the book "Joe and Mike Cantillon: Firebrands of Baseball" by Michael Bosanko (Dorrance, 2024).
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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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 Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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Biography of Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
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Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
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Biography of Alexander Kanoldt (excerpt)
Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German painter associated with New Objectivity and magic realism. Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Edmund Kanoldt, a Nazarene-style painter.After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he moved to Munich in 1908, where he interacted with modernists like Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.
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Biography of Otto Reiniger (excerpt)
Otto Reiniger, born February 27, 1863, in Stuttgart and died July 24, 1909, near Weilimdorf, was a German landscape painter in the Impressionist style, best known for his depictions of flowing water. He studied under Grünenwald and Kappis in Stuttgart, then with Joseph Wenglein in Munich.
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Biography of Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism. |
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