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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 Elbert A. Smith (excerpt)
Elbert Aoriul Smith (8 March 1871 – 15 May 1959) was a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). He served in the church's First Presidency from 1909 to 1938 and as Presiding Patriarch from 1938 to 1958.
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Biography of Karl Plagge (excerpt)
Karl Plagge (10 July 1897 – 19 June 1957) was a German engineer and army officer who saved over 1,250 Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. A wounded World War I veteran, he joined the Nazi Party in 1931 hoping to help rebuild Germany.
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Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
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Biography of René de Castéra (excerpt)
René (d'Avezac) de Castéra (Dax, April 3, 1873 - Angoumé, Landes department, October 8, 1955) was a French composer. A student of Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Isaac Albéniz, he served as secretary of the Schola Cantorum, founder of the Édition Mutuelle, and a music critic.
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Biography of Paul Bar (obstetrician) (excerpt)
Paul Bar (November 5, 1853 – November 26, 1945) was a French obstetrician, a student of Stéphane Tarnier, and the founder of clinical obstetrics, merging obstetrics and gynecology. He began his medical career in 1875 as an extern, later becoming an intern and earning his doctorate in 1881.
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Biography of Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (excerpt)
Cécile Vogt-Mugnier was born on March 27, 1875, in Annecy and passed away on May 4, 1962, in Cambridge.A Franco-German neurologist and neuropathologist, she made significant contributions to medical research. She was among the first women admitted to medical school and defended her thesis in 1900 on brain myelination.
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Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics.
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Biography of Jan Olieslagers (excerpt)
Born on May 14, 1883, in Antwerp, Jan Olieslagers came from humble beginnings. After losing his father at age 11, he worked in shipyards and bicycle workshops, where he developed a passion for speed and mechanics. He became a cyclist and then, in 1902, world motorcycle speed champion.
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Biography of Heddy Astrup (excerpt)
Hedevig (Heddy) Stang Astrup, born on April 21, 1904, and died on August 23, 1978, was a Norwegian philanthropist known as “the mother of child aid.” In 1931, she founded a local charity that became Oslo Red Cross Child Aid. She supported vulnerable children and disabled people, establishing the "Tomtebo" center in 1944 and significantly funding the Bakkebø institution and its chapel.
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Biography of Louis Fabry (excerpt)
Louis Fabry, born on April 20, 1862, in Marseille and deceased on January 26, 1939, in Les Lecques (Var), was a French astronomer and mathematician. Raised in a scholarly family, he studied at Lycée Thiers and then at École Polytechnique. He earned degrees in mathematics and physics, trained in Paris, and worked at the observatories of Nice and Marseille, where he became assistant astronomer in 1895 and retired in 1924.
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Biography of Barthold Theodoor Willem Van Hasselt (excerpt)
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt (7 November 1896, Leiden – 5 August 1960, Wassenaar) was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and served as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951. The son of Marie Elise Prins (1875-1949) and physician Sjoerd Folkert Willem van Hasselt (1868-1934), he married Elisabeth Henriette Versteegh (1898-1957) in 1920 and Marion Elizabeth Davidson (1892-1992) in 1938.
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Biography of Enrico Mainardi (excerpt)
Born on May 19, 1897, in Milan, Enrico Mainardi was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor. He began touring Europe as a cello prodigy at just thirteen, gaining acclaim as a virtuoso performer. He later taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, mentoring notable cellists like Siegfried Palm and Miklós Perényi.
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Biography of Wilfred Talbot Smith (excerpt)
Wilfred Talbot Smith, born Frank Wenham on June 8, 1885, and died April 27, 1957, was an English occultist and ceremonial magician.He was a key figure in spreading the religion of Thelema across North America. His time of birth comes from the book "The Unknown God: W.
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Biography of Jacques Perk (excerpt)
Jacques Perk, born June 10, 1859, and died November 1, 1881, was a pivotal Dutch poet of the 19th century. His sonnet cycle Mathilde, published by Willem Kloos, marked the beginning of modern Dutch poetry and was influenced by Shelley, Goethe, and Lamartine.
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Biography of Mariano Azuela (excerpt)
Mariano Azuela (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican physician and writer, known as the first major novelist of the Mexican Revolution.His socially committed novels influenced generations of protest writers. He began publishing in the 1890s and wrote early novels about fate and society under Porfirio Díaz.
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Biography of Jean Webster (author) (excerpt)
Jean Webster, born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24, 1876, and died on June 11, 1916, was an American author best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively young female protagonists who grow intellectually, morally, and socially, while incorporating humor, witty dialogue, and subtle social critique.
Biography of Nellie Campobello (excerpt)
Nellie Campobello (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer known for Cartucho, a rare chronicle of the Mexican Revolution from a woman’s perspective. The book recounts her childhood in northern Mexico amid the clashes between Villistas and Carrancistas.
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Biography of Angelo Hesnard (excerpt)
Angelo Louis Marie Hesnard, born on 22 May 1886 in Pontivy and died on 17 April 1969 in Rochefort, was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, influential in 1930s French sexology. Coming from a modest background, he educated himself through the French navy.
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Biography of Jacobus van Looy (excerpt)
Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (13 September 1855 – 24 February 1930) was a Dutch painter and writer. Orphaned at a young age, he grew up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage. Originally trained as a house painter, he entered the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1877.
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Biography of Anna von Palen (excerpt)
Anna von Palen, born Anna Wilhelmine Emilie von Paledzki on May 26, 1875 in Perleberg, made her stage debut in 1894 in Gardelegen under the name Anna Paulsen.She later performed in Bautzen, Bielefeld, Gleiwitz, Heidelberg, and Riga, settling in Berlin in 1912.
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Biography of Fernand Mailly (excerpt)
Fernand Mailly, born Fernand Jean Paul Anne-dit-Mousset on February 26, 1873, in Le Havre, was a French actor and stage director. He died in Paris on August 20, 1942. He began his career in theater before transitioning to silent cinema, debuting in 1914 with La Dénonciatrice.
Biography of Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
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Biography of Fred Vlès (excerpt)
Fred Manuel Raoul Vlès (born January 22, 1885, in Le Havre and died July 2, 1944, in Dachau) was a French zoologist and biologist. He earned a doctorate in science and was a professor of biological physics at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg from 1922 until his deportation in 1944.
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Biography of Waldemar Pabst (excerpt)
Ernst Julius Waldemar Pabst, born December 24, 1880, and died May 29, 1970, was a German military officer known for his violent role in post-WWI anti-communist actions and far-right paramilitary politics. As a Freikorps captain, he ordered the extrajudicial killings of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 and later helped lead the failed Kapp Putsch against the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Philippe Olive (actor) (excerpt)
Philippe Olive, born Philippe Jean-Pierre Olive on January 10, 1908 in Pantin, France, was a French actor who died on June 28, 1981 in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Active in 1950s French cinema, he often played supporting roles. Notably, he portrayed the coroner in Minuit, quai de Bercy (1953) and Porthos in The Vicomte of Bragelone (1954).
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Biography of Webster McDonald (excerpt)
Webster "Mac" McDonald (January 1, 1900 – June 12, 1982) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues.He played from 1920 to 1940 with several teams. His time of birth comes from him, in the book "Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues", by John B.
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Biography of Carmel Myers (excerpt)
Carmel Myers (April 9, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American silent film star, known for her vamp roles and her breakout performance as Iras in Ben-Hur (1925).She began her career with D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance. She thrived during the 1920s with major roles and transitioned modestly into sound films, appearing in Svengali and The Mad Genius.
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Biography of Ramón Menéndez Pidal (excerpt)
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian, renowned for his work on the Spanish language, folklore, and poetry. He was best known for his studies on El Cid and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature a record 154 times.
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Biography of Ferdinand Karsch (excerpt)
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch (born September 2, 1853, in Münster, died December 20, 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist, and anthropologist. From around 1905, he also published under the name Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, using his mother's maiden name for his work on human and animal sexual diversity.
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Biography of Auguste Sartory (excerpt)
Auguste Théodore Sartory (born May 22, 1881 in Limoges – died December 2, 1950 in Strasbourg) was a French microbiologist and academic. He served as a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris and later as dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Strasbourg. ![]()
Biography of Preston Foster (excerpt)
Preston Foster, born August 24, 1900, and died July 14, 1970, was an American actor whose career spanned stage, film, radio, and television.He was also a vocalist and performed in nightclubs and on the radio. Born in New Jersey, he worked as a clerk before transitioning to vaudeville and Broadway.
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Biography of María Goyri (excerpt)
María Amalia Vicenta Goyri (August 29, 1873 – November 28, 1954), also known as Maria Goiri, was a Spanish writer, scholar, and philologist from a Basque family, and part of the Generation of ’14. She stood out as a pioneering advocate for women's rights.
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Biography of Nelly Bodenheim (excerpt)
Nelly Bodenheim (born 27 May 1874 – died 7 January 1951) was a Dutch illustrator best known for her black-and-white silhouettes and color lithographs. She trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and studied under Jan Veth, who supported her artistic growth. She illustrated over twenty children’s books with traditional songs, fairy tales, and rhymes.
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Biography of Eduard Heimann (excerpt)
Eduard Heimann (born July 11, 1889 – died May 31, 1967) was a German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialism combining social justice with a regulated market economy. He came from a Jewish family and was influenced by Christian socialist thought.
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Biography of Eugene Borden (excerpt)
Eugene Borden, born Élysée Eugène Prieur-Bardin on March 21, 1897, in Paris, was a French-American actor active in Hollywood from 1917 to 1966.He immigrated to the United States at 17 and began acting shortly after. Appearing in over 150 films, he often played uncredited roles such as waiters and porters.
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Biography of Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs.
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Biography of Henri Chrétien (excerpt)
Henri Jacques Chrétien (born February 1, 1879, in Paris – died February 6, 1956, in Forest Glen, Maryland) was a French astronomer, optical engineer, professor, and inventor. A graduate of the University of Paris and SupOptique, he became an assistant astronomer at the Nice Observatory in 1906.
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Biography of Charles de Noailles (excerpt)
Charles de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981), Viscount and French art patron, was a key figure of the interwar avant-garde. He married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim in 1923 and commissioned architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyères.
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Biography of Brutus Molkenbuhr (excerpt)
Brutus Molkenbuhr, born March 10, 1881, in Ottensen and died September 11, 1959, in Berlin, was a German socialist and the son of SPD politician Hermann Molkenbuhr. A trained typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1899 and served as a sergeant during World War I.
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Biography of Albert Johan Kramer (excerpt)
Albert Johan Kramer (Amsterdam, 15 June 1897 – Amsterdam, 4 April 1976) was possibly the tallest Dutchman of all time, with a reported height of 2.42 meters. He performed worldwide as a variety artist under the stage names Lofty and Jan van Albert.
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Biography of Clara Grunwald (excerpt)
Clara Grunwald, born on June 11, 1877 in Rheydt and murdered in April 1943 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was a German teacher and a pioneer of Montessori education. The eldest of eleven children in a Jewish family, she began teaching in Berlin in 1896.
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Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
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Biography of Francis Doublier (excerpt)
Francis Doublier, born April 11, 1878, in Lyon, and died April 2, 1948, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a French cinema pioneer and operator for the Lumière brothers. Orphaned young, he began working at the Lumière factories where he learned the secrets of early filmmaking.
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Biography of Richard Müller (socialist) (excerpt)
Richard Müller, born December 9, 1880, and died May 11, 1943, was a German socialist, lathe-operator, and union activist. A leader of the 1918 German Revolution, he helped organize mass strikes against World War I and championed the workers’ council movement.
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Biography of Carl Ernst von Stetten (excerpt)
Carl Ernst von Stetten (1857 – 1942) was a Bavarian-born German painter who spent much of his life in France.He came from a banking family in Augsburg and began studying art in Munich in 1876 before moving to Paris. There, he trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme and studied at the Académie Julian with Boulanger and Lefebvre.
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Biography of Helena Roerich (excerpt)
Helena Roerich (February 12 (January 31 Julian calendar), 1879 – October 5, 1955) was a Russian writer, mystic, and translator best known for co-founding Agni Yoga, a spiritual teaching blending Eastern esotericism with Western scientific thought. Her approximate time of birth comes from her in a letter on August 19, 1937.
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Biography of Martin Luserke (excerpt)
Martin Otto Rudolf Luserke, born May 3, 1880 in Berlin and died June 1, 1968 in Meldorf, Holstein, was a German reform educator, bard, storyteller, writer, and theatre practitioner. A leading figure in German progressive education, he is seen as a forerunner of today’s experiential learning.
Biography of Fritz Klatt (excerpt)
Fritz Klatt, born on May 22, 1888, in Berlin and died on July 28, 1945, in Vienna, was a German educational reformer and writer.Son of Indologist Johannes Klatt, he studied history, philosophy, and pedagogy in Berlin. In the 1920s, he became a key figure in the German Youth Movement, advocating for adult education and active leisure.
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Biography of Henri Alméras (excerpt)
Henri Alméras (6 June 1893 – 1965) was a French perfumer, author, and painter.Born in Brittany into a military family, he excelled in chemistry and served in World War I, where he met couturier Jean Patou. After a brief stint at Dunlop, he trained in Grasse under Antoine Chiris alongside Ernest Beaux.
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Biography of Jorge Guillén (excerpt)
Jorge Guillén Álvarez (18 January 1893 – 6 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and professor, best known as a prominent member of the Generation of '27. He taught in Paris, Oxford, Seville, and later at Wellesley College in the United States, where he went into exile in 1938. |
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