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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. in ![]()
Biography of Mary DeWitt Pettit (excerpt)
Mary DeWitt Pettit (January 1, 1908 – May 5, 1996) was an American physician, researcher, and professor who taught at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia into a distinguished family, she descended from Connecticut governor John Treadwell and chemistry professor John Pitkin Norton.
Biography of Dirk Coster (excerpt)
Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist and professor of physics and meteorology at the University of Groningen.He is best known as the co-discoverer of hafnium (element 72) in 1923, alongside George de Hevesy, through X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore.
Biography of Leonie Brandt (excerpt)
Leonie Brandt, born Gertrud Franziska Pütz on 28 October 1901 and died on 27 January 1978, was a German-Dutch actress and double agent, also known by her stage name Leonie Reiman. Before and during World War II, she spied for both Germany and the Netherlands.
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 Gretel Adorno (excerpt)
Margarete "Gretel" Adorno (née Karplus, 10 June 1902 – 16 July 1993) was a German chemist and an intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School.Born in Berlin, she earned her PhD in chemistry in 1925 at Friedrich Wilhelm University. Her time of birth comes from the book "The Life and Work Of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her Contributions to Frankfurt School Theory" (University of Oklahoma, 2004).
Biography of Giovanni Dalmasso (excerpt)
Giovanni Dalmasso, born on 10 July 1886 in Castagnole delle Lanze and died on 13 December 1976 in Turin, was an Italian agronomist renowned for his contributions to viticulture and enology. After graduating in agronomy in Milan and natural sciences in Pavia, he became a professor at the Conegliano wine school in 1911 and began publishing educational works that same year.
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.
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.
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 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.
Biography of Franco Alfano (excerpt)
Franco Alfano, born March 8, 1875 in Posillipo, Naples, and died October 27, 1954 in San Remo, was an Italian composer and pianist.He is best remembered today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) and Risurrezione (1904), and for completing Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot in 1926.
Biography of Tine van Berken (excerpt)
Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout, born on September 29, 1870 in Amsterdam and deceased on December 7, 1899, was a Dutch children's author known as Tine van Berken. Between 1894 and 1899, she published a wide array of books for girls, marked by a gentle and moral tone.
Biography of Willem Witsen (excerpt)
Willem Arnoldus Witsen (born 13 August 1860 – died 13 April 1923 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and photographer associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Influenced by James McNeill Whistler, he depicted tranquil cityscapes and rural scenes. He also created portraits and photographs of artists and cultural figures, including the French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.
Biography of Clara Eggink (excerpt)
Clara Hendrika Catharina Clementine Helène Eggink (Utrecht, April 18, 1906 - Scheveningen, March 3, 1991) was a Dutch poet, prose writer, and translator.The daughter of a ruined businessman and a remarried mother, she grew up in Rotterdam and attended a humanist girls’ high school, where she met poet J.C.
Biography of Jean Déchanet (excerpt)
Jean Déchanet (born January 18, 1906, in Isches, France – died May 19, 1992, at Saint-André Abbey, Bruges, Belgium) was a French Benedictine monk known as "the Father of Christian Yoga." His time of birth comes from the book "Yoga and God: An Invitation to Christian Yoga", by Jean Déchanet (Abbey, 1975).
Biography of Julio Allard (excerpt)
Julio Allard Pinto, born on 11 June 1885 in La Serena and died on 29 May 1975 in Viña del Mar, was a Chilean military officer and politician. He was the son of Leonidas Allard Larraguibel and Rita Pinto, and married his cousin Mercedes Aguirre Pinto, whose family were landowners in Chile’s Fourth Region.
Biography of Frank van der Goes (excerpt)
Franc van der Goes (February 13, 1859 – June 5, 1939) was a Dutch journalist and Marxist theorist, co-founder of the SDAP and co-translator of Das Kapital into Dutch. Initially active in finance, he shifted to literature and politics, founding the literary journal De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, which he left over political disagreements.
Biography of Vittorio Giovanni Rossi (excerpt)
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi, born January 8, 1898 in Santa Margherita Ligure and died January 4, 1978 in Rome, was an Italian journalist and writer. He is buried in the Santa Margherita Ligure cemetery, where a museum dedicated to him is located inside Villa Durazzo.
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).
Biography of Moritz Geiger (excerpt)
Moritz Geiger (26 June 1880 – 9 September 1937) was a German philosopher, student of Edmund Husserl, and a key figure in the Munich school of phenomenology. He began in law, then moved to literature, philosophy, and psychology, studying with Theodor Lipps and Wilhelm Wundt.
Biography of Alexander Robertson (chemist) (excerpt)
Alexander Robertson, born on February 12, 1896, and died on February 9, 1970, was a British chemist known for his work on natural products. He received the Davy Medal in 1952 for his research on glycosides, bitter compounds, and pigments containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms.
Biography of Willem Weissenbruch (excerpt)
Willem Weissenbruch, born on 4 February 1864 in The Hague, Netherlands, and deceased in 1941, was a Dutch etcher, painter, scenic designer, and draftsman. He was the son of painter Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Suzanna Petronella Geertruida Schouw, who later married. Willem began his career as a set painter in The Hague, studying under J.
Biography of Margarete Berent (excerpt)
Margarete Berent (born July 9, 1887 in Berlin – died June 23, 1965 in New York) was the first woman lawyer in Prussia. She co-founded the Association of Women Jurists and the Association of German Women Academicians, advocating for women’s access to legal professions.
Biography of Auguste Cammissar (excerpt)
Auguste Cammissar, born in Strasbourg on 10 July 1873 and who died in the same city on 27 December 1962, was an Alsatian painter and also a stained-glass artist. He taught at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and was a member of the Saint-Léonard circle.
Biography of Karl Kristian Steincke (excerpt)
Karl Kristian Vilhelm Steincke, born August 25, 1880 and died August 8, 1963, was a Danish politician from the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Justice and Social Affairs across several Stauning Cabinets from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Biography of Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (excerpt)
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1862 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter born in Groningen.She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under August Allebé. Her aunt, the painter Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, supported her artistic education.
Biography of Louis Rimbault (excerpt)
Louis Rimbault (April 9, 1877 – November 10, 1949) was a French individualist anarchist, revolutionary syndicalist, and advocate of naturism and veganism. Born in Tours, he promoted a lifestyle of simplicity, non-violence, and harmony with nature through the libertarian free communities movement.
Biography of Emmanuel Gambardella (excerpt)
Emmanuel Gambardella, born 3 July 1888 and died 30 August 1953, was a French sports journalist and author.As the first president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, he had a lasting influence on French football, leading the national federation to name its prestigious under-eighteen cup after him.
Biography of Charlo (singer) (excerpt)
Charlo, born Carlos José Pérez de la Riestra on 7 July 1906 in La Piedad (now Colonia Santa Teresa), died on 30 October 1990 in Buenos Aires.He was a renowned Argentine tango singer, pianist, composer, and actor. He began law studies but left them to pursue music.
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.
Biography of Carel Goseling (excerpt)
Carolus Maria Joannes Franciscus (Carel) Goseling (10 June 1891, Amsterdam – 14 April 1941, Buchenwald) was a Dutch lawyer and politician for the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP). Goseling was a member of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1937 and subsequently Minister of Justice from 1937 to 1939.
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.
Biography of Alice Robertson (excerpt)
Alice Mary Robertson, born on January 2, 1854 and died on July 1, 1931, was an American educator, social worker, Native Americans’ rights activist, government official, and politician.She became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress and the first elected from Oklahoma, remaining the only woman elected from that state until 2006.
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.
Biography of Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (excerpt)
Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (August 2, 1887 – February 12, 1960) was a French officer and explorer born in Saint-Jean-d’Angély. He inherited his family’s cognac business before joining the cavalry at the outbreak of World War I. He fought at the Marne, Verdun, and in the trenches, later becoming a pilot and establishing an air base in Zarzis, Tunisia, where he fought against the Senussi.
Biography of Käthe Brodnitz (excerpt)
Käthe Brodnitz, born March 10, 1884 in Berlin and died March 16, 1971 in St. Petersburg (Florida), was a German scholar, writer, and early patron of expressionist poets. She supported and befriended figures such as Hugo Ball, Klabund, Emmy Hennings, and Ricarda Huch.
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.
Biography of Elisabeth Plattner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Plattner (July 9, 1899 – December 26, 1994) was a German educator, writer, and advocate of individual psychology. After studying mathematics and physics in Stuttgart, Tübingen, and Geneva, she taught in private schools in Berlin. She spent several years in Japan teaching at German schools in Tokyo before returning to Germany, where she gave courses for mothers, broadcast educational programs, and founded a language school.
Biography of Otto Selz (excerpt)
Otto Selz (14 February 1881 – 27 August 1943) was a German psychologist born in Munich. In 1913, he developed the first theory of thinking that rejected associations and mental imagery. His time of birth comes from the book "Otto Selz: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Psychologie" by Hans Bernard Seebohm (Universität Heidelberg, 1970).
Biography of Carl Legien (excerpt)
Carl Rudolf Legien (1 December 1861 – 26 December 1920) was a German trade unionist and moderate Social Democrat. Orphaned in childhood, he trained as a wood turner, joined the SPD in 1885, and quickly rose through union ranks, leading the German Turners' Association and the General Commission of German Trade Unions from 1891.
Biography of Mimí Derba (excerpt)
Mimí Derba, born María Herminia Pérez de León on July 9, 1893, and died July 14, 1953, was a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and director, regarded as the first female film director in Mexico. Starting as a singer at seventeen, she successfully transitioned to silent cinema acting.
Biography of Lili Grenier (excerpt)
Lili Grenier, sometimes Lilly or Lily Grenier, born Noémi Amélie Sans on October 9, 1863, and deceased on September 10, 1936, was a model and muse for late nineteenth-century artists.At sixteen, she posed for Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, herself an artist, before joining Fernand Cormon’s studio in Montmartre.
Biography of Suzanne Desprès (excerpt)
Suzanne Desprès (18 December 1873 – 29 June 1951) was a French actress who was born at Verdun, Meuse and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she obtained the first prize for comedy, and the second for tragedy. She then became associated with, and subsequently married, Lugné-Poe, the actor-manager, who had founded a new school of modern drama at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
Biography of Wilhelm von Bismarck (excerpt)
Count Wilhelm von Bismarck-Schönhausen, born on August 1, 1852, and died on May 30, 1901, was a German civil servant and politician. The youngest son of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he served briefly in the Reichstag (1880–1881) and later as president of the Hanover regency (1889–1890).
Biography of Philipp Harth (excerpt)
Philipp Harth (born 9 July 1885 in Mainz – died 25 December 1968 in Bayrischzell) was a German sculptor best known for his animal figures in wood, stone, and bronze. Originally trained as a lithographer and sculptor, he lived in Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Rome, and taught at the progressive Odenwald School.
Biography of Leila Hyams (excerpt)
Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American actress born into a show business family. The daughter of vaudeville comedians John Hyams and Leila McIntyre, she began performing on stage as a child before turning to modeling when theater roles proved scarce.
Biography of Gabriel Biessy (excerpt)
Gabriel Biessy, born Marie-Gabriel Biessy on March 25, 1854, in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes) and died on September 9, 1935, in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and views of Paris. After a period in Bordeaux, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon under Félix Clément, then entered the Paris studios of Carolus Duran and Luc-Olivier Merson in 1879.
Biography of Ninian Comper (excerpt)
Sir John Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a major Scottish architect of the Gothic Revival. He focused almost exclusively on churches, designing and restoring them along with liturgical furnishings, stained glass, and vestments. He masterfully blended Gothic and Classical styles, a method he called “unity by inclusion.” His use of color, iconography, and liturgical focus made his work distinct and highly revered.
Biography of Édouard Belin (excerpt)
Édouard Belin, born on March 5, 1876, in Vesoul and deceased on March 4, 1963, in Territet, Switzerland, was a French photographer and inventor. In 1907 he created the Bélinographe, a device that allowed the transmission of photographs over telegraph networks and telephone lines.
Biography of Oscar Verbeeck (excerpt)
Oscar Verbeeck, born 6 June 1891 in Saint Josse ten Noode and died 13 August 1971, was a Belgian footballer.He played as a defender for FC Bruges and Royale Union Saint Gilloise, and also represented the national team. A steady presence in Belgian football, he helped provide defensive consistency for his clubs and established himself as a reliable top level player. |
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