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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 Binnie Barnes (excerpt)
Gertrude Maud Barnes, born March 25, 1903, in London, and died July 27, 1998, known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose film career spanned from 1923 to 1973. She became a leading lady in productions such as The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Last of the Mohicans, and In Old California.
Biography of Milly (actress) (excerpt)
Milly, born Carla Mignone on February 26, 1905, and died September 22, 1980, was an Italian singer, actress, and cabaret performer. Her father abandoned the family in 1910, and she was raised by her mother.As a child, she performed with her brother, comedian Totò Mignone, and her sister Mity.
Biography of Enrico Avanzi (excerpt)
Enrico Avanzi, born on January 19, 1888, in Soiano del Lago and died on March 17, 1974, in Pisa, was an Italian geneticist and agronomist.After graduating with honors in agricultural sciences at the University of Pisa, he obtained his libera docenza in agronomy in 1917 and taught there until 1928.
Biography of Gerard Walschap (excerpt)
Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (born 9 July 1898 in Londerzeel-St. Jozef – died 25 October 1989 in Antwerp) was a Belgian writer. Initially educated in Catholic schools, he left priesthood training and became a journalist. He married in 1925 and had five children, including Hugo, who became an ambassador for the King of Belgium.
Biography of Maria Gomes Valentim (excerpt)
Maria Gomes Valentim (July 9, 1896 – June 21, 2011) was the world’s oldest living person from November 4, 2010 until her death. Born and deceased in Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil, she lived there all her life. She was officially recognized by Guinness World Records in May 2011, after proof showed she was older than her American predecessors, themselves successors to Eugénie Blanchard.
Biography of Betsy van Vloten (excerpt)
Elizabeth “Betsy” van Vloten, born July 12, 1862 in Deventer and died February 21, 1946 in Haarlem, was a Dutch poet and writer. She was the daughter of scholar Johannes van Vloten and sister to translators Martha and Kitty. She was close to the “Tachtigers” literary circle, where she connected with writers like Frederik van Eeden and Frank van der Goes, enjoying both intellectual and social interactions with them.
Biography of Caspar Ritter (excerpt)
Caspar Ritter (7 February 1861, Esslingen am Neckar - 18 July 1923, Ermatingen) was a Swiss painter best known for portraits of women, but he also created genre scenes and nudes. Born into a large family, he grew up in Winterthur with his grandfather, where he completed his secondary education.
Biography of Rudolf Dittler (excerpt)
Rudolf Dittler (November 2, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a German physiologist and university professor.He studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1907 and his habilitation in 1909, becoming associate professor in 1915. During World War I, he served as chief physician and commander of a medical company, receiving both classes of the Iron Cross.
Biography of André Corthis (excerpt)
André Corthis, born Andrée Magdeleine Husson (April 15, 1882 – August 8, 1952), was a 20th-century French writer. She spent part of her youth in Spain, which would become a recurring theme in her work. At age twelve, she began writing poetry.
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 Denis Johnston (Irish writer) (excerpt)
William Denis Johnston (18 June 1901 – 8 August 1984) was an Irish writer born in Dublin, known mainly as a playwright, but also for essays, memoirs, literary criticism and an eccentric book on cosmology. His time of birth comes from the book "Denis Johnston: A Life by Bernard Adams" (Dublin: Lilliput, 2002).
Biography of Günther Stapenhorst (excerpt)
Günther Gustav von Stapenhorst (June 25, 1883 – February 2, 1976) was a German naval officer turned film producer. After serving in the Imperial Navy and working in export, he entered the film industry in 1924 and joined UFA in 1928, overseeing productions like Emil and the Detectives.
Biography of Gilda de Abreu (excerpt)
Gilda de Abreu (September 23, 1904 – June 4, 1979) was a Brazilian actress, singer, writer, and film director. Born into a wealthy family, she first built a career on stage, performing in operettas and musicals, before gaining recognition in 1936 with the romantic comedy Bonequinha de Seda, which opened the door to cinema.
Biography of Pop Chalee (excerpt)
Pop Chalee, born Merina Lujan on April 17, 1906 (an error on Wikipedia), and deceased on December 11, 1993, was an American painter, muralist, performer, and singer of Taos Pueblo heritage. Her distinctive style, blending Native traditions with dreamlike imagery, made her a leading figure in 20th-century Native American art.
Biography of Titia van der Tuuk (excerpt)
Titia Klasina Elisabeth van der Tuuk, born on November 27, 1854, and died on May 7, 1939, was a Dutch feminist and socialist. The daughter of a preacher and a children’s author, she was born in ’t Zandt, Groningen. Initially a teacher, she was forced to give up her profession due to deafness and hostility toward her openly declared atheism.
Biography of Hans Brass (excerpt)
Hans Brass (9 July 1885 – 30 May 1959) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. The son of a Prussian officer, he left the Hauptkadettenanstalt to pursue art, studying briefly in Magdeburg and at Munich’s Debschitz School. He worked as a graphic artist in Berlin and married Clara Krause in 1908.
Biography of August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (excerpt)
August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (August 14, 1858 – December 14, 1940) was a German painter and illustrator.He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger. He debuted in 1888 with Verfolgt at the Academy’s jubilee exhibition.
Biography of John Collier (fiction writer) (excerpt)
John Henry Noyes Collier (born 3 May 1901 in London, died 6 April 1980) was a British writer and screenwriter, best known for his short stories, many published in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.His acclaimed collection Fancies and Goodnights won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.
Biography of Paul Chack (excerpt)
Louis Paul André Chack, born in Paris on February 12, 1876, and executed at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on January 9, 1945, was a French naval officer, writer, and collaborator. A brilliant sailor, he was repeatedly decorated for heroism and courage before and during World War I.
Biography of Bruno Finzi (excerpt)
Bruno Finzi, born on 12 February 1899 in Gardone Val Trompia and died on 10 September 1974 in Milan, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, and physicist. After earning a Laurea in engineering in 1920 and another in mathematics in 1921 from the University of Pavia, he became the assistant of Umberto Cisotti at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1922.
Biography of Muriel Dowding (excerpt)
Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (22 March 1908 – 20 November 1993), was an English humanitarian and animal rights activist. A vegetarian, spiritualist, and theosophist like her second husband Lord Dowding, she campaigned fiercely against vivisection and for animal welfare. She coined the term “cruelty-free” and became a pioneer of the movement.
Biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (excerpt)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist, best known as the first to liquefy helium in 1908, reaching the record temperature of 1.5 kelvin.His groundbreaking work earned him the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Biography of Hattie Caraway (excerpt)
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, born February 1, 1878, and died December 21, 1950, was an American politician who served as U.S.Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945.She was a groundbreaking figure in American politics. Caraway was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first to serve a full term, and the first to be reelected.
Biography of Otto Güntter (excerpt)
Otto Güntter (born 30 October 1858, died 30 March 1949) was a German philologist and the long-serving director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach. Influenced by Friedrich Theodor Vischer, he studied philosophy and modern philology in Tübingen, later continuing his education in France and England.
Biography of Walther Gerlach (excerpt)
German physicist Walther Gerlach (August 1, 1889 – August 10, 1979) is best known for the Stern-Gerlach experiment, which demonstrated spin quantization.He completed the experiment alone before February 17, 1922, as Stern had already left for Rostock. The son of a noted hygienist, he studied in Tübingen and earned his doctorate in 1912.
Biography of Mario Maratelli (excerpt)
Mario Maratelli, born on November 20, 1879, in Vercelli and died on April 20, 1955, in San Germano Vercellese, was an Italian agronomist. He is best remembered for discovering and selecting the rice variety that bears his name, which became a landmark in Italian rice cultivation.
Biography of Eugène Bourgouin (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Eugène Bourgouin, born on February 12, 1880, in Reims and died on October 30, 1924, in Paris, was a French sculptor.He distinguished himself through a wide range of works, from statuary to religious and decorative objects. He first worked on the restoration of Reims Cathedral before entering the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 1901 and later the École des beaux-arts.
Biography of Ernst Bresslau (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau, born on 10 July 1877 in Berlin and died on 9 May 1935 in São Paulo, was a German zoologist. The son of historian Harry Bresslau, he grew up in Strasbourg from 1890, where he studied medicine and natural sciences at the university, earning his PhD in 1902.
Biography of Léon Moussinac (excerpt)
Léon Moussinac, born January 19, 1890 in Migennes and died March 10, 1964 in Paris, was a French writer, journalist, historian, and film critic.The son of a stationmaster, he lost his father in 1907 and had to work while completing law studies.
Biography of José Storie (excerpt)
José Storie (born 2 April 1899 in Bruges – died 29 July 1961) was a Belgian painter best known for his portraits. Educated in Bruges, Brussels, and Paris, he received a thorough artistic training, though it was disrupted by World War I.
Biography of Günther Weisenborn (excerpt)
German writer and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was known for his politically engaged literary work and opposition to the Nazi regime. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht, Slatan Dudow, and Hanns Eisler on the play The Mother, adapted from Gorky.
Biography of Willem Keesom (excerpt)
Willem Hendrik Keesom (June 21, 1876 – March 3, 1956) was a Dutch physicist born on Texel.A student of Nobel Prize laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, he devoted his work to the study of helium and molecular interactions. In 1921, he developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions, later known as Keesom interactions.
Biography of Sergio Bernales (excerpt)
Sergio Ernesto Bernales García, born September 9, 1885, in Lima and died October 16, 1959, in the same city, was a Peruvian physician and university professor. He spent his entire career at the Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo and taught at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where he served as dean, vice-rector, and interim rector between 1946 and 1948.
Biography of Nicolás Guillén (excerpt)
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista, born July 10, 1902, in Camagüey and died July 16, 1989, in Havana, was a Cuban poet, journalist, and politician, widely regarded as Cuba’s national poet. His revolutionary ideals led to exile under Batista before returning in 1959.
Biography of Kate Barnard (excerpt)
Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman elected to a state office in Oklahoma and the eleventh woman in the United States to hold statewide public office. Elected in 1907, she served as Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position the 1907 state constitution allowed women to hold.
Biography of Gianfranco Giachetti (excerpt)
Gianfranco Giachetti, born in Florence on September 17, 1888, and deceased in Rome on November 29, 1936, was an Italian stage and film actor. Raised artistically in Venice, he began his career in amateur companies before joining Ferruccio Benini’s troupe in 1914 and later Giovan Battista Bosio’s company after World War I, where he excelled in Goldoni’s plays.
Biography of Frans de Nerée tot Babberich (excerpt)
Frans Joseph Marie de Nerée tot Babberich, born on 13 February 1882 in Zevenaar and died on 5 June 1929 in The Hague, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and sculptor. He sometimes used the pseudonym Larec Eeren, an anagram of his brother Carel's name.
Biography of Virginia E. Jenckes (excerpt)
Virginia Jenckes (née Ellis; November 6, 1877 – January 9, 1975) was an American politician from Terre Haute, Indiana, and the first woman from the state elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Serving three terms from 1933 to 1939, she became known for her outspoken independence, her advocacy for women’s rights, flood control, and the repeal of Prohibition.
Biography of Giovanni Agamennone (excerpt)
Giovanni Agamennone, born June 25, 1858 in Rieti and died October 3, 1949 in Rome, was an Italian geologist and seismologist.He earned his physics degree from the University of Rome in 1884. He worked at the geodynamic observatory in Ischia and later at the Central Office of Meteorology and Geophysics in Rome.
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 Olga Fossati (excerpt)
Olga Fossati (born April 11, 1897, in Porto Alegre, and died in Pelotas after 1995) was a Brazilian violinist and teacher.Born into a family of musicians, she began violin lessons at six under her father, a graduate of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Biography of William Strang (excerpt)
William Strang, born February 13, 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, and died April 12, 1921 in Bournemouth, England, was a Scottish painter and printmaker who also produced book illustrations. He was a member of several prestigious institutions, including the Royal Academy in London.
Biography of Teresa Hooley (excerpt)
Teresa Mary Hooley (January 19, 1888 – April 4, 1973) was an English poet also known as Mrs. F. H. Butler. Born in Risley, Derbyshire, she grew up at Risley Lodge in a wealthy lace-manufacturing family. Before World War I, she gained recognition publishing poems in the Daily Mirror alongside Edith Sitwell, who did not admire her work.
Biography of Gerald Finzi (excerpt)
Gerald Raphael Finzi, born July 14, 1901 in London and died September 27, 1956 in Oxford, was an English composer whose music is deeply infused with poetic sensibility. Best known for his choral works, he also wrote orchestral and concert pieces, including Dies natalis and concertos for cello and clarinet.
Biography of Georgia Neese Clark Gray (excerpt)
Georgia Neese Clark Gray (January 27, 1898 – October 26, 1995) was an American actress and banker who became the first woman to serve as Treasurer of the United States, holding office from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. Her life bridged the worlds of art, business, and politics, making her a trailblazer for women in public service.
Biography of Mariano Benlliure (excerpt)
Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September 1862 – 9 November 1947) was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, renowned for his public monuments and religious works in a heroic realist style.Born in Valencia, he began sculpting bullfighting scenes as a teenager and exhibited a wax model at the 1876 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Biography of Bertha Knight Landes (excerpt)
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, leading Seattle, Washington, from 1926 to 1928.A graduate in history and political science from Indiana University, she moved to Seattle in 1895 after marrying geologist Henry Landes.
Biography of Ernestina de Champourcín (excerpt)
Ernestina de Champourcín (born 10 July 1905 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, died 27 March 1999 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet linked to the Generation of ’27. Born into an aristocratic family, she received a refined education and developed a passion for poetry and languages early on.
Biography of Marcellus Schiffer (excerpt)
Marcellus Schiffer, the pen name of Otto Schiffer, was born in Berlin on June 20, 1892, and died on August 24, 1932. He was a German cabaret writer, graphic designer, painter, and librettist. The son of a Jewish timber merchant who died when he was five, he studied art with Emil Orlík before discovering his true vocation as a satirical writer, also producing poetry and illustrations.
Biography of Hans Ehrenberg (excerpt)
Hans Philipp Ehrenberg, born on 4 June 1883 in Altona and died on 21 March 1958 in Heidelberg, was a German philosopher and theologian from a liberal Jewish family.Baptized as a Protestant in 1911, he taught at Heidelberg and was close to Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. |
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