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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 Gaston Leroux (excerpt)
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (May 6, 1868, Paris – April 15, 1927,) was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
Biography of Mathilde Gabriel-Péri (excerpt)
Mathilde Rose Thérèse Gabriel-Péri (7 June 1902 – 16 December 1981) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958.
Biography of Léo Lagrange (excerpt)
Léo Lagrange (born Bourg (Gironde), on 28 November 1900 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, his birth certificate, available on-line) - died Évergnicourt, on 9 June 1940) was a French Socialist Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front (1936-1938).
Biography of Margaret Sanger (excerpt)
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children.
Biography of Marcel Dupré (excerpt)
Marcel Dupré (May 3, 1886 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – May 30, 1971), was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen (Normandy, France).Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy.His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen.
Biography of Émile Fabry (excerpt)
Émile Bartelemy Fabry, born in Verviers December 31, 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Bruxelles) in 1966, was a Belgian painter of Symbolism movement. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. Works (extracts)
Biography of André Masson (excerpt)
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. His early works display an interest in cubism.He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink.
Biography of Selma Lagerlof (excerpt)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in the most common translation The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the literal translation would be "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."
Biography of Princess Louise of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans (born 24 February 1882 in Cannes, France ; died 18 April 1958 in Seville, Spain ) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe of Orléans (1838-1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as "Philippe VII".
Biography of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (excerpt)
Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III; 11 November 1869 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, News report) – 28 December 1947) was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy (29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946).In addition, he was Emperor of Ethiopia (1936–43) and King of Albania (1939–43).
Biography of Sylvester Matushka (excerpt)
Szilveszter Matuska (January 29, 1892 – disappeared c. 1945) was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Csantavér (now Čantavir, Serbia).
Biography of Lucien Laberthonnière (excerpt)
Priest Lucien Laberthonnière, born October 5, 1860 in Chazelet, died October 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French theologist, philosopher, historian and writer. Works (extracts) (fr) Théorie de l'éducation, 1901. Essais de philosophie religieuse, 1903. Le réalisme chrétien et l'idéalisme grec, 1904.
Biography of Francis Ponge (excerpt)
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet.In many ways, he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. Life Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France, in 1899. He studied law at Paris and literature at Strasbourg.
Biography of Désire-Emile Inghelbrecht (excerpt)
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (born, Paris, 17 September 1880 (birth time source: André Barbault, original source unknown), died Paris, 14 February 1965) was a French composer, conductor and writer. Life and career Inghelbrecht was the son a viola-player, studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made his debut as a conductor in 1908 at the Théâtre des Arts.
Biography of Noël-Noël (excerpt)
Noël-Noël (9 August 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966. Filmography (extracts) 1930 : La Prison en folie, de Henry Wulschleger – Rôle : Yves Larsac
Biography of Paul Foster Case (excerpt)
Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th Century and author of numerous books on Tarot and Qabalah.Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons he wrote for associate members of Builders of the Adytum.
Biography of Claire Santagostini (excerpt)
Claire Santagostini, born May 9, 1898 in Paris, ided on January 14, 1986 (age 87), was a French astrologer and author of books about astrology, especially for beginners.
Biography of Jean Hélion (excerpt)
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.
Biography of Félix Le Dantec (excerpt)
Félix Le Dantec, born January 16, 1869 in Plougastel-Daoulas, died in 1917 in Paris, was a French biologist, scientist and writer. He worked with Pasteur on cancer research.
Biography of Jean Nouguès (excerpt)
Jean Nouguès, born April 25, 1875 in Bordeaux, died August 28, 1932 in Paris, was a French musician and composer.
Biography of Léopold Courouble (excerpt)
Léopold Courouble, born in February 3 1861 in Brussels, Belgium was a Belgian writer. Works (in French) (extracts) Mes Pandectes Notre langue Profils blancs et Frimousses noires La Famille Kaekebroeck Pauline Platbrood Les Noces d'or.
Biography of Erich von Stroheim (excerpt)
Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur.As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!".
Biography of Raymond Radiguet (excerpt)
Raymond Radiguet (June 18, 1903 – December 12, 1923) was a French author. He was born in Saint-Maur, close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist.In 1917 he moved to the city.Soon he would drop out of the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied, in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature.
Biography of Anna May Wong (excerpt)
Anna May Wong (or Wong Liu Tsong, traditional Chinese: 黃柳霜; pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng, January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned film, television, stage, and radio.
Biography of Hermann Rorschach (excerpt)
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 Zurich - 2 April 1922 Herisau) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known, from his name, as the Rorschach inkblot test. When he was in high school, Rorschach was called Klecks, or "inkblot," by his friends.
Biography of Gayelord Hauser (excerpt)
Dr.Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984), popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist, self-help author, and promoter of "the natural way of eating" during the mid-20th century.He promoted foods rich in Vitamin B and discouraged consumption of sugar and white flour.
Biography of Jean Lurçat (excerpt)
Jean Lurçat (July 1, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 6, 1966) was a French painter and tapestry designer.He was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara.One of his lithographs is titled "Bacchus" and is currently on display in San Francisco.
Biography of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (excerpt)
Consuelo, Countess of Saint-Exupéry (born Suncín de Sandoval; April 16, 1901 – May 28, 1979), was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, married to the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.Wikipedia incorrectly lists 10 April 1901. Born into a wealthy family in El Salvador, she studied in the United States, Mexico, and France.
Biography of Tristan Derème (excerpt)
Tristan Derème (February 13, 1889, Marmande, France – October 24, 1941), born Philippe Huc, was a French poet and writer. He had lived in Paris, but would often return to Oloron-Sainte-Marie, where his mother lived. Here, he would recuperate through writing poetry.
Biography of Charles Nicolle (excerpt)
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. He learned about biology early from his father Eugène Nicolle, a doctor at a Rouen hospital.
Biography of Kathe Kollwitz (excerpt)
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century.Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.
Biography of Mabel Normand (excerpt)
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1897 - February 23, 1930) was an American film actress, screenwriter, and the most popular screen comedienne of the silent film era. Her later career was marked by several successive scandals, including the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, whom she was with only minutes before he was shot and killed.
Biography of Douglas Fairbanks (excerpt)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 (birth time source: Nella Webb) – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926).
Biography of Wilhelm Keitel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the High Command of the Armed Forces, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
Biography of Antoine Guérini (excerpt)
Antoine Guérini (1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)-1967), was one of the most powerful gangsters of France in the 40s.
Biography of George Cukor (excerpt)
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood. (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936).
Biography of John Dewey (excerpt)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world.He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
Biography of Maurice Genevoix (excerpt)
Maurice Genevoix was a French author, born on November 29, 1890 at Decize as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 107).Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire.After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal.
Biography of Gemma Galgani (excerpt)
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Campania, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health.
Biography of Jean Dasté (excerpt)
Jean Dasté (September 18, 1904 in Paris, France - October 15, 1994 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) was an actor and theatre director. Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85.
Biography of Frances Yates (excerpt)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (1899–1981) was a noted British historian.She taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years. Yates' father, a devout Anglican, was a naval engineer who began working in the shipyards as a teenager & supervised the construction of British warships in the years leading up to World War I.
Biography of Georges Dumézil (excerpt)
Georges Dumézil (March 4, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society. He is considered one of the major contributors to mythography, in particular for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis of social class.
Biography of Imre Nagy (excerpt)
Imre Nagy (June 7, 1896 – June 16, 1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.
Biography of Friedrich Paulus (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II.He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942.
Biography of Norbert Elias (excerpt)
Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 — August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen. Elias was born on June 22, 1897 in Breslau (Wrocław) in Silesia to Hermann and Sophie Elias.His father was a businessman in the textile industry and his mother, as usual at the time, a housewife.
Biography of Léo Joannon (excerpt)
Léo Joannon (born Léon Gabriel Paul Joannon August 21, 1904 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut, original source unknown) - died March 28, 1969) was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman.
Biography of Edward G. Robinson (excerpt)
Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. (born Emanuel Goldenberg; Yiddish: עמנואל גאלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an honorary Academy Award-winning American actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar.
Biography of Jeanette MacDonald (excerpt)
Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and Maytime).
Biography of Louis Hémon (excerpt)
Louis Hémon (12 October 1880 – 8 July 1913), was a francophone writer best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine. He was born in Brest, France.In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand secondary schools.
Biography of Juscelino Kubitschek (excerpt)
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (JK) (September 12, 1902 – August 22, 1976) was a prominent Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, and died in 1976. His term was marked by relative economic prosperity and political stability, being most known by the construction of a new capital, Brasília. |
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