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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 Percy Fawcett (excerpt)
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (August 31, 1867 – in or after 1925) was a British archaeologist and explorer. Along with his son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find what he believed to be an ancient lost city in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.
Biography of Franz Völker (excerpt)
Franz Völker (born March 31, 1899 in Neu-Isenburg, Germany; died December 4, 1965 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career.He excelled in particular as a performer of the operas of Richard Wagner. He was discovered by the conductor Clemens Krauss and he studied singing at Frankfurt, where he made his début as Florestan in Beethoven's only operatic work, Fidelio, in 1926.
Biography of Micheál MacLiammóir (excerpt)
Micheál Mac Liammóir (or MacLiammóir) (born Alfred Willmore) (25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978) was an Irish actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter. MacLiammóir was born to a Protestant family living in the Kensal Green neighbourhood of London. Life and work
Biography of Anatole Le Braz (excerpt)
Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (April 2, 1859 – March 20, 1926) was a Breton folklore collector and translator.He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was born in Duault and raised amongst woodcutters and charcoal burners, speaking the Breton language; his parents did not speak French.
Biography of Lionel Barrymore (excerpt)
Lionel Barrymore (April 12, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film. Personal life Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore (née Blythe).He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-uncle (or great-uncle) of Drew Barrymore.
Biography of André Charles Weiss (excerpt)
André Charles Weiss, born September 30, 1858 in Mulhouse, died in 1928, was a French author, law teacher in Paris, international law specialist.
Biography of Auguste Piccard (excerpt)
Auguste Antoine Piccard (January 28, 1884 – March 24, 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer.Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland.Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born.
Biography of François Cachoud (excerpt)
François Charles Cachoud, born October 27, 1866 in Chambéry, died in 1943, was a French painter. Selected works Brume et rosée primée au prix Royoncourt-Goyon. Aux musées de Chambéry : La nuit évoque le passé La montagne du Signal au soleil couchant
Biography of John Morrison (scientist) (excerpt)
John Morrison, born May 22, 1906 in Biggar, Scotland, is a Scottish professor and author of Mechanics books.
Biography of Max Linder (excerpt)
Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Birth and early career Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Jewish wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater and as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country.
Biography of Charles Dalmorès (excerpt)
Charles Dalmorès (December 31, 1871 (source: Gauquelin) – December 6, 1939) was a French tenor. He enjoyed an international operatic career, singing to public and critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Biography of François Coli (excerpt)
François Coli (February 5, 1881 - presumably on or after May 8, 1927) was a French pilot and navigator best known as the flying partner of Charles Nungesser in the doomed attempt to fly the Atlantic Ocean on the aircraft known as The White Bird.
Biography of Camille Guérin (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (December 22, 1872, Poitiers, France – June 9, 1961, Paris.French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Camille Guérin was born in Poitiers to a family of modest means.
Biography of Jean Sablon (excerpt)
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne March 25, 1906 – February 24, 1994 at Cannes-La-Bocca was a popular French singer. Jean SablonThe son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris.
Biography of René Pleven (excerpt)
René Pleven (April 15, 1901 – January 13, 1993) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic.A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement.
Biography of Engelbert Dollfuss (excerpt)
Engelbert Dollfuss (German: Dollfuß; October 4, 1892 – July 25, 1934) was an Austrian Christian Social statesman, who served as chancellor for two years from 1932 until his assassination by Nazi agents in 1934. Born in Loich and deeply religious, Dollfuss was educated at a Roman Catholic seminary before deciding to study Law at the University of Vienna and then Economics at the University of Berlin.
Biography of Louis Chiron (excerpt)
Louis Alexandre Chiron (born August 3, 1899 in Monte Carlo, Monaco – died there on June 22, 1979) was a champion of Grand Prix motor racing. As a teenager, Louis Chiron fell in love with cars and racing.He learned to drive at a young age and joined the Grand Prix circuit after World War I where he had been requisitioned from the artillery section to serve as a chauffeur.
Biography of Percival Lowell (excerpt)
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
Biography of Elias Canetti (excerpt)
Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria (birth time source: Alois Treindl, birth certificate)–14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. Life Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse).
Biography of Arsène d'Arsonval (excerpt)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 – December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and probably of the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
Biography of Hugo Wolf (excerpt)
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique.
Biography of François Faber (excerpt)
François Faber (26 January 1887, Aulnay-sur-Iton, Eure, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2) – died Carency, Pas-de-Calais, 9 May 1915) was a Luxembourgian cyclist.He was born in France.He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stages still stands.
Biography of Lili Damita (excerpt)
Lili Damita (July 10, 1904 – March 21, 1994) was a French actress and singer who had appeared in 33 movies between 1922 and 1937. Early life and education Born Liliane Marie-Madeleine Carré in Blaye, France, she was educated in convents and ballet schools in several European countries, including France, Spain and Portugal.
Biography of Ludwig Crüwell (excerpt)
Ludwig Crüwell (spelled Cruewell in some English-language histories) 20 March 1892 - 25 September 1958), was a German general known for his involvement with the Afrika Korps. He was captured by the British on 29 May 1942, after his plane was forced to land.
Biography of Natalie Clifford Barney (excerpt)
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris.She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist. Barney's salon was held at her home on Paris's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation.
Biography of André Jousseaume (excerpt)
André Jousseaume (27 July 1894 in Yvré-l'Évêque – 26 May 1960) was a French equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and another gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves.
Biography of Pierre Latécoère (excerpt)
Pierre-Georges Latécoère (August 25, 1883 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) – August 10, 1943 in Paris) was a pioneer of aeronautics.Born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, he studied in the École Centrale Paris and, after the First World War, started a business in aeronautics.
Biography of P. G. Wodehouse (excerpt)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death.
Biography of Georges-Joseph Toutée (excerpt)
Georges-Joseph Toutée, born February 26, 1855 in Saint-Fargeau (birth certificate n° 16), died November 16, 1927 in Paris, was a French military, general, politician, and explorer in Africa. He was also an author, and has written Dahomé, Niger, Touareg, Récit de voyage (1897), Du Dahomé au Sahara and La nature et l'homme (1899).
Biography of Pierre-Ernest Pinoy (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Pinoy, born February 3, 1873 in Paris, was a French French physician, a doctor of medicine and member of Académie of Sciences.
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen (excerpt)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest personalities in the history of Norway.
Biography of René Sudre (excerpt)
René Sudre, born April 1880 in Angoulême, died in 1968, was a French parapsychologist, science author, professor and commentator.
Biography of André Jacquemin (excerpt)
André Jacquemin, born September 3, 1904 in Epinal and died September 18, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter and engraver.
Biography of Jeanne Lanvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Lanvin (b.Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Paris, January 1, 1867–d.Paris, July 6, 1946) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the Lanvin fashion house.One of the most influential designers of the 1920s and '30s, Jeanne Lanvin's skillful use of intricate trimmings, virtuoso embroideries and beaded decorations in clear, light, floral colors became a Lanvin trademark.
Biography of Georges Carpentier (excerpt)
Georges Carpentier (January 12, 1894 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 28, 1975) was a French boxer.He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26.Nicknamed the "Orchid Man," he stood 5 ft 11½ in (1.82 m) and his fighting weight ranged from 125 to 175 lb (57 to 79 kg).
Biography of Renée Carl (excerpt)
Renée Carl (10 June 1875 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era.She appeared in 186 films between 1907 and 1937.At least 150 of the films she appeared in were directed or co-directed by Louis Feuillade.
Biography of Eugène Chavant (excerpt)
Eugène Chavant (February 12 1894, Colombes, France) was the founder of the French resistance organisation France Combat in 1942 and a prominent member of the French resistance.His nom de guerre was Clement, hence the "dit Clement" on the memorial to him in Grenoble.
Biography of Leopold Stokowski (excerpt)
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his freehand performing style that spurned the traditional baton. Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air.
Biography of Hélène Dieudonné (excerpt)
Hélène Dieudonné, born December 24, 1887 in Paris (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died September 29, 1880 in Chaumont-en-Vexin (Oise), was a French actress and comedian. Selected filmography 1959 : Le travail c'est la santé de Louis Grospierre
Biography of Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (excerpt)
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (November 19, 1868 - February 16, 1932) was a French radio pioneer and army general. Ferrié was born in Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoie.After graduating from the École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1891, he became an officer in the French army's Engineers Corps, specializing in its military telegraph service.
Biography of Walther Rathenau (excerpt)
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 – June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic. Political career Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism and fully integrate themselves into mainstream German society.
Biography of Alphonse Allais (excerpt)
Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer, journalist and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings.A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e.
Biography of Alexandre Yersin (excerpt)
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (September 22, 1863 (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, email)–March 1, 1943) was a French (born Swiss) physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis).
Biography of Jean Zay (excerpt)
Jean Zay, born August 6, 1904 in Orléans, Loiret (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died murdered by members of French militia June 20, 1944 in Molles, was a French politician.(The Milice Française (French Militia), generally called simply Milice, was a paramilitary force created on January 30 1943 by the Vichy Regime, with German aid, to help fight the French Resistance.
Biography of René Hell (excerpt)
René Hell, born René, Jules Legendre in Orbec, Calvados, May 1, 1891 and died in Paris October 11, 1965, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) * 1945 : Au petit bonheur de Marcel L'Herbier * 1945 : Mission spéciale de Maurice de Canonge - film tourné en deux époques -
Biography of Hans Fallada (excerpt)
Hans Fallada (born July 21, 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, died February 5, 1947 in Berlin) was one of the best-known German writers of the 20th Century. He wrote primarily novels of social criticism, and his most famous work is the novel, Little Man, What Now.
Biography of André Alerme (excerpt)
André Alerme, born September 9, 1877 in Dieppe, died February 2, 1960 in Montrichard, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (selection) * 1925 : Amour et carburateur de Pierre Colombier * 1931 : Le Blanc et le Noir de Robert Florey - (Georges Samoy)
Biography of Aimé Maeght (excerpt)
Aimé Maeght (27 April 1906, Hazebrouck, northern France (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 5 September 1981) was a French art collector and editor. He founded the Galerie Maeght in Paris and New York, and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice (southern France).
Biography of Edna Ferber (excerpt)
Edna Ferber (15 August 1885 - 16 April 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright. Early years Ferber was born in 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia (Neumann) Ferber.After living in Chicago, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa, at age 12 Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University. |
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