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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 Tazio Nuvolari (excerpt)
Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (November 16, 1892 – August 11, 1953) was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante (The Flying Mantuan) or Nivola.He was the 1932 European Champion in Grand Prix motor racing. Tazio Nuvolari started out in motorcycle racing in 1920 at the age of 27.
Biography of Maurice Garin (excerpt)
Maurice-Francois Garin (Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy, 3 March 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate from Grazia Bordoni), died Lens (or Haute-Savoie), France, 19 February 1957) was a road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.
Biography of Constant Rémy (excerpt)
Constant Rémy, born May 20, 1882 in Paris and died August 16, 1958 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1909 : Benvenuto Cellini de Camille de Morlhon * 1909 : Le Bon Voisin
Biography of Paul Adam (excerpt)
Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, appeared in 1899.
Biography of Umberto Nobile (excerpt)
Umberto Nobile (January 21, 1885 – July 30, 1978) was an Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile is primarily remembered for having piloted the airship Norge that was the first aircraft both to reach the North Pole, and to cross the polar ice cap between Europe and America.
Biography of Arthur M. Young (excerpt)
Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905, Paris, France–May 30, 1995, Berkeley, California) was inventor of the Bell-Hiller stabilizer and designer of the first Bell helicopter, as well as a cosmologist, philosopher and author.He founded the "Institute for the Study of Consciousness" in Berkeley in 1972.
Biography of Renée Massip (excerpt)
Renée Massip, born March 31, 1907 in Arette, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and died March 21, 2002, was a French writer. Awards Prix Interallié in 1963 Selected bibliography * 1954 : La Régente * 1956 : La Petite Anglaise * 1958 : Les Déesses
Biography of André Boudineau (excerpt)
André Boudineau, born February 4, 1891 in Villeneuve-St-George, died in 1989, was a French engineer, author and astrologer, a disciple of French astrologer Choisnard. He is the founder of magazine Astrologie and author of Bases scientifiques de l'astrologie.
Biography of Antoine Béclère (excerpt)
Antoine Béclère (March 17, 1856 Paris (source not archived) - 1939), virologist, immunologist, was a pioneer in radiology. In 1897 he create the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. References (extract) Pallardy, G; Mabille, J P (1999), "Antoine Béclère (1856-1939). In memory of Antoinette Béclère, the admirable guardian of her father's works", Journal de radiologie 80 (6): 600-3, 1999 Jun, PMID:10417897, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10417897
Biography of Gerhart Hauptmann (excerpt)
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862—June 6, 1946) was a German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. He was the son of a hotel-keeper.From the village school of his native place he passed to the Realschule in Breslau, and was then sent to learn agriculture on his uncle's farm at Jauer.
Biography of Max von Laue (excerpt)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was strongly opposed to National Socialism.
Biography of Maurice Magre (excerpt)
Maurice Magre, born March 2, 1877 in Toulouse, died December 11, 1941 in Nice, was a French writer et poet. Works (extract) Poetry La Chanson des hommes, Bibliothèque Charpentier - 1898 Le Poème de la jeunesse, 1901 Les Lèvres et le secret, 1906
Biography of Germaine Poinso-Chapuis (excerpt)
Germaine Poinso-Chapuis, born March 6, 1901 in Marseille, died February 20, 1981 in Marseille, was a French politician.
Biography of James Hilton (excerpt)
James Hilton (September 9, 1900 – December 20, 1954) was an Oscar-winning English novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon (which popularised the mythical Shangri-La) and Goodbye Mr.Chips. Born in Leigh, in Lancashire, England on 9 September 1900, he was the son of John Hilton, the headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow.
Biography of Paul Landowski (excerpt)
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor.His best-known work is the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born in Paris to Polish refugees of the January Uprising.
Biography of Akarova (excerpt)
Marguerite Acarin (born Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 30 March 1904; died Ixelles, 24 June 1999) was a Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist. Acarin is generally known by her stage-name, Akarova.She was called "the Belgian Isadora Duncan".She studied music and dance under Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, creator of eurhythmics, after which she joined the Antwerp ballet.
Biography of Zino Francescatti (excerpt)
René-Charles Francescatti, known as Zino Francescatti (August 9, 1902 - September 17, 1991) was a French virtuoso violinist. Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family.Both parents were violinists.His father had studied with Camillo Sivori, and also played the cello.
Biography of António Botto (excerpt)
António Botto (Concavada, Portugal, August 17, 1892 – Rio de Janeiro, March 16, 1959) was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet. Early life António Thomaz Botto was born at 8:00 a.m.to Maria Pires Agudo and Francisco Thomaz Botto, near Abrantes.His father earned his living as a boatman in the Tagus.
Biography of André Lwoff (excerpt)
André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist.He was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France.He joined the Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old.
Biography of Célestin Bouglé (excerpt)
Célestin Bouglé (June 1, 1870 – 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique. Life Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor.He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1890 and aggregated in philosophy in 1893.
Biography of Polaire (actress) (excerpt)
Mlle Polaire was the stage name used by French singer and actress Emélie (not Emilie) Marie Bouchaud (May 14, 1874 – October 14, 1939). Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, she began her show-business career as a café singer, at age 15.At 17, she joined her older brother in Paris, France.
Biography of Francis Carco (excerpt)
Francis Carco (1886-1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia.He was a poet, belonging to the Fantaisiste school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for L'Homme libre and Gil Blas.During the War he became aviation pilot at Etampes, after studying at the aviation school there.
Biography of Franz von Stuck (excerpt)
Franz Stuck (February 23, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect.He is considered by some to be one of the artistic inspirations to German Fascism. Life and Career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria.
Biography of Robert de Montesquiou (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 19, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy.With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Biography of François Bovesse (excerpt)
François Bovesse, born on June 10, 1890 in Namur, died on February 1, 1944 in Namur, is a Belgian politician and activist. Bibliography Philippe Destatte et Micheline Libon (dir.Paul Delforge), Notice sur François Bovesse in l’Encyclopédie du Mouvement wallon, Charleroi, 2000, tome 1, p.
Biography of John Foster Dulles (excerpt)
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S.Secretary of State under President Dwight D.Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world.
Biography of Alastair Sim (excerpt)
Alastair Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films.He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two of the much-loved St.
Biography of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (excerpt)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; née Princess Alice of Albany; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.She has the distinction of remaining the longest lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and the longest living member of the royal family to be a Princess of the blood.
Biography of Emile Male (excerpt)
Émile Mâle (June 2, 1862 - October 6, 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie Française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Biography of Gene Tunney (excerpt)
James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927.Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight.
Biography of David Yule (excerpt)
Sir David Yule (1858-1928) was a British businessman.Though born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent most of his life in India. David Yule joined Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., which was begun by his uncle, Andrew.His uncle, George Yule, was a president of the Indian National Congress.
Biography of Ibn Saud (excerpt)
Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Saud (15 January 1875 – 9 November 1953), known in the West as Ibn Saud (sometimes Saoud or Séoud), was the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, the "third Saudi state".
Biography of Otto Ohlendorf (excerpt)
Otto Ohlendorf (February 4, 1907 – June 7, 1951) was a German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the interior division of the SD. Nazi official Born in Hoheneggelsen near Hildesheim, the son of a farm owner, he joined the Nazi party in 1925 (member #6631) followed by the SS in 1926.
Biography of Messali Hadj (excerpt)
Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (Arabic: مصالي الحاج) (March 16, 1898 in Tlemcen, Algeria - 1974 in France) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from France.He co-founded the 'Étoile Nord-Africaine', the 'Parti du Peuple Algérien' and the 'Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques' before dissociating himself from the armed struggle for Independence in 1954.
Biography of Helen Nearing (excerpt)
Helen Knothe Nearing (February 23, 1904-1995) and Scott Nearing (1883-1983) were well known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed "the good life". Philosophy Scott was a trained economist and former college professor (he had lost his position due to his anarchist and pacifist beliefs, and his anti-war activism during World War I).
Biography of Ramón Gómez de la Serna (excerpt)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid - January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator.He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy.
Biography of André Labatut (excerpt)
André Labatut (18 July 1891 – 30 September 1979) was a French fencer. He won medals in the foil and épée competitions at three Olympic Games.
Biography of Flávio de Carvalho (excerpt)
Flávio de Rezende Carvalho (August 10, 1899-1973) was a Brazilian architect and artist. Carvalho was educated in France from 1911 to 1914, and then in Newcastle-upon-Tyne until 1922, attending the King Edward the Seventh School of Fine Arts and Durham University's Armstrong College.
Biography of Constance Bennett (excerpt)
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress. Known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation.
Biography of André Chevrillon (excerpt)
André Chevrillon (May 3, 1864 (birth time source: Lescaut)–July 9, 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.
Biography of André Leducq (excerpt)
André Leducq (27 February 1904, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 140) - 18 June 1980) was a French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tour de France. Career Leducq was born at Saint-Ouen.He was twice world champion as an amateur before turning professional in 1927.
Biography of Vicente Aleixandre (excerpt)
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 13, 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He was part of the Generation of '27. He died in Madrid in 1984.
Biography of Walter Winchell (excerpt)
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator.He invented the gossip column while at the New York Evening Graphic.He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the shape of journalism and celebrity.
Biography of Ethel Waters (excerpt)
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and actress.She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.
Biography of Hans Hausmann (excerpt)
Hans Hausmann, born April 10, 1902 in Sigmaringen, died August 13, 1984, was a German professional astrologer and writer.
Biography of Amy Johnson (excerpt)
Amy Johnson CBE, (1 July 1903 (birth time source: Astrology Quarterly Fall/1933 quotes her secretary to Maurice Wemyss, given in FN No.122) – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviatrix.Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s.
Biography of Adrian (costume designer) (excerpt)
Adrian Adolph Greenberg (March 3, 1903 — September 13, 1959), most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s.During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian".
Biography of Emily Post (excerpt)
Emily Post (October 27, 1873 - September 25, 1960) was a United States author who promoted what she considered "proper etiquette".She wrote books surrounding the topic of etiquette. Background Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, and was born into privilege as the only daughter of famous architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price.
Biography of Jean Delannoy (excerpt)
Jean Delannoy (January 12, 1908 – June 18, 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion first to settle in Wallonia then, after their name became De la Noye and then Delano, were on the second ship to emigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts in America.
Biography of Édouard-Alfred Martel (excerpt)
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1 July 1859, Pontoise, Val-d'Oise (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 69) – 3 June 1938, Montbrison), the 'father of modern speleology', was a world pioneer of cave exploration, study, and documentation. Martel explored thousands of caves in his native France and many other countries, popularised the pursuit of cave exploration, introduced the concept of speleology as a distinct area of study, maintained an extensive archive, and in 1895 founded Société de Spéléologie, the first organisation devoted to cave science in the world. |
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