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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (excerpt)
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.(January 29, 1874 (birth time source: R.Fosdick "John D.Rockefeller" p.5) – May 11, 1960) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family.He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. ![]()
Biography of Étienne Clémentel (excerpt)
Étienne Clémentel, born March 29, 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)(source not archived), and died December 25, 1936 in Prompsat (Puy-de-Dôme), was a French politician of the third Republic of France. ![]()
Biography of André Marty (excerpt)
André Marty (6 November 1886 - 23 November 1956) was a leading figure in the French Communist Party, the PCF, for nearly thirty years. He was also a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938.
Biography of Robert Jean de Vogue (excerpt)
Robert Jean de Vogue, born August 3, 1896 in Menetou-Salon, died October 17, 1976 in Paris, was a French producer of champagne, entrepreneur and aristocrat. He was honored for his behaviour during WW II (he was a member of the French Resistance). ![]()
Biography of Charles Kingsford-Smith (excerpt)
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC (February 9, 1897 - November 8, 1935), often called Charles Kingsford Smith, or by his nickname Smithy, was a well-known early Australian aviator.In 1928, he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. ![]()
Biography of William Soutar (excerpt)
William Soutar was a Scottish poet, born April 28, 1898.He served in the navy in World War I, and afterwards studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he encountered the work of Hugh McDiarmid.This led to a radical alteration in his work, and he became a leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. ![]()
Biography of Stanley Baldwin (excerpt)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Early life He was born at Lower Park House, Lower Park, Bewdley in Worcestershire, England to Alfred Baldwin and Louisa Baldwin (née MacDonald) and through his mother was a first cousin of the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.
Biography of Marie Henri Andoyer (excerpt)
Marie Henri Andoyer, born October 1, 1862 in Paris and died June 12, 1929, member of Académie des sciences June 30, 1919, was a French astronomer. ![]()
Biography of Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs.At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. ![]()
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Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig.It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, following Berlin and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Maillol (excerpt)
Aristide Maillol (December 8, 1861–September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon.He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art.After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. ![]()
Biography of Norma Talmadge (excerpt)
Norma Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was one of the greatest film stars of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 20s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
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Biography of Paul Frankeur (excerpt)
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
Biography of Marie Dressler (excerpt)
Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress. Biography Born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario to parents Alexander Rudolph Koerber (who was Austrian) and Anna Henderson.The young Dressler was able to hone her talents to make other people laugh, and began her acting career when she was fourteen. ![]()
Biography of Richard Walther Darre (excerpt)
Richard Walther Darré (born Ricardo Walther Oscar Darré, also known as Richard Walter Darré; 14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the leading Nazi ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. He served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.
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Biography of Gustav Stresemann (excerpt)
Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic.He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization.Today, he is generally considered one of the most important leaders of Germany and a staunch supporter of democracy in the fragile Weimar Republic. ![]()
Biography of Wolfgang Abendroth (excerpt)
Wolfgang Abendroth (2 May 1906 - 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist.Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany.He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany.As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950. ![]()
Biography of Stanford White (excerpt)
Stanford White (November 9, 1853, New York – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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Biography of Egon von Vietinghoff (excerpt)
Egon von Vietinghoff (February 6, 1903, The Hague, Netherlands – October 14, 1994, Zurich) was a German-Swiss painter, author, philosopher and creator of the Egon von Vietinghoff Foundation. He reconstructed the lost painting techniques of the Old Masters, and created some 2.700 paintings. ![]()
Biography of Max Reger (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Life Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann.From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began.
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Biography of Cassandre (painter) (excerpt)
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. Born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkov, Ukraine, to French parents, as a young man, Cassandre moved to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. ![]()
Biography of Paul Villard (excerpt)
Paul Ulrich Villard (1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist, born near Lyon, France. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying uranium. At this time he was working in the chemistry department of the École Normale in rue d'Ulm, Paris.
Biography of André Francois-Poncet (excerpt)
André François-Poncet (13 June 1887, Provins, Seine-et-Marne – 8 January 1978) was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's preparations for war.
Biography of Gianna Pederzini (excerpt)
Gianna Pederzini (February 10, 1900, Avio near Trento - March 12, 1988, Rome) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Pederzini studied in Naples with Fernando de Lucia, and made her stage debut in Messina, as Preziosilla, in 1923. She sang widely in Italy, notably as Mignon and Carmen, and made her debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Adalgisa, in 1928, and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in 1930.
Biography of Isabelle Pagan (excerpt)
Isabelle Pagan, born December 12, 1867 in Dairsie, Scotland, died in 1960, was a Scottish astrologer, theosophist, lecturer and writer. ![]()
Biography of Ottorino Respighi (excerpt)
Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor.He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals".
Biography of Thomas Ring (excerpt)
Thomas Ring, born November 28, 1892 in Nürnberg, died August 24, 1983, was a German author, astrologer, philosopher, artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Rémy Roure (excerpt)
Rémy Roure, born on October 1885 in Arcens (birth time source: Lescaut), died on November 8, 1966 in Paris, was a French journalist, author, and a member of the French Resistance. Bibliography (extract) L'Alsace minée ou De l'autonomisme alsacien, Paris, 1929 ![]()
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Maxence Van der Meersch (excerpt)
Maxence Van der Meersch (real name is Vandermeersch), is a French author, born May 4, 1907 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 1063), and died January 14, 1951 in Le Touquet. Bibliography (extract, in French) Works of Maxence Van der Meersch
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Biography of Otto Abetz (excerpt)
Otto Abetz (May 26, 1903 – May 5, 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Early years Abetz was born in Schwetzingen.He matriculated in Karlsruhe, where he became an art teacher at a girls' school.He was interested in French culture at an early age.
Biography of Elizabeth Aldrich (excerpt)
Elizabeth Aldrich, born on May 17, 1875 in Des Moines, Iowa, died in 1948, was an American astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bonnot (excerpt)
Jules Bonnot (October 14, 1876 - April 28, 1912) was a French illegalist famous for his involvement in a criminal anarchist organization dubbed "The Bonnot Gang" by the French press.He viewed himself as a professional and avoided bloodshed, preferring to outwit his targets. ![]()
Biography of Hubert Lyautey (excerpt)
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (November 17, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 27, 1934) was a French general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France. Early life Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine). ![]()
Biography of Carlo Emilio Gadda (excerpt)
Carlo Emilio Gadda (November 14, 1893 - May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Dowding (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Early life ![]()
Biography of Georges Dufrénoy (excerpt)
Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France.His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life. ![]()
Biography of Marc Bloch (excerpt)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance. ![]()
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905.
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Biography of Hans-Georg Gadamer (excerpt)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (German pronunciation: ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Life Gadamer was born in Marburg, Hesse-Nassau, as the son of a pharmaceutical chemist who later also served as the rector of the university there. ![]()
Biography of René Dumesnil (excerpt)
René, Alphonse, Adolphe Dumesnil, born on June 19, 1879 in Rouen (birth time source: Lescaut), died on December 24, 1967 in Paris, was a French physician, critic, author, and musicologist. Publications (extracts) Le Rythme musical — 1921 ; 2e éd. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (excerpt)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875–September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler." History Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean (Krio) father, Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, and an English mother, Alice Hare Martin. ![]()
Biography of Henri Queuille (excerpt)
Henri Queuille (French pronunciation: ; 31 March 1884 in Neuvic, Corrèze - 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. He was the son of a noblewoman, twice a descendant of King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem. ![]()
Biography of Marie Bashkirtseff (excerpt)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; November 12, 1858 (November 24, Gregorian calendar) — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor. Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ![]()
Biography of Booth Tarkington (excerpt)
Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Biography Booth Tarkington was born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis, Indiana.He was the son of John S.
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Biography of Evalyn Walsh McLean (excerpt)
Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886 in Denver, Colorado – April 24.1947 in Washington, D.C.) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45-carat Hope Diamond as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat Star of the East. ![]()
Biography of Galeazzo Ciano (excerpt)
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (March 18, 1903 – January 11, 1944), was Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. Early life Ciano was born in Livorno.He was the son of Admiral Count Costanzo Ciano, a veteran of World War I, founding member of the fascist party in Italy and re-organizer of the Italian Merchant Marine in the 20s. ![]()
Biography of Walter Chrysler (excerpt)
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress, a West Texas city considered the "Gateway to the Texas Panhandle." He also lived in Oelwein, Iowa, where there is a small park dedicated to him.
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Biography of René Benjamin (excerpt)
René Benjamin (20 March 1885 in Paris, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 4 October 1948 in Tours, France) was a French author and journalist.In 1915, he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard.In 1938, he became the first Goncourt laureate to be appointed a member of the Académie Goncourt, the jury that decides the winner of the prize. ![]()
Biography of Georges Auric (excerpt)
Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and under the composer Vincent D'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. |
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