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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 Theodore Dreiser (excerpt)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist.He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
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 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 John Martin-Harvey (excerpt)
John Martin Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre. Born at Bath Street, Wivenhoe in the English county of Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer and shipbuilder, and Margaret Diana Mary Goyder.
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.
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 Hilaire Belloc (excerpt)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-born writer who became a naturalised British subject in 1902.He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A.
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 Albert Londres (excerpt)
Albert Londres (ovember 1, 1884 - May 16, 1932) was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, he criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize for French journalists.
Biography of Nestor Makhno (excerpt)
Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (Ukrainian: Нестор Іванович Махно, October 26, 1888 (November 8, Gregorian calendar)–July 6, 1934) was an anarcho-communist guerrilla leader turned army commander who led an independent anarchist army in the Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. A commander of the peasant Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Anarchist Black Army, Makhno led a guerrilla campaign during the Russian Civil War.
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
Biography of Robert E. Sherwood (excerpt)
Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896–14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was the son of the prominent American portrait artist Rosina Emmet Sherwood.He was the great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and the great-great-nephew of the notable Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in an abortive rebellion attempt against the British.
Biography of Pierre Brossolette (excerpt)
Pierre Brossolette (June 25, 1903 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - March 22, 1944) was a French socialist, journalist and member of French Resistance. Pierre Brossolette was born in Paris, France.He graduated from l'École Normale Supérieure in 1925 and joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière in 1929.
Biography of Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899) was born a member of the British Royal Family. Early life Prince Alfred of Edinburgh was born on 15 October 1874 at Buckingham Palace, London.
Biography of Paul Nizan (excerpt)
Paul Nizan (February 7, 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 23, 1940, age 35) was a French philosopher and writer. He was born in Tours and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at the Lycée Henri IV.
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate.His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time.
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 Legs Diamond (excerpt)
Jack "Legs" Diamond (born Jack Nolan; July 10, 1897 - December 18, 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was a famous Irish-American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era. A bootlegger and close associate of gambler Arnold Rothstein, Diamond survived a number of attempts on his life between 1916 and 1931, causing him to be known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld." In 1930, Diamond's nemesis Dutch Schultz remarked to his own gang, "Ain't there nobody that can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back."
Biography of Finn Malmgren (excerpt)
Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (January 9, 1895 in Falun (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) - June 1928) was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer. Malmgren studied in Göteborg, Sundsvall and Stockholm.In 1912 he started to study at the Uppsala University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1916.
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 Rafael Alberti (excerpt)
Rafael Alberti Merello (Cádiz, December 16, 1902 - October 28, 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra ('Sailor on Dry Land', 1925), La Amante ('The Mistress', 1926) and El alba del alhelí ('The Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927).
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 Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (excerpt)
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, born in Trieste, July 15, 1853 and died in 1883, was a German soprano opera singer, the daugther of German singer A. Kindermann.
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 Jesse L. Lasky (excerpt)
Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr.(September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business.
Biography of Robinson Jeffers (excerpt)
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.
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.
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 Bangalore S. Rao (excerpt)
Bangalore S. Rao, born February 12, 1856 in Srikakulam, died in March 1937, was an Indian author and professional astrologer.
Biography of Eusapia Palladino (excerpt)
Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino; 1854-1918) was a famous Spiritualist medium born in Minervino Murge, Italy. Life and work In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. In Italy, France, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and St.Petersburg, Russia, Palladino was noted to allegedly display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and elongating herself, bringing forth flowers, physically materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in wet clay, levitating tables, playing musical instruments under the table without contact, directly communicating with the dead through her spirit guide, John King, etc.
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 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 Alexei Kosygin (excerpt)
Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin; French: Alexis Nikolaievitch Kossyguine) (February 20 (March 4, Gregorian calendar) 1904 – December 18, 1980) was a Soviet politician and administrator. Serving as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980, he was considered a reformer in the Soviet leadership and the main rival to hardline Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Biography of Auguste Vaillant (excerpt)
Auguste Vaillant (December 27 1861 in Mézières, France (in Ardennes, not sur Seine) - February 3, 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.
Biography of Ogden Nash (excerpt)
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".
Biography of Lily Pons (excerpt)
Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15.During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals.
Biography of Grazia Deledda (excerpt)
Grazia Deledda (September 28, 1871 (2:00 AM Cagliari time) - August 15, 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own.
Biography of Alligator Man (excerpt)
Alligator Man, born December 18, 1904 in Savanah, Georgia, was an American circus freak, with skin like an alligator over his entire body.
Biography of Pierre Alcover (excerpt)
Pierre Alcover (14 March 1893 – 14 November 1957) was a French film actor. He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943. In 1920 he starred in the film Champi-Tortu. One of his most notable performances was in Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film L'Argent, as the corrupt banker Saccard.
Biography of Fernand Braudel (excerpt)
Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902 (birth time source: birth certificate, magazine L'Astrologue n° 69 in 1985) – November 27, 1985) was the foremost French historian of the postwar era and a leader of the Annales School.His scholarship focused on three great projects, each representing several decades of intense study: "The Mediterranean" (1923–49, then 1949–66), "Civilization and Capitalism" (1955–79), and the unfinished "Identity of France" (1970–85).
Biography of Miguel Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties.
Biography of Ramón Serrano Súñer (excerpt)
Ramón Serrano-Súñer (Cartagena, 12 September 1901 – Madrid, 1 September 2003), was a Spanish politician in the first governments of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Political Junta Política of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS (1938), and Interior and Foreign Affairs Minister.
Biography of Ethel Barrymore (excerpt)
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. Early life Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew.
Biography of Jeanne d'Alcy (excerpt)
Jeanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956) was the earliest French film actress.She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1926 until his death in 1938. She was born Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Biography of John Reed (excerpt)
John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 23, 1887 – October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant.
Biography of Jerome Kern (excerpt)
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music.He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are and The Way You Look Tonight.
Biography of Hubert Josef Urban (excerpt)
Hubert Josef Urban, born June 4, 1904 in Linz, is an Austrian parapsychologist, professor of psychiatry and writer.
Biography of Jean-Gabriel Domergue (excerpt)
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, born March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux, died in 1962, was a French painter.
Biography of Pierre Reverdy (excerpt)
Pierre Reverdy (13 September 1889 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 17 June 1960) was a French poet associated with surrealism and cubism. Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne and grew up near the Montagne Noire in his father's house.
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker.After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. |
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