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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 Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education
Biography of Ivar Kreuger (excerpt)
Ivar Kreuger (Kalmar, Sweden, March 2, 1880 – March 12, 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist.Between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businessmen of Europe.Negotiating match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, he finally controlled two thirds of the worldwide match production, and became known as the "Match King".
Biography of Gérard Loncke (excerpt)
Gérard Loncke (Overpelt, 15 January 1905 (birth time source: Lescaut) — Neerpelt, 13 March 1979) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1932 he finished 4th place in the Tour de France. Results (extract) 1930 Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
Biography of Louis Pergaud (excerpt)
Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté.His most famous work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (English: "War of the Buttons"), written in 1912.
Biography of Karl Valentin (excerpt)
Karl Valentin (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882, Munich - 9 February 1948, Planegg, Germany) was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer who had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin, as a star of many silent films in the 1920s, was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany".
Biography of George Santayana (excerpt)
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid – September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U.S.
Biography of Barnes Wallis (excerpt)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the Möhne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during World War II.
Biography of Julien Duvivier (excerpt)
Julien Duvivier (Born, October 8, 1896 in Lille - Died, October 29, 1967 in Paris) was a French film director.He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930 - 1960.He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination.
Biography of Richard Halliburton (excerpt)
Richard Halliburton (9 January 1900 – presumed dead after 24 March 1939) was an American traveler, adventurer and author.Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history--thirty-six cents -- Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career.
Biography of Frédéric Moriss (excerpt)
Frédéric Moriss, born Frédéric Edouard Maurice Boyer on May 3, 1874 in Nîmes, Gard, is a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1953 Lettre ouverte Le vieux monsieur 1950 Souvenirs perdus (uncredited) 1950 Quai de Grenelle Petit rôle (uncredited) 1948 Clochemerle (uncredited) 1947 Le charcutier de Machonville
Biography of Algernon Blackwood (excerpt)
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English writer of fiction dealing with the supernatural, who was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
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 Konstantin von Neurath (excerpt)
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941).Neurath remained titular Protector until 1943. Early life He was born in Vaihingen an der Enz, Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of minor Swabian nobility.
Biography of Claude Dauphin (excerpt)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978), was a French actor.He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978. He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Paris.His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as "Franc-Nohain" , and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole.
Biography of Jacques Dumesnil (excerpt)
Jacques Dumesnil, born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly November 9, 1903 in Paris, and died May 8, 1998 in Bron, Rhône, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) * 1931 : Mon ami l'assassin de Solange Bussi * 1932 : Danton de André Roubaud : Fabre d'Églantine
Biography of Kurt Gerstein (excerpt)
Kurt Gerstein (August 11, 1905 – July 25, 1945) was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS.He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka.He contacted the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter as well as members of the Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII in order to inform the international public about the Holocaust.
Biography of Ralph Bellamy (excerpt)
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years. Early life Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise Smith, a native of Canada, and her husband Charles Rexford Bellamy.
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.
Biography of Florelle (excerpt)
Odette Rousseau, best known as Florelle (9 August 1898 – 28 September 1974), was an French actress and singer. She appeared in 54 films between 1912 and 1956. She was born in Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France and died in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire.
Biography of Adrian Zeigler (excerpt)
Adrian Zeigler, born August 31, 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died July 6, 1966 in Hollywood, California (heart attack), was an American astrologer, writer, editor, lecturer and teacher.
Biography of Henri Giraud (excerpt)
Henri Honoré Giraud (18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949) was a French general who fought in World War I and World War II. Captured in both wars, he escaped each time. After his second escape, he joined the Free French Forces.
Biography of Joaquín Turina (excerpt)
Joaquín Turina (9 December 1882 (birth time source: Barbault, birth certificate) – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Biography Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy (between Verona, Brescia and Mantova).He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid.
Biography of Hendrik Lorentz (excerpt)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.
Biography of Margaret Hone (excerpt)
Margaret Ethelwyn Hone (2 October 1892 – 14 October 1969) was an influential mid–20th century astrologer and astrological author.She was also known as "Peg Hone". She was born at Studley, Warwickshire, England. Margaret Hone's best known book was "The Modern Text Book of Astrology" which was adopted as the official text-book for the F.A.S.
Biography of Georges Migot (excerpt)
Georges Migot, born February 27, 1891 in Paris, died January 5, 1976 in Levallois-Perret (Hauts de Seine), was a French composer, writer and painter. Bibliography (extract) Léon Vallas : Georges Migot (Paris, 1923), Pierre Wolff : La route d'un musicien : Georges Migot (Paris, 1933 - Georges Migot, étude générale (Paris, Leduc 1933),
Biography of Alfonso XII of Spain (excerpt)
Alfonso XII (born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo) (Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885) was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
Biography of Jacques Grétillat (excerpt)
Jacques Grétillat (Jacques, Marie, Gaëtan Grétillat), born on August 26, 1885 in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), died on December 19, 1950 in Paris, was a French actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Filmography (selection) 1908 : Hamlet d'Henri Desfontaines 1908 : Louis XIV, roi soleil de Georges Denola
Biography of Félix Fénéon (excerpt)
Félix Fénéon (29 June 1861 at 4:00 AM (source : Joan U. Halperin, "Félix Fénéon, œuvres plus que complètes"), Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist, journalist and art critic during the late 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, and ardently promoted them.
Biography of Bernard Grasset (editor) (excerpt)
Bernard Félix Joseph Grasset, born on March 6, 1881 in Chambéry (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on October 20, 1955 in Paris, was a French famous editor.
Biography of Winnie Ruth Judd (excerpt)
Winnie Ruth Judd (1905-1998), known as the "Trunk murderess" was an American murderess convicted of the murder of a women on 16 October 1931.Only the trial of Bruno Hauptmann garnered more interest during the 1930's. Trial Judd was charged and convicted of the murder of Agnes LeRoi, one of her two friends she was alleged to have murdered in mid-October 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Biography of Lucien Gaudin (excerpt)
Lucien Gaudin (September 27, 1886, Arras, France – September 23, 1934) was a French fencer and olympic champion both in foil and in épée competition. He received gold medals in both foil individual and in épée individual at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Biography of Henri Jeanson (excerpt)
Henri Jeanson, (b.6 March 1900, Paris - d.6 November 1970, Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist.He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on the 6th of March in Paris.His father was a teacher.
Biography of Paul Grimault (excerpt)
Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators.He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature. His most important work is La Bergère et le Ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep).He began it in 1948 and it was highly anticipated, but Grimault’s partner André Sarrut showed the film unfinished in 1952, against Grimault’s wishes.
Biography of Robert Dalban (excerpt)
Robert Dalban, born Gaston Barré July 19, 1903 in Celles-sur-Belle (Deux-Sèvres)(birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC), died April 3, 1987 in Paris (heart attack in a restaurant, Avenue des Champs Elysées), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) Actor * 1934 : L'Or dans la rue : Un homme à la gare
Biography of Sophie Tucker (excerpt)
Sophie Tucker (13 January 1886 – 9 February 1966) was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress.Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.
Biography of Arnold J. Toynbee (excerpt)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective.
Biography of Rudolf Bing (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Bing (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born opera impresario.Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972.He was knighted in 1971. Career Born Rudolph Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-to-do Jewish family (his father was an industrialist) Bing studied at the University of Vienna and as a young man worked in theatrical and concert agencies.
Biography of Paul Winter (excerpt)
Paul Winter (February 6, 1906 in Ribeauvillé – February 23, 1992) was a French athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for a France in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California, in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal.
Biography of Hans Geiger (excerpt)
Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm (Gengar) Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist.He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the Atomic nucleus.Geiger was born at Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany.
Biography of Franz Werfel (excerpt)
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 – August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods.His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner.
Biography of Harry Benjamine (excerpt)
Harry Benjamine, born August 9, 1896 in London, was a British author.
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
Biography of Frederick Delius (excerpt)
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. Life Delius's parents were German.Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had moved from Bielefeld, Germany to England to set themselves up in the woollen business.
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 Battista Pininfarina (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina) (November 2, 1893 - April 3, 1966) was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name forever associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars (especially Ferraris).
Biography of Howard L. Cornell (excerpt)
Howard L. Cornell, born July 23, 1872 in Hartsville en Pennsylvania, died February 13, 1939 in Los Angeles (heart failure), was an American author, teacher and astrologer.
Biography of Raissa Maritain (excerpt)
Raïssa Oumansoff Maritain (1883 (source not archived) - 1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian poet and philosopher.She emigrated to France and studied at Sorbona, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, who she married in 1904.She was raised Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906.
Biography of Maxime Weygand (excerpt)
Maxime Weygand (January 21, 1867 - January 28, 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II. Though not as infamous as Philippe Petain, Weygand is remembered for initially fighting the German invasion of France in 1940, then surrendering to and collaborating with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.
Biography of Oskar Schlemmer (excerpt)
Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 – April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school.In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
Biography of Charles Weidman (excerpt)
Charles Edward Weidman, Jr. (July 22, 1901 in Lincoln, Nebraska – July 15, 1975) was a modern dancer, choreographer and teacher. He studied and performed with Denishawn before leaving to form the Humphrey-Weidman school and company with Doris Humphrey and Pauline Lawrence. Like his partner Humphrey, Weidman worked from principles of fall and recovery and also experimented with a form of linking unrelated movements that he called "kinetic pantomime." During the 1930s, Weidman taught at the Bennington School of the Dance in Vermont and presented choreography including his popular Candide (1937) through the Federal Dance Theatre of the WPA. |
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