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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 Beniamino Gigli (excerpt)
Beniamino Gigli (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian singer, widely regarded as one of the greatest operatic tenors of all time. He was blessed with a voice of immense beauty and technical facility but, regrettably, he was not always the most tasteful and stylish of singers, especially in the latter stages of his career.
Biography of Marcel Prélot (excerpt)
Marcel Prélot, born October 30, 1898 in Janville ((Eure-et-Loir), died December 26, 1972 in Puget (Var), was a French politician, member of UDR (Union démocratique pour la Ve République).
Biography of Fulton J. Sheen (excerpt)
Servant of God Fulton John Sheen, born Peter John Sheen (May 8, 1895 (source: Steinbrecher) – December 9, 1979) was an American archbishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. His cause for canonization for sainthood was officially opened in 2002, so he is now referred to as a "Servant of God".
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 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 Wanda Capodaglio (excerpt)
Wanda Capodaglio, born January 1, 1889 in Asti and died August 29, 1980 in Castelfranco di Sopra, was an Italian actress. Filmography (extract) * Piccolo hotel , di Piero Ballerini (1939) * Avanti c'è posto , di Mario Bonnard (1942)
Biography of Francisco Madero (excerpt)
Francisco Indalecio Madero González (October 30, 1873 – February 22, 1913) was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913.As a respectable upper-class politician he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce.
Biography of André Mutter (excerpt)
André Mutter, born November 11, 1901 in Troyes (Aube), died December 24, 1973 in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie), was a French politician, lawyer and member of The French resistance.
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 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 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 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 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 Walther Model (excerpt)
Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: ) (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German general and later field marshal during World War II.He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Biography of Jack Oakie (excerpt)
Jack Oakie (Born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. Early life Oakie was born as Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri.
Biography of Roger Chapelain-Midy (excerpt)
Roger Chapelain-Midy, born August 24, 1904 in Paris, died April 1, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter.
Biography of Jacques Thibaud (excerpt)
Jacques Thibaud (September 27, 1880 - September 1, 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen.In 1896 he jointly won the conservatoire's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor).
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 David O. Selznick (excerpt)
David O.Selznick, born David Selznick (May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965), was an American film producer.He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Early years Selznick was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J.
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 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 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 Louise Fazenda (excerpt)
Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 - April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Early life She was born in Lafayette, Indiana.Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker.After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St.
Biography of Marguerite Monnot (excerpt)
Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 - 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord," "Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.
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 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 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 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 Puyi (excerpt)
Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; 7 February 1906 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from a biography of Harry Hussey) – 17 October 1967), of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, commonly known as Pu Yi, was the last Emperor of China, the second-to-last Khan of Mongolia and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty.
Biography of William Gibbs McAdoo (excerpt)
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). By virtue of his position as Secretary of the Treasury, in August 1914, he also served as the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Biography of Adolphe Bréchot (excerpt)
Adolphe Bréchot, born September 23, 1889 in Hardinghen, was a French surgeon and physician.
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 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 Adolphe Appia (excerpt)
Adolphe Appia (* September 1, 1862 in Geneva; † February 29, 1928 in Nyon), son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia, was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. Adolphe Appia was a Swiss theorist and pioneer of modern stage design.
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 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (excerpt)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke. Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
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 Emil Jannings (excerpt)
Emil Jannings (July 23, 1884 in Rorschach – January 3, 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. Early life He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.
Biography of Oskar Schmitz (excerpt)
Oskar Schmitz, born April 16, 1873 in Bad Homburg, died December 18, 1931, was a German author and astrologer.
Biography of Valentine Tessier (excerpt)
Valentine Tessier, born August 5, 1892 in Paris 11e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died August 11, 1981 in Vallauris, was a French actress. Filmography (extract) 1933 : Madame Bovary 1935 : Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades 1936 : Club de femmes
Biography of Maurice Gamelin (excerpt)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872, Paris - 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values.
Biography of Harry Benjamine (excerpt)
Harry Benjamine, born August 9, 1896 in London, was a British author.
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 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 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 Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States.He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Jean Galia (excerpt)
Jean Galia (born 20 March 1905 in Ille-sur-Tet, died 1949 in Toulouse) was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer and champion boxer.He is credited with establishing the sport of rugby league in France in 1934. Galia made his international debut for the France national rugby union team in a 1927 test against England in Paris.
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 Hans Rosbaud (excerpt)
Hans Rosbaud (July 22, 1895, Graz, Austria – December 29, 1962, Lugano, Switzerland) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. As children, Hans and his brother Paul Rosbaud performed with their mother, who taught piano. Hans continued studying music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, under the tutelage of Bernhard Sekles in composition and Alfred Hoehn in piano.
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. |
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