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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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 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".
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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 Steve Passeur (excerpt)
Etienne Morin, best known as Steve Passeur, born September 24, 1899 in Sedan, was a French author and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1975) - La moitié du plaisir (1975) TV episode (earlier screenplay "Le jeu de la vérité") ![]()
Biography of Marcel Achard (excerpt)
Marcel Achard (July 5, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - September 4, 1974) was a French playwright, screenwriter and author. He was born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, a Rhône département town and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career immediately following World War I. ![]()
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 Vivian Kellems (excerpt)
Vivien Kellems, (born June 7, 1896 in Des Moines, Iowa; died 1975) was a Connecticut industrialist who fought the U.S.federal government for over 25 years over withholding under 26 USC §3402, and other aspects of income tax in the United States. ![]()
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 Alain Laubreaux (excerpt)
Alin Laubreaux or Alain Laubreaux, born October 9,1899 in Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, died July 15, 1968 in Madrid, Spain, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography Histoires canaques, éd.Fayard, coll.« Œuvres libres », Paris, 1926. Yan-le-métis, éd.Albin Michel, Paris, 1928, .Raconte les aventures plus ou moins rocambolesques d'un métis calédonien échoué aux Nouvelles-Hébrides, il perdit pour cette œuvre un procès en plagiat intenté par un autre auteur calédonien, Georges Baudoux.
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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 Martin Buber (excerpt)
Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. ![]()
Biography of Adolf Reichwein (excerpt)
Adolf Reichwein (born 3 October 1898 in Bad Ems; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD.He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. After taking part in the First World War, in which he was seriously wounded in the lung, Reichwein studied at the universities in Frankfurt am Main und Marburg, under Hugo Sinzheimer and Franz Oppenheimer, among others. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Godfrey (excerpt)
Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until an on-camera incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual decline; the then-ubiquitous Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show through most of the decade but by the early 1960s found himself reduced to hosting an occasional TV special. ![]()
Biography of Ewald von Kleist (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8, 1881 – c.November 13, 1954) was a leading German field marshal during World War II. Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue (excerpt)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 - September 12, 1986) was a French photographer and painter. Born in Courbevoie (a city outside of Paris) to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century.
Biography of Germaine Sablon (excerpt)
Germaine Sablon (July 19, 1899 - April 17, 1985) was a French singer and film actress. She starred in some 15 films between 1920 and 1956. Her brother Jean Sablon was a popular singer and actor. Selected songs * Vous ne savez pas (duo avec Jean Sablon) ![]()
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 Adolphe Bréchot (excerpt)
Adolphe Bréchot, born September 23, 1889 in Hardinghen, was a French surgeon and physician. ![]()
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 Carl Böckli (excerpt)
Carl Böckli, born September 23, 1889 in St. Gallen and died December 4, 1979 in Heiden, was a Swiss caricaturist, writer and journalist.
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Biography of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (excerpt)
Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, born on January 6, 1900, in Paris, where he died on June 12, 1969, was a French writer, journalist, military officer, and politician, as well as a Companion of the Liberation. A major figure in the French Resistance during World War II, he founded the Libération-Sud movement and the newspaper Libération in 1941.
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Biography of Donald Douglas (excerpt)
Donald Douglas, born April 6, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, died in 1981, was an American U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company. ![]()
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 Jacques Varennes (excerpt)
Jacques Varennes, born November 8, 1894 in Mantes-la-Jolie, died September 6, 1958 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) # Quai des illusions (1959) ... aka "La legge mi incolpa" - Italy # "En votre âme et conscience" (1 episode, 1957) - Le docteur X (1957) TV episode ![]()
Biography of Alfred Landé (excerpt)
Alfred Landé (13 December 1888 (birth time source: collection Gauquelin)–30 October 1976) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor an explanation of the Zeeman Effect. Life and Achievements Alfred Landé was born on 13 December 1888 in Elberfeld, Rhineland, Germany, today part of the city of Wuppertal. ![]()
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 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".
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Biography of Johnny Dundee (excerpt)
Johnny Dundee (November 22, 1893 – April 22, 1965) was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932.Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States. Known as the Scotch Wop, Dundee faced all of the great fighters in the featherweight, lightweight and junior-lightweight divisions of his era. ![]()
Biography of Savielly Tartakower (excerpt)
Ksawery Tartakower (Russian Савелий Григорьевич Тартаковер, generally known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887-1956) was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was the king of chess journalism in the 1920s and 30s. ![]()
Biography of Jose Lobato (excerpt)
Jose Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato, born April 18, 1882 in Taubaté, died July 4, 1948 in Sao Paulo, was a Brazilian editor, author, novelist and painter.
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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 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 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.
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Biography of Michel de Ghelderode (excerpt)
Michel de Ghelderode (born as Adhémar-Adolphe-Louis Martens, 3 April 1898, Ixelles – 1962, Brussels) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French. Career A prolific writer, he wrote more than sixty plays, a hundred stories, a number of articles on art and folklore and more than 20,000 letters. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Pinchon (excerpt)
Émile-Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, born April 17, 1871 in Amiens, died in 1953, was a French cartoonist, painter and illustrator. Selected Bibliography (albums only) Bécassine, textes de Caumery (Maurice Lauguereau), Gauthier puis Gauthier-Languereau à partir du 4. L'enfance de Bécassine, 1913
Biography of Oliver Leslie Reiser (excerpt)
Oliver Leslie Reiser, born November 15, 1895 in Columbus, Ohio, died June 6, 1974, was an American esoteric author, professeur and philosopher. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Verwoerd (excerpt)
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Amsterdam, 8 September 1901 – Cape Town, 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. Unlike his predecessors, Verwoerd was not born in South Africa, but immigrated at age two with his parents from the Netherlands. ![]()
Biography of Lincoln Steffens (excerpt)
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works." ![]()
Biography of Andy Clyde (excerpt)
Andrew "Andy" Clyde (March 25, 1892 — May 18, 1967) was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic. Clyde's mastery of makeup allowed him tremendous versatility; he could play everything from grubby young guttersnipes to old crackpot scientists. ![]()
Biography of Jean Patou (excerpt)
Jean Patou (September 27, 1887 (birth time, date, and city source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - March 8, 1936) was a French fashion designer. 1910s - World War I and later In 1912, he opened a small dressmaking salon called "Maison Parry". ![]()
Biography of George Jean Nathan (excerpt)
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and editor. Early life Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. ![]()
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 Charles Dawes (excerpt)
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States.For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ![]()
Biography of Frances Marion (excerpt)
Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 - May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I.
Biography of Jean Assolant (excerpt)
Jean Assollant (sometimes called Jean Assolant), born September 26, 1905 in Versailles, died in 1942 in Diégo-Suarez, was a French aviator. ![]()
Biography of Michel Leiris (excerpt)
Julien Michel Leiris (April 20, 1901 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, J.Tissot, birth certificate) – September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Michel Leiris obtained his baccalauréat in philosophy in 1918 and after a brief attempt at studying chemistry, he developed a strong interest in jazz and poetry.
Biography of Dino Galvani (excerpt)
Dino Galvani, born October 27, 1890 in Milan, died September 14, 1960, was an Italian actor. Filmography (extract) Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) .Hardware Store Owner "International Detective" .Count Di Fontana (1 episode, 1960) - The Dennison Case (1960) TV episode .
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Biography of Helen Wills Moody (excerpt)
Helen Newington Wills Roark (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player who is generally considered to have been one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. Wills was born Helen Newington Wills in Centerville, California, now part of Fremont, California.
Biography of Samuel Parchment (excerpt)
Samuel Parchment (Ewarton, February 1, 1881) iwas a British astrologer and occultist.He published in 1933 "Astrology, Mundane and Spiritual".He led the San Francisco Center Rosicrucian Fellowship in the 1930's. ![]()
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire. |
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