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Horoscopes 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 Max Beckmann (excerpt)
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 (birth time source: starfish-astrologie.blog.de (no longer available)) – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. ![]()
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".
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Biography of Pierre Weiss (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Weiss (March 25, 1865 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - October 24, 1940) was a French physicist who developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the Molecular or Mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory. ![]()
Biography of Émile Bernard (excerpt)
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. ![]()
Biography of Albert Calmette (excerpt)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette (July 12, 1863 – October 29, 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
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Biography of Jean-Marie Guyau (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Guyau (Laval, France, October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset, .
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Biography of Marcel Thil (excerpt)
Marcel Thil, born May 25, 1904 in Saint-Dizier, died August 14, 1968 in Cannes, was a French boxer and world champion. Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Marcel Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Herbin (excerpt)
Auguste Herbin (April 29, 1882 - January 30/31 1960) was a French painter. Biography Born in Quiévy, Nord, he studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille, from 1898 to 1901, when he settled in Paris. The initial influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism visible in paintings that he sent to the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 gradually gave way to an involvement with Cubism after his move in 1909 to the Bateau-Lavoir studios, where he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris; he was also encouraged by his friendship with Wilhelm Uhde. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Caillaux (excerpt)
Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911. ![]()
Biography of Clare Boothe Luce (excerpt)
Clare Boothe Luce (10 March 1903, New York City – 9 October 1987, Washington DC) was an American editor, playwright, social activist, congresswoman, journalist, and ambassador. Witty, perceptive, and determined, she was also a prominent figure in New York social circles.
Biography of Jimmy Gold (excerpt)
Jimmy Gold was a comedian and part of the music hall act of Naughton and Gold. Latter they became part of The Crazy Gang. He was born on 21 April 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland as Jimmy McGonigal. He died in London on 7 October 1967.
Biography of Ralph Maxwell Lewis (excerpt)
Ralph Maxwell Lewis (1904 - January 1987), the son of Harvey Spencer Lewis, was the Imperator of Rosicrucian organisation Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) from 1939 to 1987. In Fédération Universelle des Ordres et Sociétés Initiatiques, FUDOSI, he was known with the nomen mysticum Sar Validivar.
Biography of Carl Ahues (excerpt)
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4-5th in Scarborough (Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3-5th in Liege (Savielly Tartakower won).
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Biography of Eugène-Louis Doyen (excerpt)
Eugène-Louis Doyen (December 16, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – November 21, 1916) was a French surgeon who was a native of Reims. He was the son of Octave Doyen (1831–1895), who served as mayor of Reims. Eugène Doyen studied medicine in Reims and Paris, and later opened a private medical institute in Paris that attracted a wealthy clientele. ![]()
Biography of R.B. Bennett (excerpt)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett PC KC (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930 to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area. ![]()
Biography of Regis Toomey (excerpt)
John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 - October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. ![]()
Biography of Brian Aherne (excerpt)
Brian Aherne (May 2, 1902 – February 10, 1986) was an Oscar-nominated British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood. Early life and stage career He was born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in Birmingham, the son of William de Lacy Aherne by his spouse Louise née Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Urho Kekkonen (excerpt)
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 - 31 August 1986), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland (1950–1953, 1954–1956) and later as the eighth President of Finland (1956–1982). Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen line”. ![]()
Biography of Gertrude Lawrence (excerpt)
Gertrude Lawrence (July 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical comedy performer popular from the 1920s to the 1950s, appearing on stage in London, on Broadway and in several films. She is often remembered for performing the light comedies of Noel Coward.
Biography of Hans Baumgartner (excerpt)
Hans Baumgartner, born June 7, 1906 in Reichenberg, is a German author, editor and professional astrologer.
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Biography of Jack Teagarden (excerpt)
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905–January 15, 1964) was an influential jazz trombonist and vocalist. Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians. Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone. ![]()
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 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 Kees Van Dongen (excerpt)
Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen (January 26, 1877 – May 28, 1968), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. ![]()
Biography of Elbert Hubbard (excerpt)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.
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Biography of Alexandre Dumaine (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumaine, born August 26, 1895 and died April 2, 1974, was a French Chef, the Chef of « l'Hostellerie de la Côte d’Or », in Saulieu, Bourgogne. ![]()
Biography of Anna Seghers (excerpt)
Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900–June 1, 1983) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Life Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 of Jewish descent, she married Laszlo Radvanyi, a Hungarian Communist in 1925. In Cologne and Heidelberg she studied history, the history of art and Chinese.
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Biography of Jean Lacroix (excerpt)
Jean Lacroix, born December 26, 1900 and died June 27, 1986, was a French author and philosopher. Bibliography Timidité et adolescence, Aubier, 1936, 173 p. Itinéraire spirituel, Bloud et Gay (Cahiers de la Nouvelle Journée, 35), l937, 158 p. Mystique et politique, dans l'ouvrage collectif Options sur demain, Bloud et Gay (La Nouvelle Journée, 6), 1939, p.
Biography of Madeleine Lambert (excerpt)
Madeleine Lambert (Madeleine, Marie Joséphine Lambert), born on May 7, 1892 in Saint-Pierre-Bénouville (Seine-Maritime), died on July 27, 1977, was a French actress and comedian. Filmography (extract) 1921 : Quand les feuilles tomberont de Marcel Simon 1931 : Ma cousine de Varsovie de Carmine Gallone - Lucienne ![]()
Biography of Italo Balbo (excerpt)
Italo Balbo (5 June 1896 - 28 June 1940) was an Italian Blackshirt (Camicie Nere, or CCNN) leader, Marshal of the Air Force (Maresciallo dell'Aria), Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI), and the "heir apparent" to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. ![]()
Biography of Nelly Sachs (excerpt)
Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. ![]()
Biography of Georges Bidault (excerpt)
Georges-Augustin Bidault (October 5, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 27, 1983) was a French politician and active in the French Resistance and Organisation armée secrète (OAS). Bidault was born in Moulins, Auvergne. He studied in the Sorbonne and became a college history teacher. ![]()
Biography of Orane Demazis (excerpt)
Henriette Marie-Louise Burgart, best known as Orane Demazis, born September 4, 1894 in Oran, Algeria, died December 25, 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French actress. She was the wife of actor Marcel Pagnol. They have had a son, Jean-Pierre Burgart, born in 1933.
Biography of Gustave C. Ekstrom (excerpt)
Gustave C. Ekstrom, born June 1, 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, died May 30, 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an American professional astrologer, author, lecturer and healer. ![]()
Biography of Henri Nassiet (excerpt)
Henri Nassiet, born February 24, 1895 in Bègles, died April 16, 1977 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extracts) Actor Maman Pierre (1922) de Maurice Challiot Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936) de Claude Heymann L'Innocent (1937) de Maurice Cammage ![]()
Biography of Gutzon Borglum (excerpt)
John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as other public works of art. Background Gutzon Borglum was born in Bear Lake Hot Springs, Idaho.
Biography of Josephine Tey (excerpt)
Josephine Tey was one of many pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25, 1896 Inverness – February 13, 1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. Life and work She was born in Inverness, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham, before becoming a teacher.
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Biography of Amelita Galli-Curci (excerpt)
Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano. She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century. Biography She was born as Amelita Galli into an upper-middle-class family in Milan, where she studied piano in her youth.
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Biography of Antonio Segni (excerpt)
Antonio Segni (2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician who was the 48th and 51st Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964. Adhering to the centrist Christian Democratic party (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana – DC), he was the first Sardinian ever to become Prime Minister of Italy. ![]()
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 Joseph Calleia (excerpt)
Joseph Calleia (August 4, 1897 – October 31, 1975), was a Maltese singer, composer, and actor, both on Broadway and in film. Calleia played against some Hollywood greats, including John Wayne, William Holden, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Bette Davis, Jane Russell, Mario Lanza, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Alan Ladd and Anthony Quinn. ![]()
Biography of Eduardo Ciannelli (excerpt)
Eduardo Ciannelli, sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli, (30 August 1888 - 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. Early life Ciannelli was born in Lacco Ameno, the son of a doctor who owned a health spa. ![]()
Biography of Emil Fischer (excerpt)
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable. ![]()
Biography of Anthony Powell (excerpt)
Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE (December 21, 1905–March 28, 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. According to his memoirs, Powell rhymes with pole (not towel).
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Biography of Florence Farr (excerpt)
Florence Beatrice Emery (née) Farr (7 July 1860—29 April 1917) was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of a secret occult order, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw. ![]()
Biography of Benedetto Croce (excerpt)
Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866, Pescasseroli, Italy – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade.
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Biography of Gaston Monnerville (excerpt)
Gaston Monnerville (2 January 1897, Cayenne, French Guiana, France - 7 November 1991, Paris) was a French politician and lawyer. The grandson of a slave, he grew up in French Guiana and went to Toulouse to complete his studies. A brilliant student, he became a lawyer in 1918 and worked with César Campinchi, a lawyer who later became an influential politician. ![]()
Biography of Ellen Glasgow (excerpt)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Life and career Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
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Biography of Carl Zuckmayer (excerpt)
Carl Zuckmayer (December 27, 1896 – January 18, 1977) was a German writer and playwright. Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he (like many other high school students) finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for the Army. |
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