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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 Simone Beck (excerpt)
Simone "Simca" Beck (7 July 1904 in Normandy, France - 20 December 1991) was a French cookbook author and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, played a significant role in the introduction of French cooking technique and recipes into American kitchens. ![]()
Biography of Preston Sturges (excerpt)
Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Marx (excerpt)
Wilhelm Marx (January 15, 1863 (birth time source: Lescaut)– August 5, 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic. ![]()
Biography of Carel Willink (excerpt)
Albert Carel Willink (7 March 1900 – 19 October 1983) was a well known Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism". Willink was born in Amsterdam, the eldest son of the mechanic Jan Willink and Wilhelmina Altes. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his son to paint. ![]()
Biography of Sinclair Lewis (excerpt)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women.
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Biography of Lowell Thomas (excerpt)
Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" ("biographies of subjects who do not fit into any other category") in their classification. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Pflimlin (excerpt)
Pierre Eugčne Jean Pflimlin (February 5, 1907 - June 27, 2000) was a French Christian Democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year. ![]()
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre. ![]()
Biography of Dino Campana (excerpt)
Dino Campana (20 August 1885 - 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet.His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti orfici ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo.
Biography of F.G. Goerner (excerpt)
F.G. Goerner, born July 25, 1898 in Bodenbach an der Elbe, died June 6, 1979, was a German psychologist, engineer, author and professional astrologer.
Biography of Luigi Borro (body-builder) (excerpt)
Luigi Borro, born January 12, 1869 in Milan, was an Italian body-builder who exhibited in the circus.
Biography of Francis de Bourguignon (excerpt)
Francis de Bourguignon, born May 29, 1890 in Brussels, died April 11, 1961, was a Belgian musician, composer and music teacher. Selected works * 1927 Dans l'île de Pinang op.13 voor (klein) orkest * 1927 En Floride op.
Biography of Terence Cawthorne (excerpt)
Terence Cawthorne, born September 29, 1902 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish otolaryngologist, physician and surgeon.
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Biography of Louis Alter (excerpt)
Louis Alter (June 18, 1902, Haverhill, Massachusetts–November 5, 1980, New York City, New York) was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. Alter was 13 when he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Stuart Mason.
Biography of Edith Randall (excerpt)
Edith Randall, born October 10, 1897 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died November 16, 1978 in Hollywood, was an American professional astrologer, teacher of astrology and author. ![]()
Biography of Margot Asquith (excerpt)
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, who would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908-1916).
Biography of Henri Guisol (excerpt)
Henri Guisol, born October 12, 1904 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), died May 1&, 1994 in Saint-Raphaël (Var), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1931 : La Chienne de Jean Renoir * 1935 : Le Domino vert de Henri Decoin et Herbert Selpin ![]()
Biography of Ninon Vallin (excerpt)
Ninon Vallin (September 8, 1886 - November 22, 1961) was a French soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta, and recitals during a career which lasted for more than four decades. Career Ninon Vallin was born at Montalieu-Vercieu (in Isčre), and studied at the Lyons Conservatoire.
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Biography of Henri Béraud (excerpt)
Henri Béraud (born 21 September 1885 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died 24 October 1958 in Saint-Clément-des-Baleines) was a French novelist and journalist. He was sentenced to death -later commuted to life imprisonment- for collaboration with the Germans, in 1945. ![]()
Biography of Saint-Pol-Roux (excerpt)
Paul-Pierre Roux, best known as Saint-Pol-Roux, born January 15, 1861 in Marseille, died October 18, 1940 in Brest, was a French symbolist poet. Works (extract) Sous le nom de Paul Roux Maman!, Ollendorff, 1883 Garçon d'honneur, Ollendorff, 1883 Le Počte, Ghio, 1883
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Biography of Cesare Polacco (excerpt)
Cesare Polacco, born May 14, 1900 ni Venice, died March 2, 1986 in Rome, was an Italian actor and voice actor. Filmography (extract) * Teresa Confalonieri, regia di Guido Brignone (1934) * Freccia d'oro, regia di Corrado D'Errico (1935)
Biography of Thomas Thomson (excerpt)
Thomas Thomson, born December 8, 1889 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish ecclesiastic, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Chaplin to the Queen.
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Biography of Alfredo Casella (excerpt)
Alfredo Casella (Turin, July 25, 1883 - Rome, March 5, 1947) was an Italian composer. Life The Casella family included a good many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin.
Biography of Heinrich Daath (excerpt)
Heinrich Daath, born September 19, 1872 in Peterborough, was a British author and astrologer, author of Medical Astrology. ![]()
Biography of Marius Jacob (excerpt)
Alexandre Jacob (September 27, 1879 – August 28, 1954), known as Marius Jacob, was a French anarchist illegalist. A clever burglar equipped with a sharp sense of humour, capable of great generosity towards his victims, he became one of the models for Maurice Leblanc's character Arsene Lupin.
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Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
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".
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Biography of Elsie Inglis (excerpt)
Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist. She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to a father who worked in the Indian civil service.She had the good fortune to have relatively enlightened parents for the time who considered the education of a daughter as important as that of the son. ![]()
Biography of Henry Potez (excerpt)
Potez was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919. The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus SEA IV aircraft, but was soon building new examples of an improved version, the Potez VII. During the inter-war years, Potez built a range of small passenger aircraft and a series of military reconnaissance biplanes that were also licence-built in Poland. ![]()
Biography of Henri Ziegler (excerpt)
Henri Ziegler (18 November, 1906 in Limoges – 24 July, 1998, in Paris) was one of the founders of Airbus and its first president. A Polytechnic engineer and graduate of “Sup’Aéro” (the national aerospace engineering school) as well as a French air force officer and test pilot, he was a founding father of Airbus Industrie (along with Roger Béteille and Felix Kracht) and became its first CEO.
Biography of Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (excerpt)
Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988) was born Janet Lee in Lochgelly, Scotland The daughter of a miner (who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel), she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). ![]()
Biography of Daniel-Rops (excerpt)
Henri Daniel-Rops (Épinal, January 19, 1901 - Aix-les-Bains, July 27, 1965), French writer and historian whose real name was Henri Petiot. Early life He was the son of a military officer.Daniel-Rops was a student of the Faculty of Law and Literature in Grenoble. ![]()
Biography of Julien Benda (excerpt)
Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. Born into a Jewish family, Benda became a master of French belles-lettres.Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry. ![]()
Biography of Henri Cochet (excerpt)
Henri Jean Cochet (14 December 1901 – 1 April 1987) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Born in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, France, Cochet won eight Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships, failing to win only in Australia. ![]()
Biography of Bennett Cerf (excerpt)
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line.
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Biography of Paul Ramadier (excerpt)
Paul Ramadier (March 17, 1888, La Rochelle (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - October 14, 1961) was a prominent French Socialist politician of the Third and Fourth Republics.Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947.
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Biography of Robert Le Vigan (excerpt)
Robert Le Vigan, born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud January 7, 1900 in Paris 18e (birth time source: Évelyne Lucas, birth certificate) and die October 12, 1972 in Tandi, Argentina, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) # Ley del mar (1952) .Rafael # Rio turbio (1952) .
Biography of Rudolf Carnap (excerpt)
Rudolf Carnap (Wuppertal, May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Adam (excerpt)
Wilhelm Adam (September 15, 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served as chief of staff for the Reichswehr in the period before Adolf Hitler. Adam was born on in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907. ![]()
Biography of Rockwell Kent (excerpt)
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882–March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.Kent lived much of his early life in and around New York City, and moved in his mid-40s to an Adirondack farmstead that he called Asgaard where he lived and painted until his death. ![]()
Biography of Hans Bethe (excerpt)
ans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and particle astrophysics. ![]()
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film. ![]()
Biography of Oliver Lodge (excerpt)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph.Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer." He gained the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office in 1898. ![]()
Biography of Vincent Astor (excerpt)
William Vincent Astor (November 15, 1891 - February 3, 1959) was a businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family. Early life Called Vincent, he was born in the Fifth Avenue mansion where his grandmother Caroline Astor reigned over American society.
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Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist.He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923.From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Frick (excerpt)
Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi official, serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich.After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes. Early life and family Frick was born in Königsberg, Bavaria, Germany, the last of four children of teacher Wilhelm Frick the elder and his wife Henriette (née Schmidt). ![]()
Biography of James Forrestal (excerpt)
James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers.In 1954, the Navy's first supercarrier was named the USS Forrestal in his honor, as is the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy.
Biography of Auguste Louis Fauchard (excerpt)
August Louis Fauchard, born March 5, 1881, was a French organist and composer.
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Biography of Jan Christiaan Smuts (excerpt)
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher.In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948.
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Biography of Claude Aveline (excerpt)
Claude Aveline, born Evgen Avtsine July 19, 1901 in Paris and died November 4, 1992 in Paris, was a French writer, poet and a member of The French Resistance. |
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