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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Édouard Cortès (excerpt)
Edouard Léon Cortès (1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – 1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Biography of Nathanael West (excerpt)
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Huat (excerpt)
Eugène Huat (born 8 February 1907 in Reims (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 305)) was a French boxer who was champion of France and Europe at flyweight, and fought four times for world titles at bantamweight. He finished with a record of 80 wins, 44 defeats, and 9 draws.
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Biography of Henri Sellier (excerpt)
Henri Charles Sellier (22 December 1883 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 November 1943) was a French administrator, urban planner and Socialist politician. He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region. He was Minister of Health in 1936–37. ![]()
Biography of Albin Michel (editor) (excerpt)
Albin Michel, born on July 29, 1873 in Bourmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 2, 1943 in Bourg-la-Reine, is a French editor, the founder, in 1900, of Éditions Albin Michel, a French publisher. ![]()
Biography of Hilda Nilsson (excerpt)
Hilda Nilsson (24 May 1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers. In 1917, she was imprisoned for murdering eight children.
Biography of Paul Huvelin (excerpt)
Paul Huvelin, born on July 22, 1902 in Chorey-les-Beaune (Côte-d'Or), died in October 1995, was a French entrepreneur and syndicalist. He was the President of The Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF) between 1966 and 1972. ![]()
Biography of Marthe Borély (excerpt)
Marthe Borely, born Marthe Trial on July 16, 1880 in Sommières (source for her birth time: FDAF, birth certificate n° 39) and died December 27, 1955 in Toulouse, is a woman of letters and literary critic French.
Biography of Paul Angoulvent (excerpt)
Paul-Joseph Angoulvent, born on April 21, 1899 in Le Mans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 27, 1976 near Auxerre, was a French curator and editor. He was the manager of Presses universitaires de France (PUF, English: University Press of France), the largest French university publishing house.
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Biography of Faina Ranevskaya (excerpt)
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
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Biography of Luigi Russolo (excerpt)
Luigi Russolo (30 April 1885 – 6 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of noise music concerts in 1913–14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Rochas (excerpt)
Marcel (Louis Jules) Rochas, born on February 24, 1902 in Paris 11e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 14, 1955 in Paris 7e, was a French fashion designer and perfumer, the founder of Rochas, a fashion, beauty, and perfume house.
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Biography of Noël Gallon (excerpt)
Noël Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911). ![]()
Biography of Buenaventura Durruti (excerpt)
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 (birth time source: the book "Durruti en la Revolución Española", by Abel Paz (pseudonym of the writer and historian Diego Camacho, page 48) – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT, FAI and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Henri Ey (excerpt)
Henri Ey (10 August 1900, Banyuls-dels-Aspres – 8 November 1977, Banyuls-dels-Aspres) was a French neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. Ey developed an "organodynamic psychology" and a theory of the structure of states of consciousness, in which he developed ideas of Pierre Janet and John Hughlings Jackson.
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Biography of Karl Liebknecht (excerpt)
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist, originally in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany which split way from the SPD. ![]()
Biography of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (excerpt)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (10 January 1883 (O.S. 29 December 1882) – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels. During World War II he served on the Extraordinary State Commission of 1942-1947 which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
Biography of Georges Jouatte (excerpt)
Georges Jouatte (17 June 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 February 1969) was a 20th-century French operatic singer (tenor) and singing professor. Jouatte was born in Villefagnan (Charente). Just after World War I, he began his career as a dancer at the Casino de Paris in order to finance his singing studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Biography of Suzanne Lacore (excerpt)
Suzanne Lacore was a French politician representing the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International). She was born on 30 May 1875 in Beyssac (Corrèze, France)(birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 28); she died on 6 November 1975 in Milhac d'Auberoche (Dordogne, France).
Biography of François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (excerpt)
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (June 4, 1864 – 1945) was a French architect. Chaussemiche was born in Tours, and in 1883 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a student and later colleague of Victor Laloux. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1893, and served as chief architect of the Palace of Versailles from 1917-1924, during which time he created the Parc botanique de Jussieu (now the Arboretum de Chèvreloup).
Biography of Jacques Draeger (excerpt)
Jacques Draeger, born on October 18, 1903 in Montrouge (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 12, 2002 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French editor. ![]()
Biography of Leopoldo Alas (excerpt)
Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice.
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Biography of Max Aub (excerpt)
Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
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Biography of Ion Antonescu (excerpt)
Ion Antonescu (14 June (O.S. 2 June) 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. After the war, he was executed. ![]()
Biography of Reinhold Glière (excerpt)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; 11 January 1875 (O.S. 30 December 1874) – 23 June 1956), was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian composer, of German and Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an 'associated' member of the circle around the Petersburg publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, it appeared Glière was destined to be a chamber musician. ![]()
Biography of Iulia Hasdeu (excerpt)
Iulia Hasdeu (Romanian pronunciation: ; 14 November 1869 in Bucharest – 29 September 1888 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. From a very young age, Hasdeu wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and French, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and opera singing.
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Biography of Luis Cernuda (excerpt)
Luis Cernuda (born Luis Cernuda Bidón September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life.
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Biography of Georges Wybo (excerpt)
Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo (11 October 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1943) was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hôtel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain. ![]()
Biography of Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (excerpt)
Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (May 23, 1905, Zamora – October 29, 1936, Aravaca, Madrid) was a Spanish national syndicalist politician, essayist, and journalist. Ramiro Ledesma was one of the key figures of Francoist propaganda. His admiration for National Socialism, brought him to imitate Adolf Hitler's hairstyle. ![]()
Biography of Eileen Agar (excerpt)
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1911, the Agar family, Scottish father and American mother, left Argentina for London where Eileen enrolled in the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1919, then in the Underwood School of Painting and sculpture. ![]()
Biography of Conrad Aiken (excerpt)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. Named poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature. ![]()
Biography of Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
Biography of Louis Arretche (excerpt)
Louis Gerald Arretche, born on August 13, 105 in Saint-Justin (Landes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate. Wikipedia gives August 12)), died on December 20, 1991 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa. ![]()
Biography of Asik Veysel (excerpt)
Âşık Veysel (born Veysel Şatıroğlu; 25 October 1894 – 21 March 1973) was a Turkish ashik and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, in the province of Sivas. ![]()
Biography of Vera Menchik (excerpt)
Vera Frantsevna Menchik (1 March (Gregorian calendar) (16 February Julian calendar) 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who became the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
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Biography of Mehmet Akif Ersoy (excerpt)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was an Ottoman-born Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language, as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence.
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Biography of Pyotr Pavlenko (excerpt)
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Павле́нко), (born July 11, 1899, in St. Petersburg; died June 16, 1951, in Moscow), was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920. He was part of the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey from 1924 to 1927. ![]()
Biography of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (excerpt)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946. ![]()
Biography of Walter Gropius (excerpt)
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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Biography of Vsevolod Vishnevsky (excerpt)
Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky (Russian: Все́волод Вита́льевич Вишне́вский, December 21 (O.S. December 8) 1900 – February 28, 1951) was a Soviet dramatist and prose writer. He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet.
Biography of Louise Saumoneau (excerpt)
Louise Saumoneau (17 December 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 759) – 23 February 1950) was a French feminist who later renounced feminism as being irrelevant to the class struggle. She became a union leader and a prominent socialist. ![]()
Biography of Susanne Langer (excerpt)
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie Cotton (excerpt)
Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 27)– 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961. ![]()
Biography of Mikhail Astangov (excerpt)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov (Ружников) (3 November (O.S. 21 October) 1900 in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Selected filmography The Oppenheim Family (1939)
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Biography of Natalia Paley (excerpt)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II.
Biography of Lela Karagianni (excerpt)
Eleni "Lela" Karagianni also written Karayanni (24 June 1898 (6 July Gregorian calendar) - 8 September 1944) was a Greek resistance leader during World War II. The wife of an Attican pharmacist and the mother of seven children, Karagianni worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces.
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Biography of Alexey Dushkin (excerpt)
Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (6 January 1904 (24 December 1904 julian calendar) – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and is also noted for his Red Gate Building, one of the Seven Sisters.
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Biography of Lyubov Orlova (excerpt)
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (Russian: Любо́вь Петро́вна Орло́ва; 11 February (O.S. 29 January) 1902, Zvenigorod – 26 January 1975, Moscow) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, a famous theatre actress, and a gifted singer. When she was seven, Fyodor Shalyapin predicted her future as a famous actress. ![]()
Biography of Anita Berber (excerpt)
Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, model, and actress who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Berber's dances – which had names such as "Cocaine" and "Morphium" – broke boundaries with their androgyny and total nudity, but it was her public appearances that really challenged social taboos. |
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