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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 Günther Krupkat (excerpt)
Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905, Berlin – 14 April 1990, Berlin) was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany. He wrote his first novel, Od, at age 19, having been inspired by Soviet writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1923 novel Aelita.
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Biography of Willem Drees (excerpt)
Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
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Biography of Park Kyung-won (excerpt)
Park Kyung-won (24 June 1901 – 7 August 1933) was, along with Kwon Ki-ok of the Republic of China Air Force, one of the earliest Korean female aviators.Though it is generally agreed that Kwon was the first female pilot, Park is still recognised as the first Korean female civilian pilot, as Kwon was trained by the Republic of China Air Force.
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Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator.He and Clarence D.Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air.He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
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Biography of Camilla Horn (excerpt)
Camilla Horn (25 April 1906 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.
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Biography of Dorothy Wrinch (excerpt)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.
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Biography of Maurice Holtzer (excerpt)
Maurice Holtzer is a French boxer born in Troyes on January 21, 1906 (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 67) and died in January 1960. He was particularly champion of France and Europe in the featherweight category in 1936.
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Biography of Randolfo Pacciardi (excerpt)
Randolfo Pacciardi (1 January 1899 – 14 April 1991) was an Italian politician and journalist, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI).He was also an officer who fought during World War I and in the Spanish Civil War. Pacciardi's line of collaboration with the other left parties led to the entrance of PRI in the first Republic government cabinets of Italy (1947).
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Biography of Lev Mekhlis (excerpt)
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (January 13, 1889 (gregrorian calendar) – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and high commander of the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the main Stavka representatives during World War II who was responsible for five to seven Soviet fronts.
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Biography of Léo Daniderff (excerpt)
Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 15 February 1878 in Angers, France (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a foxtrot-shimmy named "Je cherche après Titine" (lyrics by Louis Mauban and Marcel Bertal), became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin's singing it in gibberish in Modern Times (1936), especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies and Chaplin did not want The Tramp to use any particular language. ![]()
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
Biography of Jean Gilles (French Army officer) (excerpt)
Jean Marcellin Joseph Calixte Gilles (14 October 1904 – 10 August 1961) was a French Army General. He was born in Perpignan, France on 14 October 1904. His father, Joseph Gilles, was killed in the First World War. Gilles took part in the capture of Elba in June 1944 and then landed in Provence and with 1re armée française (1st French Army), participated in the liberation of southern and eastern France and the 1945 campaign into Germany.
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Biography of Mikhail Yanshin (excerpt)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (2 November (20 October O.S.) 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast.As a young man he worked as a carpenter.
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Biography of Isaak Dunayevsky (excerpt)
Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January (O.S. 18 January) 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.
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Biography of Willy Birgel (excerpt)
Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate, Arno Müller, vol 2) – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a German theatre and film actor. Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to movies rather late. ![]()
Biography of Robert Walser (writer) (excerpt)
Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer. Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka."Indeed", writes Susan Sontag, "at the time , it was more likely to be Kafka through the prism of Walser".
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Biography of Artem Mikoyan (excerpt)
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan (5 August (O.S. 23 July) 1905 – 9 December 1970) was a Soviet Armenian aircraft designer, who cofounded the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau along with Mikhail Gurevich. Honours and awards Some of his awards and honours include: Twice Hero of Socialist Labour
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Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (excerpt)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; 4 December (O.S.22 November) 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group. He began writing poetry early; his first collection, Orda (The Horde, 1922), "shows startling maturity" and "contains most of the few short poems which have made him famous." After 1922 he devoted himself to traveling and writing, and his later work, both verse (the collection Ten' druga, or The Shadow of a Friend, 1936) and prose (many adventure stories and the novel Voina, or War, 1931) reflects his delight in what he found in his travels, particularly in Georgia.
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Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician.In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Elsa Andersson (aviation pioneer) (excerpt)
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922 (age 24)) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside.Her mother died when she was aged six. ![]()
Biography of Hasan Âli Yücel (excerpt)
Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 in Istanbul – 26 February 1961) was a Turkish writer, teacher and politician who served as Minister of National Education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946.He is remembered for his reforms of the education system, and the foundation of Village Institutes. ![]()
Biography of Igor Tamm (excerpt)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. In 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF.
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Biography of Camille Marbo (excerpt)
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo (11 April 1883 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 103) – 5 February 1969) née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
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Biography of Valeska Gert (excerpt)
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement.
Biography of Violet Brown (excerpt)
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017.
Biography of Vasily Chapayev (excerpt)
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чапа́ев; February 9 1887 – September 5, 1919) was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St.
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Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory.He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
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Biography of Thérèse Adloff (excerpt)
Thérèse Adloff (born Thérèse Maria Chaudron 10 November 1904 in Badonviller, Meurthe-et-Moselle, died 4 December 2005 in Oberhausbergen, Bas-Rhin) was a member of the French Resistance in World War II who helped people evade the Nazis. World War I have made a lasting impression, she joined the resistance movement and, from the beginning of German occupation, provided shelter and support for hundreds of people evading the concentration camps. ![]()
Biography of Maude Bonney (excerpt)
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born British aviator.She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to the UK. In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler, Harry Barrington Bonney's first cousin once removed and a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
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Biography of Ole Kirk Christiansen (excerpt)
Ole Kirk Christiansen (7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958) was a Danish carpenter. In 1932, he founded the construction toy company The Lego Group. Over the course of his working life, Christiansen developed his business from a small wood-working shop that sold household products into a wooden toy manufacturer.
Biography of Bess Houdini (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a.
Biography of Ilya Kopalin (excerpt)
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900-1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries.His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight. He was born the son of a peasant on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow. ![]()
Biography of L. Frank Baum (excerpt)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
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Biography of Louis Ganne (excerpt)
Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S.11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer.He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope. ![]()
Biography of Nikolay Okhlopkov (excerpt)
Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (15 May 1900 (gregorian calendar) – 8 January 1967), was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold. Okhlopkov was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918. Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company. ![]()
Biography of Boris Polevoy (excerpt)
Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (or Polevoi) (17 March (O.S. 4 March) 1908 – 12 July 1981) was a Soviet writer and journalist. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresev.
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Biography of Jacques Pills (excerpt)
Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 7 January 1906, Tulle, France – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor.His impresario was Bruno Coquatrix.In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Mon ami Pierrot". ![]()
Biography of Mikhail Koltsov (excerpt)
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (June 12 (O.S.May 31) 1898 – February 2, 1940), born Moisey Haimovich Fridlyand (Russian: Моисей Хаимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet Journalist, Bolshevik Revolutionary and a NKVD Agent. On 19 December 1937, Mikhail Koltsov published an article criticizing some aspects of the purges.
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Biography of Emilio Pujol (excerpt)
Emili Pujol Vilarrubí (10 September 1886 – 21 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar. Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain.He began his studies with Francisco Tárrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age.
Biography of Eugénie Dauzat (excerpt)
Eugénie Dauzat, born Eugénie Licheron on December 6, 1900 in Neuville (Puy-de-Dôme)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 9) and died January 12, 2013 in Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme), aged 112 years and 37 days, is a supercentenaire, wrongly considered as the oldest of the French, twice.
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Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
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Biography of Fyodor Sergeyev (excerpt)
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic. ![]()
Biography of Jean Hyppolite (excerpt)
Jean Hyppolite (January 8, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 26, 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. ![]()
Biography of Mildred Harnack (excerpt)
Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack (née Fish; 16 September 1902 – 16 February 1943) was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Together with her husband Arvid, the writer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the National Socialists' expected downfall or overthrow.
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Biography of Charles Bickford (excerpt)
Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948).
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Biography of Lise de Baissac (excerpt)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality.She was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
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Biography of Erwin Geschonneck (excerpt)
Erwin Geschonneck (27 December 1906 – 12 March 2008) was a German actor.His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Immediately following the war, Geschonneck acted in theaters in Hamburg, Germany, and made his film debut in 1947 in In jenen Tagen. ![]()
Biography of Léa Roback (excerpt)
Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice. A polyglot and a suffragist, she was a pioneer of feminism in Quebec. A Syndicalist, Communist and a Marxist, she opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal. |
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