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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 Johannes R. Becher (excerpt)
Johannes Robert Becher (22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style.
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Biography of Yevgeny Brusilovsky (excerpt)
Yevgeny Grigorievich Brusilovsky (12 November (O.S. 30 October) 1905 – 9 May 1981) was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR.
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Biography of Pierre Bonny (excerpt)
Pierre Bonny (25 January 1895 – 26 December 1944) was a corrupt French police officer. As an inspector, he was the investigating officer in the 1923 Seznec case, and was accused of falsifying the evidence. He was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934.
Biography of Carl Ebert (excerpt)
Carl Anton Charles Ebert (20 February 1887 – 14 May 1980), was an actor, stage director and arts administrator. Ebert's early career was as an actor, training under Max Reinhardt and becoming one of the leading actors in his native Germany during the 1920s.
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Biography of Gabriele Rohde (excerpt)
Gabriele Rohde (7 September 1904 – 5 April 1946) was a Danish League of Nations official in the 1930s and, during the Second World War, a member of the Danish Council (Det danske Råd) in London. She provided strong support in particular for Danish seafarers, creating a seamen's club in Newcastle.
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Biography of Hans Kammler (excerpt)
Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret weapons programmes. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and jet programmes towards the end of World War II. ![]()
Biography of La Argentinita (excerpt)
Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945), was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expression of this art form during that time.
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Biography of Matilde Moisant (excerpt)
Matilde Josephine Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964) was an American pioneer aviator. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license. Moisant learned to fly at Alfred's Moisant Aviation School on Long Island, New York.
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Biography of Camillo Berneri (excerpt)
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; May 20 (according to his Italian Wikipedia page), 1897, Lodi – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. He was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliana Berneri, all of whom were also anarchists.
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Biography of Ruth Page (ballerina) (excerpt)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 – April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman.
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Biography of Alfred Michaux (excerpt)
Alfred Michaux, born July 5, 1859 in Clenleu in Pas-de-Calais and died March 26, 1937 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French lawyer and Esperantist. Passionate about linguistics, he studies the artificial language at the base of the development of constructed languages. He first turned to the neo-Latin language of E.
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Biography of Auguste Daum (excerpt)
Jean Louis Auguste Daum (1853 in Bitche – 1909 in Nancy) was a French ceramist, in glass. He was one of the founder members of École de Nancy and the director of Daum studio. He was the son of Jean Daum, brother of Antonin Daum and father of Léon Daum.
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Biography of Julian Bell (excerpt)
Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister.
Biography of Kata Pejnovic (excerpt)
Kata Pejnović, née Bogić (21 March 1899 – 1966), was a Yugoslav feminist and politician. Life Kata Pejnović was born on 21 March 1899 in the village of Smiljan in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a poor Serbian family.
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Biography of Mathilde de Morny (excerpt)
Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. Morny was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim" (an anagram of Missy), or as "Max", "Uncle Max" (French: Oncle Max), or "Monsieur le Marquis". ![]()
Biography of Reginald Denny (actor) (excerpt)
Reginald Leigh Dugmore (20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967), known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer. Denny was a well-known actor in silent films, and with the advent of talkies he became a character actor.
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Biography of Hans Beimler (communist) (excerpt)
Hans Beimler (2 July 1895 – 1 December 1936) was a trade unionist, Communist-Party official, deputy in the 1933 Reichstag, an outspoken opponent of the Nazis and a volunteer in the international brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic. Hans Beimler was granted national hero status in the German Democratic Republic, with military divisions, ships, factories, schools and streets named in his honour.
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Biography of Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (excerpt)
Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (13 May 1887 in Tecuci – 29 March 1929 in Bucharest) was the first woman aviator in Romania. Her first flight occurred in 1912, accompanied by her horse riding instructor Mircea Zorileanu, and her no 1591 license was achieved from the International Aeronautical Federation, in 1914, in France.
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Biography of Lena Christ (excerpt)
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 1881 – 30 June 1920) was a German writer. In 1913 she wrote the book Lausdirndlgeschichten (naughty girl stories), also composed of memories from her childhood. Thoma criticized her for it and saw it as a rip-off of his Lausbubengeschichten (naughty boy stories).
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Biography of Minta Durfee (excerpt)
Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee (October 1, 1889 – September 9, 1975) was an American silent film actress from Los Angeles, California, possibly best known for her role in Mickey (1918). She met Roscoe Arbuckle when he was attempting to get started in theater, and the two married in August 1908. ![]()
Biography of Annette Kolb (excerpt)
Annette Kolb (pseudonym of Anna Mathilde Kolb; born February 3, 1870 in Munich; died December 3, 1967 in Munich) was a German author and pacifist. She became active in pacifist causes during World War I and this caused her political difficulties from then on.
Biography of Léon Bernard (excerpt)
Léon-Constant-Jean Bernard is a French actor born February 26, 1877 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on November 20, 1935.
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Biography of María Bernaldo de Quirós (excerpt)
María Salud Bernaldo de Quirós (26 March 1898 – 26 September 1983) was the first woman in Spain to earn a pilot's licence, passing her test in early October 1928 and receiving the licence from the Escuela Nacional Aeronáutica (National Aeronautical School) on the following 24 November. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Cartier (jeweller) (excerpt)
Pierre Camille Cartier was born March 10, 1878 and died October 27, 1964. Grandson of Louis-François Cartier, he is the founder of the London and New York branches of the Cartier house. Family Pierre is the son of Alfred Cartier (1841-1925) and the grandson of Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904).
Biography of Paul Gadenne (excerpt)
Paul Gadenne, born in Armentières (Nord) on April 4, 1907 and died in Cambo-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on May 1, 1956 (aged 49), is a French writer. Tuberculosis forced him in 1933 to interrupt his teaching career. He then spent long months at the Praz-Coutant sanatorium located near Sallanches in Haute-Savoie.
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Biography of Ludwig Rubiner (excerpt)
Ludwig Rubiner (12 June 1881 - 27 February 1920) was a German poet, literary critic and essayist, generally seen as a representative of the expressionist movement that originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. His most important works include a manifesto entitled, "Der Dichter greift in die Politik" ("The poet engages in politics", 1912) and a stage-drama, "Die Gewaltlosen" ("Men of non-violence", 1919), which he dedicated to "dem Kameraden, meiner Frau Frida" (loosely, "My comrade wife Frida").
Biography of Pierrette Caillol (excerpt)
Pierrette Emmanuelle Caillol is a French actress, born in Marseille on July 17, 1898 and died in Nice on June 8, 1991. She is the sister of actress Paulette Ray (1902-1987). Filmography (selection) 1947 : Une mort sans importance d'Yvan Noé 1948 : Bagarres d'Henri Calef : Mme Leroux
Biography of Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (excerpt)
Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (5 June 1901 – 29 August 1941) was a French Navy officer and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance, said to be the "first martyr of Free France". Role in Occupied France D'Estienne d'Orves was codenamed "Jean-Pierre Girard".
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Biography of Charlotte von Pazatka (excerpt)
Charlotte Margarethe von Pazatka-Lipinski, married Baluschek (November 18, 1878 in Berlin - April 28, 1969 there) was a German theater actress. ![]()
Biography of Emily Hahn (excerpt)
Emily "Mickey" Hahn (January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories.
Biography of Jean de Milleret (excerpt)
Jean de Milleret, known as "Carnot" (but also "Marnac", "Martel", "Jacomy"), born March 19, 1908 in Montauban, died January 10, 1980 in Buenos Aires, is a French soldier and resistance fighter, historian and biographer.
Biography of Erwin Anton Gutkind (excerpt)
Erwin Anton Gutkind (May 20, 1886, Berlin – 7 August 1968, Philadelphia), was a German-Jewish architect and city planner, who left Berlin in 1935 for Paris, London and then Philadelphia, where he became a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Biography of Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean de Goislard de Monsabert (Libourne 30 September 1887 – Dax, 13 June 1981), was a French general who served during the Second World War. Monument to the memory of General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert dedicated on 8 July 1985, in the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Bordeaux, France ![]()
Biography of Hans Emmenegger (artist) (excerpt)
Hans Emmenegger, born August 19, 1866 in Küssnacht and died September 21, 1940 in Lucerne, is a Swiss painter, designer, engraver and philatelist. He studied at the Lucerne School of Fine Arts then in Paris where he was a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian then of Jean-Léon Gérôme before doing an internship in Munich with Karl Raupp and returning in Paris where he works with Benjamin Constant and Lucien Doucet.
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Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers".
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Biography of Yvonne Chollet (excerpt)
Yvonne Chollet (1897–1945) was a teacher in Vendôme, France, who surveilled the movement of German equipment on behalf of the French Resistance and reported her findings to Allied forces during World War II. Arrested by the Gestapo in May 1943, she was imprisoned at Blois, Orléans, Romainville, and Compiègne before being deported to the Nazi concentration camp near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel) in northern Germany, where she survived barely a year. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Cidor-Citroën (excerpt)
Ruth Cidor-Citroën (born Franziska-Margarete Vallentin November 25, 1906 in Berlin; died February 26, 2002 in Jerusalem) was a German-Israeli artist. ![]()
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant. ![]()
Biography of Maximilien Kolbe (excerpt)
Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
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Biography of Karl Kraus (writer) (excerpt)
Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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Biography of Erich Mühsam (excerpt)
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served 5 years in prison.
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Biography of Robert Cami (excerpt)
Robert Cami, born January 1, 1900 in Bordeaux and died January 12, 1975 in Paris (or in Sermaise (Essonne) according to certain sources including INSEE), is a draftsman, engraver (burinist, etcher and wood engraver), engraver medals and French stamps. Although rarely said to be a painter, he was also so, notably through the important work on zinc which won him a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
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Biography of Antonin Daum (excerpt)
Born Jean Antonin Daum in Bitche on October 30, 1864 and died in Nancy on March 28, 1930, son of Jean Daum, Antonin Daum is a French master glassmaker, engineer and entrepreneur, founder with his brother Auguste of the Daum crystal factory.
Biography of Francesco von Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Francesco von Mendelssohn (born Franz von Mendelssohn; 6 September 1901 – 22 September 1972) was a German cellist and art collector. He also became known during the 1920s as a stage actor and theater director. He acquired additional notability with a lifestyle that some found eccentric.
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Biography of Henriëtte Pimentel (excerpt)
Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel (17 April 1876 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied. Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families.
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Biography of Simon Maris (excerpt)
Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873, The Hague - January 22, 1935, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist. He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School. Maris was a well-known figure in Amsterdam artist circles around 1900.
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Biography of Roland Caillaux (excerpt)
Roland Raymond Ferdinand Caillaud (January 5, 1905 – December 3, 1977) – known professionally as Roland Caillaux, and sometimes using the pseudonym Roland Caipland – was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century.
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Biography of Vincenzo Cardarelli (excerpt)
Vincenzo Cardarelli, pseudonym of Nazareno Caldarelli (1 May 1887 – 18 June 1959) was an Italian poet and journalist. Cardarelli was born in Corneto, Lazio, in a family of Marche origin. His father was Antonio Romagnoli. His studies were irregular and he applied to different jobs.
Biography of Georges Chevalier (artist) (excerpt)
Georges Chevalier, born July 12, 1894 in Ivry-sur-Seine, died in 1987, was a French artist, designer of glassware. He was notably artistic director at Baccarat.
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Biography of Georgie Raoul-Duval (excerpt)
Jeannie Urquhart or Georgie Raoul–Duval (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite. She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with Colette and Colette's husband Henry Gauthier–Villars. Early life Urquhart was born in the 16th arrondissement in Paris, France during one of the frequent travels of American merchant David Urquhart and his wife Augusta (née Slocomb). |
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