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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. in ![]()
Biography of Edmond Locard (excerpt)
Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle.
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.
Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years.
Biography of Georges Béjot (excerpt)
Georges Stanislas Jean Béjot, born August 23, 1896 in Besançon and died July 25, 1987 in Reims, is auxiliary bishop of Besançon then of Reims and personality of social Catholicism.
Biography of Paule Andral (excerpt)
Paule Andral (14 September 1879 – 28 March 1956) was a French actress. Andral was born Paule Roucole in Paris and died in Nice in 1956. Selected filmography Tarakanova (1930) David Golder (1931) The Rebel (1931) The Beautiful Adventure (1932) Imperial Violets (1932) The Star of Valencia (1933) The Little King (1933)
Biography of Pavel Florensky (excerpt)
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P.A.Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism.
Biography of Ernest Bloch (excerpt)
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.
Biography of Thérèse Peltier (excerpt)
Thérèse Peltier (26 September 1873 – 18 February 1926), born Thérèse Juliette Cochet, was a French sculptor and early aviation pioneer.Popularly believed to have been the first ever female passenger in an airplane, she may also have been the first woman to pilot an aircraft.
Biography of Antoine Béthouart (excerpt)
Marie Émile Antoine Béthouart (17 December 1889 – 17 October 1982) was a French Army general who served during World War I and World War II. Born in Dole, Jura, in the Jura Mountains, Béthouart graduated from Saint-Cyr military academy and served as a platoon leader in the 159th Alpine Infantry Regiment during World War I.
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 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 Käthe Krauss (excerpt)
Katharina "Käthe" Anna Krauß (sometimes spelled Krauss; 29 November 1906 – 9 January 1970) was a German track and field athlete, who won three gold medals at the 1934 Women's World Games in London and a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she was also on the German 4 × 100 m relay team.
Biography of Étienne Borne (excerpt)
Étienne Vincent Borne (January 22, 1907 – June 14, 1993) was born in Manduel (Gard). He was a professor of philosophy Hypokhâgne at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Étienne Borne founded the Mouvement republicain populaire (MRP), and the French Christian Democratic Party. He was a columnist in the newspaper La Croix.
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.
Biography of Katherine Stinson (excerpt)
Katherine Stinson (February 14, 1891 – July 8, 1977) was a pioneering American aviator.She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. After she received her certificate, Stinson and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, an area with an ideal climate for flying.
Biography of Paul Klimsch (excerpt)
Hans Paul Klimsch (15 June 1868 in Frankfurt – 4 June 1917) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes and animals.He was one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style. Paul Klimschs family founded the engineering company Klimsch & Co, his parents were the artist Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch and Anna Helena Burkhard.
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.
Biography of Jane Winton (excerpt)
Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter. Actress During the 1920s, she began her stage career as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies.After coming to the West Coast, Winton became known as "the green-eyed goddess of Hollywood".
Biography of Dorothea Klumpke (excerpt)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Biography of Clotilde von Derp (excerpt)
Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz (5 November 1892 – 11 January 1974), known professionally as Clotilde von Derp, was a German expressionist dancer, an early exponent of modern dance. Her career was spent essentially dancing together with her husband Alexander Sakharoff with whom she enjoyed a long-lasting relationship.
Biography of Georges Henri Rivière (excerpt)
Georges-Henri Rivière (5 June 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 March 1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of Documents, to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Bergère’” (1930, issue 4), and profiles on jazz musicians such as Eddie South and Hayman Swayze.
Biography of Jacques Cartier (jeweler) (excerpt)
Jacques-Théodule Cartier (2 February 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a French jeweler and Cartier jewelry company executive. Career Jacques worked with his two older brothers to create the world-famous name and business, 'Cartier', in jewellery and watches.While Jacques opened and managed the store in London, Pierre managed the store in New York City.
Biography of Esther Hill (excerpt)
Esther Marjorie Hill (May 29, 1895 – January 7, 1985) was a Canadian architect and the first woman to graduate in architecture from the University of Toronto (1920). Career Hill struggled during her early career because of her gender.Backlash was felt from men in the architecture business, and opportunities were lacking for Hill.
Biography of August Momber (excerpt)
August Momber (born May 16, 1886 in Danzig, † May 17, 1969 in Karlsruhe) was a German actor and director.He was a student of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.Momber worked as a lecturer at the theater college in Leipzig, among others.
Biography of Pierre Le Flaouter (excerpt)
Pierre Le Flaouter, born March 17, 1884 in Lorient (Morbihan), died June 1, 1981 in Vertou (Loire-Atlantique), was a postman, worker, bookseller, showman, trade unionist, and French anarchist. He was one of the protagonists of the Philippe Daudet affair which, in 1923-1925, hit the headlines.
Biography of Gabriel Astruc (excerpt)
Gabriel Astruc (14 March 1864 – 7 July 1938) was a French journalist, agent, promoter, theatre manager, theatrical impresario, and playwright whose career connects many of the best-known incidents and personalities of Belle Epoque Paris. Born in Bordeaux, to the Astruc family, he was the son of Élie Aristide Astruc (1831–1905), the Grand Rabbi of Belgium from 1866–1879, and began his career working for publisher Paul Ollendorff, and as a columnist from 1885 through 1895.
Biography of Vladimir Pozner (excerpt)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (Russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent.His family fled the pogroms to take up residence in France.Pozner expanded on his inherited cultural socialism to associate both in writing and politics with anti-fascist and communist groups in the inter-war period.
Biography of Annie Jump Cannon (excerpt)
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.With Edward C.Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types.
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 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.
Biography of Jan Voerman (excerpt)
Jan Voerman (25 January 1857 – 25 March 1941), also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a Dutch painter. Personal life Voerman was born in Kampen and died in Hattem. Voerman studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (English: State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp under Charles Verlat.
Biography of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (excerpt)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich.He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919–24 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack.
Biography of La Argentina (dancer) (excerpt)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She was one of the major influences on Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Biography of Jeanne Fontaine (excerpt)
Jeanne Antoinette Fontaine (born Lagrue on August 29, 1897 in Génelard and died on March 5, 1994 in Villepinte), was a French flight attendant, co-pilot and administrator.
Biography of Albert Londe (excerpt)
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography.
Biography of Victoria Ocampo (excerpt)
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 (her birth time had been displayed on the Spanish Wikipedia, without an original source.) – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual.Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
Biography of Paulin Colonna d'Istria (excerpt)
Paulin Colonna d'Istria (Petreto-Bicchisano en Corse, July 27, 1905 - Toulon, June 4, 1982) is a French soldier, Gendarmerie officer, Companion of the Liberation, who played an important role in the liberation of Corsica in 1943.
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.
Biography of Henri Le Fauconnier (excerpt)
Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings.
Biography of Sergei Bulgakov (excerpt)
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков; 28 July (O.S. 16 July) 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox writer and scholar David Bentley Hart has said that Bulgakov was "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century."
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical.Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
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.
Biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (excerpt)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century.
Biography of Gabriel Thomas (art lover) (excerpt)
Gabriel Thomas (1854-1932) was a wealthy financier who was one of the promoters of the Grévin museum and its reconfiguration in 1900, of the Eiffel Tower and the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This man was also a great art lover who owned a very large collection of paintings: Berthe Morisot (his cousin), Manet, Vuillard, Flandrin, and no less than a hundred works by Maurice Denis, including the series of The Eternal Printemps which he had commissioned from the painter for the decoration of his dining room in Meudon.
Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924.In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence.
Biography of Philippe Auboyneau (excerpt)
Philippe Auboyneau (9 November 1899 – 22 February 1961) was an officer in the French Navy. As an admiral, he was commander of the Free French naval forces in the Pacific and the Mediterranean during the Second World War. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for his service to the country.
Biography of Achille Majeroni (excerpt)
Achille Majeroni (24 August 1881 – 12 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, son of Achille Majeroni and his second wife Graziosa Bignetti, he made his stage debut at age twelve with the Marazzi-Diligenti company.He later formed his own company, specializing in Shakespearean works.
Biography of Carl Tanzler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Tänzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel (January 12, 1877 (Wikipedia has February 8 in error) – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession with a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after her death.
Biography of Richard Huelsenbeck (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I.He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire. |
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