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Horoscopes with Zeus in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Joseph Canteloube (excerpt)
Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (b. Annonay, (Ardèche), 21 October 1879 – d. Grigny, (Essonne), 4 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region. Biography Joseph Canteloube was born into a family with deep roots in the Auvergne region of France.
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Biography of Heinrich Otto Wieland (excerpt)
Heinrich Otto Wieland (June 4, 1877 – August 5, 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele.
Biography of Catherine Thompson (excerpt)
Catherine Thompson, born April 10, 1858 in London and died in December 1934, was a British astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Ferruccio Busoni (excerpt)
Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, teacher of piano and composition, writer on musical questions, and conductor. Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born in Empoli in Tuscany, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinetist. ![]()
Biography of George Arundale (excerpt)
Dr. George Sidney Arundale (1 December 1878 in Surrey, England — 12 August 1945 in Adyar, India) was a theosophist, freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. After his mother died, he was adopted by her aunt Francesca Arundale. ![]()
Biography of Albert Maignan (excerpt)
Albert Pierre René Maignan, born October 14, 1845 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died September 29, 1908 in Saint-Prix, was a French painter and illustrator. Bibliography Dominique Mallet, Albert Maignan et son oeuvre. Conférence au Mans le 14 novembre 1912. ![]()
Biography of Havelock Ellis (excerpt)
Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social reformer. Early life Ellis, son of Edward Peppen Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was born at Croydon, then a small town south of London. His father was a sea captain, his mother the daughter of a sea captain, and many other relatives lived on or near the sea. ![]()
Biography of Charles Fabry (excerpt)
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867, Marseille – 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer. ![]()
Biography of Juan March Ordinas (excerpt)
Juan Alberto March Ordinas (October 3, 1880 – March 10, 1962), also known as Joan March i Ordinas, was a Spanish financier and British agent on the side of Francisco Franco's forces during and after the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Santa Margalida on the island of Majorca, and initially he was involved with the business of smuggling tobacco between North Africa and Spain. ![]()
Biography of Venustiano Carranza (excerpt)
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29, 1859 – May 21, 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted. ![]()
Biography of Jules Garnier (excerpt)
Jules Garnier, born January 22, 1847, died in 1889, was a French impressionist painter.
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Biography of Raoul Castex (excerpt)
Vice Admiral Raoul Castex (1878-1968) was a French Naval Historian.Théories stratégiques (1929-1935) ![]()
Biography of Louis Bertrand (novelist) (excerpt)
Louis Bertrand (20 March 1866, Spincourt, Meuse – 6 December 1941, Cap d'Antibes) was a French novelist, historian and essayist. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1925. ![]()
Biography of Billy Sunday (excerpt)
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1863 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Biography of Carl Beck (excerpt)
Carl Beck, born April 4, 1856 in Neckargemünd, died June 9, 1911, was a German-American surgeon, physician and author. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Bertillon (excerpt)
Alphonse Bertillon (April 22, 1853—February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements (sole sources give April 22, 1853). Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals.
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Biography of Lucien Lacaze (excerpt)
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860 Pierrefonds, Oise — 23 March 1955 Paris) was a French admiral, minister of Marine, préfet maritime and académicien. Lacaze was born in Pierrefonds, Oise to a physician of Réunion, where he spent his youth. He studied in France with the Jesuits, and joined the École Navale in 1879.
Biography of Junius Massau (excerpt)
Belgian engineer Junius Massau (April 9, 1852–1909) is considered to be the creator of graphical integration. He worked out careful techniques of geometrical calculation accurately to construct the integral curves of differential equations y = f(x) and, more generally, y = f(x, y).
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Biography of Ferdinand Sauerbruch (excerpt)
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (3 July 1875–2 July 1951) was a German surgeon. Sauerbruch was born in Barmen (now a district of Wuppertal), Germany. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg, the University of Greifswald, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and the University of Leipzig, from the last of which he graduated in 1902. ![]()
Biography of Jean Lorrain (excerpt)
Jean Lorrain (August 29, 1855 (birth time source: birth certificate) - June 30, 1906), born Paul Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school. Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and (for the times) openly gay. Lorrain wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente, (1897). ![]()
Biography of Luigi Einaudi (excerpt)
Luigi Einaudi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce decorato di Gran Cordone OMRI (March 24, 1874 – October 30, 1961) was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the second President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955. Early life Einaudi was born in Carrù, in the province of Cuneo, Piemonte.
Biography of Emilio de Bono (excerpt)
Emilio De Bono (March 19, 1866 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party. In 1943, he participated in the Fascist Grand Council of which toppled Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Biography of Gaston Billotte (excerpt)
Général Gaston Billotte, born February 10, 1875 in Sommeval (Aube), died May 21, 1940, was a French military. He is the father of Général Pierre Billotte, French military and politician. ![]()
Biography of Paul Ancel (excerpt)
Paul, Albert Ancel, born September 21, 1873 in Nancy, was a French scientist, a corresponding member of Académie des sciences (zoology and anatomy).
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Biography of William Allen White (excerpt)
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman for thousands throughout the United States. Life
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Biography of Sean O'Casey (excerpt)
Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
Biography of Charles Camoin (excerpt)
Charles Camoin (September 23, 1879 –1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves. Born in Marseilles, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, expressionist-like use of color. ![]()
Biography of Francis Thompson (excerpt)
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.
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Biography of Gabriel Hanotaux (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux, (november 19, 1853 – april 11, 1944) was a French statesman and historian. He was born at Beaurevoir in the département of Aisne. He studied history at the École des Chartes, and became maître de conférence in the École des Hautes Études.
Biography of Gabriel Montoya (excerpt)
Gabriel Montoya, born October 20, 1868 in Alès, died in 1914, was a French composer, poet, author and physician. He was very famous in French cabaret Le Chat noir in Montmartre, Paris. Songs and poetry collections (extract) - La chanson du macchabée (musique de Gaston Maquis)
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Biography of James Rolph (excerpt)
James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 (birth time source: Nolle) – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression. ![]()
Biography of Louis Raemaekers (excerpt)
Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond (source: Gauquelin) - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. He was born in Roermond, Netherlands in 1869 as the son of an ethnically German newspaper editor. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Duhem (excerpt)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.
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Biography of Albert Dupuis (excerpt)
Albert Dupuis (1 March 1877 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 September 1967) was a Belgian composer. Biography Albert Dupuis was born in Verviers on 1 March 1877. The son of a music teacher, Dupuis studied the finesses of theviolin, the piano and theflute from the age of 8, at the conservatory in his hometown, Verviers, wherer also Guillaume Lekeu, composer of classical music, and Henri Vieuxtemps, composer and violonist,. ![]()
Biography of Grock (excerpt)
Grock (January 10, 1880 – July 14, 1959), born Charles Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss clown. Early life Grock was born in Berne, Switzerland. He started early as a performer, learning musicianship and acrobatic skills from his father and during summers spent with the circus in his mid-teens. ![]()
Biography of Albert Lebrun (excerpt)
Albert Lebrun (29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940, and as such was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).
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Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle.
Biography of A.E. Thierens (excerpt)
A.E. Thierens, born December 20, 1875 in Den Briel (Brielle), died December 30, 1941, was a Dutch professional astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Emily Greene Balch (excerpt)
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
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Biography of Vincent Aderente (excerpt)
Vincent Aderente, born February 20, 1880 in Naples, died in 1941, was an Italian artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Peter Chalmers Mitchell (excerpt)
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD (23 November 1864–1945), zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. ![]()
Biography of Florent Schmitt (excerpt)
French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt. Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for opera. ![]()
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892) ![]()
Biography of Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour. ![]()
Biography of John Cowper Powys (excerpt)
John Cowper Powys (pronounced /ˌdʒɒn ˌkuːpər ˈpoʊ.ɪs/) (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British novelist and lecturer. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. ![]()
Biography of Edward Westermarck (excerpt)
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 (source not archived) – 3 September 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. ![]()
Biography of Eric Gill (excerpt)
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Waltz (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Waltz (b.Colmar, 23 February 1873 - 10 June, 1951), also known as "Oncle Hansi", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsatian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his cute drawings, some of which contain harsh critics against the German of the time. |
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