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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on April, 13, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 45,446 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,446 Celebrities
131 celebrities or events were found for April, 13. Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: ; Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR; now Azerbaijan (birth time source: Getulio Bittencourt, Astrodatabank)) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer and political activist. Kasparov is a candidate for the Russian presidential race of 2008. Kasparov became the youngest ever World Chess Champion in 1985. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993. In 1993, a dispute with FIDE led Kasparov to set up a rival organisation, the Professional Chess Association. He continued to hold the "Classical" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir K... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.)(birth time source: Astrodatabank) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, He served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. Jefferson was the first United States Secretary of State (1790–1793) serving under President George Washington. Upon resigning his office, with his close friend James Madison he org... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Jacques Lacan
Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, acte n° 1438) – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed the institutional face of the psychoanalytic movement internationally. The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, which started in 1953 and lasted until his death in 1981, were one of the formative environments of the currency of philosophical ideas that dominated French letters in the 1960s and '70s, and which has come to be known in the Anglophone world as post-structuralism, though it would be a mischaracterization to label Lacan as only a post-structuralist. This entailed a renewed concentration upon the Freudian concepts of the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego c... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and, according to some interpretations, deeply pessimistic about the human condition. His work grew increasingly cryptic and attenuated over his career. The perceived pessimism in Beckett's work is mitigated both by a great and often wicked sense of humour, and by the sense, for some readers, that Beckett's portrayal of life's obstacles serves to demonstrate that the journey, while difficult, is ultimately worth the effort. Similarly, many posit that Beckett's expressed "pessimism" is not so much for the human condition but for that of an established cultural and societal structure which imposes a stultifying will upon otherwise hopef... Biography of J. M. G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, or J.M.G. Le Clézio (born April 13, 1940, Nice, France) is a mauritian novelist from English and Breton origins. He was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. His family emigrated from Brittany to the île de France—today's Mauritius—in the 18th century. The family lived for a time in Africa where his father served as a surgeon in the British army. His mother was a deaf mute. During World War II, the family was separated, his father being unable to join his wife and children in Nice where Le Clézio studied at the Collège littéraire universitaire. After graduation, he moved to the United States as a teacher. A great traveler, J.M.G. Le Clézio has been writing since age seven or eight. After majoring in French literature, he ... Biography of Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici, the daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, countess of Boulogne. She was queen consort of France from 1547 to 1559 as the wife of King Henry II of France. In 1533, Catherine was married at the age of fourteen to Henry, the second son of King Francis I of France, to further the interests of her uncle, Pope Clement VII. When Prince François, the dauphin, died after a game of tennis in 1536, Henry replaced him as heir to the throne and Catherine became the dauphine. Henry ascended the throne as Henry II in 1547, but throughout his reign he excluded Catherine from influence and instead showered favours on his mi... Biography of Michèle Bernier
Michèle Bernier, born August 2, 1956 in Paris (source : Marc Brun, FDAF), is a French humorist and actress. She is the daughter of Georges Bernier, best known as Professor Choron.... Biography of Ron Perlman
Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American television, film and voice over actor. Career Perlman made his feature film debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud's film Quest for Fire (1981). After various minor and supporting roles in films and television series, his breakthrough role came when he played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast, opposite Linda Hamilton from 1987 to 1989. This earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989 and a large fanbase. He went onto play roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His most notable film appearances were in films such as The Name of the Rose (1986), Romeo is Bleeding (1993), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), The Island of Dr. Mo... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Gregory Brandis (April 13, 1976 (birth time source: Steinbrecher collection, Astrodatabank) – November 12, 2003) was an American film and television actor. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Career and personal life Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Brandis got his show-biz break at the age of six when he landed a recurring role on One Life to Live and appeared in numerous commercials. He moved to Los Angeles with his family at age nine and made guest appearances on shows such as L.A. Law, Who's the Boss?, Murder, She Wrote and Kate & Allie. He received his first starring role in The NeverEnding Story II, and went on to appear primarily in television roles. Of these, he is most famous for his portrayal of scientific prodigy Lucas Wolenczak in Steven Spielberg's futuristic science ficti... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Reshad Feild
Reshad Feild (born Richard Timothy Feild, 13 April 1934) is an English mystic, author, spiritual teacher, and musician. He is the author of more than a dozen books about Sufism and spirituality and has exercised a huge influence amongst western seekers over the last forty years. As a young, upper-class Englishman, he was educated at Eton and served in the Royal Navy, where he had an undistinguished career. In the early 1960s Feild was a founding member of the popular British folk trio The Springfields. Feild was influenced spiritually by the teachings of, among others, G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky. He was very much involved with spiritual healing, and was involved with the Alice Bailey community. In the late '60's, he was initiated as a sheikh in the Sufi Order International b... Biography of Courtney Peldon
Courtney Peldon (born April 13, 1981) is an American television and film actress. Personal life Peldon was born in New York, New York to Jeff and Wendy Peldon. Her younger sister Ashley Peldon is also an actress. Both she and Ashley became involved in the entertainment industry as child actors. Peldon previously dated actor Crispin Glover and director Eli Roth. Career Peldon is perhaps best known for her three seasons as Jonathan Taylor Thomas's on-screen girlfriend Lauren on Home Improvement, and for a stint on Boston Public. She has appeared in recurring roles on various television shows, and has had roles in several films. Filmography Mortuary (2005) (post-production) - Tina Skin Walker (2004) - Candy Adam and Eve (2004) -Patty Reality Check (2002) - Charlette... Biography of Ivy Goldstein Jacobson
Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson, born April 13, 1893 in Brisbane, Australia, was one of the great astrologers of the century. Entirely self-published, her method of publishing was to prepare a perfect typewritten master, reduce it in size, print on both sides, and bind the result in a hard cover. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 97. Her friends have kept her memory and her books alive. She died on May 5, 1990 at 7:30 PM, in Arcadia, CA.... Biography of James Ensor
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extraction, and his mother was Flemish. A poor student, he left school at the age of fifteen to begin artistic training with two local painters. From 1877 to 1880, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where his classmates included Fernand Khnopff. He first exhibited his work in 1881. While Ensor's early works, such as Russian Music (1881) and The Drunkards (1883), depict realistic scenes in a somber style, his palette subsequently brightened and he favored increasingly bizarre subject matter. S... Biography of Rick Schroder
Richard Bartlett Schroder (born April 13, 1970) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who began his career as a child actor. Early life and career Schroder was born in Staten Island, New York to Diane, a telephone company employee, and Richard Schroder, a telephone company district manager. He has a sister, Dawn. Schroder debuted in the 1979 remake of the movie The Champ, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best New Male Star of the Year in a Motion Picture at the age of nine. In the following year, he made a Walt Disney feature film called The Last Flight of Noah's Ark with Elliott Gould. Although Schroder's performance is generally recognized as good, the film bombed at the box office. He became well-known as the star of the television series Silver Spoons, when he played the... Biography of Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became the William S. Hertz media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 he was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. Known for his admiration of George Orwell, Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson, and for his excoriating critiques of, among others, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger, his confrontational style of debate has made him both a lauded... Biography of Michele Baraldi
Italian writer.... Biography of Paul Barril
Paul Barril (13 April 1946) is a former officer of the French Gendarmerie Nationale. He authored several books about his military career, touching sensitive political subjects of the Mitterrand era. Barril was a gendarme until 1995. He was the second officer of the GIGN Special Forces unit for 10 years, before being involved in the creation of the Counterterrorist Cell of the Élysée during François Mitterrand's first mandate from 1981 to 1988. Since then, he has led several private security companies. He has been in the centre of controversies for his role in Africa, particularly in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 during which extremist Hutus mass exterminated hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Military career Barril was second officer of the GIGN ... Biography of Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (born April 13, 1939) is an American character actor whose solid career has largely been the portrayal of authority figures, both as a legal enforcer and criminal, in television, stage, and film. Early life Sorvino was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Italian American parents Marietta, a homemaker and piano teacher, and Ford Sorvino, a robe factory foreman. He attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Career He began his career as a copywriter in an advertising agency, where he worked with John Margeotes, founder of Margeotes, Fertitta, and Weiss. He took 18 years of voice lessons. While attending The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, he decided to go into the theatre. He made his Broadway debut in the 1964 musical Bajour, and six y... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edwige Avice
Edwige Avice, born April 13, 1945 in Nevers, is a French politician.... Biography of Maurice Ronet
Maurice Ronet (13 April 1927 – 14 March 1983) was a French film actor, director and writer. Biography Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the only child of professional stage actors Émile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. At the age of sixteen he made his stage debut along side his parents in Sacha Guitry's Le Deux couverts. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1944, where Jean-Louis Barrault was one his mentors. By the time he made his film debut at the age of twenty-two in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), in a role that was written specifically for him by Becker, he had little interest in pursuing an acting career. After completing the film, he married Maria Pacôme (a French stage actress and playwright) and they departed to Mo... Biography of Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. Early years Green was born in Dansby, Arkansas. The son of a sharecropper, he started performing at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. His father kicked him out of the group because he caught Al listening to Jackie Wilson. Green formed a group called Al Greene & the Creations in high school. Curtis Rogers and Palmer James, two members of the Creations, formed an independent labe... Biography of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (IPA: /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/) (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin. Life Seamus Heaney was born the eldest of nine children at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, near Castledawson, thirty miles to the north-west of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. He is a Roman Catholic and a nationalist. He played Gaelic football for St. Malachy's Castledawson (Irish: An Séan Mhullach) up until Minor level. He was educated initially at Anahorish Primary School in Newbridge. He won a scholarship to St Columb's College, then a Catholic boarding school in Derry, and it was while studying here as a young teenager that his family moved to Bellaghy. At St ... Biography of Jeanne Balibar
Jeanne Balibar (born April 13, 1968) is a French actress. She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres. Recently she starred in All the fine promises directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac with Bulle Ogier and Valérie Crunchant, Clean directed by Olivier Assayas with Maggie Cheung and Nick Nolte, Saltimbank directed by Jean-Claude Biette with Jean-Marc Barr. She is the daughter of Étienne Balibar, French Marxist philosopher and physician Françoise Balibar. She loves Rose Murphy, Régine Crespin, Frank Sinatra, Rosa Ponselle and Chet Baker as singers and Béatrice Dalle, Carole Lombard, Louis Brooks, Glenn Close and Ju... Biography of Jean-Marc Reiser
French comic artist Jean-Marc Reiser was born April 13, 1941 in Réhon. He died November 5, 1983 in Paris, of bone cancer. He was a prolific artist from 1958 until his death.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist and activist. She is best known for the lawsuit Murray v. Curlett which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling and ended the practice of daily prayer in American public schools. O'Hair later founded American Atheists and became so controversial that, in 1964, Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America." She was murdered in 1995 along with her son and granddaughter. Early life and education Madalyn Mays was born in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1919 to Lena Christina Scholle and John Irwin Mays. As an infant, she was baptized into the Presbyterian church. She graduated from Rossford High School in Rossford, Ohio. She married John Henry Roths in ... Biography of Agostina Belli
Agostina Belli (born 13 April 1947) is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1968. She was born in Milan, Italy. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068941/) 2008 Amore che vieni, amore che vai Lina - madre di Carlo 2006 Uno su due Elena, Tresy's mother 1996 Favola (TV movie) Elide 1995 La voce del cuore (TV mini-series) Cristina 1995 La famiglia Ricordi (TV mini-series) 1989 L'agence (TV series) 1989 Happy end 1988 Etranger de l'espace Jenny 1987 Soldati - 365 all'alba Anna Fili 1987 La dernière étreinte Michela 1984 Un amour interdit Zaveria 1984 Vanita (TV series) Host 1984 Varietà (TV series) Hostess 1984 Torna Angela 1983 On ne le dira pas aux enfants (TV movie) Béatrice ... Biography of Saundra Santiago
Saundra Santiago (born April 13, 1957 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Detective Gina Calabrese on the 1980s hit television show Miami Vice. Early life The daughter of Cuban and Puerto Rican parents, Santiago's family moved from the Bronx to Homestead, Florida when she was 13. University of Miami She attended the University of Miami on a scholarship, majoring in psychology. As a University of Miami student, she became enamoured with acting. After graduation, she went on to post-graduate study in theater and arts at Southern Methodist University, eventually earning a master's degree. Acting career Santiago's breakthrough role was in a performance of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge on Broadway, and she would go on to s... Biography of Richard Houck
Richard Hoook, born April 13, 1947, is an American author and astrologer.... Biography of Carles Puyol
Carles Puyol i Saforcada (born 13 April 1978 in La Pobla de Segur, Lleida, Catalonia) is a Spanish football defender who plays for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Club career Carles Puyol started playing football in his hometown club, La Pobla de Segur, as a striker after injury problems with his shoulders forced him from his original position to defensive midfielder. He moved to of FC Barcelona's youth system in 1995 and went to FC Barcelona B at age 17 in 1996, when started to play as right back. In 1999 coach Louis van Gaal promoted him to the first team. His debut occurred on October 2, 1999, against Real Valladolid, a game Barcelona won 2-0 in La Liga. He started in the right back position, but has since been converted to a central defender. He ... Biography of Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS FRAeS (April 13, 1892–December 5, 1973), is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but Watson-Watt created the first workable radar system, turning the theory into one of the most important war-winning weapons. Early years Born in Brechin in Angus, Scotland, he was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine. After attending public school in Brechin, he was accepted to University College, Dundee (which was then part of the University of St Andrews but became the University of Dundee in 1967). He graduated with a BSc in engineering in 1912, and was offered an assistantship by Professor William Peddie. It was Peddie who e... Biography of Sylvie van der Vaart
Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart (née Meis; born 13 April 1978) is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart. Career Netherlands Aged 18, Meis decided that she wanted to be a model and was cast for various shoots by casting agencies. After becoming interested in television, she gained popularity through assignments at FoxKids and music station TMF. She hosts several events at TMF, such as presenting the annual TMF-awards, and conducting interviews with international artists such as Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. In addition, she features in video clips and the Dutch TV-series Costa. She also introduced the Pure by Sylvie jewelery line to the Dutch market. Thereafter, she hosted the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year award ceremony. Af... Biography of Dana Barros
Dana Bruce Barros (born April 13, 1967, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers. The 5' 11", 165 lb. point guard who attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts and BC. Barros began his professional basketball career in 1989 when he was taken in the NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 16th pick. Most of his time spent in Seattle was as a back-up to 6' 4" teammate and fellow point guard Gary Payton who was considered to be a much more competent ball handler and defender than he, as Barros was deemed more usable at the shooting guard position, although at his size, he could not seem to find his role in th... Biography of Kelli Giddish
Kelli Giddish (born April 13, 1980) is an American actress from Cumming, Georgia. Career She joined the cast of All My Children in March 2005, creating the role of Di Henry. Giddish graduated from the University of Evansville in Indiana where she majored in Theatre Performance. In July 2007, it was confirmed by Soap Opera Weekly magazine that Giddish and All My Children parted ways in a mutual decision and that she would make her final appearance as Di on September 19, 2007. She also appeared in the film Death in Love, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and created the role of Courtney, a fast playing bingo player, in the popular web series The Burg. Nicholas Bishop, Kelli Giddish and Ravi Patel were cast in Fox's reincarnation drama pilot, Past Life. The WBTV... Biography of Heidi Goossens
Heidi Goossens, born April 13, 1969 in Herentals, Grobbendonk, Antwerpen, is a former judo champion. Height: 5'3" (161 cm) Weight: 115 lbs (52 kg)... Biography of Alexandra Adi
Alexandra Adi (born April 13, 1971, Florida) is an American actress. Raised in central New York state, Adi resides in Los Angeles with her husband, former Sapient executive Jerry Greenberg. Selected Filmography Eddie (1996) ... ESPN Radio Announcer Step by Step (1997-1998) ... Samantha Milano Brookfield (1999) ... Sasha Jawbreaker (1999) ... Cheerleader #1 Tequila Body Shots (1999) ... Waitress American Pie (1999) ... Central Michigan University Girl Slap Her... She's French (2002) ... Ashley Lopez Alikes (2002) ... Becky Moving August (2002) ... Hunter Davis Mortuary (2006) ... Liz Dealing (2008) ... Amber... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rudi Voller
Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler (born April 13, 1960) is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1990 as a player and coached the national team to second place at the 2002 World Cup. He was born in Hanau, Hesse. Club career Völler, joined the Bundesliga team Werder Bremen in 1982, winning his first cap for Germany in the same year. In 1987 he was transferred to A.S. Roma, where he became a mainstay of the team and earned the nickname 'il tedesco volante' (the flying German). He won the Italian Cup in 1991. In 1992, Völler joined Olympique Marseille, winning the Champions League with this team in 1993. Returning to Germany, he joined Bayer Leverkusen in 1994, where he ended his career as a player in 1996 and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Waggoner (born April 13, 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actor and former model, best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and for playing the role of Steve Trevor in the Wonder Woman television series from 1975 to 1979. Waggoner was also the first centerfold for Playgirl (albeit with limited nudity) in June 1973. Prior to joining Carol Burnett, Waggoner was a finalist for the title role in the TV series version of Batman, but had lost the role to comic book buff and veteran actor Adam West. In 1967, he appeared in Catalina Caper (with Tommy Kirk, a former child actor trying to restart his career as a young adult), a film which would eventually be lampooned by Mystery Science Theater 3000. The same year, he began a seven year stint on The Carol... Biography of Vladimir Cosma
Vladimir Cosma (born April 13, 1940) is a composer, conductor and violinist, born in Bucharest, Romania. He was born in a family of musicians - his father Teodor (Theodor) Cosma was a pianist and conductor, mother was a composer and his uncle Edgar Cosma was a composer and conductor. Vladimir Cosma studied music in Bucharest and in 1963 moved to Paris to continue his musical education at The École Normale de Musique de Paris under Nadia Boulanger's guidance. He has written the music for many well known French movies (such as La Boum, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) since the early 1970s. He is perhaps most famous for the incidental music he composed for Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva, featuring impressionistic piano pieces in the style of Erik Satie. His composition... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Dino Bruni
Dino Bruni (born April 13, 1932 in Portomaggiore) was a road racing cyclist from Italy, who won the silver medal in the men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics, alongside Vincenzo Zucconelli and Gianni Ghidini. Italy's fourth rider Bruno Monti also crossed the line, but did not receive a medal because just the first three counted for the final classification. Bruni also represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He was a professional rider from 1956 to 1965.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert O. Anderson
Robert O. Anderson (April 13, 1917 – December 2, 2007) was an American business leader, legendary wildcatter and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (since 2000 part of BP) through the 1966 merger of the Atlantic and Richfield oil companies and was Arco's chairman for two decades. Anderson used his clout to support an array of major cultural organizations, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Harper's Magazine. He died December 2, 2007 at his home in Roswell, New Mexico. Anderson turned Arco into the United States' sixth-largest oil company by the time he left in 1986 to pursue other interests. He was by then the largest individual landowner in the United States, with ranches and other holdings in Texas and New Mexico amounting to some 2,000 square miles and a ... Biography of Federica Felini
Federica Felini, born April 13, 1983 in Zelo Buon Persico, is an Italian model and singer. Discography Single 2005 - "Je T'aime" (#35 FRA)... Biography of William Quan Judge
William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States. He became a naturalized citizen of the USA at age 21 and passed the New York state bar exam, specializing in commercial law. Although merely a young man, he was among the seventeen people who first put the Theosophical Society together. Like H.P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, he stayed in the organization when others left. When Olcott and Blavatsky left the United States for India, Judge stayed behind to manage the Society's work, all the while working as a lawyer. Judge wrote theosophical articles for various theosophical mag... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is Singin' in the Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. Early life Born in Columbia, South Carolina to Mordecai Moses Donen and Helen Cohen, both of whom were Jewish. Donen himself became an atheist in his youth . He attended the University of South Carolina. He went to New York City as a teenager and at age sixteen was a dancer in the original production of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, which starred Kelly. Film career Donen started at Metro Goldwyn Mayer as a choreographer and dancer in Best Foot Forward (1943) with Lucille Ball. Donen appeared with Kelly in Cover Girl (1944) for Columbia Pictures, for which... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi (Milan, 13 April 1920 – London, 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", due to his close association with the Vatican. A native of Milan, Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy. Calvi's death was ruled as murder after two coroner's inquests and an independent investigation, and, in June 2007, five people were acquitted of his murder after a trial in Rome. Claims have been made that Calvi's death involved the Vatican Bank (Banco Ambrosiano's main shareholder), the Mafia (which may have used Banco Ambrosiano for money laundering), and the Propaganda Due or P2 masonic lodge. The Banco A... Biography of Don Adams
Don Adams (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), born Donald James Yarmy, was an American actor, comedian, game show panelist and occasional director, who in his five decades of television was best known for his role as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the TV situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), for which he also directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart (1967–1969). He also provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo (1963-1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983-1986) as their respective title characters. Early life Adams was born in New York City, a son of William Yarmy and his wife Consuelo (nee Deiter). His father was a Hungarian Jew and his mother a Roman Catholic of Dutch and Irish heritage. Adams was not raised in either... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Félicien David
Félicien-César David, b. April 13, 1810 in Caudenet (Vaucluse – d. August 29, 1876 in La Pecq (now: Saint-Germain-en-Laye), was a French composer. Biography Félicien David wrote a prodigious number of highly original musical compositions in many forms, including symphonies, tone poems, opéras comiques, choruses, religious music, piano compositions, chamber music, and vocal works. Le Désert, an oratorio, achieved an instant and complete triumph at its premiere in 1844. David also was an author. In his youth he was an ardent disciple of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, the French utopian socialist thinker and founder of the Saint-Simon sect. Main Works Le Désert (dedicated to Duc de Montpensier) Moïse au SinaÏ (oratorio dedicated to Emmanuel de Fonscolombe) Eden (oratorio dedicated... Biography of Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy (13 April 1866 – circa 7 November 1908), born Robert LeRoy Parker, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber and leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Life as a criminal 1880-1887 — first incidents, becoming a robber Parker's first offense was minor. About 1880, he journeyed to a clothier's shop in another town only to find the shop closed. He entered the shop and took a pair of jeans and some pie, leaving an IOU promising to pay on his next visit. However, the clothier pressed charges. Parker was acquitted at a jury trial. He continued to work on ranches until 1884, when he moved to Telluride, Colorado, ostensibly to seek work but perhaps to deliver stolen horses to buyers. He led a cowboy's life in Wyoming and in Montana, before returning to Telluride in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Enrico
Robert Georgio Enrico (April 13, 1931 - February 23, 2001) was a French film director and scriptwriter. He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France. Filmography as director Fait d'hiver (1999) Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission (1996) (TV) Vent d'est (1993) La Révolution française (1989) (segment "Les Années Lumière") Le Hérisson (1989) (TV) De guerre lasse (1987) Zone rouge (1986) Au nom de tous les miens (1985) (mini TV Series) Au nom de tous les miens (1983) Pile ou face (1980) L'Empreinte des géants (1980) Un neveu silencieux (1977) Le vieux fusil (1975) - César Award for Best Film Le Secret (1974) Les Caïds (1972) Boulevard du rhum (1971) Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... (1971) Ho! (1968) Tante Zita (1968) Les Aventurier... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Caroline Rhea
Caroline Gilchrist Rhea (born April 13, 1964) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actress and screenwriter who was the original host of the reality show The Biggest Loser on NBC, until Alison Sweeney took her place after the end of the third season. She is also known for her role as Hilda on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and for replacing Rosie O'Donnell as the hostess of her syndicated talk show, renamed The Caroline Rhea Show. Early life Rhea was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Marjorie, an antiques dealer, and David Rhea, an obstetrician and gynecologist. She has two sisters, Cynthia and Celia. She attended The Study, an all-girls private school in Westmount, Quebec. Her film debut was as a bikini-clad extra in the film Meatballs III, shot on location near M... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Denis Huisman
Denis Huisman,, born April 13, 1929 in Paris, is a French professor, entrepreneur and writer, the son of Georges Huisman. Selected bibliography: * L'Esthétique - Denis Huisman - Que sais-je ? Puf * La Littérature française des origines à nos jours avec Pierre Brunel Vuibert 2007 * La Rage de communiquer Bourin Éditeur 2006 * Socrate Chemins d'éternité Pygmalion 2003 * 1000 citations pour l'épreuve de français Les Petites Références avec Marie Cosnay 2003 Nathan * Histoire de la philosophie française Perrin 2002 * Visages de la philosophie avec Louis Monier et Serge Le Strat 2000 Arlea * Les Pages les plus célèbres de la philosophie occidentale Perrin 2000 * Les plus grands textes de la philosophie orientale avec M. A Malfray Albin Michel 20... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Rosenberg
Pierre Max Rosenberg (b. April 13, 1936 in Paris) is a French art historian and essayist. A graduate of the École du Louvre, he joined the Musée du Louvre in 1962 as an assistant, then became curator and later director of the museum. He was elected to the Académie française December 7, 1995. Bibliography 1966 Inventaire des collections publiques françaises, Rouen. Tableaux français du VIIe siècle et italiens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris 1970 Il Seicento francese (I Maestri del Disegno), Milan 1973 Georges de La Tour, Fribourg (in collaboration) 1980 La Donation Baderou au musée de Rouen, Cahiers de la Revue du Louvre 1983 Chardin. Tout l’œuvre peint, Paris 1983 Peyron, Paris (in collaboration) (Arthéna) 1986 Saint-Non. Fragonard. Panopticon italiano. Un diario di v... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Jacques Favier
Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES spationaut. Personal data Born in Kehl, Germany, he married Michèle Jean. They have four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology. Education Attended primary and secondary schools in Strasbourg, France 1971: Received an engineering degree from the INPG-ENSEEG (Grenoble Institute of Technology). 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the Mining School of Paris 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy and physics from the University of Grenoble Organizations Research Engineer, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), 1976-1979 Head Solidification Group 1970-1986 Head of Laboratory 1986-1989 Head Solidification and Crystal Growth Service, 1989 to 1993 Co... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wolfgang Buehler
Wolfgang Buehler, born April 13, 1947 in Oberstdorf, is a German professional astrologer, musician and psychologist.... Biography of György Lukács
György Lukács (Hungarian pronunciation: ; April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Life and politics Lukács's full name, in German, was Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin, and in Hungarian was Szegedi Lukács György Bernát; he published under the names Georg or György Lukács. (Lukács is pronounced /ˈluːkɑːtʃ/ by most English speakers, the original pronunciation being... Biography of Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, in 13 April 1953) is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, and raised in Petit Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haïti before moving to Canada in 1976. He also worked as a journalist in Canada, and hosted television programming for the TQS network. Laferrière published his first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired) in 1985. The novel was later adapted into a screenplay by Laferrière and Richard Sadler, earning a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. The film adaptation of the novel starred Isaach De Bankolé and was directed by Jacques W. Benoit. He wr... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Safet Susic
Safet "Pape" Sušić (born April 13, 1955 in Zavidovići) is a football coach and former player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Football career Sušić began his career in with the Krivaja club in Zavidovići. He was born in Rujnica, began his first soccer steps in Hajderovici. As a young man he was transferred to FK Sarajevo where he played 600 games and scored 400 goals. During the 1979/80 season he led the Yugoslavian league with 21 goals. In 1979 he was honoured as the best football player in Yugoslavia and as the best athlete of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1982 he was transferred to Paris Saint-Germain where he became a star on the European stage. Sušić was capped 54 times, scoring 21 goals for the Yugoslav national team, between 1977 and 1990. He transferred to ... Biography of Jana Cova
Jana Cova (born April 13, 1980), is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model of Polish descent. Born in Prague, Cova grew up in the countryside in the Czech Republic where she "had a great childhood". She initially started working as a bikini model, then started doing nude and eventually softcore modeling. She has stated that part of her slow transition into movies was because "I wasn't ready for movies for about a year. I felt stupid in front of the camera." Cova has appeared in several pornographic movies (interacting exclusively with women for a long time) and high-profile men's magazines including Hustler, Penthouse, High Society, Perfect 10, Leg Show, Mayfair, Frenzy and Club International. She was the cover model and Penthouse Pet of April 2003. In April 2005, she signed ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Liliane Giraudon
Liliane Giraudon, born April 13, 1946 in Cavaillon, is a French writer and poet. Bibliography: • Têtes ravagées une fresque, La Répétition, 1978. • Je marche ou je m’endors, P.O.L (Hachette), 1982. • Billy the Kid(In memoriam Jack Spicer), Manicle, 1982. • Some postcards about C.R.J. and other cards (avec J.J. Viton), Spectres Familiers • La Réserve, P.O.L, 1984. • Quel jour sommes-nous (avec 1 polaroïd de l’auteur), Ecbolade, 1985. • La Nuit, P.O.L, 1986 • V(avec 6 vignettes de N. Balestrini), La main courante, 1987. • Divagation des chiens, P.O.L, 1988. • Pallaksch, Pallaksch, P.O.L (Prix Maupassant), 1990. • Fur, P.O.L, 1992. • Les animaux font toujours l’amour de la même manière, P.O.L, 1995. • Malmousque (avec Fred Deluy), Parcelle, 1996. • Benjamin/Baudelaire/Marse... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edward Fox (actor)
Edward Charles Morrice Fox, OBE (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is generally associated with portraying the role of the upper-class Englishman, such as 'Jackal' in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973) and King Edward VIII in the serial Edward and Mrs. Simpson (1978). Early life and education Fox was born in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, the son of Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, and Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, an actress and writer. He is the elder brother of actor James Fox, film producer Robert Fox, and an uncle of actor Laurence Fox. His maternal grandfather was the dramatist Frederick Lonsdale and his great grandfather was industrialist and inventor Samson Fox. He was educated at Harrow School in northwest London and served a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bo Outlaw
Charles "Bo" Outlaw (born April 13, 1971) is a former American professional basketball player. Outlaw is known for his athleticism, tenacious defensive approach and subpar free-throw shooting (.521 for his career). He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and is a 1989 alumnus of John Jay High School, where he led the Mustangs to the Texas state finals before they were defeated by Houston Clear Lake High School. Career College Outlaw played for South Plains College and the University of Houston. During his time in Houston, he averaged 14.0 ppg., 9.1 rpg., and led NCAA Division I with a field goal percentage of .684. In 1993 he declared eligibility for the NBA Draft but was not selected. Continental Basketball Association Outlaw began his professional career in the CBA, where he ave... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Margaret Somerville
Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC (born April 13, 1942) is an Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. Somerville was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and received a A.u.A. (pharm.) from the University of Adelaide in 1963, a Bachelor of Law degree (Hons. I) from the University of Sydney in 1973, and a D.C.L. from McGill University in 1978. From 1963 to 1969, she was a registered pharmacist in South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand, and New South Wales. After returning to University and receiving her law degree she became an attorney for a Sydney, Australia law firm, Mallesons (as it then w... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Max Mosley
Max Rufus Mosley (born 1940, London, England) is currently serving his fourth term as president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide. The FIA is also the governing body for Formula One and other international motorsports. Mosley is the fourth son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), and the second child from his second marriage to Diana Mitford. Like many members of the BUF, Mosley's parents were interned in Britain during the Second World War and he was separated from them for the first few years of his life. He was educated at private schools in France, Germany and Britain before going on to attend university at Christ Churc... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Olaf Ludwig
Olaf Ludwig (born 13 April 1960 in Gera, Thuringia) is a former German racing cyclist. His career began at the SG Dynamo Gera/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. As an East German, he raced as an amateur until reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with Panasonic team. As a sprinter, the highlight of his career was winning the maillot vert (green jersey) in the 1990 Tour de France. Other highlights include the Olympic road race in Seoul in 1988, a record 38 stage victories in the Peace Race, winning the Amstel Gold Race in 1992, and podium placings in the Paris–Roubaix. He also won the 1992 UCI Road World Cup. His sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfried Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov. In 1993 he joined Team Telekom, later T-Mobile Team. On retirement i... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Etienne Championnet
Jean Étienne Vachier, called Championnet (13 April 1762, Alixan, Drôme - 9 January 1800), French general, enlisted in the army at an early age and served in the Great Siege of Gibraltar. When the Revolution broke out he took a prominent part in the movement, and was elected by the men of a battalion to command them. In May 1793 he was charged with the suppression of the disturbances in the Jura, which he quelled without bloodshed. Under Pichegru he took part in the Rhine campaign of that year as a brigade commander, and at Weissenburg and in the Palatinate won the warm commendation of Lazare Hoche. At Fleurus his stubborn fighting in the centre of the field contributed greatly to Jourdan's victory. In the subsequent campaigns he commanded the left wing ‘of the French armies on the Rh... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Annie Hershey
Annie Hershey, born April 13, 1933 in Akron, Ohio and died February 8, 1986 (cancer), was an American professional astrologer and nurse.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Denise O'Donoghue
Denise O'Donoghue OBE (born 13 April 1955, Wembley) is a British television production company executive. She graduated in 1979 with a BA in Politics from University of York. With Rory McGrath (left in 1992) and Jimmy Mulville, she co-founded the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions in 1986. As a television producer, O'Donoghue has worked on shows such as the British version of Whose Line is it Anyway?, and Have I Got News for You. She married Mulville in 1987 and they divorced in the mid-nineties but continued to work together. In 2003, O'Donoghue and Mulville, as co-founders of Hat-Trick, were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. She was awarded an OBE for services to television in the New Year Honours list of 1999. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jodie Markell
Jodie Markell, born on April 13, 1959 in Memphis, Tennessee, is an American actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548346/) 2010 The Good Wife (TV series) Sandy Gephart – Nine Hours (2010) … Sandy Gephart 2010/I Veterans (short) Diamond 1997-2009 New York - Police judiciaire (TV series) Lorraine Flockhart / Mrs. Hitchens / Sondra Benton – The Drowned and the Saved (2009) … Lorraine Flockhart – Identity (2003) … Mrs. Hitchens – Working Mom (1997) … Sondra Benton 2006-2007 Big Love (TV series) Wendy Hunt – The Writing on the Wall (2007) … Wendy Hunt – Damage Control (2007) … Wendy Hunt – The Ceremony (2006) … Wendy Hunt – Where There's a Will (2006) … Wendy Hunt – Easter (2006) … Wendy Hunt See all 8 episodes » 2007 Joshua Ruth Solomon ... Biography of Dewey Jones
Dewey Jones, born April 13, 1962 in Greybull, Wyoming, is an American publisher.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Destri
Jimmy Destri (born James Mollica, April 13, 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician. He plays keyboards in the rock band Blondie, and is one of the principal songwriters for the band along with Chris Stein and Deborah Harry. Destri stopped touring with the band in 2004, but as of December 2008 is still an official member. He released a solo album, Heart on a Wall, in 1981. His sister, Donna Destri, also sang back up on the Blondie song "Living in the Real World." After the band's break-up in 1982, Destri ran a company that bought, renovated, and sold old buildings. He also produced records and remixed material for artists like Prince and INXS. He and the rest of the band reunited in 1997. He has a daughter named Eileen (b.October 26, 1985) and a son named Jimmy (b.Sept... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joseph Bramah
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Wentworth, Yorkshire, England, was an inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having invented the hydraulic press. Along with William George Armstrong, he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering. Early life He was the second son in the family of three sons and two daughters of Joseph Bramma (note the different spelling of the surname), a farmer, and his wife, Mary Denton. He was educated at the local school in Silkstone and on leaving school he was apprenticed to a local carpenter. On completing his apprenticeship he moved to London, where he started work as a cabinet-maker. In 1783 he married Mary Lawton of Mapplewell, near Barnsley, and the couple set up home in London. They... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Remiller
Jacques Remiller (born April 13, 1941) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Isère department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is the Mayor of Vienne (March 16, 2001 - ).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Francesco Severi
Francesco Severi (13 April 1879, Arezzo - 8 December 1961, Rome) was an Italian mathematician. Severi was born in Arezzo, Italy. He is famous for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He became the effective leader of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. Together with Federigo Enriques, he won the Bordin prize from the French Academy of Sciences. He contributed in a major way to birational geometry, the theory of algebraic surfaces, in particular of the curves lying on them, the theory of moduli spaces and the theory of functions of several complex variables. He wrote prolifically, and some of his work has subsequently been shown to be inadequate, in investigations in particular by Oscar Zariski and David Mumford. At the personal level he was easily offended, and he was invol... Biography of Jaymz Bee
Jaymz Bee is a Canadian musician, writer and radio personality who was born and raised in North Bay, Ontario. Jaymz Bee was the lead singer for the alternative rock band Look People from 1985 to 1994. When Look People became the house band for Friday Night with Ralph Benmergui in 1992, Bee was the show's musical director. The band also backed up comedians such as Judy Tenuta, Harland Williams, Mark DeCarlo and Jim Carrey, performed on two Lollapalooza tours and performed extensively in Europe for several years. Following the end of the show, the band broke up and Bee began recording lounge music albums as Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra. Jaymz Bee was also the lead singer of the Bee People, (prior to his work with Look People, The Royal Jelly Orchestra and various projects) a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Flourens
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (13 April 1794 – 6 December 1867), father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science and a pioneer in anesthesia. He was born at Maureilhan, near Béziers, in the département of Hérault. At fifteen he began studying medicine at Montpellier, where in 1823 he received the degree of doctor. In the following year he went to Paris, carrying an introduction from A. P. de Candolle, the botanist, to Georges Cuvier, who received him kindly, and took an interest in him. At Paris Flourens engaged in physiological research, occasionally contributing to publications; and in 1821, at the Athénée, he gave a course of lectures on the physiological theory of the sensations, which attracted much attention amongst men of science. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Neville Brand
Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 - April 16, 1992) was an American television and movie actor. Early life Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa, of Belgian, Dutch and Welsh ancestry. He was born to Leo and Helen Brand as one of seven children. Leo, an electrician and bridge building steel worker, and Helen were originally from Illinois, and Neville was raised in Kewanee, Illinois. After high school, he helped support the family while employed as a soda jerk, waiter, and shoe salesman in Kewanee. He entered the Illinois Army National Guard on October 23, 1939 as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment. Enlisted as Corporal Neville L. Brand infantryman on March 5, 1941, he was listed as being six feet tall and weighing 169 pounds. He trained at Fort Carson, and served nine ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rory Marcato
Rory Marcato, born April 13, 1943 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, died January 13, 1993, was an American professional astrologer, a member of the NCGR.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Francis Dannemark
Francis Dannemark, born on April 13, 1955 in Macquenoise, is a Belgian writer and poet. Bibliography Novels and short stories Le voyage à plus d'un titre, roman, Robert Laffont, 1981 La nuit est la dernière image, roman, Robert Laffont, 1982 / Le Castor Astral, coll."Millésimes", juin 2007 Mémoires d'un ange maladroit, roman, Robert Laffont, 1984 L'hiver ailleurs, roman, suivi de Sans nouvelles du paradis, textes courts, Robert Laffont, 1988 Choses qu'on dit la nuit entre deux villes, roman, Robert Laffont, 1991 / Le Castor Astral, coll."Millésimes", mai 2006 Les agrandissements du ciel en bleu, roman, Robert Laffont, 1992 / Le Castor Astral, coll."Millésimes", septembre 2006 La longue promenade avec un cheval mort, roman, Robert Laffont, 1993 / Le ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (born 13 April 1937) is an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Biography Early years Wilson was born to Ralph Eugene and Violetta Tate Wilson in Lebanon, Missouri. After the divorce of his parents, he moved with his mother to Springfield, until she remarried and when he was eleven and they moved again to Ozark. There he attended high school, and upon graduation, he moved San Diego, California to live with his father, where he briefly attended San Diego State University. He then lived for six years in Chicago, where he began to explore play writi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Doran
Frank Doran (born 13 April 1949) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat. He was re-elected in 1997 to Aberdeen Central, and currently represents Aberdeen North. Education and early career Frank Doran attended the Ainslie Park Secondary School (now the Ainslie Park High School) in East Pilton and Leith Academy in Leith before leaving school at age 16. He took a job at the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was promoted to junior clerk in the legal department within a year. There, he was encouraged in his interest in law by Assistant Secretary of the Board Douglas Nellands, and he started taking night classes. After a few years, he attended the University of Dundee, where he was awa... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joseph Doucé
Joseph Doucé (April 13, 1945 – 1990) was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He was a psychologist and Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. He served as a volunteer soldier in the OTAN base at Limoges (France), where he had time to perfect his French. After one year of pastoral and humanistic studies at Stenonius College (also known as Europaseminär, a Roman Catholic seminary today extinct) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism around 1966. His Centre du Christ Libérateur was a ministry to sexual minorities. The center had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochism and pedophiles. Doucé was killed and the murder has never been solved. Acc... Biography of Tim Krabbe
Tim Krabbé (born 13 April 1943) is a Dutch journalist, chess player, bicycle racer, and novelist. Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. He is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner (The Rider), first published in 1978. English readers know him primarily for The Vanishing, the translation of his 1984 novel Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg), which was made into an acclaimed 1988 Dutch film for which Krabbé co-wrote a script. A poorly received remake was made in 1993. In 2009, he has written the "Boekenweekgeschenk", called Een Tafel vol Vlinders. Also a former championship chess player, Krabbé is renowned for his writings on the subject and maintains a chess website. Krabbé once authored a chess puzzle which featured a ro... Biography of Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine)) is a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard and Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice ("The Reader") was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually fin... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Jacques Laffont
Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont (April 13, 1947 – May 1, 2004) was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D. in Economics by Harvard University in 1975. Laffont taught at the École Polytechnique (1975–1987), and was Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse I (1991–2001). In 1991, he founded Toulouse's Industrial Economics Institute (Institut D'Economie Industrielle, IDEI) which has become one of the most prominent European research centres in economics. From 2001 until his death, he was the inaugural holder of the University of Southern California's John Elliott Chair in Economics. Over ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of DeRon Hayes
DeRon Hayes, born on April 13, 1970 in Lakeland, Florida, is an American and French (naturalized) professional basketball player.... Biography of Meghann Shaughnessy
Meghann Shaughnessy (April 13, 1979 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of #11 in 2001, and has won six WTA Tour singles titles. She is best known for her serve, which is one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match. Shaughnessy is coached by Rafael Font de Mora (managed by him since age 13 and coached by him for over 20 years). She is the niece of Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy. Opening serves Shaughnessy made her debut on the WTA Tour in 1996 at a tournament in Budapest, and broke into the top 100 in 1998. In 2000, Shaughnessy won her first WTA singles title at Beijing, defeating Iroda Tulyaganova in the final, and breaking into the top fifty. In her breako... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joseph Daul
Joseph Daul (born 13 April 1947 in Strasbourg) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a member-party of the European People's Party (EPP). On 9 January 2007 he was elected Chairman of the EPP Group (at the time EPP-ED Group) in the European Parliament, replacing Hans-Gert Pöttering, who was elected as the new President of the European Parliament. Daul, in his capacity as EPP Group Chairman, is an ex officio Vice President of the European People's Party. Daul had previously come to prominence of the European Parliament's powerful Committee on Agriculture, a position he was elected to on 23 July 2004, and right before as the Chair of the Committee Chair's Conference. He has been Mayor o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Davis Love III
Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, winning his first tour event in 1987. He was later to be in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for over 450 weeks and reached a high of third. Love has won 20 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 1997 PGA Championship. He also won the prestigious Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. On November 9, 2008, he won his 20th career PGA Tour tournament, at the Children's Miracle Network Classic. This win gave him a lifetime exemption on the tour, at the age of 44. Background and family Love was bo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Possum Bourne
Peter Raymond George "Possum" Bourne (13 April 1956 – 30 April 2003) was a champion New Zealand rally car driver. He died under non-competitive circumstances while driving on a public road that was to be the track for an upcoming race. Awards He was a three time winner of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and the Australian Rally Championship seven times consecutively, amongst many other titles. Years won Event 1992 Australian Rally Championship (Group N) 1993-1994, 2000 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship 1996-2002 Australian Rally Championship 1989, 1991, 2000 Ashley Forest Rally Sprint 2001 Queenstown Race to the Sky 2002 Hokkaido Rally Japan 2002 Rally New Zealand (Group N) Family Bourne lived in Pukekohe, Auckland, near his workshop. He lived with his wife, Pe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Schneiter
François Charles Pierre Schneiter (13 April 1905 (birth time source: Lescaut)–19 March 1979) was a French politician. Pierre Schneiter was born in Reims, elder son of Charles Albert Schneiter, a vintner, and Jeanne Marie Alice Sart. Charles Schneiter's father was a watchmaker from Bern, whose ancestors had come from Bavaria. Pierre's only sibling François (Marie François André Schneiter) was born in 1914. The brothers followed their father into the wine trade. Pierre married Marguerite Marie Thérèse Fandre in 1931. Their son Jean-Louis (born 1933) was mayor of Reims until 2008. Both Schneiter brothers were active in the French Resistance during the Second World War. François was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and executed at Tournes on 29 August 1944. In 1946 Pierre Schneiter was... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore (April 13, 1923 (birth time source: the Wilsons, birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – May 14, 1985) was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as Farewell, My Lovely, The Ten Commandments, Houseboat, Two for the Seesaw, and The Towering Inferno, and television series such as The Munsters, Planet of the Apes, Bonanza, Hart to Hart and Kung Fu. For the last of these he won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Makeup" in 1972, and was also nominated uns... Biography of Bill Conti
William "Bill" Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony. Early life and career Conti, an Italian American, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Lucetta and William Conti. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, and also studied at the Juilliard School of Music. He is a past winner of the Silver Knight Award presented by the Miami Herald. Rocky series His big break into celebrity came in 1976, when he was hired to compose the music for a small United Artists film called Rocky. The film became a phenomenon, and Conti's training montage tune, "Gonna Fly Now" topped the Billboard singles chart in 1977. He also composed music for the sequels Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rock... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Milos Sadlo
Miloš Sádlo (13 April 1912 – 14 October 2003), a Czech cellist, was born in Prague, Czech Republic. Born Miloš Zátvrzský he took the name Sadlo after "Karel Pravoslav Sádlo", his teacher and mentor. He was known for his work editing, with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C from International Music.... Biography of Howard Keel
Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. Early years Harry Keel was born in Gillespie, Illinois, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel and his wife, Grace Osterkamp Keel. (It is often stated that his birth name was Harold Leek; this was a mistake made by the MGM publicity department in the 1950s.) Young Harry spent his childhood in poverty. After his father's death in 1930, he and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from Fallbrook High School at the age of 17 and took various odd jobs until finally settling at Douglas Aircraft Company, where he became a traveling representative. Career and personal Life At the age of twenty, he was ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1893 (birth time source: World Astrology 11/1937, Astrodatabank, some sources give 1890)– July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District (1920–23), Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit (1923–30). Mayor of Detroit (1930–33), the last Governor-General of the Philippines (1933–35), U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines (1935–36), the 35th Governor of Michigan (1937–39), United States Attorney General (1939–40), and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (1940–49). Early life Murphy was born in Harbor Beach, Michigan, then known as "Sand Beach", in 1890. His Irish parents, John T. Murphy and Mary Brennan, raised him as a devout Catholic. He followed in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Valentina Cervi
Valentina Cervi (born 13 April 1976) is an Italian film and television actress. Cervi was born in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten (in Carlo Cotti's 1986 Portami la luna). She also played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 1996 The Portrait of a Lady. One of her most acclaimed roles was the 1997 film Artemisia, directed by Agnès Merlet and starring Valentina Cervi. It was loosely based on the painter Artemisia Gentileschi's life, but controversially portrayed the relationship between Agostino Tassi (played by Miki Manojlović) and Artemisia as a passionate affair rather than as rape. Selected filmography Acting Filmography Miracle at St. Ann... Biography of Sergiu Nicolaescu
Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (born 13 April 1930) is a Romanian film director, actor, screenwriter and politician. He is best known for his historical movies, such as Mihai Viteazul (1970, released in English both under the equivalent title Michael the Brave and also as The Last Crusade), Dacii (1966, Les Guerriers), Razboiul Independenţei (1977, War of Independence), as well as for his series of thrillers that take place in the interwar Kingdom of Romania, such as Un comisar acuză (1973, A Police Inspector Calls). He is one of the most popular film directors in Romania. Early life and education Sergiu Nicolaescu was born in Târgu Jiu, but he grew up in Timişoara, where his family moved when he was 5 years old. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest as a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, from 1948 to 1953 he was president of the University of Pennsylvania. In popular culture his name has become most identified with his fame as a perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States. Life and career Stassen, the fourth of five children, was born in West St. Paul, Minnesota, to Elsie Emma (née Mueller) and William Andrew Stassen, a farmer. He graduated from high school at age 14 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. He was elected District Attorney of Dakota County in 1930 and 1934, then elected Governor of Minnesota in 1938. He was seen as an "up and comer" after delivering... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence RA (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits. He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes, having failed in business and Thomas's precocious talent began to be the main source of the family's income; he had gained a reputation along the Bath road. His debut as a crayon portrait painter was made at Oxford, where he was well patronized, and in 1782 the family settled in Bath, where the young artist soon found himself fully employed in taking crayon likeness... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bud Freeman
Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906, Chicago, Illinois – March 15, 1991, Chicago) was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of the Big Band era. His major recordings were "The Eel", "Tillie's Downtown Now", "Crazeology", "The Buzzard", and "After Awhile", composed with Benny Goodman. Biography One of the original members of the Austin High School Gang which began in 1922, Freeman played the C-melody saxophone alongside his other band members such as Jimmy McPartland and Frank Teschemacher before switching to tenor saxophone two years later. Influenced by arti... Biography of Tony Dow
Tony Lee Dow (born April 13, 1945) is an American film producer, director, sculptor, and a television child actor of the 1950s and 1960s. Dow is best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which ran in primetime from 1957 to 1963 and in which he played Wallace "Wally" Cleaver, the older son of June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont), and the brother of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers). Early life and career Dow was born in Los Angeles, California to John Stevens, a designer and general contractor, and Muriel Virginia Dow (nee Montrose) (May 27th, 1906- April 30th, 2001), a stunt woman in early westerns and Clara Bow's movie double in Hollywood, California. In his youth, Dow was a Junior Olympics diving champion. He won the role... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marvin Webster
Marvin Nathaniel Webster (April 13, 1952 – April 4, 2009) was an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "The Human Eraser" and "Marvin the Magnificent", he played one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and nine in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Denver Nuggets (1975–77), Seattle SuperSonics (1977–78), New York Knickerbockers (1978–84) and Milwaukee Bucks (1986–87). College career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a Baltimore preacher, Webster attended Edmondson High School in the city. A four-year basketball letterman at Morgan State University, he earned the nickname "The Human Eraser" as a junior when he averaged eight blocked shots a game while helping the Bears capture the 1974 NCAA Division II Championship. He averaged 21 poi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe de Rothschild
Baron Philippe de Rothschild (13 April 1902–20 January 1988) was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a scriptwriter, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and one of the most successful wine growers in the world. Early life Born in Paris, Georges Philippe de Rothschild was the younger son of Baron Henri James de Rothschild (1872–1947) (who was a noted playwright under the name André Pascal) and Mathilde Sophie Henriette von Weissweiller (1872–1926). At the outbreak of World War I, 12-year-old Philippe was sent to the safety of the family's vineyard in the village of Pauillac in the Médoc. There, he developed a love of the country and the wine business, an enterprise in his family since 1853, but one his father and grandfather ha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bruno Cuche
Bruno Cuche, born April 13, 1948 in Constance, Germany, is a French general officer. He was French army chief of staff (July 15, 2006 - July 1, 2008). July 1, 2008, Channel 4 News, link: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/french+army+chief+quits+over+shooting/2309472?intcmp=rss_news_itnnews "The chief of the French army has resigned after a soldier fired live ammunition instead of blanks at a military show, injuring 17 people. General Bruno Cuche quit after President Nicolas Sarkozy - the head of the armed forces in France - pledged to react rapidly and severely and to seek explanations, blaming "unacceptable negligence". A statment from the office of Mr Sarkozy, said: "The President, the head of the armies, has accepted the resignation presented by army General Bruno... Biography of Jack Casady
Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13, 1944 in Washington D.C), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C. area rhythm and blues band "The Triumphs", he switched to bass during his high school years and while still underage (and with a forged I.D.), played the Washington D.C club scene, backing artists such as Little Anthony and the Imperials and Ray Charles. He became the bass player for Jefferson Airplane when lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, a high school friend and former Triumphs rhythm guitarist, invited him to join in late September of 1965. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the third pick in the 1999 NBA Draft. Early life Davis was born in Los Angeles, California. His grandmother and guardian, Lela Nicholson, was instrumental in pushing him to play basketball. With her encouragement, he eventually earned a scholarship to attend Crossroads School, a prestigious private school in Santa Monica, California. As a senior at Crossroads, Davis led his team to the Championship of The Beach Ball Classic tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina over perennial prep powerhouse Christ The King Regional High School ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Johnson
Louis Johnson (born April 13, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American bass guitarist. Johnson is best known for his group The Brothers Johnson and his session playing on several hit albums of the 1970s and '80s including the "best selling album of all time" Thriller. His signature sound is from the Music Man StingRay bass which Leo Fender especially made for him to first use and promote, and from his slapping technique. His work appears on many well-known records by prominent artists. Johnson played on Michael Jackson's albums Off the Wall, Thriller and Dangerous, and hit songs "Billie Jean" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". He also played on George Benson's Give Me the Night. He was one of three bassists on Herb Alpert's 1979 album Rise, which included it... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carlos Mortensen
Juan Carlos Mortensen (born April 13, 1972 in Ambato, Ecuador) is a professional poker player and the only Hispanic Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Mortensen is known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style. Mortensen moved from Spain to the United States in the late 1990s to play poker. He won $1,500,000 at the 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event. He also won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship in 2004 for $1,000,000. Mortensen won the Season Five World Poker Tour championship event, and its $3,970,415 first prize and his second WPT title, making him the first player to ever win the World Championship events at both the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. In 2010 Mortensen won ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arron Asham
Arron Asham (born April 13, 1978) is a Métis Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career Asham was drafted 71st overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut with Montreal during the 1998–99 season. After parts of four seasons with Montreal, he was traded to the New York Islanders on June 22, 2002 along with a 2002 5th round draft pick for Mariusz Czerkawski. After years of going back and forth between the Canadiens and Montreal's American Hockey League affiliate, Asham became a mainstay in the Islanders lineup with his most productive offensive season to date coming during his first season with his new team, 2002–03, when he scored 15 goals and 19 assist... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Quentin Richardson
Quentin L. Richardson (born April 13, 1980) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic. At 6'6" (1.98 m) and 228 lb (104 kg), he plays as a swingman. Collegiate career Richardson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Lee and Emma Richardson.He arrived at DePaul University after leading Whitney Young High School to the state AA boys Basketball title in 1998. He averaged 17.9 points per game, and 10.2 rebounds per game in his two seasons at DePaul. He became the only player in school history to have 1,000+ points, 500+ rebounds, and 100+ three-point field goals. As a freshman, he was elected both the Conference USA Player of the Year, and Freshman of the Year. Richardson declared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore year... Biography of Sergei Gonchar
Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar (Russian: Сергей Викторович Гончар; born April 13, 1974) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2009. Playing career Sergei Gonchar began his professional career in 1991 with Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Soviet Championship League. He also played two seasons for Dynamo Moscow. Gonchar was the first round pick, 14th overall, of the Washington Capitals in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. He began his North American career in 199... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lou Bega
David Lubega (born 13 April 1975), also known as Lou Bega, is a German musician of Italian and Ugandan descent, and is famous for his song "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)". This song is a remake of the Perez Prado instrumental from 1949. Bega added his own words to the song and sampled the original version extensively. Biography Bega's mother is from Calabria (Southern Italy) and his father is Ugandan. His father went to Germany in 1972 to study biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Until age six, Bega spent the most time with his mother in Italy. Then they lived permanently in Munich, where Bega attended German primary school. At age 15 he lived in Miami for one-and-a-half years. Bega also lived in Uganda for half a year. Currently he lives in Berlin. Bega starte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Herr Seele
Peter van Heirseele, best known as Herr Seele, born on April 13, 1959 in Torhout, is a Flemish painter, draftsman, film director, screenwriter, journalist, TV host, and radio host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Patrik Eliáš
Patrik Eliáš (Czech pronunciation: ( listen); born April 13, 1976) is a Czech professional hockey left winger and alternate captain for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has garnered much popularity for his puck-handling ability and ability to strike from any place on the ice. A long-time Devil, Eliáš is the franchise's all-time leading scorer, while also holding franchise records for most points in a season (96) and most career game-winning goals (74). Eliáš is also tied with Mats Sundin, Sergei Fedorov, and fellow Czech Jaromír Jágr for the most overtime goals scored in the NHL (15). Playing career Eliáš was drafted by the New Jersey Devils 51st overall (2nd round) in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. As part of the A Line with Petr Sýkora and Jason Arnott, ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Megan Rossee
Megan Rossee, born on April 13, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, is an American model and actress. She is Michael Phelps' girlfriend. External link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/megan-rossee-michael-phelps-girlfriend-model-things-to-know_n_1752248.html... Biography of Glenn Howerton
Glenn Franklin Howerton III (born April 13, 1976) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as Dennis Reynolds on FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (on which he is also a writer and executive producer). He also played Corey Howard on the short-lived 2002 sitcom That '80s Show and appeared in the 2008 horror film The Strangers. Early life and education Howerton was born in Japan, the son of American parents Janice and Glenn Franklin Howerton Jr., a fighter pilot. Howerton grew up in London, South Korea, and Montgomery, Alabama. After graduating from Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, he spent two years at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Howerton then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division (1996-2000, Group 29) where... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England. Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mo Johnston
Maurice John Giblin "Mo" Johnston (born 13 April 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a former football striker. Johnston began his football career with Partick Thistle in 1981 before moving to Watford in 1983. With Watford Johnston scored 23 league goals, made his international debut, and helped the team reach the 1984 FA Cup Final. After just over a season with Watford Johnston moved to Celtic where he became a prolific goalscorer with a return of 52 goals in 140 matches, winning the Scottish Cup in 1985 and League Championship in 1986. Johnston left Celtic for Nantes in 1987 before returning to Scotland with Rangers. In doing so he became only the second player to have played for both sides of the Old Firm since World War II (the first was Alfie Conn). After winning two Premier League titles w... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jett Travolta
Jett Travolta, born on April 13, 1992 in Daytona Beach, Florida (birth time source: Astrodatabank), died on January 2, 2009 in The Bahamas, was the son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. A Bahamian death certificate was issued, attributing the cause of death to a seizure. Jett, who had a history of seizures, reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease as an infant. In 2009, Travolta and Preston confirmed speculation that their son had autism and suffered regular seizures. They made their statements while giving testimony after a multi-million dollar extortion plot against them regarding the circumstances of their son's death. After a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges. Travolta has credited his family and faith in helping him survive the tragic death of his son, and in moving forward wi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (13 April 1747, – 6 November 1793) commonly known as Philippe, was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the ruling dynasty of France. He actively supported the French Revolution and adopted the name Philippe Égalité, but was nonetheless guillotined during the Reign of Terror. His son Louis-Philippe became King of the French after the July Revolution of 1830. Following his career, the term Orléanist came to be attached to the movement in France that favoured constitutional monarchy. Early life Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans was the son of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon. His mother came from the royal dynasty (the Bourbons) and Philippe himself was cousin to King Louis XVI. He was born at th... Biography of William Sadler (actor)
William Thomas Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor who works in film and television. His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, convict Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption, and—perhaps most notably—the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as the villainous Colonel Stuart alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2. Early life Sadler was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jane and William Sadler. From an early age, he took to performing in front of an audience. Armed with a variety of stringed instruments, Sadler found hometown success during his high school ... Biography of Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay (born Nell Marie McKay), is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed albums, and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera (2006), for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her music has showcased different genres, from jazz to rap and disco to funk. Early life Nellie McKay was born in London to writer-director Malcolm McKay and actress Robin Pappas. While growing up, she lived with her mother in Harlem, Olympia, WA, and rural Pennsylvania. McKay studied jazz voice at the Manhattan School of Music, but did not graduate. Her performances at various New York City music venues, including the Sidewalk Cafe and Joe's Pub, drew attention from record labels. She signed with Columbia Records. Career Nell... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Anders Lindegaard
Anders Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (born 13 April 1984) is a Danish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Manchester United, having joined the club in November 2010. He initially came through the ranks of hometown club Odense Boldklub, but left due to a lack of first team opportunities. He got his senior breakthrough winning the 2009 Norwegian Football Cup with Aalesund. He was named 2010 Goalkeeper of the Year in both Denmark and Norway. He represented Denmark at U19 and U20 level, before making his senior debut on 7 September 2010 against Iceland. Club career Odense Born in the Dyrup suburb of Odense, Lindegaard started his career at local Danish Superliga team Odense Boldklub (OB). He made his Danish Superliga debut in a 3–1 victory against Silkeborg IF on 19 November 2006. He mad... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Julia Stone
Julia Natasha Stone (born 13 April 1984) is an Australian folk-blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is the sister-half of Angus & Julia Stone and is also a solo musician. Her debut solo album, The Memory Machine, was issued in 2010. Her second solo album, By the Horns, appeared in May 2012, which peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Biography Julia Natasha Stone was born on 13 April 1984 and grew up in Sydney. Her parents, John and Kim Stone, were both folk musicians. John was a builder and later became a music teacher, who also performs in a covers band, Backbeat. Stone's older sister is Catherine (born ca. 1982) and her younger brother is Angus Stone (born 27 April 1986). Stone attended Newport Primary School and Barrenjoey High School. At primary school she j... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Andy Goram
Andrew Lewis Goram (born 13 April 1964 in Bury, Lancashire, England) is a former Scotland international association football goalkeeper. He started his career with Oldham Athletic and Hibernian, but he is best remembered for playing for Rangers during the 1990s, when he earned the moniker "The Goalie". In a 2001 poll of Rangers fans, Goram was voted Rangers' greatest ever goalkeeper. After his time with Rangers, he played for many clubs, most notably at Motherwell and a brief loan spell at Manchester United. Goram also represented Scotland at cricket. Early life The son of Edinburgh-born Lewis Goram, who had played professionally in the 1940s and 1950s for Leith Athletic, Hibernian, Third Lanark and Bury, Goram was born and raised in England, although he was brought up self-identify... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christina of Holstein-Gottorp
Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (13 April 1573 in Kiel – 8 December 1625 at Gripsholm Castle) was a Queen Consort of Sweden as consort of king Charles IX of Sweden, mother of king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and a Regent of Sweden. Biography Christina was the daughter of Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Christine of Hesse (daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse). In 1586, she was suggested as a bride for Sigismund of Poland, but nothing came of plans to marry him. On 8 July 1592, she became the second spouse of Charles, Duke of Södermanland, who in 1599 became Sweden's regent and in 1604 its king. She was crowned together with her spouse in Uppsala cathedral in 1607. Queen Christina was a domineering and strong-willed person with a strong sense of economy. She was both respecte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alan Clark
Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative MP and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War!. Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit, and irreverence. Norman Lamont called him "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times". He is particularly remembered for his three-volume diary, a candid account of political life under Thatcher, and a moving description of the weeks preceding h... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Henri, Prince of Condé
Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (Louis Henri Joseph; 13 April 1756 - 30 August 1830) was the Prince of Condé from 1818 to his death. He was the brother-in-law of Philippe Égalité and nephew of Victoire de Rohan. Life He was the only son of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé and his wife, Charlotte de Rohan. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a prince du sang and was entitled to the style of Serene Highness, prior to his accession to the Condé title, while he was known as the duke of Enghien and later as Duke of Bourbon. On succeeding his father he was entitled to the style of Royal Highness. Marriage On 24 April 1770, he married Bathilde d'Orléans, only surviving daughter of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and Louise Henriette de Bourbon. The couple w... Biography of Hillel Slovak
Hillel Slovak (Hebrew: הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak recorded two albums with the band, Freaky Styley (1985) and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987). His guitar work was primarily rooted in funk and hard rock, although he often experimented with other genres including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound. Born in Haifa, Israel, Slovak immigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. Slovak met future band mates Anthony... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Topart
Jean Topart, born on April 13, 1922 in Paris, died on December 29, 2012 in Port-Marly (Yvelines), was a French comedian, actor, and voice actor. Filmography Cinema 1948 : Le Sorcier du ciel de Marcel Blistène 1956 : Le Théâtre National Populaire de Georges Franju (court-métrage documentaire) 1957 - 1958 : narrateur dans le film Les Misérables de Jean-Paul Le Chanois 1959 : Le Testament du docteur Cordelier de Jean Renoir 1962 : Le Chevalier de Pardaillan de Bernard Borderie 1964 : Hardi Pardaillan de Bernard Borderie 1964 : Angélique Marquise des Anges de Bernard Borderie 1966 : Soleil noir de Denys de La Patellière 1966 : Roger La Honte (Trappola per l'assassino) de Riccardo Freda 1966 : Le Soleil des voyous de Jean Delannoy 1967... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Preston Reed
Preston Reed (born April 13, 1955, Armonk, New York) is an American fingerstyle guitarist. In 1987 he invented a two-handed playing style and compositional approach that integrates the full percussive potential of the guitar body. In doing so Reed revolutionized guitar playing. Biography Preston Reed learned guitar as a child on his father's guitar and, for a short time, classical guitar with a too-severe teacher. When he was 16 his interest was rekindled by Jorma Kaukonen's acoustic guitar-playing in Hot Tuna. He took the guitar again and began to compose his own songs in the style of Leo Kottke and John Fahey. His first public performance was at Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., in a concert with Allen Ginsberg. He continued recording and performing and signed his first maj... |
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