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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on August, 2, 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 · 45,667 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,667 Celebrities
113 celebrities or events were found for August, 2. Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Muriel Robin
Muriel Robin is a French one woman show, an actress and humorist.... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Priscilla (French singer)
French singer and actress.... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is an American actress. She has been the recipient of the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current role on Showtime's Weeds. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early Work Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated f... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (Peter James O'Toole) (b. August 2, 1932 (accepted but presumed date) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. He has received three Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. He was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work (2003). Despite eight nominations, he has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar. Early life Peter O'Toole was born in 1932, with some sources giving his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England, where he also grew up. O'Toole himself is not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that while he accepts August 2 as his birthdate, he has conflicting birth certificates in both countries, with the Irish one giving a June, 1932 birthdate. He was the son of an Irish... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Sam Worthington
Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an English/Australian actor. After almost a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Worthington gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation (2009), the lead role as Jake Sully in the James Cameron-directed film Avatar (2009), Perseus in the movie Clash of the Titans (2010) and Captain Alex Mason in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. In 2004, Worthington received Australia's highest film award for his lead performance in Somersault. He performed predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low-budget films before transitioning to major studio films, ranging from romantic drama and comedy-drama to science fiction and action. He was selected as one of the entrant... Biography of Anne Lauvergeon
Anne Lauvergeon (born August 2, 1959 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France), is a French businesswoman, and CEO of Areva. In 2009, she was ranked by the magazine Forbes as the ninth-most powerful woman in the world. Biography In 1978 she attended the École Normale Supérieure to pass the Agrégation in physics. Then she entered the Corps des Mines. In 1983 she enrolled in her first vocational course with the Corps de Mines, in the iron and steel industry, at Usinor. A second vocational course, in 1984, took place with the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, where she studied chemical safety in Europe. From 1985 to 1988, she was with the l'Inspection générale des carrières (IGC). In 1990, she was placed in charge of the mission for the international economy and foreign trade by French President Fra... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977 in Glendale, California, USA) is an American actor well known for playing young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Danny Vinyard in American History X. Early life Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank, to Eleanor (née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. He is half-Mexican on his mother's side, and also has Russian and possibly Native American ancestry. Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in the summer of 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September of 1991 and subsequently lost it in August 1993, to his mother. Furlong attended Elliot Junior High Sc... Biography of Nadia Bjorlin
Nadia Alexandra Björlin (credited as Bjorlin) (born August 2, 1980) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Bjorlin was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but lived in Sweden until the age of 7. Her father was the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin (1933-1993). Her mother, Fary, whose background is Persian, is an interior decorator. Nadia speaks Swedish, Farsi, English and can sing in other languages as well. She is also renowned for her beautiful soprano voice. When her family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, she attended the Palm Beach County School of the Arts (now Dreyfoos School of the arts) along with her brothers Ulf and Jean Paul, where she excelled in music and theater. All three siblings have found success in show business since graduation. Bjorl... Biography of Auguste Frédéric Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (August 2, 1834 – October 4, 1904) was a French sculptor. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz. Born in Colmar, Alsace, when his father died two years later, he went to Paris to further his studies in architecture as well as painting. Then he made a long travel in Egypt and Yemen, where he heard about the Suez project. He came back to his native city to became a true architect. His first masterpiece is General's Rapp monument in Colmar. Then he had a lot of success in Alsace. The work for which he is most famous is the Statue of Liberty, donated in 1886 by the Union Franco-Americaine (Franco-American Union), founded by Edouard de Laboulaye, to the United States. It was rumored all over France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bar... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Giresse
Alain Giresse (born August 2, 1952 in Langoiran, Gironde) was a French professional football (soccer) midfielder. He played for the France national football team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup (fourth place) and the 1986 FIFA World Cup (third place). He also was a member of the Euro 84 winning team.... Biography of Louis Pauwels
Louis Pauwels (born in Belgium, August 2, 1920 - January 28, 1997) was a French journalist and writer. A teacher at Athis-Mons from 1939 to 1945 (licence de Lettres was interrupted at the start of the Second World War), Louis Pauwels wrote in many monthly literary French magazines as early as 1946 (including Esprit and Variété) until the 1950s. He participated in the foundation of Travail et Culture (Work and Culture) in 1946 (intended to spread culture to the masses, and of which he was the secretary). In 1948, he joined the work groups of G. I. Gurdjieff for fifteen months, until he became editor in chief of Combat in 1949 and editor of the newspaper Paris-Presse. He directed (among others) the Bibliothèque Mondiale (World-wide Library) (the precursor of "Livre de Poche" ), Carrefour ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Youssouf Fofana (killer)
Youssouf Fofana, born August 2, 1980 in Paris, is a French and Ivorian murderer. He was the leader of Gang des barbares, and tortured and killed a young phone vendor, Ilan Halimi, February 13, 2006 because he was a Jew.... Biography of Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Llona, (born in Lima, Peru; 2 August 1942), is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realist" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She is largely famous for her contributions to Latin-American literature, novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus (1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias) (2002), which have been hugely successful. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California along with her husband, having adopted American citizenship in 200... Biography of Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy (born August 2, 1945) is an American actress who has been active in film and television much of her career. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Cassidy was born Joanna Virginia Caskey in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She got her start guest starring on television series such as Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Starsky & Hutch and Fantasy Island, as well as having starring roles on programs such as 240-Robert, Buffalo Bill, and Dallas. In 1982, she had her first major feature film role as the replicant Zhora in Blade Runner. The following year, she co-starred in Under Fire with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte. She was also featured in such films as Hollywood Wives (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Package (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Barbarians at the Gate... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, writer, film director, actor and comic book writer. He is also the founder of View Askew Productions. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, do feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon: the View Askewniverse. Personal life Smith was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Grace, a homemaker, and Donald Smith, a postal worker. He has an older sister, Virginia, and an older brother, Donald Smith, Jr. He was raised in a Catholic household and attended Henry Hudson Regional High School in Highlands, The New School for Social Research in New York and the Vancouver Film School, where he met Scott Mosier, his producer in every movie ... Biography of Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character. Early life Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Caroline (née Miller) and Paul Craven. He had a strict Baptist upbringing. Craven earned an undergraduate degree in writing and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a masters degree in writing seminars from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to landing his first job in the film industry as a sound editor for a post-production company in New York, Craven briefly taught English at Westminster College and was a humanities professor at Clarkson University. With now ex-wife Bonnie Chapin, he i... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacinda Barrett
Jacinda Barrett (born August 2, 1972) is an Australian model turned actress. She first became known to audiences as a cast member on The Real World: London, before appearing in films such as Ladder 49, The Human Stain, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Early life and career Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Barrett started modeling at the age of seventeen, through Europe. In 1995 she had her first television appearance as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: London. After the show, she attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Her first film role came in 1997 when she starred in Campfire Tales. Barrett appeared in the September 1998 issue of Maxim magazine, in an article promoting the new fall TV series for the upcoming TV season. Her appearance served to pr... Biography of Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American motion picture actress. Her most famous role was as Nora Charles, wife of detective Nick Charles (William Powell), in The Thin Man series. In 1938 she was voted the "Queen of Hollywood" in a contest which also voted Clark Gable the "King". Early life She was born Myrna Adele Williams in Radersburg, Montana (near Helena), the daughter of Welsh rancher David Franklin Williams and his wife, Della Mae. Loy's first name came from a train station whose name her father liked. Her father was also a banker and real estate developer and the youngest man ever elected to the Montana state legislature. Her mother studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Myrna Williams made her stage debut at age 12 in Helena's ... Biography of Angel Boris
Angel Lynn Boris (born August 2, 1974 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) is an American model, actress and singer. Measurements 34" - 22" - 34" Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 110 lb (50 kg) While working for Hawaiian Tropic, she appeared in a Playboy pictorial featuring the women of Hawaiian Tropic, and in July 1996 she became Playboy's Playmate of the Month. She appeared in many Special Editions of the magazine and has also appeared nude in other magazines and websites. She has also acted in several films and has appeared on numerous television shows. She worked as a booth babe for Eidos Interactive at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). She is married and has a son. Major Film Roles The Still Life (2005) as "Cindy" The Deviants (film) (2004) as "Cecilia the Sex-... Biography of Rosalie van Breemen
Rosalie van Breemen (born August 2, 1966 in Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a former Dutch model, a presenter and a journalist. She had a relationship with French actor Alain Delon. Model Rosalie grew up in Utrecht. While still in high school, she won a model contest for the Dutch magazine Panorama. She participated in Miss International 1984, and won World Miss University 1986. She was studying Law and German, but gave it up when she gained success as a model. Presenter As an 18 year old, she debuted as presenter of Popshop TV at the NCRV. She also worked for RTL 4 and RTL 5. In 2007 she is a judge on Holland's Next Top Model. "Mrs. Delon" In 1987 Rosalie met French actor Alain Delon, when she was hired to perform as a background singer for a videoclip of his. Although the ag... Biography of Maya Perez
Maya Perez, born August 2, 1905 in Georgetown, is a psychic and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Edelfelt
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter. Albert Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland. His father Carl Albert was an architect. Edelfelt admired the poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was a friend of the family. The company of Runeberg had a lasting impact on Edelfelt, who from time to time turned to scenes from Finnish history in his paintings. Edelfelt went on to illustrate Runeberg's epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål. He studied art in Antwerp (1873 - 1874), Paris (1874 - 1878) and Saint Petersburg (1881 - 1882). He married Baroness (friherinnan) Ellan de la Chapelle in 1888 and they had one child. Edelfelt was one of the first Finnish artists to achieve international fame. He enjoyed considerable success in Paris and was one of the f... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Camille Hilaire
Camille Hilaire, born August 2, 1916 in Metz, died in 2004, was a French painter.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Zidek
Jiří Zídek, Jr., generally referred to in English as George Zidek (born August 2, 1973, in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia (now Zlín, Czech Republic)), is a retired Czech professional basketball player. He was selected by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1995 NBA Draft. Zidek played in 3 NBA seasons for the Hornets, Denver Nuggets and Seattle SuperSonics, averaging 3.4 ppg in his NBA career. He played collegiately at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and was a member of their 1995 NCAA championship team. In 1998, he returned to Europe, joining former UCLA teammate Tyus Edney on Lithuanian power Žalgiris. His first season back in Europe saw him lift the Euroleague championship trophy with Žalgiris, becoming the first Czech ever to win the Euroleague... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Craig Virgin
Craig Steven Virgin (born August 2, 1955) is an American distance runner. He was born in Belleville, Illinois and grew up near Lebanon, Illinois. While in high school, Virgin won 5 state championships as well as setting the national outdoor 2-mile record of 8:40.9 (beating Steve Prefontaine's mark of 8:41.5, though slightly short of Gerry Lindgren's 8:40.0 indoor record from 1964). While attending the University of Illinois, he won nine Big Ten Conference championships as well as the 1975 NCAA Cross Country championship. He was a three time Olympic qualifier at 10,000 meters. He was a seven time American record holder in road and track events, including a 27:39.4 in the 10,000 meters in 1979 (breaking Prefontaine's American record) and a 27:29.16 in 1980 that was the second fastest 10,0... Biography of Anne Osmont
Anne Osmont, born August 2, 1872 in Toulouse, died May 13, 1953 in Paris, was a Franch author, occultist, clairvoyant and lecturer.... Biography of Tobin Bell
Tobin Bell (born August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor who was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Bell often plays the role of a villain and serial killer; he was cast as a hitman in Sydney Pollack's The Firm and as Unabomber Theodore John Kaczynski in the made-for-TV movie Unabomber: The True Story; and most recently has played the role of the nefarious "Jigsaw," a serial killer who wants others to appreciate the value of life via twisted "games" in the 2004 film Saw and its sequels, Saw II and Saw III, as well as the upcoming Saw IV. Bell is a renowed lover of animals and has brought his five cats and two dogs on the sets of his movies. He is also a friend of entertainer Kylie Minogue. He received a 2006 MTV Movie Award nomination for "B... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ron Brierley
Sir Ronald Alfred "Ron" Brierley (born 2 August 1937) is a New Zealand investor and corporate raider, chairman and director of a number of companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He founded R. A. Brierley Investments (BIL; from October 2007 GuocoLeisure) in March 1961 with no capital. By 1984 BIL was the largest company in New Zealand by market capitalization, and in 1987 had 160,000 shareholders, with a stake in over 300 companies, including Paris department store Galleries Lafayette and Air New Zealand. Personal life Brierley was born in Wellington during 1937 to middle class parents. He went to primary school at Island Bay School, and Wellington College high school. At high school he joined the New Stamp Dealers Federation, and begun his first business venture selling stamps... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alan Whicker
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born August 2, 1925, Cairo, Egypt) is a British journalist and broadcaster. Background As a young child Whicker moved from Egypt to Richmond, London upon the death of his father. Brought up by his mother, he attended Haberdashers' Aske's School and upon leaving school during the Second World War he was commissioned as an officer in the Devonshire Regiment of the British Army, reaching the rank of captain by 1943. He then joined the (British) Army Film and Photo Unit in Italy in 1943, filming at Anzio, and meeting such influential figures as Bernard Montgomery. He was also responsible for taking into custody the notorious British traitor John Amery. In 2004, Whicker appeared in a successful television series on this topic, titled Whicker's War. In this... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fabio Testi
Fabio Testi is an Italian actor, star of, among many others, the film First Action Hero which, curiously, is not included in his official website's filmography. Born in Italy on 2 August 1941, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. In the 1970s, Fabio Testi became the subject of news items on account of his involvement with international superstar Ursula Andress. The relationship lasted three years, but ended when Testi decided he was too jealous a lover. Another romance found him in the arms of Charlotte Rampling but he would only marry in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three childr... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Corinne Rey-Bellet
Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 and won a total of five World Cup races. She retired in 2003 because of a series of injuries to her right knee. Death Rey-Bellet was shot and killed in her parents' home in the Swiss village of Les Crosets, Canton Valais on Sunday, 30 April 2006 by her husband Gerold Stadler. She was three months pregnant. Her brother Alain, who was to have been married the following Friday, was also killed, and her mother Verena was severely injured. Corinne's two-year-old son, Kevin, home at the time of the attack, was left unharmed, and Corinne's father was not home at the time. A warrant was issued for the arrest of her h... Biography of Bernard Dhellemme
Bernard Dhellemme, born August, 2, 1943 in Lomme, is a French pilot. He was the Commander of the Air-France Airbus A320 that was taken by four terrorists on 12/24/1995, Algiers.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stephanie Honer
Stefanie Höner, born August 2, 1969 in Dortmund, is a German actress, famous for her role as Nina Pietsch in the German telenovela Verliebt in Berlin. Verliebt in Berlin (German for "In Love in Berlin") is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland - its final episode will be broadcasted on October 12, 2007. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea ("I am Betty, the ugly one"), written by Fernando Gaitán (also author of Café, con aroma de mujer) and produced by RCN TV. The original season of the serial comedy-drama follows the life of the unsophisticated but good-natured Lisa Plenske (Neldel), and her... Biography of Mathieu Carrière
Mathieu Carrière (born August 2, 1950 in Hannover, Germany) is an actor. Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck and partly went to school in France. His sister Mareike Carrière is also a well known actor. After a minor role in Tonio Kröger he played a main part in the 1966 German movie Der junge Törless (US title: Young Törless). In 1969 Carrière moved to Paris to study Philosophy and continue his acting. Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known to fight for the rights of fathers. Selected filmography Arsène Lupin (2004) Luther (2003) La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982) Exzess und Bestrafung (1980) Bilitis (1977) Gates to Paradise (1968) Young Törless (1966) Tonio Kröger (1964)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roland Agret
Roland Agret, born August 2, 1942 in Clermont-Ferrand, is condemned in 1970 to 15 years of reclusion to have been the instigator of a murder. In spite of its protests of innocence, he will be more than 6 years in prison. He is released by Presidential pardon (for medical reasons) in 1977 after an hunger strike of 1 year and 28 days.... Biography of Kathryn Harrold
Kathryn Harrold (born August 2, 1950) is an American television and movie actress. Harrold was born in Tazewell, Virginia. She has appeared in a number of TV series, including The Rockford Files, MacGruder and Loud, The Bronx Zoo, I'll Fly Away, The Larry Sanders Show', and Mister Sterling. She attended Mills College, Oakland, CA. majoring in Drama. She was Steve McQueen's leading lady in the screen legend's final film, The Hunter, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's leading lady in the action vehicle Raw Deal. She also co-starred with Luciano Pavarotti in 1982's Yes, Giorgio. Harrold starred in 1981's Modern Romance, where she played the ex-girlfriend of Albert Brooks' character. The film received a limited release and ultimately grossed under $3 million domestically, but was well receiv... Biography of Victoria Jackson
Victoria Jackson (born August 2, 1959, in Miami, Florida) is an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992. Raised by devoted Christians in a home without a TV, she was trained in gymnastics by her gym-coach father from ages 5 to 18. Jackson attended a private Christian high school, Dade Christian School, where she was a cheerleader and the Homecoming Queen. Three years of gymnastics competitions led to a scholarship at Furman University in South Carolina. She also spent one year at Auburn University, before earning a degree in theatre from Palm Beach Atlantic University. Appearing in summer stock in Alabama led to a chance meeting with Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) who cast her in his ni... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted workingman Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the 1980s NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night, where he played the role of Sheriff William (Bill) Gillespie in 1995 and Police Chief Bill Gillespie from 1988 to 1994. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You. ... Biography of Alice Evans
Alice Jane Evans (born August 2, 1971) is an English actress. She is most widely recognised as the wife of Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd. Biography Evans, the daughter of educators, was born in Summit, New Jersey, USA but grew up in Bristol, England. She graduated from University College London after receiving a 2:1 in French and Italian. Evans had an eight-year relationship with Olivier Picasso, the grandson of painter Pablo Picasso. She briefly enjoyed It-Girl status whilst living with Picasso in Paris and they became engaged. Ioan Gruffudd stated on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that he became engaged to Evans in the early hours of New Year's Day 2006 after Evans gave him an ultimatum. They met during the production of 102 Dalmatians and were dating unofficially until Evans... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault (Chaville, 2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault founded the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris 1919, which, for many, dates the beginnings of Surrealism . The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. His works include such fat volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr. Last Nights of Pari... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aaron Krickstein
Aaron Krickstein (born August 2, 1967) is an American former professional tennis player on the ATP Tour who competed from 1983 to 1996. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he currently competes on the Outback Champions Series Over-30 tour. Krickstein reached his career high ATP ranking of World No. 6, on February 26, 1990. He achieved this ranking on the back of wins in Sydney and Los Angeles, as well as his best ever results at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Career Junior Krickstein began playing tennis when he was six years old. He became an active competitor on the high school tennis scene during his teens, and still holds the Michigan record for most consecutive match wins in at this level (56); he played for University Liggett School . He also won the American National Under 16 ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ira Progoff
Ira Progoff (August 2, 1921 – January 1, 1998) was an American psychotherapist, best known for his development of the Intensive Journal Method while at Drew University. His main interest was in depth psychology and particularly the humanistic adaptation of Jungian ideas to the lives of ordinary people. He founded Dialogue House in New York City to help promote this method. Events Served in United States Army during World War II era Received PhD in psychology from New School for Social Research in New York City 1952, 1953, 1955: Studied with Carl Jung in Switzerland as a Bollingen Fellow 1959-1971: Depth psychologist and Director of the Institute for Research in Depth Psychology at Drew University 1975: At a Journal Workshop first published, popularizing basics of Intensive Jour... Biography of James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924–November 30, 1987) was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved. James Arthur Baldwin, an African American, was a writer. When he was an infant, his mother, Emma Berdis Joynes, moved to Harlem, NY. When he was still young, his mother married a preacher, David Baldwin, who adopted James. The family was poor; and James... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Betsy Bloomingdale
Betsy Bloomingdale (born Betty Lee Newling on August 2, 1926) is an internationally known socialite. She is the widow of Alfred S. Bloomingdale, and is close friends with former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Bloomingdale grew up as the daughter of a socially-prominent Los Angeles, California family, and holds the namesake of the United States department store outlet Bloomingdale's, as her husband was the chain's heir. She is a frequent party host, many for charity, being dubbed "Good Queen Betts". Mrs. Bloomingdale is a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, currently residing in Holmby Hills. A Roman Catholic, she was involved in fundraising projects for the Los Angeles Cathedral. She also contributed to the funding for the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Bloomingdal... Biography of Linda Fratianne
Linda Sue Fratianne (born August 2, 1960 in Los Angeles-Northridge, California, U.S.) was an American Olympic figure skater, who won four consecutive U.S. Championships (1977-1980). Early career Linda Fratianne's father was the former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Fratianne (died 2002). Her mother was Virginia Fratianne. Her parents were divorced. Throughout her figure skating career, she was coached by Frank Carroll. Fratianne was particularly known for her ability to easily and beautifully complete difficult triple jumps, and she became the first female skater to land two different types of triple jumps (toe loop and salchow) in her free skating programs in 1976 at the U.S. National Championships. Her strong free skating technique complemented her elegant style, which... Biography of Apollonia Kotero
Apollonia Kotero, born Patricia Kotero on August 2, 1959 in Santa Monica, California, is an actress, singer, former model and talent manager. Kotero, born in Santa Monica, California, is of Mexican descent. Apollonia is perhaps best known for co-starring in Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain and for having been the lead singer in the girl group Apollonia 6. Career Early career Kotero initially pursued fame and fortune via work as an actress, singer and a model. After winning the Miss San Pedro beauty competition and a stint as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1980s, Kotero began acting in roles both in television shows and films such as CHiPs, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Fantasy Island, Matt Houston, and Knight Rider. In 1982, she appeared in the videos for "The Other Woman"... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Natashia Williams
Natashia Williams-Blach (born on August 2, 1978 in Pontiac, Illinois) is an American actress and former Wonderbra campaign model, who is perhaps best known for her role as Shane Phillips in NBC/Syndicated series She Spies. She also co-starred in So Little Time, opposite Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and most recently co-starred in Nickelodeon series Romeo! from 2004 to 2006. She appeared on the seventh season of American Idol as Natashia Blach. The change in surname was due to her marriage. She made it through the Hollywood round to the top 50 but got cut just before the Top 24 were selected. Starring TV roles Romeo! (2004-2006) as Angeline Eckert Miller She Spies (2002-2004) as Shane Phillips So Little Time (2001-2002) as Teddi TV guest appearances American Idol: Season 7... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcel Iures
Marcel Iureş (born August 2, 1951) is a Romanian stage and screen actor. He was born in Băileşti and has appeared in a several American films, the most noted being Amen, Hart's War, Mission: Impossible, Interview with the Vampire, The Peacemaker, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The director of Fundaţia Teatrul ACT, the first independent stage in Romania, Iureş also stars as a stage actor in various roles, including the title roles of William Shakespeare's Richard II, Richard III (directed by Mihai Măniuţiu), and Hamlet (directed by Liviu Ciulei). He has also appeared in Fundaţia Teatrul ACT-staged shows such as Creatorul de Teatru (The Creator of the Theatre, directed by Alexandru Dabija), Cetatea Soarelui (Citadel of the Sun, dir... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cedric Ceballos
Cedric Z. Ceballos (born August 2, 1969 in Maui, Hawaii) is an American professional basketball player with the ABA's Maywood Buzz and formerly of the NBA. As a small forward, he played most notably for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns, later finishing his NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, and Miami Heat. Ceballos attended college at Ventura College and later Cal State Fullerton. His career highlights include leading the NBA in field goal percentage (57.6) in 1992-93 with the Suns, who reached the NBA finals that year. He also lead the Lakers in scoring in 1994-95 with a 21.7 average and made the All-Star team, and in 1995-96 again led the Lakers with a 21.2 average, notching the Lakers' first 50-point game in over 20 years in 1995, and won the NBA Sla... Biography of Félix Leclerc
Félix Leclerc, OC GOQ (August 2, 1914 - August 8, 1988) was a French-Canadian folk singer, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was born in La Tuque, Quebec, Canada from a family of pioneers in 1914, sixth in a family of eleven children. He began his studies at the University of Ottawa but was forced to stop due to the Great Depression. Leclerc worked at several jobs before taking jobs as a radio announcer in Quebec City and Trois-Rivières from 1934 to 1937. In 1939, he began working as a writer at Radio-Canada in Montreal, developing scripts for radio dramas, including Je me souviens. He performed some of his earliest songs there. He also acted in various dramas, including Un Homme et son péché. He published a number of his scripts and founded a performing compan... Biography of Kathy Lennon
The Lennon Sisters were a singing group consisting of four siblings: Dianne (born December 1, 1939), Peggy (born April 8, 1941), Kathy (born August 2, 1943), and Janet (born June 15, 1946). They were all born in Los Angeles, California. They are the eldest four in a family of 12 siblings. Career The quartet debuted on The Lawrence Welk Show on Christmas Eve 1955 after their school classmate, Larry Welk, son of Lawrence Welk, brought them to the attention of his father. Mr. Welk was home, sick in bed, when his son brought the sisters in to sing for him. He was so impressed he picked up the phone and booked them for that week's show. Their immediate and immense popularity was due not only to their beautiful harmonies, but to their natural charm and genuine sweetness as well. They were a ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Zeca Afonso
José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, also known as Zeca Afonso (Portuguese pronunciation: ) or Zeca (August 2, 1929 - February 23, 1987) was born in Aveiro, Portugal, son of José Nepomuceno Afonso, a judge, and Maria das Dores. Zeca is among the most influential folk and political musicians in Portuguese history. He became an icon among Portuguese left-wing activists due to the role of his music in the resistance against the dictatorial regime of Oliveira Salazar that triumphed in 1974, with the pro-democratic leftist military coup of the Carnation Revolution. In the ensuing revolutionary process, Zeca was a very active musician and continued composing political and folk songs, often criticizing the post-revolutionary changes. Years after his death, Zeca Afonso is still widely listened... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Donnie Munro
Donnie Munro/Donaidh Rothach (born August 2, 1953, Uig, Isle of Skye) is a Scottish musician, and former lead singer of the band Runrig. A native speaker of Scottish Gaelic, much of his work is in that language. He attended Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and did a postgraduate in teaching at Moray House in Edinburgh. He first saw Runrig play in 1973 and was approached one year later to become a member of the band. As lead singer of Runrig, Munro became established as the leading Gaelic popular music performer of the 1980s and 1990s. Munro was elected as Rector of the University of Edinburgh in 1991, a position he held until 1994. He contested the Scottish Parliament seat of Ross, Skye and Inverness West at the 1999 election for Labour, but was defeated by Liberal Democrat John F... Biography of Harry Smith (wrester)
Harry Smith (born August 2, 1985) is a Canadian-American-British professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment and has wrestled on its Raw brand under the ring name DH Smith ("D" for Davey Boy Smith, and "H" for the Hart family). He is currently wrestling in the WWE's farm territory, Florida Championship Wrestling under his own name. Career Independent circuit (2000–2004) Smith began wrestling at the age of eight, having trained under his father Davey Boy Smith and uncle Bruce Hart. He made an early appearance with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on October 5, 1996 at the age of 10 when he teamed with his cousin Ted Annis against TJ Wilson and Andrew Picarnia at a WWF house show in Calgary. He made his professional debut at the age of fifteen at the R... Biography of Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding decision during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He currently hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Early life and career Ito was born to Jim and Toshi Ito. As children, both had been kept in Japanese American internment camps with their families during World War II. Ito attended John Marshall High School, where he was student body president and received the Scholar Athlete award in 1968. He earned his Bachelors Degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall in 1975. He then joined the Los An... Biography of Angell Conwell
Angell Conwell (born August 2, 1983 in Orangeburg, South Carolina) is an American actress and model. Angell moved to Columbia, South Carolina at the age of 2. She attended Seven Oaks Elementary School in Columbia where she was the first African-American student body president. In 1994 she moved to Los Angeles to film the TV pilot "On Our Own". She also starred in films such as Soul Plane and Baby Boy and appeared in TV productions and series like What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway, One on One and Cuts. Filmography Movies Frankenhood (2008) (post production) Show Stoppers (2007) (post-production) Portal (2008) (post production) Half Past Dead 2 (2007) Rhythm City Volume One: Caught Up (2005) Sugar Valentine (2004) Soul Plane (2004) BraceFace Brandi (2002) Th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Weyergans
François Weyergans (b. 2 August 1941) is a Belgian (French speaking) writer and director. He was born at Etterbeek in Brussels. His father, Franz Weyergans was a Belgian, and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. He completed film studies at the IDHEC (Hautes Études Cinématographiques), where he came to love the films of Bresson and Godard, among others. He soon began to write for Cahiers du cinema and directed his first film in 1961, on Maurice Béjart. Novels After having been through some psychoanalysis, he published a satirical account of his treatment, a novel called Le Pitre (1971), which attracted some critical notice and won the Prix Roger Nimier. His second novel in 1981 was Macaire le Copte. This won the Prix Rossel in his native Belgium, as well as... Biography of Olivier Gruner
Olivier Gruner (born 2 August 1960 in Paris, France) is a former Commando Marine and World Kickboxing Champion. He became an actor specializing in the field of physical fitness. Early life Gruner was born into a family where both his father and brother became noted surgeons and his younger brother became an engineer. After seeing a Bruce Lee movie at age 11, Gruner became captivated with martial arts and began studying Shotokan Karate, and then boxing and kickboxing. Military At age 18, rather than pursuing the academic life many expected of him, he joined the French Military, volunteering for their Commando Marine unit. As a part of his military training he learned to scuba dive, sky dive and climb. Career In 1981 Gruner left the French military to train full time to comp... Biography of Butch Vig
Butch Vig (born Bryan David Vigorson, August 2, 1957 (source : Imdb), Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a record producer and the drummer for the rock band, Garbage. Early career Vig became interested in music and production work when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin main campus in Madison. Vig was studying film, and subsequently became involved in the Madison music scene. During college, he lived with the musician, Laurie Lindeen, who went on to form her own band and eventually married the noted musician Paul Westerberg. Vig produced several local and regional punk rock bands, such as Killdozer and The Other Kids. While enrolled in college, Vig met Duke Erikson and Steve Marker. With Erikson, Vig began the band that became Spooner in 1979. Vig and Marker spent hours rec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sola Akingbola
Sola Akingbola, born August 2, 1965 in Lagos, Nigeria, is a musician, member of group Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai are an English acid jazz/funk/soul/disco band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the Brand New Heavies, Galliano, and Corduroy. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as, but not limited to, pop, rock and electronica. Jamiroquai has sold over 21 million albums all over the world. Members Jamiroquai Rob Harris Paul Turner Matt Johnson Derrick McKenzie Sola Akingbola Lorraine McIntosh Hazel Fernandez Sam Smith Former members Gavin Dodds Simon Katz Nick Fyffe Stuart Zender Simon Carter Toby Smith Mike Smith Nick Van Gelder Darren ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Karl Bayer
Karl Bayer, born August 2, 1896 in Berlin, was a German professional astrologer and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Simone Valère
Simone Gondoff, best known as Simone Valère, born August 2, 1921 (source: Wikipedia in French) in Paris, died November 11, 2010 in Roinville-sous-Dourdan (Essonne), was French actress and comedian. She is the wife of actor Jean Desailly (born August 20, 1920 in Paris, died June 11, 2008 in Paris). Filmography 1942 : Annette et la dame blonde, de Jean Dréville 1943 : Les Roquevillard, , de Jean Dréville 1943 : Le Voyageur de la Toussaint, de Louis Daquin 1946 : La Revanche de Roger-la-honte, de André Cayatte 1948 : Manon, d'Henri-Georges Clouzot 1949 : La Beauté du diable, de René Clair 1951 : La nuit est mon royaume, de Georges Lacombe 1952 : Violettes impériales, de Richard Pottier 1963 : Germinal, de Yves Allégret 1966 : La Curée, de Roger Vadim 1972 : L'Assass... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Chabot
Jean Chabot (August 2, 1945 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville (Québec)) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149307/ ) Director: 1. Mack Sennett, roi du comique (2000) ... aka Mack Sennett: King of Comedy (Canada: English title) 2. Sans raison apparente (1995) 3. La nuit avec Hortense (1988) 4. Voyage en Amérique avec un cheval emprunté (1987) 5. Le futur intérieur (1982) ... aka The Future Interior 6. La fiction nucléaire (1979) 7. Le ventre de la nuit (1978) 8. Mardi - Un jour anonyme (1978) 9. Mercredi - Petits souliers, petit pain (1977) 10. Samedi - Le Ventre de la nuit (1977) 11. Une nuit en Amérique (1975) 12. Histoire de pêche (1975) 13. Mon enfa... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss (born August 2, 1976 in Washington, DC) is a former competitive and currently professional American figure skater. Career He began skating at the age of nine and has made nineteen trips to the US Nationals. He is a three-time national champion (1999, 2000, 2003) a two-time World bronze medalist (1999, 2000), and two time Olympic team member. He was the first American to land a quadruple toe loop in competition. He is currently coached by Don Laws and was previously coached by Audrey Weisiger. Weiss is the only skater to perform the Tornado, a backflip with a full twist, which he created. It is an illegal move to perform in competition, but it is a crowd favorite in exhibitions. Weiss comes from an athletic family. His sister Geremi was also a figure skater and junio... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ellen Yoakum
Ellen Yoakum, born August 2, 1903 in Hillsboro, Texas, is an American healer by laying-on-hands.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Otwell
The Otwell Twins are an American singing duo made up of identical twin brothers Roger and David, born August 2, 1956 in Tulia, Texas. They are best known as members of The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977 to 1982. Singing and playing the guitar since their days in junior high and in high school, the brothers joined the Welk organization in October 1977, after attending Lubbock Christian College and West Texas State University teaming up with fellow sibling act The Aldridge Sisters as the popular quartet of The Aldridge Sisters and the Otwell Twins, which was popular with viewers for the remainder of the Welk show's run. Since then, the Otwells have performed in concerts, churches, special events as well as for wraparound segments for Welk show reruns on public television. Today, Roger an... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Patrick Butch
Patrick Alan Lilley (born August 2, 1953), better known as Butch Patrick, is a former American child actor best known for his role as Eddie Munster in the television show The Munsters (1964-1966) for which he received $600 per episode, and the movie Munster, Go Home. He also played the main characters Mark on the television animation series Lidsville (1971-1973), and Milo in the 1969 live-action/animated film, The Phantom Tollbooth based on the 1961 children's book, The Phantom Tollbooth. Patrick made several appearances on other shows during the 1960s, such as Mister Ed, My Favorite Martian, Daniel Boone,The Monkees and Gunsmoke. He also appeared on eight episodes of My Three Sons as the character Gordon Dearing. More recently, he provided the voice for the animated image of him on The... Biography of Cynthia Stevenson
Cynthia C. Stevenson (born 2 August 1962) is an American actress. Stevenson was born in Piedmont, California, the daughter of Gayle, an editor, and Al Stevenson, an upholstery warehouse owner. She grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. One of her first roles was a guest appearance as Norm Peterson's high-strung secretary "Doris" on Cheers. Other early work included the short-lived comedy series My Talk Show (1990-1991) and Bob (1992-1993). She had a leading role on the sitcom, Hope and Gloria, which ran for 35 episodes in 1995 and 1996. She also appeared the Lifetime Television series Oh Baby. On film, she has appeared in The Player, Six Feet Under, Forget Paris, Happiness, Home for the Holidays, Agent Cody Banks and Agent Cody Banks 2. She played the role of Mrs. Cooverman in th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Emmanuel Berl
Emmanuel Berl (2 August 1892–21 September 1976) was a French journalist, historian and essayist. He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern département of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. In 1937 he married the singer, composer and film actress Mireille Hartuch; she had nicknamed him "Théodore" (which is what appears on their tomb). Berl was the cousin of Lisette de Brinon. Emmanuel Berl was from an upper middle class Jewish family related to Bergson and Proust and the novelist and screenwriter Monique Lange. He studied philosophy before volunteering for the armed services in 1914. Discharged in 1917 with a respiratory disease after having received the Croix de guerre (or, war cross), he joined the surrealists, especially working with Louis Aragon, Gaston Berger... Biography of Henry Steele Olcott
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (August 2, 1832 in Orange, NJ – February 17, 1907) was the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. He was the first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. He is still honored in Sri Lanka today for these efforts. He is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Westernized and scientific lens. Olcott can be the only major contributor to the nineteenth-century Sinhalese Buddhist revival who was actually born and raised in the Protestant fold. As such, he can be credited him with influencing the start of Protestant Buddhism. Olcott has been cal... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Derek Enright
Derek Anthony Enright (August 2, 1935 in Thornaby-on-Tees – October 31, 1995) was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and worked as a school teacher before being elected Member of the European Parliament for Leeds in 1979. He was British Labour group spokesman on third world affairs and women's rights, and was later an EC delegate in Guinea Bissau. He was Member of Parliament for Hemsworth in Yorkshire from a by-election in 1991 until his death. Anecdote He once made recordings of the Beatles songs "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in Latin. In fact, Derek Enright sang Yellow Submarine in the House Of Commons when the Education Reform Bill was being argued. During this time, Derek spoke only in Latin, and when challenged... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Briand
Jimmy Briand (born August 2, 1985 in Vitry-sur-Seine, France) is a French football player who plays as a forward. He currently plays for Stade Rennais, and has also played for the French national under-21 team in recent times. He won the Coupe Gambardella in 2003. He received his first call-up to the senior France National Team in May 2007 for the June Euro qualifiers against Ukraine and Georgia. Briand is being tipped to be one of France's top strikers in the future, and his playing style has drawn comparisons with Thierry Henry. After starring for Stade Rennais in the 2006-2007 season, he attracted the attention of clubs such as Portsmouth, Saint-Étienne and Lens.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jim Capaldi
Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter and a founding member of Traffic. He drummed with several famous singers and musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Alvin Lee, and Mylon LeFevre. Career Overview Capaldi was born Nicola James Capaldi in Evesham, Worcestershire, England to Italian immigrant parents, Nick and Maria Capaldi. His younger brother Phil, born 1 February 1949, also plays the drums professionally as a full time member of "Joe Brown's Bruvvers". Jim Capaldi's musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States. Capaldi and Winwood wrote many of Traffic's m... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marina de Van
Marina de Van (born 2 August 1971) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her upcoming film, Don't Look Back, is set to be screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography See the Sea (1997) 8 Women (2002) Don't Look Back (2009)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Karina Habšudová
Karina Habšudová (Karina Habsudova) (born August 2, 1973, Bojnice, Slovakia) is a former Slovak female professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 10 in the world (1997). Together with Karol Kučera she won the Hopman Cup in 1998. She also had a successful junior career. She won the girls' singles at the 1991 US Open, and was junior No.1 for some time. Titles (1) 1. Portschach, 1999 Doubles titles (6) * 1996: Karlovy Vary (with Helena Suková) * 1997: Prague (with Ruxandra Dragomir) * 1998: Warsaw (with Olga Lugina) * 1998: Prague (with Silvia Farina Elia) * 1999: Pörtschach (with Silvia Farina Elia) * 2000: Bratislava (with Daniela Hantuchová)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Corrado (TV host)
Corrado Mantoni (known simply as Corrado; August 2, 1924 - June 8, 1999) was an Italian radio and television host. He was born in Rome, where he followed classic studies and in jurisprudence; before finishing university studies he started to work as radio speaker with EIAR, predecessor of RAI, Italian State Television. He was the first to announce to the Italian public events such as the end of World War II, the birth of the Italian Republic or the death of Trilussa. He also worked as dubber for foreign actors including Jerry Lewis. In 1949, he was chosen by EIAR as their first TV host for the Italian first experimental TV broadcasting. In the 1950s he was the foremost radio host in the country, and also took part in numerous movies as himself. Corrado began to work for TV in the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roger Otwell
The Otwell Twins are an American singing duo made up of identical twin brothers Roger and David, born August 2, 1956, in Tulia, Texas. They are best known as members of The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977-1982. Singing and playing the guitar since their days in junior high and in high school, the brothers joined the Welk organization in October 1977, after attending Lubbock Christian College and West Texas State University teaming up with fellow sibling act The Aldridge Sisters as the popular quartet of The Aldridge Sisters and the Otwell Twins, which was popular with viewers for the remainder of the Welk show's run . Since then, the Otwells have performed in concerts, churches, special events as well as for wraparound segments for Welk show reruns on public television. Today, the broth... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wladimir d'Ormesson
Wladimir d'Ormesson (August 2, 1888, Saint Petersburg - September 15, 1973) was a French essayist, novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was successively ambassador in Rome, Buenos Aires and Santiago, and wrote many essays (Dans la nuit européenne, La Confiance de l’Allemagne) and some novels (La Préface d'une vie). D'Ormesson was elected to the Académie Française in 1956.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Bowis
John Crocket Bowis (born 2 August 1945 in Brighton, East Sussex) was a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for London between 1999 and 2009. Educated at Tonbridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was returned at the 1987 general election as Member of Parliament for Battersea. From 1993 to 1996 he was a health minister and from 1996 to 1997 he was a transport minister, before losing his parliamentary seat at the 1997 general election. He stood down as MEP at the 2009 European Elections. He has been National Secretary of the Federation of Conservative Students and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is an active member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel del Castillo
Michel del Castillo (born August 2, 1933, a.k.a. Michel Janicot del Castillo) is a French writer, born in Madrid. Biography Michel del Castillo was born in Madrid. His father was French father and his mother Spanish. Interned in a concentration camp under the name of Rieucros in Mende with his mother during the Second World War, he developed a sense of belonging to this town, which has honored him with naming a school after him. He first studied politics and psychology, then turned to literature. Influenced by Miguel de Unamuno and Fyodor Dostoevsky, his books received many literary prizes, namely Prix Chateaubriand for Le Silence des Pierres (1975); Renaudot for la Nuit du décret (1981); Prix Maurice Genevoix for Rue des Archives (1994); Prix de l’Écrit Intime for Mon frère l’... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tom Bell
Tom Bell (2 August 1933 – 4 October 2006) was an English actor on stage, film and television. He was dark-haired, lean, and in his later years often played characters having a sinister side to their nature. Biography Tom (Thomas George) Bell was born on 2 August 1933 in Liverpool, England. Evacuated as a child during the Second World War, he subsequently lived with three different families in the Morecambe area of Lancashire. In 1948, at age 15, Bell began to act in his first school plays and though he never dominated the performances he nonetheless demonstrated an obvious acting ability. On leaving school he trained under the renowned Esme Church at the Bradford Civic Theatre; fellow pupils included Billie Whitelaw and Robert Stephens. He later worked in Repertory in Liverpool an... Biography of Laura Tanguy
Laura Tanguy, (born August 2, 1987 in Angers), was elected second runner-up of Miss France 2008. She is the back of the Miss France 2008 under Valérie Bègue for all official representations alongside Genevieve de Fontenay, as well as for the regional elections qualifiers Miss France 2009, and in elections international Miss World and Miss Universe to recall Valérie Bègue has emerged his private suggestive photos in a magazine in scandal, two weeks after her coronation. Laura Tanguy is the daughter of an engineer and a laboratory assistant in physics and chemistry. She speaks perfect English, having lived her entire childhood and the beginning of her adolescence at San Antonio, United States. She has lived in Écouflant, a town near Angers. She holds a tray with the honor ES, she is curre... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jack Warner
Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Warner’s career spanned some forty-five years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls. As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture. After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner. He assumed exclusive control of the film production company in the 1950s, when he secretly purchased his brothers' shares in the business after convincing them... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tony Costa
Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944-May 12, 1974) was a Cape Cod, Massachusetts carpenter who achieved notoriety for committing murders in the town of Truro in 1969. 1969 murders The case gained international attention when district attorney Edmund Dinis, in comments to the media, claimed "The hearts of each girl had been removed from the bodies and were not in the graves…Each body was cut into as many parts as there are joints." Dinnis also claimed that there were teeth marks found on the bodies. These claims produced a stream of national and international media outlets into local Provincetown, Massachusetts. The media attention was so great that Kurt Vonnegut (whose daughter Edith had met Costa) compared him to Charles Manson in his collection of essays Wampeters, Foma and ... Biography of John E. Pepper, Jr.
John E. Pepper, Jr. (born on August 2, 1938) is an American businessman. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company and Chief Executive Officer of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Biography John E. Pepper, Jr. was born circa 1938 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale University in 1960, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News. From 1963 to 2003, he served in various positions at Procter & Gamble, including Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002, and CEO. He served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Procter & Gamble Company until December 2003. He then served as Vice President of finance and administration at Yale University from January 2004 to December 2005. He has been a direct... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Bennett (screenwriter)
Charles Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, Bennett served in World War I and worked as an actor and writer, before finding success as a playwright in the 1920s. Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929), generally credited as the first British sound film, is based on Bennett's play of the same name. His association with Hitchcock continued into the 1930s, with Bennett writing some of the latter's most famous British films - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936), and Young and Innocent (1937). Bennett left England to work with Hitchcock on his second American film, Foreign Correspondent (1940).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kati Wilhelm
Katarina ("Kati") Wilhelm (born August 2, 1976) is a German former professional biathlete. Like most German biathletes she is also a member of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) with the rank of master sergeant (Hauptfeldwebel). She currently resides in Steinbach-Hallenberg, also in the Federal State of Thuringia. Kati Wilhelm was born in Schmalkalden, in the Federal State of Thuringia, Germany. She started training cross-country skiing as a child in 1983 and was a member of the German cross-country ski team at the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games. In 1999, while attending the Military World Games, she came into contact with biathlon and was hooked on the sport. Her decision to switch to biathlon proved to be a good one. The next year she experienced her first successes including a World Cup... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kelly Michael (singer)
Kelly Michael, born on August 2, 1959 in Dixon, Illinois (birth time source: Amy Rodden, Astrodatabank), is an American singer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rómulo Gallegos
Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history. Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas to Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin. He began his work as a schoolteacher, writer, and journalist in 1903. His novel Doña Bárbara was first published 1929, and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country. He took refuge in Spain, where he continued to write: his acclaimed novels Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935) date from this period. He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and was appointed ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League (AFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS), as well as MLS predecessor the North American Soccer League (NASL). He was also the founder and owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, the Kansas City Wizards and at his death owned two MLS teams, Columbus Crew and FC Dallas. The oldest ongoing national soccer tournament in the U.S., the U.S. Open Cup (founded 1914) now bears his name in honor of his pioneering role in that sport stateside. In Kansas City, Hunt also helped establish the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernard Michel
Bernard Michel, born on August 2, 1919 in Dijon, Côte d'Or, died on June 2, 1992 in Férolles-Attilly, Seine-et-Marne, was a French musicien, author, poet, and compoer.... Biography of Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American film actress. Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock." Life and career Born Anna McKim in New York City, the only child of two vaudevillians, she was raised in the business that would later make her a star. Her father, Edwin McKim worked as a director for the Lubin Studios, and her mother, Anna Lehr, found success as the star of many silent features. The couple split when Ann was four, and she and her mother moved to Hollywood. Ann would not see her father again until a national appeal to the press reunited the two ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bob Netolicky
Robert Netolicky (born August 2, 1942 in San Francisco, California) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'9" power forward/center, he played professionally in the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1967 to 1976. Netolicky was an All-American selection at Drake University in the 1960s before being drafted by the National Basketball Association's (NBA) San Diego Rockets in 1967. However, he never played for the Rockets, joining the ABA's Indiana Pacers instead. A four-time ABA All-Star and two-time ABA Champion, Netolicky was a well-rounded player who could rebound, defend, and shoot the ball equally well. Indeed, Jim O'Brien of The Sporting News once claimed that Netolicky was the "smoothest shooting big man in the ABA" . Besides the Pacers, Netolicky briefly p... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jules Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann (born 2 August 1941 in Echternach, Luxembourg) is a French biologist. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he became President of the French Academy of Sciences. Together with Bruce Beutler, Hoffmann received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" (the other half went to Ralph M. Steinman for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"). Education Hoffmann received undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry, and later completed his Ph.D. in biology at the University of Strasbourg in 1969. His post-doctoral training was at the Inst... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Liz Lieu
Liz Lieu (born August 2, 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese professional poker player. Lieu was primarily a limit Texas hold 'em cash games player for a number of years, before embracing tournament play at the 2005 World Series of Poker. When John Phan encouraged her to enter the $1500 no-limit hold'em event, she ended up in fifth place with over $168,000 in prize money. She went on to place 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold'em event the same year and cashed in the $3000 tournament as well. The next stop was the Bellagio's 2005 Festa Al Lago tournament, where she placed fourth in the $2500 no limit hold'em event and 16th in two other top tournaments in the series, taking home more than $80,000 for less than a week's worth of work. She went on to finish in the top ten sp... Biography of Yaniss Lespert
Yaniss Lespert, born on August 2, 1989 (source: Imdb), is a French actor. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm1293391/) 2007-2011 Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (TV series) Christophe Lepic / Christophe – Le nouveau voisin (2011) … Christophe Lepic – La frite et le dindon (2010) … Christophe – Le problème avec ma mère (2010) … Christophe – Aimez-vous Chopin? (2010) … Christophe – Couper le cordon (2010) … Christophe See all 25 episodes » 2011 L'Attaque (TV series) Mino 2009 R.I.S. Police scientifique (TV series) Christian Da Silva – Feu intérieur (2009) … Christian Da Silva 2005 Le petit lieutenant Alex Derouère, le frère d'Antoine (as Yanis Lespert) 2004 À cran, deux ans après (TV movie) Guaby 2003 Rencontre avec le dragon Guillaume jeune ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Dora Boothby
Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was a former English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships. She died in Hammersmith, London in 1970. Grand Slam record Wimbledon * Singles champion: 1909 * Singles runner-up: 1910, 1911 Grand Slam singles finals Win (1) Year Championship Opponent in Final Score in Final 19091 Wimbledon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Agnes Morton 6–4, 4–6, 8–6 1This was actually the all-comers final as Charlotte Cooper Sterry did not defend her 1908 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and, thus, Wimbledon in 1909 by walkover. Runner-ups (2)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tim Wakefield
Timothy Stephen Wakefield (born August 2, 1966 in Melbourne, Florida) is an American Major League Baseball right-handed knuckleball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. Wakefield began pitching with the Red Sox in 1995, making him the longest-serving member of the team. As of 2010, Wakefield was ranked third in all-time wins with the Red Sox with 179, trailing only Cy Young and Roger Clemens, who each had 192; ranked second in all-time wins at Fenway Park with 92, behind Roger Clemens' 95; and ranked first all-time in innings pitched by a Red Sox pitcher, with 2,845.1, having surpassed Roger Clemens total of 2,777 on June 8, 2010. Wakefield has been nominated eight times for the Roberto Clemente Award, winning the award in 2010. He is the first Red Sox player to win the award. Early li... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sammy McIlroy
Samuel Baxter "Sammy" McIlroy (born 2 August 1954) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer whose clubs included Manchester United. After playing, he managed several English football teams and the Northern Ireland national team, gaining most success with Macclesfield Town. He was most recently the manager of Football League Two side Morecambe. Club career From East Belfast, McIlroy played from 1971 to 1982 at Manchester United. He was the last youth player signed by Matt Busby, therefore making him the last of the Busby Babes. He was dubbed 'The next George Best', and in his first-team debut match in 1971 at the age of 17 he scored, in a 3–3 draw in the Manchester derby against Manchester City at Maine Road on 6 November, but was not able to win a regular first-team pla... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel Bastos
Michel Fernandes Bastos (born 2 August 1983) is a Brazilian footballer. He currently plays for Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1. He primarily plays as a winger capable of playing on either side of the field, but plays as a left back for the Brazil national team. Bastos made his national team debut on 14 November 2009 against England in Doha, Qatar. Bastos started his career at hometown club Pelotas before moving to the Netherlands, where he played for Feyenoord and Excelsior. He then returned to Brazil, where he played for Atlético Paranaense, Grêmio and Figueirense. He moved to French club Lille in 2006 before transferring to Olympique Lyonnais in 2009. Club career Bastos was born in the Brazilian city of Pelotas and began his career playing for hometown club Esporte Clube Pelotas. In... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Matthew Del Negro
Matthew Del Negro (born August 2, 1972) is an American actor. He was born in Mount Kisco, New York as the youngest of three children. He is a graduate of Boston College, where he played Division I lacrosse. After graduating, he began to study acting, and after appearing in several minor commercials and independent films, he was cast as Brian Cammarata on The Sopranos. This has led to appearances in other TV shows, such as The West Wing, Law & Order, Stargate: Atlantis, Las Vegas, Beautiful People and United States of Tara. His film appearances include Chelsea Walls, Ira and Abby and Trailer Park of Terror. He has also been cast in several theater productions. He recently has provided the voice of Ops Com in the soon to be released video game SOCOM 4. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.c... Biography of Eric Deflandre
Eric Deflandre (born 2 August 1973 in Rocourt) is a former Belgian football right fullback. Club career Deflandre first signed to Wandre Union but after one year he joined Liège side R.F.C. de Liège. He then left for Germinal Ekeren in 1995. In 1996, he signed for Club Brugge. In 2000, Deflandre moved to Olympique Lyonnais in France, where he won 3 straight national championships. He returned to Belgium in 2004 and played for Standard Liège. In 2007-08, he split duty with FC Brussels and F.C. Verbroedering Dender E.H.. On 25 June 2009 Lierse SK have signed the right-back from F.C. Verbroedering Dender E.H. on a two-year deal. On 9 August 2010 announced his return to RFC Liège. International career Deflandre played his debut match for the national team against The Netherlands... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Huston Street
Huston Lowell Street (pronounced /ˈhjuːstən/; born August 2, 1983, in Austin, Texas) is an American baseball relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. His father is former University of Texas quarterback James Street, and his brother Juston Street is currently a pitcher for the minor league Vancouver Canadians. Baseball career Education Street attended Westlake High School in Austin, Texas from 1997–2001 where he lettered in both football and baseball. He then attended The University of Texas from 2001–2004, where he pitched for the school's baseball team. He is widely regarded as one of the best collegiate closers of all time. Street earned a form of All-American honors at Texas every season he was there and helped his team win the College World Series of collegiate ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe d'Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723) was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723. Born at his father's palace at Saint-Cloud, he was known from birth under the title of Duke of Chartres. His father was Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as Monsieur; his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. In 1692, Philippe married his first cousin, Françoise Marie de Bourbon - the youngest legitimised daughter (légitimée de France) of Philippe's uncle Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. Named regent of France for Louis XV until Louis attained his majority in February 1723, the era of his de facto rule was known as the Regency (1715–1723). He died at Versailles in 1723. He is... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia. He was nicknamed Sasha within his family. Biography Prince Alexander was born on Sunday August 2, 1818 at a quarter past ten in the morning. His birth was announced the next day in the Nederlandsche Staatscourant. To commemorate the birth of his second grandson William I of the Netherlands gifted his daughter-in-law Anna Paulowna with the Czar Peter House in Zaandam, which had been inh... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Angie Cepeda
Angélica María Cepeda Jiménez (born 2 August 1974), professionally known as Angie Cepeda, is a Colombian actress. The younger sister of actress Lorna Paz, she is probably the best known for her roles in telenovela Pobre Diabla and films Captain Pantoja and the Special Services and Love in the Time of Cholera. Early and personal life Cepeda was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and raised in Barranquilla. After her parents divorced she lived with her mother and two older sisters (one of whom is actress Lorna Paz). Cepeda had a long-term relationship with singer Diego Torres. Career When she discovered her vocation in drama, she moved out to Bogotá. After starting her drama courses, she was contracted by a beer company and made some advertisements for it. Next, she played some b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Helen Morgan
Helen Morgan (August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical Show Boat in 1927 as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 (prologue only) and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role. She suffered from bouts of alcoholism, and despite her notable success in the title role of another Hammerstein and Kern's Broadway musical, Sweet Adeline (1929), her stage career was relatively short. Helen Morgan died of cirrhosis of the liver at th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Susan Denberg
Susan Denberg (born 2 August 1944 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian model and actress. Film and Television Work Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) as Christina Star Trek: The Original Series - "Mudd's Women" (1966) as Magda Kovacs An American Dream (1966) as Ruta Twelve O'Clock High - "Back to the Drawing Board" (1966) as German Girl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla (Spanish pronunciation: ; 2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was a senior commander in the Argentine Army who was the de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. After the return of a representative democratic government in 1983, he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents (either real, suspected or alleged) as well as their families, at secret concentration camps and the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres. He was under house arrest until 10 ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Guillaume Charlier
Guillaume Charlier, born on August 2, 1854 (birth time source: Acte n° 298, André Dekoster), died in 1925 in Josse-ten-Noode, is a Belgian sculptor.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nick Diaz
Nicholas Robert Diaz (born August 2, 1983) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Strikeforce, WEC, and IFC Welterweight Champion. He has also competed in Pride Fighting Championships and Elite Xtreme Combat. Diaz is currently ranked as the #4 welterweight in the world by Sherdog. Nick is the only fighter to ever fight for the EliteXC, IFC, WEC,Pride, Strikeforce, and UFC Championships. He holds notable wins over Chris Lytle, Jeremy Jackson(2x), Robbie Lawler, Drew Fickett, Josh Neer, Gleison Tibau, Katsuya Inoue, Thomas Denny, Frank Shamrock, Scott Smith, Marius Zaromskis, Hayato Sakurai, KJ Noons, Evangelista Santos, Paul Daley, and B.J. Penn. His win over Lawler still stands as Lawler's only knockout loss of his care... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Viansson-Ponté
Pierre Viansson-Ponté, born on August 2, 1920 in Clisson (Loire-Atlantique) (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 7, 1979 (cancer), was a French journalist and author. Bibliography Risques et Chances de la Ve République, Plon, 1959 Les Gaullistes, Rituel et annuaire, Le Seuil, 1963 Les Politiques, Calmann-Lévy, 1966 Après de Gaulle, qui ?, Le Seuil, 1968 Contient de remarquables portraits de Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand et Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (les prétendants), Michel Debré, Alain Peyrefitte, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Edgar Faure, Jean Lecanuet, Gaston Defferre (les suppléants) plus une trentaine de caciques, alchimistes, apparatchiks et alevins. Seul Alain Poher, rival de Pompidou en 1969 fut oublié. Histoire de la République gaullien... |
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