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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on August, 20, 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 · 45,421 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,421 Celebrities
110 celebrities or events were found for August, 20. Add to favourites (83 fans)Biography of Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is an English rock singer and songwriter, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin, but also for his successful solo career. He is known for his powerful style, often mystical lyrics, and wide vocal range. As the lead singer of Led Zeppelin he is often defined as the quintessential rock front man, combining rare musical adeptness and knowledge with a large measure of stage bravado and braggadocio. As a solo artist following Led Zeppelin's demise, he is often credited for his wide range of musical taste and his ability to perform an eclectic range of songs in a refined and critically acclaimed manner.... Add to favourites (65 fans)Biography of Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992 (birth time sources: http://www.twittywatch.com/mycity.php/Dallas-Texas/1313866800/44 and https://twitter.com/#!/search/demi%20lovato%202%3A34) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She played Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, and she plays Sonny Monroe in the Disney Channel Original Series Sonny With A Chance. Besides acting, she is also a solo music artist and released her debut album Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 selling over 89,000 copies in the first week. Lovato is set to release her sophomore album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. Early life Lovato was born in Dallas, Texas to Patrick Lovato and Diana Lovato (née Hart). She has an olde... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (French pronunciation: ; born 20 August 1946) is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic. Early life Fabius was born in Paris, the son of Louise (née Strasburger-Mortimer; 1911–2010) and André Fabius (1908–1984). His parents were Jewish and converted to Catholicism, and Fabius was raised an assimilated Catholic. His secondary education was at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He was a graduate of institutions that are training grounds for academics (École Normale Supérieure), senior civil servants (École Nationale d'Administration) and future leaders (Sciences Po). Member of National Assem... Biography of Rajiv Gandhi
Rājiv Ratna Gāndhī (Devanāgarī: राजीव रत्न गान्धी, IPA: ) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election defeat. Becoming the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40, he is the youngest person to date to hold that office. Rajiv Gandhi worked as a professional pilot for Indian Airlines before coming into politics. He was married to Edvige Antonia Albina Maino (Sonia Gandhi) , an Italian national he met while in college. He remained aloof from politics despite ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of James Marsters
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician, best known for playing the popular platinum-blond character Spike, an English yob of a vampire, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. Early life He was born in Greenville, California, and grew up with his brother and sister in Modesto, California. Dreaming about becoming an actor since he played Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh in fourth grade, James joined the theater group at Davis High School, acting in many plays including musicals. After graduation, Marsters studied at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, 1980–1982, and Juilliard Drama School, 1982–1984. In an appearance on the Loveline radio show in early 2003 he spoke very negatively about the school ... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Ben Barnes
Benjamin "Ben" Barnes (born August 20, 1981) is an English actor. He has appeared in the television series Doctors and Split Decision, and in the films Stardust, Bigga than Ben, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Early life Barnes was born in London, England to a psychiatrist father and therapist mother. He has a younger brother, Jack, and is an alumnus of King's College School, where he was a contemporary of film actor Khalid Abdalla and comedian Tom Basden. He studied Drama and English literature at Kingston University, London. Career It was revealed in the June/July 2008 issue of CosmoGIRL! magazine that he was a backup singer in the boyband Hyrise, who were in the running to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Barnes began working in ... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress best known for her award-nominated roles in the films Junebug and Enchanted. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, who was a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She grew up as one of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado and attended Douglas County High School. Adams was raised in the Mormon religion, although her family left the church after Adams' parents divorced when she was eleven. While working at the famous dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Adams was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after, she was cast in her first comedic role in Drop Dead Gorgeous. She moved to Los Angeles, Ca... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Andrew Garfield
Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an American-British actor who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television. He is known for his roles in the 2007 films Lions for Lambs and Boy A, as well as 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and will play Spider-Man/Peter Parker in the 2012 Spider-Man reboot. Garfield is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K. Early life Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother from Essex and an American father from California. His family moved to England three years after he was born. Garfield is Jewish and was raised in a "middle class home". His parents ran a small interior design business; his father later worked as a swimming teacher and his mother as a teaching assistant at a nursery school. Garfield w... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities, or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of nonhuman creatures, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works typically had a tone of pessimism, regarding mankind as insignificant and powerless in the universe. Lovecraft's readership was limited... Biography of Fred Durst
William Frederick Durst (born August 20, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida) is the lead singer of Limp Bizkit. Early life Fred Durst was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His biological father left when he was several weeks old, and he was raised solely by his mother, Anita Durst, during his infancy. The two were very poor, his mother having no house, job, or money. They lived in the top of a church, and people brought him baby food, which they both lived on. Anita eventually met Bill, a policeman, who she married when Durst was 2. He was Durst's father figure. Durst's mother contends that he was a very needy child, always vying for attention. He liked the music his parents did, and enjoyed dancing and showing off. It was when Durst was young that he and his brother Cory (son of Bill and A... Biography of Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević 20 August 1941 – The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and then as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led Serbia's Socialist Party from its foundation in 1990. He is from the Vasojevići Montenegrin clan. He was one of the key figures in the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s and Kosovo War in 1999. He was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half after... Biography of Joan Allen
Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956 (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, perhaps known for her roles in the films Nixon, The Contender, The Bourne Supremacy and The Upside of Anger. Early life Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois to James Jefferson Allen, a gas-station owner, and Dorothea Marie Wirth, a homemaker. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976, where she graduated. Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985). ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American physician and Republican Congressman for the 14th congressional district of Texas. Paul serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Committee on Financial Services and is Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy where he has been an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policy. He has gained prominence for his libertarian positions on many political issues, often clashing with both Republican and Democratic Party leaders. Paul has run for President of the United States twice, first in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again in 2008 as a candidate for the Republican nomination. He is the founder of the advocacy group Campa... Biography of Kimberly Stewart
Kimberly Alana Stewart (born 20 August 1979, Los Angeles, California (birth time source: Dana Holliday, Astrodatabank)) is an American fashion model, socialite, fashion designer, and actress. Kimberly Stewart is the daughter of rock legend Rod Stewart and his first wife Alana Stewart. She has an older half brother Ashley Hamilton from her mother's marriage to George Hamilton. She has one full brother, Sean Stewart. She also has four younger half siblings from her father Rod Stewart: Ruby (whose mother is Kelly Emberg); Renee and Liam (whose mother is Rachel Hunter); and Alistair (whose mother is Penny Lancaster). Kimberly attended modeling school before being hired by Tommy Hilfiger Company. Stewart, along with model Meagan Maitland, was the face of Australian underwear line, Antz Pa... Biography of Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist. Alongside his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-Amer... Biography of Massimo Gargia
Massimo Gargia, born August 20, 1940 in Naples, is a play-boy, writer and a former actor, called now sometimes mozzarellone because of his weight. Books Jet-Set, mémoires d'un play-boy international avec Allan Starkie, Ed. Michel Lafon, 2000, ISBN 978-2840985891 Guide de survie dans la Jet-Set, Ed. Flammarion, 2004, ISBN 978-2080684806 Le Journal de Massimo : L'année d'un jet-setteur, Ed. Michel Lafon, 2004, ISBN 978-2749901251 Nos amies les stars : Quarante ans de rencontres, Ed. Flammarion, 2005, ISBN 978-2080688149 Le guide du millionnaire, Ed. Favre Sa, 2007, ISBN 978-2828909529... Biography of Jacques Cheminade
Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a French political activist. He is associated with the LaRouche movement, an international network of groups led by the American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche. He was a candidate for the French presidential election, 1995 with 0.28 % of the votes. In the 2007 French presidential race, he has endorsed Ségolène Royal. Education Cheminade is a graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) and École nationale d'administration (ENA) graduate-group Jean Jaurès 1967-1969. He also has a bachelor's degree in law. Cheminade met Lyndon LaRouche in 1977 and joined his movement in France. He was appointed general secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Européen (POE, European Labor Party: see European Workers Party) f... Biography of Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is an English pop and jazz-pop singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and drummer. Cullum was born at Rochford Hospital in Essex. His mother, Yvonne, is a secretary of Anglo-Burmese origin, whose family settled in Wales after Burma's independence; his father, John Cullum, worked in finance. His paternal grandfather was a British Army officer, while his paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who sang in Berlin nightclubs; Cullum sees her as his "cultural icon". He was raised in Hullavington, Wiltshire but currently lives in North West London. Cullum released his first album, Jamie Cullum Trio—Heard it All Before, in 1999. A mere 500 copies were made. Original copies have sold for as much as £600 (and above) on eBay. The success of He... Biography of Marcel Dadi
Marcel Dadi (August 20, 1951–July 17, 1996) was a French guitarist known for his country and western music. He was a personal friend of country star Chet Atkins. He also created some instructional videos. Dadi was one of the 230 people killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island. He was returning from the United States to France after being honored at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. Atkins had this to say about his friend: "I have lost one of my best friends. Sometimes I think he loved me as if I were one of his family. I feel the same way about him."... Biography of Patxi (Star Academy)
Patxi Garat is a French singer, born August 20, 1981 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. He has participated in Star Academy third season in 2003.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré (August 20, 1860 – October 15, 1934) was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antonin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist. Educated at the University of Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some time law editor of the Voltaire. As a lawyer, he successfully defended Jules Verne in a libel suit presented against the famous author by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who claimed that the "mad scientist" character in Verne's book "Facing the Flag" was based on himself. (A letter which Verne later sent to his brother Paul seems to suggest... Biography of David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Williams, August 20, 1971) is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. Height: 6' 3" (1.90 1/2 m) Born to Peter (a London Transport engineer) and Kathleen Williams (a lab technician) in Surrey, Walliams was raised in Banstead. Both his parents appeared in The Friday Night Project, as their son David was the guest star on the new show. Walliams was educated at Reigate Grammar School, where he was a contemporary of Robert Shearman. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre, where he met comedy partner Lucas, and later studied Drama at the University of Bristol, where he was in the 1989-92 cohort - one year below Simon Pegg. Walliams is a stage name adopted for Equity purposes. This was s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jim Reeves
James Travis "Jim" Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and pop singer. Early life & rise to fame Reeves was born James Travis Reeves in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage, Texas. He became known as a crooner because of his warm, velvety voice. His songs were remarkable for their simple elegance highlighted by his rich light baritone voice. Songs such as "He'll Have to Go," "Adios Amigo," "Welcome To My World," and "Am I Losing You" demonstrated this approach. Jim Reeves' Christmas songs have been perennial favorites, including songs such as "Silver Bells," "Blue Christmas," and "An Old Christmas Card". For many years, Reeves mixed college life with baseball and music. Influenced by such Western swing artists as Jimmie Rodgers and Moon... Biography of Anaïs Croze
Anaïs, full name Anaïs Croze, is a French singer. She was born in Grenoble, Isère, France on August 20, 1976. Her first album, called The Cheap Show, was recorded live in January 2004 and released in 2005. The Cheap Show, a pun on "peep-show", is titled such as she is the only musician on stage and makes extensive use of her JamMan pedal. Anaïs, who grew up in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône and studied English in Aix-en-Provence, was the lead singer, lyricist and bass guitarist in Opossum from 1999 to late 2002 when the renowned band split after about 200 gigs in France, Switzerland and even Germany, and a seven-track CD called Excuse-moi, j'voulais te d'mander (Sorry, I Wanted To Ask You). Anaïs then went on a successful solo tour (March 2003) with personal songs full of wit and energy. ... Biography of Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (simplified Chinese: 宗毓华; traditional Chinese: 宗毓華; pinyin: Zōng Yùhuá; born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has appeared on many USA television news networks. Background The youngest of ten children (of whom she and four others survived ) of a high-ranking Republic of China diplomat from Taiwan, she was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969. She has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984. Chung converted to Judaism upon her marriage to Povich. Chung announced that she was reducing her workload in 1991 in the h... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo, born August 20, 1901 in Modica, died June 14, 1968, was an Italian poet. Works Acque e terre, Edizioni di "Solaria", Firenze 1930 Oboe sommerso, Edizioni di "Circoli", Genova 1932 Erato e Apòllìon, pref. di S.Solmi, Scheiwiller, Milano 1938 Poesie, Edizioni "Primi Piani", Milano 1938 Lirici Greci, pref. di L. Anceschi, Edizioni di Corrente, Milano 1940 Ed è subito sera, Mondadori, "Lo Specchio", Milano 1942 Con il piede straniero sopra il cuore(Alle fronde dei salici), Edizioni di "Costume", Milano 1946 Giorno dopo giorno, Mondadori, Milano 1947 La vita non è sogno, Mondadori, Milano 1949 Il falso e vero verde, Schwarz, Milano 1954 Il fiore delle "Georgiche", Mondadori 1957 La terra impareggiabile 1958 Il poeta e il politico e altri saggi, S... Biography of Gloria Brame
Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. She has a PhD and MPH in Human Sexuality, and an M.A. in English literature. She is a licensed clinical sexologist. Her sex therapy practice specializes in consensual BDSM and sexual fetishism and sexual dysfunction. She is also a lifestyle dominant. A poet, blogger, writer and journalist, Brame is best known for two notable sex books: Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission and the more recent Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex. The latter book was selected as the "official guide to kinky sex" by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She also founded the first on-line BDSM support group, a part of the Human Sexuality Forum on Co... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Misha Collins
Misha Collins (born Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic) (August 20, 1974) is an American actor who played Paul Bernardo in the 2006 film, Karla. He also played the villain, Alexis Drazen, in season 1 of the television series 24, and a friend to the Charmed Ones in the Charmed episode They're Everywhere. In 2008, he joined the cast of the CW hitseries Supernatural as the character Castiel, an angel sent to Earth by God to release the series lead character Dean out of hell to fulfill a job. Misha will continue to appear as the character in the fifth season, as a series regular. Also an intern for Bill Clinton "when the position was still respectable", as stated in an interview on KTLA, Misha left his dream of politics to become an actor. His first acting role was the part of a 4 year old girl ... Biography of Abdelatif Benazzi
Abdelatif Benazzi (born August 20, 1968) is a French-Moroccan rugby union footballers who represented both Morocco and France. He played as a lock or back row forward. Abdel Benazzi started out with his homeland Morocco, but his ability was quickly spotted by France's selectors. He won his first France cap in 1990 against Australia and went on to make 78 appearances and score nine tries for Les Bleus. He played in three World Cups and was a member of the France team that reached the 1999 Rugby World Cup final. He was twice a Grand Slam winner and led Les Bleus in the 1997 tournament. His last international appearance was on the April 7, 2001 against England. He finished his club career with Saracens in England, retiring in 2003 ahead of his 35th birthday.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Victorin Lurel
Victorin Lurel (born August 20, 1951 in Vieux-Habitants) is the current head of the Regional council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. His term began on April 22, 2004 and ends in 2010.... Biography of David O. Russell
David Owen Russell (born 20 August 1958) is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and wrote Three Kings and the existential comedy I ♥ Huckabees. Earlier films include independent films Flirting with Disaster and Spanking the Monkey, which won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Personal life Russell was born in Larchmont, New York to a Jewish father and an Italian American Catholic mother. He graduated from Amherst College in 1981, majoring in political science and English. He is good friends with film directors Alexander Payne and Spike Jonze. Jonze played the character Conrad Vig in Three Kings. Career Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at request... Biography of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician. During the American Civil War Harrison served as a Brigadier General in the XXI Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was later elected to the U.S. Senate. Harrison, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating the Democrat Grover Cleveland. He was the first, and to date only, president from the state of Indiana. His presidential administration is best known for its economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherm... Biography of Jean-Loup Chretien
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien, is a retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) of the Armée de l'Air (French air force) and a former CNES astronaut who flew on several Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and Western European in space. Personal Born 20 August 1938, in the town of La Rochelle, France. Married to and then divorced from Amy Kristine Jensen of New Canaan, Connecticut. Five children (one deceased), among whom one daughter with Amy. Hobbies include skiing in Winter and sailing in Summer. He also enjoys golf, wind-surfing, car-rallying and woodworking. In addition, he plays the church organ, and took an electric one with him during his first stay in Star City, Russia. His father, Jacques, was a Navy sailor, and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (Starzeddel Dist, August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann (Germany), Karl Barth (Switzerland), and Reinhold Niebuhr (United States), one of the four most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. Among the general populace, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63), in which he developed his "method of correlation": an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of hu... Biography of Sophie Aldred
Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of the Doctor's assistant Ace in the television series Doctor Who. She was born in Greenwich, and raised in Blackheath, London. Having attended Blackheath High School, she studied drama at the University of Manchester, before embarking on a career in children's theatre. In 1987, she was cast as Ace in Doctor Who. Aldred's Doctor Who tenure spanned the last nine stories of the programme's original run, from 1987 to 1989. The Ace character was a troubled teenager from West London. The Doctor found her serving milkshakes on an ice-covered planet in the serial Dragonfire. She joined the Doctor on his travels and appeared in several stories (Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric, an... Biography of Lillian Celic
Lillian Celic, born August 20, 1947 in Blue Island, Illinois, is an American astrologer.... Biography of Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 21, 1974, New York City) was an American author known for her best selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 movie and a short lived TV series. Early years Jacqueline Susann was born in Philadelphia to Robert Susann, a portrait painter, and a schoolteacher mother. In school, Susann was an intelligent but lazy student. She scored the highest on her class's IQ test, a 140, prompting her mother to predict that she would someday become a good writer. Susann had other ideas and instead had aspirations of being an actress. By the time Susann entered high school, she was dabbling in drugs and earned the reputation of being a party girl. Although... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michèle Alfa
Alfreda Bassignot, best known as Michèle Alfa (sometimes Michèle Alpha) born August 20, 1911 in Gujan-Mestras, died August 24, 1987 in Le Vésinet, was a French actress. Filmography 1932 : La Poule de René Guissart 1932 : La Belle Aventure de Reinhold Schünzel et Roger Le Bon : Jeanne 1933 : Le témoin - court métrage - de Pierre de Cuvier 1935 : Barcarolle de Gehrardt Lamprecht et Roger Le Bon 1936 : Trois... six... neuf de Raymond Rouleau 1936 : Vie à crédit - court métrage - de Pierre Boyer 1937 : Ramuntcho de René Barberis 1937 : Lumières de Paris de Richard Pottier 1937 : La Dame de pique de Fedor Ozep : Nadia 1938 : Paix sur le Rhin de Jean Choux 1938 : Adrienne Lecouvreur de Marcel L'Herbier: Amour 1938 : Ultimatum de Robert Wiene 1939 : Le Corsaire - Fil... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Prince Gabriel of Belgium
Prince Gabriel of Belgium, born August 20, 2003, is the son of Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde. Prince Philippe married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, daughter of a Belgian noble family, on December 4, 1999, and they have four children: Princess Elisabeth, born 25 October 2001 Prince Gabriel, born 20 August 2003 Prince Emmanuel, born 4 October 2005 Princess Eléonore, born 16 April 2008 If Philippe assumes the throne, the present Duchess of Brabant will become the first Belgian-born Queen Consort.... Biography of Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 – 3 May 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in Doctor Who. He was the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. He was born in London the son of the actor Henry Ainley. His half-brother, Richard Ainley, was also an actor. Ainley's swarthy appearance tended to get him parts as villains, though an early regular role on British television was as Det. Sgt Hunter, sidekick to William Mervyn's Chief Inspector Rose in the second series of It's Cold Outside in 1966. Other notable roles include a subaltern in the 1969 film version of Oh! What a Lovely War, Dietz in the 1975 film version of The Land That Time Forgot, Fallowfield i... Biography of Kristen Miller
Kristen Miller (born August 20, 1976, in Manhattan Beach, California, U.S.) is an American actress who has appeared in guest and in leading roles in many television shows, including USA High, That's My Bush!, Charmed, She Spies and Undressed. She also has appeared in The Fallen Ones, Reality Check, I hate my 30s, Las Vegas, Team America: World Police, Single White Female 2: The Psycho; and provided the voice-over for the character Rio in the video game Lifeline. Filmography 1996 : Dog Watch (vidéo) : Naomi 1997 : USA High (série TV) : Ashley Elliot / Alexis Elliot 2000 : Cherry Falls : Cindy 1999 : Undressed (série TV) : Amelia (2000: Season 2) 2001 : Swimming pool: la piscine du danger (Swimming Pool - Der Tod feiert mit) : Sarah 2002 : Man of the Year : Sally 2002 : Rea... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jennie George (politician)
Jennie George (born 20 August 1947), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Throsby, New South Wales. Early life She was born Eugenie Sinicky in Trani, Italy, where her parents were displaced persons from Russia. She was educated at the Burwood Girls High School, Sydney University and the Sydney Teachers College. George was a Secondary school teacher and teacher trade unionist, and was elected General Secretary of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1980-82. During the 1960s and early '70s it is alleged by journalist Brad Norrington that George was a member of the Communist Party of Australia, although she has denied these accusations. Career George was V... Biography of Andy Benes
Andrew Charles Benes (born August 20, 1967 in Evansville, Indiana) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four teams: the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks, in a fourteen-year career from 1989 to 2002. His brother Alan also pitched in the Major Leagues, and was his teammate in 1996-97 and 2000-01. He and his brother Alan attended Evansville Lutheran School Benes was the first person selected in the 1988 Major League Baseball Draft after playing college baseball at the University of Evansville. Benes pitched well enough in his first year to make it to the majors and be named National League Rookie Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News. Benes was an All-Star in 1993 after a 15-15 seaso... Biography of Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1996. Early life McCoy was born in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father. He was raised primarily in Dublin. In his youth, he trained for the priesthood, but gave this up and spent time working in the insurance industry. He worked in The Roundhouse box office for a time, where he was discovered by Ken Campbell. McCoy currently resides in his native country of Scotland with his wife and two children. Career He came to prominence as a member of the comedy act "The Ken Campbell Roadshow". His best known act was as a stu... Biography of Carla Fracci
Carla Fracci (born 1936 in Milan, Italy) is a famous ballet dancer and actress. Her career highlights include Nijinsky, Giselle (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jack Teagarden
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905–January 15, 1964) was an influential jazz trombonist and vocalist. Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians. Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone. He first heard jazz music played by the Louisiana Five and decided to play in the new style. Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-Bebop era, and did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the old tailgate style role of the e... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Dino Campana
Dino Campana (20 August 1885 - 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti orfici ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. He is often seen as an Italian example of a poète maudit. Life Campana was born in Marradi, near Faenza, northern Italy. He was the son of Giovanni, an elementary school teacher, a good man but of weak and neurotic character, and of Fanny Luti, a strict and compulsive woman, affected by mental illness, who would pathologically attack her son Manlio, Dino’s younger brother, born in 1887. Campana spent a serene youth in Marradi, but in 1900, at approximately fifteen years of age, he came to be diagnosed with the first nerv... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Melvin Booker
Melvin Jermaine Booker (born August 20, 1972, in Pascagoula, Mississippi) is an American basketball player. A 6'1" (1.85 m), 185 lb (84 kg) point guard, he played collegiately for the Missouri Tigers. He played for the Houston Rockets (1995-96), Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors (1996-97) in the NBA for 32 games.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gilbert Moses
Gilbert Moses (August 20, 1942 - April 15, 1995) was an American stage, screen, and television director. Career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Moses was the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater company, an important pioneer of African-American theatre. His 1971 Broadway debut, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, won him a Tony Award nomination and the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Director. In 1976, he and George Faison teamed to co-direct and choreograph the ill-fated Alan Jay Lerner-Leonard Bernstein musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which closed after seven performances. Moses' off-Broadway work as a director won him an Obie Award for Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship (1969) and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for The Taking of Miss Janie (1975). Among Moses' television cr... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Mermaz
Louis Mermaz, born on 20 August 1931, in Paris, is a French politician. He became an ally of François Mitterrand in the late 1950s and in 1971 became a member of Mitterrand's staff in the French Socialist Party. From 1981 to 1986, he was chairman on the French National Assembly.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alice Kessler
Alice and Ellen Kessler (born August 20, 1936 in Leipzig, Germany) are twins popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing and acting. They are usually credited as the Kessler Twins (Die Kessler-Zwillinge in Germany and Le Gemelle Kessler in Italy), and remain popular today. In the USA, they were not as popular, but appeared in the 1963 film Sodom and Gomorrah as dancers and appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in that year. Their parents, Paul and Elsa, had them sent to ballet classes at the age of six, and they joined the Leipzig Opera's child ballet program at age 11. When they were 18, their parents used a visitor's visa to escape to West Germany, where they performed at the Palladium in Düsseldorf. They per... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Suzanne Maurice
Suzanne Maurice, born August 20, 1912 in Paris, is a French astrologer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ellen Kessler
Alice and Ellen Kessler (born August 20, 1936 in Nerchau, Germany) are twins popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing and acting. They are usually credited as the Kessler Twins (Die Kessler-Zwillinge in Germany and Le Gemelle Kessler in Italy), and remain popular today. In the USA, they were not as popular, but appeared in the 1963 film Sodom and Gomorrah as dancers and appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in that year. Their parents, Paul and Elsa, had them sent to ballet classes at the age of six, and they joined the Leipzig Opera's child ballet program at age 11. When they were 18, their parents used a visitor's visa to escape to West Germany, where they performed at the Palladium in Düsseldorf. They per... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacquelyn Mayer
Jacquelyn Jeanne "Jackie" Mayer (born August 20, 1942 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a former Miss Ohio and Miss America and currently travels the United States as a motivational speaker, noted for her recovery from a near-fatal stroke suffered at age 28. Professional career Mayer graduated Sandusky High School in 1960, going on to attend Northwestern University where a friend encouraged her to enter the Miss America contest for the scholarship money offered to the winner. She was crowned Miss Ohio in 1962 which allowed her to enter the Miss America pageant that year. On September 8, 1962, in front of an audience of 30,000 at the Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall and watched by millions more across America, she was crowned Miss America for 1963. In 1970, Mayer suffered a stroke in the early h... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claire Devers
Claire Devers (born 1955-08-20 in Paris) is a French director and writer. He was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for directing Noir et Blanc (1986). Filmography This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Les Marins perdus (2003) Noir et Blanc (1986)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Duncan Macrae
Duncan Macrae (20 August 1905 - 23 March 1967) was born at 118 Kirkland Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, G20 6SP, the fourth of the six children of James Macrae, a sergeant in the Glasgow police force, and his wife, Catherine Graham. He attended Allan Glen's School and matriculated in the engineering faculty at Glasgow University in 1923–4, but did not graduate. Macrae was a Scottish actor and comedian with a glaikit (Scots word for naïve or clueless) mannerism. He was a member of the early Citizens Theatre company in Glasgow and was best known in his early years for his performance as King James VI in Jamie the Saxt by Robert McLellan. He had a role in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore! (film), based on the book by Sir Compton Mackenzie, and in the first TV series of created by Neil Mu... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778 or 1776, August 20 – 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders – together with José de San Martín – of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–23), O'Higgins was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state. Early life "As noted in his certificate of baptism, he was the illegitimate son of Ambrosio O'Higgins", Marquis of Osorno, a Spanish officer born in County Sligo in Ireland, who became governor of Chile and later viceroy of Peru. "His mother was Isabel Riquelme, a prominent lady of Chillán". O'Higgins spent his early years with his mother's family in Central-south Chile, and later he li... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kiko Furtado
Kiko Furtado, born August 20, 1978 in São João, Minas Gerais, is a Brazilian musician, singer and composer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933 in Waterville, Maine) is a former Democratic Party politician and United States Senator who currently serves as chairman of the worldwide law firm DLA Piper and also as the Chancellor of the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was the U.S. Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007. He was the main investigator in both Mitchell Reports. On August 10, 2007, ABC News reported that Senator Mitchell had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Early career Mitchell's father, George John Mitchell, was of Irish descent and was a janitor at Colby College and his mother, Mary Saad, was a textile worker who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon at the... Biography of Thomas Corneille
Thomas Corneille (August 20, 1625 - December 8, 1709) was a French dramatist. He was the brother of Pierre Corneille. Born in Rouen nearly twenty years after his brother, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself early. At the age of fifteen he composed a play in Latin which was performed by his fellow-pupils at the Jesuits' college of Rouen. His first play in the French language, Les Engagements du hasard, was staged in 1647. Le Feint Astrologue, imitated from the Spanish of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and itself imitated in Dryden's An Evening's Love, came the following year. After his brother's death, Thomas succeeded his vacant chair in the Académie française. He then turned his attention to philology, producing a new edition of the Remarques of C... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky (Russian: Андре́й Серге́евич Михалко́в-Кончало́вский) (born 20 August 1937 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and composer. Early years Born as Andron Sergeyevich Mikhalkov in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to an aristocratic family of Mikhalkovs with centuries-old artistic and aristocratic roots, he changed his first name to Andrei and took his maternal grandfather's surname (Konchalovsky) as his stage name. He is the brother of Nikita Mikhalkov and the son of Sergei Mikhalkov. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernard Mendy
Bernard Mendy (born 20 August 1981 in Évreux, Normandy, France) is a French football player of Senegalese origin who currently plays for Hull City. He is a right back/right wing-back who is known for his pace and constant overlapping runs. Career A great fan of PSG since his childhood, Mendy achieved his ambitions in 2000 when he joined PSG from SM Caen. Even though he had impressed a lot of people by his qualities during his first two seasons at PSG, he was loaned to Bolton Wanderers of England for a year, where he was appreciated for his offensive and speedy style. When he came back from England in 2003, the new manager of PSG, Vahid Halilhodzic, decided to give him an opportunity to assert himself by using him as a first choice. That year, Mendy played one of his best seasons and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roger Gale
Roger James Gale (born 20 August 1943) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Thanet in Kent. Early life Gale was born in Poole, Dorset and was educated at the Southbourne Preparatory School, and the Hardye's School, Dorchester. He completed his education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is the only former pirate radio disc-jockey to become a Member of Parliament. He joined Radio Caroline North in August 1964, where he stayed until January 1965. In June of the same year he joined Caroline South, before becoming programme director at Radio Scotland. He worked as the personal assistant to the general manager at Universal Films for nine years from 1962, before joining the BBC in 1972 as a reporter for Radio London, becoming a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Georg Thoma
Georg Thoma (born 20 August 1937 in Hinterzarten) is a former German nordic combined skier. He won two Winter Olympic medals in the Nordic combined with gold in 1960 and bronze in 1964. Thoma also won the gold in the individual event at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo. Thoma's strength in the Nordic combined was jumping. He was three times German champion in ski jumping (1960, 1961, and 1963). Additionally, he won the Nordic combined at the Holmenkollen ski festival from 1963 to 1966. For his Nordic combined successes, Thoma was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1964 (Shared with Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, and Halvor Næs.) Georg Thoma is the uncle of the jumper Dieter Thoma, winner of the Four Hills Tournament and a World champion in ski flying.... Biography of Dimebag Darrell
Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as "Diamond Darrell", and "Dimebag Darrell" (August 20, 1966 in Dallas, Texas – December 8, 2004) was an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. He also contributed to the album Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration between Pantera and David Allen Coe. Along with fellow Pantera member Rex Brown, he is considered one of the driving forces behind Groove Metal. Abbott frequently appeared in guitar magazines and in readers' polls, and wrote a long-running Guitar World magazine column, which was compiled into the book Riffer Madness. He was praised for his tone and was included in "The 50 Greatest Tones of All Time" by Guitar Player magazine. Remembered for his amiable nature and rapport with fans, Abb... Biography of Strify (Cinema Bizarre)
Strify, born August 20, 1988 in Villingen-Schwenningen, is a German musician and singer, the lead singer of group Cinema Bizarre. Cinema Bizarre is a German band from Berlin formed in 2005. They describe their music as synthpop, New Wave, electro, gothic rock and pop merged into some kind of glamorous synthrock. They released their debut album in 2007. History Cinema Bizarre was formed in 2005 by three friends Strify, Kiro and Yu. They met at an anime convension. They found two other members,Shin and Luminor, via internet. Their first single CD "Lovesongs (They Kill Me)" was released on September 14, 2007, two weeks after their first live performance in the German music show The Dome..The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (north German television broadcast) nominated the band for the national fin... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ronnie Brown
Ronnie Browne (born Ronald Grant, 20 August 1937 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland), is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of The Corries. Browne's musical career began when he met Roy Williamson and multi-instrumentalist Bill Smith at Edinburgh College of Art in 1955 and formed the Corrie Folk Trio in 1962. The group was expanded the following year with the addition of female singer Paddie Bell. Shortly after releasing three albums in 1965, Bell left to begin a solo career. With the departure of Smith, the following year, Browne and Williamson continued to perform as a duo now known as The Corries. In 1970, Williamson conceived and built the band's signature instrument: the combolins, a pair of instruments that were rarely played separately. Williamson's instrument featured... Biography of Pauline Delpech
Pauline Delpech is a writer and a French actress, born August 20, 1981. Biography Her real name Pauline Bidegaray, she took her name for her father Michel Delpech. She was six month old, when her mother Genevievem began her life with the singer. Teenager, she was hospitalized eleven months for anorexia, following an emotional breakdown. She weighed only 29 pounds. It was during his hospitalization at St. Anne that she decides to express her feelings through writing. She then creates the character of Barnabas, the main character of her first three novels. Career as an actress Short films * Man in the Box (2003) * Device blues Slony Sow * The trigeminal nerve by Jacques Richard * 7 Stephane Werger TV movies and series * RIS, police scientifique... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Rosolino
Frank Rosolino (August 20, 1926 - November 26, 1978) was an American jazz trombonist. Biography Born in Detroit, Michigan, in a family that included brothers Russell and Gasper, Rosolino studied the guitar with his father starting at age 9. Frank took up the trombone at age 14, and graduated from Miller High School, while playing in the Cass Tech Symphony Orchestra, a fine music program that also produced Donald Byrd. Following service in the U.S. Army's 86th Division during World War II, he played with the big bands of Bob Chester, Glen Gray, Tony Pastor, Herbie Fields, and Gene Krupa. He became famous during a stint in the most popular of Stan Kenton's progressive big bands, (1952–1954), and settled in Los Angeles, where he worked with everybody in the business: Howard Rumsey's Lig... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alberto Martín
Alberto Martín Magret (born August 20, 1978 in Barcelona) is a tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1995. He reached a career high singles ranking of 34 in 2001, but as of October 2007 had fallen out of the top 100 in the ATP rankings. He has earned more than $3,500,000 in prize money, having won three singles titles and three doubles titles. Martín plays right-handed, and is 1.75 m tall. Martin's best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first round win was his first victory over former World number 1 Andy Roddick in their fifth encounter. Martín led by two sets when Roddick retired with an ankle injury. Martín also beat Lleyton Hewitt in the first round where Hewitt was seeded first at ... Biography of Jacques Bouveresse
Jacques Bouveresse (born August 20, 1940 in Épenoy, Doubs) is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy. As a result of his attacks on Michel Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, and others, he has often managed to raise the analytical stakes in French academic circles, where analytical philosophy is not well understood. He is known for his critical writings on what he considers scientific and intellectual impostors (particularly in French philosophy of the 1970s and the nouveaux philosophes) and the press coverage he has attracted through his own philosophical journalism. He is currently Professor at the Collège de France, where he occupies the cha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mario Bernardi
Mario Bernardi, CC (born 20 August 1930) is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He has conducted 75 different operas and over 450 other works with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Early years Bernardi was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and spent his first six years in Canada. After his family moved to Italy, Bernardi studied piano, organ, and composition with Bruno Pasut at the Manzato Conservatory at Treviso and took his examinations at Italy's Venice Conservatory. After graduating in 1945, his family returned to Canada where he finished his studies at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He then was a concert pianist. In 1957, he conducted the Canadian Opera Company, and in 1963 was Coach and Assistant Conductor at the Sadler's Wells Opera Company (now the English Nat... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles F. Minter
Major General Charles F. Minter Sr., born August 20, 1925 in Colombus, Georgia, is an American military. External link: http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6487... Biography of Rudolf Bultmann
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884, Wiefelstede – July 30, 1976, Marburg) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. He defined an almost complete split between history and faith, called demythology, writing that only the bare fact of Christ crucified was necessary for Christian faith. Background Rudolf Bultmann Bultmann was born in Wiefelstede, Oldenburg, the son of a Lutheran minister. He did his Abitur at the Altes Gymnasium in Oldenburg, and studied theology at Tübingen. After three terms, Bultmann went to the University of Berlin for two terms, and finally to Marburg for two more terms. He received his degree in 1910 from Marburg with a dissertation on the Epistles of St Paul. Aft... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Myung-se Lee
Myung-se Lee, born August 20, 1957 in Baekmajang, is a Korean screenwriter and director. Filmography (writer) (source : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497934/) 2007/I M (writer) 2005 Hyeongsa (writer) 1999 Sur la trace du serpent (writer) 1996 Jidokhan sarang (writer) 1995 Namjaui goerowe (writer) 1993 Cheot sarang (writer) 1990 Naui sarang naui shinbu (writer) 1990 Ggum (writer) 1989 Gagman (writer)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Samuel Dumoulin
Samuel Dumoulin (born 20 August 1980 in Vénissieux, Rhône) is a French professional road bicycle racer who rides for Cofidis. Amateur career Dumoulin rode as an amateur for the TCCT (Tonic cyclo club of Ternay). He won the national youth championship in 1996, then the éspoir (young professional) Paris–Tours and Paris-Auxerre in 2001. He turned professional in 2002 for Jean Delatour. At the end of 2003 he moved to AG2R Prévoyance and he now rides for Cofidis. He dropped out of the 2004 Tour de France when he crashed after hitting a dog. Recovery took him four months and he did not race for the rest of the season. In 2008 he won the third stage after a breakaway of nearly 200 km, beating William Frischkorn and Romain Feillu.... Biography of John Noble
John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian film and television actor, and theater director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia. He made occasional appearances on the television series All Saints. He is internationally known for his performance as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. His latest film is One Night with the King. He played Russian Consul Anatoly Markov in the sixth season of the American television series 24. He is currently starring as scientist Walter Bishop in the J.J. Abrams television series Fringe. Personal life Noble is the father of Australian actress Samantha Noble and has two other children, Daniel and Jessica. Filmography Film appearances Year Film Role Notes 1988 The Dreaming Dr. Richards 1... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Pierre Cortot
Jean-Pierre Cortot (August 20, 1787 – August 12, 1843) was a French sculptor. Life Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome in 1809, residing in the Villa Medici in Rome from 1810 to 1813. Cortot worked in an austere, correct, academic neo-classical style, heir to both classic French models from the late 18th Century, and the Greco-Roman tradition. His art took on a more romantic expression towards the end of his life. Appointed a professor at the Ecole, as the successor of Charles Dupaty, he was made a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1825 (also replacing Dupaty in that role). He was also made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1841. Among his students are Joseph Marius Ramus, Jean-Jacques F... Biography of Ralf Hütter
Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946 in Krefeld, Germany) is the lead singer, keyboardist, and reportedly leader of the seminal electronic-music band Kraftwerk and is usually the one interviewed (although rarely given). His deep, noticeably accented tenor voice helped to set Kraftwerk apart from other musical groups. An avid cyclist, Hütter had a serious cycling accident in 1983 during the initial period of recording of the since-abandoned album Techno Pop. Only the single "Tour de France" and demos of "Techno Pop" and "Sex Object" would find their way into bootleg releases after this accident. Karl Bartos stated the first thing he said when he awoke from his coma was "Where is my bicycle?" a story Hütter later disputed in a June 2009 interview in The Guardian. Kling Klang Studio Reloca... Biography of Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941 in Forest, California) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1994 and at the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2009, compiling a career college football record of 128–154–4. Brooks was also the head coach of the NFL's St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 1996, tallying mark of 13–19. Brooks' 1994 Oregon team won the Pacific-10 Conference title and made an appearance in the 1995 Rose Bowl. For his efforts that season, he won a number of national coaching awards. Education Brooks attended Oregon State University. He majored in physical education and played defensive back for the football team. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 and completed his master's degree in education ... Biography of Phil Lynott
Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott (play /ˈlaɪnɒt/; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. As leader of the band, Lynott's vocals and bass guitar were a key element in the commercial success of thirteen albums, in addition to a string of hit songs. Lynott also embarked upon a solo career, published two books of poetry, and after Thin Lizzy disbanded, he assembled and fronted the band Grand Slam, right up until his death at the age of 36. Early life Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital (now Sandwell General Hospital) in West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire), England, and christened at St. Edwards Church in Selly Park, Birmingham. His mother, Ph... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Giorgio Albertazzi
Giorgio Albertazzi, born August 20, 1923 in Florence, is an Italian actor,screenwriter and director. Filmography (actor) (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016617/ ) La rabbia (2008) .... Produttore commerciale AD Project (2006) (V) .... Prof. Morante Ora e per sempre (2004) .... Pietro anziano L'avvocato de Gregorio (2003) .... De Gregorio ... aka Counselor de Gregorio (International: English title) Tutta la conoscenza del mondo (2001) ... aka All There Is to Know (International: English title) "La casa delle beffe" (2000) TV mini-series La rivale (1999) (TV) .... Gabriel Pernetti Li chiamarono... briganti! (1999) .... Bishop ... aka Brigands (International: English title) ... aka Briganti Crimine contro crimine (1998) .... Filippo Maria Fatal Frames (1996)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jim Bowen
Jim Bowen (born Peter Williams on 20 August 1937) is an English stand-up comedian and TV personality. He is best known as the host of the ITV gameshow Bullseye, which he hosted between 1981 and 1995 and his catch-phrase "Super, smashing, great". Early life Bowen was born in Heswall, Cheshire and educated at Accrington Grammar School in Lancashire and Chester Diocesan Training College. He was then a teacher at schools in Lancashire and became deputy headmaster of Caton Primary School near Lancaster. Bowen originally gained a degree in mathematics and early years education at Lancaster University. Beginnings in showbusiness While teaching Bowen became involved with the local dramatic society which kindled his interest in showbusiness. In the 1960s he worked part-time as a stand-up co... Biography of Kristina (singer)
Kristína Peláková (born 20 August 1987 in Svidník), professionally known as Kristina, is a Slovak singer. Kristina started singing, dancing and playing the piano in her childhood in Svidník, Slovakia. She took her music teacher's advice to attend the conservatory in Košice and to major in singing. During her studies, Kristina frequented the Jazz Club in the town where she met her future producer Martin Kavulič. He helped her to get a contract with the H.o.M.E. Production record label. Her first single "Som tvoja", featuring the rapper Opak, was released in 2007. The first track that became a hit in Slovakia was "Vráť mi tie hviezdy" in 2008. Her debut album ....ešte váham was released in the same year. Kristina won the national selection to represent Slovakia in the Eurovision S... Biography of Mohamed Morsi
Muhammad Morsi Isa al-Ayyat (Egyptian Arabic: محمد مرسى عيسى العياط, IPA: , born 20 August 1951) is an Egyptian politician and the President-elect of Egypt. He had been Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), a political party that was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood after the 2011 Egyptian revolution until his victory in the race for the presidency was announced on 24 June 2012, where he then resigned as previously pledged. From 2000 to 2005, he was a Member of Parliament. He stood as the FJP's candidate for the May–June 2012 presidential election. On 24 June 2012, Egypt's election commission announced that Morsi has won Egypt's presidential runoff against Ahmed Sha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Carmack
John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970 in Roeland Park, Kansas) is an American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, their sequels and the Commander Keen series of games. Though Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, he is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. Biography Youth Carmack, son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack, grew up in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area where he became interested in computers at an early age. He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri. As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, "wh... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Theresa Saldana
Theresa Saldana (born August 20, 1954) is an American actress, known for her work in motion pictures and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Joe Pesci's wife 'Lenore La Motta' in the 1980 feature film Raging Bull. Saldana was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Divina and Tony Saldana. Stalking Incident On March 15, 1982, Saldana was the stalking victim of Arthur Richard Jackson, a 46 year old drifter from Aberdeen, Scotland. Jackson became attracted to Saldana after seeing her in the 1980 film Defiance. He attained Saldana's address by hiring a private investigator to obtain the unlisted phone number of Saldana's mother. Jackson then called Saldana's mother and posed as Martin Scorsese's assistant, saying he needed Saldana's residential address in order ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Todd Helton
Todd Lynn Helton (born August 20, 1973 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a Major League Baseball first baseman for the Colorado Rockies. He is a five-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger, four-time National League Player of the Month and three-time Gold Glove winner. As of the end of the 2010 season, among all active players, Helton was second in on-base percentage (.424), third in doubles (527), fifth in intentional walks (178), and seventh in slugging percentage (.555). Helton holds the Colorado Rockies club records for hits (2,275), home runs (339), doubles (536), walks (1,206), runs scored (1,287), RBIs (1,258), on-base percentage (.423), games played (1,965), total bases (3,898) and other categories. Helton hit his 2,000th career hit against the Atlanta Braves on May 19, 2009. A... Biography of Michela Marzano
Maria Michela Marzano, born August 20, 1970 in Rome, is an Italian philosopher and writer. Bibliography (French) * Penser le corps, PUF, 2002 (ISBN 2130506836) * La pornographie ou l'épuisement du désir, Buchet-Chastel, 2003 (ISBN 2283019354) * La fidélité ou l'amour à vif, Buchet-Chastel, 2005 (ISBN 2283020603) * Alice au pays du porno (avec Claude Rozier), Ramsay, 2005 (ISBN 2841147037) * Le Corps: Films X : Y jouer ou y être, entretien avec Ovidie, Autrement, 2005 (ISBN 2746706547) * Malaise dans la sexualité, JC Lattès, 2006 (ISBN 2709628147) * Je consens, donc je suis... Éthique de l'autonomie, PUF, 2006 (ISBN 213056515) * Philosophie du corps, PUF, 2007 (ISBN 9782130555063) * Dictionnaire du corps, PUF, 2007 (ISBN 2130550584) * ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rajendra K. Pachauri
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born August 20, 1940) has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, during which his tenure has engendered controversy. He is also been director general of TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University. He has also been the chairman of the governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF), as well as the chairman of the board of Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Pachauri has been outspoken about climate change. He is now serving as the head of Yale's Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI). At the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony when the award was shared between Al Gore and the IPCC on December 10, 2007, Pachauri represented the IPCC. ... Biography of Jacopo Peri
Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600). Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays, intermedi and madrigals. In the 1590s, Peri became associated with Jacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Graig Nettles
Graig Nettles (born August 20, 1944 in San Diego, California), nicknamed "Puff", is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. During a 22-year baseball career, he played for the Minnesota Twins (1967–1969), Cleveland Indians (1970–1972), New York Yankees (1973–1983), San Diego Padres (1984–1986), Atlanta Braves (1987) and Montreal Expos (1988). Nettles was one of the best defensive third basemen of all time, and despite his relatively low career batting average, he was an excellent offensive contributor, setting an American League record for career home runs by a third baseman. As a part of four pennant-winning Yankee teams, Nettles enjoyed his best season in 1977 when he won the Gold Glove Award and had career-highs in home runs (37) and runs batted in (107) in leading the Yankees ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michael Rady
Michael Rady (born August 20, 1981) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia and went to the St. Joseph's Prep, a Jesuit prep school in Philadelphia, well-known for its excellent theatre program. Rady made his acting debut in the feature film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants playing Kostas Dounas. He has appeared in other feature films with small parts including The Guardian. Rady also starred in the independent film InSearchOf. Rady had a recurring role in the CBS summer series, Swingtown, playing philosophy teacher Doug Stephens. He appeared in the second season of Showtime's TV drama Sleeper Cell. Rady appeared as a guest star in two seasons of the ABC Family series Greek playing the Honors Polymer Science major and Honors Engineering Floor Resident Advisor Max Tyler... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Chris Drury
Christopher Drury (born August 20, 1976) is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently a free agent. Drury is a Hobey Baker Award-winner with Boston University, a Calder Trophy winner with the Colorado Avalanche, a Stanley Cup champion with the Avalanche, an Olympic silver medalist with the United States, and a former captain of the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers. As a child, he also won the Little League Baseball World Series Championship with his hometown team from Trumbull, Connecticut. He is sometimes known by the nickname "McDrury". Biography Early life Drury excelled at a variety of sports as a child, including hockey and baseball. Playing for his hometown baseball team from Trumbull, Drury pitched a complete game, 5-hitter and drove in two runs to win t... Biography of Meghan Ory
Meghan Ory (born August 20, 1982) is a Canadian television and film actress. She currently stars as Red Riding Hood/Ruby Lucas on the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time. Life and career Ory was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended Royal Oak Middle School and then Claremont Secondary School. After receiving the Fine Arts Award for Acting from Royal Oak in 1996, she began pursuing a career in acting. Her first professional acting role came in 1999 in the Fox Family Channel television movie, The Darklings, opposite Suzanne Somers and Timothy Busfield. A guest appearance on the television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven followed, before she landed her first regular TV role on the Fox Family series Higher Ground in 2000, along with Hayden Christensen. After appearing on the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Quinn Buckner
William Quinn Buckner, commonly known as Quinn Buckner (born August 20, 1954 in Phoenix, Illinois) is a former American professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at Indiana University, and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA Draft. He had a ten-year NBA career for three different teams (the Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers). Throughout his career he was a solid defensive player, and made the 2nd team All-Defense four times. In 1984, he won an NBA title with the Celtics. In addition to his playing career, Buckner was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for one year, from 1993 to 1994. Currently, Buckner is a color analyst for the Indiana Pacers cable television broadcast team. Quinn also was the play-by-play ann... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Dutch pronunciation: ; born August 20, 1990 in Sauwerd, Netherlands) is a Dutch swimmer of mixed Dutch-Javanese Surinamese origin who mainly specialises in freestyle but also swims in backstroke and butterfly events. She is a triple Olympic champion, winning the gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympics and in the 50 m freestyle and 100 m freestyle at the 2012 Olympics. As part of the Dutch team, she holds the world records in the 4×50 m freestyle relay on short course (25 m pool), and 4×100 m freestyle relay on long course (50 m pool) and short course. She is the reigning world champion in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle short course. Biography Kromowidjojo, who is of partly Javanese Surinamese heritage, was born in Sauwerd and started swimmi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (Russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, born August 20, 1974) is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union. Biography Youth Vengerov was born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a Jewish family with musical tradition. At the age of 5, he began studying the violin with Borbala Hwang, and two years later – with Zakhar Bron. 1984 saw the 10-year-old Maxim go abroad for the first time; in Lublin, Poland, he won the first place at the International Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski Young Violin Player Competition (years later, he recalled, "I thought Poland ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Al Roker
Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American television weatherman as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays from 6am to 7am ET, one hour earlier than Today. He holds an expired American Meteorological Society Television Seal, #238. Writing with Dick Lochte, Roker began a series of murder mysteries in 2009 that feature Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef turned amateur detective. The second book in the series, The Midnight Show Murders (2010), was nominated for a 2011 Nero Award. Early life Roker was born in Queens, New York, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Linco... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Klas Ingesson
Klas Ingesson (born August 20, 1968 in Ödeshög) is a former Swedish footballer. As a member of the national team he played in 57 games, including 1990 FIFA World Cup and 1994 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 1992 European Championship. On the 14th of May 2009 Ingesson announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma for which he is currently being treated. The treatment is said to be going "in the right direction". Ingesson fully recovered since then and, on December 2010, made a football comeback by accepting an offer to guide the Elfsborg Under-21 youth team. International stats Sweden national team Year Apps Goals 1989 6 3 1990 9 3 1991 4 0 1992 11 3 1993 8 0 1994 13 3 1995 1 0 1996 4 1 1997 0 0 1998 1 0 Total 57 13 International g... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ali Liebert
Alison Dyan "Ali" Liebert (born August 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress and producer. Life and career Ali Liebert is a British Colombia native, born in Surrey and raised in Duncan. She has had a keen interest in performing from a young age. After graduating from high school, Liebert attended the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria for two years before moving to Vancouver to pursue her dream of becoming a successful television and film actress. Her television credits include roles on Fringe, The L Word, Kyle XY, and a recurring role on Intelligence. In 2008, Liebert was cast as a lead in Sook-Yin Lee's film debt, Year of the Carnivore, the Cuba Gooding Jr. feature Hardwired as well as Blaine Thurier's A Gun to the Head. In 2012, Liebert's recent role as Betty, in the warti... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mary Stavin
Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin or Stavin (born 20 August 1957) is a Swedish actress, model, and a former Miss World. She was born in Örebro, Sweden. She returned to judge the Miss World contest in 1980 and 2010. and hosted it in 1986. Acting career Amongst her most prominent acting roles are bit parts in two James Bond films. In Octopussy she plays an Octopussy girl and in A View to a Kill she plays agent Kimberley Jones. In addition to acting, Stävin released the exercise album Shape Up and Dance with George Best. She had a minor role as the character Tanya in the 1986 horror movie House which starred William Katt. Stävin plays the Icelandic businesswoman, "Heba", in "Twin Peaks" (Season 1, Ep. 6). She also appeared in two music videos for Adam Ant. These were Ant Rap (1981) and Strip (1983).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Noah Bean
Noah Bean (born August 20, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actor best known for his roles as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and as Ryan Fletcher on the The CW action series Nikita. Career Prior to his role on Damages, Bean had a number of minor and less notable roles on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ed, Joan of Arcadia, Numb3rs, and Crumbs, the films Williamstowne and Stay, and a number of commercials. He labels his signing on the role of David Connor on Damages, the fiancé of the protagonist, as being "lucky", praising the script of the show and also the fact that it is shot in New York, where he is currently living. He also says he was aware that his character dies in the first season and was disappointed but "thrilled" for the ... Biography of KRS-One
Lawrence Krisna Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One (a backronym for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone, also, K,R and S are letters from both his middle name and the name of the Hindu god, Krishna), and Teacha, is an American rapper of Jamaican descent. At the 2008 BET Awards, KRS-One was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for all his work and effort towards the Stop the Violence Movement as well as the overall pioneering of hip hop music and culture. Biography Lawrence Parker was born in the Bronx New York New York during the summer of 1965. Parker left home at 14 to become an MC, coming to live at a homeless shelter in the South Bronx where he was dubbed Krishna by residents because of his interest in the Hare Krishna spir... Biography of Jerryd Bayless
Jerryd Bayless (born August 20, 1988 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA. He played a year of college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats after playing high school basketball at St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, where he scored a career high of 52 points in a loss to eventual state champions, Mesa Mountain View. He was selected 11th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers, and then traded to the Portland Trail Blazers along with Ike Diogu in exchange for the rights to Brandon Rush (13th pick), Jarrett Jack and Josh McRoberts. He was traded to the New Orleans Hornets for a first round pick on October 23, 2010, and to the Toronto Raptors on November 20, 2010. In 2012, he signed with the Grizz... Biography of Agnes Chan
Agnes Chan or Agnes Meiling Kaneko Chan (traditional Chinese: 陳美齡; simplified Chinese: 陈美龄; pinyin: Chén Měilíng; Cantonese Yale: Chan Mei ling; Japanese: アグネス・チャン), born on August 20, 1955 in Hong Kong, is a pop singer, a television personality (gaijin tarento), a Doctor of Education, a professor at Japanese universities, an essayist, and a novelist. Since 1988 Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and also supports the Japan Committee for UNICEF, a private corporation unaffiliated with UNICEF. Career Agnes Chan began singing and playing guitar in her junior high years in Hong Kong, as volunteer work for fundraising events. She had a chance to record a cover of Joni Mitchell's "... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Gebser
Jean Gebser (German: ; August 20, 1905 (birth time source: Matthias Dalvit-Friis, Astrodatabank) – May 14, 1973) was a philosopher, a linguist, and a poet, who described the structures of human consciousness. Biography Born Hans Gebser in Posen (Poznań) in Imperial Germany (now Poland), he left Germany in 1929, living for a time in Italy and then in France. He then moved to Spain, mastered the Spanish language in a few months and entered the Spanish Civil Service where he rose to become a senior official in the Spanish Ministry of Education. When the Spanish Civil War began, he moved to Paris. He lived in Paris for a while but saw the unavoidability of German invasion. He fled to Switzerland in 1939, escaping only hours before the frontier was closed. He spent the rest of his l... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Vivien
Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938, in Melun, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (from 1998 to 2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults). Early career He was mayor of Combs-la-Ville in 1977-1983 and 1989-1992. In 1983 he was elected to the French National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne as a PS candidate. The author of a report on cults requested by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in 1982, he was Secretary of State under Edith Cresson in 1991-1992. In 1998 Vivien was nominated chairman of the MILS, which had been formed to coordinate government... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Enrico Letta
Enrico Letta (pronounced ; born 20 August 1966 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni)) is an Italian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Italy since 2013. He is also the Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party, and a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was previously in the government as Minister of European Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and as Minister of Industry from 1999 to 2001; he also served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008. Early life and education Enrico Letta was born in Pisa, Tuscany to Anna Banchi from Sassari, Sardinia and Giorgio Letta from Abruzzo.He spent some early years in Strasbourg. He holds a PhD in International Law from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. His father was a professor of probability at the University of Pisa, a me... |
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