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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on December, 16, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 45,446 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,446 Celebrities
94 celebrities or events were found for December, 16. Add to favourites (149 fans)Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (IPA: ), (baptised December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, Beethoven was also a celebrated pianist. Born in Bonn, Germany, he moved to Vienna, Austria, in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. Despite gradual hearing loss beginning in his twenties, Beethoven continued to produce notable masterpi... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Liane Foly
Liane Foly, born December 16, 1962 in Lyon, is a French singer, actress and impersonator.... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (December 16 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. As a young man he enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He conflicted with the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. T... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775–18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her social commentary and masterful use of both free indirect speech and irony eventually made Austen one of the most influential and honoured novelists in English literature. Her novels were all written and set around the Regency Era. She never married and died at age 41. Life Jane Austen was born in 1775 at a rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, one of two daughters of the Reverend George Austen (1731–1805) and his wife Cassandra (née Leigh) (1739–1827). Her brothers James and Henry followed in their father's path and joined the Anglican clergy (the latter towards the end of his life after a successf... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Catherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon (Alcalá de Henares, 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536), Castilian Infanta Catalina de Aragón y Castilla, also known popularly after her time as Catherine of Aragon, was the first wife and Queen Consort of Henry VIII of England. Henry tried to have their twenty-four year marriage annulled in part because all their male heirs died in childhood, with only one of their six children, Princess Mary (later Queen Mary I) surviving as heiress presumptive, at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. The Pope refused to allow the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine, which set off a chain reaction that led to Henry's break with the Roman Catholic Church and his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn in the hope of fathering a male heir to continu... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to his dozens of published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, many of which appeared in science fiction magazines. At least eight of his stories have been adapted for film. Overview Foreshadowing the cyberpunk sub-genre, Philip K. Dick brought the anomic world of California to many of his works, exploring sociological and political themes in novels which were often dominated by monopolistic corporations and authoritarian governments. In his later works, Dick addressed the nature of drug use, paranoia and schizophrenia, religious experience and theology, drawing upon his own life experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VAL... Biography of Maruschka Detmers
Maruschka Detmers (born 16 December 1962) is a Dutch actress. She moved to France as a teenager, where she captured the attention of director Jean-Luc Godard. In 1983, she made her dramatic debut under Godard's direction in Prénom Carmen. Other noteworthy films include Hanna's War (1988) and The Mambo Kings (1992), but she is most famous (or infamous) for her role in 1986's Devil in the Flesh, in which she performs unsimulated fellatio on co-star Federico Pitzalis. Height: 5' 7¾" (1.72 m) Filmography Prénom Carmen (1983) Le Faucon (1983) La Pirate (1984) La Vengeance du serpent à plumes(1984) "Via Mala" (1985, mini TV series) Lime Street (1985, TV series) Il diavolo in corpo (1986) Come sono buoni i bianchi (1988) Hanna's War (1988) Deux (1989) Comédie d'été (198... Biography of Benny Anderson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born in Stockholm, Sweden on December 16, 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and co-producing forthcoming film Mamma Mia!. Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m) Early years Andersson was born to 34-year-old constructional engineer Gösta Andersson and his 26-year-old wife Laila. His sister Eva-Lis Andersson followed in 1948. Andersson's musical background comes basically from his father and grandfather; they both enjoyed playing the accordion, and at six, Benny got his own. Father Gösta and grandfather Efraim taught him Swedish folk music, traditional musi... Biography of Anna Popplewell
Anna Katherine Popplewell (born 16 December 1988) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. Height: 5' 3½" (1.61 m) Personal life Popplewell is the eldest of three children born to Andrew (a barrister) and Deborah (an immunologist); her paternal grandfather, Sir Oliver Popplewell, was a former High Court judge. Her two siblings, Freddie Popplewell and Lulu, are also actors. She lives in London and attended North London Collegiate School, a prestigious girls' school, where she was Head Girl of the school, for the academic year 2006/7. Popplewell is currently reading English at the same place where C.S. Lewis taught for several years, Magdalen College, Oxford. Career Popplewell began acting at the ag... Biography of Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. Early life Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Eldy (née Banda), a nurse, and a father who was a sheet metal worker. Bratt's father was an American of German and English descent and his mother is a Quechua Native American activist; she was born in Lima, Peru and moved to the U.S. at age fourteen. Bratt's paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt, was a Broadway actor. In San Francisco, California, Bratt attended Lowell High School, where he developed his dramatic and oratory skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Bratt went on to earn a B.F.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also joined Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Although accepted into the M.F.A. program at the Am... Biography of Catherine Jacob
Catherine Jacob, born December 16, 1956 in Paris, is a French actress. Filmography 1984 : Les Nanas d'Annick Lanoë 1986 : L'Etat de grâce de Jacques Rouffio 1987 : Maladie d'amour de Jacques Deray 1988 : La vie est un long fleuve tranquille d'Étienne Chatiliez 1988 : Les maris, les femmes, les amants de Pascal Thomas 1990 : Tatie Danielle d'Étienne Chatiliez 1991 : Merci la vie de Bernard Blier 1991 : Mon père ce héros de Gérard Lauzier 1992 : La Fille de l'air de Maroun Bagdadi 1993 : Stella plage d'Elisabeth Prouvost 1993 : La Soif de l'or de Gérard Oury 1993 : Les Braqueuses de Jean-Paul Salomé 1994 : Dieu que les femmes sont amoureuses de Magali Clément 1995 : Le bonheur est dans le pré d'Étienne Chatiliez 1996 : Les Grands Ducs de Patrice Leconte 1997... Biography of Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman, with whom she had a daughter, Norwegian author Linn Ullmann. The consummate psychological actress, she was the object of considerable critical acclaim during the 1970s (awards include three Best Actress prizes from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics, two from the National Board of Review, a threesome from the New York Film Critics Circle, and one Golden Globe as well as a LAFCA honor). Height 5' 7¾" (1.72 m) Liv Ullman was born in Tokyo (where her engineer father was working at the time), and grew up in Trondheim, Norway. Her work with Bergman, especially in the powerful ... Biography of Danielle Lloyd
Danielle Lloyd (born 16 December 1983, Liverpool) is an English lingerie and glamour model and former Miss England (2004) and Miss Great Britain (2006). Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 160 lb (53.1 kg) She was stripped of her title of Miss Great Britain 2006 after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 of Playboy magazine, and her tabloid-alleged affair with one of the judges, her footballer boyfriend at that time Teddy Sheringham. As a participant in the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother, Lloyd, along with others, was accused of using bullying tactics and making racist comments directed against the Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. According to reports from the tabloid News of the World, Sheringham decided to end his relationship with Lloyd as a result of her ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christopher Biggins
Christopher Biggins (born 16 December 1948 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English television and pantomime actor. Career Biggins is most famous for being a comedy actor, appearing as the regular character Lukewarm in the popular situation comedy Porridge starring Ronnie Barker. Other comedy shows he appeared in include Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973) and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973 & 1978). He played Nero in the acclaimed BBC dramatisation of I, Claudius by Robert Graves, having been selected for the role partly on the strength of a television commercial in which he had played a Roman emperor presiding over the games. He also appeared in the BBC's famed adaptation of Poldark. On children's television he had a regular role in the children's television programme Rentagho... Biography of Cynthia Brown
Cynthia Brown, sometimes known as Sissi, born December 16, 1981 in India, is a singer. She lives in Paris with her husband Papis. She has participated in Star Academy sixth season in 2006 and was semi-finalist versus Cyril Cinelu, the winner. Some words about Star Academy season 6: all of last year's profs return this year including directrice Alexia Laroche-Joubert and dance teacher Kamel Ouali, the latter kept French fans guessing regarding his participation up to the last minute, as he remains involved in the popular musical Le Roi Soleil. Nikos Aliagas will continue to present the daily updates and weekly "Prime" on Fridays. Much is expected of Star Academy 6 and the focus is expected to shift from traditional chanson to "nouvelle chanson francaise" made popular by singers like ... Biography of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. Early years Mead was the first of five children, born into a Quaker family, raised near Doylestown, Pennsylvania by her university professor at the University at Pennsylvania father, Edward Sherwood Mead, and social-activist mother, Emily Fogg Mead. Margaret studied one year, 1919 at DePauw University, then transferred to Barnard College where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in 1923. She studied with Professor Franz Boas and his assistant Dr. Ruth Benedict at Columbia University before earning her Master's Degree in 1924. Mead set out in 1925 to do fieldwork in Polynesia. In 1926, she joined the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, as assistant cura... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Leopold I of Belgium
Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (b. Coburg, 16 December 1790 - d. Laeken/Laken, 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians. He was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His children included Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlota of Mexico. Ancestry Leopold's ancestors in three generations Leopold I of Belgium Father: Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Paternal Grandfather: Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Paternal Great-grandfather: Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Paternal Great-grandmother: Anna Sophie, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Paternal Grandmother: Sophia Antonia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Paternal Great-g... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 (birth time source by email) – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, using a ribald approach, and he described himself as "Chomsky with dick jokes", while conceding that his humor was "caring". His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy and personal issues. Hicks' material was often controversial and steeped in dark comedy. In both his stand-up performances and during interviews, he often criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity and banality within the media and popular culture, describing them as oppressive tools of the ruling class, meant to "keep people stupid and apathetic." ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frédérique Jossinet
Frédérique Jossinet, born December 16, 1975 in Rosny-sous-Bois, is a French jūdōka. She won Gold medal (Team) at World Championship in 2006.... Biography of Daniel Narcisse
Daniel Narcisse (born December 16, 1979 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French team handball player. He is World Champion from the 2001, and European Champion from 2006. He participated on the French national handball team that received bronze medals at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship, where he was voted into the All-star team.... Biography of Spagna (singer)
Spagna (born Ivana Spagna, 16 December 1954) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Career Spagna was born in Verona, Italy. She started her career singing in English. In the early '80s she provided vocals (with Angela Parisi) and wrote songs for a pop duo project called Fun Fun as well as writing songs for many other disco projects until 1986 when she embarked on a solo career. Her first dance song "Easy Lady" (1986) was a hit throughout Europe. In 1987 she released her second successful hit, "Call Me": the song ranked 1st in the European Top Chart, hit Number Two in the UK Singles Chart (and it is still the highest position ever achieved by an Italian singer in the UK), and made #13 in the Billboard Dance Chart. The same year her first album, featuring the two singles, was relea... Biography of Stéphane Plantin
Stéphane Plantin, born December 16, 1971 in Vitry-sur-Seine, is a former handball player of Toulouse, World champion in 2001, director of Toulouse Union HandBall (TUHB).... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard, better known by his stage name Flo Rida, is an American rapper. As a teenager, he toured with local rap group 2 Live Crew. Later, he appeared in numerous popular rap mixtapes and studio albums, most notably in We the Best in 2006. Mail on Sunday was Flo Rida's solo debut album; its lead single "Low" (featuring T-Pain) was a number-one hit for ten weeks in early 2008. Flo Rida's single "Right Round" (featuring Kesha), from his new album R.O.O.T.S., is currently at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, and has spent four consecutive weeks there. Early life Dillard was born in the 187th Street projects in Carol City, Florida. As a teenager, Dillard worked with local rap group 2 Live Crew and formed his own amateur group with some friends called the Groundhoggz. His work with 2... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto (born December 16, 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto, she began acting at age nineteen, and has performed in a variety of low-budget and major studio films. Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, she gained Hollywood's attention after appearing in supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998) and What Lies Beneath (2000). Her breakthrough role was in 2002, when her character Éowyn appeared in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her private life, including her relationships with actors Richard Roxburgh and Peter O'Brien, has been much discussed in the medi... Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Early years Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, England. As a boy he enjoyed stargazing and reading old American science fiction pulp magazines (many of which made their way to the UK in ships with sailors who read them to pass the time). After secondary school and studying at Huish's Grammar School, Taunton, he was unable to afford a university education and got a job as an auditor in the pensions section of the Board of Education. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist and was inv... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith (born December 16, 1946) in Cleveland is an American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as an innovative critic, teacher, lecturer, author, independent scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last twenty five years. Smith’s essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions (magazine) and The Nation. Barbara has a twin sister, Beverly Smith, who is also a lesbian feminist activist and writer. Hi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Max Linder
Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Birth and early career Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Jewish wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater and as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country. While working in Paris on the theater stage and in music halls, Leuvielle became fascinated with motion pictures and in 1905 took a job with Pathé Frères that saw him become a comedic actor, director, screenwriter, as well as a producer under the stage name, Max Linder. Film Max Linder created what was probably the first identifiable motion-picture character who appeared in successive situation comedies. Linder made more than one hundred short films portra... Biography of Luisa Ranieri
Luisa Ranieri, born December 16, 1973 in Naples, is an Italian actress. Filmography 2001 : Il Principe e il pirata : Luisa 2003 : Maria Goretti (TV) : Assunta Goretti 2003 : Il Fuggiasco : Maria 2004 : Eros - segment Le Périlleux enchaînement des choses de Michelangelo Antonioni : La fille / Linda 2004 : La Omicidi (feuilleton TV) : Simona Colli 2005 : Cefalonia (TV) : Feria 2005 : Rockpolitik (série TV) : Various roles 2005 : Callas et Onassis (Callas e Onassis) (TV) : Maria Callas... Biography of Jon Tenney
Jonathan F. W. Tenney (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. Tenney was born in Princeton, New Jersey to a psychiatrist mother and a research physicist father. He received his B.A. degree from Vassar College, where he majored in drama and philosophy. He then studied at Juilliard, after which he made his professional debut starring in a touring production of The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. This led to his working steadily on and off-Broadway, as well as in regional theater. His New York City stage credits include Biloxi Blues, The Substance of Fire, and The Heiress. Tenney's work in television includes a lead role in the short-lived Steven Bochco series Brooklyn South and guest appearances on Will & Grace, Murphy Brown, Spenser: for Hire, and Get Real. He currently co... Biography of Xander Berkeley
Xander R. Berkeley (born December 16, 1958) is an American actor. Career Berkeley began playing minor roles in 1981, with early appearances in M*A*S*H, Cagney & Lacey, Remington Steele, Miami Vice, Moonlighting and The A-Team. Although not becoming a household name, Berkeley's face was increasingly recognizable into the 1990s. His later television guest roles included The X-Files, CSI, ER and Law & Order. On the big screen, Berkeley has appeared in North Country, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, A Few Good Men, Candyman, Apollo 13, Leaving Las Vegas, Gattaca, The Rock (uncredited), Air Force One, Sid and Nancy, Spawn, Amistad, Shanghai Noon, and Timecode. Several of his earlier roles were in films by director Alex Cox. Most of his roles have been unsympathetic characters. In 2001, Ber... Biography of Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright and composer of popular music, who received an Academy certificate of merit at the 1943 Academy Awards for "outstanding production achievement in 'In Which We Serve.'" Early life He was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Arthur Sabin Coward (1856–1937), a clerk, and his wife Violet Agnes (1863–1954), daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy. He was the second of their three sons, the eldest of whom had died in 1898 at the age of six. He began performing in the West End at an early age. He was a childhood friend of Hermione Gingold, whose mother warned her against him. A student at the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Coward’s first professional engagemen... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Carron
Pierre Carron (born December 16, 1932) is a French sculptor and painter. Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was at a time the only student at the school. He then attended the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, then, in 1951, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the atelier of Raymond Legueult. In 1957 he received the Prix de la critique and in 1960 the Grand Prix de Rome, and took up residence in the Villa Médici where he met Balthus, director of the establishment at the time. He became professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1967, a post he held for thirty years, until he became the last professor at the school to teach exclusively in a figurative... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François-Adrien Boieldieu
François-Adrien Boieldieu (16 December 1775, Rouen – 8 October 1834, Varennes-Jarcy, Essonne) was a French composer, mainly of operas. Born under the Ancien Régime in Rouen, Adrien Boieldieu received his musical education first from the choirmaster and then from the organist of the local cathedral. During the Reign of Terror, Rouen was one of the few towns to maintain a significant musical life and in 1793 a series of concerts was organised featuring the celebrated violinist Pierre Rode and the tenor Pierre-Jean Garat. It was during this time that Boieldieu composed his earliest works to texts written by his father (La fille coupable in 1793, followed by Rosalie et Mirza in 1795). They brought him immediate success. During the Revolutionary period, Boieldieu left for Paris and wisel... Biography of Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich (born December 16, 1952) is a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and liberal political commentator for Fox News. Estrich was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and grew up in Marblehead on the Massachusetts North Shore. Estrich graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1977. In 1976, Estrich was elected the first female president/editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. Estrich served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1988, she was the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential run. Estrich appears frequently on Fox News as a legal and political analys... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Florence Masnada
Florence Masnada (born December 16, 1968 in Vizille) is a retired French alpine skier. World Cup victories Date Location Race January 14, 1995 Garmisch Super-G... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bert Hellinger
The German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger (born 16 December 1925, in Leimen, Baden, Germany as Anton Hellinger) is associated with a therapeutic method best known as Family Constellations and Systemic Constellations. In recent years, his work has evolved beyond these formats into what he now calls Movements of the Spirit-Mind. Several thousand professional practitioners worldwide, influenced by Hellinger, but not necessarily following him, continue to apply and adapt his original insights to a broad range of personal, organizational and political applications. Life Anton Hellinger was born into a Catholic family in Germany in 1925. Hellinger's parents' "particular form of faith provided the entire family with immunity against believing the distortions of National Socialism." At age ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Merello (El Puerto de Santa María, December 16, 1902 - October 28, 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra ('Sailor on Dry Land', 1925), La Amante ('The Mistress', 1926) and El alba del alhelí ('The Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927). This early work fell broadly into the Cancionero tradition, though from a markedly avant-garde perspective. After falling in with the other members of the Generation of '27, Alberti began to show the profound influence of Luis de Góngora on his work, most obviously in Cal y canto ('Quicklime and Plainsong', 1929). It was, however, the introspective surrealism of Sobre los ángeles ('Concerning the Angels', 1929), whose tone was perhap... Biography of Krysten Ritter
Krysten Alyce Ritter is an American actress and former model, born December 16, 1981 in Los Angeles, California. She appeared in the films What Happens in Vegas (2008), 27 Dresses (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and has had recurring roles in the television series Gilmore Girls, and Veronica Mars. She was the lead in "Valley Girls" (an episode of The CW's Gossip Girl), will appear in the romantic comedy She's Out of My League (2009), and was featured in the AMC television drama series Breaking Bad. Early life and modeling Ritter grew up on a beef farm in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, where her mother, stepfather and sister still live. Her father lives in nearby Benton; she is of no relation to the late John Ritter. Ritter was scouted by a modeling agent at her local shoppin... Biography of Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Delanoë (December 16, 1918 - December 27, 2006), born Pierre Leroyer, was a French songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and rocker Johnny Hallyday. After studying law, Delanoë worked as a tax collector and then a tax inspector. After World War II he met Gilbert Bécaud and started a career as a lyricist. He wrote some of France's most beloved songs with Bécaud, including "Et maintenant", translated into English as "What Now My Love", which was covered by artists including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, The Supremes and The Temptations. "Je t'appartiens" ("Let It Be Me") was covered by The Everly Brothers, Tom Jones, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Nina Simone. In addition to Bécaud he wrote for Édith Piaf ("La Go... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel Etcheverry
Michel-Adrien Etcheverry, born December 16, 1919 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), died March 30, 1999 in Paris, was a French actor and a former teacher. He has no link with Robert Etcheverry, it is not the same family. Filmography 1948 : Entre onze heures et minuit de Henri Decoin : Le préposé aux empreintes 1951 : Sans laisser d'adresse de Jean-Paul Le Chanois : Un futur papa (M. Langlois) 1952 : Nez de cuir de Yves Allégret 1952 : Agence matrimoniale de Jean-Paul Le Chanois 1952 : Ce soir on joue Macbeth (Le Rideau rouge) de André Barsacq 1952 : La jeune folle de Yves Allégret 1952 : Ouvert contre X de Richard Pottier 1953 : La Pocharde de Georges Combret 1953 : Mam'zelle Nitouche de Yves Allégret 1954 : Madame du Barry de Christian Jaque : L'abbé de Be... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Clifford Robinson
Clifford "Cliff" Ralph Robinson (born December 16, 1966 in Buffalo, New York) is a retired American professional basketball player, formerly of the National Basketball Association. Basketball career University of Connecticut Robinson played collegiately at the University of Connecticut. In 1988, UConn won the NIT Championship and Robinson was named to the all-tournament team. Robinson was later named to UConn's All-Century men's Basketball team. On February 5, 2007, Robinson's number "00" was retired at Gampel Pavilion during halftime of a UConn basketball game against the Syracuse Orange as part of the "Huskies of Honor" ceremony which recognized personal accomplishments of 13 former players and 3 coaches. Portland Trail Blazers Robinson was selected with the 36th overall pi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Leyden
Paul Leyden (b. Paul Augustine Leyden on December 16, 1972) is an Australian actor. He currently best known as playing the role of Simon Frasier on the daytime soap opera As The World Turns. Biography Leyden was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, by his parents, John and Ros Leyden. He is one of five children. The actor starred in the mini-series Tribe, and can be seen in episodes of Farscape, BeastMaster and Home and Away. Leyden's hobbies include playing outdoor sports, the saxophone, and guitar. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Married his longtime girlfriend Estelle Andrewartha in a romantic ceremony in front of family and friends in late September 2007.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Ochs
Pierre Ochs, born December 16, 1984 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, is a French acrobatic skier. He has participated in Olympic Winter Games in 2006.... Biography of Zoltan Kodaly
Zoltán Kodály (Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, IPA: ); December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist, and philosopher. Life Born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galanta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a stationmaster and keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. He also sang in a cathedral choir and wrote music, despite having little formal musical education. In 1900, Kodály entered the University of Budapest to study modern languages, and began to study music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where Hans Koessler taught him composition. One of the first people to undertake the serious study of folk tales, Kodály became one of the most significant... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie (born December 16, 1944 in Port Chester, New York) is an American jazz guitarist. Aside from his solo work he is known for his work with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. Abercrombie has recorded principally with the ECM label of Manfred Eicher. He also often explores the parameters of jazz fusion and post bop. Abercrombie is 1967 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He was presented with a Berklee College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. Abercrombie's first notable recordings were two albums with the jazz-rock band Dreams in 1970. The ongoing groups he has led or co-led include: * Gateway, with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette (mid-1970s, and again mid-1990s) * duo with guitarist ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sam Robards
Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. Robards was born in New York City, the son of actors Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall. He began his acting career in 1980 in an off-Broadway production of Album, and made his feature film debut in director Paul Mazursky's 1982 film Tempest. He married fellow actor Suzy Amis in 1985. Their marriage produced a son, Jasper, and ended in divorce in 1993. In 1997, Robards married Danish model Sidsel Jensen, and they have two sons together. Robards appeared alongside his father in 1988's Bright Lights, Big City, in their only film collaboration together (Robards Sr. died in 2000.) He also costarred with his mother in the 1993 Robert Altman film Prêt-à-Porter. Robards portrayed Harold Ross, first editor of The New Yorker, in... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Léon Walras
Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (December 16, 1834 in Évreux, France - January 5, 1910 in Clarens, near Montreux, Switzerland) was a French economist, considered by Joseph Schumpeter as "the greatest of all economists". He was a mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory. Life and career Walras was the son of French economist Auguste Walras. Auguste was a school administrator and not a professional economist, yet his economic thinking had a profound effect on his son. He found the value of goods by setting their scarcity relative to human wants. Walras also inherited his father's interest in social reform. Much like the Fabians, Walras called for the nationalization of land, believing that land’s value would always increase and that rents from th... Biography of Dodd Darin
Dodd Darin or Dodd Mitchell Cassoto, born December 16, 1961 in Los Angeles, is the son of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, the husband of Audrey Tannenbaum and the brother-in-law of Eric Tannenbaum. He is writer and a former actor.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 - December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books—the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections—set in an alternate world where a joint British-French empire still led by a Plantagenet dynasty has survived into the twentieth century and where magic works and has been scientifically codified. The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references (particularly t... Biography of Lesley Stahl
Lesley R. Stahl (born December 16, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American television journalist. As of 2007, she has reported for CBS on 60 Minutes for nearly 16 seasons. A graduate of Wheaton College, her career received a running start from her coverage of the Watergate affair. She went on to become White House correspondent during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. Stahl was the moderator of Face the Nation between September 1983 and May 1991, and from 2002 - 2004, Stahl hosted 48 Hours Investigates. In 2002, Stahl made headlines when Al Gore appeared on 60 Minutes and revealed for the first time that he would not run for president again in 2004. In October 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, stood up and walked away from an interview... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albino Galvano
Albino Galvano, born in Turin December 16, 1907 and died in 1990, was an Italian artist and art historian.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") (born December 16, 1937, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Background Ed Ruscha was born into a European family with an younger sister, Shelby, and a younger brother, Paul. Edward Ruscha, Sr. was an auditor for Hartford Insurance Company. Ruscha’s mother was supportive of her son’s early signs of artistic skill and interests. Young Ruscha was attracted to cartooning and would sustain this interest throughout his adolescent years. Though born in Nebraska, Ruscha lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as the California Institute of the Arts) from 195... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James McCracken
James McCracken (December 16, 1926 – April 29, 1988) was an American tenor. He was born in Gary, Indiana and began singing in his church choir as a child. While he was in the US Navy during World War II, he sang in the Blue Jacket Choir. He studied music at Columbia University and with Elsa Seyfert in Konstanz, Germany. He made his debut in 1952 with the Central City Opera in Colorado as Rodolfo in Puccini's "La bohème." He sang minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera from 1953 to 1957, while he was still a student. In 1957, he moved to Europe and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera. He had great success with the Zürich Opera. Otello was one of his signature roles. Starting in 1963, he became one of the Met's principal dramatic tenors. He was married to the mezzo-soprano San... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Santayana
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid – September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U.S. He is perhaps best known as an aphorist, and for the oft-misquoted remark, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it," (hence, "Santayana's Aphorism on Repetitive Consequences") from Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of his The Life of Reason. Early life Born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruíz de Santayana y Borrás, he spent his early childhood in Ávila, Spain. His mother, Josefina Borrás, was the daughter of a Spanish officia... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeff Kanew
Jeffrey Roger Kanew (born 16 December 1944 in New York) is an American film director, writer and editor probably best known for directing the 1980s film Revenge of the Nerds. He also directed the movie National Lampoon's Adam & Eve.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kelenna Azubuike
Kelenna David Azubuike (born December 16, 1983) is a professional basketball player. Born in London, England and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Azubuike became a standout player during his play at Victory Christian High School, and was eventually recruited to play for the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky. After finishing his junior season in college, Azubuike declared himself eligible for the 2005 NBA Draft, eventually going undrafted that year. Azubuike then played for the Fort Worth Flyers of the Development League, leading the league in scoring during the 2006-07 season and eventually being called-up to play for the Golden State Warriors.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Orlando Woolridge
Orlando Vernada Woolridge (born December 16, 1959 in Bernice, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. Early years Woolridge played collegiate basketball at the University of Notre Dame. He played in the Final Four in 1978 as a freshman with teammate Bill Laimbeer (the two would later reunite as teammates of the Detroit Pistons during the 1990s). Woolridge helped guide Notre Dame to NCAA tournament appearances in 1980 and 1981. As a senior in 1981, Woolridge made a last-second fall-away jumper to end #1 Virginia's 28-game winning streak; he also earned second team All-American status that year. Professional career He was selected sixth in the 1981 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls, where he played for his first five seasons. During the 1984-85 season, Wool... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rudolf Diels
Rudolf Diels (December 16, 1900 - November 18, 1957) was a German politician. A protégé of Hermann Göring, Diels was in charge of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934. He was born in Berghaus in Taunus, the son of a farmer. He served in the army during World War I and afterwards went to study law at the University of Marburg from 1919. He joined the Prussian interior ministry in 1930 and was promoted to an advisory position in the Prussian police in 1932, targeting the suppression of political radicals, both Communists and Nazis. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Diels was head of the Prussian political police in Berlin. When Göring was made minister for Prussia in 1933, replacing Karl Severing, he was impressed with Diels' work and new commitment to the Nazi party. Göring appointed him as c... Biography of Alphonse Juin
Alphonse Pierre Juin (French pronunciation: ; 16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a Marshal of France. Biography Early years Juin was born at Bône in French Algeria, and enlisted in the French Army, graduating from the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1912. Career In 1914 he was in Morocco, in command of native troops there. Upon the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to the Western Front in France where he was gravely wounded in 1915. As a result of this wound, he lost the use of his right arm. After the war, he entered the "école de guerre" and had excellent results. He choose to serve in Africa again, first under the orders of Lyautey, then under those of Pétain and Giraud. He served in the different staffs of the African officers. In 1938, Juin was nomi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Berri
Robert Berri, born Robert, Louis Berrier (16 December 1912 – 22 November 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1979. Selected filmography * Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974) * Le Blé en herbe (1954) * Paris Vice Squad (1951)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeff Ruland
Jeffrey Alan Ruland (born December 16, 1958 in Bay Shore, New York (birth time source: email)) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He is the former head coach of the Iona Gaels men's college basketball team and current head coach of the UDC Firebirds men's college basketball team. Early life and collegiate career A 6'11", 280 lb center, Ruland went from Sachem High School in Suffolk County, New York, to Iona College on a basketball scholarship and played for coach Jim Valvano before Valvano left for North Carolina State University. Ruland was the big gun on the Gaels' 1979-1980 team that compiled a 29-5 record en route to a number 19 national ranking, the best in the school's history. Professional basketball playing career Ruland was selected by the Golden... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yannick Alléno
Yannick Alléno, born December 16, 1968 in Puteaux, is a French Chef, 3 Stars in Guide Michelin. Awards * 1994 : Prix international Auguste Escoffier, Nice, Modèle:1e place * 1995 : Prix international Paul Louis Meissonnier, Avignon, Modèle:1e place * 1998 : Champion de France de Cuisine artistique * 1999 : Trophée Paul Bocuse, Lyon, vice-champion du monde de cuisine (Bocuse d'Argent) * 1999 : Maître cuisinier de France * 1999 : Secrétaire général de l'Académie des lauréats du Boccuse d’Or * 2001 : Chevalier du Mérite agricole * 2007 : Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite * 2007 : Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres * 2008 : Chef de l'Année Bibliography * 2006 : Quatre saisons à la table N5 du Meurice, Yannick Al... Biography of Shane Black
Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to some of the biggest blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including work on Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. Early life Black was born and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Patricia Ann James and Paul Black. His father was a football star in college and later founded his own printing business. Black's family moved to Fullerton, California. He attended Sunny Hills High School, a renowned magnet school. He studied theater at UCLA and graduated in 1983 with the intent to become an actor. While looking for a way to make some income as he struggled to find acting roles, his friend Fred Dekker encouraged Black to try his hand at screenwrit... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Barbara Moss
Barbara Moss,, born December 16, 1954 in Eastaboga, Alabama, is an American artist and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Lefebvre de Caumartin
François Lefebvre de Caumartin or Jean François Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin (16 December 1668, Châlons-en-Champagne - 30 August 1733, Blois) was a French bishop. He was elected member of the Académie française in 1694 and member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1701.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Saint-René Taillandier
Saint-René Taillandier (16 December 1817 – 22 February 1879) was a French writer and critic. He was born René Gaspard Ernest Taillandier, in Paris. He completed his studies in Heidelberg, and then became professor of literature successively in Strasbourg, Montpellier and at the Sorbonne, where he was nominated to the chair of French eloquence in 1868. Most of the articles included in his published volumes first appeared in the Revue des deux mondes. In January 1870 he became general secretary of the ministry of education, and continued in this office after the fall of the Empire. He became officer of the Legion of Honour in 1870, and was elected to the French Academy in 1873. He died in Paris. His works include Allemagne et Russie, études historiques et litteraires (1856), Le Poèt... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, duc de Nivernais (16 December 1716 – 25 February 1798) was a French diplomat and writer. He was the sixth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1742. Mancini-Mazarini was born in Paris, son of Philippe-Jules-François (1676-1768), duc de Nevers from 1707 to his death, and Maria Anne Spinola, who had married in 1709. He is a great-nephew of Cardinal Mazarin. Mancini-Mazarini was educated at the Collège Louis le Grand, and married at the age of fourteen. He served in the campaigns in Italy (1733) and Bohemia (1740), but had to give up soldiering on account of his weak health. He was subsequently ambassador at Rome (1748-1752), Berlin (1755-1756) and London, where he negotiated the treaty of Paris (10 February 1763). From 1787 to 1789 ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michelle Smith (swimmer)
Michelle Smith (born 16 December 1969 in Rathcoole, County Dublin, now more commonly referred to by her married name, Michelle de Bruin) is a retired Irish swimmer and practising Irish barrister. She was a triple gold medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, for the 400 m individual medley, 400 m freestyle and 200 m individual medley. She also won the bronze medal for the 200 m butterfly event. She remains Ireland's most successful Olympian. Significant controversy followed these victories, particularly after U.S. swimmer Janet Evans at a press conference accused Smith of doping immediately following Evans' defeat. These accusations have never been proven. However, as David Wallechinsky writes in his Complete Book of the Summer Olympics series, doubts about Smith involved the f... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Luisella Costamagna
Luisella Costamagna, born December 16, 1968 in Turin, is an Italian journalist.... Biography of Stefania Prestigiacomo
Stefania Prestigiacomo, born December 16, 1966 in Syracuse, is an Italian politician.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charly Mottet
Charly Mottet (born 16 December 1962 in Valence, Drôme (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank)) is a French former professional cyclist (1983 to 1994). He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era, Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and has 8 participations in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were the 4th positions in 1987 and 1991. He has 3 stage wins, 1 in 1990 (Stage 15 : Millau - Revel) and 2 in 1991 (Stage 11 : Quimper - Saint-Herblain and Stage 12 : Pau - Jaca). He also finished 2nd on the podium of the 1990 Giro d'Italia. During his professional cycling career, Mottet had a reputation within the peloton as being a totally clean rider who never used performance enhancing drugs.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gianluca Guarischi
Gianluca Guarischi, born December 16, 1963 in Milan, is an Italian politician, member of the National Fascist Party.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Waxman
Dr. Frank Waxman, born on December 16, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennylvania (birth time source: Eugene Moore, Astrodatabank), is an American osteopathic physician.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roy Schuiten
Roy Schuiten (16 December 1950 Zandvoort, Netherlands – 19 September 2006 Praia do Corveiro, Portugal) was a Dutch track and road racing cyclist. After retirement he became a team manager before starting a restaurant. Background Schuiten was a tall (1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)), stylish rider who shone as an amateur. He was national pursuit champion, broke the amateur record for 4,000m on an indoor track, and won numerous team time-trials. He came close to not turning professional because his father died in a traffic accident in 1973. He stopped cycling for a season to help his mother run the family wine and spirits business in Zandvoort. The following year Schuiten's younger brother, Fred, took over the business and on 17 July 1974 Schuiten turned professional for the TI-Raleigh team run by ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Kirwan
John James Patrick Kirwan, ONZM, MBE (born 16 December 1964) is a New Zealand born rugby union footballer turned coach. Kirwan, who played at wing, played 96 times (including 63 test matches) as an All Black from 1984 until 1994. He played rugby league for two seasons in the Australian Rugby League Premiership for the Auckland Warriors before finishing his playing career with the NEC club in Japan. He is the current head coach of the Japan national team. Coaching career In 2002, he moved to Italy to become the coach of the Italian national rugby team, which under his guidance improved, recording historic victories over Wales in 2003 and Scotland in 2004. However after a winless 2005 Six Nations campaign, he was relieved of his managerial duties on 8 April 2005. For a brief period... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893. Francis Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907. Life and work Born in Preston, Lancashire, his father Charles was a doctor who had converted to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Cardinal Manning. Thompson was educated at Ushaw College, near Durham, and then studied medicine at Owens College in... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-François de Saint-Lambert
Jean François de Saint-Lambert (26 December 1716 – 9 February 1803) was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs. He was born at Nancy and raised on his parents' estate at Affracourt, a village in Lorraine near Haroué, a seat of the Beauvau family, with whom he had close ties. He studied at the university at Pont-à-Mousson, but then spent several years at home recovering from an unidentified illness. He often complained of poor health, but participated in military campaigns, led a strenuous social life, and lived to be 86 years old. Saint-Lambert began writing poetry in his adolescence and belonged to the circle around Françoise de Graffigny in Lunéville. By October 1733 he had already begun work on The Seasons, his major p... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sam Most
Sam Most (Samuel Most) is a Los Angeles-based jazz flautist and tenor saxophonist. Along with Frank Wess, he is one of the first jazz flautists. He was born on December 16, 1930, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He has a brother, clarinetist, Abe Most, with whom he has performed. Early in his career (in the 1950s) he played with Tommy Dorsey, Boyd Raeburn and Don Redman. He also did session work for Chris Connor, Paul Quinichette and Teddy Wilson. He was a member of the Buddy Rich band from 1950 to 1961. He was the subject of a documentary film in 2001, "Sam Most, Jazz Flutist." He is a member of the Bahá'í Faith and has collaborated with other Bahá'í musicians as well. Recorded, as Sam Most (leader) with Prestige, Debut (reissued on Xanadu), Vanguard, and Bethlehem. Discography... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Daniel Mermet
Daniel Mermet, born December 16, 1942 in Pavillons-sous-Bois, is a French journalist, writer and producer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of René Redzepi
René Redzepi (born 16 December 1977) is the chef and co-owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world in 2010 San Pellegrino Awards and 2011. Redzepi is noted for his work for the reinvention and refinement of a new Nordic cuisine and food that is characterized by inventiveness and clean flavors. Redzepi is the son of an ethnic Albanian father, who migrated to Denmark from what was then Yugoslavia (now Republic of Macedonia) and a Danish mother. Biography René Redzepi was born on 16 December 1977 in Copenhagen to a Danish mother and an ethnic Albanian father who had immigrated to Denmark a few years earlier. He moved to Macedonia with his family and lived there unt... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lola Créton
Lola Créton, born on December 1993, is a French actress. Filmography 2004 : Imago 2007 : Louis Page, épisode Le don d'Elsa 2007 : La chambre des morts 2008 : Les enfants de Timpelbach : Mireille Stettner 2009 : Barbe-Bleue : Marie-Catherine 2009 : Malban 2011 : En ville de Valérie Mréjen et Bertrand Schefer : Iris 2011 : Un amour de jeunesse de Mia Hansen-Løve : Camille... Biography of Justin Mentell
Justin Michael Mentell (December 16, 1982 – February 1, 2010) was an American artist and actor. Life and career Mentell was born in Austin, Texas. He made his stage debut at three years of age as an orphan in Miss Liberty, and went on to appear in local theater productions, among them the musical Peter Pan, in which he portrayed one of the Lost Boys. After the family moved to Waukegan, Illinois, Mentell joined the Northbrook Children's Theater, where he continued to perform on stage. He also took up speed skating, placing third at the Junior Olympics and eventually becoming a member of the U.S. Speedskating's junior national long track team. Mentell attended Northern Illinois University (NIU), where he majored in acting. He appeared in several plays there, including Balm in Gilead, ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Mangold
James Allen Mangold (born 16 December 1963) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for Walk the Line which he co-wrote and directed. Life and career Mangold was born in New York City, the son of artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold. After graduating from Washingtonville High School, Mangold was accepted into the California Institute of the Arts film/video program. While there, he mentored under Alexander Mackendrick. During his third year, Mackendrick suggested that Mangold should study at CalArts School of Theater as an actor alongside his regular film studies. One of his classmates was Don Cheadle. Based on the response to his short films, in 1985 Mangold got a fast start as a graduate of CalArts, securing a writer/director deal (at... Biography of Melanie Smith
Melanie Smith (born December 16, 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American actress. She is the youngest of six children raised in a working class family. She appeared as Jerry's girlfriend Rachel in three episodes of Seinfeld, was the third actress to portray Tora Ziyal on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and had a starring role as Emily Stewart on As the World Turns in the early 90's. Smith currently lives outside of New Hope, PA, and owns Yogaphoria The Inner Health Club, a yoga studio in New Hope, PA. Selected filmography * End Game (2003) ... as Andrea Raitano * The Division ... as Ronnie Inwood o episode Strangers o episode 'Till Death Do Us Part o episode Sweet Sorrow o episode Before the Deluge * Curb Your Ent... Biography of Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Lizzy Mercier Descloux (born Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux, 16 December 1956, Paris – d. 20 April 2004, Saint-Florent, Corsica) was a French singer and musician, a pioneer in the worldbeat genre, as well as a writer and painter. She grew up in Lyon, but returned to Paris in her teens to attend art school. With her partner, Michel Esteban, she helped establish the store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement in France, and the new wave magazine Rock News. She struck up friendships with Patti Smith and Richard Hell when visiting New York in 1975, and both contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. She and Esteban moved to New York in 1977, meeting Michael Zilkha, with whom Esteban formed ZE Records. With guitarist D.J. Barnes, Mercier Descloux formed the performance art... Biography of Heike Drechsler
Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute (born 16 December 1964 in Gera, Thuringia, then East Germany) is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines. She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump (1992 and 2000). She also won two World Championships in the long jump (1983 and 1993), as well as gold medals in the long jump and the 200 m sprint in the World Indoor Championships 1987. In addition, she had numerous successes in European and German championships. Drechsler's greatest rival in the long jump was Jackie Joyner-Kersee, with whom she was also very good friends. In 1986, Drechsler twice equalled Marita Koch's 200 metres sprint world record and ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rebecca Marino
Rebecca Marino (born December 16, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. On July 11, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 38. Early life Rebecca was born in Toronto to a family of Italian descent (her paternal grandparents were born in Caltanissetta) but she moved to Vancouver at age 2 and grew up there. In 2009, she moved to Montreal to train at the National Training Centre. She started playing tennis at age 10. Tennis career 2005–09 She played the first event of her career in Vancouver in 2005. In 2006, she played first Tour qualifying at the Rogers Cup in Montreal as a wild card. She reached the second round at the 2009 Bell Challenge after a 6–4, 6–3 win in the first round over Lauren Albanese. Marino lost 2–6, 3–6 in the next round against Julia Gör... Biography of Amanda Setton
Amanda Setton (born December 16, 1985) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her role as Penelope Shafai in the teen drama Gossip Girl (2007–2009, 2010) and for her role as Kimberly Andrews on One Life to Live (2009–2010, 2011). She is currently appearing in Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Personal life Setton was born in New York, and grew up in Great Neck, where she was president of her high school’s theater club. She is Jewish. Setton graduated from Ithaca College. In her junior year she studied abroad in Barcelona Spain in an IES program. Amanda completed a comprehensive 2 year Meisner Technique program at The Actors Workshop of Ithaca under the instruction of Eliza VanCort. Career Setton played Penelope Shafai in the teen drama Gossip Girl from 2007 ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alix de Saint-André
Alix de Saint-André, born on December 16, 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: act n° 4815, André Dekoster), is a French journalist, TV host, and writer. Bibliography L'Ange et le réservoir de liquide de freins (1994) un polar en Série Noire Papa est au Panthéon (2001) Ma Nanie, (2003) consacré à sa nounou décédée en 2000 Il n'y a pas de grandes personnes (2007) consacré à André Malraux et à la rencontre avec sa fille Florence Malraux En avant, route ! (2010) où elle raconte ses trois voyages à pied vers Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle Alix de Saint-André, L'ange et le réservoir de liquide de freins, 1994 Alix de Saint-André, Archives des anges, Nil, novembre 1998, 225 p. (ISBN 2841111075) Alix de Saint-André, Papa est au Panthéon, Gallimard... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Éric Bélanger
Éric Bélanger (born December 16, 1977) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. Playing career He was drafted in the fourth round, ninety-sixth overall, by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Before making his NHL debut, Bélanger played with the Beauport Harfangs and Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Fredericton Canadiens, Springfield Falcons and Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and the Long Beach Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League. Bélanger made his NHL debut on October 6, 2000. During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Bélanger played for HC Bolzano in Italy. On September 29, 2006, Bélanger and Tim Gleason were traded to the Hurricanes for ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Les Leston
Alfred Lazarus Fingleston (16 December 1920 – 13 May 2012), better known as Les Leston, was a British racing driver, born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He started racing in a Jaguar SS100 before acquiring a Cooper and his own Leston Special. He become a Cooper works driver in 1954 and took the British Formula Three championship in the same year. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 September 1956. He scored no championship points. Leston won the Luxembourg Grand Prix in 1952. Following retirement from racing, Leston manufacturered and sold aftermarket parts for cars, such as steering wheels and gear shifters. Later he expanded into clothing, and was instrumental in pioneering the development of safety equipment such as flameproof overalls ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michael McCary
Michael Sean McCary (born December 16, 1971) is an American R&B singer, best known as the former bass singer of the R&B group, Boyz II Men. In 2003, Michael McCary left Boyz II Men due to chronic back problems resulting from scoliosis and personal problems. McCary plays in the film Mannsfield 12 (2007), in which he takes on the role of Herold. He has also appeared on the television game show Identity on March 24, 2007. Lately Michael has been seen in the court room as a celebrity juror on a TV show that airs daily called Jury Duty. He was also shown in the pilot for a talk show with Paula Poundstone called A Pound of Paula, which wasn't picked up. McCary is the son of Omarnetta Thomas and Robert McCary Sr. He has a brother named Robert McCary Jr. Michael was due to make a long awaite... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eugène-Louis Doyen
Eugène-Louis Doyen (December 16, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – November 21, 1916) was a French surgeon who was a native of Reims. He was the son of Octave Doyen (1831–1895), who served as mayor of Reims. Eugène Doyen studied medicine in Reims and Paris, and later opened a private medical institute in Paris that attracted a wealthy clientele. Doyen was a skilled and innovative physician who introduced several surgical techniques and medical instruments, some of which bear his name today. He was a pioneer in the use of electrosurgery and electrocoagulation, and also marketed a yeast extract he called "mycolysine" for treatment of infectious diseases. He had a keen interest in photography and cinematography, and performed early experiments of color film, microcinematography... |
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