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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on January, 1, 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
192 celebrities or events were found for January, 1. Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier, (born January 1, 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France. The daughter of a French pharmacist father and an Italian mother, she initially wanted to be a dancer. The circumstances of war made this difficult and her parents saw it as only a whim; however, her d... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (born 1 January 1956) is the current Minister of Economic Affairs, Finances and Industry of France, and the designated head of the International Monetary Fund, due to take office on 5 July 2011. She was appointed to her current position by President Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2007. Previously, she was Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde was the first woman ever to become minister of Economic Affairs of a G8 economy, and is the first woman to ever head the IMF. A noted antitrust and labour lawyer, Lagarde made history as the first female chair of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. On 16 November 2009, The Financial Times ranked her the best minister of finance of the Eurozo... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Olivia Ruiz
Olivia Ruiz (born Olivia Blanc; 1 January 1980) is a female French singer. She was featured in the French TV show Star Academy. Discography Albums 2003 : J'aime pas l'Amour, directed by Iso Diop & Mitch Olivier 2005 : La Femme Chocolat, directed by Alain Cluzeau, Mathias Malzieu (Dionysos) & Olivia Ruiz... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (born January 1, 1959 in Argentan, Orne, France) is a French philosopher. Born to a family of Norman farmers, he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He taught this subject to senior students at a technical high school in Caen between 1983 and 2002, before establishing the Université populaire de Caen on a free-of-charge basis, for which he wrote a manifesto in 2004 (La communauté philosophique). After suffering a heart attack aged 28 and being advised to change his diet, Onfray replied that he "preferred to die eating butter than to economize existence with margarine." The episode led him to write his first book, Le Ventre des philosophes, or The Stomach of the Philosophers, about the eating habits of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, and how it is reflected in thei... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Elin Nordegren
Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (Swedish pronunciation: ; born January 1, 1980) is a Swedish-American model and the ex-wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods. Early life Nordegren was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former Swedish migration and asylum policy minister. Her father, Thomas Nordegren, is a radio journalist who served as a bureau chief in Washington, D.C.. She has an older brother, Axel, and a twin sister, Josefin. Nordegren and her sister worked odd summer jobs and as cashiers in supermarkets to finance their studies. She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000. Marriage to Tiger Woods Nordegren took a job in a Stockholm clothing store called Champagne, where she met M... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart (January 1, 1927 – November 22, 2007) was a French choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger. Height: 1m70 He was born in Marseille, France and founded the Ballet de l'Etoile company in 1954. In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels. In 1984 he converted to Islam In 1987 he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he founded the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, one of the most famous and successful dance companies in the world. Among his works is a thoroughly revised version of The Nutcracker, presumably inspired by his own life story, which he staged in 2000. It still uses Tchaikovsky's original score, but completely scraps the original plot and characters, instead supplying a ... Biography of Catherine Nay
Catherine Nay, born January 1, 1944 in Perigueux, is a French journalist and TV host. Works La double méprise, Grasset, 1980 (ISBN 2246252415) Le noir et le rouge, ou, L'histoire d'une ambition, Grasset, 1984 (ISBN 2246281911) Les sept Mitterrand, ou, Les métamorphoses d'un septennat, Grasset, 1988 (ISBN 2246362911) Le Dauphin et Le Régent, Grasset, 1994 (ISBN 2246471710) Un pouvoir nommé désir, Grasset & Fasquelle, 2007 (ISBN 2246680018)... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), known popularly as J. Edgar Hoover, was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He founded the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years until his death. During his life, Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public. Since his death, various allegations have tarnished this image. Hoover's leadership spanned eight presidential administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. During this time, the United States moved from being a rural nation with strong isolationist tendencies to an urbanized superpower. From nearly the beginning of his career with the FBI, Hoover was accused of exceedin... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Lilian Thuram
Lilian Thuram (born Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien, January 1, 1972 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France) is a French professional football defender, the most capped player in the history of the France national team. He has played at the top division level for over 15 seasons, including ten in Italy's Serie A. With the France national team, Thuram won the 1998 World Cup and the Euro 2000. Before Thuram pursued a football career, he aspired to be a Roman Catholic priest, until he found that he wanted to make use of his football talents. Club career Thuram's football career began with Monaco of the French Ligue 1 in 1991. Later stops included Parma (1996-2001) and Juventus (2001-2006) in the Italian Serie A championship. He won the the scudetto twice with Juventus (it was originally four t... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) (pronounced /ˈsælɨndʒɚ/) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye and his reclusive nature. He has not published original work since 1965 and has not been interviewed since 1980. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published his first story in 1940. After serving in World War II, he returned to New York. In 1948 he published the critically-acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, which published much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his first novel, The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holde... Biography of Alassane Ouattara
Alassane Dramane Ouattara (born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician who was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993. He is currently the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), a party which has its support base in the north of the country, and is a candidate in the upcoming 2008 presidential election. Besides being a politician he is also a technocrat, trained as an economist and having worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO). Career at financial institutions According to Ouattara, he was born in the Ivorian town of Dimbokro, although others have suggested he was born in Sindou, Burkina Faso. He was an economist for the IMF in Washington, D.C. from 1968 to 1973, and afterwards he was th... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1, 1449 – 9 April 1492) was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician, and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace that he helped to maintain between the various Italian states collapsed with his death; and two years later the French invasion of 1494 began nearly 400 years of foreign occupation of the Italian peninsula. Childhood His grandfather, Cosimo de Medici, became the first of the Medici to combine running the bank with leading the Republic in bot... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503), born Roderic Borja (Italian: Borgia) was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance and one whose surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was born at Xativa, Valencia, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol (Castilian) or Llançol (Catalan); he assumed his mother's family name of Borja on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Calixtus III in 1455. Legacy Alexander gave away the temporal estates of the papacy to his children as though they belonged to him. The secularization of the church was carried to a pitch never before dreamed of, and it was clear to all Italy that he regarded the papacy as an instrument of worldly schemes ... Biography of Clifford Olson
Clifford Robert Olson Jr (born January 1, 1940 in Vancouver, Canada) is a serial killer who killed two children as well as nine youths in the early 1980s. Early life Despite being raised in a reportedly stable home with no signs of abuse, he soon showed signs of delinquency. He skipped school frequently, and was first arrested for theft at the age of 13. He was known as a bully and a show-off, and was rumoured to torture and kill animals. In adulthood, he picked up dozens of convictions for crimes ranging from fraud, armed robbery and firearms offences, and he spent a great deal of time in prison, although he escaped on several occasions. Murders On November 17, 1980, Olson abducted 12-year-old Christine Weller in Surrey, British Columbia. She was found on Christmas Day, strangl... Biography of Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on 1 January 1953) was the Foreign Minister of France in the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin. Douste-Blazy is also a cardiologist and Christian Democrat politician from Lourdes. Formerly from the UDF party, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement. His principal former elected positions were mayor of Lourdes and mayor of Toulouse. He studied medicine in Toulouse, where he had his first job in 1976. He then worked as a cardiologist in Lourdes and Toulouse, namely in Purpan's hospital from 1986. He then joined the French Society of Cardiology. He became Professor of Medicine in Toulouse Sciences University in 1988. He entered politics in March 1989, being elected mayor of Lourdes and then Member of the European Parliament in June of the same year. He w... Biography of Raymond Pellegrin
Raymond Pellegrin (b. Nice, France, 1 January 1925, died October 14, 2007 in Garons) was a French actor. Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature Nais. He married actress Dora Doll on 12 July 1949; the couple had a daughter named Danielle, and divorced in 1955. He married actress Gisèle Pascal on 8 October 1955; on 12 September 1962, the couple had a daughter, Pascale Pellegrin, now also an actress. In his films, he is sometimes credited as "Raymond Pellegrini." Filmography 1988 Don Bosco 1986 Jubiabá, adaptation of a 1935 novel by Jorge Amado; released as Bahia de tous les saints in France. 1984 Viva la Vie! 1984 Louisiane 1983 Ronde de Nuit 1982 Plus Beau Que Moi Tu Meurs 1981 Les Uns et les autres 1980 Le Bar du Telephone 1979 Street War... Biography of Jacky Ickx
Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx (born January 1, 1945) is a Belgian former racing driver who achieved 25 podium finishes in Formula One and six wins in the 24 hours of Le Mans. He was born in Brussels. Racing career Jacky Ickx was introduced to the sport when he was taken by his father, motoring journalist Jacques Ickx, to races which he covered. Despite this family background, Jacky had limited interest in the sport until his father bought him a 50cc Zundapp motorcycle. Soon afterwards, Ickx won 8 of 13 races at the first season and the European 50cc trials title. He took another two titles before he moved to racing a Lotus Cortina in touring car racing, taking his national saloon car championship in 1965. He also competed in sports car races where he had already significant experienc... Biography of Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938 (source Imdb)) is an American stage and film actor. He has won three Tony Awards - two for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a Play (Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002)) and one for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2007). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match. Personal life Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey to Frank A. Langella, Sr., a business executive, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brothe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of César Baldaccini
César Baldaccini (January 1, 1921 in Marseille - December 6, 1998 in Paris) was a noted French sculptor. César was at the forefront of the New Realism movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects. He was a French sculptor, born in 1921 of Italian parents in the working class neighbourhood of la Belle-de-Mai in Marseilles. His father was a cooper and bar owner. His full name was César Baldaccini, but is usually known as César. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles (1935-9) he went on to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1943-8). He began making sculptures by welding together pieces of scrap metal in 1952 and first made his re... Biography of Alain Afflelou
Alain Afflelou, born January 1, 1948 in Mascara near Oran, Algeria is a French businessman, founder of optical company Alain Afflelou. He was the husband of Alexandra Lorska and had a son, Anthony born in 1991. He is now married with Rosalie Van Breemen, a former Dutch top model and TV host.... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Colin Morgan
Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is an actor from Armagh, Northern Ireland. After gaining a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Belfast Institute of Further & Higher Education in 2004 he went on to graduate from the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2007. On stage Morgan appeared in 2007 as Esteban in the Old Vic stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre, and took the title role in the Young Vic's adaptation of DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. Career Morgan featured in a number of minor roles in television programmes such as The Catherine Tate Show in 2007, and the Doctor Who episode "Midnight" in 2008, before playing title role in BBC TV series Merlin (2008). He made his radio acting debut in Cry Babies by Kim Newman on BBC Radio 4 (Mar... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of César (sculptor)
César Baldaccini (January 1, 1921 in Marseille - December 6, 1998 in Paris) was a noted sculptor. He is the creator of the César du cinéma trophy which awards the best in French cinema.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Brody Dalle
Brody Dalle (born Bree Leslie Pucilowski (Stated Herself) on January 1, 1979 in Melbourne, Australia), is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame as lead singer/guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers. She is currently a member of Spinnerette. Musical career At the age of 13, Dalle started a band of her own, Sourpuss, which developed a solid fanbase, and played alongside Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth at Australia's Summersault Festival. She met Tim Armstrong, the frontman of the punk rock band Rancid at this festival when she was sixteen. She met him after seeing him packing up the drums backstage, and the two subsequently pursued a relationship. Despite Armstrong being 12 years her senior, and Dalle initially lying about her age, the couple got engaged shortly a... Biography of Joey Stefano
Joey Stefano (January 1, 1968 - November 26, 1994) was an American pornographic actor (porn star) who appeared in gay adult films. He was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His real name was Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr. Taille : 5' 11" (1.80 m) Joey Stefano grew up in suburban Philadelphia (Chester, Pennsylvania). His father died when he was 15. After several years of prostitution and drug use in New York City, Stefano moved to Los Angeles and enjoyed a meteoric rise to stardom in gay pornography. A notable reason for his popularity, besides his smoldering good looks, was his early mastery of the "hungry bottom" (sexually submissive but verbally demanding) persona. He was HIV positive. His image and success caught the attention of Madonna, who used him as a model in her... Biography of Audrey Fleurot
Audrey Fleurot is a French comedian and film actress who has appeared in French film and television programmes. She starred in the 2008 film Bébé and the television series La reine et le cardinal and Engrenages. She was born in 1977. Theater * Grands et Petits de B. Strauss (mise en scène de Grégoire Monsaingeon) * Qui t'a rendu comme ça ? création collective (mise en scène d'Émilie Valantin) * Répétition publique d'E. Cormann (mise en scène de Claudia Stavisky) * Ingolstadt, Rumeurs d'enfer de M. Fleisser (mise en scène de Philippe Delaigue) * Tania Tania d'O. Moukhina (mise en scène de Sergeï Isaev) * Une seconde sur deux de S.Fourage (mise en scène de Marie-Sophie Ferdane * Dom Juan revient de guerre d'Ö. Von Horváth (mise en scène de Richard B... Biography of David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian (born January 1, 1982, Unquillo, Córdoba, Argentina) is a professional tennis player from Argentina. As of November, 2007, he is the world's No. 9 male tennis player. Nalbandian has won seven ATP titles. Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Weight 79 kg (174 lb) Tennis career Nalbandian began playing tennis at age five when his Armenian grandfather built a cement court in his backyard. As a junior player, he won the 1998 Junior US Open singles against Roger Federer and the 1999 Junior Wimbledon doubles titles. He turned professional in 2000. In 2001, he finished in the ATP top 50 for the first time. He finished 2002 as No. 1 Argentine and South American for the first time in his career, winning 2 ATP titles and reaching the Wimbledon final, where he set a record and s... Biography of Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre (Marathi:सोनाली बेंद्रे, born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress and model. She has starred in Bollywood films mostly but has acted in a few Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. Sonali studied in Bangalore and Mumbai in Kendriya Vidyalaya and Holy Cross High School Thane respectively. Sonali Bendre started out as a model before being selected for the "Star Dust Talent Search". Her first role was in Aag (1994) opposite Govinda. Though she initially struggled to be a successful actress, she was eventually given critical acclaim for her performances in films like Bhai (1997), Sarfarosh (1999), Zakhm, Duplicate, Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999), Dil Hi Dil Mein (2000), Tera Mer... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Doris Hebel
Doris Hebel, born January 1, 1935 in Chicago, is an American writer, astrologer and psychologist.... Biography of Madolyn Smith Osborne
Madolyn Smith Osborne (born January 1, 1957, in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the TV miniseries If Tomorrow Comes and the feature film Funny Farm, which co-starred Chevy Chase. In 1984, she co-starred in 2010: The Year We Make Contact, with Roy Scheider. She portrayed Jehan Al Sadat, wife of Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in the TV miniseries "Sadat". She also starred in Urban Cowboy with John Travolta. Smith Osborne also starred in an episode of the sitcom Cheers titled What's Up Doc? (episode 164, season 7, first aired on Thursday March 30, 1989) where she plays beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Sheila Rydell, who Sam "Mayday" Malone (Ted Danson) actually fakes having impotence for, so he can be treated by her in hopes of sparking a r... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) was an influential French art critic. To him are attributed the terms Fauvism (1905), and Cubism (1908). Vauxcelles coined the phrase 'les fauves' (translated as 'wild beasts') to describe a circle of painters associated with Matisse as well as the audiences who criticised them (he couldn't decide which were more arrogant). He first used the term cubism or bizarre cubiques in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque. He described it as 'full of little cubes', after which the term quickly gained wide use although the two creators of the new style, Braque and Picasso, did not initially adopt it. In 1911 he coined the less well-known term Tubism in describing the style of Fernand Léger. Notes and references Néret, Gilles (1993). F. Léger. New York: BDD Ill... Biography of Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan (Tamil: வித்யா பாலன்; born 1 January 1978 in Palghat (now Palakkad), Kerala (source: Imdb)) is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she started her career starring in music videos, television shows and commercials, before appearing in feature films. Balan made her movie debut in the Bengali film, Bhalo Theko in 2003. She later made her Hindi film debut with Parineeta (2005), which earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut as well as her first Best Actress nomination at the same ceremony. She subsequently essayed a variety of character roles, receiving her first commercial success with Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006). She subsequently ... Biography of Corinne Coman
Corinne Coman, born January 1, 1983 in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, France, is a former Miss France (2003). She was finalist at Miss Europe 2003.... Biography of Morris Chestnut
Morris L. Chestnut (born January 1, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz N the Hood, and as groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man. Personal life Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California where he graduated from Richard Gahr High School in 1986. He subsequently studied finance and drama at California State University, Northridge. Chestnut is married to Pam Byse of Ellaville, Georgia and has two children, and said (in an interview for essence.com) that he prefers to keep his private life private. Chestnut is a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles and the USC Trojans. Career Chestnut's first professional acting role was as "Jason" in Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mary Brett Ashley
Mary Brett Ashley is an American consultant and scholar. She works several years on Napoleon and has contested the existing information on the birth data of Napoleon.... Biography of Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, (January 1, 1914, Moscow - September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan, was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Résistance. Early years Noor was the eldest of four children. Her father Hazrat Inayat Khan came from a princely Muslim Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ruler of Mysore) and lived in Europe as a musician and a teacher of Sufism; her mother Ora Meena Ray Baker Noor was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who had met Inayat Khan during his travels in the United States. She was the half-sister of American yogi and scholar, P... Biography of Raïssa Boyer
Raïssa Boyer, born January 1, 1987 in Sainte-Marie, Réunion island, is Miss Réunion 2006.... Biography of Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (January 1, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was a German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. Early life and World War I Canaris was born in Aplerbeck, near Dortmund, in Westphalia, the son of wealthy industrialist Carl Canaris and his wife Auguste (née Popp). Until 1938 Canaris believed that his family was related to the Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician Constantine Kanaris, which influenced his decision to join the Navy. While on a visit to Corfu he was given a portrait of the Greek hero, which he always kept in his office. In 1938, however, research showed that his family was of North Italian descent, originally called Canarisi, and had lived in Germany since the 17th century. His grandfather had convert... Biography of Alexander Petofi
Sándor Petőfi (born January 1, 1823, Kiskőrös, Hungary – died most likely July 31, 1849, in Segesvár, Hungary) was a Hungarian national poet of Serb and Slovak descent and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Early life His birth certificate, written in Latin, gives his name as Alexander Petrovics. His father's first language was Hungarian. (According to many sources, he was of Serb descent and his original name was Stevan Petrović, while according to other sources, he was of Slovak descent ), and his mother was Mária Hrúzová (Hungarian: Hrúz Mária) who spoke only Slovak. However, he had a very strong self-awareness of being Hungarian, becoming the spiritual leader of the revolutionary radicals (who wanted full independence from the Habsburg Monarchy a... Biography of Paul Revere
Paul Revere (bap. December 22, 1734 (OS) / January 1, 1735 (NS) – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. Because he was glorified after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol. In his lifetime, Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston craftsman, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as an officer in one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, a role for which he was later exonerated. After the war, he was early to recognize the potential for large-scale manufacturing of metal. Early years Revere was... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Chris Anstey
Christopher John (Chris) Anstey (born 1 January 1975 in Melbourne) is one of Australia's premier basketball players. At 7'0" (2.13 m) and over 260 lbs., Anstey is usually a starter at center on the Australian national team. He is known for his all-around skill on the court and has had a very successful career including stints in the NBA, Russia and Spain. Chris was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round (18th pick overall) of the 1997 NBA Draft. Draft rights were traded by the Blazers with cash to the Dallas Mavericks for the draft rights to Kelvin Cato in June 1997. Traded by the Mavericks to the Chicago Bulls for a second round draft pick in 2000 in September 1999. He is currently playing for the Melbourne Tigers in the Australian NBL. Anstey took up basketball at t... Biography of Christi Paul
Christi Paul (born January 1, 1969 (birth time source: Love Isn't Supposed To Hurt by Christi Paul)) is a weekday news anchor for CNN Headline News. She currently anchors afternoons and is a regular fill-in for Robin Meade on Morning Express. Christi also substituted on Prime News while Erica Hill was on maternity leave. She joined CNN in the spring of 2003, after working as a reporter and anchor in Boise, Idaho, and Phoenix, Arizona. While at KTVB in Idaho, she was honored by the Idaho Press Club for her stories about Julianne Prudhomme, a four-year old girl who underwent a five-organ transplant. Paul was raised in Bellevue, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo, where she earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She got her start in broadcast journalism in Clarksbur... Biography of Douglas Kennedy (writer)
Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. His father was a commodities broker and his mother worked at NBC. He was educated at The Collegiate School and graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College Dublin. In 1977, he returned to Dublin and started a co-operative theatre company with a friend. This led him to being hired to run the Abbey Theatre's second house, The Peacock. At the age of 28, he resigned from The Peacock to write full time. After several radio plays for the BBC and one stage play - Send Lawyers, Guns and Money, premiered at the Peacock in 1986 - he decided to switch direction and wrote a narrative travel book, Beyond the Pyramids. This appeared in 1988, the same year that he and his wife moved to London.... Biography of Jennifer Lauret
Jennifer Lauret (born January 1, 1980, Toulouse, France) is an actress in French language cinema. She has starred in several television series and movies. Lauret began her career as a child actress in television advertising for Barbie in 1986, in a secondary role in the television series Marc et Sophie, and in theater with actors such as Patrick Chesnais. Her career finally took off with the role of Penelope in Patrick Braoudé's Génial, mes parents divorcent (Brilliant, my parents are divorced). She then won numerous roles on television, most notably Une famille formidable (A marvelous family) and Julie Lescaut with the respective roles of Frederick Beaumont and Sarah (the eldest daughter Julie Lescaut). However, she then remained somewhat withdrawn in order to maintain her roles ... Biography of Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar (Marathi: नाना पाटेकर) (born 1 January 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar) is an Indian actor and filmmaker. Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar (a painter) and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J. J. institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai. Career He is known to give generously to the poor. He acted in movies such as Mohre (1987) and Salaam Bombay! (1988) and was noticed by the mainstream Bollywood industry for his portrayal of the villain in the 1989 film, Parinda. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the role. He also won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar. In the movie Ab Tak Chappan (2005) he plays a police officer ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa (born January 1, 1923 in Milan (source: Bordoni)) is an Italian actress. In her US career she starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in Francois Truffaut's Day for Night. She also appeared in Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass and in the Franco Zeffirelli miniseries Jesus of Nazareth.... Biography of Louis Chedid
Louis Chedid, born January 1, 1948 in Ismaïlia, Egypt, is a French singer. He is the son of writer Andrée Chedid and the father of singer Matthieu Chedid (best known as "M"). Discography (albums) Balbutiements (1973) Nous sommes des clowns (1974) Le jeu de l'oie (1975) Ver de terre (1976) Egomane (1980) Ainsi Soit-il (1981) Panique Organisée (1983) Anne, ma sœur Anne (1985) Bizar (1987) Zap-Zap (1989) Ces mots sont pour toi (1992) Entre nous (1994) Répondez moi (1997) Bouc Bel Air (2001) Un ange passe (2004) Le Soldat Rose (2006) Singles Miss Melissa (1974) Je chante sous les transistors (1977) La Belle / Chapeau de paille (1977) T'as beau pas être beau/L'Amour S.M.P.M (1978) Papillon / Dans la rue de Sherbrooke (1979)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Mimoun
Alain ("Ali") Mimoun (born January 1, 1921) is a French Olympic marathon champion. Born in El Telagh, Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II. After the war, he was several times French champion in the 5000 metres and 10000 metres. His path to an Olympic gold medal was blocked in both 1948 and 1952 by the Czech champion Emil Zátopek. Mimoun won silver medals in 10000 metres in 1948 and 1952 as well as another silver medal in 5000 metres in 1952. His second place finishes behind Zatopek gave him the nickname "Zatopek's Shadow." Zátopek and Mimoun, while rivals, were great friends. They competed against each other for a final time at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. Mimoun, age 35, and Zátopek, age 34, were seen as champions in their decline. They both competed... Biography of Marie-Ange Casta
Marie-Ange Casta, born on January 1, 1889 in Noisy-le-Grand, is a French model and actress. She is the young sister of model and actress Laetitia Casta.... Biography of Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Of the five, Philby is believed to have done the most damage to British and American intelligence, providing classified information to the Soviet Union that caused the deaths of scores of agents. This damage was only lessened by Stalin's paranoia that Philby was a triple agent. Early life Born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, Philby was the son of St. John Philby, the British Army officer, diplomat, explorer, auth... Biography of Danny Lloyd
Daniel "Danny" Lloyd or "Dan" Lloyd (born January 1, 1973) is an American former child actor. His first and best-known role is Danny "Doc" Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. He was selected for the role of Danny Torrance due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods of time. In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Danny's parts without the six year old actor realizing he was in a horror movie. He was also interviewed in The Making of The Shining (1980), filmed by Vivian Kubrick and then acted in only one other film, the made-for-TV movie Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy. The film was based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, who spent ... Biography of Jonas Armstrong
Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981. ) is an Irish actor, best known for his appearances on British television. He is currently playing the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood, his highest-profile role to date. Jonas Armstrong was born in Mount Carmel Hospital, Dublin, Ireland on 1 January 1981, exactly one minute after midnight on New Years Day. He was the first baby born in Ireland that year. He was raised in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. He has 2 siblings, a brother called Grant, also an actor and a sister, both younger. Jonas was educated at Arnold School and was a member of the critically acclaimed drama group In Yer Space. It was with this group that he performed at the Edinburgh fringe in the Stephen MacDonald play Not About Heroes and the Arthur Miller cla... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of The first Henry, Duke of Cornwall
Henry Tudor, born January 1, 1511 in Richmond, was the first son of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine of Aragon. He died only some months after his birth.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism. He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus. In 1519, Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmünster in Zürich where he began to preach ideas on reforming the Catholic Church. In his first public controversy in 1522, he attacked the custom of fasting during Lent. In his publications, he noted corruption in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, promoted clerical marriage, and attacked the use of ... Biography of Almudena Fernández
Almudena Fernández (born 1 January 1977 in Benavente, Zamora, Spain) is a Spanish model. Brief professional history Fernández began her professional career at an early age, leaving Madrid in search for a path that would take her to Milan, Paris, and finally New York, where she has established her home for the past few years. Career achievements Fernández has been the cover girl for fashion magazines such as Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Madame Figaro, Shape, Biba, Joyce and Harper's Bazaar among others. She has been photographed by photographers like Michael Thompson, Ruben Afanador, Raphael Mazzucco, Walter Chin, David Bailey, Mark Baptist, Diego Uchitel, Norman Jean Roy for campaigns for Hermès, Givenchy, Cartier, Wolford, Revlon, Lacoste, Carolina Herrera, Lancel, Gi... Biography of Carole Landis
Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 - July 5, 1948) was an American film actress. Early life and family Landis was born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste in Fairchild, Wisconsin to a Norwegian father, Alfred Ridste, and Polish mother, Clara Stentek Ridste. Her father abandoned the family before Carole was born. It would later be revealed by author E. J. Fleming that Alfred Ridste may not have been Carole's biological father. Her real father was most likely Charles Fenner, Clara Ridste's second husband. Carole was the youngest of five children, though two of her brothers died in childhood (Jerome was burned by scalding water and Lewis was accidentally shot). She had an unhappy childhood filled with poverty and sexual abuse. She blossomed into a stunning teenager and began winning local beauty con... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeanne Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin (b. Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Paris, January 1, 1867–d. Paris, July 6, 1946) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the Lanvin fashion house. One of the most influential designers of the 1920s and '30s, Jeanne Lanvin's skillful use of intricate trimmings, virtuoso embroideries and beaded decorations in clear, light, floral colors became a Lanvin trademark. When Lanvin died in 1946, ownership of the firm was ceded to the designer's daughter, Marguerite di Pietro. Early life The eldest of 11 children, she became an apprentice milliner at Madame Félix in Paris at the age of 16 and trained at dressmaker Talbot before becoming a milliner in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1889. Personal life In 1895, Lanvin married her first husband, Count Emilio di Pietro, an Ital... Biography of Catherine McCormack
Catherine McCormack (born 1 January 1972) is an Olivier Award-nominated English actress, known for her stage acting as well as her big screen performances in films such as Braveheart, Spy Game, and Dangerous Beauty. Early life McCormack was born in Alton, Hampshire, England. She has Irish ancestry, as one of her grandfathers was Irish. Her mother died of lupus when McCormack was six years old, and her steelworker father subsequently raised her as well as her brother Stephen. She was brought up in the Catholic religion (though is now a "lapsed Catholic") and attended Convent of Our Lady of Providence. Career Film McCormack's first notable role was as the character Murron MacClannough in the multiple Academy Award winning movie Braveheart. Her screen debut however was as the l... Biography of Zena Marshall
Zena Moyra Marshall (b. January 1, 1925 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British actress known in British film and television. Marshall's film career dates from 1945, with a small role in Caesar and Cleopatra, with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. Her exotic looks resulted in being cast in 'ethnic' roles, such as Italians and Asian women. Arguably, it is as the Chinese Miss Taro, in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962), for which she is best known (despite being five years older than leading man Sean Connery ). Another major film in her c.v. is 1965's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Marshall appeared in television series in the 1950s and the 1960s, including three appearances (as different characters) on Danger Man. Marshall's most recent film credit is a 1971 made-for-TV... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marguerite Dar Boggia
Marguerite Dar Boggia, born January 1, 1923 in New York, is an American professional astrologer and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bitti Bergamo
Bitti Bergamo, born January 1, 1930 in Venise, died in a car accident 12 October, 1979 in Prato, was an Italian tennis champion.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of André Bergeron
André Bergeron, born January 1, 1922 in Suarce ((Territoire de Belfort), is a French syndicalist, member (secretary general) of Force Ouvrière. The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force (French: Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière, or simply Force Ouvrière) is one of the five major union federations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT and the CFDT. Force Ouvrière was founded in 1948 by former members of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) who denounced the dominance of the French Communist Party over that federation. In the 1980s, Libération, a left-wing newspaper, alleged that this split was instigated by the FO is a member of the European Trade Union Confederation. Its leader is Jean-Claude Mailly in 2008.... Biography of Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American documentary filmmaker. Born into a Jewish family, he came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. In 2006, Wiseman received the George Polk Career Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. The first feature-length film that Wiseman produced was The Cool World in 1963. He next produced and directed Titicut Follies and has both produced and directed all of his films since. All have been aired on PBS, one of his primary funders. The style of Wiseman's films are often referred to as the observational mode, which has its roots in direct cinema. However, Wiseman dislikes the term: What I try t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of İbrahim Tatlises
İbrahim Tatlıses (born İbrahim Tatlı, affectionately known as İbo, January 1, 1952 in Şanlıurfa) is a Turkish singer of mixed Arab and Kurdish background born in the town of Şanlıurfa in Turkey. Tatlıses is one of Turkey's most prolific recording artists. His 38 albums include Ayağında Kundura (which broke all sales records in Turkey in 1975), and Selam Olsun (which focused on traditional folk music played on indigenous instruments). He hosts a popular television programme İbo Show and has appeared in several dozen films. In recent years he has become more popular in the Middle East as well as countries like the United Kingdom, and Germany. İbrahim Tatlıses was born in Şanlıurfa to a homeless family o... Biography of Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (born 1 January 1924 in Toulon) is a prolific French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff champions the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term trends over the topics of politics, diplomacy, and war that dominated 19th century historical research. From 1972 to 1977, he was the head of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). He was a leading figure of New History, related to cultural history. Le Goff argues that the Middle Ages formed a civilization of its own, distinct from both the Greco-Roman antiquity and the modern world. Life and writings A prolific medievalist of international renown, Le Goff is sometimes considered the principal heir and continuator of the movement known ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Myriam Lamare
Myriam Lamare, born January 1, 1975 in Saint-Denis, is a French boxer of both Algerian and French descent.... Biography of Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 - December 17, 1992) was an American film actor. Early life He was born Carver Dana Andrews on a farm just outside of Collins, Covington County, Mississippi, the third of nine children of Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, and his wife Annis (née Speed). The family subsequently moved to Huntsville, Texas, where his younger siblings (including actor Steve Forrest) were born. Andrews attended college there and also studied business administration in Houston, working briefly as an accountant for Gulf & Western. In 1931, he travelled to Los Angeles, California seeking opportunities as a singer. He worked at various jobs to earn a living, including pumping gas at a filling station in Van Nuys. One of his employers believed in him and paid for his s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Prospero Gallinari
Prospero Gallinari, born January 1, 1951 in Reggio Emilia, is an Italian Red Brigade terrorist. He kidnapped Aldo Moro March 16, 1978 and killed him six weeks later, May 9, 1978. He was captured by police September 24, 1979.... Biography of Ashmit Patel
Ashmit Patel (born January 01, 1978 in Mumbai, India is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood movies. Early life Ashmit Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, younger brother of Amisha Patel and the grandson of the famous Indian lawyer Rajni Patel. Ashmit's name is derived from his parent's name (Asha+Amit=Ash+mit). He worked in his father's business for a while, before he decided to take a step and act in films like his sister Amisha. Before that he was studying in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelors degree in 2000. Personal His sister is Amisha Patel. He used to date Tanya Singh, Amrita Arora and Riya Sen. He faced controversies around an intimate MMS clip with actress Riya Sen. Filmography The Flag (2007) (Unde... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Renouvier
Charles Bernard Renouvier (January 1, 1815 – September 1, 1903) was a French philosopher. Charles B. Renouvier was born in Montpellier and educated in Paris at the École Polytechnique. He took an early interest in politics. Renouvier never held public office, spending his time writing away from public scrutiny. Thought Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought. His system is based on Immanuel Kant's, as his chosen term "Néo-criticisme" indicates; but it is a transformation rather than a continuation of Kantianism. The two leading ideas are the dislike of the "unknowable" in all its forms, and a reliance on the validity of personal experience. The former ac... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alpha Blondy
Alpha Blondy (born January 1, 1953) is an Ivorian reggae singer and international recording artist. Alpha Blondy was born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast. He sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and English, and sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew. His lyrics convey serious political attitudes and a sense of humor. In particular, he coined the French term democrature (an English equivalent might be "democratatorship") to identify some African governments. Early years Childhood First son of a family of 9 children, Seydou Kone was raised by his grandmother, growing up in what he described as "among elders", which later was to have a big impact on his career. In 1962, Alpha Blondy went to join his father in Odienne, where he spent ten years, attending the Sainte El... Biography of Bruno Arcari
Bruno Arcari (born January 1, 1942 in Atina, Frosinone) was an Italian light welterweight boxer who fought from 1964 to 1978. Arcari was the Italian and European light welterweight champion when he captured the WBC world title from Pedro Adigue on January 31, 1970. He retained his world title until he relinquished it 1973 to move up to the welterweight class.... Biography of René de Ceccatty
René de Ceccatty, born January 1, 1952 in Tunis, is a French author, translator and writer. He won Valery Larbaud Price in 1986. Works Novels 1979 : Personnes et personnages 1980 : Jardins et rues des capitales 1982 : Esther 1985 : L’extrémité du monde 1986 : L’or et la poussière 1987 : Babel des mers 1988 : La sentinelle du rêve 1990 : L’étoile rubis 1992 : Le diable est un pur hasard 1994 : L’accompagnement 1996 : Aimer 1998 : Consolation provisoire 2000 : L’éloignement 2002 : Fiction douce 2004 : Une fin 2005 : Le mot amour 2007 : L'Hôte invisible Non fiction 1994 : Violette Leduc, éloge de la bâtarde 1996 : Laure et Justine 1982 : Mille ans de littérature japonaise (en collaboration avec Ryôji Nakamura) 1998 et 2005 : Sur Pier Paolo Pasol... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paola Borboni
Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 - 9 April 1995) was an Italian film actress who career spanned 9 decades of cinema. She also made a substantial contribution to theatre. She entered film in 1916 in the silent picture Jacobo Ortis under the directorship of Giuseppe Sterni and made over 80 film appearances between then and 1990. Appearing in several silent films before 1921 she was absent from cinema for some 14 years during which time she made numerous stage appearances, gaining notoriety in 1925 when she appeared in a show in 1925 as a mermaid exposing her breasts which she saw as natural in the role but caused considerable outrage at the time. She returned to the silver screen in 1936 in the Mario Mattoli film L' Uomo che sorride. She went on to appear in films such as the Carlo Liz... Biography of Jana Marie Angelakis
Jana Angelakis, born January 1, 1962 in Lynn, Massachusetts, is an American former fencer, member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1980.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Guy Thomas
Guy Thomas, born January 1, 1924 in Versailles, is a French journalist and TV host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claudio Villa
Claudio Villa, byname of Claudio Pica (Rome, 1 January 1926 - Padova, February 7, 1987), was an Italian singer. Biography Tenor Claudio Villa was born Claudio Pica in the Trastevere quarter of Rome in 1926. His parents gave him the name "Claudio" in honor of Claudio Serio, Together with Domenico Modugno he holds the record for the most wins at the Sanremo Music Festival, where he won the competition in 1955, 1957, 1962 and 1967. As well as singing at the San Remo Music Festival, he also sang at another Italian music competition called Canzonissima, a television music competition that was shown on RAI from 1956 to 1974. He won this competition in 1964 with "O sole mio" and in 1966 with "Granada". He competed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1967. In 1962 he sang "Add... Biography of Céline Bosquet
Céline Bosquet, born on January 1, 1985 in Nice, is a French former model, journalist and TV host. She lives with French actor and singer Patrick Bruel.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ahn Sung-ki
Ahn Sung-ki (Korean: 안성기, born 1 January 1952) is known to the public as the "National Best Actor of Korea". Biography A Roman Catholic, he was born in Daegu and grew up as a child actor - graduating Kyundong junior high school, from which Cho Yong-pil also graduated - appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The Housemaid (1960). Starting from the 1980s, he appeared in nearly 100 movies. He was a graduate of the Vietnamese department of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Because of his ability to speak several foreign languages, UNICEF appointed Ahn as a representative, and his image is often seen in advertisements on planes travelling to Korea. He acted twice as the President of Korea in the movies the Romantic President (2002) and Hanbando (... Biography of Roberto Rivelino
Roberto Rivellino (born 1 January 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a former Brazilian football player. The son of Italian immigrants from Macchiagodena (Isernia), he was famous for his extremely potent left-foot shot, thunderous long-range free kicks, excellent long passes, quick thinking, distinct way of handling the ball and large moustache. He also invented a football move called the "Elastico", also known as "flip flap", famously copied by Ronaldinho, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marcus Darnemo and Cristiano Ronaldo in recent years. He is widely regarded as one of the most graceful footballers ever, and is sometimes ranked as the 4th best ever Brazilian, after Pelé, Zico and Garrincha, as well as one of the best midfielders the world has ever seen. He is, for many football experts, the greatest... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alice Tissot
Alice Tissot, born January 1, 1890 in Paris and died May 5, 1971 in Paris, was a French actess and comedian. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864403/ ) # De doux dingues (1964) (TV) .... Tante Anna # The Longest Day (1962) (uncredited) .... Housekeeper # Césarin joue les étroits mousquetaires (1962) # Les bijoux d'Isabelle (1961) (TV) .... Mme Lerique # Quai du Point-du-Jour (1960) .... La concierge ... aka Port of Point-du-Jour (International: English title: informal literal title) # Un couple (1960) .... Mme Mitouflet ... aka A Couple (International: English title) # En bordée (1958) # Le tombeur (1958) # Trois marins en bordée (1957) .... La directrice du pensionnat # Porte des Lilas (1957) .... La concierge ... aka Gate of Lilacs ... aka Quartiere dei l... Biography of Charlotte Ann Tuton
Charlotte Ann Tuton, born January 1, 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American astrologer and author.... Biography of Jason Lotterhand
Jason Lotterhand, born January 1, 1911 in Manhattan, New York, is an American Christian mystic, occultist, tarologist and author.... Biography of Amine (singer)
Amine Mounder(Ar:أمين منذر) is a French R&B singer born in Casablanca, Morocco. He is known for his singular music style, Raï'n'B, which is a mix of R&B and Raï. His biggest hits are "Sobri (notre Destin)," a duet with French singer Leslie, and "J'voulais." Both reached the #1 spot on the French singles chart. Discography Albums * Au delà des rêves (31 December 2005) #16 FR * Autour d'eux (April 2009) #89 FR Singles * 2006 "Finiki "(written by Cheb Mouad Prod.by Dj kore & Bellek) #3 MA * 2005 "Ma Vie" #15 FR * 2006 "J'voulais" #1 FR * 2006 "My Girl" #29 FR * 2009 "Juste un oui" * 2009 "Juste un oui" (arabe version) (written by Cheb Mouad Prod.by Dj kore & Bellek) * 2009 "Tu ne m'as pas... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony". Early life Wayne was born to Isaac Wayne in Waynesborough, Chester County, Pennsylvania, near present-day Paoli. He was educated as a surveyor at his uncle's private academy in Philadelphia, as well as at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), Class of 1765, although he did not earn a degree. He was sent by Benjamin Franklin and some associates to work for a year surveying land they owned in Nova Scotia, after which he returned to wor... Biography of Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure in the 1960-64 era, he was known as "Mr. Conservative". Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement. Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought through the conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. He lost the 1964 presidential election to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by one of the largest landslides in history, bringing down many Republican candidates as well. ... Biography of Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani (Arabic: غزالي عثماني, born January 1, 1959) was a president of the Comoros. He became leader of the country on 30 April 1999 after leading a coup to depose acting president Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who he saw as pandering to the independence movement on Anjouan. He won multi-party elections in 2002, prior to which he was constitutionally required to temporarily step down in order to run as a candidate. Azali was born in 1959 at Mitsoudjé in south-western Grande Comore. Until he overthrew the civilian government in 1999, he pursued a military career for two decades. Between 1977 and 1980 he trained at the Royal Military Academy in Morocco and qualified as a parachutist. On his return to Comoros... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gus Trikonis
Gus Trikonis (New York, January 1, 1938) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He appeared in "West Side Story". He was married to Goldie Hawn.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sheila Mercier
Sheila Mercier (born 1 January 1919, Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as the matriarch Annie Brearly in the long-running British soap opera Emmerdale. She appeared from the very first episode in 1972 until 1994. She has occasionally returned to the series since her departure, most notably, in character, at the age of 89,for the Emmerdale 5000th episode special, transmitted on ITV in May 2008. Sheila Mercier had a long career on stage prior to her television career. After education at the French Convent, Hull and Hunmanby Hall, Yorkshire, she trained for the stage at the Stratford-upon-Avon College of Drama, and was 'discovered' by the actor, Donald Wolfit. She went on to tour with Wolfit's own Shakespeare company. In the Second World War... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jorge Risi
Jorge Risi, born January 1, 1940 in Montevideo, is an Uruguayen musician, composer and violinist.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Barbara Goalen
Barbara Goalen (January 1, 1921 in Kuala Lumpur - June 16, 2002 in Putney, London) was a model during the 1940s and 1950s. Early life Born in Malaya she attended St Mary's School in England and later studied art, but quit to become a wartime ambulance driver. Her first husband, pilot Ian Goalen, died in a plane crash, and she was a widow with two young children when she became a model at age 25 She later said "I didn't have to work for money, but I needed to for myself". Career Barbara Goalen worked for Dior and Balenciaga in Paris and was known for her narrow waist. She retired from modelling when she married Nigel Campbell in 1954.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo, OBE (born January 1, 1969 in London (source: Imdb)) is a British actress, who has starred in both successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels. She has received an Academy Award nomination for her critically acclaimed role in Hotel Rwanda, a Golden Globe nomination for Tsunami: The Aftermath, and BAFTA nominations for Criminal Justice and Mrs. Mandela. Her other film roles included Aeon Flux, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Dirty Pretty Things, and Skin. Early life Okonedo was born in London, England, the daughter of Joan (née Allman; born 1938), a pilates teacher, and Henry Okonedo (1939–2009), who worked for the government. Her father was Nigerian, and her m... Biography of Samantha Gradoville
Samantha Gradoville, born on January 1, 1990 in Omaha, Nebraska, is an American fashion model.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lumi Cavazos
Lumi Cavazos (born December 21, 1968) is a Mexican actress who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of "Tita" in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican novel, Like Water for Chocolate. The film grabbed the attention of US film critics and moviegoers, and facilitated her entry into the American film industry. She subsequently relocated to Los Angeles. Born in Monterrey, Cavazos began her acting career at the age of 15, and made her film debut in Busi Cortes’ 1988 El Secreto de Romalia. She has acted in numerous Mexican films and television series since then, and has also done a fair amount of work in the U.S., appearing in such television dramas as "Sugar Town". Cavazos is sometimes credited as "Rosita Lumi Ca... Biography of André Zeller
André Zeller (1 January 1898 – 18 September 1979) was a French Army general, he was one of four generals that organized the Algiers putsch of 1961. He was sentenced to fifteen years for his part in the putsch, but he was amnestied in 1968. Decorations Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur Croix de guerre 1914-1918 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Croix de guerre des Théatres d'Opérations Extérieures Croix de la Valeur Militaire (Received 10 citations) Works Dialogues avec un lieutenant (Eng: Dialogues with a lieutenant) (Editions Plon, 1971) Dialogues avec un colonel (Eng: Dialogues with a colonel) (Editions Plon, 1972) Dialogues avec un général (Eng: Dialogues with a general) (Editions des Presses de la Cité, 1974) Les Hommes de la Commune (Eng: The Men of the Commune) ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman (born January 1, 1943 (birth time source: by family, Astrodatabank)) is an American billionaire investor who made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. Once the richest man in America, he is now the 18th richest American, and 35th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of USD$10 billion. He has invested in grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book companies. Business Belmont Industries Perelman consummated his first major business deal in 1961 during his Freshman year at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After he was put on the scent of the Esslinger Brewery by his father, Ronald turned his a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Christie
David Christie, born January 1, 1948 in Tarare, died May 11, 1997 (suicide), was a French musician and composer.... Biography of Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'Asís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Catalan-Cuban-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a brilliant cartoonist and a successful businessman. His was the resident orchestra at the New York Waldorf Astoria, both before and after World War II. Life Cugat was born in Girona, in Catalonia, Spain. With his family, he immigrated to Cuba when he was five. He was trained as a classical violinist and played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana. On 6 July 1915, Cugat and his family arrived in New York as immigrant passengers on board the S.S.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Antoine-Vincent Arnault
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 1766 – 16 September 1834) was a French dramatist. Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, Marius à Minturne (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second republican tragedy, Lucrèce. Arnault left France during the Reign of Terror, but on his return, he was arrested by the revolutionary authorities. He was freed through the intervention of Fabre d'Églantine and others. He was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797 with the organization of the Ionian Islands, and was nominated to the Institute and made secretary general of the university. Arnault was faithful to his patron through his misfortunes, and after the Hundred Days remained in exile until 1819. Arnault died at Goderville. Other plays of Arnult's... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jackie Parker
John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker (born on January 1, 1932 – November 7, 2006) was an American football player who became an All-American in college football and an outstanding professional football player in the Canadian Football League at the running back, quarterback, defensive back, and kicker positions. He is primarily known for his play with the Edmonton Eskimos. Later in his career, he played for the Toronto Argonauts and the BC Lions, and coached the Eskimos and Lions after his playing career ended. Parker was named a member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1976. In November, 2006, Parker was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#3) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. College career Born in Knoxvi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ouida
Ouida (January 1, 1839 – January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Biography Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother.She derived her pen name from her own childish pronunciation of her given name "Louise". Her opinion of her birthplace fluctuated; in one of her books she states “ That clean, quiet antiquated town, that always puts me in the mind of an old maid dressed for a party; that lowest and dreariest of Boroughs, where the streets are as full of grass as an acre of pasture land. Why, the inhabitants are driven to ringing their own doorbells lest they rust from lack of use. ” During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, chi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jules Charney
Jules Charney, born January 1, 1917 in San Francisco and died June 1-, 1981 in Boston (cancer), was an American scientist, oceanographer and meteorologist.... Biography of Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Arabic: الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني, born 1 January 1952 in Doha) is the ruling Emir of the State of Qatar since 1995. Sheikh Hamad was the appointed Heir Apparent of Qatar between 1977 and 1995 and at the same time Minister of Defense. In the early 1980s he led the Supreme Planning Council, which sets the Qatar's basic economic and social policies. Starting in 1992, Hamad had a growing responsibility for the day-to-day running of the country, including the development of Qatar's oil and natural gas resources. On 27 June 1995, after deposing his father in a palace coup, Sheikh Hamad became Emir of Qatar and was crowned on 20 ... Biography of L'Wren Scott
L'Wren Scott (born January 1, 1967) is an American fashion stylist, costume designer and model. She is noted for her height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters). She is a frequent companion of Sir Mick Jagger and is described by him as his "main person of interest". L'Wren Scott was born in Utah and was adopted by Ivan Bambrough and his wife. Her given name is Luann Bambrough. In 2009 she contributed designs for Madonna to wear in her photo shoot with model Jesus Luz for W Magazine.She has also created dresses for Nicole Kidman. She also worked as a fashion consultant on the set of Ocean's Thirteen (2007).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marie Payen
Marie Payen, born on January 1, 1970 in Rouen, is a French actress and comedian. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0668189/ ) 2010 Le Vertige des Possibles (post-production) Jeanne 2010 L'homme sans nom (TV movie) Charlotte Perignon 2010 Les mensonges (TV movie) Sylvie Labarde 2010 Une exécution ordinaire Patiente Anna 1 2009 Section de recherches (TV series) Lorène Rousseau – Bain de minuit (2009) … Lorène Rousseau 2009 Vénus & Apollon (TV series) – Episode #2.4 (2009) 2008 Seule (TV movie) Caroline 2008 Go Fast Véronique 2008 Et moi? (short) Nathalie 2006 La faute à Fidel! La mère poule 2004 Casablanca Driver Mme White 2004 Inguélézi Geneviève 2003 Crimes en série (TV series) Michèle Perrin – Asphalte rou... Biography of Patrick Bouvet
Patrick Bouvet, born on January 1, 1962, is a French writer. Selected works In situ, éditions de l'Olivier (1999) - ISBN 978-2-87929-189-5 - Shot, éditions de l'Olivier (2000) - ISBN 978-2-87929-273-1 - Ciel à l'envers, éditions Inventaire/Invention (2000) - ISBN 2-914412-01-0 - Expérience, éditions Inventaire/Invention (2001) - ISBN 978-2-914412-09-4 - One Hundred Lies, avec le photographe Mac Adams, éditions Daviet-Théry (2001) Direct, éditions de l'Olivier (2002) - ISBN 2-87929-336-7 - Client zéro, éditions Inventaire/Invention (2002) - ISBN 2-914412-20-7 - Chaos boy, éditions de l'Olivier (2004) - ISBN 978-2-87929-457-5 - Flashes, éditions Inventaire/Invention (2005) - ISBN 978-2-914412-41-4 - De long en large, avec Pascale Fontene... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Hunt
Albert R. Hunt (born January 1, 1942) is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg News, a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television, which airs on Friday night. Personal life Hunt graduated from The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1960. He attended Wake Forest University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and worked for the Old Gold & Black. He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS. He has three children, including a son born with severe spina bifida. He was first married to Kathy O'Toole of Pittsburgh. Career Before graduating from Wake Forest University, Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal. In 1965, he became a reporter for The Wall ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Omar al-Bashir
Field Marshal Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir (Arabic: عمر حسن احمد البشير, born January 1, 1944) is the President of Sudan. Background Al-Bashir was born in the tiny village of Hoshe Bannaga in Sudan, where he received his primary education. His family later moved to Khartoum, where he completed his secondary education. Al-Bashir joined the Sudanese Army at a young age and studied at a military academy in Cairo. He quickly rose through the ranks and became a paratrooper. Later, al-Bashir served with the Egyptian Army when it went to war with Israel in 1973. He is a native speaker of the Arabic language. Military career When he returned to the Sudan, al-Bashir was put in charge of military... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Reeb
James Reeb (January 1, 1927 — March 11, 1965) was a white American Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, Massachusetts and pastor and civil rights activist in Washington, DC. While marching for civil rights in Selma, Alabama in 1965, he was beaten severely by segregationists and died of head injuries two days later in the hospital. He was 38 years old. Early life and education James Joseph Reeb was born in Wichita, Kansas. He attended St. Olaf College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister after graduation. Career As a scholar of theology, Reeb grew away from traditionalist Presbyterian teachings and was drawn to the Unitarian Universalist church. Reeb appreciated the church's emphasis on social action, and he became active in t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wanda Capodaglio
Wanda Capodaglio, born January 1, 1889 in Asti and died August 29, 1980 in Castelfranco di Sopra, was an Italian actress. Filmography * Piccolo hotel , di Piero Ballerini (1939) * Avanti c'è posto , di Mario Bonnard (1942) * La regina di Navarra , di Carmine Gallone (1942) * Acque di primavera , di Nunzio Malasomma (1942) * Gelosia , di Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (1942) * In due si soffre meglio , di Nunzio Malasomma (1943) * Lacrime di sangue , di Guido Brignone (1944) * Resurrezione , di Flavio Calzavara (1944) * Le modelle di via Margutta , di Giuseppe Maria Scotese (1945) * Amanti in fuga , di Giacomo Gentilomo (1946) * La monaca di Monza , di Raffaello Pacini (1947) * Gli uomini sono nemici , di Ettore Giannini (1948) ... Biography of Jean Carzou
Jean Carzou (1907, Moligt, near Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000 Marsac-sur-l'Isle, Dordogne, France), born Garnik Zouloumian, was a French-Armenian artist. Jean arrived in Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as a theater decorator but he then quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting. In 1938, more than a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized in Paris, in the French provinces and abroad. In 1949, he received the coveted Hallmark prize. A Carzou museum exists in the town of Dinard (Brittany). In 1952, he created costumes and sceneries for "Les Indes Galantes" of Rameau at the Opéra de Paris . He continued with "Le Loup" (1953) for "Les Ballets" of Roland Petit, Giselle (1954) and Athalie (1955) at the Opéra and "La Comédie française". Member of t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Teinosuke Kinugasa
Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke?) (1 January 1896 - 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell). Kinugasa was among the pioneers of Japanese film, but began his career as an actor specializing in female roles (onnagata) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for such producers as Shozo Makino before going independent to make his best known film, A Page of Madness (1926). Also called A Crazy Page, or A Page Out of Order, it was lost for fifty years before the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. A silent film, K... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Xavier Bizard
Xavier Bizard, born January 1, 1899 in Lille, was a French equestrian champion. He had participated in Berlin Olympics in 1936.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert de Vleeschauwer
Baron Albert de Vleeschauwer, born on January 1, 1897 in Nederbrakel, died on February 24, 1971, was a Belgian politician.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mario Merz
Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Life Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke–not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subject, until he had his first exhibitions in the intellectually incendiary context of Turin in the 1950s, a cultural climate fed by such writers as Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Ezra Pound. He met Marisa Merz during his studies in Turin in the 1950s. They were associated with the development of Arte Povera, and they were both influenced by each other's works. He died at Turin in 200... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 - 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas. Biography Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris. His father, Léon Halévy (1802–1883), was a civil servant and a clever and versatile writer, who tried almost every branch of literature—prose and verse, vaudeville, drama, history—without, however, achieving decisive success in any. His uncle, Fromental Halévy, was a noted composer of opera; hence the double and early connection of Ludovic Halévy with the Parisian stage. At the age of six, Halévy might have been seen playing in that Foyer de la danse with which he was to make his readers so familiar, and, when a boy of twelve, h... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johnny Man Young
Johnny Young (January 1, 1918 – April 18, 1974) was an American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist, significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War, and as one of the few mandolin players to have been active in blues music in the post-war era. His nickname, "Man", came from his use of the mandolin. Life and career Young was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and played in string bands in Mississippi in the 1930s. He also claimed to have worked with Sleepy John Estes in Tennessee before moving to Chicago in 1940. By 1943 he was working with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson and Muddy Waters and in the late 1940s he became a regular player on Maxwell Street, often with his cousin, guitarist Johnny Willi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel Ameller
Michel Ameller, born on January 1, 1926 in El Attaf, Algeria, is a French civil servant and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Vernes Troyer
Verne Troyer (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor and stunt man who has appeared in several movies, mostly in non-speaking roles. He stands 81 centimeters (2 feet, 7 inches) tall. Personal life Troyer was born in Sturgis, Michigan to Susan, a factory worker, and Reuben Troyer, a repairman. He has two siblings, Davon and Deborah, and grew up in Centreville, Michigan, graduating high school in 1987. He was married to Genevieve Gallen. Troyer filed for annulment on February 23, 2004. Film and TV career Troyer's most famous role is perhaps Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of movies, a character who is a miniature clone of Dr. Evil. Other notable roles include a part in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and as the small Circus Circus casino employee in Fear and Loathing in Las... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Émile Genevoix
Émile Jean Genevois, or Emile Genevoix, or Emile Genevois, born on January 1, 1918 in Barlin, died on September 19, 1962 in Draveil, was a French actor. Filmography 1933 : Crainquebille de Jacques de Baroncelli : (La Souris) 1934 : Les Misérables de Raymond Bernard : (Gavroche) 1934 : Le Voyage imprévu de Jean de Limur 1934 : Le Billet de mille de Marc Didier 1934 : La cinquième empreinte de Karl Anton 1934 : La Jeune Fille d'une nuit de Reinhold Schünzel et Roger Le Bon 1934 : Maria Chapdelaine de Julien Duvivier : (Tit-Bé Chapdelaine) 1935 : Rose de Raymond Rouleau 1935 : Debout là-dedans de Henry Wulschleger 1935 : La Fille de madame Angot de Jean-Bernard Desrone 1935 : Les Yeux noirs de Victor Tourjansky 1936 : Les Amants... Biography of E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 in Marylebone, London – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect". Early years Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster and Alice Clara "Lily" (née Whichelo). His father, an architect, died of tuberculosis on 30 October 1880. Among Forster's ancestors wer... Biography of James George Frazer
Sir James George Frazer FRS FRSE FBA (1 January 1854, Glasgow– 7 May 1941, Cambridge), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details similar magical and religious beliefs across the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science. Biography Born in Glasgow, Frazer attended school at Springfield Academy and Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh. He studied at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honors in Classics (his dissertation would be published years later as The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory) ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christoph Bernhard
Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana. After his appointment as assistant kapellmeister in Dresden in 1655, Bernhard made two sojourns to Italy to further his musical education. When he was 35, he moved to Hamburg to work as the director of music for the Johanneum and for civic musical events. The next ten years were a golden time in the musical tradition of Hamburg: Bernhard and his good friend Matthias Weckmann performed together and directed the latest compositions ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roland Garrigues
Roland Garrigues, born on January 1, 1953 in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), is a French politician. He was the Mayor of Montauban (1995-2001).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune?, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland or residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives. In 1985, Israel honored him as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. arly life Chiune Sugihara was born 1 January 1900, in Yaotsu, a rural area in Gifu Prefecture of the Chubu region to a middle-... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eamonn Walker
Eamonn Walker (born 12 June 1962) is an English film, television and theatre actor. In the United States, he is known for playing Kareem Said in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, and elsewhere as Winston, the gay, black thorn in Alf Garnett's side in In Sickness and in Health and John Othello in the 2001 ITV1 production of Othello. Background Walker was born in London to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, in 1962. Brought up in Islington in London, Walker lived in Trinidad for six months when he was nine years old. He attended Hungerford School in Islington and began studying social work at the University of North London. He trained as a dancer and later joined the Explosive Dance Theatre Company in London. However, an abscess on his calf muscle... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eudoro de Souza
Eudoro de Sousa, born 1, January 1911 in Lisboa, died in Brasilia in 1987, was a Portugese philosopher and professor, the founder of the University of Brasilia.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aldo Graziati
Aldo Graziati, born January 1, 1905 in Scorzè, Venice, died November 14, 1953 in Rome (road accident), was an Italian cinematographer and photographer. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017622/ ) # Senso (1954) (as G.R. Aldo) ... aka "Livia" - USA (censored version) ... aka "Sense" - International (English title) (literal English title) ... aka "The Wanton Contessa" - USA (TV title) # Via Padova 46 (1954) # Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) (as G.R. Aldo) ... aka "Stazione Termini" - Italy (original title) ... aka "Station Terminus" - International (English title) ... aka "Terminal Station Indiscretion" - International (English title) ... aka "Terminus Station" - International (English title) # The Wayward Wife (1953) (as G.R. Aldo) ... aka "La provinc... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Koernig
Robert Koernig, born January 1, 1901 in Zscheila, executed in June 1938, was a German homicide. He had killed several women between 1929 and 1937.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Marc Gounon
Jean-Marc Gounon (born January 1, 1963 in Aubenas) is a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One in 1993 and 1994, participating in a total of 9 Grands Prix and scoring no championship points. After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in 1989, Gounon moved into Formula 3000 with some success including a couple of wins over three years. He bought a two-race deal with Minardi after Christian Fittipaldi was dropped but he finished neither race, being withdrawn at Suzuka and spinning off in the season-closer, Adelaide's 1993 Australian Grand Prix. The next year Gounon benefited from Andrea Montermini having broken his leg, and finished 9th for Simtek at his home race, France (incidentally Simtek's joint best ever result). He raced in seven grands prix that season and qual... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michael Seibert
Michael Seibert (born 1 January 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American ice dancer. He competed with Judy Blumberg. The duo won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships five times, captured the bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships three times, and competed at the Winter Olympics twice. After his competitive skating career ended, Seibert became a well-known choreographer. He has choreographed for Stars on Ice. Results (with Judy Blumberg) Event 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 Winter Olympic Games 7th 4th World Championships 6th 4th 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd U.S. Championships 3rd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st Skate America 4th 1st Skate Canada International 1st... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Édouard Levé
Édouard Levé (January 1, 1965–October 15, 2007, Paris) was a French writer, artist, and photographer. Early career Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales. He began painting in 1991. Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995. Books and photographs Levé's first book, Oeuvres (2002), is an imaginary list of more than 500 books by the author, not actually written, although some of the items were taken up as the premisses of later books actually written and published by Levé (for example the photography books Amérique and Pornographie). Levé t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gaspard Edouard Five
Gaspard Edouard Five, born on January 1, 1849 in Bruxelles, was a Belgian military general (source: Gauquelin).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roy Wilson Howard
Roy Wilson Howard, born on January 1, 1883 in Gano, Ohio, died on November 20, 1964 in New York, New York, was an American editor and publisher.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Bobe
Jacques Bobe, born January 1, 1936 in Touzac (Charente), is a French politician, member of UMP, former Member of Parliament, and former vintner.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alessandro Bovo
Alessandro Bovo (born January 1, 1969 in Genoa (birth time source: birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is a retired water polo defense player from Italy, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. After having won the gold medal in Barcelona, Spain Bovo claimed bronze with the men's national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He also won one world title, two European titles and one FINA World Cup with the national squad during his career.... Biography of Heather Christie
Heather Christie, born on January 1, 1986 in Simi Valley, California, is an American model. She is probably best known to have been the girl friend of singer Anthony Kiedis. Heather Christie gave birth to the couple's first child, Everly Bear, on October 2, 2007. According to Anthony, Everly is named after one of Anthony's favorite bands, The Everly Brothers and the name Bear was something Heather came up with. Anthony said that the name Bear made sense to him "because he's from me and I feel like I'm part of the bear clan, and I think it's nice to have a little bit of earth in your name." Kiedis split with Christie in June 2008..... Biography of Shinya Tsukamoto
Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也 Tsukamoto Shin'ya?, born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad. Biography Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging from 10-minute shorts to 2-hour features, until his first year at college when he temporarily lost interest in making movies. Tsukamoto then started up a theatre group, which soon included Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, and Tomorowo Taguchi, all of whom would continue to work with Tsukamoto up through the filming of Tetsuo: The Iron Man. One of their theatre productions at this time was Denchu Kozo no boken. At the end of the production, Tsukamoto did not w... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jérôme Bignon (politician)
Jean Michel (born January 1, 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine)) is a French politician, a member of the National Assembly. He represents the Somme department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ernest Seillière
Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 - 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic. Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914. Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud, René Grousset, Octave Aubry and Robert d'Harcourt) one of the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy, succeeding Henri Lavedan. He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière. Works ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Raoul Moat
Raoul Thomas Moat, born January 1, 1973 in Newcastle upon Tyne, was a panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon from Newcastle upon Tyne. Between February and July 2010, he was imprisoned in Durham Prison for assaulting a relative. A former bodybuilder and steroid addict, he was said to be 6ft 3in (1.90 m) tall and approximately 17st (108 kgs), and according to relatives was prone to "eruptions of anger". He had a young daughter with Stobbart, and two other children from a previous relationship. Moat had one previous conviction for common assault, but was arrested 12 times resulting in charges for seven separate offences. As information about Moat emerged following the Birtley shootings, it became apparent he held a grudge against the police. He blamed them for the collapse of his busines... Biography of Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux (born January 1, 1973 (source: Imdb), Athens, Georgia) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Peyroux (pronounced 'Peru' or 'Pear-roo') is noted for her vocal style, which has been compared to that of Billie Holiday. Madeleine Peyroux has cited Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Patsy Cline, Édith Piaf, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Mercer, Charlie Chaplin, Serge Gainsbourg and Bob Dylan as influences on her music. Early life Peyroux's family was in academia. When Peyroux was six, her father moved the family to Brooklyn so he could pursue a career in acting. She grew up in New York City and southern California; when her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Paris. In several interviews, Peyroux described her parents as "hippies" and classifies them a... Biography of Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Cuevas (born January 1, 1986, in Concordia, Argentina) is a professional Uruguayan tennis player. At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentinan partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament. Cuevas, as of February 5, 2007, was ranked 88 for singles and has reached a career-high singles ranking of World number 88, achieved on February 4, 2008, and is ranked 65 in Doubles, first achieved on November 5, 2007. Cuevas has won the Tunica, Scheveningen, and Lima singles Challenger title and the São Paulo-1 and Florianópolis-2 doubles Challenger tities. As of July 7, 2007, Cuevas has earned US$ 98,388 in prize money. Pablo is 11-3 for Davis Cup singles matches and 3–3 for Davis Cup doubles matches. He is 14-6 in total at the Davis Cup on the Uruguay Davis Cup t... Biography of Bones McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney (January 1, 1919 in Lowlands, North Carolina – May 16, 1997) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6'6" forward-center who played at both North Carolina State University (2 years) and the University of North Carolina (1 year after the war interrupted his playing career), McKinney had a six-year playing career in the NBA, most of them with the now-defunct Washington Capitols. He also played for the Boston Celtics. His final year with the Capitols (in the 1950-1951 season), McKinney was a player-coach; the team folded midway through the season. McKinney, known for his sideline antics, would later coach the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, leading them to two Atlantic Coast Conference titles and an appearance in the Final Four i... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yohann Diniz
Yohann Diniz (born 1 January 1978 in Épernay) is a French race walker. He won the gold medal in the 50 km race at the 2006 European Championships in a personal best time of 3:41:39 hours. In 2007 he won the European Race Walking Cup at Royal Leamington Spa with a French record time of 1:18.58 hours. He then won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships.... Biography of Bruna Erhardt
Bruna Erhardt (born 1 January 1988) is a Brazilian fashion model of German descent. She was born in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil. She has appeared on the cover of the Brazilian Vogue. Fellow Brazilian models Caroline Trentini and Cintia Dicker are her good friends and roommates in New York City. Erhardt has signed with major agencies such as Marilyn São Paulo and New York, Select Model ManagementLondon, Women Milan, and Colors Modeling Agency Barcelona.... Biography of Garland Jeffreys
Garland Jeffreys (born 1943/44 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. His music is a unique blend of rock and roll, reggae, blues, and soul. Jeffreys is from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Jeffreys majored in arts at Syracuse University where he met Lou Reed before The Velvet Underground became active. In 1966, Jeffreys played in Manhattan nightclubs. Grinder's Switch, a group founded by him in 1969, released one album before breaking up in 1970. In 1973, he released his first solo album, Garland Jeffreys, on Atlantic Records. Around the same time Atlantic also released a 45 RPM single of a song called "Wild in the Streets" that was not included on the LP. The track received airplay on progressive FM album-oriented rock stations and has become on... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ben Price
Ben Price (born 1 January 1972) is a British actor, known for his roles in the British television series' Footballers' Wives and Casualty. He grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne where he attended Gosforth East Middle School and Gosforth High School before taking acting classes at The Live Theatre. He graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1996, in the same class as Sarah Manners and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. After starring in Wire in the Blood, he found fame when he starred as bisexual Conrad Gates, the captain of Earl's Park football team, in the British television series Footballers' Wives. Price said he loved the role, driving around in expensive cars, living in mansions and working with a good crew, but he was not so keen on the large number of occasions that his posterior... Biography of Edita Vilkevičiūtė
Edita Vilkeviciute is a Lithuanian model, born on January 1, 1989 in Kaunas. Early life Vilkeviciute was born on New Year's Day of 1989, in Kaunas. Career A Lithuanian model. After her discovery, she signed to Women Management in Milan, and later, VIVA in Paris in 2006. Her runway debut was at Just Cavalli for the spring/summer 2007 shows. She later walked for Paul Smith, Preen, and Marios Schwab in London. She made a comeback after not participating in fashion weeks at Milan and New York at the spring/summer 2008 Paris fashion week, walking for Balenciaga, Chanel, Dries van Noten, Miu Miu, and Louis Vuitton. In late 2008, she participated in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008, in the PINK section. During the spring/summer 2009 season she walked over 35 runways for some of ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop/rap artists to be so honored. Saddler's family migrated to the United States from the West Indies, and he grew up in the Bronx, New York. He attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school, where he learned how to repair electronic equipment. Saddler's parents played an important role in his interest in music. His parents came from Barbados and his father was a big fan of Caribbean and black American records. As a child, Saddler was fascinated by his fa... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mark Hurd
Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1956 in Flushing, Queens, New York) was the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard, the largest information technology company in the world by revenue. Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina had stepped down. On September 22, 2006, Hurd succeeded Patricia C. Dunn as chairman after she resigned after the pretexting controversy. On August 6, 2010, he resigned from all of the positions at HP, following discovery of inappropriate conduct in an investigation into a claim of sexual harassment. The probe concluded that the company's sexual-harassment policy was not violated, but that its standards of business conduct were. Hurd said he "r... Biography of Eden Riegel
Eden Sonja Jane Riegel (born January 1, 1981) is an American actress. She portrayed Bianca Montgomery on the daytime drama All My Children, and propelled the character into a gay icon, as well as a popular figure within the medium. Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2005. In addition to her work on All My Children, Riegel has guest starred in several prime time shows, as well as film, and starred as character "Eden" in the web series Imaginary Bitches. She assumed the role of Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless in April 2010. Early life Born to Kurt and Lenore Riegel in Washington, D.C., 1981, Riegel was raised in a Virginia suburb and became interested in acting while watching her brother, Sam, perform dinner th... Biography of Abha Dawesar
Abha Dawesar (born January 1, 1974 in New Delhi) is an Indian novelist writing in English. Dawesar is a Harvard graduate who was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fiction fellowship. She currently lives in New York City. Novels Miniplanner (2000) (published in India by Penguin Books under the title The Three of Us) Babyji (2005) (winner of the Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award, 2006) That Summer in Paris (2006) External link http://www.abhadawesar.com/... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gerda Rogers
Gerda Rogers, born on January 1, 1942 in Šumperk, is an Austrian astrologer and author. For her time of birth, she said she is Ascendant Scorpio, the accuracy is one hour). External link, her site: www.rogers.at Publications Abrechnung mit den Sternen: eine Star-Astrologin zieht Bilanz, Wien 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3770-X Gerda Rogers' Glückssterne, Melk 1996, ISBN 3-9500038-5-1 Die Sternzeichen, und wo sie sich wohl fühlen, März 2001, ISBN 3-8000-3704-1 Was ich dir sagen möchte - Deine Sterne stehen gut, von Gerda Rogers und Caroline Kleibel, September 2005, ISBN 3-9024-0420-5 Die Sternzeichen im Wassermann-Zeitalter, 2007, ISBN 3-9022-1121-0... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeff Carter (ice hockey)
Jeff Carter (born January 1, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). During his NHL career, he has appeared in one All-Star Game (2009) and led the Philadelphia Flyers, his previous team, in scoring on one occasion, both in 2009. Carter played junior in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons, earning OHL First Team All-Star, William Hanley Trophy and CHL Sportsman of the Year honours in his final year. Joining the Flyers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms, immediately after his junior career, he helped the team win the Calder Cup in 2005. Internationally, Carter has won gold medals with Team Canada at the under-18 and under-20 levels. During his under-20 career, he ... Biography of John Digweed
John Digweed (born as Thomas John Digweed on 1 January 1967 in Hastings, England) is an English DJ and record producer. John Digweed began DJing around age 13. His breakthrough came in 1993 when he got a gig at the Renaissance Club in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe (aka Sasha) heard his demo. Digweed is known for promoting the progressive house sound that became popular in Europe and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He started the record label Bedrock Records to further promote the music he was playing at the time. In addition to starting the Bedrock imprint, he and friend Nick Muir produce under the Bedrock alias. In his sets, Digweed is noted for adopting tracks with new and different styles. Between 2000 and 2005, Digweed promoted his "Bedrock" sound wi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johnny Logan
John Arnold (Johnny) Logan (January 1, 1921 – September 16, 1977), was a basketball player and coach born in Richmond, Indiana. A 6'2" guard who played at Indiana University, Logan played for four seasons with the now-defunct St. Louis Bombers, and a fifth season with the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. While with the Blackhawks, he served 3 games as an interim player-coach.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mike Mitchell
Michael Anthony Mitchell (born January 1, 1956 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an American NBA basketball player from 1978 to 1988. Mitchell started his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but played most of his career for the San Antonio Spurs. Mitchell was a 6'7", 215 lb. small forward with career averages of 19.8 points per game, 5.6 rebounds per game, 1.3 assists per game, a .493 field goal percentage, and a .779 free throw percentage. Mitchell was a one-time All-Star, in 1981, and was in the top ten in scoring four times and top ten in minutes played three times. Among other career highlights, he led the Spurs in scoring for the 1985 season. This is significant because this was the only season in which George Gervin played on the Spurs and did not lead the team in scoring. Mitchell av... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Melaine Walker
Melaine Walker O.D (born 1 January 1983, Kingston) is a Jamaican 400 metres hurdler. Walker is the reigning World and Olympic 400 m hurdles champion. She holds the Olympic record of 52.64, set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and her time of 52.42 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin is the second fastest time in history. Biography Walker is a past student of the St. Jago High School. She won Gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a new Olympic record time of 52.64 seconds. Walker won the Jamaica national championships in 54.70 seconds, narrowly beating new-comer Kaliese Spencer and qualifying for her first World Championships in Athletics. On 20 August 2009, she set the second fastest time in history of 52.42 seconds to win the women's 400m hurdles final at the 2009 World C... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claude Hagège
Claude Hagège (born Carthage, Tunisia, 1 January 1936) is a French linguist. He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988. Publications La Langue mbum de nganha cameroun - phonologie - grammaire, Klincksieck, 1970 Le Problème linguistique des prépositions et la solution chinoise, 1975 La Phonologie panchronique, PUF, 1978 Le comox llamen de Colombie britannique : présentation d'une langue amérindienne, Amerindia numéro spécial, Paris, Association d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne, 1981 La Structure des langues, 1982 L'Homme de paroles, 1985 Le Français et les siècles, Éditions Odile Jacob, 1987 Le Souffle de la langue : voies et destins des parlers d'Europe, 1992 The Language Builder: an Essay on the Human Signature in Linguistic Morpho... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mary Sweeney
Mary Sweeney (born January 1, 1953 in Madison, Wiconsin) is an American film editor and film producer best known for collaborating with the avant-garde American film director, David Lynch. Sweeney worked with Lynch on several critically acclaimed films and television series, most notably as a film editor on the cult hits Twin Peaks, Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Drive (2001) for Lynch's Asymmetrical Productions company.. She was the co-author, with John Roach, of The Straight Story (1999). Sweeney was for many years a domestic partner with David Lynch. The couple married in 2006 but filed for divorce one month later, citing irreconcilable differences. Together the couple has one son, Riley Sweeney Lynch, born in 1992. A long-time Hollywood resident, Sweeney is head of The Sul... Biography of Nina Bott
Nina Bott (born January 1, 1978 in Hamburg) is a German actress. Career Acting Between August 1997 and September 2005 she played Cora Hinze Moreno on the popular German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. She then appeared in the period drama Unter den Linden - Das Haus Gravenhorst. Nina Bott then joined the soap opera Alles was zählt in 2008 as Celine Laffort. She stayed with the show for more than two years, before leaving with co-star Norman Kalle. In March 2011, it was announced that Bott had joined her third soap opera, Verbotene Liebe. She is planned to play the recast of Julia von Anstetten, one of the soap's original characters. Bott is set to appear for the first time on-screen in June 2011. Her story takes place on location in Mallorca. Other In 2002, she appea... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Richard Edson
Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician. Biography Edson was born in New Rochelle, New York. He has one brother, Steven, who resides in the Boston area, and two sisters: Andrea, who resides in Newton, Massachusetts and Jennifer, who resides in New York City. His father Arnold was one of the first Marine officers to land at Guadalcanal in August 1942. His mother Marian, a retired school teacher, resides with his father in New Rochelle. Music career From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youth's original drummer and played drums for Konk at the same time. After the release of Sonic Youth's self-titled debut album, Edson left the band to play with Konk full-time. Edson also played horns with San Francisco band The Offs on the group's eponymous 1984 album. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Wayne (musician)
David Wayne (January 1, 1958 in Renton, Washington – May 10, 2005) was an American singer for the heavy metal bands Metal Church, Reverend and Wayne. Biography From 1982 to 1988, Wayne appeared as vocalist on two studio albums and two live albums by Metal Church. He was influenced by singers like Rob Halford and has influenced singers like James Hetfield. When he left the band in 1988, Wayne formed Reverend, which remained active even after his death. His legacy as a vocalist is captured in Metal Church's only live album, Live, recorded in 1986 in Texas while on tour with Anthrax. He also started a band called Wayne (or David Wayne's Metal Church) after leaving Metal Church and joined ex-Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Antsis in Bastardsun. Wayne died on May 10, 2005 from c... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Willy den Ouden
Willemijntje "Willy" den Ouden (1 January 1918, Rotterdam – 6 December 1997, Rotterdam) was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who held the world record for the 100 m freestyle swimming for nearly 23 years, from 1933 to 1956. Den Ouden first came in the international limelight when she participated at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won to of the five contestable silver medals in swimming. Four years later at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, she and her compatriots Tini Wagner, Rie Mastenbroek and Jopie Selbach won the gold medal in the women's 4x100 m freestyle relay. However, den Ouden was far more successful between these two Olympic games. On July 9, 1933 in Antwerp, she broke Helene Madison's two-year old world record on the 100 m freestyle, setting it at 1:06.... Biography of Dedee Pfeiffer
Dorothy Diane "Dedee" Pfeiffer (born January 1, 1964) is an American film and television actress. Early life Pfeiffer was born January 1, 1964 in Midway City, California, the daughter of Donna (née Taverna), a home-maker, and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. She is the sister of actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Lori Pfeiffer. Career Pfeiffer began her acting career at the age of 21 with a 1985 appearance on Simon & Simon, an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker. That same year, Pfeiffer played a hooker in Into the Night, a 1985 American comedy-thriller film directed by John Landis, starring Jeff Goldblum and Pfeiffer's sister Michelle. Pfeiffer's first nude role came in a 1989 shower scene for the supernatural ho... Biography of Glen Davis (basketball)
Ronald Glen Davis (born January 1, 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), commonly known as Glen Davis and by his nickname Big Baby, is an American basketball player who last played for the NBA's Boston Celtics. Formerly a college basketball player for LSU, Davis was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 35th overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft and shortly after traded to Boston. Davis is listed at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), 289 lb (131 kg; 20.6 st) and plays the power forward and center positions. College career The Southeastern Conference's coaches voted him the 2006 SEC Player of the Year, and he was also named to the All-SEC first team. In 2006 as a sophomore, Davis led the Tigers to their first Final Four appearance since 1986. In the crucial game of the National Semifinals, LSU lost t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eva Ras
Eva Ras (Serbian Cyrillic: Ева Рас) (born January 1, 1941) is a Serbian actress, writer, and painter. Biography She is of Hungarian-Jewish origin. Ras was born on January 1, 1941 in Subotica, where she lived and went to school until she was eighteen, when she started to study acting and dramaturgy in Belgrade where she now lives. She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia and Serbia, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić, Emir Kusturica, and Ferenc Kardos among others. She has published collections of poems: In the Good Old Days, When Mummy Buys Me Some Money and Bed of Silver, with which she took part i... Biography of Alfred Tomatis
Alfred A. Tomatis (1 January 1920 (birth time source: birth certificate, act n°39, André Dekoster)–25 December 2001) was an internationally known otolaryngologist, and inventor. He received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Paris School of Medicine. His alternative medicine theories of hearing and listening are known as the Tomatis method or Audio-Psycho-Phonology (APP). He was sentenced in 1993 for illegally practicing medicine. He has been removed as doctor by the Medical regulatory authority Tomatis' approach began as an effort to help professional singers in his native Nice based on his idea that errant hearing is the root cause of a variety of ailments. His Listening Test and later his Electronic Ear therapy were designed to alleviate these problems. Tomatis' life and work ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Lee Sungmin
Lee Sung-min (Hangul: 이성민; Hanja: 李晟敏) was born on 1 January 1986, mononymouly credited as Sungmin (Hangul: 성민; Hanja: 晟敏) is a South Korean singer, DJ and actor. He is best known as a member of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its sub-groups Super Junior-T, Super Junior-Happy and Super Junior-M. Biography Pre-debut Sungmin was born in the Hogae district of Anyang, Gyeonggi. He has a younger brother, Lee Sungjin. Sungmin's father Lee Chun-hwa, is the CEO of two companies: SendBill, which creates e-tax software, and Network Mania, an analytics company. In 2001, he entered the SM Youth Best Contest and jointly won first place for the Best Outward Appearance award with future band mate Donghae. Together, they s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jill Kelley
Gilberte "Jill" Khawam Kelley (born January 1, 1975) is an American socialite and volunteer social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Bay, Florida, who became a key figure in the 2012 United States government investigation into inappropriate communications by top U.S. Generals David Petraeus and John R. Allen. Early life Jill Kelley was born Gilberte Khawam on January 1, 1975. Kelley's family, which includes an identical twin sister, Natalie Khawam, and a brother David Khawam, is Lebanese-American Maronite Catholics who immigrated to the United States from Jounieh, Lebanon in the mid-1970s. Kelley grew up in Voorhees, New Jersey and later Northeast Philadelphia, where her parents owned a restaurant. Kelley lived in the Philadelphia area until her mid-20s. Career Kelley has ... Biography of Jean-Claude Denis
Jean-Claude Denis, born on January 1, 1951 in Paris, is a French cartoonist, author, and artist. Works Cartoonist 1978 : Oncle Ernest (avec Martin Veyron), éditions Casterman 1979 : Cours tout nu, Prix du Drugstore Opéra, éditions Futuropolis 1980-1984 : André le corbeau, éditions Dargaud Annie Mal (1980) La Saison des chaleurs (1980) La Fuite en avant (1984) 1981-2000 : Luc Leroi, éditions Futuropolis puis Casterman Luc Leroi déménage un peu (1981) Luc Leroi contre les forces du mal (1982) Luc Leroi remonte la pente (1985) Le Nain jaune, Prix du Public en 1987 au Festival d’Angoulême (1986) Des écureuils et des filles (1990) Bandes d'individus (1998) Toutes les fleurs s’appell... Biography of Anna Tifu
Anna Tifu, born on January 1, 1986 in Cagliari, Sardinia, is an Italian violinist. External link: http://www.mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de/70.0.html?&L=1... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tony Currie (footballer)
Anthony William Currie commonly known as Tony Currie (born 1 January 1950 in Edgware, Middlesex) is an English former footballer who had significant spells for Sheffield United, Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers as well as representing England. He was an effervescent and exuberant attacking midfield player with the vision and ability to strike long dangerous passes. His nephew, Darren Currie, also is a midfielder. Career Currie was a talented schoolboy footballer who represented Hendon Boys before joining Queens Park Rangers as an amateur, whilst working for a building firm. He joined Chelsea as an apprentice, but was released and moved to Watford to complete his apprenticeship, earning England Youth honours in the process. He turned professional in May 1967 and made his league d... Biography of Suzy Kendall
Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1944) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her blonde attractive looks got her leading roles in some fairly prestigious productions. She later appeared in increasingly lower-profile films, including several giallo thrillers made in Italy and several TV series in the 1970s before retiring to spend more time with her family. Personal life Born in Belper, Derbyshire, Kendall attended Derby & District College of Art where she studied painting and design. She was a fabric designer at British Celanese and then became a photographic model before becoming an actress. In 1968 Kendall married pianist, comedian and actor Dudley Moore, and though they divorced in 1972, they remained friends until Moore... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Neve McIntosh
Neve McIntosh (born 1 January 1972) is a Scottish actress. Early life Born in Paisley, Neve McIntosh (aka Carol White) grew up in Edinburgh, where she attended Boroughmuir High School. She was a member of Edinburgh Youth Theatre in the late eighties, appearing in Mother Goose and Doctor in the House. She moved to Glasgow to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, after which she was in repertory companies at Perth and at The Little Theatre on the Isle of Mull. Acting career Theatre She next played in a Glasgow stage production of The Trick is to Keep Breathing. She playing in the RSC production of Dickens' Great Expectations in Stratford, and starring as Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. In summer 2009, she performed in the Sy... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimi (Arabic: الأخضر الإبراهيمي, al-Akhḍar al-Ibrāhīmī; born January 1, 1934) is a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He is also a member of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Born in El Azizia, Algeria, Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to promote good governance around the world. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Gl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Karole Rocher
Karole Rocher, born on January 1, 1974 in Bzons, is a French actress. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0734039/) 2013 Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles (filming) Josyane 2013 Tip Top (post-production) Virginie 2013 Les Anonymes (TV movie) Jeanne Ferrandi 2012 Confession of a Child of the Century Marco 2009-2011 Braquo (TV series) Roxane Delgado / Roxane – 4 moins 1 (2011) … Roxane Delgado – Au nom du pire (2011) … Roxane Delgado – Infiltré (2011) … Roxane Delgado – Mère et patrie (2011) … Roxane Delgado – Chèvres et chacals (2011) … Roxane See all 16 episodes » 2011 Dernière séance La mère de Sylvain 2011 Les neiges du Kilimandjaro La mère de Christophe 2011 Polisse Chrys 2011 Les yeux de sa mère Sylvie, l'éditrice 2010 D... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Derrick Thomas
Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1, 1967 – February 8, 2000), nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted fourth overall in the 1989 NFL Draft. Thomas, part of the class of 2009 entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was a premier football player throughout the 1990s and is considered one of the best pass rushers of all-time. In 1990 against the Seattle Seahawks, he set an NFL record with seven sacks in a single game. On February 8, 2000, Thomas died from a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed lower extremities and traveled to his lungs. His paralysis was the result of severe injuries sustained in a car accident wee... Biography of Saori Hara
Saori Hara (原紗央莉 Hara Saori?) is a former Japanese AV idol, model and actress who has also used the name Mai Nanami (七海まい Nanami Mai?). Life and career Saori Hara was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to a Japanese mother and a father of mixed German-Japanese parentage. Mai Nanami Hara started her career as a junior idol under the name Mai Nanami. As a teenager, she sang the theme song Spicy Days (スパイシーデイズ Supaishiideizu?) for the animated TV show The Marshmallow Times on TV Osaka in 2004. She also had parts in two movies in 2005, the March TV drama The Dream of Delinquent Boys (不良少年の夢 Furyō Shōnen No Yume?) for TBS, and th... | |||||||