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Astrology, birth chart, map of the heavens, biography, picture 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 picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 34 548 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 34 548 Celebrities
147 celebrities or events were found for January, 1. 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 appeare... 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... Biography of Maurice BEJART
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... 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 wan...
Biography of Elin NORDEGREN
Elin Maria Pernilla Woods (born Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren, January 1, 1980, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former model, better known as the wife of pro golfer Tiger Woods. Elin's mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former migration and asylum policy minister of Sweden, while her father, Thomas, is a radio journalist who has served as bureau chief in Washington, D.C. for the Swedish Broadcasting media. Relationship with Tiger Woods Elin and her twin sister Josefin had been workin...
Biography of PAPE ALEXANDRE 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 II... 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." ... 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, nam... 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, Onfra...
Biography of Laurent de MEDICIS
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 ...
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)...
Biography of Christine LAGARDE
Christine Lagarde (born 1 January 1956) is the current Minister of Finance of France and was previously Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde at 51 became the first woman finance minister of a Group of Seven economy, replacing Jean-Louis Borloo (appointed to a different post after a 4-week stint). Previous to her appointment as Minister of Finance, Lagarde was ranked the 30th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Mag... 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 ... Biography of Luc FERRY
Luc Ferry (born January 1, 1951) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the cabinet led by the conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. During his tenure, he was the minister in charge of the implementation of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools. Works La pensée '68 (1985) Homo A... Biography of CESAR
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.... 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 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 crit... 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 ... 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 199...
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 w...
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.... 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 ...
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 an... 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, Ick...
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 John 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 Gr...
Biography of Duc de Cornouailles HENRY TUDOR
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.... 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...
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...
Biography of Raïssa BOYER
Raïssa Boyer, born January 1, 1987 in Sainte-Marie, Réunion island, is Miss Réunion 2006....
Biography of Selita EBANKS
Famous model, for Ralph Lauren, Levi's, Abercrombie & Fitch, Tommy Hilfiger, and Clinique...... 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 famo...
Biography of Christi PAUL
Christi Paul (born January 1, 1969) 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 g... 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...
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 (19... Biography of Valentina CORTESE
Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa (born January 1, 1925 in Milan) 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... 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 in... 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.... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||