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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, 18, 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
87 celebrities or events were found for January, 18. Biography of Cary GRANT
Archibald Alec Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an iconic English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema, after Humphrey Bogart, by the American Film Institute. Height: 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Early life and career Archibald Alec L... Biography of Kevin COSTNER
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. Early life Costner was born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of the three sons (the middle son died at childbirth) of William Costner, an electrician and laterly utilities executive, and Sharon Rae Tedrick, a welfare worker. He has German, Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Costner attended elementary school at McKevette School in Santa Paula,...
Biography of Al CAPONE
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during the time of their prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, he began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming the boss of the criminal organization known as the Chicago Outfit (although ... Biography of Gilles DELEUZE
Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari. His books Difference and Repetition (1968) and The Logic of Sense (1969) led Michel Foucault to declare that...
Biography of Arnaud BINARD
French actor.... Biography of Jonathan DAVIS (KORN)
Jonathan Houseman Davis (born January 18, 1971) is the vocalist for the multiplatinum Nu Metal band, Korn. He was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, where he lived with his father and step-mother. Korn As well as being Korn's lead singer, he has also played drums and bagpipes. Davis writes songs on guitar and other various instruments, such as drums and bagpipes. Davis was the last member to join the band. James 'Munky' Shaffer and Brian 'Head' Welch discovered him in a bar, init... Biography of Magda COTROFE
Magda Cotrofe is a Brazilian Model from Campos. She has been 1983 and december 1986 Playmate for Playboy....
Biography of Valérie DAMIDOT
Valérie Damidot is a French journalist and TV host.... Biography of Philippe STARCK
Philippe Patrick Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a well-known French designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style. His designs range from spectacular interior designs to mass produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and even houses. Education He was educated in Paris at École Nissim de Camondo and in 1968, he founded his first design firm, which specialized in inflatable objects. In 1969, he became art director of his firm along with Pierre Cardin. ... Biography of Gilles VILLENEUVE
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (Gilles Villeneuve pronounced ) (January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982) was a Canadian Formula One racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in snowmobile racing in his native province of Quebec. He moved into single seaters — winning the US and Canadian Formula Atlantic championships in 1976 before being offered a one-off drive with McLaren at the 1977 British Grand Prix. He was taken on by reigning world ...
Biography of Guy de LARIGAUDIE
Guillaume Boulle de Larigaudie, best known as Guy de Larigaudie, born January 18, 1908 in Paris, is one of the most famous French members of the Scout Movement, a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play constructive roles in society. Bibliography Yug, J. de Gigord / Collection le feu de camp, 1933. Raa la buse, J. de Gigord / Collection le feu de camp, 1935. Vingt scouts autour du... Biography of BATISTA
David Michael Bautista, Jr. (born January 18, 1969), better known as Dave Batista or by the ring name Batista, is an American professional wrestler. Batista is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), wrestling on its SmackDown! brand. Batista is a three-time World Heavyweight Champion and the winner of the 2005 Royal Rumble match. Billed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Billed weight 290 lb (130 kg/21 st) Early life Bautista is of Filipino and Greek heritage. His year of b...
Biography of Cho SEUNG HUI
April 17th 2007, police identified the suspect who shot and killed 32 students, faculty, and staff at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year old senior who was a national of South Korea. Cho took his own life after carrying out his attacks, now called the worst mass shooting in US history by a single gunman....
Biography of Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (before January 18, 1689 in Bordeaux – February 10, 1755), more commonly known as Montesquieu, was a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He was largely responsible for the popularization of the terms fe...
Biography of Paul LEAUTAUD
Paul Léautaud, born January 18, 1872 in Paris, is a French writer. Works 1903 : Le Petit ami 1926 : Le Théâtre de Maurice Boissard : 1907-1923 1928 : Passe-Temps 1942 : Notes retrouvées (Imprimerie de Jacques Haumont, Paris) : « Lundi 25 Août 1941. En triant de vieux papiers, je retrouve une série de notes que j'avais bien oubliées. Je ne sais plus si je les ai utilisées, ni si elles se trouvent à leur place dans mon "Journal". Je les regroupe ici par ordre de dates (de 1927 à 1934).... Biography of Danny KAYE
David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was a Golden Globe-winning American actor, singer and comedian. Early life Born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. Kaye spent his early youth attending PS 149 in East New York, Brooklyn. He continued on to Thomas Jefferson High School, although he never graduated. He learned his trade in his teen years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht ... Biography of Oliver HARDY
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. Height 6' 1" (1.85 m) Name He did not adopt the name "Oliver" until 1914, doing so as a tribute to his father, who had died when Hardy was an infant. Childhood Hardy's parents were of English and Scottish descent. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran wounded at...
Biography of Franz-Olivier GIESBERT
Franz-Olivier Giesbert, born January 18, 1949, Wilmington, Delaware, is a French journalist, TV host and writer. Books L’Américain, 2004 ; L’Abatteur, 2003 ; Mort d’un Berger, 2002 ; Le Sieur Dieu, 1998 ; La Souille, 1995 (Prix Interallié) ; L’Affreux, 1992 (Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française) ; Monsieur Adrien, 1982; L’immortel, 2007; Political works La Tragédie du président, 2006 ; François Mitterrand, une vie, 1996 ; Le Vieil Homme et la Mort, 1996 ; ...
Biography of Ruben DARIO
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and influential poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío and is also known as The Father of Modernism. His poetry brought vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. Childhood and youth Darío was born in Metapa, Nicaragua now renamed Ciudad Darío in his honor. His childhood was filled with difficult economic and personal situations. Darío's parents separa... Biography of Robert Anton WILSON
Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, libertarian, and conspiracy theory researcher. He described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations--to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models (maps) and no one model elevated to the Truth." And: "My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnost... Biography of Victoria FYODOROVA
Victoria Fyodorova, born January 18, 1946 in Moscow, was the child of American naval officer Jackson Tate and Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova, from a brief affair at the end of World War II. When she was a year old her mother was imprisoned and baby Victoria was raised in exile by her aunt for the next eight years. She rejoined her mother on her release and followed her footsteps into films. She has appeared in two American films: Target (1985) and Crime and Punishment (1970) and in the televisio... Biography of Jean VUARNET
Jean Vuarnet (born January 18, 1933 in Le Bardo, Tunisia) is a French former Alpine skier. The high point of his career came in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, where he took Olympic gold in the Downhill. Previously, he had won bronze in the same event in the 1958 Skiing World Championships in Bad Gastein. After he had retired from active competition, Vuarnet became vice-president of the French skiing association from 1962 to 1971....
Biography of Elli MEDEIROS
Elli Medeiros (b. 18 January 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a singer and actress . Career The Stinky Toys Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the French punk band The Stinky Toys. Elli et Jacno After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member Jacno to form the electro-pop duo Elli et Jacno. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an Éric Rohmer film Les Nu...
Biography of Elsa EINSTEIN
Elsa Einstein (18 January 1876 - 20 December 1936) was the second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein. She was the daughter of Rudolf Einstein and Fanny (née Koch) and was born in Hechingen, Germany. She first married Max Löwenthal (1864-1914), a textiles trader from Berlin, with whom she had three children, but from whom she was divorced by 1908. Albert Einstein was her second husband, whom she married in 1919. With daughters Ilse and Margot (the third child had died by then), the Einsteins form...
Biography of Emmanuel CHABRIER
Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer from the Auvergne region of central France and was born in Ambert in 1841. The region of France from whence he came was traditionally useful in providing Parisians with cheese, cabbage and men to mend the boiler. Although his parents, sensing his abilities, brought him to Paris in 1856, he did not toe the line by studying at the Conservatoire or even at any of the less prestigious musical institutions... Biography of Samantha MUMBA
Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba (born 18 January 1983) is a Grammy Award-nominated Irish singer, songwriter, actress, and occasional model. Her first album was released in 2000 and achieved international success. As well as being a singer, she is also an actress; her most notable role was Mara in the 2002 film The Time Machine. She has also appeared in a number of Irish independent films. Personal life Mumba was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Peter Mumba, is a Zambian aircraft e... Biography of David ROUSSET
David Rousset (January 18, 1912 — December 13, 1997) was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary award. A survivor of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, he is famous for his books about concentration camps. He was the first person to use the term "Gulag" in French language, revealing to French the Soviet system of labor camps. In 1949, learning that the concentration camps destroyed in Nazi Germany still existed in the Soviet Union, he a...
Biography of Petra YARED
Petra Yared (born January 18, 1979, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian actress.) She is often credited as Petra Jared. Yared began her career in children's television series including Sky Trackers and The Genie From Down Under 2. She had a major role, as "Jo Tiegan", the Australian/New Zealand production Mirror, Mirror, for which she won the Australian Film Institute award for 'Best New Talent'. In 1996, she appeared in Neighbours as Georgia "George" Brown. She returned... Biography of Brady ANDERSON
Brady Kevin Anderson (born January 18, 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a former center and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians. Anderson attended Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. After graduating, he studied economics at the University of California, Irvine. He played outfield and first base for the Anteaters, leaving college following his junior season after being drafted by the Red Sox. Early y... Biography of Bo GRITZ
James Gordon "Bo" Gritz (born January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma) was a highly decorated United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War whose post-war activities—notably attempted POW rescues—have proven controversial. He remained a Special Forces officer until he resigned his commission in 1979. Attempts to locate prisoners of war During the 1980s Gritz undertook a series of private trips into Southeast Asia, purportedly to locate United States prisoners of war which some ... Biography of David RUFFIN
David Ruffin (Davis Eli Ruffin) (January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) was an American soul singer most famous for his work as lead singer of The Temptations from 1964 to 1968. Early years As a young child, David, along with his other siblings (older brothers Quincy and Jimmy and sister Rita Mae), traveled with their father, a minister, and their stepmother as a family gospel group. Not much is known about Ruffin's childhood except that his father was abusive and his mother died in childbirth. Wh... Biography of Nancy Anne HASTINGS
Nancy Anne Hastings, born January 18, 1945 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, died December 16, 1991 in Concord, Massachusetts (cancer), was an American astrologer and author of books about astrology, as "Time to Remember," or "Secondary Progressions."... Biography of Didier DINART
Didier Dinart (born January 18, 1977 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French handball player, currently playing for Ciudad Real in Spain. Before joining Ciudad Real, Didier Dinart played for the current best French club Montpellier HB. Height 1.97m Weight 104kg History Dijon Bourgogne HB Montpellier HB Ciudad Real Honors World Cup : 2001 Champions League : 2003 French Championship : 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 Spanish Championship : 2004 Spanish Supercup : 2004 ... Biography of Michel DEMARET
Michel Demaret alias Dikke Mich for his friends is a former burgomaster of Brussels born in 1940 and deceased, on November 9, 2000. Michel Demaret marked the spirit of many Belgians, in particular at the time of his interventions in the Striptease a Belgian television magazine....
Biography of Alfred Percy SINNETT
A.P. Sinnett (18 January 1840 - 26 June 1921) was an author and Theosophist. Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age 22 who is a teacher. Jane's sister Sarah age 48 is also a teacher. Sinnett married his wife Patience in 1870, probably in the London area. He is listed in the 1871 England Census as a Journ... Biography of Olivier ROCHUS
Olivier Rochus (January 18, 1981) is a Belgian tennis player. He was born in Namur, Belgium, and currently resides in Auvelais, Belgium. Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) Weight 65 kg (140 lb/10.2 st) He was a doubles partner of Roger Federer on the junior circuit. He has won 2 singles titles in his career and achieved a stunning victory in the French Open in 2004 where he won the doubles title partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. He is the younger brother of Christophe Roch...
Biography of Edouard DERMITHE
Antonio Dermit, best known as Edouard Dermithe, born January 18, 1924 in Gallignano, died May 15, 1995 in Paris, was an Italian actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220448/) Thomas l'imposteur (1964) .... Captain Roy ... aka Thomas the Impostor (International: English title) Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!, Le (1960) (uncredited) .... Cégeste ... aka Testament d'Orphée, Le (France: short title) ... aka The Testament of Orpheus (USA) Traité de ... Biography of Thor HUSHOVD
Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978 in Grimstad) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, riding for Crédit Agricole. Hushovd is known for sprinting and time trialing. He is a former Norwegian time trial champion. He is the first Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey in Tour de France. Before turning professional in 1998, Hushovd won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours. Hushovd is a member of Crédit Agricole. He was Nor...
Biography of Alan Alexander MILNE
Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Life A. A. Milne was born in Hampstead, London, England and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, London, a small independent scho... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||