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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on January, 20, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 45,446 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,446 Celebrities
125 celebrities or events were found for January, 20. Add to favourites (75 fans)Biography of David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award for Best Director nominations (1980 for Elephant Man, 1987 for Blue Velvet, and 2002 for Mulholland Drive). Most of his productions have been recognized as having a lasting effect on cinema. Though he has yet to win an Oscar, Lynch has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He is probably best known for the iconic Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Dr. (2001). He has appeared in Time Magazine, in 1992 as "The Most Influential Filmmaker". Lynch's films are known for their surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike sequences, their strange images, and their meticulously crafted sound desi... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Aristotle Onassis
Aristotelis Sokratis (also Ari) Onassis (January 20, 1906 – March 15, 1975) was the most famous shipping magnate of the 20th century. Life Onassis was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey) to a middle-class Greek family. At the time of his birth, Smyrna had a very significant and prosperous Greek population. After being briefly occupied by Greece (1919-1922) in the aftermath of the allied victory in World War I, the city was re-captured by Turkey; the Onassis family holdings were lost, causing them to move to Greece as refugees. In 1923, Aristotle Onassis left his country to go to Argentina with allegedly only $63. After difficult beginnings, he revived there the family's tobacco business . In 1925, he received Argentinian and Greek citizenships. After engaging in ma... Add to favourites (67 fans)Biography of Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. Biography and style characteristics A unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire, Fellini's films are deeply personal visions of society, often portraying people at their most bizarre. The term "felliniesque" is used to describe any scene in which a hallucinatory image invades an otherwise ordinary situation. His father Urbano (1894-1956) was a travelling salesman and wholesale vendor. In August 1918 he married Ida Barbiani (1896-1984) in a civil ceremony (with the religious celebration the following January). After Federico's birth in 1920, two more child... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Omar Sy
Omar Sy (born 22 January 1978) is a French film actor, best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in Intouchables, written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, which became the second highest grossing French film of all time in the French box office. He received the César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in Intouchables (beating Jean Dujardin of The Artist). Filmography Granturismo (2000) La Tour Montparnasse Infernale (2001) La concierge est dans l'ascenseur (2001) Omar et Fred (2001) TV SERIES also Writer The Race (2002) Ces jours heureux (2002) Le boulet (2002) Samouraïs (2002) Si j'étais lui (2002) Telefilm La beuze (2003) Coming-out (2004) Le carton (2004) ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Benjamin Biolay
Benjamin Biolay (born January 20, 1973) is a French singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément, whose two albums he wrote and produced, and was the former husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc and Françoise Hardy. He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud V... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Bill Maher
William Maher, Jr., (pronounced: /mɑɹ/) (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an Internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled Amazon Fishbowl. Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. His commentaries target a wide swath of topics, from the right-wing to the left-wing, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, Hollywood, the mass media, and persons in positions of high political and social power, among many others. He supports the legalization of cannabis and gay marriage. Maher is number 38 on Com... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash (born January 20, 1966, in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television actress of African American and Aztec Indian descent. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Career Stacey Dash started her career as a child actress on the television series, Sesame Street. She later appeared in shows such as The Cosby Show, where she acted beside friend Lisa Bonet, and in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Dash's first substantial television role was in the 1988 television series, TV 101 which also featured Matt LeBlanc and Sam Robards. The series was cancelled after 13 episodes. Dash's first major film role was in the Richard Pryor comedy Moving in 1988. She also had sizeable roles in Mo' Money and Renaissance Man during this time. In 1995, Dash starred as a femme fatale in a low budget f... Biography of Lorenzo Lamas
Lorenzo Lamas (born Lorenzo Lamas y de Santos Lamas on January 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television and film actor, primarily on soap operas, movies and television. He is best-known for playing Jane Wyman's young irresponsible grandson, Lance Cumson, on the popular 1980s soap opera, Falcon Crest, the falsely accused cop Reno Raines, on the popular 1990s crime drama, Renegade and as firefighter Hector Ramirez on The Bold and The Beautiful. He served as judge on Are You Hot?. Early life Lamas is the son of the late Fernando Lamas, an Argentine actor, and actress Arlene Dahl. He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California and moved to New York City when he was 13 years old, around 1971. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in 1975 and then returned... Biography of Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant (Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz), styled HRH The Duchess of Brabant, is the wife of the heir apparent to the Belgian throne, HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant. Of Belgian and Polish ancestry, she is expected to be the first Belgian-born Queen Consort. Early Life and Family She was born Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz on 20 January 1973. Though her grandfather and her uncle were barons, she and her father were members of the untitled nobility. As such, she has a right to the Dutch predicate Jonkvrouw for which the closest English-language equivalent would probably be the British courtesy title "Honourable". Mathilde's father is Count (formerly Jonkheer) Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz; her mother is the former Countess Anna Maria Komorows... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of James Denton
James Denton (born January 20, 1963) is an American film and television actor. Early life Denton was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, the son of J. T. Denton, a dentist who served in the military. He attended the University of Tennessee where he majored in television/journalism and earned a degree in advertising. Before he became an actor, he sold advertising for two radio stations. He began acting at 23, at a community theater in Nashville. He eventually moved to California to become a full time actor. Career He is a regular cast member on the television show Desperate Housewives, where he plays the role of Mike Delfino, a plumber who lives on Wisteria Lane and husband of Susan Mayer.He had previously been a regular on several television se... Biography of Buzz Aldrin
Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He became the second person to have set foot on the Moon (after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong). Early life Aldrin was born into a military family in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where he became a Tenderfoot in the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The nickname "Buzz" originated in childhood: his sister mispronounced "brother" as "buzzer" as a toddler, and this was shortened to Buzz. He made it his legal first name in 1988. Military career He graduated third in his class in 1951 with a bach... Biography of Sid Wilson
Sidney George Wilson (born January 20, 1977) also known as Ratboy, #0 (or 0), is an American musician known as the turntablist of the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot. He is the youngest member of the band. Biography Sid Wilson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He performs in Slipknot, and also tours as DJ Starscream, a name which is derived from the Transformers character of the same name. He is a fan of the Transformers franchise, and evidences this with tattoos. Outside Slipknot, Wilson has made a following in Japan as a jungle musician, under the pseudonym DJ Starscream, and is currently signed to the Japanese record label N2O Records. He recently collaborated with The Mad Capsule Markets vocalist Hiroshi Kyono on a song called "HAKAI (Deathtroy)" released on The Songs for Death... Biography of Sophie Rhys-Jones
The Countess of Wessex (Sophie Helen; née Rhys-Jones, born 20 January 1965), is a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Until 2002, the Countess of Wessex worked in public relations. Early life The Countess was born Miss Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, the daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones, a retired tyre salesman, and his wife, Mary Rhys-Jones (nee O'Sullivan), a secretary of Irish birth, who died on 29 August 2005 at the age of 71. . The Countess' first name was chosen by chance, because when she was pregnant, her mother overheard another mother call out "Sophie!" to her little girl and she decided that she liked the name . Her sec... Biography of Skeet Ulrich
Brian Ray "Skeet" Ulrich (born January 20, 1970) is an American actor who stars in the CBS drama Jericho. Height: 6' (1.83 m) Early life Ulrich was born Brian Ray Trout in Lynchburg, Virginia and was raised in Concord, North Carolina by his mother, Carolyn Elaine Wax (née Rudd), who owns the special-events marketing agency Sports Management Group. Ulrich's father is a restaurateur and his first step-father was former NASCAR driver and team owner D. K. Ulrich. His mother has since re-married to Edward Lewis Wax. Ulrich's uncle is NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver Ricky Rudd (who is his mother's brother) and his maternal grandfather was Alvin Ray Rudd, Sr., the president of Al Rudd Auto Parts. The nickname "Skeet" originated from the nickname "Skeeter" he was given by his Little League coach b... Biography of Rob Bourdon
Robert Gregory Bourdon (born January 20, 1979) is the drummer for the nu metal band Linkin Park. Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m) Rob was born in Calabasas, California and now lives in Los Angeles. He grew up in the same town as the members of Incubus and Hoobastank. Rob started to play the drums after watching an Aerosmith concert. His mother was the girlfriend of Joey Kramer, Aerosmith's drummer, so they were able to go backstage and see the entire production; Kramer also gave Rob a kick pedal. In his early teen years, Bourdon played in a few bands with his friends. It was around that time that he met his current Linkin Park bandmate, Brad Delson, and they played together for about a year in a band called Relative Degree. Their goal was to play at the Roxy Theatre, after achieving thei... Biography of Felicitas Woll
Felicitas Woll (b. 20 January 1980 in Homberg/Efze, Hesse) is a German actress best known for the ARD-Series Berlin, Berlin and the TV-Film Dresden. Career/development Felicitas Woll grew up in Harbshausen (Hesse). She took an apprenticeship as a nurse, but became an actress after she met the theatrical agent Frank Oliver Schulz. After a casting session she was cast and appeared in the TV-Series Die Camper, subsequently remaining with the show for three years. In 1998 she began taking music lessons at the Düsseldorfer Tanzhaus (Dusseldorf Dance House) under Wladimir Matuchin. She plays piano, guitar and keyboards and gained theatrical experience as a singer. After her role as 'Tanja Ewermann' in Die Camper, she appeared in Für alle Fälle Stefanie and Hamann-Spezial. At the end of 19... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971 in Frodsham, Cheshire) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. He is a member of the pop group Take That and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, penning no fewer than 16 hit singles during the decade. Barlow had two No. 1 hits and five further top 40 UK singles as a solo singer in the final half of the 1990s. He is also a five-time recipient of the prestigious Ivor Novello Award. Recently, he was voted by Onepoll.com as the greatest British songwriter of all time, coming ahead of Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles in the polls. Early life Gary Barlow was born at 12:20 in the afternoon on 20 January 1971 in Frodsham in Cheshire. He is the second son of Colin and Marjorie Barlow. In his autobiography, Ga... Biography of Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926, Packard, Kentucky, died August 8, 2010) is an Academy Award winning American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Born Patsy Louise Neal, Patricia Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied drama at Northwestern University, before moving to New York, where, after only a few months, she got her first job (an understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle). Soon, though, she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play. In 1949, she made her film debut in John Loves Mary. Her appearance the same year in The Fountainhead coincided with her on-going affair with her married co-star, Gary Cooper, whom she had met two years earlier, when he was 46 and she was 21. By 1950, C... Biography of Melody (Belgian singer)
Nathalie Lefebvre, best known as Melody, born January 20, 1977 in Renaix, is a Belgian singer.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the egomaniacal Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy The Office, the leading role in the 2008 comedy The Rocker, and assistant mortician Arthur Martin in HBO's Six Feet Under. Early life Wilson was born in Seattle, Washington (source: Imdb), the son of Shay Cooper, a yoga teacher and actress, and Robert G. Wilson, a novel writer and business consultant. He attended Kellogg Middle School and Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington. He transferred to and graduated from New Trier High School after his family moved to Wilmette, Illinois to serve at the Bahá'í National Center. Wilson has a theatre background from Tufts Un... Biography of Yseult Gervy
Yseult Gervy, born January 20, 1979 in Nivelles, is a Dutch pro swimmer.... Biography of Mari Yaguchi
Mari Yaguchi (矢口 真里, Yaguchi Mari?, born January 20, 1983 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a member of the Hello! Project and former member and leader of Morning Musume. She was a member of Tanpopo, one of the first sub groups, and also founded Minimoni. She was also was leader of Morning Musume Sakuragumi when Natsumi Abe graduated and ZYX, and was in Romans. Mari Yaguchi became a member of Morning Musume during the second generation auditions, but resigned suddenly in April 2005. She basically cited her desire to move on "as an adult" with her career. The underlying reason that she had to quit was because it was discovered by the tabloid magazine FRIDAY that she was in a relationship with actor Shun Oguri though she was 22 at the time. Yaguchi and Oguri have reported... Biography of Melissa Rivers
Melissa Rivers (born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg on January 20, 1968) is an American television co-host and the daughter of Joan Rivers. Biography Melissa is the only child of Joan Rivers and the late British-born producer Edgar Rosenberg, who committed suicide in 1987. She took on her mother's stage surname for notoriety. Rivers attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air and then The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks (Joan always joked that Melissa went to Beverly Hills High School). She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. On December 12, 1999 she married horse breeder John Endicott; their divorce was finalized on June 19, 2003. The two have a son, Edgar Cooper Endicott, who was born on December 1, 2000. Career She raised $100,000 for Make-A-Wish f... Biography of Florian Maurice
Florian Maurice (born 20 January 1974) is a French former football player, who played as a striker, and most notably won the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with French team Paris Saint-Germain. He played six games and scored a single goal for the France national football team. Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Florian Maurice started playing youth football with local top-flight team Olympique Lyonnais in 1986. A great hope in French football, Maurice was touted as the new Jean-Pierre Papin. He was included in Lyonnais' senior squad for the Ligue 1 championship in the 1991-92 season, but did not make his Ligue 1 debut until August 1992. His national breakthrough came during the 1994-95 season, when he scored 15 league goals. In the 1995-96 season, he scored 18 league goals for Lyo... Biography of Daniel Cudmore
Daniel Cudmore (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actor perhaps best known for his role as the mutant Colossus in the X-Men movies. He was born in Vancouver to British parents Sue Bailey, who works for the British Columbia film commission, and Richard Cudmore, a doctor. He was raised in Squamish, British Columbia. Cudmore is the middle of three boys, all over 6' 5" tall. He stands at 6' 8" tall and wear US size 16 shoes. It is also believed that he may play Emmett McCarty Cullen in Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Daniel was also auditioned for the title role in Superman Returns. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Piotr Rasputin / Colossus 2005 Alone in the Dark Agent Barr 2005 Are We There Yet? Basketball Player (2004) Too Cool for Chr... Biography of Georges Poujouly
Georges Poujouly, born January 20, 1940 in Garches, died October 28, 2000 in Villejuif, was a French actor. He was first a child actor at 12, for famous movie of René Clément, Jeux interdits. Filmography 1952 : Jeux interdits (Michel Dolle) 1952 : La Jeune Folle 1952 : Nous sommes tous des assassins (Michel Le Guen) 1952 : Son dernier Noël (Raphaël Fabrèze) 1953 : Quitte ou double 1953 : Le Gang des pianos à bretelles 1954 : Il Tesoro del Bengala (Tomby) 1954 : Dix-huit heures d'escale 1955 : Il Piccolo Vetraio 1955 : Les Diaboliques (élève Soudieu) 1955 : Cortile 1956 : Les Assassins du dimanche 1956 : Et Dieu... créa la femme (Christian Tardieu) 1956 : Si tous les gars du monde (Benj) 1957 : Les Œufs de l'autruche (Roger Barjus) 1958 : Ascenseur pour ... Biography of Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981, and for being the narrator of the comedy series Little Britain. Height: 6' 3" (1.90 1/2 m) Early life Baker was born in Liverpool. His Jewish father, John Stewart Baker, was a sailor who was rarely at home, resulting in Baker's being raised largely by his Irish mother, Mary Jane (née Fleming), in her Catholic faith. He left school at 15 to become a novice monk and remained in the monastic life for six years, but left after losing his faith and went into the Royal Army Medical Corps. At the same time he took up acting, at first as a hobby. Personal... Biography of Will Young
William Robert Young BA (Exon) (born 20 January 1979) is an English singer and actor. He rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural UK Pop Idol contest. He has continued to work very successfully in music, and also as an actor. Early life Young was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, with a fraternal twin, Rupert. He also has an older sister, Emma. He was educated at Horris Hill preparatory school and Wellington College. He also studied at D'Overbroeck's College, Oxford. Young read Politics at the University of Exeter and graduated with a 2:2 honours degree. At university, some of his haunts included Timepiece, The Old Firehouse, and Harry's, where he used to work. In September 2001, he became a student at the Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, London, starting a three-year cours... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836), was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. Early days Ampère was born on January 20, 1775 in Lyon, France, and lived from 1775 to 1836 in the nearby burg of Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or. s. His father began to teach him Latin, but ceased on discovering the boy's greater inclination and aptitude for mathematical studies. The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, to enable him to master the works of Euler and Bernoulli. In later life he was accustomed to say that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew; but, a polymath, his reading embraced ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert (b. January 20, 1865, Paris – d. February 4, 1944, Aix-en-Provence) was a music-hall singer and actress. Born into abject poverty as Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, Guilbert began singing as a child but at age sixteen worked as a model at the Printemps department store in Paris. She was discovered by a journalist. She took voice and acting lessons on the side that by 1886 led to appearances on stage at smaller venues. Guilbert debuted at the Variette Theatre in 1888. She eventually sang at the popular Eldorado club, then at the Jardin de Paris before headlining in Montmartre at the Moulin Rouge in 1890. For her act, she was usually dressed in bright yellow with long black gloves and stood almost perfectly still, gesturing with her long arms as she sang. An innovator, she ... Biography of Erin Wasson
Erin Wasson (born January 20, 1982 (source: IMDB)) is an American model, stylist, and designer. Career A "classic beauty" hailing from the state of Texas, Erin Wasson embodies the modern female ideal. A respected, blue chip model who made a name for herself winning a Dallas modeling contest at the age of 16, Wasson has enjoyed a career of dreams. Uniquely versatile and notoriously hard working, she's graced the covers of countless magazines such as French, German, Spanish and Australian Vogue, Flair, Numero, Allure, Esquire and Elle. She's walked international runways for everyone from Chloe, Cavalli, Lanvin, Lagerfeld, Balenciaga, Gucci, and Armani. Erin also appeared in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2007. In her prolific career Erin has had the opportunity to work with the in... Biography of Liza Goddard
Liza Goddard (born 20 January 1950, in Smethwick, West Midlands, England) is a television and stage actress best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s. Early Life She is the daughter of the British producer David Goddard and attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before he moved the family to Australia when she was 15 upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Career Goddard made an early television appearance in Australia on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. After returning to the UK in 1969 as an adult, she appeared as Victoria in Take Three Girls (1969), and then its sequel Take Three Women (1982). Her breakthrough was as April in The Brothers. A series of comedy roles in sitcoms followed, with parts in Pig in the Middle (1980), played a ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson (January 20, 1910 – January 3, 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist and author best known for her book, Born Free, which described her experiences in raising a lion cub named Elsa. She was the wife of British wildlife conservationist George Adamson. Her book Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Adamson was also an artist. Early life She was the daughter of Viktor and Traute Gessner and born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three girls. Her parents divorced when she was 10 and she went to live with her grandmother. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit she wrote about her beloved grandmother: "It is to her I owe anything that may be g... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery (born January 20, 1965 in Danville, Kentucky (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski , Astrodatabank)) is an American country music singer-songwriter. He began his career in a band called Early Tymz, whose members included his older brother Eddie Montgomery and their friend Troy Gentry (who currently comprise the country music duo Montgomery Gentry). John Michael began a solo career on Atlantic Records in 1992, he made his debut on the American country music scene that year with the release of his debut album Life's a Dance. Overall, John Michael has produced more than thirty singles on the Billboard country charts overall, including two of Billboard’s Number One country singles of the year: "I Swear" (1994) and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" (1995)... Biography of Cathy Marsal
Cathy Marsal, born January 20, 1971 in Metz, is a French champion cyclist. She won the World Championship in 1989 in Chambéry.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nancy Achin Sullivan
Nancy Achin Sullivan, born January 20, 1959 in Lowell Junction, Massachusetts, is an American politician, head of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine.... Biography of Eusapia Palladino
Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino; 1854-1918) was a famous Spiritualist medium born in Minervino Murge, Italy. Life and work In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. In Italy, France, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, Palladino was noted to allegedly display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and elongating herself, bringing forth flowers, physically materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in wet clay, levitating tables, playing musical instruments under the table without contact, directly communicating with the dead through her spirit guide, John King, etc. It was very costly to watch one of her performances. Many Europeans regarded Palladino as a genuine Spiritualist medium, clai... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yacef Saadi
Yacef Saadi (born January 20, 1928) was one of the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence. He is currently a Senator in Algeria's People's National Assembly. Yacef was born in Algiers. He started his working life as an apprentice baker. In 1945 he joined the Parti du Peuple Algerien, a nationalist party which the French authorities soon outlawed, after which it was reconstituted as the Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertes Democratiques (MTLD). From 1947 to 1949 Yacef served in the MTLD's paramilitary wing, the Organisation Secrete. After the OS was broken up Yacef moved to France and lived there until 1952, when he returned to Algeria to again work as a baker. Yacef joined the FLN at the start of the Algerian War in 1954. By May 195... Biography of Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (born January 20, 1963) is a Lithuanian actress. She has had a number of minor roles in some top Hollywood movies including Mission: Impossible (1996) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), the latter of which featured her as the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt). She is best known in European film for her portrayal of Maroussia, the wife of Colonel Sergei Kotov (portrayed by Nikita Mikhalkov) in Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun (1994); she is also reprising the role in the sequel, currently filming. She portrays the mother of Thomas Harris's fictional cannibal and serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, in Hannibal Rising (2007). More recently, she has been very impressive as partner to Alexander Zhulin in the Russian version of Stars on Ice. In addi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Greg Schelkun
Greg Schelkun, born January 20, 1949 in Chicago, is an American psychic healer. He is also a sculptor. He lives in California.... Biography of Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 20, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, which the general survived, albeit with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications of pneumonia eight days later. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public. Military historians consider Jackson to be one of the... Biography of Branka Katic
Branka Katić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранка Катић) is a Serbian actress born January 20, 1970 in Belgrade. Her film appearances include Black Cat, White Cat and Im Juli. Her television work includes playing Tatiana Taylor, second wife of Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, a story arc on the HBO series Big Love, as Ana, Bill Henrickson's fourth-wife, and Entourage, as Nika Marx, the producer's wife in the episode "The Prince's Bride." Katic is married to British film and television director Julian Farino. They have two sons: Louis and Joe. Filmography Zena sa slomljenim nosem (2009) Public Enemies (2009) - Anna Sage The Englishman (2007) - Svetla Breaking and Entering (2006) - Tanya Floating (2004) - Mitsy ... Biography of Paul Stanley
Stanley Eisen (born January 20, 1952), better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, and singer, best known for being the rhythm guitarist and frontman of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of most of the band's highest-charting hits, including "Rock and Roll All Nite," "Detroit Rock City," "Hard Luck Woman," "I Was Made for Lovin' You," "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Forever." Career Kiss Before Kiss, Paul Stanley was in a local band, Rainbow (not to be confused with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow) and was also a member of Uncle Joe and Post War Baby Boom. Through a mutual friend of Gene Simmons', Stanley joined Simmons' band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s. The band recorded an album in 1972, but as of 2009 it has never been officially r... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Patrice Estanguet
Patrice Estanguet (born 19 April 1973) is a French slalom canoer. He won the bronze medal in the C-1 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, in Atlanta, USA.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ivonne Schönherr
Ivonne Schönherr, born January 20, 1981 in Stollberg, is a German actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778222/ ) Vorzimmer zur Hölle (2009) (TV) (filming) .... Kim Kerner "Die Stein" .... Victoria Treff (13 episodes, 2008) - Trennung (2008) TV episode .... Victoria Treff - Klassenfahrt (2008) TV episode .... Victoria Treff - Gefährliche Geschäfte (2008) TV episode .... Victoria Treff - Zwischen Baum und Borke (2008) TV episode .... Victoria Treff - Die Entscheidung (2008) TV episode .... Victoria Treff (8 more) Die Liebesflüsterin (2008) (TV) .... Marie Büchner ProSieben FunnyMovie - H3: Halloween Horror Hostel (2008) (TV) .... Ficki War ich gut? (2007) (TV) .... Sandra "Inga Lindström" .... Hilla Svensson (1 episode, 2007)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson (pronounced in Swedish) (born January 20, 1949) was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Conceding defeat in the September 2006 general election, he announced that he would resign as party leader, and Mona Sahlin was elected to succeed him as party leader in March 2007. Since August 2007 he has worked as a part time corporate lobbyist for the JKL Group. Personal life Persson was born in Katrineholm in Södermanland, Sweden, in a working-class home. He has in recent years revealed that he wanted to become a priest as a young man; however, he applied to the college in Örebro where he took courses in social science. He completed 80 college credits (120 ECTS credits) in the subject before ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer. His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. He enjoyed a career resurrection that began at age 79 and ended shortly before his death at 100. Early life and career Nathan Birnbaum was the ninth of twelve children born to Louis and Dorothy (Bluth) Birnbaum in New York City. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but did not work very often. During the flu epidemic of 1903, Louis contracted the flu and died. Nattie (as he was known to his family) started working in 1903 after his father'... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wakanohana III (sumo)
Masaru Hanada (花田 勝 ,Hanada Masaru?, born January 20, 1971) is a former sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana III Masaru (若乃花 勝), and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Koji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ozeki Takanohana I, who was also his stablemaster, and the nephew of Wakanohana I, a famous yokozuna of the 1950s. Wakanohana was a long serving ozeki who won five tournament championships, and eventually joined his brother at yokozuna rank in 1998, creating the first ever sibling grand champions. After a brief and injury plagued yokozuna career he retired in 2000, becoming a television personality and restaura... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 – June 10, 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family. His father made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s . To please his father, Chausson studied law and became a lawyer at the Court of Appeals; but, in truth, he had little or no interest in the law. He frequented the Paris salons, where he met celebrities such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, and Vincent d'Indy. He dabbled in writing and drawing before definitively deciding on his career. In October 1879, at age 25, he began attending the composition classes of the opera composer Jules Massenet at the Paris Conserva... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Lyautey
Pierre Lyautey, born in Châteaudun January 20, 1893 and died in 1974, was a French journalist, writer and travel author, the nephew of Maréchal Lyautey.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of C. H. Douglas
Major C. H. (Clifford Hugh) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE, (January 20, 1879–September 29, 1952) , was a British engineer and pioneer of the Social Credit economic reform movement. Education and engineering career C. H. Douglas was born in either Edgeley or Manchester, the son of Hugh Douglas and Louisa Hordern. Few details are known about his early life and training; he probably served an engineering apprenticeship before building an engineering career that brought him to locations throughout the British Empire in the employ of electric companies, railroads, and other institutions. He taught at Stockport Grammar School. After a period in industry he went to Cambridge University at the age of 31 but stayed only four terms and left without graduating. He worked for the Westinghouse Electric Cor... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Raymond Roussel
Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman. Roussel was the third and last child in his family, with a brother Georges and sister Germaine. In 1893, at age 15, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire for piano. A year later, he inherited a substantial fortune from his deceased father and began to write poetry to accompany his musical compositions. At age 17, he wrote Mon Âme, a long poem published three years later in Le Gaulois. By 1896, he had commenced editing his ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Naber
John Phillips Naber (born January 20, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois) is a retired American swimmer. Career Naber won four gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, each in world-record time. One of his gold medals was for the first 200-meter backstroke under 2 minutes, with his 1 minute 59.19 second win setting a world record which stood for seven years. His gold medal winning 55.49 second world record in the 100 meter backstroke lasted seven years as well. He won the James E. Sullivan Award, given to America's top amateur athlete, in 1977.... Biography of Sebastian of Portugal
Sebastian I, King of Portugal "the Desired" (in Portuguese, Sebastião I, pronounced , o Desejado; born in Lisbon, January 20, 1554; presumed to have died at Alcazarquivir, August 4, 1578) was the sixteenth king of Portugal and the Algarves. He was the son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Spain. His paternal grandparents were John III of Portugal and Catherine of Habsburg; his maternal grandparents were the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. He only had four great-grandparents (instead of the normal eight). Early life Sebastian was born shortly after 8 in the morning of Saint Sebastian's Day 1554 and he took his name from that fact. Shortly after his birth a doctor, Fernando Abarca Maldonado, who had come to Portugal in the entourage of his mother and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ron Harper
Ronald Harper (born January 20, 1964 in Dayton, Ohio) is a retired American professional basketball player whose career spanned from 1986 to 2001 with four teams in the NBA. At 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), his position was shooting guard/point guard. Miami University Harper starred at Miami University in Ohio, averaging 24.3 points per game, 11.2 rebounds per game, 3.2 steals per game, and 2.4 blocked shots per game. His playing style drew comparisons to Julius Erving. Cleveland Cavaliers After Harper's collegiate basketball career he was selected 8th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1986 NBA Draft. He averaged 22.9 points per game in his rookie season, placing second in Rookie of the Year balloting. After initially spending 3 seasons at the Cavaliers, he would later play for... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lucien Boyer
Lucien Boyer, born January 20, 1876 in Léognan, Gironde, died in 1942 in Paris, was a French singer, former journalist and cabaret showman, the father of French film director Jean Boyer.... Biography of Jacques Ferron
Jacques Ferron (January 20, 1921 - April 22, 1985) was a Canadian physician, journalist, politician and author. Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On March 5, 1931 his mother died. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf but was expelled in 1936. He continued his education at Collège Saint-Laurent and then was readmitted at Jean-de-Brébeuf, only to be expelled again. In September 1941, he was accepted at Université Laval where he studied medicine and on July 22, 1943 he married a fellow student, Magdeleine Thérien whom he divorced in 1949. November 1943, he enrolled in the Canadian army as a medic and received the acceptance in June 1945. He trained in British Columbia and Ontario and after that was sent to Quebec and New... Biography of Gérard Hernandez
Gérard Hernandez, born on January 20, 1933, is a Frenc actorn humorist and comedian. Filmography Actor 1955 : La Meilleure Part d'Yves Allégret 1957 : Montparnasse 19 de Jacques Becker 1959 : Le Trou de Jacques Becker 1961 : La Belle Américaine de Robert Dhéry : Gruau, un policier 1961 : Un nommé La Rocca de Jean Becker : Un détenu démineur 1961 : Le crime ne paie pas, sketch L'Homme de l'avenue de Gérard Oury : Un témoin de l'accident 1966 : Les Combinards de Jean-Claude Roy : L'abbé 1968 : Le Cerveau de Gérard Oury : Un agent au Havre 1973 : Les Gaspards de Pierre Tchernia : Hervé Balzac, l'inspecteur de police 1975 : Attention les yeux ! de Gérard Pirès: Le restaurateur 1975 : D'amour et d'eau fraîche de Jean-Pierre Blanc : Be... Biography of Crystal Lowe
Crystal Lowe (Born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian Actress best known for her roles in horror films such as Final Destination 3 as Ashlyn Halperin, Black Christmas as Lauren Hannon and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End as Elena. These performances led to her early reputation as a Scream Queen. At the start of her acting career Crystal made appearances in popular television shows like Stargate SG-1, Cold Squad, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Life As We Know It and The L Word. Crystal also made appearances in high grossing films like Scary Movie 4, Snakes on a Plane, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck. Early life Lowe was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to a Chinese father and a Scottish mother. At a young age, Crystal and her family moved to Hong Kong where she lived for a f... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw (born January 20, 1918) is a food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His revolutionary accomplishments over six decades in fighting protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies, developing nutritional supplements, educating generations of experts, and building support for continued advances in food quality have made substantial improvements in the lives of millions throughout the world. For this work he won the 1991 World Food Prize. Early education and work Scrimshaw earned a doctorate in physiology from Harvard University in 1941 and a medical degree from the University of Rochester four years later. His contributions to human nutrition began during his medical traini... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Noberto Fontana
Norberto Edgardo Fontana (born January 20, 1975 in Arrecifes, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine racing driver. He participated in four Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on June 29, 1997. His opportunity to race came as a result of two separate injuries sustained by regular Sauber driver Gianni Morbidelli during the 1997 season. He scored no championship points. Fontana raced in the F3 series in 1995, winning the 1995 Marlboro Masters at Zandvoort.. He finished in the top five of the regional F3 championship he raced in. After F1, Fontana raced in Formula 3000, and he also made 8 CART starts in 2000 with a best finish of 11th at Cleveland. He subsequently moved into TC 2000, a national touring car racing series, in his native Argentina. During the world championship-deciding 1... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johann Hermann Schein
Johann Hermann Schein (January 20, 1586, Grunhein, Germany – November 19, 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the most polished composers of the period. Biography On the death of his father, Schein moved to Dresden where he joined the choir of the Elector of Saxony as a boy soprano. In addition to singing in the choir, he received a thorough musical training with Rogier Michael, the Kapellmeister, who recognized his extraordinary talent. From 1603 to 1607 he studied at Pforta, and from 1608 to 1612 attended the University of Leipzig, where he studied law in addition to liberal arts. Upon graduating, he was employed b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fabio Bencivenga
Fabio Bencivenga (born January 20, 1976 in Capua) is a retired water polo player from Italy, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 (Atlanta, Georgia). He was a member of the Men's National Team that claimed the bronze medal in 1996.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (Cassis, France, January 20, 1716 – April 30, 1795) was a French writer and numismatist. Barthélemy was born at Cassis, in Provence, and began his classical studies at the College of Oratory in Marseilles. He took up philosophy and theology at the Jesuits' college, and finally attended the seminary of the Lazarists. While studying for the priesthood, which he intended to join, he devoted much attention to oriental languages, and was introduced by a friend to the study of classical antiquities, and particularly to the field of numismatics. In 1744 he went to Paris with a letter of introduction to Claude Gros de Boze, Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and Keeper of the Royal Collection of Medals. He became assistant to de Boz... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Armando Guebuza
Armando Emílio Guebuza (born 20 January 1943 in Murrupula, Nampula Province) is a Mozambican politician and the President of Mozambique since 2005. Career Armando Emílio Guebuza was born in 20 January 1943 in Portuguese East Africa. Guebuza is a former member of FRELIMO's (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique - Mozambique Liberation Front) Politburo and served briefly as part of a 10-member collective head of state after the unexpected death of Samora Machel in 1986. Guebuza was born in northern Mozambique. He joined FRELIMO at the age of 20, shortly after it began Mozambique's war of independence against Portugal. By the time independence was achieved in 1975, Guebuza had become an important general and leader in FRELIMO. He became interior minister in the Samora Machel government ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Finlay Currie
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor on stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884 - 1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1932. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator. He also portrayed Robert Tayl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Slim Whitman
Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (born January 20, 1924), known professionally as Slim Whitman, is an American country music singer and songwriter. His 1955 hit single "Rose Marie" held the record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK charts until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1992 after 37 years. In the U.S., his "Indian Love Call" (1952), and "Secret Love" (1953) reached number 2 on the Billboard country chart. Whitman had a string of minor hits from the mid 1960s into the 1970s, and became known to a new generation of fans through TV marketing in the 1980s. Whitman lives today in Middleburg, Florida. Whitman was born in Tampa, Florida and sometimes shortened his name to O.D. Growing up, he liked the country music of Jimmie Rodgers on the radio but did not embark on a musical car... Biography of Nick Anderson
Nelison "Nick" Anderson (born January 20, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent thirteen years in the NBA beginning in 1989, most of them with the Orlando Magic. He ended his career in 2002. NBA career Orlando Magic Anderson left school and entered the NBA Draft in 1989, where he was selected with the eleventh pick of the first round by the Orlando Magic. As the Magic were an expansion team that season, Anderson was the first draft pick in franchise history Like most expansion franchises, the Magic struggled for several seasons, and as a result were awarded high draft picks in several consecutive years, including Dennis Scott in 1990, Shaquille O'Neal in 1992, and Chris Webber, who was traded for a package including Penny Hard... Biography of Colin Clive
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was a British stage and screen actor best remembered for his portrayal of Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Early life Clive was born in Saint-Malo, France, to a British colonel, and he attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. On stage, one of his roles was Steve Baker, the white husband of racially mixed Julie LaVerne, in the first London production of Show Boat. This production also featured Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Paul Robeson. Clive first worked with James Whale in the Savoy Theatre production of Journey's End and subsequently joined the British comm... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Brian Giles
Brian Stephen Giles (pronounced JYLES) (born January 20, 1971, in El Cajon, California) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During his career he played for the Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres. The left-handed Giles was a two-time All-Star and had a career line of .291/.400/.502 with 287 home runs, 411 doubles, 1,078 RBIs, and 1,183 walks in 1,847 games. His younger brother, Marcus Giles, is a former Major League infielder who most recently played in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Professional career Cleveland Indians Giles attended Granite Hills High School. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 17th round of the 1989 Major League Baseball Draft. By 1994, Giles had worked his way up to Triple-A, where he batted .313 for Char... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, (20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist. Early years He was born in Farsø, a village in North Jutland, Denmark, as the son of a veterinary surgeon and he grew up in a rural environment. While studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen he worked as a writer to fund his studies. After 3 years of studying he chose to change careers and devote himself fully to literature. Literary works The first phase of his work as an author was influenced by ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jérôme Thomas
Jérôme Thomas (born January 20, 1979 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a boxer from France, competing in the flyweight (– 51 kg) division. He was born with a genetic disease, Poland syndrome: his left hand is smaller than the right one, his left arm is shorter than the right one, and he has almost no left pectoral muscle. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia, and won a bronze (2000) and a silver medal (2004) against Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano. His biggest achievement as an amateur so far was winning the world title at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was runner-up in 2003 as he lost to local hero Somjit Jongjohor. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Chris Morris
Christopher Nate Morris (born January 20, 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American professional basketball player. In his 11 season (1988-1999) NBA career, the 6' 8" small forward played for the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, and Phoenix Suns. He is a graduate of Atlanta's Douglass High School where his jersey has been retired and played for the Auburn University Tigers. He retired with 8,184 total points. Although he never lived up to the expectations of being the 4th Overall Pick in 1988 NBA Draft, Morris was still a very solid player throughout his career. His efficient scoring, rebounding, attitude, & toughness made him the backbone for the Net teams of early 90's as he was often seen rallying the team or drawing on a hard foul on a opposing player. Morris is notorious for sh... Biography of Terry Meyers
Terry Meyres, born January 20, 1952 in Saskatoon, is a Canadian former beauty queen, winner of the Miss Canada contest, in 1975.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Lhermitte
Jacques Jean Lhermitte (January 20, 1877 - 1959) was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist. He was born in Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, son of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a French realist painter. Following his early education at Saint-Etienne, he studied in Paris and graduated in medicine in 1907. He specialised in neurology and became Chef-de-clinique (resident) for nervous diseases in 1908, Chef de laboratoire in 1910, and professeur agrégé for psychiatry 1922. He later became Médecin des Hôpitaux at the "Hospice Paul Brousse", head of the foundation "Dejerine", and clinical director at the Salpêtrière Hospital. During World War I he studied spinal injuries and became interested in neuropsychiatry. This led to publications on visual hallucinations of the self. A deeply religious man,... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Franck-Yves Escoffier
Franck-Yves Escoffier, born January 20, 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French skipper, navigator and mariner.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Ukrainian: Натан Щаранський, Russian: Натан Щаранский, born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Щаранський, Russian: Анатолий Борисович Щаранский) on 20 January 1948) is a former Israe... Biography of Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Pashto: غلام اسحاق خان, Urdu: غلام اسحاق خان; January 20, 1915 – October 27, 2006), abbreviated as GIK, was the 7th President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993 and a career statesman from the start to the end of cold war. A bureaucrat, Khan started his career under the Ayub Khan's military regime, and was the chairman of Water and Power Development Authority from 1961 till 1966; and Finance Secretary from 1966–1970. Under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's elected government, Khan served as Governor of State Bank of Pakistan from 1971–1975, and Defence Secretary from 1975 till 1977. Khan led Ministry of Finance, under th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed both American entry into World War I, and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. He was the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. Early life Lindbergh was born Carl Månsson, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Lovisa Carlén, the 19-year-old mistress of Ola Månsson, a member of the Riksdag and a bank manager. When accused of bribery and embezzlement, Ola Månsson changed his name to August Lindbergh, left his wife and seven children, and fled to the United States with his mistress and their illegitimate infant son, Carl, in 1859. Lovisa became Louisa and little Carl became Charles August Lindbergh. Lindbergh with his son Charles ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Ginsburg
David Ginsburg, born on January 20, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, is an American businessman. He was the CEO of Alliance Entertainment.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernard Lavalette
Bernard de Fleury, best known as Bernard Lavalette, born January 20, 1926 in Paris, is a French actor and comedian. Filmography Actor * 1957 : Sans famille d'André Michel – Rôle : le brigadier * 1958 : Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir d'Henri Diamant-Berger – Rôle : Van Der Hogen * 1961 : La Belle Américaine de Robert Dhéry – Rôle : le ministre du commerce * 1961 : Les Parisiennes, film à sketches, dans le sketch Antonia, de Michel Boisrond – Rôle : Richard * 1961 : L'assassin est dans l'annuaire de Léo Joannon – Rôle : Martel * 1962 : Un clair de lune à Maubeuge de Jean Chérasse * 1963 : Un drôle de paroissien (Deo gratias) de Jean-Pierre Mocky – Rôle : le préfet de police * 1964 : Comment épouser un premier ministre de Michel Boisrond - Rôle : le... Biography of Marco Simoncelli
Marco Simoncelli (Italian pronunciation: ; 20 January 1987 – 23 October 2011) was an Italian motorcycle racer. He competed in the Road Racing World Championship for 10 years from 2002 to 2011. He started in the 125cc class before moving up to the 250cc class in 2006. He won the 250cc World Championship with Gilera in 2008. After four years in the intermediate class, he stepped up to the MotoGP class with the Honda Gresini Team. Simoncelli died after an accident during the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang on 23 October 2011. Career Early career Simoncelli started racing in 1996 at an early age of nine in the Italian Minimoto Championship. He won the Italian Minimoto Championship in 1999 and 2000 while also became the runner-up in the 2000 European Minimoto Championship. The follo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claude Castaing
Claude Castaing, born Jean-Marie, Claude Castaing on January 20, 1922 in Gujan-Mestras (Gironde), died on November 26, 1962 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography 1948 : Suzanne et ses brigands de Yves Ciampi 1949 : Un certain monsieur de Yves Ciampi 1949 : Paris taxi / Hep! taxi de Edouard Logereau - court métrage - 1950 : La Belle Image de Claude Heymann 1951 : Casque d'or de Jacques Becker 1951 : Le Crime de Bouif de André Cerf 1951 : Trois Femmes de André Michel 1952 : Lettre ouverte de Alex Joffé 1952 : Le Huitième Art et la Manière de Maurice Regamey - court métrage - 1954 : Papa, maman, la bonne et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois 1955 : Papa, maman, ma femme et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois 1958 : La Tête con... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sri Sumangala
Sri Sumangala, born on January 20, 1827 in Hikkaduwa, Galle, Ceylon, died on April 29, 1911, was an Indonesian high priest. External link: http://www.floridabuddhistvihara.org/rcsite/page.jsp?articleid=2... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Idwig Stéphane
Idwig Stéphane, born on January 20, 1944 in Ixelles (source: ) is a Belgian comedian, actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. External link: http://www.idwigstephane.eu/... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lilian Jegou
Lilian Jégou (born January 20, 1976 in Nantes) is a French road racing cyclist. Jégou made his professional debut in 2002 when he signed for Crédit Agricole as stagiaire. A year later he would make his Tour de France debut, but withdrew after stage 8 which led to l'Alpe d'Huez. In 2005 he made his second giant tour appearance when he took part in the Giro d'Italia and finished in 98th position at the arrival in Milan. After several second and third places he won his first race in 2006. In Kango, Gabon he won the second stage of the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. A year later in 2007 he would win the fourth stage of this race in Mitzic. Later that year he would improve his Giro d'Italia record by finishing in 75th position this time. He also took part in the 2007 Tour de France. Having... Biography of Nicky Wire
Nicholas Allen Jones, known as Nicky Wire, is the lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. Born Nicholas Allen Jones on January 20, 1969 in Blackwood, Wales, Wire is the younger brother of poet and author Patrick Jones. He attended Oakdale Comprehensive School with James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Richey James Edwards. He excelled at football, was captain of the Welsh national schoolboys' team aged 14. Offered a trial at both Tottenham and Arsenal football clubs, back and knee problems brought his career to an end. Wire took A-levels in politics and law. He later attended Portsmouth Polytechnic University, and after one year transferred to the University of Wales Swansea, starting his course a year after Richey. He graduated with a Lowe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Leon Ames (actor)
Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland's father, and in Little Women (1949). Life and career Leon Ames was born Leon Waycoff on January 20, 1902 in Portland, Indiana, the son of Cora A. (née De Moss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He made his film debut in Quick Millions (1931). During the 1940s he was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He appeared in a featured role in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) as district attorney Kyle Sackett. Leon Ames also appeared in the Doris Day-Gordon MacRae film On Moonlight Bay (1951); its sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); and Peyton Place (1957). He played the rol... Biography of Léon Cuffaut
Léon Cuffaut, born January 20, 1911 in Charenton- le-Pont (Val- de- Marne), and died September 18, 2002, was a French aviator and resistant.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert-Marie de Monléon
Albert-Marie de Monléon, born on January 20, 1937 in Paris, is a French Catholic Bishop, the Bishop of Meaux.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ray Anthony
Ray Anthony (born Raymond Antonini, January 20, 1922, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. Biography As a child Anthony moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began studying the trumpet with his father. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940–1941 and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade in 1941 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he formed his own group. The Ray Anthony Orchestra became very popular in the early 1950s, with recordings that included Anthony's classic dance songs "The Bunny Hop" and the "Hokey Pokey," as well as the theme music from Dragnet. He had a #2 chart hit with a remake of the Glenn Miller tune, "At Last" in 1952. From 1953-1954 Anthony was the musi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Didier Cauville
Didier Cauville, born January 20, 1947 in Saint-Cloud, is a French architect and high civil servant.... Biography of Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis (born Ruth Dennis on January 20, 1878 (birth time source: Jim Eshelman, Astrodatabank) – July 21, 1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dance and the teacher of several notable performers. Biography Denis' dance career began with acrobatics, high kicking, ballet and acting. Later she moved to modern dance. After seeing an image of an Egyptian goddess with a cigarette, she became interested in Oriental forms and took to producing similar pieces, lacking in authenticity but extremely entertaining for the audience. Her early works are indicative of her interests in exotic mysticism and spirituality. She believed dance to be a spiritual expression. Her Radha was originally performed in... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford
Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford DL (20 January 1931 – 9 June 2007) was a Labour politician in Scotland. He served as a Member of Parliament for 21 years, from a by-election in 1971 until the 1992 general election, when he became a life peer. He served as a junior minister in the Scottish Office from 1974 to 1979, responsible for devolution, and later chaired the joint Labour/Liberal Democrat Scottish Constitutional Convention from 1989 to 1996. Ewing was born in Falkirk East, where his father, William Ewing, was a miner and Labour party activist. He was educated at Foulford primary school and Beath High School, and did National Service in the Royal Air Force from 1949 to 1951. He worked as a fitter in a foundry, where he was active in the Amalgamated Union of Foundryworkers, and th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Loïc Bouvard
Loïc Bouvard (born January 20, 1929 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Morbihan department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roger Barberot
Roger Barberot, born on January 20, 1925 in Cherbourg, died on November 14, 2002 in Clichy, was a French military, politician, and ambassador.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe Charigot
Philippe Charigot, born January 20, 1955 in Paris, is a French film director, screenwriter and playwright. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0152901/ ) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: 1. La dernière image (1986) (first assistant director) ... aka "Al-coura al-akhira" - Algeria (Arabic title) ... aka "Last Image" - 2. Le jumeau (1984) (second assistant director) ... aka "The Twin" - ... aka "Der Zwilling" - Germany (TV title), West Germany ... aka "O didymos" - Greece 3. L'honneur d'un capitaine (1982) (assistant director) ... aka "A Captain's Honor" - USA ... aka "Die Ehre eines Kapitäns" - West Germany 4. Le cheval d'orgueil (1980) (assistant director) ... aka "The Horse of Pride" - ... Biography of Maeva Meline
Maeva Meline, born January 20, 1980 in Paris, is a French singer and musician (pianist and guitarist). She plays Nannerl Mozart (the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart), in Mozart Rock Opera, a French musical show directed by Olivier Dahan and produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Marc Nudant
Jean-Marc Nudant, born on January 20, 1942 in Besançon (Doubs), is a French politician, a member of UMP and of Parliament. Awards (fr): Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur du 12 avril 2009 Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite Titulaire de la médaille d’argent de l'enseignement technologique... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ludwig Scotty
Ludwig Derangadage Scotty (born 20 June 1948, in Anabar) is a two-time former President of the Republic of Nauru. He served as President from 29 May 2003 to 8 August 2003, then from 22 June 2004 to his ousting in a vote of no confidence on 19 December 2007. Background and earlier career Scotty grew up in Anabar in the north of Nauru; he attended secondary school from 1960 until 1964 and studied law at the University of the South Pacific in the Fijian capital city Suva. On 15 March 1983 he was first elected to the Parliament for his district Anbar; in his longtime tenure as parliament member Scotty was the chairman of the Bank of Nauru, the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation and in the board of directors of Air Nauru. Ludwig served as Speaker of Parliament from the late 1990s until 200... Biography of Tjasa Kokalj
Tjasa Kokalj, born January 20, 1986 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian model. She was Miss Slovenia 2006.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Laura Mayne
Laura Mayne, born January 20, 1968 in Villemomble, is a French singer and composer, the sister of Chris Mayne, and a member of duo Native. Native is a French R&B band. In 1994, they won a Victoires de la musique award for most promising group of the year. They featured on a the track, Who The F*** Is This on the album Bubba Sparxxx & The Muddkatz - New South: The Album B4 The Album Mixtape (2003)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of R. A. Salvatore
Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959, Leominster, Massachusetts), who writes under the name R. A. Salvatore, is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga, his Forgotten Realms novels, in which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden, and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more than 10 million copies of his books and eighteen of them have been New York Times best-sellers. History Robert Salvatore was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, the youngest of a family of seven. A graduate of Leominster High School, Salvatore has credited his high school English teacher with being instrumental in his development as a writer. During his time at Fitchburg State College, he became interested in fantasy after reading ... Biography of Samantha Potter
Samantha Tamara Potter (born on January 20, 1990) is an American fashion model, most notable as the runner-up of the eleventh cycle of America's Next Top Model. Early years Potter resides in Woodland Hills, California. During her high school years, Potter played volleyball and soccer and ran cross country and track. America's Next Top Model In the fifth episode, Potter landed in the bottom two and was almost eliminated after offending Jeremy Scott, a designer, for lifting her skirt during his runway show. The following week, Potter received a first callout for her natural disasters shot, and received another first callout for her simplistic and dramatic shots in the eleventh episode. In the previous week, Potter won two reward challenges consecutively in the same episode. Through... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Heather Small
Heather Small (born 20 January 1965) is a British soul singer, best known for being the lead singer in the Manchester based band M People. Her solo debut album is Proud. She was also a contestant in Strictly Come Dancing 2008. Beginning Small was born and raised in West London and joined her first group, , while she was still a teenager. She is ] the studio singer voice of the re-recorded version of UK number 1 single "Ride On Time" from Italo House Band Black Box. After a chance meeting with Manchester DJ, Mike Pickering, formerly of Quando Quango, her distinctive voice helped to sell over 10 million albums worldwide singing with his group M People. They had considerable success with songs such as "Moving on Up" and "Search for the Hero". Small has said that her major influence has ... Biography of Brendan Fevola
Brendan Fevola (born 20 January 1981) is a professional Australian rules footballer. He last played with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Fevola is currently regarded as one of the most effective full-forwards in the AFL, having won the Coleman Medal for league leading goalkicker in 2006 and 2009 (kicking 84 and 86 goals respectively) as well as All-Australian selection as a forward three times since 2006. His representative honours include playing for Victoria where he was awarded the Allen Aylett Medal for being the state team's best player and leading goalkicker. During his career at Carlton, he was the club's leading goalkicker and key forward from 2003 until 2009. Early life Brendan Fevola was born to parents Angelo Fevola (an Italian Australian who repre... Biography of Bailey Howell
Bailey E. Howell (born January 20, 1937 in Middleton, Tennessee) is a former professional basketball player now enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. A 6'7" forward from Mississippi State University, he played 12 seasons (1959–1971) in the NBA as a member of the Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics, and Philadelphia 76ers. A six-time All-Star with 17,770 career points, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997. He won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics. The best years of his career were during his time with the Bullets and the Celtics. Despite playing at the college level for only three years, Howell set and still holds Mississippi State records for single-game points scored, career scoring average, single-season and career free... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of J. C. Tran
J. C. Tran (born Justin Cuong Van Tran January 20, 1977 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player, based in Sacramento, California. Tran is a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event champion, has made five World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables, winner of a WPT title, won at the World Poker Challenge and is the WPT Player of the Year of their fifth season. Early life Tran was born in Vietnam, and is the youngest of eight children of Vietnamese parents. When he was two years old, his family moved to the United States where later he would receive a degree in Business Management Information Systems from California State University at Sacramento. Tran built his bankroll playing the $9/$18 g... Biography of Evan Peters
Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his work in the FX television series American Horror Story. He is also known for playing Max Cooperman in "Never Back Down", Jesse Varon in the ABC television series Invasion and also as Cooper Day in The Days, also on ABC. Personal life Peters is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Julie and Phil Peters (vice president of administration for the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation). He attended St Joseph Catholic School in Manchester, Missouri and Grand Blanc High School. He is currently dating actress Emma Roberts. Career Peters' break-out role was in the 2004 film Clipping Adam as Adam Sheppard. He played Russell AKA SpongeBob, a goofy skateboarder, in the 2004 movie Sleepover along with Hunte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Abdellah Dahdouh
Abdellah Dahdouh, born on January 20, 1965 in russels (birth time source: birth certificate, André Dekoster), killed on March 13, 2012 (act of terrorism with a Molotov cocktail), was a Belgian imam. External link: http://www.lhrtimes.com/2012/03/20/2000-muslims-silent-march-against-violence-and-division/... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya (born on January 20, 1959 in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, India) is an Indian artist. Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He furthered his academic training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1991 to 1992 subsequent to a scholarship awarded by the French Government. Atul has had several solo shows in India and exhibited at 'Reflections and Images' Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Mumbai, 1993 and 'Trends and Images' CIMA, Calcutta, 1993. Outside India, he has exhibited at Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam in 1993, participated in 'The Richness of the Spirit' Kuwait and Rome in 1986-89, 'India - Contemporary Art' World Trade Center, Amsterdam 1... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carol Heiss
Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins (born January 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American figure skater. She is the 1960 Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, 1956 Olympic silver medalist and five-time World Champion (1956–1960). Biography Heiss grew up in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where she started skating at the age of 6. She was coached by Pierre Brunet. Heiss first came to national prominence in 1951, when she was U.S. Novice Ladies' Champion at age 11. She won the U.S. Junior Ladies title in 1952, and then moved up to the senior level in 1953. From 1953 to 1956, she finished second to Tenley Albright at the national championships. Heiss's 1956 performance qualified her for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She won the silver medal, while A... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney "J-Rich" Richardson (born January 20, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. A 6'6", 225 lb. shooting guard/small forward, Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft from Michigan State, earning the NBA Rookie Challenge MVP and All-Rookie Team First Team honors his debut season in the league. He is regarded as one of the NBA's most demonstrative dunkers, winning the NBA Slam Dunk crown in 2002 and 2003, joining Michael Jordan and Nate Robinson as the competition's only back-to-back champions. Professional career Golden State Warriors The Warriors drafted Jason Richardson out of Michigan State University with the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Martha Norelius
Martha Norelius (January 20, 1908 – September 23, 1955) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and 1928 Summer Olympics. In the 1924 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 400 m freestyle event. Four years later in Amsterdam, she won gold medals in the 400 m freestyle event and 4x100 m freestyle relay event. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in St. Louis, Missouri, She was married to Canadian rower Joseph Wright, Jr.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gordian III
Gordian III (Latin: Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Augustus; 20 January 225 – 11 February 244), was Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and an unnamed Roman Senator who died before 238. Antonia Gordiana was the daughter of emperor Gordian I and younger sister of emperor Gordian II. Very little is known on his early life before his acclamation. Gordian had assumed the name of his maternal grandfather in 238. Rise to power Following the murder of emperor Alexander Severus in Moguntiacum (modern Mainz), the capital of the Roman province Germania Inferior, Maximinus Thrax was acclaimed emperor, despite strong opposition of the Roman senate and the majority of the population. In response to what was considered in Rome as a rebellion, Gordian's grandfathe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Eckstein
David Mark Eckstein (pronounced /ˈɛkʃtaɪn/; born January 20, 1975) is a former American professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and has played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres. Eckstein was recognized as the most valuable player of the 2006 World Series. Amateur career High school Eckstein played baseball all four years at Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida. He was a two-time all-state selection, and a prominent member of a state championship team. He was also a member of the National Honor Society and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Eckstein was voted ... Biography of Nikki Haley
Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley (born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Haley represented Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010. In the 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Haley was endorsed for the Republican nomination by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party movement. On June 8, 2010, she finished first in the four-way Republican primary election with 49% of the vote, but fell short of the 50% required to avoid a runoff election. Haley won the runoff on June 22 with 65%, and proceeded to win the general election by a 51–47% margin. Haley is the first woman to serve as Governor o... Biography of Joey Badass
Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott (born January 20, 1995), better known by his stage name Joey Badass (stylised as Joey Bada$$), is an independent American rapper, producer and artist from Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the hip hop collective Pro.Era, with whom he has released two mixtapes. Joey released his debut mixtape 1999 in June 2012 to critical acclaim, followed by Rejex in September. Early life Jo-Vaughn Scott was born in 1995 and is the first of his immediate Jamaican family to be born in the United States while raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, and attended the Edward R. Murrow High School. He has three brothers and one sister. He originally enrolled at Edward R. Murrow to study acting, but transitioned towards music around the time of 9th grade, with a foc... Biography of David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the first American performance of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950, and a European tour in 1954 greatly enhanced his reputation. Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated his Klavierstück VI (1955) to Tudor. Tudor also gave early performances of works by Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and La Monte Young. The composer with whom Tudor is particularly associated is John Cage. He gave the premiere of Cage's Music of Changes, Concerto For Piano and Orchestra an... Biography of Colin Calderwood
Colin Calderwood (born 20 January 1965 in Stranraer) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the assistant manager of Norwich City. Calderwood made over 150 league appearances for Swindon Town and Tottenham Hotspur. He was a regular player for the Scotland national football team during the late 1990s, appearing in two major tournaments. Calderwood retired as a player in 2001. Calderwood became manager of Northampton Town in 2003, guiding the club to promotion in 2006. He then became manager of Nottingham Forest, helping the club win promotion in 2008. Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008 and then moved to Newcastle United, working as first team coach. After a year with Newcastle, Calderwood became a manager again by moving to Hibernian, but he was sacked... Biography of Questlove
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born on January 20, 1971), known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion, Questo, Brother Question or Qlove), is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer. He is best known as the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, which is now the in-house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has produced for artists such as Common, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse and John Legend. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, The Soultronics and The Grand Wizzards. Early life Thompson was born in Philadelphia on January 20, 1971. His father was Lee A... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tracii Guns
Tracii Guns (born Tracy Richard Irving Ulrich on January 20, 1966) is an American guitarist best known as the founder of glam metal group L.A. Guns as well as the supergroups Brides of Destruction and Contraband. He was also very briefly involved in the formation of the first lineup of Guns N' Roses but eventually left the group and was replaced by guitarist Slash. Personal Tracii was born to Jewish parents but not raised. They were a secular family and very liberal, thus allowing Tracii to follow his dream. Biography L.A. Guns (1983–1984, 1985–2002, 2005–2012) Main article: L.A. Guns L.A. Guns was formed by Tracii in 1983 initially with singer Axl Rose, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner. Rose then left to form the band Hollywood Rose with childhood friend Izzy Stradli... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Hippolyte Bayard
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839. He claimed to have invented photography earlier than Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox Talbot in England, the men traditionally credited with its invention. Early life and career While working as a civil servant, Bayard experimented with photography. He developed his own method of producing photos called the Direct positive process. It involved exposing silver chloride paper to light, which turned the paper completely black. It was then soaked in potassium iodide befor... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of André Vigarié
André Vigarié, born on January 20, 1921 in Le Havre (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on December 21, 2006, is a French geographer. Publications 1964 : Les Grands Ports de commerce de la Seine au Rhin, S.A.B.R.I. 1979 : Ports de commerce et vie littorale, Paris, Hachette. 1983 : Le Navire, le port et la ville, Transports et mutations actuelles, SEDES. 1985 : Les Ports français, 25e Congrès International de Géographie, Résumé des communications, Tome 1, no 35, thème 12, Journal de la marine marchande et du transport multimodal. 1986 : Ports et mers. Mélanges maritimes offerts à A. Vigarié., Éditions Paradigme. 1990 Économie maritime et géostratégie des océans, Paradigme, Collection : Transports et communication, no 28. Les Fronts po... |
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