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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, 3, 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 · 42,008 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 42,008 Celebrities
111 celebrities or events were found for January, 3. Biography of Mel Gibson
Melvin Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. Gibson's direction of Braveheart made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a blockbuster movie that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus. Gibson is an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Early life Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children. He is the son of Hutton Gibson and Anne Reilly Gibson, who was born in Columcille Parish, County Longford, Ire... Biography of Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher, born January 3, 1969, in Hürth Hermülheim, Germany) is a former Formula One driver, and seven-time world champion. According to the official Formula One website, he is "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen". He is the first German to win the Formula One World championship and is credited with popularising Formula One in Germany. In a 2006 FIA survey, Michael Schumacher was voted the most popular driver among Formula One fans. After winning two championships with Benetton, Schumacher moved to the Ferrari in 1996 and won five consecutive drivers' titles with them. Schumacher currently holds nearly every record in Formula One, including most drivers' championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a s... Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis; they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. In addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion and other posthumously published books edited by his son Christopher Tolkien, which taken together is a connected body of tales, fictional ... Biography of John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who achieved his first starring role in the military police television drama Redcap (1964 – 1966), and subsequently appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles. Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Longsight, Manchester to parents John and Dorothy. He grew up in the Burnage area of the city. He entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17, where he was a contemporary of Tom Courtenay. Soon after made his stage début in A Shred of Evidence at the Liverpool Playhouse. Career On leaving RADA, Thaw was awarded a contract with the Liverpool Playhouse. His first film role was a bit part in the 1962 adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner star... Biography of Luc Ferry
Luc Ferry (born January 3, 1951 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine (birth time source: birth certificate) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. He received an Agrégation de philosophie (1975), a Doctorat d’Etat en science politique (1981), and an Agrégation de science politique (1982). As a Professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (1982–1988) — during which time he also taught and directed graduate research at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University —, at Caen University (1989–96), and at Paris Diderot University (since 1996). From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the cabinet led by the conservative ... Biography of Pierre Jovanovic
Pierre Jovanovic is a French journalist and writer, born January 3, 1960 in Belgrade. Works Enquête sur l'Existence des Anges gardiens, nouvelle édition Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2005 Le Prêtre du Temps, Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2002 Biographie de l'Archange Gabriel, Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2003 Enoch, Dialogues avec Dieu et les anges, Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2004 L'Explorateur de l'Au-Delà, Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2005 Le Livre des Secrets d'Enoch, Ed. Le Jardin des Livres, 2006... Biography of Victoria Principal
Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress, best known for her role as Larry Hagman's sister-in-law and Patrick Duffy's wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing, "Pam", on the long-running CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. She is well-known for her line of cosmetic products. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Born in 1950, she was the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Bertha Ree Veal. On Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait, she revealed that she is of English, Italian, and Filipino descent. Her father was a sergeant in the Air Force, and like most military brats, Principal moved often, growing up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia, among other places, and attending 17 different schools. She studied at the Royal A... Biography of Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (Classical Latin pronounced , usually pronounced /ˈsɪsəroʊ/ in English; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero is generally seen as one of the most versatile minds of Roman culture and his writing the paragon of Classical Latin. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero likely thought his political career his most important achievement. However, today he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of ... Biography of Satya Oblet
Satya Oblet, born January 3, 1976 in Pondichery in India, is a French top model.... Biography of Alisha Klass
Alisha Klass (born January 3, 1972 in Chino, California) is an American pornographic actress. Measurements: 34C-24-34 Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) When Klass was 2, her mother was killed by her father, who in turn killed himself. Her grandmother subsequently raised Klass. After graduating from high school, she went to Las Vegas to become a stripper and "sex worker." After ending her job as a sex worker, she graduated with a degree in fashion from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California. Klass was first introduced to pornography by Ron Jeremy while working at a club; Jeremy was later instrumental in introducing her to producer Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. By 1997 she began starring in pornographic movies where she quickly became known for her penchan... Biography of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays, who lived and died in Paris. He became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, and was a well-known collaborationist during the Vichy period. Early life Drieu was born in a middle class, petit bourgeois family from Normandy, based in the XVIIIth arrondissement of Paris. His father was a failed businessman and womanizer who married his mother for her dowry. Although a brilliant student, Pierre failed his final exam at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. Injured three times, his experience as a soldier during World War I marked him for the rest of his life. In 1917, Drieu married Colette Jéramec, the sister of a Jewish friend. The marriage ended ... Biography of Michel Siffre
Michel Siffre, born January 3, 1939 in Nice, is a French specialist of speleology and chronobiology.... Biography of John Paul Jones (musician)
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin on January 3, 1946 in Sidcup, Kent) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, and was known for being the bassist, the keyboardist and the mandolinist for rock band Led Zeppelin. In recent years he has developed a successful solo career, and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer. A versatile musician, Jones also plays guitar, koto, lap steel guitars, autoharp, ukulele, sitar, cello, and the three over-dubbed recorders heard on "Stairway to Heaven". Early years Jones was born in Sidcup, Kent, now part of Greater London. The name John Paul Jones was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, after seeing a movie poster for the film of that name in France. Jones started playing piano at the age of six, learning his keyboard ... Biography of Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French electronic musician and founding member (along with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) of the French house music duo Daft Punk. He has also produced music for the band Stardust, as a member of the band Together, and for the film Irréversible. His music is sometimes known as French house. Thomas Bangalter owns a music label called Roulé. Outside of music production, his credits include film director and cinematographer. Bangalter is the father of a son, Tara-Jay and resides in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife, French actress Élodie Bouchez. Thomas Bangalter began playing the piano at the age of five. Bangalter stated in a video interview that his parents were strict in keeping up his practice, for which he later thanked them. His fa... Biography of Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young). In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stills the #28 in its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Early years Stephen Stills was born in Dallas, Texas on January 3, 1945 to a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his youth in Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated from high school. Stills dropped out of the University of Florida to pursue a music career in the early 1960s. He played in a series of unsuccessful bands including the Continental... Biography of Telma Lip
Telma Lip, born January 3, 1962 in Sao Paulo, is Brazilian transvestite model and actor (or actress).... Biography of Marc Porel
Michel Marrier de Lagatinerie, best known as Marc Porel, born January 3, 1949 in Lausanne, died Augist 15, 1963 in Casablanca, was a French actor. He is the son of actress Jacqueline Porel and actor Gérard Landry. Filmography 1967 : Un homme de trop, de Costa-Gavras 1968 : Des garçons et des filles, d'Étienne Périer 1969 : Une fille nommée Amour, de Sergio Gobbi 1969 : L'Échelle blanche, de Robert Freeman 1969 : Le Clan des Siciliens, de Henri Verneuil 1970 : Tumuc Humac, de Jean-Marie Périer 1970 : La Horse, de Pierre Granier-Deferre 1970 : Le Dernier saut, d'Édouard Luntz 1971 : Sur la route de Salina (Road to Salina), de Georges Lautner 1971 : Les Aveux les plus doux, d'Édouard Molinaro 1971 : Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, de Jacques Deray 1972 : L... Biography of Pola Negri
Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec) (3 January 1897 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910's and 1930's. Personal life Born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec on New Year's Eve, circa 1894 in Lipno, Poland. An only child born into a poor family, her mother had to make a living alone after Chałupiec's father was arrested by the Russians and sent to Siberia. In 1902 both moved to Warsaw, where they lived in extreme poverty. She trained as a dancer at the Ballet School in Warsaw and performed there until tuberculosis forced her to stop dancing. She turned to acting, and by the end of World War I had established herself as a popular stage actress in Warsaw, the capital, appearing in several films... Biography of Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975), is an US American actress and mathematician. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years. As a result of this unusual combination of interests, McKellar has a Erdős–Bacon number of 6. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. McKellar and sister Crystal McKellar have maintained a friendly competition to see who gets more acting jobs. Indeed, when the actress who would play Winnie had to be chosen, the last two actresses under consideration for the role were the McKellar sisters. The Wonder Years McKellar had a leading role in The Wonder Years, an Emmy Award winning American television dramedy creat... Biography of Deanna Yusoff
Beautiful and multi-talented actress and model who has starred in the sensational 20th Century Fox feature film Anna & the King.... Biography of Alisen Down
Alisen Elizabeth Jean Down (born January 3, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actress. She was born in Langley, British Columbia. Down showed an interest for acting early, and during her younger years she used to write and produce her own plays. After she graduated from H. D. Stafford Secondary School, Down studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, and then the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford. Down's most famous appearance is most likely in the TV series Mysterious Ways, where she played the role of Miranda, a physics graduate student who, together with Professor Declan Dunn (often the enthusiast behind the investigations) and psychiatrist Dr. Peggy Fowler (the other skeptic besides Miranda), tries to solve a range of mysterious or paranormal even... Biography of Père Joseph Damien
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. Damien is most noted for his extreme devotion to caring and ministering to people with what was then widely known as leprosy, forced by government-sanctioned medical segregation, living on the island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii. In the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions, as well as other denominations of Christianity, Damien is considered the spiritual patron for Hansen's Disease, HIV and AIDS patients as well as outcasts. As the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu and of Hawaii, Father Damien Day is celebrate... Biography of Sheila Majid
Shaheila binti Abdul Majid or commonly known as Sheila Majid (born January 3, 1965 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a popular singer from Malaysia. She is the youngest of a family of 8 children. Her height measured at 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m). She attended schools at Convent Goodshepherd Kindergarten, Methodist Girls Primary School and Methodist Girls Secondary School, all in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was married to Roslan Aziz, the producer of her previous albums, but has since divorced him. Sheila is now married to Hasridz Murshim Hashim Abdullah, better known as Acis, who was a keyboardist with one of the popular rock band in the 80s, Gersang. They were married June 3, 2003. Sheila has two children from her earlier marriage to Roslan, Wan Nur Khaleda, 16 and Megat Abdul Majid, 12 and two f... Biography of Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. Leone is well-known for his spaghetti western films and his recognizable style of juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. With his innovative filming techniques and revolutionary directing style, Leone is recognized as one of the greatest directors of all time. His most well-known movies include The Man With No Name trilogy (which consists of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon A Time in America. Born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer, Vincenzo Leone (known as director Roberto Roberti), and the actress, Edvige Valcarenghi (Bice Waleran). He started working in the film industry at the a... Biography of Smaïn (humorist)
Smaïn Fairouze, best knnown as Smaïn, bornJanuary 3, 1958 in Constantine, is a French humorist and actor. Filmography Actor 1982 : Te marre pas ... c'est pour rire ! de Jacques Besnard : Un ouvrier 1982 : Le Grand Frère de Francis Girod 1984 : La Smala de Jean-Loup Hubert 1985 : Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois !! de Jean-Pierre Vergne 1985 : L'oeil au beur(re) noir 1990 : On peut toujours rêver de et avec Pierre Richard 1992 : À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop de Fabien Onteniente : Fairouze 1995 : Trois vies et une seule mort de Raoul Ruiz : Luca 1996 : Les Deux Papas et la Maman 1998 : Charité biz'ness 1998 : Bingo! 1999 : Recto Verso de Jean-Marc Longval (avec Michel Muller) 1999 : Le Schpountz de Gérard Oury 2000 : Old School de Karim Abbou... Biography of Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson (born January 3, 1942 in Monaco) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roma. Danièle Thompson has written the screenplay for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot and Jet Lag which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.... Biography of Dabney Coleman
Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache. Early life Coleman was born in Austin, Texas to Mary Wharton Johns and Melvin Randolph Coleman. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1949, then studied law at the University of Texas before turning to acting. Career Though a capable character actor with a wide range, and more than 60 movies to his credit, Coleman is usually typecast as a smarmy, selfish, nervous, patronizing, self-absorbed bigot, usually an authority figure of some sort, most famously as a powerful, chauvinistic boss. His fate in these types of roles was cemented with his performances in roles such as Franklin Hart, Jr. in 1980s Nine to Five (this role reunite... Biography of George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926) is a British record producer, arranger and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"—a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks—and is considered one of the greatest record producers of all time. In 1969 he established the Associated Independent Recording (AIR) Studios. Although officially retired, he is still the chairman of the AIR board. In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996. He is the father of producer Giles Martin, and actor Gregory Paul Martin. Early years When he was six, Martin's family acquired a piano that sparked his intere... Biography of Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952) is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and current leader of National Alliance, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Silvio Berlusconi, from 2001 to 2006. Early years Fini was born in Bologna, and attended Istituto Laura Bassi in the same city as a child. Fini recounts first gaining an interest in politics at sixteen when he saw the John Wayne film The Green Berets. Fini went on to study at La Sapienza, where he received a degree in psychology. Political life Fini was first elected as a representative to the Chamber of Deputies on June 26, 1983 as a member of the rightist Italian Social Movement. He would later serve as the party's national secretary from December ... Biography of Pierre-Yves Guezou
Capitaine Pierre-Yves Guezou, born January 3, 1943 in Pleumeur-Bodou, died December 12, 1994 (suicide), was a French military civil servant.... Biography of Percy Seymour
Percy Seymour, born January 3, 1938, is a British astrophysicist, astrologer, author and astronomer born in South Africa.... Biography of Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He served as Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill at the 1945 general election. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament. The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations... Biography of André Franquin
André Franquin (January 3, 1924 – January 5, 1997) was an influential Belgian cartoonist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age. Franquin's beginnings Franquin was born in Etterbeek in 1924. Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at École Saint-Luc in 1943. A year later however, the school was forced to close down because of the war and Franquin was then hired by CBA, a short-lived animation studio in Brussels. It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere (Morris, creator of Lucky Luke), Pierre Culliford (Peyo, creator of the Smurfs), and Eddy Paape.... Biography of Marion Davies
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Even during her career, her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career. In her posthumously published memoirs, Davies claimed she wasn't an actress, knew nothing about politics, and described herself as a "silly, giggly idiot," but this is in keeping with her modest, self-deprecating personality. Biography Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras on January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras (1857-1935), a lawyer and judge in New York City; and Rose Reilly (1867-?). Her father performed the civil marriage of Gloria Gould Bishop. Her elder ... Biography of Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong (or Wong Liu Tsong, traditional Chinese: 黃柳霜; pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng, January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color; Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and Piccadilly (1929). Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, she ... Biography of Victor Borge
Victor Borge (January 3, 1909 – December 23, 2000) was a Danish-American humorist, entertainer and pianist, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane. Early life and career Born Børge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark, into a Jewish family. His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke Rosenbaum, were both musicians (his father was a violinist in the Royal Danish Chapel, and his mother played piano), Borge took up piano like his mother at the age of 3, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy. He gave his first piano recital when he was 8 years old, and in 1918 was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying under Olivo Krause. Later on, he was taught by Victor Schiøler, Liszt's student Frederic Lamond, and Busoni's pupil Egon Petr... Biography of Lita Albuquerque
Lita Albuquerque, born January 3, 1946 in Santa Monica, California, is an American internationally recognized artist, painter and sculptor.... Biography of Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq (born Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques 1969) is a French Basque writer. Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969. She was raised in a small village in the Basque Country. While finishing her PhD in French literature, she wrote her first novel, Truismes (Pig Tales) in September 1996 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (POL) who published all her other novels since, was the first to publish Truismes. After the success of Truismes, Darrieussecq decided to quit her teaching position at the University of Lille to concentrate on writing her novels. Marie Darrieussecq has been married twice. Her first husband was a mathematician and her second husband is an astrophysician. She gave birth to a son in 2001 and to a daughter in 2004. She endorsed Ségolène Royal's candidacy ... Biography of Robert Netter
Robert Netter, born January 3, 1927, is a French biologist and scientist. He has worked for Laboratoire National de la Santé.... Biography of Lynn Hill
Lynn Hill (born January 3, 1961) is a United States climber, known as a top sport climber of the 1980s and famous for making the first free ascent of the Nose Route on Yosemite's El Capitan. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she grew up in southern California. Hill started climbing as a 14 year old on a climbing trip with her sister and her sister's fiancé. During the early 1980s she became part of the climbing community centered around Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley. She participated in various television productions, such as being a candidate in the TV show Survival of the Fittest. In 1979, Lynn Hill completed one of many impressive landmarks in her career by becoming the first woman to establish a 5.12+/5.13, Ophir Broke in Ophir, Colorado. In 1984 at the Gunks she performed one of he... Biography of Siegmund Nissel
Siegmund Nissel (3 January 1922 – 21 May 2008) was an Austrian-born British violinist who played second violin in the celebrated Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. Siegmund (Sigi) Nissel was born in Munich to a Jewish family from Vienna. He began playing the violin at the age of 6. His mother died when he was 9. He was taken by his father to Vienna, where his teachers included Max Weissgärber. Nissel was evacuated from Vienna in 1938 to Great Britain. During World War II Nissel was interned as a "friendly enemy alien" on the Isle of Man where he met the violist Peter Schidlof and later the violinist Norbert Brainin. With the British cellist, Martin Lovett, they would form the Amadeus Quartet. The Amadeus Quartet, informally known as the Wolf Gang, gave its first conc... Biography of Liya Kebede
Liya Kebede (born January 3, 1978) is an Ethiopian model who has appeared on the cover of US Vogue twice. According to Forbes, Kebede was eleventh-highest-paid top model in the world. Kebede was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A film director spotted Kebede while she was attending Lycee Guebre Mariam and introduced her to a French modeling agent. After completing her studies, she moved to France to pursue work through a Parisian agency. Kebede later relocated to New York City. She has remarked that the modeling industry in Ethiopia is quite different from the catwalks on which she is now ubiquitous. In contrast, in Ethiopia she had to provide her own shoes for each runway show. Modeling career Feb08 Carolina Herrera fashion show Kebede's big break came when Tom Ford as... Biography of Delphine Wespiser
Delphine Wespiser (born on January 3, 1992 in Mulhouse) is a French beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2012 She will represent France at Miss Universe 2012 and Miss World 2012. Delphine Wespiser known as the new Miss Alsace version Endemol. she also works as an ambassador of Apamad and follows a tri-national university. Miss France Delphine Wespiser, Miss Alsace 2011 has been crowned Miss France 2012 by Laury Thilleman (Miss France 2011) on Saturday night 3 December 2011 at the Brest. Miss Universe Delphine Wespiser will represent France in Miss Universe 2012. She has become the 65th beauty queen of the Miss France beauty pageant. Miss World Delphine Wespiser will represent France in Miss World 2012.... Biography of Raymond McGinley
Raymond McGinley (born 3 January 1964, in Glasgow, Scotland) is one of the three singer-songwriters in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub. McGinley also plays lead guitar in the band, and is responsible for a number of their songs.... Biography of Jean-Marie Le Guen
Jean-Marie Le Guen (born January 3, 1953 in Paris) is a doctor, public health expert, and member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the city of Paris, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. On June 17th, 2007, he was reelected as deputy for the XIIIth legislature (2007-2012), in the 9th district of Paris (part of the 13th arrondissement (which includes the neighborhoods of Gare, Salpêtrière, and the part of Maison- Blanche situated to the east of a line defined by the streets avenue d'Italie et avenue de la Porte-d'Italie)) with 22108 votes (62.57%). He is responsible for matters of health in the National Assembly for the socialist party. President of the study group on obesity in the National Assembly, he is the author, in collaboration ... Biography of Bobby Hull
Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull OC (born January 3, 1939) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. He is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game. Hull was famous for his blonde hair and blinding speed, earning him the nickname "the Golden Jet". He possessed the most feared slapshot of his day. In his 23 years in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association, he played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Winnipeg Jets and Hartford Whalers. Early life Hull was born in Pointe Anne, (now part of Belleville), Ontario, Canada. He played his minor hockey in Belleville, and then junior hockey for the Galt Black Hawks and the St. Catharines Teepees in the Ontario Hockey Association, before joining the Chicago Black ... Biography of Maxene Andrews
The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters LaVerne Sophia Andrews (contralto; July 6, 1911–May 8, 1967), Maxene Angelyn Andrews (soprano; January 3, 1916–October 21, 1995), and Patricia Marie (a.k.a. Patty) Andrews (mezzo-soprano; lead; born February 16, 1918). All were born in Minnesota to a Greek immigrant father and a Norwegian American mother. Early history Patty, the youngest and the lead singer of the group, was only seven when the group was formed, and just twelve years old when they won first prize at a talent contest at the local Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, where LaVerne played piano accompaniment for the silent film showings in exchange for free dancing lessons for herself and her sisters. Once the sisters found fame and settle... Biography of Jason Marsden
Jason Christopher Marsden (born January 3, 1975) is an American screen and voice actor largely known for numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series. He also has a short stature (as he is five feet, one inche tall (source: Imdb)). Early life Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Marsden is the youngest of four children (he has two older stepbrothers, Rick and Mark, and one older stepsister, Ana Marsden Fox). His mother Linda Marsden, is a former fashion model, and his father, Myles Marsden, is a former Premier dancer of the Yugoslav National Ballet and co-founder of the first regional ballet company in New England called State Ballet of Rhode Island. Jason and his parents moved from Rhode Island to Fullerton, California in August 1985 when he was 10, whe... Biography of Francis Wurtz
Francis Wurtz (born January 3, 1948 in Strasbourg) is a French Member of the European Parliament. Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party (PCF) ticket, he sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group, and is its current President. He was nominated by EUL/NGL as their candidate for President of the European Parliament in the elections to be conducted on July 20, 2004. He received 51 votes. A university graduate in literature (philosophy), he worked for a time as a State school teacher. He has been a member of the central committee of the PCF since 1979.... Biography of Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal
Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal, born January 3, 1687 in Brienne-la-Vieille and died June 10, 1760, was a French bishop and diplomat.... Biography of Mel Hampton
Mel Hampton, born January 3, 1952 in Ogden, Utah, is an American actor and stuntman.... Biography of Daniele Scarpa
Daniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Cad Vid) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1985). He quit the national team in 1997 to what he claimed was widespread doping. Scarpa also was elected to the local government as a member of the Greens Party.... Biography of Yves Gibeau
Yves Gibeau, born January 3, 1916 in Bouzy, Marne, died October 14, 1994, was a French writer. Bibliographie 1946: Cinq ans de prison 1946 : Le grand Monôme 1950 : ...et la fête continue 1952 : Allons, z'enfants... (adapté au cinéma) 1953 : Les gros sous (Prix du roman populiste 1953) 1956 : La ligne droite (Grand Prix de Littérature sportive 1957) 1961 : La guerre, c'est la guerre 1988 : Mourir idiot 19..? : Les dingues... Biography of Carla Hills
Carla Anderson Hills (born January 3, 1934) is an American lawyer and public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative. She was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She was the third woman to serve as a Cabinet officer in a U.S. Presidential Administration. Born in Los Angeles, she received her B.A. degree from Stanford University, after studying at Oxford University. She earned her LL.B. degree from Yale University Law School in 1958. Born Carla Anderson, she married Roderick M. Hills the same year. Career Mrs. Hills was admitted to the California Bar in 1959, and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1... Biography of Xavier Orville
Xavier Orville, born January 3, 1932 in Case-Pilote, Martinique, France, is a French writer, novelist and professor. Works Novels * Délice et le Fromager, Paris, Grasset, 1977. * La Tapisserie du temps présent, Paris, Grasset, 1979. * L'Homme au sept noms et des poussières, Paris, Grasset, 1980. * Le Marchand de larmes, Paris, Grasset, 1985. * Laisser brûler Laventurcia, Paris, Grasset, 1989. * Cœur à vie, Paris, Stock, 1993. * La Voie des cerfs-volants, Paris, Stock, 1994. * Moi, Trésilien-Théodore Auguste, Paris, Stock, 1996. * Le Corps absent de Prosper Ventura (préface de Martine Le Coz), Paris, Du Rocher, 2002. Short stories * Koubaril, Toulouse, Gutenberg, s.d. * Le Parfum des belles de nuit, Saint-Maur, Sépia, 19... Biography of Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott (3 January 1793 – 11 November 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy. Biography Early life Lucretia Coffin was born into a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was the second child of seven by Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. At the age of thirteen she was sent to the Nine Partners Quaker School in Dutchess County, New York, run by the Society of Friends, where she eventually became a teacher. Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid three times as much as the female staff. On April 10,1811, Lucretia marri... Biography of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Zoele-Parwijs, near Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Zemst, near Mechelen, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer. He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium. Fétis sent him to Adolf Hesse in Breslau to learn Johann Sebastian Bach's tradition. In 1847, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his Le roi Lear ("King Lear"). One year later he published his first work for organ Dix improvisations dans le style sévère et chantant ("Ten improvisations in a strict and singing style"). In March 1849 he was appointed organ teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels aged 26, and he trained young French talents, including Alexa... Biography of Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-born American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945). Early life Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones in Neath, Wales, the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott), born Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, and Alfred Jones. Before becoming an actor, he served in the Household Cavalry. An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning many prestigious competitions, including the Bisley Match in England. When his four-year duty service was completed, Milland tried his hand at acting. He was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout while performing on the stage i... Biography of Roger Martine
Roger Martine, born January 3, 1930 in Bellocq, died March 3, 2005, was a French rugby player and coach.... Biography of Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (born José-Manuel Gutiérrez Sánchez, Torrelavega, Cantabria January 3 ,1942 (source : Carlos Riloba)) is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1979 film El corazón del bosque was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Two years later, his film Maravillas was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival. Cinema Year Film Director 2008 Todos estamos invitados (DS) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón 2005 Una rosa de Francia (DS) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón 2004 La vida que te espera (DS) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón 2... Biography of Maria Teresa di Lascia
Maria Teresa di Lascia (Rocchetta Sant'Anatonio, January 3, 1954) was an Italian female politician and writer. She founded the association Nessuno tocchi Caino, an international movement against death penalty.... Biography of Darren Daulton
Darren Arthur Daulton (born January 3, 1962 in Arkansas City, Kansas), nicknamed Dutch, is a former catcher in Major League Baseball best remembered for his years with the Philadelphia Phillies. He has been called the "Greatest Clubhouse Leader the Phillies ever had." He earned a World Series ring with the Florida Marlins in 1997. In more recent years, he has gained notoriety for his unconventional theories regarding human existence and time-travel. Professional career Daulton was drafted by the Phillies in the 25th round of the 1980 MLB draft. He was an all-star with the AA Reading Phillies in 1983. On September 25, 1983, Daulton made his major league debut for the Phillies. Between 1983 and 1988 Daulton played sparingly, due much to the presence of all-star catchers Ozzie Virgil ... Biography of William Aguet
William Aguet, born Paul, William, Gustave, René Aguet January 3, 1884 in Paris and died July 30, 1946 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography * 1928 : Le Tournoi dans la cité de Jean Renoir * 1929 : Le Petit Chaperon rouge de Alberto Cavalcanti * 1932 : Ma femme... homme d'affaires de Max de Vaucorbeil * 1932 : Plaisirs défendus de Alberto Cavalcanti - court métrage - * 1932 : Une idée folle de Max de Vaucorbeil * 1933 : Cette nuit-là de Marc Sorkin * 1933 : La Fusée de Jacques Natanson * 1933 : Pour être aimée de Jacques Tourneur * 1933 : Trois hommes en habit de Mario Bonnard * 1934 : Fanatisme de Gaston Ravel et Tony Lekain * 1934 : Vers l'abîme de Hans Steinhoff et Serge Weber * 1935 : Barcarolle de Gerhard Lamprecht ... Biography of Laura Zuniga
Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar (born January 3, 1985 in Culiacán, Sinaloa) is a Mexican model and beauty queen. After winning the state pageant title of Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa, Laura Zúñiga competed against thirty-two other contestants in the national pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2008, held on September 20, 2008 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, where she placed as the suplente and was automatically selected to represent the country in the Miss International 2009 pageant. Scandal On December 23, 2008, Laura Zúñiga was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco, along with seven men who allegedly carried illegal guns and US$53,000 in cash. The arrest was made by the state police and army officers. Zúñiga declared that she was kidnapped by her boyfriend Ángel Orlando García Urquiza, apparently a leader of t... Biography of Rosa Montero
Rosa Montero (born January 3, 1951 in Madrid, Spain) is an award-winning journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País and an author of contemporary fiction. Early life Montero was born into a lower-middle class family in Cuatro Caminos, a district of Madrid. A bout of tuberculosis forced her to remain at home between the ages of five and nine, and she began reading and writing extensively during that time. She then entered the Beatriz Galindo Institute of Madrid, and at 17, she began her university studies in Madrid's School of Philosophy and Letters (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras). The following year she was admitted into the Journalism School, and during her university years, she participated in independent theater groups. Writing career After school, she began working as a jo... Biography of Johannes von Müller
Johannes von Müller (January 3, 1752 - May 29, 1809) was a Swiss historian. He was born at Schaffhausen. In his youth his maternal grandfather, Johannes Schoop (1696-1757), roused in him an interest in the history of his country. At the age of eight he is said to have written a history of Schaffhausen, and at eleven he knew the names and dates of all the kings of the four great monarchies. His ardour for historical studies was further stimulated by Schlözer, when Müller went (1769-1771) to the university of Göttingen, nominally to study theology. In July 1771 he undertook a sketch of Swiss history for a publisher of Halle, but his theological studies and the preparation of a Latin dissertation on the Bellum cimbricum (publ. in 1772) prevented much progress. In April 1772 he passed hi... Biography of Nobuhito Takamatsu
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu of Japan (高松宮宣仁親王, Takamatsu no miya Nobuhito Shinnō?, January 3, 1905 - February 3, 1987) was the third son of HIM Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and HIM Empress Teimei and a younger brother of the HIM Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). He became heir to the Takamatsu-no-miya (formerly Arisugawa-no-miya), one of the four shinnōke or branches of the imperial family entitled to inherit the Chrysanthemum throne in default of a direct heir. From the mid-1920s until the end of World War II, Prince Takamatsu pursued a career in the Japanese Imperial Navy, eventually rising to the rank of captain. Following the war, the prince became patron or honorary president of various organizations in the fields of internatio... Biography of Nicole Mossoux
Nicole Mossoux, born January 3, 1956 in Bruxelles, is a Belgian dancer and choreographer.... Biography of Neil Levang
Neil LeVang (born January 3, 1932) is an American born musician who is best known from television's The Lawrence Welk Show, playing guitar, violin and banjo. Early years The younger of two boys, Neil was born in Adams, North Dakota, a farmer's son of Swedish and Norwegian descent, he got his start playing the banjo and soon added guitar and violin. As a young boy, Neil moved with his family between Adams, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota before migrating west. He settled in Riverside, California at the age of 13. At the age of 15, he was playing with area bands and establishing himself as a versatile and accomplished stringed instrumentalist. In 1948, Neil was playing appearing with Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, as well as Jimmy Wakely and several other country sw... Biography of Jean Muno
Robert Burniaux, best known as Jean Muno, born January 3, 1924 in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and died April 6, 1988 in Brussels, was a Belgian writer, novelist and teacher. He was awarded by Prix Rossel in 1979, for "Histoires singulières.". Bibliography: Novels * Le baptême de la ligne ou Le hanneton dans l'encrier, roman, Bruxelles, Éd. des Artistes, G. Houyoux, 1955. * Saint-Bedon, roman, dans Audace, vol. 22, s.d., (1958). * L'homme qui s'efface, récit, Bruxelles, Brepols, Coll. «Le cheval insolite», 1963. * L'île des pas perdus, roman, Bruxelles, La Renaissance du Livre, 1967. * Ripple-marks, roman, Bruxelles, Jacques Antoine, 1976. * Le joker, roman, Bruxelles, Louis Musin, 1972, rééd. 1980. * L'hipparion, roman, Paris, Julliard, 1962, rééd. 1984... Biography of Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke (born January 3, 1978) is an American singer and plus-size fashion model who has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres. She gained fame with her participation in the 2003 American Idol television series, and in 2007 garnered media attention for her participation in Celebrity Fit Club. Locke is a co-host of a daytime show tentatively called The Revolution which is scheduled to air in January 2012 on ABC . Early life Locke was born in Hartsville, Tennessee, to Donald and Christine Locke, and is the second of two children, with an older brother named Ashley. She and her brother spent most of their life in Gallatin. At age five, Locke began singing in church. Her parents divorced when she was eight years old. Locke grew up admiring such... Biography of Gérald Mossé
Gérald Mossé, born January 3, 1967 in Marseille, is a French jockey.... Biography of Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (born 3 January 1932) is a British Labour politician. Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and in South Africa where he lived 1947–1954, he worked as a draughtsman. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen North from 1970 to 1997, and was subsequently created a Life peer as Baron Hughes of Woodside, of Woodside in the City of Aberdeen. He was Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from March 1974 – July 1975, but resigned in disagreement with the government's Incomes Policy. Lord Hughes is a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association. He was also chair of the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1976 to 1995.... Biography of Jos Hermens
Josephus ("Jos") Maria Melchior Hermens (born January 8, 1950 in Nijmegen, Gelderland) is a former Dutch long-distance runner, also known for his latter career as a sports manager. Hermens is a three-time national champion in the men's 5,000 metres, and collected his first title on July 14, 1973 in The Hague. He was named Dutch Sportsman of the Year in 1975. He was a 10,000 metres finalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics and set the world record for the hour run the same year. Hermens twice improved the world hour record, on the Papendal track. In September 1975, with Gerard Tebroke as a hare, he ran 20,907 meters. In May 1976, without a hare, he ran an additional 37 meters. This record held until 1991. After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, Hermens worked for Nike, leav... Biography of Félix Dupanloup
Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (January 3, 1802 – October 11, 1878) was a French ecclesiastic. He was born at Saint-Félix, in Haute-Savoie. In his earliest years he was confided to the care of his brother, a priest in the diocese of Chambéry. In 1810 he was sent to a pensionnat ecclésiastique at Paris. Thence he went to the seminary of St Nicolas de Chardonnel in 1813, and was transferred to the seminary of St Sulpice at Paris in 1820. In 1825 he was ordained priest, and was appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris. For a time he was tutor to the Orléans princes. He became the founder of the celebrated academy at St Hyacinthe, and received a letter from Gregory XVI eulogizing his work there, and calling him Apostolus juventutis. He was elected to the French Academy in 1854, occup... Biography of Charles Palissot de Montenoy
Charles Palissot de Montenoy, born on January 3, 1730 in Nancy, died on June 15, 1814 in Paris, was a French writer, philosopher, and playwright. Selected works: Pharaon, tragédie en 5 actes et en vers, non représentée, 1748 Zarès, tragédie en 5 actes et en vers, représentée pour la première fois à la Comédie-Française le 3 juin 1751 (rebaptisée ultérieurement Ninus) Histoire des rois de Rome, 1753-1756 Les Tuteurs, comédie en 2 actes et en vers, représentée pour la première fois à la Comédie-Française le 5 août 1754 Le Cercle ou Les Originaux, comédie, représentée pour la première fois sur le nouveau théâtre de Nancy le 26 novembre 1755 Petites lettres sur de grands philosophes, 1757 Le Barbier de Bagdad, comédie représentée sur le théâtre de l'auteur ... Biography of Marcel Rogemont
Marcel Rogemont (born January 3, 1948 in La Coye-la-Forêt, France) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Ille-et-Vilaine department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. Biography: Marcel Rogemont, with young socialist elected officials gathered around Edmond Herve at the time of his conquest of the town hall of Rennes in 1977. With them, it deeply marks the local political scene since the end of the year 1970. Elected official uninterrupted at the municipal council of Rennes of 1977 to 2001, he was assistant of the mayor of 1977 jusqu' with its first election like deputy in 1997. It successively was in load of the personnel, of finances then of the culture. Member of the Socialist party jusqu' at May 22, 2007, it was exclud... Biography of Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Early life Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi, a native of Assisi, had taken service in the Corsican regiment of the papal forces. Felice married a Bolognese woman, Francesca Galasti, and became a grocer in the Via dei Cappellari. The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro was the younger son. Pietro, while still a child, is said to have attracted crowds by reciting impromptu verses on a given subject. On one such occasion in 1709, two men of distinction stopped to listen: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, famous for legal and literary erudition a... Biography of André Schneider
André Schneider, born on January 3, 1947 in Strasbourg, is a French politician (UMP), and a member of Parliament (1997 - 2012).... Biography of Charles-Marie de Feletz
Charles-Marie de Feletz (3 January 1767, Gumont - 11 February 1850) was a French churchman, journalist and literary critic.... Biography of Bryan Clay
Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980) is an American decathlete. He is the reigning Olympic champion for the decathlon and was also World champion in 2005. Biography Clay was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Hawaii. He is Afro-Asian. His mother, Michele Ishimoto, was a Japanese immigrant to America. His father, Greg Clay, was African American. His parents divorced when he was in elementary school and he was raised primarily by his mother. Clay has a younger brother, Nikolas, who was also a standout athlete on the Azusa Pacific University track team. He graduated from James B. Castle High School (Kaneohe, Hawaii) in 1998. Clay is married to Sarah Smith. They have a son, Jacob (b. 2005), and two daughters, Katherine (Kate) (b. 2007) and Elizabeth (Ellie) (b. 2010) ... Biography of Christian Decocq
Christian Decocq, born on January 3, 1945 in Calais, is a French politician.... Biography of James T. McHugh
James Thomas McHugh (January 3, 1932 (source: Romy Ransome)—December 10, 2000) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Camden (1989-98) and Bishop of Rockville Centre (2000). Early life and education James McHugh was born in Orange, New Jersey, to James T. and Caroline (née Scavone) McHugh. He received his early education at the parochial school of St. Venantius Church, and attended Our Lady of the Valley High School in Orange. He attended Seton Hall University in South Orange, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in classical languages. He then began his studies for the priesthood at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, receiving a Master of Divinity degree. Priesthood On May 25, 1957, McHugh was ordained a priest of the Archdi... Biography of Kent Carlsson
Kent Carlsson (born 3 January 1968 in Eskilstuna, Sweden) is a former tennis player from Sweden. Playing career Carlsson was a successful junior winning the Kalle Anka Cup, which is a Swedish junior tournament through the under 11, under 13s twice and under 15. He still holds the record for the most titles wins at 4 in front of Thomas Enqvist and Thomas Johansson who won it 3 times. Carlsson was also a three time European Champion between 1981-83. In 1983 he won the Orange Bowl over Emilio Sánchez and won the Roland Garros junior title in 1984 without losing a set defeating Mark Kratzmann in the final. Carlsson played his first professional match in 1983 losing to Heinz Gunthardt in Geneva. 1984 was his first full year on tour and made the 3rd round of Roland Garros losing to Andrés... Biography of Paul of the Cross
Paul of the Cross (3 January 1694 – 18 October 1775) was an Italian mystic, and founder of the Passionists. Biography Saint Paul of the Cross, originally named Paolo Francesco Danei, was born on 3 January 1694, in the town of Ovada, Piedmont, between Turin and Genoa in the Duchy of Savoy in northern Italy. Paul, a son of a wealthy merchant family experienced a conversion to a life of prayer at the age of 19, after a very normal and pious life. His early reading of the "Treatise on the Love of God" by Saint Francis de Sales and the direction he received from priests of the Capuchin Order taught him the primacy of love and at the same time the need to go beyond our own images of God. It became St Paul's lifelong conviction that God is most easily found by us in the Passion of Jesus ... Biography of Léa Silhol
Silhol Léa, born on January 3, 1967 in Casablanca, Morocoo, is a French writer, anthologist, and a former editor. Selected works Novels * La Sève et le Givre, Éditions de l'Oxymore 2002 Réédition chez France Loisirs, coll. "Fantasy", Paris, 2004 et réédition chez Seuil, coll. "Points Fantasy", Paris, 2006. Prix Merlin Meilleur roman de Fantasy en 2003. * La Glace et la Nuit, opus un : Nigredo, Les moutons électriques 2007 * Avant l'Hiver, Les moutons électriques 2008 Short stories * Contes de la Tisseuse, Éditions Nestiveqnen, coll. « Fractale » 2000 * Conversations avec la Mort, Éditions de l'Oxymore, coll. « Épreuves » 2003 * La Tisseuse, Éditions de l'Oxymore, coll. « Moirages » 2004 * Musiques de la Frontière, Éditions de l'Oxymore... Biography of Marv Myers
Marv Myers,, born on January 3, 1924 in Eugene, Oregon, is an American cartoonist and artist, the author of "Zodiac Humor," a cartoon collection.... Biography of John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968). Career He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries and training films for the US Army Air Corps. Sturges's mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared, the first of many B-movies. He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955. Over the course of his career, Sturges developed... Biography of John Russell (actor)
John Lawrence Russell (January 3, 1921 – January 19, 1991) was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962. Born in Los Angeles, California, he fit the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. He attended the University of California as a student athlete. Following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Marines, though he was initially rejected because of his height . He was commissioned as second lieutenant on November 11, 1942, and was assigned to the 6th Marine Regiment. His division was sent to Guadalcanal, where he served as an assistant intelligence officer. He contracted malaria and returned home with a medical discharge. He was discovered b... Biography of Pierre Charon
Pierre Charon, born January 3, 1951 in Paris, is a French politician and a friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy. He is Adviser to the Presidency of the Republic.... Biography of Franz Cumont
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (Aalst, Belgium, January 3, 1868 – Brussels, August 25, 1947) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent (PhD, 1887). After receiving royal travelling fellowships, he undertook archaeology in Pontus and Armenia (published in 1906) and in Syria, but he is best known for his studies on the impact of Eastern mystery religions, particularly Mithraism, on the Roman Empire. Cumont's international credentials were brilliant, but his public circumspection was not enough. In 1910, Baron Edouard Descamps, the Catholic Minister of Sciences and Arts at the Universi... Biography of Vasco Graça Moura
Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE (born 3 January 1942 in Porto (birth time source: Filipe Ferreira, birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group. He married three times, firstly in 1964 to Maria Fernanda de Carvalho de Sá Dantas, secondly in 1985 to Clara Crabbé da Rocha (daughter of Miguel Torga) and thirdly in 1987 to Maria do Rosário Bandeira de Lima de Sousa Machado (b. c. 1951), former and first wife of António Carlos Guerra Raposo de Maga... Biography of Olivier Greif
Olivier Greif (3 January 1950, Paris – 13 May 2000, Paris) was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor, a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed works, notably Todesfuge, based on the poem by Paul Celan, and Lettres de Westerbork, a song cycle which uses letters written by Etty Hillesum . Greif began composing at the age of 9, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire and the Juilliard School. He is best known for his solo piano music and songs for voice. He left over 100 works completed at his death, along with several still in progress. He was interred at the Montparnasse cemetery. His career was spent teaching composition and directing music festivals such as the Académie-Festival des Arcs. Maj... Biography of Magnus Gustafsson
Magnus Nils Gustafsson (born 3 January 1967 in Lund, Skåne) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during his career, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 10 in 1991. He was also part of the Swedish team which won the Davis Cup in 1998. His best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the Australian Open in 1994, where he reached the quarter-finals.... Biography of Jean-Michel Couve
Jean-Michel Couve (born January 3, 1940 in Le Muy, Var) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Var department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.... Biography of László Sólyom
László Sólyom (Sólyom László,Hungarian pronunciation: , born January 3, 1942) is a Hungarian political figure, lawyer, and librarian who was President of Hungary from 2005 to 2010. Previously he was President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary from 1990 to 1998.... Biography of Maurice Jaubert
Maurice Jaubert (born Nice 3 January 1900 - wounded in combat at Azerailles near Baccarat, where he died 19 June 1940) was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. He also had a long collaboration with Jean Giraudoux. From 1931-5 he was music director of the Pathé-Nathan studios, where he conducted not only his own scores but those of Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud. He makes a cameo appearance as a conductor in Kurt Bernhardt's La Nuit de décembre (1939). As a journalist he championed many composers, including Kurt Weill. In Vigo's Zéro de conduite he played recorded sounds backwards to accompany a slow motion sequence, anticipating a fa... Biography of Pierre Dervaux
Pierre Dervaux (born January 3, 1917 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France; died February 20, 1992 in Marseilles, France) was a French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue. At the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied counterpoint and harmony with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau and Jean and Noël Gallon, as well as piano with Isidor Philipp, Armand Ferté, and Yves Nat. He also served as principal conductor of the Opéra-Comique (1947-53), and the Opéra de Paris (1956-72). In this capacity he directed the French première of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. He was also Vice-President of the Concerts Pasdeloup (1949-55), President and Chief conductor of the Concerts Colonne (1958-92), Musical Director of the Orchestre des Pays de Loire ((1971-79) as well as holding similar posts at the Quebec Symphony Orch... Biography of Matheus Nachtergaele
Matheus Nachtergaele (born 3 January 1969, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian actor. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films and television programmes but is probably most well known for his appearance in the 2002 film Cidade De Deus (City Of God), playing the part of Carrot Sandro. He has twice won the Best Actor award in the Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil (Great Award Brazilian Cinema), for his roles in Midnight (1998) and O Auto da Compadecida (2000). He also won the Best Actor award for Amarelo Manga at XIII Cine Ceará (XIII Festival of Cinema of Ceará) in 2003.... Biography of Gage (singer)
Pierre Gage (born 3 January 1977, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), known by his last name Gage, is a French Canadian singer/songwriter. Gage got his start in the music business while still attending high school by landing the role of Johny Roquefort after attending an audition for the rock opera Starmania. Thus began his career as a musician heavily influenced by Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye; influences partly explained by Gage's Jamaican and Haitian roots. The pivotal moment in Gage's career came when he met Corneille and Martin Gardy with whom he started the group R'n'B O.N.E. Thanks to Corneille's writing and composing talents, O.N.E.'s single "Zoukin" reached number one on the Canadian radio airplay chart. The group then went on tour, opening for acts such as Isabelle Bou... Biography of Sarah Alexander
Sarah Alexander (née Smith; born 3 January 1971) is an English actress, known for her roles in various British comedy series such as Armstrong and Miller, Smack the Pony, Coupling, The Worst Week of My Life and Green Wing. Biography Early life Sarah Alexander was born in Hammersmith, London, England. Her father, Frank Smith, was a television producer and director who worked on factual programmes such as Panorama, allowing her to be brought up in a television environment. She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith. At 19, she left home after her A-levels and travelled to the Edinburgh Festival in the hope of getting her start in acting. Her parents were opposed and wanted her to continue onto university. Sarah turned down a place at Manchester University to take up... Biography of Daniella Garcia-Lorido
Daniella Garcia-Lorido, born January 3, 1988 in Los Angeles, is an American actress, the daugther of Andy Garcia and Marivi Lorido Garcia, and the sister of actress Dominik García-Lorido. Filmography # Crossing Over (2009) (as Daniella De Rosa) .... Student #2 # The Lost City (2005) .... Waitress in NY # "The Shield" .... Renia (1 episode, 2004) - Safe (2004) TV episode (as Daniella Garcia) .... Renia # "Without a Trace" .... Girl (1 episode, 2002) ... aka W.A.T (USA: short title) - Birthday Boy (2002) TV episode (as Daniella Garcia) .... Girl # "Providence" .... Sandra Ortíz (1 episode, 2001) - You Can Count on Me (2001) TV episode .... Sandra Ortíz # Just the Ticket (1999/I) .... Catholic Schoolgirl Lucy ... aka Gary & Linda (France)... Biography of Guillermo Fariñas
Guillermo Fariñas Hernández (born 3 January 1962) ("El Coco") is a Cuban doctor of psychology, independent journalist and political dissident in Cuba. He has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of the Cuban regime. He has stated that he is ready to die in the struggle against censorship in Cuba. Early life Fariñas was born in Santa Clara. He won medals in 1981 while a Cuban soldier in Angola, when he fought under Colonel Antonio Enrique Luzon, and he was wounded in battle during the war. In 1982 Fariñas went to the U.S.S.R. to Tambov for military education. In 1993 he was elected in Cuba, as the General Secretary of Healthcare Union Workers. In 1995 he was sent to jail after blowing the whistle on corrupt activities of the hospital board director. In ... Biography of Joseph Fesch
Joseph Fesch (January 3, 1763 – May 13, 1839) was a French cardinal, closely associated with the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was also one of the most famous art collectors of his period. Fesch was born at Ajaccio in Corsica. His father, a Swiss officer in the service of the Genoese Republic, had married the mother of Laetitia Bonaparte, after the death of her first husband. Fesch therefore fulfilled the role of an uncle to the young Bonapartes, and after the 1791 death of Luciano Buonaparte, archdeacon of Ajaccio, he became for a time the protector and patron of the family. In 1789, when the French Revolution broke out, he was archdeacon of Ajaccio, and, like the majority of the Corsicans, he felt repugnance for many of the acts of the French government during that period; in parti... Biography of Eric Marty
Éric Marty, born January 3, 1955 in Paris, is a French Professor of Literature, writer, editor and journalist. Publications Books * Roland Barthes, la littérature et le droit à la mort, Seuil, 2010 * L’Engagement extatique. Sur René Char. Suivi de : Commentaire du fragment 178 des Feuillets d’Hypnos, Éditions Manucius, coll. « Le marteau sans maître », 2008. * Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe, Gallimard, coll. « L’infini », 2007 * Roland Barthes, le métier d'écrire, Le Seuil, 2006 * Jean Genet, post-scriptum, Verdier, 2006 * Lacan et la littérature (collectif), Manucius, 2005 * Arlequin entre le bien et le mal (création pour France Culture), 2005 * Bref séjour à Jérusalem, Gallimard, coll. « L’infini », 2003 (extrait en ligne) ... Biography of Alessandro Petacchi
Alessandro Petacchi (born 3 January 1974 in La Spezia, Liguria) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for Lampre-Farnese Vini. Career Petacchi turned professional in 1996, and rode for a number of teams. In 2006 he moved to Team Milram with sprinters, Erik Zabel, following the disbanding of his Fassa Bortolo. His explosive speed won him stages in all three of the Grand Tours. In 2004 he won a record nine stages at the Giro d'Italia, which resulted in winning the maglia ciclamino for topping the points classification. He won his first classic in 2005, Milan-Sanremo. He withdrew from the 2006 Giro d'Italia after crashing during the third stage. He had finished the stage with a broken kneecap. In 2007, he won five stages in the 2007 Giro d'Italia, bringing his tally of ProTo... Biography of Galba
Servius Sulpicius Galba (24 December 3 BC – 15 January 69), commonly known as Galba, was Roman Emperor for seven months from 68 to 69. Galba was the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, and made a bid for the throne during the rebellion of Julius Vindex. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors. Origins and rise to power He was born as Servius Sulpicius Galba near Terracina, "on the left as you go towards Fundi" in the words of Suetonius. Through his paternal grandfather ("more eminent for his learning than for his rank — for he did not advance beyond the grade of praetor" and who "published a voluminous and painstaking history", according to Suetonius), who predicted his rise to power (Suetonius, 4), he was descended from Servius Sulpicius Galba. Galba's father at... Biography of Dina Tersago
Dina Tersago (born on January 3, 1979 in Puurs, Antwerp) was Miss Belgium 2001 and her country's representative at both Miss Universe 2001 and Miss World 2001. She started a relationship with Wim Gevaert her dance partner. Before she had a relationship with Mathias Coppens. She now is a famous TV personality, hosting Boerk zkt. Vrouw, Superhond 2007 en Superhond 2008 and starring in the fictional soap Brix and Bongers, introduced in Het Geslacht De Pauw, alongside Bart De Pauw, afterwards he was replaced by Tom Van Landuyt.... Biography of Raitis Ivanāns
Raitis Ivanāns (born January 3, 1979) is a Latvian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Ivanāns is known as an enforcer in the NHL. Playing career In 1997, Ivanāns came over to North America and played for the Flint Generals. In 2005, he made his NHL debut with the Montreal Canadiens, accumulating 9 penalty minutes in 4 games. He got into a fight in his first game, against the Ottawa Senators, with Zdeno Chára, and sustained a broken orbital bone due to a late punch after he was down. On July 13, 2006, he signed a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Kings. Ivanāns scored his first NHL goal against Marty Turco the Dallas Stars on October 12, 2006. On March 18, 2007, he signed a one-year deal... Biography of Ross the Boss
Ross Friedman (born January 3, 1954), in the Bronx, New York, also known as Ross The Boss, is a guitarist, known as a founding member of both the punk band The Dictators, and the heavy metal band Manowar. History Friedman formed the New York based proto-punk band The Dictators with Andy Shernoff in New Palz, New York in 1973. After recording three albums with them, Friedman went to France and worked for one year in Fabienne Shine's band Shakin' Street. On Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell tour in 1980 (on which Shakin' Street were the support act), Friedman was introduced to bass player Joey DeMaio by Ronnie James Dio. Later in 1980, Friedman and DeMaio formed Manowar, with whom he recorded six albums before DeMaio asked him to leave the band after the 1988 album Kings of Metal. Time... Biography of Anya Rozova
Anya Kanani Kop (rus. Аня Кaнaни Кoп) (born January 3, 1989, as Anna Rozova, rus. Анна Poзoвa), known as Anya Rozova, is a fashion model. Born in Russia, Rozova is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was raised in Hawaii by adoptive parents. Under the name Anya Kop, Rozova was the runner-up of the tenth cycle of America's Next Top Model. After appearing on America's Next Top Model Rozova changed her surname from Kop to her original Russian surname, Rozova. Early life Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Rozova was adopted at age four by Mike Kop and Bal Patterson and was raised in the Waialae section of Honolulu, Hawai'i. Rozova attended Moanalua Elementary School and Moanalua Middle School then graduated... |
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