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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, 8, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 34 548 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 34 548 Celebrities
84 celebrities or events were found for January, 8. Biography of Elvis PRESLEY
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis, and is also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as a singer of rockabilly, performing country and rhythm and blues songs. He developed a combination of country music and blues with a strong back beat, and an energetic delivery - one of the earliest forms of rock & roll. He also had success with ballads, country, ... Biography of David BOWIE
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Active in four decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, music video dir... Biography of Pascal OBISPO
Pascal Obispo (born 8 January 1965 in Bergerac, Dordogne, France) is a French Occitan singer/songwriter. In 1997, Obispo duetted with French singer Zazie on the single "Les Meilleurs Ennemis". Discography Le long du fleuve (1990) Plus Que Tout au Monde (1992) Un Jour Comme Aujourd'hui (1994) Superflu (1997) Live 98 (1998) Soledad (1999) Millésime Live 00/01 (2001) Studio Fan - Live Fan (2004) Les Fleurs du Bien (2006)... Biography of Sarah POLLEY
Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer and film director. She has starred in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, for which she also contributed several songs as lead vocalist, Guinevere, Go, My Life Without Me, and Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Sarah Polley is the youngest of five children born to Michael Polley, a British-born actor (he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to ...
Biography of Stephen William HAWKING
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway popular science bestsell... Biography of Manuela ARCURI
Manuela Arcuri, born January 8, 1977 in Latina, is an Italien actress and model. She is one of the most typically beautiful Italian girls, but also one of the last emerging Italian actresses especially in the fiction world; she became famous when she introduced the Sanremo Festival with Pippo Baudo, the king of Italian presenters. She is famous also for the TV series "Carabinieri" (2002), broadcast by Italian private television. Former top-model, who has dated Italian football star, France... Biography of Géraldine PAILHAS
Géraldine Pailhas is a French actress born January 8, 1971 in Marseille. Her husband is Christopher Thompson and they have two children. Filmography 1988 : Trois places pour le 26, de Jacques Demy 1989 : Haute tension - Retour à Malaveil, de Jacques Ertaud (TV) 1991 : La neige et le feu, de Claude Pinoteau 1991 : Les arcandiers, de Manuel Sanchez 1992 : IP5 : L'île aux pachydermes, de Jean-Jacques Beineix 1993 : Comment font les gens, de Pascale Bailly 1993 : Un homme à la mer, d... Biography of R. KELLY
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip hop beats, soul, and funk propelled the group's 1992 debut album Born into the '90s to platinum status. After leaving the group in 1993, he became one of the top-selling musical acts of ... Biography of Amber Nicole BENSON
Amber Nicole Benson, born on January 8, 1977, is an American actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as "Tara Maclay", on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Benson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She had a mixed Christian and Jewish upbringing. Career Feature and animation films While still working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Benson wrote, directed, produced, edited, and acted in a digital video ... Biography of Shirley BASSEY
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born January 8, 1937 in Cardiff, Wales), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Life and career Birth to 1960 Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff to a Nigerian fireman, while her mother came from Yorkshire. She grew up ...
Biography of Prince ALBERT VICTOR
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the throne after his father. However, he predeceased his father, and the crown eventually passed to his younger brother, Prince George (George V), the grandfather of the cur...
Biography of Paul VAILLANT-COUTURIER
Paul Vaillant-Couturier (January 8, 1892 - October 10, 1937) was a French writer, journalist and politician. Works La visite du berger, poèmes. Éditions du temps - Paris. 1913. Lettres à mes amis (1918-1919). Flammarion. 1920. Jean sans pain, histoire pour tous les enfants. 1921. Trains rouges, poèmes. Éditions Clarté, 1922. Le père Juillet. 1927. Au sans-pareil. (avec.la coll.de Léon Moussinac) Les géants industriels, les bâtisseurs de la vie nouvelle : neuf mois de voyage dans ...
Biography of Manuella MAURY
Manuella Maury, born January 8, 1971 in Mase, is a Swiss journalist and TV host.... Biography of Raffaëla ANDERSON
Raffaëla Anderson (January 8, 1976 in Montfermeil, France - ), whose ethnic background is partly Arab, is a former adult films performer, she is now a non-fiction writer and occasionally acts in mainstream productions. Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) La Petite Morte, the 2003 documentary by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about the French pornography business, includes interviews with Ms. Anderson, who relates being sexually molested as a child by an uncle. She joined the French pornography business in h... Biography of Jacques ANQUETIL
Jacques Anquetil (January 8, 1934 - November 18, 1987), was a French cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. He stated before the 1961 Tour de France that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with 2 previous winners in the field - Gaul and Bahamontes - but he did just that. Early career Born the son of a peasant farmer in Mont-Saint-Aignan, near Rouen in Normandy, north-west France... Biography of Rachel NICHOLS
Rachel Emily Nichols (born January 8, 1980) is an American actress, currently known for her film work and for her portrayal of CIA agent Rachel Gibson on the ABC television series Alias. Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Early life, college and modeling Nichols was born and raised in Augusta, Maine, where she attended Cony High School. As a sophomore at Cony, she studied abroad in France. Nichols admitted to Latino Review that she "wasn't the hot chick" in high school, referring to herself instead ... Biography of Graham CHAPMAN (MONTY PYTHON)
Dr. Graham Arthur Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian. Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m) Education and early performances Chapman was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at Emmanuel College... Biography of Leonardo SCIASCIA
Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento, January 8, 1921 - Palermo, November 20, 1989) was an Italian writer and politician. Sciascia, (pronounced Shasha), was a councillor in Sicily, a deputy in the national assembly and, later, a member of the European Parliament. Trained as a teacher, it was only later in life that he devoted himself to writing about Sicily and the Mafia. A number of his books demonstrate how the Mafia manages to sustain itself in the face of the anomie inherent in Sicilia... Biography of Paola PEZZO
Paola Pezzo (born January 8, 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA, she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.... Biography of Sean PAUL
Sean Paul Henriques (born January 8, 1973) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. He is professionally known only by his first names, Sean Paul. Background Sean Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent his early years "comfortably" (according to his VH1 biography) in Upper Saint Andrew Parish, a few miles north of his birthplace. His parents were both talented athletes, and his mother Frances, is a well-known painter. His father Garth is a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese descent and his... Biography of Edmond VANDERCAMMEN
Edmond Vandercammen, born January 8, 1901 in Ohain, is a Belgian poet.... Biography of Yvette MIMIEUX
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (b. January 8, 1942) is a now-retired American movie and television actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California to a French father and Mexican mother. (Some sources say she was born in 1939 - .) In 1960, Mimieux appeared in the hugely popular teen movie Where The Boys Are as well as George Pál's 1960 film version of H.G. Wells' classic 1895 novel, The Time Machine, co-starring Rod Taylor. The Time Machine was followed by The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de... Biography of Kerwin MATHEWS
Kerwin Mathews (January 8, 1926 – July 5, 2007) was an American actor. He is best known for playing Sinbad in the 1958 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation feature The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, where he engaged in a sword fight with animated skeletons. Life and career Mathews was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He attended Janesville High School in Janesville, Wisconsin, where he had moved with his mother after his parents divorced. Mathews said that "a kind high school teacher put me in ... Biography of Rose MURPHY
Rose Murphy, born January 8, 1913 in Lima, Ohio, was an American singer, actress and pianist. She acted in a few films, as A Wave, a Wac and a Marine, and George White's Scandals.... Biography of Susan WATKINS
Susan Alice Watkins, born January 8, 1945 in Elmira, NewYork, is an American author and editor.... Biography of William BONIN
William George Bonin (8 January 1947 – 23 February 1996) was an American serial killer, also known as “the Freeway Killer”, a nickname he shares with two other serial killers. Along with several accomplices, Bonin raped and killed as many as 36 young men and boys, 14 for which he was convicted and eventually executed. Early life Bonin was born and raised in Connecticut. His father was a compulsive gambler and alcoholic, and his mother frequently left Bonin and his brother in the care of the...
Biography of Miguel PRIMO de RIVERA
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties. Early years Miguel Primo de Rivera was born into a landowning military family in the sherry-producing city of Jerez de la Frontera. His father was a retired colonel. His ... Biography of Louis LE PENSEC
Louis Le Pensec, born January 8, 1937 in Mellac, is a French politician, member of PS (Parti socialiste).... Biography of Robbie KRIEGER
Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me" and "Love Her Madly". He is number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Early life A native of Los Angeles, California, Krieger learned to play guitar when he attended Menlo School (formerly a boarding school in the San... Biography of José FERRER
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1909 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican-born American theater and film director and actor. Throughout his career, he received one Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Tony Awards, besides multiple other nominations. Life and family Ferrer was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis titled French Naturalism and Pardo Bazán and was a me... Biography of Gaby HOFFMANN
Gabriella Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actress. Hoffmann’s mother, Viva Hoffmann (aka Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s. Hoffmann also has a half-sister, Alexandra Auder, who is eleven years older than her and who also once worked as an actress before becoming a yoga teacher and author. Prior to Hoffmann’s birth, Alexandra wanted a little sister so badly tha...
Biography of MacGregor MATHERS
MacGregor Mathers, born in Hackney, United-Kingdom, on January 8, 1854, was a British astrologer, occultist and author. He founded the mystical organization The Golden Dawn....
Biography of Arthur FORD
Arthur Ford (January 8, 1896 (death certificate gives 1896 and not 1897) – January 4, 1971) was an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient and in 1955 founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Biographer Allen Spraggett called him American Spiritualism's near pope and society's clairvoyant, comparable with the 19th century medium Daniel Dunglas Home. After a sitting, William McDougall, then psychologist at Harvard University and the 1920 president of the American Society for Psychic... Biography of Warren KENTON
Warren Kenton, bon January 8, 1933 in London, is a British astrologer, author and Kabbalist. Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, lit. "receiving") is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings meant to define the inner meaning of both the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and traditional Rabbinic literature, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances.... Biography of OLD MELUSINE
Old Melusine, born January 8, 1943 in Créteil, is a French esoteric author and specialist of French Wicca. Wicca (IPA: /ˈwɪkə/) is a neopagan, nature-based religion popularised in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it Witchcraft and its adherents "the Wica". He said that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft mystery religion that had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in ... Biography of SOUPY SALES
Soupy Sales (born Milton Supman on January 8, 1926) is an American comedian and actor. Sales got his unusual nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone"; Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name "Soupy Hines." After he became established, it was decided that "Hines" was too close to the Hines soup company, so Soupy chose the surname "Sales," after comedian C... Biography of Walter SCAVOLINI
Walter Scavolini, born January 8, 1942 in Pesaro, is an Italian entrepreneur, the creator of famous modular kitchens in Italy....
Biography of Joseph DECHELETTE
Joseph Déchelette, born January 8, 1862 in Roanne (Loire), died October 4, 1914 in Vingré (Aisne), was a French archaeologist and author.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||