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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on June, 21, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 45,667 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,667 Celebrities
143 celebrities or events were found for June, 21. Add to favourites (134 fans)Biography of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge KG FRS (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in the line of succession, behind his father, to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Consequently, he is also second in line, again behind his father, to the position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England. He was educated at four ... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (June 21, 1935–September 24, 2004), real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter, best known for strong romantic themes involving middle-class characters. Sagan was born in Cajarc, Aveyron, where she lived for the first few years of her life, until her family moved to Lyon at the outset of World War II. She failed entrance examinations to the Sorbonne in 1953 mainly due to her active nightlife in the Paris clubs.[citation needed]Though notorious all her life for her extravagant lifestyle, she would later attend school there but without graduating. Her first novel was published in 1954, at the age of 18. Bonjour Tristesse (meaning "Good Morning, Heartache," the French translation of the Billie Holiday song) and was an immediate intern... Add to favourites (85 fans)Biography of Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Grant (born June 21, 1986 (birth time source: Interview Magazine)), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. She has described herself as a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra", and cites Britney Spears, Elvis Presley and Antony and the Johnsons as her musical influences. Biography Early life and career beginnings Grant was born in New York City, New York and grew up in Lake Placid, New York. When she was fifteen, she left Lake Placid to go to boarding school in Connecticut. She is the daughter of domain investor and millionaire Rob Grant. Grant's management chose her stage name, "I wanted to be a band but the label I was with and the team I had around me absolutely wanted me to be a solo artist. Lana Del Rey came from a series of managers and law... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced: ), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of François Baroin
François Baroin (born 21 June 1965 in Paris) is a French politician, recently appointed Finance Minister, following a stint as Minister of the Budget in the François Fillon III government. He is a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and, currently, the mayor of Troyes. Baroin, a lawyer, was Minister for Overseas Territories from June 2005 to March 2007 and was briefly Minister of the Interior from March to May 2007. He replaced Nicolas Sarkozy on 26 March 2007 as Interior Minister when Sarkozy left the Government to pursue his presidential candidacy. On 29 June 2011 François Baroin was appointed Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, replacing Christine Lagarde following her appointment as Director General of the IMF. He was the partner of the journalist Marie Drucker until ... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Gérard Lanvin
Gérard Lanvin (born June 21, 1950 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French actor who won a César Award for Best Actor in 1995 for Le fils préféré, and a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Taste of Others. Other appearances include Une semaine de vacances and 3 zéros.... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Amel Bent
Amel Bent (born Amel Bentbachir on June 21, 1985 in Paris) is a French singer who grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and an Algerian-Moroccan mother. Her career jump started after making it to the semi-finals of the reality TV show Nouvelle Star 2, France's version of Pop Idol. Although her performance did not make it to the finals, she was still noticed by some of the show's producers, and would end up making her début album later that year, titled: Un Jour d'été, released in late 2004. The album would sell more than 550,000 copies in France alone, but the success of the album would ultimately be derived from the single, "Ma Philosophie", which would sell at more than 500,000 copies, staying at the No.1 slot, in France, for more than 6 weeks during and ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Juliette Lewis
Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and musician whose most memorable roles occurred early in her career. Early life Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is actor Geoffrey Lewis and her mother, Glenis Batley (nee Duggan), is a graphic designer; her parents divorced when she was two years old. She has a brother, Lightfield. Her uncle is the late composer, Peter Tod Lewis. She wanted to act since she was six years old, and got her start in TV at the age of twelve. Career Lewis has appeared in over forty films and made-for-TV movies. She has also appeared in a GAP commercial which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song "Digital Love." She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the vocalist and keyboardist in the American synth rock band The Killers. Early life Flowers was born on June 21, 1981 in Las Vegas, Nevada to parents of partial Scottish and Lithuanian ancestry and later raised in Nephi, Utah. Flower's father worked as a bathroom fitter in Nephi. He then took a job at the Gold Coast, the same hotel Flowers worked at, when he moved back to Vegas. His mother was a homemaker. He attributes his fashion sense to his doting sisters. His parents made him take piano lessons, but the person responsible for Flowers's musical education was his older brother Shane (12 years older), who showed him The Smiths videos and U2 Rattle and Hum movie. He mentions his older brother quite often when asked about his taste in music or t... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Erica Durance
Erica Durance (born June 21, 1978, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian actress. Although born in Calgary, she was raised in Three Hills, Alberta. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Lane on Smallville. After graduating from high school, Durance moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to pursue her interest in acting professionally. "I wanted to get my feet wet in a smaller area than Los Angeles when I gave it a try," Durance has said. She continued to study acting, starting out with background work, graduating to commercials, and then guest-starring roles, landing more substantial roles each time. In 2004, she guest-starred on The Chris Isaak Show, Tru Calling, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, and The Collector. However, Durance is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Lane on ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (IPA: ; 21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007) was a Pakistan politician. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having been twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was sworn in for the first time in 1988 but removed from office 20 months later under orders of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 Bhutto was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. Bhutto went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998, where she remained until she returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, after reaching an understanding with General Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Michel Platini
Michel François Platini (born June 21, 1955) is a French former football manager and midfielder, and current president of the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations). Platini was part of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the best player and top goalscorer. He participated in the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cups, reaching the semi-finals in the latter two. Platini, Alain Giresse, Luis Fernández and Jean Tigana together made up the "carré magique" (French for "magic square"), the group of players that formed the heart of the French national team throughout the 1980s. He was a notable free kick taker, as demonstrated by his numerous goals from dead-ball situations with the national team and with Juventus, where Platini pl... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jane Russell
Jane Russell (born June 21, 1921) is an American actress and sex symbol. Early life Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, she was the only daughter of Roy William Russell (January 5, 1890 – July 18, 1937) and Geraldine Jacobi (January 2, 1891 – December 26, 1986). Her four younger brothers are Thomas Ferris Russell (born April 16, 1924), Kenneth Steven Russell (born September 2, 1925), James Hyatt Russell (born February 9, 1927) and Wallace Jay Russell (born January 31, 1929). Her parents were both born in North Dakota. Three of her grandparents were born in Canada, while her paternal grandmother was born in Germany. Her parents married in 1917. Her father was a former commissioned First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and her mother was a former actress with a ro... Biography of Manu Chao
Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on June 21, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French-born and raised singer from Spanish origins (mainly Galician and Basque). He sings in French, Spanish, Arabic, Galician, English, Portuguese, and Italian. He is also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor. Early life Chao's mother was Spanish from Bilbao, the Basque Country in Northern Spain; his father, writer and journalist Ramón Chao, was Galician, from Vilalba. They moved to Paris to escape Francisco Franco's dictatorship, which lasted until the dictator's death in 1975. Shortly after Manu's birth, the Chao family moved to the outlying suburbs of Paris, and Manu spent most of his childhood in Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres. Whilst growing up he was constantly surrounded by artists and inte... Biography of Martial Tricoche
Martial Tricoche born June 21, 1969 in Saint-Denis is a French singer and songwriter. He is one of the creators of Pop group Manau. Discography 1998 : Panique Celtique 2000 : Fest Noz de Paname 2005 : On peut tous rêver... Biography of Ray Davies
Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (born June 21, 1944 in Fortis Green, London) is an influential English rock musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most influential, prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. Ray Davies (pronounced DAY-vis ) was born and raised in the North London area of Muswell Hill. He is the seventh of eight children, including six older sisters and his younger brother, Dave. He has been married three times, and has four daughters - Louisa, Victoria, Natalie Rae and Eva. The musically inclined Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962–1963, when the Kinks developed into a profession... Biography of Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter (born June 21, 1947 in South Pasadena, California) is an American actress. Her mother was the late actress and sitcom creator Whitney Blake, and her father is Tom Baxter, who worked in radio. Her stepfather is sitcom writer, Allan Manings. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) She was married three times, most notably to actor David Birney, whom she met on the set of the sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie; she played his wife on the series. After the show was canceled, the couple became engaged and were married in 1974. From that date until their divorce in 1989, she was credited as Meredith Baxter Birney, a name still commonly associated with her by the general public as she went by it during her most prominent period of work. She is best known for her work on two television shows. She... Biography of Doug Savant
Douglas Peter Savant (born June 21, 1964 in Glendale, California) is an American actor. Career From 1992 to 1997, Savant starred as Matt Fielding on Melrose Place, a role that was notable for being one of the first mainstream openly gay characters on television. His role was, however, censored greatly by the network - notably a kiss between Matt and guest star Ty Miller during the season two finale which was edited out at the last minute by FOX. Savant left the series after six seasons and, a year later, his character was killed offscreen in a car crash. After this, Savant guest starred on series such as Profiler, Harsh Realm, Firefly, JAG, Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, and a four-episode arc on 24. He also appeared as Sgt. O'Neal in the film Godzilla, and in the eighties he appeared in such... Biography of Larry Wachowski
Laurence "Larry" Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andrew "Andy" Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are American film directors and writers most famous for creating The Matrix series. Biography The brothers were born to a Polish-American family in Chicago. The Wachowskis jokingly claim to have begun their collaboration as toddlers. Their mother was a nurse and their father a businessman. They went to Kellogg Elementary School, in Chicago's Beverly Area. Both brothers graduated from Whitney Young High School, a public high school known for its performing arts and science curriculum, in 1983 and '85. They weren't seen as stand outs at Whitney Young - students recall them playing Dungeons & Dragons and working in the school's theater and TV program, but they were always behind the scenes... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frans de Cort
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. In 1858, he became editor of the magazine De Schelde. From 1861 on, he became head editor of De Toekomst, an illustrated magazine for education, which had been founded by his father-in-law Johan Michiel Dautzenberg. He was a convinced Flemish-liberal poet, and he wrote songs like Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, and also more romantic songs, such as Moeder en kind (E: Mother and child), which excelled by their simplicity. He devoted himself to the more technical side of poetry and tra... Biography of Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan (IPA: /ˈiːən mɪˈkjuən/) CBE (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize winning English novelist. McEwan was born in Aldershot in England and spent much of his childhood in East Asia, Germany and North Africa, where his Scottish army officer father, David McEwan was posted. He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, where he was the first graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's pioneering creative writing course. He has been married twice. His second wife, Annalena McAfee, was formerly the editor of The Guardian's Review section. In 1999, his first wife, Penny Allen, absconded with McEwan's 13-year-old son after a court in Brittany, France, ruled that the boy should be returned to his father, wh... Biography of Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's and children's rights. She is the first Iranian, the first Shia and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. Life and early career Ebadi was born in Hamadan, Iran. Her father, Mohammad Ali Ebadi, was the city's chief notary public and professor of commercial law. The family moved to Tehran in 1948. Ebadi was admitted to the law department, University of Tehran in 1965 and upon graduation in 1969... Biography of Guy Lux
Maurice Guy, best known as Guy Lux, born June 21, 1919 in Paris, died June 13, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French former actor, producer and TV host. He was famous also with the Schmilblick. The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 50s. It is absolutely useless, and can therefore be used for anything, being rigorously entire. Pierre Dac himself credits the brothers Jules and Raphaël Fauderche with its invention. The Schmilblick resurfaced in 1969, in a TV Show by Guy Lux and Jacques Antoine entitled The Schmilblick (sometimes spelled Schmilblik or Schmilblic). The aim of the game was to guess the name of an object given some of its characteristics (color, shape, use and so on). This TV games actually re-uses an idea from an old... Biography of Sophie Vouzelaud
Sophie Vouzelaud (born on June 21, 1987, Saint-Junien, (French) Haute-Vienne , France) was elected first runner-up in the Miss France pageant of 2007. She represented the region of Limousin. Height: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Sophie was born deaf. She is the first deaf or hard of hearing person to take part in the finals of a Miss France pageant. She communicates using the sign language but was adamant in speaking at the finals. She is currently pursuing bachelors degree in Accounting and will be France's first hearing-impaired delegate to compete in Miss World. According to Geneviève de Fontenay, she was the huge favorite in the French public' votes but the jury's vote, which counts for 2/3 of the final score, went in favore of the other finalist. Vouzelaud wanted, with the accord o... Biography of Ron Ely
Ron Ely (born June 21, 1938) is the stage name of the American actor and novelist born Ronald Pierce Ely in Hereford, Texas. He is best known for starring as Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan. He got the role after playing various bit-parts (including an airplane co-pilot in the 1958 movie South Pacific). His height (6' 4") and athletic build also won him the title role in the 1975 Doc Savage film, as well as various guest shots: In a 1978 Fantasy Island episode, for example, he played Mark Antony in a Roman military short tunic and breastplate that displayed almost as much of his physique as his Tarzan costume had. In the 1980s, he starred in the series Sea Hunt and hosted the musical game show Face the Music. Additionally, he hosted the 1980 and 1981 Miss America Pageants - repl... Biography of Jean-Pascal Lacoste
Jean-Pascal Lacoste, born June 21, 1978 in Toulouse, is a French singer, actor and TV host.... Biography of Tony Scott
Anthony David "Tony" Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director. His films include The Hunger, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable. He was the younger brother of fellow film director Ridley Scott. Scott's films were generally box office successes, though he was never nominated for an Academy Award and received little critical praise. Early life Scott was born in North Shields, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. His first foray into filmmaking was not from behind the camera, but rather in front of it. At the age of 16, Tony appeared in Boy and Bicycle, a short film marking the directorial de... Biography of Tsilla Chelton
Tsilla Chelton, born June 21, 1919 in Jerusalem (source: Imdb), is a French actress, probably best know for the success of Tatie Danielle (1990). Before, she was mainly a theatre actress and famous for being a specialist of Eugène Ionesco's plays. Theatre 1988 : Le saut du lit de Ray Cooney et John Chapman, mise en scène de Jean Le Poulain, au Théâtre des Variétés à Paris 1998 : Le mal de mère de Pierre-Olivier Scotto, au Théâtre du Palais-Royal à Paris 2000 : Le ciel est égoïste de Pierre-Olivier Scotto et Martine Feldmann, mise en scène de Pierre Aufrey, au Théâtre du Palais-Royal à Paris Filmography 1961 : Les Sept Péchés capitaux (apparaît brièvement dans le sketch d'ouverture, La Colère, réalisé par Sylvain Dhomme) 1963 : Lektionen (TV) : La pianiste 1963 : Béb... Biography of Rudi Bakhtiar
Rudi Bakhtiar (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar, Persian: رودابه بختیار , on June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) is an Iranian-American journalist who has over a decade's experience working for major international news outlets CNN and Fox News Channel. Career Rudi Bakhtiar joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as a general correspondent in January 2006, and held that role until July 2007. Prior to joining FNC, Bakhtiar worked for nine years at CNN, joining the network in 1996. During her time at the network, she held multiple positions, including anchoring on the CNN's spin-off network, Headline News, and as a co-anchor of CNN Student News, a 30-minute commercial free news program designed for use in the classroom. Throughout her ca... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Siméon Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840), was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. The name is pronounced in French. Biography Poisson was born in Pithiviers, south of Paris. In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the notice of the professors of the school, who left him free to make his own choices as to what he would study. In 1800, less than two years after his entry, he published two memoirs, one on Étienne Bézout's method of elimination, the other on the number of integrals of a finite difference equation. The latter was examined by Sylvestre-François Lacroix and Adrien-Marie Legendre, who recommended that it should be published in the Recueil des savants étrangers, an unprecedented h... Biography of David Morrissey
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool, and learned to act at the city's Everyman Youth Theatre. At the age of 18, he was cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won him recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre for four years. Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)... Biography of Elodie Varlet
Élodie Varlet, born June 21, 1984 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Nord), is a French actress and comedian. She is Estelle Cantorel in French TV serie Plus belle la vie. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2245326/ ) "Plus belle la vie" .... Estelle Cantorel (215 episodes, 2006-2009) - Episode #5.113 (2009) TV episode .... Estelle Cantorel - Episode #5.112 (2009) TV episode .... Estelle Cantorel - Episode #5.111 (2009) TV episode .... Estelle Cantorel - Episode #5.110 (2009) TV episode .... Estelle Cantorel - Episode #5.108 (2009) TV episode .... Estelle Cantorel (210 more) UV (2007) .... Fille Terrasse 2... Biography of Kris Allen
Kristopher Neil Allen (born June 21, 1985), better known as Kris Allen, is an American singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, he self-released a 2007 album entitled Brand New Shoes. Allen's post-Idol self-titled album was released on November 17, 2009, through Jive Records. On September 21, 2009, "Live Like We're Dying", the first single from his major label debut album, was released. It became available on iTunes on September 25, 2009. The song landed on #41 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as its highest peak position. The music video for "Live Like We're Dying" was later released on November 6, 2009. On November 9, 2009, AOL premiered all 13 tracks from his upcoming album as a listen-only feature, for AOL's "Listenin... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cécile Alzina
Cécile Alzina, born June 25, 1981 in Nice, is a French snowboard champion.... Biography of Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in film, theater and television. She also won an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Early life Stapleton was born in Troy, New York to Irene Walsh and John P. Stapleton and grew up in a strict Irish American Catholic family. Her father was an alcoholic and her parents separated during her childhood. She had a brother, Jack. Stapleton began acting in theater after finishing high school and rapidly gained respect as both a dramatic and comedic actress. Career Stapleton moved to New York City at the age of eighteen, and did modeling to pay the bills. She once said that it was her infatuation with the handsome Hollywood actor Joel McCre... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Guilda (transvestite)
Jean Guida de Mortellaro or Jean Guilda, best known as Guilda, born June 21, 1924 in Paris, is a transvestite actor who has worked in France and in Canada (Québec).... Biography of Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921–June 7, 1965) was an Academy- and Tony Award-winning American actress. Early life Born Judith Tuvim ("Tuvim" is Hebrew for "Holiday") in New York City, she was the only child of Abe and Helen Tuvim, Jewish immigrants from Russia. she attended elementary school at PS 150, a school in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre run by Orson Welles and John Houseman. Career Holliday began her show business career in December, 1938, as part of a nightclub act called "The Revuers." The other four members of the group were Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Alvin Hammer and John Frank. The Revuers were a staple of the New York nightlife scene until they disbanded in early 1944. Holliday made her Br... Biography of Carol Hemingway
Carol Hemingway, born June 21, 1941 in Bear Creek, Pennsylvania, is an American author, TV host and astrologer. She claims that she is the daughter of Ernest Hemingway.... Biography of Gabriella Paruzzi
Gabriella Paruzzi (born June 21, 1969 in Udine) is a retired Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 and formerly skied with the C.S. Forestale club. She skied in World Cup events, and won the Women's Overall World Cup in 2004. Equipment She was sponsored by Rossignol, and skied with Rossignol X-IUM skis for both skate and classic disciplines. Her boots were also named Rossignol X-IUM's, and the bindings are Rottefella R3's. Her boots and bindings are of the NNN (New Nordic Norm) system. 2002 Olympics At the 2002 Olympics, she was in the women's 30 km classical event, when one of her poles broke. Luckily, her coach was nearby, and she took his pole, which was too long. She kept on racing and near the end the coach came back to give her the right size pole. She ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Patrick Lyndon Nugent
Patrick Lyndon Nugent, born June 21, 1967 in Austin, Texas, is the son of Patrick Nugent and Luci Johnson. He is the grandson of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gitta Mallasz
Gitta Mallasz (June 21, 1907 – May 25, 1992) is today best known for her transcription of a series of extraordinary dialogues which took place with three of her close friends in Hungary during World War II. In English the book is called Talking with Angels (first published in a short edition in 1979 by Watkins). The first edition was in French, Dialogues avec l'ange, published in 1976 after an interview with Gitta was aired on Radio France on March 22, 1976, on a weekly programme hosted by Claude Mettra. The huge response to this 90-minute interview from listeners helped the book to become an overnight bestseller. As the notes to the 1992 edition of Talking with Angels (published by Daimon Verlag) read, the dialogues in the book were transcribed from handwritten notes in Hungarian durin... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Pierre Mader
ean-Pierre Mader, born June 21, 1955 in Toulouse, is a French singer and producer. Discography Albums 1982 : Faux coupable Faux coupable Tchang Noctambule Schizo musique Champion Les petites annonces Tueur d'idoles Herbophile Organigramme Singles (45 tours) 1978 : Les bandes dessinées 1983 : Au bout de son voyage 1984 : Disparue 1985 : Macumba 1985 : Un pied devant l'autre 1986 : Jalousie 1986 : Outsider dans son cœur 1987 : Obsession 1989 : En résumé...En conclusion 2000 : Disparue (Remix 2000)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Selma Schepel
Selma Schepel, born June 21, 1949 in Hilversum, is a Dutch author and MA in Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian cuneiform and in biblical Hebrew.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882–March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Kent lived much of his early life in and around New York City, and moved in his mid-40s to an Adirondack farmstead that he called Asgaard where he lived and painted until his death. Kent studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. An undergraduate background in architecture at Columbia University enabled Kent to work occasionally in the 1900s and 1910s as a draftsman and carpenter. Kent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Ham... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joey Kramer
Joseph Michael "Joey" Kramer (born June 21, 1950 in The Bronx, New York City, United States) is the drummer for the Hard rock band Aerosmith. It was Kramer who named the band in 1973. Kramer briefly attended the Thornton Donovan School. According to the band's autobiography, Walk This Way, Kramer was frequently the one collecting money owed to the group. His first writing credit with the band was "Pandora's Box" on their second album, Get Your Wings. Of all the members of the band, Kramer has written the fewest songs. Kramer's son's Jesse also plays drums. He filled in for Joey in 2005 at several Aerosmith shows while Joey was recovering from strained muscles. During the formation of Aerosmith, it was Joey Kramer who suggested the name "Aerosmith" for the group of young musicians. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Enn Reitel
Enn Reitel (born 21 June 1950), is a Scottish actor and impressionist who specialises in voice work. Early life Reitel's family arrived in Scotland as refugees from occupied Estonia. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Acting career In 1982, Reitel starred in the Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim, a BBC2 sitcom written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Reitel played Jim Dixon, based on the character created by Kingsley Amis. He appeared on stage in Me And My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre in 1986. On television he worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and starred in the ITV sitcom Mog as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital, pretending to be insane. He played the lead role in the UK TV comedy seri... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Don Airey
Don Airey (born 21 June 1948 in Sunderland, England) has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such acts as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Rainbow, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Early life Inspired by his father, Norman Airey, Don Airey took a love for music at a young age and was trained in classical piano from the age of seven. He continued his love for music by earning a degree at the University of Nottingham and a diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music. Music career 1970s work In 1974 he moved to London and joined Cozy... Add to favourites (5 fans)Biography of Rebecca Black
Rebecca Renee Black (born June 21, 1997) is an American pop singer who gained extensive media attention with the 2011 single "Friday". Her mother paid $4,000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity release through the record label ARK Music Factory. The song was co-written and produced by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson of Ark Music Factory. After the video went viral on YouTube and other social media sites, "Friday" was derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the worst song ever." The music video received around 167 million views, causing Black to gain international attention as a "viral star", before being removed from the site on June 16. Black re-uploaded it in her own channel three months later. Early life Rebecca Black was born o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Didier Bay
Didier Bay, born June 21, 1944 in Beauchamp, is a French artist. Selected world Expositions 1973 - Yellow Now, Liège 1974 - BAMA, Paris 1975 - DIAGRAMMA, Milan 1976 - "Photo as Art/ Art as photo", Londes 1980 - Video Arsenal, Berlin 1981 - "Art Politic", Bonn 1982 - Biennale de Sydney 1983 - Morguen, Anvers 1984 - J&J Donguy, Paris 1987 - Video Congress, Cologne 1988 - FRAC, Dijon 1990 - Biennale du film d'art, Beaubourg 1991 - Galerie Langer-Fain, Paris 1993 - Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 1994 - Aalen Kunstverein 1996 - Heart Galerie, Paris 1997 - Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg... Biography of Craig Lowndes
Australian motor racing driver, currently competing for TeamVodafone/Triple Eight Race Engineering in the V8 Supercar series.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Xavier Gélin
Xavier Gélin, born June 21, 1946 in Paris, died July 2, 1999 in Paris, was a French actor, producer, screenwriter an director, the son of actor Daniel Gelin and actress Danièle Delorme. Filmography Actor 1967 : Mise à sac de Alain Cavalier 1969 : L'Ours et la poupée de Michel Deville : Reginald 1969 : La Maison de campagne de Jean Girault : Gérard 1969 : Le Diable par la queue de Philippe de Broca : Charlie (Le petit garagiste) 1970 : Les Saintes Chéries (série TV) : Laurent 1971 : La Femme sandwich (Macédoine) de Jacques Scandelari : Le photographe 1971 : Le Juge de Jean Girault : Antonio 1971 : Tang (série TV) : André 1971 : Un enfant dans la ville (TV) : Patrick 1972 : Ras le bol de Michel Huisman : Bert 1972 : L'aventure c'est l'aventure de Claude Lelouch ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Helena Louro
Helena Louro, born June 21, 1976 in Curitiba, Parana, is a Brazilian actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131174/ ) "Quinto dos Infernos, O" (2002) TV mini-series A Hora Marcada (2000) (uncredited) .... Woman at scene sex with Mario ... aka Dealing with Death (International: English title) "A Turma do Didi" (1998) TV series (unknown episodes) "Corpo Dourado" (1998) TV series "Malhação" (1995) TV series (unknown episodes) ... aka Malhação - Múltipla Escolha (Brazil: sixth season title) ... aka New Wave... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claude Auchinleck
Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), nicknamed The Auk, was a British army commander during World War II. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he developed a love of the country and a lasting affinity for the soldiers he commanded. Early life and career The Auchinlecks were an Ulster Scots family from County Fermanagh, where they had settled in the 17th century. Claude Auchinleck was born in Aldershot, son of Colonel John and Mary Auchinleck, while his father's regiment was stationed there. His father died in 1892, when he was eight years old, and Auchinleck grew up in impoverished circumstances, but he was able, through hard work and scholarships, to graduate from Wellington Col... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lucien Biart
Lucien Biart, born June 21, 1828 in Versailles and died March 18, 1897, was a French writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pope Leo IX
Pope Saint Leo IX (June 21, 1002 – April 19, 1054), born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg (German Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg), was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with the feast day of April 19. Leo IX is widely considered the most historically significant German Pope of the Middle Ages. Leo IX was a native of Eguisheim, Upper Alsace. The family to which he belonged was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugo, was a relative of Emperor Conrad II (1024–39). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon and, in 1026, bishop. In the latter capacity he rendered important political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor Henry III (1039–56). He became widely known as an earnest and reforming e... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe Sarde
Philippe Sarde, born June 21, 1945, is a French composer. Biography Philippe Sarde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. He is the brother of Alain Sarde. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988. Selected filmography Touche pas à la femme blanche (Don't Touch The White Woman!) (1974) Barocco (1976) Tess (1979) Ghost Story (1981) Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu) (1981) Harem (1985) Joshua Then and Now (1985) Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986) Pirates (1986) The Manhattan Project (1986) The Bear (L'Ours) (1988) Music Box (1989) Lord of the Flies (1990) Eve of Destruction (1991) Le Bossu (1997) Les témoins (2007)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Goddet
Jacques Goddet (Paris, June 21, 1905 – December 15, 2000) was a French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France from 1936 to 1986. His father, Victor Goddet, was cofounder and finance director of "L'Auto", the newspaper that organised the first Tour in 1903. When Jacques Goddet had ended his studies in 1931, he became editor-in-chief of "L'Auto". In 1932, he covered the Olympics in Los Angeles for the French press. In 1924 Jacques Goddet went to work for his father's paper in the rue du faubourg-Montmartre, Paris. Four years later he followed his fist Tour de France and sat spellbound as he watched riders struggle for more than 16 hours on cols "that were no more than mediocre earth paths, muddy, stony." Goddet returned the following year and followed every Tour until 198... Biography of Hadja Lahbib
Hadja Lahbib, born on June 21, 1970 in Boussu, is a Belgian film director, journalist, and TV host for RTBF.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eric Douglas
Eric Douglas (June 21, 1958 – July 6, 2004) was a stand up comedian who occasionally acted in low budget movies. He was born Eric Anthony Douglas in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and Belgian mother Anne Buydens. His brother is Peter Douglas and his half-brothers are Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas. Douglas wanted to be an actor from a young age, and often appeared in small roles in movies that starred his father. Douglas played in both small and supporting roles sporadically throughout the 1980s, with a minor role in the hit Eddie Murphy movie "The Golden Child" and the Matt Dillon vehicle "The Flamingo Kid" being his most notable appearances. Eric performed stand-up in New York City comedy clubs with much of his self-deprecating material coming from h... Biography of Dominique Prieur
Dominique Prieur (June 21, 1949 in Besançon, France) is a French military officer best known for her part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Prieur was a DGSE controller in the intelligence-gathering and evaluation wing, acting as Christine Cabon's controller. She was a specialist in European peace movements. Prieur entered New Zealand on a Swiss passport issued to her alias of "Sophie Turenge", posing as the wife of Alain Mafart. She took part in the operation that bombed and sank the Rainbow Warrior, killing the photographer Fernando Pereira. After her arrest by New Zealand police, along with her colleague Mafart, she pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter of Fernando Pereira and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 22 November 1985. Because of the UN ruling in the arbi... Biography of Maurice Degrelle
Maurice Degrelle, born June 21, 1901 in Sars-Poteries, died April 30, 1987, was a French athlete, a 100m runner. His clbu was Racing Club de France.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Enzo Maiorca
Enzo Maiorca (also spelled Majorca; born June 21, 1931) is an Italian multiple record holder in the extreme sport of free-diving. A native of Syracuse, Italy, he was a pioneer developer of free-diving in the 1960s and 1970s. Maiorca held 13 world records in the "No Limits" class of free diving between 1960 and 1974. Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.... Biography of Zoltan Szabo
Zoltan Szabo, born June 21, 1945 in Gyoer, Hungary, is a German psychologist, mathematician, philosopher, author and professional astrologer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Phil Ford (entertainer)
Phil Ford, born June 21, 1919 in San Francisco, California, died June 15, 2005 in Las Vegas, is an American TV actor and nightclub entertainer (source: Lynne Palmer).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eduardo Suplicy
Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy (born June 21, 1941) is a Senator in Brazil representing the State of São Paulo. He was the first member of the Workers' Party to be elected to the Senate. Suplicy supports the Program of Guaranteed Minimum Income and serves on the Board of advisors of the Basic Income Guarantee Network. Suplicy was formerly married to Marta Suplicy. His father, Paulo Cochrane Suplicy, and his maternal grandfather, Francesco Matarazzo, were important Brazilian businesspersons.... Biography of Yingluck Shinawatra
Yingluck Shinawatra (Thai: ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร, RTGS: Yinglak Chinnawat, Thai pronunciation: ; born 21 June 1967) is a Thai politician, frontrunner of Pheu Thai Party, and Prime Minister-designate of Thailand following the 2011 general election. Born in Chiang Mai, Yingluck Shinawatra earned a bachelors degree from Chiang Mai University and a masters degree from Kentucky State University, both in public administration. She became an executive in the businesses founded by her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, and later became the president of property developer SC Asset and managing director of Advanced Info Service. Meanwhile, her brother Thaksin became Prime Minister, was overthrown in... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John J. O'Neill
John O'Neill, born June 21, 1889 in New York, was an American journalist and writer. John O'Neill, with William Laurence, Howard Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting "for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University."... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernard Ingham
Sir Bernard Ingham (born 21 June 1932) is a journalist best known as Margaret Thatcher's Chief Press Secretary whilst she was Prime Minister 1979-1990. Ingham was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School and joined the Hebden Bridge Times newspaper at the age of 16. He went on to work for the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Yorkshire Post, latterly as Northern Industrial Correspondent, and The Guardian. Whilst a reporter at the Yorkshire Post, Ingham was an active member of the National Union of Journalists and was vice chairman of the Leeds branch. Ingham's father was a Labour Party councillor and he was himself a member of the Labour Party until he joined the Civil Service. He contested the safe Conservative Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in the 1965 council elections. In 1967... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Harold R. Aaron
Harold Robert Aaron (June 21, 1921 – April 30, 1980) was a general in the U.S. Army. Biography Originally from Indiana, Aaron graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point in 1943 and served in Europe during World War II. He served as commander of U.S. Special Forces in the Pacific from 1967 to 1969. From November 5, 1973 to August 28, 1977, Aaron, then a Major General, served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army. He later was promoted to Lieutenant General. Honors and awards General Aaron is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. * Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg Army Distinguished Service Medal * Legion of Merit ribbon.svg Legion of Merit * Bronze Star ribbon.svg Bronze S... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Pastorelli
Robert Joseph Pastorelli (June 21, 1954 – March 8, 2004) was an American actor. He had many roles on TV, in movies, and on the stage, including the seven years he played the portly painter Eldin Bernecky on the television series Murphy Brown. His last role was as an oddball hit man in Be Cool, reuniting him with Michael star John Travolta. Pastorelli died of a heroin overdose in 2004. Early life Pastorelli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Dotty, an artist, and Ledo Pastorelli, an insurance salesman. Pastorelli was of Italian descent. His sister, Gwen Pastorelli, is an opera singer and a real estate agent. He was a 1972 graduate of Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey. A near-fatal car crash on his 19th birthday cost him his dream of boxing professionally. Death... Biography of Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the Mission: Impossible theme. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Biography Schifrin was born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires. His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section of the orchestra at the Teatro Colón for three decades. At the age of six, Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. At age 16, Schifrin began studying piano with the Russian expatriate Andreas Karalis, former head of the Kiev Conservatory, and harmony with Argentine composer Juan-Carlos Paz. During this time, Schifrin also became interested in j... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American author, critic, journalist and political activist. Early life Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918. She and her brothers, Kevin, Preston, and Sheridan were raised in very unhappy circumstances by her Catholic father's parents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the direct care of an uncle and aunt she remembered for harsh treatment and abuse. When the situation became intolerable, she was taken in by her maternal grandparents in Seattle, Augusta Morganstern, who was Jewish, and Harold Preston, a prominent attorney and co-founder of the law firm Preston G... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Giovanni Spadolini
Giovanni Spadolini (Florence, 21 June 1925 – Rome, 4 August 1994) was a liberal Italian politician, the 65th Prime Minister, newspaper editor, journalist, and a noted historian. Before entering politics, he was editor of Il Corriere della Sera from 1968 to 1972. He served as Ministro dei Beni e delle Attività culturali (Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities) from 1974 to 1976. He was leader of the Italian Republican Party (PRI) from 1979 to 1987. He served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1981 to 1982, the first in the post-1945 Republic to do so who was not a member of the Christian Democrat party. From 1987 to April 1994 he was President of the Italian Senate. Following the electoral success of Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms, he lost the chairmanship of the Senate t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Conrad Hall
Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films, such as Morituri, The Professionals, In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Day of the Locust, Tequila Sunrise, Searching for Bobby Fischer, A Civil Action, American Beauty and Road to Perdition, which gained him several awards, including three Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards. Sam Mendes, the director of Road to Perdition, dedicated the film to Hall. Early life and career Born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Hall was the son of writer James Norman Hall and Sarah (Lala) Winchester Hall, who was part-Polynesian. Hall attended the Universi... Biography of Lilian Goncalves
Lilian Goncalves, born June 21, 1951 in Unai, is a Brazilian businesswoman, owner of many restaurants and night clubs.... Biography of Anette Olzon
Anette Ingegerd Olzon (born 21 June 1971) is a Swedish singer from Helsingborg, best known as the second lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. Olzon was formerly the vocalist in the Swedish AOR band Alyson Avenue. After her admission in Nightwish, Anette played with several bands, in studio and live, including Brother Firetribe, Pain and The Rasmus. She has a soprano vocal range. In 2008, Anette recorded one track with Brother Firetribe at their second album, Heart Full of Fire, the duet with The Rasmus, titled October & April, was played for the first time on October 9, 2009 on a Finnish radio and was released digitally on November 11, 2009. On August 13, Anette sang two Nightwish songs, "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan and "Meadows of Heaven", with the Stockholm Sym... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Hugh Rossi
Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi, KCSG, KHS, FKC (born 21 June 1927) is a former British Conservative politician. Rossi was educated at Finchley Catholic Grammar School - since 1971 Finchley Catholic High School - and King's College London and set up his own solicitor's practice in the West End, London. He was elected a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council 1956-65, serving as deputy mayor 1964-65, and on the successor London Borough of Haringey from 1964. He was also a Middlesex County Councillor 1961-65. Rossi was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey from 1966 to 1983, and (after boundary changes) for Hornsey and Wood Green, 1983 to 1992. A junior minister in the governments of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, he was on the 'One Nation' wing of the party. He retired in 1992 after wh... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of William Self
William Edwin Self (born 21 June 1921) is an American television and feature film producer who began his career as an actor. Biography William Self graduated from the University of Chicago in 1943 before traveling to Los Angeles to be an actor. His first film role was Private Gawky Henderson in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) directed by William Wellman. Self also appeared in four films directed by Howard Hawks, including Red River (1948) and the Science Fiction cult classic, The Thing from Another World (1951). Between 1945 and 1952, he appeared in over thirty films. In 1952, Self left acting to launch a life-long career in television production. His first producing credit was Assistant to the Producer on the series China Smith starring Dan Duryea. From 1952 until 1956, Self was act... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yang Liwei
Yáng Lìwěi (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; pinyin: Yáng Lìwěi; born June 21, 1965 in Suizhong, Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send people into space. Background Liwei was born in the Suizhong county of Huludao city in the Liaoning Province, an industrial area in Northeast China. His mother was a teacher, and his father was an accountant at a state agricultural firm. Yang Liwei's wife is also a People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer, with whom he has a son. In 1983, he was admitted to the Number 2 PLAAF flight academy (... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Amber Campisi
Amber Lynn Campisi (born June 21, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is an American model. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 2005. Campisi tried out for Playboy scouts when they were searching for models for The 50th Anniversary Playmate Hunt. She appeared in the accompanying pictorial in the December 2003. In 2007, her family appeared on the E! show Wildest Party Parents, featuring her father Corky Campisi, who owns several restaurants in Dallas, including Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bruno Roza
Bruno Roza, born on June 21, 1958 in Seine-et-Marne, is a French writer. Bibliography: Aux éditions Le Dilettante : Leçons de choses, 2001. Chez d'autres éditeurs : Sainte Nénette, Éditions Delphine Montalant, 2004 External link: http://www.ledilettante.com/fiche-auteur.asp?Clef=182... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Al Hirschfeld
Albert "Al" Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Personal life Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved with his family to New York City where he received his art training at the Art Students League of New York. In 1943, he married Dolly Haas (1910–1994); they had one child, a daughter, Nina (b. 1945). In 1996, he married Louise Kerz, a theatre historian. Career In 1924, he traveled to Paris and London, where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. When he returned to the United States a friend showed one of his drawings to an editor at the New York Herald Tribune, which got him commissions for that newspaper and The New York Times. Hirschfeld's ... Biography of Ignacio Corleto
Ignacio ("Nani") Corleto (born June 21, 1978 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Rugby Union footballer who plays Fullback position. He began his rugby career in the local Club Universitario de Buenos Aires (known as CUBA). After the 1999 Rugby World Cup he migrated into professional rugby and signed with french club Narbonne. He currently plays for Stade Français, one of the top french clubs, where he won back to back championships in 2003 and 2004. His Puma (national squad) career began in 1998 when he made his debut against Japan, still as a member of the U21 representative team. As a member of the junior representative teams, Corleto participated in a South American Championship with the Pumitas and in two Southern Hemisphere Tournaments with the U21 representative team. Up to now he h... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Daurand
Jean Daurand, born Jean Barniaud on June 21, 1913 in Paris, died on March 11, 1989 in Argenteuil, was a French actor. Filmography Cinema 1933 : Rothschild, de Marco de Gastyne, avec Harry Baur 1934 : Le Secret d'une nuit de Félix Gandéra 1934 : Maria Chapdelaine de Julien Duvivier, avec Madeleine Renaud 1935 : Pension Mimosas de Jacques Feyder 1936 : Les Grands de Félix Gandera et Robert Bibal, avec Gaby Morlay 1936 : L'Homme du jour de Julien Duvivier, avec Maurice Chevalier 1936 : Nitchevo de Jacques de Baroncelli, avec Harry Baur - un matelot 1936 : Passé à vendre de René Pujol, avec Jeanne Aubert 1936 : Les Petites Alliées de Jean Dréville, avec Madeleine Renaud 1937 : Hercule, d'Alexandre Esway et Carlo Rim, avec Fernandel 193... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart, OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Biography Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac (now part of Greenstone), Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian (born Quinn) and Walter (Nick) Carter, a prospector and mining engineer. Urquhart spent her later childhood and adolescence in Toronto, where she was educated at Havergal College, a private school for girls. She received her first B.A in English literature (1971) from the University of Guelph. While there, she met visual artist Paul Keele, and they were married in 1968. Keele was killed in a car accident in 1973; Jane then returned to the University of Guelph to study art history, obtaining her second B.A. in 1976. The same year... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ghislaine Dunant
Ghislaine Dunant, born on June 21, 1950 in Paris, is a French writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Keith Raffan
Keith William Twort Raffan, (born 21 June 1949) in Aberdeen, is a former Conservative Member of Parliament and Scottish Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP). Keith Raffan was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Originally a Conservative, he was in the 1970s a chairman of Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism (precursor of the Tory Reform Group), placing him on the left of the Tories. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in Westminster for the Welsh seat of Delyn from 1983–92, but his progressive views on issues like drugs and devolution put him out of favour with the prevailing leadership of Margaret Thatcher, and he was never made a Minister. Raffan was one of the few Conservative MPs to support the 'stalking ... Biography of Laurent Banide
Laurent Banide (born 26 January 1968 in Alès) is a French football manager. Coaching career He coached Monaco, Umm-Salal and Al-Kuwait. In February 2010 the French coach has left Al Dhafra Club Abu Dhabi to join Al-Nasr SC, who replaces German colleague Frank Pagelsdorf. Personal life He is the son of former French footballer and Coach Gérard Banide.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yvon Madiot
Yvon Madiot, born on June 21, 1962 in Renazé, is a French bicycle racer, the young brother of Marc Madiot.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kate Hoey
Catharine Letitia Hoey (born 21 June 1946) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall since 1989, and previously served in the Blair Government as Minister for Sport. Background Born in Belfast, she studied at Belfast Royal Academy. While attending the Ulster College of Physical Education she joined the International Marxist Group, one of the few people with an Ulster Unionist background to do so in the 1960s. After relocating to England, she graduated in economics from the City of London College, today known as London Metropolitan University. She was a senior lecturer at Kingsway College from 1976 to 1985, during which time she left the International Marxist Group. Sport Hoey is known for her longstanding interest in sport. She... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Malcolm Leslie Rifkind
Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, born June 21, 1946 in Edinburgh, is a Scottish Conservative politician.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henry Priestman
Henry Priestman (born Henry Christian Priestman, 21 July 1955, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English rock singer, keyboardist, record producer and songwriter. Priestman studied music at the Liverpool College of Art. In the late 1970s he played with the British power pop band, Yachts. In 1980, Priestman was one of the co-founders of It's Immaterial. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a member of The Christians. Priestman has also been used as a session musician by both Bette Bright and Mike Badger. Priestman played keyboards on Badger's albums, Lo Fi Acoustic Excursions by Mike Badger & Friends (2004), The Onset (2005), and Lo Fi Electric Excursions by Mike Badger & Friends (2006). Priestman was the producer of Mark Owen's 2003 Top 5 album, In Your Own Ti... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Derrick Coleman
Derrick D. Coleman (born June 21, 1967) is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. Coleman grew up and attended high school in Detroit, Michigan and attended college at Syracuse University. He was selected first overall in the 1990 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets. Throughout his career, the left-handed Coleman was an effective low post scorer with a reliable perimeter shooting touch, averaging 16.5 points and 9.3 rebounds. He enjoyed his best years as a member of the New Jersey Nets, where he averaged 19.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. When Coleman entered the NBA, he was compared to elite power forwards such as Karl Malone and Charles Barkley, and expected to put up similar numbers, only with the added ability to shoot from three-point range. Instead, his career was over... Biography of Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer (born June 21, 1972) is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S. Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single "A Soft Place to Fall", which reached #73. Since the release of her debut album Alabama Song, she released seven albums and 11 singles, five of which reached positions on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Biography Early years Allison was raised in Monroeville, Alabama, just north of Mobile. Raised on George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris, she sang harmonies as a toddler, eventually thinking she'd make a career of it. Following the murder-suicide of her parents in 1986, she m... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carl Stokes
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927–April 3, 1996) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office on Jan 1, 1968, he was tied to be the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city with Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary, Indiana. Fellow Ohioan Robert C. Henry was the first African American mayor of any U.S. city. Early life Stokes was born in Cleveland to Charles Stokes, a laundry worker who died when Carl was two years old, and Louise (Stone) Stokes, a cleaning woman who then raised Carl, and his brother, Louis Stokes, in Cleveland's first federally funded housing project for the poor, Outhwaite Homes. Although a good student, Stokes dropped out of high school in 1944, worked briefly ... Biography of Gretchen Carlson
Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American television host, and former Miss America, who currently hosts the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, along with co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. Early life Carlson was raised in Anoka, Minnesota, and was graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School, in 1984, as valedictorian. One of her childhood nannies was Michele Bachmann, the future Republican congresswoman. Carlson is also a former pageant winner. She won the title "Miss Minnesota" in 1989 and became the third woman from Minnesota to win the "Miss America" title. For the talent competition, Carlson played Zigeunerweisen, the violin composition of Sarasate. Carlson was graduated with Honors from Stanford University, in 1990, with ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (21 June 1763, Sompuis - 2 September 1845, Châteauvieux), was a French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group during the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830). Biography He was born at Sompuis, near Vitry-le-François (in modern-day Marne), the son of Anthony Royer, a small businessman. His mother, Angélique Perpétue Collard, was a woman of strong character and great piety. Pierre Paul Royer was sent at twelve to the college of Chaumont of which his uncle, Father Paul Collard, was director. He subsequently followed his uncle to Saint-Omer, where he studied mathematics. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, to which he was passionately sympathetic, he was practising at the Parisian bar. He was returned by his section, the Island of Saint-Loui... Biography of Robert A. Alberty
Robert Arnold Alberty (born June 21, 1921 (birth time source: Gauquelin)) is an American biophysical chemist, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Alberty earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Nebraska in 1943 and 1944, respectively, then a doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1947. For his work in the area of biochemical thermodynamics, Alberty was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965. In 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alberty is also known for his textbooks on physical chemistry, which have gone through many editions. The first one, Physical Chemistry, co-authored with Farrington Daniels, was publishe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johannes Schlaf
Johannes Schlaf (June 21, 1862 in Querfurt (birth time source: Lescaut) – February 2, 1941 Id.) was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism. As a translator he was important for exposing the German-speaking world to the works of Walt Whitman, Émile Verhaeren and Émile Zola and is known as a founder of the "Whitman Cult" in Germany. His literary achievements lie foremost in the scenic-dialogue innovations of "sequential naturalism" and in the formalization of literary impressionism. He also contributed to the emergence of the "intimate theater." Some of his poems have been set to music by composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. He is sometimes mistakenly cited for coining the term "The Third Reich" in relation to Nazism because of his 19... Biography of Jeanne Labrune
Jeanne Labrune (born 21 June 1950) is a French screenwriter and film director. She has directed 13 films since 1978. Her film Blood and Sand was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography Blood and Sand (1987) Vatel (2000)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernie Kopell
Bernard Morton "Bernie" Kopell (born June 21, 1933) is an American television character actor who is probably best known for his roles as Dr. Adam Bricker ("Doc") in The Love Boat and KAOS agent Siegfried in Get Smart. He also portrayed Alan-a-Dale in When Things Were Rotten, Jerry Bauman in That Girl and Louie Pallucci in The Doris Day Show. Kopell also played several characters on the hit sitcom Bewitched including the witches' Apothecary, and the warlock Alonzo in episode # 239, "The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit." He played a director in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Good-Bye George," original air date December 13, 1963). About this same time, he guest starred on Phil Silvers's unsuccessful sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show on CBS. He had a cameo as a patient in the Sc... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Émile Bourquelot
Émile Bourquelot (21 June 1851 – 26 January 1921) was a French chemist, and professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris. He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons. Bourqelot became the Chief Pharmacist at the Laënnec Hospital in 1887, where he established a laboratory to conduct his research into carbohydrate chemistry. Bourquelot and other French pharmacists pioneered the study of plant glycosides, molecules in which a sugar is bound to a non-carbohydrate part. They developed methods to stabilize these compounds in solution, and detect them enzymatically. He died at the age of 70 on January 26, 1921, from pneumonia.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ian Bruce (Scottish musician)
Ian Bruce, born on June 21, 1956 in Glasgow, is a Scottish musician, guitarist, and composer. External link: http://www.ianbruce.org/pages/biogs/livingtrad.htm... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George M. Seignious
George Marion Seignious, born on June 21, 1921 in Orangeburg, South Carolina (birth time source: Gauquelin), is an American miliary, Lieutenant general. Biography Seignious was born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina but attended high school in Kingstree; he was a 1942 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina where he held the rank of Cadet Major and served as a battalion commander, his classmates included eventual South Carolina Governors John C. West and Ernest Hollings who was also a long time U.S. senator. He was commissioned as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army and won the Silver Star while serving as a Platoon Leader with the 10th Armored Division in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Postwar assignments included attending the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tom Chambers
Thomas Doane Chambers (born June 21, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is a retired American NBA basketball player. At 6'10", he played at the power forward position. He starred at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado before attending the University of Utah. Chambers was drafted by the San Diego Clippers with the eighth pick of the 1981 NBA Draft. He appeared in sixteen NBA seasons as a member of the Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets, and Philadelphia 76ers. In the middle of his NBA career, he also played one season (1995–96) in Israel as a member of Maccabi Tel Aviv BC. Chambers scored 20,049 total points in the NBA for a career average of 18.1 points per game. His career high was a 60 point performance with the Suns against the Sonics on March 24, 19... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bates Lowry
Bates Lowry, born on June 21, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio (birth time source: Gauquelin), is an American art historian.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Omidyar Omidyar
Pierre M. Omidyar (Persian: پیر امیدیار, born June 21, 1967 in Paris) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy. Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm committed to creating and fostering opportunity for people around the world. According to Forbes magazine, as of March 2008, he is the 120th richest person in the world. Early life and work Born in Paris, France to Iranian parents, Omidyar moved to the US at the age of six. Growing up in Washington,... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese pronunciation: ), often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (June 21, 1839—September 29, 1908), was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, but he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. He was multilingual, having learned French, English and German as well as Portuguese, and Greek late in life. Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and early 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes and Susan Sontag are among his admirers, the American critic Harold Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date." In Brazil, however, if Machado's ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rim'K (rapper)
Abdelkrim Brahmi-Benalla a.k.a. Rim'K (born June 21, 1978 in Vitry-sur-Seine, France) is a French rapper of Algerio-Kabyle ethnicity. Rim'K was born and raised in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. His family is originally from the village of Barbacha (Béjaïa) in Algeria and is mentioned numerous times in his lyrics. He is a member of the group 113 and the super-group "Mafia K1 Fry". Discography Solo Albums * 2004 : L'Enfant du pays * 2007 : Famille Nombreuse Group Albums * 1998 : Ni Barreaux, Ni Barrières, Ni Frontières (EP) (113) * 1999 : Les Princes De La Ville (113) * 2002 : 113 Fout La Merde (113) * 2003 : 113 Dans L'urgence (113) * 2003 : La Cerise Sur Le Ghetto (Mafia K'1 fry) * 2005 : 113 Degrés (113) * 2006 : Illé... Biography of Allyssa DeHaan
Allyssa DeHaan (born June 21, 1988 in Grandville, Michigan) is an American former collegiate basketball player and currently collegiate volleyball player. She played for Michigan State University from 2006 to 2010. She is ranked as the fourth all-time in career points (1,649), rebounds (919) and she is one of just three Spartans to place in the top-five of both categories. She also ranks third in MSU history in made field goals (640) and she made free throws (351), and seventh in free throw percentage (79.8%). DeHaan finished her career with four-year averages of 12.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks per game. She is also ranked second all-time in Division I with 503 career blocks. DeHaan is renowned for her impressive and towering height; 2.06 metres (6 ft 9 in) tall, making her... Biography of Maggie Siff
Maggie Siff (born June 21, 1974) is an American actress best known for her television roles, notably department-store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men and Dr. Tara Knowles on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy. She also played a role in the 2009 film Push, as Teresa Stowe and in the 2010 film Leaves of Grass as Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman. Life and career Siff was born in The Bronx, New York City. Her father is Jewish, and Siff identifies as "half" Jewish. She is a graduate of Bronx Science, and of Bryn Mawr Majoring in English and graduating in 1996, and later New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Acting. Siff worked extensively in regional theater before her work on TV. She appears as an Alcoholics Anonymous speak... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Anthony Terras
Anthony Terras (born June 21, 1985 in Marseille) is a French shooter and Olympic athlete who won the bronze medal at the Men's skeet at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.... Biography of Daniela Dakich
Daniela Dakich, born June 21, 1977 in Tuzla, is a Bosnian actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275863/ ) 2010 The Tickets (video short) (completed) Recovery Meeting Member 2010 American Trip Aldous Groupie (uncredited) 2009/I Blind Fate Alice 2009 Production (short) Olga... Biography of Chris Pratt (actor)
Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt (born June 21, 1979) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Harold Brighton "Bright" Abbott in the television series Everwood, the recurring character Winchester "Ché" Cook in season 4 of The OC, Andy Dwyer in the television series Parks and Recreation and for portraying Scott Hatteberg in the 2011 movie Moneyball. Life and career Pratt was born in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington. He was waiting tables at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant in Maui, Hawaii, when he was discovered by actor-director Rae Dawn Chong; she cast him in the horror film Cursed Part 3. He joined the cast of The O.C. for its fourth season, playing Ché, an activist. He also had an appearance in the action film Wanted, as James McAvoy's ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Léon Ashkenazi
Rav Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (French spelling Léon Askénazi), also known as Manitou (born June 21, 1922 in Oran, Algiers; died October 21, 1996 in Jerusalem, Israel), a Jewish philosopher and educator, was a spiritual leader of 20th century French Jewry. Life and Endeavors Rav Ashkenazi's life encompassed two different cultures, which resulted in his ability to bridge Western and Jewish frames of mind. He was born in Algiers to Rav David Ashkenazi, the last Chief Rabbi of Algiers, and Rachel Touboul, a descendant of a prestigious Rabbinical line of Spanish kabbalic scholars - one of its ancestors was Rav Yossef Ibn Touboul, a direct disciple of the Ha'ari, and another was Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel, 'The Rosh', a prominent Ashkenazi leader of 13th century Spain. However her education was... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Richard Jefferson
Richard Allen Jefferson (born June 21, 1980 in Los Angeles) is a 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) American professional basketball player and a member of the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. Jefferson was born in Los Angeles and was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His parents were both Christian missionaries and he moved around frequently growing up. Career High school Jefferson attended Moon Valley High School in west Phoenix, Arizona, where he was an integral part of the varsity basketball team that won the 4A State Championship in 1998. University of Arizona He played college basketball at the University of Arizona, under Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson. New Jersey Nets Jefferson played seven seasons with the Nets and was a key element of their back-to-back Eastern Conference Championship ... Biography of Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston (born June 21, 1967) is an American film and television actress, producer and director. Her husband is actor Michael Emerson, and her brother is actor John G. Preston. Early life Preston was born and raised in Macon, Georgia by her mother, an artist and art therapist, and her father, a geo-technical engineer. A young Carrie Preston discovered her true calling in performing arts. She began performing in community theater shows at age 8, and by age 12 she had begun her own front-yard theater company with other neighborhood kids. Preston later obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Evansville, followed by a diploma from the Juilliard School in New York. Career Preston has worked with her husband, actor Michael Emerson, on a number of projects. Emerson pl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Augustus Pablo
Horace Swaby (June 21, 1953 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica (an instrument at that time primarily used to teach children music in the Jamaican public schools) in reggae music. He was a committed Rastafarian. Biography He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and learned to play the organ at the Kingston College School. It was at that point an unnamed girl lent him the melodica. Fascinated by the instrument, Pablo rarely put it down. He also met Herman Chin Loy, who after working at his cousin Leslie Kong's Beverley's record shop, had set up his own Aquarius store in Half Way Tree. Swaby recorded early tracks including "... Biography of Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts (born on June 21, 1952 (birth time source: http://teemix.aufeminin.com/blog/seedate_79845/2007/02/00/JOHNNY-DEPP)) (born Gregory John Peter Smith) is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980, and fled to India where he lived for ten years. Life Roberts had become addicted to heroin after his marriage ended, and he lost custody of his young daughter. In his efforts to finance his drug habit, Roberts became known as the "Building Society Bandit" and the "Gentleman Bandit", because he had chosen to rob only institutions with adequate insurance, he would wear a three-piece suit, and he always said "please" and "thank you" to the people he robbed. Roberts be... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lena Rice
Helena Bertha Grace Rice, Lena Rice (born 21 June 1866 - 21 June 1907) was the only female Irish tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon. Lena, (who was born Helena Bertha Grace) was the second youngest of the seven children of spring Rice and Anna Gorde. She was born on the 21st of June 1866 at Marlhill, in a two storied Georgian building, half a mile from New Inn, County Tipperary. She had two brothers, Henry and Spring and four sisters Bess, Connie Annie and Lucy. Lena who regularly partnered her sister Annie at tennis, learn't the game at home, where her parents entertained in their large garden at Marlhill in the 1880s. The family fortunes were not to last and after the death of Spring Rice, the household declined into a state of near destitution. Lena played at Cahir Law... Biography of Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli (born June 21, 1963 in Pisa, Italy) is a composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), and Atonement (2007), the last two for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score. He has won Best Original Score for the score of Atonement at the 80th Academy Awards and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. He has collaborated with Joe Wright three times, on Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist. Film scores Year Film Awards & nominations 1994 Ailsa 1995 The Long Way Home 1997 The Sheep Thief 1997 I Went Down 1999 Preserve 1999 The Funeral of the Last Gypsy King 1999 Southpaw: The Fran... Biography of Jochen Hecht
Jochen Hecht (born June 21, 1977) is a German professional ice hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career The St. Louis Blues selected Hecht in the second round, 49th overall, of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft from Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Hecht played two full seasons for the Blues, compiling 32 goals and 46 assists before being dealt, along with Marty Reasoner and Jan Horáček, to the Edmonton Oilers for Doug Weight and Michel Riesen on July 1, 2001. After appearing in a full season with the Oilers, Hecht was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for the 31st and 36th picks in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. As a Sabre, Hecht had his most successful NHL season, in terms of points scored, in 2006–2007 with 56 po... Biography of Linda Kasabian
Linda Kasabian (born Linda Darlene Drouin; June 21, 1949) is a former member of Charles Manson's "family". She was the key witness in District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi's prosecution of Manson and his followers for the Tate-LaBianca murders, one of the highest-profile murder trials in history. Early life Born as Linda Darlene Drouin in Biddeford, Maine, Kasabian was raised in the New England town of Milford, New Hampshire. She was the eldest child, and her mother Joyce Drouin has remarked that with so many younger children to care for she was not able to devote the necessary attention to her teenage daughter. "I didn't have time to listen to her problems. A lot of what has happened to Linda is my fault." Kasabian was described by friends, neighbors, and teachers as intelligent, a ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Don Sidle
Donald Roy Sidle (June 21, 1946–May 1987) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward/center, Sidle played at the University of Oklahoma from 1965 to 1968. He was an All-American in 1967 and 1968, after seasons in which he averaged 23.7 points and 19.8 points per game, respectively. Sidle was selected by the San Francisco Warriors with the 29th pick of the 1968 NBA Draft, but he spent his professional career in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Miami Floridians, Denver Rockets, Indiana Pacers, and Memphis Pros. Over four seasons (1968-1972) he averaged 13.5 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. He ranked eighth in the ABA in rebounds per game (12.9) and seventh in total rebounds (1,082) during the 1969-70 ABA season.... Biography of Jean-Michel Aubevert
Jean-Michel Aubevert, born on June 21, 1952 in Uccle, is a Belgian writer and poet. Selected bibliography Prose "La Chute dans le Miroir", Éditions De Boeck Université, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1991 Poetry "Nombre de Chienne", Éditions de l'Arbre à Paroles, Amay, 1997 "Enfant de son Père", Éditions du Rewidiage, Lille, 1999 "Avec les Petites Filles", Éditions de la Maison de la Gare, Lille, "Dormeurs Égalitaires", Éditions de l'Amble, Romainmôtier, 2000 "Les Enchantements", Éditions Le Coudrier, Mont-Saint-Guibert, 2001. Photocompositions de Joëlle Aubevert "Abracadabra!", Éditions Le Coudrier, Mont-Saint-Guibert, 2001 "Poème des Lampes", Éditions de l'Épi de Seigle, Lille, 2003 "Notre Patrie des Schizophrènes", Éditions Le Coudrier, Mont-Sain... Biography of Rachel McLish
Rachel McLish (born June 21, 1955) née Raquel Livia Elizondo is an American female bodybuilding champion, actress and author. She had the greatest mainstream presence of any female bodybuilder in the sport's early years. She also might've been the most influential bodybuilder as far as getting women of her generation, who grew up when girls/young women often were discouraged from athletic activity by cultural mores or lack of opportunity, to compete in contests or just join a gym to build mucle tone. Early life and education McLish was born in 1955 in Harlingen, Texas. She attended Pan American University. Her father was of Spanish ancestry. Bodybuilding career McLish's win in the inaugural Ms. Olympia competition in 1980 became a landmark moment for women's bodybuilding. In the ye... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Faryd Mondragón
Faryd Camilo Mondragón Alí (born June 21, 1971 in Cali) is a Colombian footballer who currently plays for Deportivo Cali in the Colombian First Division. He is also a long-time member of the Colombian national team. Club career Mondragón represented Turkish power Galatasaray from 2001 to 2007, where he won two Turkish Super League titles in 2002 and 2006. He was appreciated by the fans for his many saves and his commitment to the success of the team, and also become known for his prayers before and during games. He also had stints with Deportivo Cali, Independiente Santa Fe (Colombia), Cerro Porteño (Paraguay), Argentinos Juniors, Independiente (Argentina), Real Zaragoza (Spain) and FC Metz (France). Mondragón transferred from Istanbul to 1. FC Köln in May, 2007. After arriving at... Biography of Ryeowook
Kim Ryeo-wook (Hangul: 김려욱; Hanja: 金厲旭) was born on 21 June 1987, mononymouly credited as Ryeowook. He is a South Korean singer-songwriter, Radio DJ and occasional actor. He is best known as a member of K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroups, Super Junior-M and Super Junior-K.R.Y. He is one of the three main vocalists of Super Junior. He is also known as the 'eternal "magnae/maknae" of Super Junior. Along with four other Super Junior members, he is one of the first Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps. Biography Pre-debut Ryeowook was discovered through the CMB Youth ChinChin Festival in 2004 and signed a contract with SM Entertainment soon afterwards after impressing judges with his singing talent. Trained in areas of s... Biography of Brett Swain (American football)
Brett Andrew Swain (born June 21, 1985 in Asheville, North Carolina (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Asstrodatabank)) is an American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Swain graduated from Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, CA. He played college football at San Diego State. College career Swain played four seasons at San Diego State. As a senior in 2007, he led his team by recording 58 receptions for 973 yards and 5 touchdowns. In 2006 he started a season for the first time and recorded 47 catches for 528 yards and scored twice. He also had 7 carries for 35 yards, though did not record a touchdown. He was an All-Mountain West Conference wide receiver his senior year. Professional career Green Bay Packers... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Miguel Ángel Gamboa
Miguel Ángel Luis Gamboa Pedemonte (born June 21, 1951 in Santiago) is a retired football striker from Chile. He represented his native country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number 21 jersey. He also played for several clubs in Chile, including Colo Colo, and in Mexico for Tecos UAG and América. Gamboa is the current coach of the Rapanui national football team.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Increase Mather
Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials. He was the son of Richard Mather, and the father of Cotton Mather, both influential Puritan ministers. Biography Early life Mather was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on June 21, 1639 to Rev. Richard Mather and Kathrine Holt Mather following their participation in the Great Migration from England due to nonconformity with the Church of England. He was the youngest of six brothers: Samuel, Nathaniel, Eleazar, Joseph, and Timothy. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress
Archduchess Maria of Austria (21 June 1528 – 26 February 1603) was the spouse of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia and Hungary. She was the daughter of Emperor Charles V and twice served as regent of Spain. Life Maria was born in Madrid to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (elect at the time) and King of Spain, and Isabella of Portugal. She grew up mostly between Toledo and Valladolid with her other siblings. They built a strong family bond despite their father's regular absences. Maria and her full brother, Phillip, shared similar strong personal views and policies which they kept during the rest of their lives. Married life On the 13th September 1548, aged twenty, she married her first cousin Archduke Maximilian. The couple first stayed at the Spanish court and h... Biography of Luciane Escouto
Luciane Escouto Freire (São Leopoldo, June 21, 1987) is a volleyball player and Brazilian model. She defended the newly created Fluminense's volleyball team, with whom he signed has signed to play for the championship in Rio in 2012. Before, she defended the Mackenzie Sports Club team of Minas Gerais, after having spent the teams Osasco, Pinheiros, Banespa, Macae and Brusque. In 2011, at the insistence of her mother, she participated in the contest The Most Beautiful Gaucha and, despite the insecurity confesses, won the five thousand competitors. With that, she will represent the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil 2013 Miss World contest in September 2012. Luciane also dreaming of a place in the brazilian national women's volleyball. Biography In an interview with WCB News, Luciane s... Biography of Benjamin Walker (actor)
Benjamin Walker (born Benjamin Walker Davis; June 21, 1982) is an American actor, best known for playing the title role in the 2012 film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, as well as for his appearances in the movies Kinsey (as Alfred Kinsey at age 19), Harlon Block in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, and his critically acclaimed portrayal of Andrew Jackson in the Off-Broadway and Broadway incarnations of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Personal life Walker was born Benjamin Walker Davis in Georgia, the son of Jeannine (née Walker), a music teacher, and Greg Davis, who owned a movie rental store and works in financial services. He took his mother's maiden name as his stage name because there was another Benjamin Davis already registered with the Screen Actors Guild. Walker attended C... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alyson Annan
Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born 21 June 1973 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Nicole Jeffery, "Beyond the Limits: The Alyson Annan Story", Astrodatabank)) in Wentworthville, New South Wales is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Annan was voted the Best Female Hockey Player in the World in 1999. In the following year, lead the Australian team to gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she split with her former husband Maximiliano Caldas. She subsequently retired from international competition, and moved to the Netherlands, where she met her current partner, former Dutch hockey captain and fellow Olympic medallist Carole Thate. In the Netherlands she played for HC Kl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mike Einziger
Michael Aaron Einziger (born June 21, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) is a Grammy-nominated musician known as the co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus. Einziger is widely known as an innovator and enthusiast of the use of pedalboard guitar effects during live concerts, and was voted #41 in Total Guitar's top 100 guitarists of all time in 2002. In an interview with Gibson Guitars, writer Steven Rosen states " hasn’t played the guitar so much as he has manipulated it, submitted it to his own needs. Einziger fashions a sonic tapestry that draws heavily from the Zappa/Vai/Hendrix school of rock." Mike is also an active composer, writing his first full-scale orchestral concert entitled "End.>vacuum", as well as "Forced Curvature of Reflective Surfaces"; an experimental ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Leigh McCloskey
Leigh Joseph McCloskey (born June 21, 1955 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor. Career Born in Los Angeles, California, McCloskey was classically trained as an actor at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, New York. He began his professional acting career playing Billy Abbott in the original miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss. He went on to star in three nighttime television series: Executive Suite, Married: The First Year, and is perhaps most widely known for his role as Mitch Cooper (husband of Lucy Ewing Cooper) on the CBS nighttime soap opera Dallas. McCloskey was a series regular from 1980–1982, and made brief appearances in 1985 and 1988. McCloskey starred in numerous made for television films and miniserie... Biography of Alisyn Camerota
Alisyn Lane Camerota, born on June 21, 1964 in Bellingham, Washington, is an American television news anchor for Fox News Channel. Biography Education Camerota graduated from American University (Washington, D.C.) in the American University School of Communication with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Early broadcasting career Before joining Fox, Camerota worked at a number of different stations, including WHDH in Boston and WTTG in Washington D.C., and for America's Most Wanted. She also did some work for Koppel Communications, where she worked on Ted Koppel's primetime documentaries. Fox News Based in New York, Camerota co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend along with Clayton Morris. She previously was a co-host on "Fox & Friends First". In October 2007, Camerota started her own b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joey Molland
Joseph "Joey" Charles Molland (born 21 June 1947, Edge Hill, Liverpool, England) is an English composer and rock guitarist whose recording career spans four decades. He is best known as a member of Badfinger, the most successful of the acts he performed with. Career Originally a member of small local rock groups, such as The Assassins and The Profiles, Molland's recording career began in 1965 when he joined 'The Masterminds'. This group released a single on Immediate Records IM 005, consisting of a Bob Dylan cover of "She Belongs to Me" backed with a band original "Taken My Love". After this the group disbanded and Molland joined the backing group of The Merseys. Although never recording with the group, Molland accompanied them on tour. Molland's recording career began in earnest in... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Thaddeus Young
Thaddeus Charles Young (pron.: /θæˈdiːəs tʃɑːlz jʌŋ/; born June 21, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to his professional career, he attended Georgia Tech, where he studied management. He is 6 feet 8 inches (203 cm) tall and weighs 220 pounds (100 kg). His nickname is Thad-Yo or just simply Thad. Young was drafted 12th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. He was signed by the team on July 11, 2007. Early life and high school Young was born to Lula Hall and Felton Young in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family moved to Memphis, Tennessee when Young was in the fourth grade. His father played basketball for J... |
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