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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on March, 26, 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
139 celebrities or events were found for March, 26. Add to favourites (137 fans)Biography of Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985 (source: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/keiraknightley.html)) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international fame in 2003, after major roles in the films Bend It Like Beckham and the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, having starred in several Hollywood films and earning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Early life Knightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish actress turned award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, an English theatre and television actor. She ... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Steven Tyler
Stephen Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948 in New York), better known as Steven Tyler (and often nicknamed The Demon of Screamin') is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith. Birth time source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SATVA/message/15355 Steven Tyler born at 11:18 PM in New York, NY, rectified by VK Choudhry. He is renowned for his wide grin and big lips (a trait he shares with fellow rocker Mick Jagger). During his high energy stage performances, he usually dresses in bright colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his mic stand. In the band's early days, he was also known for having a bottle of Jack Daniel's on stage with him, a practice he has since discontinued. Early li... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. Over the course of her career, Ross has been awarded a Tony Award for the music special An Evening with Diana Ross (1977), seven American Music Awards, and a special Golden Globe for her leading role in the Billie Holliday biographical film Lady Sings the Blues. In addition, Ross has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. In 197... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Roch Voisine
Roch Armand Joseph Voisine, O.C. (born 26 March 1963 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is an Acadian-Québécois singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and TV host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, when he is not performing in Las Vegas, Nevada. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Childhood and family Roch Voisine was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, but grew up in Saint Basile. His parents are Réal Voisine, mayor of Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Québec and a former English teacher, and Zélande Robichaud, a former nurse. He is the oldest of three children: his brother, Marc, was born in 1965, and his sister, Janice, was born in 1966. They work today as a nurse and hair... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress, best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit film, Dirty Dancing. Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Born in New York City, Jennifer Grey is the daughter of stage and screen actor Joel Grey and the granddaughter of comedian and musician Mickey Katz. She is an alumna of The Dalton School, an elite private school in Manhattan, and studied both dance and acting. Her commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for the Dr Pepper soft drink. After other small roles, she landed the part of angry sister Jeanie in the hit 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The following year she reunited with Patrick Swayze, whom she had played opposite in Red Dawn, for her biggest role ever, Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing. I... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of James Caan
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. He is known for his Academy Award nominated role of Sonny Corleone in 1972's The Godfather and for his role as Ed Deline on Las Vegas. Early life Caan was born to Sophie and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany, in The Bronx, New York City. His father was a meat dealer. He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens. Caan is a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse where one of his instructors was teaching legend Sanford Meisner. Caan played college football at Michigan State University. Career Caan began acting in television in such series as The Untouchables, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "Kraft Suspense Theatre", "Combat!",... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is best known for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek, an American television series that ran for three seasons in the late 1960s. Early life Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Russia. His mother, Dora Spinner, was a homemaker, and his father, Max Nimoy, owned a barbershop. Nimoy began acting at the age of 8 but his first major role was Ralphie in Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing," at 17. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/15/arts/nimoy.php In 1971, he studied photography at UCLA, but never completed his degree, although he has an MA in education and an honorary doctorate from Antioch College in Ohio. Nimoy spent muc... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. Life Childhood and education Joseph Campbell was born and raised in White Plains, New York in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture after his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York where he saw on display featured collections of Native American artifacts. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native American society, primarily in Native American mythology. This led to Campbell's lifelong passion for myth and to his study of and mapping of the cohesive threads in mythol... Biography of Amy Smart
Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Life and career Early life Amy Lysle Smart was born in Topanga, California. Inspired by her friend Vinessa Shaw, Smart studied ballet for ten years and enrolled in acting classes when she was 16, but began her career as a fashion model, working in Italy, France, Mexico, and Tahiti (Awards-winning spots for Club Med directed by Bruno Aveillan). Career Smart's first film role was for director Martin Kunert's film Campfire Tales, followed by a very minor role in the 1997 film Starship Troopers as the co-pilot for (and friend of) Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards). Amy had a starring role in the mini-series titled The 70s, playing a young woman from Ohio. In 1999, Smart played the girlfriend of a... Biography of Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney (born Kenneth Arnold Chesney, March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer. Early life Kenny Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to school teacher father David Chesney and hair dresser mother Karen Chandler. He has a younger half-sister, Jennifer Chandler. He was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, and attended Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a receiver on the football team. Chesney studied at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, joining the Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity and he was a member of the ETSU mens ensemble. Chesney played tunes at local places around Johnson City like Chucky's Trading Post (a small Mexican restaurant), Quarterbacks BBQ, and Rafters. He recorded his first album in 1989 at Classi... Biography of François Léotard
François Gerard Marie Léotard (born March 26, 1942, Cannes) is a retired French politician. He is the brother of singer/actor Philippe Léotard. François Léotard, 1987. Member of the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he appeared in the foreground of the political scene in the 1980s. He led a new generation of right-wing politicians, the "renovationmen", who opposed to the old right-wing leaders Jacques Chirac and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Culture Minister, from 1986 to 1988, he sold the main public TV chanel TF1. He returned in the cabinet as Defense Minister, from 1993 to 1995. Supporting the candidacy of Edouard Balladur in the 1995 presidential election, he was dismissed after Chirac's election. Elected president of the... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition to those two plays, The Glass Menagerie in 1945 and The Night of the Iguana in 1961 received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo (dedicated to his lover, Frank Merlo), received the Tony Award for best play. Genre critics maintain that Williams wrote in the Southern Gothic style. His troub... Biography of Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940 (birth time source: http://ramparts360.wordpress.com/category/divination/)), (Democrat), is currently the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before becoming Speaker in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2002 to 2007, holding the post during the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses. Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House. With her election as Speaker, she is the first woman, the first Californian, and the first Italian-American to hold the Speakership. She is the second Speaker from a state west of ... Biography of Guccio Gucci
Guccio Gucci (1881-1953), founder of The House of Gucci, was the son of an Italian merchant from the country’s northern manufacturing region. Founding Gucci The Boy started the House of Gucci in Florence in 1906 as a small, family-owned leather saddlery shop. Guccio was an exceptional craftsman and began selling leather bags to horsemen in the 1920s. As a young man, he quickly built a reputation for quality, hiring the best craftsmen he could find to work in his atelier. In 1938, Gucci expanded his business to Rome. Soon his one-man business turned into a family-business, when his sons Aldo, Vasco, Ugo and Rodolfo joined the company. In 1951 Gucci opened their store in Milan and two years later, the company expanded overseas with the opening of the Manhattan store.... Biography of Erica Jong
Erica Jong (née Mann, born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and educator. Career A 1963 graduate of Barnard College, with an M.A. in 18th century English Literature from Columbia University (1965), Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (published in 1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires. Jong wrote Fear of Flying in the first person, and her main character suffers from the fear of flying in more than one way, including the literal one. As her airline flight is taking off from New York on its way to Vienna, Austria, she says, "My fingers (and toes) turn to ice, my stomach leaps upward into my rib cage, the temperature in the tip of my nose drops to the same level as the temperature in my... Biography of Larry Page
Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist, software developer and entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. From April 4, 2011 he will take charge of Google's day-to-day operations as Chief Executive Officer. Early life and education Page was born into a Jewish family in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents were computer science professors at Michigan State University. He attended the Okemos Montessori School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honours and a Masters degree in computer science from Stanford University. While ... Biography of James Iha
James Yoshinobu Iha (Japanese: 井葉吉伸, Iha Yoshinobu or ジェームス・イハ, Jēmusu Iha) born March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American rock musician. He is most famous as a guitarist in the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and his eclectic musical projects of recent years, including A Perfect Circle. Early life and brief background Iha attended Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, which he described as "a boring, middle class suburb of Chicago." Iha received average grades in high school, and, after a successful two-year stint at a local junior college, he majored in graphic design at Loyola University Chicago before dropping out to dedicate himself to the Smashing P... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eugenia Last
Eugenia Last, born March 26, 1949 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian astrologer.... Biography of Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Glengarry Glen Ross and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Early life and career Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion"; his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine. The family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, California when Ark... Biography of Didier Pironi
Didier Pironi (26 March 1952, Villescresnes, Val-de-Marne - 23 August 1987, Southampton, UK) was a racing driver from France. During his career he competed in 72 Formula One Grands Prix, mostly driving for Tyrrell and Ferrari, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 driving a Renault Alpine A442B. Career Initially Pironi began studying as an engineer, but this fell by the wayside following his enrollment at the Paul Ricard driving school. He was awarded the Pilot Elf sponsorship bursary in 1972, with the French national oil company funding his early career, mostly in Renault-powered vehicles. Benefiting from this same Elf sponsorship, to promote young French motorsport talent, that bequeathed the likes of Patrick Tambay and Alain Prost to Formula One, Didier Pironi made his top-flight ... Biography of Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann (born March 26, 1972) is an American actress best known for her roles in comedic films, many of which are collaborations with her husband, Judd Apatow. Early life Mann was born in San Francisco, California and was raised by her mother, a real estate agent. Mann graduated from Corona del Mar High School. Career She began her career at the age of 17, with appearances in television commercials. In 1995, Mann was chosen from an open audition of 500 candidates for her first big movie role in The Cable Guy (1996). She also guest-starred in Freaks & Geeks, which was produced by her husband. Since then, she has appeared in films such as She's the One, George of the Jungle, Big Daddy, Stealing Harvard, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Drillbit Taylor and 17 Again. In 2009,... Biography of Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (born Victoria Ann Axelrad on March 26, 1949 in Inglewood, California) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, frequent game show panelist of the 1970s and 1980s, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show, alongside Carol Burnett, from 1967 to 1978, and as the sharp-tongued matriarch, Thelma Harper (the main character on Mama's Family, airing from 1983 to 1990, which was spun off from The Carol Burnett Show's The Family sketches). She has also been credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz; Schultz being the surname of her second husband and Hollywood make-up artist, Al Schultz, to whom she has been married since November 16, 1974, and by whom she has two children, Courtney (born May 3, 1975) and Garrett (born July 3, 1977). She is ... Biography of Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American award-winning comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. Early life Short, youngest of five children, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the son of Olive (née Hayter), a violinist, and Charles Patrick Short, a corporate executive with Stelco, a Canadian steel company. Short's father came to North America in 1921 as a stowaway Roman Catholic refugee from South Armagh, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence. His mother, who was the concertmaster of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, encouraged his early creative endeavours. Short attended Westdale Secondary School and graduated in 1972 from McMaster... Biography of Elio de Angelis
Elio de Angelis (26 March 1958 – 15 May 1986) was a racing driver who participated in Formula One between 1979 and 1986, racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams. He was killed during testing at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet in 1986. Elio de Angelis was a competitive and highly popular presence during the Formula One circus of the 1980s, and is sometimes referred to as Formula One's "last gentleman player". Career De Angelis was born in Rome. His father Giulio was a notable inshore and offshore motorboat racer. Having driven for Shadow in his debut F1 season in 1979, he switched to Lotus in 1980 and - at the age of 21 - nearly became the youngest Grand Prix winner of all time when he finished a tantalising second at the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. His fi... Biography of Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently used themes from rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes. Early life Although he is commonly associated with New England, Robert Frost was native of California, born in San Francisco, and lived there until he was 11 years old. His mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, was of Scottish descent; his father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., was a descendant of colonist Nicholas Frost from Tiverton, Devon, England who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana. Frost's father was a good teacher, and later an editor of the San... Biography of Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: محمود عباس) (born March 26, 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (ابو مازن), was elected Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on January 9, 2005, and took office on January 15, 2005. Abbas is a leading politician in Fatah. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to October 2003 when he resigned citing lack of support from Israel and the United States as well as "internal incitement" against his government. Before being named Prime Minister, Abbas led the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department. He has served as Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee since November 11, 2004, after Yasser Arafat's death. Abb... Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas (birth certificate)) is an American jurist who was the first woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served from 1981 to 2006. Although she was considered a strict constructionist, her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively moderate political views made her the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final years on the bench. She still objected to that characterization because she felt it painted her as an unprincipled jurist. In 2001, Ladies' Home Journal ranked her as the second most powerful woman in America. In 2004 and 2005 Forbes Magazine listed her as the sixth and thirty sixth most powerful woman in the world, respectively; the only American women prec... Biography of Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the ... Biography of Jon English
Jonathon James English (born 26 March 1949 in Hampstead, London, England) is an Australian rock singer, musician, actor and writer. Jon English emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sebastian Hardie but left to take on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar from May 1972, which was broadcast on television. English is also a noted solo singer, his Australian top twenty hit singles include "Turn the Page", "Hollywood Seven", "Words are Not Enough", "Six Ribbons" and "Hot Town". English was acclaimed for his starring role in the 1978 Australian TV series Against the Wind - he won the TV Week Logie Award for 'Best New Talent in Australia'. He also co-wrote and performed the... Biography of Jacqueline de Romilly
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (March 26 1913 – December 18 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française. She was also known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides. Biography Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the Lycée Molière, where she was won the Concours général in Latin and took second prize in Greek in 1930. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered the class of 1933 of the ENS Ulm. She passed the agrégation in classics in 1936, and became a doctor of letters in 1947. After being a schoolteacher, sh... Biography of Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlɛz/) (b. March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and conductor . Early years Boulez was born in Montbrison, France. He initially studied mathematics at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg. He studied twelve-tone technique with René Leibowitz and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style. Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead. The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le Visage nuptial and Le Soleil des eaux for femal... Biography of Alain Madelin
Alain Madelin (born March 26, 1946) is a French politician and a former minister of that country. Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round. Following the election, he became a member of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire. In the late 1960s, he was a member of the Occident far-right group before joining the UDF center-right party. Occident had fascist leanings, engaged in violent assaults on political opponents, especially Communists, and sought to overthrow the democratic government of Charles de Gaulle. Madelin states that this period in his life only resulted from his anti-communist feelings. He was minister of Indust... Biography of Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre
Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (26, March 1842 - 1909) was a French occultist who adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Papus. He coined the term Synarchy - the association of everyone with everyone else. His book the Mission des Juifs 1884 was favourable to Jews, but material from this was used for The Secret of the Jews an anti-semitic tract attributed to Yuliana Glinka. He believed in the existence of spiritually superior beings. These beings could be contacted telepathically. According to Saint-Yves, these masters with whom he claimed to be in contact lived in the mysterious underworld realm which is known as Agartha. Saint-Yves d'Alveydre was the man who introduced the concept of Agartha to the Western world. After Saint-Yves's death, portio... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ian Tough
Ian Tough, born March 26, 1947, is a Scottish humorist and actor, member of The Krankies. The Krankies are a Scottish duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s. They entered semi-retirement in 1991, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since. They are Janette Tough (born May 16, 1947 in Stirlingshire) who at only 4'5" played schoolboy "Wee Jimmy Krankie"; and her husband Ian Tough (born March 26, 1947 in Glasgow), who played Jimmy's father. They are probably best remembered as presenters/performers in the BBC's stalwart children's entertainment series Crackerjack. In early 1981 they released a single named Fan'dabi'dozi, their catchphrase. It stalled at number 46. They had three television series — The Krankies Klub (1982), The Kra... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jay Sean
Kamaljit Singh Jhooti (Punjabi: ਕਮਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਝੁੱਟੀ (Gurmukhi); born 26 March 1981 in Hounslow), better known by his stage name Jay Sean, is a British singer-songwriter, rapper, beatboxer and record producer. He debuted in the Asian underground scene as a member of the Rishi Rich Project with "Dance with You", which reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003. This led to him being signed to Virgin Records and having two UK top 10 hits as a solo artist in 2004: "Eyes On You" at #6 and "Stolen" at #4. They were included in his critically-acclaimed debut album Me Against Myself which, though only moderately successful in the UK, sold more than two million copies across Asia and remains his most succes... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bianca Kajlich
Bianca Kajlich (March 26 1977) is an American actress. She married, in December 31st 2006, the football player Landon Donovan. Filmography American Girls (2000) Halloween resurrection (2002) Rules of Engagement (TV series)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Otto Abetz
Otto Abetz (May 26, 1903 – May 5, 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Early years Abetz was born in Schwetzingen. He matriculated in Karlsruhe, where he became an art teacher at a girls' school. He was interested in French culture at an early age. In his twenties he started a Franco-German cultural group for youths, known as the Sohlberg Circle. An ardent Francophile, Abetz married a French woman, Susanne de Bruyker, in 1932. At that time his politics were leftist, and he was known as a pacifist. In 1934 the Sohlberg Circle was reborn as the Franco-German Committee (Comité France-Allemagne), which included Pierre Drieu la Rochelle and Jacques Benoist-Mechin. Nazi period Abetz did not join the Nazi Party until 1937, the year he applied for the Ge... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Dumont
Charles Dumont, born March 26, 1929 in Cahors (Lot), is a French composer and singer.... Biography of Florian Dubos
Florian Dubos, born March 26, 1980, is a French guitarist and singer, member of pop group Kyo. Kyo is a French rock band. Since attending collège in Yvelines, the two brothers, Fabien and Florian Dubos, and two friends Nicolas Chassagne and Benoît Poher, discovered they had the same passion for bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden. In 1997, they met their manager, who convinced them of their potential, and obtained a contract with Sony for the group. They have since released three albums and one DVD entitled Kyosphere. After the recent success of their album Le Chemin sells at 1,5millions copies, the group went to a house in Brittany, where they worked on their new album 300 Lésions which went Gold in 4 days with sales reaching upwards of 500 000... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rebecca Twigg
Rebecca Twigg (born March 26, 1963 in Seattle) is an American former racing cyclist, who won six world track cycling championships in the individual pursuit. She also won 16 US championships (the first - the individual time trial - when she was 18) and two Olympic medals, the Silver medal in the 1984 road race in Los Angeles, and a Bronze medal in the pursuit in Barcelona in 1992. Twigg won the first three editions of the Women's Challenge on the road. Twigg was a three-time Olympian (1984, 1992, and 1996). However, her final Olympic appearance, in Atlanta in 1996, ended in controversy when she quit the team in a disagreement with the coach Chris Carmichael and the U.S. Cycling Federation. The federation had invested in the development of the so-called SuperBike". Twigg, after using ... Biography of Bob Woodward
Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Woodward has written 12 best-selling non-fiction books and has twice contributed reporting to efforts that collectively earned the Post and its National Reporting staff a Pulitzer Prize. Career Early career Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois to Alfred and Jane Woodward. He was brought up in nearby Wheaton. Woodward enrolled in Yale University with an NROTC scholarship, and studied history and English literature as a member of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. He received his B.A. degre... Biography of Carly Chaikin
Carly Chaikin (born March 26, 1990 (source: Imdb)) is an American actress. She got her breakout role in the film The Last Song. She currently resides in Santa Monica, California, U.S. Career In 2009, Chaikin got the role of Veronica in the film, The Consultants, released 4 December 2010 (USA). Chaikin then starred alongside Miley Cyrus in the Nicholas Sparks' film adaptation of The Last Song, initially released in the U.S. on March 31, 2010. She played the role of Blaze, the antagonist of the film who is a rebel that stirs up trouble for Ronnie, played by Cyrus. Chaikin is currently shooting the independent film My Uncle Rafael starring John Michael Higgins. She is also starring in the sitcom Suburgatory alongside Jeremy Sisto and Cheryl Hines. Filmography Year Film Role ... Biography of Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He also appeared as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det. Nick Falco, in the popular TV drama series Law & Order. Imperioli has spent the 2008-2009 television season as Detective Ray Carling in the US version of Life on Mars. Imperioli, an Italian American, was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Dan Imperioli, a bus driver and amateur actor. In addition to his role on The Sopranos, Imperioli has appeared in a number of films, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, The Basketball Diaries, Clockers, Dead Presidents, Lean on Me, I Shot A... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Louafi
Alain Louafi, born March 26, 1945 in St Laurent-Blangy, is a French choreographer, teacher, comedian and actor. Biography on site: http://www.stockhausen.org/louafi.html Following his studies at the École Normale, where he received a diploma to teach French, Alain Louafi attended MUDRA, a school founded by Maurice Béjart, where he received instruction encompassing dance, theatre, singing and yoga. Since then, he has extended his training by participation in seminars on dance (African dance, Butho), theatre ( in Poland, Grotowsky; in Japan, Nô and Kyogen), martial arts (Aikido, Kendo) and yoga (André van Lysebeth). Alain Louafi has appeared as soloist in numerous Maurice Béjart performances and has performed in productions by Micha van Hoeck, Caroline Carlson, Jean-Paul Franssens. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Julie Jézéquel
Julie Jézéquel (Boulogne-Billancourt, May 26, 1964) is a French scriptwriter and actress.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Andrew Fitzherbert
Andrew Fitzherbert, born March 26, 1949, is a British homicide. He is sentenced to life in prison for murder. He has stabbed to death Dr. Kathleen Marshall February or March 1998.... Biography of Palmiro Togliatti
Palmiro Togliatti (March 26, 1893 - August 21, 1964) was an Italian politician, the leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death in 1964. Early life Born in Genoa to a middle class family, Togliatti began his political life in the Italian Socialist Party prior to the First World War. He served as a volunteer officer during the war, and was wounded in action and sent home for illness. Returning at the end of the conflict, he was a part of the group around Antonio Gramsci's L'Ordine Nuovo paper in Turin, while working as a tutor. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I, later PCI) and, after Gramsci was jailed by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime, he became the senior leader of the PCd'I until his death, for which he also directed Il Comunist... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fuad I of Egypt
Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil. He substituted the title of King for Sultan when the United Kingdom formally recognized Egyptian independence in 1922. Reign Fuad struggled with the Wafd party throughout his reign. In 1930, he attempted to strengthen the power of the Crown by abrogating the 1923 constitution and replacing it with a new constitution that limited the role of parliament to advisory status only. Large sc... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Amess
David Anthony Andrew Amess (born 26 March 1952) is a British politician. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for Southend West. Early life He was born in Plaistow, London to James and Maud Ethel Amess, and raised Roman Catholic. He attended St Anthony's Junior and Infant School, then St. Bonaventure Grammar School (now St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive School) on Boleyn Road in Forest Gate and then Bournemouth College of Technology, where he earned a BSc degree with honours in Economics and Government. Amess taught at the St John the Baptist Primary School in Bethnal Green for a year from 1970, and then spent a short time as an underwriter before becoming a recruitment consultant. He became chairman of Accountancy Solutions from 1987-90, then Accountancy Group ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johnny Crawford
John Ernest "Johnny" Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is a prolific American character actor, singer and musician. At 12, Crawford rose to fame for playing Lucas McCain's (played by Chuck Connors) son, Mark McCain, in the popular 1960s western series, The Rifleman (from 1958 to 1963). He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. Biography Johnny Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California. One of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers in 1955, Crawford has acted on stage, in films, and on television. Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers. At the end of the first season, the studio had reduced the number to 12 and Johnny was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "L... Biography of Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden (March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. Standing 6-feet, 5-inches tall (196 cm), he is one of the tallest leading actors of all time. Biography Early life, education He was born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by Ja... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christian Anfinsen
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995) was a biochemist and a 1972 Nobel Prize laureate for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania to a Norwegian American family. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1937, a master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939, and in 1943 a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard Medical School. While attending Swarthmore College he played varsity football and joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Anfinsen stayed at Harvard as an assistant professor until 1950, when he began working for the National Institute of Health, where... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kyung Wha Chung
Kyung-wha Chung (born 26 March 1948 Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean violinist virtuoso. A pioneer in the Asian classical music circuit, Kyung-wha Chung's musical career began at the age of three. Her fame peaked in the seventies and eighties along with other famous violinists such as Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman. In her prime, she was well known for her interpretations of Romantic and Modern music. She is still quite actively performing, and expanding her repertoire to Baroque and Mozart in recent years. Early years Kyung-wha Chung was born to a very musical family. Her mother recognised her musical talent from a young age (she began to sing at the age of two). With her perfect pitch, Chung was a good singer, winning several small competitions. Following this success she w... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Irène Frachon
Irène Frachon, born on March 26, 1963 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French physician and pulmonologist. Publications: * Médiator 150MG : Combien de morts ?, 3 juin 2010, éditions-dialogues.fr, (ISBN 2918135143 et 978-2918135142) (English title: Mediator 150 mg. How many deaths?) * Médiator 150MG : Sous-titre censuré, postface de Rony Brauman, 14 juin 2010, éditions-dialogues.fr, (ISBN 2918135178 et 978-2918135173)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Daniel Lommel
Daniel Lommel, born March 26, 1943 in Paris, is a French dancer and professor of dance.... Biography of Jessica McClure
Jessica Morales née McClure (born March 26, 1986), became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in Midland, Texas on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from the eight-inch-wide hole. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 ABC TV movie. As presented in the movie, a vital part of the rescue was the use of the then relatively new technology of waterjet cutting. Media impact The rescue of Jessica McClure was the first such "child down a well" story in the age of round the clock, live video broadcasts. CNN, then a new company with a new concept in news delivery, was quickly on the spot, and the event helped make their name... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fred Zeller
Fred (Frédéric Victor) Zeller, born on March 26, 1912 in Paris, died on February 7, 2003 in Bergerac (Dordogne), was a French politician, artist, and painter. Publications * "Trois points, c'est tout" (Fred Zeller) Éditions Robert Laffont (1976) * "Les Chemins de la Révolution" (Alain Krivine et Fred Zeller) Éditions Belfond (1977) * "Témoin du siècle" (Fred Zeller) Éditions Grasset (lire le premier chapitre) Bibliography * "Fred Zeller: Des 3 flèches aux 3 points" (Denis Lefebvre) Éditions Bruno Leprince (2004) * "Fred Zeller: quand la peinture remplace la parole" (Éditions ndp)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian taste, and to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Théodore Aubanel
Théodore Aubanel (Occitan: Teodòr Aubanèu) (March 26, 1829 in Avignon – November 2, 1886 in Avignon) was a Provencal poet. He was born in Avignon in a family of painters. Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to Provençal, due to the influence of Joseph Roumanille. He is known primarily for La Miougrano entreduberto (1860, The Split Pomegranate) and Li Fiho d'Avignoun (1885, The Young Ladies of Avignon), two collections of lyric poems. References * Jean Albert Bédé and William Benbow Edgerton. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. Columbia University Press, 1980. ISBN 9780231037174; p. 36... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lolita Torres
Lolita Torres, born March 26, 1930 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, died September 14, 2002, was an actress and singer. She is the mother of actor and singer Diego Torres. Filmography (source : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868729/ ) Allá en el Norte (1973) Joven, viuda y estanciera (1970) "Noche del sábado" (1 episode, 1967) - Episode dated 1 April 1967 (1967) TV episode Pimienta (1966) .... Doctora Laura ... aka Pepper (International: English title) Ritmo nuevo y vieja ola (1965) 40 años de novios (1963) .... Rosario Villaespesa ... aka Cuarenta años de novios (Argentina) (Spain: alternative spelling) La maestra enamorada (1961) La hermosa mentira (1958) Novia para dos (1956) Amor a primera vista (1956) Un novio para Laura (1955) Más pobre que una laucha (195... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edvaldo Alves De Santa Rosa
Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa (born March 26, 1934 in Maceió, AL - September 17, 2002, Rio de Janeiro), better known as Dida, was a Brazilian football player. Dida is among the greatest players in Flamengo's history such as his idol Zizinho, Domingos da Guia, Leonidas da Silva and Zico. The skillful forward was the first great scorer of Maracanã. His delightful performances at the pitch made him an idol of idols as Zico, Júnior and Carlos Alberto. He led Flamengo to consecutive Carioca championships in 1954 and 1955. Following his retirement, he remained with Flamengo, working for two decades with the club's youth teams, while staying out of the spotlight and refusing to give interviews. On September 17, 2002, he died of cancer in a Rio de Janeiro hospital, at the age of 68. Dida... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965; Korean pronunciation: ) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. Rhee was regarded as an anti-Communist and a strongman, and led South Korea through the Korean War. His presidency ended in resignation following popular protests against a disputed election. He died in exile in Hawaii. Early life Syngman Rhee was born in Hwanghae Province to Yi Gyeong-seon, a royal aristocrat. By birth, Rhee was a member of a royal cadet branch of the House of Yi, the House of Grand Prince Royal Yangnyeong. He attended Pai Chai Hak Dang, but he soon became active in Korea's struggle against Japanese hegemo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Uwe Flesche
Uwe Flesche, born March 26, 1958 in Remscheid, is a German artist and designer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lella Lombardi
Maria Grazia "Lella" Lombardi (born in Frugarolo, Alessandria, March 26, 1941 - died in Milan, March 3, 1992) was a racing driver from Italy. She participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 20, 1974. She scored a total of 0.5 championship points, and is the only female Formula One driver in history to have a top 6 finish in a World Championship race, at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Half points were awarded for this race due to a shortened race distance, hence Lombardi received half a point instead of the usual one point. This means that she is not only the sole female driver to score points in Formula One, but is the only driver with that career total, the lowest non-zero total possible under current rules. After performing well in Formula 3 and Formu... Biography of Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (March 26, 1884 – July 5, 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire in Leipzig with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt am Main. As a boy of 9 or 10 he was taken to hear both of the Brahms piano concertos performed by d'Albert — and conducted by Brahms himself. He made his first concert tour at the age of sixteen. In 1905 he won the Anton Rubinstein Competition with Béla Bartók taking second place. He toured widely throughout his life - in 1921 he gave seventeen concerts in Buenos Aires in less than three weeks. Backhaus made his U.S. debut on January 5, 1912, as soloist in Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Walter Damros... Biography of Jessica Hart (model)
Jessica Hart (born March 26, 1986) is an Australian model who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was born in Sydney, Australia. She is known for a gap-tooth smile. She was discovered in Melbourne and has appeared on the cover of Australian Vogue. Early life and discovery Hart attended Sophia Mundi Rudolph Steiner School in Collingwood, Victoria until she was noticed at the age of 15 at a local shopping center. Another story of her rise to fame has her entering into a modeling competition hosted by Dolly Magazine in 2000 because her aunt or a friend convinced her to do so. As a result she won the competition with her mother, Rae, and sister, Ashley, as witnesses at Crown Casino. Career Hart moved to New York City to pursue a career in modeling and has mod... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Emilio Fernandez
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, Spanish pronunciation: ; March 26, 1903 (source: Imdb) – August 6, 1986) was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. A very close friend of Dolores del Río, who was married to Cedric Gibbons, designer of the original Academy Award, Emilio was the model who posed for the naked knight holding a sword now known worldwide as "Oscar". Biography Early life Fernández was born in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila. His father, Fernando Garza, was a military man, and after 1910, a revolutionary while his mother was a Kickapoo Indian, a tribe that inhabited the region of Sabinas, hence the "Indio... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Rizzitano
James Rizzitano, born March 26, 1961 in Needham, Massachusetts, is an American International Chessmaster and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Curtis Sliwa
Curtis Sliwa (born March 26, 1954 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York) is an anti-crime activist, founder of the Guardian Angels, and conservative radio talk show host. Career In February 1979, Sliwa created the "Magnificent 13", a group dedicated to combating violence and crime on the New York City subways. At the time, the city was the crime capital of the nation and was cutting back municipal services to reduce its debt. The Magnificent 13 grew and became known as The Guardian Angels. The group's actions - some called it vigilantism -- drew strong reactions, both positive and negative, from the public and the media. Sliwa later admitted that, in order to attract favorable media attention for the Guardian Angels, he had fabricated criminal incidents "that clearly had not taken place" ... Biography of John Stockton
John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player who spent his entire career as a point guard for the Utah Jazz of the NBA from 1984 to 2003. Stockton is regarded as one of the best point guards of all time, holding the NBA records for most career assists and steals by considerable margins. He was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. Early years Stockton was born in Spokane, Washington to Clementine Frei and Jack Stockton and had Irish and Swiss German ancestry. He attended grade school at St. Aloysius and moved on to high school at Gonzaga Prep, graduating in 1980. He then played college basketball for Gonzaga University in his hometown where he averaged 20.9 points per game while shooting 57% from the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Ailleret
French military.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Romeo Neri
Romeo Neri (March 26, 1903 – September 23, 1961) was an Italian gymnast from Rimini, and three times Olympic Champion. He won three gold medals at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and obtained a silver medal in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He obtained a silver medal and a bronze medal in the 1934 World Championships in Budapest.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ramon Yslas
Ramon Yslas, born March 26, 1968 in Los Angeles, is an American musician.... Biography of Paul de Leeuw
Paul Henri de Leeuw (born March 26, 1962 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor. De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA. Though satire was only a part of these shows and much of its humour was essentially harmless he came into publicity with satire about Dutch show business personalities who were often ridiculed. Besides, many obscure musical acts were featured in his shows, many of which managed to gain national fame after they had been in De Leeuw's show (e.g. Twarres and René Klijn, a former boyband member who contracted AIDS). VARA has since continued his shows apart from a few interruptions, often with considerable success. In the early nineties, Paul de Leeuw also had some... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wayne Embry
Wayne Richard Embry (born March 26, 1937 in Springfield, Ohio) is a retired American basketball player; a center/forward whose 11-year career spanned from 1959 to 1969. He played for the Cincinnati Royals, Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks all of the NBA. He attended Miami University and Tecumseh High School (New Carlisle, Ohio) before that. He played in the NBA All-Star game for five consecutive seasons (1961–1965) and won the NBA Championship with the Celtics in 1968. Embry was originally drafted by the St. Louis Hawks in 1958. He was then traded closer to home weeks later to the Cincinnati Royals. The Royals were rebuilding due to the collapse of the team following the hospitalization of team star Maurice Stokes. Star center Clyde Lovellette was traded to St. Louis for Embry and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Strother Martin
Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate." Early life Strother Martin Jr. was born in Kokomo, Indiana. As a child, he excelled at swimming and diving, and got the nickname "T-Bone Martin" from his diving expertise. At 17, he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He served as a swimming instructor in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was a member of the diving team at the University of Michigan. He entered the adult National Springboard Diving competition in hopes of gaining a berth on the U.S. Olympic team, but finished third in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner (Konrad Gessner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus, Conrad Gesner; 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Gesner when citing a botanical name. Birth and education Born and educated in Zürich, Gessner was the son of a furrier. After the death of his father at the Battle of Kappel (1531), he was very short of money. He had good friends, however, in his old master, Oswald Myconius, and subsequently in Heinrich Bullinger, and he was enabled to continue his studies at the universities of Strassburg and Bourges (15... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ellen McCaffery
Ellen McCaffery, born March 26, 1885 in Hereford, died February 21, 1953, was an American astrologer, professor and author of astrology articles and books.... Biography of Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea (born March 26, 1974 in Bucharest) is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world. She retired in 2000. Personal life Spîrlea married her former coach, Italian Massimiliano Pace, in 2001, and has a son born in 2002. Controversies In 1996 Spîrlea became the first player in the history of the Women's Tennis Association to receive a match default for conduct when she swore at an official in "gutter Italian" during a match played in Palermo, Italy. Spîrlea is known for a bumping incident with Venus Williams during a changeover in the semifinals of t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of William Charles Redfield
William Charles Redfield (March 26, 1789 Middletown, Connecticut - February 12, 1857 New York City) was one of the founders and the first President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science formed in 1848. William Charles Redfield is known in meteorology for his observation of the directionality of winds in hurricanes (being among the first to propose that hurricanes are large circular vortexes, though John Farrar had made similar observations six years earlier), though his interests were varied and influential. Redfield organized and was a member of the first expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837; he was the first to guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York. Mount Redfield was named in his honor by Verplanck Colvin.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tom Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley (born March 26, 1929) was the 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1989 to 1995. He represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years as a Democratic member from 1965 to 1995. Foley was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign for Congress. He served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2001 under Bill Clinton. Early life and legal practice Foley was born in Spokane, Washington. In 1946, he graduated from the Jesuit-run Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane. He is an Eagle Scout. He went on to attend the Gonzaga University in Spokane and the University of Washington in Seattle, the latter awarding him a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951. In 1957, he ear... Biography of Grégory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 193 in New York – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs). Poetry Corso's first volume of poetry The Vestal Lady on Brattle was published in 1955 (with the assistance of associates at Harvard, where he had been auditing classes). In 1958, Corso had an expanded collection of poems published as number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series: Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle. His notable poems are many: "Bomb" (a "concrete poem" formatted in typed paper slips of verse, arranged in the shape of a mushroom cloud), "Elegiac Feelings American" of the recently deceased Jack Kerouac, and "Marriage", a humorous meditation on the institution. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Will Wright (actor)
William Henry "Will" Wright (March 26, 1894 (source: Imdb) - June 19, 1962) was an American character actor. He was frequently cast in curmudgeonly roles. He was sometimes credited as Will J. Wright. Wright guest starred on the 1954-1955 CBS legal drama, The Public Defender, starring Reed Hadley. He appeared twice in the 1956-1957 CBS situation comedy Hey, Jeannie!, with Jeannie Carson. In 1958, Wright guest starred in the episode "The Woman from Sacramento" on John Payne's NBC western series, The Restless Gun, in the role of Jim Blackwell, a wealthy but dying rancher who doubts the identity of his estranged daughter, played by Kathleen Crowley, who has arrived for a final visit with her father, of whom she has virtually no memory. Wright portrayed department store owner and grasp... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Preameneu
Félix Julien Jean Bigot de Préameneu (26 March 1747, Rennes - 31 July 1825, Paris) was one of the four jurist authors of the Code Napoleon, led by Cambacérès and instigated by Napoleon I of France at the start of the 19th century.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jozef Arras
Jozef Arras, born on March 26, 1890 in Lier, died on February 20, 1919, was a Belgian author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Elemir Bourges
Élémir Bourges (March 26, 1852 - November 13, 1925) was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize, he was also a member of the Académie Goncourt. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man", was closely linked with the Decadent and Symbolist modes in literature. His works, which include the 1884 novel Le Crépuscule des dieux ("the Twilight of the Gods"), were informed by both Richard Wagner and the Elizabethan dramatists. Bibliography Sous la hache (1883) Le Crépuscule des dieux (1884) Les oiseaux s’envolent et les fleurs tombent (1893) L'Enfant qui revient (1905) La Nef (1904-1922) Notes ^ Fitzgerald, Michael C. Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art. Page 170. University of California P... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. Life Born in Leipzig to a Jewish family, Germany, he was educated at the Albert Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig. He graduated in 1934 and fled to Britain in February 1935, the rise of Hitler having made his Russian Jewish heritage dangerous. He went to work at University College London, initially under the tutelage of Archibald Vivian Hill. He finished his PhD in 1938 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to study with John Carew Eccles at Sydney Hospital. He was naturalised in 1... Biography of Teddy Pendergrass
Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the waist down. After his injury, the affable entertainer founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. Early life Born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass in Kingstree, South Carolina, he was the son of Jesse Pendergrass and Ida Geraldine Epps. During Teddy's early childhood, his father left the Pendergrass family and was not an integral part of their lives. In 1962,... Biography of Mikel Arteta
Mikel Arteta Amatriain (born 26 March 1982 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain) is a Spanish professional footballer. He is a midfielder, currently playing in the English Premiership for Everton. Early career Arteta began his football career at the local side Antiguoko and befriended fellow midfielder Xabi Alonso. The twosome would often play along the beaches of San Sebastián and dreamed of playing together at Real Sociedad when they were older. However, Mikel left for the FC Barcelona B squad at 15 years of age while Xabi signed for Real Sociedad later. Despite his potential Arteta failed to break into the first team, and went out on loan with Paris Saint-Germain in 2002. Rangers He joined Scottish club Rangers in 2002 for £6.5 million where he remained for two seasons, winning ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henry Bichat
Henry Bichat, born on March 26, 1938 in Luneville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), is a French high-level civil servant and engineer. Awards Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite et de l’ordre national de Côte d’lvoire, Commandeur du Mérite agricole.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roberto Bolle
Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer. He is currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and also holds guest artist status with The Royal Ballet and La Scala Theatre Ballet, making regular appearances with both companies. Overview Bolle was born in Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont Region of Italy. He began ballet studies at age seven at a local school, and was accepted at the La Scala theatre ballet school in Milan at the age of eleven. Rudolf Nureyev chose Roberto to interpret Tadzio in the ballet Death in Venice. In 1996, following an appearance in Romeo and Juliet, twenty year old Bolle was promoted to Principal Dancer at La Scala. He left that position when he was 21 to pursue a freelance career. Since then he has starred in many ballets including Sleeping B... Biography of F.W. Lacey
F.W. Lacey, born March 26, 1854 in Berkhamsted, died December 11, 1932 in Arundel, was a British astrologer and auther.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gilbert Romme
Gilbert Romme (26 March 1750 – 17 June 1795) was a French politician and mathematician who developed the French Republican Calendar. Biography Charles-Gilbert Romme was born in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, where he received an education in medicine and mathematics. After spending five years in Paris, he went to Russia to become the tutor of Paul Stroganoff. He returned to Paris in 1788 and entered political life. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs. Elected in 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned himself with the Girondists, but after his election to the National Convention on 6 September 1792, he sided with the Montagnards. He voted in favour of the death sentence for Louis XVI. Later, in the events leading up ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sheila Lindsay
Sheila Lindsay, born March 26, 1917 in Cork, died in the '90s, was an Irish psychic and writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard (born on March 26, 1968 in Le Mans, France) is a retired professional road racing cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain. Brochard was a runner and started cycling competitively at 19. He started with Castorama and became part of Festina cycling team. His role in Festina was super-domestique, supporting stars such as Richard Virenque but able to ride competitively when given the chance. He was implicated in the Festina scandal in the 1998 Tour de France. After serving his suspension, Brochard joined Ag2r Prévoyance as leader and had successes in races such as Critérium International and Etoile de Béssèges. He then moved to Bouygues Télécom. He is a fan of French comic character Marsu... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gabriel-Henri Gaillard
Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (1726 – 13 February 1806), French historian, was born at Ostel, Picardy. He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chief attention to history. He was already a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and, Belles-lettres (1760), when, after the publication of the three first volumes of his Histoire de la rivalité de la France et d'Angleterre, he was elected to the French Academy (1771); and when Napoleon created the Institute he was admitted into its third class (Académie française) in 1803. For forty years he was the intimate friend of Malesherbes, whose life (1805) he wrote. He died at St Firmin, near Chantilly, on the 13th of February 1806. Gaillard is painstaking and impartial in his stateme... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeannette Ridenour-Snyder
Jeannette Ridenour-Snyder, born March 26, 1901 in Bay City, Michigan, died March 27, 1992 in Lansing, Michigan, was an American astrologer and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Wu (cardinal)
Cardinal John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung (胡振中樞機; March 26, 1925 —September 23, 2002) was the fifth Bishop of Hong Kong's Catholic church and a Cardinal. He was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He was born in the village of Ho Hau, Wu-hua (Province of Guangdong, Diocese of Kai-ying). Baptized in the village's parish church, he received his primary education there. He Joined the diocesan minor seminary of Ka-ying for his secondary education in 1940. He was appointed the fifth Bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese by His Holiness Pope Paul VI as successor to Bishop Peter LEI Wang-kei who had died o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rufus Thomas
Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 (source: Imdb and Wikipedia all versions, except the English one) – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the father of soul singer Carla Thomas and keyboard player Marvell Thomas. A third child, Vaneese, a former French teacher, has a recording studio in upstate New York and sings for television commercials. Early life and education Born a sharecropper's son in the rural community of Cayce, Mississippi, Thomas moved to Memphis with his family at age 2. His mother was “a church woman.” Thomas made his artistic debut at the age of 6 playing a frog in a school theatrical production. Much lat... Biography of Alan Silvestri
Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American film composer and conductor. Career Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone (1984), the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Silvestri is also known for his work on Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990), both of which are considered preeminent examples of action/science fiction film scores. He has also begun a collaboration with director Stephen Sommers, scoring the films The Mummy Returns in 2001, Van Helsing in 2004 and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009. S... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel Castaing
Michel Castaingn born on March 26, 1918 in Toulouse, died on January 29, 2004 (pneumonia), was a French historian, author, and palaeographist.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Evan Richards (actor)
Evan Richards, born on March 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, is an American actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724084/) 2000 Cloud Nine (short) Daniel 1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (video) Lowell Thomas 1996 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (TV movie) Lowell Thomas 1995 Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (short) Lil' Caelum 1994 Témoin muet Andy Clarke 1992 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (TV series) Bill S. Preston, Esq. – Stand Up Guy (1992) … Bill S. Preston, Esq. – Deja Vu (1992) … Bill S. Preston, Esq. – Destiny Babes (1992) … Bill S. Preston, Esq. – Hunka Hunka Bill and Ted (1992) … Bill S. Preston, Esq. – It's a Totally Wonderfu... Biography of Kevin Seitzer
Kevin Lee Seitzer (play /ˈsaɪtsər/; born March 26, 1962 in Springfield, Illinois (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank)) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball with the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and Cleveland Indians. Career After starring at Eastern Illinois University, Seitzer was drafted by the Royals in the 11th round of the 1983 draft. Seitzer made his big-league debut as a September call-up in 1986 with the Royals. He made it to the majors to stay in 1987, where he started the season as the Royals' regular first baseman. He traded positions with Hall of Fame third baseman George Brett later in the season, in hopes of reducing Brett's chances of injury. Seitzer hit .323 with 15 home runs and 207 hits (tyi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Kirgo
George Kirgo (March 26, 1926 - August 22, 2004) was an American television and film writer. A screenwriter since 1954, his many credits include episodes of Mary Tyler Moore and Love, American Style. He penned the films Red Line 7000, Spinout, Don't Make Waves, and Voices and the TV movies Get Christie Love!, The Man in the Santa Claus Suit, Angel on My Shoulder, and My Palikari. He also occasionally appeared onscreen. Following the publication of Kirgo's 1958 comic novel Hercules, the Big Greek Story, Jack Paar invited him on his talk show. Kirgo also became a regular panelist on Monty Hall's game show Your First Impression and was a movie reviewer on New York television. Kirgo was president of the Writers Guild of America West from 1987 to 1991. He presided over the union during ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of William Hague
William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire, and the current First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. Educated at his local comprehensive school, Oxford University and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989. Hague rose through the ranks of John Major's government and entered the Cabinet in 1995 as the Secretary of State for Wales. Following the Conservatives' defeat in the 1997 general election, he was elected as leader of the Conservative Party. He resigned as party leader after the 2001 general election following a landslide defeat to the Labour... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Matt Grevers
Matt Grevers (born March 26, 1985 in Lake Forest, Illinois) is a professional American swimmer. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the 100m backstroke at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Personal life Grevers attended Lake Forest High School and Northwestern University and swam for the Wildcats. He chose to attend Northwestern over Arizona, Texas, and California. Both of Grevers' parents are from the Netherlands. Grevers considered representing the Netherlands and even spoke about it with Dutch swimming legend Pieter van den Hoogenband. Ultimately, he decided to represent the United States. Swimming career At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Grevers won two gold medals by swimming in the preliminary heats of the 4x100m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay (backs... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Morley
Paul Morley (born 26 March 1957 in Stockport, Cheshire, England) is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications. He has also has been a band manager and promoter, as well as a television presenter. Education Morley was educated at Stockport Grammar School, a co-educational independent school (at the time of his education, a partly fee-paying direct grant grammar school), in the town of Stockport in Greater Manchester (at the time in Cheshire), followed by the Royal Academy of Music in London. Career Morley is credited with steering the marketing and promotion of the phenomenal early success of ZTT's biggest act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Although it... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tinto Brass
Giovanni Brass (born 26 March 1933), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker. He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Così fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire. On Sunday, 18 April 2010, he suffered an intracranial hemorrhage. Life Brass was born in Venice. He is of Russian and Austro-Hungarian background. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he created many avant-garde films, including Nerosubianco, L'urlo, and La Vacanza. However, he is best known for his erotic epics, Salon Kitty, The Key, Senso '45 and Caligula. The latter film was a collaboration with celebrated author Gore Vidal, Franco Rossellini and Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione. However, many con... Biography of Juliana Paes
Juliana Couto Paes (born March 26, 1979) is a Brazilian actress and former playboy model. She became nationally-known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla. Biography Born in Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paes is of Arab, Black, and Amerindian ascent. She is the oldest child of Regina and Carlos Henrique Paes. She has three siblings: Mariana, Rosana, and Carlos Henrique Jr. An actress, model and with a university degree, Paes became nationally-known for her performances in "soap operas" of Rede Globo and for her looks. She was on the cover of Playboy magazine in May 2004. In 2006, Paes was voted one of the sexiest one hundred people in the world by People Magazine. After that international projection, she hired ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Martin Donnelly (racing driver)
Hugh Peter Martin Donnelly (born in Belfast, 26 March 1964), is a former motor racing driver from Northern Ireland. After competing in Formula 3 and Formula 3000 where he won 3 races and was a championship contender, Donnelly raced in Formula One in 1989 and 1990, until a serious crash during qualifying at the Jerez circuit ended his Formula One career. Racing career Formula One During 1988, as well as his racing commitments, Donnelly was the test driver for Lotus Formula One team. But it was during 1989 that Donnelly got his first race start when he substituted for Arrows driver Derek Warwick at the 1989 French Grand Prix after Warwick injured his back in a non-competitive karting accident. He impressed in France qualifying 14th compared to his much more experienced team mate Eddie C... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Moody (saxophonist)
James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2010) was an American jazz saxophone and flute player. He was best known for his hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an improvisation based on "I'm in the Mood for Love"; in performance, he often sang Eddie Jefferson's vocalese lyrics for the tune, which Eddie had fit to Moody's famous solo. Biography James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia. Growing up in New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone after hearing George Holmes Tate, Don Byas, and various saxophonists who played with Count Basie, and later also took up the flute. He joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943 and played in the "negro band" on the segregated base. Following his discharge from the military in 1946 he played bebop with Dizzy Gillespie for two years. Moody later played with Gi... Biography of Suvi Koponen
Suvi Maria Koponen (born March 26, 1988 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish fashion model who rose to fame after winning the 2005 Mallikoulu (Model School in English) contest in Finland, which can be compared with America's Next Top Model, although it is not affiliated with the Top Model franchise. Koponen has established a credible modeling career. She has worked for numerous designers including Anna Sui, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Anne Klein, Blumarine, Miu Miu, BCBG Max Azria, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Nina Ricci and Prada. Koponen has also had an editorial in the French Vogue shot by David Sims. Koponen has also appeared in the American Vogue and made the cover of Vogue Portugal in March 2008. Career In 2005 Koponen won the televised Mallikoulu ("Model School") conte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Bodoin
Jacques Louis Maurice Bodoin, best known as Jacques Bodoin, born March 26, 1921 in Clichy-la-Garenne, is a French musician, humorist and Music-Hall performer. He married actress Micheline Dax; he is the father of Véronique Bodoin, actress and TV host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Benjamin Thompson
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS (March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Early life in America Thompson was born in rural Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1753; his birthplace is preserved as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked to Cambridge with the older Loammi Baldwin to attend lectures by Professor John Winthrop at Harvard College. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to John Appleton, a merchant of nearby Salem. Thompson excelled at his trade, and coming in contact with refined and well educated people for the first time, adopted many of thei... Biography of Carmindy
Carmindy Kathryn Bowyer (born March 26, 1971, Newport Beach, California) is an American make-up artist based in New York City, who is best known for her work on the television show What Not to Wear. Carmindy has also worked on the magazines InStyle, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Self, Vogue, GQ, Essence, and Details. Business ventures Carmindy and Coty's Sally Hansen brand have a line of cosmetics called Sally Hansen Natural Beauty inspired by Carmindy, composed of naturally occurring ingredients. Carmindy has published three books. The 5-Minute Face: The Quick and Easy Makeup Guide for Every Woman (2007), which focuses on simple, quick make-up practices, Get Positively Beautiful: The Ultimate Guide to Looking and Feeling Gorgeous (2008), which is designed to help women fin... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Katharine Jefferts Schori
Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954, in Pensacola, Florida) is the Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church in the United States of America. She is the first woman elected primate in the Anglican Communion. Jefferts Schori was raised in the Roman Catholic Church until 1963 when, at the age of eight, her parents brought her into the Episcopal Church with their own move out of Roman Catholicism. She attended school in New Jersey, then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in biology from Stanford University in 1974, a Master of Science in oceanography in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1983, also in oceanography, from Oregon State University. She earned her Master of Divinity in 1994 and was ordained priest that year. She served as assistant rector at the Church of the Good Samaritan, Corvalli... Biography of Richard Coles
Richard Coles (born 26 March 1962, Northampton, England) is a journalist and Church of England priest. He is best known for having been the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band, The Communards. He was educated at Wellingborough School and King's College London. Career Coles had previously played the clarinet on the song "It Ain't Necessarily So" which was a hit in 1984 for Bronski Beat, a trio which featured Somerville as its lead singer. The following year, Somerville left this band to join Coles. The Communards were together for just over three years and enjoyed three UK Top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986 with a version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", which was at Number 1 for four weeks. They split in 1988 and Somerville wen... Biography of Maja Maneiro
Maja Maneiro, born on March 26, 1982 in Hamburg, is a German actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3090458/) 2011 Le journal de Meg (TV series) Zweite Studentin – Oh je! Dein Ex auf Wein, das lass sein! (2011) … Zweite Studentin 2008-2009 Anna und die Liebe (TV series) Paloma Greco – Episode #1.252 (2009) … Paloma Greco – Episode #1.228 (2009) … Paloma Greco – Episode #1.226 (2009) … Paloma Greco – Episode #1.174 (2009) … Paloma Greco – Episode #1.41 (2008) … Paloma Greco... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sergio Paulinho
Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (born March 26, 1980 in Oeiras) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Team RadioShack. He was a domestique in the 2007 and 2009 Tour de France. After winning a bronze medal in the 2001 World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams: LA Pecol. In 2004, he was 6th in the Tour of Portugal (Volta), winning two stages, including the final Individual time trial. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's Paolo Bettini got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race. Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the Liberty Seguros-Würth team. On July 6, 2006, it was announced in Belgian Sporza th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Niels Arden Oplev
iels Arden Oplev (born March 26, 1961) is a writer-director from Denmark. Biography He directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film based on Stieg Larsson's novel of the same title and won critical acclaim internationally. Oplev decided to not continue directing the second and third parts of the Millennium Trilogy due to time constraints. The film has broken box office records in Europe, grossing over $100 million USD. He is set to direct The Keep based again on the novel with the same name and Good People based on the novel by Marcus Sakey. Filmography (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0649117/ ) 2013 The Last Photograph (pre-production) 2011 Untitled Ed Redlich and John Bellucci Project (TV movie) (filming) 2010 Millennium (TV mini-series) – Del 2 - Män ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Shane Reynolds
Richard Shane Reynolds (born March 26, 1968 in Bastrop, Louisiana) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros (1992-2002), Atlanta Braves (2003) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2004). He batted and threw right-handed. Reynolds attended Ouachita Christian School in Monroe,Louisiana, where he was a three time All-State selection,and later attended The University of Texas where he was a two-time Big 12 first team selection. Reynolds' high school coach has often made the comment that Reynolds was a far better basketball player than baseball. Reynold's best season came in 1999, when he won 19 games, had a 3.51 ERA, and 209 strikeouts. In a 13-season career, Reynolds posted a 114-96 record with 1403 strikeouts and a 4.09 ERA in 1791.1/3 innings pitche... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Howard
James "Jimmy" "Godpad" Howard (born March 26, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Playing career Jimmy Howard began his junior career playing for the Westport Rideaus of the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League, where he played from ages 14–16 before joining the U.S. National Team Development Program. He played with the U.S. National Under-17 and U.S. National Under-18 teams during the 2001–02 season, playing 9 games with the Under-17 team and 26 games with the Under-18 team for a total record of 22-11-1 with four shutouts. In April 2002, Howard played for the United States in the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships in Slovakia. Playing in six tournament games, he led his team to a Gold Medal and was subsequen... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Hilde Sperling
Hildegard "Hilde" Krahwinkel Sperling (Essen, Germany March 26, 1908 – March 7, 1981 in Helsingborg, Sweden) was a German tennis player, although she became a Danish national after marrying Svend Sperling from Denmark in 1933. She is generally regarded as the second-greatest female German tennis player in history, behind Steffi Graf. Sperling played a counterpunching game, predicated on speed, and wore down opponents. Helen Jacobs once wrote that Sperling was the third-best player she ever played, behind Helen Wills Moody and Suzanne Lenglen. Career According to Wallis Myers and John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Sperling was ranked in the world top ten from 1930 through 1939 (no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945), reaching a career high of World No. 2 in ... Biography of Ulf Samuelsson
Ulf Samuelsson (born March 26, 1964) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and currently the head coach of Modo Hockey of the Elitserien (SEL). He played for the Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers. Biography He specialized in heavy body checks and agitating opponents. His playing style also prompted his English nickname Robocop for the suit of armor-like padding he wore and Tuffe Uffe ("Tough Ulf" in Swedish) in Sweden. He was loved among his fans and teammates for his sacrificing and tough playing style. Samuelsson had a reputation of being a dirty player. This image gained prominence after Game 3 of the 1991 Wales Conference Final, when he laid a knee-on-knee hit on Boston Bruins forward Cam Neely tha... Biography of Phara de Aguirre
Pharaïlde "Phara" de Aguirre, born on March 26, 1961 in Aalst, is a Belgian journalist and TV host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Katia Lewkowicz
Katia Lewkowicz, born on March 26, 1973 in Paris, is a French and Israeli actress and film director. Filmography (actress) (source: http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0507913/) 2008-2010 Hard (TV series) Lucile – Episode #2.4 (2010) – Episode #1.1 (2008) … Lucile 2009 Le siffleur Avocate Armand 2009 Comme le temps passe (short) Carole 2009 Revivre (TV mini-series) Film director: 2008 : C'est pour quand ? (short movie) 2011 : Pourquoi tu pleures ? Angèle Meyer – Episode #1.4 (2009) … Angèle Meyer – Episode #1.5 (2009) … Angèle Meyer – Episode #1.6 (2009) … Angèle Meyer – Episode #1.2 (2009) … Angèle Meyer – Episode #1.3 (2009) … Angèle Meyer See all 6 episodes » 2008 Secret défense Aline 2006 Madame Irma Mme Dupontavice 2006 Prête-moi ta m... Biography of Sara Jean Underwood
Sara Jean Underwood (born March 26, 1984) is an American model and actress who was chosen as the Playmate of the Month for the July 2006 issue of Playboy magazine and later became Playmate of the Year in 2007. She is a former host of Attack of the Show! on G4. Personal life Early years Underwood was born in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Scappoose High School in Scappoose, Oregon in 2002. She has been a student at Oregon State University and Portland State University. She was a schoolmate of American football player Derek Anderson. Her first job was assisting in sales of heavy construction equipment. She worked in the Beaverton, Oregon branch of the Hooters chain of restaurants. Later years Introduced by a mutual friend, Underwood had a two year on-again, off-again rela... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Taribo West
Taribo West (born 26 March 1974) is a retired Nigerian professional footballer who played as a defender. West represented the Nigerian national team in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He is known for the various unusual and colourful hairstyles that he has sported over the years. Club career West moved to France in January 1993, spending four and half years at Auxerre. He was part of a successful team that won the league championship and two French Cups. He then moved on to Internazionale, where he played a vital role in capturing the UEFA Cup in 1998. West found himself at the centre of heated transfer speculation at the end of the 1998–99 season following clashes with former Internazionale coach Mircea Lucescu. Once Marcello Lippi took over the club, it became apparent that West had... Biography of Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggero (born March 26, 1974) is an American actress and stand-up comic from Rockford, Illinois. Biography Leggero began performing at age 10, in several Chicago plays. After graduating from high school, she moved to New York City to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory. While there, she also attended Hunter College and received her B.A. in theater criticism. She moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduation. Leggero is a frequent roundtable panelist on friend Chelsea Handler's late-night talk show Chelsea Lately. Her stand-up television appearances include performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Last Call with Carson Daly, and she has appeared on multiple Comedy Central stand-up programs, including the animated show Ugly A... Biography of Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is American singer, song-writer and stage and screen actor. He originated the lead role of Melchior Gabor in Broadway musical Spring Awakening for which he earned 2007 Tony Award nomination. He regularly appears on Off-Broadway stage in plays and musicals and he received critical acclaim for his role in London West End production of Deathtrap. He is one of the youngest actors to be nominated for Tony award. Early life Groff was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to a Methodist mother – Julie, a physical education teacher – and Mennonite father – Jim, a harness horse trainer and driver. He has one older brother, David. Of his upbringing, he has said "My mother’s side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in tha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcus Allen
Marcus LeMarr Allen (born March 26, 1960) is a former American football running back and football analyst for CBS. As a professional, Allen ran for 12,243 yards and caught 587 passes for 5,412 yards during his career for both the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs from 1982 to 1997. He scored 145 touchdowns, including a then league record 123 rushing touchdowns, and was elected to six Pro Bowls over the course of his career. He was also a fairly good passer for a running back, completing 12 of 27 passes for 285 yards and six touchdowns, with only one interception. Allen was the first player ever to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards during his career. Allen is considered as one of the greatest goal line and short-yard runners in National Football L... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nurgül Yesilcay
Nurgül Yeşilçay, née Nurgül Gültekin, (March 26, 1976) is a Turkish stage and film actress. Biography Nurgül Yeşilçay was born in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey in 1976. She studied drama at the State Conservatoire of Anadolu University in Eskişehir. Since her graduation, she has performed several major roles for the stage, including Ophelia in Hamlet and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre aside, she shot to prominence as the lead in, among others, three record-breaking Turkish television dramas. She made her screen debut in 2001 in Semir Arslanyürek's feature Şelale, (The Waterfall). She won the "Best Actress" award at the 45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Awards Golden Boll Award for Best Actress (Borrowed Bride) 2005 Sadri Alı... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jason Lytle
Jason Lytle (born March 26, 1969) is an American musician best known for his work in the indie rock group Grandaddy between 1992 and 2005. Since the group split, he has continued to release music as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. Grandaddy reformed in 2012 for a series of live shows. Biography Lytle was born in Modesto, California with an older sister, three younger brothers, and a stepsister. His father was in the grocery business, and his mother a housewife; They divorced when Lytle was aged five. A fan of music at an early age, he played drums as a child. Skateboarding, however, captured his interest. By his late teens, Lytle was a sponsored amateur. While laid up with a career-ending ACL injury, he started to play music again, writing songs and eventuall... Biography of Leeza Gibbons
Leeza Kim Gibbons (born March 26, 1957) is an American talk show host. Gibbons is the host of her own radio show, Hollywood Confidential, part of the United Stations radio syndication company. Biography Early life Gibbons was born in Hartsville, South Carolina, the daughter of Jean and Carlos Gibbons, a former state superintendent of education and antique shop owner. Gibbons has two siblings; a brother, Carlos Jr., and a sister, Camy. The Gibbons family also adopted and raised a baby chimpanzee named Martha that was later taken to Africa and released at a wildlife preserve. Gibbons grew up in Irmo, South Carolina, a suburb of Columbia, and graduated from Irmo High School. After completing high school, Gibbons attended the University of South Carolina's school of journalism and mass co... Biography of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
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Jonathan Monroe "Jonny" Craig (born March 26, 1986 in Abbotsford, British Columbia) is a Canadian-American singer. He is currently working as a solo act, but has been the lead vocalist for the bands Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa and Ghost Runner on Third. He has an eponymous solo project, with which he has released one studio album and a live album to date. He was also a part of the supergroup, Isles & Glaciers, ultimately leading to its demise. Craig possesses the vocal range of a Tenor and his distinct type of soul-based singing has earned him a high amount of acclaim. Early life Jonny was born in British Columbia. In interviews, he states that he lived on an island. Music had always been in his life. His grandmother, who was in a church choir, taught him everything he knows, as Jonny... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Judith Baldwin
Judith Lee Baldwin (born March 26, 1946) is an American film and television actress who replaced Tina Louise in the role of Ginger Grant in Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978) and The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979). A life member of the Actors Studio, Baldwin amassed 46 screen credits between 1969 and her leading role in 2005's Every Secret Thing. Early life Baldwin was born in Washington, D.C. She was crowned Miss New Mexico USA 1965 and was the second runner up to Sue Ann Downey in the Miss USA pageant that year. Her first acting job in Hollywood was in 1969 on I Dream of Jeannie in the episode "Jeannie and the Bachelor Party" playing Major Nelson's secretary "Dolores". Career In 1987, she created the role of Beth Logan on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, bu... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Seth Lakeman
Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but also plays the viola and banjo. Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, Lakeman has belonged to several musical ensembles, including one with his two brothers, fellow folk musicians Sam Lakeman and Sean Lakeman, but has most recently established himself as a solo act. Career The Lakeman Brothers Seth Lakeman grew up with his two brothers Sean and Sam Lakeman in the village of Buckland Monachorum in West Devon, England. He began playing music with his parents and two brothers at an early age. As The Lakeman Brothers, the three brothers released their debut album Three Piece Suite in 1994. Later that same year ... |
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