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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on March, 27, 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 · 45,398 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,398 Celebrities
138 celebrities or events were found for March, 27. Add to favourites (153 fans)Biography of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, source notes) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. After the success of the album, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1991. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Music Box (1993), was certified diamond and became one of the best-selling albums of all time and Merry Christmas (1994), eventually became the most successful ... Add to favourites (70 fans)Biography of Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines, edgy tough-guy dialogue, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 ) and Death Proof featured in Grindhouse (2007). Early life Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian American actor and musician. His mother, Connie McHugh, worked for a home medical organization and had part Cherokee Native American ancestry. Shortly after Quentin's birth, his mother married musician Curt Zastoup... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Fergie (singer)
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group The Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born in Whittier, California to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson in nearby Hacienda Heights. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members ... Biography of Cathy Guetta
Cathy Guetta is a French businesswoman and actress, born March 27, 1967 in Dakar. She is the wife of French DJ David Guetta.... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Jessie J
Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988 (birth time source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nice-Meet-You-Jessie-J/dp/1471110745/ref=pd_sim_b_2#read er_1471110745)), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. She signed a record deal with Island Records and began recording her debut album, Who You Are (Not to be confused with the American jazz musician Jessy J.). She first saw fame when she began writing tracks for Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. The most successful track she co-wrote is "Party in the U.S.A.", which gained Platinum certification in many countries. On 7 January 2011 Jessie J came top of the BBC's Sound of 2011 list. She followed this in February by receiving Critics' Choice at the 2011 BRIT Awards. She released her first single, "Do It Like a... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969) is an American actress. Early life Perrette was "born in New Orleans and raised all over" the southern United States. She told Craig Ferguson (on the Late Show) she has lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, LA, everywhere. Career After years of working in television and film (mostly doing commercials, voice-overs, music videos and short films), and a chance meeting while tending bar in NYC, Perrette embarked on her current role: she plays Abby Sciuto, an eccentric forensic scientist, on the TV series NCIS, a TV series based on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. She also appeared as a waitress at Cafe Nervosa in Frasier during season 4, and later guest starred in Season One of 24. ... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor, known for his lead role in the television series Firefly. Early life Fillion was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the son of Cookie and Bob Fillion, both of whom are retired English teachers. He has an older brother, Jeff, and attended Holy Trinity High School, Concordia University College of Alberta and the University of Alberta. He claims to be descended from Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early. Career After working in several theatre, television and film productions, including Theatresports with Rapid Fire Theatre and the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime... Biography of Kad Merad
Kaddour Merad, best known as Kad Merad, is a French actor, musician, singer, TV host, humorist and screenwriter, born March 27, 1964 in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria. Filmography Actor 2001 : La Grande Vie ! (le motard) 2003 : Bloody Christmas (l'homme) 2003 : Le Pharmacien de garde (le médecin légiste) 2003 : La Beuze (le directeur de Pacific Recordings) 2003 : Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? (Richard Bullit) 2003 : Rien que du bonheur : Pierre 2003 : Les Clefs de bagnole (un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent (simple apparition)) de Laurent Baffie 2004 : Les Choristes (Chabert) 2004 : Monde extérieur (Bertrand) 2004 : Les Dalton (prisonnier mexicain) de Philippe Haïm 2005 : Iznogoud (le génie Ouzmoutousouloubouloubombê) de Patrick Braoudé 2005 : Propriété... Biography of Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011) was a French actress. She is best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. Career Schneider performed numerous full-frontal nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which were controversial at the time. On a television interview in 2007 with the Daily Mail, Schneider described Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci as "fat and sweaty and very manipulative, both of Marlon and myself, and he did certain things to get her reaction." As for her working relationship with Brando, she says that, while their relationship on the set was paternal, it was Brando who came up with the 'butter scene' and it was only known to her just before filming it: "I should have called my agent... Biography of Xuxa
Xuxa born Maria da Graça Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcasted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) She was a famous idol to Latin American children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among her achievements include the best-selling album in the history of Brazil (Xou da Xuxa 3, which sold over 3,8 million copies thanks to hit song "Ilariê"), some of the biggest box offices in the history of country and a fortune of over $150 million dollars. Xuxa was the biggest and most popular children presenter in Brazil and thanks to her success, lots of presenters appeared on the TV in the mid-80 and the early 90s, like Angél... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Louis XVII of France
Louis XVII of France, also Louis VI of Navarre (March 27, 1785 – June 8, 1795), from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of Viennois; and from 1791 to 1793 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. From his father's death in 1793 to his own death in 1795, he was considered King of France and Navarre by French royalists. After his father's death In 1793, while the royal family was being held at the Temple prison in Paris, Louis-Charles was separated from his mother and sister in order to dissuade any monarchist bids to free him. He remained imprisoned alone, a floor below his sister Marie-Thérèse, until his death in June 1795. As a part of his rep... Biography of Tony Banks (musician)
Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born March 27, 1950) is an English songwriter, pianist/keyboard player, and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of progressive rock group Genesis and one of only two members (the other being guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford) to belong to Genesis throughout its entire history. Banks is the most private of the Genesis members; most of what is known about his early life is from the book on Genesis by Armando Gallo. Early years Banks was born in East Hoathly, Sussex, England. He received classical training in piano, and taught himself to play guitar. He attended Charterhouse School in the mid-1960s, where he met fellow student Peter Gabriel in 1965. Banks originally planned to study mathematics in higher education, and after Charterhouse he took a ... Biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 -August 17, 1969) was a German architect. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post WW I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential Twentieth-Century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define austere but elegant spaces. He developed the use of exposed steel structure and glass to enclose and define space, striving for an architecture w... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Stacy Ferguson
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members of the Mexican gangs in Hacienda Heights. Ferguson attended Glen A. Wilson High Schoo... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint (born 27 March 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a member of the British electronic band The Prodigy. Flint was born and raised in the Essex town of Chelmsford. In the late 1980s he met the DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Liam Howlett, the tape's B side had a few of Liam's own tracks on it that he made in his bedroom studio 'Earthbound'. Keith came back to Liam with great enthusiasm, insisting that Liam should be playing his tracks up on stage, and that Keith himself and his friend Leeroy Thornhill would dance to them. Soon after, in 1990, he joined Howlett's new project, The Prodigy Originally he was only a dancer, but in 1996 he was the vocalist on the hit single "Firesta... Biography of Romulus
Romulus (c. 770 (Source: Sepharial, others sources give 771 or 772) BC—c. 717 BC) and Remus (c. 770 (Source: Sepharial, others sources give 771 or 772) BC—c. 753 BC) are the traditional founders of Rome, appearing in Roman mythology as the twin sons of the priestess Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars. According to the tradition recorded as history by Plutarch and Livy, Romulus served as the first King of Rome. Romulus slew Remus over a dispute about which one of the two brothers had the support of the local gods to rule the new city and give it his name. After founding Rome, Romulus not only created the Roman Legions and the Roman Senate, but also added citizens to his new city by abducting the women of the neighboring Sabine tribes, which resulted in the mixture of the Sabin... Biography of Talisa Soto
Talisa Soto (born Miriam Soto on March 27, 1967) is an American model and actress of Puerto Rican descent. Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Early years Soto's parents moved from Puerto Rico in the 1950s to Brooklyn, New York, where Soto was born. Later on, her parents moved to Northampton, Massachusetts when she was still just a child. Soto's family was one of the few Puerto Rican families that resided in her neighborhood. She was raised and educated there, but she felt that people were prejudiced against her and she became a loner. Modeling career Soto landed her first modeling job in 1982, when she was 15 years old. In 1985, she tried to sign up with the Ford modeling agency, but was rejected because she looked "too" Latina. Soto then went and signed with Click Model Management and ... Biography of Francis Ponge
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. Life Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France, in 1899. He studied law at Paris and literature at Strasbourg. He worked as an editor and journalist in France during the First World War, made contacts with the Surrealist movement, and joined the Communist Party in 1937, leaving the party after World War II in 1947. After living briefly in Algeria, he returned to France, where he held a professorship at the Alliance Française from 1952 until 1965. In 1974, he was awarded the Books Abroad/Neustadt International Prize for Literature, following a favorable article on his works by Sartre. He died in 1988 in ... Biography of Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Source for his time of birth: Steinbrecher. Röntgen's name is usually given as "Roentgen" (an alternative German spelling) in English; therefore most English scientific and medical references to him are found under this spelling. The element roentgenium (formerly unununium) was named after him. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mot... Biography of Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 (sometimes 1899) - April 4, 1983), was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. She was prolific during the silent film era, but her career declined with the advent of "talkies." She is now best known for her comeback role in the film Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which—mirroring her own life—she portrayed a former silent movie star largely forgotten by audiences of the day. Height: 4' 11½" (1.51 m) Early life She was born Gloria May Josephine Swanson (or Svensson) in a small house in Chicago, Illinois to a Swedish American father, Joseph, who was a soldier, and a Polish American mother, Adelaide (née Klanoski), but she grew up mainly in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Key West, Florida. Gloria didn't intend on going into s... Biography of Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Victor de Vigny (March 27, 1797 – September 17, 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family. His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education. As was the case for every noble family, the French Revolution diminished the family's circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged aristocratic companies of the Maison du Roi. Always attracted to letters an... Biography of Agathe de La Fontaine
Agathe de La Fontaine (born 27 March 1972 in Dieppe (birth time source: birth certificate)) is a French actress. Her film roles include Train de vie (1998), which shared the 1999 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award with Run Lola Run, and Love in Paris, the sequel to 9½ Weeks. La Fontaine was married to former football player Emmanuel Petit. Selected filmography 2007 Le Scaphandre et le papillon Inès 2000 J'aime Andrea 1998 Train de vie, Esther 1997 Love in Paris, Claire 1995 La Nouvelle Tribu, Victoria 1994 Louis 19, le roi des ondes 1994 Killer Kid, Isabelle 1994 Jeanne 1994 La Caverne de la Rose d'or (Fantagaro), Princesse Angélique... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Michael York
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson, March 27, 1942) is an English actor, more recently known among mainstream audiences for his role of Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series of films. Height 5' 11" (1.80 m) Early life York was born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire to Joseph Gwynne Johnson, an ex-army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores, and Florence Edith May, a musician. During his teenage years, York was educated at Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex. He began his career in a 1956 production of The Yellow Jacket. In 1959 he made his West End debut with a brief part in a production of Hamlet. Career Prior to graduating with a degree in English from University College, Oxford in 1964, York had toured with the National Youth Theatre, a... Biography of Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey (birth time source: Gauquelin) – April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer who has been described as ranking in the top echelon of female jazz singers . Early life Sarah Vaughan's father, Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, was a carpenter and amateur guitarist. Her mother, Ada, was a laundress. Jake and Ada Vaughan migrated to Newark from Virginia during the First World War. Sarah was their only natural child, although in the 1960s they adopted Donna, the child of a woman who traveled on the road with Sarah Vaughan. The Vaughans lived in a house on Newark's Brunswick street for Sarah's entire childhood. Jake Vaughan was deeply religious and the family was very active in the ... Biography of Nicolas Duvauchelle
Nicolas Duvauchelle, born March 27, 1980 in Paris, is a French actor and model (he has worked for Hugo Boss). He was the boy friend of Ludivine Sagnier. Filmography 1991 : Toto le héros, de Jaco Van Dormael : le chef du gang des enfants 1999 : Le Petit Voleur, de Erick Zonca : Esse 1999 : Beau Travail, de Claire Denis : Legionnaire 2000 : Du poil sous les roses, de Jean-Julien Chervier et Agnès Obadia : Jojo, le frère de Roudoudou 2001 : Ligne 208, de Bernard Dumont : Pascal 2001 : Trouble Every Day, de Claire Denis : Erwan 2002 : Les Frères Hélias, de Freddy Busso (court-métrage) 2003 : Snowboarder, de Olias Barco : Gaspard 2003 : Les Corps impatients, de Xavier Giannoli : Paul 2004 : À tout de suite, de Benoît Jacquot : Alain 2004 : Poids léger, de Jean-Pierre Amé... Biography of Georges Eugène Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from Alsace. Life The son of Nicolas Valentin Haussmann, a negociant, he was born in Paris and educated at the College Henri IV and subsequently studied law, attending simultaneously the classes at the Paris conservatory of music, for he was a good musician. He became sous-préfet of Nérac in 1830, and advanced rapidly in the civil service until in 1853 he was chosen by Persigny prefect of the Seine département in succession to Jean Jacques Berger, who hesitated to incur the vast expenses of the imperial schemes for the embellishment of Paris. Haussmann would remain ... Biography of Elisabeth Quin
Élisabeth Quin, born March 23, 1963 in Paris, is a French cinema critic , TV host and author. Bibliography Bel de nuit, Gérald Nanty, Grasset, Paris, mars 2007 La Peau dure, Grasset, Paris, septembre 2002, ISBN : 2246621011 Tu n'es pas la fille de ta mère, Grasset, Paris, avril 2004, ISBN : 2246656613 Filmography Fais-Moi rêver (2002) de Jacky Katu Elle critique tout (2004) de Alain Riou... Biography of Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (pronounced ) (born March 27, 1955 (birth time source: his birth certificate) is a Spanish politician. As the leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP) he is currently leader of the opposition in the Spanish parliament. Having served as minister in previous PP cabinets, Rajoy was appointed as the party candidate for prime minister in the controversial Spanish general election on March 14, 2004. That election was won by the then opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings. Rajoy was born in Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia in north-western Spain, a traditionally conservative region. He holds a law degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the age of 24 he became the youngest ever property r... Biography of Malia Jones
Malia Jones (born March 27, 1977) is a model and surfer from Hawaii. She is credited with furthering the interest of young girls in the sport of surfing. Malia is of Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino, and German descent. Biography Malia was born in Loma Linda, California while her father was in dental school. She returned to Kailua, Hawaii at age two. Malia has been on a surfboard since she was a baby and has no memory of learning to surf her first wave. She began to surf competitively in her early teens, and at age 15 won the girls division of the United States Amateur Surfing Championship. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asked her to model for their swimsuit issue and thus a second career was born. Since then, she has appeared on the cover of over a dozen magazines, ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Anita Gevinson
Anita Gevinson is a famous rocker disk jockey and TV host, born March 27, 1952. Her talk-show "Ask Anita" had a lot of success.... Biography of Jean Carteret
Jean Carteret, born March 27, 1906 in Charleville-Mézières, died in 1980, was a French astrologer, poet and writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ladislas De Hoyos
Ladislas de Hoyos (March 27, 1939 – December 08, 2011) is a French TV journalist and politician. He was news broadcaster for TF1's and is known to have been the first journalist to interview in 1972 the former Gestapo member Klaus Barbie who was detained in Bolivia. Barbie lived under the alias of Klaus Altmann and De Hoyos managed with Beate Klarsfeld to discover where the war criminal was hidden. De Hoyos covered in 1987 the trial of Barbie in Lyon and wrote a book about him. He was elected as mayor of Seignosse in 2001 and was reelected in 2008 . References ^ http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/12/08/97001-20111208FILWWW00753-tv-ladislas-de-hoyos-est-mort.php ^ http://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/mort-de-l-ancien-journaliste-de-tf1-ladislas-de-hoyos-433750/#... Biography of David Coulthard
David Marshall Coulthard, often called DC, (born March 27, 1971 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire {Dumfries and Galloway since 1975}), is a Scottish Formula One racing driver. He is a successful driver in the current era of the sport with 13 grand prix victories. By virtue of a long, consistent and careful career, much of it spent in top teams, he has amassed a large points haul, and lies fifth on the all-time scorers list, being the top British scorer. He currently drives for Red Bull Racing. Karting Coulthard began karting at an early age, graduating to Formula Ford in 1989. His performance was so impressive that he won the first ever McLaren/Autosport Young Driver of the Year award. In 1990, he suffered a broken leg at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, yet still came back the followin... Biography of Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, IPA: ), (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. Early years Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR, to ethnic Russian parents who moved there from Orenburg. His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. That part of his family bore the Bogorya coat of arms, which was located at the family palace in Skotniki, Mas... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement. Life and work Marquet was born in Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Decorative Arts School, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other's work. Marquet began studies in 1892 at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gustave Moreau, a symbolist artist who was a follower of the Romantic tradition of Eugène Delacroix. In these years, Marquet exhibited paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. Although he did not sell many paintings, the artistic community of Paris became aware of his work. His early compositions were characterised by a clear and painterly Fauve approach, in which he had a fine control of the drawing and respond... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Furet
François Furet (27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was an influential French historian. He was also president of the Saint-Simon Foundation. After beginning his studies at the University of Letters and Law in his native Paris, Furet was forced to leave school in 1950 due to a case of tuberculosis. After recovering, he sat for the agrégation and passed the highly-competitive exams with a focus in History in 1954. After a stint teaching in high schools, he began work on the French Revolution at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, all the while supporting himself with a job at the soon-to-be Nouvel Observateur. In 1960, he began at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he would later be president (from 1977 to 1985). Furet served as... Biography of Marielle de Sarnez
Marielle de Sarnez (born 27 March 1951 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. She is also substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. Career Special adviser in the office of Jean-Claude Gaudin, Chairman of the UDF Group in the National Assembly (1986-1988) Secretary-General of the opposition general assembly (1989-1993) Adviser to François Bayrou, Minister for Education, Higher Education and R... Biography of Hana Yasmeen Ali
Hana Yasmeen Ali, born March 27, 1976 in Berrien, Michigan, is the third-youngest of Muhammad Ali's nine children. Hana Ali's mother, Veronica Porche, and her father divorced when she was nine years old, yet by all accounts she is the closest of her siblings to Ali. Over the course of two years, she and her dad wrote The Soul of a Butterfly, an unconventional autobiography of the great boxer that strings together stories, poems, and spiritual lessons.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe Granger
Philippe Granger, born March 27, 1942 in Nevers, died February 28, 1973, was a French psychologist, professor of Psychology at the University and astrologer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Villeglé
Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist famous for his ripped or lacerated posters (a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath) (see decollage) and for being a member of the New Realism art group (1960-1963). His work has primarily focused on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization. He first started producing art in 1947 in Saint-Malo by collecting found objects (steel wires, bricks from Saint-Malo's Atlantic retaining war). In December 1949, he concentrated his work on ripped advertising posters from the street. Working with fellow artist Raymond Hains, Villeglé b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Remus
Romulus (c. 770 (Source: Sepharial, others sources give 771 or 772) BC—c. 717 BC) and Remus (c. 770 (Source: Sepharial, others sources give 771 or 772) BC—c. 753 BC) are the traditional founders of Rome, appearing in Roman mythology as the twin sons of the priestess Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars. According to the tradition recorded as history by Plutarch and Livy, Romulus served as the first King of Rome. Romulus slew Remus over a dispute about which one of the two brothers had the support of the local gods to rule the new city and give it his name. After founding Rome, Romulus not only created the Roman Legions and the Roman Senate, but also added citizens to his new city by abducting the women of the neighboring Sabine tribes, which resulted in the mixture of the Sabin... Biography of René Fonck
René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894–18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the Great War as the top Allied fighter ace. His 75 (72 solo and three shared and a further 52 'probable' victories) victories also ranked him second only to Manfred von Richthofen, (80 planes confirmed shot down) as the top ace of the conflict. When all succeeding conflicts are considered he remains the top scoring Allied Ace to date. Taking into account his probable claims, Fonck's final tally could conceivably be nearer 100. Fonck was born on 27 March 1894 in the village of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe in the Vosges region of France. Although he had been interested in aviation from his youth, he declined an assignment in the air service when conscripted in 1914, instead choosing service in the trenches as a combat eng... Biography of Christian Sarron
Christian Sarron (born March 27, 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He began his career on a Kawasaki when he met French Grand Prix racer Patrick Pons. Pons helped him get his start in the international racing circuit. His first victory came in the rain in the 1977 German Grand Prix. He was injured in a 750cc race which would begin a trend of numerous injuries for the next few years. In 1982, he again won in the rain at the Finnish Grand Prix cementing his reputation as an exceptional wet weather rider. He finished the 1982 season 8th in the 350 class and 10th in the 250 class. He would finish second to Carlos Lavado in the 1983 250 class with another Grand Prix victory in the Swedish Grand Prix. In 1984, he won three times on a Yamaha and... Biography of Chantal Lauby
Chantal Lauby, born March 27, 1953 in Gap, is a French humorist, director, screenwriter and actress and a former TV host. She was a member of comic group Les Nuls, with Bruno Carette, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia. She is the mother of French singer Jennifer Ayache (group Superbus). Discography Bizet Come Back, parodie de l’opéra Carmen de Bizet, paroles de Pierre Jolivet, 45 tours (1978). Paris super tango, enregistrement inédit. Filmography Short Movies 1995 : Arthur de Félicie Dutertre et François Rabes, court-métrage avec la participation bénévole de Chantal Lauby, Richard Berry, Bernard Lecoq et Yoann Denaive. Musique originale de Pascal Obispo. Produit avec le concours des Laboratoires Sandoz. L'histoire touchante d'un petit garçon atteint d'un cancer. ... Biography of David Janssen
David Janssen (March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was a Golden Globe-winning Emmy Award- nominated American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the hit television series The Fugitive (1963–1967) with Barry Morse. Early life Janssen was born David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to banker Harold Edward Meyer (May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990) and Berniece Graf (May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995). They were married on May 22, 1930 in Nebraska and divorced in 1935. Following his parents' divorce when he was five, his mother took him to Los Angeles, California. She eventually married Eugene Janssen (February 18, 1918 – March 30, 1996) on September 29, 1940 in Los Angeles. His father married Reva Kroeger in 1941. David used his stepfa... Biography of Billy MacKenzie
William MacArthur "Billy" MacKenzie (27 March 1957 – January 22, 1997) was a Scottish singer, notable for his powerful voice and vast vocal range. Billy MacKenzie was born and grew up in Dundee. As a youngster, he lived in Park Avenue in the Stobswell area and attended St Marys Forebank Primary School and St Michaels Secondary School. He led a peripatetic lifestyle, which included decamping to New Zealand at the age of 16, and travelling across America aged 17. Here, to avoid deportation, he married Chloe Dummar. Her brother, Melvin Dummar, claimed to be the "one sixteenth" beneficiary of the estate of Howard Hughes, until the case was thrown out in 1978. He returned to Scotland where he met Alan Rankine and in 1976 formed the Ascorbic Ones. They changed the name to The Associates in... Biography of Cesare Cremonini
Cesare Cremonini (born on March 27, 1980 in Bologna) is an Italian singer-songwriter. Cremonini was the leader of Lùnapop, a successful and popular Italian pop band between 1999 and 2002. In 2002 Lùnapop was disbanded. He has since pursued a successful solo career. His Lùnapop bandmate, Nicola 'Ballo' Balestri, has joined him in his new band, along with other musicians. The singer's biggest solo hits include "Latin Lover", "Marmellata #25." and "Le tue parole fanno male". Since going solo, he has released three solo albums, Bagus, Maggese and 1+8+24, as well as a special edition release of Bagus. Maggese was partly recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Filmography Luther (2003) Discography Albums Bagus (2002) Bagus (Special Edition) (2003) Maggese (2005)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Julian Glover
Julian Wyatt Glover (born March 27, 1935) is an English actor. Early life Glover was born in Hampstead, the son of Honor (née Wyatt), a close friend of the novelist Barbara Pym, and C. Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He attended Bristol Grammar School in Bristol, England, where he was in the same class as actors Timothy West and "Darth Vader" actor David Prowse, and also Alleyn's School in Dulwich. Career Glober trained at the National Youth Theatre and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the early 1950s he appeared in several shows at Unity Theatre, London During the 1960s and 1970s, Glover frequently appeared in British television shows, including The Avengers, Doctor Who and Blake's 7. Julian Glover also appeared in 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, a Hammer... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Didier de Radiguès
Didier de Radiguès (born March 27, 1958) is a Belgian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. He made his motorcycle Grand Prix debut in 1979, racing in the 500cc class. His best year was in 1982 when he won two races and finished second to Anton Mang in the 350cc world championship. He rode for the Yamaha factory racing team in 1988 as a team-mate to Eddie Lawson and ended his career with the Suzuki team in 1991 as Kevin Schwantz' team-mate. He won four Grands Prix during his career. After his motorcycle racing career, de Radiguès took up endurance auto racing, winning the 1997 Spa 24 Hours race as well as a championship in the 2001 American Le Mans Series.... Biography of Arthur H
Arthur Higelin (born Paris, France, 27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H, is a pianist, songwriter and singer. He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois. Career After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, the Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango. He first performed in 1988 in clubs in Paris, as leader of a trio with bassist Brad Scott and drummer Paul Jothy. His first album, Arthur H (1990), combined rhythmic experimentation and bal-musette elements with a vocal style which has been compared to Tom Waits. He toured widely around this time,... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Theadora Van Runkle
Theadora Van Runkle (March 27, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (birth time source: Steinbrecher) – November 4, 2011, Los Angeles, California) was an American costume designer. The first films she designed costumes for were Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and The Arrangement (1969), all of which starred Faye Dunaway, for whom Van Runkle also designed the gown Dunaway wore to the 1968 Oscars, as well as Dunaway's complete off-screen wardrobe at the time. Van Runkle was nominated for an Oscar for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and has been nominated twice more, for The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She designed the costumes for Troop Beverly Hills (1989). She was the recipient of the Costume Designer Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award i... Biography of Brenda Song
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress, film producer, model, and singer. Song started in show business as a child fashion model. Her early television work included roles in the shows Fudge (1995) and 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999). After many commercials and television roles in the late 1990s, Song won a Young Artist Award for her performance in The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). She made her screen debut in Santa with Muscles (1996) and appeared in 20th Century Fox's Like Mike (2002). Her movies on the Disney Channel include Get a Clue (2002) and Stuck in the Suburbs (2004). In 2005, Song began playing the lead female role of London Tipton in the Disney series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. The character was noted as Disney's longest... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Petit
François Petit, born March 27, 1975 in Albertville, is engineer and France, Europe and World climbing champion.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet, born March 27, 1901 in Alès and died December 23, 2000 in Paris, was a French physicist, engineer and scientist. Works 1933 : Les Transmutations artificielles (Hermann) 1937 : Cours de physique de l'École polytechnique (avec révisions annuelles) (École polytechnique) 1949 : Les Rayons cosmiques, les Mésons (Albin Michel) 1952 : Les Inventeurs célèbres (en collaboration avec son père, Félix Leprince-Ringuet) (Editio) 1956 : Des Atomes et des hommes (Fayard) 1957 : Les Grandes Découvertes du XXe siècle (en collaboration) (Larousse) 1959 : Cours de physique nucléaire au Collège de France (cours publié chaque année par le laboratoire du Collège de France) 1963 : Collection de vulgarisation « Le Bilan de la Science » (direction de cette collection) ... Biography of Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary (born March 27, 1958 in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American actor. O'Leary plays the character of Dr. Fredrick "Rick" Bauer on Guiding Light, a role he has played from 1983–1991 and from 1995–present. Michael is a graduate of Damien High School, La Verne, California, and is currently residing in Upper Montclair, New Jersey with his wife and two daughters Kate and Caroline.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Vincent d'Indy
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Life D'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age but, to please his family, studied law. However, he decided to be a musician. He became a devoted student of César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris. As a follower of Franck, d'Indy came to admire what he considered the standards of German symphonism. Inspired by his own studies with Franck and dissatisfied with the standard of teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris, d'Indy, together with Charles Bordes and Alexandre Guilmant, founded the Schola Cantorum in 1894. D'Indy taught there and later at the Paris Conservatoire until his death. Although... Biography of Raymond Oliver
Raymond Oliver (March 27 1909, Langon, France – 1990) was chef and owner of LeGrand Vefour restaurant in Paris, one of France's great restaurants. The three star restaurant had been a favorite of the nation's leaders and artists. Napoleon, Voltaire, Colette, Sartre and Victor Hugo all ate there, some regularly. Olivier also hosted a popular cooking show on television. He served as a judge at the Judgment of Paris. Source Taber, George M. Judgment of Paris: California vs France and the historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine. NY: Scribner, 2005.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Martin Veyron
Martin Veyron, born March 27, 1950 in Dax, is a French cartoonist. Selected works Comics Oncle Ernest (avec Jean-Claude Denis, Casterman, 1978) Bernard Lermite Bernard Lermite (Éditions du Fromage, 1979) Plus lourd que l'air (Éditions du Fromage, 1979) Personnellement je ne veux pas d'enfants (mais les miens feront ce qu'ils voudront) (Éditions du Fromage, 1980) L'éternel féminin dure (Éditions du Fromage, 1981) Ce n'est plus le peuple qui gronde mais le public qui réagit (Dargaud, 1982) Peut-on fumer après la mort ? (Albin Michel, 1988) Le pagure est connu (Albin Michel, 1993) Edmond le cochon (scénario de Martin Veyron, dessin de Jean-Marc Rochette) Edmond le cochon (Éditions du Fromage, 1980) Edmond le cochon va en Afrique (Éditions du Fromage, 1981) ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Landouzy
Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (Reims, March 27, 1845 - May 10, 1917) was a French neurologist from Reims, and whose father and grandfather were also physicians. He studied medicine in Reims and Paris, earning his doctorate in 1876. He spent much his career at the University of Paris, becoming a professor of therapy in 1893 and a dean of medicine in 1901. His name is associated with the Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome, a type of muscular dystrophy with atrophic changes to the facial muscles and scapulo-humeral region. It is named along with neurologist Joseph Jules Dejerine, who was a colleague and close friend. Landouzy was a witness at the wedding of Dejerine to Augusta Marie Klumpke (1859-1927) in 1888. Landouzy's primary area of interest dealt with tuberculosis, and was a major figur... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson FRS (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Family Carl Pearson, later known as Karl Pearson (1857–1936), was born to William Pearson and Fanny Smith, who had three children, Aurthur, Carl (Karl) and Amy. William Pearson also sired an illegitimate son, Frederick Mockett. Pearson's mother, Fanny Pearson née Smith, came from a family of master mariners who s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Randall Cunningham
Randall W. Cunningham (born March 27, 1963 in Santa Barbara, California) is a former American football quarterback. After playing college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was selected in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he remained through the 1995 season. He announced his retirement from football following the end of that season, taking a job as an analyst for TNT in 1996 . The following year, however, he resumed his playing career. He played for the Minnesota Vikings (1997-1999), the Dallas Cowboys (2000), and the Baltimore Ravens (2001). Cunningham then re-signed with the Philadelphia Eagles and retired for good in 2002 . He won the Bert Bell Award in 1990, the height of the 'Ultimate Weapon' stories. He is the younger br... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cale Yarborough
William Caleb (Cale) Yarborough (born March 27, 1940 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, near the famous Darlington Raceway), is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, before Jimmie Johnson in 2006-2008. In the past, he has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His 83 wins places him at number five in the all-time NASCAR winner's list (behind Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip, who are tied for third with 84). Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times - his first win coming in 1968 for the Wood Brothers, the second in 1977 for Junior Johnson, and back-to-back wins in 1983 and 1984. In 1984, he became the first driver to qualify for the Daytona 500 with a top speed... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé, (March 27, 1892 – April 3, 1972) was an American pianist, arranger and composer. Early biography Born Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, in New York City, Grofe came by his myriad musical interests naturally. Of French Huguenot extraction, his family had four generations of classical musicians. His father, Emil von Grofé, was a baritone who sang mainly light opera and his mother, Elsa Johanna von Grofé, was a professional cellist. She was also a versatile music teacher who taught Ferde to play the violin and piano. Elsa's father, Bernardt Bierlich, was a cellist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York and Elsa's brother, Julius Bierlich, was first violinist and concertmaster of the Los Angeles Symphony. Ferde's father died in 1899 and Elsa took Ferde abroad to study p... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sandro Munari
Sandro Munari (b. 27 March 1940, Cavarzere, Veneto) is a former motor racing and rally driver from Italy. Career Sandro Munari began rallying in 1965 and won the Italian Rally Championship in 1967 and 1969, adding the European Rally Championship title in 1973. In 1972 he won the Targa Florio sports car endurance race, partnering Arturo Merzario in a works Ferrari 312PB. Also in 1972 Munari claimed his first major rally victory, winning the Monte Carlo Rally in a works Lancia Fulvia. He was to become synonymous with another of Lancia's rally icons, the Lancia Stratos, and the partnership of Italian car and Italian driver scooped a further Monte Carlo Rally hat-trick in the mid-1970s, among a total of seven World Rally Championship victories. WRC victories # Event Season Co-d... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Mercure
Pierre Libermann, best known as Jean Mercure, born March 27, 1909 and died June 24, 1998, was a French actor and director. Filmographie 1954 : Le Rouge et le Noir de Claude Autant-Lara : Le marquis de la Môle 1982 : Mille milliards de dollars, d'Henri Verneuil : M. Holstein 1989 : Baxter de Jérôme Boivin : Monsieur Cuzzo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carlo Cassola
Carlo Cassola, born March 27, 1917 in Roma, died January 29, 1987, was an Italian writer, philosopher and teacher.... Biography of Titina de Filippo
Titina De Filippo, birn March 27, 1898 in Naples, died December 26, 1963 in Roma, was an Italian theater actress. Filmographie Actress Sono stato io!, regia di Raffaello Matarazzo (1937) L'amor mio non muore, regia di Giuseppe Amato (1938) Frenesia, regia di Mario Bonnard (1939) San Giovanni decollato, regia di Amleto Palermi (1940) Villa da vendere, regia di Ferruccio Cerio (1941) Una volta alla settimana, regia di Akos Ratonyi (1942) Non ti pago!, regia di Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1942) Non mi muovo!, regia di Giorgio Simonelli (1943) Gli assi della risata (episodi L'ombrello smarrito e Non chiamarmi Dodò), regia di Roberto Bianchi e Guido Brignone (1943) Ti conosco, mascherina!, regia di Eduardo De Filippo (1944) Uno tra la folla, regia di Ennio Cerlesi e... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ivan Gasparovic
Ivan Gašparovič (born March 27, 1941) is a Slovak politician and law professor who has been the President of Slovakia since June 15, 2004. He is also the first Slovak president to be re-elected. Background and earlier career Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučenec and Banská Bystrica in present day south-central Slovakia, that time in the first Slovak Republic. His father, Vladimir Gašparović, emigrated to Slovakia from Croatia at the end of World War I and was a teacher at a (secondary school) in Bratislava, and at one point its Headmaster. Gašparovič studied at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, which is the main university in Slovakia, from 1959 to 1964. He worked in the District Prosecutor's Office of the district of Martin (... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Dana Foster Hersey
Dana Foster Hersey, born March 27, 1948 in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, is an American TV host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Xavier Dugoin
Xavier Dugoin, born March 27, 1947 in Neuilly, is a French politician.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Grégori Dérangère
Grégori Dérangère, born March 27, 1971 in Montpellier, is a French actor. Filmography * 1993 : Un Air de liberté (téléfilm) d'Éric Barbier, Philippe * 1996 : Anna Oz d'Éric Rochant, Thomas * 1997 : Marie Baie des Anges de Manuel Pradal, le pilote * 1998 : Pas de scandale de Benoît Jacquot * 1999 : 30 ans de Laurent Perrin, Antoine * 2000 : La Chambre des officiers de François Dupeyron, Pierre * 2002 : Mille millièmes, fantaisie immobilière de Rémi Waterhouse, Vincent * 2002 : Bon Voyage de Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Frédéric Auger * 2003 : L'Équipier de Philippe Lioret, Antoine * 2004 : Les Parisiens de Claude Lelouch, un arnaqueur * 2004 : Le Courage d'aimer de Claude Lelouch, l'agent immobilier * 2004 : Les 3 Mousquetaires de Pi... Biography of Caroline Winberg
Caroline Winberg (born March 27, 1985) is a Swedish model. Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna, Sweden. Winberg, a tomboy and aspiring professional soccer player in her youth, was en route to soccer training when a scout spotted the 15-year-old and suggested that she consider a career in modeling. Career Winberg began her modeling career at age sixteen, and a year later was booking local gigs and appearing in promotional spots for regional companies. She soon caught the eye of several well-known agencies – including Women Model Management, Why Not Milan and Dominique Brussels – and found herself in campaigns for designers such as Valentino, Versace, Oscar de la Renta, Escada, and Armani. She has also been in campaigns for D&G, Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas by Stella McCartney, Rolex, C... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sirkar Van Stolk
Sirkar Van Stolk, born March 27, 1894 in Rotterdam, is a Dutch author, the biographer of Hazrat Inayat Khan.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Heinrich Mann
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 12 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933. Life and work Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist. His essay on Zola and the novel Der Untertan earned him much respect during the Weimar Republic, since it satirized German society and explained how its pol... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alexandre Sanguinetti
Alexandre Sanguinetti, born March 27, 1913 in Cairo, died October 9, 1980 in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), was a French politician and author. Awards Officier de la Légion d'honneur Médaille militaire Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Works La France et l'arme atomique, Julliard, 1964 Une nouvelle résistance, Plon, 1976 L'armée, pour quoi faire ?, Seghers, 1977 Sujet ou citoyen ? J'ai mal à ma peau de gaulliste, Grasset, 1978 Histoire du soldat, de la violence et des pouvoirs, Ramsay, 1979 Lettre ouverte à mes compatriotes corses, Albin Michel, 1980 Avec André Chandernagor : « Réformer la démocratie ? », Face-à-face, Balland 1977.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Amélie Cocheteux
Amélie Cocheteux (born 27 March 1978, in Amiens, France) is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career high ranking of No. 55 in the world on 10 May 1999. She defeated world number ten Nathalie Tauziat in the Prostějov tournament in 1999. As a junior, she won the 1995 French Open title. In 2000, Cocheteux and another French player, Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, were accused of racism by Alexandra Stevenson. Cocheteux allegedly used a racial remark to Stevenson whilst bumping into her in the locker room. Cocheteux denied the claims, and no action was taken by the WTA Tour. Cocheteux's results seriously deteriorated throughout the year, ending it with an 8-26 record and dropping out of the top 100. In 2001, she played just three events on the ITF circuit, losing ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Derrick McKenzie
Derrick McKenzie, born March 27, 1962 in London, is a British musician, drummer and songwriter, a member of Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai (pronounced /dʒəˈmirəˌkwaj/) are a British jazz funk and acid jazz band. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, the Brand New Heavies, Galliano, and Corduroy. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock and electronica. Jamiroquai have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1997. History Formation The band name is a portmanteau of Jam session and "iroquai", based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe. The original band was Jay Kay (vocals... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paride Accetti
Paride Accetti, born March 27, 1921 in Milan, is an Italian lawyer and businessman.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gisela Forster
Gisela Forster (born 1946, 27 March, in Munich, Germany) is a German writer, teacher and catholic theologian. Life Forster was born in Munich to parents from Bavaria and Hungary. After school at the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium in Munich-Passing, Forster studied Catholic theology, philosophy, arts and architecture at the Technical University of Munich. After graduating, Forster worked as teacher at the Benedictine Schäftlarn school from 1972 to 1989. In 1989 Forster left the job to marry Anselm Forster, with whom she had two children. She was elected to the district council of Starnberg in 1989, serving as chairman on the council until 2002. Since the 1990s Forster is working as an art teacher in Munich. Forster is a member of the German organisation Gruppe Maria Magdala, Priesteramt... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973), aka "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls), yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. Stylistically he was indebted to alto star Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument. Early life and career Webster learned to play piano and violin at an early age, before learning to play the saxophone, although he did return to the piano from time to time even recording on the instrument occasionally. Once ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Commonly known as Jim Callaghan (and nicknamed Sunny Jim, Gentleman Jim, Lucky Jim or Big Jim), Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during a turbulent period in the British economy in which he had to wrestle with a balance of payments deficit and speculative attacks on the pound sterling. In November 1967, the Government was forced to devalue the pound sterl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tony Rominger
Tony Rominger (born 27 March 1961 in Vejle, Denmark) is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995. He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother. Rominger's strengths were time-trialling, climbing and recuperation. He was a challenger to Miguel Indurain in the Tour de France, placing second in 1993 and winning the polka dot jersey. His three wins in the Vuelta is a record. In 2005 Roberto Heras broke that record but two months later tested positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO and was disqualified. In 1994 Rominger broke the world hour record twice in a few days. He used Bordeaux velodrome to ride 53.832 km and then 55.291 km, although a track novice. He retired ... Biography of Kimbra
Kimbra Lee Johnson (born 27 March 1990), known mononymously as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist. On 29 August 2011 she released her debut album Vows, which peaked in the top 5 in both New Zealand, and Australia. On 22 May 2012 Vows was released to the North American market, debuting at #14 in the United States on the Billboard 200. Kimbra is featured on the 2011 single, "Somebody That I Used to Know", by Gotye, which has reached number 1 in over 20 countries including New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Biography Early years Kimbra Lee Johnson Zottola was born on 27 March 1990 and grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand. Her father, Ken Johnson, was the head doctor at the University of Waikato's student health centre and her mother was a nurse... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lon Haldeman
Lon Haldeman, born March 27, 1958 in Harvard, Illinois, is an American cyclist, a winner of The Great American Bike Race in 1982. The Great American Bike Race was originally organized by John Marino in 1982. There were four competitors, John Marino, John Howard, Michael Shermer, and Lon Haldeman. The course started in Santa Monica, California and finished at the Empire State Building in New York City. Haldeman won. The race was televised on ABC's Wide World of Sports through 1986. 1982 race: Finish Winner Location Time Average Speed 1 Lon Haldeman Harvard, IL 9d 20h 02m 12.57 mph 2 John Howard Houston, TX 10d 10h 59m 11.83 mph 3 Michael Shermer Tustin, CA 10d 19h 54m 11.42 mph 4 John Marino Irvine, CA 12d 07h 37m 10.04 mph... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henry Dar Boggia
Henry Dar Boggia, born March 27, 1904 in New York and died January 11, 1976, was an American pilot, and had interests with paranormal and metaphysic subjects.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claire Maurier
Claire Maurier, born Odette Michelle Suzanne Agramon, March 27, 1929 in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales, is a French actress and comedian. Filmography Actress * 1950 : Les vacances finissent demain d'Yvan Noé : Anne-Marie * 1951 : Ce coquin d’Anatole d’Émile Couzinet : Germaine de la Boëtie * 1952 : Rayés des vivants de Maurice Cloche : une fille * 1952 : Un caprice de Caroline chérie de Jean-Devaivre : Jeannette * 1953 : La Belle de Cadix de Raymond Bernard et Eusebio Fernández Ardavin : Alexandrine Dupont * 1955 : L’amour est quelque part de Gaston Schoukens : Lili * 1956 : Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane (Una Aventura de Gil Blas) de René Jolivet et Ricardo Muñoz Suay * 1956 : Ce soir les jupons volent de Dimitri Kirsanoff : le mannequi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Maurice Adevah-Poeuf
Maurice Adevah Poeuf, born March 27, 1943 in Larodde, Puy-de-Dôme, is a French politician and businessman. He was the Mayor of Thiers (1977-2001).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Reverchon
Jacques Reverchon, born March 27, 1909 in Paris and died in 1985, was a French astrologer and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Sconce
David Sconce, born March 27, 1956 in Santa Barbara, California, is an American homicide suspect in a complex affair.... Biography of Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Fitzgerald Corrigan (born March 27, 1969) is an American actor who has appeared mostly in independent films and television since the 1990s. Life and career Corrigan was born in The Bronx, New York to an Irish father and a Puerto Rican mother. After studying at The Actors Studio, Corrigan made his film debut in 1989 in Lost Angels starring Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz. He also had a small role in Goodfellas as the brother of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). After appearing in the film Billy Bathgate, Corrigan turned his attention towards small-budget films, starting with Zebrahead. During the independent film boom of the 1990s, he built a career playing quirky, unconventional characters in films such as True Romance, Living in Oblivion and Walking and Talking. He made a rare appear... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Auguste Vestris
Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (27 March 1760 - 5 December 1842) was a French dancer. Born in Paris as the illegitimate son of Gaëtan Vestris and of Marie Allard, he was dubbed "le dieu de la danse", (The god of dance), a popular title bestowed on the leading male dancer of each generation (previous 'Gods of the Dance' included his father Gaetan). He made his debut in a divertissement "La Cinquantaine" in 1772 and was immediately recognized for his talent. He became a soloist in 1776 and premiere dancer in 1778. After his retirement he trained many famous dancers of the 19th century including August Bournonville, Marius Petipa, Lucien Petipa, Fanny Elssler, Jules Perrot, and Marie Taglioni. It was with Taglioni in 1835 that he performed a minuet at the age of 7... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Catherine Carswell
Catherine Carswell (March 27, 1879 - March 19, 1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women who took part in the Scottish Renaissance. Unlike her controversial biography of Scotland's literary hero Robert Burns, her earlier work, two novels set in Edwardian Glasgow, lived in the shadows until their republication by feminist publishing house Virago in the seventies. Her work is now considered an integral part of Scottish women's writing of the early 20th century. Early life Carswell was born in Glasgow, the second of the four children of George and Mary Anne Macfarlane, God-fearing middle-class Free Church Glaswegians. After attending the New Park School for Girls she spent two years of musical studies at the Frankfurt Hoch Conservatory onl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tom Hammonds
Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player and National Hot Rod Association drag racer. He was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and attended Crestview High School in Crestview, Florida. Upon graduation from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, Hammonds was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1st round (9th overall pick) in the 1989 NBA Draft. He played in 12 NBA seasons for the Bullets, Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets and Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging 5.3 ppg in his career. He scored a career high 31 points for the Bullets against the New York Knicks, on January 29, 1992. While enrolled at Georgia Tech, Hammonds played for the US national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal. After r... Biography of Caitlin Upton
Lauren Caitlin Upton (born March 27, 1989), also credited as Caite Upton, is an American fashion model and a beauty queen from Lexington, South Carolina. She is best known for her response to a question that was asked of her during the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant. Career Upton became Miss South Carolina Teen USA for 2007 in the November 2006 state pageant. She went on to place fourth in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant. She gained international notoriety for her convoluted and nonsensical response to a question posed to her during the national pageant. Upton attended Lexington High School. She has modeled in numerous advertisements for such companies as Nautica and Wrangler and has appeared in national magazines like Seventeen, Cosmo Girl and American Cheerleader. Upton later sign... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eisaku Sato
Eisaku Satō (佐藤 榮作 Satō Eisaku?, March 27, 1901 – June 3, 1975) was a Japanese politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Japan, elected on November 9, 1964, and re-elected on February 17, 1967, and January 14, 1970, serving until July 7, 1972. He was the longest serving prime minister in the history of Japan. Early life Satō was born in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and studied German law at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1923, he passed the senior civil service examinations, and in the following year, upon graduation, became a civil servant in the Ministry of Railways. He served as Director of the Osaka Railways Bureau from 1944 to 1946 and Vice-Minister for Transportation from 1947 to 1948. Satō entered the Diet in 1949 as a member... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Biography Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson. He had an ol... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carlinhos Vergueiro
Carlinhos Vergueiro, born on March 27, 1952 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian musician and composer.... Biography of Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Joanna Mitchell (née Robertson; born March 27, 1970), is an Emmy-nominated American actress who is best known for her roles as Dr. Juliet Burke on ABC's hit TV series Lost and as FBI agent Erica Evans on V. She has starred in major films like The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and Gia. Early life Mitchell was born Elizabeth Joanna Robertson in Los Angeles, California. Her stepfather, Joseph Day Mitchell, and mother, Josephine Marian Mitchell (née Jenkins), are lawyers based in Dallas. Mitchell and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas in 1970, where her mother married Joseph Mitchell in 1975. Elizabeth graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a public magnet school. She is the oldest of three sisters, the others ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to that position he was the Secretary of the Army and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As Secretary of State, Vance approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms reduction. In April 1980, Vance resigned in protest of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran. He was succeeded by Edmund Muskie. Vance was the cousin (and adoptive son) of 1924 Democratic Presidential Candidate and noted lawyer John W. Davis. He was the father of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. Early life and education Vance was born in Clarksbu... Biography of Louella Carver Dirksen
Louella Carver Dirksen, born March 27, 1899, was an American politician, the wife of Everett Dirksen.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Erich Ollenhauer
Erich Ollenhauer (March 27, 1901 – December 14, 1963) was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1952-1963. Early political career and exile Ollenhauer was born in Magdeburg and joined the SPD in 1920. When the Nazis took power in 1933 he fled Germany for Prague. After the outbreak of WW2 Ollenhauer travelled across Europe in order to avoid Nazi persecution, first going to Denmark, then France, Spain, Portugal, and eventually London, where he remained until the end of the war. In London, he kept close ties to the Labour Party, which financially supported the expatriate SPD (called SoPaDe), of which Ollenhauer was a member. He also worked with the Union of German Socialist Organisations in Great Britain. In February 1946, Ollenhauer returned to Germany. In May t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gregor Foitek
Gregor Foitek (born 27 March 1965 in Zurich) is a former racing driver from Switzerland. He won the 1986 Swiss Formula 3 Championship. Moving up to Formula 3000 he was widely blamed for causing a race stopping crash at Brands Hatch in 1988, the restart of which led to a second major crash on the first lap in which Johnny Herbert sustained major leg injuries. Foitek participated in 22 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 26 March 1989. He scored no championship points. He later made two CART starts for Foyt Enterprises in 1992 but was knocked out of both races by mechanical issues. Today, he helps to run Foitek Automobile, a family run Ferrari and Maserati dealership.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Danny Fortson
Daniel Anthony Fortson (born on March 27, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player. He played power forward/center in the NBA from 1997 to 2007. Early life Although born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fortson grew up and was a high school basketball star in Altoona, Pennsylvania at Altoona Area High School before transferring to Pittsburgh's Shaler Area High School. He was a member of the prestigious JOTS squads for pre-college basketball prospects. He attended the University of Cincinnati for 3 years. NBA career Fortson began his pro career after being drafted 10th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks. He was immediately traded the same day to the Denver Nuggets. In his first year, he averaged double-digit points and the next year averaged a double-double in both po... Biography of Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton (born March 27, 1940 (birth time source: Lescaut)) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor. Life and career Pendleton was born in Warren, Ohio, the son of Frances Manchester Pendleton, a professional actress, and Thorn Pendleton, who ran a tool company. Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. As a stage actor, he has appeared in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance and an Obie Award ), The Diary of Anne Frank, Grand Hotel, Goodtime Charley, The Little Foxes, Fiddler on the Roof, and Up from Paradise. Pendleton penned the plays Uncle Bob, Booth, and Orson's Shadow, all of which were staged off-Br... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Philippe Bianconi
Philippe Bianconi (born in Nice/France, March 27, 1960) is a French pianist. Philippe Bianconi studied at the Nice conservatoire with Simone Delbert-Février and later with Gaby Casadesus in Paris and Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg. At the age of 17 he won first prize at the Jeunesses musicales competition in Belgrade; he went on to win first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition and, in 1985, the Silver Medal in the Van Cliburn Competition. Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1987 he has performed in major concert halls and festivals around the world. Apart from solo recitals and chamber music, he has performed with many leading orchestras and conductors. The Washington Post has described him as an artist whose playing is "always close to the soul of the music, filling th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Betty Balfour
Betty Balfour (27 March 1903 – 4 November 1977) was an English screen actress, popular during the silent era, and known as the "British Mary Pickford" and "Britain's Queen of Happiness". She was best known to audiences for her Squibs series of films. Life and career Balfour was the most popular actress in Britain in the 1920s, and in 1927 she was named by the Daily Mirror as the country's favourite world star. She was a consummate screen actress, whose sympathetic portrayals were often tinged with pathos. Her talent was most evident in the Squibs comedy series produced by George Pearson, while in his 1923's Love, Life and Laughter and 1924's Reveille, she demonstrated a serious side to her character. Her 1925 role as a wealthy heriess in Somebody's Darling was an attempt to break ou... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nellie Wilson Parsons
Nellie Wilson Parsons, born on March 27, 1898 in Coon Rapids, Iowa, died on October 28, 1968, was an American writer and schoolteacher (source: LMR).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stefan Wul
Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922–26 November 2003). He was a dental surgeon, but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that, showing a deep knowledge of scientific data. Pairault retired from dental surgery in 1989, but remained active in the French science fiction scene. He published eleven novels between 1956 and 1959 and a twelfth in 1977. Only one, Le Temple du Passé (1957), was translated into English, as The Temple of the Past in 1973. His fame outside of French-speaking countries is instead due the animated adaptations of two of his novels by René Laloux. Bibliography Retour à zéro (Back to Zero, 1956) Niourk (1957) Rayons pour Sidar (Rays for Sidar, 1957) La Peur géan... Biography of Henry Royce
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company. Early life Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, the son of James and Mary Royce (maiden name King) and was the youngest of their five children. His family ran a flour mill which they leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners but the business failed and the family moved to London. His father died in 1872 and Royce had to go out to work selling newspapers and delivering telegrams, having had only one year of formal schooling. In 1878 he started an apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway company at its works in Peterborough thanks to the financial help of an aun... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nobuko Miyamoto
Nobuko Miyamoto (宮本 信子 Miyamoto Nobuko?, born March 27, 1945) is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Jūzō Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman. Selected filmography The Funeral (1984) Tampopo (1985) A Taxing Woman (1987) A Taxing Woman 2 (1988) Sweet Home (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa Ageman (1990) Minbo no Onna (1992) Daibyonin (1993) Supermarket Woman (1996) Marutai no Onna (1997) Radio no Jikan (1997) Hankyū Densha (2011) as Tokie... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Barnaby Conrad
Barnaby Conrad III (born 1922) is an American artist and author. Born in San Francisco, California, Conrad graduated from Taft School in Waterbury, Connecticut. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was captain of the freshman boxing team. He also studied painting at the University of Mexico, where he also became interested in the sport of bullfighting. After being injured in the bullring, he graduated from Yale University in 1943. Conrad was American Vice Consul to Seville, Málaga, and Barcelona from 1943 to 1946. While in Spain, he studied bullfighting with Juan Belmonte, Manolete, and Carlos Arruza. In 1945 he appeared on the same program with Belmonte and was awarded the ears of the bull. He is the only American to have fought in Spain, Mexico, and Peru. In 1... Biography of M. S. Sitaramiah
M. S. Sitaramiah, born on March 27, 1911 in Madras (source: Marcello Borges), is an Indian astrologer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Patrick Newell
Patrick David Newell (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988) was a British actor known for his large size. It is reputed he gained weight as a deliberate attempt to boost his career, marking him out for some niche roles. It has been written that his entry in Who's Who On Television in the late 1970s, Newell described himself as "Actor with a weight problem--the more he diets, the less work he seems to get." His most notable role was as "Mother," the spymaster in The Avengers. He had previously appeared in two earlier Avengers episodes: "The Town of No Return" (Diana Rigg's debut) and "Something Nasty in the Nursery" as a Government official (sometimes suggested as an earlier incarnation of Mother). Other cult television appearances included roles in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), the Doctor ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Dinan
Albert Dinan (Albert, Édouard, Ferdinand Neuzillet), born on March 27, 1902 in Paris, died on July 3, 1976 in Paris, was a French actor. He was also known as Émile Dinan or Dinan. Filmography 1931 : Bric-à-brac et Compagnie, d'André Chotin (moyen-métrage) 1931 : Pas un mot à ma femme, d'André Chotin (court-métrage) 1932 : La Nuit rouge d'André Rigaud (court métrage) 1936 : Joseph tu m'énerves!! de Georges Winter (court métrage) 1945 : 120, rue de la Gare, de Jacques Daniel-Norman 1945 : Les Clandestins d'André E. Chotin 1946 : Les Aventures de Casanova de Jean Boyer - Film tourné en deux époques - 1946 : Le Fugitif, de Robert Bibal 1946 : Belles vacances de René Arcy-Hennery - court métrage - 1947 : Le Mannequin assassiné de Pierre de ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert II of France
Robert II (27 March 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (French: le Pieux) or the Wise (French: le Sage), was King of France from 996 until his death. The second reigning member of the House of Capet, he was born in Orléans to Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine. Co-rule with father Immediately after his own coronation, Robert's father Hugh began to push for the coronation of Robert. "The essential means by which the early Capetians were seen to have kept the throne in their family was through the association of the eldest surviving son in the royalty during the father's lifetime," Andrew W. Lewis has observed, in tracing the phenomenon in this line of kings who lacked dynastic legitimacy. Hugh's claimed reason was that he was planning an expedition against the Moorish armies hara... Biography of Joan Horrach
Joan Horrach Ripoll (born March 27, 1974 in Deià, Majorca) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He rides on the UCI ProTour for Team Katusha. Results and Teams 2000 – Maia-MSS (First year as a professional) 2001 – Milaneza-MSS Overall – GP Jornal de Noticias Stage 4 – GP Jornal de Noticias Stage 4 – Vuelta a Asturias 2002 – Milaneza-MSS Stage 5 – Volta a Portugal Stage 11 – Volta a Portugal 2nd, Overall – Volta a Portugal 2003 – Milaneza-MSS Points Competition – Trofeu Jooquim Agostinho 3rd, Mountains Competition – Vuelta a España Stage 2 – Trofeu Jooquim Agostinho 2004 – Illes Balears-Banesto 3rd, Stage 18 – Vuelta a España 2005 – Illes Balears-Banesto 5th, Stage 5 – Vuelta a España 2006 – Caisse d'Epargne-Il... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pee Wee Russell
Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, (27 March 1906 – 15 February 1969) was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet. With a highly individualistic and spontaneous clarinet style that "defied classification," Russell began his career playing Dixieland jazz, but throughout his career incorporated elements of newer developments such as swing, be-bop and free jazz. In the words of Philip Larkin, "No one familiar with the characteristic excitement of his solos, their lurid, snuffling, asthmatic voicelessness, notes leant on till they split, and sudden passionate intensities, could deny the uniqueness of his contribution to jazz.' Early life Pee Wee Russell was born in Mapl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Lang
Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California ) was an American cinematographer. Early in his career he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927). After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramount's films during the 1930s and 1940s, though he occasionally worked for other studios, for instance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). In 1951 he began the sec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henri Murger
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822, Paris – 28 January 1861, Paris) was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine). In his writing he combines instinct with pathos and humour, sadness his predominant tone. The book is the basis for the operas La bohème (Puccini) and La bohème (Leoncavallo), and, at greater removes, the zarzuela Bohemios (Amadeu Vives), the operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre (Kálmán) and the Broadway musical Rent. He wrote lyrics as well as novels and stories, the c... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Rogers (singer)
David Rogers (born March 27, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia; died August 10, 1993) was an American country music artist. Between 1968 and 1984, Rogers charted thirty-seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, reaching Top Ten with the hits "Need You" and "Loving You Has Changed My Life," both at #9. In the same timespan, he recorded several studio albums on the Columbia, Atlantic and United Artists labels. Biography David Rogers was born March 27, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia. He began playing guitar at age eleven, and by age twenty, had been offered a chance to join Roger Miller's band, but declined as he had been drafted. After leaving the services, Rogers performed at the Egyptian Ballroom for several years, and was eventually discovered by representatives of Columbia Records, w... Biography of Charlie Haas
Charles Doyle "Charlie" Haas II (born on March 27, 1972 in Edmond, Oklahoma) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its Raw brand. Statistics Ring name(s) Charlie Haas R.C. Haas Billed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Billed weight 249 lb (113 kg) Career Independent circuit Haas regularly teamed with his brother Russ for numerous independent promotions, most notably Jim Kettner's East Coast Wrestling Association, before they signed with World Wrestling Entertainment. The two worked their way through the tag ranks in the WWE's developmental territories, Heartland Wrestling Association and Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). Russ died from a heart attack, due to a pre-existing heart condition, on Dec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston FRS (born 27 March 1942) is a British biologist. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is currently Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) at the University of Manchester. Biography Sulston was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge graduating in 1963. He joined the Chemistry Department in Cambridge, gained his PhD degree for research in nucleotide chemistry and devoted his scientific life to biological research, especially in the field of molecular biology. After working as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Salk Institute, USA for a while, he returned to Cambridge to work under Sydney Brenner at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Sulston played a c... Biography of Sarah Barzyk
Sarah Barzyk, born March 27, 1989, is a French actress and a former Miss Paris (2008). She is the daugther of French actress and Miss France 1980 Patricia Barzyk, and James Aubrey. Selected filmography * 2010 : Engrenages (série télévisée) de Jean-Marc Brondolo : Julie * 2007 : Un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine (Mister Mocky Présente) * 2007 : Éternelle: de Didier Delaitre : Sophie Gir * 2007 : Le Deal : de Jean-Pierre Mocky : Danielle * 2000 : Tout est calme : Camille * 1997 : Maître Da Costa (épisode Le Doigt de Dieu) de Bob Swaim : Caroline... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of June Wilkinson
June Wilkinson (born 27 March 1940 in Essex) is an English model and actress, known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and in films of the 1960s. One of the world's most-photographed women in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of her career she was called "the most photographed nude in America". Life and career June Wilkinson was born 27 March 1940 in Essex, England. Having started as a stage performer at the age of 12, she went on to become the youngest topless dancer, at the age of 15, at the Windmill Theatre in London from 1957 to 1958. During a promotional tour in the United States, she was discovered by Hugh Hefner. Her first appearance in Playboy, in September 1958, was titled "The Bosom". She was a brunette in those days, but in later shoots she was a blonde.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edgar Selge
Edgar Selge, born 27 March 1948, Brilon, is a German actor. His spouse is Franziska Walser (1985 - present), the daugther of the author Martin Walser, and they have 2 children. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783124/ ) Der Mauerfall (2009) (TV) (filming) .... Ulrich Molitor Der Große Kater (2009) (post-production) Lippels Traum (2009) (completed) .... Herr Schmiedle ... aka Lippel's Dream (Europe: English title: festival title) "Polizeiruf 110" .... Kriminalhauptkommissar Jürgen Tauber / ... (20 episodes, 1998-2008) - Rosis Baby (2008) TV episode .... Kriminalhauptkommissar Jürgen Tauber - Wie ist die Welt so stille (2008) TV episode .... Kriminalhauptkommissar Jürgen Tauber - Jenseits (2007) TV episode .... Kriminalhauptkommissar Jürgen Tauber ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank O'Hara
Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry. Life Frank O'Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine Broderick, was born on June 27, 1926 at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended St. John's High School in Worcester. O'Hara believed he was born in June but was, in fact, born in March, his parents disguising his true date of birth since he was conceived out of wedlock (see Brad Gooch's City Poet, p.15). He studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to 1944 and served in the South Pacific and Japan as a sonarman on the destroyer USS Nicholas duri... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Olivier Falorni
Olivier Falorni, born on March 27, 1972 in La Rochelle, is a French politician and teacher. France aghast at tweet by French leader's partner by Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, on June 12, 2012: President Francois Hollande's girlfriend has set the French political establishment aghast with a tweet of support for the man running against the mother of Hollande's children. The tweet on Tuesday signed by Valerie Trierweiler went viral on the Internet and dominated news shows. Trierweiler's message of support to Olivier Falorni, a politician in western France, was seen as a dig at Segolene Royal, the mother of Hollande's four children. Royal, a former Socialist presidential candidate herself, is running against Falorni in Sunday's final round of parliamentary elections. The tweet ... Biography of David Navara
David Navara (born March 27, 1985) is a chess Grandmaster from Czech Republic. On the April 2007 FIDE rating list he was ranked number 14 in the world with an Elo rating of 2720, making him the highest ranked Czech player. His career was progressing very fast under coaches like Luděk Pachman or Vlastimil Jansa, as he won several world medals in youth categories. In 2001, aged 16, he got 7 of 9 in the European Team Championships. One year later, three days before his 17th birthday, he received the Grandmaster title, next year he won open tournament in Polanica Zdrój. Ranked 14th, he finished sixth in the 2004 Fifth European Individual Chess Championship in Antalya with 7.5 points (+5−2=5), including a draw against the eventual champion Vassily Ivanchuk. Navara won the Cz... Biography of Manuel Neuer
Manuel Neuer (German pronunciation: ; born 27 March 1986 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the German national football team. Club career Schalke 04 Neuer signed professional terms in 2005 after progressing through every age group at his hometown club. He made his Bundesliga debut when he came on to substitute the injured Frank Rost on match day 2 of the 2006–07 season. The 20-year-old eventually won the starting position when Rost was surprisingly dropped for the crunch clash against Bayern Munich. He did not disappoint and managed to secure a 2–2 draw against the defending champions. Despite his young age, he was widely tipped to be a potential successor to his former idol Jens Lehmann in the future for the German national team.... Biography of Natalia Sánchez (actress)
Natalia Sánchez Molina (born March 27, 1990, in Madrid) is a Spanish actress, singer and model, who is best known of portraying María Teresa "Teté" Capdevila on hit television Los Serrano. Career Modeling In 2004, Sánchez filmed a television commercial for El Corte Inglés with the rest of the main actors of Los Serrano. Private life Sánchez has one older sister, named Sandra. Fluent in her native Spanish, Sánchez can also speak English and French. She loves tennis and skiing, and she was seen at the 2008 Madrid Masters. Filmography Television Compañeros (2002) Periodistas (2002) Javier ya no vive solo (2003) Los Serrano (2003–2008) as Teté Capdevila Los Recuerdos de Alicia (2005) Acusados (2009) La ira (2009) La memoria del agua ... Biography of Maria Verchenova
Maria Verchenova (born 27 March 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian professional golfer. She is the first Russian to become a full-time member of the Ladies European Tour. She has several top-10 finishes. Quotes "I am looking at Maria , not because of the way she looks but because of the way she plays, (...) I think Russian women are strong mentally. They are trying really hard and they are achieving things." “I always like to bring something extra special to the golf course, so if I’m wearing sexier, more stylish stuff like a shorter skirt or a nice tennis-style dress and people notice then great. ” References http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article5240374.ece... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Vincent Labrune
Vincent Labrune,; born on March 27, 1971 in Orélans, is the Chairman of the Olympique de Marseille, a French association football club based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of its history in the top tier of French football. Marseille have been French champions nine times and have won the Coupe de France a record ten times.... Biography of Paula Trickey
Paula Trickey (b. March 27, 1966 in Amarillo, Texas), is an American actress who has starred in many TV movies. She has also appeared in television series. Trickey's most well-known role was on the USA Network series Pacific Blue as Officer/Sgt. Cory McNamara from 1996-2000. She has made guest appearances on many TV shows, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Renegade, Sliders, Walker, Texas Ranger, and One Tree Hill. She appeared on the third and fourth seasons of The O.C., playing the mother of Harbor School socialite Taylor Townsend. Born in Amarillo Texas, Trickey was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she attended East Central High School. While in high school she appeared in local television commercials and began competing in pageants. In 1985 she was crowned Miss Oklahoma in the All-Ame... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcel Conche
Marcel Conche (27 March 1922, Altillac), is a French philosopher. A recent publication (2003), the Tao Te Ching translation and comments in French, follows the format of previous works, such as Héraclite - Fragments (fragments of Heraclitus): French translation of the original text Commentary in the immediately ensuing chapter In this book he draws an interesting parallel between the nearly contemporaries Lao Zi (see Tao Te Ching) and Heraclitus: the river of the Greek is compared to the Dao of the Chinese. In some cases (such as the Heraclitus) the text (as handed down by tradition, copyists, historians or other authors quoting the now unavailable original text) is reordered to follow a more logical order, from the simplest of principles to the most advanced. He ha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sandra Hess
Sandra Hess (born 27 March 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland) is an actress best known for her role as Sonya Blade in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Biography Hess began modeling and working on television commercials when she was 15. After completing high school, she entered the University of Zurich to study law but before completing her degree she came to the United States to build an acting career. Once settled in Los Angeles, Hess started taking acting classes. Her first role was in the 1992 film Encino Man, playing a cave-woman to Brendan Fraser's caveman character. In 1997, she played the role of Sonya Blade in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, taking over the role played by Bridgette Wilson in the first film. In 1998, she portrayed Immortal bounty hunter Reagan Cole, a fr... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Greg Puciato
Gregory John Puciato (born March 27, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland) is the lead singer of the band The Dillinger Escape Plan. He is known for his reckless live performances, wide vocal range, and outspoken views, having caused controversy due to both performances and interviews. He joined the group in September 2001 and first performed with the group weeks later at the CMJ music conference in October 2001. In a scenario mirroring that of young Henry Rollins & Black Flag, and Mark "Barney" Greenway & Napalm Death, Puciato started out as a fan of the band in their earlier days. When the band split with their singer Dimitri Minakakis (due to him wanting to focus more on Graphic Arts/Design), they searched publicly for a new singer by releasing the instrumental version of the song "43% Burnt"... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ed Pinckney
Edward (Ed) Lewis Pinckney (born March 27, 1963 in The Bronx, New York) is a retired NBA basketball player. College career A 6'9" forward, Pinckney led Villanova University to the NCAA title over the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas in 1985. He was the recipient of the Tournament's Most Outstanding Player after registering 16 points and 6 rebounds in the 66-64 victory. NBA career Also in 1985 he was selected tenth overall by the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Draft and played for them from 1985 to 1987. He also played with the Sacramento Kings (1987–89), Boston Celtics (1989–94), Milwaukee Bucks (1994–95), Toronto Raptors (1995–96), Philadelphia 76ers (1995–96) and Miami Heat (1996–97). He retired in 1997. Ed participated in the first tip-off in Toronto Raptors franchise history facing... |
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