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Astrology, birth chart, map of the heavens, biography, picture and horoscope excerpts: you will find on this page all the celebrities born on May, 3, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 42,008 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 42,008 Celebrities
138 celebrities or events were found for May, 3. Biography of Christina Hendricks
Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress known for her role as Joan Holloway in the AMC cable television series Mad Men, and as Saffron in Fox's short-lived series Firefly. Hendricks was named "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine. Early years Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, from third through eighth grade. She holds dual British and American nationality, as her father is British. While in Twin Falls, she began her acting career with Junior Musical Playhouse Company, with roles in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease. In 1989, her family moved to Winchester, Virginia, where Hendricks appeared in several John Handley High School (Winchester... Biography of Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other. Life Machiavelli was born in San Casciano in Val di Pesa village near of the city-state of Florence, Italy, in the year 1469, and was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli. Education left him with a thorough knowledge of the Latin and Italian classics. Machiavelli was born into a tumultuous era, in which Popes were leading armies and wealthy c... Biography of James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," was an American entertainer recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, Brown was a pivotal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical genres, including rock, jazz, disco, dance and electronic music, reggae and hip hop. Brown's music also left its mark on the rhythms of African popular music, such as afrobeat, jùjú and mbalax, and provided a template for go-go music. Brown began... Biography of Christophe Rippert
Christophe Rippert, born May 3, 1969 in Saint-Priest, is a French actor and singer, and also a tennisman. Filmography 1991 - 1995 : Premiers baisers (série) 1993 : Les Filles d'à côté (série), épisode Les garçons se cachent pour pleurer. 1995 - 1997 : Les Années fac (série) 1998 : Les Années bleues (série), 1999 - 2000 : Sous le soleil (série) Discography 1993 : Premier album : Un amour de vacances - Singles : Un amour de vacances (sorti en 1992), Rien que du brouillard, Les garçons se cachent pour pleurer 1994 : Second album : A corps perdu - Singles : Tu m'fais vraiment craquer, Ca t'ressemble pas, A tous ceux qui me disent (sorti en 1995) 1996 : Troisième album : Juste ces mots - Singles : Je t'ai laissée t'en aller (sorti en 1995), Tu es tout c'que j'aime... Biography of Marie-Soleil Tougas
Marie-Soleil Tougas, born May 3, 1970, died August 10, 1997, was a Canadian actress and TV host. She was killed in a plane crash with her friend, Jean-Claude Lauzon. She is the sister of Sébastien Tougas.... Biography of Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1937 in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons, a music act of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day. Valli scored over 25 Top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of Top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as "The Wonder Who?" in 1965 and again in the mid to late 1970s. Together they made the hit single December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) that can still be heard on the radio today. His best known "solo" single is Can't Take My Eyes Off You which reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967' 'Are you ready now' became a surprise hit in the UK as part of the Northern Soul scene and hit no11 on the UK pop cha... Biography of Nathalie Renoux
Nathalie Renoux, born May 3, 1971 in Angers, is a French journalist and TV host.... Biography of Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), better known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. As a member of the Weavers, he had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. However, his career as a mainstream performer was seriously curtailed by the Second Red Scare: he came under severe attack as a former member of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Later, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of protest music in the late 1950s and the 1960s. He is perhaps best known today as the author or co-author of the songs "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", and "Turn, Turn, Turn... Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was a professional boxer. Generally regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Robinson was 85-0 as an amateur with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout, and started his professional career 128-1-2 with 84 knockouts. Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year. He retired in 1952, only to come back two and a half years later and regain the middleweight title in 1955. He then b... Biography of Georges Moustaki
Yussef Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki, (born in Alexandria, Egypt May 3, 1934) is a singer and songwriter from France of Greek Sephardic origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs. He has written songs for Édith Piaf, Dalida, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine and Herbert Pagani. Life His parents, Nessim and Sarah, came originally from the island of Corfu, Greece but they moved to Egypt, where Georges learned French. They had a bookshop in the cosmopolitan city where many communities lived together. At home, everyone spoke Italian. In the street, the children spoke Arabic. At school, young Joseph learned and spoke French. His parents were very attached to French culture and put him into a French school, along with his sisters. ... Biography of Farrah Franklin
Farrah Franklin (born Destiny Farrah Franklin on May 3, 1981 in Fresno, California to an Italian father and an African American mother) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, model and former member of Destiny's Child. Early life Franklin was born in Iowa, raised in Fresno and Los Angeles. Growing up, she performed in various church choirs and in off Broadway musicals. In addition to performing, Franklin regularly mentored under privileged girls at Penny Lane, one of the world’s largest group homes in Los Angeles, in her spare time—something that she reportedly continues to do this day. Destiny's Child In 1999, Franklin was hired to be an extra in the music video for Destiny’s Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills.” It was there that she became acquainted with group members Kelly Ro... Biography of Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation. A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. Crosby's early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declare... Biography of Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Prokhorov (born May 3, 1965) is a Russian self-made billionaire and oligarch. He made his name in the financial sector and went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists in the precious metals sector. He is the former chairman of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, and the current chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer. In May 2007, Prokohorov launched a $17 billion private investment fund, Onexim Group, focused on the development of nanotechnology, including hydrogen fuel cells, as well as other high-technology projects and non-ferrous and precious metals mining. One of the key areas of development is the production of materials with ultra–tiny structures used in energy generation and medicine. In June 2007, Russia... Biography of Martin Bouygues
Martin Bouygues, born May 3, 1952, is a French businessman. He is Chairman and CEO of international group Bouygues.... Biography of Jean Guidoni
Jean Guidoni, born May 3, 1952 in Toulon, is a French singer. Discography Albums Studio Guidoni 77 1977 Le Têtard (Jacques Lanzmann / Yani Spanos) Tout me parle de toi (Pierre Grosz-Christian Ravasco/Jean Pierre Goussaud) Tisane...Tisane (Jacques Demarny/Jean Pierre Goussaud) L'amour cerise (Jean Clause Massoulier/Jean Pierre Goussaud) La croisade des enfants (Jacques Demarny/Patrick Lemaitre) L'oiseau humain (Jean Pierre Lang/Guy Bonnet) C'était vraiment grand (Jean Pierre Lang/Guy Bonnet) La fugue (Jean Pierre Lang/Guy Bonnet) Le Père Noël (Jacques Lanzmann/André Popp) Danser sous les étoiles (Jean Pierre Lang/Guy Bonnet) Guidoni 78 1978 Il pleut sur Bali (J.M. Rivère-Jean Guidoni/G.Bourgeois) Sur les chemins d'hier (Didier Barbelivien-Jean Guidoni... Biography of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (May 3, 1748 – June 20, 1836) (pronounced or ) was a French abbé and statesman, one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire. His 1789 pamphlet What is the Third Estate? became the manifesto of the Revolution that helped transform the Estates-General into the National Assembly in June 1789. In 1799, he was the instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power. He was also a pioneer of the social sciences, and was the first to use the term "sociologie" (French for "sociology"). Sieyès and his party spoke the language democracy unlike Jean Joseph Mounier and his party the Monarchiens. Early life He was born in Fréjus in the south of France, and was educated for priesthood in th... Biography of Fomalhaut (astrologer)
Fomalhaut, born May 3, 1854 in Paris, died in 1925, was a French astrologer.... Biography of Jean Carlu
Jean Carlu made posters during World War II to promote increase in American production.... Biography of Yves Simon
Yves Simon, born May 3, 1944 in Choiseul (Haute-Marne), is a French singer and author. Discography 1973 : Au pays des merveilles de Juliet 1974 : Respirer, chanter 1975 : Raconte-toi 1975 : Concert au Théâtre de la Ville, avec Transit Express 1976 : Macadam 1977 : Un autre désir 1977 : Concert à Tokyo 1977 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Diabolo menthe 1978 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Cocktail Molotov 1978 : Demain je t'aime 1979 : Participation à l'album collectif Émilie Jolie 1981 : Une vie comme ça 1983 : USA/USSR (Amazoniaque) 1985 : De l'autre côté du monde 1988 : Liaisons 1992 : BO du film de Diane Kurys, Après l'amour 1996 : Longue distance (compilation) 1999 : Intempestives 2007 : Rumeurs Bibliography 1971 : Les jours en couleurs 1... Biography of Michel Roussin
Michel Roussin (May 3, 1939, Rabat, Morocco) was the chief of staff of Alexandre de Marenches, who directed the SDECE French secret service until the May 1981 election of François Mitterrand as president of the Republic. Michel Roussin has also been chief of staff of Jacques Chirac when he was mayor of Paris and also when he was prime minister. Roussin then became minister of cooperation under Edouard Balladur's government. However, he had to resign, in accordance with the so-called "Balladur jurisprudence," because of suspected involvement in various affairs concerning the illegal funding of Chirac's RPR party . Jailed for a time, he was afterward acquitted. However, on October 26, 2005, he was condemned to four years of prison on probation and a 50 000 euros fine for his role in the c... Biography of Princess Élisabeth of France
Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène of France (May 3, 1764 – May 10, 1794), commonly called Madame Élisabeth, was the youngest sister of King Louis XVI of France. Having lived through the French Revolution beside the King and his family, she was executed during the Reign of Terror. Life Élisabeth was born on May 3, 1764 in the Palace of Versailles in France, the youngest child of Louis, Dauphin of France, and his wife, Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. Her paternal grandparents were King Louis XV of France and his consort, Queen Maria Leszczyńska. Her maternal grandparents were King Augustus III of Poland, also the Elector of Saxony, and his wife, the Archduchess Maria Josepha, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I. Orphaned at the age of three, she was brought up by Madame de Macka... Biography of Amédée Domenech
Amédée Domenech,born May 3, 1933 in Narbonne, died September 21, 2003, was a French rugby player.... Biography of Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (born May 3, 1970) is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career high singles ranking of No. 46 in the world on August 17, 1992. In her career, she reached three WTA Tour finals, at Taranto in 1990 she lost to Raffaella Reggi and to Brenda Schultz-McCarthy at Schenectady in 1991, both Tier V tournaments. At the Tier IV event in Cardiff in 1997, she lost to Virginia Ruano Pascual in the final 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Her best Grand Slam performance was the fourth round at the 1994 French Open. As a wildcard entrant and the world number 197, she beat Emanuela Zardo, Wiltrud Probst and Marzia Grossi before losing to third seed Conchita Martínez 6-1, 6-2. She achieved more notable success in doubles, winning six titles, four with Florencia L... Biography of Jeff Hornacek
Jeffrey John Hornacek (IPA: /ˈhɔrnəsɛk/); (born May 3, 1963 in Elmhurst, Illinois) is a retired American basketball player who played at the shooting guard position in the NBA from 1986–2000. High school He attended Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois, graduating in 1981. He led his team to the Illinois Sweet 16 in his senior year coached by Ron Niksevich and still holds individual team records in free throw shooting. Also played shortstop for the baseball team. College Redshirted at Iowa State University (ISU) in 1981, he was a campus walk-on from 1982–1986, the son of a high school basketball coach became an all-conference player in the Big Eight Conference, playing for legendary coach Johnny Orr. As a point guard he guided the Cyclones to the ... Biography of Pierre Lellouche
Pierre Lellouche (May 3, 1951, Tunis, Tunisia) is a French conservative politician, member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. He was also the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since November 2004 until 17 November 2006. He was elected deputy of Sarcelles in 1993, and retained his seat at the National Assembly until 2002. He has been director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a member of the Trilateral Commission. Lellouche defended a traditional view of the family during the discussions concerning the Pacte civil de solidarité (PACS), a form of civil union. He is also a strong opponent of the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) first voted under François Mitterrand. Now a supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy, UMP candidate for the 2007 presidential election, he is also a ... Biography of Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz (born May 3, 1981 in Issy Les Moulineaux, France) is a professional female tennis player from France. On February 24, 2003, Foretz reached her career-high singles ranking: World Number 62. WTA Tour titles (0) Doubles finalist (1) 2006: Antwerp (with Michaëlla Krajicek)... Biography of Karl Abraham
Karl Abraham (3 May 1877 - 25 December 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil' . He founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925. Karl Abraham collaborated with Freud on the understanding of manic-depressive illness, leading to Freud's paper on 'Mourning and Melancholia' in 1917. He was the analyst of Melanie Klein during 1924-1925, and of a number of other British psychoanalysts, including Edward Glover, James Glover, and Alix Strachey. He was a mentor for an influential group of German analysts, including Karen Horney, Helene Deutsch, and Franz Alexander. Publications Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis... Biography of Ann B. Davis
Ann Bradford Davis (born May 3, 1926) is an Emmy Award-winning American television actress. Biography Career Davis's first success was as Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz in The Bob Cummings Show, and she won two Emmy Awards out of four nominations for this role. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis was known for her appearances in television commercials for the Ford Motor Company, particularly for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models. Davis played housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch television series, and various Brady Bunch sequel series and TV movies. She also played Alice's grim identical cousin Emma in one episode. She made a cameo role as a truck driver named "Schultzy" (a tribute to her days on The Bob Cummings Show) in The Brady Bunch Movie in 1995. Davis was featur... Biography of Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper OBE, KSG (born May 3, 1934) in South East London, is a retired English heavyweight boxer and was the British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight champion in 1970. Cooper was also the only British boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright. Cooper and his identical twin brother, George, grew up in a council house on the Bellingham Estate on Farmstead Road, South East London although during the Second World War, they were relocated as evacuees to Lancing on the Sussex coast. Around 1942, their father, Henry Senior was called up to serve in the war; the rest of the family would not see him again for almost three years. The twins would attend Athelney Road School in Lewisham. The Cooper brothers were particularly close growing up and in his biography, Henry talks of h... Biography of Marcel Dupré
Marcel Dupré (May 3, 1886 – May 30, 1971), was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen (Normandy, France). Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen. Dupré entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, where he studied with Louis Diémer and Lazare Lévy (piano), Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne (organ), and Charles-Marie Widor (composition). In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata, Psyché. In 1926, he was appointed professor of organ performance and improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire, a position he held until 1954. Dupré became famous for performing more than 2,000 organ recitals throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, which included... Biography of Henri René Lenormand
Henri-René Lenormand (May 3, 1882 - February 16, 1951) was a French playwright. He was born on May 3, 1882 in Paris. His plays, steeped in symbolism, were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation, deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud. He was the son of a composer, and was educated at the University of Paris. Lenormand died on February 16, 1951 in Paris. Bibliography Le Cachet Rouge (1900) La Grande Mort (1905) Au Désert (1905) Le Réveil de l'instinct (1908) Les Possédés (1909) Terres Chaudes (1913) Les Ratés (1920) Les Mangeurs de Rêves (1922) Mixture (1927) La Folle du Ciel (1936) Les Pitoëff, souvenirs (1943) Confessions d'un auter dramatique (1949) Marguerite Jamois (1950)... Biography of Véronique Nichanian
Véronique Nichanian, born May 3, 1954 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is Artistic Director of French luxury brand Hermès. Véronique Nichanian joined French luxury brand Hermès as Artistic Director of men’s ready-to-wear in January 1988. Later that year, her first collection at Hermès earned her the City of Paris Grand Prix of Creative Art. Prior to Hermès, Véronique Nichanian worked with Italian couturier Cerruti for twelve years after graduating from the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in 1976, eventually becoming co-manager of the men’s collections. One of the few women to design collections for men, Nichanian enjoys the technical aspects of fashion and is passionate about details, exquisite materials, and colors—qualities that characterize the Hermès spirit. “I don’t m... Biography of Norman Thelwell
Norman Thelwell (3 May 1923 - 7 February 2004) was an English cartoonist well-known for his humorous illustrations of ponies and horses. Born in Birkenhead, as a promising young student from Liverpool School of Art, he soon became a contributor to the satirical magazine Punch in the 1950s, and earned many lasting devotees by illustrating Chicko in the British boys' comic Eagle. Known to many only as Thelwell, he found his true comic niche with girls and ponies refusing fences, a subject for which he became most well-known. His cartoons and drawings delighted millions. Published books Angels on Horseback (1957) Thelwell Country (1959) A Leg at Each Corner (1962) Top Dog (1964) Thelwell's Riding Academy (1965) Drawing Ponies (1966) Up the Garden Path (1967) Thelwell's Compleat... Biography of Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980's, while more recently he has become known for his work as a novelist. Personal life Elton was born in Catford, London, the son of an English teacher mother and the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton. He is the nephew of the historian Sir G. R. Elton. Elton's father is of German Jewish descent and his mother is of English background. He studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School in Surrey, and the University of Manchester. Elton is married and has three children. He lives in London and Fremantle, Western Australia. Elton has had dual citizenship with Australia since 2004. Work ... Biography of Kirsty Wark
Kirsteen Anne Wark (born 3 February 1955) is a Scottish journalist and television presenter best known for fronting the BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts annexe Newsnight Review. Kirsty Wark was educated at Grange Academy in Kilmarnock and Ayr's Wellington School. After studying history at the University of Edinburgh, Wark joined the BBC in 1976 as a researcher for BBC Radio Scotland and, in 1982, moved to television, eventually becoming a presenter, including presenting Breakfast Time. In 1990, Wark demonstrated her distinctive line of questioning in an interview of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Wark was a presenter on BBC2 arts programme The Late Show – Newsnight Review 's predecessor – and the heritage programme One Foot in the... Biography of Madame Billy
Madame Billy, born May 3, 1901 in Morey-Saint-Denis, is a French former prostitute and brothel keeper.... Biography of Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him all of the "Big Four" Grammy Awards in one year, a feat that is yet to be equalled. He also received an Oscar and a Golden Globe relating to his work with music in hit films. Career He is best known by most for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)," the latter of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli. "Sailing" earned three awards at the 1981 Grammy Awards Ceremony, while "Arthur's Theme" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen.) Cross first played with a San Antoni... Biography of Dulé Hill
Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975, Orange, New Jersey) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the NBC drama television series The West Wing, and as pharmaceutical salesman/detective Burton "Gus" Guster on the USA Network television comedy-drama Psych. He has also had minor roles in the movies Holes and She's All That. On September 24, 2009, he was elected to a three-year term on the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild. Personal life Hill was born in Orange, New Jersey, to Jamaican parents Jennifer, an education consultant, and Bert Hill, an investment banker. He was raised in Sayreville, New Jersey. He studied tap dance from an early age, and performed in the musical The Tap Dance Kid as Sa... Biography of Louis Tobback
Louis Marie Joseph Tobback (born May 3, 1938) is a Belgian politician. Tobback is a Flemish socialist and member of the political party SP.a (formerly known as SP). He is currently the mayor of Leuven. He graduated in roman philology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Political career He started his political career in 1965 in the council of the OCMW(nl) / CPAS(fr). In 1971 he was elected a member of the city council of Leuven, and became eerste schepen (first alderman). In 1974, he became the leader of the socialist faction in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and became a controversial but respected politician. Tobback is known for his oneliners in which he clearly states his opinion. From 1988 until 1994 he was Belgian Interior Minister in two coalitions formed by Chri... Biography of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
Baron Charles-Ferdinand N.M.P. Nothomb (born May 3, 1936 in Brussels) is a French speaking Belgian politician. He is a member of the Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH). He served as Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1980 until 1981. Since 2002 Nothomb is Vice President of the European Movement international. Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb is the uncle of the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb.... Biography of Mary Astor
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941... Biography of Jean Lassalle
Jean Lassalle (born 3 May 1955 in Lourdios-Ichère, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France) is a French Occitan politician and UDF deputy in the National Assembly. Political career Lassalle has served as mayor of the commune of Lourdios-Ichère since 21 March 1977, and has sat on the conseil général of the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques since 22 March 1982, serving as vice-president since 1 January 1991. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2002 legislative election, and represents the 4th constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 2002 Lassalle has led the World Mountain People Association, an international network of mountain-dwellers active in more than 70 countries. He also leads a Haut-Béarn cultural association. On 3 June 2003 Lassalle stood up in the National Assembly du... Biography of Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 – January 7, 1984) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Kastler was born in Guebwiller (Alsace) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921. After his studies, in 1926 he began teaching physics at the Lycée of Mulhouse, and then taught at the University of Bordeaux, where he was a university professor until 1941. Georges Bruhat asked him to come back to the École Normale Supérieure, where he finally obtained a chair in 1952. Collaborating with Jean Brossel, he researched quantum mechanics, the interaction between light and atoms, and spectroscopy. Kastler, working on combination of optical resonance and magnetic resonance, developed the technique of "optical pumping". Those works led ... Biography of Ron Eisenberg
Ron Eisenberg, born May 3, 1942 in Cleveland Height, Ohio, is an American journalist and radio host.... Biography of D.H. Barber
D. H. Barber, born May 3, 1907 in Hampstead, is a British journalist, editor and publisher.... Biography of Cactus Moser
Scott "Cactus" Moser, born on May 3, 1957 in Montrose, Colorado, is an American musician and drummer, a member of Highway 101. Highway 101 is an American country music band founded by Paulette Carlson (lead vocals), Jack Daniels (guitar), Curtis Stone (bass guitar, mandolin) and Scott "Cactus" Moser (drums). With Carlson as lead vocalist, the band recorded three albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville and charted ten consecutive Top Ten hits on the Hot Country Songs charts, four of which went to Number One. After Carlson left in 1990, the band recorded a fourth album for Warner with Nikki Nelson on lead vocals before exiting the label. One album each followed on Liberty, Intersound and Free Falls Records. Moser, Stone, Nelson and Andy Gurley comprise the current lineup. History Bef... Biography of Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (May 3, 1931 - September 4, 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. Rossi was born in Milan, Italy. In 1949 he started studying architecture at the Politecnico di Milano where he graduated in 1959. Already in 1955 he started writing for the Casabella magazine, where he became editor between 1959-1964. His earliest works of the 1960s were mostly theoretical and displayed a simultaneous influence of 1920s Italian modernism (see Giuseppe Terragni), classicist influences of Viennese architect Adolf Loos, and the reflections of the painter Giorgio De Chirico. A trip to the Soviet Union to study Stalinist architecture also left a ... Biography of Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (born 3 May 1914 Limoges) is a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He has won the Prix Goncourt (poetry), the Grand Prize of the Académie française, and the grand prize of the Société des gens de lettres. Life He was encouraged by professors in 1930. He began writing poems, and in 1933, to work for journals including Les Cahiers du Sud. He came in 1939 to Paris, but returned in 1940 in Limousin, studying at the Faculty of Arts at Poitiers and Toulouse, and met Joe Bousquet in Carcassonne. In 1940, he joined the editorial board of the journal Fontaine led in Algiers by Max-Pol Fouchet. In Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), he met Raymond Queneau, Michel Leiris, Lourmarin Claude Roy, Pierre Seghers, Loys Masson, Pierre Emmanuel and Max-Pol Fouchet. Fro... Biography of Walter Slezak
Walter Slezak (May 3, 1902 – April 21, 1983) was an Austrian actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films. Slezak often portrayed villains or thugs, notably the German U-boat engineer in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat, but occasionally he played lighter roles, as in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, a philosophical detective in Born to Kill, and as Squire Trelawney in Treasure Island. Career Born in Vienna, Austria, the son of famed opera star Leo Slezak, he was a medical student and later a bank teller. He was talked into taking his first role, in the 1922 Austrian film Sodom und Gomorrha, by his friend and the film's director, Michael Curtiz. In his early movie career, before he gained weight, Slezak was cast as a thin leading man in silent films. He also acted on the s... Biography of Jean-Louis Idiart
Jean-Louis Idiart (born May 3, 1950 in Mazères-sur-Salat (Haute-Garonne)) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.... Biography of George Winslow
George Winslow, born George Carl Wenzlaff May, 3, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, is an American child actor. His nickname is Foghorn. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935487/ ) # Wild Heritage (1958) .... Talbot Breslin # Summer Love (1958) .... Thomas Daley III # "Blondie" .... Foghorn (1 episode, 1957) - Dagwood's Ego (1957) TV episode .... Foghorn # Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) .... Thomas Daley, III # Artists and Models (1955) (as George 'Foghorn' Winslow') .... Richard Stilton # "Dear Phoebe" .... Joey Kragon (1 episode, 1954) - The Christmas Show (1954) TV episode .... Joey Kragon # The Rocket Man (1954) (as George 'Foghorn' Winslow) .... Timmy # Mister Scoutmaster (1953) (as George 'Foghorn' Winslow) .... Mike Marshall # Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (... Biography of Geneviève Guitry
Geneviève Guitry, born Geneviève, Marie, Anaïs, Ligneau Chapelain de Séréville on May 3, 1914 in Saint-Just-en-Chaussée (Oise), died on July 6, 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French actress, the fourth wife of French playwright Sacha Guitry. Filmography Geneviève Chaplain 1937 : L'étrange Monsieur Victor de Jean Grémillon 1938 : Ma sœur de lait de Jean Boyer Geneviève de Saint-Jean 1937 : Les perles de la couronne de Sacha Guitry 1938 : Remontons les Champs-Elysées de Sacha Guitry Geneviève de Séréville 1939 : Ils étaient neuf célibataires de Sacha Guitry Geneviève Guitry 1941 : Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary de Sacha Guitry 1943 : Donne-moi tes yeux de Sacha Guitry 1943 : La Malibran de Sacha Guitry ... Biography of Julien Guiomar
Julien Guiomar (born May 3, 1928) is a French actor. He was born in Morlaix, Finistère. Filmography * 1966 : Le Roi de cœur (King of Hearts), directed by Philippe de Broca * 1967 : Ballade pour un chien, directed by Gérard Vergez * 1967 : Le Voleur (The Thief of Paris), directed by Louis Malle * 1967 : Toutes folles de lui, directed by Norbert Carbonnaux * 1968 : Pour un amour lointain, directed by Edmond Séchan * 1968 : La Louve solitaire, directed by Édouard Logereau * 1969 : La Fiancée du pirate, directed by Nelly Kaplan * 1969 : Z, directed by Costa-Gavras * 1969 : L'Auvergnat et l'autobus, directed by Guy Lefranc * 1969 : La Voie lactée (The Milky Way), directed by Luis Buñuel * 1970 : La Horse, directed by Pierre Granier-D... Biography of Ousama Rawi
Ousama Rawi, born May 3, 1939 in Bagdad, is an Iranian cinematographer and director. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712561/) # Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (2011) (TV) (post-production) # "The Tudors" (38 episodes, 2007-2010) - Death of a Monarchy (2010) TV episode - Secrets of the Heart (2010) TV episode - As It Should Be (2010) TV episode - Sixth and the Final Wife (2010) TV episode - You Have My Permission (2010) TV episode (33 more) # "Ben Hur" (2010) TV mini-series (unknown episodes) # One Night (2009/II) # Somebodies (2006) # Vinegar Hill (2005) (TV) (director of photography) # Family Sins (2004) (TV) (director of photography) # DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003) (TV) # Jasper, Texas (2003) (TV) # The Pact (2002) (TV) # Aven... Biography of Charles XV of Sweden
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth. He was the eldest son of King Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. The Crown Prince was Viceroy of Norway briefly in 1856 and 1857. He became Regent on September 25, 1857, and king on the death of his father on July 8, 1859. As grandson of Augusta of Bavaria, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden and Charles IX of Sweden, whose blood returned to the throne after being lost in 1818 when Charles XIII of Sweden died. On June 19, 1850 he married Louise of the Netherlands, niece of William II of the Netherlands through her father and niece of William I of Prussia, German... Biography of Steffen Schleiermacher
Steffen Schleiermacher (born Halle, 3 May 1960) is a German composer, pianist, and conductor. After studying at the Leipzig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working there as a music theory and ear training assistant. At the same time, he did his post-graduate studies at the Köln Music School with Aloys Kontarsky. In 1988, he was a founder of the Ensemble Avantgarde, which is devoted to contemporary classical music. Schleiermacher's prizes and fellowship awards include the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), Kranichstein Music Prize (1986), Hanns Eisler Prize of the East German Radio for his Concerto for Viola and Chamber Ensemble (1989), Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize, Munich (1991), Mendelssohn Fellowship of the East German Ministry of Culture (1988), Germ... Biography of Bobby Cannavale
Robert M. "Bobby" Cannavale (born May 3, 1971) is an American actor noted for his leading role as Bobby Caffey in the first two seasons of the critically acclaimed television series Third Watch. He also had a popular recurring role as Officer Vince D'Angelo on the comedy series Will & Grace. Personal life Cannavale was born in Union City, New Jersey, to an Italian American father and a Cuban American mother. He was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school. Cannavale graduated from Union Hill High School. He was married to Jenny Lumet – Sidney Lumet's daughter and Lena Horne's granddaughter – from 1994 to 2003. He and Jenny have one son named Jake. He was romantically linked with Annabella Sciorra from 2004-2007 and in 2007 with Mauritius co-star, Alison Pill. He is currentl... Biography of Bob Havens
Bob Havens (born May 3, 1930) is an American big band and jazz musician who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1960 to 1982. His instrument is the trombone. Born to a musical family in Quincy, Illinois. He began studying violin and trombone at age seven and played both instruments throughout his school years. He landed his first professional job with a local dance band at age 12. By the age of 16, his talent as a trombonist was recognized with a scholarship from the Interlochen Music Camp in Michigan and Bob held the first trombone chair in the school's 250 piece concert band. He later held the first trombone chair in the Quincy Symphony while also playing in many popular dance groups in Illinois. After serving in the Illinois National Guard as a bandsman during the Korean War, ... Biography of Anna Roosevelt
Anna leanor Roosevelt, born May 3, 1906 in Hyde Park, New York, died in 1975 (cancer), was an Amercian author and the first and only daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.... Biography of Pierre Emmanuel
Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques - 24 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1968, president of the French PEN club between 1973 and 1976, and the first president of the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel in 1975. Works Each year links to its corresponding " in poetry" article (for poetry) or " in literature" article (for prose): Poetry 1940: Elégies 1941: Tombeau d'Orphée 1942: Le Poète et son Christ 1943: Jour de colère ("Day of Wrath"), including "Hymne de la liberté" ("Hymn to Freedom") 1943: "Les dents serrées", published in L’Honneur des poètes anthology, Éditions de Minu... Biography of Jeanne Bal
Jeanne Bal (born May 3, 1928, Santa Monica, California – died April 30, 1996, Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actress who worked primarily in 1960s television. Career In the 1959-1960 season, Bal co-starred with William Demarest, Murray Hamilton, and Stubby Kaye in the NBC sitcom Love and Marriage as Pat Baker, Demarest's 31-year-old daughter, who works with him in the William Harris Music Publishing Company, which is in financial straits because Demarest's character Harris will not publish rock and roll music. In 1961, she became a regular on the sitcom Bachelor Father, but left shortly afterwards. Her other television credits include several appearances on Perry Mason, and guest spots on Bonanza, Wagon Train, and I Spy. Her most famous role is as one of the two actr... Biography of Aurélie Perrillat-Colomb
Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb, born May 3, 1980 in Champagnole, is a French cross-country skier. External link: http://pekin.franceolympique.com/turin/athletes/perrillat-collomb-58.html... Biography of Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer. She is best known as one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label and for her 1968 single "Those Were The Days", a Top 10 hit single in both the UK and the US Biography Early singing career Hopkin was born in Pontardawe, Wales into a Welsh-speaking family and her father worked as a housing officer. She took weekly singing lessons as a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. She released an EP of Welsh language songs for a local record label called Cambrian, based in her home town, before signing to The Beatles' Apple Records. The model Twiggy saw her winning the British ITV television talent show, Opport... Biography of John Lewis (pianist)
John Aaron Lewis (LaGrange, Illinois, May 3, 1920 – New York City, March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Early life Born in LaGrange, Illinois and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he learned classical music and piano from his mother starting at the age of seven. He continued his musical training at the University of New Mexico and also studied anthropology. He served in the Army in World War II. While stationed in France on a three-year tour of duty, he met and performed with Kenny Clarke. Clarke was an early developer of the bop style and Lewis composed and arranged for a band he and Clarke organized. Lewis returned from service in 1945 and resumed his university studies. Jazz career In the fal... Biography of May Sarton
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (3 May 1912 – 16 July 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Many of her works reflect the lesbian experience. Biography Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium. Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. In 1915, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started theatre lessons in her late teens. In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive (1988) is about their relationship. Sarton later moved to York, Maine. She died of breast cancer on 16 July ... Biography of Antonio Vallisneri
Antonio Vallisneri (May 3, 1661 – January 18, 1730) was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist. Life Vallisneri was born in Trassilico, a small village in Garfagnana, near Lucca, and graduated in medicine in 1684, in Reggio Emilia, under the guidance of Marcello Malpighi. He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held the chairs of Practical Medicine first and Theoretical Medicine later at the University of Padua between 1700 and his death. Influenced by famous thinkers such as Leibniz and Conti he belonged to the Galilean school of experimental scientists. He worked in biology, botany, veterinary medicine, hydrology and the newly born science geology. Vallisneri died in Padua in 1730. Importance He is known for being one of the first researcher... Biography of Aline MacMahon
Aline MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an American actress. MacMahon's career began in theatre during the 1920s, and she worked extensively in film and television, until her retirement in the mid 1970s. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Early life MacMahon was born Aline Laveen MacMahon to William M. MacMahon and Jennie C. Simon of Irish and Russian Jewish descent in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. According to the 1910 United States Federal Census for Brooklyn, New York, her father, William, was born in 1878 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania to an Irish-born father, whose occupation was a telegraph operator. Her mother, Jennie, was born in 1879 in Russia of Jewish origin; she died in 1984, at t... Biography of Antoine Balpêtré
Antoine Balpêtré (3 May 1898 in Lyon – 28 March 1963 in Paris) was a French film actor and comedian. He appeared in 52 films between 1933 and 1963. Filmography * 1933 : La maison du mystère de Gaston Roudès * 1933 : L'Agonie des aigles de Roger Richebé * 1935 : Gaspard de Besse d'André Hugon * 1939 : Le monde tremblera ou La révolte des vivants de Richard Pottier * 1939 : Le duel de Pierre Fresnay * 1942 : La main du diable de Maurice Tourneur * 1942 : L'assassin habite au 21 de Henri-Georges Clouzot * 1942 : Picpus de Richard Pottier * 1943 : Le Corbeau, de Henri-Georges Clouzot : le docteur Delorme * 1946 : Le visiteur de Jean Dréville * 1947 : Paysans noirs de Georges Régnier * 1947 : La Figure de proue, de Christian Sten... Biography of Cheryl Burke
Cheryl Bautista Burke (born May 3, 1984 in Redwood City, California) is a two-time Emmy nominated professional dancer. She is known for being the first two-time champion of ABC's American version of Dancing with the Stars with celebrity dance partners Drew Lachey (February 2006) and Emmitt Smith (November 2006). In Season 4, she went to Week 9 with Beverly Hills 90210 star Ian Ziering. In Season 5, she was partnered with Las Vegas Legend Wayne Newton, who was eliminated in Week 3. In Season 6, she made it to the finals and placed 3rd with actor Cristián de la Fuente. In Season 7, she was eliminated in Week 8 with partner Maurice Green, the former "World's Fastest Man." In Season 8 she is paired with Gilles Marini, best known for his cameo in the Sex and the City movie. Early life Burke... Biography of William Inge
William Motter Inge (pronounced /ˈɪndʒ/ "inj"; May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest." Early years Born in Independence, Kansas, Inge attended Independence Community College and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama. Offered a scholarship to work on a Master of Arts degree, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to att... Biography of Auguste Mallet
Auguste Mallet, born May 3, 1913 in Thiergeville, died December 9, 1946 in Paris, was a French former professional bicycle racer.... Biography of Jean Marsaudon
Jean Marsaudon (born May 3, 1946 in Paris, died September, 18, 2008) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Essonne department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.... Biography of Walter Starcke
Walter Starcke, born May 3, 1921 in Ocean View, Virginia, is an American former naval officer and an occult writer.... Biography of Mel Lazarus
Mell Lazarus (born May 3, 1927) is an American novelist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of two comic strips, Miss Peach (1957-2002) and Momma (1970-present). A native of Brooklyn, Lazarus began as a professional cartoonist when he was a teenager. During his twenties, he worked for Al Capp and his brother Elliott Caplin at the Capp family-owned Toby Press, which published Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, among other titles. In 1964, Lazarus talked about his background and working methods: I never actually graduated high school. My art teacher flunked me. I have since, however, attended many classes of one kind or another. I frequently lecture at colleges and to other groups around the country. I sold my first cartoon when I was 16. I did commercial art and edited children’s ma... Biography of Agnès Desarthe
Agnès Desarthe, born May 3, 1966 in Paris, is a French writer and novelist. Works Novels for children * Je ne t'aime pas, Paulus, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * Abo, le minable homme des neiges, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * Les Peurs de Conception, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * La Fête des pères, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * Le Mariage de Simon, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * Le Roi Ferdinand, L'École des Loisirs, 1992 * Dur de dur, L'École des Loisirs, 1993 * La Femme du bouc-émissaire, L'École des Loisirs, 1993 * Benjamin, héros solitaire, L'École des Loisirs, 1994 * Tout ce qu'on ne dit pas, L'École des Loisirs, 1995 * Poète maudit, L'École des Loisirs, 1995 * L'expédition, L'École des Loisirs, 1995 * Je manque d'assurance,... Biography of Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American astronaut and chemical engineer who flew as the Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sacco completed a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 1973, and then a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. He then joined the faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, becoming a full professor and rising to department head in 1989. He is currently the George A. Snell Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Northeastern University. He is also Director of the Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing. Sacco flew as a payload specialist on STS-73, which launc... Biography of François Albert-Buisson
François Albert-Buisson (French pronunciation: ; 3 May 1881, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme – 21 May 1961, Aix-en-Provence) was a French entrepreneur, industrial, consular magistrate, economist, politician, historian. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1955.... Biography of Brad Martin
Brad Martin (born May 3, 1973 in Greenfield, Ohio) is an American country music artist. He made his debut on the American country music scene in 2002 with the release of his debut album Wings of a Honky-Tonk Angel, which produced a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts in the single "Before I Knew Better". The album's second single and a followup for an unreleased album both failed to reach Top 40, and Martin was dropped from Epic. Biography Martin was taught to play the guitar at an early age. He later gained an interest in songwriting, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in his early 20s. He performed daily in a nightclub, and was eventually spotted by Joe Carter, an artist manger who had previously worked with Tracy Byrd. Carter saw potential in the young ... Biography of Alexis Clairaut
Alexis Claude de Clairaut (or Clairault) (3 May 1713 – 17 May 1765) was a prominent French mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, and intellectual. Biography Childhood Clairaut was born in Paris, France, where his father taught mathematics. He was a prodigy — at the age of twelve he wrote a memoir on four geometrical curves and under his father's tutelage he made such rapid progress in the subject that in his thirteenth year he read before the Académie française an account of the properties of four curves which he had discovered. When only sixteen he finished a treatise on tortuous curves, Recherches sur les courbes a double courbure, which, on its publication in 1731, procured his admission into the French Academy of Sciences, although he was below the legal age as he was only e... Biography of Gino Cervi
Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame. Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies. At the end of his career, he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories, which ended with a movie Maigret in Pig... Biography of Odette Casanova
Odette Casanova, born on May 3, 1936 in Hyères, is a French politician (socialist), a former member of Parliament.... Biography of Hester Dowden
Hester Dowden, born May 3, 1868 in Dublin, died in 1949, was a professional medium whose psychic development was marked by the successive appearance of five spirit personalities: "Peter," "Eyen," "Astor," "Shamar," and "Johannes." She was later known for her experiments in automatic writing. External link: http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/eop_01/eop_01_01444.html... Biography of Giulio Brogi
Giulio Brogi (born 3 May 1935 in Verona) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in 39 films and television shows since 1967. He starred in the 1974 film Morel's Invention, which also starred Anna Karina. Selected filmography The Spider's Stratagem (1970) Morel's Invention (1974) Voyage to Cythera (1984) The Yes Man (1991)... Biography of Denis Savignat
Denis Savignat, born on May 3, 1937 in Vanves, Seine, died on October 5, 1998 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (cancer), was a French comedian and actor. Filmography Cinema 1966 : Soleil noir 1968 : Caroline chérie de Richard Pottier 1970 : Trop petit mon ami d'Eddy Matalon 1977 : La famille Cigale 1975 : C'est bon pour la santé 1978 : Le Seigneur des anneaux - doublage de la voix d'Elrond 1984 : Comme tu veux, mon chéri Television 1968 : L'Homme de l'ombre de Guy Jorré, épisode : Le révolté 1971 : Quentin Durward, feuilleton télévisé de Gilles Grangier (le duc d'Orléans) 1975 : Salvator et les Mohicans de Paris (d'après l'œuvre de Alexandre Dumas), feuilleton télévisé de Bernard Borderie 1978 : Gaston Phébus, feuilleto... Biography of René Huyghe
René Huyghe (Arras, 3 May 1906 - Paris, 5 February 1997) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France and from 1960 a member of the Académie française. He was the father of the writer François-Bernard Huyghe. Life René Huyghe studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Sorbonne and the école du Louvre. Made a curator of the Louvre's department of paintings in 1930, he rose to chief curator and professor of the école du Louvre in 1936, aged only 30. He founded and edited the reviews L’Amour de l’Art and Quadrige. He was one of the first figures in France to make films on art, such as his Rubens (winner of a prize at the Venice Biennale), and founded the I... Biography of Roger Meï
Roger Meï, born May 3, 1945 in Hyères (Var), is a French politician, a member of The French Communist Party. He is the Mayor of Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhône) (1977 - ).... Biography of Ryan Dempster
Ryan Scott Dempster (born May 3, 1977, in Sechelt, British Columbia) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Dempster bats and throws right-handed. Professional career He was drafted by the Texas Rangers and was traded to the Florida Marlins. He has played for the Marlins (1998–2002), Cincinnati Reds (2002–2003), and Chicago Cubs (2004–present). In August 2003, he underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and made a miraculous recovery from the surgery, taking a little under a year to recover from it, coming back in the last half of 2004 to pitch for the Cubs. In 2005, after starting 6 games, Dempster was named the closer for the Cubs, replacing LaTroy Hawkins. He collected 33 saves in 35 opportunities, the best save percentage in the league; in bot... Biography of Alex Cord
Alex Cord (May 3, 1933) is an American actor who is perhaps best known for portraying the role of Archangel on the television series Airwolf. Biography Born Alex Viespi in Floral Park, New York, Cord's first role of note was in the 1962 movie The Chapman Report directed by George Cukor. He briefly enjoyed a leading man status on the big and small screen during the 1960s and 1970s, and starred or co-starred in westerns and action films. He is one of a handful of actors to appear on both the original and revival versions of Mission: Impossible. Cord is also known to science fiction enthusiasts for having portrayed Dylan Hunt in the failed 1973 TV pilot Genesis II which was created by Gene Roddenberry. In 1977 he starred in the epic Western Grayeagle where he played the title character... Biography of Tom Sutherland
Tom Sutherland, born May 3, 1931 in Bothkennar, former Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. He was released on November 18, 1991 at the same time as Terry Waite, having been held hostage for 2353 days. Born in Bothkennar, Scotland on May 3, 1931, Sutherland obtained a BSc in Agriculture from Glasgow University, and moved to the United States in the 1950s. He was awarded a master's degree and PhD in animal breeding from Iowa State University, then taught animal science at Colorado State University for 26 years. He moved to Beirut in 1983 for a three-year term as dean of the faculty of agriculture and food science in the American University in Beirut. Despite the assassination of Un... Biography of Mimi Barthelemy
Mimi Barthelemy, born May 3, 1939 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian writer, storyteller, and musician. Awards: Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (2000) Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2001) External link: http://www.mimibarthelemy.com/index2.php?show=mimi... Biography of Edouard Drumont
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer. He founded the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. Early life Drumont was born in Paris on 3 May 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille. At the age of seventeen his father died, and left him to earn his own livelihood. Public career He was at first in government service, but later became a contributor to the press and was the author of a number of miscellaneous works, of which Mon vieux Paris (1879) was crowned by the Academy. Drumont's 1886 book La France Juive (Jewish France) attacked the role of Jews in France and argued for their exclusion from society. In 1892 Drumont founded the newspaper the La Libre Pa... Biography of Richard Lippold
Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 Milwaukee, Wisconsin (birth time source: Lescaut) – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in industrial design in 1937. Lippold worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold taught at several universities, including Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967. The Lippold Foundation is laboriously maintaining his work. Howard Newman: Lippold was an engineering genius, but we’ve been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,...People’s mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like th... Biography of George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Biography Thomson was born in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, the daughter of the professor of medicine at the University of Cambridge. Thomson went to The Perse School, Cambridge before going on to read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. After brief service in France, he worked on aerodynamics at Farnborough and elsewhere. He resigned his commission as a Capt... Biography of Betty Comden
Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein. Early life Betty Comden was born Elizabeth Cohen in New York City, attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, and studied drama at New York University. In 1938, mutual friends introduced her to Adolph Green, an aspiring actor. Along with the young Judy Holliday and Leonard Bernstein, Comden and Green formed a troupe c... Biography of Selah Sue
Selah Sue, (born Sanne Putseys, 3 May 1989) is a Belgian musician and songwriter. Her first EP was released in 2008, under the title Black Part Love. It contains five songs. Background Sanne Putseys was born in Leuven, but originates from the nearby Belgian town Leefdaal. At the age of fifteen, Sanne Putseys learned to play the acoustic guitar and started to write her own songs as well. When she was seventeen, Selah Sue performed as the youngest and only female artist at the open-song contest Open Mic-avond at Het Depot in Leuven. Organizer and singer Milow (born Jonathan Vandenbroeck) had noticed her talents and asked her to perform in his supporting programme. Initially, Sanne Putseys managed to work out her musical career path while studying psychology at the Katholieke Universite... Biography of Virgil Fox
Virgil Keel Fox, né à Princeton (Illinois) le 3 mai 1912 et mort à Palm Beach (Floride) le 25 octobre 1980, est un organiste concertiste américain, connu notamment pour ses tournées « Heavy Organ », son style d'interpétation flamboyant et son sens du spectacle. Naissance et études Fils de Miles et Birdie Fox, Virgil fait preuve d'aptitudes musicales exceptionnelles dès le plus jeune âge. Il est organiste liturgique dès l'âge de 10 ans et fait ses débuts en concert à l'âge de 14 ans. De 1926 à 1930, il étudie l'orgue à Chicago, Illinois avec Wilhelm Middelschulte. Ses autres professeurs sont Hugh Price, Louis Robert; il se perfectionne à Paris avec Marcel Dupré. Carrière En 1936, Fox est organiste à l'église prebytèrienne du Brown Memorial à Baltimore. Durant la Seconde Guerre mo... Biography of William Glock
Sir William Frederick Glock (3 May 1908 – 28 June 2000) was a British music critic and musical administrator. Biography Glock was born in London. He read history at the University of Cambridge and was an organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Glock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin from 1930 to 1933. Glock was first music critic of the Daily Telegraph in 1934, and then of The Observer (1934–1945). He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. In 1949 he founded the music journal The Score, and served as its editor until 1961. He later became music critic at the New Statesman, from 1958 to 1959. Glock became the first director of the Bryanston Summer School of Music in 1948. On the encouragement of Schnabel, he founded the Dartington Summe... Biography of François Coty
François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc., based in New York City. Early life and family Joseph Marie François Spoturno was born on 3 May 1874 in Ajaccio, Corsica. He was a descendant of Isabelle Bonaparte, an aunt of Napoleon Bonaparte.:9 His parents were Jean-Baptiste Spoturno and Marie-Adolphine-Françoise Coti, both descendants of Genoese settlers who founded Ajaccio in the 15th century. His parents died when he was a child and the young François was raised by his great-grandmother, Marie Josephe Spoturno, and after her death, by his grandmother, Anna Maria ... Biography of Philippe Parès
Philippe Parès, born on May 3, 1901 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1979, was a French editor, music producer, and composer.... Biography of Lynn Farleigh
Lynn Farleigh (born 3 May 1942), is an English actress of stage and screen. Early life Farleigh was born in Bristol on May 3, 1942 to Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark). She attended the Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Marriages Michael Jayston (1965 - 1970) (divorced) ((Keith Turner)) (separated) David Yip (? - ?) (divorced) John Woodvine (? - present) Career She made her first professional appearance in May 1962 in a production of Under Milk Wood at the Salisbury Playhouse, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in October 1966, playing Castiza in The Revenger's Tragedy at Stratford upon Avon. She made her New York debut with the RSC in April 19... Biography of Friedrich Schwindl
Friedrich Schwindl, born on May 3, 1737 in Amsterdam, died on August 7, 1786 in Karlsruhe, was a Dutch musician and composer. Works: Trios 24 Menuette für 2 Violinen und Bass Quartette 6 Streichquartette, op.7 6 Quintette für 2 Flöten, 2 Violinen und Cembalo Konzerte Flötenkonzert D-Dur Sinfonien Symphonie périodique Singspiele „Die drei Pächter" (1778) „Das Liebesgrab" (1779)... Biography of André Chevrillon
André Chevrillon (May 3, 1864 (birth time source: Lescaut)–July 9, 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris. He was a professor of English at the École Navale of Brest in 1887–1888, and from 1889 to 1894 was Maître de conférences at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille. He was with the British army at the front during the War, and afterward (1921) was received in the French Academy. His writings fall into two distinct classes: impressions of travel, and critical essays on England and English literature. Besides many articles in the Re... Biography of Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. Biography Steven Weinberg was born in 1933 in New York City to Jewish immigrants Frederick and Eva Weinberg. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950 in the same graduating class as Sheldon Glashow, whose own research, independent of Weinberg's, would result in them (and Abdus Salam) sharing the same 1979 Nobel in Physics (see below). Weinberg received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1954, living at the Cornell branch of the Telluride Association. He left Cornell and went to the Niels Bohr Institu... Biography of Ernest Constans
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans (May 3, 1833 (birth time source: Lescaut)–April 7, 1913) was a French politician and colonial administrator. Biography Born in Béziers, Hérault, he began his career as professor of law. In 1876 he was elected deputy for Toulouse to the French Third Republic's Chamber, and sat in the Left Centre as one of the 363 of May 16, 1877. Re-elected in October 1877, he joined Louis de Freycinet as Minister of the Interior in May 1880, holding this portfolio until November 14, 1881. In 1887–1888, he was the first Governor-General of French Indochina. On February 22, 1889 he assumed the same office in Pierre Tirard's cabinet. He became prominent as a stalwart opponent of the Boulangist party, constituting the Senate as a high court of justice, and taking police meas... Biography of Jean-Marc Roberts
Jean-Marc Roberts, born May 3, 1954 in Paris, is a French author and editor. He is director of Stock. He won Prix Renaudot in 1979 for his novel Affaires étrangères. He is the son of Italian actress Ada Lonati and an American chief executive of department store, Edwin Roberts. Bibliography Samedi, dimanche et fêtes, Le Seuil, 1972 Baudelaire et les voleurs, Julliard, 1973 Le sommeil agité, Le Seuil, 1977 Les enfants de fortune, Le Seuil, 1978 Affaires étrangères, Seuil, 1979. Prix Renaudot 1979 L'Ami de Vincent, Le Seuil, 1982 Portrait craché, Le Seuil, 1983 Méchant, Le Seuil, 1985 Mon père américain, Le Seuil, 1988 L'angoisse du tigre, Le Seuil, 1990 Les seins de Blanche Neige, Grasset, 1993 Affaires personnelles, Grasset, 1996 Monsieur Pinochio, Julliard, 1998... Biography of Hideo Saito (cellist)
Hideo Saito, born on May 3, 1902 in Tokyo, died on September 18, 1974 in Tokyo, was a Japonese cellist, conductor, and influental teacher. External link: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Saito-Hideo.htm... Biography of Ron Brown (Scottish politician)
Ronald Duncan Mclaren Brown (29 June 1938 (birth time source: Pulsar collection 1989, Astrodatabank) – 3 August 2007), known as Ron Brown and nicknamed Red Ron, was a Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for the Edinburgh Leith constituency, from the 1979 general election to the 1992 general election. A controversial figure, he was suspended from the House of Commons on several occasions, most famously in 1988 after damaging the Mace. Early life Brown was born into a working class family at West Pilton in Edinburgh. His father worked in engineering. He was educated at Pennywell Primary School, Ainslie Park High School and the Bristo Technical Institute. He did National Service in the Royal Signals, and then served five years as an apprentice fitter. He ... Biography of Jaycee Dugard
The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard occurred on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old. Dugard (born May 3, 1980) was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. Searches began immediately after the kidnapping, but no reliable leads were generated. She remained missing for more than 18 years. On August 25, 2009, convicted sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido visited the campus of UC Berkeley accompanied by two young girls. Their unusual behavior there sparked an investigation that led to his bringing the two girls to a parole office on August 26, accompanied by a woman who was then identified as Dugard. Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, of Antioch, California, were arrested for kidnapping and other charges; they pleaded guilty ... Biography of Fred Roulette soon available
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François-David Cardonnel, born May 3, 1984 in Aix-en-Provence, is a French fencer, the nephew of the writer and Dominican father Jean Cardonnel. He won the game Koh-Lantha in 2006. Koh-Lantha is the French version of Survivor, a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off a tribe member, until only one final contestant remains and wins the title of "Sole Survivor". The format for Survivor was created in 1992 by Charlie Parsons, and the first production of it was the Swedish show Expedition: Robinson in 1997.... Biography of Jérôme Clavier
Jérôme Clavier (born 3 May 1983) is a French pole vaulter. He finished sixth at the 2002 World Junior Championships, seventh at the 2003 Summer Universiade and sixth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. He competed at the World Indoor Championships in 2004 and 2006 without reaching the finals. His personal best is 5.63 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Pierre-Bénite. He has a better indoor result with 5.65 m, first achieved in February 2004 in Eaubonne.... Biography of Graham Guit
Graham Guit, born May 3, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French director, screenwriter and former actor. Filmography Director 1984 : Caleb 1993 : Roman de Léo, Le 1997 : Le Ciel est à nous avec Romane Bohringer, Melvil Poupaud et Élodie Bouchez 1998 : Les Kidnappeurs avec Melvil Poupaud, Élodie Bouchez et Romain Duris 2003 : Le Pacte du silence avec Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez et Carmen Maura 2008 : Hello Goodbye Actor 1980 : Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme... Biography of Irene Rosenfeld
Irene Blecker Rosenfeld born (May 3, 1953) is the CEO of Kraft Foods Inc. She was born in Brooklyn, and later brought up in Westbury on Long Island to parents Seymour and Joan Blecker, a young Jewish couple. Her father’s parents were Romanian Jews, her mother’s grandparents - German Jews. In 2004, Rosenfeld was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, where she focused on promoting healthy products. Rosenfeld was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods in June 2006. She was appointed to the additional post of Chairman in March 2007, following Altria Group’s spin-off of Kraft. Rosenfeld has worked for 25 years in the food and beverage industry. Her first job was at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York and she la... Biography of George Eckstein
George Eckstein (May 3, 1928 - September 12, 2009) was an American writer and television producer whose career spanned three decades, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s. Eckstein was a producer of many popular television programs such as The Invaders and The Name of the Game, in addition to penning the scripts of many others, including Gunsmoke and Cannon. From the late 1970s onward, the bulk of Eckstein’s producing work was on several made-for-TV movies and specials, with a year’s stint as executive producer of the NBC series Love, Sidney in the midst. Eckstein was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth (née Wexler) and George Eckstein, a salesman. He was married to actress Ann Morgan Guilbert from 1953 until their divorce in 1966, and had two children with her, age... Biography of Karine Tuil
Karine Tuil, born May 3, 1972 in Paris, is a French writer. Her books are translated in Italian and German. Awards: Prix Wizo (2001) for her second novel, "Interdit" Nomination for the Prix Goncourt (2010) for her last novel, "Six mois, six jours" Bibliography * 2000 : Pour le pire (Éditions Plon, pocket 11352) (ISBN 2-259-19294-7) * 2001 : Interdit (Éditions Plon, pocket 11613 ) (ISBN 2-259-19520-2) * 2002 : Du sexe féminin (Éditions Plon, pocket 11941 ) (ISBN 2-259-19708-6) * 2003 : Tout sur mon frère (Éditions Grasset, livre de Poche 30276) (ISBN 2-246-65401-7) * 2005 : Quand j'étais drôle (Éditions Grasset (ISBN 2-246-65411-4) * 2007 : Douce France (Éditions Grasset) (ISBN 2246709911) * 2008 : La Domination (Éditions Grasset) (ISBN 224673... Biography of Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski (born May 3, 1974) is an American television commercial and feature film director best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 film Tron. His previous work has primarily been with CGI related television commercials including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3 and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War. Movie career Kosinski was raised in Marshalltown, Iowa. After moving to Los Angeles, California, in 2005, he began writing a graphic novel called Oblivion for Radical Books. In August 2010, Walt Disney Pictures acquired the rights. William Monahan worked on the screenplay for a film adaptatio... Biography of Ymre Stiekema
Ymre Stiekema (born May 3, 1992 in Groningen, Netherlands) is a Dutch model. At the age of fifteen, she began her modeling career when she placed as first runner-up in the finals of the Elite Model Look in April 2008 in Prague. This earned her a contract amount of 100.000. She won the Dutch Model Awards in Amsterdam on May 22, 2008. Not long after, she signed with the Italian luxury brand Prada. Stiekema has also modeled for Jason Wu, Dior, and Donna Karan, and appeared in editorials for Vogue. Stiekema resides in Tolbert. External link: http://ymre.nl/... Biography of Constantine III (Byzantine emperor)
Constantine III (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γ'; 3 May 612 – 20 April or 24/26 May 641) was Byzantine Emperor for four months in 641. He was the eldest son of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius and his first wife Eudokia. Constantine's birth name was Heraclius the New Constantine (Latin: Heraclius Novus Constantinus, Greek: Ἡράκλειος νέος Κωνσταντίνος), which was also the official name under which he reigned. The name Constantine became established in later Byzantine texts as short for the emperor and has become standard in modern historiography. In terms of official imperial nomenclature, the style "Constanti... Biography of Marc Dugain
Marc Dugain (born on May 3, 1957 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French novelist, chiefly known for La Chambre des Officiers (English, The Officers' Ward) (1999), a novel set in World War I. Dugain was born in Senegal, and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble. His prize-winning first novel was made into a successful film in 2001. Other works une exécution ordinaire La malédiction d'Edgar Heureux comme Dieu en France... Biography of Yvonne Sherman
Yvonne C. Sherman Tutt (May 3, 1930 in New York, NY – February 2, 2005 in Colorado Springs, CO) was an American figure skater. She won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice in ladies' single skating and once in pair skating with Robert Swenning. Sherman competed in both disciplines in the 1948 Winter Olympics. After her competitive career ended, Sherman became a skating judge. She was married to William Thayer Tutt, a prominent skating administrator and promoter from Colorado Springs. Both Tutts were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991.... Biography of Sergius of Radonezh
Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (Russian: Се́ргий Ра́донежский, Sergii Radonezhsky), also transliterated as Sergey Radonezhsky or Serge of Radonezh, was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most highly venerated saints. Early life The date of his birth is unclear: it could be 1314, 1319, or 1322 ; one possible date is May 3, 1314. As his medieval Life states, he was born to a boyar family near Rostov Velikiy, where Varnitsy Monastery now stands. He was originally baptized with the name Bartholomew (Варфоломе́&... Biography of Raffaele Riario
Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario (May 3, 1461 – July 9, 1521) was an Italian Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the one who invited Michelangelo to Rome. He was a patron of the arts. He was also the first adolescent to be elevated in the College of Cardinals in the history of the Holy See. Early career and Pazzi Conspiracy Born in poverty in Savona, Riario was the son of Antonio Sansoni and Violante Riario, a niece of Francesco della Rovere, who became Pope Sixtus IV in 1471. Being the relative of a nepotist pontiff, he was created Cardinal of San Giorgio in Velabro on 10 December 1477 and received several dioceses (diocese of Cuenca, diocese of Pisa, diocese of Salamanca, diocese of Treguier, diocese of Osma). He was the... Biography of Leopoldo Luque
Leopoldo Jacinto Luque (born May 3, 1949 in Santa Fe) is a former Argentine football striker. In a career spanning (1972–1984) he played for Unión de Santa Fe, Rosario Central, River Plate, Racing Club de Avellaneda and Chacarita Juniors. With Argentina he was 1978 World Champion, scoring four goals in the tournament, including a spectacular long distance volley against France during the first round. During that tournament, a brother died in a traffic accident on the day that Argentina played Italy. He also seriously injured his left elbow in the match against France, the second game of that championship, forcing him to miss two matches. He was back for the last three matches of the tournament, including the final against Holland. Today, Luque is sports secretary of Mendoza Province. In... Biography of Margaret of York
Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503) – also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy – was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Duchy after his death. She was a daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two Kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III. She was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England, and she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries. Early life Duchess Isabella of Burgundy, the mother of Charles the Bold, was through her blood-ties and her perception of Burgundian interests pro-English. As a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, she was consequently sympathetic to the House of Lancaster. She believed that Burgundian trade, from which the Duchy drew its v... |
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