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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on May, 6, 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 · 45,458 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,458 Celebrities
134 celebrities or events were found for May, 6. Add to favourites (374 fans)Biography of George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as one of the lead doctors in the long-running television drama, ER (1994–99), as Anthony Edwards' best friend and partner, Dr. Douglas "Doug" Ross, but is best known for his subsequent rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema. Winner of an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, Clooney has balanced his glamorous performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as well as social and political activism. Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m) Early life Family Clooney, an Irish American, was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren), was a former pageant queen, while his fa... Add to favourites (151 fans)Biography of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (German pronunciation: ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. He was appointed a University lecturer in neuropathology in 1885 and became a Professor in 1902. In creating psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association (in which patients report their thoughts without reservation and in whi... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in the North East of England. As a member of the British Cabinet he is also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Tony Blair became leader of the British Labour Party in July 1994 following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many decades-old policy goals. Labour won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, ending 18 years of rule by the Conservative Party; it was the worst Conservative defeat since 1832. Blair is the Labour Party's longest-serving prime minister... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794) is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as "The Incorruptible" because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. He studied at College of Louis-Le-grand in Paris and became a lawyer. Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other Enlightenment philosophes, and a capable articulator of the beliefs of the left-wing bourgeoisie. He was described as physically unimposing and immaculate in dress and personal manners.... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it caused a large number of listeners to panic. Welles and his biographers subsequently claimed he was exposing the gullibility of American audiences in the tense preamble to the Second World War. In the mid-1930s, his New York theatre adaptations of a voodoo Macbeth and a contemporary Julius Caesar became legendary. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in tr... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor born May 6, 1952 in Paris. After his studies at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) he started his acting career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid and participated in a number of burlesque films with the troupe, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkkkkkayyyyyyy!!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix : Mission... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud (born 6 May 1960 in Paris) is a French actress. She is married to Jean Michel Jarre. She has a daughter with ex-husband Luc Besson, Juliette, born in 1987. A native Parisian and still a resident there, Anne was born May 6, 1960. While in school she studied ballet and her ambition was to become a lawyer, but a role during summer vacation - when she was only 16 - in Michel Long's "L'hôtel de la plage" launched her into the world of film. She is rather guarded regarding her private life and biographical details, preferring in her interviews to expound on metaphysical, as opposed to personal, questions. She believes her life outside of films - where she likes "dancing, talking with friends, things like that" - is prosaic: "Me, I don't like myself much. I'm not interesting.... Biography of Rubin Hurricane Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937) is an African-American former middleweight boxer between 1961 and 1966, although he is better known for his controversial convictions (1967, 1976) for three June 1966 murders in Paterson, New Jersey, and his subsequent release from prison in 1985. The question of Carter’s actual guilt or innocence remains a strongly polarizing one. However, this much is certain: either the criminal justice system released a triple murderer from the punishment that two separate juries had recommended, or it imprisoned an innocent man for almost 20 years. Pre-boxing life Carter grew up in Paterson, NJ, a middle son among seven children. His parents had a stable, long-lasting marriage, provided well for the family, and raised their other six children without ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. Filmography * My Official Wife (1914) * The Quest of Life (1916) * The Foolish Virgin (uncredited) (1916) * Seventeen (uncredited, extra) (1916) * Alimony (1917) * A Society Sensation (1918) * All Night (1918) * The Married Virgin (or Frivolous Wives; 1918) * The Delicious Little Devil (1919) * The Big Little Person (1919) * A Rogue's Romance (1919) * The Homebreake (1919) * Out of Luck (1919) * Virtuous Sinners (1919) * The Fog (1919) * Nobody Home (1919) * The Eyes of Youth (1919) * Stolen Moments (1920) * ... Biography of Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Jean-Pierre Bouvier is a French climber born May 6, 1957 in Taverny.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sébastien Amiez
Sébastien Amiez (born May 6, 1972 in Moutiers) is a French alpine skier. World Cup victories Date Location Race January 21, 1996 Veysonnaz Slalom... Biography of Eugène Labiche
Eugène Marin Labiche (May 6, 1815 - January 23, 1888), was a French dramatist. He was born into a bourgeois family. He read for the bar, but found literature more attractive, and he was barely twenty when he contributed to the Chérubin magazine a short story, entitled, in the cavalier style of the period, Les plus belles sont les plus fausses. A few others followed in much the same vein, but failed to catch the attention of the public. He tried his hand at dramatic criticism in the Revue des théâtres, and in 1838 made a double venture on the stage. The small Théâtre du Pantheon produced, amid some signs of popular favour, a drama of his, L'Avocat Loubet, while a vaudeville, Monsieur de Coyllin ou l'homme infiniment poli, written in collaboration with Marc Michel, and performed at the Pa... Biography of Roma Downey
Roma Downey (born on May 6, 1960 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an actress and producer, best known for her role as Della Reese's employee, Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel (1994–2003). Her most famous prior roles were as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the 1991 USA TV movie A Woman Named Jackie and as the Amazon leader in Hercules and the Amazon Women. Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Twice divorced, she has a daughter, Reilly Marie Anspaugh (b. 1996). She married Mark Burnett on April 28, 2007 in their Malibu home. The wedding was officiated by Roma's Touched By An Angel co-star Della Reese, an ordained minister. Burnett is the creator of The Apprentice, Rock Star and Survivor reality series, and, coincidentally, served as a British soldier in Northern I... Biography of Ernst Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis, and this was a major contributing factor to his suicide. Life and work Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany. In 1901 he began studying architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule (technical university) of Dresden. The institution provided a wide range of studies in addition to architecture, such as freehand drawing, perspective drawing and the hist... Biography of Claude Weiss
Claude Weiss, born May 6, 1931 in Basle, is a Swiss editor, engineer, astrologer, author, psychologist, and president of Astrodata, Europe's largest astrological chart service.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Guy Des Cars
Guy des Cars (May 6, 1911 in Paris - December 21, 1993, Paris) was a French writer. His son, Jean des Cars is a journalist. Bibliography - L'impure ( 1946 ) - La demoiselle d'opéra ( 1948 ) - La brute ( 1951 ) - La corruptrice ( 1952 ) - La maudite ( 1954 ) - L'officier sans nom ( 1955 ) - Amour de ma vie ( 1956 ) - La cathédrale de haine ( 1956 ) - La tricheuse ( 1957 ) - Le chateau de la juive ( 1958 ) - Les filles de joie ( 1959 ) - Cette étrange tendresse ( 1960 ) - La dame du cirque ( 1962 ) - Sang d'Afrique ( 1963 ) - Les sept femmes ( 1964 ) - De cape et de plume ( 1965 ) - L'habitude d'amour ( 1966 ) - Le faussaire ( 1967 ) - La revoltée ( 1968 ) - La vipère ( 1969 ) - Lentremetteuse ( 1970 ) - Une certaine dame (... Biography of Alessandra Ferri
Alessandra Ferri (born in 1963) is an Italian ballerina, dancing as a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York, Prima Ballerina with the La Scala Ballet in Milan, and as an international guest artist. She retired on June 23, 2007 after a 22 year career with ABT, at age 44, with a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet at the Met. An internationally known dancer, she is widely considered one of the most famous ballerinas of the late twentieth century. Career Alessandra Ferri was born in Milan, Italy, where she studied at the Teatro alla Scala until the age of 15. She then attended the Royal Ballet School, and in 1980 she won one of the three Prix de Lausanne, allowing her to continue studying at the Royal Ballet School on scholarship. She joined t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole -- a claim that has subsequently attracted much criticism. Peary's life Early years Peary was born in the Pittsburgh area town of Cresson, Pennsylvania. He moved to Maine, attended Portland High School, was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was commissioned a Civil Engineer Corps Officer in the United States Navy October 26, 1881. With his wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, he had two children: Marie Peary and Robert Edwin Peary, Jr. First Arctic expeditions Peary made several expeditions to the Arctic, exploring Greenland by dog sled in 1886 and 1891 ... Biography of Achille Zavatta
Achille Zavatta (May 6, 1915 - November 16, 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator. Achille Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his family's circus show at the age of three, forming with his brothers Michel and Rolph, the Zavatta Trio. He became famous as a result of his pantomime skills no thanks to his bum friend Barry Levy who told him that he'd never be successful. He died in 1993 in Ouzouer des Champs, Loiret and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.... Biography of Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Height : 6' 3" (1.90 1/2 m) He was born in London, and educated at Epsom College. The grandson of the actor Luigi Lablache, he was obliged to change his name in order to avoid being confused with the famous American actor James Stewart. As Granger reported in an interview once, his off-screen friends called him "Jimmy". Acting career In 1933, he made his film debut as an extra. His first starring role was in the Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that helped to make him a huge star in Britain... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Andreas Baader
Andreas Bernd Baader (6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977) was one of the first leaders of the German organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof group. Born in Munich, Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his RAF involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university. RAF Involvement In 1968, Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin were convicted of the arson bombing of a department store in Frankfurt am Main. After being sentenced in November 1969, Baader fled, but was caught in April 1970. A few weeks later, in May 1970, he was allowed to study at the library of a research institute outside the prison, without handcuffs. Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and two other women were allowed to join him, and aided ... Biography of Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (May 6, 1868, Paris – April 15, 1927,) was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Echo de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an internatio... Biography of Bob Seger
Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945 in Detroit (birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-s/seger.bob.php)) is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and musician. After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band. A roots rocker with a classic raspy, shouting voice, Seger was first inspired by Little Richard and Elvis Presley. He wrote and recorded songs that dealt with blue-collar themes. Seger has recorded many rock and roll hits, including "Night Moves", "We've Got Tonight", "Like a Rock" and also co-wrote the Eagles number one hit "Heartache Tonight." His iconic signature song "Old Time Rock and Roll" was named one of th... Biography of Tony Estanguet
Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978) is an French slalom canoer. He has won two Olympic gold medals in the C-1 event, in 2000 and 2004.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Guy Talamoni
Jean-Guy Talamoni, born May 6, 1960 in Saumer, is a French politician.... Biography of Milton William Cooper
Milton William Cooper (May 6, 1943 - November 5, 2001) was an American writer, shortwave broadcaster, and militia supporter. Cooper came to public awareness in the late 1980s. Cooper's father was an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Cooper graduated in 1961 from Yamato High School in Japan, and enlisted in the U.S. Air force. He was honorably discharged in 1965, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December of that year. He served in Vietnam, rising to the rank of petty officer. Cooper was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with combat V and the Navy Achievement Medal with combat V. He was honorably discharged in 1974. The Secret Government Cooper's earliest notoriety developed among UFO enthusiasts, as he promoted UFO conspiracy theories, Kennedy assassination theories, and theories abou... Biography of Thérèse Liotard
Thérèse Liotard (born 6 May 1949 in Lille) is a French actress best known for her role in the film My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon père, de Marcel Pagnol). She is known on British television for her appearance in the series Bergerac.... Biography of Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield (born May 6, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress most famous for her 1991 portrayal in film of dance and performance pioneer Josephine Baker. Other winning roles include A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Eve's Bayou (1997). Early life Whitfield was born Lynn Butler-Smith in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Jean (née Butler), an officer of a finance agency, and Valerian Smith, a dentist. Whitfield is a member of the incorporated sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. Career Whitfield had a series of television appearances before her film career began, including playing Jill Thomas in the award-winning series Hill Street Blues. After gaining attention on stage in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf... Biography of Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulkova (Dominika Cibulková) (born May 6, 1989 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29, which she reached on April 14, 2008. She is also a former World No. 3 at the junior level, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in) Weight 55 kg (120 lb) Personal life Cibulkova began playing tennis between the ages of 7 and 9 and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. She can speak both Slovakian and English. She lists clay and hard as her favourite surfaces, and has thus far proved to be most proficient on a hard surface. She has named Kim Clijsters as the player she admires most. She became a professional tennis player in 2005, after having played one ITF event in Prague ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gilbert Duquenoix
Gilbert Duquenoix, born May 6, 1942 in Bruay-la-Buissière (former name, Bruay-en-Artois), died October 23, 1990, was a French magician. His stage name was Nathaniel. He was found in his home, died with a knife in his back.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Decaris
Albert Decaris, born May 6, 1901 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, died January 1, 1988 in Paris, is a french engraver.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Elizabeth Sellars
Elizabeth Sellars, born 6 May 1923 in Glasgow, Scotland is a British actress. Sellars appeared on the stage from age 15 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her first London appearance in 1946 in The Brothers Karamazov and later appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in Richard III, Helen in Troilus and Cressida, Gertrude in Hamlet and Hermione in The Winter's Tale. She entered films in 1949 with Floodtide. She appeared in a string of British films in the 50s and 60s and a few Hollywood films, usually in secondary roles, including The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Désirée (1954), Prince of Players (1955), The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963) and The Chalk Garden (1964). She also appeared frequently on television... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Poujade
Robert Poujade (Moulins (Allier), May 6, 1928) is a former French politician. He was mayor of Dijon from 1971 to 2001.... Biography of André Masséna
Jean-André Masséna, 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling (May 6, 1758–April 4, 1817) was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is considered by military historians as one of the greatest field commanders in history and is often ranked among generals of his generation second only to Napoleon himself. Napoleon said of Masséna: he was "the greatest name of my military Empire." According to Donald D. Horward, "Masséna's military career was equaled by few commanders in European history. In addition to his remarkable battlefield successes, he touched the careers of many who served under his command. Indeed, at one time or another, a majority of French marshals served under his command and saw 'the great Masséna at work.' Masséna was one of the orig... Biography of Ghena Dimitrova
Ghena Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Гeна Анастасия Димитpова) (May 6, 1941 - June 11, 2005) was a Bulgarian operatic soprano. Her voice was known for its power and extension used in operatic roles such as Turandot in a career spanning four decades. Early career Ghena Dimitrova was born in the Bulgarian village of Beglej in 1941. She started singing in the school choir and her powerful voice led to her being offered a place at the Sofia Conservatory studying under Cristo Brambarov between 1959 and 1964. While she was initially classified as a mezzo-soprano, she was recognised as a soprano in her second year. After finishing her studies at the Sofia Conservatory, she star... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Renaud Muselier
Renaud Muselier, born May 6, 1959, is a French politician. His political mandates include: 1992, puis 1993 - 1995 : Conseiller général ("counsellor") of the département of Bouches-du-Rhône 1993 - : Député ("MP") of Bouches-du-Rhône 2002 - : Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs He is the grandson of Admiral Émile Muselier. He is the nephew of Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_Muselier"... Biography of Chris Paul
Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association. He plays point guard. He serves as team captain of the franchise. Paul was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Despite only playing two varsity basketball seasons in high school, he was a McDonald's All-American and accepted a scholarship with nearby Wake Forest University. After his sophomore year with the Demon Deacons, he declared for the draft. Since being selected 4th overall in the 2005 NBA Draft by New Orleans, Paul has been a NBA Rookie of the Year (2006), a three-time All-Star, and an All-NBA and All-Defensive team honoree. He led the Hornets to the second round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs. He has also won an ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pope Innocent X
Pope Innocent X (May 6, 1574 – January 7, 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of cardinal, in 1629. Trained as a lawyer, he succeeded Pope Urban VIII (1623–44) on September 15, 1644, as one of the most politically shrewd pontiffs of the era, who much increased the temporal power of the Vatican. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI. Papal nuncio Pope Gregory XV (1621–23) sent him as nuncio to the court of Naples. Urban VIII sent him to... Biography of Victor Grignard
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. During World War I, he was transferred to the new field of chemical warfare, and worked on the manufacture of phosgene and the detection of mustard gas. His counterpart on the German side was another Nobel Prize winning Chemist, Fritz Haber. He is most noted for devising a new method for generating carbon-carbon bonds using magnesium to couple ketones and alkyl halides. This reaction is valuable in organic synthesis. It occurs in two steps: Formation of the "Grignard reagent," which is an organoma... Biography of Raquel Zimmermann
Raquel Zimmermann (born May 6, 1983 in Bom Retiro do Sul, RS, Brazil) is a Brazilian model. Discovery and modeling career Zimmermann was discovered by a scouting agency in Porto Alegre, Brazil at the age of 14 and made her way to Japan and onto Paris. Shortly thereafter, Steven Meisel booked her for the cover of Italian Vogue, September 2000, and her modelling career began in earnest. Zimmermann's friends at school convinced her to pursue modelling as a career. She is known for being very professional and polite to everyone. As for a plan after modelling, she says she would like to work with something creative. Zimmermann has campaigned for such brands as: Balenciaga, Bloomingdales, Cavalli jeans, Cerruti, Chanel eyewear, Chloé, Christian Dior, CK by Calvin Klein, Clairol, Dolce ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alberto Dall'Ora
Alberto Dall'Ora, born May 6, 1923 in Verona, died May 30, 1988, was a famous Italian prosecuting attorney.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Larry Steinbachek
Larry Steinbachek, born May 6, 1960 in London, is an English musician, a former member of group Bronski Beat (1983-1995), a popular British synth pop trio who achieved notable success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly gay and their songs often contained political commentary on gay related issues. Although many groups in the early to mid 80s had an openly gay image, Bronski Beat were one of the first groups to openly address the gross inequality experienced by gay people in society. At the height of their popularity the band were singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion. Somerville would go on to have success as lead singer of The Communards a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Besson
Louis Besson, born May 6, 1937 in Barby, Savoie, is a French politician, member of PS (Parti socialiste).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fernando Alves Pinto
Fernando Alves Pinto, born on May 6, 1969 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684654/) 2012 Dois Coelhos (post-production) Edgar 2011 Onde Está a Felicidade? Amigo no Jantar 2010 Astral City: A Spiritual Journey Lísias 2009 Os Inquilinos Mathematics Professor 2008 Flieger über Amazonien Fernando 2008 Osmar, the Heel of the Loaf (short) Dr. Pierre Croix Saint (voice) 2008 Mulheres Sexo Verdades Mentiras (credit only) 2007 O Signo da Cidade Devanir 2007 A Via Láctea 2006 Avassaladoras - A Série (TV series) Arnaldo – Sexo, Amor e Confusão (2006) … Arnaldo 2006 O Veneno da Madrugada Nestor 2006 Um Menino Muito Maluquinho (TV series) Menino Maluquinho aos 30 anos 2005/II Alice (shor... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcel Locquin
Marcel Locquin, born May 6, 1922 in Lyon and died March 18, 2009, was a French scientist and researcher, mycologist and biochemist. Publications: * 1960 - Champignons comestibles et vénéneux avec Bengt Cortin , éd. Fernand Nathan * 1963 - Les Champignons, Que sais-je ?. * 1978 - Manuel de microscopie avec Maurice Langeron, éd. Dunod, (ISBN 2225492700) * 1979 - Mycologie du goût : 200 menus et recettes à base de champignons, éd. J.-F. Guyot (ISBN 286224001X) * 1984 - Point sur l'informatique en 1984, éd. Lavoisier, (ISBN 2852062658) * 1986 - Le Nez des champignons avec Jean Lenoir, éd. Jean Lenoir, (ISBN 2906518107) * 1995 - L'invention de l'humanité - Petite histoire universelle de la planète, des techniques et des idées, éd. Nuées bleus, (ISBN 27165... Biography of Adrianne Palicki
Adrianne Palicki (born May 6, 1983 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress best known for her role as Tyra Collette on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights. Career Palicki appeared in the WB pilot Aquaman as the evil Siren, but the pilot was not picked up for series by the CW network, a result of The WB and UPN network merger, which occurred while the pilot was being filmed. She was a series regular on the first three seasons of NBC's much acclaimed Friday Night Lights, portraying the character of Tyra Collette. In 2010, she returns for the final two episodes of the series. Palicki also starred in Supernatural as Jessica Moore, Sam Winchester's doomed girlfriend, killed by the demon, in its pilot episode. The character reappears in the Supernatural season 2 episode, "What... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kal Mann
Kal Mann (May 6, 1917 - November 28, 2001) was an American lyricist. He is best known for penning the words to Elvis Presley's "Teddy Bear", plus "Butterfly", a hit for both Charlie Gracie and Andy Williams. Born Kalman Cohen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mann began his career in entertainment as a comedy writer for Danny Thomas and Red Buttons, until his friend and songwriter, Bernie Lowe, encouraged him to try writing lyrics for the music industry. Mann co-wrote songs with Lowe and Dave Appell, yielding a number of major rock and roll hits such as Charlie Gracie's "Butterfly," which sold more than two million copies and also become a million seller for the crooner, Andy Williams, and also a minor hit for Bob Carroll, whose cover version peaked at #61. In addition he co-wrote Elvis P... Biography of David Carpenter
David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), aka the Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer known for stalking and murdering women on hiking trails near San Francisco, California. Early life Born and raised in San Francisco, Carpenter was physically abused as a child by his alcoholic father and domineering mother. As a child, he suffered a severe stutter and a bed-wetting problem, and tortured animals. At 17, he was incarcerated for molesting two of his cousins. He married in 1955, a union that produced three children. Crimes Carpenter committed an attempted murder in 1960, for which he spent seven years in prison. In 1970, he was arrested for kidnapping, and spent a further seven years behind bars. After his release, he was a suspect in the notorious Zodiac murders, al... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Georges Adolphe Hue
Georges Adolphe Hüe (6 May 1858 – 7 June 1948) was a French composer of classical music. Georges Hüe was born in Versailles (Yvelines) into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée. Upon his return to Paris, the Opéra Comique produced his first stage work, Les Pantins ("The Jumping Jacks"). This plotless, two-act set-piece for four singers doubling roles completely ignored fashionable realist trends of the day, and won high acclaim. For the next twenty years, his musical career went in other directions. Hüe returned to the stage with his first full-length opera, Le roi de Paris, a formulatic historical drama with a subplot about unrequited love. His follow-up oper... Biography of Dora Bakoyanni
Theodora "Dora" Bakoyannis (Greek: Ντόρα Μπακογιάννη; b. May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician, the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece and Chairperson in Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; former Mayor of Athens. She was the first woman mayor of Athens in the city's history, the only elected woman mayor of the Greek capital so far, and also the first woman to serve as Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, the highest government position yet held by a female Greek politician. Personal life Early life Theodora Mitsotakis was born in Athens in 1954 to a Greek political family. She is the eldest of four children of the veteran Greek politician Constantine Mitsotakis... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of William, German Crown Prince
Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst) (6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) of the House of Hohenzollern was the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire. He was colloquially known as William or Wilhelm. Early life William was born in the Marble Palace of Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg. He was the eldest son of William II, German Emperor (1859-1941) and his first wife Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921). As a young man, the Crown Prince grew up within militaristic circles. He had received little command experience when he was given charge of the 5th Army in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I. He led this Army until November 1916, and his command included the period o... Biography of Dana Hill
Dana Hill (born Dana Lynne Goetz; May 6, 1964 – July 15, 1996) was an American actress and voice actor with a raspy voice and childlike appearance, which allowed her to play adolescent roles into her 30s. Hill is perhaps best known for playing Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation and Sherry Dunlap in Shoot the Moon. Early health issues Dana Lynne Goetz was born in 1964 to Sandy Hill and Ted Goetz. Her father was a director of commercials. A diagnosis of Type I diabetes at an early age ended a promising athletic future. A 1982 article in People Magazine reported that at age 10 Hill had placed third nationwide in the 880-yard run and fourth in the mile run. A few weeks later she collapsed on the track, which led to the diagnosis. The diabetes stunted her growth (at 1... Biography of Fabiola Toupin
Fabiola Toupin, born May 6, 1975 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, is a Canadian artist and singer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Abdon Alinovi
Abdon Alinovi, born May, 6, 1923 in Eboli, is an Italian politician, a former president of the Anti-Mafia Commission.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Amedeo Giannini
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California. His first occupation was as a commission merchant and produce dealer for farms in the Santa Clara Valley. In that position he found established banks unwilling to take on his or the farmers business. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco saloon on October 17, 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. However, the earthquake actually helped Giannini gain something of a loan monopoly. After the earthquake, he moved ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Azaïs
Paul Azaïs (6 May 1903 – 17 November 1974) was a French film actor. He appeared in 112 films between 1929 and 1966. Selected filmography Au grand balcon (1949) Return to Life (1949)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness (pronounced /ˈsuːnɨs/; born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. Souness is perhaps best known as the former captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough and Sampdoria in a long career. Following his retirement he worked as a manager, notably with Rangers, Liverpool, Benfica, Galatasaray, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. Souness now does media work and divides his time working for RTE in Ireland and Sky Sports. Club career This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2010) Early c... Biography of Willie Mays
William Howard "Willie" Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama) is a retired American baseball player who played the majority of his career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. Many consider him to be the greatest all-around player of all time. Mays won two MVP awards and tied a record with 24 appearances in the All-Star Game. He ended his career with 660 career home runs, third at the time of his retirement, and currently fourth all-time. In 1999, Mays placed second on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, making him the highest-ranking living player. Later that year, he was also elected to the... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of MC Serch
MC Serch (born Michael Berrin on May 6, 1967) is an American hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass. He is credited with creating the slang term "the Gas Face". He grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, attending Far Rockaway High School., and graduated from Music & Art High School. After recording three albums with 3rd Bass—The Cactus Album (1989), Cactus Revisited (1990), and Derelicts of Dialect (1991)—Serch launched a solo career with Return of the Product (1992, Def Jam). The album featured two hit singles: "Here It Comes" (which hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks chart); and "Back to the Grill" featuring Chubb Rock, Red Hot Lover Tone and Nas. Serch was the executive producer of Nas’ Illmatic, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1990s. He also helped to cultivate t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Andrieux
François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux (May 6, 1759 – May 10, 1833) was a French man of letters and playwright. Born and educated at Strasbourg, Andrieux proceeded to Paris to study law. There he became a close friend of Collin d'Harleville. He became secretary to the duke of Uzes, and practised at the bar, but his attention was divided between his profession and literature. His plays are of the 18th century style, comedies of intrigue, but they rank with those of Collin d'Harleville among the best of the period next to those of Pierre Beaumarchais. Les Étourdis is probably his best comedy. He died in Paris.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edward Irish
Edward S. "Ned" Irish (b. May 6, 1905 in Lake George, New York - d. January 21, 1982) was a basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. A pioneer in the late 1930s in the big-time promotion of college basketball, Ned Irish took the sport from small venues to Madison Square Garden. He also founded the New York Knicks and assisted in the organization of the National Basketball Association. For his part in popularizing basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964. Irish grew up near Lake George, New York. He had already launched his business career at age 10. Following in his late fat... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Konrad Henlein
Dr.Jur. Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (May 6, 1898 - May 10, 1945) was the most important pro-Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists. Early life Born in Maffersdorf (Vratislavice nad Nisou) - now a borough of Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czech Republic. In light of his being a leader of the Sudeten German movement, Henlein's origin was not without problems. His mother, Hedvika Anna Augusta Dvořáček, was daughter of a German-speaking mother but her father was Czech. As Henlein pursued a policy against mixed marriages after 1938, he was forced to change his still-living mother's name from Dvořáček to Dworatschek, which sounded more German and thus more comfortable for Henlein's career as a high Nazi official. He attended a busine... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ettore Manni
Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979. He was born and died in Rome, Italy after accidentally shooting himself. Selected filmography * Two Nights with Cleopatra (1953) * Attila (1954) * Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958) * Ten Ready Rifles (1959) * The Valiant (1962) * Mademoiselle (1966) * For a Few Extra Dollars (1966) * The Strange Night (1967) * Sartana the Gravedigger (1969) * Heroes in Hell (1973) * The Divine Nymph (1975) * City of Women (1980)... Biography of Mary MacGregor
Mary MacGregor (born 6 May 1948) is an American singer, best known for singing the 1976 song "Torn Between Two Lovers", which topped the Billboard charts for two weeks. Career MacGregor was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She began studying piano at age six, and was singing with bands by the time she was a teenager. After attending the University of Minnesota, MacGregor began to tour the country with various acts and caught the attention of Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul & Mary. She soon joined Yarrow, singing backup on a solo tour, and made an appearance on his Love Songs album. Signed to Ariola America records, MacGregor released her debut single, "Torn Between Two Lovers", in late 1976. The new year saw the single top both the pop charts and adult contemporary charts, selling over a ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robbie McIntosh (drummer)
Robbie McIntosh (6 May 1950 – 23 September 1974) was a Scottish drummer from Dundee, who was a founder-member of the Average White Band. Before going on to help found AWB in 1971-72, McIntosh had been a member of the late 1960s band The Senate, with Alex Ligertwood, and then with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, appearing on the band's early albums, Oblivion Express (1971), Better Land (1971) and Second Wind (1972). McIntosh died of an accidental heroin overdose, at a party following a concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. According to a contemporary report in Time, McIntosh and fellow band-member Alan Gorrie took what they thought was cocaine, but was in fact heroin. The mistake cost McIntosh his life, while Gorrie was saved by the intervention of fellow party-goer Cher, who kept... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alexander Thynne
Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (born 6 May 1932), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, is an English politician and author. He was born with the surname Thynne but adopted the spelling Thynn in 1976. Although born in London, he grew up at his family's seat, Longleat, a great Elizabethan house set in 18th century parkland, landscaped by Capability Brown. He served in the Life Guards and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1951. After studying at Ludgrove School, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, he travelled across Europe and, realising the strength in diversity amongst people, grew to believe that Wessex would be better off as a devolved region within the United Kingdom. He stood in the February 1974 General Election as a Wessex Regionalist and a short time a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Max Ophuls
Max Ophüls (born Maximillian Oppenheimer, 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 26 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany) was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States and France. He made nearly thirty films. Before the Nazis During the early part of his theatrical career he took the pseudonym Ophüls so that, should he fail, it wouldn't embarrass his garment-manufacturer father. He started his career as a stage actor in 1919 but moved into theatre production in 1924. Two years later, he became creative director of the Burgtheater in Vienna and, having had 200 plays to his credit, turned to film production in 1929, when he became a dialogue director under Anatole Litvak at UFA in Berlin. He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Theodore H. White
Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections. Life and career Born May 15, 1915, in Dorchester, Boston, the son of a lawyer named David White. In his book In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, White describes his life growing up as a Jew in Boston's Jewish ghetto, attending Hebrew school (where he developed an interest in Tanakh and could still recall many of its phrases decades later in their original language) and helping form one of the early Zionist collegiate organizations during his time in college. Based upon his academic achievements at Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in 193... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Eyer
Robert Thomas Eyer (born May 6, 1948, Los Angeles, California, died on October 18, 2005) is an American actor. Robert the younger brother of actor Richard Eyer Films in which he worked: Back Street - 1961; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - 1960; The Man from Blackhawk - 1959; U.S. Marshal - 1958.... Biography of Aristide Bruant
Aristide Bruant (6 May 1851 – 10 February 1925) was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He has also been credited as the creator of the chanson réaliste musical genre. Biography Born Louis Armand Aristide Bruant in the village of Courtenay, Loiret in France, Bruant left his home in 1866 at age fifteen, following his father's death, to find employment. Making his way to the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, he hung out in the working-class bistros, where he finally was given an opportunity to show his musical talents. Although bourgeois by birth, he soon adopted the earthy language of his haunts, turning it into songs that told of the struggles o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern (May 6, 1871–March 31, 1914) was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern's poetry, much of which was inspired by English literary nonsense, is immensely popular, even though he enjoyed very little success during his lifetime. He made fun of scholasticism, e.g. literary criticism in "Drei Hasen", grammar in "Der Werwolf", narrow-mindedness in "Der Gaul", and symbolism in "Der Wasseresel". In "Scholastikerprobleme" he discussed how many angels could sit on a needle. Still many Germans know some of his poems and quotations by heart, e.g. the following line from "The Impossible Fact" ("Die unmögliche Tatsache", 1910): For, he reasons pointedly / That which must not, can not be. (German: "Weil, so schließt er messerscharf / Nicht sein kann, was nicht sein d... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Manu Larcenet
Emmanuel Larcenet, known as Manu Larcenet (born on May 6, 1969 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French comics writer and artist. He worked with Fluide Glacial magazine from 1995 to 2006 and with Spirou magazine from 1997 to 2004. He has also created the French publisher Les Rêveurs in 1998. Since 2000, he mostly works with Dargaud. Biography Emmanuel Larcenet, also known as Manu Larcenet, studied graphic art at the Sèvres lycée and then went on to art school. While spending time as a singer in a punk-rock band, he published his first drawings in comics and rock fanzines. In October 1994, he was published in the French magazine Fluide Glacial (issue #220) with L'Expert comptable de la jungle, a first story rapidly followed by other complete ones, and republished late... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Biography Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo, Texas, and raised in Lubbock, Texas. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison and Lubbock native Buddy Holly, as well as to Johnny Cash. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the folk music and blues revival in that decade. With Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, Gilmore founded The Flatlanders. The group has been performing on and off since 1972. T... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Odette Talazac
Odette Talazac, born on May 6, 1883 in Paris, died on March 29, 1948 in Paris, was a French actress and comedian, the daugther of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and soprano Hélène Fauvelle. Filmography 1929 : Les Deux Timides de René Clair : la chanteuse 1929 : Figaro de Gaston Ravel et Tony Lekain : Marceline 1929 : Le Collier de la reine de Gaston Ravel et Tony Lekain : Mme de Misezy 1930 : Le Petit Chaperon rouge d'Alberto Cavalcanti : La fermière 1930 : Le Sang d'un poète de Jean Cocteau 1930 : L'Enfant de l'amour de Marcel L'Herbier : Une invitée 1931 : Le Million de René Clair : La cantatrice 1931 : Une nuit au paradis de Pierre Billon et Carl Lamac 1931 : Un coup de téléphone de Georges Lacombe : Mme Molleton 1931 : Le Monsieur de m... Biography of Alain Bocquet
Alain Bocquet (born May 6, 1946) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Nord department, and is a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stephen F. Keating
Stephen Keating, born May 6, 1918 in Graveville, Minnesota, died August 27, 2001, was an American businessman, the sixth President of Honeywell, a computer business.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rhea White
Rhea White, born May 6, 1931 in Utica, New York, is an American parapsychologist, researcher and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jeanne Cressanges
Jeanne Cressanges, born May 6, 1929 in Noyant-d'Allier, Alllier, is a French screenwriter, novelist and writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Walter Preuss
Walter Preuss, born on May 6, 1902 in Elbing, was a German astrologer, graphologist, and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Eddie C. Campbell
Eddie C. Campbell (born May 6, 1939, Duncan, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, active in the Chicago blues scene. Biography Campbell moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was ten years old, and by age 12 had already jammed with Muddy Waters, and learned first hand from Waters, Magic Sam and Otis Rush. In his early years as a professional musician, Campbell played as a sideman with Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Little Johnny Taylor, and Jimmy Reed. In 1976, Willie Dixon hired him to play in the Chicago Blues All-Stars. Campbell's debut album, King of the Jungle was released the following year, with accompaniment from Carey Bell (harmonica) and Lafayette Leake (piano). His later recordings were enhanced by a discipline not always evident in his life. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carmen Cavallaro
Carmen Cavallaro (May 6, 1913 – October 12, 1989) was an American pianist born in New York. He established himself as one of the most accomplished and admired light music pianists of his generation. Early life Known as the “Poet of the Piano”, Carmen Cavallaro showed a gift for music from age three, picking out tunes on a toy piano. His parents were encouraged by a friend to develop the child’s musical talents and he studied classical piano in the United States. As a young pianist, he toured Europe performing in many capitals. In 1933, Cavallaro joined the jazz band of Al Kavelin, where he quickly became the featured soloist. After four years he switched to a series of other big bands, including Rudy Vallee's in 1937. He also worked briefly with Enrico Madriguera and Abe Lyman. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Chris Shiflett
Christopher Aubrey "Chris" Shiflett (born May 6, 1971 in Santa Barbara, California) is best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Foo Fighters. He is the younger brother of musician Scott Shiflett. Career Shiflett joined Foo Fighters after the release of their third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The first album he played on was One by One. Prior to joining the Foo Fighters, Shiflett was resident lead guitarist for the San Francisco Bay Area punk rock band No Use for a Name. The Foo Fighters had lost both of their previous guitarists, Pat Smear (who played in punk legends The Germs and had been Nirvana's touring guitarist) and his Foos replacement, Dave Grohl's former Scream bandmate Franz Stahl, and were holding open auditions. Seeing an opportunity that he knew he co... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Daniel Alves
Daniel Alves da Silva (born 6 May 1983 in Juazeiro), commonly known as Dani Alves, is a Brazilian footballer, who currently plays as an attacking right back for FC Barcelona and the Brazilian national team. Before joining Barcelona, Alves spent a successful six year spell with Sevilla, winning two UEFA Cups and the Copa del Rey with the Andalusian side. He joined Barcelona for €34 million plus add-ons of €6 million, and won the Treble in his first season with the club. Club career Bahia Daniel Alves made his professional debut for Bahia in a match against Paraná Clube, for the 2001 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Bahia won 3-0, with Alves providing two assists and winning a penalty for the other goal. Coach Evaristo de Macedo proceeded to give him a starting place in the team from the... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Brooke Bennett
Brooke Marie Bennett (born May 6, 1980 in Plant City, Florida) is an American swimmer and triple Olympic champion. Swimming career 1996 Summer Olympics Bennett’s first gold medal came in the 800 meter freestyle race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. This accomplishment, coming days after her grandfather died, was overshadowed by the fact that this was the last race in the career of swimming legend Janet Evans. 1998 World Aquatics Championships 2000 Summer Olympics At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she would win two more gold medals in the 400 and 800 meter freestyle races, with the latter coming in Olympic-record time. Post 2000 Olympics Her attempt for a third straight Olympic appearance fell short in 2004, following operations on both of her shoulders in 2001. She finished ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Johann Joachim Becher
Johann Joachim Becher (6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer, best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism. Biography Early years He was born in Speyer. His father, a Lutheran minister, died while he was a child, leaving a widow and three children. At the age of thirteen Becher found himself responsible not only for his own support but also for that of his mother and brothers. He learned and practiced several small handicrafts, and devoting his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description and earned a pittance by teaching. In 1654, at the age of nineteen, he published an edition of Salzthal’s Tractatus de lapide trismegisto. Appointmen... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yvan Dautin
Yvan Dautin, born Yvan Autain May 6, 1945 in Saint-Jean-de-Monts (Vendée), is a French singer, composer, comedian, author and actor. He was the husband of French actress Dominique Laffin, died in 1985 (heart attack), the brother of François Autain, a socialist politician, and the father of former communist Clémentine Autain.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955) is an American television personality and game show host, best known to the public as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos (2001–present) and Hollywood Squares (1998–2004). He is also the host for the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars (2005–present), and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He is a Daytime Emmy winner. He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Career Bergeron's first job in broadcasting was as a disc jockey at local radio station WHAV, in his home town. He was an extremely popular radio DJ in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire in the early 1980s on Portsmouth's WHEB, where he played comedy records along with music and offbeat interviews. His professional voice and warm personality landed him additional TV and ra... Biography of Victor Benjamin Neuburg
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (6 May 1883 - 30 May 1940) was an English poet and writer. He also wrote on the subjects of theosophy and occultism. He was an associate of Aleister Crowley and the publisher of the early works of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas. Early life Neuburg was born at Islington into and raised in an upper middle-class Jewish family. His father, Carl Neuburg (b. 1857 in Pilsen, Bohemia), a commission agent from Vienna, abandoned the family shortly after his birth. He was brought up by his mother, Jeanette Neuburg née Jacobs (1855-1939), and his maternal aunts. He was educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read medieval and modern languages. Relationship with Aleister Crowley Around 1906 at Camb... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henry Edward Armstrong
Henry Edward Armstrong FRS (6 May 1848 – 13 July 1937) was an English chemist. Although Armstrong was active in many areas of scientific research, such as the chemistry of naphthalene derivatives, he is remembered today largely for his ideas and work on the teaching of science. Armstrong's acid is named for him.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Willem de Sitter
Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Life and work Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa (1897–1899). Then, in 1908, de Sitter was appointed to the chair of astronomy at Leiden University. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1919 until his death. De Sitter made major contributions to the field of physical cosmology. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they argued that there might be large amounts of matter which do not emit light, now commonly referred to as dark matter. He also came up with the concept of the de Sitter space and de Sitter uni... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ferdinand Chaussebourg
Ferdinand Chaussebourg, born on May 6, 1921 in Paris, died on February 20, 2004 in Paris, was a French politician and Senator.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904, London - 23 September 1979, London) was an English actress who made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes (1938). She was an established stage character player before she was 30. Her film roles were as neurotics or eccentrics, usually playing spinsters or unpleasant spouses. Lacey had roles in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. At the end of her career, she played in horror films opposite Boris Karloff in Michael Reeves's The Sorcerers and as the mysterious Haiti in The Mummy's Shroud, both in 1967. She was married to and divorced from the British actors Roy Emerton and... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Colin Earl
Colin Earl, born on May 6, 1942 in Hampton Court, London, is a British musician and pianist, a member of Mungo Jerry, a British rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset. They are remembered above all for their hit "In the Summertime". It remains their most successful and most instantly recognisable song. Their name was inspired by the poem Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. According to Joseph Murrell's The Book of Golden Discs (1978), 'Mungomania' was possibly the most startling and unpredicted pop phenomenon to hit Britain since The Beatles. Career Dorset and Colin Earl had previously been members of The Good E... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed. Childhood and education Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag, Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for Variety and the Philadelphia Daily News, whose career inspired Gaghan's own profess... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claire Whitney
Claire Whitney (May 6, 1890 – August 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 111 films between 1912 and 1949. She made her first film in 1913 for Solax and continued making films until 1921, mainly for Fox Film Corporation. Whitney came back to films in 1926 with a role in The Great Gatsby which would be her final silent film. She continued working in film between 1931 and 1949 when she retired. Whitney died in Los Angeles on August 27, 1969 at the age of 79. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1913 The Star of India Captain Kenneth's wife 1914 The Million Dollar Robbery Daphne Pell 1915 The Galley Slave Cecil Blaine 1916 East Lynne Barbara Hare Under Two Flags Venitia ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lars Mikkelsen
Lars Mikkelsen, born May 6, 1964 in Copenhaguen, is a Danish actor. He is the brother of Mads Mikkelsen and the son of Henning Mikkelsen. His spouse is Anette Støvelbæk, and he has two sons, Thor and Lue. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586565/ ) # "Den som dræber" (2010) TV series (pre-production) (unknown episodes, 2010) # Truth About Men (2010) (post-production) .... Lars Mikkelsen ... aka "Sandheden om mænd" - Denmark (original title) # Headhunter (2009) .... Martin Vinge # Flugten (2009) .... Thomas Jargil # Flame and Citron (2008) .... Frode Jacobsen aka Ravnen ... aka "Flammen & Citronen" - Denmark (original title) ... aka "Flame & Citron" - International (English title) # What No One Knows (2008) .... Marc Deleuran ... aka "Det som ingen ved" - Denmark... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson (May 6, 1904 – February 11, 1978) was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson. He has been called "the great reformer of 20th century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." Life Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden. At a young age he lost both his parents whereafter he was placed as a foster child (Kommunalbarn) in the Swedish countryside. At the age of sixteen Martinson ran away and signed onto a ship to spend the next years sailing around the world visiting countries such as Brazil and India. A few years later lung problems forced him to set ashore in Swed... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joanna Dunham
Joanna Dunham (born 6 May 1936) is an English actress, best noted for her work on stage and television. She has also appeared in several major motion pictures. Career Dunham was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. As a teenaged actress she first gained notice for playing Juliet in the 1962 Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet, under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli, which was performed in a five-month, 13-city U.S. tour. Her first television role had come four years earlier (1958), when she appeared as Louka in the Arms and the Man episode of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre. As of 1998 Dunham had appeared in at least 45 different television series or productions. Filmography Dunham has had credited roles in at least seven movies: The Breaking Point (1961) - Cherry Winlatter ... Biography of Alan Dale
Alan Hugh Dale (born 6 May 1947) is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a rugby player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27. With work limited in New Zealand, Dale moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played for eight years. The character is the role Dale is most associated with in Australia and the United Kingdom. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. After leaving Neighbours, Dale became typecast as Robinson in Australia and struggled to find wor... Biography of Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Dr. Lauterbur was a professor along with his wife Joan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. He never stopped working with undergraduates on research, and he served as a professor of chemistry, with appointments in bioengineering, biophysics and computational biology at the Center for Advanced Study. Early life Lauterbur was of Luxembourgish ancestry. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicate... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jose E. Menendez
Jose E. Menendez,born on May 6, 1944 in La Habana, Cuba, died on August 20, 1989 in August 20, 1989 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA, is a murder victim. While watching television with his wife, Kitty, they were murdered in the living room of their Beverly Hills home by their sons, Erik Galen and Joseph Lyle Menendez. External link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1152... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Herbie Cox
Herbie Cox, born on May 6, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an American musician, a member of The Cleftones. The Cleftones were a doo-wop group from Queens, New York. They were formed in 1955 at Jamaica High School. The group consisted of Herbie Cox (lead), Charlie McGhee (first tenor), James L. Tucker (first tenor), Berman Patterson, (second tenor), William McClane (baritone), and Warren Corbin (bass). They were originally called The Silvertones. Initial charted hits by the group started in 1955, "You Baby You", "Little Girl of Mine", and "Can't We Be Sweethearts". In 1961 the 2nd generation of The Cleftones produced hits consisting of members Herb Cox, Charlie James, Warren Corbin, Gene Pearson, and Pat Spann. Pat was the first and only female to sing with the group. They reached #18 on the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Phil Differ
Phil Differ, born on May 6, 1956 in Stirling, is a Scottish author, screenwriter, and producer. External link: http://www.neildrover.com/speakers/philip_differ.htm... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Willie Rosario
Willie Rosario a.k.a. "Mr. Afinque" (born May 6, 1930) is a musician, composer and bandleader of salsa music. Early years Rosario (birth name: Fernando Luis Rosario Marin) was born and raised in Coamo, Puerto Rico into a poor, but hard working family. His parents realized that as a child Willie was musically inclined and had him take guitar lessons at the age of 6. He received his primary and secondary education in his hometown. His mother also had him take saxophone classes; however, what he really was interested in was the conga. In 1946, he formed a band called Coamex but, a year later when he was 17 years old, his family to moved to New York City. The family rented an apartment in a Manhattan community known as Spanish Harlem. Rosario came into contact and played the conga for v... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Scardon
Paul Scardon (6 May 1874 Melbourne, Australia - 17 January 1954 Fontana, California) was an actor, a producer, and a director on both Australian and New York stages. He directed Blanche Sweet in Unwilling Husband, Bessie Barriscale in some of her most successful productions, and most of the melodramas which starred his wife, actress Betty Blythe. Retiring when talkies came in, Scardon returned to films as an actor in the 1940s, playing bit roles until he retired from the film industry in 1948. Filmography Actor Fighting Mad The Secret Beyond the Door The Shanghai Chest The Sign of the Ram Canon City He Walked by Night Magic Town Down Missouri Way The Adventures of Mark Twain The Man From the Rio Grande Mrs. Miniver My Favorite... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Maurice Mollin
Maurice Mollin, born on May 6, 1924 in Antwerp, died on August 5, 2003 in Antwerp, was a Belgian former professional bicycle racer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pope Marcellus II
Pope Marcellus II (6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, was Pope from 9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555, succeeding Pope Julius III. Before his accession as Pope he had been Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He was the last Pope not to change his name on his accession, and the last pope numbered anything less than IV before John Paul I. A native of Montefano, a small village near Macerata and Loreto he was the son of Ricardo Cervini who was the Apostolic Treasurer in Ancona.. The family originated in Tuscany, in the town of Poliziano, which had once been subject to Siena, but later was under the control of Florence. Marcello had two half-brothers, Alexander and Romulus. One of his sisters, Cinzia Cervini, married Vinzenzo Bellarmino, parents of Roberto ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ross Hunter
Ross Hunter (6 May 1920 – 10 March 1996) was a Hollywood film producer. Biography Hunter was born in Cleveland, Ohio as Martin Fuss. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, he signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he became a film producer attaining a staff producer post at Universal-International in 1953 on the strength of his previous credits as a theatrical producer and director. A gay man, Hunter was known for producing what were considered 'light' films starring actresses including Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds (the Tammy films) and (later) Julie Andrews. He was also known for producing Douglas Sirk melodramas such as Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and several with Rock Hudson. In 1970 he... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Freddy Randall
Frederick James 'Freddy' Randall (6 May 1921 – 18 May 1999) was an English jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Clapton, East London. Randall led the St. Louis Four in 1939, and played as a freelance sideman in the early 1940s. He served in the military during World War II, then played with Freddy Mirfield in a group featuring Johnny Dankworth. After the mid-1940s he led his own Dixieland jazz groups which featured many well-known English trad jazz stars of the era. He quit music between 1958 and 1963 due to lung problems. In the mid-1960s he began recording again, playing with Dave Shepherd and recording for Black Lion Records in 1972-73. He played with Americans such as Sidney Bechet, Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison, Pee Wee Russell, Bill Coleman, and Teddy Wilson. He died aged 78 ... Biography of André Marceau (bishop)
André Marceau, born on May 6, 1946 in Cérons, Gironde, is a French Catholic Bishop, the Bishop of Perpignan (2004 - ).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cliff Carlisle
Cliff Carlisle (May 6, 1903 – April 5, 1983) was an American country and blues singer. Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music. Biography Carlisle was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky and began performing locally with cousin Lillian Truax at age 16. Truax's marriage put an end to the group, and Carlisle began playing with Wilber Ball, a guitarist and tenor harmonizer. The two toured frequently around the U.S. playing vaudeville and circus venues in the 1920s. Carlisle and Ball first played at Louisville, Kentucky radio station WHAS-AM in 1930, which made them local stars, and later that year they recorded for Gennett Records and Champion Records. In 1931, they recorded with Jimmie Rodgers. Toward the end of 1931, Carlisle signe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Perle
George Perle (May 6, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was a composer and music theorist. Biography Perle was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He graduated from DePaul University, where he studied with Wesley LaViolette and received private lessons from Ernst Krenek. Perle composed with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone tonality". This technique was different from, but related to, the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School, of which he was an "early admirer" and whose techniques he used aspects of but never fully adopted. Perle's former student Paul Lansky described Perle's twelve-tone tonality thus: Basically this creates a hierarchy among the notes of the chromatic scale so that they are all referentially related to one or two pitches which then function a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marc Barbé
Marc Barbé, born May 6, 1961 in Nancy, is a French actor. Filmography Actor 1992 : La Vie de bohème d'Aki Kaurismäki 1993 : En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud de Gérard Mordillat 1995 : Le Cri de la soie d'Yvon Marciano 1999 : Sombre de Philippe Grandrieux 1999 : Paddy de Gérard Mordillat 2000 : Toothache de Ian Simpson 2000 : Trois huit de Philippe Le Guay 2001 : Marie et le loup d'Eve Heinrich 2002 : La Vie nouvelle de Philippe Grandrieux 2002 : Après la pluie, le beau temps de Nathalie Schmidt 2002 : Ceux qu'ils imaginent d'Anne Théron 2004 : Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil de Laetitia Masson 2004 : Les Amants réguliers de Philippe Garrel 2004 : L'Annulaire de Diane Bertrand 2005 : Il sera une fois de Sandrine Veysset 2005 : La Môme d'Olivier Dahan 2005 : L'In... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of James Turrell
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943, Los Angeles, California). He is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. Background His parents were Quakers. His father was an aeronautical engineer and educator. His mother trained as a medical doctor and later worked in the Peace Corps. Turrell obtained a pilot's licence when 16 years old. He subsequently flew supplies to remote mine sites and worked as an aerial cartographer. He received a BA degree from Pomona College in perceptual psychology in 1965 (including the study of Ganzfeld) and also studied mathematics, geology and astronomy there too. He received a MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate School, University of California, Irvine in 196... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stan Mosley
Stan Mosley, born on May 6, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American singer. Album Discography "Standing Tall" (Stand Up Records 1995) Stan's first record is a short one with only four songs, all (sans the instrumental) of which ended up on "Steppin' Out". 1.Together Forever 2.Give Me A Chance 3.Thank You 4.Thank You (Instrumental) "The Soul Singer" (Malaco 1998) 1. Don't Make Me Creep 2. Why Can't You Love Me 3. Don't Knock My Love 4. I Can't Wait to Get You Alone 5. Makes You Wanna Cry 6. Hit It or Quit It 7. Rock Me 8. This Time I'm Gonna Be Sweeter 9. I Got Your Back 10. Little Bit of Something "Souled Out" (Malaco 2000) 1. He's a Soulman (Intro) 2. We Be Keepin' It Real 3. Anybody Seen My Boo 4. Payback Is a Mutha (Guest vocalist: Tonya Youngblood... Biography of Skanderbeg
George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), widely known as Skanderbeg (Albanian: Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, Latin: Georgius Castriotus Scanderbegh, Turkish: İskender Bey, meaning "Lord Alexander", or "Leader Alexander") was a 15th-century Albanian lord, who as leader of the federation of the League of Lezhë defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. Skanderbeg's military skills presented a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion, and he was considered by many in western Europe to be a model of Christian resistance against the Ottoman Muslims. Skanderbeg is Albania's most important national hero and a core figure of the Albanian National Awakening. Skanderbeg was born in 1405 to the noble Kastrioti family in Lezhë. Sultan Mura... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carlo Mollino
Carlo Mollino (May 6, 1905 - August 27, 1973) was an Italian architect and designer. Born in Turin, Piedmont, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, an engineer. As he grew up, Carlo Mollino became interested in a variety of topics that were as outrageous as his art, such as design, architecture, the occult, and race cars. He was once credited as saying, "Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic." That credo was certainly reflected throughout his body of work. Mollino's architecture and furniture are famous for their ability to enable occupants to manipulate volumes at a whim. Carlo Mollino died in 1973, while still working. Architecture In 1930, Carlo Mollino started his career as an architect designing a house in Forte dei Marmi and receiving the G. Pisto... Biography of Leslie Hope
Leslie Ann Hope (born May 6, 1965 in Halifax) is a Canadian actress. Life and career Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has appeared in Canadian and American movies and television series. She graduated from St. Michael's University School at Victoria, British Columbia, in 1982. She is married to cinematographer, producer and director Adam Kane. Her first movie role was in the Canadian movie Ups and Downs, in 1981, which was filmed in Victoria. In 1987, she played the role of Madeleine Henry in the TV miniseries War and Remembrance. In 1993, she starred in Paris, France, directed by Gerard Ciccoritti. She later played the role of Teri Bauer in the first season of 24 (2001-02). Hope starred in George A. Romero's Bruiser. On television, she appeared in Star Trek: Deep Spac... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Hans Beck
Hans Beck (6 May 1929–30 January 2009) was the German inventor of the toy Playmobil. He is thus often called "The Father of Playmobil." Born in Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf, beginning his toymaking career as a creator of little vehicles and figures for his younger siblings. Beck received training as a cabinetmaker but worked simultaneously on model airplanes, a product he pitched to the company Geobra Brandstätter. The owner of the company, Horst Brandstätter, asked him to develop toy figures for children instead. Beck spent 3 years developing what became Playmobil. Beck conducted research that allowed him to develop a toy that would be flexible (unlike tin soldiers), not too complex, fit in an average child's hand and have a facial design based on child's drawing ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bobby Bazini
Bobby Bazini, born May 6, 1989 in Mont-Laurier, Quebec, is a Canadian singer. Discography Singles: I Wonder (February 2010) Albums: Better In Time (March 2010)... Biography of Lindsay Pulsipher
Lindsay Pulsipher (born 6 May 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American actress. She has had several roles in film and television, and is known for her recurring role as Rose Lawrence on A&E Network's The Beast (2009). She is a newcomer to the third season of HBO's True Blood (2010), playing Crystal Norris. Childhood Lindsay Pulsipher grew up snowboarding, painting, and playing music in Salt Lake City, Utah and was inspired to be an actor by her mother, a theater actress. As she puts it, "I used to make either my little sister or my best friend act out these plays with me. I was doing that from the time I can remember. It was always something I enjoyed doing". She was influenced by Julie Christie and Audrey Hepburn who showed her "a whole new world as far as acting goes". Pulsi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger
Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, born on May 6, 1953 in Reims, is a French businessman and entrepreneur. He is the son of Jean Taittinger and the grandson of Pierre Taittinger, the founder of the Taittinger Champagne house, in 1734.... Biography of Gabourey Sidibe
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe (play /ˈɡæbəˌreɪ ˈsɪdiˌbeɪ/ gab-ə-ray sid-ee-bay; born May 6, 1983) is an American actress who made her acting debut in the 2009 film Precious, a role that brought her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Early life Sidibe was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Harlem. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is an African-American R&B and gospel singer who appeared on the fifth season of America's Got Talent on June 15, 2010. Her Senegal-born father, Ibnou Sidibe, is a cab driver. She has attended Borough of Manhattan Community College, City College of New York, and Mercy College. Career In Precious, Sidibe plays the central character, Claireece "Precious" Jones, an ill... Biography of Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau (born on May 6, 1938 in Toulon) is a French explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Celine Cousteau. Biography Cousteau is the son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Melchior. Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 8 years old. Although he went to school to study architecture, he became part of his father's Cousteau Society, serving for twenty years as executive vice president before striking out on his own in 1993 to produce environmental films. Cousteau and his father had disagreed about the management and policies of the Society. After Cousteau opened a resort on a Fiji Island utilizing the family name, Jacques-Yves Cousteau f... Biography of Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur (French pronunciation: ; born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 19-year tenure with the Devils, he has won three Stanley Cup championships and has been in the playoffs every year but two. Brodeur has won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals with Team Canada in other international competitions. Brodeur is the NHL's all-time leader in regular season wins, shutouts, and games played, and holds numerous other league and franchise records. Brodeur won at least 35 games in every season between 1996–97 and 2007–08, and is the only goalie in NHL history with eight 40-win seasons. He is... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edyta Sliwinska
Edyta Śliwińska (Polish pronunciation: ; born May 6, 1981 in Warsaw, Poland) is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for her appearances on the American version of the reality television series Dancing with the Stars, where she appeared on all of the first ten seasons of the show. Early life Śliwińska comes from a working-class Polish background. She took her first dancing class at age 11. Dancing with the Stars In the debut season of Dancing with the Stars in June 2005, Śliwińska partnered boxing champion Evander Holyfield, with whom she placed 5th in the competition. For the second season, she was paired with actor George Hamilton, and again came in 5th place. With the third season, her partner was actor Joey Lawrence, and the coup... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Man Parrish
Man Parrish (born Manuel Joseph Parrish, May 6, 1958) is an American composer, songwriter, vocalist and producer. He, along with artists such as Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John Robie, Jellybean Benitez and Aldo Marin helped create and define electro in the early 1980s. He became an underground music scene icon in the 1980s and 1990s and is one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Biography A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Parrish was a member of the extended family that converged nightly at Studio 54. His nickname, Man, first appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics, which drew as much from the... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jonathan Donahue
Jonathan Daniel Donahue (born May 6, 1966 in Kingston, New York) is an American rock musician. He has been an integral member of two of North America's more influential indie/experimental bands of the 1990s; The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. Donahue helped form Mercury Rev, along with vocalist/guitarist David Baker, bassist Dave Fridmann, guitarist and clarinetist Grasshopper (born Sean Mackowiak), rooster-tail bass flutist Suzanne Thorpe, and drummer Jimy Chambers, in the late 1980s as a source to create soundtracks to the members' personal student films. The members were further encouraged to explore their talents by their mentor, minimalist composer and multimedia artist Tony Conrad. Donahue also doubled as a concert promoter in Buffalo. After billing the Butthole Surfers and thei... Biography of Michelle Courchesne
Michelle Courchesne (born May 6, 1953 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she is the National Assembly Member for the riding of Fabre in Laval, Quebec. She is also the current President of the Treasury of Board, Minister responsible for the Laval region, Minister of Education and Deputy Premier of Quebec. She is a former Minister of Family, Immigration, Employment and Social Solidarity. Courchesne went to the Université de Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in urban development. She would become an urbanist from 1976 to 1981 before being elected to the City Council of Laval. She would also work at the Ministry of Culture and Communications as a Deputy Minister before being a member of the ad... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sif Ruud
Sif Ruud, born Sif Einarsdotter Ruud Fallde (6 May 1916 – 15 August 2011) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 140 films. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752211/) 996 Att stjäla en tjuv Alma 1996 The Disappearance of Finbar Johanna 1996 Juloratoriet Selma Lagerlöf 1996 Alla dagar alla nätter (TV movie) Alice 1996 Idlaflickorna (TV movie) Fru Ål 1995 Alfred Andriette Nobel 1995 Stora och små män Mrs Alm 1995 Pensionat Oskar Evelyn 1992 Les meilleures intentions Beda Bergman 1991 Les meilleures intentions (TV mini-series) Beda Bergman – Episode #1.3 (1991) … Beda Bergman – Episode #1.1 (1991) … Beda Bergman 1991 Osynlig närvaro (TV mini-series) Grandmother Tora 1990 Hemligheten Greta 1988 Enkel resa As... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Laura Mancini
Laura Mancini (6 May 1636 – 8 February 1657) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin. She was the eldest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. She married Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, grandson of King Henry IV and was the mother of the great general the Duke of Vendôme. Biography Laura was the eldest daughter of Lorenzo Mancini, brother-in-law of Cardinal Mazarin through his wife Girolama Mazzarini. She received the name Vittoria honour of her paternal grandmother, Vittoria Capoccii. The eldest of ten children, through the influence of her uncle, the personal advisor of Louis XIII of France, Laura and her family were invited to France, leaving Rome in 1653 follwoing th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jason Witten
Christopher Jason Witten (born May 6, 1982) is an American football tight end who plays for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Tennessee. In his first of three years at the University of Tennessee, Witten went from being a defensive end prospect to a record breaking tight end. He posted school records for most receptions (39) and receiving yards (493) Early years Witten attended Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Domestic violence from his parents led him to live with his grandparents. His grandfather was the coach of the football team. Professional career 2004 In 2004, Witten had 87 catches, eleventh most in history by a tight end and a Cowboys team record for the position, and was selected to ... |
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