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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on October, 9, 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 · 45,414 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,414 Celebrities
141 celebrities or events were found for October, 9. Add to favourites (300 fans)Biography of John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – 8 December 1980), was a 20th-century English songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, painter, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for the Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his storytelling optimism and gift for melody, complemented one another uniquely. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and irreverent wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), in books s... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of France Gall
France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Gall was married to, and had a very successful singing career in partnership with, the well-known French singer-songwriter, Michel Berger.... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer. Height: 6' (1m80) Career Manaudou currently holds the world record for the 400 m freestyle and 200 m freestyle. She won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. That was France's first ever gold medal in women's swimming and the first gold medal won by a French man or woman since Jean Boiteux's triumph in the 400 m men's freestyle event in Helsinki in 1952. Manaudou won the silver medal in the Women's 800 m freestyle at the same Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by Ai Shibata from Japan. She took the bronze medal at the Women's 100 m backstroke. She thus became only the second Frenchwoman to ... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician and songwriter. PJ Harvey began her career as part of a trio (with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan). She has since recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey. Origins Harvey was born in Yeovil, Somerset and brought up in nearby Corscombe, Dorset. The daughter of a stonemason and a sculptor, Harvey grew up on a small sheep farm in Dorset. At an early age her parents introduced her to the blues, jazz and art-rock music which would later influence her the most strongly: "I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart. So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remaine... Biography of Yann Barthes
Yann Barthes, born October 9, 1974 in Chambéry, is a French journalist. He works for Canal+.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne (née Levy, previously Arden; born 9 October 1952) is an English music manager and promoter, television personality and presenter. She came into public prominence after appearing in The Osbournes, a reality television show that followed her family's daily life. Osbourne later became a judge on the talent shows The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Her autobiography, Extreme, has proceeded to sell in excess of two million copies. After the success of The Osbournes, hosting her own chat shows and securing advertising contracts, Osbourne has become the sixtieth richest woman in Britain with husband Ozzy Osbourne, with an estimated joint wealth of £100 million. She previously revived Ozzy's metal career and she stands as the founder of Ozzfest. Music manager Sharon m... Biography of Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (/ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony"). Early years Saint-Saëns was born in Paris to a government clerk who died three months after his son's birth. His mother, Clémence, sought the assistance of her aunt, Charlotte Masson, who moved in and introduced Saint-Saëns to the piano. One of the most talented child prodigies of his time, he possessed perfect pitch and began piano lessons with his great-aunt at two years old. He almost immediately began composition with his first, a little piece for the piano dated 22 March 1839. This pie... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. Early life and education Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. After Sean's birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his own murder in 1980. Sean was educated at the exclusive private boarding school, Institut Le Rosey (which Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, King Albert II of Belgium, Dodi Al-Fayed as well as Strokes members Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond, Jr. also attended) in Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston and Dalton School... Biography of David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the current leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December 2005. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years. A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat but Cameron was elected in 2001 as Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. Promoted to the Opposition front bench two years after entering Parliament, he rose rapidly to be head of pol... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Savannah (pornographic actress)
Shannon Michelle Wilsey Longoria (October 9, 1970 – July 11, 1994), commonly known by her stage name of Savannah, was an American pornographic actress, starring in more than 100 pornographic films during her career. One of the most high-profile porn stars of her time, she achieved notoriety within her short (1990 - 1994) career due to her on-screen presence as well as her off-screen life. Savannah committed suicide in 1994 after an auto accident. Savannah reportedly took her stage name from Savannah Smiles, a 1982 movie she enjoyed. Measurements: 34D-24-34 Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Early life When Savannah's parents divorced in 1972, she moved to Texas to live with her mother. When she grew older, she lived briefly with her father in Oxnard, Californi... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Brandon Routh
Brandon James Routh (born October 9, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on several television series throughout the early 2000s. In 2005, he was cast in the lead role in the 2006 film Superman Returns. Early life Routh, the third of four children, was born in Des Moines, Iowa to Katie, a teacher, and Ron Routh, a carpenter; both of his parents play music in their spare time and his sister, Sara Routh, is a singer. Routh's family, which is Methodist, has German, French, English ancestry. Routh grew up in Norwalk, Iowa, which was located approximately 100 miles south of Woolstock, the hometown of George Reeves, the second actor to play Superman. During his childhood, Ro... Biography of Danielle Delorme
Danièle Delorme (born October 9, 1926 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is an actress and film producer. Born Danièle Girard, she is a talented pianist but is best known for her role in the cinema of France. She acted in the first of her more than sixty films in 1942 using her birth name but then adopted the stage name, "Delorme." She is best remembered for her starring role in the 1948 original French production of Gigi and in 1950's Minne L'Ingenue Libertine, both of which were based on novels by Colette. In 1945 Delorme married actor Daniel Gélin with whom she had a son, Xavier. Delorme divorced Gélin in 1954 after he admitted having an affair with German model Marie Christine Schneider that produced a daughter, Maria Schneider. Her son, Xavier Gélin, became a successfu... Biography of Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a three-time Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show Monk in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Sicilian cabdriver, Antonio Scarpacci, on the NBC television series, Wings, on which he played the role from 1991 to 1997. Early life Shalhoub was born Anthony Marcus Shalhoub in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was raised. His father, Joe Shalhoub, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. He ... Biography of Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle (born October 9, 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing. Calle began working as an artist in the 1970s, after traveling the world for seven years. When she returned to Paris, the city in which she was born, she recalls feeling isolated and lost; this isolation inspired her to investigate the lives of the people around her. Her fir... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of John Entwistle
John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for rock band The Who. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rock bassists of all time, creating an aggressive lead sound that helped influence contemporary and later bassists such as Steve Harris, Lemmy, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, Phil Lesh, Noel Redding, Billy Sheehan, Chris Squire, Markus Grosskopf and Mike Watt. Entwistle helped uncover the potential of the bass guitar as a lead instrument, using aggressive pentatonic lead lines, and a trebly sound virtually unheard of in the early 1960s. He pioneered the use of roundwound steel bass strings, made to his personal specifications by RotoSound. His searc... Biography of Charles X of France
Charles X (October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) ruled as King of France and Navarre from May 20, 1824 until the French Revolution of 1830, when he abdicated. He was the last king of the senior Bourbon line to reign over France. Early life Charles-Philippe was born on October 9, 1757 in the Palace of Versailles in France, the fifth son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and his wife, Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. His paternal grandparents were King Louis XV of France and his consort, Queen Maria Leszczyńska. His maternal grandparents were King Augustus III of Poland, also the Elector of Saxony, and his wife, the Archduchess Maria Josepha, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I. At birth, he received the title of Comte d'Artois. During most of the reign of his oldest surviving brother, Kin... Biography of Orion (astrologer)
Orion was a British astrologer born October 9, 1858 in Melton Mowbray.... Biography of Nicole Croisille
Nicole Croisille, born October 9, 1936 in Neuilly, is a French singer and actress. Filmography (source: http://french.imdb.com/name/nm0188533/ ) "Dolmen" (2005) Série TV .... Yvonne Le Bihan Menteur! Menteuse! (2004) (TV) .... Eva "Maigret" .... Blanche (1 episode, 2002) - Maigret et le marchand de vin (2002) TV episode .... Blanche Temps perdu, Le (2001) (TV) .... Bernadette Villa mon rêve (2001) (TV) .... Monique "Psy d'urgence" (2001) Série TV .... Nina (unknown episodes) Un homme à la maison (2000) (TV) .... Blanche Deux mamans pour Noël (1998) (TV) .... Mary Loin des yeux (1996) (TV) .... Madame Ramuz Misérables, Les (1995) .... Thénardière 1830/1990 ... autre titre : Misérables du vingtième siècle, Les Il y a des jours... et des lunes (1990) .... Singer... Biography of Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (October 9, 1907 – November 5, 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris. Originally a mime, in the late 1930s Tati recorded some of his early supporting cameos on film with some success and thus began his career as a filmmaker. His films have little audible dialogue, but instead are built around elaborate, tightly-choreographed visual gags and carefully integrated sound effects. In all but his very last film, Tati plays the lead character, who - with the exception of his first and last films - is the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among t... Biography of Sevanne Martin
Sevanne Martin, born October 9, 1969 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an American actress. Filmography Diagnosis Murder : Town Without Pity as d'Annie Law & Order : Special Victims Unit as Ileana Jashar Law & Order : Special Victims Unit rôle as Nurse Lisa... Biography of Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, still known as the Dreyfus Affair. Born in Mulhouse, Alsace, Dreyfus was the youngest of seven children in the family of a prosperous Jewish textile manufacturer who stayed in France and kept their French nationality when Alsace was annexed by the German Empire in 1871. The family had long been established in Alsace. Alfred was accepted into the elite École Polytechnique for initial military training and thorough scientific studies in 1877 and graduated in 1880 as a sub-lieutenant. His entry into the military was influenced by the experience of seeing Pr... Biography of Jodelle Ferland
Jodelle Micah Ferland (born October 9, 1994) is a Canadian child actress. Ferland was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the daughter of Valerie Ferland. Her siblings are actress Marisha Ferland and musician Jeremy Ferland. She made her movie debut at age 4 in the TV-movie Mermaid, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, making her the youngest nominee in Emmy history. She has since made guest appearances in several televisions series, including Smallville, Dark Angel, Stargate SG-1 and Supernatural, and has appeared in films including They and Trapped. In 2005, she starred in the Terry Gilliam drama Tideland, for which she received a Genie Award nomination in the Best Actress category. Later, she appeared in the 2006 film Silent Hill, an adaptation of the well-known vid... Biography of Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy for the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by fellow American musical artist and good friend, Bruce Springsteen. In the same year, Browne received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Los Angeles' Occidental College for "a remarkable musical career that has successfully combined an intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social change and justice". Biography Early life and songwriter for others Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father, an American serviceman, was stationed. Jackson's moth... Biography of Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (October 9, 1944 – September 11, 1987) was the guitarist in the original Wailing Wailers, a reggae musician, and a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement. Tosh grew up in the Kingston, Jamaica slum of Trenchtown. He stood out because of his height at 6 feet, 5 1/2 inches. His short-fuse temper and unveiled sarcasm usually kept him in trouble, earning him the nickname Steppin' Razor after a song written by Joe Higgs, an early mentor. He began to sing and learn guitar at a young age, inspired by the American stations he could pick up on his radio. After an illustrious career with the Wailers and as a solo musician, he was murdered at his home. Robbery was officially said to be the motivation behind Tosh's death. With The Wailers In the early 19... Biography of Scott Bakula
Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor who played leading roles in two science fiction television series: Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived CBS television series Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which bore little relation to the 2005 motion picture of the same title), and had a recurring role in the sitcom Murphy Brown. Early life Bakula was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Sally and J. Stewart Bakula, a corporate lawyer. He graduated from Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri in 1973 where he was a good student. During high school, he was active in soccer, tennis, and theatre. Also during high school, he had the lead roles in Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at First Presbyteri... Biography of Guillermo Del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican filmmaker. Biography Early life Del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He studied in the Instituto de Ciencias, University of Guadalajara, and was raised by his devout Roman Catholic grandmother. Del Toro first got involved with filmmaking when he was about eight years old. He executive produced his first short film, Doña Lupe, in 1986 at the age of 21. After that he spent eight years as a special effects make-up designer, and formed his own company, Necropia. He also co-founded the Guadalajara-based Mexican Film Festival. Later on in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang. In 1998 his father was kidnapped in Mexico, which prompted del ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (misspelled surname) (Russian: Николай Константинович Рерих), was a Russian painter, theosophist and philosopher. He was the father of Tibetologist George de Roerich (a.k.a. Yuri Roerich) and artist Svetoslav Roerich. Nicholas and his wife Helena Roerich were co-founders of the Agni Yoga Society. Born in pre-revolutionary Saint Petersburg, Russia to the family of a well-to-do notary public, he lived around the world until his death in Punjab, India. Trained as an artist and a lawyer, his interests lay in literature, philosophy, archae... Biography of Ivo Andric
Ivo Andrić (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia (he was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, during his literary career, was a part of Yugoslavia). His novels, e.g. The Bridge on the Drina and Bosnian Chronicle dealt with life in Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. Biography Andric was born on October 9, 1892, in the village of Dolac na Lasvi near Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of the Ottoman Empire, under control of Austria-Hungary. Originally named Ivan, he became known by the diminutive Ivo. When Andric was two years old, his father died. Because his mother was too poor to support him, he was raised by his mother's family in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad on... Biography of Jan Sharrock
Jan Sharrock, born October 9, 1942 in Cairns, is an Australian author and astrologer.... Biography of Gaëtane (Nouvelle Star)
Gaëtane Abrial, born October 8, 1988 in Saint-Etienne, took part in the TV reality show Nouvelle Star 2007.... Biography of Erin Daniels
Erin Daniels (born October 9, 1972 (source: Imdb)) is an American actress. Daniels was born Erin Cohen in St. Louis, Missouri, where she grew up. Her father was an architect and her mother was a clinical social worker. She grew up in a Jewish family (her mother co-founded the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis and her grandmother received an award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews) and attended Clayton High School. She graduated from Vassar College with her A.B. degree in Art History and Architecture. Daniels changed her surname from "Cohen" to "Daniels" at the age of 22. In 2002, The St. Louis Film Festival awarded Daniels the Emerging Star Award. She has appeared in One Hour Photo, Wheelmen, and House of 1000 Corpses before taking on the role of Dana Fairban... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Holger Drachmann
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet and dramatist. He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through. The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen. Owing to the early death of his Danish mother, the child was left much to his own devices and developed a fondness for semi-poetical performances, organising his companions in heroic games, in which he himself took such parts as those of Peder Tordenskjold and Niels Juel. Behind in his studies, he did not enter university until 1865, leaving it in 1866 to become a student at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870 he learned, under Professor Sørensen, to become a marine painter, with some success. In about 1870 he came under the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joe McFadden
Joseph 'Joe' McFadden (born on 9 October 1975 in Glasgow) is a popular television actor (Take the High Road, Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, Crow Road). In 2007 he joined the cast of ITV's Heartbeat playing the part of PC Joe Mason. He has also starred in such films as The Trouble with Men and Women, Dad Savage and Small Faces. On stage he has appeared in productions as diverse as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Rent and Rainbow Kiss. He was educated at Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow where Drama teacher Camille Skilling saw his potential and recommended him for a small part in Taggart. Selected filmography Cranford (2007) mini-series Heartbeat (2007) (TV series) The Trouble with Men and Women (2003) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (video game) (voice actor)... Biography of Michael Paré
Michael Kevin Paré (born October 9, 1958) is an American actor. Early life Paré was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan, a homemaker, and Francis Paré, who owned print shops. He had six sisters and three brothers. Paré's father was of French-Canadian ancestry and his mother of Irish ancestry. His father died from leukemia when Paré was 5 years old, leaving his mother to raise the large family of children. A good athlete, his primary sport in high school was wrestling. Paré first studied to be a chef at the Culinary Institute of America, and was working in that trade when he was approached to work as a male model. This opened the door into acting, having been discovered by agent and casting director Joyce Selznick, and in the 1980s he studied acting under Uta Hagen. Acting c... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Simon de la Brosse
Simon de La Brosse, born October 9, 1965 in Paris, died April 17, 1998 in Suresnes (suicide), was a French actor. Filmography 1983 : Pauline à la plage d'Éric Rohmer 1983 : Garçon ! de Claude Sautet 1985 : L'Effrontée de Claude Miller 1985 : La Vie de famille de Jacques Doillon 1986 : Désordre d'Olivier Assayas 1987 : Buisson ardent de Laurent Perrin 1987 : Travelling avant de Jean Charles Tacchella 1987 : Les Innocents d'André Téchiné 1988 : La Petite Voleuse de Claude Miller 1990 : Après après-demain de Gérard Frot-Coutaz 1990 : Strike It Rich de James Scott 1991 : Les Arcandiers de Manuel Sanchez 1991 : 37°2 le matin de Jean-Jacques Beineix (version longue) 1991 : L'amour extrême de Joaquim Leitao 1993 : L'ombre du doute d'Aline Issermann 1994 : Des f... Biography of Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed (pronounced /ˈblɛsɪd/; born 9 October 1937, Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, England) is an English actor, author and adventurer. He is known for his loud, booming voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals". Early life The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born in the village of Goldthorpe in Yorkshire, England. He attended Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, but was forced to leave school early and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant to time in the RAF. He began his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has written about his early life in his autobiography, Dynamite Kid (1992). Career At the beginning of his career, Blessed had small roles in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Bonnemain
François Bonnemain, born October 9, 1942 in Paris, is a former journalist, politician and businessman, former CEO of TV channel TV5Monde in 2006.... Biography of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Sir Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African to sit as a member of the Académie française. He was also the founder of the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. Early life: 1906-1928 Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on 9 October 1906 in the small coastal city of Joal, some one hundred kilometres south of Dakar. Basile Diogoye Senghor, Léopold's father, was a businessman belonging to the bourgeois tribe Serer, a minority group in Senegal. Gnilane Ndiémé Bakhou, Léopold's mother, and the third wife of his father, was Musl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michael Stephen Palmer
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (born October 9, 1942, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States), is the author of 13 novels, often called the Medical thrillers series. He graduated from Wesleyan University and trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. Before he began work on his first published novel The Sisterhood, about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction. His first book was rejected, but The Sisterhood, in which nurses aiming to end human suffering kill the patient, made the New York Times bestseller list - something repeated by all his subseq... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as "Sister Aimee" or "Sister," was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. Early life McPherson was born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy in Salford, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout Methodist, and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his first wife during her terminal illness. The age difference had caused a scandal in their small Southwestern Ontario community, prompting the couple to elope to the nearby American state of Michigan. Her mother had been orphaned at an early age, and raised by a couple who worked with the Salvation Army. As a result, young Aimee wa... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Wessel (October 9, 1907 – February 23, 1930) was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930. He was the author of the lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise High the Flag"), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied ("the Horst Wessel Song"), which became the Nazi Party anthem and Germany's official co-national anthem from 1933 to 1945.Early life Wessel was born in Bielefeld in Westphalia, the son of a Lutheran pastor, Dr Ludwig Wessel, who from 1913 until his death in 1923 was the minister at the Nikolaikirche, one of Berlin's oldest churches. His mother also came from a family of Lutheran pastors. The family lived in the nearby Jüdenstraße (the Jews' Street), which in mediaeval times had been the centre of Be... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bruno Rossetti
Bruno Mario Rossetti (born October 9, 1960) is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in Skeet Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Olympic results Event 1992 1996 Skeet (mixed) 3 Bronze 148+50+24 Not held Skeet (men) Not held 20th 119... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aaron Cooper
Aaron Cooper or Cal Cooper, born October 9, 1973 in Birmingham, is a British musician, a former member of boysband Worlds Apart. Worlds Apart were a multi-national boy band of the 1990s that featured Marcus Patrick (billed as 'Patric') in the original (5 piece) group and Totally Scott-Lee 's Nathan Moore in one of the later incarnations of the band. After scoring a few hits in the United Kingdom, the band re-emerged as a 4 piece and became chart stars in France. Discography Albums Year Album UK FR BE GE AT CH Sales 1996 Everybody - 1 15 26 18 11 France: 2xPlatinum (800,000) 1994 Together 88 46 - 84 - - 1997 Don't Change - 3 21 45 47 18 France: Platinum (300,000) 2000 Here and Now - 22 - - - 2002 The Brotherhood - - - - - 2007 Platinum - - - - - ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer (born 9 October 1938) is the federal president of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004. Born in Graz, Styria, Fischer received a humanistic education, taking his "Matura" exams in 1956. He then studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961. Apart from being a politician, Fischer also pursued an academic career, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck in 1993. Fischer was a member of the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat) from 1971 and served as one of its presiding officers from 1990 till 2004. From 1983 to 1987 he was Minister for Science in a coalition government headed by Fred Sinowatz. In January 2004 Fischer announced that he would run for President to succeed Thomas Klestil. He was elected on 25 April 2... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta (born October 9, 1959) is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He also won three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville with a silver in the 4 x 10 km relay and bronzes in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit and 50 km. Vanzetta also won two silver medals in the 4 x 10 km relay (1985, 1993) at the Nordic skiing World Championships. His sister, Bice, also competed in cross country skiing from 1986 to 1994. At the Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin on February 10, he and his 4 x 10 km relay teammates (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, and Silvio Fauner) who won the gold at the 1994 Winte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Fischer (9 October 1852 - 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Biography Early years Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne in Germany, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable. Fischer then attended the University of Bonn in 1872, but switched to the University of Strasbourg in 1872. He earned his doctorate in 1874 with his study of phthalein and was appointed to a position at the university. Academic career In 1875 von Baeyer was asked to succeed Liebig at the University of Munich and Fischer went there with him to become an assistant in organic chemistry. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Julius Maggi
Julius Michael Johannes Maggi (Frauenfeld, Switzerland, October 9, 1846, – Küsnacht, October 19, 1912) was a Swiss entrepreneur, an inventor of precooked soups and Maggi spice, and the founder of the food company Maggi. Maggi was the youngest of five children of Michael Maggi, an immigrant from Italy, and his Swiss wife Sophie. Maggi died in 1912 after a stroke. He married twice, and had four daughters and two sons. References Hartmut Vincon (Hrsg.), Frank Wedekinds Maggi-Zeit, Verlag Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt 1995. ISBN 3-927902-71-3.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lila Kedrova
Lila Kedrova (Russian: Ли́ля Кедро́ва) (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning Russian-born French actress. Though born in Petrograd, Russia, Kedrova spent most of her life in France. In 1932, she joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company. Then her film career began, mostly in French films, until her first English appearance in 1964 as Mme Hortense in Zorba the Greek. Her performance won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to play a series of eccentric or batty ladies in several Hollywood films. In 1983, she reprised her role as Mme Hortense on Broadway in the musical version of Zorba the Greek, winning both a Tony Award for Best Perfor... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edward William Bok
Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876. In 1882, he began work with Henry Holt and Company, and then, in 1884, he became involved with Charles Scribner's Sons, where he eventually became its advertising manager. From 1884 until 1887, Bok was the editor of The Brooklyn Magazine, and in 1886, he founded The Bok Syndicate Press. After moving to Philadelphia in 1889, he obtained the editorship of Ladies Home Journal, when its founder and editor, Louisa Knapp Curtis, stepped down to a less intense role at the popular, nationally-circulated publication. It was publishe... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Félix Lasserre
Félix "René" Lasserre (October 9, 1895 – August 19, 1965) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bayonne and died in Saint-Avold. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edgard Pisani
Edgard Pisani (birth October 9, 1918, in Tunis) was a french politician. His parents were Maltese immigrant. He studied at Khâgne. His second marriage was with the daughter of André Le Troquer. He has belong to various governments. Between August 24, 1961 and January 8, 1966, he was Ministers of Agriculture. He has been a member of the Senat, and of the Parliament. From 1988 unitl 1995, he was president of Arab World Institute. Since 1992, he is a member of the French Economic and Social Council.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claude-Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (October 9, 1581 - February 26, 1638) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims. They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W. W. Rouse Ball's Mathematical Recreations and Essays. He also wrote Les éléments arithmétiques, which exists in manuscript; and a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetic of Diophantus (1621). It was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bill Tidy
William Edward "Bill" Tidy MBE is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. Bill was awarded an MBE in 2000 for "Services to Journalism". He is noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he has supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working-class roots in the north of England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as The Cloggies and the Fosdyke Saga, have been set in an exaggerated version of that environment. He now lives in Derbyshire. Early life He was born in Tranmere, a suburb of Birkenhead, Cheshire, on the 9 October 1933 and brought up in Liverpool, where he was educated to the age of 15 at St Margaret's School, Anfield. His first published cartoon appeared in the school magazine Af... Biography of William Livingstone Alden
William Livingstone Alden, born October 9, 1937 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, mort le 14 janvier 1908 à Buffalo, New York, was an American journalist and writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jody Williams
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Brattleboro, Vermont) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Williams first trained as a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL), receiving a BA from the University of Vermont in 1972 and a Master's degree in teaching Spanish and ESL from the School for International Training (also in Vermont) in 1974. In 1984 she received a second M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She taught ESL in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and finally Washington, D.C. before her first appointment in aid work, becoming a grocery worker of the "Nicaragua-Honduras Educati... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Max von Laue
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was strongly opposed to National Socialism. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity, he had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German scientific research and development during four decades. He was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II. Early years Laue was born in Pfaffendorf, now part of Koblenz. In 1898, after passing his Abitur in Strasbourg, he entered his compulsory year of military service, after which he began his... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcel Lefrancq
Marcel G. Lefrancq, born October 9, 1916 in Mons, died November 14, 1974, was a Belgian photograph and surrealist... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Edward George Nicholas Patrick Paul; born 9 October 1935) is a member of the British Royal Family, a grandchild of George V. He has held the title of Duke of Kent since 1942. The Duke of Kent holds the UK's most senior position - Grand Master - of the secret society of Freemasonary. The Duke of Kent carries out royal duties on behalf of his first cousin, Queen Elizabeth II. He is perhaps best known as President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, presenting the winner of the Wimbledon men's tennis tournament with the winning shield. He also served as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, retiring in 2001. He is also the President of the Scout Association. The Duke of Kent is currently 24th in t... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kenny Anderson
Kenneth "Kenny" Anderson (born October 9, 1970 in Queens, New York) is an American basketball player. After an extraordinary college career at Georgia Institute of Technology, he went on to play point guard for more than a decade in the National Basketball Association. He most recently has been hosting various basketball skills camps for youths, as well as helping prepare college players hoping to be selected in the NBA Draft. Anderson is currently Head Coach of The Hombres, one of six teams in the extreme sports league Slamball. Early life As a 16-year-old high school sophomore, the LeFrak City, Queens native who attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, was considered one of the best basketball prospects in America. Anderson was consid... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ottavia Piccolo
Ottavia Piccolo, born October 9, 1949 in Bolzano, is an Italian actress. Filmography 1963 : Le Guépard de Luchino Visconti : Caterina 1966 : Mademoiselle de Maupin (Madamigella di Maupin) de Mauro Bolognini : Ninon 1968 : Serafino ou L'amour aux champs (Serafino) de Pietro Germi : Lidia 1968 : Faustina de Luigi Magni : Faustina 1969 : 12 + 1 (Una su 13) de Nicolas Gessner et Luciano Lucignani : Stefanella 1970 : Metello de Mauro Bolognini : Ersilia 1971 : La Veuve Couderc de Pierre Granier-Deferre : Félicie 1971 : Bubu de Mauro Bolognini : Berta 1971 : Un'Anguilla da trecento milioni de Salvatore Samperi : Margherita Tellini 1971 : Un aller simple de José Giovanni : Teena 1971 : Trastevere de Fausto Tozzi : Nanda 1972 : Slasher (Uccidere in silenzio) de Giuseppe ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Lemière
Jean Lemière, born October 9, 1946 in Cherbourg, Manche, is a French politician, member of UMP.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Renée Devillers
Renée Devillers, born October 9, 1902 in Paris, died August 5, 2000 in Lagny-sur-Marne, is a French actress. Filmography 1921 : L'Affaire du train 24 1930 : La Douceur d'aimer : Germaine 1932 : Ma femme... homme d'affaires : Arlette 1937 : L'Appel de la vie 1937 : L'Homme du jour : La fille aux fleurs 1938 : J'accuse! : Helene 1942 : La Femme que j'ai le plus aimée : La dactylo 1942 : Les Affaires sont les affaires : Germaine Lechat 1942 : Le Voile bleu : Madame Forneret 1943 : Untel père et fils : Gabrielle Froment 1946 : Lunegarde 1946 : Roger la Honte : Mme Laroque 1947 : Fausse identité : Lucie Blondin 1948 : Les Dernières Vacances : Cécile Simonet 1948 : Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde : Sylvia 1948 : Le Diable boiteux : Mme de Dino 1949 : Le Droit... Biography of Gaël Givet
Gaël Givet-Viaros (born 9 October 1981 in Arles, France) is a French professional football player. He currently plays for Blackburn Rovers. Givet is a centre back who can also play at left back. Club career AS Monaco Givet started his professional career at AS Monaco as a left back before moving to centre half. He made his debut in a 2-2 draw against Guingamp in December 2000. He played for Monaco between 2000 and 2007, making 178 league appearances and scoring a respectable 8 goals. The highlights of his time at the club were winning the French League Cup in 2003 and reaching the final of the UEFA Champions League Final in 2004, where he missed out on a winner's medal with a 3–0 defeat against Jose Mourinho's FC Porto. He played a pivotal role in their success, making 13 Champio... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Charles Bresse
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (Vienne, France, October 9, 1822 – May 22, 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors. His name, along with 72 others, is engraved underneath the first balcony on the Eiffel Tower for his contributions to the field of civil engineering. Bresse graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1843 and received his formal education in engineering at the École des Ponts et Chaussées. He returned to the École des Ponts et Chaussées in 1848 as an instructor for applied mechanics courses and in 1853 gained his professorship in applied mechanics, after which he taught at the school until his death in 1883. Publications Bresse, Jacques Antoine Charles, Water-wheels; Or, Hydraulic Motors, John Wiley & Sons, New York 18... Biography of Charles Jayne
Charles Jayne, born October 9, 1911 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, died December 31, 1985, was an Amercian professionnal sideralist astrologer and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Swami Beyondananda
Steve Bhaerman, born October 9, 1946 in Brooklyn is an American author, comedian and humorist. For the past 18 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Biography on http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/about.html Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 18 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting” and has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.” As the Swami, Steve is the author of four books, Driving Your Own Karma, When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth, Duck Soup for the Soul, and his latest Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body P... Biography of Irmgard Seefried
Irmgard Seefried (born in Köngetried, near Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany on 9 October 1919 - died in Vienna on 24 November 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder. She studied at Augsburg University before making her debut in Aachen, however for most of her career she belonged to the company of the Vienna State Opera. One of a group of outstanding singers to emerge immediately after the Second World War, she was noted for her Mozart and Richard Strauss roles. She appeared many times at the Salzburg Festival. She was married to the violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Bibliography The Last Prima Donnas, by Lanfranco Rasponi, Alfred A Knopf, 1982. ISBN 0-394-52153-6 Discography (Capon's Lists of Opera Recordings)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sally Chisholm
Sally Chisholm, born October 9, 1947 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, is an American musician and violist.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Rocky Aoki
Hiroaki Aoki (青木 広彰, Aoki Hiroaki?, October 9, 1938 – July 10, 2008), known in the United States by the Anglicized name Rocky Aoki, was a Japanese wrestler, founder of the Benihana chain of "Japanese Steakhouse" restaurants, thrillseeker and entrepreneur. History Born in Tokyo, Aoki was a rebellious youth, admitting to selling girlie magazines in school, as well as being suspended for pushing another student down a staircase. He and some friends started a rock and roll band called Rowdy Sounds, though Aoki eventually abandoned music for athletics. He would later explain, "I play bass. But I tell you why I change to wrestling: No good on tempo." Aoki attended Keio University, where he competed in track and field, karate and wrestling before being expelled fo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alastair Sim
Alastair Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two of the much-loved St. Trinian's films. He was famously described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a "sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes. Early life Alastair Sim was born in Edinburgh in 1900. His father, Alexander Sim, was a prosperous businessman with property in Braemar and Edinburgh. He designed and paid for the construction of the Earl Haig Gardens in Edinburgh for the use of returning servicemen to sit in during the day. Alexander Sim was offered, but r... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Zachery Ty Bryan
Zachery Tyler Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement. Personal life Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, the son of Jenny, a talent manager, and Dwight Bryan, a vice president of a pipeline company. His second cousin is Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn. His second cousin Laura, Brady's sister, is married to Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk. He has a younger sister named Ciri. In 2007, Zachery married longtime girlfriend Carly Matros. Career Before he starred in Home Improvement, he started in Denver with print and television advertising. His interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he received the role of Brad, the oldest Taylor child, in the show Home Improveme... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Oliver-Gilbert Leroy
Oliver-Gilbert Leroy, born October 9, 1884 in Tours, was a French occulist and author. He is the author of books on the lives of the saints and on parapsychology.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Troy Davis
Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was an American citizen convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King when he intervened to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot. During Davis’ 1991 trial, witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified that Davis confessed to them. Although the murder weapon was not recovered, ballistic evidence presented at trial tied bullets recovered at or near the scene to those at another shooting in which Davis was also charged. Davis was convicted of murder and various lesser charges, including the earlier shooting, and was sentenced to death in August 1991. Seven of nine eyewitnesses s... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Elia Del Grande
Elia Del Grande, born October 1975 in Varese, is an Italian homicide. January 7, 1998, he killed his mother, fater and brother by gunshot. He was arrested a few hours later.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aimé Cotton
Aimé Auguste Cotton (9 October 1869 - 16 April 1951) was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or variation of optical rotation as a function of wavelength (Cotton effect), as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light. Aimé Cotton was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France on 9 October 1869. His grandfather was director of the École normale (teachers' college) of Bourg, and his father, Eugène Cotton, was a mathematics professor at the college of Bourg, the institution where physicist André-Marie Ampère began his career. His brother Émile Cotton was a mathematician and ac... Biography of Pierre Jolivet
Pierre Jolivet (born 9 October 1952, Saint-Mandé, France) is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His brother is Marc Jolivet, the actor, script-writer, director and humourist. They are the sons of Jacques Jolivet (author), and Arlette Thomas, the French voice of the cartoon characters Calimero and Titi (Tweety). Selected filmography * Strictement personnel (1985) * Force majeure (1989) * Simple mortel (1991) * À l'heure où les grands fauves vont boire (1993) * En plein cœur (1998) * My Little Business (1999) * Le Frère du Guerrier (2002) * Filles uniques (2003) * Zim and Co. (2005) * Je crois que je l'aime (2007) * La T... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fyvush Finkel
Philip “Fyvush” Finkel (born October 9, 1922) is an American actor best known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award in 1994. He is also known for his portrayal of Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety U.S. history teacher, on the TV series Boston Public. Early life and career Finkel was born at home in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York City, the third of four sons of Jewish immigrant tailor Harry Finkel, from Warsaw, Poland, and housewife Mary, from Minsk, then part of Russia. Born Philip Finkel, with no middle name, he adopted the stage name "Fyvush," a common Yiddish given name. Finkel first appeared on the stage at age 9, and acted for almost 35 years in the thrivi... Biography of Eddie Guerrero
Eduardo Gory Guerrero (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into a Mexican wrestling family. He wrestled in Mexico and Japan and in several major professional wrestling promotions in the United States He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Guerrero's gimmick was that of a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match. His catch phrase became "Cheat to Win." Despite being a heel for most of his career, he got over in and outside the ring. Another one of his famous slogans was "I Lie! I Cheat! I Steal!," which was used in one of his entrance themes. He partly used this phrase in his autobiography Cheating Death, Stealing Life. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Victor Gerard Castelli
Victor Gerard Castelli, born October 9, 1952 in Montclair, New Jersey, is an American former ballet dancer for the New York City Ballet.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Martin Jaite
Martín Jaite (born October 9, 1964, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine right-handed former top-10 professional tour tennis player. Jaite's ATP highest tour ranking was World # 10, which he achieved in the summer of 1990, and he won a total of 12 titles and $1,873,881 in tour prize money during his career. Jaite's playing style leveraged his consistency, speed, thoughtful use of tactics, and fitness to compensate for his lack of power. His best surface was clay, which allowed him to hit the ball deep to either side of the court, and gave him more time to use his defensive skills. Jaite's best shot was his topspin single-handed backhand, which was difficult for his opponent to attack. Tennis career While moving back and forth between Barcelona and Argentina as a child, Jaite was a to... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joseph Ashton
Joseph William Ashton (born 9 October 1933), usually known as Joe Ashton, is a British Labour Party politician who was known for his defence of the rights of Labour members of Parliament against the demands of the left-wing of the party to subject them to mandatory reselection. Police raids in November 1998 on two massage parlours in Kingsley Park Terrace, Northampton resulted in the discovery of Joe Ashton, then Labour MP for Bassetlaw, in the Siam Sauna with a 21-year-old Thai woman. Early career Ashton was born and brought up in Sheffield. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw in a 1968 by-election, when he did well to hold the constituency at a time when the Harold Wilson government was highly unpopular and the previous MP (Fred Bellenger) had held a su... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jorge Burruchaga
Jorge Luis Burruchaga (born 9 October, 1962 in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos) is a former Argentine professional football player, and currently manager of Arsenal de Sarandí in the Primera División Argentina. He played both as an attacking midfielder and striker and is famous for scoring the winning goal in the final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Career Burru was part of the team that won the 1986 FIFA World Cup, scoring the goal that gave Argentina the 3:2 victory against Germany in the final match. also participated in all Argentine matches at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He scored a total of 13 goals for Argentina in 59 games between 1983 and 1990. With Independiente he won an Argentine league in 1983, a Copa Libertadores (top scorer with 6 goals), and an Intercontinental Cup in 1984. Afte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Piero Poli
Piero Poli (born October 9, 1960) is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Agostino Abbagnale, Davide Tizzano, and Gianluca Farina. He is also a World champion: he won in quadruple sculls at the 1983 World Rowing Championship (Duisburg). In that year he was trained at the Pavia College Remiero Actually he is an orthopaedic specialist.... Biography of Susan Lucas
Suzan Lucas, born Ocrtober 9, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American writer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Julian Bailey
Julian Bailey (born 9 October 1961 in Woolwich, London) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams. Although born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Menorca, Spain, and became an accomplished Formula Ford 1600 racer in Britain, winning the important Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. In 1987 he got his chance to race in Formula 3000 in a GA Motorsport Lola, in which he won in only his second F3000 race, becoming the first British driver to win a race in the formula. This attracted the attention of Ken Tyrrell, and Bailey was recruited to drive for the Formula One team the following year. Unfortunately the car was very uncompetitive and he didn't score a single point, while his team-mate Jonathan Palmer scored five. In 1989 he joined the Nissan spo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of René Haby
René Haby (October 9, 1919, in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe – February 6, 2003) was a French politician. He had been a prisoner of war during World War II. He was a member of the Union for French Democracy. From May 28, 1974 until April 5, 1978, he was Minister of National Education.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claude Naisse
Claude Têtu, best known as Claude Naisse, born October 9, 1948 in Neuilly, is a French businessman. Naisse is the name of his wife Lucie Naisse.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Wilhelm Knappich
Wilhelm Knappich, born October 9, 1880 in Vienne, died December 28, 1970, was an Austrian astrologer and author. Selected Bibliography * Die Astrologie im Weltbild der Gegenwart (1948) * Der Mensch im Horoskop (1951) * Horoskop und Himmelshäuser - Grundlagen und Altertum, zusammen mit Walter Koch (1959) * Geschichte der Astrologie (1967) * Entwicklung der Horoskoptechnik vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart postume Ausgabe (1978)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Peter Mansfield
Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, (born 9 October 1933 in London), is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI. Sir Peter is a professor at the University of Nottingham. The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952, which went to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell, was for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the scientific principle behind MRI. For decades magnetic resonance was used mainly for studying the chemical structure of substances, and Mansfield's first project in this field was to develop a portable, transistorised Earth's field NMR (EFNMR) spectrometer in the late 1950s. It was n... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens (born October 9, 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir. Influenced by Franz Kafka, Mertens started to publish novels and short stories in 1969 and received the Prix Médicis in 1987 for Les éblouissements. He nevertheless continued his activities as a lawyer, participating in many battles for human rights. In 1989, he entered the Académie royale de langue et littérature de Belgique, and was also named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Mertens has reflected much on the social function of the writer. For him, private life, fiction, and history are inseparable. ... Biography of Keith Booth
Keith Eugene Booth (born October 9, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American basketball coach and former player. Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997. He is currently an assistant at his alma mater under Gary Williams. Heavily recruited by coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in many years to play for Maryland. After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, a de facto boycott of the university was put in place by the high-school coaches in Baltimore. Because of this boycott, many star high-school players avoided Maryland as a choice to play their college ball. In becoming one of the members of Maryland's 1993 recruiting class, Booth broke the ice, and the school once again had ac... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tony Booth
Antony "Tony" George Booth (born 9 October 1931 in Liverpool, better known as Tony Booth) is an English actor, best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part. His daughter, Cherie, a prominent Queen's Counsel, is married to former Prime Minister Tony Blair. He is a cousin to the Booth family of 19th-century American actors. Early life Booth was born into a working class family in Jubilee Road, Liverpool. His father was a merchant seaman during World War II, his mother was of Irish descent. He attended St Edmunds Infant's School and spent a year in hospital as a child with diphtheria. He then passed the 11 plus examination and attended St. Mary's College, Crosby where he was awarded a bursary to cover the cost of his books. Hopes that he could progress... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Jacques Schuhl
Jean-Jacques Schuhl (born October 9, 1941 in Marseille) is a French author, recipient of the 2000 Prix Goncourt literary award for his novel Ingrid Caven. Works Rose Poussière (1972) Télex N° 1 (1972) Ingrid Caven (2000)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jim Gross
Jim Gross, born October 9, 1936 in New York, is an American professional astrologer and author of books and articles on astrological magazines.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Louis de Lacretelle
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (9 October 1751 - September 5, 1824), was a French politician and writer. He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle. He practised as a barrister in Paris. In 1784 he divided a prize for an award winning essay with Maximilien Robespierre. Under the French Revolution he was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent Assembly, and later as deputy in the Legislative Assembly. He belonged to the moderate party known as the Feuillants, but after 10 August 1792 he ceased to take part in public life. In 1803 he became a member of the Institute, taking the place of La Harpe. Under the Restoration he was one of the chief editors of the Minerve française; he wrote also an essay, Sur le 18 Brumaire (1799), some Fragments po... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marcelle Bunlet
Marcelle Bunlet, born October 9, 1900 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée and died in 1991 in Paris, was a French soprano singer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the Nixon White House "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks." Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the first Watergate burglary, and other undercover operations for Nixon. In the ensuing Watergate Scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. Early life and career Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, United States, of English and Welsh descent. An alumnus of Nichols School in Buffalo, New York and a 1940 graduate of Brown University, Hunt during World War II served in the U.S. Navy on the des... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Darius Miles
Darius LaVar Miles (born October 9, 1981) is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. The 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) small forward was selected directly out of high school by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 3rd overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft. He was a First Team NBA All-Rookie in 2001, a first for a prep-to-pro player. Miles playing career nearly came to an end when he was released by the Portland Trail Blazers in April 2008 after two years away from the court following microfracture surgery on his right knee. While he rebounded by joining the Boston Celtics for the 2008–2009 pre-season, his regular season debut with the Grizzlies was postponed for ten games while he sat out a League-mandated suspension for violating its subst... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Michel Boisrond
Michel Boisrond (9 October 1921 - 10 November 2002) was a French film director and writer. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. A former apprentice of Jean Dallanoy, Cocteau, and René Clair, Michel Boisrond debuted as a full-fledged director in 1955 with Cette Sacrée Gamine starring Bridgit Bardot. He is known for his dependability and his competently made films. His works typically fall into the comedy, romance, or comedy drama genres. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092330/ ) Director: # "Police des polices" (6 episodes, 1995) - Cavalier seul (1995) TV episode - Raison d'Etat (1995) TV episode - Vidéo preuves (1995) TV episode - L'îlotier (1995) TV episode - Faux diagnostic (1995) TV episode (1 more) ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Adrienne Clostre
Adrienne Clostre, born October 9, 1921 in Thomery, died August 5, 2006 in Serrières, was a French Opera composer. Awards Grand Prix de Rome en 1949. Grand Prix musical de la Ville de Paris en 1955. Prix Florence Gould en 1976 Prix Musique de la SACD en 1987.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles-Guillaume-Ferdinand de Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand (German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand) (October 9, 1735 – October 16, 1806), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was a sovereign prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and a professional soldier who served as a Generalfeldmarschall of the Kingdom of Prussia. Born in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, he was duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1780 until his death. He is a recognized master of the modern warfare of the mid-18th century, a cultured and benevolent despot in the model of Frederick the Great, and was married to Princess Augusta, a sister of George III of Great Britain. History Charles William Ferdinand (German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand) was the son of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Philippine Charlotte, daughter of King Frederick William I of Prussia. Karl rec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joseph Melnick
Joseph Louis Melnick (October 9, 1914 – January 7, 2001) was an American epidemiologist who performed breakthrough research on the spread of polio, with The New York Times calling him "a founder of modern virology". Early life and education Melnick was born on October 9, 1914, in Boston and moved with his family to New Haven, Connecticut, when he was seven years old. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1936 and was awarded a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Yale University. He became a member of the Yale faculty under Dr. John R. Paul, and was named a professor of epidemiology in 1954. Polio research Research by Melnick found that the most common way that polio was spread was by fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Laurent Mariotte
Laurent Mariotte, born on October 9, 1969 in Épinal, is a French actor, TV host, radio host, and author. He is also a chef. Publications Petits plats en équilibré : Laurent Mariotte cuisine les saisons : Avec 30 fiches recettes Automne/Hiver, Boulogne, France, Les Éditions du Toucan, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-8100-0339-6) Mes recettes faciles et bluffantes !, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-226-19517-3) Petits plats en équilibré : Laurent Mariotte cuisine les saisons : Printemps-Eté, Boulogne, France, Les Éditions du Toucan, mai 2010 (ISBN 978-2-8100-0372-3) Revisitez vos classiques, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-226-19531-9)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Francis Girod
Francis Girod (9 October 1944 – 19 November 2006) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film L'enfance de l'art was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986 - actor) * L'enfance de l'art (1988) * Lumière and Company (1995)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Véronique Rolland-Pecqueux
Véronique Pecqueux-Rolland (born 9 October 1972 in Voiron, Isère) is a French former handballer who played for the French national team. She received a gold medal at the 2003 World Championship and a silver medal at the 1999 World Championship. She won the Cup Winners' Cup with ES Besançon in 2003. Pecqueux-Rolland made her debut with the national team on 12 March 1993. She stopped playing for France after the 2008 Summer Olympics, having scored 898 goals in 302 matches. She retired from handball in April 2009. Results Club French Championship: Winner in 1998 and 2003; Runner-up in 2005 French Cup: Winner in 2003 and 2005; Finalist in 2006 and 2007 French League Cup: Winner in 2003 and 2004; Finalist in 2006 and 2007 Cup Winners' Cup: Winner in 2003 National... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jane Cooper
Jane Cooper, poet, essayist and teacher, was born on October 9, 1924 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She died October 26, 2007 (complications due to Parkinson's Disease). External link: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/coopersp.html... Biography of Spencer Grammer
Spencer Karen Grammer (born 9 October 1983 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American actress. Acting career Grammer is the child of comedian/actor Kelsey Grammer and dance instructor Doreen Alderman. She began acting early in life, appearing on the show Cheers when she was at a young age and also in a children's clothing commercial at age seven. Later on, she got the role of Lucy in the series As the World Turns. She is now known for playing a leading role in the series Greek, as Casey Cartwright. Filmography * Cheers... (1992) * Sweetie Pie... Ashley (2000) * Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2005) * Beautiful Ohio... Carlene (2006) * As the World Turns... Lucy Montgomery (2006) * Greek... Casey F. Cartwright (2007-present)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jason Butler Harner
Jason Butler Harner (born October 9, 1970) in Elmira, New York is an American actor. Jason Butler Harner grew up in suburban Virginia, where he had the opportunity of seeing a handful of plays at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage. He graduated from T. C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia in 1988. Harner states: "I am so grateful for the experiences I had with the T.C. Williams theater department. Designing and building sets, problem solving with peers, and stretching my imagination affected me in ways crucial to my development and career. Without the quality education and theater opportunities available to me at T.C. Williams ... who would I be?" He graduated from Theatre VCU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 1992. After graduating from VCU, he was an apprentice at Acto... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bob Galvin
Robert (Bob) W. Galvin (born on October 9, 1922 in Marshfield, Wisconsin) is the son of the founder of Motorola, Paul Galvin. He attended the University of Notre Dame. In 1940, he began working for Motorola and was named president of the company in 1956. Two years later he succeeded his father as chief executive officer. In 1986, Bob Galvin gave up the title of CEO while remaining chairman of the board. Under his leadership, Motorola sales had grown from $216.6 million to $6.7 billion in 1987 and cash flow per share had grown from 89 cents to $6.10. Bob Galvin also was instrumental, along with Motorola engineer Bill Smith, in implementing the Six Sigma quality system at Motorola. In 2005, he was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award for "his visionary leadership to enhance U.S. innovation, co... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nikki Deal
Nikki Deal, born October 9, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, is an American artist.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Laubreaux
Alin Laubreaux or Alain Laubreaux, born October 9,1899 in Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, died July 15, 1968 in Madrid, Spain, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography Histoires canaques, éd. Fayard, coll. « Œuvres libres », Paris, 1926. Yan-le-métis, éd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1928, . Raconte les aventures plus ou moins rocambolesques d'un métis calédonien échoué aux Nouvelles-Hébrides, il perdit pour cette œuvre un procès en plagiat intenté par un autre auteur calédonien, Georges Baudoux. Diane La Goule, éd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1929. Le Corset noir, éd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1930. Le Rocher à la voile, éd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1930. Roman très critique sur la « bourgeoisie » nouméenne et l'administration coloniale et faisant l'éloge de la société « broussarde ». L'Amat... Biography of Federica Sciarelli
Federica Sciarelli, born October 9, 1959 in Rome, is an Italian journalist and TV host.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Shera Danese
Shera Danese (born 9 October 1949) is an American actress and the widow of actor Peter Falk. Danese was born in Hartsdale, New York. She played the role of the prostitute Vicky in the 1983 film Risky Business featuring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in the lead roles. Her roles on television included episodes of One Day at a Time, Serpico, Baretta, Three's Company, Kojak, Family, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels, and she played a major role in three of the six episodes of Columbo in which she appeared. She has the distinction of having played a suspect or victim in more episodes of Columbo than any other actor. She married Peter Falk, the star of Columbo, on 7 December 1977.... Biography of Sanseverino (French singer)
Stéphane Sanseverino (known as Sanseverino) is a French singer, guitarist and songwriter of Napolitan descent. He is a self-taught guitarist and an admirer of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. His music is inspired by Tzigan music. His lyrics are mainly comical with such topics as a traffic jam (Les Embouteillages) or smoking (La Cigarette). Discography Le Tango des gens (2001) Les Sénégalaises (2004) Live au théâtre Sébastopol (2005) Exactement (2006) External link, biography of Sanseverino in English http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_7086.asp... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Belchior (beach soccer)
Nuno Ricardo Santos Belchior better known as Belchior (born 9 October 1982) is a Portuguese beach soccer player. He plays in forward position. He is known as the Cristiano Ronaldo of beach soccer. Honours National team Portugal Euro Beach Soccer League winner: 2007, 2008 Euro Beach Soccer League runner-up: 2004, 2005, 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup runner-up: 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup third place: 2003, 2004, 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup fourth place: 2006 Euro Beach Soccer League Portuguese Event winner : 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Euro Beach Soccer League Italian Event runner-up : 2005, 2007 Euro Beach Soccer League Italian Event third place: 2006 Euro Beach Soccer League Spanish Event winner : 2005 Euro Beach Soccer League Spanish Event runner-u... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Stomponato
Johnny Stompanato, Jr. aka Handsome Harry, John Steele and Oscar (October 9, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a former United States Marine who became a bodyguard/enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. He was also the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner. Early Years John "Jackie" R. Stompanato was born into an Italian-American family in predominantly Irish-American Woodstock, Illinois. Stompanato was the youngest of four children; his brother Carmine, as of 2006, still lived in Indiana and served as a Presbyterian elder. His father John Sr. was a successful barber and dabbler in real estate. The Stompanato family lived in a big clapboard house on Blakely Street with a much envied garden with a florid statuary. John's mother died after his birth, and his father married a woman named Verena Freitag. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Annika Sörenstam
Annika Sörenstam (born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful golfers in history. She has won 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors and 18 other tournaments internationally, and she tops the LPGA's career money list with earnings of over $22 million -- over $8 million ahead of her nearest rival. Her 90 international tournament wins as a professional make her the female golf player with the most wins to her name. The winner of a record eight Player of the Year awards, and six Vare Trophies given to the LPGA player with the lowest seasonal scoring average, she is the only female golfer to have shot a 59 in competition. She holds various all-time scoring records including the lowest season scoring average: 68.6... Add to favourites (1 fan)Biography of Lou Samuel
Lou Sulola Samuel, born October 9, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, is the daugther of model Heidi Klum and singer Seal. Her mother Klum married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997; the couple divorced in 2002. Following the divorce, she dated Flavio Briatore. In the autumn of 2003, Klum announced she was pregnant by Briatore. The same day she made this announcement, Briatore was photographed kissing Fiona Swarovski, a jewelry heiress. Klum and Briatore split shortly thereafter. Klum gave birth to her first child, Helene "Leni" Klum on May 4, 2004 in New York City, New York. According to Klum, Briatore, Leni's biological father, is not involved in the child's life; she has stated emphatically that "Seal is Leni's father." In early 2004, while still pregnant, Klum began a relationship with mus... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fernand Bouxom
Fernand Bouxom, born October 9, 1909 in Wambrechies, Nord, died July 2, 1991 in Argenteuil (Val d'Oise), was a French politician. External link: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/biographies/IVRepublique/bouxom-fernand-09101909.asp... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carling Bassett
Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso (born October 9, 1967 in Toronto, Canada) is a former professional tennis player from Canada. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett, who was an executive for his father John Bassett's company Baton Broadcasting, and Susan Carling, the granddaughter of politician and brewery executive John Carling. Tennis career In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior indoor tennis title. In 1982, she was ranked No. 2 junior player in the world after winning events in Tokyo and Taipei. That year she also became the youngest winner of the Canadian closed championship at the age of 14. She won the title again in 1983 and 1986. By age 16, Bassett was Canada's top tennis player. At the same time, she had a successful second career as a fashion model, working for the... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Maud Watson
Maud Watson (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946 in Charmouth, Dorset) was an English tennis player. Born in Harrow, London, the daughter of a local vicar, she began playing competitive tennis in 1881. Undefeated in tournament play, in 1884 the nineteen-year-old Watson won the first ever Ladies’ Singles title at Wimbledon. Playing in white corsets and petticoats, from a field of thirteen competitors she defeated her older sister Lillian Watson 6–8 6–3 6–3 to claim the title. Maud Watson repeated as the Wimbledon champion the following year, winning the final 6–1, 7–5 over Blanche Bingley. In 1886, Bingley turned the tables, defeating Watson 6–3 6–3 in the finals to take the title. She lived near and is buried at St John the Bapist Parish church in Berkswell, near Solihull in Warwickshire... Biography of Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik “Zäta" Zetterberg (born October 9, 1980) is a Swedish professional ice hockey center and alternate captain currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League, wearing the "A" during away games when Kris Draper is healthy (alternating with Draper, who wears the "A" during home games). Along with winning the Stanley Cup in 2008, Zetterberg won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Zetterberg is widely considered as one of the best draft steals in NHL history. Playing career Swedish career Zetterberg started out by playing his youth league games for the Njurunda Sports Club, as did Fredrik Modin. In the Swedish leagues, players were calling him Zetty the Grizzly Teddy, due to his facial hair. In 2008, the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ini Kamoze
Cecil Campbell (born 9 October 1957), better known by his stage name Ini Kamoze (play /ˈaɪni kəˈmoʊzi/) is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for his signature song, "Here Comes the Hotstepper", which was released in 1994, and subsequently topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also reached number one in Australia and New Zealand, and number four in the UK Singles Chart. Career He made his first single, "World Affairs," in 1981. Kamoze released a 12-inch single "Trouble You A Trouble Me / General", released under the name Inai Kamosa. His self-titled debut album was released in 1984 as a six track mini-LP on Island Records. In the album notes he describes himself as a "pencil thin... disentangled... six-foot vegetarian". The album includes the... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arnie Risen
Arnold D. Risen (born October 9, 1924 in Williamstown, Kentucky) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'9" center from the Ohio State University. He led the Buckeyes to two straight Final Four appearances. Risen played professionally in the NBA for ten seasons (1948-1958) as a member of the Rochester Royals and Boston Celtics. Risen was four-time All-Star and two-time NBA Champion, and he scored 7,633 points in his career. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.... Biography of Marina Carrère d'Encausse
Marina Carrère, dite Carrère d'Encausse, born on October 9, 1961 in Paris, is a French physician, journalist, TV host, and radio host. She is the daughter of historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and businessman Louis Édouard Carrère. She is also the sister of writer Emmanuel Carrère and lawyer Nathalie Carrère.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert de Sorbon
Robert de Sorbon (October 9, 1201 – August 15, 1274) was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the Ardennes département, Robert de Sorbon entered the Church and was educated in Reims and Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronage of the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, later known as Saint Louis. He became the canon of Cambrai around 1251 before being appointed canon of Paris and the king's confessor in 1258. Sorbon began to teach around 1253 and in 1257 established the Maison de Sorbonne, a college in Paris originally intended to teach theology to twenty poor students. It was sponsored by King Louis and received the endorsement of Pope Alex... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Brian Roberts (baseball)
Biography College baseball career Roberts lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as his father was the baseball coach at UNC. He graduated from Chapel Hill High School. During his freshman year in 1997 at UNC, Roberts hit .427, with 102 hits, 24 doubles, 47 SB and was named to the NCBWA Second Team and the Collegiate Baseball Third Team. His sophomore year, he hit .353, 13 HR, 49 RBI, 21 doubles, 63 SB and was named to the NCBWA 1st Team, The Sporting News 2nd Team and the Collegiate Baseball 2nd Team. His 63 stolen bases were more than any player in college baseball that year. He became the first Tar Heel to be named ACC player of the year, and was a first team All-America. Mike Roberts, Brian's father and coach at UNC, was fired by athletic director Dick Baddour after the 1998 ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fahid Ben Khalfallah
Fahid Ben Khalfallah (Arabic: فهيد بن خلف الله) (born October 9, 1982 in Péronne) is a French born Tunisian midfielder currently playing for FC Girondins de Bordeaux. Career Ben Khalfallah played in the French second and third divisions until the age of 25, when he got his first taste of Ligue 1 football with SM Caen. His new team, however, was relegated at the end of the season after a decent first season in Ligue 1 for the midfielder. In the summer of 2009, he signed for Valenciennes FC for three years. He started the season very well, starting five games and coming on as a substitute in another five, scoring 3 beautiful goals and providing 5 assists. In August 2010, he joined the Bordeaux for... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joe Sewell
Joseph Wheeler Sewell (October 9, 1898 – March 6, 1990) was a Major League Baseball infielder for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. Sewell holds the record for the lowest strikeout rate in major league history, striking out on average only once every 63 at-bats, and the most consecutive games without a strikeout, at 115. Career Born in Titus, Alabama, Sewell lettered in college football at the University of Alabama in 1917, 1918, and 1919. Sewell made his major league debut in 1920 with the World Series champion Cleveland Indians shortly after the death of regular shortstop Ray Chapman and became the team's full-time shortstop the following year. An emerging star, Sewell batted .318 with 101 runs, 93 RBI and a .412 on ... Biography of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D, LL.D. (9 October 1858 – 12 March 1935; Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин), also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian-American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pupin was a one founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on March 3, 1915, which later became NASA. Early life and education Mihajlo Pupin was born on October 9 (September 27, OS) 1854. in vill... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Gheorghe Popescu
Gheorghe Gică Popescu (born 9 October 1967 in Calafat) is a retired Romanian football defender, former captain of FC Barcelona and key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in that period, including a four-year stint at PSV Eindhoven. His tactical knowledge as a defender made him valuable team member in top European competitions even until he reached his late-thirties. Beside from his defending skills, he was also capable of using the ball and starting attacks from deep. He is the brother-in-law of fellow Romanian international Gheorghe Hagi. Playing career Club career After playing six seasons for Universitatea Craiova, Popescu was loaned to country giants Steaua Bucharest reaching the semi-finals of the European Cup during th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kieren Hutchison
Kieren Robert Hutchison (born on 9 October 1974) is a New Zealand actor. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Career Hutchison is best known for playing the roles of Jonathon McKenna in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, Andy Hargrove on One Tree Hill, Kerry Connelly on Wildfire and Jake Preston on Monarch Cove (2006). He played Ernst Robinson on The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1997) and William Tell on The Legend of William Tell (1998). Personal life He is married to actress Nicole Tubiola with whom he has a son. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404456/) 2010 Castle (TV series) Cody Donnelly – He's Dead, She's Dead (2010) … Cody Donnelly 2010 Les experts: Manhattan (TV series) Finnegan Hansard – Pot of Gold (2010) … Finnegan Hansard ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator representing Michigan, and co-founder as well as first Masonic Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Michigan. He was the losing nominee of the Democratic Party for president in 1848. Cass was nationally famous as a leading spokesman for the controversial Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which would have allowed voters in the territories to determine whether to make slavery legal instead of having Congress decide. Early life Cass was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he attended Phillips Exeter Academy. His parents were Major Jonathan Cass and Molly Gilman. In 1800 he... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Liz Sagal
Elizabeth "Liz" Sagal (born 9 October 1961) is an American television professional, active as an actress, screenwriter and film editor. In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin sister Jean Sagal in the 23-episode television series Double Trouble that ran from 1984–85, as well as the 1982 movie Grease 2, a loose sequel to the 1978 film starring John Travolta. She has since appeared on such shows as Knots Landing and Picket Fences. She has worked as a writer on such shows as Mad About You, Monk and Charmed, also serving as executive story editor on the last. She played a part in the film Howard the Duck, as a member of the fictional band "Cherry Bomb", in conjunction with which she contributed vocals to the songs "Hunger City", "Don't Turn Away (Reprise)", "It Don't Come Cheap" an... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Fabio Lione
Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October 1973) is an Italian singer who has sung with many music bands including Rhapsody of Fire, Labyrinth, Ayreon, Vision Divine and Athena, and as a touring lead singer with American band Kamelot. Lione started making eurobeat songs in 2000, but has decided to continue his solo career with and work with Rhapsody of Fire. Musical career Lione was born in Pisa. His career started in 1990 at the age of 17 when he began to sing with a small rock and roll underground group who played classics of 1950s and 1960s similar to Elvis Presley's songs. He had a passion for groups such as Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, and Crimson Glory, which inspired him to form his own heavy metal band. His musical activities continued with a young group from Pisa, named Athena. They ... Biography of John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist based in London. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger has been a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger has also criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print media, he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and writes a fortnightly columnn for the New Statesman magazine. Pilger has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide, and the journalist has received several honorary doctorates. Early life and career... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Carlos Pavón
Carlos Alberto Pavón Plummer (born 9 October 1973 in El Progreso) is a Honduran football striker. He is most costly related to Real C.D. España of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras. Pavón began his career at the age of 18 in his native Honduras with Real España on 30 May 1992 against Platense in the 1992 Honduran Cup, the final score was 1-1. While with Real España, Pavón won two Honduran league championships, as well as leading the league in scoring. Pavón has played for Morelia in the Mexican Primera División, winning the 2000 Clausura with the club. He has also played for Toluca, San Luis, Correcaminos, Necaxa, Cruz Azul, and Celaya, where he led the Mexican Second Division in scoring. He has played in Italy in Serie A for both Udinese and Napoli from 2001–2003 and in Spa... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950. Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he also plays oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also uses a number of world music instruments, notably the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, Xun, arghul, sarewa, and koto. He is known for his innovative blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. Biography Early life and career Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee; his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1925. Throughout his early life Lateef came into contact with many Detroit-based jazz musicians ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Colin Donnell
Colin Donnell (born October 9, 1982) is an American actor best known for his performances on and off Broadway. He currently stars as Tommy Merlyn in the The CW television series Arrow. Early life and education Colin Donnell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He is the youngest of three brothers. He played the Guitar and took singing lessons when he was 17. His introduction to the stage was in high-school where he was a part of the choir and was in the background juggling and doing circus tricks. As he put it, he "loved it" and the rest is just history. Colin graduated from Indiana University in 2005. Career Donnell has been part of many stage national tours such as Mamma Mia! and Wicked. His first Broadway Theatre performance was in Jersey Boys as Hank Mejewski. His ot... |
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