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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on September, 13, 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 · 45,446 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 45,446 Celebrities
142 celebrities or events were found for September, 13. Add to favourites (105 fans)Biography of Niall Horan
Niall James Horan (born 13 September 1993) in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, is an English singer, a member of One Direction. Horan was born to mother Maura and father Bobby Horan. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He was a pupil at Coláiste Mhuire, Mullingar, a boys' CBS secondary school. Horan played numerous gigs around his homeland including as a support act for Lloyd Daniels (in Dublin). He plays the guitar since his childhood. In an interview he referred to his guitar as "the best present I ever received for Christmas".. Horan has an older brother Greg (23). Horan revealed that his parents first realised he was a good singer during a car journey. "My aunt said she thought the radio was on," he said. "Exactly the same thing happened to Michael Bublé w... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977 (birth time source: "Tidal" Album liner notes) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known as Fiona Apple. Early life Apple is a member of a family rich with roots in entertainment. Born in New York City, she is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. Her older sister, Amber Taleullah, sings cabaret under the stage name Maude Maggart. Her brother Spencer is a director and directed the video for her single "Parting Gift". Her half brother Garett Maggart starred in the TV series The Sentinel. In addition, her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress. Early life Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette Alexander, a lawyer of French and English descent; Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British trooper in order to escape the Germans during WWII. Bisset has a brother, Max. Bisset's mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Bisset's parents divorced in 1968, after 28 years of marriage. Bisset subsequently moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began t... Biography of Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (IPA: /ˌroʊld ˈdɑːl/) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. His most popular books include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and The BFG. Roald Dahl was born at 32 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales in 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl (from Sarpsborg, Østfold) and Sofie Magdalene Dahl née Hesselberg. Dahl's family moved from Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. Roald was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents and sisters. Dahl and his sisters were christened a... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Dave Mustaine
David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California, United States) is the lead/rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and singer for the speed/thrash metal band, Megadeth. He grew up in various Southern California suburbs. As the central figure of Megadeth and a former Metallica lead guitarist and co-songwriter, he is one of a handful of people considered to have pioneered thrash metal and speed metal. A member of Metallica: The Early Days In 1981 Dave Mustaine left his first band Panic to join Metallica as the lead guitarist. Metallica's drummer had posted an ad in a local newspaper, called The Recycler, looking for a lead guitarist. In his own words, Mustaine remembers his first meeting with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich: "I was convinced that I should be in the band and we... Biography of Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize medallion; an award generally considered to be ... Add to favourites (1 fan)Biography of Emma Hallyday
Emma Hallyday, born September 13, 1997, is the daugther of David Hallyday (son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan) and his former wife Estelle Lefébure. She has a sister, Ilona, born May 17, 1995.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 – May 20, 1896) was a German musician, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era, as well as a composer, and wife of composer Robert Schumann. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Saxony. She was the second of the five children of her father, the well-known piano pedagogue Friedrich Wieck and her mother, Marianne Tromlitz.She trained from the age of five with her father. Prior to beginning her lessons, young Clara had only uttered her first words some time between four and five years old. In fact, she described herself as understanding as little as she spoke and as having disinterest in all that was passing around her, a condition that was not "entirely cured"- as she put it- until she was eight years old. Clara Schumann's pattern ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. Early life Stella McCartney was born in London, the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, an American rock music photographer famous for her support of vegetarianism and range of vegetarian food. As a strict vegetarian herself, McCartney does not use fur, silk, lambswool or leather in her designs and supports PETA. Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her no animal policy; for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. Her father is also known for supporting PETA by protesting against designers who use animal fur, and those who wear it. She is named for her maternal great-grandmothers: both of Linda McCartne... Biography of Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse (b. September 13th 1956 on a farm in Castel-Sarrazin in southwestern France) is a famous French chef. In addition to his Louis XV restaurant in Monaco, he also operates two self-titled restaurants at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York City and the Plaza Athénée in Paris. He is currently the only chef within the Michelin Guide to hold three stars (the top ranking) in three different countries. In January 2007 he took the position as chef of the Jules Verne Restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower in Paris . History In 1972, when he was sixteen, Ducasse began an apprenticeship at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons and at the Bordeaux hotel school. After this apprenticeship, he began work at Michel Guérard’s restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains while also working for Gas... Biography of Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore, and his considerable height. Acting career Kiel made his acting debut in a 1960 Laramie episode called "Street of Hate." He also acted in an unaired TV-pilot featuring Lee Falk's superhero The Phantom, where Kiel played an assassin called "Big Mike", doing his best to kill the Phantom. Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the B-movie Eegah (1962). Eegah was later featured on the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also portrayed: a representative of a race of aliens known as the Kanamits in a fa... Biography of Emma Sjöberg
Emma Wiklund (née Sjöberg, born September 13, 1968, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish fashion model and actress. She is a 177 cm (5 ft 9½ in) tall, blue-eyed, blonde who has walked the runway for Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix and Lanvin. She was signed to Elite Model Management and can be seen in George Michael's music video for Too Funky alongside other supermodels such as Linda Evangelista. She began her acting career in 1995, and with the four Taxi movies (1998–2007), she became a popular actress in France. In her native Sweden, she is known as a TV programme hostess and a regular in the fashion world. In 2003 she married Hans Wiklund and they have two children, daughter Tyra and son Elis. She currently sits on the board for Swedish fashion retailer Lindex. She also appear... Biography of Christine Arron
Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. She arrived in Metropolitan France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise, who also coached 1997 world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana. She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships. She was named 1998 European Women's Athlete of the Year, after winning the 100m at the European Athletics Championships, breaking the European record in the process. In 2001, after a heavy training period in the USA with John Smith and the HSI group, she quit training for a year, saying she was physically exhausted from the experience. "It was hell. Every morning I wondered how I was going to put up with the burden of trai... Biography of Taryn Power
Taryn Stephanie Power is the younger daughter of the American actor Tyrone Power and his 2nd wife, the Mexican actress Linda Christian. She was born on September 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California. After her parents divorced in 1956 her mother Linda Christian took Taryn and her sister Romina Power to live all around the world but mainly in Italy and Spain where she and her sister spent most of their childhood. She has acted in 8 films, the first two in Spanish, the rest mostly English language films. Her most notable roles were in The Count of Monte Cristo, 1975 in which she starred as Valentine De Villefort with Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis, and in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, 1977, as Dione starring with Jane Seymour and Patrick Troughton. Power, whos... Biography of Goran Ivanisevic
Goran Šimun Ivanišević (born in Split, September 13, 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević's name is synonymous with his strong serve, which is one of the greatest to date. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2 (behind Pete Sampras) in 1994. Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in) Weight 81 kg (178 lb) Career Ivanišević was born in Croatia. He turned professional in 1988, and won his first career doubles title later that year in Frankfurt (with Rüdiger Haas). Ivanišević made his first significant impact on the te... Biography of Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development. Schoenberg is best known as the innovator in the 1920s of the twelve-tone technique, a compositional technique involving tone rows. He was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition. Arnold Schönberg was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Leopoldstadt district (in earlier times a Jewish ghetto) in Vienna, at... Biography of Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia (September 13, 1475? – March 12, 1507), Duke of Valentinois, and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain-General of Holy Church, was a Spanish-Italian condottiero, lord and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei, sibling to Lucrezia Borgia, Gioffre Borgia Prince of Squillace and Giovanni Borgia, duke of Gandia, and half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers. Birth Like nearly all aspects of Cesare Borgia's life, the date of his birth is a subject of dispute. However, it is accepted that he was born in Rome in 1475 or 1476 to Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borja, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vann... Biography of Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning French-American actress for It Happened One Night. Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m) She was popular leading lady in Hollywood films, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. Almost all her titles were American movies. In 1999, she was ranked 12th by the American Film Institute in their list Greatest Female Stars of All Time. Early life She was born Lily Claudette Chauchoin in Saint-Mandé near Paris to former Jeanne Loew (d. 1970) and Georges Claude Chauchoin (1867-1925), a banker and diplomat. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was three years old and settled in New York City three years later, when her father encountered financial setbacks. Colbert was made a naturalized citizen of the ... Biography of Zara Zetterqvist
Zara Zetterqvist, born September 13, 1980 in Stockholm, is a Swedish actress. Filmography Gangster (2007) .... Tanya "Hotel Seger" (2000) TV series .... Alexandra Persson (unknown episodes) Sex, lögner & videovåld (2000) (V) .... Little Sis' "Pappas flicka" .... Annelie (2 episodes, 1997) - Babywatch (1997) TV episode .... Annelie - Osynlige mannen (1997) TV episode .... Annelie Slutspel (1997) (as Zara Zetterkvist) .... Joyce ... aka Play Off "Persons parfymeri" .... Customer (1 episode, 1997) - Feministmysteriet (1997) TV episode .... Customer 9 millimeter (1997) .... Caroline ... aka 9 mm (Sweden: short title) "Tre kronor" (1994) TV series .... Sanna Sjökvist (unknown episodes, 1994-1996) "Bullen" .... Skolelev (1 episode, 1993) - Utanför (1993) TV ep... Biography of Zak Starkey
Zak Starkey (born 13 September 1965 at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London, England) is an English musician, best known as the current drummer for the British rock bands Oasis and The Who. He is also well-known as the first-born child of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr (real name: Richard Starkey) and his first wife, Maureen Cox. Zak Starkey is an accomplished drummer in his own right who has also worked with Johnny Marr, Icicle Works, the Waterboys, ASAP and the Lightning Seeds. Personal life Zak married Sarah Menikides in a secret register office wedding on 22 January 1985. Not even his parents were told of it until after the event, but shortly afterward Ringo Starr provided a small celebration party at Tittenhurst Park. On 7 September 1985, a week before his 20th birthday, hi... Biography of Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre (September 13, 1924 – March 29, 2009) was a French composer and conductor. Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. Other notable scores of his include The Message (1976), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Ghost (1990). Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Maurice-Alexis Jarre was born in Lyon, France, in 1924. He started studying music at a late age, unlike many of his fellow musicians. He first enrolled in the engineering school at the Sorbonne. However, he decided to pursue his education in music instead. He left the Sorbonn... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre-Luc Séguillon
Pierre-Luc Séguillon, born September 13, 1940 in Nancy, died October 31, 2010 in Paris (lung cancer) was a French journalist and author. Bibliography * Être socialiste aujourd'hui, éditions Cana, 1978 * L'enlèvement de l’Europe, éditions Entente, 1979 * L'optimisme librement consenti, éditions Stock * Il est encore temps de vivre, éditions Stock, 1980 * Portraits à domicile, éditions Carrère, 1987 * Décryptage, éditions Val de France, 1998 * Plaidoyer Pour Une Droite Plurielle, éditions Le Pré aux Clercs, 1999 * 2012 : La revanche, éditions Gutenberg, septembre 2009 (ISBN 9782352360636). Document-fiction où il imagine les résultats des élections présidentielles et législatives françaises de 2012.... Biography of Rianna Loving
Rianna Loving, born September 13, 1980 in Burbank California, is an American actress. Filmography "The Bold and the Beautiful" (1987) "Undressed" (1999) "The Andy Dick Show" (2001) "American Family" (2002) "All That" (1994).... Biography of Nell Carter
Nell Carter est une actrice américaine née le 13 septembre 1948 à Birmingham, Alabama (États-Unis), décédée le 23 janvier 2003 à Beverly Hills (Californie). Biographie Filmographie 1975 : Ryan's Hope (série TV) : Ethel Green (unknown episodes, 1978-1979) 1978 : Cindy (TV) : Olive (stepsister) 1979 : Hair : Ain't Got No' / 'White Boys 1979 : The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (série TV) : Sgt. Hildy Jones (unknown episodes, 1980-1981) 1981 : Back Roads : Waitress 1981 : Modern Problems : Dorita 1990 : You Take the Kids (série TV) : Nell Kirkland (unknown episodes) 1992 : Maid for Each Other (TV) : Jasmine Jones 1992 : Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (TV) : Lucille Gathers 1992 : Bébé's Kids : Vivian (voix) 1995 : Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Chi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mike Marshall (actor)
Michael "Mike" Marshall (13 September 1944, Hollywood, California – 1 June 2005, Caen, Calvados, France) was a French American actor. He was the only child of American actor-director William Marshall and French actress Michèle Morgan. He had a long, though low-key, career as a character actor in French cinema. He was the stepson of Gérard Oury and the half-brother of Tonie Marshall.He was the father of the actress and model Sarah Marshall. He had six children: Samantha, William, Deborah, Sarah, Peter and Jesse-Lee. He died in Caen, France, aged 60, of undisclosed causes; he was survived by his mother.... Biography of Fabio Cannavaro
Fabio Mamerto Cannavaro, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born September 13, 1973 in Naples) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays for La Liga club Real Madrid C.F. and the Italian national team. Cannavaro was the first defender to be named the FIFA World Player of the Year, and the first defender since Matthias Sammer in 1996 to win the European Footballer of the Year award; both of these were achieved in 2006. He was also selected in the FIFPro World XI squad twice, during 2005–06 and 2006–07. Club career Napoli Cannavaro was born in Naples to Gelsomina and Pasquale Cannavaro, his mother worked as a maid, while his father was a bank clerk; his father also played football for provincial side Giugliano. As a youngster Cannavaro played for a team from Bagnoli before being... Biography of Jessica Canoletti
Jessica Canoletti, born in Sao Paulo September 13, 1980, is a Brazilian model.... Biography of Swizz Beatz
Kasseem Dean (born September 13, 1978), better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer and rapper. He is the founder of the label Full Surface Records. Personal life In 2004, Swizz Beatz married R&B singer Mashonda. In April 2008, the couple divorced after four years of marriage. Rumors have since surfaced online suggesting Alicia Keys was involved in the break-up, but Swizz dismissed the rumors saying that that is far from the truth. Swizz Beatz is a painting collector and a painter himself on his own free time. He donates the money he earns from his paintings to the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation. In 2008 it was noted that Swizz Beatz owes the IRS $842,644.52 in back taxes. Career With his aunt Chivon Dean, and uncles Dee, and Waah Dean involve... Biography of Michael Johnson
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is a retired United States sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and was crowned world champion nine times. Johnson currently holds the world record in the 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay and formerly held the world record in the 200 m and Indoor 400 m. His 200 m time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Olympics stood as the record for over 12 years. Johnson has also run the fastest 300 m in history, which is not recognized by IAAF as a "world record" due to the 300 m being an unofficial event. He is the only athlete in history to win both the 200 m and 400 m events at the same Olympics, a feat he accomplished at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Johnson is also the only man to successfully defend his Olympic title in the 40... Biography of David Marouani
David Marouani, born September 13, 1969 in Paris, is a French singer and a former member of duo David et Jonathan between 1987 and 1989.... Biography of Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress. Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting. Bain is best known for her work in the television series Mission: Impossible as Cinnamon Carter, which role she originally acted out between 1966 and 1969, and which role she later reprised in one episode of Diagnosis: Murder. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for 'Actress in a Television Series' for her performance in Mission: Impossible, 1968. She won three... Biography of Oscar Arias Sánchez
Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez (born 13 September 1941) is the current President of Costa Rica, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims. Early life Born to an upper class family in the province of Heredia, Óscar Arias concluded his secondary schooling at the Colegio Saint Francis in the capital city of San José. He then enrolled in Boston University with the intention of studying medicine, but he soon returned to his home country and completed degrees in la... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Millar
Robert Millar (born in Glasgow, 13 September 1958) is a former Scottish professional cyclist who won the “King of the Mountains” competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall – the highest ever Tour finishing position for a British cyclist, and the first time that a Briton has won one of the major Tour classifications. He also achieved the highest ever finish by a Briton in the Giro d'Italia, finishing second in 1987 and winning the King of the Mountains classification too. He is also notable in that he was a vegetarian sportsman. He is not related to fellow Scot and cycling namesake David Millar. Early life Raised in Glasgow and at one time destined for a career as a factory engineer, Robert Millar was a leading amateur road racing rider. Riding for Glasgow Wheel... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Travis Knight
Travis Knight (born September 13, 1974, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 1996 NBA Draft. A 7'0" center from the University of Connecticut, he played under Hall of Fame head coach Jim Calhoun. While attending the University of Connecticut, Knight became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Knight played in 7 NBA seasons from 1996 to 2003. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. In his NBA career, Knight played in 371 games and scored a total of 1,276 points. He holds the NBA Playoff record for quickest disqualification, having fouled out in six minutes in Game 4 of the 1999 Western Conference semi-finals. Height 7 ft 0 in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Joel-Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American photographer. Witkin was born to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother. He has a twin brother, Jerome Witkin, who also plays a significant role in the art world for his realistic paintings. Witkin's parents divorced when Witkin was young because they were unable to transcend their religious differences. He attended grammar school at Saint Cecelia's in Brooklyn and went on to Grover Cleveland High School. He worked as war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After th... Biography of Ben Savage
Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage (born on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of late-1980s and early-1990s. Savage is best known for his role as the lead character Cory Matthews on the TV sitcom Boy Meets World for seven seasons, which catapulted him into stardom, and for being the younger brother of Fred Savage, who starred in the TV series The Wonder Years. Personal life Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Savage, who was an industrial real estate broker and consultant. His brother is actor Fred Savage and his sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, and Savage was raised in Reform Judaism. Early life Career Savage made his film de... Biography of Louise Lombard
Louise Lombard (born Louise Maria Perkins on 13 September 1970) is an English actress. She was born near Redbridge in Essex, England, the fifth child of seven siblings to a family of Irish extraction. She began taking drama lessons when she was eight. Lombard was educated in a local Roman Catholic school (Trinty Catholic High School - Woodford Green), from which she achieved nine O' Levels. Lombard studied printing and photography at St. Martin's College in London. She is best known for her role as Evangeline in the 1990s television show The House of Eliott, in which she played the younger of the two Eliott sisters. Subsequently, in 1998-99 she took a career break to study English Literature at St Edmund's College of University of Cambridge but was soon tempted back to the screen by the... Biography of Arleen Auger
Joyce Arleen Auger (or Augér) (September 13, 1939 - June 10, 1993) was an American soprano singer, admired for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Gluck, and Mozart. Auger was born in Long Beach (source: IMDB), Southern California and lived in Hartsdale, New York. She learned piano and violin as a child. She received a BA in Education from California State University at Long Beach in 1963, and her first job was as a kindergarten and first grade teacher. Between 1965 and 1967, she studied voice from with tenor Ralph Errolle in Evanston, Illinois, and began her professional singing career after winning the I. Viktor Fuchs Vocal Competition in Los Angeles in 1967, which brought her some singing engagements and airfare to Vienna; she also... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Dennis Harness
Dennis Harness, born September 13, 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American professional astrologer, author and psychologist.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Milton Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was a confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the “company town” of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Early life Hershey was born on a farm near Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the only surviving child of Henry and Fanny Hershey (Hershey’s middle name comes from his mother’s maiden name, Snavely). Due to the family’s frequent moves he dropped out of school after the fourth grade and was then apprenticed to a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, printer. The apprenticeship was soon terminated as he did not like the craft and purposely let his hat fall into the printing press. He then served a four-year apprenticeship with a Lancaster candy maker, after which he established his first candy-making business in Ph... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stefano Delle Chiaie
Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 13 September 1936 in Caserta) is a neofascist Italian activist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale and member of Ordine Nuovo) who went on to become a wanted man worldwide, involved both in Italy's strategy of tension and South America's Operation Condor. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, headmaster of P2 masonic lodge. Stefano Delle Chiaie took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "Aginter Press" founded in Salazar's Portugal in 1965. He also helped Borghese during his 1970 attempted coup in Italy, before escaping to Franquist Spain — as would Vincenzo Vinciguerra — and met with future members of the GAL death squad. He was then present at the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Argentina, and then met with DINA US agent Michael Townley in 1975 to prepare Chilean Christian D... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Allen Owens
Sergeant Robert Allen Owens (1920-1942) was a United States Marine who was killed in action during World War II. He was posthumously award his nation's highest military award — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions on his first day in combat at Bougainville. The commanding general of the 3rd Marine Division described Owens' heroism — "Among many brave acts on the beachhead of Bougainville, no other single act saved the lives of more of his comrades or served to contribute so much to the success of the landings." Early years Robert Allen Owens was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on 13 September 1920. The family later moved to Spartanburg, which young Owens claimed as his home town. After two years in high school, he went to work as a textile worker in a neighboring town. He wo... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Michel Béquié
Jean-Michel Béquié, born September 13, 1958 in La Tronche, is a French author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Henri Lachmann
Henri Lachmann, born Septembre 13, 1938 in Colmar, is a French businessman. He was CEO of Schneider Electric (Euronext: SU), a French global company (1999-2005. This company was founded in 1836 by two brothers, Eugène I and Adolphe Schneider, who took over a troubled foundry at Le Creusot. They initially started working on weapons and armaments, but in 1891 they began to exploit the new electricity market. In the first part of the 20th century, Schneider et Cie associated itself with Westinghouse Systems who were a major international electrical group at the time. The group began manufacturing electric motors and locomotives. After the Second World War, the armaments businesses were abandoned in favor of electrical engineering, and iron and steel works. The company remained in this sect... Biography of Lidia Avila
Lidia Erika Ávila Beltrán, best known as Lidia Avila, born September 13, 1979 in Puebla, Mexico, is a Mexican actress. Sheis the wife of Paulo Lauria. Filmography "Fea más bella, La" .... Cantante (1 episode, 2007) ... aka The Prettiest Ugly Girl (International: English title) - La fea más bella (2007) TV episode .... Cantante "Clap!... El lugar de tus sueños" .... Montserrat (1 episode, 2003) ... aka Clap (USA: promotional title) - Clap!... El lugar de tus sueños (2003) TV episode .... Montserrat... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Angus Grant
Angus Grant, born September 13, 1931 in Edinburgh, is a Scottish musician and fiddler.... Biography of Diane Klimaszewski
Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski (born September 13, 1971 in Leicester, Massachusetts) are American models better known as the Coors Light Twins. They are also actresses and were briefly members of World Championship Wrestling's Nitro Girls. The twins made their first television appearance as teen dancers on Star Search in 1987 followed by appearances as models on the NBC game show Let's Make a Deal in 1990. They started acting in 1991 in Problem Child 2. They have a modeling career that helped them model for Maxim magazine in 2002 and become the Coors Light Twins in 2004. In 1998, they worked together for a magic trick performed by The Masked Magician in Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. In 2000, the girls were briefly members of WCW's Nitro Girls:... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Louvier
Alain Louvier, born September 13, 1945 in Paris, is a French composer. Works Études pour agresseurs I & II pour piano Études pour agresseurs III pour clavecin Études pour agresseurs IV pour deux pianos Études pour agresseurs V pour clavecin, haut-parleur et cordes Quintette de cuivres Sonate pour deux pianos Quatre préludes pour clavier Chant des limbes Concerto pour orchestre... Biography of William Cecil
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598), was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign (17 November 1558–24 March 1603), twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Early life Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate (near Stamford, Lincolnshire), and his wife, Jane Heckington. Pedigrees, elaborated by Cecil himself with the help of William Camden the antiquary, associated him with the Cecils or Sitsyllts of Allt-Yr-Ynys, Walterstone on the border of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of King Harold and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. The connection with ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Pierre Barthes
Pierre Barthes, born September 13, 1941 in Béziers, was a French professional tennis player. He was one of the Handsome Eight and reached a career high singles ATP ranking in 1974 of World No. 54 but before the creation of the ATP ranking he was one of the best twenty players in 1971. He was U.S. Open doubles champion in 1970 partnering Nikola Pilic.... Biography of J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist and broadcaster. Early years Priestley was born in what he described as an "ultra-respectable" suburb of Bradford. His father was a headteacher whilst his mother died young. On leaving grammar school Priestley worked in the wool trade of his native city, but had ambitions to become a writer. He was to draw on memories of Bradford in many of the works he wrote after he had moved south. As an old man he deplored the destruction by developers of Victorian buildings such as the Swan Arcade in Bradford where he had his first job. Priestley served during the First World War in the 10th battalion, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. He was wounded in 1916 by mortar fire. After his military service Priest... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Madeleine Ozeray
Magdeleine Marie Catherine Elisabeth Ozeray, best known as Madeleine Ozeray, born September 13, 1908 in Bouillon, Belgium, died March 28, 1989 in Paris, was a Belgian actress. Awards Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Filmography 1931 : Clémentine dans La Dame de chez Maxim's d'Alexander Korda 1932 : Magda dans Une jeune fille et un million de Fred Ellis et Max Neufeld 1933 : Angelica dans Casanova de René Barberis 1933 : Rosalie dans Dans les rues de Victor Trivas 1933 : la reine Victoria dans La Guerre des valses de Raoul Ploquin et Ludwig Berger 1933 : Mariette dans Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine de Louis Jouvet et Roger Goupillières 1933 : Julie dans Liliom de Fritz Lang 1933 : Miette dans Un peu d'amour de Hans Steinhoff 1934 : Sonia dans Crime et C... Biography of Peter Cetera
Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career. As a solo artist Cetera has scored five top forty singles, including two that reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Early life Family Cetera (pronounced /səˈtɛrə/ sə-TERR-ə) was born and raised in the Morgan Park section of Chicago, Illinois, located on the far South Side. He was the second of six children and is of Polish descent on his father's side and Hungarian descent on his mother's side. According to one source his father worked as a "machinist", indicating he comes from a blue collar background... Biography of Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy (13 September 1889 - 17 June 1960) was a French poet associated with surrealism and cubism. Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne and grew up near the Montagne Noire in his father's house. Reverdy came from a family of sculptors. His father taught him to read and write. He studied at Toulouse and Narbonne. Reverdy arrived in Paris in October 1910. It was there, at the famous Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre that he met Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Tristan Tzara. For sixteen years, Reverdy lived for his writing. His companions were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and many others. These were the years in which surrealism took flight and Reverdy partly inspired it. In the first Surrealist Manifesto, André Bre... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Claudio Pistolesi
Claudio Pistolesi, born August 25, 1967 in Roma, is an Italien tennis player. Height: 5' 11 1/2").... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Leslie Harvey
Leslie (Les) Harvey (1945, Glasgow, Scotland - May 3, 1972, Swansea, Wales) (brother of Alex Harvey) was a guitarist in several Scottish bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Stone the Crows- previously known as 'Power'. It was while on stage with Stone the Crows at Swansea Top Rank in 1972 that he was killed, electrocuted by touching an unearthed microphone with wet hands. In the sixties Les Harvey was asked to join The Animals by Alan Price but chose to stay with his brother Alex in the Alex Harvey Soul Band. He later joined the ill-fated Blues Council, another Scottish band. The Blues Council made one record, Baby Don't Look Down then in March 1965 their tour van crashed killing vocalist Fraser Calder and bassist James Giffen and the rest of the band went their separa... Biography of Elaine Klimaszewski
Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski (born September 13, 1971 in Leicester, Massachusetts) are American models better known as the Coors Light Twins. They are also actresses and were briefly members of World Championship Wrestling's Nitro Girls. The twins made their first television appearance as teen dancers on Star Search in 1987 followed by appearances as models on the NBC game show Let's Make a Deal in 1990. They started acting in 1991 in Problem Child 2. They have a modeling career that helped them model for Maxim magazine in 2002 and become the Coors Light Twins in 2004. In 1998, they worked together for a magic trick performed by The Masked Magician in Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. In 2000, the girls were briefly members of WCW's Nitro Girls:... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Edouard Boubat
Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a well known French art photographer. He was born in Montmartre, Paris. After studying typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, he worked in a printing company but dreamed of being a photographer. After WWII he decided to go for his passion and become a photographer. He focused on the poetic aspect of life and things. He took his first photograph in 1946 in reaction to the banality and horrors of the Second World War and was successful immediately, receiving the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine Realites, but always kept a special interest in photographing his hometown, Paris. He sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. The French poet ... Biography of Louis Mandylor
Louis Mandylor (born September 13, 1966) is an Australian film and television actor. Mandylor was born Louis Theodosopoulos in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Greek immigrants Louise (née Mandylaris) and Yannis Theodosopoulos, a taxi driver. He is the brother of fellow actor Costas Mandylor. Mandylor has enjoyed success in U.S. television shows, such as a prominent guest appearance on Relic Hunter with Tia Carrere. Louis is probably most famous for his role in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Other major roles include playing Louis Malone in Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung. However, the show only lasted two series, with Mandylor being dropped at the end of its first run. Mandylor appeared in the sitcom Friends, pretending to be Joey's twin in "The One With Unagi". He a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jann Halexander
Jann Halexander (born September 13, 1982 in Libreville, Gabon) is a French singer. His mixed-race origin is credited as being the inspiration behind much of his music. Overview On September 16, 2004, Halexander released an album entitled L'Ombre Mauve. This CD was made up of three creations with only piano and voice, whose style varies between the blues and the Nouvelle Chanson Française. Halexander's lyrics on this album deal greatly with pain, death and racism. Although only a small print run with no paid promotions, L'Ombre Mauve sold out through direct sale over the internet. His mother is a writer, Anne-Cécile Frébeau (Mathilde et son pianiste). On November 3, 2004; he released a four song demo album called Brasillach 1945, with a print run of only eight copies. Once again, ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of George Ziemann
George Ziemann, born September 13, 1941 in Pasadena, California, was an American ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic Bishop. He resigned July 22, 1999 as head of the Santa Rosa Diocese, because of scandals about his behaviour and sexuality.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Aquilino Ribeiro
Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL (Portuguese pronunciation: ; Sernancelhe, Carregal, September 13, 1885 - Lisbon, May 27, 1963) was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelist of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960. Natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro and wife Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three more older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. Destinated to priesthood, Aquilino Ribeiro got involved in republican politics, opposing the Portuguese monarchy, and had to exile himself in Paris; he returned to Portugal in 1914, after the Republican Revolution of 1910. He was involved in the opposition to António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo, whose government tried to censor or ba... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Réginald Becque
Réginald Becque, born September 13, 1972 in Denain, Nord, is a French former footballer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nicolai Ghiaurov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978. The two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena up until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack. Ghiaurov was born in the small mountain town of Velingrad in southern Bulgaria. As a child, he learned to play the violin, piano and clarinet. He began his musical studies at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1949 under Prof. Hristo Brambar... Biography of Laura Cardoso
Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso Balleroni, better known by Laura Cardoso (born on September 13, 1927 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actress. Filmography 2004 - Como uma Onda 2003 - Chocolate com Pimenta 2002 - Esperança 2002 - Morte 1964 - Imitando o Sol 1964 - O Rei Pelé 1965 - Quatro Brasileiros em Paris 1969 - Corisco, O Diabo Loiro 1976 - Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente 1977 - Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência 1979 - Gaivotas 1980 - Ariella 1982 - Um Casal de Três (Shirley) 1987 - Quincas Borba 1988 - Adultério (curta) 1989 - Lua Cheia 1991 - Felicidade 1993 - Mulheres de Areia 1994 - A Viagem (Dona Guiomar) 1995 - Terra Estrangeira (Manuela) 1998 - Uma Aventura de Zico 200... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Al Keck
Al Keck, born September 13, 1954 in Seattle, Washington, is a Sports journalist and announcer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Horace Babcock
Horace Welcome Babcock (September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003) was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock. He invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of stars. He proposed the Babcock Model, a theory for the magnetism of sunspots. During World War II, he was engaged in radiation work at MIT and Caltech. After the war he began a productive collaboration with his father. Honors Awards Henry Draper Medal (1957) Eddington Medal (1958) Bruce Medal (1969) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1970) George Ellery Hale Prize of the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division (1992) Named after... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roger Désormière
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation. The recording of Debussy's opera was made in 1941, by which time he had become one of France's most celebrated artists of the podium, thanks largely to his work with the Ballets Suédois and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He was conductor of the Ballets Suédois premiere of Relâche (1924), a film and music presentation by Francis Picabia and Eric Satie, with the film segment, Entr'acte, directed by Rene Clair. He also won considerable fame as a flautist; as an enthusiastic champion of twentieth-century repertoire Olivier Messiaen, Erik Satie, Pierre Bou... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Currie Gunn
Sir John Currie Gunn CBE, FRSE (September 13, 1916 - July 26, 2002) was an influential Scottish scientist. Gunn was born in Glasgow and educated at the University of Glasgow, and St John's College, Cambridge. During the Second World War, Gunn was part of a team of scientists and engineers led by Harrie Massey based first at Teddington, and then at the Admiralty Mining Establishment attached to HMS Vernon at Portsmouth. He was involved in researching counter measures against German magnetic mines and the development of a range of British non-contact mines. Gunn was appointed to the Cargill Chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University in 1949, a post he held until retirement in 1982. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1959.... Biography of Hubert Deschamps
Hubert Deschamps, born September 13, 1923 in Paris, and died December 29, 1998 in Paris (heart attack), was a French actor and comedian. He is the uncle of Jérôme Deschamps. Filmography 1950 - 1959 * 1950 : Quai de Grenelle d'Emil Edwin Reinert * 1950 : La Rue sans loi de Marcel Gibaud : le monsieur qui vend son assiette * 1951 : Le Dictionnaire des pin-up girls - court métrage - de Marcel Gibaud * 1951 : Bertrand cœur de lion de Robert Dhéry * 1951 : Atoll K de Léo Joannon * 1952 : Les Bonnes Manières - court métrage - de Yves Robert * 1953 : Les Amours finissent à l'aube d'Henri Calef * 1953 : Venise - court métrage - de Pierre Kast * 1953 : A nous deux Paris - court métrage - de Pierre Kast * 1954 : Fraternité (TV) de René Lucot... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse Lasky Jr.. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business. His sister Blanche married Samuel Goldwyn and in 1913 Lasky and Goldwyn teamed up with Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. With limited funds, they rented a barn near Los Angeles where they made Hollywood's first feature film, DeMille's The Squaw Man. Known today as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, it is now home to the Hollywood Heritage Museum. In 1916 their company merged... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, and Amos Oz, among others. Early life Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, the third of seven children of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson. After Erwin's business failed, the family was forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio, in 1884. Partly as a result of these misfortunes, young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family, which earned him the nickname "Jobby." He left school at age 14. Anderson moved to Chicago near his brother Karl's home and worked as a manual laborer until nea... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Roger Arnaldez
Roger Arnaldez, born September 13, 1911 in Paris and died April 7, 2006, was a French writer, historian and editor, a Islam specialist. Works * Grammaire et théologie chez Ibn Hazm de Cordoue (Vrin, 1956) * Jésus, fils de Marie, prophète de l'Islam (Desclée de Brouwer, 1980) * Trois messages pour un seul Dieu (Albin Michel, 1991) * À la croisée des trois monothéismes (Albin Michel, 1993)... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Emma Liebel
Emma Liebel, born September 13, 1873 in Paris and died in January 1928, was a French singer.... Biography of Jean Smart
Jean E. Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24. Smart most recently appeared as Regina Newly on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? from 2007 to 2009, another comedic role which garnered the actress an Emmy Award in 2008. Life and career Early life Smart was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Kay and Douglas Smart, a teacher. The second of four children, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was thirteen. She is a 1969 graduate of Ballard High School, located in Seattle. It is there that she gain... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lynn Harris
Lynn Harris, born September 13, 1950 in Orange, California, is an American hermaphrodite. He was born with both a penis and a vagina. He has been the subject of various articles in USA.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Claude Hertzog
Jean-Claude Hertzog, born September 13, 1935 in Bordeaux and died November 24, 2005 in Bordeaux; was a French Catholic Bishop, the auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (2002 - his death).... Biography of Eileen Fulton
Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty on September 13, 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American actress. Among other roles (including the Broadway productions of The Fantasticks and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), she is most famous for her role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, a role she has played almost continually (with two notable interruptions) since May 18, 1960. The character of Lisa has a storied history, having been married eight times, divorced three times and widowed four times (with her most recent marriage annulled) making her full name Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn. Fulton's portrayal of Lisa created the strongest prototype of its time for the daytime vixen; the character and a... Biography of Dick Haymes
Dick Haymes (September 13, 1916 – March 28, 1980) was an actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. Biography He was born Richard Benjamin Haymes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His Irish-born mother, Marguerite Haymes (1894-1987), was a well-known vocal coach and instructor. He became the vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood on radio and in many films throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He never became a United States citizen and avoided military service during World War II by asserting his non-belligerent status as a citizen of Argentina, which was neutral. In 1955, this act of his nearly caused his deportation to Argentina on an unrelated technicality in immigration law. During World War II, he was briefly detained at Ellis Island. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Scott Brady
Scott Brady (September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985) was an American film actor. Born Gerard Kenneth Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, he was the younger brother to a fellow actor, Lawrence Tierney, Brady began his film career after taking drama classes after World War II (where he was a Navy boxing champ). The actor specialized in tough-guy roles in films like He Walked by Night and Johnny Guitar. He appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, Police Story. He played lead to Clint Eastwood's third billing in Ambush at Cimarron Pass which Eastwood is quoted as saying was "probably the lousiest western ever made." His last film role was in the 1984 movie Gremlins. He is often confused with his brother, Tierney, whom he resembles. Brady was a lumberjack early in life before taking up acting. H... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born September 13, 1941 in Afyonkarahisar) was the tenth President of the Republic of Turkey. The Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) elected Sezer in 2000 after Süleyman Demirel's seven year term expired. He is succeeded by Abdullah Gül (2008-Current). Early life After finishing Afyonkarahisar High School in 1958, he graduated from the Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1962 and began his career as a judge in Ankara. Following his military service at the Military Academy, he served first as a judge in Dicle and Yerköy, and later he became a supervisory judge in the High Court of Appeals in Ankara. In 1978 he received LL.M. in civil law from the Faculty of Law in Ankara University. Chief Justice On 7 March 1983, Sezer was elec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Judy Blumberg
Judith Ann Blumberg (born 13 September 1957 in Santa Monica, California ) is a former American ice dancer. She and Michael Seibert won the 1981-1985 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and the 1983-1985 World bronze medalist. They placed 7th at the 1980 Winter Olympics and 4th at the 1984 Olympics. They are the 1988 World Professional Champions. After she retired, Blumberg did commentary for CBS Sports, and was a motivational speaker. Blumberg is currently the Ensemble Director for the Ice Theatre of New York. Blumberg was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996. Blumberg is an ISU Technical Specialist. Competitive highlights (with Seibert) 1979 U.S. Championships - 3rd 1980 U.S. Championships - 2nd Olympics - 7th World Championships - 6th ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Cadell
Jean Cadell (13 September 1884 – 24 September 1967) was a Scottish character actress. Born in Edinburgh, she performed in the cinema and on the stage. One of her best known cinema roles was in the Ealing Studios comedy Whisky Galore! (1948). She once performed opposite W.C. Fields in Hollywood, cast as Mrs. Micawber to his Wilkins Micawber in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1935 production of David Copperfield. Although Cadell remains in the released version of the film, her biggest scene (when the Micawber family prepare to emigrate) was deleted from the release prints. Her brother was the artist Francis Cadell one of the Scottish Colourists. She married the actor Percival Clarke. Her grandson Simon Cadell and her granddaughter Selina Cadell also became actors. She died in London on 24 Septem... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac (September 13, 1922 – November 1, 2008) was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music and became an international success, based on the merits of her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak. Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo Later best known as Yma Sumac, Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo was born on September 13, 1922 in Callao and raised in Ichocán, Cajamarca, Peru. Other dates mentioned in her various biographies range from 1921 to 1929. Some sources claim that she was not born in Ichocán, but in a nearby village or possibly, in Lima, and that her family owned a ranch in Ichocán where she spent most o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Noël Godin
Noël Godin (born September 13, 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ‘entarteur’. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with cream pies (an invention he made with his long-time friend Jean-Pierre Bouyxou). After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work is done here." Ideals Godin claims his goal has long been to ‘entarte’ as many people like Gates as possible - people he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin told the New York Times he chooses “to function in the service of the capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination.” He says his sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Smith
John Smith (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament for Monklands East from 1970 and the Leader of the Opposition from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack in May 1994. Early life John Smith was born in Dalmally, the son of a Headmaster, and grew up in Ardrishaig in Argyll and Bute. He joined the Labour Party in 1956. He attended Dunoon Grammar School (Dunoon, Cowal), lodging in the town with a landlady and going home only during the holidays, before enrolling at the University of Glasgow, where he studied History from the Autumn of 1956 to 1959, and then Law, from 1959 to 1962. He became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union and, in 1962, won... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. He is often referred to as The Father of Bluegrass. Early life Monroe was born on his family's farm near Rosine, Kentucky, the youngest of eight children of James Buchanan "Buck" and Malissa (Vandiver) Monroe. His mother and her brother, Pendleton "Pen" Vandiver, were both musically talented, and Monroe and his family grew up playing and singing at home. Bill was of Scottish heritage. Because his older brothers Birch and Charlie already played the fiddl... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Christine Estabrook
Christine Estabrook (born September 13, 1952) is an American television and film actress. She has been featured in several motion pictures mostly in supporting roles. Her more recent films include Grind, Spider-Man 2 and Catch That Kid. She has also guest starred in several episodes of the popular ABC television series, Desperate Housewives playing Martha Huber, the widowed, nosy neighbor of the street. Other appearances include a 2002 episode of the HBO original series, Six Feet Under where she played Emily Previn, a woman who died alone without any family or friends. The episode sparked much discussion in the following days about the character's death. Estabrook has also guest starred on 7th Heaven, Dharma and Greg, The Guardian, Veronica Mars and NYPD Blue. Christine attended the ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Auriol Lee
Auriol Lee, born September 13, 1880 in London and died July 2, 1941 in Hutchinson, Kansas (road accident), was a British actress. She is the aunt of actress Virginia Field. Filmography # Suspicion (1941) .... Isobel Sedbusk # A Royal Divorce (1938) .... Napoleon's Mother... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Deschamps
Charles Dechamps, born Émile Charles François Dechamps September 13, 1882 in Paris and died September 25, 1959 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography * 1909 : Mariage à l'espagnole de Michel Carré * 1910 : Au temps des grisettes de Georges Denola * 1911 : L'Anniversaire de Mademoiselle Félicité de Georges Denola * 1911 : Clémence d'Isabeau, la princesse d'Héristal de Georges Denola * 1911 : Frisette, blanchisseuse de fin / La note de la blanchisseuse de Georges Denola * 1911 : Mimi Pinson de Georges Denola * 1911 : Galathée de Georges Denola * 1911 : Moderne Galathée de Daniel Riche * 1911 : L'Homme de peine de Michel Carré * 1911 : Deux Filles d'Espagne de Maurice Denécheau * 1912 : Nini l'assommeur de Maurice B... Biography of Yoji Yamada
Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次 Yamada Yōji?, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the age of 2 he was brought up in Manchuria. Following the end of World War II, he came back to Japan and subsequently he lived in Yamagata Prefecture. After receiving his degree from Tokyo University in 1954, he entered Shochiku and worked under Yoshitaro Nomura as a scriptwriter or as an assistant director. He has won many awards throughout his lengthy career and is well respect... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Cholly Atkins
Charles “Cholly” Atkins (13 September 1913 – 19 April 2003) was an American dancer and vaudeville performer, who later became noted as the house choreographer for the various artists on the Motown label. Born Charles Sylvan Atkinson, a native of Pratt City, Alabama, Atkins first found fame as one-half of a top vaudeville tap dancing act with partner Charles "Honi" Coles. After working as a freelance choreographer for The Miracles, Atkins was hired by Berry Gordy to work as a Motown choreographer in 1964, and set about developing the routines that would later become the trademark moves of other Motown acts like The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips and others. Atkins would, in fact, continue working with Motown artists well into the 1980s. He choreograph... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Denny Neagle
Dennis Edward Neagle Jr. (play /ˈneɪɡəl/; born September 13, 1968 in Gambrills, Maryland) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was last under contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the 2005 season, but he did not play due to injury. During the 1990s, he was one of the top pitchers in baseball, but his career, and personal life, deteriorated in the early 2000s. Career Arundel Senior High School Neagle attended Arundel Senior High School and played on the baseball team. University of Minnesota Neagle attended the University of Minnesota and played on the baseball team. Minnesota Twins Neagle was drafted in the 3rd round of the 1989 amateur draft by the Minnesota Twins. He saw some action in the summer of 1991 for the Twins, but was not on... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Reta Shaw
Reta Shaw (September 13, 1912 – January 8, 1982) was an American character actress known for playing authoritative women, housekeepers, and domineering wives, especially on television. She was a graduate of the Leland Powers School of the Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. Career The zaftig actress appeared on Broadway in her comic role as Mabel in the original production of The Pajama Game in 1952, as well as in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Picnic and Annie Get Your Gun, the last on tour with Mary Martin. She had featured roles in several motion pictures, including Picnic, The Pajama Game, Mary Poppins, Pollyanna, The Ghost And Mr. Chicken, Bachelor in Paradise (with Bob Hope) & Escape to Witch Mountain. On television, she was seen with Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Patty Duk... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of José Théodore
José Théodore (French pronunciation approximated as /ˈteɪ.ədɔr/ tay-ə-dor, English /ˈθiː.ədɔər/ thee-ə-dohr; born September 13, 1976) is a French Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Théodore played major junior in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), where he won a President's Cup as QMJHL champions and competed in the Memorial Cup with the Hull Olympiques in 1995. He won both the Ford Cup as the top defensive player and Guy Lafleur Trophy as playoff MVP in 1995 and is a two-time QMJHL Second Team All-Star. Drafted 44th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in 1994, Théodore played eight seasons in Montreal, where he won the Vezina and Ha... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean Bergès
Jean Bergès, born on September 13, 1928 in Toulouse, died on June 8, 2004, was a French psychiatrist and author.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Louis Duchesne
Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions. Descended from a family of Breton sailors, he was born in 1843 in Saint-Servan, Roulais place, now part of Saint-Malo on the Breton coast, and was orphaned at a young age, in 1849, after the death of his father Jacques Duchesne. Marc Tanguy, a relative, was one of the survivors of 74-gun ship Redoutable at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Louis' brother Jean-Baptiste Duchesne settled in Oregon, and arrived at Oregon City in 1849. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1867. Louis Duchesne taught for many years in Saint-Brieuc, then went to study in Paris, where he influenced the reformist Alfred ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Clyde Kusatsu
Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is a U.S. actor. Kusatsu was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended ʻIolani School. Kusatsu began acting in Honolulu summer stock, and after studying theatre at Northwestern University, started to make his mark on the small screen in the mid-1970s. Usually mustachioed, with a dapper, professional air, he has most often played doctors, but his repertoire has included a generous sampling of teachers (usually college professors), businessmen, detectives, church ministers and other intelligent, middle-class types. With his quiet, wry line delivery, Kusatsu made a memorably clever and hilarious sparring partner for Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) on several episodes of All in the Family as the Reverend Chong, refusing to baptize A... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mark Wiebe
Mark Charles Wiebe (born September 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Champions Tour. He has also played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour. Wiebe was born in Seaside, Oregon and grew up in Escondido, California. He attended Palomar College from 1976–77, then San Jose State University from 1978–79, and was a member of the golf team at both institutions. While a student at Palomar, he was the individual medalist at the 1977 California Amateur Championship; and he holds the Palomar school record for low round at 6-under-par (66). He turned pro in 1980 and joined the PGA Tour in 1983. Wiebe has about four dozen top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events including two wins. His first win came in 1985 at the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic when he beat John Mahaf... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Natália Correia
Natália de Oliveira Correia, GOSE, GOL (September 13, 1923 in Fajã de Baixo (Ponta Delgada), São Miguel, Azores – March 16, 1993 in Lisbon) was an intellectual, poet and social activist, as well as author of the official lyrics of the Hino dos Açores, the regional anthem of Autonomous Region of the Azores. Her work crossed various genres of Portuguese media, and collaborated with many Portuguese and international publications. A member of the Portuguese National Assembly (1980–1991), she regularly intervened politically on the side of arts and culture, in the defense of human rights and rights of women. Along with José Saramago, Armindo Magalhães, Manuel da Fonseca and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, she helped to creat the FNDC, Frente Nacional para a Defesa da Cultura (the National Front for t... Biography of Don Bluth
Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth (born September 13, 1937) is an American animator and independent studio owner. He is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated films such as The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986),The Land Before Time (1988), and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), as well as his involvement in the laserdisc game Dragon's Lair. He is also often credited for providing competition to Disney, and forcing them to improve from their streak of lackluster film efforts to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance. Early life and the Disney years Bluth was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Emaline (née Pratt) and Virgil Ronceal Bluth. His great-grandfather was Latter Day Saint leader Helaman Pratt, and ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Randy Jones (singer)
Randy Jones (born on 13 September 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States) is an American disco and pop singer and was the original cowboy from Village People. As of 2006, he currently lives in New York City. He attended Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated in 1970. While there, he was a founder of Enloe's Drama Club, which was then called "Amicus Scaena"; Latin for "friend of scene" or "friend of theatre". Jones had a marriage ceremony with his partner of 20 years, Will Grega, at a New York club on May 7, 2004. Although the marriage is not legally binding, as gay marriage was still illegal in New York state, Jones commented that: "It's only a matter of time before the courts rule in favor of what's morally right and humanly decent." The pair published... Biography of Patricia Spehar
Patricia Spehar, born September 13, 1975, was Miss France 1997 and Miss Paris 1996. She is of Croatian descent by her mother.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Laurent Pourcel
Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, born on September 13, 1964, are French twins and chef. They have three stars in the Michelin Guide, for the restaurant Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. Bibliography Cuisine en duo, Hachette Pratique, Paris, 2001. Les Calamars grillés à la plancha, Gérard Guy, coll. « La cuisine des poètes », 2001. Destinations cuisines, Hachette Pratique, Paris, 2003. Mon jardin gourmand, Romain Pages Éditions, Sommières, 2004. L'Asie des frères Pourcel, Agnès Viénot éditions, Paris, 2005. Tapas & petites bouchées, éditions de Lodi, Paris, 2006. In'Sensé - Recettes cocktails & snacking, Solar, 2007. Transparences en duo, Solar, 2008. À table ! par Jean Follain, Fata Morgana, St-Clément-de-Rivière, 2009. Une plume, deux toqu... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932. Early life Arthur Henderson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1863, the son of a textile worker who died when Arthur was only 10 years old. After his father's death, the Hendersons moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. Henderson worked in a locomotive factory from the age of 12. After finishing his apprenticeship at seventeen, Arthur Henderson moved to Southampton for a year and then returned to work as an iron moulder (a type of foundryman) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He converted to Methodism (having previously bee... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Brian Evans (basketball)
Brian Keith Evans (born September 13, 1973, in Rockford, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player who has formerly played in the NBA. A 6'8" and 220 lb forward, he played high school basketball at Terre Haute South, Indiana; Evans attended Indiana University from 1991–96, and played for the Hoosiers from 1992–96. Evans was named Big Ten MVP in 1996. He was selected with the 27th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic. He has played professionally in Italy for Lineltex Imola (1999-2000), Montepaschi Siena (2000-2001) and Viola Reggio Calabria (2001-2002).... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Frank Marshall (film producer)
Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy. With Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. He is a partner with Kennedy in The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company formed in 1991, which signed a new contract with DreamWorks Studios, effective January 1, 2012. Marshall has consistently collaborated with directors Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich and M. Night Shyamalan. Life and career Marshall was born in Glendale, California, the son of composer Jack Marshall. His early years were spent in Van Nuys, California. In 1961, his family moved to Newport Beach, where he attended Newport Harbor High School. Marshall was active ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jim Cleamons
James Mitchell "Jim" Cleamons (born September 13, 1949 in Lincolnton, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player and current coach. He played collegiately at The Ohio State University, and was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th pick of the 1971 NBA Draft. He had a nine-year NBA career for four different teams (the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks, and the Washington Bullets). In 1976, Cleamons was selected to the NBA All-Defense 2nd team. In addition to his playing career, Cleamons was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for slightly over one year, from 1996 to 1997. He was then the head coach of the Chicago Condors, and he has served as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and New Orlean... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Larry Shields
Lawrence James "Larry" Shields (September 13, 1893 - November 21, 1953) was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. Shields was born into an Irish-American family in Uptown New Orleans, on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived. Shields' family were musical; his brothers Harry, Pat (guitar), and Eddie (piano) all played music professionally. Shields started playing clarinet when he was 14 and played with Papa Jack Laine's bands. He was one of the early New Orleans musicians to go to Chicago, first heading north in the summer of 1915 to join Bert Kelly's band, then with Tom Brown's band, before joining the Original Dixieland Jass Band in November 1916. The following year that band made the first jazz phonograph records, propelling Shield's playing to national promi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jacques Pourcel
Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, born on September 13, 1964 in Agde, Hérault, twin brothers, are French chef. They are the founders of French restaurent Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. Bibliography Cuisine en duo, Hachette Pratique, Paris, 2001. Les Calamars grillés à la plancha, Gérard Guy, coll. « La cuisine des poètes », 2001. Destinations cuisines, Hachette Pratique, Paris, 2003. Mon jardin gourmand, Romain Pages Éditions, Sommières, 2004. L'Asie des frères Pourcel, Agnès Viénot éditions, Paris, 2005. Tapas & petites bouchées, éditions de Lodi, Paris, 2006. In'Sensé - Recettes cocktails & snacking, Solar, 2007. Transparences en duo, Solar, 2008. À table ! par Jean Follain, Fata Morgana, St-Clément-de-Rivière, 2009. Une plume, deux toq... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marjorie Jackson
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 13 September 1931) is the former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete. She finished her sporting career with 2 Olympic and 7 Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, 10 world records and every Australian State and National title she contested from 1950-1954. Biography Marjorie Jackson was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and first gained fame when she defeated reigning Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Fanny Blankers-Koen a number of times in 1949, thus earning the nickname "the Lithgow Flash", after the New South Wales town of Lithgow where she lived and had grown up. Having won four titles at the 1950 British Empire Games, Jackson came as a favourite to the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics. She won both the 100 m, i... Biography of Annie Duke
Annie Duke (born Anne LaBarr Lederer; September 13, 1965) is a professional poker player and author who won a bracelet in the 2004 World Series of Poker $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event and was the winner of the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, where she earned the Winner-Take-All prize of $2,000,000. In 2010 she won the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, earning a cash prize of $500,000 in addition to the title. ersonal life Duke was born Anne LaBarr Lederer in Concord, New Hampshire, the daughter of Rhoda S. (née Spagenberg) and Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St. Paul's School. Her brother, Howard Lederer, is also a professional poker player. Her sister, Katy Lederer, is an author and poet who wrote a book about the Lederer fam... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nabil Abou-Harb
Nabil Zouheir Abou-Harb ((Arabic) نبيل أبو حرب; born September 13, 1984) is an Arab American of Palestinian roots filmmaker, writer, producer, and director. He is also co-founder of "Five on Fifty Films" and has directed and produced a number of commercials. Background Abou-Harb was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Zouheir Abou-Harb and Sally Cardinali Abou-Harb in 1984. Nabil was raised as a Muslim in Loganville, Georgia. He graduated from Loganville High School in 2003. As a senior at Loganville High School, Abou-Harb wrote and directed the film Starwars: Rise of the Black Sun.. After earning his CCNA, he co-founded a web design company with Nicholas Bowman, called, Decaphase Productions, Inc.. Although there was interest ... Biography of Teppei Teranishi
Teppei Teranishi (born September 13, 1980 in Irvine, California) is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the post-hardcore band Thrice from Orange County, California. He favors Gibson Les Paul guitars and Fender Telecasters among others. He is also in a side project called Black Unicorn with his friend Chris Jones. At a young age, he began to learn classical guitar. He listened to many heavy metal bands such as Pantera and Megadeth. Eventually, he moved onto the punk scene. Teppei is also a Beatles fanatic. Teppei is also a fan of classic 50's, 60's, and early 70's acts. Teranishi has recently been taking on production work, producing Thrice's The Alchemy Index, Dustin Kensrue's Please Come Home, and mixing The Out Circuit album Pierce The Empire With A Sound. Equipment Guitars ... Biography of Cristiana Capotondi
Cristiana Capotondi (born 13 September 1980) is an Italian actress. Biography Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of Jewish descent. She graduated from the Università La Sapienza in Rome with a degree in communication sciences. Capotondi first gained popularity in a commercial ad for the "Maxibon Motta" ice cream. Her acting career began at the age of thirteen in the Italian series Amico mio, aired by RAI. Capotondi debuted in cinema in 1995 with the comedy Vacanze di Natale '95. Between 1993 and 2006 she worked mostly in television, starring in 2004-2006 in the series Orgoglio (TV series), aired on Rai Uno. She gained additional exposure in the film Notte prima degli esami (2006), in which she starred as a main character alongside Nicolas Vaporidis. In 2009 Capoton... Biography of Maria Perrusi
Maria Perrusi (born 13 September 1991 in Cosenza) is an Italian beauty queen. She is noted for winning Miss Italia 2009. Maria is 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) tall and is the daughter of a stay at home mother and factory working father. She has 2 older brothers. Before winning Miss Italia, she wanted to become a model. Her hobbies incude volleyball, swimming and dance. She has also stated that she is an excellent cook. Maria Perrusi in primo piano.jpg After winning Miss Italia 2009, she was featured in various runway shows, and co-hosted L'anno che verrà. She was also featured in Ballando con le Stelle, hosted by Milly Carlucci in March 2010 as a "Ballerina per una notte"... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nenê
Nenê (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born on September 13, 1982 in São Carlos, Brazil) is a Brazilian professional basketball player who plays for the NBA's Denver Nuggets. His name at birth was Maybyner Rodney Hilário, but it was legally changed to Nenê in 2003. Nenê is a member of the Brazil national basketball team. Early life He received his nickname Nenê (Brazilian Portuguese for baby) because he was the youngest in both his family and his group of childhood friends. Like most Brazilian children, he started out playing soccer, and played well enough to receive some interest from professional clubs. Professional career He first came to international attention at the 2001 Goodwill Games as a member of the Brazilian national team. He also played in the Brazilian club Vasco da G... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Albert Delpy
Albert Delpy, born September 13, 1941, is a French actor and screenwriter. He is the husband of comedian Marie Pillet and the father of actress and director Julie Delpy. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217817/ ) # Mammuth (2010) .... Le cousin # La guerre des miss (2008) .... Le père du maire de Super Charmoussey ... aka "Beauties at War" - USA ... aka "The War of the Misses" - International (English title) # Les atomes ne meurent jamais (2008) # "Chez Maupassant" .... Le maire (1 episode, 2008) - Aux champs (2008) TV episode .... Le maire # 2 Days in Paris (2007) .... Jeannot - Marion's Father # Lili et le baobab (2006) .... Le maire # À la recherche de Kafka (2006) ... aka "Looking for Kafka" - International (English title) # Jeanne à petits pas (2006... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Koldo Fernandez
Koldo Fernández de Larrea (born September 13, 1981 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Euskaltel-Euskadi. He turned professional in 2004. Major achievements 2007 - Euskaltel-Euskadi * 1st, Stage 7, Tirreno–Adriatico 2008 - Euskaltel Euskadi * 1st, Stage 5, Vuelta a Murcia o 1st Points Competition * 1st, Stage 5, Vuelta a Castilla y León * 1st, Stage 2, Euskal Bizikleta * 1st, Stage 3, Vuelta a Burgos * 1st, Tour de Vendée 2009 - Euskaltel-Euskadi * 1st, Stage 2, Volta ao Algarve * Circuito de Getxo * 1st, Stage 1, Vuelta a Burgos... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ed Roberts
Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who designed the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975. He is most often known as the "the father of the personal computer". He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but the first successful product was an electronic calculator kit that was featured on the cover of the November 1971 issue of Popular Electronics. The calculators were very successful and sales topped one million dollars in 1973. A brutal calculator price war left the company deeply in debt by 1974. Roberts then developed the Altair 8800 personal computer that used the new Intel 8080 microprocessor. Th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Matton
Charles Matton, born September 13, 1931 in Paris and died November 19, 2008, was a French artist, sculptor, author, screenwriter, film director and painter. Selected bibliography * Être artiste aujourd'hui (2002, éditions du Tricorne) * États de lieux (2007, catalogue d'exposition) Filmography * 1967 : La Pomme ou l’histoire d’une histoire (court-métrage, scénario et réalisation) * 1968 : Mai 68 ou les violences policières (court-métrage, scénario et réalisation) * 1972 : L’Italien des roses (scénario et réalisation) * 1976 : Spermula (scénario et réalisation) * 1988 : Douanes (documentaire, co-réalisé avec Sylvie Matton) * 1994 : La Lumière des étoiles mortes (scénario et réalisation) * 1999 : Rembrandt (co-scénario avec Sylvie Mat... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Garry Lyon
Garry Peter Lyon (born 13 September 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is now a media personality, featuring on television, radio and in newspapers mainly in association with football. Football career Lyon, the son of former Hawthorn player Peter, was born in Devonport and attended Melbourne High School. He was recruited from Kyabram and debuted in 1986 with the Melbourne Football Club, playing in a Grand Final in 1988. He quickly became a dominant player in the AFL, winning his first Melbourne Football Club Best and Fairest Award in 1990. He became Melbourne's captain in 1991, and eventually became the longest-serving Melbourne captain in club history until he was released from the role a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He co-wrote the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" (also known as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") with Bob Wells. Early years Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents, whose surname had been Torma. However, the name was changed at Ellis Island to "Torme." A child prodigy, he first sang professionally at age 4 with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant. Between 1933 and 1941, he acted in the network radio seria... Biography of Tsvetana Pironkova
Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgarian: Цветана Кирилова Пиронкова) (born 13 September 1987) is a Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. She achieved her career high of world no. 31 on 13 September 2010. She is best known for defeating Venus Williams three times at Grand Slam tournaments. She is currently the Bulgarian No. 1, and has won six ITF titles in her career. She has been recognized as one of the most beautiful women in sports by MSN. Early life and Junior career Pironkova was born in 1987 to Kiril Enchev Pironkov, a former canoeing champion and Radosv... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Vinny Appice
Vincent Appice (born September 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York), also known as Vinny Appice is a rock drummer of American Italian descent and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice. He is best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell. Career Appice took up the drums at the age of nine, taking lessons from the same teacher as his brother Carmine. When he was sixteen, Appice and his band BOMF met John Lennon at Record Plant Studios, leading to him appearing on several Lennon recordings. He moved on to record with Rick Derringer on Derringer (1976), Sweet Evil (1977), and Derringer Live (1977), before forming his own band Axis and recording It's A Circus World (1978). Appice joined Black Sabbath in 1980 during the Heaven and Hell tour and appeared... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Stephen Perkins
Stephen Andrew Perkins (September 13, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussionist, he currently plays with Jane's Addiction and Hellflower. Following the dissolution of Jane's Addiction, Perkins continued to play with frontman Perry Farrell in the rock band Porno for Pyros. He also has a solo project called Banyan, and in the 1990s was involved in Lil' Pit with Mike Watt. In 1992, he appeared as percussionist on Rage Against the Machine's self-titled first album and in 1995, contributed percussion to the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "One Big Mob" on their album One Hot Minute (Fellow Jane's Addiction member Dave Navarro was the guitarist for the Chili Peppers during the making of that album.) Perkins also played drums on the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward... Biography of Kamui Kobayashi
Kamui Kobayashi (小林 可夢偉 Kobayashi Kamui?, born September 13, 1986 in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of 2009 when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix. He has driven for Sauber since the 2010 season. He was named after Kamuy, divine being in Ainu mythology, and the letter of the name imitated the sound citing three Kanjis from the sentence "Enabling great dream(s)".... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana (born September 13, 1928) is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. Life and work Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. His family relocated to Indianapolis, where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949–53), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (summer 1953) and Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (1953–4), before settling in New York in 1954. There he began making art with distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems". Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, a... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Bernie Williams (musician)
Bernabé Williams-Figueroa (born September 13, 1968) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and Puerto Rican musician. Biography Growing up, Williams played classical guitar as well as baseball. He was also active in track and field, winning medals at an international meet at the age of 15. He was one of the world's best 400-meter runners for his age. On his 17th birthday, September 13, 1985, he signed a professional contract with the New York Yankees organization. Playing for the Yankees' AA team in Albany, he continued to develop his athletic skills — particularly in the coveted area of switch hitting. Although viewed as a great prospect by Yankee management, his rise to the Majors was delayed by the solid outfield that the team had developed in the early 1990s. Never... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Charles Brown (musician)
Charles Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999), born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s. He had several hit recordings, including "Driftin' Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby". In the late 1940s a rising demand for blues was driven by an increasing white teenage audience in the South which quickly spread north and west. Blues shouters got the attention, but also greatly influential was what writer Charles Keil dubbs "the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues" led by stylists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Charles Brown. Their singing was lighter, more relaxed and they worked with bands and combos that had saxophone sections ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Luigi Bertolini
Luigi Bertolini (September 13, 1904 – February 11, 1977) was an Italian football (soccer) midfielder. Biography Born in Busalla, province of Genoa, he played in the 1920s for Savona, Alessandria and Juventus. He played 135 matches for Juventus, scoring five goals, helping the team to win four Serie A tournaments. For the Italy national football team he made his debut in 1929, and won the 1934 FIFA World Cup. With Luisito Monti and Attilio Ferraris, Luigi Bertolini made up the legendary Italian midfield established at the 1934 World Cup. In that tournament he started every game and was only rested by Pozzo in the first quarterfinal encounter against Spain. Bertolini is very recognizable in the photos of the 1934 Italian team by virtue of his big white bandana which he used to protec... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of John Leland (antiquary)
John Leland, also Leyland (13 September, 1506 – 18 April 1552), was an English poet and antiquary. He has been described as 'the father of English local history'; his Itinerary introduced the shire as the basic unit for studying the history of England—an idea that has been influential ever since. Early life and education Most evidence for his life and career comes from his own writings, especially his poetry. He was born in London on 13 September, probably 1506 or before, and had an older brother, also named John. Having lost both his parents at an early age, he and his brother were raised by Thomas Myles. Leland was educated at St Paul's School, London, under its first headmaster, William Lily. It was here that he already met some of his future benefactors, notably William Paget.... Biography of Dolly Martin
Dolly Martin (born Dolly Reed on 13 September 1944 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England) is an English pinup model and actress. She is best remembered for her appearance in Playboy magazine and as the lead character in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. She is sometimes credited as Margaret Read, Dolly Read Martin or Dolly Martin. Biography Career Read's first onscreen appearance was in the 1963 film The Kiss of the Vampire, followed by a role in the British TV series Dixon of Dock Green later that year. In May 1966, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month. She posed for the magazine again in 1970. She also worked as a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, London and New York. After appearing in the low-budget erotic film That Tender Touch in 1969, she landed the lea... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Curtis Perry
Curtis R. Perry (born September 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American basketball player. He attended Southwest Missouri State University and played at forward. Perry was selected by the San Diego Rockets in the third round of the 1970 NBA Draft and by the Virginia Squires in the 1970 ABA Draft. Perry played for the NBA's San Diego Rockets/Houston Rockets (1970–71), Milwaukee Bucks (1971–74) and Phoenix Suns (1974–78). He helped the Bucks win the 1971-72 and 1972-73 NBA Midwest Division and 1973-74 NBA Western Conference and the Suns win the 1975-76 NBA Western Conference. He currently ranks 96th on the NBA All-Time Rebounds Per Game List (8.8). In 8 seasons he played in 480 games and had 13,656 Minutes Played, a .455 Field Goal Percentage (1,904 for 4,188), .69... Biography of Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant (born September 13, 1953) is an American inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She can currently be seen on television as the host of Iyanla, Fix My Life and as a frequently featured guest teacher of Oprah's Lifeclass on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. She attended Medgar Evers College and Virginia Union University. Vanzant was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 13, 1953, as Ronda Eva Harris. She currently resides in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. She is also a Yoruba priestess and an ordained New Thought minister. In the year 2000, she was named one of the "100 most influential Black Americans" b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alma Kruger
Alma Kruger (September 13, 1871 (sometimes 1868) – April 5, 1960) was an American actress. Career Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kruger had a long career on stage before appearing in films. From 1907 to 1935, she featured in theatre plays on Broadway, mostly in Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet (as Gertrude), Twelfth Night (as Olivia), Taming of the Shrew (Widow), and The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa). She appeared in her first film while in her sixties, These Three (1936). She then proceeded to act in over forty films in the space of little more than a decade. Among her notable roles was Nurse Molly Byrd, the superintendent of nurses in the popular Dr. Kildare/Dr. Gillespie film series, appearing in all but the first two of the sixteen movies. She portrayed Empress Maria Th... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Steve Kilbey
Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. Music career Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a five piece "cabaret band" called 'Saga' in Canberra, Australia. He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grande, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. The Church Kilbey formed The Church, along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper, in the late 1970s. After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when "Under the... Biography of Gladys George
Gladys George (September 13, 1900 (source: Imdb) – December 8, 1954) was an American actress. Early life She was born as Gladys Clare Evans on September 13, 1900 in Patten, Maine to English parents. Career George went on the stage at the age of three and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on stage in the 1920s, although she had made several films in the early part of that decade. She is credited for contributing to the enormous success on Broadway of Personal Appearance, a comedy by Lawrence Riley in which she had the starring role. This role was reprised by Mae West in the classic film, Go West, Young Man, which West adapted from the play. In 1936 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Her on... Biography of Geri Jewell
Geraldine Ann "Geri" Jewell (born September 13, 1956) is an American actress. Early life and career Originally from Buffalo, New York, she is most famous for her role on the television program The Facts of Life from 1980 to 1984. This role made her the first person with a disability to have a regular role on a prime time series, as well as the first actor with cerebral palsy to be featured on a TV series. She began her career doing stand up comedy at The Comedy Store in 1978. In 1980, she performed at the 2nd Annual Media Access Awards, when she was introduced to Norman Lear by producer, Fern Field. Jewell appeared as the recurring character "Jewel" on the HBO original series Deadwood from 2004—2006. Awards She has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1992 Founders A... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Tim Ripper Owens
Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens (born on September 13, 1967) is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with Beyond Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Charred Walls of the Damned. He first gained attention as the lead singer of Judas Priest, and then Iced Earth. He took the nickname "Ripper" from the Judas Priest song "The Ripper" during his time in the tribute band "British Steel". History Prior to joining Judas Priest in 1996, Owens was frontman of a heavy metal band called Brainicide. Later he was in Winter's Bane, with whom he recorded an album called Heart of a Killer in 1993. He also was the frontman of Judas Priest and Pink Floyd tribute band British Steel, named after the Judas Priest album. The original band "Wintersbane" and the cover band "British Steel" were ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett; 13 September 1941) is an English-born Canadian musician and singer best known as the lead vocalist for the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has maintained a busy solo career over the years as well. Life and career Clayton-Thomas was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK, the son of a decorated Canadian soldier of World War II who met his piano-playing mother when she came to entertain the troops at a London hospital. They were married, and when the war ended, the family moved to Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto, when Clayton-Thomas was not yet school-aged. Growing up, he was taught music by his mother but had difficulties with his father in what was described as a dysfunctional family. He left home in his early tee... |
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