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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Libra. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo. in ![]() Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924(1924-10-01)), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the United States crippled by stagflation, suffer massive gas shortages, and struggle through several major crises. His administration also saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy, removed price controls from domestic petroleum production, and advocated for less American reliance on foreign oil sources. He bolstered the Social Security system by i... Biography of Pierre Bellemare
Pierre Bellemare is a French TV host, journalist, writer and TV producer, born October 21, 1929 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Height: 1m90... Biography of Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII of France, also Louis II of Navarre, called the Just (French: le Juste) (September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643), ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643. Early life Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the eldest child of Henry IV of France (1589–1610) and Marie de' Medici. His father was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, Henry III of France (1574–89), in application of the Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparents were Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Johanna, archduchess of Austria. Monarchical Styles of King Louis XIII Par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre Reference... Biography of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure in the Enlightenment, and editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie. Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques the Fatalist and His Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels, their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will. Diderot is also known as the author of the essay, "Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown," upon which many an article and sermon about consumer desire has been based. Diderot was born in the eastern French city of Langres and commenced his formal education in the Jesuit School. In 1732, he earned a master of arts d... Biography of Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (pronounced: hing-GISS) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss," she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1 and set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw from professional tennis at the relatively early age of 22. On November 29, 2005, after several surgeries and long recuperations, the 25-year-old Hingis announced that she would return to the WTA tour, starting her professiona... Biography of Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Malayalam: അവുല് പകീര് ജൈനുലബ്ദീന് അബ്ദുള് കലാം ) born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam^ , was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007. Due to his unconventional working style, he is also popularly known as the People's President. Before his term as India's president, he distinguished himself as engineering visionary and was awarded India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with DRDO and his role as scientific advisor to the Indian government. He is popularly known as the Mi... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Shannyn Sossamon
Shannon Marie Sossamon (born October 3, 1978), better known as Shannyn Sossamon, is an American actress, musician and dancer. Early life Sossamon was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Sherry Sossamon and Todd Lindberg, grew up in Reno, Nevada, and attended Galena High School there. She is of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, Irish, Filipino and German descent; her maternal grandmother is Hawaiian-Filipino, and her maternal grandfather is English-German. The y in her first name was an adolescent addition in 1995. The day after her high school graduation, Sossamon moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in dance. Sossamon appeared in television commercials and had DJ gigs in local clubs. In 1999, Sossamon was discovered by casting director Francine Maisler, while assisting a friend DJ at Gwyn... Biography of Erika Eleniak
Erika Maya Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American Playboy Playmate and actress, best known for her role in Baywatch. Measurements 34C" - 24" - 32" Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight 129 lb (59 kg) Early life Eleniak was born in Glendale, California. She is the eldest daughter in her family of four girls and one boy whose parents divorced. Her father, who was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is of Ukrainian descent, and her mother is Estonian and German. During the late 1970s, Eleniak's father introduced her to her future career in the movie industry when his then girlfriend got Eleniak a part to model children's clothing for TV commercials. Her first acting role was in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - as the girl kissed by Elliott in the school classroom s... Biography of Claude Sérillon
Claude Sérillon is a French journalist born October 20, 1050 in Nantes.... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. Works Novels This Side of Paradise (New York: Chas. Scribner & Son: 1920) The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Chas. Scribner & Son: 1922) The Great Gatsby (New York: Chas. Scribner & Son: 1925) Tender Is the Night (New York: Chas. Scribner & Son: 1934) The Last Tycoon – originally The Love of the Last Tycoon – (New York:Chas. Scribner & So... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years. Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m) Before The Tonight Show Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, to parents Homer "Kit" Lloyd Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson. Johnny Carson grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska, where he learned to perform magic tricks, debuting as "The Great Carsoni" at age 14. He attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he received V-12 officer training, and then served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946. Carson then attended the University of Nebraska where he joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1949. The ne... Biography of Nancy Grace
Nancy Ann Grace (born October 23, 1959) is an American legal commentator, television host, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation. She is the host of Nancy Grace, a nightly current affairs show on CNN's Headline News, and she was the host of Court TV's Closing Arguments. She also co-wrote the book Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System. Early life Grace was born in Macon, Georgia to a working-class family. As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. However, after the... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Matias Räikkönen, born October 17, 1979 in Espoo, Finland, is a Formula One racing car driver for Scuderia Ferrari. He finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2003 and 2005. He has driven for Sauber-Petronas (2001) and Team McLaren-Mercedes (2002–2006). He currently drives for Ferrari, with whom he is contracted until the end of the 2009 season. Career Early career (until 2000) He had a long line of success in karting from the age of ten, including placing second in the 1999 European Formula Super A championship. He also competed that year in the Formula Ford Euro Cup, and by the age of twenty, he had won the British Formula Renault Winter series, winning the first four races of the year. In 2000, he won seven of ten events in the Formula Renault U... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor perhaps best known for portraying Steve Stifler in the American Pie series of teen films. He also played Bo Duke in the film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. Height 5' 11" (1.80 m) Early life Seann William Scott is the youngest of seven (both of his parents had 3 children from previous marriages), was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to William Frank Scott, a factory worker, and Patricia Ann (Simons), a homemaker. He was inspired to become an actor while working at the local movie theater and seeing all the movies he could watch for free. After his graduation from Park High School, Scott moved to Los Angeles, where he was "discovered" in a talent search competition. His first professional gig was on television in ... Biography of Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (/ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony"). Early years Saint-Saëns was born in Paris to a government clerk who died three months after his son's birth. His mother, Clémence, sought the assistance of her aunt, Charlotte Masson, who moved in and introduced Saint-Saëns to the piano. One of the most talented child prodigies of his time, he possessed perfect pitch and began piano lessons with his great-aunt at two years old. He almost immediately began composition with his first, a little piece for the piano dated 22 March 1839. This pie... Biography of Pascal Sevran
Jean-Claude Jouhaud, best known as Pascal Sevran, born October 16, 1945 in Paris and died May 9, 2008 in Limoges (lung cancer), was a French TV host, producer and author. He was openly gay and was TV host for gay TV Pink TV. Bibliography Dalida : la gloire et les larmes, G. Authier, Paris, 1976. Le Guide du socialisme, G. Authier, Paris, 1977. Les 180 jours de Giscard, histoire du dernier gouvernement de l'Union de la droite, 3 avril-2 octobre 1978, en collaboration avec Bernard Morlino, Paris, G. Authier, 1977. Le Music hall français, de Mayol à Julien Clerc, Paris, O. Orban, 1978. Le Passé supplémentaire : roman, O. Orban, , 1979 ; albin Michel, 2001. Prix Roger Nimier en 1979. Vichy-dancing : roman, Olivier Orban, Paris, 1980 ; Albin Michel, 1999. Un Garçon de France : r... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Kirsten Prout
Kirsten Prout (born September 28, 1990) is a teenage actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She stars in ABC Family's drama Kyle XY as Amanda Bloom. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Kirsten started acting in grade three and has come a long way since then. She is now 16 years old and is going into the eleventh grade. She loves acting, but in her off-time, she expresses a love for art and Track and Field. Her outlook for the future is to go to a university while doing other movies on the side. Kirsten is recognized for her role in the film Elektra, in which she starred alongside stars such as Jennifer Garner and Goran Visnjic. She has also been in the SciFi TV show Stargate SG-1 as Nesa in the episode "Birthright". Filmography Tell me no lies (2007) as Samantha Cooper Kyle... Biography of Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician, born in Mâcon into French provincial nobility. He is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, "Le Lac" ("The Lake"), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms. He was one of very few French literary figures to combine his writing with a political career. Raised a devout Catholic Lamartine became a pantheist, writing Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange. He wrote Histoire des Girondins in 1847 in praise of the Girondists. He worked for the French embassy in Italy from 1825 to 1828. In 1829, he was elec... Biography of Raël (Raëlism)
Claude Vorilhon (born on September 30, 1946 in Vichy, Allier, France) was a singer at a young age and soon became a sports-car journalist and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, Auto Pop. He replaced that activity with maintaining his religious Raëlian Movement which he founded as an atheist spiritual guide and metaphysical materialist under the name of Raël. In Asia, he recently has been referring to himself as the Maitreya of the West. According to Susan J. Palmer, he had returned to autoracing in 1994 as demanded by some Raëlians, but in November 2001, Raël announced his intention to retire from professional auto racing. Palmer said in her book Aliens Adored that he still enjoys playing racing games, albeit in the form of video games. Before 1973 Claude Vorilhon was rais... Biography of Bruno Cremer
Bruno Crémer (born 6 October 1929 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, and died August 7, 2010 in Paris (tongue cancer)) was a French actor and comedian, who spent a great part of his career on stage but also had successful performances for the cinema and the television. Biography He was widely known in France and the French speaking world for his interpretation of the famous detective Maigret in a television series that started in 1991. In 2005, he acted in his 54th adaptation of a Maigret story. (See also ) (In the Washington, DC area, they can frequently be seen on the MHz cable network.) His earlier career on the stage included creating the role of Thomas Beckett in the 1959 world premiere of the play Beckett by Jean Anouilh. After ten years on stage, he had a credited role in the ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Keyshia Cole
Keyshia Miesha Cole, (born October 15, 1981) in Oakland, California is a Grammy Award nominated American, R&B singer-songwriter, and record producer known for her soulful voice. She released her platinum selling debut album The Way It Is in 2005, and her second album Just Like You in 2007. Keyshia was born to an African-American mother, Frankie, and an Italian father, Sal (deceased). Her mother's drug addiction led to her becoming a foster child adopted by Yvonne Cole at the age of 4. She has said that her musically talented brother, Sean Cole and Tupac Shakur were close friends. Sean Cole raps under the alias "Nutt-So", and recorded several songs with Shakur before his death. Keyshia's first recordings were with MC Radiant at the age of twelve. In the early 2000s, she appeared on track... Biography of Kalthoum Sarrai
Kalthoum Sarrai (or Kalthoum Sarray or Caltoum Sarrai), best known as Cathy, born September 25, 1962 in Tunis, is a Tunisian TV host and nanny. She hosted French TV show reality Super Nanny on M6 Channel. Bibliography Cathy et Claude Thomas, Cathy, une vie hors du commun. L’autobiographie de Super Nanny, éd. M6 Éditions, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 2006 (ISBN 2915127220) Supernanny is a British reality television programme about helping parents with misbehaving children. The show features professional nanny Jo Frost who, in each episode, helps a family with children whose parents are unsuccessful at controlling their behaviour or who are "naughty". Using a limited variety of methods, she shows parents ways of disciplining their children and maintaining order in their households. She is... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers (born October 16, 1946 (source : her birth certificate by Eugene Moore)) is an American actress, author, and businesswoman. Best known for her role as the ditzy blonde Chrissy Snow on the ABC sitcom Three's Company. She also had a starring role on the sitcom Step by Step as Carol Foster Lambert. She later capitalized on her acting career by also establishing herself as an author of a series of self-help books. She currently brings her own items, that she designed, to HSN. Background Somers was born Suzanne Marie Mahoney, the third of four children in Frank and Marion Mahoney's Irish Catholic household in San Bruno, California. Her father was an alcoholic who could become violent on occasion, as Somers recounted, often forcing her to hide in her closet. She suffered from ... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. A hugely influential jazz musician, Coltrane has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists. Along with tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins, Coltrane fundamentally altered expectations for the instrument. Coltrane received a posthumous Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 for his "masterful imp... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (in Greek, Nανά Μούσχουρη) (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a singer of Greek origin. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She recorded many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Latin, Hebrew, Corsican and Japanese among others. She is noted for her trademark squarish black-rimmed eyeglasses and straight black hair parted in the middle, and her songs of melancholy, longing, and sentimental musings upon love, for which the emotion of her voice is exceptionally suited. Mouskouri has recorded from the 1960s into the new millennium. She has tailored releases to specific inter... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931, Kulm, North Dakota (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank) is a Golden Globe award winning American television and film actress, best known for her role as the sultry Sergeant Leann (not Suzanne) "Pepper" Anderson in the 1970s crime drama, Police Woman. Youth Dickinson was born Angeline Brown, the second of three daughters born to Frederica and Leo H. Brown. Leo was a small-town newspaper publisher. Her first job was selling Hershey's Kisses for five cents, so her sisters could buy ice cream cones. In 1942, her family moved to Burbank, California. She graduated from Bellamarine Jefferson High School in 1947, at 15 years of age. The previous year, she won the Sixth Annual Bill of Rights essay contest. She studied at Glendale Com... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Early life Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, an only child of an Irish American dentist who abandoned the family when Leary was 13. He graduated from Springfield's Classical High School. Leary attended three different colleges and was disciplined at each. He studied for two years at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received a bac... Biography of Cytherea (actress)
Cytherea (born September 27, 1981, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American pornographic actress and model who is best known for her long-distance female ejaculation, or "squirting", attained during orgasm. Career Cytherea moved from her hometown to Las Vegas, Nevada and started her own Yahoo! Group, on which she posted nude photographs and video of herself. It was through this that she was spotted and contacted by an adult industry modeling agency about working in adult film. Cytherea won the Best New Starlet Award from AVN in 2005. To date she has been featured in over 200 adult films, including the Squirtwoman trilogy. She has appeared on cable television shows, most notably the HBO/Cinemax series Sex Games: Vegas, Playboy TV's Night Calls and has been a guest on The Howard Stern ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Christina Milian
Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is an American actress and Grammy Award-nominated R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and former MTV host. She has released three studio albums and one compilation album. She has also had four solo top five singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and North America. As an actress, Milian appeared in the 2003 film Love Don't Cost a Thing opposite Nick Cannon. Milian wrote songs for Jennifer Lopez, Paula DeAnda and PYT's. She also starred as singer Linda Moon in Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty, and appeared in the 2006 horror film Pulse. Early life Milian was born in Jersey City to native Cuban parents of Afro-Cuban descent, Don and Carmen, and ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner's writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand because of his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, and especially stream of consciousness. Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway. Faulkner is sometimes lauded as the inventor of the "stream-of-consciousne... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. Early life and education Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. After Sean's birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his own murder in 1980. Sean was educated at the exclusive private boarding school, Institut Le Rosey (which Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, King Albert II of Belgium, Dodi Al-Fayed as well as Strokes members Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond, Jr. also attended) in Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston and Dalton School... Biography of David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the current leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December 2005. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years. A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat but Cameron was elected in 2001 as Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. Promoted to the Opposition front bench two years after entering Parliament, he rose rapidly to be head of pol... Biography of Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. Torricelli was born in Faenza Papal States. He was left fatherless at an early age and educated under the care of his uncle, a Camaldolese monk, who first entered young Torricelli in a Jesuit College in 1624 to study mathematics and philosophy until 1626, when he sent Toricelli to Rome in 1627 to study science under the Benedictine Benedetto Castelli, professor of mathematics at the Collegio della Sapienza in Pisa. In 1632, shortly after the publication of Galileo's Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Torricelli wrote to Galileo of reading it "with the delight of one who, having already practised all of geometry most dil... Biography of Michael Ballack
Michael Ballack (born September 26, 1976 in Görlitz, Saxony) is a German football player. He is the current captain of the German national team, and plays club football for Chelsea F.C. in the English FA Premier League. He made his name as a classic box-to-box midfielder with Bayer Leverkusen, where he operated as the central midfielder, taking on both defensive and attacking responsibilities. Later in his career, at FC Bayern Munich, under the guidance of Ottmar Hitzfeld and Felix Magath, Ballack played in a deeper role, where he went forward less often and instead concentrated on protecting the back four and distributing the ball. However, he remained a box-to-box midfielder for the German national team. He is capable with both his left and right foot, as well as in the air. These ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Nico (singer)
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938 – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and Warhol superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico. She is remembered for both her collaboration with The Velvet Underground and her solo work. The date and location of her birth are disputed. Most sources state October 16, 1938, Cologne, Germany. Career Early days Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion people. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin. While on a modelling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, ... Biography of Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri (Greek:Μελίνα Μερκούρη, born Maria Amalia Mercouri) (Athens, Greece, October 18, 1920 – New York City, March 6, 1994) was a famous Greek actress, singer, and political activist. She was a member of the Hellenic Parliament, and in 1981 she became the first female Minister for Culture in Greece. Early life The most important person in her early life was her grandfather Spyros Merkouris, who was mayor of Athens for many decades. Her father was a member of Parliament. The marriage of her parents ended when she was a youngster and she lived with her mother. Her uncle was George S. Mercouris, the leader of the Greek National Socialist Party who became during the Axis Occupation of Greece during WWII (1941-1... Biography of Drazen Petrovic
Dražen Petrović (October 22, 1964 – June 7, 1993) was a Croatian basketball player. A tireless shooter and prolific scorer, Petrović is arguably the most celebrated basketball player ever to emerge from Europe. He is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA. Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Weight: 200 lb (91 kg) Early years Born in Šibenik, a city on the Croatian coast, in the former Yugoslavia, Dražen Petrović was the second child of Montenegrin father Jovan "Jole" Petrović and Croatian mother Biserka. The couple's first child, Aleksandar, would be the first one to tread the basketball path, providing a lead for young Dražen to follow. Šibenka At the age of thirteen Dražen started playing in ... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) (pronounced ) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is Being and Time (1927). Introduction Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy has, since Plato, misunderstood what it means for something to be, tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about being itself. In other words, Heidegger believed all investigations of being have historically focused on particular entities and their properties, or have treated being itself as an entity, or substance, with properties. A more authentic analytic of being would, for Heidegger, investigate "that on the basis of which beings are already understood," or that which underlies all particular entities and allows them to show up as entitie... Biography of Sophie Duez
Sophie Duez is a French actress.... Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders. Two days later, before he could be brought to trial for the crimes, while being transferred under police custody from the police station to jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Although polls suggest most Americans agree Oswald had some role in the assassination, most believe he was part of a broader conspiracy and 7% believe he was not involved... Biography of Ninel Conde
Ninel Conde (born Ninel Herrera Conde; September 29, 1970 in Toluca) is a Mexican actress, model, and singer best known for her performance in the teen-aimed Mexican soap opera Rebelde.. Early career Ninel Conde studied at the Centro de Arte y Teatro Emilia Carranza and workshops of Sergio Jiménez and Oscar Pérez. After her studies Conde worked on Televisa. Some of the projects that she undertook there included Bajo el Mismo Rostro (Spanish for 'Beneath the Same Face) (1995) and Luz Clarita (Spanish for 'Clear Light) (1996.) She also worked with Televisa's rivaling channel,TV Azteca, on various other projects including: Catalina y Sebastián (Caitlin and Sebastian) (1999) and Como en el cine (Like in the Movies) (2001). Other television roles In addition to telenovelas (soap oper... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Ashanti (entertainer)
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980), better known as Ashanti, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, model and fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m) She is most famous for her eponymous grammy award winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold a record-breaking 503,000 copies (gold) in its first week of release in the USA in April 2002. In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe). She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs (Foolish, What's Luv, and Always on Time (with Ja Rule)) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same... Biography of Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame (born October 23, 1957) is the current President of Rwanda. He came to prominence as the leader of the guerrilla Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) army, whose invasion of Rwanda is often cited as the primary reason the Rwandan Genocide came to a close. The RPF's victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the genocide. In 2003, he became the first democratically elected President of Rwanda. Early life Kagame was born to a Tutsi family in Ruhango, Rwanda in October 1957 to Deogratius and Asteria Rutagambwa. In November 1959, an increasingly restive Hutu population, encouraged by the Belgian Military, sparked a revolt, eventually resulting in the overthrow of Mwami Kigeri V Ndahindurwa in 1961. During the 1959 revolt and its aftermath, more than 150,000 p... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Giuseppe Verdi
iuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (either October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century and went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata. Although his work was sometimes criticized as catering to the tastes of the common folk, using a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and having a tendency towards melodrama, Verdi’s masterworks dominate the standard ... Biography of Chico (Gipsy Kings)
Chico Bouchikhi is a musician and a co-founder of The Gipsy Kings. His real name is Jahloul Bouchikhi, and he is of Moroccan descent. He is married to the daughter of José Reyes, member of the The Gipsy Kings. He later left The Gipsy Kings and founded Chico and the Gypsies. His brother, Ahmed Bouchiki, was assassinated by Mossad who mistook him for Ali Hassan Salameh in the so called Lillehammer affair in July 1973. He is also UNESCO's special envoy for peace and has held a major concert in Israel with his band, despite the assassination of his brother by the Mossad. He has also played before Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords peace negotiations.... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (born 18 October 1940 in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France) is a French pop singer who rose prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups. He and his wife, Kuelan, are the parents of three children, including musician Arthur H and actor Ken Higelin. Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of small roles in various motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, an Italian film composer. By the early sixties, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won t... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof, known as Bob Geldof (born 5 October 1951) , is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist. Early career Geldof was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, to parents of Catholic extraction. His father was also known as Bob; at the age of 41 his wife, the mother of Robert "Bob" complained of a headache and died shortly thereafter, having suffered a haemorrage. As of 2005, his father Bob is in his 90s. He attended Blackrock College, near Dublin, a school whose staunch Catholic nationalist ethos he disliked. After work as a slaughterman, road navvy and pea canner, he started as a music journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for the weekly publication Georgia Straight. Upon returning to Ireland in 1975, ... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982), French poet and novelist, a long-time political supporter of the communist party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Life Aragon was born and died in Paris. Having been involved in Dada from 1919 to 1924, he became a founding member of Surrealism in 1924 with André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Aragon joined the French Communist Party with several other surrealists. He would remain a member for the rest of his life, writing several political poems including one to Maurice Thorez, however he was also critical of the USSR, particularly during the 1950s. In 1939 he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet (born 1896), the sister of Lilya Brik, a mistress and common-law wife of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Aragon and Triolet... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Savannah (pornographic actress)
Shannon Michelle Wilsey Longoria (October 9, 1970 – July 11, 1994), commonly known by her stage name of Savannah, was an American pornographic actress, starring in more than 100 pornographic films during her career. One of the most high-profile porn stars of her time, she achieved notoriety within her short (1990 - 1994) career due to her on-screen presence as well as her off-screen life. Savannah committed suicide in 1994 after an auto accident. Savannah reportedly took her stage name from Savannah Smiles, a 1982 movie she enjoyed. Measurements: 34D-24-34 Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Early life When Savannah's parents divorced in 1972, she moved to Texas to live with her mother. When she grew older, she lived briefly with her father in Oxnard, Californi... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942), born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in a number of classic films of the 1930s. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m). Ancestry and early life Her parents were Frederick C. Peters and Elizabeth Knight. Lombard's paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin. One distant branch of Lombard's mother's family originated in England; her ancestors John and Martha Cheney emigrated to North America in 1634. She was the youngest of three children. She spent her early childhood in a sprawling, two-story house at 704 Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne near the St. Mary's River. Her parent... |
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