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Astrotheme is the most important site for astrology and celebrities with interactive birth charts, excerpts of astrological portrait, biographies, photos, personalized horoscopes and graphics. For planets in astrological houses, for example with the Sun in House 1, click on Sun in House and then Sun in House 1 and you will get, sorted by popularity on Astrotheme, the list of celebrities with the Sun in House 1 (the Ascendant). For planets in signs, it is the same method, just click on Planet in Signs, for example Venus in Gemini and you will get, sorted by popularity, the list of celebrities with Venus in Gemini sign. For the astrological houses in signs, just click on the right top of the window, Houses in Signs, then for example House 1 - Ascendant - in Scorpio and you will see, sorted by popularity, the list of the celebrities with the Ascendant in Scorpio. There are also multiple criterion: The Sun and the Ascendant in signs, The Sun and the Moon in signs, Venus and Mars in signs, the Moon and the Ascendant in signs, the Sun and Venus in signs, and you can also try your own parameters with 3 simultaneous criteria. You will find on these pages hundred of celebrities with the Sun in Pisces and the Ascendant in Aquarius in AND in ![]() Just click on the names of your choice to see the horoscopes of celebrities who have the Sun in Pisces and the Ascendant in Aquarius. Biography of Robert Wadlow
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), according to Guinness World Records, is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He is often known as the Alton Giant. Wadlow reached an unprecedented 8 foot 11.1 inches (2.72 m) in height and weighed 440 pounds (199 kg) at his death. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to a tumor within his pituitary gland. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death. Wadlow was born to Harold Franklin and Addie (Johnson) Wadlow in Alton, Illinois on February 22, 1918, at the weight of 8 pounds 6 ounces (3.8 kg) and normal height. He was the oldest of five children; his younger siblings were Helen Ione, Eugene Harold, Betty Jean, and Harold Frankli... Add to favourites (100 fans)Biography of Adam Levine
Adam Noah Levine (born March 18, 1979) is the lead singer and the guitarist for the rock group, Maroon 5. Levine was born in Los Angeles, California to Patsy Noah and Fred Levine. He is Jewish. Levine has one brother, Michael, a stepsister, Julia, and two half siblings, Sam and Liza, from his father's remarriage to Lisa. Lisa and Fred Levine own two fashion stores geared toward men. Because of this, Levine claims he's always been ahead of the fashion curve. In 2005, he and Ryan Seacrest of American Idol attended the inauguration of M. Fredric MAN, his parents' second store, in Studio City. Levine attended the private Brentwood School, where he met the original members of the band Kara's Flowers, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick. On his first day at Brentwood School, Le... Biography of Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: Pete Mon-dree-on, IPA: ) (b. Amersfoort, Netherlands, March 7, 1872 — d. New York City, February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied and even trivialized, Mondriaan's paintings exhibit a complexity that belies their apparent simplicity. He is best known for his non-representational paintings that he called "compositions", consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue, white or black, separated by black rectilinear lines. They are the result of a stylistic evolution that occurred over the course of nearly 30 years and continued beyond that point to the end of his life. ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Youth Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. The Theater Box, 1874 by... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975 (birth time source: autobiography "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang")) is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, actress, producer and best-selling author. She has her own late night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! Cable Television Network. In 2009 she won a Bravo A-List Award. She also has her own column in Cosmopolitan and the UK celebrity magazine NOW. Handler has described her technique as "not so much humor as it is comments that aren't actually funny." Early life Handler grew up in the suburban town of Livingston, New Jersey. The youngest of six children, she was raised in Reform Judaism by her Mormon mother and Jewish father. Handler has said that while growing up, she felt like an outsider, telling a reporter, ... Biography of Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin IPA: ; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first human to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country, for his first tour in space. Early life Yuri Gagarin was born in a village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast), Russia, on 9 March 1934 and was partly Armenian. The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honor. His parents worked on a collective farm. His father, Peter Eyruero Gagarin, and mother ... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. She preferred the term "Black Classical Music" herself. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop music. Her vocal style (with a rich alto vocal range) is characterized by intense passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Sometimes known as the High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctu... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (February 22, 1962 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – September 4, 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. He achieved world-wide fame from the television program The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Together with her, he also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland. Early years Born on his mother's birthday to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Irwin moved with his parents as a child to Queensland in 1970. Irwin described his father as a wildlife expert interested in herpetology whilst his mother Lyn was a wildlife rehabilitator. After moving t... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Boris Vian
Boris Vian (March 10, 1920 – June 23, 1959) was a French writer, poet, singer, and musician, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. He was born in Ville-d'Avray, near Paris, and educated at the École Centrale Paris. His works were often highly controversial, but his writing and performance of jazz songs gained the admiration of many famous names. Early life Boris Vian was born in 1920 to an upper middle-class family in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Ville D’Avray. His early childhood was a privileged one, and even after his father lost most of his wealth in the crash of 1929, the family still managed to maintain a comfortable existence, renting out the main villa at the Ville d’Avray to the Menuhins of later musical fame while living in a small cottage on the property. His... Biography of Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was a two-time Emmy winning Irish American actor, raised in Ireland and the UK, with an extensive stage career, who rose to fame in the British film and TV industry by starring in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), cult classic The Prisoner and Mel Gibson's Oscar winning epic Braveheart as Edward Longshanks. McGoohan wrote several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz. McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, to Thomas McGoohan and Rose Fitzpatrick, who were living in the United States after emigrating from Ireland to look for work. Shortly after he was born, McGoohan's parents moved back to Mullaghmore, Coun... Biography of Rosalyn Bruyere
Rosalyn L. Bruyere is an internationally acclaimed healer, clairvoyant and medicine woman, born March 18, 1946 in Denver, Colorado.... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel (Friday 23 February 1685 (5 March New Style) – Saturday 14 April 1759) was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in Germany as Georg Friederich Händel (IPA: ), he dwelt during most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are Messiah, an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Drawing on the techniques of the great composers of the Italian Baroque, as well as the music of Henry Purcell, he deeply influenced in his turn many composers who came after him, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and his work helped lead the transition from the Baroque to the Classical era... Biography of Meher Baba
Meher Baba (Persian: مهر بابا Devanāgarī: महर बाबा ), born Merwan Sheriar Irani (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), was an Indian guru of Persian descent. Educated at St. Vincent's High School in Pune, India, as well as Deccan College, he led a normal school life, showing no particular inclination toward spiritual matters. At the age of 19, a short contact with an old Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan marked the beginning of his spiritual awakening. Baba was hailed as "Parvardigar" (God as the Almighty Sustainer) by the Indian fakir Sai Baba of Shirdi in 1915. He received help from three more spiritual masters, including Upasni Maharaj, who he said revealed to him his spiritual identity as "Th... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb (March 5, 1958 – March 10, 1988) was an English-born Australian singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees. He was noted for his good looks and vocal abilities. The early years Born Andrew Roy Gibb in Manchester, England, to Hugh and Barbara Gibb, his family emigrated to Australia within months of his birth, settling in Redcliffe, Queensland, Queensland, near Brisbane. Gibb began playing at tourist clubs around Spain's coastal Island of Ibiza, and later back in his homeland of the Isle of Man, as a young teenager. The idea of his joining the Bee Gees was often suggested, but the age gap between him and his elder brothers (more than 11 years younger than Barry, slightly more than eight years younger than twins... Biography of Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich (modern Germany). He lived since 1552 in Duisburg. He is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him. Life and works Mercator was born Gheert Cremer (or Gerard de Cremere) in the Flemish town of Rupelmonde. "Mercator" is the Latinized form of his name. It means "merchant". He was educated in 's-Hertogenbosch by the famous humanist Macropedius and at the University of Louvain. Despite his fame as a cartographer, Mercator's main source of income came through his craftmanship of mathematical instruments. He returned to Leuven and worke... Biography of Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse (March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. Early life Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler. Her nickname "Sid" was taken from a sibling trying to say "Sis". (It was later spelled "Cyd" at MGM to give her an air of mystery.) She was a sickly girl who started dancing lessons to build up her strength after a bout with polio. At 14 she auditioned for and studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislawa Nijinska, and subsequently danced in the Ballet Russes as "Celia Siderova" and, later, "Maria Istromena". At one point during a European tour, she met up again with Nico Charisse, a handsome young dancer she had studied with for a ti... Biography of Alexandre Volguine
Alexandre Volguine is a Russian astrologuer born March 3, 1903 in Ukraine.... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (March 13 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them. In academia, the Eternal Return has become one of the most widely accepted ways of understanding the pur... Biography of Adrian Zmed
Adrian Zmed (born March 4, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. Zmed is better known for his roles as "Johnny Nogerelli" in Grease 2, and as "Officer Vince Romano" in the T.J. Hooker television series, where he starred alongside William Shatner. Zmed took on the role of Danny Zuko in Grease twice: first during the original Broadway run in the 1970s, and again during the show's revival in 1995. Adrian Zmed made his television debut as "Socks Palermo" in the 1979 series Flatbush. In 1980, he appeared on another television series, The Goodtime Girls, playing "Frankie Millardo". This was followed by a guest appearance in 1982's An Evening at the Improv. In 1982, Zmed starred as "Johnny Nogerelli", the new leader of the "T-Birds", in Grease 2, op... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter. Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. In the last decade of the 19th century his work evolved to combine influences from several genres including symbolism and art nouveau. He developed a style which he called Parallelism, characterized by groupings of figures symmetrically arranged in poses suggesting ritual or dance. Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures. Landscapes were pared down to essentials, sometimes consisting of a jagged wedge... Biography of Jose Maria Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López (born in Madrid on February 25, 1953) is a Spanish politician who served as Spanish prime minister from 1996 to 2004. Beginnings José María Aznar is the son of Manuel Aznar Acedo, a journalist and radio broadcaster, and grandson of Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, a prominent journalist during the Franco era. The family claims descent from the Counts of Aznar, who played a major role during the reconquista. He studied law at the Complutense University, graduating in 1975, becoming a Spanish Tax Authority inspector in 1976. In 1977 he married Ana Botella. Politician As a teenager, Aznar was member of the Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas (FES), a student union which was a branch of the Falange Española Independiente (FEI), then a current of the falangist o... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lucette Michaux-Chevry
Lucette Michaux-Chevry was the head of the Regional council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe between 1992 and 2004. She was born on March 5, 1929, and has completed law studies at Sorbonne university in Paris, France. She has been elected to the post of President in 1992 for the first time, then reelected in January 1993, and in 1995 she was elected Mayor of Basse-Terre. In 1995, French president Jacques Chirac named her his advisor. In 1998, she entered yet another term in the office of President of Regional council. She is a mother of two.... Biography of Ron Jeremy
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953), usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "100 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also appeared in non-pornographic films, with studios such as Troma Entertainment, Boondock Saints and Studio 54. He is well known for his large circumcised penis – claimed by him to be 9.75 inches – and he has gained some notoriety for being capable of autofellatio (which he first demonstrated on-screen in Inside Seka), though he stated in a 2003 interview that due to his weight gain, all he can do nowadays is kiss the tip of his penis. Early life Ronald Hyatt was born in Flushing, New York to an upper middle-class Jewish family; his father, Arnold, was a physi... Biography of Mario Monti
Mario Monti (Italian pronunciation: ; born 19 March 1943 in Varese (source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate)) is an Italian economist and politician. He served as a European Commissioner for two consecutive terms and was appointed rector and president of Bocconi University. He currently serves as a Senator for life in the Italian Senate, and has been asked to lead the new government in Italy after former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation. Education and academic career Mario Monti holds a degree in economics and management from Bocconi University, Milan. He completed graduate studies at Yale University, where he studied under James Tobin, the Nobel prize-winning economist. He taught economics at the University of Turin (1970-85) before moving to the Bocconi Universit... Biography of Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist in the areas of consumer rights, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. Nader has been a staunch critic of corporations, which he believes wield too much power and are undermining the fundamental American values of democracy and human rights. He helped found many governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Public Citizen, and several Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), including NYPIRG. The Atlantic Monthly, in its list of the 100 most influential Americans, ranked Nader number 96: "He made the cars we drive safer; thirty years later, he made George W. Bush the president... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Géraldy
Paul Lefèvre, best known as Paul Géraldy (Mars 6, 1885 in Paris - 1983 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French writer and poet. Bibliography Bibliographie Recueils de poèmes Les petites âmes (1908) Toi et moi (1912) Vous et moi (1960) Théâtre Aimer, (1921) Robert et Marianne, (1925) Duo, d'après Colette, (1938) Les noces d'argent (1917) Les Grands Garçon (1922) Christine (1932) "do, mi, sol, do" Récits La guerre, Madame ! (1916) Le prélude (1938) L'homme et l'amour (1951)... Biography of Diana Barrymore
Diana Barrymore (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960) was an American actress. Early life Born Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe in New York City, New York, she was the daughter of renowned actor John Barrymore and his second wife, poet Blanche Oelrichs. She was the half-sister of actor John Drew Barrymore. Her parents' tumultuous marriage lasted only a few years and they divorced when she was four. Educated in Paris, France and at schools in New York City, she had little contact with her estranged father, a situation exacerbated by her mother's bitterness towards him. Her parenting was left to boarding schools and nannies by an almost indifferent mother whose own career and socializing left little time for her daughter. Career While in her teens, Diana Barrymore decided to study a... Biography of Ratko Mladic
Ratko Mladić (Serbian: Ратко Младић, pronounced ), born March 12, 1943, was the Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. Mladić was recognized as the top military general by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the 1992-1995 Siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of around 8,300 Bosniak Muslims on July 11, 1995 at Srebrenica. There has been an outstanding international arrest warrant against Mladić following the Rule 61 of ICTY which concluded that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he has committed the crimes in question, including genocide. The United States government ha... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Manly Palmer Hall
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, published in 1928when he was just 27 years old. He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, and the occult. Carl Jung, when writing Psychology and Alchemy, borrowed material from Hall's private collection. In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, dedicating it to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems. The PRS claims to be non-sectarian and entirely free fro... Biography of Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Paddington, London – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Pearson, for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a campi... Biography of Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born March 16, 1929) is an Austrian actress. She won the Miss Austria election in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. In 1953, she acted opposite O.W. Fischer in the film, Ich suche Dich, which is based on a play by A.J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was that of Rosemarie Nitribitt in the 1958 German movie, Das Mädchen Rosemarie. Tiller has been married since 1956 to actor Walter Giller. They have a son and a daughter.... Biography of W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973, pronounced /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/) who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. Auden grew up in Birmingham in a professional middle-class family and read English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. His early poems, in the late 1920s and 1930s, alternated between ob... Biography of Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with a diverse musical style. Childhood Carpenter was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Mary Bowie Robertson and Chapin Carpenter, Jr., a Life Magazine executive. Carpenter spent two years in Japan as a child, moving to Washington, D.C. in 1974. She attended Princeton Day School, a private coeducational day school, before graduating from the Taft School, a Connecticut prep school, in 1976. Carpenter has described her childhood as a "pretty typical suburban," with her musical interests defined chiefly by whatever albums her older sisters had lying around. This included records by The Mamas & the Papas, the Beatles, and Judy Collins, along with some Wood... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born on February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French professional tennis player. She is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 U.S. Open ladies title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram and the 2007 U.S. Open ladies title with Dinara Safina, who Dechy beat in the 2006 final with Vera Zvonareva. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she was just two points away from the final, before eventually losing to Lindsay Davenport. Height: 1.77 m (5' 9 3/4") Weight: 63 kg Titles (6) Legend (Singles) Tier I (0) Tier II (0) Tier III (1) Tier IV (0) Grand Slam Title (0) WTA Tour Championship (0) ITF Circuit (1) Singles (1) No. Dat... Biography of Mark Lerner
Mark Lerner, born March 10, 1950 in Kew Gardens, New York, is an American professional astrologer.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Morand
Paul Morand (b. March 13, 1888, Paris. d. July 24, 1976) was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (his candidature was initially rejected by de Gaulle, the only instance of a President ever exercising his right to vet electees to the academy. Morand was finally elected ten years later, though he still had to forgo the official investiture). He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). During the pre-war period, he wrote many short books which are noted for their elegance of style, erudition, narrative concision, and for the author's observation of the countries he visited combined with his middle-class views. Morand's reputation has been marred by his ... Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. Early life Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella, a nurse, and Henry Tollman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become superintendent of schools. Her middle name is derived from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where her uncle's life had been saved just prior to her birth. In 1904, Cora officially divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility, but they had been separated for some years prior. Struggling financially, Cora and her three daughters... Biography of Manik Chand Jain
Manik Chand Jain, born March 10, 1920 in Saharanpur, died in 1982, was an Indian author and astrologer.... Biography of Léo Malet
Léo Malet (March 7, 1909—March 3, 1996) was a French crime novelist. Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925. In the 1930s, he was closely aligned with the Surrealists, and was close friends with Andre Breton, Rene Magritte and Yves Tanguy amongst others. During this time, he published several volumes of poetry. He died in Chatillon, the little town just south of Paris where he had lived for most of his life, the day before his 87th birthday. Works Though having dabbled in many genres, he is most famous for Nestor Burma, the anti-hero of Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris. Burma, a cynical private detective, is an astute speaker of argot (French slang), an ex-Anarchis... Biography of Alex Métayer
Alex Métayer, born March 19, 1930 in Berre-l'Étang, died February 21, 2004 in Paris, was a French humorist, director and actor. Link * http://www.alexmetayer.com/... José Serra born March 19, 1942 Bernard Besret born March 16, 1935 Donna van Toen born March 5, 1949 Claude Lacaze born March 5, 1940 Ernest Renan born February 28, 1823 Guy Hascoët born February 29, 1960 Clare Grogan born March 17, 1962 Alfred von Tirpitz born March 19, 1849 Paul Tortelier born March 21, 1914 Philippe Dupont born February 28, 1964 Luz del Fuego born February 21, 1917 Michelle Auriol Aucouturier born March 5, 1896 Paul Guth born March 5, 1910 Philippe Alexandre born March 14, 1932 Antonio Daniels born March 19, 1975 Valentine Hugo born March 16, 1887 Max Hymans born March 2, 1900 Alexandre Emile Taskin born March 8, 1853 Geraldine Farrar born February 28, 1882 Carel Willink born March 7, 1900 Val Lehman born March 15, 1943 Wolfgang Petersen born March 14, 1941 Jean-Marie Le Bris born March 5, 1817 Robert Rimmer born March 14, 1917 Eileen Garrett born March 14, 1892 Jean-Baptiste Kléber born March 9, 1753 Wes Unseld born March 14, 1946 Eric Gill born February 22, 1882 Pierre Delrock born February 25, 1935 Gianluca Signorini born March 17, 1960 Ernest Candeze born February 22, 1827 Roger B. Taney born March 17, 1777 Deke Slayton born March 1, 1924 Cath Phillips born March 7, 1955 John Aubrey born March 12, 1626 George du Maurier born March 6, 1834 John Henry Newman born February 21, 1801 Elme-Marie Caro born March 4, 1826 Tancredo Neves born March 4, 1910 Angelo Mai born March 7, 1782 Hopalong Cassady born March 2, 1934 Andrew Faulds born March 1, 1923 Bruce Anderson born March 20, 1945 Robert Denvers born March 9, 1942 Howard Cassady born March 2, 1934 Mark White born March 17, 1940 Louise du Royaume-Uni (1867) born February 20, 1867 Charles Siebert born March 9, 1938 Shelley Berman born February 23, 1926 Jeff Sanders born March 17, 1941 Mario Sarcinelli born March 9, 1934 Karl Kassulke born March 20, 1941 Stuart Holmes born March 10, 1884 Joseph Pyronnet born March 16, 1927 Tim Rathbone born March 17, 1933 Vincent Defrasne born March 9, 1977 Charles Delestraint born March 12, 1879 Steve Beuerlein born March 7, 1965 Christian Boussus born March 5, 1908 Keith Speed born March 11, 1934 Joaquim Pina Moura born February 22, 1952 Marie-Simone Capony born March 14, 1894 Arnaud de Rosnay born March 9, 1946 Patrice Abeille born March 9, 1954 |
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