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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 Libra and the Ascendant in Libra in AND in ![]() Just click on the names of your choice to see the horoscopes of celebrities who have the Sun in Libra and the Ascendant in Libra. Add to favourites (216 fans)Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. In India, he is recognized as the Father of the Nation. October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as Gandhi Jayanti, and is a national holiday. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha — the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence — which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi. As a British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon ... Add to favourites (173 fans)Biography of Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in Little Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader in 2009. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as well as being nominated for an Emmy. At the age of 22, sh... Add to favourites (85 fans)Biography of Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Sint-Agatha-Berchem, in the Brussels-Capital Region, on October 18, 1960), is a Belgian-born martial artist and actor who is best known for his large catalogue of action movies. His Belgian background combined with his physique gave rise to his nickname "The Muscles from Brussels". Van Damme has also been called the "King of the Belgians" due to his international superstardom. By the end of the 1990s, Van Damme's high-profile career had faded but he continues to star in smaller, often direct-to-video movies. One of the main reasons for the downfall was his film Double Team which co-starred Dennis Rodman.[citation needed] After that Van Damme's films began to tank at the box office. Knock Off and Legionnaire were t... Add to favourites (82 fans)Biography of Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. His influence on modern literature, music and art has been pervasive. Early life and work Arthur Rimbaud was born into the provincial middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in the Ardennes département in northeastern France. He was the second child of Captain Frédéric and Vitalie Rimbaud (née Cuif). As a boy he was a restless but brilliant student. By the age of fifteen he had won many prizes and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin. In 1870 his teacher Georges Izambard became Rimbaud's literary mentor and his original French verses began to improve rapidly. He frequently ran away from home and may have briefly joined the Paris Commune of 1871... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of France Gall
France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Gall was married to, and had a very successful singing career in partnership with, the well-known French singer-songwriter, Michel Berger.... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress. She is famous for her nasal voice, "machine-gun" laugh, and Queens accent. Early life and career Drescher was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City to a Jewish family of Eastern European origin. She grew up in Queens with her parents Sylvia and Morty Drescher and was a studious girl who was quite popular in school. Drescher attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens. At 15 she met the man she believed she would spend much of her life with, Peter Marc Jacobson, and in 1978, at age 21, they were married. Her first break was a bit part in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1976). In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint.... Biography of Jeane Manson
Jeane Manson, born Jean Manson, (born October 1, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American model, singer and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1974 issue. (The pictorial opens with her nude in the ocean while lying in the sand.) Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Jean's father was a writer; her mother was a signer. She attended The American School in Mexico, where she spent much of her childhod, and graduated from Orange Coast College in California with an associate degree in music. She also studied at the legendary Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg. She had a few film roles before she was a Playmate, but her entertainment career took a major turn forward when she moved to France soon after she appeared in Playboy. Performing under ... Biography of Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent over 20 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on The ABC Evening News. In 2001, she was named the fourth most powerful woman in America by the Ladies Home Journal. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Walters was born in... Biography of Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning Japanese-born British actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. Early life She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter de Havilland, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, a British actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, who married in 1914. Fontaine's father, Walter, was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, from whom she has been estranged since 1975; both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California. At the age of two, Joan's parents divorced. Joan was a sickly child and had developed anemia following a combin... Biography of Alain Soral
Alain Soral (born October 2, 1958) is a French essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays. He is the brother of the actress Agnès Soral. Soral lives in the French Basque Country. Since June 2004, he has been a boxing coach. Alain Soral considers himself to be in the political "avant garde" of French society, claiming that his remarks and comments are always at first condemned and later widely accepted by the mainstream French public. Life and career Soral was born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie and grew up in the suburbs of Annemasse (department of Haute-Savoie), where he attended a local primary school. According to Soral, he was beaten by his father during his childhood, and he suffered from his mother's "cold passivity". When Soral was about 12, hi... 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 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 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 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... Biography of David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the current leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December 2005. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years. A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat but Cameron was elected in 2001 as Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. Promoted to the Opposition front bench two years after entering Parliament, he rose rapidly to be head of pol... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe award winning and six-time Academy Award nominated Scottish actress. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Deborah Kerr (pronounced kar) was the eldest child and only daughter of Capt. Arthur Kerr-Trimmer, a naval architect, and his wife, Kathleen Rose, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland. She had a younger brother, Edward (a.k.a. Teddy), who became a journalist and died in a road-rage incident in 2004. She originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who ran the Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. Career... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. Personal background Nobel was the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872) and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel (1805-1889). Born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, he went with his family in 1842 to Saint Petersburg, where his father (who had invented modern plywood) started a "torpedo" works. Alfred studied chemistry with Professor Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin... Biography of Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show, The Chevy Chase Show. He is also known for his portrayal of the character Clark Griswold in four National Lampoon films. Early life and career Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase in Lower Manhattan, New York City. His father, Edward Tinsley ("Ned") Chase, was a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. His mother, Cathalene Parker (née Browning), a concert pianist and librettist, was the daughter of Miles Browning, who served a critical rol... Biography of Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are still studied and performed worldwide. Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence before the House Un-American Activities Committee, being the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among other awards, and for marrying Marilyn Monroe. At the time of his death, Miller was considered one of the greatest American playwrights. Early life Arthur Miller was born to moderately affluent Jewish-American parents, Isidore and Augu... Biography of Lynette Fromme
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. After serving 34 years in custody, she was released from prison on August 14, 2009. Early life Fromme was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of William Millar Fromme, an aeronautical engineer, and Helen Benzinger, a homemaker. As a child, Fromme was a performer for a popular local dance group called the Westchester Lariats, which in the late 1950s began touring the U.S. and Europe, appearing on The Lawrence Welk Show and at the White House. Fromme was in the 1959 tour. In 1963, the family moved to Redondo Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, in the South Bay, and Fromme ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Gérald de Palmas
Gérald De Palmas (born Gérald Gardrinier, on October 14, 1967 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French singer. His father was a land surveyor from France and his mother was a French teacher from Réunion. At the age of 10, De Palmas' family left Réunion, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France. At the age of 13, he discovered ska music, and became a fan of the UK band The Specials. Then he met Étienne Daho and formed a group called Les Max Valentins. But De Palmas was uncomfortable with this group, and went solo. After 7 years of writing and singing solo, Da Palmas won a talent contest on the French M6 TV network. In 1994, he released his first album La dernière Année (The Last Year), which contains the hit song Sur la Route (On the Road). He won a Victoires de la Musique award in 1996. De Pal... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Kevin Sorbo
Kevin Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor probably best known for the role of Hercules on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Early life Born in Mound, Minnesota and educated at then-Moorhead State University he worked as a model for print and television advertising in the 1980s. He then made guest appearances in several television series such as Murder She Wrote and The Commish. He was considered for and lost out to Dean Cain as Superman in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and was a possible contender for the role of Agent Mulder in The X Files which went to David Duchovny. Career He became famous when he landed the role of Hercules in several television films and then played the role regularly in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys from 1995 ... Biography of Emeril Lagasse
Emeril John Lagasse (born October 15, 1959, Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as "kick it up a notch" and "BAM!" He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts. The "Emeril Empire" of media, products and restaurants generates an estimated USD$150 million annually in revenue. Lagasse was born in Fall River, Massachusetts to his Canadian Québécois father, Emeril and Portuguese mother Hilda. He worked in a Portuguese bakery as a teenager where he discovered his talent for cooking and subsequently enrolled in a culinary ... Biography of Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Italian Doctor of the Catholic Church, spiritual writer, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer or Redemptorists, an influential religious order.... Biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, FRSC (18 October 1919 – 28 September 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, dominated the Canadian political scene and aroused passionate reactions. "He haunts us still," biographers Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson wrote. Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect. They salute his political acumen in preserving national unity and establishing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within Canada's constitution. Detractors fault Trudeau for poor administrative practices, arrogance, and lack of understa... Biography of Diana Dors
Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was an English actress and sex symbol. She was born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England. She was considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. She also had significant acting ability, which was destined never to be fully utilised (most of her later work is made up of sex-themed comedies that featured scenes near to soft-core pornography). Her success was such that, aged 20, she was the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the UK. According to film buffs, her best work as an actress may have been when she played a murderess in the 1956 film Yield to the Night. She was also willing to play repulsive characters in such films as The Amazing Mr. Blunden and Timon of Athens. Dors never had quite the same fo... Biography of Reynald Pedros
Reynald Pedros (born October 10, 1971 in Orléans, France) is a French footballer of Portuguese descent. He is a left-footed attacking midfielder, formed in Nantes. He was part of the magic trio of FC Nantes with Patrice Loko and Nicolas Ouédec. He currently plays for Sud Nivernais Imphy Decize, a club in CFA2. Petros is not a talkative player, but is known for speaking out wisely when things are not moving in the correct direction for him. He won the Ligue 1 with Nantes in 1995 and the French Cup in the same year. This year also led him to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Before Euro 96, he was considered one of the best French midfielders, on par with Zinedine Zidane. However, the Euro 96 semi-final, against the Czech Republic, came to a draw. The game went through ext... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (born 12 October 1907 in Paris, died 29 September 1989, Paris) was a lawyer and French nationalist politician. He was a candidate in the 1965 French presidential election when his campaign manager was Jean-Marie Le Pen. He won 1,260,208 votes, which was 5.2% of the total, giving him fourth place after De Gaulle, Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet. In the second round, he supported François Mitterrand. He was general-assistant secretary on Information for the État français (the Vichy government). Deputy of Basses-Pyrénées from 1936 to 1940, he was re-elected in 1956 and sat at the National Assembly during two last years of the Fourth Republic. He was not affiliated to any of the parliamentary groups. He was a candidate of liste républicaine d'action sociale et pays... Biography of Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (October 7, 1934 – May 9, 1976) was a German left-wing militant and co-founder of the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) after originally working as a journalist for the monthly magazine konkret. Early life Ulrike Meinhof was born in 1934 in Oldenburg. In 1936, her family moved to Jena when her father, art historian Dr. Werner Meinhof, became director of the city's museum. Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in a boarder, Renate Riemeck, to make money. In 1946 the family moved back to Oldenburg because Jena fell under Soviet rule as a result of the Yalta agreement. Ulrike's mother, Dr. Ingeborg Meinhof (maiden name unknown at present), who worked as a teacher after World War II, passed away 8 years later from cancer. Renate Riemeck too... Biography of Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. Life Early life and education Eliot was born into the prominent Eliot family of St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis; his mot... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Lal Bahadur Shashtri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindi लालबहादुर शास्त्री) (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the second Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement. Early life and freedom struggle Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh as Lal Bahadur Srivastava. His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad. When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home. Lal Bahadur's parents lodged a complaint w... Biography of Shelley Ackerman
Shelley Ackerman (born October 14, 1953 in Manhattan), is an American astrologer, writer, actress and singer. An avid and accomplished researcher, she specializes in creative, cultural, humanistic, and political astrology and is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television news and entertainment shows. Acting Ackerman grew up on New York’s Lower East Side and graduated with honors from the High School of Music and Art at age 16 in 1970. She began her career at age 17 as a comedic singer (and waitress) at The Improvisation and at age 19 at Catch a Rising Star in New York. She worked at both through the early 1980's, and at the same time performed in NY's major cabaret rooms including: The NY Playboy Club, The Continental Baths, Reno Sweeney's (where she was the opening act f... Biography of Peter Blake
Sir Peter Blake, KBE (October 1, 1948–December 6, 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country to two successive America’s Cup victories. He previously won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, and the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza. Blake was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 for services to yachting, and received a honorary doctorate in 2000 from AUT University. He was murdered by pirates on 6 December 2001 during an environmental exploration trip in South America. Whitbread Round the World Race Blake is the only sailor to have taken part in the first five Whitbread Round the World races. In the 1977–78 race, he rejoined Les Will... Biography of Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuˡseʁ) (October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a lifelong member and sometimes strong critic of the French Communist Party. His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical foundations of Marxism. These included both the influence of empiricism on Marxist theory, and humanist and democratic socialist orientations which manifested as divisions in the European Communist Parties, as well as the problem of the 'cult of personality' and of ideology itself. Althusser is commonly referred to as a Structural Marxist, although his rela... Biography of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, also known as Prince Johan Friso (Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David), Count of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg (born September 25, 1968 (birth time source: http://nos.nl/video/6154-geboorte-prins-johan-friso.html 1.36mn)), is the second son of HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and HRH Prince Claus of the Netherlands. Until his marriage in 2004, he had been third in line for the throne. His godparents are HM King Harald V of Norway, HH Johan Christian Baron von Jenisch, Dr. J.H. von Royen, HM Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Christina von Amsberg. Education and work The Prince studied in 1988 mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1988 to 1994 at Delft University of Technology, were he obtained a MSc in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician and, more recently, television presenter and novelist. She is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald and a Privy Counsellor. She is a prominent member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and an outspoken supporter of traditional family values. Early life Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence Civil Servant. She attended the Royal Navy School, Singapore, and a Convent School in Bath. She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). She worked for Unilever (1973-75) and then as an administrator at the University of London (1975-87) before entering parliame... Biography of Frederick West
Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995), better known as Fred West, was an English serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he and his wife Rosemary tortured, raped and murdered at least 12 young women, many at the couple's homes. The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and September 1979 at the couple's home in Gloucester. Rose also murdered West's daughter Charmaine while he was serving a prison sentence for theft. Early life Fred West was born in Bickerton Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, to Walter Stephen West and Daisy Hannah Hill, a poor family of farm workers. He was the first of their seven children (Walter had been married before, in 1937 at the age of 23 to Gertrude Maddocks, who died after being stung by a bee in 1939). It is b... Biography of Jennifer Rush
Jennifer Rush is an New York, American based Pop/Rock and Adult Contemporary singer, best known for the million-selling single "The Power of Love" (1985). Career Born Heidi Stern, September 28, 1960 in Queens, New York, she spent her childhood in both New York and Germany. She recorded her first album Heidi Stern in 1979, but it did not get much attention. In 1982, she moved back to Wiesbaden, Germany with her father, Maurice Stern, an opera singer, trying to establish a career as a singer. Over the next several years she scored hits around Europe with the songs like "25 Lovers", "Flames of paradise", "Ring of Ice", "Destiny", "If You're Ever Gonna Lose My Love" and "I Come Undone". Her single "The Power Of Love" was the biggest hit of 1985 in the UK, and was listed in the Guinness ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Marilyn Bell
Marilyn Bell, (born October 19, 1937) is a retired Canadian long distance swimmer, born in Toronto. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. On September 8, 1954, Bell started her swim across Lake Ontario from Youngstown, New York to Toronto at virtually the same time as world famous American long-distance swimmer, Florence Chadwick. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto had offered Chadwick $10,000 to swim the lake as a publicity effort for the annual exhibition. Bell, who felt the offer snubbed Canadian swimmers, took on the challenge without pay. After several hours, Chadwick was forced to give up with stomach pains and vomiting while 16-year-old Bell became the first person ever to swim the thirty-two-mile (52 km) distance when she arrived in Toronto the nex... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Sheila Martines
Sheila Martines, born September 27, 1955 in Boston, is an American journalist and TV reporter. She co hosts the Evening News Magazine.... Guy Roux born October 18, 1938 Sandie Cochepain born October 20, 1971 Suzanne Valadon born September 23, 1865 Hal Sparks born September 25, 1969 Martin Kemp born October 10, 1961 Richard Meier born October 12, 1934 Jan Sharrock born October 9, 1942 Hans Geisler born October 12, 1910 Frank Herbert born October 8, 1920 Daniel Picouly born October 21, 1948 Günter Grass born October 16, 1927 Karl Hofer born October 11, 1878 John Zook born September 24, 1947 Miguel de Unamuno born September 29, 1864 Firmine Richard born September 25, 1947 Holger Drachmann born October 9, 1846 Frances Sakoian born October 8, 1912 Pamela Lynn Gergely born October 13, 1957 Chester A. Arthur born October 5, 1829 Walther Rathenau born September 29, 1867 Christel Pascal-Saioni born October 6, 1973 Lillie Langtry born October 13, 1853 Marcello Abbado born October 7, 1926 Jeff Barnd born October 22, 1957 Mark McGwire born October 1, 1963 Gilles Delamare born October 14, 1924 Paul Reynaud born October 15, 1878 William Penn born October 14, 1644 Birthe Kirk born October 22, 1942 Alain Carrier born October 14, 1924 Daniel Giamario born October 10, 1948 Laure Surville born September 29, 1800 Paul Edward Anderson born October 17, 1932 Vinícius de Moraes born October 19, 1913 Jean-Jacques Aillagon born October 2, 1946 Léon Boëllmann born September 25, 1862 Floris d'Orange-Nassau born October 4, 1975 Charles Floquet born October 2, 1828 Karl G. 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