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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Capricorn. 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 (37 fans)Biography of Ramana Maharshi
Sri Ramana Maharshi (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950) was a Hindu Sage. He primarily advocated Self-enquiry (Atma-Vichara) to attain spiritual realization. Life Family Background Sri Ramana was the second of four children of Sundaram Iyer and Azhagammal, and named Venkataraman at birth. He was born in a village called Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, South India on the day of Ardra Darshanam. The other siblings were Nagaswamy (1877-1900), Nagasundaram (1886-1953) and sister Alamelu (1891/92-1953). Venkataraman's father was a pleader who died in 1892 at the age of 47, when Venkataraman was twelve, so he moved to his paternal uncle Subbaiyar's house in Madurai, where he attended Scott’s Middle School and the American Mission High School. The Awakening At the age of si... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Omar Sy
Omar Sy (born 22 January 1978) is a French film actor, best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in Intouchables, written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, which became the second highest grossing French film of all time in the French box office. He received the César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in Intouchables (beating Jean Dujardin of The Artist). Filmography Granturismo (2000) La Tour Montparnasse Infernale (2001) La concierge est dans l'ascenseur (2001) Omar et Fred (2001) TV SERIES also Writer The Race (2002) Ces jours heureux (2002) Le boulet (2002) Samouraïs (2002) Si j'étais lui (2002) Telefilm La beuze (2003) Coming-out (2004) Le carton (2004) ... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Rod Stewart
Roderick David Stewart, CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a Scottish / English singer born and raised in London. He describes himself as a "Scottish rock singer", owing to his parentage. He considers himself as a true Scot. He was a member of the The Jeff Beck Group and the Faces. He was also briefly in a band entitled Roddy Rod and the Dynamic Duo with fellow band members Mark McCallister and Sammy Pierce before embarking on a solo career. His wife is model Penny Lancaster. With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has achieved numerous hit singles worldwide, most notably in the UK, where his tally of 62 hit singles includes 24 that went Top 10, of which six went all the way to number one. It has been estimated that Stewart's album and single sales total more than 250 million, easi... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev (born Nina Constantinova Dobreva; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress, instrumentalist, and model. She has played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother on Degrassi: The Next Generation, since the show's sixth season. She currently stars as Elena Gilbert in the TV series The Vampire Diaries. Early life Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and moved to Canada at the age of two. She lived in Toronto, Ontario, until her relocation to Atlanta, Georgia for her job. Her mother is an artist while her father is a computer specialist. She has one older brother, Alexander, who is studying to become an engineer. She attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario. From a very young age, she showed gre... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include The Petrified Forest (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African Queen (1951) (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Sabrina (1954), We're No Angels (1955), and The Lef... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari. His books Difference and Repetition (1968) and The Logic of Sense (1969) led Michel Foucault to declare that "one day, perhaps, this century will be called Deleuzian." (Deleuze, for his part, said Foucault's comment was "a joke meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid.") Deleuze was born in Paris and lived there for most his life. His initial schooling was undertaken during ... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever (childbed), and he created the first vaccine for rabies. He is best known to the general public for showing how to stop milk and wine from going sour - this process came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of bacteriology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch. He also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the asymmetry of crystals. Early life and biography Louis Jean Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole in the Jura region of France and grew up in the town of Arbois. There ... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland) is the keyboardist and main songwriter in the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side project is the gothic-doom metal band For My Pain.... He currently plays in the band of Timo Rautiainen. Holopainen started studying in a music college majoring in clarinet and minoring in piano. He has played various kinds of music, including classical, jazz and metal. He played in several bands, including recording keyboards for three albums with the black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed, before coming up with the idea for a band of his own, where he would write all the music. That was the birth of Nightwish in July of 1996, aroun... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Born Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, he grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started painting during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis, and discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it. In 1891 he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian and became a student of Willi... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is an Oscar, BRIT, Grammy and Golden Globe award-winning Scottish pop musician and vocalist. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the duo Eurythmics, often hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" (VH1, 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll 1999) Life and career Ann Lennox was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls (now Harlaw Academy). She was educated as a classical musician and studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her time at the Royal Academy was not entirely happy for her. Her flute teacher's final report stated: "Ann has not always been sure of where to direct her efforts, though latterly she has been more committed. She is very, very able, however." Two years later Le... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. Lawson was born to Nigel Lawson, who would become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Salmon, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. empire. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started to work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, Lawson brought out her first cookery book, How to Eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a bestseller. She went on to write her second book in 2000, How to be a Domestic Goddess, winning her the British Book Award for Author of The Year. ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாச ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician who is considered to be amongst the most talented mathematicians in recent history. With almost no formal training in pure mathematics, Ramanujan made substantial contributions in the areas of analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. Ramanujan, born and raised in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, first encountered formal mathematics at age ten. He demonstrated a natural ability at math, and he was given books on advanced trigonometry by S. L. Loney. He mastered the book by age thirteen, and he even discovered his own theorems. He demonstrated h... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (January 17 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible. Franklin was noted for his curiosity, his writings (popular, political and scientific), and his diversity of interests. As a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and i... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Olivia Ruiz
Olivia Ruiz (born Olivia Blanc; 1 January 1980) is a female French singer. She was featured in the French TV show Star Academy. Discography Albums 2003 : J'aime pas l'Amour, directed by Iso Diop & Mitch Olivier 2005 : La Femme Chocolat, directed by Alain Cluzeau, Mathias Malzieu (Dionysos) & Olivia Ruiz... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Bernadette Soubirous
Saint Bernadette, born Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879), was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in Occitania, in southern France. Her real Occitan name is Maria Bernada Soubirous, aka Bernadeta (little Bernada). From February to July 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a Lady." Despite initial skepticism from the Roman Catholic Church, these claims were eventually declared to be worthy of belief after a canonical investigation. After her death, Bernadette's body remained "incorruptible", and the shrine at Lourdes went on to become a major site for pilgrimage, attracting millions of Catholics each year. In 1933 she was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Bernadette's life Bernadette (the sobriquet by which she was universally known... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress. After appearing in 1998's The Horse Whisperer, Bosworth became well known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush, and has since appeared in several notable films, including Superman Returns, where she played Lois Lane. Early life Born Catherine Ann Bosworth in Van Nuys, California as the only child of Hal Bosworth, an executive for Talbots, and Patricia Potter, a homemaker. She was born with sectoral heterochromia, resulting in a hazel section at the bottom of her right blue eye, while the left is completely blue. After leaving San Francisco at the age of six, Bosworth's family frequently moved around the country because of her father's job, and she grew up mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Darien,... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Stern hosts The Howard Stern Show four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor. Stern has said that the show was never about shocking people, but primarily intended to offer his honest opinions on a gamut of issues (ranging from world affairs to problems among his own staff). Though controversial, he is the highest-paid radio personality in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast hist... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Lulu Gainsbourg
Lulu Gainsbourg, born Lucien Gainsbourg on January 5, 1986 in Paris is a French musician and composer, the son of musician Serge Gainsbourg and Bambou, his latest wife.... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of LeBron James
LeBron Raymone James (born December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). James, commonly nicknamed "King James," was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while still in high school at St. Vincent - St. Mary High School, and was named Ohio's "Mr. Basketball" three times. At the age of 18, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers and signed an US$90 million shoe contract with Nike before his NBA debut. He has since set numerous youngest player records. During his first season, he received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award and in the following four seasons received All-NBA and All-Star honors. He has led the C... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jean-Luc Lahaye
Jean-Luc Lahaye is a French singer and TV host.... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Liam Hemsworth
Liam Hemsworth (born 13 January 1990) is an Australian actor. He took the role of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and as "Marcus" on the children's television series The Elephant Princess and appeared in the American film The Last Song, released on 31 March 2010. Hemsworth's elder brothers, Luke and Chris, are also actors and provided a path for Hemsworth to emulate. Career Prior to becoming an actor, Hemsworth laid floors for six months. He began to seriously consider following his elder brothers' footsteps and become an actor in high school, when he took on an agent. He attended his first audition at the age of sixteen and began his career in 2007 with guest spots on the shows Home and Away and McLeod's Daughters. The week of 8 July 2007, Hemsworth began filming episodes f... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (born January 1, 1959 in Argentan, Orne, France) is a French philosopher. Born to a family of Norman farmers, he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He taught this subject to senior students at a technical high school in Caen between 1983 and 2002, before establishing the Université populaire de Caen on a free-of-charge basis, for which he wrote a manifesto in 2004 (La communauté philosophique). After suffering a heart attack aged 28 and being advised to change his diet, Onfray replied that he "preferred to die eating butter than to economize existence with margarine." The episode led him to write his first book, Le Ventre des philosophes, or The Stomach of the Philosophers, about the eating habits of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, and how it is reflected in thei... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Joëlle de Gravelaine
French writer and astrologer.... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of LL Cool J
James Todd Smith III (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J, is an American hip hop artist and actor. He is best known for romantic ballads like "I Need Love" as well as pioneering pop rap like "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "Boomin' System", and "Mama Said Knock You Out" "4, 3, 2, 1". He has also appeared in several films. LL Cool J is one of a few hip-hop stars of his era to sustain a successful recording career for more than two decades. He has released 12 albums and a greatest hits compilation so far, with his next album, Exit 13, set to be released September 4, 2007. The album will be the last for LL's record deal with Def Jam Recordings, a deal which has lasted for over twenty two years, making it the longest single hip hop deal to date. LL Cool J stands for ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Beatriz Luengo
Beatriz Luengo (born December 23, 1982 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish actress, singer and dancer. She released her first album Mi Generación in 2005. Beatriz Luengo was born in Madrid on 23 December 1982. The daughter of Angelines and Juan, she grew up and lived in the district of Hortaleza. In her free time, she played in the district basketball team and, in spite of her height, was the best player. She considered herself like Chicho Terremoto, small but brave. It was not until she was six years old that she began to be interested in show business, after seeing a TV broadcast of the musical Cabaret starring Liza Minelli, who became a role model for her and has remained so. She studied until COU and made interpretation studies. She has specialized in singing with the best teachers. H... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Thérèse of Lisieux
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face"), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonized as a saint, and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church. She is also known by many as "The Little Flower of Jesus." Early life St. Thérèse de Lisieux was born in Alençon, France, the daughter of Louis Martin, a watchmaker, and Zélie-Marie Guérin, a lacemaker. Both her parents were very religious. Louis had attempted to become a monk, but a lack of knowledge of Latin hindered him. Zélie-Marie had tried to become a nun, but was told she didn't have the vocation. Instead, she vowed that if she married, she would give ... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (Dr. McDreamy) on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. During the 2000s, he also appeared in several film roles, including The Emperor's Club and Freedom Writers. Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m) Early life An Irish American, Dempsey was born in Lewiston, Maine and grew up in Turner, Maine, the youngest of three children born to Amanda and William Dempsey. Dempsey attended St. Dominic Regional High School for his senior year, where his mother worked as a secretary, but dropped out before he graduated. He was an adept juggler, tying for second in a national juggling competiti... Add to favourites (42 fans)Biography of Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis. Miller was born to tailor Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Neiting, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City, of German Catholic heritage. As a child he lived at 662 Driggs Avenue i... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip hop beats, soul, and funk propelled the group's 1992 debut album Born into the '90s to platinum status. After leaving the group in 1993, he became one of the top-selling musical acts of the nineties. Kelly's songs often include explicit sexual references, such as "Bump N' Grind", "Feelin' on Yo Booty", and "Ignition" (Remix). Kelly has also had hits such as "I Believe I Can Fly", "I'm Your Angel" (the Grammy Award-nominated duet with Céline Dion), "If I Could Turn Back the Hands... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford) – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, she first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Guy Corneau
Guy Corneau, born January 13, 1951 in Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a Canadian psychanalist and writer. Awards 2004 - Prix Abitibi-Consolidated, prix des lecteurs Bibliography Père manquant, fils manqué. (Éditions de l'Homme, 1989) Comme un cri du cœur. avec e.a. Hubert Reeves, Albert Jacquard (Éditions l'Essentiel, 1992) L'amour en guerre (Éditions de l'Homme, 1996) N'y a-t-il pas d'amour heureux ? (Robert Laffont, 1997) La guérison du cœur (Éditions de l’Homme et Éd. R. Laffont, 2000) Avant-propos de Quand les hommes parlent de Patrick Guillot (Éditions Le Souffle d'Or, 2002) Victime des autres, bourreau de soi-même. (Robert Laffont, 2003) Le meilleur de soi. (Robert Laffont, 2006)... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Jean Échenoz
Jean Echenoz (born December 26, 1947 in Orange, France) is a French writer. Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970. He published his first book, Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979. He has published twelve novels to date and received about ten literary prizes, including the prix Médicis 1983 for Cherokee, the prix Goncourt 1999 for Je m'en vais, and the prix Aristeion for Lac. Bibliography Le méridien de Greenwich (Minuit, 1979) Cherokee (Minuit, 1983) Cherokee--Godine 1987 L'équipée malaise (Minuit, 1986) Double Jeopardy--Godine 1993 L'occupation des sols (Minuit, 1988) Lac (Minuit, 1989) Chopin's Move--Dalkey Archive 2004 Ayez des amis, p. 49-70 in "New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne" (Minuit, 1... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. Faithfull's early work in pop and rock music was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long absence, she returned with the landmark album, Broken English. With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie, Patrick Wolf, Beck, Sly and Robbie, The Chieftains, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Rupert Hine, Metallica and Roger Waters. Faithfull's subsequent solo work, often critically acclaimed, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history. Born Marian Evelyn ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Laly Meignan
French actress.... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of George Gurdjieff
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев, Georgiy Ivanovich Gyurdzhiev (or Gurdjiev); (January 13, 1866? – October 29, 1949), was a Greek-Armenian mystic, a teacher of sacred dances, and a spiritual teacher, most notable for introducing the Fourth Way. At different times in his life he formed and liquidated various schools around the world to utilize his teachings. He claimed that the teachings he brought to the West from his own experiences and early travels expressed the truth found in other ancient religions and wisdom teachings relating to self-awareness in one's daily life and humanity's place in the universe. It might be summed up by ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 (birth time source: Steinbrecher)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer. She attended the University of Florida and Boston University, and joined the American National Theatre and Academy in 1962. Career Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of René Angélil
René Angélil (born January 16, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian of Syrian ancestry. He is the husband and manager of singer Céline Dion. He studied in the Collège Grasset and Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur in Outremont, Montreal. He started out as a pop singer in the 1960s in Montréal, Angélil formed a pop rock group, "The Baronets", with childhood friend Pierre Labelle and Jean Beaulne, who were known as "Quebec's Beatles." This group had some hits in the 1960's as "C'est Fou, Mais c'est Tout" (a translation of the Beatles' song "Hold Me Tight") catering to the short-lived Québec market for translations of English language pop hits from the United Kingdom or the United States. After the dissolution of the group, René Angélil began managing artists. He managed the career of ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Jérôme Kerviel
Jérôme Kerviel (French pronunciation: ; born 11 January 1977 (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun)) is a French trader who has a pending appeal of his conviction in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident for breach of trust, forgery and unauthorized use of the bank's computers, resulting in losses valued at €4.9 billion. Société Générale characterizes Kerviel as a rogue trader and claims Kerviel worked these trades alone and without its authorization. These assertions have been met with skepticism by some of Kerviel's former colleagues and acquaintances, as well as by some members of the news media. Kerviel had told investigators that his trading behavior was widespread at the company and that getting a profit makes the hierarchy turn a blind eye. Kerviel published a book i... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, and the thirty-sixth Vice President of the United States in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific, before being elected to the Congress, and later serving as Vice President. After an unsuccessful presidential run in 1960, Nixon was elected in 1968. Under President Nixon, the United States followed a foreign policy marked by détente with the Soviet Union and by the opening of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. His centrist domestic policies combined conservative rhetoric and liberal action in civil rights, environmental and eco... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 – April 15, 1764) was a well known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France. Early life Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson on December 29, 1721 in 18th century Paris. It is suspected that her biological father was the rich financier Le Normant de Tournehem, who became her legal guardian when her official father was forced to leave the country in 1725 after a scandal. Her younger brother was Abel-François Poisson de Vandières (who would later become the Marquis de Marigny). She was intelligent, beautiful, and educated; she also learned to dance, engrave and play the clavichord. She was married in 1741 (at the age of 19) to Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Etiolles, nephew of her guardian. With him, she had t... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Maria Ozawa
Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア, Ozawa Maria?), who used the name Miyabi (みやび?) early in her career, is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress known in Japan as an AV idol. Life and career Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan on January 8, 1986. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French-Canadian. Since she attended an international school from Primary School to High School, she claims that her English reading and writing ability is better than her Japanese. While at school, she played hockey every day, and often went to karaoke after class. Ozawa had her first sexual experience at the age of 13, and learned the "48 sexual positions" through a book that she bought herself. In 2002, while still in high school, Ozawa appeared in a short (30 s... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Peter Steele
Peter Thomas Ratajczyk (January 4, 1962 (birth time source: email on April 15, 2013) – April 14, 2010), better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, he had created the metal group Fallout and the thrash band Carnivore. As the frontman for Type O Negative, Steele was known for his vampiric effect, towering stature, rich bass-baritone vocals, and a dark, often self-deprecating sense of humor. "His lyrics were often intensely personal, dealing with subjects including love, loss, and addiction." Steele credited Black Sabbath and The Beatles as his key musical inspirations. Early life Steele was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn into a Roman Catholic family. His father was of ... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Mackenzie Rosman
Mackenzie Ryann Rosman (born December 28, 1989) is an American child actress. She is best known for her role as Ruthie Camden on The CW's 7th Heaven. Rosman was born in Charleston, South Carolina and has some Cherokee Indian ancestry. In 1996, she got the part of Ruthie Camden on 7th Heaven by personally greeting each person in the room by a hand-shake during her audition. In addition to her role on 7th Heaven, Rosman appeared in the independent film Gideon, starring Christopher Lambert, Charlton Heston and Shelley Winters. She has appeared in numerous television commercials starting at age four including a Tuff's Diaper commercial and a Nike shoe commercial. Her most recent commercial was Kmart advertisement that she did with 7H co-star Beverley Mitchell and George Stults. She also pla... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Yvan Attal
Yvan Attal (born January 4, 1965) is a Israeli Born-French actor and director. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the Paris suburbs. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié (1989), which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as director was Ma femme est une actrice (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life wife. They have two children: Ben and Alice. He also acted in The Interpreter. He has also dubbed the voice of Tom Cruise in the French versions of Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Vanilla Sky (2001).... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Sandra Lou
Sandra Bretonès, best known as Sandra Lou, is a French actress, singer and TV host, born December 24, 1980 in Calais. She was Miss World-France in 1999 and Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais before. Discography 2003 : Le Banana split (single) Filmography 2001 : Le groupe : Sandra Girard (TV) 2003 : Même âge, même adresse (TV) 2008 : Sous le Soleil (TV)... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Hermann Goering
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide. Last commander of Manfred von Richthofen's famous air squadron, Göring was a war hero of World War I and for continuous courage in action was awarded the coveted Pour le Mérite.... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Sandrine Quétier
Sandrine Quétier, born December 30, 1970, is a French TV host. She works for TF1 (4 minutes inside, 50 minutes inside, E! Entertainment and some TV show, since 1994).... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Richard Bohringer
Richard Bohringer (16 January 1942 in Moulins, Allier) is a French actor. He was born in Moulins, Allier. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer. He has 2 other children : Richard and Lou. He also is a musician, a writer (and a poet). Apart from being an actor, he also has produced or directed some movies. Filmography Actor * 1970 : La Maison, de Gérard Brach : Un ami de Loraine * 1973 : L'Italien des roses, de Charles Matton : Raymond, l'Italien * 1976 : Les Conquistadores, de Marco Pauly : Jean-Pierre * 1977 : L'Animal, de Claude Zidi : Un assistant de Sergio * 1979 : Martin et Léa, d'Alain Cavalier : Lucien * 1980 : Alors heureux ?, de Claude Barrois : Le médecin-chef * 1980 : Les Sous-doués, de Claude Zidi : Le pion * 1980 ... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. Stipe and the other members of R.E.M. are known as pioneers of alternative rock and are credited with having inspired many of the acts that went on to make up the 1990s' alternative music scene including Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Radiohead. Career Stipe met Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills in 1980 while studying photography and painting at the University of Georgia. They formed R.E.M. that year and issued their debut single, "Radio Free Europe", on Hib-Tone. The song was a college radio succ... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark to an upper middle-class family. A tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at age seventeen to pursue his training, but instead of playing tennis, he ended up as a drummer. After publishing an advertisement in a local Los Angeles newspaper called The Recycler, he met James Hetfield and created Metallica. Lars's father, Torben Ulrich, who was an acclaimed tennis pro from the late 1940s into the early 1980s, was also a musician, playing jazz with such giants as Stan Getz and Miles Davis; legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon is Ulrich's godfather. In February 1973, Torben Ulrich obtained five passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert th... |
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