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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Leo. 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 (10 fans)Biography of Pete Burns
Peter "Pete" Burns (b. August 5, 1959, Port Sunlight, Wirral, England (birth time source: Celebrity Big Brother 2006) is a British singer/songwriter and the frontman of the Hi-NRG band Dead or Alive, most famous for their number one single, "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" in 1985. His father is English and his mother was from Heidelberg in Germany. While building his career, Burns worked at a Liverpool city centre record shop, Probe, that became a meeting-place for musical hopefuls of the time. Before forming Dead or Alive, he was a member of the short-lived Mystery Girls, and then Nightmares in Wax, an early proto-Goth, semi-punk group that formed in Liverpool around 1974. Nightmares in Wax put out a 12" single, "Black Leather", and a 7" single, "Birth of a Nation", each containing... Biography of Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milošević 20 August 1941 – The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and then as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led Serbia's Socialist Party from its foundation in 1990. He is from the Vasojevići Montenegrin clan. He was one of the key figures in the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s and Kosovo War in 1999. He was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half after... Biography of François Pinault
François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR. He lives in France and is married with four children. He is a friend of previous French President Jacques Chirac. According to Forbes List of billionaires (2007) he was ranked 34th, with an estimated fortune of US$14.5 billion. His holding company Artemis S.A., owns (or owned), among others, Converse sneakers, Samsonite luggage, the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, and Christie's auction house. Artemis also owns Executive Life (now Aurora Life) in California, which was sued by policy holders when the company failed. On March 9, 2007, it was announced that Pinault's son François-Henri Pinault and Mexican actress Salma Hayek are engaged and expecting their first child together. Gu... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of François Besse
François Besse is a French criminal born July 25, 1944 in Cognac. He became a philosopher in jail. Master-criminal and master-escaper and only 1.5 metres tall and as neat as a village clergyman, "Le Petit François" looked too frail to carry the heavy calibre pistol he used in hold-ups and to exchange fire with the police. Besse is being tried in Paris for six crimes committed between 1976 and 1986, including an attack on Deauville casino, and his 1978 breakout from La Santé prison in Paris. Forty years after being given his first taste of jail for petty crimes, Besse has found the ideal atmosphere for study. He is taking a university course in philosophy and has become a sound engineer.... Biography of Anémone (actress)
Anne Bourguignon, best known as Anemone, is a French actress and screenwriter, born August 9, 1950 in Paris. Filmography 1968 : Anémone de Philippe Garrel (sous le nom d'Anne Bourguignon) 1969 : Je. Tu. Elles de Peter Foldes 1970 : La Maison de Gérard Brach 1975 : L'Incorrigible de Philippe de Broca : La première prostituée 1975 : Attention les yeux ! de Gérard Pirès : Eva 1976 : Le Couple témoin de William Klein : Claudine 1976 : L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres de Gérard Pirès 1976 : Cours après moi que je t'attrape de Robert Pouret : L'ouvreuse du cinéma 1976 : Un éléphant ça trompe énormément de Yves Robert : la concierge 1977 : Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine de Coluche : La cousine Lucienne 1978 : Vas-y maman de Nicole de Buron : La scripte 1978 :... Biography of Menie Grégoire
Menie Grégoire, born Marie Laurentin August 15, 1919 in Cholet, is a French journalist and writer. Works 1965 : Le Métier de femme, Plon 1966 : La Belle Arsène (roman), Plon 1968 : Menie Grégoire. Passeport de couple, Club Français des bibliophiles 1971 : Les Cris de la vie, Tchou 1972 : Menie Grégoire raconte, Hachette 1976 : Telle que je suis, Laffont 1978 : Les Contes de Menie Grégoire, Nathan, 1981 : Des Passions et des rêves, Laffont 1983 : Tournelune (roman), Flammarion 1985 : Sagesse et folies des Français, Lattès 1987 : Nous aurons le temps de vivre, Plon 1988 : La France et ses immigrés, Carrère 1990 : La Dame du Puy du Fou (roman), éditions de Fallois 1991 : Le Petit Roi du Poitou (roman) 1993 : La Magicienne (roman) 1996 : Le Bien Aimé 1998 : ... Biography of Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Huffman on August 23, 1931 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Early years Eden graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in 1949, and was elected Miss San Francisco, 1951, a preliminary to Miss America. She changed from "Huffman" to "Eden" came at the behest of her manager who thought the name Huffman would not sell in Hollywood. Eden agreed to change her last name, but insisted on keeping her first name, stating that she could not answer to anything else. TV and film roles Eden made featured appearances on popular television shows such as I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, Gunsmoke, ... Biography of Anne Lauvergeon
Anne Lauvergeon (born August 2, 1959 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France), is a French businesswoman, and CEO of Areva. In 2009, she was ranked by the magazine Forbes as the ninth-most powerful woman in the world. Biography In 1978 she attended the École Normale Supérieure to pass the Agrégation in physics. Then she entered the Corps des Mines. In 1983 she enrolled in her first vocational course with the Corps de Mines, in the iron and steel industry, at Usinor. A second vocational course, in 1984, took place with the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, where she studied chemical safety in Europe. From 1985 to 1988, she was with the l'Inspection générale des carrières (IGC). In 1990, she was placed in charge of the mission for the international economy and foreign trade by French President Fra... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s. Height 6' (1.83 m) Life and career Early life and career Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to shipyard and railroad worker James Thomas Mitchum and Ann Harriet Gunderson, a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter. His father was a former soldier and known barroom brawler of Scots-Irish ancestry (on his father's side) and Blackfoot descent (on his mother's side). James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident when Mitchum was eighteen months old, leaving Ann t... Biography of Stepfanie Kramer
Stepfanie Kramer (born August 6, 1956) is an American actress, writer, and singer/songwriter. She is probably best known for her role as the tough-minded detective, "Sgt. Dee Dee McCall," on the NBC TV series Hunter." She has been nominated for an Emmy in Special Class Programming and won the Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress Award, honored by the First Americans in the Arts organization in 1995, 2002, and 2003. She was voted one of the most beautiful women in television in 1988, through a national TV Guide poll of viewers. Kramer has written and directed for television, and is also a singer. Biography Kramer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is part Native American from her mother's side. Her father was a classically-trained violinist and her mother a high-... Biography of David Koresh
David Koresh (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993), (born Vernon Wayne Howell), was the leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be the final prophet, until a 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch. Koresh, 53 adults (including two pregnant women) and 21 children died in the fire. Early life Koresh was born in Houston, Texas to a 14-year-old single mother. Bonnie Sue Clark, his mother, became pregnant with Koresh after having sexual relations with a 20-year-old carpenter named Bobby Howell. The pair remained unmarried. Two years later his father met another woman and left. He never knew his father and was raised by "a harsh stepfather". Koresh d... Biography of Nino Ferrer
Nino Ferrer (born Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari in Genoa, Italy, August 15, 1934, died in Quercy Blanc, Saint-Cyprien Lot, Montcuq, August 13, 1998) was a famous French - Italian singer, actor and jazz musician. From prehistory to jazz The son of bourgeois parents, an Italian father and a French mother, Nino declared having had a pleasant childhood in a cultivated art-loving family. He spent the first five years of his life in New Caledonia where his father, an engineer, worked in a nickel mine. On holiday in France in 1939, Nino and his mother were unable to leave Europe because of the World War II. While his father carried on working in New Caledonia, they spent difficult years stuck and penniless in Italy, where Nino’s mother was considered the wife of an enemy. In 1947, the... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Boris Cyrulnik
Boris Cyrulnik is a French doctor, psychologist and neuropsychiatrist, born July 26, 1937 in Bordeaux.... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ernie Dingo
Ernie Dingo (born 31 July 1956) is a Yamatji from the Maheleny region of Western Australia. The actor and television personality is a household name throughout Australia. Born on Bullardoo Station, a cattle station in the region, he was the second child of nine. He grew up in Mullewa with his family. He went to Mullewa Primary School and then Geraldton High School. He came to acting after moving to Perth and meeting Richard Walley, also a Yamatji man, with whom he played basketball in a local team. Ernie went on to play state league first division for the East Perth Eagles. He has been the host of the popular holiday destination program The Great Outdoors since 1993. He has appeared in many Australian television series such as The Flying Doctors, Heartbreak High and Rafferty's Rul... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Max Heindel
Max Heindel - born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. He died on January 6, 1919 at Oceanside, California, United States. Among the students of his teachings, he is said to be the greatest western mystic of the twentieth century. Early infancy He was born of the royal family of Von Grasshoffs, who were connected with the German Court during the lifetime of Prince Bismark. The father of Max Heindel, Francois L. von Grasshoff, migrated, when quite a young man, to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he married a Danish woman of noble birth. They had two sons and one daughter. The oldest of these sons was Carl Louis Von Grasshoff, who later adopted the pen name of Max Heindel. The father died when the eldest son was six ... Biography of Dominique Fidanza
Dominique Fidanza, also known as Domy Fidanza, is a Belgian singer born August 7, 1979 in Bruxelles. She was finalist and participated in the Star Academy Tour season 6 of Star Academy.... Biography of Frédéric Diefenthal
Frédéric Diefenthal is a French actor, born July 26, 1968 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne. Filmography 1991 : La Totale ! de Claude Zidi : un voyou 1992 : Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel de Laurence Ferreira Barbosa : Jean 1995 : Douce France de Malik Chibane : Jean-Luc 1995 : Une histoire d'amour à la con d'Henri-Paul Korchia 1996 : Capitaine Conan de Bertrand Tavernier : un sergent à la gare de Bucarest 1998 : Taxi de Gérard Pirès : Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec 1999 : Je veux tout de Guila Braoudé : Philippe 1999 : Taxi 2 de Gérard Krawczyk : Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec 1999 : Six-Pack d'Alain Berbérian : Philippe Saule 2000 : Jeu de cons de Jean-Michel Verner : Skip 2000 : Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre de Jean-Paul Salomé : Martin 2000 : Les Âmes fortes de... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of ... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969) is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He currently wrestles for the SmackDown brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is the reigning WWE Champion. Billed height 6 ft. 4 in. (193 cm) Billed weight 260 lb. (120 kg) Before joining WWE, Levesque began his wrestling career with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1993, wrestling under the ring name Terra Ryzing. He changed his ring name to Jean-Paul Lévesque before joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1995. His initial on-screen persona was that of wealthy sophisticate Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He later changed his name to Triple H and adopted an alternat... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Juanes (musician)
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez best known as Juanes (born August 9, 1972 in Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia) is a Colombian rock musician. During the 1980s and 1990s, Juanes was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis but disbanded the group in 1998 to pursue a solo career. His 2000 solo debut album, Fíjate Bien, had moderate commercial success and went on to win three Latin Grammy Awards. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) His second album, Un Día Normal was certified platinum throughout much of the Spanish-speaking world, and its lead single "A Dios le Pido" topped singles charts in twelve countries. Mi Sangre, his third album, fared equally well with Juanes promoting it on a tour with over 200 performances. The album's third single, "La Camisa Negra", generated controversy after being used ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born Denis Colin Leary on August 18, 1957) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. He is known for his often angry comedic style and his frequent chain smoking. Leary displays an overt affinity for libertarianism. Leary is currently the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me on FX. Height 6' 2" (1.88 m) Early life Denis Leary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Irish Catholic immigrants John Leary (an auto mechanic) and Nora (a maid); Leary holds both Irish and American citizenship. He graduated from Saint Peter-Marian High School in Worcester. Through marriage, Leary is a distant cousin of talk show host Conan O'Brien, and has jokingly said on Late Night with Conan O'Brien that "All Irish people are... Biography of Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (August 16, 1832 – August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. Generally acknowledged as a founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology, he is less commonly recognized as a founding figure of social psychology; the later years of Wundt's life were spent working on Völkerpsychologie, which he understood as a study into the social basis of higher mental functioning. Wundt combined philosophical introspection with techniques and laboratory apparatuses brought over from his physiological studies with Hermann von Helmholtz, as well as many of his own design. This experimental introspection was in contrast to what had been called psychology until then, a branch of philosophy where people introspected themselves. Wundt argued that "we... Biography of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m). Early life Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York, the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a family court judge, lawyer, and civil rights activist, and Gordon S. Hoffman, a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred. Hoffman has Irish ancestry; his father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, and Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to either religious tradition. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old. His first acting role was as Radar O'Riley in Fairport High School's production of MASH directed by Marjorie Marshall in 1982. Hoffman recei... Biography of Marie Tabarly
Marie Tabarly, born August 22, 1984 in Gouesnach, is the daughter of French sailor Eric Tabarly and Jacqueline his wife.... Biography of Oscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González. As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights and started a group which spoke out to the poor and also victims of the country's civil war. Chosen to be archbishop for his conservatism, once in office his conscience led him to embrace a non-violent form of liberation theology, a position that has led to comparisons with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Later, in 1980, he was assassinated by gunshot shortly after his homily. His death provoked international outcry for human rights ref... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Valérie Kaprisky
Valérie Kaprisky (born August 19, 1962) is a French actress. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France. Kaprisky is her mother's maiden name. She appeared in soft-core exploitation (Aphrodite), then made her American debut in the A Bout de Souffle remake Breathless (1983) frolicking with Richard Gere with whom she subsequently had a reportedly-tempestuous affair. The film was critically panned and she returned to filming in her native France. She also appeared in La femme publique (1984) by Andrzej Żuławski. Filmography 1981 : Le Jour se lève et les conneries commencent 1981 : Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses (Men Prefer Fat Girls): A friend of Éva 1982 : Une glace avec deux boules ou je le dis à maman 1982 : Aphrodite ... Biography of David Conrad
David Crawford Conrad (born 17 August 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended The Kiski School, Brown University and The Juilliard School. He is currently starring in Ghost Whisperer alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt and Camryn Manheim. He is best known for roles in Men of Honor and Return to Paradise, as Leo Roth on Relativity, and as Agent Pierce on Roswell. He also played the minor role of Trap in Wedding Crashers. He appeared in Boston Public as Dave Fields. Most recently he has been working on producing a documentary featuring one of the teachers at The Kiski School, Tamas Szilagyi. Filmography 1993 : Darkness (vidéo) : Vampire 1996 : Relativity (série TV) : Leo Roth 1996 : Under Heat : Simon 1997 : Blanch... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 (birth time source: "Elliott Smith And The Big Nothing" by Benjamin Nugent) – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, he resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record l... Biography of Joanna Thomae
Joanna Thomae, born August 21, 1983, is a French model. She was a friend of Michael Jackson.... Biography of Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing". Piaget was born in Neuchâtel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature at the University of Neuchâtel. Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology and the natural world, particularly mollusks, and even published a number of papers before he graduated from high school. In fact, his long career of scientific research began when he was just eleven, with the 1907 publication of a sh... Biography of Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein on August 16, 1953) is an American playwright, singer, songwriter, and actress, famous for her stint on the television talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin for 15 years. So far she has received 11 Emmy nominations. Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Kathie Lee Gifford was born in Paris, France to Aaron Leon Epstein and his wife, Joan. Her father was serving in the United States Navy. She grew up in Bowie, Maryland, in the United States where she was a cheerleader for Bowie High School. One of her grandparents was Jewish and her mother was a Methodist; Gifford grew up in a culturally Jewish environment, but she became a born-again Christian at the age of 12 (after seeing a Christian education fil... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Alyson Stoner
Alyson Rae Stoner (born August 11, 1993 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress and dancer. Early life Alyson Stoner trained at the O'Connell Dance Studio (in Holland, Ohio) and the Margaret O'Brien Modeling Studio. Consequently, she received several awards for acting, modeling, and dance (including the award for best model of the year at the IMTA convention). After choreography training in Los Angeles, Stoner famously appeared as a background dancer in the music video for Missy Elliott's "Work It" and Eminem's "Just Lose It". She danced with a dancing group called the JammXKids between 2003 and 2006. She quit the group in early 2006 due to scheduling conflicts, but continues to work with the individual kids in different jobs. Alyson is now working on music for her debut album. Rumors ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977 in Glendale, California, USA) is an American actor well known for playing young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Danny Vinyard in American History X. Early life Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank, to Eleanor (née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. He is half-Mexican on his mother's side, and also has Russian and possibly Native American ancestry. Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in the summer of 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September of 1991 and subsequently lost it in August 1993, to his mother. Furlong attended Elliot Junior High Sc... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964 in South Bend, IN) is a film and television actress. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) After graduating from Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences, Fox moved to California to become an actress, first on soap operas such as Generations, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. One of her earliest roles saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night. She also appeared as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in film as Will Smith's stripper girlfriend in Independence Day. From there, she was cast in many other films and earned critical acclaim for her role in the 1997 movie Soul Food, which netted her MTV Movie A... Biography of Grégory Fitoussi
Grégory Fitoussi is a French actor born August 13, 1976 in Paris. Filmography Filmographie TELEVISION: -Joséphine ange gardien -papa revient demain -Sous le soleil (1998-2000) -Méditerranée (2001) -Accord et à cris (2002) -La crim’ (2003) -Navarro -Colomba -Confession d'un menteur -Quintette -Ariane Ferry -Engrenage (2005-?) -Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse (2006) --> Maître Vidal -L'état de Grace (2006) --> Le gynécologue -Le chat bleu - Le chat noir COURT-METRAGES: -Convivium -La vache qui rit -Plan B -l’éternité c’est dur, surtout le dernier jour (1999) -Un café …. L’addition (1999) LONG-METRAGES: -Les baigneuses -Doo wop THEATRE: -la ménagerie de verre (1997) -Chroniques des jours entiers et nuits entières (2000)... Biography of Joan Allen
Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956 (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, perhaps known for her roles in the films Nixon, The Contender, The Bourne Supremacy and The Upside of Anger. Early life Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois to James Jefferson Allen, a gas-station owner, and Dorothea Marie Wirth, a homemaker. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976, where she graduated. Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985). ... Biography of Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, was an American professional National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 ft 1 in Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lb as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is credited as being one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA. Height: 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) Weight: 275 lb (125 kg) Chamberlain holds numerous official NBA all-time records, setting records in many scoring, rebounding and durability categories. Among others, ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American physician and Republican Congressman for the 14th congressional district of Texas. Paul serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Committee on Financial Services and is Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy where he has been an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policy. He has gained prominence for his libertarian positions on many political issues, often clashing with both Republican and Democratic Party leaders. Paul has run for President of the United States twice, first in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again in 2008 as a candidate for the Republican nomination. He is the founder of the advocacy group Campa... Biography of Sydney Omarr
Sydney Omarr (5 August 1926 – 2 January 2003) was an astrologer and counsellor to the rich and famous. While he wrote numerous books on the subject of astrology, including “My World of Astrology” and his autobiography “Answer in the Sky”, he is probably the most widely known for his books on the popular Sun Sign astrology that endeavoured to predict a person’s astrological influences based on his 'Sun Sign' - technically derived as the constellation providing the backdrop to the Sunrise on the day of a person's birth (such as Aries, Taurus, etc). He also wrote a daily Sun Sign horoscope column which appeared in more than 200 daily newspapers of the Los Angeles Times syndicate and which was read by millions. It is believed that Sydney Omarr has sold more books on the topic of astrology (ove... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (pronounced ) (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War II Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world. While he is most often associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, his participation in Surrealism was largely behind the scenes, and after being involved in New York Dada, he barely participated in Paris Dada. Thousands of books and articles attempt to interpret Duchamp's artwork and philosophy, but in interviews and his writing, Duchamp only added to the mystery. The interpretations interested him as creations of their own, and as reflections of the interpreter. ... Biography of Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980 in New York City, New York) is a Broadway, film and television actress. She is a Scientologist. A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director/teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. She briefly came under the media spotlight for her two-year (1998-2000) marriage to actor Macaulay Culkin. The marriage was noted for the relatively young age at which the two were wed. Career Television Miner's television credits include Vickie in Shining Time Station: 'Tis A Gift (1990), Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light (1990–1995) and a guest starring role as Laurel in a Sex and the City episode, Twenty-something Girls vs. Thirty-something Women (1999). Theatre Among... Biography of Richard Wright (musician)
Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 - 15 September 2008) was a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound. In addition, Wright frequently sang background and occasionally lead vocals onstage and in the studio with Pink Floyd (most notably on the songs "Time", "Echoes", and on the Syd Barrett composition "Astronomy Domine"). Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, he wrote significant parts of the music for classic albums such as Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, as well as for Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell. Pink Floyd career W... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Jaime Pressly
Jaime Lynn Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an Emmy Award winning American actress and model. She currently plays Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Personal life Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina to James Liston Pressly and Brenda Sue Smith. She has a sister, Jessie Pressly and a brother, Jim Pressly. Pressly spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing. By the time she was 14, she was already the spokeswoman for her modeling agency, "International Cover Model Search", and she had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through the process of a divorce. Jaime subsequently sought and succ... Biography of Zdenka Podkapova
Zdenka Podkapová (born August 6, 1977 in Brno, Czech Republic) is a Czech erotic actress and an adult model. She is sometimes credited as Zdenka or Zdenka Popová. She is best known for winning Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Year for 2001. Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Before Podkapová started her modelling career she was a professional gymnast for more than ten years. She was in the Czech national team for five years and she became the Czech national champion four times during her young career. In 1996 she posed for her first photoshoot, and in 1998 tried contacting Penthouse. Her first pictorials for Penthouse were published in April 1998. She was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month. Two years later she won Penthouse Pet of the Year 2001. "It was a very b... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Victor Noir
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym. In 1870 he went to meet Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and cousin of the then-ruling Emperor Napoleon III. Victor Noir and Ulric de Foinville were sent as witnesses to fix the terms of a duel with Pierre Bonaparte on behalf of politician Paschal Grousset. But an argument broke out and Pierre shot Noir dead. A public outcry followed and on January 12, led by political activist Auguste Blanqui, more than 100,000 people joined Noir's funeral procession... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor of Lebanese origin. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1990. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s, with hits songs like "Diana," "Lonely Boy," and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder." He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Tom Jones' biggest hit, "She's A Lady", and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way." Early life Anka's parents, who owned a restaurant, were of Lebanese Christian descent. He sang with the St. Elijah Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory. He also ... Biography of Rumer Willis
Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American actress, the oldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and the stepdaughter of Emma Heming. Personal life Born in Paducah, Kentucky, where her father, Bruce Willis was filming In Country at the time, she was named for British author Rumer Godden. Her mother, actress Demi Moore, hired a cameraman to videotape her birth. She has two younger sisters, Scout LaRue Willis (born 1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (born 1994) and a younger half-sister Mabel Ray Willis (born 2012). Raised in Hailey, Idaho, Willis enrolled as a freshman at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. In January 2004, she enrolled as a sophomore at Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, California. She ... Biography of Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945 in Hounslow, London), is an English rock music vocalist best known as the lead singer for Deep Purple. During his career Gillan had a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath and sang the role of Jesus Christ in the original recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Gillan is considered to be one of the foremost rock vocalists, who introduced into rock music the vocal belting technique. In his prime he possessed a very wide vocal range, extending from the E2 to the G above soprano high C, or C6. His work with Deep Purple is particularly recognisable for its occasional high-pitched screams and falsettos. Early life Gillan was born at Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Hounslow, London, England in a family of Scottish descent... Biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Childhood Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Paris, France, the eldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. He also sketched in his spare time. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where he spent part of his childhood. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, near the Europe Bridge, and provided h... |
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