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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Scorpio. 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 (17 fans)Biography of Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning Italian film and television actor, writer and director. Early years Benigni was born in Misericordia, a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino, province of Arezzo (Tuscany) and raised in Manciano. In 1958 Roberto's family moved to Vergaio, near Prato. When he was fourteen he joined the circus, where he learned some gymnastics and pantomime. His first experiences as a theatre actor began in 1972, in Prato. In the autumn of the same year he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre spectacles, some of which he also directed. In 1975 Benigni met his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a ... Biography of Jayne Marie Mansfield
Daughter of famous actress Jayne Mansfield and her husband Paul Mansfield.... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Danny Devito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, director, and an Oscar-nominated producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular ABC and NBC TV series Taxi (1978–1983). This sitcom was not widely distributed outside of North America; in most other countries he is known primarily for his film work. He currently plays Frank Reynolds on the FX show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. DeVito is well known for his height - standing only 4'10". Some of his movies make in-jokes to this fact, such as his pairing up with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Twins. His short stature also helped him grab one of his most famous roles, The Penguin in Batman Returns. He also played the ringmaster in Big Fish to make Karl the Gi... Biography of Milton Black (astrologer)
Milton Black, born on November 21, 1941 in Auckland, New Zealand, world renowned astrologer, is reported to have the largest full time, private consulting practice in Australia. His international clientele exceeds 475 thousand, while his website attracts an average of 12,500,000 hits per year. Milton Black is presently rated in the top ten astrologers in the world by the Federation of American Astrologers.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Olga Kurylenko
Olga Kurylenko (born November 14, 1979 Ukraine) is an Ukrainian model and actress. She starred in the Paris, je t'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood. Partial filmography L'Annulaire (2005) Paris, je t'aime (2006) Hitman (2007)... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver (play /ˈʃraɪvər/; born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience". She was formerly First Lady of California as the wife of actor and then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is a member of the Kennedy family. Early life Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois. A Roman Catholic of German descent through her father and Irish American descent through her mother, she is the second child and only daughter of... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, writer, talk-show host, and comedian. At times in her career she has also been known as "Roseanne Arnold" and "Roseanne Thomas". On the opening credits of one final-season episode of her TV show, she was credited as "Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas". For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was known simply as Roseanne, but by 2005 had resumed referring to herself by her maiden name, Roseanne Barr. Early life She was born in Salt Lake City to a working-class Jewish family, the oldest of four children. In her 1989 biography, she described her family's partial involvement in Mormonism, saying that on "Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday after... Biography of Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Antony or Antonie (October 24, 1632 - August 30, 1723), full name Thonius Philips van Leeuwenhoek (pronounced 'vahn Layvenhook') was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology". Born the son of a basket maker, at age 16 he secured an apprenticeship with a Scottish cloth merchant in Amsterdam. He is best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology. Using his handcrafted microscopes he was the first to observe and describe single celled organisms, which he originally referred to as animalcules, and which we now refer to as microorganisms. He was also the first to record microscopic observations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow... Biography of Nathalie Simon
French TV host and radio host. She likes sports and is also an athlete in the sport of windsurfing.... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon. He prepared for a law career but never practiced. He traveled frequently, partly in search of better climates for his tuberculosis, which would eventually contribute to his death at age 44. Early life Stevenson was born Robert... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is currently serving his sixth term. Biden has served for the sixth-longest period among current Senators (fourth among Democrats) and is Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, and he has served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The Borgen Project has ranked Biden one of the Top 5 Best Senate Leaders of all time. He was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election, but dropped out after the caucuses in Iowa on Jan... Biography of René Steinke
René Steinke (born 16th November 1963 as René Dan Steinke) in Berlin, is a German actor, who is best known in Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei as comissar Tom Kranich, appeared in years 1999-2002 and 2004-2006, at both seasons paired with Erdogan Atalay, who was playting there Semir Gerkhan.... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Kim Rossi Stuart
Kim Rossi Stuart (born October 31, 1969) is an Italian actor. Career Kim Rossi Stuart was born in Rome. His father, Giacomo, was also an actor. His mother was a former top model. He began acting at the age of 5. He studied theatre and in 1986 began acting regularly, especially on TV productions like Fantaghirò and for the cinema with a small role in The Name of the Rose. He reached popularity with Il Ragazzo dal Kimono d'oro and in the film Poliziotti ("Policemen"). After this commercial film he began to act only in quality films, like Senza pelle, where his role, a man with psychological problems, was appreciated by critics. Then he acted with director Antonioni in Al di là delle nuvole, and in an international production TV fiction Il rosso e nero. Rossi Stuart came back to ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (born 16 November 1964), is an Italian actress. Like her younger sister, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, though being raised bilingual by her French mother and Italian father. She regularly acts also in Italy. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Piedmont. Although she began acting in 1986, only recently has she been chosen to play in top roles of internationally acclaimed movies. These include Ten Minutes Older (2002); If I Were a Rich Man (2002); Bernardo Bertolucci's "Histoire d'eaux" segment in the movie The Cello; and 5x2 (2004) and Le Temps qui reste (2005) by François Ozon, in which she played the main female role. She stars in the 2006 A Good Year directed by Ridley Scott. Bruni Tedeschi was present at the 2005 Berlin... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Alie Romijn (born November 6, 1972) is an American film and television actress and former fashion model. Early life Romijn (pronounced "Ro-maine") was born in Oakland, California to Jaap Romijn, a custom furniture maker, and Elizabeth Kuizenga, a public school English teacher and textbook author. Her father, a native of Barneveld, is Dutch, and her mother is a second-generation Dutch American who met Romijn's father while studying in Europe. Romijn's maternal grandfather, Dr. Henry B. Kuizenga, was a Presbyterian minister and seminary professor. Many sources say that she was once nicknamed the "Jolly Blonde Giant" but she has admitted to making that up 'for a laugh'. While studying music (voice) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with fashion model... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Linda Evans
Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress known primarily for her roles on soap operas and television. At 23, she arose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter and Lee Majors's sister, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s western, The Big Valley (1965-1969) and later as John Forsythe's younger compassionate wife, Krystle Carrington, on the 1980s prime-time television soap opera, Dynasty (1981-1989). Evans's first guest-starring role was on an episode of Bachelor Father. In real-life, Evans said that she actually had a crush on Forsythe. This led her to co-starring with him on Dynasty, more than 2 decades later. Due to her character's name on Dynasty, she started a successful ad campaign for Crystal Light beverages... Biography of Patrick Sabatier
Patrick Sabatier is a French journalist, TV host, radio host and producer, born November 12, 1951 in Paris.... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Gavin Rossdale
Gavin McGregor Rossdale (born October 30, 1965) is a British musician most famous for being the lead singer and guitarist of the former British rock group Bush, and later the lead singer and guitarist of Institute, which broke up in 2006. Born in Kilburn, London, England, to parents Lucy Stephan (b. Scotland) and Douglas Rossdale (a doctor of Russian Jewish descent); they divorced when he was eleven years old and he was raised primarily by his father and aunt (his mother remarried and moved to South Tampa Florida). He has a younger sister, Soraya, and an older one, Lorraine (daughter called Jade). Rossdale modelled briefly, producing some fashion shots with good friend, Marilyn. Gavin learned to play bass guitar after hanging out with Lorraine's boyfriend who was in a band called The... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Georges Jacques Danton
Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as "the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic". A moderating influence on the Jacobins, he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution. Life Danton was born at Arcis-sur-Aube in northeastern France, to a respectable though not wealthy family. He was given a good education, and he was launched in the career of an advocate at the Paris bar. Danton's first appearance in ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969) is an American record producer, CEO, clothing designer, actor, and rapper. Foxy 105 (Columbus, Georgia) reported in January 2008 that his stage name and nickname were changed to Sean John, which has been denied by Combs. He has been previously known as Puff Daddy, later as P. Diddy (Puff and Puffy being often used as a nickname, but never as recording names), his nickname and stage name were then changed to Diddy (adopted in August 2005). He is still called P. Diddy in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the latter after a legal battle with another artist, Richard "Diddy" Dearlove. His business interests include Bad Boy Records, the clothing lines Sean John and Sean by Sean Combs, a movie production company, and two restaurants. He has taken th... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of George Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 1943–1945. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. The popular image of "Old Blood and Guts" contrasts with historians' image of a brilliant military leader whose record was marred by insubordination and some periods of apparent instability. Family George S. Patton, Jr was born in San Gabriel, California, to George Smith Patton Sr. (September 30, 1856 – June, 1927) and Ruth Wilson... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Salvatore Adamo
Salvatore Adamo (born 1 November 1943 in Comiso, Sicily, Italy) is one of the most commercially successful singers in Europe and Latin America. Adamo has sold over 80 million copies of his albums worldwide. He is currently living in Belgium though he has lived in France with his family. His hits include "Tombe la Neige", "Vous permettez, Monsieur?" and "Inch Allah", all from the sixties. Albums 1992 Rêveur de fond 1994 C’est ma vie (compilation Live) 1995 La vie comme elle passe 1998 Regards 2001 Par les temps qui courent 2002 Les mots de l’âme (compilation) 2003 Zanzibar 2004 Un soir au Zanzibar (CD/DVD compilation Live) 2007 La part de l'ange... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Penn Badgley
Penn Badgley (born November 1, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor and voice actor of film, television, and video games, best known for his roles in the TV series The Mountain and The Bedford Diaries. He also plays Dan Humphrey in the television series Gossip Girl. Childhood Badgley split his childhood years between Richmond, VA and Seattle, WA. In Seattle, where he attended Charles Wright Academy (in Tacoma, WA), he was involved with the Seattle Children's Theatre and did voice-overs for a children's radio station. Around 1999, he relocated with his mother to Hollywood. At the age of 14, Badgley took the California High School Proficiency Exam and began attending Santa Monica College. At 17, after completing two years of credits at Santa Monica College, he was accepte... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was one of the most distinguished German field marshals of World War II. He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known by the nickname “The Desert Fox” (Wüstenfuchs, listen (help·info)) for the skillful military campaigns he waged on behalf of the German Army in North Africa. He was later in command of the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion at Normandy. Rommel's military successes earned the respect not only of his troops and Adolf Hitler, but also that of his enemy Commonwealth troops in the North African Campaign. Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, and whilst commanding the defense of Occupied France, his fortunes changed when he was suspected (correctly ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Michel Galabru
Michel Galabru is a French actor born on October 27, 1922 in Safi, Morocco, at the time part of French North-Africa. Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with renowned directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa Gavras, Luc Besson for Subway and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also known for his numerous collaboration with Louis de Funès " le gendarme de St Tropez, le gendarmes se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, le gendarme en balade, le gendarme à New York, le gendarme et les gendarmettes, le petit baigneur, l'avare, nous irons a Deauville ( with Michel Serrault ) , JO "... In 1977, Galabru received a César for best actor for his portayal of Joseph Bouvier in Bertrand Tavernier's The Judge and the Assassin. And actor collaboration with Michel Ser... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ishtar (singer)
Ishtar (born Eti Zach on 10 November 1968) is an Arabic pop singer. She is best known for her work as the front vocalist of the French-based band Alabina and her solo pop hits such as C'est La Vie, Last Kiss and Habibi (Sawah). Early life Eti Zach was born on 10 November 1968 in Kiryat Atta, near Haifa. She was born to an Egyptian mother and a Moroccan father (with Sephardic heritage) and was raised in Israel. She speaks and sings in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and English; in addition, she says she "half-speaks Moroccan". Ishtar began performing in clubs at age 15 and continued even while enrolled in the IDF. Though she was born Eti Zach, she chose the name 'Ishtar', a Mesopotamian Goddess, because her grandmother called her Ester, which "with her Egyptian accent it sounded... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Bruce Jenner
William Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete, known principally for winning the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Bruce Jenner attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, transferring from Sleepy Hollow High School in Sleepy Hollow, New York. (Years later, the stadium there was to be named after him, but following an argument between the school and Jenner concerning the high school's construction project that was to displace an ancient Indian burial mound, the stadium is now called Blue and Gold Stadium.) Jenner earned a football scholarship and attended Graceland College (now Graceland University), but a knee injury forced him to stop playing football and switch to the decathlon. He was mentored by Graceland's track coach... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Vanessa Minnillo
Vanessa Joy Minnillo (born November 9, 1980) is an American television personality. A former Miss Teen USA, she is also mostly known for hosting TRL on MTV from 2003-2007 as well as being the New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Early life Vanessa was born at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines to Vincent Minnillo, a U.S. Air Force aircrew member, and Helen Berecero. Her father is of Italian and Irish descent and her mother is Polynesian or Filipino. Because of her father's career, her family moved numerous times, spending time in California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan before eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Career Minnillo entered the public eye as Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998, and went on to be crowned as the winner of ... Biography of Lou Ferrigno
Louis Jude Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951) is an American bodybuilder and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television shows and movies as The Incredible Hulk, Pumping Iron (with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu), Sinbad of the Seven Seas, and, in the title role, Hercules in 1983. He is more recently known for playing a minor role in the sitcom King of Queens. Height: 6' 3" (1.90m 1/2) Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ferrigno was raised in an Italian-American family, the son of Matthew, a New York City Police Department Lieutenant who, according to Lou, was also a weightlifter and was often very critical and negative towards him, and mother Victoria. At the age of three, Lou suffered an ear infection and permanently lost 80% of his hearing. He started weight training at age 1... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy Fawlty Towers. He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, A Fish Called Wanda. Early life Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel (Cross). His family's surname was previously "Cheese", but his father, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to "Cleese" upon joining the army in 1915. As a boy, Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, from which he was expelled for a humorous defacing of s... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali (born 1943) is a French economist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was a French presidential adviser as a part of the country's socialist government. In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by western governments to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies. Attali is perhaps best known in America as the author of Noise: The Political Economy of Music, ISBN 0-8166-1287-0, which bears a foreword by Frederic Jameson and afterward by Susan McClary. Bibliography Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine (1984) Noise: The Political Econo... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Françoise Dolto
Françoise Dolto (1908–1988), was a French doctor and psychoanalyst, famous for her search on childhood. She worked with Jacques Lacan, and said that children have a language before the language (with the body). Françoise Dolto was the mother of Carlos, a singer; and the sister of Jacques Marette, a minister. Bibliography * Psychanalyse et pédiatrie, 1971 * Cas Dominique, 1971 * L'image inconsciente du corps, éd du Seuil, 1984 * La Cause des enfants, éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1985 * Lorsque l'enfant paraît, éd. du Seuil, Paris, 1990 * Autoportrait d'une psychanalyste, éd. du Seuil, Paris, 1989 * Paroles d’adolescents ou le complexe du Homard, éd. Hattier, 1989 * La Difficulté de vivre, éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1995 * Tout est langage, é... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Toni Collette
Toni Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress and musician. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films The Sixth Sense, Muriel's Wedding, In Her Shoes and Little Miss Sunshine. Early life Collette was born Antonia Collette in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy, a customer-service representative. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, even though tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and NIDA. Career Collette has won four Australian Film Institute awards, including th... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Tina Arena
Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is an ARIA award winning singer/songwriter. Trivia Arena's parents are Italian; she has two sisters, Nancy (born 1961) and Silvana. Although she's not fluent in French, Arena is credited as being one of only five non French artists to achieve album sales in excess of one million units in France. In 2003, three performers associated with Young Talent Time were simultaneously in the United States Billboard Magazine Dance Top 10 – series regulars, Arena with "Never (Past Tense)" and Dannii Minogue with "I Begin To Wonder", along with Kylie Minogue, who had made her television singing debut on Young Talent Time with "Slow". Several of Arena's songs have become country hits in the Uni... Biography of Bud Spencer
Bud Spencer (born October 31, 1929), born as Carlo Pedersoli, is a famous Italian actor, known for his height at 6' 4" (193 cm) and his past roles in spaghetti westerns. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he later achieved a degree in law, and has registered several patents. Bud Spencer was born Carlo Pedersoli in Naples (at Santa Lucia). Spencer married Maria Amato in 1960 and together had three children: Giuseppe (1961), Christine (1962) and Diamante (1972). Spencer established Mistral Air in 1984, but left it to buy a textile mill that produced clothes for children. Swimming and water polo career A successful swimmer in his youth, Spencer was the first Italian to swim the 100 m freestyle in less than one minute. He achieved this on 19 September 1950, when he sw... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Rufus Sewell
Rufus Frederik Sewell (born October 29, 1967) is an English actor. In film, he appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he became well known for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion about the life of King Charles II of England. On stage, he originated the role of Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the role of Jan in Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which earned him an Olivier Award for the latter performance. Height: 6' (1.83 m) Early life Sewell was born in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London, the son of William Sew... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and Logie Award winning actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap Neighbours, and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. Her musical output falls under the pop and ballad genres and heavily features the piano, which she usually plays in her bare feet when performing live. Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) Goodrem has to date, achieved seven number one ARIA singles and multiple UK Top 10 singles. Her debut album, 2003's Innocent Eyes, made her one of Australia's highest selling female recording artists, spending 29 weeks at #1, selling over a million copies in Australia and 2.5 million ... Biography of René Guénon
René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon (November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951) also named Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya upon his acceptance of Islam, was a French-born author. His field was metaphysics, applied to the study of cultural traditions. Labels such as philosopher and thinker were disowned by Guénon, who described himself as an "exposer of traditional data". His work dealing with history of religions and social criticism may be interpreted as by-products of the traditional function with which he was invested: to provide modern man with the means to understand traditional societies. From Paris to Cairo Born in Blois, France into a Catholic household, Guénon excelled as a youth in mathematics and philosophy. Dissatisfied with the status quo of modern society, he moved to Paris in 1907 and be... Biography of Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15, 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist — 51 years — from 1954, when "The Little Shoemaker" made the UK Top Twenty, through 2005, when her CD L'essentiel - 20 Succès Inoubliables charted in Belgium. Early years Born to an English father and Welsh mother in Ewell, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark. Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a c... Biography of Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985 in Liverpool) is an English footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. He is seen as one of the most exciting prospects of the modern game, his transfer fee from Everton still stands as the highest ever paid for a teenager. He normally played as a second striker to Ruud van Nistelrooy for his club team before van Nistelrooy's move to Real Madrid, although during 2005-06, he showed his versatility as a player by shifting to the midfield and playing on both flanks. He wore the number 8 shirt for Manchester United from 2004 until June 2007, when his shirt number was changed to number 10. He wears the number 9 shirt for England. Height 178cm Rooney was brought up in Croxteth,... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States. Early life Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912–1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins Welch (born 1919). In 1963 Laura was involved in a car accident when she ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing a friend and classmate, Michael Dutton Douglas, who was driving the other car. According to the two-page accident report released by the city of Midland, neither driver was drinking, and no charges were filed. Welch earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1968 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. After graduating, she becam... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an Oscar-winning American film actor, noted for his athletic physique (a rare thing for leading men of that time), distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. Initially dismissed as "Mr Muscles and Teeth", in the late 1950s Lancaster would abandon his all-American image and gradually he would be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation. Early life Lancaster was born Burton Stephen Lancaster in New York City to James Henry Lancaster, a postman, and Elizabeth Roberts. His parents were both Protestants of working-class Northern Irish origin, with Lancaster's grandparents having been immigrants to the U.S. from Belfast and descendan... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. After his brother's assassination in late 1963, Kennedy continued as Attorney General under President Johnson for nine months. He resigned in September 1964 and was elected to the United States Senate from New York that November. He broke with Johnson over the Vietnam War, among other issues. After Eugene McCarthy nearly upset Johnson in the N... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American Film and Stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, she is probably best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isable Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946) , Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949) and Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955). She was born Gene Eliza Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an older brother, Howard Sherw... Biography of Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993. Early life Bill Wyman (real name Bill Perks) was born at Lewisham Hospital, Pied Heath Road, Ladywell, Lewisham, South London the son of a bricklayer and spent most of his early life in Penge, then in the county of Kent, England. He attended Beckenham and Penge Grammar School from 1947 to Easter 1953, leaving before the GCE exams after his father found him a job working for a bookmaker and insisted that he take it. Music Career Wyman took piano lessons from ages 10 to 13. After his marriage, he bought a guitar, but wasn't satisfied by his own progress. After hearing a bass guitar at a Barron Knights' concert, he fel... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. Early life Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Robert Joseph Kline, a classical music buff who owned and operated The Record Bar, the largest toy and record store in St. Louis, and Peggy (Kirk), whom Kline has described as the "dramatic theatrical character in our family". His father's family also owned Kline's Inc., a department store chain. He has two younger brothers, Alex and Christopher, and an older sister, Kate. Kline's father was an Agnostic of German Jewish descent and his Irish American mother, the daughter of an immigrant from County Louth, was Catholic. Kline was raised in his mother's faith and graduated from the Catholic Saint Louis Priory School in ... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scienti... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Maurane (singer)
Maurane, real name Claudine Luypaerts, (Ixelles, Brussels, November 12, 1960) is a Belgian singer. She lives currently in Schaerbeek, the municipality where Jacques Brel was born. Her father was director in the Académie de Musique de Verviers, and when she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, « Brel en mille temps », with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh. She got later small contracts in cafés or as Jo Lemaire o Philippe Lafontaine's choir until she released her first album in 1986. She has a daughter named Lou with the singer Pablo Villafranca. Honours 1986 - Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre Selected discography Singles 1986 : Danser 1988 : Les uns contre les autres ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. Early life Arthur Ira Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City. He is of Romanian Jewish ancestry. He met his future singing partner, Paul Simon, in the sixth grade. Between 1956 and 1962, the two had performed together as Tom & Jerry. Garfunkel ("Tom Graph") chose his nickname because he liked to track, or "graph" hits, on the pop charts. Garfunkel attended Columbia University in the early sixties, where he sang with the Kingsmen, an all-male a cappella group, and was a Brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. In 1962, Garfunkel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in art history, followed by a Master's degree i... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, The Flying Nun. She is currently starring as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, Brothers & Sisters, as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business. Her newest film, Two Weeks came out in early 2007. Early life Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her parents, Richard Dryden Field and Margaret Field (a Southern-born actress), divorced in 1950. Her mother subsequently remarried, to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken and fellow actres... |
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