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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Sun in Taurus. 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 (27 fans)Biography of Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in the North East of England. As a member of the British Cabinet he is also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Tony Blair became leader of the British Labour Party in July 1994 following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many decades-old policy goals. Labour won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, ending 18 years of rule by the Conservative Party; it was the worst Conservative defeat since 1832. Blair is the Labour Party's longest-serving prime minister... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc French pronunciation: (born May 15 1938) is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End. Darc is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite Early life and Career Born Mireille Aigroz in Toulon, France, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts (Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Toulon) in Toulon, and went to Paris in 1959. Her debut came in 1960 in Claude Barma's La Grande Brétèche. Her first leading role came in 1961 with Jean Prat's "Hauteclaire." She starred as Christine in Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Le Retour du Grand Blond and alongside Alain Delon in several films: L'Homme pressé, Pouic-Pouic,... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum (born Channing Matthew Tatum on April 26, 1980 in Cullman, Alabama) is an American actor and former model. After beginning his career as a fashion model, he has branched out into acting roles, appearing in the films Havoc (2005), Coach Carter (2005), Supercross (2005), She's the Man, then Step Up, and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, all of which were released in 2006. Born in Cullman, a small city in Alabama, Tatum has at least one sister. He has French, Irish and Native American ancestry. His family moved to Mississippi when he was six, although he visits Alabama, where his mother's family still lives, every summer. Tatum grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he enjoyed a rural existence, including "All the rattlesnakes and alligators a boy could po... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born on May 16, 1966 (birth time source: herself, in this video http://youtu.be/EJAeaLt_hQc)) is a Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, composer, actress, dancer and record producer. She is ranked as the ninth most successful artist in the history of rock and roll and the second most successful female recording artist of all time in the US according to Billboard. . In 2006, it was announced that Jackson was the "Most Searched in Internet History", and the "Most Searched for News Item", in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2007, Jackson was ranked the 7th richest woman in the entertainment business by Forbes Magazine, amassing a fortune of over $150 million. Personal life In 1984, at age eighteen, Jackson eloped with... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Nikos Aliagas
Nikos Aliagas (b. May 13, 1969 in Paris) is a French-born Greek host of the French music reality program named Star Academy. One of his parents came from the area of Stamna in the prefecture of Aitoloacarnania in Greece. He speaks five languages (as of 2003) including English. He lived between France and Greece during childhood. He was a guest star on a Greek program Koita ti Ekanes in late-2003 and featured clips from Star Academy. He has published a book called Gennithika Ellinas... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Samuele Papi
Samuele Papi (born May 20, 1973) is an Italian volleyball player. Papi, standing at 1.91 m, was born in Ancona and debuted in Italy's Serie A in 1990. He current plays passing-hitter for Sisley Treviso. He won five Italian titles, three European Champions cup, and, with Italian national team, two World Championships (1994 and 1998) and three European Championships. Clubs Club Country From To Falconara Italy 1990-1991 1993-1994 Alpitour Traco Cuneo Italy 1994-1995 1997-1998 Sisley Treviso Italy 1998-1999 ...... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. Born in London, England, he became an Irish citizen in 1993. After studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Daniel Day-Lewis performed in numerous stage plays and films that gained him an Academy Award, two BAFTA awards, and four Golden Globe nominations. In the midst of his career, he has become known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, starring in only four movies in the last ten years. He has also been acknowledged for his constant devotion to his roles and copious amounts of research he performs. Often he will remain in character and speak in the accents he has used on screen throughout the entire shooting schedule. Early life Day-L... Add to favourites (63 fans)Biography of Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series. Early life Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Inez and Klaus Dunst, who are separated. Her father, a German medical services executive from Hamburg, remained in New Jersey but now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner, also moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian. Dunst attended the Ranney School in New Jersey, and graduated in 2000 from Notre Dame High School in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. Career Dunst got her start as a child fa... Add to favourites (74 fans)Biography of Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. Early life Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia to Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who later worked in advertising, and June, an Australian schoolteacher. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer. She is of French ancestry. Career Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for acting. She studied economics and fine art at the University of Melb... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards. Streisand has ranked as the best selling female album artist of all-time in the United States, according to the RIAA, for over thirty years.. She is considered one of the most successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and is the only woman on the list of best selling album recording artists in the US, with RIAA-certified shipments of over 71 million records.... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Virginie Efira
Virginie Efira (born 5 May 1977 in Brussels birth time source: André Dekoster)) is a Belgian actress, and anchor on French Television. She was first hired by Club RTL (A Belgian TV channel in the RTL Group) to present a children's show called Mégamix. She went on to present other programmes in Belgium, including A la recherche de la nouvelle Star. In September 2002 she was offered the job of the presenter of Belgian's version of Star Academy. After casting to be a weather girl on France's M6 channel, she was soon pushed into the limelight as one of M6's main public faces, presenting shows such as Le Grand Zap, La saga des ..., Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes. She was the host of Classé Confidentiel for one year, before replacing Benjamin Castaldi as ... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris) is a French singer, composer, and actor. He is married to the singer Françoise Hardy, as of March 30, 1981, with whom he had a son (Thomas Dutronc, born 1973). Between 1963 and 1964, Dutronc played guitar for the group "El Toro et les Cyclones" with Hadi Kalafate. During this time he also appeared at Le Golf Drouot in Paris as backing guitarist for stars including Eddy Mitchell. After performing his obligatory military service, he landed a job as assistant at Vogue Records to Artistic Director Jacques Wolfsohn. In this capacity, he arranged songs for several lesser known artists such as Zou Zou and Cleo. At Vogue Records, he teamed with writer Jacques Lanzmann, then director at Lui magazine, to create songs for up-and-coming artists. One of... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, author and political activist known for his outspoken, critical views on globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush, and various other domestic and international policies of the United States and its allies. Personal life Moore was born in Flint, Michigan to Veronica, a secretary, and Frank Moore, an automotive assembly-line worker. He grew up in the city of Davison. At the time, the neighboring city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked. His uncle was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the famous Flint Sit-Down Strike. Moore has... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Muhammad
Muhammad, also Mohammed, Muhammed, Mahomet, and other variants) was the founder of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet of God. Muslims believe that he was not the creator of a new religion, but the restorer of the original, uncorrupted monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham and others. They see him as the last and the greatest in a series of prophets. Sources on Muhammad’s life concur that he was born ca. 570 or 571 CE in the city of Mecca in Arabia. He was orphaned at a young age and was brought up by his uncle, later worked mostly as a merchant, and was married by age 26. At some point, discontented with life in Mecca, he retreated to a cave in the surrounding mountains for meditation and reflection. According to Islamic tradition, it was here at age 40, in... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Christina Hendricks
Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress known for her role as Joan Holloway in the AMC cable television series Mad Men, and as Saffron in Fox's short-lived series Firefly. Hendricks was named "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine. Early years Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, from third through eighth grade. She holds dual British and American nationality, as her father is British. While in Twin Falls, she began her acting career with Junior Musical Playhouse Company, with roles in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease. In 1989, her family moved to Winchester, Virginia, where Hendricks appeared in several John Handley High School (Winchester... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Robert Smith (musician)
Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and has been the lead singer of British post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. NY Rock calls him "pop culture’s unkempt poster child of doom and gloom", and describes his songs as "somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars" Smith is a multi-instrumentalist and can play 6 and 12-string guitars; 4 and 6 string bass guitars; double bass; keyboards and violins. Musical career Early years See also the history of The Cure Robert Smith is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret, and Janet. Janet is married to Porl Thompson, the "second" guitarist of The Cure, as he and Smith switch between playing lead and rhythm ... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the top female star in their Greatest American Screen Legends list (AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars). Hepbur... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Sid Vicious
Simon John Beverley; formerly Simon John Ritchie (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician, the bass player of the Sex Pistols (replacing Glen Matlock). He was deeply involved in the birth of punk along with close friend of John Lydon (Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols vocalist). He died of a drug overdose at the age of 21. Sex Pistols Already known as "the ultimate Sex Pistols fan," and a close friend of vocalist Johnny Rotten, Vicious was asked to join the group after Glen Matlock's departure in February 1977. Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed "if Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude". His punk character was considered far more helpful than any knack for playing, as he was not renowned for his playing skills, th... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Estelle Lefébure
Estelle Lefébure-Essebag (formerly known as Estelle Hallyday) is a French actress. She was one of the top fashion models in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Rouen, France on May 5, 1966, she began modeling at age 19. Over the years, she has appeared in advertisements for Guess?, Cartier, Christian Dior, Revlon, Lord & Taylor, and Samsung. In 1993, she appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In 1994, she was named one of People Magazine's "50 most beautiful people". In 1999, she was one of the candidates to become the official model for the French national symbol Marianne but ultimately lost to Laetitia Casta.... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a Prussian philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that capitalism would be replaced by socialism which in turn would bring upon communism. Marx was both a scholar and a political activist, often called the father of communism. Sometimes, he argued that his analysis of capitalism revealed that capitalism was destined to end because of unsolvable problems within capitalism: “ The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very f... Biography of Adel Imam
Adel Emam (sometimes credited as: Adel Imam), (Arabic: عادل إمام), born May 17, 1940, is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially early in his earlier films, combined comedy with romance. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture from Cairo University. Since then he has appeared in over 100 movies and 10 plays. He is probably the most famous actor in the Arab World. He has received critical and popular praise throughout his career. Short, slight, and with a face seemingly more appropriate a character actor than a leading man -- let alone a star whose career has flourished since the late sixties -- Adel Imam is able to portray ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter best known for songs such as "Smile" and "LDN," and for her collaboration with Common entitled "Drivin' Me Wild." She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Her single "Smile" reached number one on the UK singles charts in July 2006. In December 2006 her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. In 2007 it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the Brit Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Alternative Music Album" . Early years Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of David Icke
David Vaughan Icke (pronounced "IKE" /aɪk/) (born April 29, 1952) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world." A former professional football player, reporter, television sports presenter, and spokesman for the Green Party, he is the author of 20 books explaining his views. Icke argues that he has developed a moral and political worldview that combines New Age spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of what he sees as totalitarian trends in the modern world, a position that has been described as "New Age conspiracism." At the heart of Icke's theories is the view that the world is ruled by a secret group called the "Global Elite" or "Illuminati," which he has linked to The Protocols ... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty. Early life Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne MacLean, was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; her grandparents were also teachers. The family was devoutly Baptist. MacLaine's father ... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius". Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as an adolescent of age 11, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has become one of the most successful and well-known artists in the world, with nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and albu... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Véronique Sanson
Véronique Sanson (born April 24, 1949, in Boulogne, near Paris, France) is a French singer-songwriter with an avid following in her native country. She began in a trio named the Roche-Martin with François Bernheim and her sister Violaine Sanson. She introduced an very personal vocal style in French pop songs. Her voice has a very strong vibrato, often to expense of lyric's understanding. Veronique Sanson is playing piano and guitar. From 1973 to 1976 she was married to American rock musician Stephen Stills. Their son, Christopher Stills known as Chris Stills, is also a musician.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Christine Bravo
French TV host.... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. ... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993 in Los Angeles, California) is an American child actress and singer. Her career began in 1996 when she was spotted by an agent who was so impressed by her singing and dancing in a restaurant called "Taste of LA" that he signed her up for a number of small roles such as commercials. Since then she has appeared in School of Rock and other films, and has a starring role in a teen comedy, Drake & Josh. Cosgrove now stars as Carly Shay in the new Nickelodeon series iCarly, which is written and produced by Dan Schneider. iCarly now shows on Nickelodeon in TeenNick. Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m) Early life Miranda was born in Los Angeles, California on May 14, 1993. When she was about five years old she started singing and dancing in "Taste of LA", a r... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Didier Derlich
Astrologer, dead at 35. Cause of death : AIDS.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (Marathi: माधुरी दीक्षित) (born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit to a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family on May 15, 1967) is an award winning Indian Bollywood actress and one of the biggest stars of the Indian film industry. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she dominated Hindi cinema as a leading actress, appearing in many hit films. She is considered to be an icon of the Bollywood film industry. Dixit has been praised for her beauty, acting talent and dancing skills. Film career Maduri Dixit made her acting debut in Abodh (1984). After a few minor and supporting roles her first major role was in Tezaab (1988) which launched her career. She then went on to star in the hit films Ram Lakhan (1989), Pari... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered one of the most important innovators of punk rock and related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of rock. His direct influence extends to the present day: a Cadillac ad in rotation in February, 2007 features his vocal performance on the song "Punkrocker", recorded in 2006 with the Swedish band The Teddybears. Iggy Pop was the lead singer of The Stooges, a late 1960s/early 1970s garage rock band who were in... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a Black Muslim Minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972 in San Leandro (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford)) better known by his former ring name The Rock, is an American actor and professional wrestler. Wrestling under different ring names, Johnson gained mainstream fame as a standout in the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) from the late 1990s to 2003. Since 2001, he has expanded his movie career, taking on roles in action and comedy films such as The Scorpion King, The Game Plan, The Rundown, Doom, The Mummy Returns, Walking Tall and Southland Tales. He still makes occasional WWE appearances for promotional purposes. As such, he is often billed outside the wrestling industry as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Johnson was a nine-time world champion in his professional wrest... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of John Cena
John Felix Anthony Cena (born April 23, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, hip hop musician and actor. He currently works for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a member of the Raw brand, though is currently inactive due to a legitimate torn pectoral muscle. He was in his third reign as WWE Champion, a reign that lasted 380 days—the sixth longest reign in the title's history—before he was stripped of the title due to injury. He is also a three-time United States Champion and a one-time World Tag Team Champion. Height : 1m85 Before being promoted to the main WWE roster, Cena trained in and wrestled for Ultimate Pro Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling, holding the top titles of both promotions. Aside from professional wrestling, Cena has released the rap album You Can't... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Amber Heard
Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms. Her breakthrough came in 2008 with roles in Never Back Down and Pineapple Express. In 2009, Heard starred in The Stepfather and also had a small role in the horror-comedy Zombieland. She next starred in The Joneses and And Soon the Darkness (both 2010), John Carpenter's The Ward, alongside Nicolas Cage in Drive Angry, and alongside Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary. Early life Heard was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Her father, David, is a contractor, and her mother, Paige (née Parsons), is an in... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant — who was baptized as 'Emanuel' but later changed his name to 'Immanuel' after he learned Hebrew — was born in 1724 in Königsberg, as the fourth of nine children (five of them reached adulthood). He spent his entire life in and around his hometown, the capital of East Prussia at that time, never travelling more than a hundred miles from Königsberg. His father Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746) was a German craftsman from Memel, at the time Prussia's northeasternmost city (now Klaipėda,... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (born 10 May 1944) is a French actress. Pisier was born in Dalat, Indochina now Vietnam, where her father served as colonial governor. She died on 24th April 2011 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var. The source for her birth time is her birth certificate. Gilles Pisier, her younger brother, is a mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences. Her sister, Evelyne, is the first wife of Bernard Kouchner. Pisier moved to Paris with her family at the age of 12 and began acting in films five years later. Her debut was in the François Truffaut L'Amour a vingt ans/Love at Twenty (1962) and she later appeared in Truffaut's Baiser voles/Stolen Kisses (1968) and L'Amour en fuite/Love on the Run (1980), which she also co-wrote. Pisier had made her screenwriting debut with Cel... Biography of Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 (birth time source: Robert Jansky, Astrodatabank, another source gives 8:45 AM) – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing and a noted statistician. Early life Florence Nightingale was born into a middle class, lavish, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Her parents were William Edward Nightingale (1794–1875) and Frances Fanny Nightingale née Smith (1789–1880). William Nightingale was born William Edward Shore. His mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William Shore not only inherited his estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms o... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (play /ˈfeɪ/; born May 18, 1970 (birth time source: autobiography "Bossy Pants")) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008). Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment. In 2004 she adapted the screenplay Mean Girls in which she also co-starred. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experi... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794) is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as "The Incorruptible" because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. He studied at College of Louis-Le-grand in Paris and became a lawyer. Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other Enlightenment philosophes, and a capable articulator of the beliefs of the left-wing bourgeoisie. He was described as physically unimposing and immaculate in dress and personal manners.... Biography of Albert Delegue
Famous French model and singer, dead early at only 32.... Add to favourites (61 fans)Biography of James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy (pronounced MACK-uh-voy; born 21 April 1979 (birth time source: Caroline Gerard, Astrodatabank)) is an acclaimed BAFTA Scotland, ALFS Award, Rising Star Award and two-time BAFTA, European Film Award, Golden Globe nominated Scottish stage and screen actor best known for his starring roles in the Academy Award for Best Picture nominated film Atonement, Academy Award winning The Last King of Scotland, and the Emmy nominated and BAFTA winning British TV series Shameless. Early life McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, a builder. McAvoy's parents divorced when he was seven, and he subsequently lived with his maternal grandparents, Mary and James Johnstone in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow. His ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Traci Lords
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968), also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and Penthouse magazine (she was 16 years old in her first film), later becoming a television and B-movie actress. Early life Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Ukrainian-descended Louis and Patricia Kuzma (née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be in tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci; and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. At twelve she fled from her abusive, alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with he... Biography of Tony Parker
William Anthony "Tony" Parker, II (born May 17, 1982(1982-05-17) (birth time source: birth certificate n° 929, André Dekoster)) is a French National Basketball Association (NBA) player with the San Antonio Spurs and captain of France's national basketball team. After playing for two years in the French basketball league, Parker entered the 2001 NBA Draft and was selected by the San Antonio Spurs. He quickly became their starting point guard, helping the Spurs win three NBA Championships. Parker has been selected as an NBA All-Star twice and was the 2007 NBA Finals MVP. He married Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria on 6 July 2007 in a civil ceremony with a lavish religious ceremony to follow on 7 July 2007. Early life Parker was born in Bruges, Belgium, but raised in France. His ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of George Carlin
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to regulate Carlin's act on the public airwaves. George Carlin's most recent stand up routines are primarily focused on attacking the flaws in modern-day America. He often takes on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirizes the excesses of American cul... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR. As head of the Bolsheviks (1917–1924) he led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially socialist state. As a theorist, his extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produced Leninism.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Linda Evangelista
Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian supermodel.Linda was born to Italian parents and was raised in a working-class, traditional Catholic family. She is 5'9½" (1.77 m) tall and her natural hair colour is dark brown. She knew she wanted to become a model when she was 12 years old. Evangelista got into the modeling industry when she was discovered by a talent agent at the 1978 Miss Teen Niagara Contest. Career highlights Evangelista later moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management there. She then moved to Paris, to further her career. She also appeared in music videos with George Michael. Along with Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, Linda is regarded as one of the few, true supermod... Biography of Swami Muktananda
Swami Muktananda (May 16, 1908-October 2, 1982) is the monastic name of an Indian Hindu guru. Muktananda was the founder of Siddha Yoga, a new religious movement. He wrote a number of books, including an autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness. Life Muktananda was born in 1908 near Mangalore in Karnataka State, India into a wealthy family. At 15 he encountered Bhagawan Nityananda, a wandering avadhoot who profoundly influenced his life. He studied under Siddharudha Swami at Hubli where he learned Sanskrit, Vedanta and all branches of yoga and took the initiation of sannyasa, becoming Swami Muktananda. He began wandering India on foot. In 1947 Muktananda went to Ganeshpuri to receive the darshan of Bhagawan Nityananda. He described this initiation as a profound and sublime e... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of David Servan-Schreiber
David Servan-Schreiber (April 21, 1961 (birth time source: birth certificate) – July 24, 2011) was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Life and career Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, he was co-founder and then director of the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following his volunteer activity as physician in Iraq in 1991, he was one of the founders of the US branch of Médecins Sans Frontières, the international organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He also served as volunteer in Guatemala, Kurdistan, Tajikistan, India, and ... |
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