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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on April, 16, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the photo and detailed natal chart by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the comprehensive horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart".
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Biography of Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor, becoming one of the most famous performers in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director and musician. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film era: he acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and music hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of 88. Chaplin's high-profile public and private life encompassed highs ...
Biography of Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. In that role he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was appointed a full professor in 1958. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at several German universities—the last being the University...
Biography of Selena (singer)
Selena y Los Dinos, born April 16, 1971, is the band which music legend Selena belonged to until her untimely death in 1995. Birth time source: "Selena: como la flor" by Joe Patoski. Soundtrack (5 titles) (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702373/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) 1997 Selena (writer: "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" 1994 / as Selena Quintanilla-Perez / performer: "Amor Prohibido" 1994, "Baila esta Cumbia" 1992, "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" 1994, "Como la Flor" 1992, "Dreaming of You" 1989, "I Could Fall in Love" 1995, "El Chico del Apartamento 512" 1994, "La Carcacha" 1992, "Funky Town" 1979, "I Will Survive" 1975, "Last Dance" 1978, "No Me Queda Mas" 1994, "On the Radio" 1979, "Si Una Vez" 1994, "Regresa a Mi" 2004, "Where Did the Feeling Go?" 1984) 1995 Cara e Coroa (TV series) 1995 Brooklyn Boog...
Biography of Olivia Del Rio
Olivia Del Rio (born April 16, 1969 in Rio Casca, Brazil) is a Mulatto/Brazilian pornographic actress. She grew up in Belo Horizonte with 15 brothers and sisters. She is married with 2 children. She allegedly derived her stage name from the legendary pornstar Vanessa del Rio, a personal favorite of Olivia's. Olivia is primarily known for her exotic beauty, large enhanced breasts, and her enthusiastic anal sex performances. Olivia has stated that she finds receptive anal sex "delicious", and has also commented that she doesn't feel that sex is complete until she has been sodomized. Per her own personal accounting, she had not experienced anal sex until she began performing in pornographic movies. Today she is living in Marseille, France and currently directs and produces her own movie...
Biography of Akon
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), better known as simply Akon, is a Senegalese American R&B and Hip hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of "Locked Up", the first single from his debut album Trouble. He has since founded two successful record labels, Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. His second album, "Konvicted" received three nominations for the Grammy Awards in two categories, Best Contemporary R&B Album for "Konvicted" album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Smack That" and "I Wanna Love You". He is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts 'twice'. Akon often sings hooks for other artists and ...
Biography of Martin Lawrence
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is an actor, comedian, director and producer. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Lawrence was given his first name after Martin Luther King, Jr. and his middle name after that of John F. Kennedy. He was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where his father, John Lawrence, served in the US military. He has three siblings, Robert, Rae and Ursula. When Lawrence was seven, his father left the military and the family moved from Germany back to the United States, settling in Landover, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C., area. After his parents divorced in 1973, Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer. His mother, Chlora, worked several ...
Biography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. on April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach. He was known as Lew Alcindor before changing his name in the fall of 1971, several years after converting to Islam. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, the 7ft-2in (2.18 m) Abdul-Jabbar played center for UCLA from 1965–69. Later, he played professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks (1969–75) and the Los Angeles Lakers (1975–89), accumulating 38,387 points, the NBA's highest career total. He was famous for his "Skyhook" shot which was almost impossible to block because Kareem's body was between the basket and his arm, and because of his height. His on-court success was unprecedented; he won a record six Most Valuable Play...
Biography of Michel Denisot
Michel Denisot is a French journalist, TV host, TV producer and Football Club Manager....
Biography of Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield quotes her on Twitter: "I think I was born at 1:30 ish am, Astrodatabank)) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. Early life Barkin was born in the Bronx, New York to a chemical salesman and a hospital administrator at Jamaica Hospital, and raised in a Jewish home. Education She received her high school diploma at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. Barkin then attended Hunter College and received her degree in history and drama (a double major). At one point she wanted to teach ancient history. Barkin continued her acting education at New York's Actor's Studio. According to Time she studied acting for seven years before landing her first audition. Career ...
Biography of Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc (born April 16, 1952 in Courbevoie, France) is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of hypochondriacs. Height: 1m65 Filmography As actor unless otherwise specified * 1974 : Que la fête commence, directed by Bertrand Tavernier * 1975 : La Meilleure Façon de marcher, directed by Claude Miller * 1975 : Attention les yeux, directed by Gérard Pirès * 1975 : Un bol d'air * 1976 : Je t'aime… moi non plus, directed by Serge Gainsbourg * 1977 : Le Locataire, directed by Roman Polanski * 1977 : L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres * 1977 : On aura tout vu, directed by Georges Lautner * 1977 : Le Diable dans la boîte, directed by Pierre Lary * 1978 : Des enfants gâtés, directed by Bertrand Tavernier * 1978 :...
Biography of Catherine Allégret
Catherine Allégret (born April 16, 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret. In 2004, she published a book in which she contended that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather Yves Montand since the age of 5. In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf's grandmother Louise Gassion, in Olivier Dahan's take at the famous chanteuse's biopic La Vie En Rose (La Môme in French)....
Biography of Michael Jackson (British actor)
Michael Jackson is an english actor born April 16, 1934 in London. Filmography L' Emprise des ténèbres (1987) (le présentateur des infos) The Serpent and the Rainbow Moby Dick (1998) (Shantyman)...
Biography of Gonzalo Pena Tamez
Dr. Gonzalo Pena Tamez, born on April 16, 1948 in Monterrey (birth time source: Andrew Smith collection, Astrodatabank) is a Mexican astrologer and former scientist. He has been seen on Mexican TV and published frequently in South America....
Biography of Marguerite Steinheil
Marguerite Jeanne "Meg" Steinheil, née Japy (April 16, 1869 - July 17, 1954) was a French woman famous in connection with the deaths of President Félix Faure and her own husband and stepmother. Born in Beaucourt, in the Territoire de Belfort, in a rich industrial family, she married the well-known French painter Adolphe Steinheil in July 1890. She became a prominent figure in Parisian society, and her salon was frequented by men of eminence in French political and social circles. She became the mistress of President Faure, and legend has it that she was performing oral sex on him when he suddenly died on February 16, 1899, and that his stiff hands were tangled in her hair. Of course nothing of this was officially announced, but rumours started spreading immediately, although for seve...
Biography of Chance the Rapper
Chancelor Bennett (born April 16, 1993), better known by his stage name Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper from the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. In 2013, he began to gain major recognition following the release of his second mixtape Acid Rap. Chance is also a member of the Chicago collective SAVEMONEY with frequent collaborator Vic Mensa and lead vocalist for the band The Social Experiment. Life and career 1993–2010: Early life Chance grew up the older of two brothers in the middle-class neighborhood of West Chatham, an oasis in Chicago's otherwise rough South Side. His father, Ken Williams-Bennett, was a prominent presence in the city: He first served as an aide to former Chicago mayor Harold Washington and then worked for Barack Obama, who was a senator at the ...
Biography of Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid) (born 16 April 1940) is the Queen regnant of Denmark. Early life Princess Margrethe was born at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid. She was baptised on 14 May 1940 at the Naval Church. As King Christian X was also the King of Iceland at the time, as a courtesy the Princess was given an Icelandic name, Þórhildur (spelled with the Icelandic thorn character, simplified as "th"). Her godparents were King Christian X of Denmark, Prince Knud of Denmark, Prince Axel of Denmark, King Gustaf V of Sweden, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, The Duke of Connaught, Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Crownprincess Louise of Sweden, Princess H...
Biography of Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock a.k.a. Samuel Rosenstock) (April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborater with Marcel Janco. It is speculated that the word "Dada" comes from the Romanian "Yes, yes" and is thus originated from Tzara and Janco's contributions. It is more commonly believed Tzara picked a random word out of a French dictionary and got "Dada", a child's word for a hobby horse. Life and work Tzara was born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania to a family of Romanian-speaking Jewish ancestry. Tzara wrote the first Dada texts, La Première Aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (The First Heavenly Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine) (1916), Vingt-cinq poèmes (T...
Biography of Dusty Springfield
Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer. Of the female artists of the British Invasion, Springfield made the biggest impression on the U.S. market. From 1963 to 1970, she scored 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100. She was voted the Top British Female Artist by readers of New Musical Express in 1964, 1965, and 1968. Springfield is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame. She was named among the 25 female rock artists of all time by readers of Mojo magazine (1999), editors of Q magazine (2002), and a panel of artists on the TV channel VH1 (2007). A fan of American soul music, Dusty Springfield created a distinctive blue-eyed soul sound. Her distinc...
Biography of Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (IPA: or ; April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. Height: 5' 11½" (1.82 m) Childhood and early life Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London. His father, Iona (Jona) Baron von Ustinov, known to his friends as "Klop" ("blow" in Yiddish, "bedbug" in Russian), was of Russian and German descent, and had served as a Lt. in the German Air Force in World War I, worked as a press officer at the German Embassy in London in the 1930s, and was a reporter for a German news agency. In 1935 he began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British citizen, thus avoid...
Biography of Catherine Colonna
Catherine Colonna born April 16, 1956 in Saint-Symphorien is a French politician....
Biography of Qi Shu
Shu Qi (Chinese: 舒淇; pinyin: Shū Qí; Wade-Giles: Shu Ch'i) (born April 16, 1976) is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui (林立慧). Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei (Cantonese). Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu. Early career Born to a financially challenged family in Sindian City, Taipei County, the young Shu Qi moved to Hong Kong at the age of 17 where she became a model for nude girls magazines and softcore movie shorts, but she never worked for porn entertainment. She eventually came under the management of Hong Kong producer Manfred Wong, who signed her on to several softcore Hong Kong films such as Sex & Zen II. Career She starred in Derek Yee's 1996 film, Viva Eroti...
Biography of Boris Diaw
Boris Babacar Diaw-Riffiod, better known as Boris Diaw (born April 16, 1982 in Cormeilles, France), is a French professional basketball player for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. After being traded in a multi-player deal with his former team, the Phoenix Suns on December 10, 2008, he made his debut with the Bobcats on Saturday, December 13. Diaw is 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) and 235 lbs (106.6 kg). He played for Pau Orthez, France's top league team, before joining the NBA. His NBA career averages are 8.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game. At the end of the 2005–06 NBA season, Diaw was awarded the Most Improved Player trophy by garnering 80 first-place votes in balloting by 124 sports writers and sportscasters. He received 489 overall points. Career In 2000, he won the European Jun...
Biography of Freddie Ljungberg
Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg (IPA: ) (born 16 April 1977 in Vittsjö, Hässleholm) is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for English club West Ham United. Ljungberg normally plays as a winger, either on his preferred right side or occasionally on the left. He is the captain of the Swedish national team. Early career Ljungberg joined Halmstad in Sweden as a youth player at the age of five. He played several other sports including ice hockey and handball for which he was called up to the national squad. He made his senior debut for Halmstads on 23 October 1994 in the Swedish First Division against AIK. He went on to make 139 appearances and score 16 goals for the club. He won both the Swedish Cup and League title with the club. Arsenal career Ljungberg was signed by Ars...
Biography of Gina Carano
Gina Joy Carano (born April 16, 1982) is an American actress, television personality, fitness model, and a former mixed martial artist. Carano appeared as Crush, a Gladiator on American Gladiators. She has been referred to as the "Face of Women's MMA." Carano was formerly the third best 145 lb (66 kg) female fighter in the world, according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings. Carano starred in the 2011 action film, Haywire, and is in the 2013 film Fast & Furious 6. Early life Carano was born in Dallas County, Texas, the middle daughter of Dana Joy (née Cason) and Glenn Thomas Carano. She has two sisters. Carano has said that she has a "small percentage" of Italian ancestry. Her father played for the Dallas Cowboys as a backup quarterback from 1977–1983 and for the USFL Pittsburgh Maule...
Biography of Isabelle Funaro
Isabelle Funaro, born April 16, 1980 in Paris, is a French actress. She lives with French actor and humorist Mickaël Youn. She was the spouse of singer Pascal Obisco (divorced, one son, Sean). Filmography Fatal (2010) .... Athena Novotel Self: "Le grand journal de Canal+" .... Herself (2 episodes, 2010) - Episode dated 15 May 2010 (2010) TV episode .... Herself - Episode dated 14 May 2010 (2010) TV episode .... Herself...
Biography of Jimmy Osmond
James 'Jimmy' Arthur Osmond (born April 16, 1963 in Canoga Park, California) is a singer, actor, and businessman. Jimmy Osmond is the youngest of his siblings and an occasional member of their musical group, The Osmonds. He is the youngest child of George and Olive Osmond, and his siblings are Virl, Tom , Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, and Marie Osmond. He remains the youngest performer to have a No. 1 single in the UK singles chart, with "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" in 1972. Jimmy married Michele (née Larson) in 1992. Their four children are Sophia Michele, Zachary James ("Zack"), Arthur Wyatt, and Isabella Olive Renee Osmond ("Bella"). In 2005, Jimmy Osmond appeared as a contestant in the British version of the reality television show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here...
Biography of Anatole France
Anatole France (16 April 1844 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. The son of a bookseller, he spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore was called the Librairie France. Anatole France studied at the Collège Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre, and in 1876 he was appointed a librarian for the French Senate. Ironic, skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was elected to the French Academy in 1896 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Career A...
Biography of Rafael Benítez
Rafael "Rafa" Benítez Maudes (born 16 April 1960) is a Spanish football manager. He has been managing English club Liverpool since June 2004. Born in Madrid, Benítez played football throughout his youth and joined the Real Madrid academy. He mixed his university studies with his football career at lower division Spanish teams but injury caused him to prematurely retire. He joined Real Madrid's coaching staff at the age of 26, going on to work as the under 19 and reserve teams coach, and assistant manager for the senior team. Benítez moved away from Real Madrid but management spells at Real Valladolid and CA Osasuna were short-lived and unsuccessful. A move to Segunda División side CF Extremadura in 1997 was much more fruitful and Benítez guided the team back to the Primera División i...
Biography of Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842) was a French painter, and is recognized as the most famous woman painter of the eighteenth century. Her style is neoclassical in exhibiting ideals of simplicity and purity. She was born in Paris, Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée, the daughter of a portraitist and fan painter, Louis Vigée, from whom she received her first instruction. She also benefited by the advice of Gabriel François Doyen, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Joseph Vernet, and other masters of the period. By the time she was in her early teens, she was painting portraits professionally. After her studio was seized, for practicing without a license, she applied to the Académie de Saint Luc, which willingly exhibited her works in their Salon. On 25 October 1774, she was...
Biography of Dave Pirner
David Pirner is an American singer, best known for being the lead vocalist for the band Soul Asylum. Pirner was born on April 16, 1964 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. By the time he was 17, he was living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dave taught himself how to play the drums. By age 20, Dave started his career drumming with a punk band called Loud Fast Rules as part of the Minneapolis scene, together with Karl Mueller (bass) and Dan Murphy (guitar). When Pirner switched to singing and playing rhythm guitar, Pat Morley joined on drums. Pat was later replaced by Grant Young, and the band changed their name to Soul Asylum. At first, critics said the band was sloppy and erratic but at the same time captivating. The band achieved big-time success with the single "Runaway Train" off the 199...
Biography of Ann Romney
Ann Lois Romney (née Davies; born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and politician Mitt Romney, who is the Republican nominee in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. From 2003 to 2007 she was First Lady of Massachusetts while her husband served as governor of the state. She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and attended the private Kingswood School there, where she dated Mitt Romney. She converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1966. She attended Brigham Young University (BYU), married Mitt Romney, and in 1975 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French. As First Lady of Massachusetts, she served as the governor's liaison for federal faith-based initiatives. She was involved in a number of children's charities, including Operation...
Biography of Jon Cryer
Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as "Duckie" in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he finished writing and producing the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, which was well received. Even though Cryer gained subsequent fame by starring in these films, it took several years to find success on television. The shows in which he starred, such as The Famous Teddy Z, Partners and The Trouble with Normal, did not last long. In 2003, he was cast as Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men oppo...
Biography of Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born April 16, 1977) is a Sudanese supermodel who appeared on the catwalks at the age of 18 in 1995. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in the Sudan, but in 1991 her family fled to Britain to escape the civil war between the Muslim North and the Christian South of the Sudan. She was born the seventh of nine children in Wau in Southern Sudan in 1977. The exact date is unknown. When she was preparing to emigrate from Sudan, she and her mother picked the date April 16, which occurs in the rainy season during which she was born. She says her name means "Black Spotted Cow". Alek was discovered at an outdoor market in London in 1995 in Crystal Palace, south London, by a Models 1 scout. She first got attention with the help of the music video for GoldenEye by Tina Turner, in 1995 ...
Biography of Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River. Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Mancini's father, Quinto, was a steelworker, who made his only child begin flute lessons at the age of eight. When Mancini was 12 years old, he began pian...
Biography of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (given names: Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume; born at Betzdorf Castle in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, 16 April 1955) is the head of state of Luxembourg. He is the eldest son of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. His maternal grandparents were King Leopold III of Belgium and Astrid of Sweden. Childhood and education Grand Duke Henri has four siblings: Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria (b. 1954), Prince Jean of Luxembourg (b. 1957), Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein (b. 1957) and Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1963). Henri became Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg on 12 November 1964 and was educated in Luxembourg and in France, where he obtained his baccalaureate in 1974. He then studied political...
Biography of Doriane Vidal
Doriane Vidal, born April 16, 1976 in Limoges, is a French snowboard champion....
Biography of Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty (born Gerald Rafferty, 16 April 1947, in Paisley) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. He is the son of a Scottish mother and an Irish father. Career In his early years, Gerry Rafferty earned money by the formerly illegal practice of busking on the London Underground. Poetically, his biggest hit "Baker Street" was about busking at a tube station. After working with Billy Connolly (now better known as a comedian) in a band called the Humblebums, he recorded a first solo album, Can I Have My Money Back. In 1972 Rafferty and his old school friend Joe Egan formed Stealers Wheel, a group beset by legal wranglings but which did have a huge hit "Stuck in the Middle With You" (made famous for a new generation in the movie Reservoir Dogs) and the smaller top 40 hit "Star" ten mon...
Biography of Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. Milligan was the co-creator and the principal writer of The Goon Show, in which he also performed. Aside from comedy, Milligan played the trumpet, saxophone, piano, guitar and bass drum. Early life Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish-born father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA, who was serving in the British Indian Army. His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband, was born in England. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon (Yangon), capital of Burma (Myanmar). He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and St Paul's Christian Brother...
Biography of Gérard Grignon
Gérard Grignon, born April 16, 1943 in Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), is a French politician, member of UMP (Union pour un mouvement populaire)....
Biography of Jacky Boxberger
Jacky Boxberger, born April 16, 1949 in Châtel-sur-Moselle (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died August 9, 2001 in Kenya (trampled to death by an elephant), was a French athlet. Events 42 sélections en équipe de France A Recordman du monde junior du 1500m en 1968, en 3'40"8 ; ce record est toujours d'actualité en France en 2005... Recordman de France du 3000m en 1979, en 7'43"76 Recordman de France du 5000m en 1976, et 1977 en 13'23"59 Meilleure performance française sur 20km route en 1980 Meilleure performance française sur 25km route en 1985, en 1'15'45" Meilleure performance française sur l'heure en 1980, avec 20 km 340 Recordman de France (on dit Meilleure performance française) du marathon en 1985, en 2 h 10'49" Champion d'Europe en salle ...
Biography of Wilbur Wright
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. They are also officially credited worldwide through the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the standard-setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight." In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to inv...
Biography of Jean-François Michael
Jean-François Michael, born Yves Roze April 16, 1946 in Paris, is a French singer. Selected songs * Adieu Jolie Candy (1968) * Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer * Je pense à toi (1970) * Je veux vivre auprès de toi (1971) * Si l'amour existe encore * Chouans en avant (1972) * Coupable * L'amour * Du Fond Du Coeur...
Biography of Mathias Malzieu
Mathias Malzieu, born April 16, 1974 in Montpellier (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank, birth certificate), is a French singer, director and writer. He is the singer of French rock band Dionysos. He is the boy friend of French singer Olivia Ruiz. Dionysos is a French rock band formed in 1993 in Valence, Drôme. The band consists of five members known as Babet, Guillaume, Mathias, Miky Biky and Rico. Mathias is the main songwriter and fronts the band. Their latest studio album is La Mécanique Du Cœur. Their first release, Happening Songs, was entirely in English, Babet wasn't part of the band yet. In 1999 they released Haïku which brought the band in to the public eye, mainly thanks to the success of the single Coccinelle. The name is based on the name of the ancient Gr...
Biography of Boby Lapointe
Robert (Boby) Lapointe (April 16, 1922 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - June 29, 1972) was a French singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words. He was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault department of France. A brilliant scholar, he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale (engineering school) and Sup-Aero at Montpellier, but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Germany in 1943 for compulsory work service. He escaped the same year, and found work as a diver in La Ciotat, a suburb of Marseilles, in 1944. In 1946, he married Colette Maclaud. They had two children, Ticha (born 1948) and Jacky (1950). His first published work, Les douze chants d'un imbecile, appeared in 1951. He moved to Paris and opened a fashion and ...
Biography of Lucienne Delyle
Lucienne Delyle (Paris, France, April 16, 1917 — Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1962) was a French singer. After the very famous song Mon amant de Saint-Jean (my lover from Saint-Jean), in 1942, Lucienne Delyle became the most popular French female singer of 1950s. Born in Paris, she was a fully educated pharmacist. First she sung as an amateur singer, until 1939, when she was heard and immediately engaged by Jacques Canetti, the artistic director of Radio Cité. In 1940 she married the jazzman Aimé Barelli (1917-1995), who guided her career ever since. With him she had a daughter, Minouche Barelli (1947-2004). After the immense success of the song "Mon amant de Saint-Jean" (My Lover From Saint-Jean), in 1942, Lucienne Delyle became the most popular French female singer in France. She was most ...
Biography of Lara Dutta
Lara Dutta (born 16 April 1978) is an Indian actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and Miss Universe 2000. Early life Dutta was born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta. She also has two older sisters, one of whom serves in the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister. Famed composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney is Dutta's cousin. The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St.Francis Xavier Girls' High School. Lara graduated in economics with a minor in communications from University of Mumbai. She was crowned Miss Universe in 2000 which led to her appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. Modeling career Dutta won the annual Gladsrags modeling competit...
Biography of Marc Madiot
Marc Madiot (born April 16, 1959 in Renazé (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) is a French former professional road racing cyclist and double winner of Paris-Roubaix. Retired from racing in 1994, he is now best known as the directeur sportif of Française des Jeux, a UCI ProTour cycling team. Awards 1980 Troyes - Dijon 1981 Tour du Limousin 1982 France National Cyclo-cross Championship 1983 Polynormande Saint-Martin de Landelles Tour de France: 8th place overall classification 1984 Boucles de l'Aulne Flèche Finistérienne Trophée des Grimpeurs Tour de France: Winner stage 2 1985 GP de Mauléon Moulins Grand Prix de Wallonie Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Paris-Roubaix Chateau-Chinon 1986 Camors 1987 France Nationa...
Biography of Vickie Guerrero
Vickie Lynn Guerrero (née Lara)(born April 16, 1968) is an American professional wrestling personality and widow of professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero. She is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its SmackDown and Raw brands, where she is the on-air General Manager of SmackDown and Raw, until Stephanie McMahon returns from her (kayfabe) injury. World Wrestling Entertainment Eddie's death and Feud with Rey Mysterio/Chris Benoit (2005–2006) In 2005, Vickie Guerrero began to make cameo appearances during the feud between her husband Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio, which had escalated when Eddie promised to reveal a secret concerning Mysterio's son, Dominick. Vickie was on the July 14 episode of SmackDown! with two of Eddie's three daughters to stop Eddie fro...
Biography of Léonard Specht
Léonard Specht (born 16 April 1954 in Mommenheim, Bas-Rhin) is a French former professional football (soccer) player....
Biography of Lukas Haas
ukas Daniel Haas (born April 16, 1976) is an American actor, known for roles both as a child and as an adult. His career has spanned more than 20 years during which time he has appeared in more than 36 feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions. Early life and career Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Emily Tracy, a writer, and Berthold Haas, an artist. He has two brothers, twins Simon Jakoway Haas and Nikolai Johannes Haas, both musicians/artists. At the age of five, Haas was discovered in his kindergarten by casting director Marjorie Simkin. His first screen role was as a child in the 1983 nuclear holocaust film Testament. Haas became more widely known in 1985 when, at the age of eight, he appeared with Harrison Ford in W... |
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