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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on August, 4, 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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52,640 celebrities and events, out of which 22,792 entries with a known time of birth. Search by filters, aspects, positions, categories, heights, or latest additions. Celebrities clicked on in real-time: 467,788,435 times. 152 celebrities or events were found for August, 4.
Biography of Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician. As the winner of the presidential election of November 4, 2008, he is currently the President-elect of the United States of America and is expected to take office as the forty-fourth President of the United States on January 20, 2009. He is currently the incumbent junior United States Senator from Illinois. External link - Comprehensive Astrological Portrait for Barack Obama Version 4.0 Barack Obama'Comprehensive Astrological Portrait Obama is the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, and was the first Af...
Biography of Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop, better known as just Marcus Schenkenberg (born 4 August 1968) a male supermodel, actor, singer, writer, and TV personality; born in Stockholm, Sweden but of Dutch descent. Though he doesn't speak Dutch, he does understand it, as was seen on a Dutch TV show 'Jensen!' in May 2007. Height 6' 3" (1.90m) He is the highest paid per-year male supermodel in the world, and also known for his muscular, well-proportioned body, and especially for his "washboard" abdominal muscles. Schenkenberg, who was discovered by American photographer Barry King, while rollerskating in Venice Beach, California in 1989, is approximately 1.90 m tall (6 ft 3 in) and weighs 82 kg (188 lb), though in reality he is said to be over 6 ft 3 in tall, rounding this figure down f...
Biography of Cole Sprouse
Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse (born August 4, 1992) are American identical twin brother actors. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Cole & Dylan, the Sprouse Bros., or the Sprouse Twins, and are known for their roles in the film Big Daddy, as Patrick Kelly in Grace Under Fire, Ross's son Ben on Friends, and for portraying the title characters on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. As a result of the series' success, they have become "heartthrobs" and "overwhelming draws" among preteen and teen audiences. Early life The Sprouses were born in Arezzo, Italy to American parents Matthew Sprouse and Melanie Wright, who at the time were teaching at an American English language school in Italy. Dylan, named after poet Dylan Thomas, is fifteen mi...
Biography of Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born William Robert Thornton on August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, including 2003's Bad Santa. Thornton has been described in media reports as "Hollywood's go-to alpha male",. Early life Thornton was born in Arkansas to Billy Ray Thornton, a high school history teacher and basketball coach, and Virginia R. Faulkner, a psychic. Thornton has three younger brothers, Jimmy Don, born in 1958 and now deceased, Jim Bean, and John David, born in 1969. Thornton lived in both Alp...
Biography of Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (4 August 1901 – July 6, 1971) (he preferred his given name pronounced as Lewis; also known by the nicknames Satchmo, for satchel-mouth, and Pops) was an American jazz musician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose musical skills and bright personality transformed jazz from a rough regional dance music into a popular art form. One of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century, he first achieved fame as a trumpeter, but toward the end of his career he was best known as a vocalist and was one of the most influential jazz singers. Early life Armstrong was born into a very poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana. He spent his youth in poverty in a rough neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, as his father, William Armstrong (1881-1922), abandoned ...
Biography of Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy LVMH.PA more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton, is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 4, 1821-February 27, 1892), who designed and manufactured luggage, as a Malletier during the second half of the nineteenth century. Vuitton was born in Jura, France (now part of the commune of Lavans-sur-Valouse), but moved to Paris in 1835. The trip from his home town to Paris was over 400 kilometers long, and he traveled by foot. On his way there he picked up a series of odd jobs to pay for his journey. Two years later, at the age of 16, he apprenticed for the luggage manufacturer Monsieur Marechal. In 1854 he founded the company, which is now owned by...
Biography of Dylan Sprouse
Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse (born August 4, 1992) are American identical twin brother actors. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Cole & Dylan, the Sprouse Bros., or the Sprouse Twins, and are known for their roles in the film Big Daddy, as Patrick Kelly in Grace Under Fire, Ross's son Ben on Friends (played by Cole), and for portraying the title characters on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. As a result of the series' success, they have become "heartthrobs" and "overwhelming draws" among preteen and teen audiences. Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m) Early lives The Sprouses were born in Arezzo, Italy to American parents Matthew Sprouse and Melanie Wright who at the time were teaching at an English language school in Italy. Dylan, named aft...
Biography of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002), was the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952. After her husband's death, she was known as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Elizabeth II. Before her husband ascended the throne, from 1923 to 1936 she was known as the Duchess of York. She was the last Queen of Ireland and Empress of India. Born into a family of Scottish nobility (her father inherited the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904), she came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of George V and Queen Mary. As Duchess of York, she – along with her husband and their t...
Biography of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born August 4, 1960 in Valladolid) is the Prime Minister of Spain. The party he leads, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), won the general election on March 14, 2004. Actions of his government have included withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq, legalizing same-sex marriages and a program of legal amnesty for illegal immigrants. Personal life and youth Origins and youth José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid on August 4, 1960, to Juan Rodríguez García-Lozano, a prominent, successful lawyer, and Purificación Zapatero . He grew up in León, where his family, affluent, with a long left-wing tradition, originated. He has an elder brother, Juan Rodríguez Zapatero . His paternal grandfather, Juan Rodríguez Lozano, was a Freemason and a...
Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong skeptical voice, made him a notorious and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations of poets, including the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets Robert Browning, Alfred Te...
Biography of Thierry Roland
Thierry Roland (Boulogne-Billancourt, 4 August 1937 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - Paris, 16 June 2012) was a French sports commentator. Bibliography La légende de la coupe du monde, Minerva, 1998 La Fabuleuse histoire de la Coupe du monde, Minerva, october 2002 Mes 100 plus grands matchs, Larousse, october 2005 Mes 100 plus grands joueurs, Larousse, may 2006 100 % Bleus, Solar, 2008 Mes 13 coupes du monde, Edition du Rocher, april 2010 Mes plus grands moments de football, Larousse, may 2012...
Biography of Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American fashion model, spokesmodel, and actress. She is formerly the model who held case #24 on the hit US television game show Deal or No Deal. She played FBI special agent Amy Jessup in FOX's sci-fi thriller Fringe and currently stars as Rachel Zane on the new USA legal series Suits. Early years Markle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Markle took an interest in theatre in high school and was on the Prom Court. Markle was the first member of her family to graduate college, as an undergraduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she graduated with a double major in Theater and International Relations. She worked for the U.S. Embassy in Bueno...
Biography of François Valery
François Valery, born August 4, 1954 in Oran, Algeria (birth time source: Astrotheme, birth certificate. It is written "24 heures" so there is a doubt if his time of birth is 12:00 am or 12:59 pm), is a French singer and writer. Discography "Filles du Lido, Les" (1995) (mini) TV Series Joy et Joan chez les pharaons (1993) ... aka Joy and the Pharaohs (UK) ... aka Joy et les pharaons (France) "Grandes marées, Les" (1993) (mini) TV Series Joy et Joan (1985) ... aka Joy 2 ... aka Joy and Joan ... aka Joy: Chapter II Nanas, Les (1985) ... aka Girls, Girls, Girls! (UK: festival title) ... aka The Chicks Un été d'enfer (1984) ... aka Verano de infierno, Un (Spain) Joy (1983) Writer "Grandes marées, Les" (1993) (mini) TV Series...
Biography of Maurice Richard
Joseph-Henri-Maurice "Rocket" Richard PC, CC, OQ (August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, achieving the fabled feat of 50 goals in 50 games. He lived most of his life in Ahuntsic, Montreal. Playing career Maurice Richard was the first to score 50 goals in one season (the 1944-45 NHL season), doing so in 50 games, and the first to score 500 goals in a career. He finished his career with 544 goals in the regular season, with 82 in the playoffs which included a record six overtime winners (only matched by Joe Sakic), and led the league in goals five times. He also amassed 421 assists for a total of 965 points in 978 games. 50 goals in 50 games con...
Biography of Max Cavalera
Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer/guitarist/songwriter of Italian heritage from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s. Cavalera was also involved in a short-lived side project Nailbomb. Cavalera is currently performing with Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. His father Graziano Cavalera was the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Graziano and his family stayed in Brazil after his tenure as ambassador ended and Graziano is buried in Belo Horizonte. Max was only 9 when his father passed away. He formed Sepultura with Jairo Guedes, Paulo Pinto and his younger brother Igor Cavalera. During the early days of Sepultura, his name was Max Possessed. In the early 1990s he ...
Biography of Marques Houston
Marques Barrett Houston (born August 4, 1981) is an American R&B singer and actor. He is a former member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx and has since gone solo. Early life Houston was born in Los Angeles, California to Michael and Carolyn Houston. In 1997, Houston lost his mother, Carolyn, to lymphoma, a type of cancer. This affected Houston deeply and he wrote songs about his mother's battle with the disease and her eventual death. Personal life Houston and actress Jennifer Freeman (who played Claire Kyle in ABC's sitcom My Wife and Kids) became engaged in November of 2007, but subsequently broke their engagement in January of 2008 due to personal reasons on behalf of Houston. Music career Main article: IMx Houston was a founding member of R&B group Immature/IMx,...
Biography of Madame Heutniger
Madame Heutniger, born August 4, 1950 in Forbach, is one of the greatest winner in Loto, Mars 26, 1980, 20:00 in Paris....
Biography of Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (Bengali: কিশোর কুমার গাঙ্গুলী; 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987), born Abhas Kumar Ganguly was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won in that category. He was awarded the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called the "Kishore K...
Biography of Emmanuelle Boidron
Emmanuelle Boidron is a French actress. She was born 4 August 1978 in Orléans, Loiret, France (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar). Her most important appearance is in the Navarro TV series as Yolande Navarro. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092232/) 2017 Vive la crise (filming) 2014 Je suis coupable (Video short) Fille 5 2013 Camping paradis (TV Series) Murielle - Fashion week au camping (2013) ... Murielle 2009 Brigade Navarro (TV Series) Yolande Navarro - Coup de feu (2009) ... Yolande Navarro 2008 Bébé à bord (TV Movie) Audrey 2008 Cinq soeurs (TV Series) Léa - Episode #1.1 (2008) ... Léa 2007 La prophétie d'Avignon (TV Mini-Series) Elsa - Episode #1.8 (2007) ... Elsa - Episode #1.7 (2007) ... Elsa - Episode #1.6 (2007) ....
Biography of Jeff Gordon
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is a professional American race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a four-time NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and driver of the #24 Chevrolet Impala. His primary sponsor is DuPont, though Pepsi and Nicorette both supplement the team as secondary sponsors. Other sponsors include Quaker State, Haas Automation, GMAC, Bosch Spark Plugs, and Georgia-Pacific/Sparkle. He, along with Rick Hendrick, are the co-owners of the #48 Lowe's sponsored team, driven by Jimmie Johnson, who won both the 2006 and 2007 NEXTEL Cup series championship. Gor...
Biography of Pascal Nègre
Pascal Nègre, born August 4, 1961 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, is a French businessman and former radio host. He is CEO of Universal Music France. Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Big Four record labels. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi. UMG's record labels have many of the world's biggest artists including The Killers, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Gym Class Heroes, Enrique Iglesias, Tupac Shakur, Oasis, Bon Jovi, Falco, Elton John, Eminem, Guns N' Roses, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Reba McEntire, Diana Ross, Luciano Pavarotti, Rammstein, U2, the Black Eyed Peas, Nelly Furtado, Wu-Tang Clan, George Strait, Gwen Stefani, Grace Jones, Rihanna and Fergie. UMG now owns th...
Biography of Roger Clemens
William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball player. Clemens played baseball as a starting pitcher. He last pitched for the New York Yankees. He was one of baseball's most preeminent pitchers in major league history. In 2006, a poll of 32 ESPN analysts named Clemens the greatest living pitcher. Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards, two more than any other pitcher. He threw and batted right-handed. Clemens debuted in the majors in 1984 with the Boston Red Sox. Clemens played 13 seasons in a row with the Boston Red Sox, more than half of his career. In 1997, he moved to Canada to pitch for the Toronto Blue Jays for two seasons; in both of the seasons, he won the pitching triple crown (leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts) and the Cy...
Biography of Jang Geun-suk
Jang Keun-Suk (장근석, romanization: Jang Geun Seok) is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He is best known for playing the role of band leader Hwang Tae Kyung in the hit 2009 drama You're Beautiful, with Lee Hong Ki , Jung Yong Hwa , Park Shin Hye and Kim Yoo Jin also known as UEE. His latest role was that of Kang Mu Gyul in the 2010 romantic comedy series Mary Stayed Out All Night, with Moon Geun Young. Early life Jang Geun-Suk was born on August 4, 1987 in Danyang Country, Chungcheongbuk Province, South Korea. He is an only child. Geun-Suk started working as a child model at the age of five after he was discovered by a talent agent. At that time, Geun-Suk's parents were selling their house and the agent, who was a prospective buyer, saw Geun-Suk. Seeing his ...
Biography of Sébastien Demorand
Sébastien Demorand, born August 4, 1969 in Zimbabwe, is a French journalist, radio host, TV host and food critic. He hosts MasterChef, a television cookery game show, with Chef Frédéric Anton, Chef Yves Camdeborde, and TV host Carole Rousseau. He is the brother of French journalist Nicolas Demorand (Europe 1). Selected bibliography: Les cuisines de la critique gastronomique de Bénédict Beaugé et Sébastien Demorand (Broché - 26 février 2009) Carnet de route omnivore : Les 200 tables de la jeune cuisine de Luc Dubanchet, Andrea Petrini, Sebastien Demorand, et Cécile Cau (Broché - 28 octobre 2006) Paris de Martin Angel, Antoine Besse, Aurélia Bollé, et Sébastien Demorand (Broché - 8 octobre 2009) Cantines : Recettes cultes corrigées par les chefs de Sebastien Demorand, Emmanuel Rubin...
Biography of Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer (born August 4, 1944) is an American stand up comedian, writer, and actor, perhaps best known for his work as Det. John Munch, on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Early life and education Belzer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA to a Jewish family of Francis and Charles Belzer, a candy and tobacco retailer. His cousin is actor Henry Winkler. Belzer grew up with his parents and older brother Leonard. As a youth, Belzer worked as a paperboy and was "kicked out of every school he attended". Nonetheless, Belzer attended and graduated from Andrew Warde High School in the neighboring town of Fairfield, Connecticut. Both parents died while he was young: His mother died of cancer when he was 18 and his father committed suicide when B...
Biography of Emile Zuccarelli
Émile Zuccarelli, born August 4, 1940 in Bastia, Haute-Corse, France, is a French politician....
Biography of Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim (born August 4, 1968) is an American actor. Although he has appeared in numerous television shows, Kim is well known for playing Jin-Soo Kwon on the series Lost. Biography Early life Kim was born in Busan, South Korea and moved to the United States with his family at the age of two, growing up in Easton, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Kim is a graduate of Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Haverford College in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a dual major in political science and theatre. His theatre major was completed at the neighboring Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He graduated from NYU's prestigious Graduate Acting Program in 1996. Career Prior to his casting as Jin in Lost, he was pro...
Biography of William Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was also significant in the later development of quantum mechanics. Hamilton is said to have showed immense talent at a very early age, prompting astronomer Bishop Dr. John Brinkley to remark in 1823 of Hamilton at the age of eighteen: “This young man, I do not say will be, but is, the first mathematician of his age.” William Rowan Hamilton's mathematical career included the study of geometrical optics, adaptation of dynamic methods in optical systems, applying quaternion and vector methods to problems...
Biography of Valérie Leclercq
Valérie Leclercq, born in Nivelles, August, 4, 1976, is a Belgian TV host and journalist. She works for Télé Bruxelles (formerly TLB)....
Biography of Marie José of Belgium
Princess Marie José of Belgium (Marie José Charlotte Sophie Louisa Amélie Henriette Olga Gabrielle) (4 August 1906 – 27 January 2001), was the last Queen of Italy. Her thirty-five day reign as queen consort earned her the affectionate nickname the May Queen. Princess Marie José was born in Ostend, Belgium, the youngest child and only daughter of Albert I, King of the Belgians and his consort, Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria. At birth, she held the title of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until its use was discontinued at the end of the First World War. She was named for her maternal grandmother, Princess Maria Josepha of Braganza. In October 1939, Princess Marie-José was made President of the Red Cross in Italy. The Princess and Duchess of Aosta attended the ceremony where Marie-José ...
Biography of Corinne Diacre
Corinne Diacre, born August 4, 1974 in Croix, is a French football player....
Biography of Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil". He insisted that the intricacies of the human mind ought to be the main object of modern literature, to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow". Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. Hamsun was a prominent advocate of Germany and German culture, and an opponent of British Imperialism as well as the Soviet Union. During World War II, Hamsun supported Vidkun Quisling and his...
Biography of Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (born August 4, 1933) is an American billionaire businessman. Adelson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Adelson vastly increased his net worth upon the initial public offering of Las Vegas Sands in December 2004. He is currently the 13th richest American, with a fortune amounting to $14.7 billion. Biography Adelson's parents were Jewish. His father's family came from Eastern Europe. Adelson was born and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a section of Boston, where his father was an entrepreneur and sometimes drove a taxicab. He worked at a young age selling newspape...
Biography of Greta Gerwig
Greta Celeste Gerwig (born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Gerwig first came to prominence through her association with the mumblecore film movement. She has collaborated with director Joe Swanberg on several projects, including the film Nights and Weekends, which the two co-wrote, co-directed and in which they co-starred. Gerwig made her mainstream debut in 2011, co-starring alongside Russell Brand in Arthur, directed by Jason Winer. Life and career A native of Sacramento, California, Gerwig is the daughter of Christine, a nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, a financial consultant and computer programmer. She has German ancestry. Gerwig graduated from Barnard College, where she studied English and philosophy. Originally intending to become a playwright, Gerw...
Biography of Thierry Thulliez
Thierry Thulliez (born August 4, 1973 in Aubervilliers) is a French jockey. Major wins France Prix d'Astarté - (1) - Darjina (2007) Prix de Diane - (1) - Carling (1995) Prix Jacques le Marois - (1) - Six Perfections (2003) Prix Jean Prat - (1) - Stormy River (2006) Prix du Jockey Club - (2) - Sulamani (2002), Blue Canari (2004) Prix Marcel Boussac - (1) - Six Perfections (2002) Prix de l'Opéra - (1) - Satwa Queen (2007) Prix Vermeille - (1) - Carling (1995) United States Breeders' Cup Mile - (1) - Domedriver (2002)...
Biography of Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He was of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family. Inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith (1941), he worked to save the lives of Hungarian Jews from being sent to death camps in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions, but Yad Vashem credits him with saving 15,000 lives. On January 17, 1945, he was arrested on the direct order of Soviet Deputy Commissar for Defense Nikolai Bulganin. It is probable that the order...
Biography of Michel Déon
Michel Déon (French: ; born 4 August 1919 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French novelist and literary columnist. He has published over 50 works and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les Poneys sauvages (The Wild Ponies). Déon's 1973 novel Un taxi mauve received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages. He is considered one of the most innovative French writers of the 20th century. In 1978, Déon was elected to the Académie française. With Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent and Roger Nimier, he belonged to the literary group of the Hussards. He is a novelist as well as a literary columnist. In 1973 he won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie françai...
Biography of Timothy Adams
Timothy Adams (born August 4, 1967 in Bellville, New Jersey) is an American actor. He was a student at Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington, New Jersey and Harrison High School in Harrison, New Jersey. Adams gained his first credited role in the film Die Hard: With a Vengeance. He later started his soap opera career with his role on the short-lived NBC drama, Sunset Beach as Casey Mitchum from 1997-1999. After a few appearances on television shows and films, he returned to soap operas playing Rob Layne on Guiding Light, a role he played in 2000. Adams made his major film debut in the 2003 summer blockbuster, Bad Boys II, where he worked alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. He currently plays (on recurring status) Ron Walsh on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a r...
Biography of Laurent Luyat
Laurent Luyat, born August 4, 1967 in Grenoble (birth time source: Marc Brun), is a Sports journalist, TV host and radio host. He is also a singer....
Biography of Ron Lester
Ron Lester (August 4, 1970 – June 17, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in the films Varsity Blues, Not Another Teen Movie, Good Burger, and the television show Popular. Lester was born in Kennesaw, Georgia. He attended North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, where he acted in theater productions. He also participated in local rodeos. Lester's sister died while he was in high school, causing him to consider suicide. His first acting role came when he went to Atlanta, Georgia to appear as an extra in a commercial; which turned into a feature part. He also appeared in a music video for the band Little Texas. Lester moved to Los Angeles and began doing stand-up comedy in comedy clubs. His first film role was in the movie Good Burger in 1997, and two years later he...
Biography of René Manzor
René Lalanne, best known as René Manzor, born August 4, 1959 in Mont-de-Marsan (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank, birth certificate), is a French film director and screen writer. He is the brother of Francis Lalanne and Jean-Félix Lalanne. Filmography (film director) (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544528/) # "Le juge est une femme" (8 episodes, 2007-2010) - Par amour (2010) TV episode - Les enfants de la lumière (2010) TV episode - À coeur et à sang (2008) TV episode - Une vie dans l'ombre (2008) TV episode - Le diamant du palais (2008) TV episode (3 more) # Blackout (2009) (TV) # The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception (2007) (V) (segment "Verdun") # "Alex Santana, négociateur" (3 episodes, 2006-2007) ...
Biography of Daniella van Graas
Daniella van Graas (born August 4, 1975) is a Dutch fashion model and actress. Facts & statistics * Modeling Agency: Ford Models, Inc. (New York) * Height: 5'11" (180 cm) * Measurements:38-22-37 (US); 86.5-61-89 (EU) * Dress Size:6 (US); 36(EU) * Shoe Size:9 (US); 41(EU) * Eye Color: Blue * Hair Color: Brown * Nationality: Dutch * Interests: Going to the movies; volleyball Print * Aveeno * Fitness * Cosmopolitan * TopModel * Barely Three * Maybelline * Cover Girl * Max Factor * Armani Jeans Commercials * Pepsi * Aveeno * Breil Filmography * Entourage (2008) - (Natasha) * Perfect Stranger (2006) - (Josie) * Marmalade (2004) - (As Daniella van Graas) ...
Biography of René Sieffert
René Sieffert, born August 4, 1923 in Achen Moselle, and died February 3, 2004, was a French Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) and a specialist of Japon. The Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) is located in Paris, France. It was founded in 1795 after the French Revolution and is now one of the country's Grands établissements with a specialization in African, Asian, East European, Oceanian languages and civilisations. It is often colloquially called Langues O (pronounced "lang-zo"), an abbreviation for "Langues Orientales". Over 90 languages are taught at the INALCO, covering Asian, African, eastern European, South Pacific, Finno-Ugric and native American languages. INALCO offers beginner classes as well as...
Biography of Abdurrahman Wahid
Abdurrahman Wahid (also known as Gus Dur) (born August 4*, 1940) is an Indonesian Muslim religious and political leader who served as the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. The long-time president of the Nahdlatul Ulama and the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Wahid was the first elected president of Indonesia after the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998. (*: error in Wikipedia in English with September 7 instead of August 4 for his birth day) Early life Abdurrahman Wahid was born on the fourth day of the eight month of the Islamic calendar in 1940 in Jombang, East Java to Wahid Hasyim and Solichah. This led to a belief that he was born on August 4, instead the calendar used to mark his birth date was the Islamic calendar meaning that he was actually born on 4 S...
Biography of Luc Leblanc
Luc Leblanc (born on August 4, 1966 in Limoges, France) was a professional male cyclist from France. In 1994 he became World Road Champion. Major achievements World Cycling Road Race Championship: 1994 France National Road Race Championship: 1992 Vuelta a España: 1994 King of the Mountains GP de Ouest France Plouay: 1988 GP du Midi Libre: 1992 GP de Wallonie: 1990 Tour of Haut-Var: 1990 Tour of Trentin: 1997 Tour de France 1991: 5th overall, Maillot jaune after Stage 12 1994: 4th overall, Stage 11 win 1996: 6th overall, Stage 7 win...
Biography of Alain Passard
Alain Passard, born August 4, 1956 in la Guerche de Bretagne (Ille-et-Vilaine)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), is a French chef, owner of 3 Stars restaurant L'Arpège in Paris. He lives with TV host Audrey Pulvar....
Biography of Jeannine Barbulée
Jeannine Barbulée, born August 4, 1912 in Nancy, died August 12, 2002 in Paris, was a French pianist....
Biography of Georgina Hale
Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes. Georgina Hale was born in Ilford, Essex in 1943. She made her first TV appearance in The Wednesday Play in 1966. Her first major television role was as Lili in The Strauss Family in 1972. Hale appeared in a 1975 episode of Upstairs, Downstairs called An Old Flame. She appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the 1988 serial The Happiness Patrol as the character Daisy K, an enforcer of happiness on an Earth colony where sadness was outlawed. Often appearing in Ken Russell films, her best-known film appearances were as Fay in his 1971 musical The Boy Friend and, more prominently, as Alma Mahler in 1974's Ken Russell biopic of the composer Gustav Mahler, for...
Biography of Sebastian Roché
Sebastian Roché (born 4 August 1964) is a French actor. Early life Roché was born in Paris, France. He is of Scottish and French ancestry. He is also fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Italian. On General Hospital, he spoke in Russian, Spanish, and French, and on the pilot episode of Odyssey 5, he spoke in French. Has extensive Classical theatre background and credits, notably in Salome with Al Pacino, Titus Andronicus and The Green Bird with Julie Taymor, Hamlet, Arms and the Man, Macbeth, Mirandolina, Trainspotting, etc. As a teenager, he lived for six years on a sailing boat with his family traveling from France to the Mediterranean, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. He is a graduate of the prestigious Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique of ... |
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