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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on December, 3, 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: 467,677,073 times. 111 celebrities or events were found for December, 3.
Biography of Maria Callas
Maria Callas (December 3, 1923 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek dramatic coloratura soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini, and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini, and in her early career, the music dramas of Wagner. Her remarkable musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed La Divina. Born in New York and raised by an overbearing mother, she received her musical education in Greece and established her career in Italy. Forced to deal with the exigencies of wartime pover...
Biography of Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960 (birth time source: Romy Ransom 5/2001, Astrodatabank) is a British–American actress and children's author. A prolific cinema actress since the early 1990s, Moore has established a successful career in both art house and Hollywood films. She is known for her emotional portrayals of ordinary women, and has received four Academy Award nominations for her work. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles. From 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy for her performance. She made her film debut in 1990, and continued to play supporting roles throughout the early 1990s. Moore made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's Short Cuts ...
Biography of Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Michelle Seyfried (pronounced "Sigh-Frid", IPA: /əm'ændə mɪʃ'ɛl 'saɪfrɪd/; born December 3, 1985) is an American actress and former child model. She is best known for her roles as Sophie Sheridan in the feature film Mamma Mia! and as Karen in Mean Girls; she has also appeared in Alpha Dog and in the television shows Veronica Mars and Big Love. Personal life Amanda Seyfried was born in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States, the daughter of Ann, an occupational therapist, and Jack Seyfried, a pharmacist. Her sister, Jennifer Seyfried is a musician in the Philadelphia organ-driven band, Love City. She graduated in 2003 from Allentown's William Allen High School and subsequently enrolled at New York City's Fordham University. As a t...
Biography of Marie Drucker
Marie Drucker (born in Paris on December 3, 1974 (birth time source: FDAF)) is a French journalist and television personality. She is the daughter of Jean Drucker and niece of Michel Drucker, both prominent French television stars. She got a degree in modern literature from Sorbonne. Her journalist career started in 1994, when she worked as a freelance journalist for Le Figaro and ELLE among others, befor settling down with the agency Capa in 1997, with whom she worked on the TV program Qu'en pensez-vous ? on Canal+. She was co-presenter of the France 2 show Rince ta baignoire in 1999. Next, in August 1999, she joined the newly-formed team of I-Télé (a 24-hour news channel which first went on air in November 1999), with whom she stayed until September 2005, when she got a job as the mai...
Biography of Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne, December 3, 1948 in Birmingham, England (birth time source: Todd Gold, Astrodatabank)) is the lead vocalist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, a popular solo artist, and the star of the reality show, The Osbournes. As a solo artist, Osbourne has sold over 30 million albums in the US, and 75 million albums worldwide. Two albums, Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and No More Tears (1991), are certified quadruple platinum, for sales of over 4 million copies in the US....
Biography of Holly Marie Combs
Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973) is an American film and television actress and producer whose roles have included a portrayal in Charmed as Piper Halliwell and another in Picket Fences, where she received a Young Artist Award for her role, as Kimberly Brock. She now stars in the ABC Family original series Pretty Little Liars as Ella Montgomery. Early life Combs was born in San Diego, California. At the time of her birth, her mother, Lauralei Combs (née Berckhem), was sixteen years old and her father was seventeen. Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up after two years, feeling they were too young to make a marriage work. While Combs was learning to walk, she hit her head on a marble table, resulting in a scar over her right eyebrow. She went through many di...
Biography of Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a American-Canadian film actor. He is known for having starred in several major Hollywood films, including 1999's The Mummy. Early life Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Canadian parents Carol, a sales counsellor, and Peter Fraser, a former journalist who worked as a foreign service officer for the Canadian Government Office of Tourism. His great-grandfather was a Royal Canadian Mountie. He has three older brothers, Kevin, Regan, and Sean. His family moved often as a child, living in Detroit, Seattle, Ottawa, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Fraser attended his first professional theatrical performance in London's West End. He began acting at Toronto's Upper Canada College, where he was a member of the boarding Seaton's...
Biography of Jenna Dewan
Jenna Lee Dewan (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress. Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m) Personal life Dewan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of Nancy Lee (née Bursch) and Darryll Dewan, who was starting running back for the 1972 Notre Dame Football Team. Dewan is of half Lebanese ancestry. Her parents divorced when Dewan was young and her mother remarried to Claude Brooks Smith. Dewan attended Colleyville Middle School in Colleyville, Texas and was a cheerleader and part of the drama squad. She graduated from Grapevine High School, in Grapevine, Texas in 1999. She went to USC and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Dewan dated singer/actor Justin Timberlake from March 2002 until March 2003, and actor/singer Shane West May 2003 until August 2005. She is currently dating Channin...
Biography of Daryl Hannah
Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s. She has recently had several notable roles, including that of Elle Driver in Kill Bill, after a hiatus from major roles during the 1990s. Early life Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Donald and Susan Hannah. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother remarried Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a noted cinematographer. Hannah, a vegetarian since age eleven, grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah, as well as half sister Tanya Wexler. She attended school at Francis Parker and the Chicago Latin School in Chicago until 6th grade when she moved to Parker. ...
Biography of Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. Known for stylistic implementations that challenged, at their focus, the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he became universally recognized as the most audacious and radical of the New Wave filmmakers. He adopted a position in filmmaking that was unambiguously political. His work reflected a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehen...
Biography of Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s (albeit always with a Polish accent). Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad's narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, John Maxwell Coetzee as well as Jerzy Kosiński and inspired such films ...
Biography of David Villa
David Villa Sánchez (born 3 December 1981 in Langreo, Asturias, Spain), nicknamed El Guaje (The Kid) is a Spanish football player. Career Early career Born in the Asturias region in Northern Spain, he got his professional breakthrough at his local club Sporting de Gijón, for whom he made his first-team debut in the 2000–01 season. The next season he was a first team regular, scoring 18 league goals, and scored 20 the next season. After over 50 goals in just three seasons at Gijón, he got his chance in Spain's top-flight the La Liga, when promoted Real Zaragoza bought him in the summer of 2003. He had no trouble adapting to the step up in class and scored 17 times in his first season at Zaragoza. Villa led Zaragoza to a Copa del Rey victory scoring the winning goal against Real Madri...
Biography of Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt (born December 3, 1965) is a German figure skater, in Germany she was commonly affectionately called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often. She won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first in the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics. She won the World Championships in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988, and six consecutive European Championships (1983-1988). Her competitive record makes her one of the most successful figure skaters of all time. Katarina Witt was born in Staaken in then-East Germany, just outside of West Berlin, which is today part of Berlin. She went to school in Karl-Marx-Stadt (which today has reverted to its pre-war name of Chemnitz). There she attended a special school for sports-talented chil...
Biography of Patricia Krenwinkel
Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel (born December 3, 1947) was the third female to join Charles Manson's murderous commune, known as "The Family". During her time with Manson's group Patricia was known by various aliases such as "Big Patty", "Yellow", and "Mary Ann Scott", but to The Family she was most commonly known as Katie. Early Life Krenwinkel was born in Los Angeles, California, to an insurance-salesman father and a homemaker mother. She attended University High School and then Westchester High School, both in the Los Angeles area. Not a particularly popular teen, Patricia suffered from low self-esteem and was frequently teased for being overweight and for an excessive growth of body hair caused by an endocrine condition. She spent her teen years feeling shunned and unattractive. ...
Biography of Christian Karembeu
Christian Karembeu (French pronunciation: ; born 3 December 1970 in Lifou, New Caledonia, acte 94) is a retired French international footballer and the current Strategic Advisor of Olympiacos F.C.. He is also part of a Paris-based consortium to expand the A-League with a Pacific Island team. Early life Christian Karembeu was born on 3 December 1970 in Lifou New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the Pacific Islands. At the age of 17, he moved to France on a scholarship to study and play football. Club career During his career Karembeu played for Nantes (1990–95), Sampdoria (1995–97), Real Madrid (1997–2000), Middlesbrough (2000–01), Olympiakos (2001–04), Servette Genève (2004–05), Bastia (2005–06). With Real Madrid, he won the Champions League in 1998 and 2000, star...
Biography of Anna Freud
Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. Compared to her father, Anna Freud's work emphasized the importance of the ego, and its ability to be trained socially. The Vienna years Anna did not have a very close bond with her mother and had difficulties getting along with her siblings, specifically with her sister Sophie Freud. Sophie, who was the prettiest child, represented a threat in the struggle for the affection of their father. Apart from this rivalry between the two sisters, Anna had some other difficulties growing up. Out of correspondence between father and daughter, it can be concluded today that Anna suf...
Biography of Sébastien Roch
Sébastien Roch, born December 3, 1972 in Toulouse, is a French actor and sometimes singer. Discography 1992 : Silences 2007 : Puce de luxe Filmography Screenwriter 2000 : Lucie (court-métrage) Actor 1991 : Cas de divorce (TV série) 1992 : Hélène et les garçons (TV série) — Christian 1992 : Les Paroles invisibles (court-métrage) 1995 : Fils de flic (TV film) 1997 : La Fin de la nuit (court-métrage) 2000 : In extremis (film) 2003 : Le Principe du canapé (court-métrage) 2004 : Les Vacances de l'amour (TV série) — Christian 2004 : Prisonnier (court-métrage) 2005 : Ze Film (film) 2005 : Rue des Vertus (court-métrage) 2006 : Sous le soleil (TV série) — Tony 2007 : King Size (V film) — Pierre...
Biography of Trina (rapper)
Katrina Laverne Taylor (born December 3, 1978), better known by her stage name Trina, is an American female rapper and model from Miami, Florida. Early life Trina's mother is African American and her father is Dominican Growing up, she lived in both the Liberty City housing projects in Miami and upper-class Pembroke Pines,FL She graduated from Miami Northwestern High School, where she had been a majorette; after high school she worked office jobs at AT&T and United Parcel Service and she also has a license in real estate sales. Music career Miami rapper Trick Daddy asked Trina to recite a verse on his debut and in 1998, that track, "Nann Nigga", ended up being the first single of his www.thug.com album. The single became a hit reaching No. 3 on the Rap Charts. Thanks to the s...
Biography of Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl. She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain. Chlumsky graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002 and had worked in New York City as a researcher for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while. Chlumsky appeared on the March 8, 2007 episode of 30 Rock called "The Fighting Irish." She played Liz Lemler who is the girlfriend of Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) who sent the flowers to Lemler in "Up All Night" that ended up with Liz Lemon. She ...
Biography of Michael Angarano
Michael Anthony Angarano (born December 3, 1987) is an American actor. Angarano was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Doreen and Michael Angarano. He is of Italian descent; he has two younger siblings, Erica and Andrew, and an older sister, Kristen. His family owns and operates four successful dance studios in New York and LA called Reflections in Dance, where Doreen directs and teaches, Kristen teaches and Erica dances. Angarano graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School in 2005 and currently lives in Los Angeles. In 2000, he played the young William in the critically acclaimed film Almost Famous. Angarano's first major film role was in 2002's Little Secrets, opposite Evan Rachel Wood and David Gallagher. In 2004, he appeared in the movie version of the critically acclaimed...
Biography of Jake T. Austin
Jake T. Austin (born December 3, 1994) is an American actor and voice actor. Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of seven, Austin is a five-time Young Artist Award nominee, best known for his role as Max Russo, the youngest of three wizards on the Disney Channel original series Wizards of Waverly Place, and as the voice of Diego, the 8-year-old animal rescuer on the Nickelodeon animated series Go, Diego, Go!. Jake attends the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, New York City. Early life Austin was born Jake Austin Szymanski on December 3, 1994, in New York City, the son of Giny Rodriquez Toranzo and Joe Szymanski. His middle initial, "T" is taken from his mother's maiden name, "Toranzo". His mother is of Puerto Rican, Argentine, and Spanish descent, and his father...
Biography of Edmond Hervé
Edmond Hervé (born December 3, 1942, in La Bouillie in the Côtes-d'Armor) is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party. He has been mayor of Rennes since March 20, 1977, succeeding Henri Fréville. His parents were tenant farmers, he graduated in public law at the university of Rennes and also has a graduate degree in political science. He became a teacher in administrative law and in constitutional law in 1969. He has a daughter and two twin sons. Mayor of Rennes He made his way in politics through activism and became the mayor of Rennes in 1977. He abandoned his job as a teacher to dedicate himself to his mandate. He started an innovative urban policy which he carried on fervently: social mix, support for cultural activities, ecology, development of public tr...
Biography of Terry Cole-Whittaker
Terry Cole-Whittaker, born December 3, 1939 in Los Angeles California, is a former Miss California 1968, and an American Religious Science pastor from 1977. World renowned, inspiring and motivating speaker, teacher, best-selling author, television producer, business consultant, & counselor to the "stars" Terry Cole-Whittaker is for some people a catalyst for Wealth, Happiness, Health, and Enlightenment....
Biography of Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (December 3, 1927 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Stephen Przybylowski)) – September 25, 2012) was an American popular music singer. He recorded seventeen Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials. Most recently, he performed at his Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri, which was named after the Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini song "Moon River", with which he is closely identified. Early life and career Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. He first performed in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Bob, Don, and Dick formed the ...
Biography of Sean Parker
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American internet technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster, Plaxo, and Causes, and was a part of Facebook. He reportedly continues to assist Facebook in an unofficial capacity. Biography His father began teaching him programming when he was seven years old; at 16, he was sentenced to community service for hacking. Parker graduated from Oakton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1998. In 1999, he co-founded Napster, a free file-sharing service for music that drew the ire of recording labels and the Recording Industry Association of America. Lawsuits by various industry associations eventually shut down the service. In November 2002, Parker subsequently launched Plaxo, an online address book and social networki...
Biography of Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is a theoretical physicist and writer on the subjects of quantum physics, consciousness, and their relationship. He is a science popularizer on the Discovery Channel, and has authored a number of books. His theories about the interrelation of consciousness and quantum physics have been described in a Newsweek editorial as "on the fringes of mainstream science." Wolf's interest in physics began as a child when he viewed a newsreel depicting the world's first atomic explosion. Wolf received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UCLA in 1963 and began researching the field of high atmospheric particle behavior following a nuclear explosion. Dr. Wolf has appeared as the resident physicist on the Discovery Channel program The Know Zone, was a partici...
Biography of René Alpsteg
René Alpsteg, born December 3, 1920 in Bonneville (Haute-Savoie), died December 24, 2001, was a French soccer player....
Biography of Robert Guédiguian
Robert Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953 in Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film Le Voyage en Armenie. He has a working class background - his father a worker on the Marseille docks. He early became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party. In 2008 he joined the Left Party. Like Marcel Pagnol and René Allio before him, he anchors his films in social reality, flirting with militancy. His films are strongly marked by the local and regional environment of the city of Mar...
Biography of André Marie
André Marie (3 December 1897 Honfleur – 12 June 1974 Rouen) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic in 1948. Ministry (26 July - 5 September 1948) André Marie - President of the Council Pierre-Henri Teitgen - Vice President of the Council Léon Blum - Vice President of the Council Robert Schuman - Minister of Foreign Affairs René Mayer - Minister of National Defense Jules Moch - Minister of the Interior Paul Reynaud - Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Robert Lacoste - Minister of Commerce and Industry Daniel Mayer - Minister of Labour and Social Security Robert Lecourt - Minister of Justice Yvon Delbos - Minister of National Education André Maroselli - Minister of Veterans and War Victims Pierre Pflimlin ...
Biography of Alicia Sacramone
Alicia Marie Sacramone (pronounced /əˈliʃə ˌsækɹəˈmoʊni/)(born December 3, 1987) is a retired American artistic gymnast. A member of the U.S. National Team, she is the 2005 World Champion on floor exercise, the 2008 U.S. National Champion on vault, and a seven-time medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a silver medal competing for the USA in the artistic gymnastics team all-around competition. Sacramone began gymnastics at the age of eight, began competing in the elite ranks in 2002 and joined the U.S. national team in 2003. Since 2005 she has been a key member of the U.S. team, and has won two World Championship titles and seven World Championships medals in total. Shannon Miller and N...
Biography of Charles VI of France
Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), called the Beloved (le Bienaimé) and the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was the King of France from 1380 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. Early life He was born in Paris, the son of King Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon. At the age of eleven, he was crowned King of France in 1380 in the cathedral at Reims. He married Isabeau of Bavaria in 1385. Until he took complete charge as king in 1388, France was ruled by his uncle, Philip the Bold. Charles VI was known both as Charles the Well Beloved and later as Charles the Mad, since, beginning in his mid-twenties, he experienced bouts of psychosis. These fits of madness would recur for the rest of his life. Based on his symptoms, doctors believe the king may have suffered from sch...
Biography of António Variacoes
António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, (December 3, 1944 – June 13, 1984) was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career, due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, he would, under the stage name of António Variações, become one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent Portuguese history. His recorded works blended contemporary music genres with traditional Portuguese rhythms and melodies, creating music which for many is symbolic of the liberalization that occurred in Portuguese society after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. The original and provocative nature of his recorded works has led to him being widely recognized as one of the most innovative artists in the recent history of Portuguese popular music. Early life António ...
Biography of Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel Bedingfield (born December 3, 1979) is a New Zealand-born, British singer songwriter. He is the brother of pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. He and Natasha share the Guinness World Record for being the only siblings to have had solo number-ones in UK chart history. Music career After his song "Gotta Get Thru This" gathered momentum on white label, surprisingly through the underground garage music scene, it went on to become a #1 hit in the UK Top 40 in December 2001. He has since had 2 more #1 singles ("If You're Not The One" and "Never Gonna Leave Your Side"), as well as three further top 10 hits. His debut album, also titled Gotta Get Thru This, reached #2 in the UK albums chart and went on to sell more than 4 million copies. In 2003 he appeared on the Delirious? album World ...
Biography of Terri Schiavo
Theresa Marie Schindler "Terri" Schiavo (pronounced /ˈskjʌvo/; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005) was an American woman who suffered brain damage and became dependent on a feeding tube. She collapsed in her home on February 25, 1990, and experienced respiratory and cardiac arrest, resulting in extensive brain damage, a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state (PVS) and 15 years of institutionalization. In 1998, Michael Schiavo, her husband and guardian, petitioned the Pinellas County Circuit Court to remove her feeding tube. Robert and Mary Schindler, her parents, opposed this, arguing she was conscious. The court determined that Schiavo would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures. This controversy lasted seven years and included involvement by politicians and advocacy gr...
Biography of Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan, December 3, 1931) is a retired popular American singer and game show panelist. Early life Morgan was born in Mancos, Colorado, but her family moved to California by the time she was in high school. In the late 1940s, at Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, she served as class treasurer (and got the nickname "Jaye P." after the banker J. P. Morgan) and sang at school assemblies, accompanied by her brother on guitar. 1950s In 1951, a year after graduation from Verdugo Hills, she made a recording of the song "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" which made it to the Top Ten. Soon after, she received an RCA Victor recording contract and she had five hits in one year, including "That's All I Want from You," her biggest ...
Biography of Louis de Loménie
Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works. Life Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871. He died in Paris in 1878. Works His chief work is Beaumarchais et son temps (1855), marked by much scholarly research. He...
Biography of John Manolesco
Count John Manolesco, born December 3, 1918 in Timisoaka, Romania, died January 10, 1983 in Cleveland, Ohio, was a Romanian-American author and astrologer....
Biography of Michael Essien
Michael Essien or Mickaël Essien (born December 3, 1982 in Ghana) is an originally Nigerian International footballer nicknamed 'The Bison' due to his formidable strength, competitiveness and combativeness in the midfield area. He currently plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League. He is a central midfielder and plays as a deep-lying playmaker for the Black Stars, the Ghana national football team but is employed all over the pitch at Chelsea due to his versatility. He is the most expensive African footballer of all-time. Club career Born in Accra to Ghanaian parents Aba Gyandoh and James Essien, Essien began his career in a local club in his native Ghana, called Liberty Professionals FC after graduating from St Augustine College. He broke through when he played in the 1999 FIFA U...
Biography of Anton Webern
Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known proponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical technique later known as total serialism. Biography Webern was born in Vienna, Austria, as Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern. He never used his middle names and dropped the von in 1918 as directed by the Austrian government's reforms after World War I. After spending much of his youth in Graz and Klagenfurt, Webern attended Vienna University from 1902. There he studied musicology with Guido Adler...
Biography of Malinda Williams
Malinda Williams (born December 3, 1975) is an American actress. Personal life Williams was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She grew up in Westfield, New Jersey and attended Union County College in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Williams was married to actor Mekhi Phifer and the two share a son together. The couple is now divorced. She is currently in a relationship with photographer and former Boogie Down Productions member and solo artist D-Nice. She resides in Westfield, New Jersey. Career Williams, who studied at The Actor's Conservatory in New York City, has appeared in several television shows such as The Cosby Show, Sister, Sister and Moesha. She has also starred in several movies including, Sunset Park, High School High, The Wood and recently the Outkast produced movie, Idlewild....
Biography of Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas (born Paul Oscar Beuselinck, 3 December 1945 in Peterborough, England) is an English actor and singer who has had considerable success on stage, screen and in the pop charts. Nicholas's father Oscar Beuselinck was a highly esteemed entertainment lawyer. During the 1970s, his father's family home was at Letchmore Heath, Watford opposite the Bhaktivedanta manor. Beuselink's clients included MGM, Jack Hilton, John Osborne, The Rolling Stones, Tony Richardson, Richard Harris, Sean Connery, Yes, Robert Stigwood, and The Who. Nicholas's grandparents, Winnie and Oscar, lived in a small cottage on the grounds of the family home. Nicholas's grandfather - who originated from Belgium - had been a chef in the merchant navy during the Second World War before becoming Head Chef on The U...
Biography of Nino Rota
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – April 10, 1979) was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy. Rota also composed ten operas, five ballets and many other orchestral and choral works, the most famous being his string concerto. Born into a musical family in Milan, Rota studied at the conservatory there under Ildebrando Pizzetti. His first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 and his lyrical comedy, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed in 1926. Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota mov...
Biography of Joop Zoetemelk
Hendrik Gerardus Jozef "Joop" Zoetemelk (born 3 December 1946 in The Hague) is a retired cyclist from The Netherlands. Zoetemelk turned professional after winning a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City in the 100km team time-trial with Fedor den Hertog, Jan Krekels and René Pijnen. His career was threatened in 1974 by a skull fractured in a crash. In 18 years as a professional (1969-87), he won the Tour de France in 1980, and the Vuelta a España in 1979. A testament to the competition at the time, notably Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault, Zoetemelk came second in the Tour de France six times. Additionally, he set a record by completing all 16 Tours in which he started. He became the oldest world cycling champion in 1985, at 38 and 9 months. After retiring, Zoetemelk b...
Biography of Sarah Foret
Sarah Foret (born on December 3, 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American actress perhaps best known for her role in American television series Beautiful People along with Torrey DeVitto. Filmography Lost Dream (2008) (post-production) .... Molly The Dead Sleep (2008) (post-production) .... Melanie Wells "Moonlight" .... Audrey (1 episode, 2007) American Crude (2007) .... Tammy Pope Dreams (2006) - Hannah Beautiful People - Sophie Kerr (16 episodes, 2005-2006) Karla (2006) - Kaitlyn Ross American Crude (2005) - Tammy Gilmore Girls - Anna Fairchild (one episode, 2004 season) CSI: NY - Tina Paulson (one episode, 2004 season) Clubhouse - Lucy (one episode)...
Biography of Émile Péreire
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank. They also had large investments in a transatlantic steamship line, railways, insurance, gas lighting, a newspaper and the Paris public transit system. Eugène Péreire (1831–1908), son of Isaac, joined the enterprise and took over the running of the business empire on his father's death. He was the founder, in 1881, of the Banque Transatlantique, which still operates today and is one of the oldest private banks in France. ...
Biography of George McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. However, although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, these attributes may have hampered his ability to challenge aggressive opponents in a fast-moving battlefield environment. He chronically overestimated the strength of enemy units and was reluctant to apply principles of mass, frequently leaving large portions of his army unengaged at decisive points. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862 ended in failur...
Biography of Liisa Winkler
Liisa Winkler, born December 3, 1978 in Belleville near Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian model. Advertisements: Absolut Tom Ford, Akris, BCBG, Bruni Maneti, Calvin Klein, Divinora, Falke, GAP, Gucci, Gucci 'Envy' fragrance, Guerlain Divinora, Holt Renfrew, Hugo Boss, iBlues, Margaret Astor cosmetics, Marks & Spencer, Maxazria, MaxMara, Mila Schon, Patrick Cox, Ralph Lauren, Rena Lange, Samsonite, Valentino, Magazine Covers: Australia: 'Vogue' - July 2003 Canada: 'Flare' - September 2000; 'Toronto Fashion' France: 'Numero' #5 - September 1999; 'Glamour' - March 2001 Germany: 'Vogue' - October 1999; 'Petra'(supplement) - September 2001; 'Glamour' - February 2004 Italy: 'Vogue' - February 2001; 'Marie Claire' - August 2001; 'Glamour' - September 2002 UK: 'Vogue' - July 1999; ...
Biography of Carlos Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay (born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barrés; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe, Cuba – August 20, 1915, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research. Early life and education Finlay was born in Puerto Principe, Cuba, of French and Scottish descent. He changed his name to Carlos Juan Finlay later in his life. In 1853 he attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1855, and completed his studies in Havana and in Paris. Afterwards he settled in Havana and opened a medical practice. Professional career Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s, finally came to prominence in 1900. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, o...
Biography of John Rice
John Rice and Greg Rice, sometimes known as the Rice Brothers or Rice Twins, were identical twin dwarfs, known throughout the United State for their appearances in various commercials and infomercials. Until the death of John Rice on November 5, 2005, the two held the world record for being the shortest living twins, standing only 2'10". Biography John and Greg Rice were born on December 3, 1951 at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida. Their biological mother abandoned them a few hours after giving birth, purportedly due to the diagnosis of dwarfism. After eight months of being cared for by hospital staff, the infants were taken in as foster children by Frank and Mildred Windsor. Following the loss of their foster mother due to ovarian cancer and the death of their foster...
Biography of Alibert (singer)
Henri Allibert, best known as Alibert, born December 3, 1889 in Carpentras and died January 23, 1951, was a French writer, actor, comedian and singer. Songs * Le Plus Beau Tango du monde * Le Petit Cabanon * Vous avez l’éclat de la rose * Le Noël des petits santons * Adieu, Venise provençale Filmography * 1933 - Au pays du soleil (scénario et rôle de Titin) * 1935 - Arènes joyeuses (scénario et rôle de Rémy) * 1937 - Titin des Martigues (Titin) * 1939 - Les Gangsters du château d'If * 1946 - L'Affaire du grand hôtel (Tonin) Theater * 1933 : Les Trois de la Marine de René Sarvil et Vincent Scotto, Théâtre de l'Ambigu... |
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