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Biography of Oprah Winfrey
Dr. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. She is also, according to several assessments, the most influential woman in the world. Dr. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history.
Biography of Gia Carangi
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others including Janice Dickinson and Dorian Leigh. Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of several fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia", due to her resemblance to Carangi. Carangi was also the first to present unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She is credited by many at the upper echelons of fashion to have created a new style of modeling, emulated by models since then to the present.
Biography of Adam Lambert
Adam Mitchel Lambert (born January 29, 1982 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is an American singer and actor residing in Los Angeles, California. In May 2009 he finished as the runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol. Early life and education Lambert was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and lived there for a year before moving out West to California. He grew up in Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego, California and attended Deer Canyon Elementary School, Mesa Verde Middle School, and Mt. Carmel High School, where he was in theater, choir, and frequently performed with the school's jazz band. Lambert is Jewish and has performed in Hebrew at Jewish events, singing songs such as "Shir LaShalom".
Biography of Tom Selleck
Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his starring role on the long-running television show Magnum P.I.. Early life Born in Detroit to a Rusyn father from Slovakia and Scottish-American mother, but raised in Los Angeles, Selleck did modeling work and attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship; he majored in business administration, however a drama coach suggested he try acting. He then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas. He also served in the California National Guard.
Biography of Heather Graham
Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Brookfield, Wisconsin (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American film and television actress from Agoura Hills, CA. Childhood and early career Her father, Jim, is a retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted author of children's books. Graham has a younger sister, Aimee, who is also an aspiring actress and writer. The family followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing of Irish descent. Heather has since estranged herself from the Catholic Church, saying it is: "made up of closed-minded men who believe a woman's sexuality is evil..Why do I have to do what all these men are saying.
Biography of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, IPA: ) was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on 29 January 1860, and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on 15 July 1904. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress". Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim by Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov’s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
Biography of Athina Onassis Roussel
Athina Onassis de Miranda (née Athina Roussel, born January 29, 1985) is a competitive show jumper who is the only surviving descendant of the Greek shipping magnate Aristote Onassis. Her middle name has been the subject of some confusion over the years. Before the photos of her wedding invitations in 2005, it was believed that her middle name could either be Christina or Alexandra. However, the wedding invitations clearly stated her birth name as Athina Hélène Roussel. Early life and family Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, she is the only child of Christina Onassis (1950-1988) and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel, a French pharmeceutical heir.
Biography of Paul Ryan
Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970 (birth time source: BC, Patrick Watson, Astrodatabank)) is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999, and the presumptive Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2012 election. Ryan is often cited for his views on fiscal policy and his proposed changes to Medicare. Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan earned a B.A. degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio. In the mid to late 1990s, he worked as an aide to United States Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin, as legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, and as a speechwriter for former U.
Biography of Sara Gilbert
Sara Gilbert (play /ˈɡɪlbərt/; born January 29, 1975) is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner from 1988–1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne. Early life Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Barbara Crane (née Cowan) and Harold Abeles. Her two older siblings, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert, were stars of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa and Jonathan both were adopted by Barbara and her first husband, Paul Gilbert (born Ed MacMahon); Paul died in 1975. Abeles changed her surname to Gilbert to become an actress in 1984. Television career Gilbert decided at age six that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister, Melissa Gilbert, got a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Biography of Sacha Distel
Sacha Distel (January 29, 1933 – July 22, 2004) was a French singer who had hits such as a cover version of the Academy Award winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (originally recorded by B.J. Thomas) and "Scoubidou". He was born in Paris. At age 16, Distel became a professional jazz guitarist. Over his career he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1950s after establishing himself as a French crooner. Sacha Distel had a much publicized relationship with actress Brigitte Bardot but in 1963 he married skier Francine Bréaud. He reputedly broke off the relationship with Bardot after discovering her with another man.
Biography of Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (help·info) (born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase, in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits.
Biography of Romário
Romário de Souza Faria (born January 29, 1966 in Rio de Janerio), better known simply as Romário, is a Brazilian football center forward who helped the Brazil national team win the 1994 FIFA World Cup and has been one of the most prolific strikers in the world since the 1990s, having had successful tenures with European clubs PSV Eindhoven and FC Barcelona, and in Brazil with Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. His professional career has extended past age 40, an age by which most professional footballers have retired. He was selected the FIFA World Player of the Year and won the World Cup Golden Ball in 1994 and named as one of the Top 125 greatest living footballers as part of FIFA's 100th anniversary celebration.
Biography of Éric Woerth
Éric Woerth (born 29 January 1956 in Creil, Oise (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French politician. Éric Woerth studied at HEC School of Management and Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He was elected député for Oise in 2002. He is also treasurer of the UMP. He was secretary of State for Reform of the State in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin from 2004 to 2005. Woerth founded the "club de la boussole", a group of UMP députés, and is a member of the Réformateurs, a liberal trend within the UMP. He was named Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service on May 18, 2007, in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon.
Biography of Pierre Tchernia
Pierre Tchernia (born Pierre Tcherniakowski on 29 January 1928 in Paris (birth time source: Steinbrecher Collection, Astrodatabank), and died on October 8, 2016)), is a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France he is known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema. Career He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney). For many years he hosted a television game show of movie trivia, Monsieur Cinéma. He has also been host or presenter for various French talk, variety, quiz and music shows over the years.
Biography of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809, New York City, U.S.) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, classical liberal and intellectual. Born in Great Britain, he lived in America, having migrated to the American colonies just in time to take part in the American Revolution, mainly as the author of the powerful, widely read pamphlet, Common Sense (1776), advocating independence for the American Colonies from the Kingdom of Great Britain and of The American Crisis, supporting the Revolution. Later, Paine was a great influence on the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man (1791) as a guide to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Biography of W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. This characterization that he portrayed in films and radio was so strong that it was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the then-typical movie-studio publicity departments at Fields's studios (Paramount and Universal) and further established by Robert Lewis Taylor's 1949 biography W.
Biography of Isabel Lucas
Isabel Lucas (born January 29, 1985 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress of Swiss descent, perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on popular Australian television soap opera Home and Away until 2006 and for her active role in various environmental awareness organizations including Greenpeace International. Lucas moved to Los Angeles in early 2008. Lucas' current projects include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Rights Revoked (2009), a documentary shot with friend and actress Elissa Sursara for Animal Planet. Early life and family As a child, Lucas lived in Melbourne, then in Switzerland, but later moved to a small mining town in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory with her sister.
Biography of Edward Burns
Edward J. Burns, Jr. (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Biography Early life Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly (née McKenna), a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, Sr., a public relations spokesperson and police officer. He is the second of three children (with siblings Mary and Brian) in an Irish American family. He was raised in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island. He briefly attended Chaminade High School before transferring to Hewlett High School. After high school, Burns attended SUNY Oneonta, and SUNY Albany, before receiving a degree in English from Hunter College in 1992.
Biography of Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings." His mind sculpted by a passion for music and discursive admiration for exceptional men, he sought a means of communion among men for his entire life.
Biography of Salomé Stévenin
Salomé Stévenin, born January 1985, is a French actress. She is the daughter of French actor Jean-François Stévenin and the sister of actors Robinson Stévenin and Sagamore Stévenin. Filmography 1988 : Peaux de vaches, de Patricia Mazuy 1997 : Soleil de Roger Hanin 2000 : Love me, de Laetitia Masson 2002 : Mischka, de Jean-François Stévenin 2005 : Douches froides, de Antony Cordier 2007 : Il a suffi que Maman s'en aille... Television L'instit : Concerto pour Guillaume, de Didier Cohen et Pierre Grimblat (1993) Le jardin des plantes, de Philippe de Broca (1994) Noël et après, de Daniel Vigne (1995)
Biography of Sylvester Matushka
Hungarian murderer, Sylvester Matushka, born January 29, 1892, gained erotic excitement by blowing up trains. In 1932 he was gaoled for life for causing two train wrecks in which twenty-two people were killed and over one hundred injured, he was released during Word War Two. During the Korean War he worked for the Americans as an explosives expert.
Biography of Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian born writer, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism. She is also the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); and The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), and most recently Shakespeare's Wife (2007). Early life Greer was born in Melbourne in 1939, growing up in the bayside suburb of Mentone.
Biography of Katharine Ross
Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 - some sources say 1942 or 1943 - in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Early life Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her father was in the Navy. Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School.
Biography of Ann Jillian
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress born to Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant parents. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Jillian has been acting since 1961 when she played "Little Bo Peep" in the Disney film, Babes In Toyland. She appeared in the Rosalind Russell- Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom Hazel, the Twilight Zone ("Mute" 1963) as the mute telepathic Ilse Nielson; and did voice acting for Scooby Doo and Sealab 2020 in the early 1970s. She is best known for her early 1980s TV series, It's a Living, a sitcom that elevated Jillian to sex symbol status.
Biography of Dalila Di Lazzaro
Dalila Di Lazzaro, born January 29, 1953 in Udine (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Astrodatabank, from memory), is an Italian actress and model. Filmography Lo scopone scientifico (1972) Il mostro è in tavola barone Frankenstein Il bestione, regia di Sergio Corbucci (1974) L'ultimo treno della notte La pupa del gangster L'Italia s'è rotta Il gatto Un uomo in premio Voltati Eugenio Stark system Tre uomini da abbattere Quando la coppia scoppia Prima che sia troppo presto La donna giusta Una di troppo Phenomena Spogliando Valeria Sicilian connection Diceria dell'Untore Alcune signore per bene Strepitosamente flop Oh! Serafina (1976) La ragazza dal pigiama giallo (1977)
Biography of Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame (born January 29 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera, and more recently a solo performer. Career Between 1981 and 1982 Frame was co-productive in fronting Postcard Records, where he began to befriend and record a string of low budget singles such as "Just Like Gold" and "Mattress of Wire". The latter single drew attention from BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel. In 1983, the band released "High Land, Hard Rain," their first LP on Rough Trade record, though this did not include the first two Postcard singles. It spawned the hit single "Oblivious", and Aztec Camera were recognised as one of the key acts on the Rough Trade, though The Smiths would soon supplant them.
Biography of William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, and promoted pluralism among ethnic groups. His campaign, designed by Mark Hanna, introduced new advertising-style campaign techniques that revolutionized campaign practices and beat back the crusading of his arch-rival, William Jennings Bryan.
Biography of Claudine Longet
Claudine Georgette Longet (born on 29 January 1942 (1942-01-29) (age 66) in Paris, France) was a popular singer and recording artist during the 1960s and 1970s. She was also an actress and a dancer. She was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975 and they remain "very good friends" to the present day. In 1977, a trial jury convicted her of "misdemeanor negligent homicide" in the 1976 death of former Olympic skier Spider Sabich. Andy Williams Longet and Williams met in Las Vegas in 1960 when she was 18 years old and he was 32 years old. Claudine was experiencing problems with her car and had pulled over to the side of the road.
Biography of Victor Mature
Victor Mature (29 January 1913 – 4 August 1999) was an American film actor. Early life Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean Italian-speaking father, Marcellino Gelindo Maturi, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Maturi. Discovered while on stage at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, his first leading role was as a fur-clad caveman in One Million B.C. (1940), after which he joined 20th Century Fox to star opposite actresses such as Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. However, with the US entry into World War II, Mature entered military service. Rejected by the Navy for color blindness, he enlisted in the Coast Guard, reaching the rank of chief boatswain's mate by the war's end.
Biography of Marc Gasol
Marc Gasol Sáez (born January 29, 1985, in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. He was drafted in the second round, 48th overall, by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2007 NBA Draft. He stands 7'1" tall and is the younger brother of current Lakers power forward-center Pau Gasol. Pro career Europe After playing high school basketball at the Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States, Gasol returned to his home country of Spain to play in the Spanish ACB League. He originally played with FC Barcelona before moving to CB Girona, where he played two seasons and was named the 2008 ACB Most Valuable Player.
Biography of Katie Lohmann
Katie Lohmann (born 29 January 1980 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a model, actress, and most notably a Playboy Playmate for the month of April 2001. Measurements 32D - 22 - 32 Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 103 lb (47 kg) She is the youngest of three children, with a brother and a sister. Her father, Dan, is a successful accountant and her mother, Sharon, is the head of payroll for Citibank. They were divorced in 1992. Lohmann discovered early on that she loved performing on stage. Her first performance was singing a song from the Walt Disney classic The Little Mermaid, at the age of eight, and she received a standing ovation.
Biography of Eugénie de Guérin
Eugénie de Guérin (January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her Journals (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her Lettres (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. In her case mysticism assumed a form more strictly religious, and she continued to mourn her brother's loss of his early Catholic faith. Five years older than he, she cherished a love for him which was blended with a somewhat motherly anxiety. After his death she began the collection and publication of the scattered fragments of his writings.
Biography of Henri Queffélec
Henri Queffélec, born January 29, 1910 in Brest, died January 12; 1992 in Paris (heart failure), was a French writer. He is the father of French writer Yann Queffélec (Prix Goncourt in 1985). Henri Queffélec won Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1958 for his novel "Un royaume sous la mer". Works 1944 Journal d'un salaud 1945 Un recteur de l'Île de Sein 1945 La fin d'un manoir 1946 Un homme à la côte 1946 La culbute 1948 Chemin de terre 1948 Portret de la Suède, essai 1948 Pas trop vite, s.v.p., nouvelles 1949 Au bout du monde 1951 Tempête sur Douarnenez
Biography of Friedrich Mohs
Friedrich Mohs (January 29, 1773 - September 29, 1839) was a German geologist/mineralogist. Career Mohs, born in Gernrode, Germany, studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Halle and also studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony. After assuming the position of a foreman at a mine in 1801, Mohs moved in 1802 to Austria, where he was employed in trying to identify the minerals in a private collection of a Banker. Mineral properties As part of this task, he started classifying minerals by their physical characteristics, in spite of their chemical composition, as had been done traditionally. This emphasis on physical characteristics was at odds with the prevailing chemical systematics.
Biography of Jason James Richter
Jason James Richter (born January 29, 1980 in Medford, Oregon) is an American actor. At the age of three, he and his family moved to Hawaii, where a Japanese casting agency discovered him and signed him up for three TV spots. In 1989, his family moved back to Los Angeles, where he could pursue his career. He starred in Free Willy, in which he was chosen out of more than 4,000 candidates to play the lead role of Jesse. Other movies include Cops and Robbersons, The NeverEnding Story III, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Laserhawk, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and The Setting Son.
Biography of Andrew Keegan
Andrew Keegan (born January 29, 1979) is an American actor. Keegan was born Andrew Keegan Heying in Los Angeles, California, the older son of Lana (née Ocampo), a hairdresser, and Larry Heying, a voice-over actor. Keegan's mother is Colombian and his father is from Nebraska. Keegan has a younger brother, Casey (born June 12, 1980), who is also an actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in films such as 10 Things I Hate about You (1999), The Broken Hearts Club (2000) and O (2001). He had recurring roles on several television series, including Full House, That 70s Show, Party of Five, 7th Heaven, Related, Step by Step, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and The Amanda Show, and was a regular in the final season of Thunder Alley.
Biography of John Forsythe
John Lincoln Freund - better known as John Forsythe (born January 29, 1918), is an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father Early life Forsythe, the oldest of three children, was born in Penns Grove, New Jersey to a factory worker, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of 1929. At only 16 years of age Forsythe graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and began attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biography of Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (Italian pronunciation: ; January 29, 1924 – May 8, 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. Biography Early years Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono began music lessons with Gian Francesco Malipiero in 1941 at the Venice Conservatory where he acquired knowledge of the Renaissance madrigal tradition, amongst other styles. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Padua, he was given encouragement in composition by Bruno Maderna. Through Maderna, he became acquainted with Hermann Scherchen—then Maderna's conducting teacher—who gave Nono further tutelage and was an early mentor and advocate of his music.
Biography of Winnie Ruth Judd
Winnie Ruth Judd (1905-1998), known as the "Trunk murderess" was an American murderess convicted of the murder of a women on 16 October 1931. Only the trial of Bruno Hauptmann garnered more interest during the 1930's. Trial Judd was charged and convicted of the murder of Agnes LeRoi, one of her two friends she was alleged to have murdered in mid-October 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona. The fateful fight that led to the shooting of the two women reportedly was fueled by a conflict of interest - all three woman were interested in the same man. Contrary to a popular myth that continues to insist that she killed the two women and then butchered both bodies afterward, and was tried and convicted for both murders - the fact is that she was tried and convicted only of the murder of Mrs.
Biography of Susana Giménez
Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert (born January 29, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette, ex-model, television host and a former theatre dancer and singer. She is also a very succesful businesswoman. Most of her filming career was in adult-oriented comedies, acting opposite Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, and fellow vedette Moria Casán. Giménez is the host of a highly-rated television variety show in Argentina, similar in format to those of Verónica Castro (in Mexico), Yolandita Monge (in Puerto Rico), Raffaella Carrà (in Italy and Spain) and Oprah Winfrey (in United States). Giménez entered into the Guinness Book of Records because all the letters and phone calls she received in her show.
Biography of Jonny Lang
Jonny Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., January 29, 1981 in Fargo, North Dakota) is a Grammy Award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, song writer and recording artist. Lang's music is notable both for his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a 40 year old blues veteran, and for his guitar solos. His solo patterns have especially been noted for the constant use of wide vibratos. Lang started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo. Lang soon started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the Bad Medicine Blues Band's guitar player.
Biography of Greg Louganis
Gregory ("Greg") Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960 in El Cajon, California) is an American diver who is best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events. He received the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in 1984 as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States. Louganis is of Samoan/Swedish descent and was raised in California by his adoptive parents, a Greek-American couple. At age 16, Louganis took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he placed second in the tower event, behind Italian Klaus Dibiasi. Two years later, with Dibiasi retired, Louganis won his first world title in the same event.
Biography of Ferenc Mádl
Ferenc Mádl (born January 29, 1931, in the village of Bánd in Veszprém County) is a former President of Hungary, having served from August 4, 2000 to August 5, 2005. He is married to Dalma Némethy, they have one son and three grandchildren. University studies and scientific activities Awarded a diploma from the Faculty of Politics and Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in 1955. Between 1961-1963 he studied at the faculty of international comparative law of the University of Strasbourg. He was awarded an academic degree as candidate of politics and law in 1964, and he received a doctorate in 1974 with his dissertation "The company and economic competition in the law of European economic integration".
Biography of Nicholas Turturro
Nicholas Turturro, Jr. (born January 29, 1962) is an American film, television and prolific on-stage character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Dennis Franz's rookie plainclothes detective and Gordon Clapp's partner, Sgt. James Martinez, on NYPD Blue (a role he played from 1993 to 2000). Biography Career He garnered an Emmy nomination for playing Officer/Det./Sgt. James Martinez on the TV program NYPD Blue, where he sparkled a wonderful on- and off-screen chemistry between both Franz & Clapp for his first seven seasons he stayed on the show, and became a favorite among younger viewers. His list of credits include portraying Al Capone in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and playing the role of "Brucie" in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard and "Renaldo" in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Biography of André Bertouille
André Bertouille (January 29 1932, Ronse (or Renaix in French), Belgium) is a Belgian politician.
Biography of Woo-suk Hwang
Hwang Woo-suk (Korean: 황우석, born 29 January 1953) is a South Korean veterinarian researcher. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University (dismissed on March 20, 2006) who became infamous for fabricating a series of experiments, which appeared in high profile journals, in the field of stem cell research. Until November 2005, he was considered one of the pioneering experts in the field of stem cell research, best known for two articles published in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005 where he fraudulently reported to have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning. Both papers were later editorially retracted after they were found to contain a large amount of fabricated data.
Biography of François-Vincent Raspail
François-Vincent Raspail (January 29, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician. Biography Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848. However, he was then involved in the attempted revolt of May 15, 1848, and in March 1849 was again imprisoned as a result. After Louis Napoleon's December 2, 1851 coup, his sentence was commuted to exile, from which he returned to France only in 1862. In 1869, during the liberal phase of the Second Empire (1851-1870), he was elected deputy from Lyon.
Biography of Justin Hartley
Justin Scott Hartley (born January 29, 1977) is an American actor, writer and director. He is best known for his roles of Fox Crane on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions, Oliver Queen on the CW's Smallville, and Will Collins on the CW's Emily Owens, M.D. Personal life Hartley was born in Knoxville, IL, and was raised in Orland Park, IL with his brother Nathan, and sisters Megan and Gabriela. After graduating from Carl Sandburg High School, he attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in history and theater. In 2003, Hartley began dating his Passions co-star Lindsay Korman (who played Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald).
Biography of Frederick Delius
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. Life Delius's parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had moved from Bielefeld, Germany to England to set themselves up in the woollen business. Frederick ('Fritz' to his family, 'Fred' to his friends) Delius was the fourth of their fourteen children. Although born in England and educated at Bradford Grammar School (where the singer John Coates was his contemporary), Frederick Delius felt little attraction for the country of his birth and spent most of his life abroad, in the United States and the continent of Europe, chiefly in France. |
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