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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on March, 29, 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".
Astrology DataBase updated Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 11:52 am, CEST
52,644 celebrities and events, out of which 22,793 entries with a known time of birth. Search by filters, aspects, positions, categories, heights, or latest additions. Celebrities clicked on in real-time: 468,382,300 times. 143 celebrities or events were found for March, 29.
Biography of Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968 in Auckland (birth time source: Richard Nolle, Astrodatabank) is a New Zealand actress and singer best known for her role as Xena on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001. Lucy Lawless was the fifth of seven children born to Frank and Julie Ryan. She has five brothers and one sister. Lucy began acting in secondary school. At Auckland University, she studied foreign languages for a year. She dropped out and left for Europe with her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, to travel in Germany and Switzerland. The couple then moved to Australia, where Lucy worked briefly as a gold miner. At 19, Lucy became pregnant. In 1988, Lucy and Garth married in Kalgoorlie, Australia. They returned to New Zealand and had a daughte...
Biography of Christophe Lambert
Christophe Guy Denis "Christopher" Lambert (born 29 March 1957 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a French actor who has appeared in American, as well as French and other European productions. He is best known for his role as Connor MacLeod, or simply "The Highlander", from the movie and subsequent movie franchise series of the same name. He is also known for his roles as Tarzan in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and as the thunder god Raiden in the first movie adaptation of the video game Mortal Kombat. He is credited internationally as Christopher Lambert, with the exceptions of French-speaking countries, where he is known as Christophe Lambert. Early life Lambert was born in Manhasset, New York (Astrodatabank). His father was a diplomat in the United Nat...
Biography of Elle MacPherson
Elle Macpherson (born Eleanor Nancy Gow, 29 March 1963) is an Australian supermodel and actress. She is most famous worldwide for her five cover appearances on Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue in the 1980s and 1990s. Nicknamed “The Body”, she is 183cm tall. Early life Macpherson was born in Cronulla, New South Wales, and is the eldest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was fourteen, and her mother later married Neil Macpherson. Macpherson then changed her last name for her stepfather's. She studied law for one year at the University of Sydney. Rise to fame While on holiday in Tasmania, Macpherson was discovered and signed to Click Model Management. Macpherson became an international star through her appearance in ELLE magazine. She appeared in every issue for ...
Biography of Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti March 29, 1939) is an Italian-born actor. Hill was born in Venice. As a child he lived in the small village Lommatzsch, Germany where he lived during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing. His mother was German, his father an Italian chemist. After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col gangster (1951) (Holiday with the Gangster) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy, a major film-role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963). In 1964 he returned to Germany and there appeared in a series of Heimatfilmen, adventure and western films, made after novels by German author Karl May. In 1967, he returned to Italy to act in God Forgives, I don't (Dio perdona... Io no!, 1968). He changed his name ...
Biography of André Bouchet
André Bouchet, born Mars 29, 1967 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, acte n° 390), is a French actor, singer and TV host. he was born with dwarfism. His name in French TV Show Fort Boyard is "Passe-Partout" (Going everywhere)....
Biography of Sam Walton
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992), was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma who founded two American retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He was the patriarch of the Walton family, one of the richest families in the world. Early life He was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. There, he lived with his parents on their farm until 1923. Sam's father decided farming did not generate enough income on which to raise a family, so he decided to go back to a previous profession of a mortgage man. So he and his family (now with another son, James born in 1921) moved from Oklahoma to Missouri. There they moved from one small town to another for several years. While attending 8th grade in S...
Biography of Vangélis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου IPA: ) (var. Papathanssiou), is a Greek composer of electronic, new age and classical music and musical performer, under the artist name Vangelis Papathanassiou (Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) or just Vangelis (a diminutive of Evangelos; pronounced /vænˈdʒɛlɨs/ in English). He is best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, and scores for the films Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Biography (1943-1960) Formative y...
Biography of Pauline Marois
Pauline Marois (born March 29, 1949 in Quebec City (birth time source: email on September 27, 2012, from an astrology teacher, the original source was from Pauline Marois herself)) is the current leader of the Parti Québécois in the province of Quebec, Canada as of June 27, 2007 and Member of the Quebec National Assembly for the riding of Charlevoix, elected on September 24, 2007. In a political career spanning some 30 years, she has held a total of 15 ministerial titles. She is married to Claude Blanchet, former head of Quebec's Société générale de financement, and is the mother of four children (Catherine, Félix, François-Christophe and Jean-Sébastien). She currently resides in Île-Bizard on Montreal's West Island. Education and early political career Marois holds a bachelor's de...
Biography of François de Grossouvre
François de Grossouvre (March 29, 1918, Vienne, Isère (birth time source: Didier Excoffon, acte n° 76) – April 7, 1994, Paris) was a French politician charged in 1981 by newly-elected president François Mitterrand with overseeing national security and other sensitive matters, in particular those concerning Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Gabon, the Gulf countries, Pakistan and the two Koreas. He was also in charge of the French branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary secret armies during the Cold War . François de Grossouvre was born in an aristocratic family, the descendant of Jean-François Durand, lord of Grossouvre (1735-1832) . His father, a banker, died in 1923 in Beyrouth where he resided. François de Grossouvre would keep affective ties to Lebanon hereafter. He then ...
Biography of Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group, Monty Python. Early life Idle was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear (then County Durham) and in Harton Village. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II, only to be killed in a truck-crash shortly afterwards. His mother had difficulty coping with a full-time job and raising a child, so when he was seven, she enrolled him into the Royal Wolverhampton School as a boarder. The school had begun life as a Victorian orphanage, and during Idle's time was a charitable foundation dedicated to the welfare of children who had lost one or both parents. Its pupils, who were ma...
Biography of Annabella Sciorra
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 29, 1960) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series. Early life Sciorra was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut to a veterinarian father and mother of Italian descent. At age eleven, her family moved to New York City, where as a teenager she began taking acting lessons. She attended South Shore High School in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. Sciorra formed The Brass Ring Theatre Company when she was 20 years old. Career Sciorra first came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film, Jungle Fever. Other major films roles include True Love, the director Nancy Savoca's first film that took the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Hand That ...
Biography of Nathalie Cardone
Nathalie Cardone (born 29 March 1967) is a French actress and singer from Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She was born to a Sicilian father and a Spanish mother. She appeared for the first time on French screens in 1988 in the film Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre beside Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. This first outing gained her a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 1989. Her career launched after a small role in La Petite Voleuse. She also went to produce several top singles like "Populaire", "Mon Ange" and most famously "Hasta Siempre". Filmography 1988 : Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre nomination César du meilleur espoir féminin 1988 : La Petite Voleuse 1989 : J'aurais jamais dû croiser son regard 1990 : La Fille des collines ...
Biography of Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger, (March 29, 1895 – February 17, 1998) was a German novelist who accounted on his war experiences. Many regard him as one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I. Others dismiss him as a militarist and reactionary. Life and work Jünger was born in Heidelberg and grew up in Hanover as the son of a pharmacist. He went to school between the years of 1901 and 1913 and was member of the "Wandervogel" movement. He ran away from home to join the French Foreign Legion where he served in North Africa. During World War I he served with distinction in the German Army on the Western Front. In the first week of January 1917 he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and in September of 1918 was awarded Germany's hig...
Biography of Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé (March 29, 1902 - October 14, 1967) was a French novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright. Marcel Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Yonne département (Bourgogne). He studied in the Collège de Dole, and worked among other as a journalist in Paris. In literature, his first novel was Brûlebois (1926) and in 1929 La Table aux crevés won the Prix Renaudot. After the success of his novel La Jument verte (1933), he concentrated mostly on literature. He published children's stories, novels and collections. In 1935 he also started writing movie scripts. In theater, Marcel Aymé found success with his plays Lucienne et le boucher, Clérambard (1949), a farce, and Tête des autres (1952), which criticized the death penalty. He died in 1967 and w...
Biography of Laure Delattre
Laure Delattre is a French TV host born March 29, 1976 in Paris. She was finalist in the Reality TV Show Loft Story in 2001....
Biography of Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati (born March 29, 1976, in New York City) is a former world number one women's tennis player from the United States. During her career, she has won three Grand Slam singles titles (2 Australian Open, 1 French Open), as well as the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. Childhood Capriati was introduced to tennis while she was still a toddler by her father, Stefano Capriati, an Italian-American former boxer turned tennis coach, who has continued to coach her in her later professional career. In 1986, when Jennifer's burgeoning tennis talent became obvious, her family moved to Florida, where the ten-year-old player was enrolled in an intense training program run by Jimmy Evert, the father of Chris Evert. Early titles In 1989, Capriati became...
Biography of John Tyler
John Tyler,Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. A long-time Democrat-Republican, he was elected Vice President on the Whig ticket and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4, 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia. Harrison's death left Tyler, the federal government, and the American nation briefly confused on the process of succession. Opposition members in Congress argued for an acting caretaker that would continue to use only the title Vice President. The act of taking over as official president, rather than as acting president, came from the influence of the Harrison c...
Biography of Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1965 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American actor and former supermodel. She was one of Victoria's Secret main models in the 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to Harry Connick, Jr. Jill Goodacre appeared as herself in an episode ("The One With the Blackout") of the popular sitcom Friends in 1994. She directed one of Harry Connick, Jr.'s live performance videos (The New York Big Band Concert) in 1992. She appears in several of his music videos. Victoria's Secret She was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria's Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores in the 1980s, and she appeared extensively in the catalogs. She, Stephanie Seymour and Dutch model Frederique helped Victoria's Secret grow from a n...
Biography of Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29, 1954 – June 11, 1985) was an important person in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States. When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after coming home from a party, and lapsed into a persistent vegetative state. After she was kept alive on a ventilator for several months without improvement, her parents requested the hospital discontinue active care and allow her to die. The hospital refused, and the subsequent legal battles made newspaper headlines and set significant precedents. The tribunal eventually ruled in her parents' favor. Although Quinlan was removed from active life support during 1976, she lived on in a coma for almost a decade until her death from pneumonia in 1985. Quinlan's case continues to raise important que...
Biography of Renaud Hantson
Renaud Hantson, born March 29, 1963, is a French singer and musician. Discography 1987 : Ne plus dire qu'on est seul - Réédité le 7 juin 2005 avec 7 titres bonus live (*) : Fugitif Y'a pas d'mystères Comme une rock star Le temps n'attend personne Je voulais te dire L'amour c'est fabuleux Ne plus dire qu'on est seul Je t'emmène ailleurs (Maman) Homme ordinaire La dame en noir Le corps électrique Partie sans laisser d'adresse Ne plus dire qu'on est seul* Medley Starmania* Je voulais te dire* Partie sans laisser d'adresse* Foxy Lady* La chanson de Ziggy* Voyeur (version 1)* 1988 : Briseur de cœurs - Réédité le 7 juin 2005 avec 7 titres bonus live (*) : Voyeur Jessica Le blues du briseur de cœurs Sans amour J'suis manager Héros de guer...
Biography of John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. As Prime Minister, Major and his government were also responsible for the United Kingdom's exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after Black Wednesday on 16 September 1992. In 1997 the Conservative Party, under Major's leadership, lost the general election to Tony Blair's Labour party. This was one of the worst electoral defeats in British politics since the...
Biography of Alain de la Morandais
Alain Maillard de La Morandais, best know as Alain de La Morandais, born on March 29, 1935 in Le Croisic (birth time source: Didier Excoffon, acte n° 14) is a French priest, author and theologist. Bibliography L'honneur est sauf, Seuil, 1990 (ISBN 2020121980) Avocat du diable, avocat de Dieu, avec Jacques Vergès, Presses de la Renaissance, 2000 (ISBN 285616787X) Les Nouvelles Fidélités, Lattès, 2002 (ISBN 2709623218) Prier par les cinq sens, Actes Sud, 2003 (ISBN 2742743855) Le Traité du vrai combat, Lattès, 2003 (ISBN 2709623226) Fidèle et rebelle : Journal théologique et politique d'un curé gentilhomme, Presses de la Renaissance, 2006 (ISBN 2750902592) À table avec Moïse, Jésus et Mahomet, co-écrit avec Jacques Le Divellec, Solar, 2007 (ISBN 2263041532)...
Biography of Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944) is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. He is the presidential candidate of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2008 election. Akufo-Addo was one of the founding members of the NPP in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights. Under President John Kufuor, Akufo-Addo was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003; he was then Minister for Foreign Affairs from April 2003 to July 2007, when, in accordance with his political party's rules, he resigned, along with seven others, to seek the presidential nomination of his party. A recent newspaper article described him as a potential future President of Ghana. A recent opinion poll conducted by ...
Biography of Marina Sirtis
Marina Sirtis (born March 29, 1955) is an English actress who is most noted for playing the half-human/half-Betazoid Counselor/Commander Deanna Troi on the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Background Sirtis was born in London, England, and is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Greek descent. She has been married to Michael Lamper since June 21, 1992. Her younger brother, Steve, plays football in Greece and played for Columbia University in the early 1980s. She auditioned for drama school against her parents' wishes, ultimately being accepted to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Career Sirtis started her career as a member of the repertory company at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing, West Sussex in 1976. Directed by Nic Young, she appeared in Joe Orton's ...
Biography of Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius (born 29 March 1967 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Acte n°648, Marc Brun)) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter best known for his spy movie parodies OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio, both of which star Jean Dujardin. His most recent film, The Artist, won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and he himself won the Academy Award for Best Director at the 84th Academy Awards. Biography Michel Hazanavicius was born into a Jewish family from Lithuania; his grandparents settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988. He began directing commercials for such companies as Reebok and Bouygues Telecom, and then, in 199...
Biography of Simone Rozès
Simone Rozès, born March 20, 1920 in Paris, is a French magistrate....
Biography of Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, author and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris. She is recognized as a frequent guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. Personal life Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York, daughter of Sharon and Lou Sedaris, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is of half Greek descent; her father was Greek Orthodox and her mother was Protestant, and she remains Greek Orthodox. Sedaris lives in Greenwich Village, New York City, with her Mini Rex rabbit Dusty and is very involved with the House Rabbit Society. As part of a running joke duri...
Biography of Mory Kanté
Mory Kanté (born March 29, 1950 in Kissidougou, Guinea) is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians. After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are necessary to become a griot. In 1971 Kanté became a member of the Rail Band, in which Salif Keïta was a singer. Keïta left the band in 1973, leaving Kanté as the singer. Kanté is best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which was one of Africa's best-ever selling hits as well as being a European Number One in 1988 making it the first ever African single to sell over ...
Biography of Dimitri Payet
Florent Dimitri Payet (born 29 March 1987 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French international footballer who plays for English club West Ham United in the Premier League. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and is described as a player who is "quick" and "blessed with terrific technique and dribbling skills". Payet was born on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean and began his career on the island playing for local clubs Saint-Philippe and Saint-Pierroise. In 1999, he moved to metropolitan France, joining Le Havre. Payet spent four years at the club before returning home to spend two years playing for AS Excelsior in the Réunion Premier League. In 2005, he joined Nantes and, after a successful 2006–07 season, joined Saint-Étienne on a four-year contract....
Biography of Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø (born 29 March 1960) is an Edgar Award nominated Norwegian author and musician. As of September 2008 more than one and a half million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over forty languages. Nesbø was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with a degree in Economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors prompepulver. Biography Personal life Jo Nesbø worked as a freelance journalist and a stockbroker before he began his writing career. The No.1 national be...
Biography of Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom (b. March 29, 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a prolific British filmmaker who has directed fifteen films in the past twelve years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his movies, Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People, have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He has two daughters with his ex-wife, author Sabrina Broadbent. Life Winterbottom went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, taking his O Levels in an accelerated 4 years, and then attended Oxford University before going to film school at Bristol University. Career Winterbottom's television career included such diverse projects as the mystery series Cracker, the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, two ...
Biography of Jacques Rocher
Jacques Rocher, son of Yves Rocher, born March 29, 1957 in Rennes, is President of fondation Yves Rocher. Yves Rocher is a worldwide cosmetics and beauty brand, founded in 1958 by the French entrepreneur Yves Rocher. The company is present in 5 continents and in 88 countries and employ 13,500 personnel, excluding more than 215,000 through additional indirect jobs. The Yves Rocher group achieved a turnover of $2.012 billion euros in 2004. The group also manages the brands Daniel Jouvance, Dr Pierre Ricaud, Isabel Derroisné, Petit Bateau, Kiotis and Galérie Noémie....
Biography of Pierre Guéguen
Pierre Guéguen, born March 29, 1889 in Perros-Guirec, died in 1965, was a French poet, writer and critic....
Biography of Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, the Harry Potter films, and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty. He won an Emmy award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the film Into the Storm. Early life Gleeson was born in Dublin, the son of Pat and Frank Gleeson. Gleeson has described himself as having been an avid reader as a child. Later, after working as an actor, he returned to Ireland and worked for several years as a secondary school teacher at the now defunct Belcamp College in Malahide, County Dublin, which closed in 2004. He taught the Irish language (Gaeilge), English and Physical Education. Career Gleeson started his film career at the age of 34. He fir...
Biography of Anerood Jugnauth
Anerood Jugnauth (आनेरूद जुग्नौथ), KCMG, QC, GCSK, PC, LLB, GOLH, GOP, ORS (born on 29 March 1930 in Vacoas-Phoenix) is the President of Mauritius. He served as prime minister from 1982 to 1995, when he was voted out of office. He was the prime minister who held the office for the longest run of complete sixteen years overtaking Seewoosagur Ramgoolam who held the office for fourteen years. As leader of the Militant Socialist Movement, he became prime minister again after the 2000 elections. His alliance partner, Paul Bérenger of the Mauritian Militant Movement, succeeded him in 2003, after serving as Jugnauth's deputy for three years. Jugnauth was then elected president in 2003. He was a Member of Parliament f...
Biography of Joseph Macé-Scaron
Joseph Macé-Scaron, born on March 29, 1958 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), is a French journalist and author. Selected publications Les Politocrates a été couronné du prix du Livre politique La Tentation communautaire (Paris : Plon, 2001), un des premiers essais à s'interroger sur les méfaits du communautarisme. Montaigne, notre nouveau philosophe a reçu le prix de la maçonnerie française 2003 dans la catégorie humanisme et le prix Charles Oulmont de la Fondation de France. L'Homme libéré (Paris : Plon, 2004). Ticket d'entrée, (éd. Grasset, mai 2011). - Prix de La Coupole 2011...
Biography of Alene Bertha Duerk
Rear Admiral Alene Bertha Duerk, USN, (born March 29, 1920) was the first woman to be selected for flag rank in the U. S. Navy and was advanced to that rank on June 1, 1972. She was Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1975. Early life Alene Bertha Duerk was born in Defiance, Ohio, on March 29, 1920 to Albert and Emma Duerk. She had nursing training at Toledo (Ohio) Hospital School of Nursing, from which she received her diploma in 1941. Navy Nurse Corps career On January 23, 1943, she was appointed Ensign in the Nurse Corps of the United States Navy Reserve. After receiving her commission in 1943, she was assigned in March of that year as a Ward Nurse at the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia. In January 1944, she transferred, in a similar capacity, to ...
Biography of Lara Logan
Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent, filing reports for the CBS Evening News and the CBS Radio Network. Early life Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and then attended the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992. Career Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the September 11, 2001 attacks. While in Afghanistan in November 2001, Logan, then working as a correspondent for the British morning program, GMTV, infiltrated the U.S.- and U.K.-backed Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban and interv...
Biography of Bruno Débauché
Bruno Débauché, born March 29, 1964 in Viry-Châtillon near Paris, is a French skateboarder, snowboarder, surfer, musician, radio host and TV host....
Biography of Jacqueline Joubert
Jacqueline Joubert, born Jacqueline Annette Édith Pierre (March 29, 1921 in Paris - January 8, 2005 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a presenter on French national television. She was one of the first two announcers (with Arlette Accart) when television began in France after the Second World War. She was married to the journalist George de Caunes, was the mother of Canal+ TV star Antoine de Caunes, and the grandmother of the actress Emma de Caunes. She had also been the wife of Philippe Lagier. Previously a theatre actress, she joined the French public television service (RTF, later TF1) on May 25, 1949 as a continuity announcer. Continuity announcers of the time appeared live and in-vision to announce later programmes and cover technical breakdowns. In both 1959 and 1961 Joubert present...
Biography of Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein on March 29, 1959) is the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction in 1991; it has since evolved into an annual destination festival. Farrell continues to produce Lollapalooza with partners William Morris Agency and C3. Farrell has led the alternative rock groups Porno For Pyros and Satellite Party. Personal life Farrell was born in Queens, New York to a Jewish family. He spent his grade-school years in Woodmere, Long Island, and moved to Miami during his teens. His father was a jeweler; his mother was an artist who committed suicide when Farrell was three, an event later noted in the Jane's Addiction song "Then She Did". His early musical ...
Biography of Marc Gené
Marc Gené Guerrero (born May 29, 1974) was a test driver for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team in 2007. Recently, he also served as a replacement for Ralf Schumacher for the WilliamsF1 team, following his injury in the 2004 United States Grand Prix. His brother Jordi is also a racing driver, competing in the WTCC for SEAT. Born in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain, he finished runner-up in the 1987 Catalan Kart Championship (National Class) at the age of 13; he would win both this and the National Class Spanish Kart Championship in 1988. In 1989 he competed in both the European and World championships. Gene won the Senior Class of the 1990 Spanish Kart Championship, making him the youngest driver to do so. He competed again in the World Championship in 1991, placing 13th. For 1992 Gené ...
Biography of Cyril Julian
Cyril Julian (born 29 March 1974 in Castres, Tarn) is a French men's basketball player with SLUC Nancy in France and the French men's national basketball team. Julian won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
Biography of Paolo Gucci
Paolo Gucci,, born March 29, 1931 in Florence, died October 10, 1995 in London, is the grandson of Guccio Gucci, founder of a fashion empire Gucci. He was the son of Aldo and nephew of Rodolfo, the two sons of the founder of the family fortune....
Biography of Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he won 15 Grammys as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Cheltenham Township, a local suburb, Michael Brecker was exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. He grew up a part of the generation of jazz musicians who saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option; Brecker began studying clarinet, then moved to alto saxophone in school, eventually settling on the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument. He graduated from Chelt...
Biography of Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952. She was born in Southampton County, Virginia, to Rev. Joseph and Ella Mae Bailey. In 1954, she took the role of Frankie in the film version of Carmen Jones, and her rendition of "Beat Out That Rhythm on the Drum" is one of the highlights of the film. She also starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. In 1959, she played the role of Maria in the film version of Porgy and Bess, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge. Also that year she played the r...
Biography of Bud Cort
Bud Cort (born March 29, 1948) is an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. Early life Cort was born Walter Edward Cox in New Rochelle, New York, but eventually grew up near Rye, New York. His father, Joseph Parker Cox, who was a bandleader and pianist, also a World War II veteran, and merchant. His mother, Alma Mary Cox (née Court), was a reporter and a merchant, who also worked in MGM studios. Cort has 4 siblings, 3 younger sisters, and 1 older brother. His parents ran a clothing business in downtown Rye from the 1950s until the mid-1980s. Most of Bud's adolescence was spent caring for his father (who died in 1971) and sisters, reading and painting. As a teenager he was a local portrait painting prodigy and began taking acting lessons. He was educated in Catholic school...
Biography of Thierry Tilly
Thierry Tilly, born on March 29, 1964 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, is a man convicted of keeping a family of French aristocrats under his sway for nearly a decade and swindling them out their fortune has been sentenced to eight years in prison. From 2000 to 2009, Thierry Tilly persuaded the family that there was a plot against the lives of Ghislaine de Vedrines and 10 members of her family. They locked themselves away in their home, sold off their possessions – including the family chateau – and handed over (EURO)4.5 million. Tilly was convicted of psychological abuse, and deprivation of civil rights before Tuesday's sentencing. His accomplice, Jacques Gonzalez, was sentenced to four years in prison. (source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121113/eu-france-aristocrats-s...
Biography of Étienne Clémentel
Étienne Clémentel, born March 29, 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), and died December 25, 1936 in Prompsat (Puy-de-Dôme), was a French politician of the third Republic of France....
Biography of Julie Goodyear
Julie Goodyear, MBE (born 29 March 1942) is an English television actress and media personality, best known for playing the long-running role of pub landlady Bet Lynch (later Bet Gilroy) on British soap opera Coronation Street. Biography Born as Julie Kemp; her parents divorced when she was a toddler, and her mother then married William Goodyear, changing Julie's surname to Goodyear upon her marriage. Her private life - multiple marriages, scandals, claims of lesbianism - have made her off-screen life as colourful as her on-screen life. Famously, a cartoon appeared in the British newspaper the Daily Mail, which had the director of Coronation Street ripping up the script and saying "Forget the script - just keep talking about your private life." She was appointed Member of the O... |
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