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Astrology, birth chart, biography, photo and horoscope excerpts: You will find on this page all the celebrities born on May, 10, 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 Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 10:02 am, CEST
52,648 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: 468,546,693 times. 168 celebrities or events were found for May, 10.
Biography of Bono (U2)
Paul David Hewson, (born 10 May 1960 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), known as Bono is the Academy Award nominated and Grammy winning lead singer and principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2. Bono is also widely known for his work as an activist concerning Africa. Bono is married to Alison Stewart. Their relationship began in 1975 and the couple were married on 21 August 1982 in an Anglican ceremony at a chapel on the Guinness family estate with Adam Clayton acting as Bono's best man. The couple have four children, Jordan, Memphis Eve, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q & John Abraham. Bono lives in Killiney in south County Dublin, Ireland, with his family and shares a villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France with U2 bandmate The Edge, as well as an apartment at The ...
Biography of Linda Evangelista
Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian supermodel.Linda was born to Italian parents and was raised in a working-class, traditional Catholic family. She is 5'9½" (1.77 m) tall and her natural hair colour is dark brown. She knew she wanted to become a model when she was 12 years old. Evangelista got into the modeling industry when she was discovered by a talent agent at the 1978 Miss Teen Niagara Contest. Career highlights Evangelista later moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management there. She then moved to Paris, to further her career. She also appeared in music videos with George Michael. Along with Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, Linda is regarded as one of the few, true supermod...
Biography of Sid Vicious
Simon John Beverley; formerly Simon John Ritchie (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician, the bass player of the Sex Pistols (replacing Glen Matlock). He was deeply involved in the birth of punk along with close friend of John Lydon (Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols vocalist). He died of a drug overdose at the age of 21. Sex Pistols Already known as "the ultimate Sex Pistols fan," and a close friend of vocalist Johnny Rotten, Vicious was asked to join the group after Glen Matlock's departure in February 1977. Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed "if Rotten is the voice of punk, then Vicious is the attitude". His punk character was considered far more helpful than any knack for playing, as he was not renowned for his playing skills, th...
Biography of Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada Italian pronunciation: (born Maria Bianchi; 10 May 1948 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an Italian fashion designer (Prada, Miu Miu) and entrepreneur. She also has a Ph.D. in political science. Life and career Prada is the youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, founder of the eponymous company. According to: Forbes.com's the World's Richest People 2001: "She and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, took over the family-owned luxury goods manufacturer in 1978. Since then, they've turned it into a fashion powerhouse, acquiring Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and shoemaker Church & Co." Prada is a collector of contemporary art and owns several artworks by Young British Artists (YBAs) including Damien Hirst. In 2002, she opened a contemporary a...
Biography of Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (born 10 May 1944) is a French actress. Pisier was born in Dalat, Indochina now Vietnam, where her father served as colonial governor. She died on 24th April 2011 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var. The source for her birth time is her birth certificate. Gilles Pisier, her younger brother, is a mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences. Her sister, Evelyne, is the first wife of Bernard Kouchner. Pisier moved to Paris with her family at the age of 12 and began acting in films five years later. Her debut was in the François Truffaut L'Amour a vingt ans/Love at Twenty (1962) and she later appeared in Truffaut's Baiser voles/Stolen Kisses (1968) and L'Amour en fuite/Love on the Run (1980), which she also co-wrote. Pisier had made her screenwriting debut with Cel...
Biography of Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. Balanchine and Nureyev rated him the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Early life and career His father was an Austrian immigrant and a Catholic; his mother was born in the U.S. to Lutheran German pare...
Biography of Bruno Wolkowitch
Bruno Wolkowitch, born on May 10, 1961 in Paris (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, acte n° 774), is a French actor. Filmography Actor 1983 : Au nom de tous les miens de Robert Enrico : Jurek (crédité au générique sous le nom de « Bruno Volko ») 1984 : Train d'enfer de Roger Hanin 1987 : Soigne ta droite de Jean-Luc Godard 1988 : L'Enfance de l'art de Francis Girod 1989 : Vent de Galerne de Bernard Favre 1993 : Mauvais garçon de Jacques Bral 1994 : Jeanne la pucelle de Jacques Rivette 1994 : L'Affaire de Sergio Gobbi 1995 : L'Uomo proiettile (L'Homme canon) de Silvano Agosti 1997 : La Chica de Bruno Gantillon 1998 : Terminale de Francis Girod : Terrien 2004 : Le Grand Rôle de Steve Suissa : voix off 2010 : The Tourist de Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck : comm...
Biography of Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff) (born in Clichy in 10 May 1938) is a French actress. She won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in The Conjugal Bed. She was married to Russian poet and song-writer Vladimir Vysotsky from 1970 until his death in 1980. She was also at one time the wife of actor/director Robert Hossein. Marina Vlady is the sister of actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff; her father was a noted artist of Russian heritage. Like her siblings, she began acting as a child and for a while pursued a ballet career. Projecting a more sensual, alluring image than her sisters, she gained international renown. She was also starred by Jean-Luc Godard in the female lead in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (...
Biography of Bruno Madinier
Bruno Madinier is a French actor born May 10, 1956 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, acte de naissance). He is famous for his role in Les Cordier, juge et flic and Dolmen on French TV. Filmography Television 1985 : Le Réveillon de Daniel Losset : Jean 1989 : Le lien du sang, de Pierre Lary (téléfilm) 1992 - 2005 : Les Cordier, juge et flic avec Pierre Mondy (série) 1995 : Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde de Michel Favart (série) 1997 : Les Marmottes de Jean-Denis Robert (série) 2000 : L'Amour sur un fil de Michaëla Watteaux (téléfilm) 2002 : Mortes de préférence de Jean- Luc Bretenstein (téléfilm) 2003 : Le Bleu de l'océan de Didier Albert avec Claire Borotra, Bernard Verley, Philippe Caroit, Alexandra Vandernoot, Natacha Amal, Mireille Darc, Jean-Michel Tinivelli (série) 2...
Biography of Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is the American man who shot and killed musician John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He remained at the scene until arrested and claimed the book The Catcher in the Rye would explain his perspective and motivation. Chapman was allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder before his trial began and, despite being assessed as delusional and possibly psychotic, he was sentenced to 20 years to life. He has been denied parole four times amid campaigns against his release, and remains incarcerated at Attica Correctional Facility. Early life Chapman was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the oldest child of David Curtis Chapman, a staff sergeant in the Air Force, and Diane Elizabeth Pease, a nurse. Shortly after his birth, they moved to Atlanta. His sister, Susa...
Biography of Odette Yustman
Odette Juliette Yustman (born May 10, 1985) is an American actress. Yustman was born in Los Angeles, California. According to the actress, her mother, Lydia, is Cuban, and her father, Victor Yustman, is Italian/French born in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Nicaragua. Yustman is fluent in Spanish. She debuted at an early age, playing a young student in Kindergarten Cop and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. In 2007, she starred in the Lifetime original movie Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and followed it quickly with a lead role in J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield. On January 29, 2008, Variety announced that she would be the lead in "Unborn", which is due to begin filming in March. Yustman is currently dating Trevor Wright. ...
Biography of Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940 (birth time source: himslef, in the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HewbxiBxO38 at 1:35:03" email from Frank Hummer), died on August 30, 2015, is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer. Early life Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan to Melvin Lyle (deceased) and Hazel Irene Dyer, and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. Dr. Wayne Dyer is a 1958 graduate of Denby High School; he received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. Dyer was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York. He served in the United States Navy from 1958-1962. Career He first pursued an academic career, pub...
Biography of Françoise Fabian
Françoise Fabian is a French actress born May 10, 1932 in Alger, Algeria. She entered films in the mid-50s but didn't achieve notice until a decade later playing mature, worldly sophisticates. Filmography 1955 : Bon voyage de Louis Felix 1956 : Mémoires d'un flic de Pierre Foucaud 1956 : Le Feu aux poudres de Henri Decoin, rôle de Lola Wassewich 1956 : Cette sacrée gamine de Michel Boisrond 1956 : Le Couturier de ces dames de Jean Boyer, rôle de Sophie, un mannequin 1956 : Michel Strogoff de Carmine Gallone 1957 : Ce sacré Amédée de Louis Felix 1957 : L'Aventurière des Champs-Elysées de Roger Blanc 1958 : Chaque jour a son secret de Claude Boissol 1960 : La Brune que voilà de Robert Lamoureux 1963 : Maigret voit rouge de Gilles Grangier, rôle de Lily, la barmai...
Biography of Bob Sinclar
Bob Sinclar, mistaken many times as "Sinclair" (born Christophe Le Friant, May 10, 1967) is a French record producer, House music DJ, remixer and owner of the label Yellow Productions. Height: 1m77 Career history Sinclar started DJing in 1986, when he was 18 years old, specializing in funk and hip-hop music, with the name Chris The French Kiss. His first club hit was "Gym Tonic", which was co-produced by Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, featuring vocals illegally taken from a Jane Fonda fitness tape. The Bob Sinclar persona was based on a character from Philippe de Broca's film Le Magnifique. Le Friant is famous for popularizing the "French touch" of house music, with heavy use of sampled and filtered disco strings. His track "I Feel For You", a tribute to French musician Cerrone, ...
Biography of Doc Gynéco
Doc Gynéco (real name, Bruno Beausir) is a popular French hip hop artist of Guadeloupean origin. His music is typically characterized as a ragga/rap style, that has found its fan base in France. Born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine on May 10, 1974 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, acte n° 710), Beausir's mother was Caribbean and his father white. The latter left them in 1990, and partly as a result of this, Beausir was poor in his later teen years. Career Doc Gynéco launched his career at the age of 19, writing a few tracks for the hardcore rap group Ministère AMER. After this rap group parted, Virgin Records signed him with the intent of converting his demos into an album in Paris. This project partially fell through; Doc Gyneco then agreed to leave for Los Angeles to work with a fam...
Biography of Donovan
Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch, born May 10, 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music. Career outline Donovan came to fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!, and his popularity spread to the USA and other countries. After signing with the British label, Pye Records, he began a long and successful collaboration with leading independent record producer Mickie Most, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the USA and other countries, including several British and American #1 hits and million-selling records. Donovan was one of the most ...
Biography of John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head – the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member of the prominent Booth family of actors. He was also a Confederate sympathizer who expressed vehement dissatisfaction with the South's defeat in the Civil War and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to freed slaves. Booth and a group of co-conspirators led by him planned to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a desperate bid to he...
Biography of Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle Devos (born 10 May 1964 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French actress. Devos was born to daughter of actress Marie Henriau in Paris. She appeared in 50 films between 1986 and 2009. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard. Also she has been nominated further three times. In 2012, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. César awards 1997: Nomination - Most Promising Actress for Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) 2002: Won - Best Actress for Sur mes lèvres 2003: Nomination - Best Supporting Actress for L'Adversaire 2005: Nomination - for Best Actress for Rois et reine 2009: Won- Best Supporting Act...
Biography of Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey (born May 10, 1960), is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides. She is ranked fourth on the all-time list of female performers in the 100 meters and third in the 200 meters. Ottey has had the longest career as a top level international sprinter, which apparently has not yet concluded as she anchored the Slovenian 4x100 relay at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at the age of 50. She holds the record for having the most Olympic appearances (seven) than any other track and field athlete and for having the most women's World Championships medals (fourteen). Her career achievements and longevity have led to her being called the "Queen of the Track". Her ...
Biography of Pascal Lainé
Pascal Lainé is a French writer born on May 10? 1942 in Anet (Eure-et-Loir) (birth time source: Didier Geslain). He studied philosophy at l'École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and began his career as a teacher first at the Lycée technique de Saint-Quentin and later at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He then became a professor in 1974 at the Institut universitaire de technologie in Villetaneuse. He currently serves as an administrator at the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD). Awarded both the Prix Médicis (1971 for l'Irrévolution) and the Goncourt (1974 for La Dentellière), Pascal Lainé has published over twenty novels and has written for television, theater and film. Lainé discovered Dumas and Hugo as he recovered from childhood illnesses and he aspired...
Biography of Zaho
Zaho Tunisiano (born Zehira Darabid on May 10, 1980 in Bab Ezzouar near Algiers, Algeria) is an Algerian R&B singer living in Montreal, Canada. Zaho was born in Bab Ezzouar near Algiers, Algeria and grew up in Bab Ezzouar in the suburbs of Alger until the age of 18 years when her family moved to Montreal, Canada. Career She learned guitar from the age of seven years and very quickly learnt the répertoire of Francis Cabrel by 10 years. In 1999 when she emigrated to Montreal, she discovered the world of professional music with its producers and its studios. Zaho put aside her studies to dedicate herself fully to music. She has worked with notable names such in the French industry such as Idir, Tunisiano and Soprano. In 2008, she released her debut album titled Dima (meaning Always...
Biography of Annabel Buffet
Annabel Buffet, born May 10, 1928 in Paris (birth tmie source: Didier Geslain), was a French writer and the wife of French painter Bernard Buffet. Bibliography Comme tout le monde (1959) L'Amour quotidien (1960) Les Bonnes manières (1961) La Corrida du veau d'or (1963) Midi à 14 heures (1966) Les vieux gamins (1967) Les faux Jules (1969) Trois petits tours et... 40 ans (1973) Saint-Tropez, avec des lithographies originales de Bernard Buffet (1979) Saint-Tropez d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, avec des photographies de Luc Fournol (1981) D'amour et d'eau fraîche (1986) Les beaux mensonges (1987) Le rêve sera plus long que la nuit (1990) Les puces de Saint Ouen (1993) Post-scriptum (2001) Bernard Buffet, secrets d'atelier, avec la collaboration de Jean-Claude Lamy...
Biography of Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia), is an American actor and comedian who is currently known for the titular role in Fat Albert (film), and as a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live, and former cast member of All That. Career Thompson's first appearance was in the movie D2: The Mighty Ducks. Thompson got his first big break when he was 16. He started on Nickelodeon's All That from 1994 to 1999. He and co-star Kel Mitchell had their own spin-off television series Kenan & Kel which ran 1996 to 2000. In 2001 his official fan club was started. Thompson was also the host of the second season of Nickelodeon's animation showcase Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Thompson has starred in several films including: Good Burger (1997), based on the All That sketch of the same name, pl...
Biography of Nicolas Touzaint
Nicolas Touzaint, born May 10, 1980 in Angers, is a French equestrian. Nicolas Touzaint won the inaugural four-star at Pau, France, 2007. Results (in French) 2003 : champion d'Europe à Punchestown (Irlande) et 2e par équipe avec Galan de Sauvagère. 2004 : champion olympique par équipe aux jeux Olympiques d'Athènes ; 9e en individuel avec Galan de Sauvagère. 2005 : vice-champion d'Europe par équipe à Blenheim (Angleterre) avec Hildago de l'Ile en 2005. 2005 : champion de France. 2006 : champion de France, après seulement trois étapes, où Nicolas Touzaint a terminé premier, sur six. 2006 : vainqueur de la finale de la Coupe du Monde de concours complet avec Galan de Sauvagère à Malmö (Suède). 2007 : vainqueur du CCI** de Compiègne avec Joker d'Helby 2007 : vainqueur du CCI*...
Biography of Léon Gaumont
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments. However, he had been always been fascinated by the technique of photography, as far back as early childhood. So, when he was offered a job at the Comptoir géneral de photographie in 1893, he jumped at the opportunity. His decision proved fortunate when two years later he was given the chance to acquire the business. In August of 1895, he partnered with the astronomer Joseph Vallot, the famous engineer Gustave Eiffel, and the financier Alfred Besnier to make the purchase. Their business entity, ca...
Biography of Lee Hyori
Lee Hyori (Korean: 이효리, also romanized as Lee Hyolee and officially E Hyo-lee) (born May 10, 1979 in Chungbuk) is a South Korean singer and actress. She started off as part of the successful K-pop girl group Fin.K.L, but has since become a solo artist. Her first album was very successful, winning many "Daesangs" (a Korean award equivalent to "Artist of the Year") for that album. She has since become the highest-paid female singer in South Korea. Biography Beginning in Fin K.L. Main article: Fin.K.L Lee started her career as part of the Korean pop girl group Fin.K.L. As the oldest member, she would become the leader of the group. Lee was discovered while taking sticker pictures with her friends and was actually the last to join Fin.K.L., just before their deb...
Biography of Quentin Elias
Quentin Elias (10 May 1974 – 25 February 2014) was a French singer, actor and model. Of Algerian heritage, he was the original lead singer of the French boy band Alliage with Steven Gunnell, Roman Lata Ares and Brian Torres from 1996 to 1999. After his departure from the group, he relocated to the United States where he developed a solo singing career singing in English and French, releasing a number of albums, EPs and singles through his company Quentin Elias Music and distribution by Electro Boy Inc Records. He also worked as a model, acted in a number of feature films, television series and on stage and was featured in a number of advertisements. He took part in documentaries notably The Adonis Factor appearing on the documentary's promotional cover. He was active in body training, tatt...
Biography of Richard Wilhelm
Richard Wilhelm (May 10, 1873, Stuttgart, Germany - March 2, 1930, Tübingen, Germany) was a German translator. He translated many philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English. His translation of the I Ching is still regarded as one of the finest, as is his translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower, both of which include introductions by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who was a personal friend. Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching (Yijing) and other works were first published by Eugen Diederich who had a history of association with anti-Semites and pre-Nazi political extremists. This was written about by Gary Stark in his Entrepreneurs of Ideology (Chapel Hill, University of North Carlolina, 198...
Biography of Victoria Rowell
Vicki "Victoria" Lynn Rowell (born May 10, 1959) is an award-winning American dancer and actress. She is known for two high profile television roles: Drucilla Winters on the daytime drama The Young & The Restless, and her primetime role as Dick Van Dyke's medical examiner, assistant and pathologist, Dr. Amanda Bentley, on Diagnosis: Murder. Early life Rowell was born in Portland, Maine. Her biological mother, Dorothy Rowell, was Caucasian and a Mayflower descendant, and her birth father, whose surname was Wilson, was African-American. Rowell knew very little about her father. Dorothy, who suffered from schizophrenia, took a taxi to a hospital to give birth to Rowell, leaving a son and two small daughters unsupervised. When she was 16 days old, Rowell, along with her two sisters, Sheree...
Biography of Sylvain Wiltord
Sylvain Wiltord (born May 10, 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French football forward whose parents come from Guadeloupe, France. With the French national team, Wiltord has won Euro 2000 and reached the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Wiltord played for Stade Rennais (1992-97), Girondins de Bordeaux (1997-2000), Arsenal F.C. (2000-04), and since 2004 has been a member of Olympique Lyonnais. For France, Wiltord has been capped 90 times, scoring 26 goals. One of those goals came in the 94th minute of the Euro 2000 final, tying Italy. France then won the title on a golden goal by David Trézéguet. He also played for his country in the next two World Cups and in Euro 2004. Wiltord was signed by English club Arsenal for a club-record £13,000,000 in...
Biography of Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp (born May 10, 1969 in Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch professional footballer. At club level he played for Ajax, Internazionale, Arsenal and also represented the Netherlands at international level. Bergkamp played most of his best games as a support striker, where his tactical awareness and deft passes made him a great exponent of the game from the 'hole'. He was selected by Pelé as one of the FIFA 125 greatest living players and is widely regarded as one of the English Premier League's all-time greatest players. In 2007 he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame, the first ever Dutch player to receive the honour. He has also finished third in the FIFA Player of the Year award twice. Early life Raised in a flat in western Amsterdam, Bergkamp was...
Biography of Rick Santorum
Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is a U.S Republican Party politician. He was a lawyer before becoming the Representative for suburban Pittsburgh in 1991 and Senator for Pennsylvania from 1995, before losing his seat in 2006 and returning to law, public policy and the media. He is presently a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries. Santorum holds socially conservative positions, including opposition to same-sex marriage. On fiscal issues, his record is more mixed; in Congress, Santorum used earmarks and supported big government programs in education and transportation, but had a leading role in enacting welfare reform, and voted for tax cuts, a balanced budget amendment, and cuts in entitlement spending. As a presidential candidate, he has support...
Biography of François-Marie Raoult
François-Marie Raoult (10 May 1830 - 1 April 1901) was a French chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Life and work Raoult was born at Fournes, in the département of Nord. He became aspirant répétiteur at the Lycée of Reims in 1853, and after holding several intermediate positions was appointed in 1862 to the professorship of chemistry in Sens lycée. There he prepared a thesis on electromotive force which gained him a doctor's degree in Paris the following year. In 1867 Raoult was put in charge of chemistry classes at Grenoble, and three years later he succeeded to the chair of chemistry, which he held until his death in 1901. Raoult's earliest researches were physical in character, being largely concerned with the phe...
Biography of Karl Ernst Krafft
Karl Ernst Krafft (10 May 1900 in Basel - 8 January 1945) was a prominent Swiss astrologer. He worked on the basis of astrology and graphology. Krafft was a brilliant young man with a genuine gift for figures and statistics, but his greatest love was the study of planets and astrology. After graduating from university in mathematics, for the best part of ten years he worked on a massive book entitled Traits of Astro-Biology. This expounded his own theory of "Typocosmy": the prediction of the future based on the study of an individual's personality, or type. By the early 1930s, when Hitler had come to power, Krafft enjoyed a unique status among occultists and prophets in Germany. The National Socialists, later to become his patrons, at first posed a threat to him. Occultists, like Freema...
Biography of Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl (May 10, 1890 – October 16, 1946) was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel. At Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal. Early life Jodl was born Alfred Josef Ferdinand Baumgärtler in 1890 in Würzburg, Germany, the son of Officer Alfred Jodl and Therese Baumgärtler, becoming "Alfred Jodl" upon his parents' marriage in 1899. He was educated at Cadet School in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. Early military career After schooling, Jodl joined the army as an artillery officer. During World War I served as a battery officer on the Western Front 1914–1916, twice ...
Biography of Gina Philips
Gina Philips (born May 10, 1970) is an American actress. Philips was born Gina Consolo in Miami Beach, Florida. She is known for her recurring roles on David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal and Boston Public. Her film credits include Jeepers Creepers, Dead and Breakfast and The Sick House. In addition, Philips has made guest appearances on Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, ER, CSI, Medium and Monk. She has also starred in Rubi Zack's 2006 Ring Around the Rosie....
Biography of Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (born May 10, 1931 in Treviso (birth time source: Bordoni, Astrodatabank, BC, Wikipedia gives Trevico instead of Treviso)) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first movie, Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi. Since then Ettore Scola has made several successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa's Journey (199...
Biography of Imelda Chiappa
Imelda Chiappa, born May 10, 1966 in Sotto il Monte, is an Italian professional bicycle racer....
Biography of Eric Berne
Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play. Background and education Eric was born on May 10, 1910 as Eric Lennard Bernstein in Montreal, Canada. (He is unrelated to the conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein.) He was the son of a physician and a writer, David and Sara Gordon Bernstein. His father died in 1921, leaving Sara with Eric and his sister, Grace (who was five years younger). Bernstein attended McGill University, graduating in 1931 and earning an M.D. in 1935. While at McGill he wrote for several student newspapers using pseudonyms. He followed graduation with a residency in psychiatry at Yale, where he studied psychoanalysis under Dr. Paul Federn. He comple...
Biography of Aimable (accordionist)
Aimable, born Aimable Pluchard, May 10, 1922 in Trith-Saint-Léger (Nord), died October 31, 1997 in Villemoisson-sur-Orge (Essonne), was a French accordionist. He has recorded more than 10,000 songs. Filmography * 1972 : Les Fous du stade : himself * 1973 : Le Grand Bazar : himself...
Biography of Louise Huber
Louise Huber, born May 10, 1924 in Bamberg, is a German-Swiss astrologer. She has founded with her husband the Swiss School of Astrology in Zurich....
Biography of René-Marill Albères
René-Marill Albères, born on May 10, 1921 in Perpignan, died in 1982, was a French writer and historian....
Biography of Lisa Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo) (born May 10, 1963) is a United States naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. Born in Washington, DC, she was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-121 in July 2006. She was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. Nowak gained national attention on February 5, 2007, when she was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the girlfriend of astronaut William Oefelein. Nowak was released on bail, pleaded not guilty to the charges and requested a jury trial. Nowak's assignment to the space agency as an astronaut was termin...
Biography of Nancy Walker
Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress in stage, screen, and television. Career Born Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1922 (although some sources have cited 1921), she held a life-long feeling of abandonment by her mother, who died while she was an infant. She and her sister, Betty Lou Barto, grew up in large cities where their father, who was a performer, entertained in vaudeville. Walker made her Broadway debut in 1941 in Best Foot Forward. The role provided Walker with her film debut when a movie version, starring Lucille Ball, was filmed in 1943. A subsequent appearance was in the MGM musical Broadway Rhythm, in which she had a featured musical number, "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet." This song was written especially for h...
Biography of João Villaret
João Henrique Pereira Villaret (born May 10, 1913 in Lisbon; died January 21, 1961) was a Portuguese actor. Filmography O Pai Tirano, by António Lopes Ribeiro (1941) Inês de Castro, by Leitão de Barros (1945) Camões, by Leitão de Barros (1946) Três Espelhos, by Ladislao Vadja (1947) Frei Luís de Sousa, by António Lopes Ribeiro (1950) O Primo Basílio, by António Lopes Ribeiro (1959)....
Biography of Jean Houston
Jean Houston, Ph.D. (born 10 May 1937) has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of New Thought spirituality and ritual processes. A prolific author of books, her PBS Special A Passion for the Possible has been widely viewed. Houston was perhaps formerly best known for her involvement with Margaret Mead during Mead's final years but she may be most widely known for urging First Lady Hillary Clinton to carry on imaginary conversations with Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in which Mrs. Clinton had to supply both sides of the conversation. According to her published autobiography, A Mythic Life (1996), Jean Houston was born prematurely on May 10, 1937, in New York City. Her mother Mary Todaro Houston had studied acting, and her father was a comedy writer. Her forebears ...
Biography of Michel-Étienne Turgot
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, often referred to as Turgot (10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), was a French economist and statesman. Today he is best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. Education Born in Paris, he was the youngest son of Michel-Étienne Turgot, "Provost of the merchants" of Paris, and Madeleine Francoise Martineau de Brétignolles, and came of an old Norman family. He was educated for the Church, and at the Sorbonne, to which he was admitted in 1749 (being then styled abbé de Brucourt). He delivered two remarkable Latin dissertations, On the Benefits which the Christian Religion has conferred on Mankind, and On the Historical Progress of the Human Mind. The first sign we have of his interest in economics is a letter (1749) on paper money, wri...
Biography of Danny Carey
Daniel Edwin "Danny" Carey (born May 10, 1961 in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American drummer best known for his work in American Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool. He has also contributed to albums by artists such as ZAUM, Green Jellÿ, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, Adrian Belew of King Crimson, Carole King, Collide, The Wild Blue Yonder, Lusk, and the Melvins. Biography Carey's first encounter with the drums began at the age of ten by joining the school band and taking private lessons on the snare drum. Two years later, Carey began to practice on a drum set. In his senior year of high school in Paola, Kansas, Carey joined the high school jazz band and began to study under drumming great Ben Kelso specifically for jazz drumming training. Jazz would later play a huge role in his s...
Biography of Karl Barth
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) (pronounced "bart") a Swiss Reformed theologian, was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism especially German. Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology (due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth - for instance, God is both grace and judgment), but more accurately called a theology of the Word. Critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy - a pejorative term emphatically rejected by Barth himself. Barth's theological sys... |
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