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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the 6th House in Libra Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their horoscope, excerpts of astrological portrait, natal chart, positions of planets and astrological houses, biography, and photo.
Biography of François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (French: ( listen); born 12 August 1954 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) is a French politician who was the President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of the Principality of Andorra from 2012 to 2017. Hollande was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, the mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, and the President of the Corrèze General Council from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also served in the National Assembly of France twice for the department of Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993, and again from 1997 to 2012. Born in Rouen and raised in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hollande began his political career as a special advisor to newly elected President François Mitterrand, before...
Biography of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as...
Biography of Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Frank Clifford) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. Cyrus became a sensation after Hannah Montana debuted in March 2006. Following the success of the show, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of "Forbes Top Twenty Superstar Earners under the age of 25" with an annual earning of US$3.5 million. As of December 2007, she is working on a movie spin-off of Hannah Montana, titled Hannah Montana: The Movie which set to release on April...
Biography of Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a British singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. The source for her birth time is http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mountain-Astrologer-magazine/112278112664 Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best Br...
Biography of Salman Khan
Salman Khan (Hindi: सलमान ख़ान)(pronunciation: /səlmɑːn xɑːn/), born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh is a popular Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies. Taking part in some of Bollywood's biggest hits, along with his critically acclaimed performances, today he is considered to be one of the biggest superstars and leading actors in the industry. Career Salman made his acting debut in the 1988 film Biwi Ho To Aisi where he played a supporting role. His first leading role in a Bollywood movie was in Sooraj R. Barjatya's romantic film Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). The film went on to become one of India's highest grossing films. It also won him a Filmfare Best...
Biography of Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of the Rolling Stones. 1943–61: early years Mick Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe "Joe" Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was brought up to follow in his father's career path. In...
Biography of Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an award-winning American actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and was awarded the Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball. She is the only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. Early life and career Berry's parents selected her first name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Englishwoman Judith Ann Hawkins, a Liverpudlian, and Jerome Jesse Berry, who was African American. Berry's maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Earl Ellsworth Hawkins (an American), was born in Ohio. Ber...
Biography of Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947 (birth time source: Frances McEvoy)) is an American businessman and politician from the state of Michigan and later Massachusetts. Formerly the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Romney is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election. See the astrological portrait of Mitt Romney. Romney is a former CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and the co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. After a life in business and as the CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Romney was elected as Massachusetts Governor in 2002. Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term exp...
Biography of Charlène, Princess of Monaco
Charlène, Princess of Monaco (née Charlene Lynette Wittstock; born 25 January 1978 (birth time source: Luigi Stocchi, http://www.luigistocchi.it/Carteastrali.htm)) is the wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and is a former South African competitive swimmer. Charlène is the daughter of Michael and Lynette Wittstock. She was born in Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to a family of German and English descent, but her family relocated to Gauteng, South Africa, in 1989. She represented South Africa at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with her team finishing fifth in the women's 4×100 m medley. She retired from competitive swimming in 2007. She met Prince Albert in 2000 at a swimming event in Monaco. They were first seen together in 2006, and she has accompanied Albert on many of his official duti...
Biography of Charlie Sheen
Charles Irwin Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. Early life Sheen was born in New York City to Janet Templeton, an artist, and actor Martin Sheen (who was born "Ramón Estévez"). He has two brothers and one sister, all of whom are now actors: Emilio Estévez, Ramón Estévez Jr. and Renée Estévez. Sheen attended Chaminade-Julienne High School, where he was a star pitcher and shortstop for the baseball team. He also showed an early interest in acting, making several Super-8 films with schoolmates Rob Lowe and Sean Penn. Just a few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from the school for poor grades and bad attendance. Career Sheen began acting in 1974 at the age of nine, appearing in a small...
Biography of Taylor Lautner
Taylor Daniel Lautner (born February 11, 1992 (birth time sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGfmjCwwOQ http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090113201349AADR84i http://taylorlautner.answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_time_was_taylor_born_11:47_p.m._or_11:47_a.m.) is an American actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for his 2005 family film performances of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D with Taylor Dooley and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 with Steve Martin and Alyson Stoner. There have been rumors that Lautner will be appearing in the show Smallville. He also appeared on the UPN/CW TV series Love Inc. Early Life and Family Born on February 11th, 1992 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lautner began studying karate at the age of six, training at Fabiano's Karate S...
Biography of Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (French pronunciation: ( listen), born 23 June 1972 in Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain)), nicknamed "Zizou", is a retired French footballer and current coach of Real Madrid. He played as an attacking midfielder for the France national team, Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid. Renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, Zidane was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. At club level, Zidane won the La Liga title and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A league championships with Juventus and an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned teams. His 2001 trans...
Biography of Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (German pronunciation: ( listen); born 3 January 1969 (birth time source: Eva Bleistein, Astrodatabank)) is a retired German racing driver. Schumacher is a seven-time Formula One (F1) World Champion and is widely regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. He holds many of Formula One's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004. In 2002 he became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes. According to the official Formula One website, he is "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen". After beginning with karting, Schumacher wo...
Biography of Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965 (birth time source: biography by Marc Shapiro, by email)) is an American actress, model, singer and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She played the same role in the 2008 feature film based on the show, Sex and the City: The Movie, and in its sequel, Sex and the City 2, which opened on May 26, 2010. Parker has also appeared in many other films. Early life Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker (née Keck), a nursery school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. She was one o...
Biography of Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank, rectified from approx. time)) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. Early life Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia to Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who later worked in advertising, and June, an Australian schoolteacher. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer. She is of French ancestry. Career Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her p...
Biography of Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, (born 8 November 1966 (birth time source: Paul Wright, Astrodatabank)) is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 16 Michelin Stars, and in 2001 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay currently ranks 3rd in the world in terms of Michelin Stars behind Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as Hell's Kitchen, The F Word and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Early life Ramsay's father was, at various times, a swimming pool manager, welder, shopkeeper, and his mother and sister were nurses. Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", as his family moved constantly d...
Biography of Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti born ( 28 April 1937 - 30 December 2006 ) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979, until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces—at a time when many other groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government—by creating repressive security forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam spearheaded Iraq's nationalization of the Western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company, which had long held a monopoly on the country's oil. Through th...
Biography of Tim Burton
Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. Especially in his stop-motion animated films, he is known for the exaggerated style of his characters, which still retain their serious, humanlike characteristics. He first came to note directing the Paul Reubens film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which was followed by the blockbuster success of Batman in 1989. Following which he continued to make blockbusters as well as smaller dramas that continue to study loneliness in a style influenced by Gothic fairy tales, Tim Burton is also known for his making dark, dreary movie scenes very scenic. Early life Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton...
Biography of Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award winning English actress. She won two Oscars playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. During her thirty-year stage career, she played parts that ranged from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth. One example of her range is the fact that she played Cleopatra, in both the comedy-drama and classic drama contexts (Shaw's and Shakespeare's...
Biography of Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino on October 17, 1918 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, no source) – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although it was not popular for someone to be Hispanic back in the 40's, Rita Hayworth is now widely regarded to be the first Hispanic-American 'sex goddess' in 'Hollywood' films. Personal life Rita Hayworth liked horses and thoroughbred horse racing, and became a member of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Her husband Prince Ali Khan and his family were heavily involved in horse racing and Hayworth's filly Double Rose won several races in France and notably finished second in the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Naturally shy a...
Biography of Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang (Simplified Chinese: 陈港生; Traditional Chinese: 陳港生; Pinyin: Chén Gǎngshēng), also known as Sing Lung (Simplified Chinese: 成龙; Traditional Chinese: 成龍; Pinyin: Chéng Lóng) or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and performing his own stunts. Having appeared in over a hundred films, Chan is one of the most recognisable Asian movie stars in the world, with stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Star...
Biography of Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an American Academy Award nominated film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas. She is the only child of actress Tippi Hedren who is of Swedish, German and Norwegian descent and eldest child of Peter Griffith of English descent. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, and her father would remarry and have two children: actress, Tracy Griffith and set designer, Clay Griffith. Griffith began work at just 9 months old in a commercial and later became an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her first major role was in Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), which got her attention and typecast her as a sexy nymphet. Substance abuse problems derailed her career for nearly a decade. Her...
Biography of Stromae
Stromae, born Paul Van Haver March 12, 1985 in Etterbeek, Brussels (birth time source: birth certificate n°535, André Dekoster), is a Belgian composer, singer and musician, of Belgian and Rwandan descent. He has distinguished himself in both hip hop and electronic music. He first became famous with the song "Alors on danse" which remained at number one for several weeks in numerous countries throughout Europe. Life He was born in Brussels to a Rwandan father, whom he only got to see three times in his life, and a Belgian mother. At the age of eleven Paul Van Haver already showed an interest in music and attended 'l'Académie Musicale de Jette', where he studied music history and learned to play the drums. In 2000 he appeared as a rapper called Opsmaestro, though he later changed his ...
Biography of Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (January 21, 1962 – August 1, 2003) was a French actress. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, being the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. When her younger sister died at the age of nine, Marie Trintignant became withdrawn and virtually stopped speaking. Throughout her early life she was afflicted by severe shyness, but despite this, by her mid-teens she had decided to become an actress. She was the mother of four sons: Roman with drummer Richard Kolinka; Paul with actor François Cluzet; Léon with Mathias Othnin-Girard; and Jules with director Samuel Benchetrit. Marie Trintignant died of a cerebral edema on August 1, 2003 while on a film location in Vilnius, Lithuania after being beaten up by her boyfriend Bertrand Can...
Biography of Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction"....
Biography of Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain" ). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. He was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator. Early life in v...
Biography of Jessie J
Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988 (birth time source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nice-Meet-You-Jessie-J/dp/1471110745/ref=pd_sim_b_2#read er_1471110745)), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. She signed a record deal with Island Records and began recording her debut album, Who You Are (Not to be confused with the American jazz musician Jessy J.). She first saw fame when she began writing tracks for Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. The most successful track she co-wrote is "Party in the U.S.A.", which gained Platinum certification in many countries. On 7 January 2011 Jessie J came top of the BBC's Sound of 2011 list. She followed this in February by receiving Critics' Choice at the 2011 BRIT Awards. She released her first single, "Do It Like a...
Biography of Rose McGowan
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973 in Certaldo (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Grazia Bordoni, BC, http://astrodatablog.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rose-mcgowan-american-actress-model-and.html) is an Italian-born American actress. She is known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB Television Network supernatural drama series Charmed. She played Ann-Margret alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley in the CBS mini-series Elvis. In 2008, she was guest programmer and co-host of TCM's film-series program, The Essentials. She made her film debut in the 1992 comedy Encino Man, where she played a small role. Her performance as Amy Blue in the 1995 dark comedy film The Doom Generation brought her to a wider attention, and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. McGowa...
Biography of Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974 in Vicenza (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010736/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm) is an American actress. She is a five-time Academy Award nominee. Adams began her career on stage performing in Dinner theaters and made her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angeles and appearing in a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can opposite Leonardo Dicaprio, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Adams subsequently starred in Disney's 2007 musical film E...
Biography of Dieudonné (comedian)
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, generally known simply as Dieudonné (born 1966 in Fontenay-aux-Roses near Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) to a woman from Brittany and an African father from Cameroon) is a controversial French comedian who claims to be politically anti-racist, but who has been often accused of being anti-semitic. Dieudonné started his career performing with French Jewish comedian Elie Semoun before going solo in 1997. His first shows (such as Patrick's Divorce) gained him a considerable success, but his controversial quotes and sketches in which he blamed all monotheistic religions started to make him a growing number of enemies. In the introduction to a March 2006 interview, The Independent called him a "French Louis Farrakhan... obsessed with Jews". He has been t...
Biography of Dr. Dre
André Romell Young (born February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles, California), better known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, actor and record executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records. He was a member of the influential rap group N.W.A., which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life (also known as Gangsta rap). He has also produced albums for and overseen the careers of some of the biggest stars in (mostly) rap music, including 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent,The Game, Nate Dogg, Busta Rhymes,The D.O.C., and Eve. With tens of millions of records he has produced sold worldwide (including over 65 million with Eminem alone), he is wide...
Biography of Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Stern hosts The Howard Stern Show four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor. Stern has said that the show was never about shocking people, but primarily intended to offer his honest opinions on a gamut of issues (ranging from world affairs to problems among his own staff). Though controversial, he is the highest-paid radio personality in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast hist...
Biography of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". Early life Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson) (1846–1895), she was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22 Hyde Park ...
Biography of Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. Her reign lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch. In general, the period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era. The Victorian era was at the height of the Industrial Revolution, a period of significant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom. Victoria's reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire; during this period it reached its zenith, becoming the foremost Global Power of the time. Victoria was the granddaughter of George III, and was almost entirely of Germ...
Biography of Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C variants, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B...
Biography of Michel Berger
Michel Berger (28 November 1947, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 2 August 1992, Ramatuelle), born Michel-Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Véronique Sanson and Johnny Hallyday. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 47. Berger was the son of the famous doctor Jean Hamburger and concert pianist Annette Haas, both of whom were Polish Jews. Berger first became known to the French public in the 1960s as singer of hit song Salut les copains, after which he became record producer and songwriter for EMI and where he wrote amongst others Les Girafes for Bourvil in 1967. In the early 1970s, he moved to W...
Biography of George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944 (birth time source: Gauquelin, BC)) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. He led Lucasfilm as chairman and chief executive before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. He wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. Lucas's next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti (1973), inspired by his teen years in early 1...
Biography of Felipe VI of Spain
Felipe VI (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 30 January 1968 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), is the King of Spain. The eldest son of King Juan Carlos I, Felipe as then-Prince of the Asturias, assumed the throne on 19 June 2014 after his father's abdication the day before. In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, the monarch is head-of-state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed Forces and also plays a role in promoting relations with Ibero-America, the "nations of its historical community". Birth and early life Felipe was born in Madrid and his full name at birth was Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia. The names given at his baptism, by the Archbishop of Madrid Casimiro Morcillo González, include the names of the first Spanish king of the ...
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 Ingrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt (born December 25, 1961) is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist. Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on February 23, 2002 while campaigning for the Colombian presidency as a Green, after she decided to campaign in an area of high guerrilla presence in spite of warnings from the government, police and military not to do so. Her kidnapping has received wide coverage in France due to her French citizenship, and the government of France had participated as a facilitator for the release of Betancourt and all prisoners held by the FARC guerrillas. However, these negotiations were unfruitful. Betancourt was ultimately rescued from captivity, along with fourteen hostages, by Colombian security forces on Jul...
Biography of Eliza Dushku
Elizabeth Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American film actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, Bring It On, and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling. Early life Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts to Philip R. Dushku (born June 1, 1941), an Albanian-American administrator-teacher in the Boston Public Schools and Judith (Judy) Rasmussen (born March 30, 1942) (a half-Danish-American university administrator and professor at Suffolk University); she was raised a Mormon, the faith of her mother (though she is not actively practicing). She has three older brothers, Aaron,...
Biography of Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as he later came to call them). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with specific characters, locales, or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language including extreme chromaticism and atonality which greatly influenced the development of European classical music. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Ges...
Biography of Billy Idol
Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex (birth time source: https://twitter.com/BillyIdol/status/228400541498236928)) is an English rock musician. He first achieved fame in the punk rock era, then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars. He has continued to make music, but has yet to recapture the levels of fame he enjoyed in the 1980s. Early life and career The name Billy Idol was inspired by a school teacher's description of Broad as "idle." Billy Idol lived in Worthing, England before attending Sussex University for only one year before joining the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans. Idol first joined the punk rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees (before the ban...
Biography of Giuseppe Verdi
iuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century and went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata. Although his work was sometimes criticized as catering to the tastes of the common folk, using a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and having a tendency towa...
Biography of Juan Carlos I of Spain
Juan Carlos (Spanish pronunciation: ; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; born 5 January 1938 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) was King of Spain from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco named Juan Carlos as the next head of state in 1969. He became King on 22 November 1975, two days after Franco's death, the first reigning monarch since 1931. Soon after enthronement, Juan Carlos introduced reforms to dismantle the Francoist regime and begin the Spanish transition to democracy. This led to the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum, which established a constitutional monarchy. Juan Carlos also played a major role in stopping the 1981 coup attempt. While the reigning King of Spain, Juan Carlos serve...
Biography of Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946 (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank. Time zone could be 7W00 and not 6W00)) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. Early life Jones was born in San Saba, Texas to Clyde C. Jones, who worked in the oil fields of both Texas and Libya, and Lucille Marie Scott, who was a police officer and hairdresser who owned a beauty parlour; the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, has a Cherokee Native American grandparent, and is mostly of Welsh ancestry. Jones was also a resident of Midland, Texas, and attended the same high school, Midland Lee, as the First Lady Laura Bush. Graduation Jones graduated the St. Mark's School of Texas (where he is now on the board of directors) and a...
Biography of Nick Cannon
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American actor and rapper. Biography Early life Cannon was born in San Diego, California, to 17 year old accountant Beth Gardner (née Hackett), and James Cannon, a televangelist who hosted a public access TV ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a child, Cannon divided his time between living with mother and grandmother in San Diego and with his father in Charlotte. He began performing at age eight, and at the age of eleven, he landed a spot on his father's cable access program performing stand-up comedy. Cannon then formed "Da Bomb Squad", a rap duo with his best friend Steve Groves. Together, they opened for the likes of Will Smith, LFO, 98 Degrees, and ...
Biography of Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder (French pronunciation: ; born 21 September 1965 at Neuilly-Sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Acte 3753)) is a French writer, TV host, film director, and literary critic. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. Biography Beigbeder was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels (Barbara Cartland et al.); his brother is Charles Beigbeder, a businessman. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Upon graduation at the age of 24, he began work as a...
Biography of JonBenet Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 26, 1996) was a six-year-old girl found murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. The case drew attention throughout the United States when no suspect was charged and suspicions turned to possible family involvement. The tantalizing clues of the case inspired numerous books and articles that attempt to solve the mystery. Many details of the case, including her parents' wealth, her apparently violent death, and the fact that JonBenét had frequently been entered in beauty contests, enhanced public interest in the case. On August 16, 2006, the case returned to the news when John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old school teacher, reportedly confessed to her murder. (On Augu...
Biography of Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 12. Early life Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck in San Diego, California's seaside community of La Jolla, the son of Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and pharmacist, and Missouri-born Bernice Ma... |
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