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You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Mars in the 4th House. 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 Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books. Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased ...
Biography of 14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, and as such, is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Tibet faced occupation by the forces of the People's Republic of China. After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan government in exile) and seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands ...
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 Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford )), died on April 21, 2016, known from 1993 to 2000 as (or informally, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, TAFKAP, or simply The Artist), is an iconic, award-winning American musician. He is best known for performing under the name Prince. He died at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Chanhassen, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, on April 21, 2016, after suffering flu-like symptoms for several weeks His music has spanned myriad styles; from his early material, rooted in R&B, funk, and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including New Wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz, and hip hop. The distinctive characteristics of the early-to-mid 1980s wo...
Biography of Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, writer, actor, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier","Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). Morrison died in Paris at the age of 27. The circumstances of his death and burial are not fully known. Early years Morrison was born on 8 December, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, to Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister and a brother. Anne Robin Morrison was born in 1947 in Albuqu...
Biography of Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (/rəˈneɪ ˈzɛl.wɛ.ɡər/; born April 25, 1969 (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski quotes birth record, Astrodatabank) is an American actress, producer and voice artist. She first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003). She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a BAFTA Award; was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in...
Biography of Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969 in Glasgow (birth time source: Caroline Gerard, birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). In 2003, Butler played André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's Timeline. He garnered critical acclaim for his work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. In 2007, Butler gained recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. Since then, he has appeared in projec...
Biography of Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 (birth time source: http://www.romy.de/romycms/index.php/content/html/biografie, Hans Taeger, Tony Bonin, Astrodatabank) – May 29, 1982) was a German actress. She was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach-Retty in Vienna, September 23, 1938 at 9:45 PM or 10:05 PM, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her father Wolf Albach-Retty of Austria and her German mother Magda Schneider . After the divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Romy and her brother Wolfi, eventually supervising the young girl's career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Romy thus made her film debut in Wenn der weisse Flieder blüht (1953), at the age of 15. In the film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Girlhood of a Queen, Ernst Marischka, 1954) R...
Biography of Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani (born Isabelle Yasmina Adjani on 27 June 1955 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time César Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee. After success in the Comédie-Française, Adjani gained further fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., which earned the then 20 year-old her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time. She won the first of a record five César Awards for Best Actress for the 1981 film Possession. Her subsequent wins were for One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). Her 1988 Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Camille Claudel made her the first Fre...
Biography of Adriana Karembeu
Adriana Sklenaříková (married name: Adriana Karembeu) (born 17 September 1971, Brezno, Slovakia (birth time source: Astrodatabank, conflicting time of birth) is a Slovak fashion model. She was born to a Slovak mother and Czech father in Brezno, a small town of central Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia). Having originally studied medicine in Prague, Adriana gave up her studies to become a model. On December 22, 1998, she married French football player Christian Karembeu and took his name. She was also one of the models for Wonderbra and was very popular in Europe for her Wonderbra billboards. She lives permanently in Paris, but she has also lived in various cities in Europe such as Athens and Madrid....
Biography of Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls (French: , born 13 August 1962 (birth time source: French Wikipedia)) is a Spanish-born French Socialist Party politician. He was appointed Prime Minister by President François Hollande in 2014. Prior to his post as Prime Minister, Valls was the Minister of the Interior beginning in 2012. He was the Mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and a Member of the National Assembly since 2002. Valls was born in Barcelona during the holidays and became a naturalised French citizen in 1982, but he has always lived in France. He is a prominent supporter of Barcelona, whose club anthem was composed by his second cousin and namesake. After serving as an advisor on youth issues for Prime Minister Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1991, he worked as the Communications Advisor for Prime Minister...
Biography of Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992 (birth time sources: her Twitter account http://demilovato.com/home http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Demi_Lovato_time_of_birth.jpg) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She played Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, and she plays Sonny Monroe in the Disney Channel Original Series Sonny With A Chance. Besides acting, she is also a solo music artist and released her debut album Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 selling over 89,000 copies in the first week. Lovato is set to release her sophomore album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. Early life Lovato was born in Dallas, Texas to Patrick Lovato and Diana Lovato (née Hart). She has an older sister, D...
Biography of Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted an almost cult following. His many enthusiasts, as well as the popular press, credit him with predicting numerous major world events. In contrast, most of the academic sources listed below maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus' quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so ...
Biography of Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert 'Ted' Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was one of the most infamous serial killers in U.S. history. Bundy raped and murdered scores of young women across the United States between 1974 and 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually confessed to thirty murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Typically, Bundy would rape then murder, or murder then rape (which qualifies him as a necrophiliac), his victims by bludgeoning, and sometimes by strangulation. Despite the brutality of his crimes, Bundy is believed to have had a brilliant mind and was frequently described as educated and charming. His personal friends and acquaintances would remember him as a handsome and articulate young man....
Biography of Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi on March 2, 1962) is an American musician, businessman, actor and lead singer of the rock band, Bon Jovi. Biography Jon Bon Jovi was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on March 2,1962, and was raised in nearby Sayreville. His mother, Carol Sharkey (of Irish/Italian descent), was a U.S. Marine as well as a Playboy Bunny and his father, John Bongiovi Sr., also a Marine, was a barber of Italian ancestry. John Bon Jovi attended St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, New Jersey for two years, freshman and sophomore years, before being forced to transfer to Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin, New Jersey because of poor grades, and later adopted the stage name Jon Bon Jovi at the behest of the record company that he signed with. He also plays a...
Biography of Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as Général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces. During World War II, he reached the rank of Brigade General and then became the leader of the Free French government-in-exile and an anti-Nazi guerrilla leader. Between 1944 and 1946, following the liberation of France from German occupation, he was head of the French provisional government. Called to form a government in 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first president, serving from 1958 to 1969. His political ideology is known as G...
Biography of Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001349/bio)) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five and its spin-off Time Of Your Life, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS top-rated television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who communicates with the dead. Early life and career Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp. Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a speech-language pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Harker Heights, Texas. After the divorce of her parents...
Biography of Clara Morgane
Clara Morgane (real name is Emmanuelle Aurélie Munos), now a singer, media personnality and TV host, is a former French porn star who was born on January 25, 1981 in Marseille. At age 12, Morgane was a photographic model through a modelling agency. However, at age 19, she discovered porn during an erotic exhibition show in Paris and decided to give it a try. She was unusual in that, at first, she appeared in a series of films with only one partner; Greg Centauro, who was then her boyfriend. She has been the anchorwoman of the Journal du hard, on the pay-TV channel Canal+, since September 2001. She also writes sex advice columns in a few French magazines for teenagers and adults. In France, she often appears on national TV and provides a kind of socially acceptable, family friendly re...
Biography of Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer. Early life Elizabeth Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England in 1965. Hurley's father, a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent, was a British Army major, while her mother, an Anglican, was a schoolteacher at Kempshott Infant School. She has an older sister, Debbie, and a younger brother, Michael. Hurley took ballet classes as a child. She went to Kempshott Junior and Infants school, and the Harriet Costello School now known as Costello Technology College. Hurley later attended Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, for one year, followed by Basingstoke College of Technology and won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre. Whilst in her teens and before she was in the public ...
Biography of Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $30 billion. Walt Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He received twenty-two Academy Awards and forty-eight nominations during his lifetim...
Biography of Cary Grant
Archibald Alec Leach (January 18, 1904 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an iconic English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema, after Humphrey Bogart, by the American Film Institute. Early life and career Archibald Alec Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, England in 1904. He attended Bishop Road Primary School. An only child, he had a confused and unhappy childhood. His mother Elsie was placed by his father in a mental institution when Archie was ten. She had apparently never overcome her depression after t...
Biography of Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, singer-songwriter, and activist. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan, before moving to the Los Angeles, California area where, after being noticed by entertainment executives, he made his film debut in 1988. Since then, Seagal has become a well recognized action star, with his movies earning more than $600 million worldwide. Seagal has used his fame as an action star to cross over to other industries, as he is also a recording artist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises. In addition to his professional achievements, he is also known as an environmentalist, aikido master (Takeshigemichi), an animal rights activist, and claims ...
Biography of Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964 (birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-k/kravitz.lenny.php)) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, he often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. He won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002. He was ranked #93 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". Early life Kravitz was born in New York City, the son of Ukrainian-Jewish American NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz, and Bahamian America...
Biography of Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. In that role he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was appointed a full professor in 1958. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at several German universities—the last being the University...
Biography of Gia Carangi
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others including Janice Dickinson and Dorian Leigh. Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of several fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia", due to her resemblance to Carangi. Carangi was also the first to present unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She is credited by many at the upper echelons of fashion to have created a new style of modeling, emulated by models since then to the present. Carangi was featured on the cover of many fashion magazines, including ...
Biography of Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980 (birth time source: GQ Magazine Feb. 2012)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full length features, such as Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry Williams, a renowned commodities trader, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. She also has a half sister named Sara Williams, who is the vice principal of Loma Vista Elementary School, in Brentwood, California. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. At an early age, Williams took interest in acting. With her parents' disapproval, at age fifte...
Biography of Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo (nicknamed Bébel) (born April 9, 1933, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris), is a French actor. As a youngster, he did poorly in his studies, but developed a passion for boxing and football (soccer). His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (aka Breathless) (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. Later he played in Jean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest 1960), then in the Film Noir Le Doulos (The Fingerman 1963). With L'homme de Rio (aka That Man From Rio) (1965) he switched to commercial mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films. From then on, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. He was one of France's biggest box-offic...
Biography of Shannen Doherty
Shannen Maria Doherty (born April 12, 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford)) is an American film actress, best known for her work as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed. Height: 1m60 Early career She came to notice when she was cast as Jenny Wilder in Little House on the Prairie. She was then cast as the oldest Witherspoon sibling, Kris, on the family drama Our House, which ran from 1986 to 1988. She then went on to appear in an episode of Magnum, P.I. Later career Doherty's first major motion picture role was in Heathers, released in 1989. She went on to star in the Aaron Spelling-produced TV series Beverly Hills 90210 for four years, from 1990 to 1994. Her departure from the series was reportedly acrimonious, how...
Biography of Louis de Funès
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (fyˈnɛs) (July 31, 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 27, 1983) was a French actor who is considered by many to be one of the giants of French comedy. His acting style is remembered for its high energy performance, a wide range of facial expressions and an engaging, snappy impatience. He was enormously successful in several countries for many years — France, but also Spain, Germany, Belgium, former Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, and the Soviet Union — but remained almost unknown in the English-speaking world. He was only noted in the United States in 1974 with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. In a 1968 poll, he was voted France's favorite actor. Many...
Biography of Anna Nicole Smith
Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American sex symbol, model, actress and celebrity. Her highly publicized marriage to oil business executive and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior, resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian for his money, which she denied. Following his death, she began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate; her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction. Born and raised in Texas, Smith dropped out of high school and first married at the age of 17. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans....
Biography of Tony Robbins
Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins (born February 29, 1960 (birth time source: birth certificate in hand (Anthony John Mohorovick).) is an American self-help writer and professional speaker. He became well known through the use of firewalking in his seminars. He initially studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming but went on to develop his own methods. Personal life Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavorick in North Hollywood, California. He was raised in Azusa, California, and he attended Glendora High School. His parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother later remarried twice. Tony took on the surname of Jim Robbins, his second stepfather. In 1994, a routine medical check revealed a tumor in Robbins' pituitary gland. Robbins explains in Personal Power that the tumor was ac...
Biography of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. rcpart of the subject matter for her first serious novel, which did not turn out to Beauvoir's liking. Later in life she split the manuscript from this novel into a series of short stories. Works L'Invitée (1943) (English – She Came to Stay) Pyrrhus et Cinéas (1944) Le Sang des autres (1945) (English ...
Biography of Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890—12 January 1976), also known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is chiefly remembered for her 66 detective novels. Her work with these novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. Christie has been called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second to William Shakespeare. An estimated one billion copies of her novels have been sold in English, and another billion in 103 oth...
Biography of Sophie Davant
French journalist and TV host....
Biography of Benoît Hamon
Benoît Hamon (French: ; born 26 June 1967 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French politician and a member of both the Socialist Party (PS), and the Party of European Socialists. He became the Socialist candidate for the 2017 French presidential election after defeating Manuel Valls in the second round of the party's primary on 29 January 2017. Hamon was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of France from 2004 to 2009. He was also the leader of the left-wing of the PS during the 2008 Reims Congress and its candidate for the First Secretaryship. In May 2012, he was appointed as Junior Minister for the Social Economy at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and External Trade by President François Hollande, serving in that post for two years. He was Minister of Na...
Biography of Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on Walker, Texas Ranger. In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts. A native of Ryan, Oklahoma, Norris has two younger brothers, Wieland (deceased) and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). Chuck Norris was born to an alcoholic father who is half Irish and half Cherokee. Norris's mother is also half Irish and half Cherokee. Norris is very proud of his Native American heritage, and frequently referred to his origins on his hit show Walker, Texas Ranger. When Norris was 10, his parents divorced, and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas and then Torrance, Ca...
Biography of Axelle Red
Axelle Red was born Fabienne Demal in Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium, on 15 February 1968. She is a singer-songwriter. Despite being Flemish, she chose to write and perform songs in the French language. She has achieved great critical success in both Belgium and France. Her musical style varies from jazz to piano ballads. Her musical idols as a youth were the pop group ABBA. She graduated as a lawyer (the same profession as her father) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), but she nevertheless felt more attracted to music, a passion of her mother (a pianist). Her first album, Sans plus attendre, sold 500 000 copies in Belgium alone (a record). The song "Sensualité" was her breakthrough hit in France. Other hits included "Elle danse seule", "Je t'attends", Manhattan-Kaboul, "Parce que c'e...
Biography of Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 (birth time source: Steinbrecher)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer. She attended the University of Florida and Boston University, and joined the American National Theatre and Academy in 1962. Career Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of ...
Biography of Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (French pronunciation: ; born 16 March 1953 in Paris 16e (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 100 films and television productions since her debut in 1971. She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker (1977) and the César Award for Best Actress for La Ceremonie (1995). She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 15 nominations. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1999 and was promoted to Officer in 2009. Huppert's first César nomination was for the 1975 film Aloïse. She went on to win Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival ...
Biography of Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born June 28, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian theater and movie actress mainly popular inside her homeland, where she is one of the most prevalent celebrities. Ferilli's father was the speaker of the Lazio regional council of the Italian Communist Party. Ferilli was herself clearly influenced by her father’s political orientation and activism, making no secret of her own leftism. Ferilli starred in several movies and TV series since the mid 1980s, as well as debuting in theater plays. While her popularity stems in large part from her movie acting, theater always remained her real passion. Upon leaving school, Ferilli first was rejected by Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre. She subsequently took elocution lessons and meanwhile managed to win bit parts in...
Biography of Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is highly regarded as one of the pioneers in the Electronic and New Age music genres, as well as the organiser of record-breaking outdoor spectacles of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, linking music with the surrounding environment and architecture. Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles over his career. Height: 1m80 His original artistic name was Jean-Michel Jarre but c. 1991 he dropped the dash in the name. Jarre was married to Flore Guillard from January 20, 1975 until circa 1977. Later he was married to British actress and photographer Charlotte Rampling from October 7, 1978 until circa 1998. In 2002 he became publicly e...
Biography of Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is best known for his role as the main songwriter, lead vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. Early life Armstrong grew up in Rodeo, California. He's the youngest of six children. His father, Andy, was a retired Minor League Baseball catcher, who worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway to support the family. He died from esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982 when Billie Joe was 10. His mother Ollie worked as a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit, where Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt got their first gig during their teen years. Billie Joe's interest in music started at a young age. He recorded a song titled "Look For Lov...
Biography of Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York (birth time source: Blender Magazine: March 2007)) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress. Jones's career was launched with her massively successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, that sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received six Grammy Awards, with Jones winning "Best New Artist". Her second album, Feels like Home, was released in 2004, clocking more than a million sales in the first week of U.S. release. In 2007, she released her third album, Not Too Late, which debuted at number one on the world charts. She has become one of the most successful recording artists of the decade cl...
Biography of Virginie Efira
Virginie Efira (born 5 May 1977 in Brussels birth time source: André Dekoster)) is a Belgian actress, and anchor on French Television. She was first hired by Club RTL (A Belgian TV channel in the RTL Group) to present a children's show called Mégamix. She went on to present other programmes in Belgium, including A la recherche de la nouvelle Star. In September 2002 she was offered the job of the presenter of Belgian's version of Star Academy. After casting to be a weather girl on France's M6 channel, she was soon pushed into the limelight as one of M6's main public faces, presenting shows such as Le Grand Zap, La saga des ..., Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes. She was the host of Classé Confidentiel for one year, before replacing Benjamin Castaldi as ...
Biography of Laurence Chirac
Laurence Chirac,, born on March 4, 1958 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on April 14, 2016 (heart attack), is the daugther of Jacques Chirac, the Président of France from 1995 until May 16, 2007. External source: http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/info-le-point-fr-laurence-chirac-est-decedee-14-04-2016-2032300_20.php...
Biography of Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (Modena October 12, 1935 – Modena September 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the best known contemporary vocal performers in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. Popularly known for his televised concerts, and as one of the Three Tenors, he was also noted for his charity work, and received many awards for his work with refugees and the Red Cross, among other causes. Early life Luciano Pavarotti was born on the outskirts of Modena in north-central Italy on October 12, 1935, the son of Adele (Venturi), a cigar factory worker, and Fernando Pavarotti, a baker and singer. Although he spoke fondly of his childhood, the family had little money; its four members were crowded into a two-room apartment. According to Pavarotti, his father had a fine ten...
Biography of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan Temüjin (Тэмүүжин) by birthname, (c. 1162 (sources give a birth between 1162 and 1186) –August 18, 1227) was a Mongol political and military leader or Khan (Ruler) (posthumously Khagan (Emperor)) who united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire (Их Монгол Улс), (1206 – 1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history. Born to the name Temüjin (Тэмүүжин) in the Borjigin clan, he forged a powerful army based on merit to become one of the most significant and successful military leaders in history. While his image in some regions of the world has traditionally been that of a ruthless and bloodthirsty co...
Biography of Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant — who was baptized as 'Emanuel' but later changed his name to 'Immanuel' after he learned Hebrew — was born in 1724 in Königsberg, as the fourth of nine children (five of them reached adulthood). He spent his entire life in and around his hometown, the capital of East Prussia at that time, never travelling more than a hundred miles from Königsberg. His father Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746) was a German craftsman from Memel, at the time Prussia's northeasternmost city (now Klaipėda,...
Biography of George Carlin
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to regulate Carlin's act on the public airwaves. George Carlin's most recent stand up routines are primarily focused on attacking the flaws in modern-day America. He often takes on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirizes the excesses of American cul...
Biography of Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in London (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank, from a biography) is an English rock and pop musician. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", to the dance pop of "Sussudio", to the political statements of his most successful song, "Another Day in Paradise". His international popularity transformed Genesis from a progressive rock group to a regular on the pop charts and an early MTV mainstay. Col... |
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