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Freddie Stroma (born 8 January 1987) is an English actor, model, and singer, best known for playing Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter film series. Early life and education Freddie Stroma was born Frederic Wilhelm C. J. Sjostrom in London, England on 8 January 1987, to a Swedish father and a German mother. Although he was born in London, he was educated at the boys'-only boarding school...

Ami Bluebell Dolenz (born January 8, 1969) is an American former actress. Early life Dolenz was born in Burbank, California, into a show business family. She is the daughter of Micky Dolenz of the 1960s group the Monkees, and British television presenter Samantha Juste. Her paternal grandparents were the film actors George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson. Career At age 15, Dolenz won a junior...

MacGregor Mathers, born in Hackney, United-Kingdom, on January 8, 1854, was a British astrologer, occultist and author. He founded the mystical organization The Golden Dawn.

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (frequently referred to as S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike; January 8, 1899 – September 26, 1959) was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Early life & education Bandaranaike was born in Colombo, Ceylon to an elite Sinhalese Anglican Christian family and was the son of...

José Bénazéraf (born January 8, 1922 Casablanca, Morocco, died December 1, 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer. After having finished his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing Les lavandières du Portugal in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his...

Kerwin Mathews (January 8, 1926 (source not archived) – July 5, 2007) was an American actor. He is best known for playing Sinbad in the 1958 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation feature The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, where he engaged in a sword fight with animated skeletons. Life and career Mathews was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He attended Janesville High School in Janesville,...

Warren Kenton, bon January 8, 1933 in London, is a British astrologer, author and Kabbalist. Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, lit. "receiving") is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings meant to define the inner meaning of both...

Louis Le Pensec, born on January 8, 1937, in Mellac (Finistère) and died on January 10, 2024, was a French politician. He served as a deputy (from 1973 to 1997) and then as a socialist senator for Finistère (from 1998 to 2008). He was a member of various socialist governments, serving as the Minister of the Sea (from 1981 to 1983), Minister of Overseas Departments and Territories (from 1988 to...

Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties. Early years Miguel Primo de Rivera was born into a landowning...

Susan Alice Watkins, born January 8, 1945 in Elmira, NewYork, is an American author and editor.

Giacinto Scelsi, Count of Ayala Valva (La Spezia, January 8, 1905 (source not archived) – Rome, August 9, 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, as paradigmatically exemplified in his...

Lucien Kouassi, born January 8, 1963 in Prikro, is an Ivorian singer and composer.

Peng Shuai (simplified Chinese: 彭帅; traditional Chinese: 彭帥; pinyin: Péng Shuài; born January 8, 1986, in Xiangtan, Hunan Province) is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final. As of September 19th 2011, she is the only Chinese player in the Top 20 of both the...

Old Melusine, born January 8, 1943 in Créteil (birth time source: herself, by email), is a French esoteric author and specialist of French Wicca. Wicca (IPA: /ˈwɪkə/) is a neopagan, nature-based religion popularised in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it Witchcraft and its adherents "the Wica". He said that the...

Robert Leland "Bob" Eubanks (born January 8, 1938) is an American radio, game show host and television personality best known for hosting the game show The Newlywed Game on and off from 1966 to 2000, where he was known for using the catch-phrase, "Makin' Whoopee". Early life Eubanks was born in Flint, Michigan, but was raised primarily in Pasadena, California, where he...

John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. (born January 8, 1951) is an American movie director, best known for his action films. He was born in Albany, New York and was an M.F.A. graduate of the AFI Conservatory. Most action cinema fans agree that the director's best works have been Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October. McTiernan directed these three films back-to-back. He was once discussed as...

Soupy Sales (born Milton Supman on January 8, 1926) is an American comedian and actor. Sales got his unusual nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone"; Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name "Soupy Hines."...

Paola Pezzo (born January 8, 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA, she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.

Adrian Mutu (born 8 January 1979 (source not archived)) is a Romanian striker and attacking midfielder who plays for Italian Serie A club Fiorentina and the Romanian national team. Club career Argeş Piteşti Mutu began his professional career with his home club Argeş Piteşti. He made his debut on 15 March 1997 against Oţelul Galaţi and...

Stephen Jourdain, born on January 8, 1931 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Astrotheme, birth certificate n° 10), died on February 19, 2009, is a French spiritual master and writer, the grandson of architect Frantz Jourdain and the son of Francis Jourdain and Audrey King. External link: http://www.facebook.com/note.php.note_id=259430250775922

Yazid Sabeg, born on 8 January 1950 in Guelma, Algeria, is the president of the administrative council of the French high-technology firm SSII (CS Communication and Systems) and also a member of the French Institute of International and Strategic Relations. Born to a docker father, he immigrated to France in 1952, did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in Lille and then at the University...

Edmond Vandercammen, born January 8, 1901 in Ohain, is a Belgian poet.

Giorgio Tozzi (born January 8, 1923, Chicago, Illinois) was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide. Career Tozzi studied at DePaul University with Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and John Daggett Howell (although he originally intended to study biology). He made his professional debut in 1948 in the...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /ˈælmə ˈtædɪmə/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject...

John Chukwudi Utaka (born 8 January 1982 in Enugu) is a Nigerian football player, who currently plays for Portsmouth of the English Premier League. His Igbo name, Chukwudi, means "There is God". Career He has played for several clubs across three continents, first for Arab Contractors and subsequently Ismaily of Egypt, then spending a season playing for Al-Sadd of Qatar, before...

François Guiguet, born on January 8, 1860 in Corbelin, Isère (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate, Etat Civil de la Mairie de Corbelin, email), died on September 3, 1937 in Corbelin, Isère, was a French portrait painter. Works Jeune Fille faisant du crochet, musée d'Orsay, Paris Tête d'enfant, musée d'Orsay, Paris Dessins au département des arts graphiques du...

Walter Scavolini, born January 8, 1942 in Pesaro, is an Italian entrepreneur, the creator of famous modular kitchens in Italy.

Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first graduates...

Lívia Gyarmathy, born January 8, 1932 in Budapest, is a Romanian screenwriter and director. Filmography (selection) Director: 1. Ballroom Dancing (2003) .. aka "Táncrend" - Hungary (original title) 2. A mi gólyánk (1999) .. aka "Our Stork" - USA (festival title) 3. Szökés (1997) 4. A csalás gyönyöre (1992) 5. 'Hol zsarnokság van' (Egy bíró...

Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955) is an American actress noted for her 2002 award winning performance in the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, and more recently for her role as Felicia Tilman in ABC network television series, Desperate Housewives. Biography Early years Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Harris started acting as a youngster and attended New York's Juilliard School....

Pascal Zuberbühler (born 8 January 1971 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for English Premier League club Fulham. Club career Zuberbühler made 187 appearances for Grasshopper Zürich between 1991 and 1999, winning the Swiss Super League three times and the Swiss Cup once. He moved to FC Basel where he played 217 games, winning the Championship...

Gerry Spence (b. January 8, 1929, Laramie, Wyoming) is a trial lawyer in the United States. He has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any other lawyer in the US. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case with a trial by jury in the over 50 years he practiced...

Mariana Paola Vicente Morales (born January 8, 1989, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (birth time source: family source, email on August 1, 2015)) is a Puerto Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2010 and placed in the Top 10 at the 2010 Miss Universe pageant. Biography Vicente is the oldest of four children, Ramón, Claudia Sofia and Sebastián. Her...

Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933, France - 22 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. Biography Jean-Marie Straub met Danièle Huillet...

Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors in the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Dennis Yates (or Yeats) Wheatley was born in South London to Albert David and Florence Elizabeth Harriet Wheatley (née Baker). He was the eldest of three children of an...

Chen Xiexia (simplified Chinese: 陈燮霞; traditional Chinese: 陳燮霞; Mandarin Pinyin: Chén Xièxiá; Jyutping: Chan4 Sit3 Ha4; born January 8, 1983 in Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese weightlifter. She won three golds at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships. and the first gold medal for China in the 2008 Summer Olympics in...

Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed. (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy...

Nusrat Jahan (Bengali: নুসরাত জাহান; born 8 January 1990) is a Bengali actress. who has acted in the movie Shotru. Jahan's screen debut was in Raj Chakraborty’s Shotru. She is slated for the film Khoka 420 under the banner Eskay Movies. Her recently released movie is Khiladi with Ankush,...

Enrique Rodriguez, born January 8, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, died March 11, 1995 (AIDS), was an American artist and painter.

Rose Murphy, born January 8, 1913 in Lima, Ohio, was an American singer, actress and pianist. She acted in a few films, as A Wave, a Wac and a Marine, and George White's Scandals.

Bill Harkleroad (born January 8, 1949), known professionally as Zoot Horn Rollo, is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. In 2003, he was ranked No. 62 in a Rolling Stone magazine list of "the 100 greatest guitarists of all time". Biography Born in Hawthorne, California, Harkleroad was trained as an accordionist as a child but changed...

Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter (born 8 January 1943, Harpenden) is a United Kingdom politician and a member of the Orange Order. He was Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1983 until 2005. From 1990 - 2001 he was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club and is currently (2008) Chairman, succeeding Lord Sudeley. Early life Hunter is the son of an RAF Squadron Leader. He went to St...

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 in Oranienburg (source: Steinbrecher , birth certificate) – 8 February 1957 in Heidelberg) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born. In 1913, he joined the newly created Laboratory for Radioactivity at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute (PTR), where he remained until 1930, the latter few...

Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model. Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction...

Sander "Sandy" Vanocur (born January 8, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American journalist. Career After attending Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the Northwestern University School of Speech (1950). He began his journalism career as a reporter on the London Staff of The Manchester Guardian, and also did general...

Loletta Lee (Chinese: 李麗珍, also known as Lee Lai Chun in Cantonese and Li Li Zhen, in Mandarin) is a Hong Kong actress born on 8 January 1966 in Hong Kong. She later changed her name to Rachel Lee in 2000. She started playing small roles in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s. Her first role as main actress is in Devoted to You. She continued to play as young teenager...

Gaston Miron, OQ (French pronunciation: ) (January 8, 1928 – December 14, 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of the Quebec post Quiet Revolution. His masterpiece, L'homme rapaillé (partly translated as The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron, whose title echoes Miron's most celebrated poem La marche à l'amour) has sold over 100 000 copies, in Quebec and overseas, insuring...

Maria Pitillo (born January 8, 1966) is an American actress who has starred in several films; most notably as Audrey Timmonds in Godzilla—a role which garnered her a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress. She also made an appearance on the TV series Providence. Pitillo was born in Elmira, New York and was raised in Mahwah, New Jersey. Filmography Film The Angriest Man in...

André de Meyer, best known as Jack Lantier, born January 8, 1930 in Paris, is a French singer. Selected songs "la Chanson des blés d'or", "Nuits de Chine" (1922), "Ah le petit vin blanc" (création 1943), "La Paimpolaise" de Théodore Botrel, "Sous les ponts de Paris" de Vincent Scotto, "Roses de Picardie"