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Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed. Since the mid-1970s, many of his operas have seen periodic revivals. Massenet was born in...

Odeya Rush (Hebrew: אודיה רש‎; born Odeya Rushinek; May 12, 1997) is an Israeli actress. She is known for her lead roles in The Giver and Goosebumps. Life and career Rush was born in Haifa to father Shlomo Rushinek and mother Maia Greenfeld. Her name, "Odeya", means "Thank God" in Hebrew. Her...

Jesús "Jess" Franco (born 12 May 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera) is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. Though he had an American box office success with his first women in prison film, 99 Women, in 1969, he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco has nevertheless retained a small cult following with his sexually-charged horror films. He was very prolific...

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws QC, FRSA, (born in Glasgow, 12 May 1950) is a British barrister, broadcaster and Labour member of the House of Lords. She currently chairs the Human Genetics Commission, which advises the UK government on ethical, social and legal issues arising from developments in genetic science. Background Helena Kennedy was born, raised and educated in...

Pierre-Désiré Lamy, born on May 12, 1855 in Clermont-Ferrand (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1919 in Paris, was a FQrench artist and painter.

William Haislip "Billy" Squier (born May 12, 1950) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song "The Stroke" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No. Other hits include "In the Dark", "Rock Me Tonite", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover", "Everybody Wants...

Norbert Huit, best known as Olivier Lejeune, born May 12, 1951 in Orléans (birth time source: Michael Mandl, birth certificate), is a French actor, comedian, humorist and author. Author for theater (extract) Tout bascule (2003) Dévorez-moi (2006) Filmography (extract) 2007 : Cortex de Nicolas Boukhrief, Martin

Eric Wauters, born May 12, 1951 in Mechelen, is a Belgian equestrian. He has particpiated in the Atlanta Olympics (1996).

María José Besora, born on May 12, 1977 in Algezares, Murcia, is a Spanish model and actress. She was Miss Spain in 1998. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2425276/) 2009 La hora de José Mota (TV series) – Episode #1.11 (2009) Elle-même (8 titles) 2005-2009 Pasapalabra (TV series) Herself – Episode dated 20 December 2009 (2009) … Herself – Episode dated 18 December 2009 (2009) …...

Dominique Tapie, born Dominique Mialet-Damianos on May 12, 1950 in Paris (birth certificate n° 2219, Marc Brun), is the second wife of businessman and politician Bernard Tapie since May 23, 1987. She is of Greek origin. The couple had a daughter, Sophie, a French singer known for having participated in season 2 of The Voice, the most beautiful voice, and a son, Laurent.

Frank Philip Stella, born May 12, 1936 in Malden (Massachusetts) and died May 4, 2024 in Manhattan, is an American painter considered a precursor of minimalism as well as one of the main representatives of op art with Joseph Albers and shaped canvas with Charles Hinman. Frank Stella's career took a significant turn during his first solo exhibition in 1963 where he introduced his "Black...

Trey Helliwell, born May 12, 1964, was an American impresario. He was killed with two other persons on 5/10/2001, by Sean Salley, 19, and Andre S. Smith, 30. It was a burglary.

Fritz Schäffer (12 May 1888, München – 29 March 1967, Berchtesgaden) was a German politician for the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and the Christian Social Union (CSU). In 1945 he became the first Bavarian Minister-President after World War II. From 1949 to 1957 he was German Minister of Finance and from 1957 to 1961 Minister of Justice. Life Fritz Schäffer was born in 1888 as the son of...

Jean Thibaud, born on May 12, 1901 in Lyon, died on May 21, 1960, was a French nuclear physicist, director of the Lyon Institute of Nuclear Physics and a member of the Scientific Council of the French Atomic Energy Commission.

Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes (May 12, 1914 – April 23, 1993), known as Bertus Aafjes was a Dutch poet whose work is marked by his devout Catholicism. Aafjes was born in Amsterdam. He wrote poems on the resistance to the German occupation during the World War II. He died in Venlo. Bibliography (extract) 1936 - Het Italiaanse Maria-lied, in: De Gemeenschap 1940 - Het gevecht met de...

Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were Jewish American communists who were executed in 1953 after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Their execution was the first of civilians, for...

Canute Edwards, born May 12, 1952 in Falmouth, is a musician, singer and guitarist of British and Jamaican descent. He was leader of rock group Lynx. He is also an astrologer and a psychologist.

Eleftheria "Elle" Eleftheriou (Greek: Ελευθερία Ελευθερίου; born 12 May 1989) is a Greek-Cypriot singer who came to prominence in Greece and Cyprus through her participation in the second season of Greece's version of...

Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1936 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American film and television actress. She grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and began her career as a model. However, in 1959 with much fanfare she was selected to appear in her first film, as the star of The Diary of Anne Frank. She was then signed to appear in the 1961 Elvis Presley film, Wild in the Country, in which she played...

Melleny Melody, born May 12, 1953 in Toronto, is a Canadian singer and actress.

George Matthew Karl (born May 12, 1951) is a former National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) player. He is the current head coach of the Denver Nuggets. On December 10, 2010 he became the seventh coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins. Biography Karl was born in Penn Hills, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After a college career at the University of North...

Tom Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the late 1970s and '80s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early...

Simon Liberati, born on May 12, 1960 in Paris (birth certificate n° 3702, Astrotheme, is a French journalist and writer. He received the Renaudot prize in November 2022 with his Performance book. Publications (extract) 2004 : Anthologie des apparitions, Flammarion. 2007 : Nada exist, Flammarion. 2008 : préface à Du dandysme et de George Brummell de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly,...

Marie-Ange Dutheil, born on May 12, 1927 in Le Grand-Lemps, Isère, died on April 2, 2005 in Marseille, was a French actress. Filmography (extract) 2002 Marc Eliot (TV series) Gitane – La rançon de l'amour (2002) … Gitane 2002 Le grand patron (TV series) Docteur Guillemet – La loi du sang (2002) … Docteur Guillemet 2001 Combats de femme (TV series) La mère d'Eva – L'enfant de...

Patrick Ricard (12 May 1945 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Acte 4/440) - 17 August 2012) was a French entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of the liquor & wine group Pernod Ricard. After studying business in France, Germany and the United States, Patrick Ricard joined the Ricard company, founded by his father Paul Ricard in 1932. He held successive positions in the company’s main...

Ronald Louis "Ron" Ziegler (May 12, 1939 (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin) – February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary and Assistant to the President during United States President Richard Nixon's administration. Early life Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby Parsons, in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised Presbyterian. ...

Carla Hall (born May 12, 1964) is an American chef and television personality. She was a finalist in the fifth and eighth seasons of Top Chef, Bravo's cooking competition show. She is currently one of five cohosts on The Chew, a one-hour talk show centered on food from all angles, which premiered in September 2011 on ABC. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. Early life and education Hall...

Malcolm David Kelley (born May 12, 1992) is an American child actor. He starred in the 2004 film You Got Served as "Li'l Saint". He also appears in the television series Lost as the character Walt. A regular cast member in the show's first season (2004-2005), Kelley was seen rarely in the show's second season (2005-2006). He returned for an appearance in "Through the Looking...

Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947, and oversaw its transition to the stage and screen. Early life Otto Frank was born in...

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London) is an English actress best known for her many television and film roles. Her appeal has always been that of an "English rose". Susan Hampshire was born in 1937, the youngest of four children. She had two sisters and one brother. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a director of ICI. Her parents separated...

Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) – 21 November 1861 in Sorèze (Tarn)), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is considered one of the founders of modern Roman Catholicism. Early life and...

Emily Beecham (born Manchester, England on May 12, 1984) is an English film, television and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in The Street and The Village. In 2011 she received Best Actress award at London Independent Film Festival. Early life Beecham was born in Manchester to an English pilot, and his American wife (from Arizona). In 2003, Beecham enrolled at the London Academy of...

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised. Edward Lear was born into a middle class family in Highgate, the 20th child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear. He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, twenty-one years his senior. Due to the...

Dries Van Noten (born 12 May 1958, Antwerp) is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand. In 2005, the New York Times described him as "one of fashion's most cerebral designers". His style is said to be "eccentric", and fell out of favor during the long period of minimalistic fashion in the early 1990s, only to make a come back towards the mid-2000s,...

Justus von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. He is known as the "father of...

Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL (born Águeda, 12 May 1936), is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and a candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006. He is a presidential candidate, in the 2011 presidential election, this time being backed up by the Left Bloc and the Socialist Party. Background He is the son of Francisco José de Faria e Melo...

Meteorologist Steve Baskerville (born May 12, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) joined WBBM-TV in Chicago in September 1987 as weekend weatherman and has been the station's primary weekday forecaster since July 1988. Prior to that, he was the weather anchor for CBS This Morning from 1984 to 1987. Previously, he had worked at KYW-TV in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia native, Baskerville is an...

Louise Portal (born May 12, 1950 in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Jésus de Montréal, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol. Her other film roles have included Séraphin: un homme et son péché, Les Invasions barbares, Elles étaient cinq and Cordélia. Her twin sister Pauline...

Patrick Faure, born on May 12, 1946 in Périgueux, Dordogne, is a French businessman. External link: biography of Patrick Faure: http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-faupat.html

Vanessa A. Williams (born May 12, 1963) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous television shows. She best known for her roles as Rhonda Blair in Melrose Place and as Maxine Chadway on the Showtime cable television series Soul Food. In 1996, she was also a series regular in the television series Murder One. In 1988, she appeared in the music video for "Parents Just Don't...

Stefano Modena (born May 12, 1963 in Modena) is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in 81 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on November 15, 1987. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 17 championship points. Modena first came to attention in 1986, ranking 4th in the Italian Formula Three series with the Milan-based Euroteam. The following season he moved up to Formula...

Bebel Gilberto (born Isabel Gilberto on May 12, 1966 in New York City) is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro. History At the age of seven, Bebel made an appearance on her mother's first solo album 'Miucha'. At...

Miriam Stoppard OBE (née Stern and subsequently Miriam Moore-Robinson, born 12 May 1937, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British doctor, author, television presenter and agony aunt. Early life and medical career Her father Sidney was a nurse and her mother Jenny worked for the Newcastle school dinners service. She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne attended the Central High School on Eskdale Terrace...

Xavier Dorfmann (born 12 May 1973 in Grenoble) is a French competition rower and Olympic champion. Dorfmann won a gold medal in Lightweight coxless fours, at the 2000 Summer Olympics .

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944), is a British Conservative politician and administrator. He is the current chairman of the BBC Trust, and was the last Governor of British Hong Kong. He was Member of Parliament for Bath, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected...

Forbes March (born 12 May 1973) is a Canadian actor. Although born in Bristol, South West England, he was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally started acting in Vancouver where he landed his first series, Northwood, a Canadian series but soon started working as a model and did print work for Armani, Tommy H. and Marboro Clothing, he quit modelling to attended the Lee Strasberg Acting...

Gary Peacock (born May 12, 1935 in Burley, Idaho) is an American jazz double-bassist. Biography After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio (with Paul Motian), and Albert Ayler's trio with Sunny Murray. There were also some live...

Virginie Razzano (born May 12, 1983 in Dijon) is a French tennis player. On February 11, 2008 she reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 24. She has won one doubles title, and two singles title. As of October 8, 2007, she had won more than $1,219,211 in prize money, and was ranked #27 in the world. On August 31, 2006, Razzano upset the number eight seed Martina Hingis 6–2, 6–4 in...

Jean-Marc Tennberg, born Marc-Georges Trachtenberg May 12, 1924 in Pantin, Seine (now Seine-Saint-Denis), died August 12, 1971 (plane crash), was a French actor and poet. Filmography (extract) * 1945 : Le Couple idéal de Bernard Roland * 1945 : Cyrano de Bergerac de Fernand Rivers * 1945 : La Ferme du pendu de Jean Dréville - (Un gars au battage) * 1946 : Torrents de...

Pauline Lapointe (May 12, 1950 - August 30, 2010) was a Canadian film and television actress and singer from Quebec. She was most noted for her performance in the 1993 film La Florida, for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 14th Genie Awards. The twin sister of actress Louise Portal, she was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. She released two albums as a pop singer,...