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Monday, 16 November 2015

Hayley Okines,1997–2015 (English girl with progeria, an extremely rare aging disease)

* Hayley Okines was known for spreading awareness of progeria, a genetic disease that caused her to age eight times faster than the average person.

Although the average life expectancy for sufferers is 13 years, Hayley was part of a drug trial that had seen her surpass doctors' predictions of her projected lifespan.

However, she died on 2 April 2015 at the age of 17 due to complications of pneumonia, having lived four years beyond doctors' initial predictions.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Hayley Leanne Okines, 3 December 1997, 14:50 (2:50 pm) GMT (+0), St Leonards-on-Sea, England (50n51, 00e34). ASC: 21 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her mother in Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, and Alison Stokes (Accent, 2011): "1997 ... at Hastings Conquest Hospital ... I will never forget the moment - 2.50 p.m. on Wednesday December 3 - when Rita the midwife laid my baby on my tummy."

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Steve 'Hizzy' Hislop, 1962–2003 (Scottish motorcycle racer)

* Steve Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times, won the British 250cc Championship (1990) and won the British Superbike championship (1995 and 2002).

Hislop died when piloting his small, Robinson R44 helicopter on 30 July 2003. He was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Robert Steven Hislop, 11 January 1962, 19:55 (7:55 PM) GMT (+0), Hawick, Scotland (55n25, 2w47). ASC: 1 Virgo. RR: B (Biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Hizzy: The Autobiography of Steve Hislop by him and Stuart Barker (Willow, 2012): "I was born at 7.55pm on 11 January 1962 at the Haig Maternity Hospital in Hawick in the Scottish borders."

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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Tippi Hedren (American actress, fashion model, animal rights activist)

* Tippi Hedren was one of Alfred Hitchcock's ice-cool blondes, making her film debut in his suspense thriller The Birds followed by the title role in his psychological thriller Marnie. Hedren claims that Hitchcock was a sexual predator and control freak, who subjected her (and the birds?) to cruelty on the set. He also tried to destroy her career. Hitchcock's Mars is conjunct Hedren's Moon and his Scorpio Jupiter is conjunct her MC.

Hedren rejected Hitchcock's advances and went on to enjoy a successful career, appearing in over eighty films and TV shows. She has the feisty comination of Mars and Saturn straddling her Ascendant; with her Saturn square Hitchcock's Mars and her Mars quincunx his Pluto. This synastry made for quite a standoff.

Hedren also founded the non-profit Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve, a sanctuary that houses some 70 animals. She is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith and grandmother of actress and model Dakota Johnson.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Nathalie Kay Hedren, 19 January 1930, 06:35 (6:35AM) CST (+6), New Ulm, Minnesota, USA (44n18, 94w27). ASC: 7 Capricorn. RR: AA (birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

Thursday, 11 July 2013

A. B. Guthrie, Jr., 1901–1991 (American writer)

* A. B. Guthrie, Jr ― who won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Way West (about the journey of American expansion in the old west) ― had the North Node in the first degree of Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter in the same sign, being its own sign.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was "a sissy name."

His novels include Murders at Moon Dance, which was published during 1943. The Big Sky appeared during 1947, with a young person's edition during 1950. Guthrie continued to write predominantly western subjects, including the Academy Award-nominated script for the movie Shane during 1953 and the novel These Thousand Hills during 1956. During 1960, he published his first collection of short stories, The Big It and Other Stories.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., 13 January 1901, 01:00 (1 a.m.) CST (+6), Bedford, Indiana, USA (38n51, 86w29). ASC: 2 Scorpio. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) cites a letter from Guthrie senior to his son, dated 13 January 1940, as transcribed in Jackson J. Benson, Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), pp. 68-69: "Dear Buddie, It is seven o'clock, p.m. of your birthday. . . . I recall quite vividly still the circumstances surrounding your birth ― in a duplex house in Bedford . . . It was early in the morning, around one o'clock when you put in your appearance."

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Saturday, 6 July 2013

Connie Mack, 1862–1956 (American professional baseball player, manager, and team owner)

* Connie Mack ― "the Grand Old Man of baseball" ― was the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history. He was "born just before midnight" most probably with very late Virgo on his Ascendant. As a player he would needle batters to distract them, and as a manager he created a Code of Conduct for players (including the motto: "I will do my utmost to keep myself clean ― physically, mentally, and morally"). With Sun and Moon in a Capricorn stellium ruled by Saturn in Libra on the Ascendant, he was known as the "Tall Tactician."

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr (December 22, 1862 – February 8, 1956), better known as Connie Mack, holds records for wins (3,731), losses (3,948), and games managed (7,755), with his victory total being almost 1,000 more than any other manager. Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics for the club's first 50 seasons of play, starting in 1901, before retiring at age 87 following the 1950 season, and was at least part-owner from 1901 to 1954. He was the first manager to win the World Series three times, and is the only manager to win consecutive Series on separate occasions (1910–11, 1929–30); his five Series titles remain the third most by any manager, and his nine American League pennants rank second in league history. However, constant financial struggles forced repeated rebuilding of the roster, and Mack's teams also finished in last place 17 times. Mack was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cornelius McGillicuddy, 22 December 1862, about 23:50 (11:50 p.m.) LMT (+4:48:11), East Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA (42n13, 72w02). ASC: about 29 Virgo. RR: A/B (from auto/biographies).

SOURCES: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes:

Connie Mack, My 66 Years in the Big Leagues [1950]. (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2009), p. 8: "Not far from here in the little village of East Brookfield, Massachusetts, a hamlet of about 300 population, I was born around midnight on December 22, 1862."

Rich Adler, Mack, McGraw and the 1913 Baseball Season (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008), p. 5: "Mack was born just before midnight on December 22, 1862, the second son and third child of Irish immigrants Michael McGillicuddy from County Kerry, and Mary McKillop."

Norman L. Macht, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), pp. 11-12: "Mary went into labor in the house on Main Street on the evening of Monday, December 22. Mary McCarty was with her. Between the mother's pain-filled screams and the newborn boy's crying, they did not notice when the town clock struck midnight. But five-year-old Michael junior, shooed out of the house, had no doubts. 'It was definitely before twelve when I went around telling people I had a brother,' he recalled."

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Thursday, 28 March 2013

Stefan Lorant (Filmmaker, photojournalist, author)

* Stefan Lorant's mother wrote in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life.'

Stefan (Istvan) Lorant (February 22, 1901 in Budapest, Hungary - November 14, 1997 in Rochester, Minnesota) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.

After completing high school in his native Hungary in 1919, Lorant moved to Germany, where he made his mark in films and photojournalism. His first film, The Life of Mozart, established him as a filmmaker, and he went on to make 14 films in Vienna and Berlin, some of which he wrote, directed, and photographed. He claimed to have given Marlene Dietrich her first film test, and though he rejected her for the part, they remained lifelong friends. Lorant's abilities in writing and still photography led to the editorship of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, one of Germany's finest picture magazines.

Opposed to Adolf Hitler, Lorant was imprisoned right after Hitler came to power. Released after six months, he made his way to England, where he wrote I Was Hitler's Prisoner, a memoir that sold out many printings. He edited the Weekly Illustrated, a popular British picture magazine, then founded Lilliput, made famous by his clever picture juxtapositions, as in Neville Chamberlain versus the llama. On October 1, 1938, Lorant co-founded with publisher Sir Edward G. Hulton the first great British picture magazine, Picture Post. During this time, Lorant published a Picture Post Special about the United States.

Failing to obtain British citizenship, Lorant moved to Lenox, Massachusetts in July 1940, where he lived the remainder of his life. Tom Hopkinson succeeded Lorant as editor of Picture Post.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

A mutual reception between Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Gemini could not be more apt for the "godfather of photojournalism."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 22 February 1901, 06:00 (6 a.m.) CET (-1), Budapest, Hungary (47n30, 19e05). ASC: 13 Aquarius. RR=AA (from mother's prayer book). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Michael Hallett, Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism (Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 4 & 14: "I [Stefan] was born in Budapest." & "Stefan's mother made the following handwritten entries in Hungarian in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life. Our Son Imre born 1902, October 3rd, 7.00 pm. The eternal's blessing should be with him during his long life. Our Son George born 1905, September 3rd, 11.00 a.m. He should develop in mind and strength to become a smart man to bring us maximum happiness.'"

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Sunday, 24 March 2013

Harry Wickwire Foster (News Astrology data and chart)

* Harry Wickwire Foster - who presided over the court martial of Canada’s top prisoner of war - was born shortly after midnight, 2 April 1902, after his father exclaimed to his mother, "Janie! Control yourself. I'll not have our firstborn arrive on April Fools!"

Major General Harry Wickwire Foster, CBE, DSO, (April 2, 1902 – August 6, 1964) was a Canadian Army officer who commanded two Canadian army divisions during World War II. He served in both the Pacific and European theatres.

After the [second world] war, Foster (with four brigadiers) presided over the court martial of Canada’s top prisoner of war, SS General Kurt Meyer. The trial was a showcase for Canada, the first time that the country had conducted an international prosecution of this sort. Meyer was found guilty of three of five charges and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. When asked by his son (author Tony Foster) why the death sentence had been imposed he replied, "Because I had no choice according to those rules of warfare dreamt up by a bunch of bloody barrack-room lawyers who had never heard a shot fired in anger."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by IFoster.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Army officer: angular Mars-Sun in Aries. We also see in this angular conjunction a father who was right on his case from the start.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 2 April 1902, about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) LMT (-4:14:24), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (44n39, 63w36). ASC: about 17 Sagittarius. RR=A (from father's memory quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Tony Foster, Meeting of Generals (Toronto: Methuen, 1986), p. 1: "Harry Wickwire Foster was born shortly after midnight, 2 April 1902, in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia."

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Hank Greenberg (New Astrology data and chart)

* In his autobiography, legendary baseball player, Hank Greenberg, writes that he was born "exactly forty-five minutes after the new year, at 12:45 A.M. on January 1, 1911."

Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation. He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's 1932 mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 (when Babe Ruth set a record of 60) and 1961 (when Roger Maris surpassed it).

Greenberg was a five-time All-Star, was twice named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956. Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league. Greenberg is the American League record holder for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter—183 RBI in 1937 (a 154-game schedule.) Only left-handed batter Lou Gehrig's 184 RBI in 1931 surpasses Greenberg in the American League record books. Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $80,000/year in salary (he was paid $100,000, ($1,041,000 today)[when?] plus $25,000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him). He was one of the few opposing players publicly to welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar in American professional sports. He attracted national attention in 1934 when he refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though the Tigers were in the middle of a pennant race and he was not in practice a religious Jew.

Greenberg is widely considered as one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

"One of the greatest sluggers in baseball history"? Pluto is unaspected except for a sextile to Saturn in Aries. Ouch.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 January 1911, about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) EST (+5), New York, New York, USA (40n42, 74w00). ASC: about 9 Libra. RR=B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Hank Greenberg and Ira Berkow, Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009), p. 4: "When I was born, exactly forty-five minutes after the new year, at 12:45 A.M. on January 1, 1911, my family lived in Greenwich Village, in New York City, in a second-floor apartment of a tenement house at 16 Barrow Street." Previous biographies include Jim Reisler, Babe Ruth Slept Here: The Baseball Landmarks of New York City (Diamond Communications, 1999), p. 23: "Born a few minutes after midnight on January 1, 1911, Greenberg lived at first in Greenwich Village with his family in a second-floor tenement;" and Peter S. Horvitz, The Big Book of Jewish Baseball (SP Books, 2001), p. 80: "Henry 'Hank' Benjamin Greenberg was born shortly after midnight on New Year's day in 1911. His parents were David and Sarah (nee Schwartz) Greenberg."

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Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Maurice Duruflé (Astrology data and chart)

* James E. Frazier's comprehensive biography of Maurice Duruflé cites the organist and composer's birth records.

Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.

Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling. At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with Charles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris until 1927. In 1920 Duruflé entered the Conservatoire de Paris, eventually graduating with first prizes in organ, harmony, piano accompaniment, and composition. His harmony professor was Jean Gallon.

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame. Duruflé became titular organist of St-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1936, he won the Prix Blumenthal. In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked until 1970.

In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the Requiem op. 9, for soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra. He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a commission from the Vichy regime. Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953. (Duruflé's first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, contracted in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was declared null by the Vatican on 23 June 1953.) The couple became a famous and popular organ duo, going on tour together several times throughout the sixties and early seventies.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The 'professor of harmony' had Eris quincunx his Libra MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Maurice-Gustave Durufle, 11 January 1902, 06:15 (6:15 a.m.) (-0:09:20), Louviers, France (49n13, 01,e10). ASC: 23 Sagittarius. RR=AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes James E. Frazier, Maurice Duruflé: The Man & His Music (University of Rochester Press, 2007), p. 9: "On January 11, 1902, the mayor of Louviers penned the first formal account of the birth of Maurice-Gustave Durufle in a florid narrative for the town's civil records, reporting that he was born at 6:15 in the morning to Julien-Charles-Amedee Durufle and Marie-Mathilde Prevost."

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