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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1915–2006 (German-British soprano and voice teacher)

* Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. She starred in five feature films for Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which she acted, sang and played the piano. After retiring from the stage in 1971, she was a voice teacher internationally. Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria, aged 90. Her reputation has remained tarnished by what seems to have been an active Nazi party membership.

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BIRTH DATA: Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, 9 December 1915, 16:00 (4PM) CET (-1), Jarocin, Poland (51n59, 17e31). ASC: 23 Gemini. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an account of her birth written by her father: "Der 9. Dezember 1915 Nachmittag ca. 4h wurde unsere Elisabeth geboren, in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, im 2. Stock, in dem grossen Schlafzimmer, das nach der Strasse zu lag..." Translation: 'On 9 December 1915 at four o'clock in the afternoon our Elisabeth was born in Jarotschin, Breslauerstr. 7, 2nd floor, in the large bedroom, which faced the road...' (The account is quoted from the newsletter of Schubertiade Schwarzenberg/Hohenems, December 2015) [www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/elisabeth-schwarzkopf].

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Siouxsie Sioux (English singer, songwriter, musician, producer)

* Siouxsie Sioux (photographed at the Edinburgh Tiffany's, 1980; at left) is best known as the lead singer of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996) and its side project The Creatures (1981–2005). Siouxsie and the Banshees released 11 studio albums and several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House", "Peek-a-Boo" plus a Billboard Top 25 hit "Kiss Them for Me". With The Creatures, Siouxsie recorded four studio albums and the hit single "Right Now". She has also sung with artists such as Morrissey and John Cale. In the mid-2000s, she began a solo career and released Mantaray in 2007.

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BIRTH DATA: Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957, 21:12 (9:12 PM) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 9 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her friend Budgie in an online interview giving Siouxsie Sioux's and his own data: "Siouxsie: 27.05.57 - 21.12 hrs - London UK. Budgie: 21.08.57 - 11.00 hrs - St Helens UK."

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Friday, 22 May 2015

Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945 (birth records published online)

* Adolf Hitler's birth records have been published on the Braunau History website. These records include the entry in the parish/rectory book stating his birth on 20 April 1889 at "6½ Abends" (6:30 in the evening) and baptism on 22 April at "3¼" (3:15pm), and his birth announcement. Previously his data was rated AA (quoted birth records) but we now have "AA" birth records in hand.

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BIRTH DATA: 20 April 1889, 18:30 (6:30 PM) LMT (-0:52:08), Braunau, Austria (48n15, 13e04). ASC: 26 Libra. RR: AA (birth records in hand). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield found birth records online at the Braunau History website including original baptismal/birth record from the Braunau rectory stating birth on 20 April 1889 "6½ Abends" (6:30 in the evening) and baptism on 22 April at "3¼" (3:15pm), and birth announcement.

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Nick Traina, 1978–1997 (American punk singer)

* Nick Traina was the lead singer for the punk band Link 80. One of the sons of American bestselling writer Danielle Steel, he was raised by his adoptive father, John Traina, a cruise line executive. His biological father was Steel's third husband, William Toth, a burglar and heroin addict whom his mother later divorced.

Traina had Uranus in Scorpio at the end of his 12th House and ruling his IC. His life included a number of psychiatric hospitalizations for drug abuse and for treatment of bipolar disorder. He committed suicide at 19 of a self-administered morphine overdose.

His mother told his life story and of the struggles with his illness in her 1998 book His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Nicholas William Toth, 1 May 1978, 20:34 (8:34pm) PDT (+7), San Francisco, California, USA (37n47, 122w25). ASC: 19 Scorpio. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author" by Vickie L. Bane, 1994 (St. Martin's, 1999), pp. 173-174: "On the morning of May 1, 1978, Danielle was in labor . . . At 8:34 P.M., Nicholas William Toth entered the world."

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Anni Dewani (Swedish honeymooner, murder victim)

* On 13 November 2010, while on honeymoon in South Africa, newly-weds Shrien and Anni Dewani, from Bristol, were kidnapped at gunpoint in Gugulethu, a township near Cape Town. Shrien was released unharmed by his kidnappers, but only a few hours later Anni's brutally murdered body was found in the back seat of the taxi she had been travelling in. She had been shot in the neck.

Note: Sun in the first degree of Aries ruled by Mars in Libra on the Ascendant, with Mars in a stellium with Saturn and Pluto all in Libra in the 1st house.

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BIRTH DATA: Anni Ninna Hindocha, 21 March 1982, 18:47 (6:47pm) CET (-1), Skövde, Sweden (58n24, 13e50). ASC: 6 Libra. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Anni Dewani: A Fathers Story" by Vinod Hindocha (Mirror, 2015): "Anni Ninna Hindocha was born on March 21, 1982, at the stroke of 6.47pm, weighing 6lb 3oz. Those around us in the delivery unit at Skövde Hospital ..." Note: Not 12 March as given on Wikipedia.

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

* Hans-Adam II, the current monarch of Liechtenstein, has a family fortune valued in the billions, making him one of the world's richest heads of state, and Europe's wealthiest monarch. Neptune in the 2nd House hasn't dissipated his wealth. Instead, Venus in opposition in the 8th (ruling an acquisitive Taurus MC) has apparently helped make him a billionaire. The prince also holds authority to make the highest governmental decisions. When it comes to indicators of Plutocratic wealth and power never underestimate a descending Sun when its unaspected and ruling Ascendant and Pluto in Leo, with Pluto opposite Mars.

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BIRTH DATA: 14 February 1945, 17:55 (5:55PM) MET (-1), Zürich, Switzerland (47n23, 8e32). ASC: 28 Leo. RR: A (from News report). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth announcement "Jubel im Fürstenhause," Liechtensteiner Vaterland, 15 February 1945: "Ihre Durchlaucht Fürstin Georgine ist am 14. Februar 1945, kurz vor 18 Uhr, von einem gesunden, kräftigen Knaben genesen." Translation: Her Highness Princess Georgine delivered a healthy, strong boy on 14 February 1945 shortly before 18:00 o'clock." http://www.e-archiv.li/print/41460.pdf.

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

John Handy (American jazz musician, singer, composer)

* John Handy is most commonly associated with the alto saxophone, although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, oboe, and sings. He first came to prominence while working for Charles Mingus in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Handy led several groups, among them a quintet with Michael White, violin, Jerry Hahn, guitar, Don Thompson, bass, and Terry Clarke, drums. This group's performance at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival was recorded and released as an album; Handy received Grammy nominations for "Spanish Lady" (jazz performance) and "If Only We Knew" (jazz composition).

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Gerre Hancock, 1934–2012 (American organist, improviser, composer)

* Gerre Hancock's compositions are published by Oxford University Press (OUP). His textbook, Improvising: How to Master the Art, also published by OUP, is studied by organists throughout the USA. In 1981 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and in 1995 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. In May 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree (Honoris causa) from The General Theological Seminary in New York. He is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” and his biography appears in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In June 2010, Dr. Hancock was presented the International Performer of the Year Award by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. This is viewed by many as the most distinguished award that the American Guild of Organists bestows upon its colleagues.

Hancock has a stellium of Pisces planets ruled by Neptune in the 1st House.

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Johnny Gimble (American country musician)

* Johnny Gimble is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history.

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Friday, 20 September 2013

Jerry Haynes, 1927–2011 (American actor, "Mr. Peppermint")

* Jerry Haynes is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also had a long career in local and regional theatre and appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School, he was the father of musician and lead singer Gibby Haynes of the group Butthole Surfers.

Haynes had a stellium of planets in peppermint-cool Aquarius, including the Sun, ruler of his Leo Ascendant.

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Monday, 13 May 2013

Jef Geeraerts (Flemish writer)

* Jef Geeraerts writes that he is a Pisces, born "at half past four in the afternoon. My ascendant is the Lion and this is a rare combination."

Jef Geeraerts was a colonial administrator in Belgian Congo. On the independence of the Congo he sent his wife and children back to Belgium and in August 1960 he himself returned to Belgium. During the next six years he was paid by the government (return program). After that time he needed to find a job to survive. He decided to become a writer and went to the University of Brussels to study Germanic languages.

When he had finished his studies he wrote his first novel, Ik ben maar een neger ("I'm just a negro"), which put him on the map as extremely controversial. He wrote more of these politically motivated colonial books before he started his Gangreen series. There are four parts, Gangreen 1 (Black Venus), Gangreen 2 (De Goede Moordenaar), Gangreen 3 (Het Teken van de Hond) and Gangreen 4 (Het Zevende Zegel). Later he became famous for his detective stories. Nowadays he is a celebrated crime-novelist and several of his books (De zaak Alzheimer and Dossier K) have been filmed.

Friday, 19 April 2013

Charles E. Burchfield, 1893-1967 (American painter, watercolourist)

* On his 18th birthday, Charles E. Burchfield wrote in his diary: "Eighteen years ago, a calamity befell this family—a squalling calamity—eighteen years ago on a Sunday, I was born—at six o'clock in the evening." Recently described as "the mystic, cryptic painter of transcendental landscapes, trees with telekinetic halos, and haunted houses emanating ectoplasmic auras," he fittingly had Pluto closely conjunct Neptune and Pluto quincunx and ruling Uranus in Scorpio.

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York. His paintings are in the collections of many major museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as other prominent institutions.

Saturday, 23 March 2013

Linda Chavez (New Astrology data and chart)

* In her autobiography, Linda Chavez writes that she "was born at 6:50 PM on June 17, 1947, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Linda Lou Chavez (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor. She withdrew from consideration for the position when it emerged that she had employed an illegal immigrant.

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