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Sunday, 4 December 2016

Robbie Robertson (Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, author)

* Robbie Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the Band, and for his career as a solo recording artist. His work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. Robertson has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and has been inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame both with the Band and on his own.

As a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is best known for his numerous collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Robertson's working relationship with Scorsese began with the influential rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978), and continued through numerous dramatic films such as Raging Bull (1980) and Casino (1995). More at Wikipedia.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jaime Royal Robertson, 5 July 1943, 22:25 (10:25 PM) EWT (+4), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (43n39, 79w23). ASC: 9 Aquarius. RR: B. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Testimony" by Robbie Robertson (Random House, 2016): "On July 5, 1943, at 10:25 p.m., Dolly gave birth to a healthy baby boy, nine pounds, eleven ounces, at Toronto General Hospital. She named me Jaime Royal Robertson, partially after her cousin Royal, Aunt Beatrice's son."

Monday, 21 November 2016

Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand author)

* Witi Ihimaera was the first published Māori novelist. Ihimaera is of Māori descent (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father. His stories generally portray Māori culture in modern New Zealand. His work often focuses on problems within contemporary Māori society.

In 1995, Ihimaera published Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a semi-autobiographical work about a married father of two daughters coming out. He had come out to himself as gay in 1984 and began the work, but out of sensitivity to his daughters, did not finish or publish it then. Nights In The Gardens Of Spain was filmed in 2010 with changes to the book, making the central character Māori rather than Pākehā (European) to more closely reflect Ihimaera's life. His story The Whale Rider was also made into a film.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, 7 February 1944, 09:50 (9:50AM) NZST (-12), Gisborne, New Zealand (38s40, 178e01). ASC: 9 Aries. RR: B. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes date and time from "Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood" by Witi Ihimaera (Vintage, 2014): "7 February 1944 ... I was born on 7 February ... According to my mother, I was born around 9.50a.m."; and place from news article: "Gisborne was where he was born, at Cook Hospital, in 1944, and where his parents were farmers and shearers" ("Witi Ihimaera's charmed life" by Diana Dekker, 8 June 2013).

Monday, 14 November 2016

Georges Claude, 1870–1960 (French engineer and inventor)

* Georges Claude is noted as the inventor of neon lighting, and for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". Claude was an active collaborator with the German occupiers of France during the Second World War, for which he was imprisoned in 1945 and stripped of his honours. He died on 21 May 1960, aged 89, in Saint-Cloud, France.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Georges Marie Auguste Claude, 24 September 1870, 04:00 (4 AM) LMT (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 2e20). ASC: 10 Virgo. RR: AA. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate n°3988 from the online Paris municipal archives (11 arr., image 11/31): "quatre heures du matin." Death data in margin. English Wikipedia incorrectly has 23 May 1960 as date of death.

Sunday, 18 September 2016

Ella Eyre (English singer and songwriter)

* Ella Eyre is best known for her collaborations with Rudimental on their UK number one single "Waiting All Night" (2013), which won the 2014 Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and with DJ Fresh on his single "Gravity" (2015). Her debut EP, Deeper, was released in 2013 and her debut album, Feline, was released in 2015. Eyre's musical influences include Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Basement Jaxx and Hans Zimmer.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ella Norris McMahon, 1 April 1994, 02:50 (2:50am), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her mother Terry Norris on Twitter: "2.50am u were born at" after Eyre tweeted "i was actually born at 3 something am so technically i'm still 21" (posted 12:06am BST, 1 April 2016).

Andie MacDowell (American actress and fashion model)

* Andie MacDowell made her film debut in 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Since then she has appeared in several notable films, including Groundhog Day (1993) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). She has also starred in Green Card (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Michael (1996) and Multiplicity (1996). From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the drama series Cedar Cove. She has modelled for Calvin Klein Inc. and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986 celebrating 25 years with the company in 2011.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, 21 April 1958, 06:00 (6 AM) EST (+5), Gaffney, South Carolina, USA (35n04, 81w39). ASC: circa 3 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her on Twitter: "born April 21 under the sign of Taurus ....somewhere close to 6 am as a mater of fact :-)", "I was born in big peach country ,I love the peaches from the Gaffney SC area", "Prince & I were the same age". NB: Prince was born in 1958.

Friday, 19 August 2016

Wayde van Niekerk (South African track and field sprinter)

* Wayde van Niekerk competes in the 200 metres and 400 metres. He is the current world record holder, world champion and Olympic champion in the 400 metres. He is also the first person in history to run faster than 10 seconds for 100 metres, 20 seconds for 200 metres and 44 seconds for 400 metres.

In the 2016 Olympic Games Men's 400m, van Niekerk won the gold medal with a World Record time of 43.03 seconds (reaction time 0.181 s), beating the time of 43.18 seconds set by Michael Johnson during the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville, Spain.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 15 July 1992, 00:55 (12:55am) EET (-2), Cape Town, South Africa (33s55, 18e22). ASC: 21 Aries. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes his mother Odessa Swarts on Twitter: "24 years ago this time I was pushed into theater and you were born at 00h55 am. Happy birthday @WaydeDreamer" (posted 15 July 2016).

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Mika (British singer and songwriter)

* Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007, which sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped him win a Brit Award—winning Best British Breakthrough act, and earned him a Grammy Award nomination.

In an August 2012 interview with the magazine Instinct, the singer described himself as gay. In previous interviews he inferred he was bisexual.

Mika speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian fluently.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Michael Holbrook Penniman, Jr, 18 August 1983, 00:01 (12:01 AM) EET (-2), Beirut, Lebanon (33n53, 35e30). ASC: 18 Gemini. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "So cool. Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and the World Wide TT. Was born a few seconds after midnight, so your timing is perfect X" (posted 12:30 AM GMT, 18 Aug 2012), "Thank you so much for all your birthday messages. I'm overwhelmed and very grateful. Yup. I am 30. But am a very lucky man. Thank you. X" (posted 12:36am GMT, 19 Aug 2013), "Why am I alwways overly quized at customs about being born in Beirut and as to weather I visit Yemen and Afganistan regularly. Infuriating!". Previously Paddy de Jabrun quoted the website www.mikafrance.com for 12:05 AM, no source given.

Saturday, 25 June 2016

Ellen Barkin (American actress and film producer)

* Ellen Barkin's breakthrough role was in the 1982 comedy-drama film Diner, and the following years she had starring roles in films including Tender Mercies (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), and The Big Easy (1987).

In 1989, Barkin received positive reviews for her roles in the films Johnny Handsome and Sea of Love. In 1991, for her leading role in comedy film Switch, Barkin received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

In 1997, Barkin won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the television film Before Women Had Wings. In 2011, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut performance in The Normal Heart. In 2016, Barkin began playing the leading role as Janine "Smurf" Cody in the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ellen Rona Barkin, 16 April 1954, 01:30 (1:30am) EST (+5), The Bronx, New York, USA (40n51, 73w54). ASC: 26 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her on Twitter: "I think I was born at 1:30 ish am...does that mean anything?"

Sunday, 12 June 2016

Chad Johnson (American football player, social media personality)

* Chad Johnson, formerly Chad Ochocinco, is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and played for the Bengals for ten seasons. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the New England Patriots with whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, Johnson played for the Miami Dolphins during preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2014 to 2015.

On 25 October 2006, in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month, Johnson, whose jersey number was "85", announced that he would prefer to be called "Ocho Cinco," which is "eight five" in Spanish ("Eighty-five" would be "ochenta y cinco").

In April 2011, CNBC listed the then-Ochocinco as No. 1 on its list of "Most Influential Athletes In Social Media." He currently has 3.6 million followers on Twitter. Johnson is a six-time NFL Pro Bowler, was named to four All-Pro teams, and was voted as the number one wide receiver on the Bengals 40th Anniversary team.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Chad Javon Johnson, 9 January 1976, 05:56 (5:56 AM) EST (+5), Miami, Florida, USA (25n46, 80w11). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "In 1976 when I was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital at 5:56 am," "I appreciate all the birthday wishes, it feels good to be 40" (posted on 9 January 2016). NB: Jackson Memorial Hospital is located in Miami, Florida. Wikipedia incorrectly has 1978.

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Bill Ayers (American political activist)

* Bill Ayers is an elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the US Capitol Building, and the Pentagon) during the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground. They have two sons, Zayd and Malik and they also raised Chesa Boudin.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: William Charles Ayers, 26 December 1944, 00:10 (12:10 AM) CWT (+5), Oak Park, Illinois, USA (41n53, 87w47). ASC: About 25 Virgo. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him relating the story of his birth in Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist by William Ayers (Beacon Press, 2009), p. 9: "while [my parents] drove off to Oak Park Hospital . . . I missed [being born on] Christmas by minutes, but that never diminished the intensity of this foundational myth — I was the best Christmas present ever, my life achieved against great danger and risk."

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Billy Martin/ Poppy Z. Brite (American author)

* Billy Martin, known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections, including Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and the controversial serial killer novel Exquisite Corpse (1996). His later work moved into the related genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Martin's novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories. Much of his work features openly bisexual and gay characters. Martin himself is a a trans man who identifies as gay.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Melissa Ann Brite, 25 May 1967, 16:55 (4:55pm) CDT (+5), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (29n57, 90w04). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Resurrection and Reclamation by Elrod Stanton (iUniverse, 2005), p. 469: "Poppy Z. Brite Born: May 25, 1967 at 4:55pm, New Orleans, L.A."

Monday, 16 May 2016

Bryan Cranston (American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer)

* Bryan Cranston is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, Tim Sacksky on the CBS comedy series King of Queens, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series Seinfeld. For Breaking Bad, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008–2010, 2014), including three consecutive wins. After becoming one of the producers of Breaking Bad in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice.

His role in Breaking Bad also earned him five Golden Globe nominations and one win in 2014, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations with four wins, and six Satellite Awards nominations with four wins. In June 2014, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way on Broadway. He will reprise his role in the upcoming HBO television film of the same name. For the 2015 film Trumbo, he received widespread acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Bryan Lee Cranston, 7 March 1956, 10:52 (10:52 AM) PST (+8), Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, 4833 Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 17 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate, copy on file.

Sunday, 15 May 2016

Tech N9ne (American rapper)

* Tech N9ne has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games. In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie award at the mtvU Woodie Awards.

His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a name given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast-rhyming Chopper style. Yates later applied a deeper meaning to the name, claiming that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with "tech" meaning technique and "nine" representing the number of completion.

Yates is known for his dynamic rhyme schemes and speed rap abilities known as the Chopper style. He stated that he purposely creates flow patterns in order to sound like a percussion while he raps. After hearing an instrumental he would come up with different kinds of patterns and then "fill in" the actual lyrics.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Aaron Dontez Yates, 8 November 1971, 09:00 (9am) CST (+6), Kansas City, Missouri, USA (39n05, 94w34). ASC: 10 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Facebook (28 December 2015): "I was born in November 8th day nineteen seventy first y'all. Nine o'clock in the mornin a Christian girl in Kansas city gave birth y'all"

Saturday, 14 May 2016

Stephen Moyer (English film and television actor and director)

* Stephen Moyer is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood. Moyer's first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play Conjugal Rites, written by actor/playwright Roger Hall. This was followed by the television film Lord of Misrule, filmed in Fowey, Cornwall, which also featured Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer and Prunella Scales. In 1997, Moyer made his big-screen debut landing the lead role in the film adaptation of the long-running comic strip Prince Valiant by Hal Foster, working alongside Ron Perlman and Katherine Heigl.

In August 2009, Moyer became engaged to actress Anna Paquin, who played his character's love interest in True Blood. The couple married on 21 August 2010. Moyer and Paquin have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Poppy, who are fraternal twins born in September 2012. Moyer also has a son, Billy, born in 2000 and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Stephen John Emery, 11 October 1969, 15:00 (3pm) BST (-1), Brentwood, Essex, England (51n38, 0e18). ASC: 17 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "1 of my earliest memories is being told by Mum I was born at 3pm Sat 11th Oct 1969 in time for West Ham vs Coventry game." Place from England and Wales Birth Registration Index.

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Alain Leroy Locke, 1885-1954 (American writer, philosopher, educator, patron of the arts)

* Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Alain Leroy Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance. As a result, popular listings of influential African-Americans have repeatedly included him. On 19 March 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."

Locke was gay, and may have encouraged and supported other gay African-Americans who were part of the Harlem Renaissance. However, he was not fully public in his orientation and referred to it as his point of "vulnerable/invulnerability", taken to mean an area of risk and strength in his view.

After his retirement from Howard University in 1953, Locke moved to New York City. He suffered from heart disease, and after a six-week illness died at Mount Sinai Hospital on 9 June 1954.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1885, about 10:30 (10:30 AM) LMT (+5:00:39), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (39n57, 75w09). ASC: About 17 Scorpio. RR: B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy by Christopher Buck (Kalimat, 2005), p. 12: "In the Alain Locke Papers, there is a note in Locke's handwriting that reads: 'Alain Leroy Locke--Alan registered as Arthur (white) Phila Vital Statistics owing prejudice of Quaker physician Isaac Smedley to answering question of race. [B]orn 13 So. 19th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday between 10 and 11 A.M. September 13, 1885. Called Roy as a child[,] Alain from 16 on. [illegible] First born son. 2nd brother born 1889—lived 2 months. Named Arthur first selected for me.' A city hall note by the chief clerk of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Charities (1909?) confirms 1885 as the year of his birth."

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.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

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].

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Richard Hell (American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, writer)

* Richard Hell, known as an innovator of punk music and fashion, was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.

Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album Blank Generation influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time Top 10 punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.

Since the late 1980s, Hell has devoted himself primarily to writing, publishing two novels and several other books. He was the film critic for BlackBook magazine from 2004 to 2006.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Richard Lester Meyers, 2 October 1949, 02:51 (2:51 AM) CST (+6), Lexington, Kentucky, USA (38n03, 84w30). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate in hand (long form, no time), born at Good Samaritan Hospital. On 3 May 2016 Hell replied to Scholfield's email request giving his birth time: "It's 2:51 AM."

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