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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).

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.

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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.

Friday, 1 April 2016

John Myers (British radio executive, consultant and presenter)

* John Myers is the Chairman of the UK Radio Academy Awards, Executive Chairman and owner of Myers Media and the former Chair of The Arqiva Commercial radio awards. Myers developed the Century Radio brand for Border Radio Holdings in the early 1990s, launching two more stations later in the decade. He presented programmes under the pseudonym "John Morgan". He then became Chief Executive of GMG Radio, developing the Real Radio, Smooth Radio and Rock Radio brands and overseeing GMG Radio's acquisition of the Century network from GCap Media. He served as Chief Executive of The Radio Academy from April 2011 until June 2012.

In 2009, he was asked by the Labour Government to produce a report on the future of local radio in the UK ("The Myers Report") which was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in April 2009. A number of his recommendations were taken up by the Digital Economy Act 2010, leading to, amongst others, mergers within the Heart and Smooth Radio networks. Myers reviewed efficiencies at four BBC radio stations during the first quarter of 2011 and, in late 2011, began reviewing BBC Local Radio stations in response to the Delivering Quality First cuts.

He is currently chairman of TeamRock, a new worldwide content and distribution business based in London and Glasgow.

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BIRTH DATA: John F. Myers, 11 April 1959, 23:50 (11:50pm) GMT (+0), Carlisle, England (54n54, 2w55). ASC: 10 Sagittarius. RR: AA (quoted birth record). Source: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "Just looked at my birth certificate and notes. I was born at 11.50pm. For the rest of the day I am still 53" (posted on the morning of 11 April 2013). Other details from England and Wales Birth Registration Index.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Eddie Redmayne (English actor, model and singer)

* Eddie Redmayne started his professional career in both theatre and television roles in the early 2000s and then made his film debut, Like Minds, in 2006.

Redmayne received acclaim for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2015, he received further critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, in The Danish Girl. For his performance, he received nominations for his second Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

He has continued to perform in theatre, most notably in the play Red (2010), on Broadway, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

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BIRTH DATA: Edward John David Redmayne, 6 January 1982, "night," GMT (+0), Westminster, London, England (51n30, 0w09). ASC: ???. RR: C (rectified from approx. time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview with Gabrielle Donnelly: "on the night I was born, my parents were supposed to go to see Cats and my mum couldn’t go because I came along, so they always think my interest in theatre came from that" (Daily Mail, 12 December 2015, online here). Date from birth notice, "REDMAYNE.--On 6th January, to Patricia and Richard--a son (Edward)." ("Births," Times [London], 9 January 1982, p. 22). Place from England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. A speculative time of 8 p.m. marks the middle of the "night" period between sunset (4pm) and midnight.

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Trina Gulliver (English professional darts player)

* Trina Gulliver MBE is the ten-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation. Her nickname is Golden Girl and in 2003 she was named as the BBC Midlands Sports Personality Of The Year.

The daughter of publicans, she trained as a carpenter and joiner, and later taught carpentry and joinery at Mid-Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa.

From the introduction of the BDO Women's World Championship in 2001, Gulliver remained undefeated in the competition until her defeat in the 2008 Championship. She has the 8 highest winning 3 dart averages in the Women's World Championship including 3 winning average higher than 90.

She lives in Cheddar, Somerset with her England ladies' darts colleague and partner Sue Gulliver. They married in a civil partnership in July 2010.

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BIRTH DATA: Catrina Elizabeth Gulliver, 30 November 1969, 03:15 (3:15 AM) BST (-1), Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (52n18, 1w31). ASC: 7 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Golden Girl: The Autobiography of the Greatest Ever Ladies' Darts Player by Trina Gulliver (John Blake, 2008): "I was born at 3.15 a.m. on 30 November 1969 at the Warneford Hospital in Leamington Spa."

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

"Binnie" Barnes, 1903–1998 (English-American actress)

* Binnie Barnes's career in films spanned fifty years, from 1923 to 1973. She appeared most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Later her career continued in Hollywood. She married American film producer Mike Frankovich, a Roman Catholic, for whom she converted to Catholicism, and later became a naturalized United States citizen. The couple adopted three children. Barnes died on 27 July 1998, aged 95, in Beverly Hills, California.

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BIRTH DATA: Gertrude Maud Barnes, 25 March 1903, 23:59 (11:59pm) GMT (+0), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 4 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory or news report).

SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "The Literary Digest," Volume 123, Issues 1-13 (April 1937), p. 19: "Binnie Barnes was born at midnight between March 25-26, so she compromises by celebrating with a party at midnight between the two days."

Full birth name from England and Wales Birth Registration Index. Her birth was registered in the June quarter of 1903 at Islington, London.

Wikipedia has 25 May 1903 (no source), but her obituary in The Times (London, 1 August 1998, p. 21), states "Gertrude Maud Barnes" was born on "March 25, 1903."

U.S. Social Security Death Index gives "Binnie Frankovich" born "March 25, 1903" who died "July 27, 1998."

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.

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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."

Monday, 7 September 2015

CJ de Mooi (English professional quizzer, chess player, television personality)

* CJ de Mooi is best known as a panellist on the BBC television show Eggheads. He adopted the name de Mooi when modelling; he translates it as Dutch for "handsome", though a more literal translation would be "the beautiful".

In his 2015 autobiography, de Mooi reveals that once upon a time he was a sex worker in London, and that he believes he once killed a man, after punching him and throwing him in a canal in Amsterdam.

Pluto conjunct Moon plus three planets in Scorpio indeed!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Andrew Paul ?, 5 November 1969, 17:35 (5:35pm) CET (-1), Barnsley, England (53n34, 1w28). ASC: 20 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes date, year and place from his book, CJ: The Autobiography of CJ De Mooi: My Journey From the Streets to the Screens (London: John Blake, 2015), p. 2. Time of birth from him in a Twitter post ("I was born at 17.35"). Thanks to Paul Sullivan for finding these sources.

NOTE that de Mooi has also stated: "I was born at 17.25."

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.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

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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Budgie (English drummer)

* Budgie (photographed in 1986, at left) made his first recording with The Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979–1996) and its side project The Creatures (1981–2004). Budgie has also collaborated with other musicians including John Cale and Leonard Eto (formerly of the Kodo Drummers).

In 2013, Spin rated him at No. 28 in their list of "The 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music," writing: "Post-punk introduced a lot of amazing drummers, but none more influential than Budgie. With the Banshees, Budgie didn't just play rhythms—he played hooks and leads, brilliant parts that set the songs on fire. His tom-tom-intensive approach, [was] enlightened by his awareness of world music."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Peter Edward Clarke, 21 August 1957, 11:00 (11 AM) BST (-1), St Helens, Lancashire, England (53n28, 2w44). ASC: 18 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him 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."

Steven Severin (English musician, songwriter, composer, bass guitarist)

* Steven Severin (photographed in 1986, at left) was a co-founding member of English rock band, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976-1996), along with vocalist Siouxsie Sioux.

Known as 'Steve Havoc' when he joined the Banshees, he took the name 'Severin' from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character that is the subject of the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs."

After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin began a solo career and created his own label RE.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, 04:00 (4 AM) BST (-1), Highgate, London, England (51n34, 0w08). ASC: 00 Virgo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an onlne interview: "25-9-1955 4.00 a.m. LONDON (Highgate) - Sun sign Libra, Virgo rising, Moon in Capricorn."

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Guy Martin (British motorcycle racer, lorry mechanic, TV presenter)

* Guy Martin primarily competed in road racing events such as the Isle of Man TT, Ulster Grand Prix and North West 200. Widely regarded as an amiable and "colourful" character, Martin has at times found it difficult to concentrate on his racing, primarily as a consequence of the media attention he attracts, not least at the Isle of Man TT.

Martin has also courted a certain degree of controversy, both with race officials and team principals. Since 2011, Martin has also found success as the front man of several television programmes focusing on his passions of engineering, motor vehicles and speed.

He has Uranus unaspected in the last degree of Scorpio.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 4 November 1981, 22:05 (10:05 PM) GMT (+0), Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England (53n35, 0w05). ASC: 8 Leo. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from his book, Guy Martin: My Autobiography (Virgin Digital, 2014): "in Grimsby, in 1981. I was born in the maternity hospital in Nunsthorpe . . . at eight at night the midwife told them nothing would happen until midnight, so Dad . . . missed me being born at just gone ten. . . On 4 November 1981, the Martin family, now with . . . a day old baby boy, left hospital. . ."

N.B. This indicates that he was born on 3 November but all other references including the "About the Author" blurb in his book state he was born on 4 November.

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Jaime Murray (English actress)

* Jaime Murray plays Stacie Monroe in the BBC series "Hustle" and Lila West in the Showtime series "Dexter."

She is also known for her recurring roles as Gaia in Starz' "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," as Olivia Charles in The CW's "Ringer" and as Helena G. Wells in "Warehouse 13."

Murray also stars as Stahma Tarr in the Syfy series "Defiance."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jaime Erica Murray, 21 July 1976, about 15:30 (3:30pm) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: Scorpio. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Murray on Twitter: "Im a Cancer with Scorpio rising." A speculative time of 3:30pm gives mid Scorpio (16 degrees) rising. Birth name from index of England & Wales Births 1837-2006.

Friday, 3 April 2015

Peregrine White, 1620–1704 (First known English child born to the Pilgrims in America)

* In 1620, Peregrine White's parents, William White and his pregnant wife Susanna, with their son Resolved White and two servants came on the historic voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. Peregrine was born while the Mayflower lay at anchor in the harbour at Cape Cod. In later life he became a person of note in Plymouth Colony, active in both military and government affairs.

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BIRTH DATA: 19 November 1620 [OS], 06:00 (6 a.m.) LMT (+4:40:43), in the harbour of what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA (42n03, 70w10). ASC: about 15 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites entries in family bible quoted in “Certain Comeoverers" (Vol. 1) by Henry Howl Crapo (London: Forgotten Books, 1912), pp. 49: "'Nov. ye 9th came to the harbour called Cape Cod Harbour in ye dauntless ship.' Under date of November 19, 1620, is this entry: 'Sonne born to Susanna White yt six o'clock in the morning.' The date of Peregrine White's birth as given by Bradford was December 10, 'new style.' And again 'Landed yt Plymouth Dec. ye 11th 1620.' The date, 'new style,' was December 21, since known as 'Forefathers' Day.'"

Anna Massey, 1937–2011 (English actress)

* In her obituary in The Guardian, Anna Massey is headlined as an "Award-winning actor with a fastidious intelligence and a hint of inner steel." The obit adds that "her Bafta-winning performance as the lonely writer of romantic fiction on holiday in Switzerland in Hotel du Lac (1986), . . . was the sort of role in which Massey was supreme: placid on the surface, with passion deep within her." These descriptions befit her Scorpio Ascendant. Indeed, she even played "The Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher in Pinochet in Suburbia (2006). Massey and Thatcher both have Scorpio rising.

In Peeping Tom (1960), Massey appeared as "the naive downstairs neighbour of a psychotic landlord" conveying "a cold and repressed character on screen." Her other Scorpionic roles include a vampire who serves her murderer his blood disguised as tomato juice in Vault of Horror (1973) and a creepy Mrs Danvers in Rebecca (1979).

Massey had the Sun in Leo high in the sky and she came from a noted acting family: she was the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her godfather was film director John Ford.

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BIRTH DATA: Anna Raymond Massey, 11 August 1937, 15:00 (3pm) BST (-1), Coolham, near Billingshurst, England (51n01, 0w28). ASC: 25 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites a telegram from her father Raymond Massey to Samuel Goldwyn quoted in "Proud Father Extols Arrival," Los Angeles Times, 16 August 1937, p. 10: "Anna Massey born Coolham, Eng., 6 o'clock this morning. At 6:20 I heard her voice on trans-Atlantic telephone..." Note: The report mentions that Raymond Massey was in hospital in Hollywood with phlebitis at the time; BST (-1) is 9 hours ahead of PST (+8) so Anna was born at 3 p.m. BST in England equal to 6 a.m. PST in California.

Friday, 30 January 2015

John Lydon (English singer, songwriter, musician, visual artist)

* In his 2014 autobiography Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten, lead singer of punk band the Sex Pistols) writes "I was born in the early wee hours of the 31st, in the bitterly cold January of 1956." A speculative time of 3 a.m. puts the last degree of icy Scorpio on the ascendant, ruled by sex/pistol Pluto high in the sky. "Anger is an Energy" is a keyword phrase for Mars-Saturn in Sagittarius on the ascendant and North Node. And the Moon on the MC in the 10th (using Equal or Placidus Houses) bespeaks the name of his post-punk band, Public Image Ltd (PiL).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Joseph Lydon, 31 January 1956, 03:00 (3AM) GMT (+0), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 29 Scorpio. RR: C (rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored" by John Lydon (Simon & Schuster, 2014): "I was born in the early wee hours of the 31st, in the bitterly cold January of 1956."

The time of 3 a.m. is speculative.

Monday, 5 January 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch (English actor and film producer)

* A new biography of Benedict Cumberbatch gives his birth time as "12pm." If we take 12 a.m. as the start of the day, then 12 p.m. means noon. In which case, Cumberbatch has Pluto on the Ascendant - both in Libra - ruled by Venus in dramatic Leo.

Thanks to Frank Clifford for the book reference.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 19 July 1976, 12:00 (12 Noon) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 8 Libra. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Benedict Cumberbatch" by Nigel Goodall (London: Andre Deutsch, 2014), pp. 11-12: "Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on Wednesday, 19 July 1976, at 12pm, in Hammersmith, west London."

Scholfield cannot find a birth notice in the British newspapers but has a media report of Cumberbatch's birth with no time or date ("Eee! It's Wanda's Little Wonder," Daily Mirror, 24 July 1976, p. 5.).

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Peaches Geldof, 1989-2014 (English journalist, TV presenter, model)

* According to news of Peaches Geldof's birth, she was born at night. That is all that I can find about her time of birth. A speculative time of 9 p.m. is right between sundown that day (6 p.m.) and midnight, giving Libra rising. When she died on 7 April 2014 under a Grand Cross, transiting Pluto was conjunct her Neptune-Saturn and the transiting Uranus-Sun conjunction straddled her natal Eris (and maybe also her Descendant?).

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BIRTH DATA: Sy Scholfield quotes "People in the News," Associated Press, 14 March 1989: "LONDON (AP). Irish rock singer Bob Geldof and his wife, Paula Yates, are the parents of a second daughter, Geldof's spokeswoman said Tuesday. The baby, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces and as yet unnamed, was born Monday night in London's St. Mary's Hospital, said spokeswoman Marcia Hunt." ASC: Libra??. RR: C (rectified from approximate time: "night"). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "People in the News," Associated Press, 14 March 1989: "LONDON (AP) Irish rock singer Bob Geldof and his wife, Paula Yates, are the parents of a second daughter, Geldof's spokeswoman said Tuesday. The baby, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces and as yet unnamed, was born Monday night in London's St. Mary's Hospital, said spokeswoman Marcia Hunt."

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