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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.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Ernest Everett Just, 1883–1941 (African-American biologist, academic, science writer)

* Ernest Everett Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting.

Just authored two books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals (1939) and The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939), and he also published at least seventy papers in the areas of cytology, fertilization and early embryonic development. He discovered what is known as the fast block to polyspermy; he further elucidated the slow block, which had been discovered by Fol in the 1870s; and he showed that the adhesive properties of the cells of the early embryo are surface phenomena exquisitely dependent on developmental stage.

In the fall of 1941, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and died shortly thereafter on 27 October 1941 in Washington D.C., aged 58.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ernest Everett Just, 14 Aug. 1883, circa 00:15 (12:15am) LMT (+5:19:43), Charleston, South Carolina, USA (32n46, 79w55). ASC: Gemini. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning (Oxford University, 1985), p. 5: "Mary Mathews Just . . . went through an easy delivery a little after midnight on Tuesday morning, 14 August." The source is given as Charleston News and Courier, 14 Aug. 1883, p. 1.

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Thomas Lennon (American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director)

* Thomas Lennon is best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.

Lennon has appeared in dozens of other TV shows, in supporting roles in dozens of films, and has done various voice work. In 2008, Lennon started doing stand-up comedy, during which he will sometimes play guitar.

Lennon is also a screenwriter and script doctor. Most of his screenplays are written in collaboration with partner Robert Ben Garant. Their films have earned over $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Thomas Patrick Lennon, 9 August 1970, 14:00 (2pm) CDT (+5), Oak Park, Illinois, USA (41n53, 87w47). ASC: 20 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview: "I was born at Oak Park Hospital August 9, 1970 at 2 pm." ("From Reno 911 to The Odd Couple: Our Exclusive Interview with Chicagoan Thomas Lennon" by Chicago History, 15 April 2015 [online]).

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Loki Bruckman, 1903-1995 (Dutch magic realist painter).

* Loki Bruckman lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United States, and Mexico.

Bruckman painted figuratively, forest views, and other still lifes with fruit, flowers, shells, eggs, feathers and towels. His style can be described as realistic, surrealistic or magic realistic. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.

His life partner Evert Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half years later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lodewijk Karel Bruckman, 14 August 1903, 13:30 (1:30pm) (-0:19:32), Den Haag, Netherlands (52n06, 4e18). ASC: 21 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate n° 4048 from the Den Haag archives: "des namiddags ten half twee uur" (at half past one in the afternoon). (twin brother of Karel Lodewijk born 9:30am; n° 4047).

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Louis Royer, 1793–1868 (Flemish sculptor)

* During his lifetime Louis Royer (AKA Lodewyk Royer) was the most important sculptor in the Netherlands. He was known as the "Canova of the Netherlands" and later was simply referred to as "the sculptor."

In 1823, Royer was the first sculptor to win the Dutch version of the Dutch Prix de Rome, which allowed him to study in Rome where he came under classicist influences. He gained a lot of admiration for his portrait of Pope Leo XII, whom he portrayed from life.

In 1827, he returned from Rome and settled in The Hague, an important artistic centre after the royal family had moved there from Amsterdam. He was soon appointed court sculptor and he made portraits of all members of the royal family in busts of marble. Shortly afterwards he was also appointed director of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam.

After moving to Amsterdam in 1837, Royer received many public commissions for statues of leading personalities from Dutch history, such as the statues of Rembrandt and Joost van den Vondel in Amsterdam, William the Silent in The Hague and Michiel de Ruyter in Vlissingen.

He died in Amsterdam on 5 June 1868.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 August 1793 NS, 22:00 (10pm) LMT (-0:17:52), Mechelen, Belgium (51n02, 4e28). ASC: 24 Aries. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from Bulletin du Cercle archeologique, litteraire et artistique de Malines, Volume 15 (H. Dessain, 1905), p. 202: "De meest geraadpleegde kunstgeschiedboeken geven een verkeer den geboortedatum van hem op. Hij kwam ter wereld te Mechelen, den 1" Augustus 1793, ten 10 uur des avonds."

Translation: "The most consulted art history books frequently discuss his birth. He was born in Mechelen on the 1st of August 1793 at 10 o'clock in the evening."

Monday, 9 November 2015

John Jarratt (Australian television and film actor, producer, director)

* John Jarratt rose to fame through his work in the Australian New Wave. He is best known for portraying the main antagonist Mick Taylor in the "taboo-breaking" Wolf Creek horror film series.

Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen debut was in The Great Macarthy (1975). He also appeared in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Summer City (1977) with Mel Gibson. Jarratt had the lead role in the mini series The Last Outlaw playing Ned Kelly in 1979.

In the 1990s, Jarratt was a presenter on the lifestyle television show Better Homes and Gardens with then-wife Noni Hazlehurst. He joined the cast of McLeod's Daughters in 2001, and left the show in 2006.

In 2005, Jarratt had a major role in the Australian film Wolf Creek, playing the villain Mick Taylor. In February 2013, Jarratt reprised his serial-killer role, filming the sequel, Wolf Creek 2. The film was released on 20 February 2014.

On 1 October 2015, Jarratt released his autobiography, The Bastard from the Bush, revealing that he was born at 3:30 a.m.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Jarratt, 5 August 1952, 03:30 (3:30 AM) AEST (-10), Wollongong, NSW, Australia (34s25, 150e54). ASC: 20 Gemini. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from The Bastard from the Bush: An Australian Life by John Jarratt (Echo, 2015), p. 3: "I was born in Wollongong Hospital at 3:30 a.m. on 5 August 1952."

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Marie-Luise Marjan (German actress)

* Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marlies Lause Marjan, 9 August 1940, 13:00 (1pm) CEDT (-2), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51n28, 7e01). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her discussing her 75th birthday in an interview: "Ich bin ein Sommerkind, ich bin auch an einem 9. August an einem Sonntag geboren um 13 Uhr, und genau zwei Stunden später werde ich meine Geburtstagsfeier beginnen." ("Marie-Luise Marjan zum 75. Geburtstag" by Birgitt Schippers, domradio.de, 9 August 2015).

Translation: 'I am a summer child. I was born on 9 August, a Sunday, at 13:00, and exactly two hours later I'm going to start my birthday party.' NB: 9 August 1940 was actually a Friday.

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Sunday, 9 August 2015

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."

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Léopold Survage, 1879–1968 (Russian-born French painter)

* In 1913, Léopold Survage produced abstract compositions entitled Rythmes colorés which used colour and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation. From 1917, he shared a studio — and a penchant for alcoholic excesses — with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris. Survage later moved to Nice where he produced highly structured oils and works on paper linked together by a series of leitmotifs, repeating groups of symbolic elements — man, sea, building, flower, window, curtain, bird — as if they were protagonists in a series of moving images. He died on 31 October 1968.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, 31 July 1879, 21:30 (9:30 PM) LMT (-2:30:20), Moscow, Russia (55n45, 37e35). ASC: 4 Aries. RR: AA (From quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites his baptismal record translated into French by the Imperial Russian Consulate in Nice in 1917 as quoted in Daniel Abadie's "Survage: les années héroïques" (Musée d'art moderne, Musée Matisse [Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France],1993), p. 120: "1879 31 JUILLET Naissance à Moscou à 9 heures et demie du soir de Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, fils de Léopold Edouard, citoyen de Villmanstrand (actuellement Lappeenranta en Finlande) et de Marie Caroline Emma Eggholm (ainsi qu'en témoigne son acte de baptême traduit au Consulat impérial de Russie à Nice en 1917)."

Friday, 26 June 2015

Megan Gale (Australian model, brand ambassador, fashion designer, actress)

* Aussie beauty, Megan Gale, has an English father and a mother of Maori descent. She won a modelling competition in Perth at 18, and later modelled for various Italian fashion houses and appeared in several Italian films. She was lauded in the Italian media as "The new Sophia Loren" (Gale and Loren each have Venus at 11° Virgo; i.e. exactly conjunct in their synastry!).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Megan Kate Gale, 7 August 1975, circa 01:00 (1 AM) AWST (-8), Perth, Western Australia, Australia (31s57, 115e51). ASC: Taurus. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Gale for her rising sign in "Princess Diary," Sunday Telegraph [Sydney], 12 Nov. 2006: "I'm a Leo but I think my true self is more like my rising sign, Taurus. I find my Leo qualities emerge when I'm working: I'm more flamboyant, more ambitious, confident and driven. At home I'm more Taurean: a bit earthier, but always stubborn."

NOTE: Taurus was rising from 12am to 2:02am and from 11:36pm to 12 midnight. The time of 1am is speculative. The Moon was in Leo throughout these periods.

Friday, 3 April 2015

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.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

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, 28 November 2014

Ferdinando de' Medici, 1663–1713 (Italian patron of the arts and music)

* Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, is remembered today primarily as a patron of music.

An excellent musician himself (sometimes called "the Orpheus of princes"), he attracted top musicians (like the Baroque composers Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti) to Florence and thus made it an important musical centre. Moreover, through his patronage of Bartolomeo Cristofori, Ferdinando made possible the invention of the piano in 1700. All this courtesy of Neptune unaspected on his MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 9 August 1663 NS, 21:58 (9:58) LMT (-0:45), Florence, Italy (43n46, 11e15). ASC: 1 Taurus. RR: B (from biography, although medical records are indicated). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Medicina & storia, Volumes 3-4" (Edizioni Polistampa, 2003), p. 28: "Alle '9 hore e 58 minuti' della sera, Margherita Luisa d'Orléans aveva infatti partorito 'un bel Principino', al quale era stato dato il nome del nonno Ferdinando." Translation: At "9:58" in the evening, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans had indeed given birth to "a nice young Prince", who was given the name of his grandfather Ferdinand.

Monday, 17 November 2014

Hallam Tennyson, 1852-1928 (British peer, biographer)

* Hallam Tennyson served as the second Governor-General of Australia, 1903-1904. His rising Mars in Libra (hidden in the 12th) and unaspected Pluto were put to the challenge when tensions developed with the Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, over the ambiguity of Tennyson's position. Unknown to the public, Deakin did not encourage Tennyson to seek an extension of his one-year term and Tennyson left Australia in January 1904 to universal expressions of approval.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 11 August 1852, 09:30 (9:30 AM) GMT (+0), Twickenham, England (51n27, 0w20). ASC: 8 Libra. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes his father's letter to Mrs Browning (dated 11 August 1852) transcribed in "Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Memoir" by Hallam Tennyson (Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 357: "my wife was delivered of a fine boy at 9.30 a.m. this day."

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Charles Albright (American serial killer, "The Eyeball Killer")

* In March 1991, Charles Albright was arrested and charged with 3 counts of murdering women in Dallas, Texas. On 18 December of that year a jury found him guilty only of the murder of one of the women, based on forensic evidence. He is known variously as The Dallas Ripper, The Dallas Slasher, and The Eyeball Killer, because he allegedly removed the eyes of his victims with surgical precision. Albright has serial-killer Pluto at the apex of a T-square involving an opposition between the Moon in Aries on the Descendant and its ruler, surgical Mars on the Ascendant. Uranus (which I associate with the eyes) is also involved in the T-square (in bloody Aries too).

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Thursday, 26 September 2013

Joe Tex, 1933-1982 (American musician)

* Joe Tex gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of country, gospel and rhythm and blues. He recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got", in 1964, and went on to have three million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967) and "I Gotcha" (1972). Tex's style of speaking over the background of his music helped to make him one of the predecessors of the modern style of rap music.

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Lefty Frizzell, 1928-1975 (American country music singer, songwriter)

* Lefty Frizzell was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Frizzell had C&W Sagittarius rising, with the Sun conjunct its ruler, Jupiter.

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Damita Jo DeBlanc, 1930–1998 (American actress, comedian, lounge music performer)

* Damita Jo DeBlanc was the featured vocalist on recordings from Steve Gibson and the Red Caps during the 1950s. Credited as simply Damita Jo, DeBlanc had some chart success in the early 1960s with two answer songs: 1960's "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" (an answer to "Save the Last Dance for Me") and 1961's "I'll Be There" (an answer to "Stand By Me"). Both songs were originally sung by Ben E. King and made the R&B top 20, and "I'll Be There" also reached number 12 on the pop chart. In 1962 she recorded "Dance With a Dolly (With a Hole in her Stocking", previously made famous by The Andrews Sisters and Bill Haley, for Mercury Records. In 1966 she had a minor hit with a cover of the Jacques Brel song "If You Go Away." She worked with Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. And, in 1963, she released a recording for Mercury Records with Billy Eckstine and Bobby Tucker Orchestra. Damita Jo was later involved in comedy and toured with Redd Foxx. In 1998, she suffered a respiratory illness and died on Christmas Day in Baltimore, Maryland.

DeBlanc had a moody Saturn-Moon conjunction in Capricorn on her MC.

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Jimmy Dean, 1928–2010 (American country music singer, television host, actor)

* Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John" and his television series, The Jimmy Dean Show, which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure. His acting career included a supporting role as Willard Whyte in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. He lived near Richmond, Virginia, and was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010, although he was formally inducted posthumously.

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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

John Barnes Chance, 1932–1972 (American composer)

* John Barnes Chance is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture. Many of his works are written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962. Before he became a full-time composer, Chance played timpani with the Austin Symphony and later was an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth U.S. Army bands. Chance taught at the University of Kentucky from 1966 until his death in 1972. In August 1972, Chance was airing a tent in his garden when a metal pole contacted an electrified fence used to confine his dogs. Chance was accidentally electrocuted and died at 12:40 p.m. at Central Baptist Hospital from cardiac arrest.

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Monday, 23 September 2013

Clint Ballard Jr., 1931–2008 (American songwriter)

* Clint Ballard Jr. wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. The first was "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965. The second was the 1975 hit, "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt (first sung by Dee Dee Warwick). He also wrote "I'm Alive" for The Hollies, which was number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1965; and also "Good Timin'" for Jimmy Jones which reached number one in the UK in 1960.
Why a songwriter? Ballard had the Sun in wordsmith Gemini (in the 3rd house) at the apex of a T-Square involving his Pisces Ascendant and its ruler, musical Neptune.

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