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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Buster Keaton, 1895–1966 (American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, writer)

* "Buster" Keaton was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face."

Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."

His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by MGM, which resulted in a crippling alcoholism that ruined his family life. However, he recovered in the 1940s, remarried and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1958.

Keaton died of lung cancer on 1 February 1966, aged 70, in Woodland Hills, California.

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BIRTH DATA: Joseph Frank Keaton, 4 October 1895, 03:00 (3 AM) CST (+6), Piqua, Kansas, USA (37n55, 95w32). ASC: 29 Leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Keaton's father in an interview, "BUSTER SMILES FOR THIS SCRIBE: Keaton Pleased With Success of 'Battling Butler'," by Alma Whitaker, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1926, p. C19: "So papa told how Buster was born at 3 a.m. on one hurricane night in Pickway, Kan., when their tent was blown away..."

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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.

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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."

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Gabe Saporta (Uruguayan American musician)

* Gabe Saporta is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the synthpop band Cobra Starship which he formed in 2005 after taking a trip to the deserts of Arizona.

He was previously the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the pop punk band Midtown.

Saporta is a vegetarian and an active member of PETA.

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BIRTH DATA: Gabriel Eduardo Saporta, 11 October 1979, about 10:15 (10:15 AM) BZ2D (+2), Montevideo, Uruguay (34s53, 56w11). ASC: Sagittarius. RR: C (Accuracy in question). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Libra, Sag Rising, Cancer Moon" handwritten by him as his "Zodiac sign" and "Montevideo, Uruguay" as his place of birth in a questionionnaire published online on 12 September 2014. A speculative time of 10:15am gives mid Sagittarius (15 degrees) rising.

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Alistair Hulett, 1951–2010 (Scottish acoustic folk singer and revolutionary socialist)

* Alistair Hulett was the singer of the folk punk band, Roaring Jack, which he formed in Australia in the early 1980s. In 1995, Hulett co-founded the Australian Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, while often playing political benefits and rallies with Roaring Jack.

He returned to his native Glasgow in the late 1990s, where he died from cancer at 6:30 pm on 28 January 2010.

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BIRTH DATA: Alistair John Hulett, 15 October 1951, 14:20 (2:20 PM), Redlands Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 29 Sagittarius. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

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Margaret Fulton (British-Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author, commentator)

* In her early recipes Margaret Fulton encouraged Australian housewives to alter the Australian staple of "meat and three vegetables" and to be creative with food. She 'discovered' food from exotic places such as Spain, Italy, India and China.

In 2006, The Bulletin named Fulton in their list of 'The 100 most influential Australians,' writing that she is "Australia's original domestic goddess. No cookery writer since can claim her blanket influence... Fulton turned us into foodies."

The Sun in Australia's chart is at 10° Capricorn and the MC at 2° Aquarius. Fulton's Ascendant (9° Capricorn) and Moon (26° Capricoen) conjunct these points, cementing her status as an "Australian Living Treasure."

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BIRTH DATA: Margaret Isobel Fulton, 6 October 1924, 14:45 (2:45pm) Nairn, Scotland (57n35, 3w53). ASC: 9 Capricorn. RR: AA (Quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard who quoted from Fulton's birth certificate. Wikipedia and other sources give the wrong date of 10 October. Fulton has stated: "Let me see, I was born 6/10/24" [https://cooked.com.au/thefeed/2014/10/02/10/58/margaret-fulton-90-birthday].

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Diana Vreeland, 1903–1989 (French-American magazine editor and fashion journalist)

* Wikipedia gives at least two different dates of birth for Diana Vreeland (29/7/1903 and 29/9/1903) and her birth certificate gives another (29/12/1903), but the certificate is dated 2 October 1903. Clearly the December date is an impossibility: the clerk made a mistake and should have written "29 September," which is the date specified in her birth notice published in The Times [London, England] on 2 October 1903.

Many thanks to Marc Brun for acquiring the birth certificate for us!

Vreeland is a fashion icon: Neptune on her Ascendant rules Jupiter in Pisces on her MC. From 1936 until her resignation in 1962, she ran a column for Harper's Bazaar called "Why Don't You?". She was editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine from 1963 until 1971. Vreeland advised First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in matters of style and she is credited with inventing the word "pizzazz."

Neptune on the Ascendant can also bring confusion about the circumstances of a person's birth but in Vreeland's case the mystery surrounding her date of birth has now been solved!

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BIRTH DATA: Diana Dalziel, 29 September 1903, 22:30 (10:30 PM) (-0:09:20), Paris, France (48n52, 02e20). ASC: 12 Cancer. RR: AA (birth certificate in hand). SOURCE: Birth certificate obtained by Marc Brun, dated 2 October 1903 and mistakenly stating date of birth as 29 December. Date of birth confirmed by her birth notice found by Sy Scholfield in The Times, 2 October 1903, p. 1: "DALZIEL.--On the 29th ult., at 5 Avenue de Bois de Boulogne, Paris . . . a daughter."

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Norman Chaney, 1914–1936 (American child actor)

* Norman Chaney appeared in nineteen Our Gang comedy films as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931. The popular, moon-faced Chaney had the Cancerian decan of Pisces on his Ascendant.

In 1935, he underwent treatment for the glandular ailment that had caused his weight to reach 300 lb (140 kg), and his weight subsequently dropped to less than 140 lb (64 kg). Chaney became seriously ill afterward and died from myocarditis at 4 AM on 29 May 1936 at age 21, according to his death certificate.

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BIRTH DATA: Norman Myers Chaney, 18 October 1914, 15:45 (3:45pm) EST (+5), Cambridge, Maryland, USA (38n33, 76w04). ASC: 16 Pisces. RR: AA (from birth certificate in hand). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate published on the www.normanchaney.com website.

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Naomi Watts (British actress)

* Naomi Watts was raised in England and Wales before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1982, aged 14. Whle enrolled in acting lessons in Sydney she befriended actress Nicole Kidman. (Watts and Kidman both have Scorpio rising; Watts' Venus -- ruler of her 7th House of influential relationships -- is conjunct Kidman's Ascendant). Around 1992, Watts spent a year travelling, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.

After years as a struggling actress, Watts came to international attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001). (Her success through persistence and hard work is indicated by her chart's Saturn-handled Slingshot, Bucket Shape and Yod in the 6th House of work).

Watts received nominations at the Academy Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal of Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu's neo-noir 21 Grams (2003) and for her leading role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012).

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BIRTH DATA: Naomi Ellen Watts, 28 September 1968, 11:00 (11 AM) BST (-1), Shoreham, Kent, England (51n20, 0e11). ASC: 17 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Watts' mother ("She was born at 11 o'clock in the morning") in an interview ("Blondes on Parade" by Danielle Gusmaroli, Daily Mail Australia, 6 May 2015).

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Albert Collins, 1932–1993 (American electric blues guitarist and singer)

* Albert Collins had a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo. 

His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster." 

John Carter, 1929–1991 (American jazz clarinet, saxophone, flute player)

* In the 1970s John Carter became well known on the basis of his extraordinary solo concerts. At New Jazz Festival Moers 1979 he and the German clarinet player Theo Jörgensmann performed on three days. Afterwards Carter received complimentary reviews and wide recognition from around the world. He and Jörgensmann met again in 1984. The program of the Berlin JazzFest was built around the clarinet. After Carter's solo performance, he and Jörgensmann also played together. Between 1982 and 1990 Carter composed and recorded Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, in five albums focused on African Americans and their history. The complete set was acclaimed by jazz critics as containing some of the best releases of the 1980s.

Bill Boyd, 1910–1977 (American Western style singer and guitarist)

* In 1932, Bill Boyd formed the pioneering western swing band "The Cowboy Ramblers" with himself on guitar. The Cowboys Ramblers made more than 225 recordings between 1934-1951. The band had their own popular radio show, "The Bill Boyd Ranch House." In 1935, the Cowboy Ramblers had a huge hit with their recording of "Under the Double Eagle" which later became a western swing standard and remained in print for twenty five years. Other classics of the 1930s include "I've Got Those Oklahoma Blues", "Fan It", "Wah Hoo", "Beaumont Rag" and "New Steel Guitar Rag". The Cowboy Ramblers became major stars on radio and were offered work in Hollywood films and Boyd eventually appeared in six Western films during the 1940s. For his contribution to radio, Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd.

George "Spanky" McFarland, 1928–1993 (American child actor)

* "Spanky" McFarland was most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later syndicated to television as The Little Rascals. His nickname "Spanky" came from the term "a spanky child" which was late 19th century–early 20th century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler. McFarland had a bright and sharp conjunction of Venus and Mercury on his Scorpio MC.

Allen Case, 1934–1986 (American television actor)

* Allen Case was most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC's The Deputy (1959–1961) opposite series regular Henry Fonda, who received top billing but appeared far less frequently. Case made more than thirty television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles, such as on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45. Case had cowboy Jupiter sextile and ruling his gun-slinging Sagittarius Ascendant.

Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, 1486–1502 (English royal)

* Arthur Tudor was the first son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. He died suddenly, at age fifteen. When Henry VII later died, Arthur's younger brother, Henry, became king as King Henry VIII.

The times of birth of Arthur and his sister, Margaret (see her chart), were recorded in the Beaufort Book of Hours, a family chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. While the date of birth of the future Henry VIII was recorded in the book, his time of birth was not recorded, because he was the third born of Henry VII's children and thus he did not rank highly enough.

According to the Book, "in the morning afore one of the clock after midnight was born Prince Arthur at Winchester."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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BIRTH DATA: 20 September 1486, about 00:50 (12:50 a.m.) LAT (-0:04:22), Winchester, England (51n04, 1w19). ASC: about 9 Leo. RR: AA (from family chronicle). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes The Beaufort Book of Hours, a chronicle inherited by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, which states that on 20 September 1486 (Julian Calendar) "in the morning afore one of the clock after midnight was born Prince Arthur at Winchester." http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/henryviii/birthaccdeath/beaufort.

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