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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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.

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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.

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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."

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Larry L. King, 1929–2012 (American playwright, journalist, and novelist)

* Larry L. King is best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which became a long-running production on Broadway and was later turned into a feature film starring Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning and Dolly Parton.

In 1974, he wrote an article about the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas; after the article was published in Playboy, King and fellow Texan Peter Masterson developed it into the book of the Broadway musical.

King received an Emmy Award in 1982 for the CBS documentary The Best Little Statehouse in Texas.

King died on 20 December 2012, at a retirement home in Washington, D. C., survived by his third wife, five children, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lawrence Leo King, 1 January 1929, 23:45 (11:45pm) CST (+6), Putnam, Callahan, Texas, USA (32n22, 99w11). ASC: 28 Virgo. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate.

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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.

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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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Robin Roberts (American television broadcaster)

* Robin Roberts – anchor of the TV show Good Morning America – has communicator Mercury on her MC. Just over a week ago she came out on her Facebook profile, by mentioning her "long time girlfriend, Amber," on the day that the transiting Moon crossed her natal Sun, and transiting Venus retrograded on her natal Ascendant. Last Monday, as transiting Venus exactly conjunct her Pallas-Ascendant, Roberts shared the first public photo of Amber. Roberts has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome. She has Pluto – the survivor planet – on her North Node, sextile Mercury, ruler of her 6th House of health issues.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Robin René Roberts, 23 November 1960, 10:30 (10:30 AM) CST (+6), Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA (30n19, 89w15). ASC: 25 Capricorn. RR: A (from news report/memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Roberts in a Factiva transcript of "Introduction to the 7:30 Half-Hour," ABC News: Good Morning America, 24 November 2010: "I know, one day. Oh, by the way, I was born at 10:30 in the morning" in response to George Stephanopoulos' comment, "Well, you're 50 [years old] plus one [day] now."

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Robin Roberts Natal Chart

Robin Roberts Transits 29 December 2013

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J. B. Floyd (America concert pianist, composer)

* J. B. Floyd is a concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant-garde, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.

Jimmy Duncan, 1927-2011 (American songwriter, singer, composer, author)

* Jimmy Duncan is best known for his 1957 song "My Special Angel," a No.1 country/western hit for Bobby Helms. Duncan also co-wrote "String Along", which charted in 1960 for Fabian and in 1963 for Ricky Nelson; and "Everybody Knows", a minor hit in 1964 for Steve Lawrence. In the late 1960s Duncan owned a rock club in Houston named "The Living Eye"; nationally known groups such as the Electric Prunes and ? and the Mysterians played there, as well as local groups such as Lemon Fog. In 1970 Duncan built a recording studio called "Soundville" in Houston and launched his own label, Soundville.

Wally Armendarez, 1933-1996 (American orquesta musician)

* Wally Armendarez first recorded some songs for Ideal Records when he was fifteen. He played with Beto Villa's orchestra, the Paulino Bernal Orquesta and backed up some of the major artists recording for Ideal. Armendarez's 1959 recording of the polka, "Las Cuatro Milpas" proved a good seller. In 1960, he formed his own group. 

The Moon in Gemini tucked into the 12th House can make for a versatile back-up musician.

Peter Masterson (American actor, director, producer, writer, sailor)

* Since appearing in 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, Peter Masterson has concentrated mostly on directing and producing. His daughter is actress Mary Stuart Masterson, who appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives as one of the Eberhart's daughters. Masterson's most well known and critically recognized work is The Trip to Bountiful. He co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and its short-lived sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public.
Masterson has a triple conjunction of the Moon, North Node and Ascendant all in the Gemini (writing) decan of Aquarius. 

Elliott Smith,1969–2003 (American singer-songwriter, musician)

* Elliott Smith's heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death.

He had Venus and the Moon in mutual reception with Venus ruling his Ascendant in the last degree of Taurus and the Moon conjunct his Ascendant.

Venus is squared by Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter, not to mention the quincunx from Mars: He came to fame with his song "Miss Misery."

Perhaps Mars in conjunction with Neptune, both descending, along with the Sun in Leo on the IC, brought him down and contributed to his undoing.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, the area in which he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures and harmonies.

After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars (KRS). In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998.

Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism and drug dependence, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously completed and released.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Steven Paul Smith, 6 August 1969, 00:59 (12:59 a.m.) CDT (+5), Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (41n15, 95w56). ASC: 29 Taurus. RR: AA (from quoted birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Benjamin Nugent, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing (DaCapo, 2005), p. 9: "STEVEN PAUL SMITH was born at 12:59 a.m. on August 6, 1969, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha . . . according to his birth certificate."

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Louie Spence (English dance expert, choreographer, television personality)

* Louie Spence is best known as the artistic director at the Pineapple Dance Studios. He was a professional dancer in his youth, performing in West End musicals including Cats and Closer to Heaven, although more recently, he has become known for his appearances in the Sky1 series Louie Spence's Showbusiness and appearing as a judge on the seventh series of Dancing on Ice.

Which are the dancing planets? Certainly Neptune — which rises in its own house in Spence's chart and rules his IC in the last degree of Pisces. And probably Jupiter — here ruling his Sagittarius Ascendant from the last degree of Virgo smack-bang on the MC.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Louie Spence, 6 April 1969, 00:01 (12:01 a.m.) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 2 Sagittarius. RR: A/B (From him in an autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes Louie Spence, Still Got It, Never Lost It!: My Story (Harper, 2012): "my parents lived with us three children . . . in Enfield, London . . . [when] . . . I was born at 12.01 exactly . . . on 6 April 1969 . . . If I were born on 5 April . . . " Same data from Frank C. Clifford and Andrea Miles.

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Conrad Hilton Jr., 1926–1969 (American socialite, hotel heir)

* Handsome hotel heir, Conrad Hilton Jr., had maidenly Venus in Gemini smack-bang on his Ascendant and with no close aspects except for a sextile to its ruler, Mercury in glamour-puss Leo. He liked the ladies and he is remembered for his short marriage to one beautiful future star in particular. Not the beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor, with whom he had an affair in his teens while she was his step-mother. And not the second of his two 18-year-old brides, oil heiress Patricia McClintock, but the other young lady: the budding screen legend Elizabeth Taylor. When he died young, at the age of 42, Hilton was fated to be identified in headlines as "ONCE WED TO LIZ TAYLOR." A renowned playboy and gambler, Hilton had philandering punter Jupiter on his MC opposite majorly boozy Neptune in Leo on his IC (and its ruler the Sun conjunct do-or-die Pluto). His death from a heart attack was brought about by many years of hitting the bottle.

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WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. (July 6, 1926 – March 31, 1969) was an American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director. He was one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).

Hilton was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was Conrad Nicholson Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, and his mother was Mary Adelaide (Barron). Hilton grew up with three siblings: William Barron Hilton, Eric Michael Hilton, and Constance Francesca Hilton. He was the great-uncle of Paris and Nicky Hilton, the latter sharing his nickname. He attended New Mexico Military Institute.

Hilton had an affair with his step-mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, in 1944. He was Elizabeth Taylor's first husband (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) with the marriage ending in divorce. In 1958, Hilton married oil heiress Patricia "Trish" McClintock. They had two sons: Conrad Nicholson Hilton III and Michael Otis Hilton.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr., 6 July 1926, 03:00 (3 a.m.) CST (+6), Dallas, Texas, USA (32n47, 96w48). ASC: 8 Gemini. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate on file.

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A. B. Guthrie, Jr., 1901–1991 (American writer)

* A. B. Guthrie, Jr ― who won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Way West (about the journey of American expansion in the old west) ― had the North Node in the first degree of Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter in the same sign, being its own sign.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was "a sissy name."

His novels include Murders at Moon Dance, which was published during 1943. The Big Sky appeared during 1947, with a young person's edition during 1950. Guthrie continued to write predominantly western subjects, including the Academy Award-nominated script for the movie Shane during 1953 and the novel These Thousand Hills during 1956. During 1960, he published his first collection of short stories, The Big It and Other Stories.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., 13 January 1901, 01:00 (1 a.m.) CST (+6), Bedford, Indiana, USA (38n51, 86w29). ASC: 2 Scorpio. RR: A (from father's memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) cites a letter from Guthrie senior to his son, dated 13 January 1940, as transcribed in Jackson J. Benson, Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), pp. 68-69: "Dear Buddie, It is seven o'clock, p.m. of your birthday. . . . I recall quite vividly still the circumstances surrounding your birth ― in a duplex house in Bedford . . . It was early in the morning, around one o'clock when you put in your appearance."

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Lance Bass (New Astrology Data and Chart)

* The birth time of openly-gay American former pop star, Lance Bass, is 1:20pm according to an unofficial biography. He states his full birth name, James Lance Bass, in his autobiography Out of Sync.

Lance Bass is an American pop singer, dancer, actor, film and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band 'N Sync. 'N Sync's success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the 2001 film On the Line, which his company, Bacon & Eggs, also produced. Bass later formed a second production company, Lance Bass Productions, as well as a now-defunct music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with Mercury Records.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

The space-age planet Uranus is prominent in Bass's chart: appearing on his Scorpio IC in hard aspect with both luminaries. Bass moved to Star City, Russia, in 2002 and was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program after several months of cosmonaut training. However, his plan to join the TMA-1 mission to the International Space Station was unsuccessful after his financial sponsors backed out. Although his lifelong dream of space travel has been thwarted to date, in a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" still intends on going to space, and that he hopes to work on a space documentary. With his angular Uranus in Scorpio (and unaspected Jupiter) he's unlikely to give up his space exploration plans anytime soon. Particularly because his Uranus is ruled by Pluto at the head of a Kite pattern: this guy just wants to fly, deeply, high and wide.

Bass came out as gay in a cover story for People magazine dated 26 July 2006. TR Moon crossed his ascendant that night and TR Uranus was conjunct his South Node. TR Neptune was opposite his Moon.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 4 May 1979, 13:20 (1:20 PM) CDT (+5), Laurel, Mississippi, USA (31n41, 89w07). ASC: 24 Leo. RR=B (from a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Sarah Jane's book Lance Bass (New York: Scholastic, 2001), p. 56: "Lance was born at 1:20 p.m."

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Gregg Allman (Updated Astrology data and chart)

* We have a time of birth of 3.23 AM for Gregg Allman from his recently released autobiography. Although rated "B," this data seems to override previous birth times rated "AA" (from quoted birth certificate). Such is the funny world of data research and collecting! Frank Clifford quotes the full name, Gregory LeNoir Allman, from the rock star's son's birth certificate (Elijah Blue Allman).

Gregg Allman is an American rock and blues singer-songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

In My Cross to Bear, Allman reveals that he probably acquired Hepatitis C when tattooed with "a centaur, for Sagittarius [his sun sign]" when he was aged 20 or 21. His natal Chiron (the centaur asteroid) at 18° Scorpio is squared by Pluto and Saturn in Leo, and exactly square their midpoint. Natal Chiron had moved by solar arc to conjoin natal Jupiter at 9° Sagittarius, his final dispositor (also very centaur-ian) at age 20-21. He had a liver transplant on 23 June 2010 with transiting Jupiter at 2° Aries on the cusp of his natal 6th House of health: the transplant operation proved successful and Allman recovered well and resumed touring. Allman, along with Natalie Cole has become a spokesperson for Tune In to Hep C which includes a PSA TV commercial.

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NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 8 December 1947, 03:23 (3:23 AM) CST (+6), Nashville, Tennessee, USA (36n09, 86w47). ASC: 3 Scorpio. RR=B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Gregg Allman and Alan Light's My Cross to Bear (New York, HarperCollins, 2012), p. 9: "I was born on December 8, 1947, at 3:23 in the morning, at the old St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville." NB: Previously, Janice McKay's Contemporary American Horoscopes stated "1947, Dec. 8, at 3:39 p.m. CST in Nashville, TN," and Lois Rodden's AstroDatabank quoted Kelly Quinn for data from Allman of 3:03 AM from birth certificate in February 1977.

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