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Kayden Kross
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Kayden Kross was born on September 15, 1985 in Sacramento, California. Of Swedish descent, Kross was a bookworm in high school. Kayden started out in the adult entertainment industry at age 18 as a stripper at the club Rick's Showgirls in Rancho Cordova, California. Kross was subsequently contacted by an adult industry agent who helped her get work as a nude model in various men's magazines. Kayden eventually made the leap into performing in explicit hardcore movies and signed an exclusive contract with the top porn company Vivid in November, 2006. She became a free agent a year later and went on to sign an exclusive contract with Adam & Eve. Kross was the Pet of the Month for the September, 2008 issue of Penthouse and launched her official website that same year. In January, 2010 Kayden became a contract girl for Digital Playground. Kross was cited by CNBC as one of the twelve most popular girls in hardcore cinema in January, 2011 and hosted the Xbiz Awards Show in 2012. Moreover, Kayden not only writes columns for the magazines Complex and Xbiz, but also pens a regular blog for Xbiz.com. Among the awards Kross has won for her work in adult fare are the Hot d'Or for Best American Starlet in 2009, both a Venus Award for Best Actress International and an Erotixxx Award for Best U.S. Actress in 2010, and an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene in 2011.
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Robert Livingston
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Robert Livingston (December 9, 1904 – March 7, 1988) was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975.
Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original "Stony Brooke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films. He also portrayed the Lone Ranger in a mysterious 1939 serial directed by William Witney and co-starring Chief Thundercloud as Tonto, most of which is currently believed to be lost.
Livingston was born in Quincy, Illinois and died in Tarzana, California from emphysema. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Peter Timm
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Timm was born in Kroonstad, Free State, on February 15, 1963. He attended Kroonstad High School and became an electrician, setting up his own business. He began diving with the Welkom Underwater Club and, in 1991, took up trimix diving. In 1994, he opened the Triton Dive Lodge in Sodwana Bay and built it into a successful business with a worldwide reputation. Big, tall and friendly, Timm wasn't someone who dived just for record books or T-shirts.
He was an amateur biologist and environmentalist. He photographed and studied species, including different types of algae, invertebrates and fish new to science. He collected biological specimens in the submarine canyons and made an important contribution to local marine science.
Peter was one of South Africa's leading deep-sea divers and the first diver in the world to see a Coelacanth in its element.
Il a pu voir ce fossile vivant de 2 mètres de long, doté de dents prodigieuses et de nageoires en forme de jambes, à une profondeur de 104 mètres à Sodwana Bay, dans le KwaZulu-Natal, le 28 octobre 2000, deux ans après le début de ses recherches. Lui et deux plongeurs stagiaires qui l'accompagnaient ont vu ce qu'ils pensaient être trois gros bars dans une grotte.
"Nous avions une grosse torche sous-marine", explique-t-il. "Nous avons vu des yeux roses se refléter sur nous, aussi brillants que les réflecteurs d'une voiture, et nous avons donc nagé pour aller voir ce qu'il en était. C'était des Cœlacanthes !"
Les scientifiques pensaient que les Cœlacanthes, qui sont apparus il y a 350 millions d'années, s'étaient éteints il y a au moins 65 millions d'années, jusqu'à ce qu'un Cœlacanthe soit trouvé dans le filet d'un chalutier de l'est de Londres en 1938 et identifié par un professeur de l'université de Rhodes. Timm a fini par voir 50 Cœlacanthes les yeux dans les yeux, dans leur propre jardin. Lorsqu'on lui a demandé à quoi cela ressemblait, il a répondu : "Si 104 mètres sous l'océan ont été l'habitat naturel du Cœlacanthe, c'est aussi devenu celui de Timm. Il a été l'un des pionniers de la plongée profonde avec mélange de gaz, appelée plongée trimix, pour laquelle les plongeurs utilisent un mélange d'oxygène, d'azote et d'hélium pour descendre à des profondeurs de 100 m et plus.
He has made over 300 dives to depths of over 100 metres, unimaginable for most divers. Most of these dives have taken place in Sodwana Bay, in the unfathomable caverns close to the shore, where the continental shelf plunges into darkness. Exceptionally quick-witted, he has already extricated himself from situations in which less skilled or intelligent divers would not have survived.
"If you don't know what you're doing, and even if you do, you can die very quickly," he said a few weeks before he died, on June 18, 2014, helping another diver who had found himself in trouble at a depth of 60 meters near Aliwal Shoal, off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, while trying to retrieve a piece of equipment that had fallen from a research vessel.
Peter Timm died at the age of 51. He is survived by his partner, Eve Marshall, and his two daughters.
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Rita Redshoes
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Rita Pereira (born 10 July 1981), known by her stage name Rita Redshoes, is a solo musical artist from Portugal. In 1996 she sang with her first band, Atomic Bees, releasing an album in 2000 entitled love.noises.and.kisses. In 2003, she was invited to sing with David Fonseca, and shared with him the song “Hold Still” from Our Hearts Will Beat As One, his second solo album. In 2008 she released her debut solo album Golden Era. In 2010 the band Snow Patrol invited her to perform the single "Set the fire to the third bar" in Rock in Rio Lisbon.
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Ginette Reno
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Ginette Reno, OC, CQ (born April 28, 1946) is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname "La Reno".
Born as Ginette Reynault (some sources indicate Raynault) in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.
She has recorded in both English and French. Her biggest hit in English is the 1971 song "Beautiful Second Hand Man". Among her recordings is a French version of the Lynsey de Paul song, "Storm in a Teacup". She mostly performs in her native Quebec. During her four-decade career, she has recorded approximately 60 albums.
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Gérard Lenorman
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Gérard Lenorman (born 9 February 1945) is a French singer-songwriter.
Lenorman was born at the Château de Bénouville, Calvados (Normandy) when it was a maternity hospital. He is the son of Madeleine Lenormand and an unknown German soldier. Lenorman has four children with his ex-wife Caroline: Mathieu, Justine, Clémence and Victor. He released his first album in 1969.
In 1988, he represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, reaching tenth place with "Chanteur de charme". Lenorman was very popular in France and Francophonie, during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1994, a compilation of his hits Vos plus belles chansons went gold in France. In 2007, he released a biography entitled Je suis né à vingt ans ("I was born at the age of 20") in which the singer explains the unknown identity of his father.
Source: Article "Gérard Lenorman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Anjum Fakih
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Anjum Fakih is an Indian television actress and model,who has appeared in Hindi television series like MTV's Chat House, Time Quake,and Tere Sheher Mein.Currently, she is seen in Kundali Bhagya.For her role in Kundali Bhagya she was most recently awarded the Best Supporting Actor (female) in the Popular category at the 11th Gold Awards. She has also appeared in the popular show Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani as Rani Rageshwari Singh. She played an evil character in the show. Anjum Fakih has also won the Ford Super Model title.
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Joëlle Mogensen
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Joëlle Choupay-Mogensen (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1982) was a singer of French songs. Between 1972 and 1979, she was the lead vocals of Il était une fois releasing 8 albums.
Born in Long Island, New York, Joëlle was the daughter of a French/Vietnamese/American mother and a Danish father who was serving with UNICEF at the United Nations in New York City. The family eventually returned to Copenhagen in the early part of the 1960s where she attended a private religious school. She spoke six languages and was a member of the volleyball team. She began singing at a young age and as a fan of Bob Dylan, developed a folk song repertoire, appearing on American and Danish television variety shows, playing a guitar and singing.
In 1969 she went to live in the south of France with her mother and sisters where she met guitarist Serge Koolenn. Mogensen studied music at a school in Marseille and began her career singing folk music in cafés and small clubs. By 1971, she and Koolenn had begun a relationship and together recorded a 45rpm.
After meeting Richard Dewitte, they soon organized a musical ensemble of five males with Joëlle as lead singer. Naming the group "Il était une fois" (literally meaning "Once upon a time" in English). The band continued between 1972 and 1979 produced eight albums.
The band was very popular and appeared frequently on French television variety shows with other performers of the time such as Johnny Hallyday and fellow American-born French singer, Joe Dassin. The albums released were the self-titled Il était une fois in 1972, Ils vécurent heureux in 1974, Tourne la page in 1977 and Pomme in 1978. The single "J'ai encore rêvé d'elle" released in 1975 remains their most successful hit.
In 1978 the group broke up after she separated from Serge Koolenn.
After the break-up of Il était une fois, Joëlle signed with Barclay Records. An admirer of the French singer Jean Sablon, she sang with him and dedicated her 1979 "Numéro un" to him. As a solo artist, she released her only album, Joëlle tout court, in 1980. This provided the song Homme impossible that became a best-selling single on the European music charts in 1981.
Joëlle Mogensen was also a member of L'équipe à Jojo with Joe Dassin, Carlos, Dave and Jeane Manson.
On May 14, 1982 Joëlle visited her sisters in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France, then had dinner with friends with whom she spent the night. In the morning, the 29-year-old singer was found dead. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was a pulmonary edema.
Joëlle Mogensen was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Her "Aime-moi" was released three days after her death.
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Michel Denisot
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Michel Maurice Daniel Denisot (born 16 April 1945) is a French journalist, producer, television host and director of a football club. As of April 2021, Denisot is president of LB Châteauroux.
At 15 Denisot began his career of journalist as a correspondent in the local press in Châteauroux. From 1968, he worked on the regional station of the ORTF of Limoges. He worked for stations in Poitiers, Bordeaux and Reims.
From 1969, he worked on the gameshow Le Schmilblic, produced and presented by Guy Lux.
In 1972, he left Berry for Paris. He integrated the first of ORTF (before TF1). He fetched coffee or orange juice for Jean Lanzi and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach.
In 1973, he worked at the third of ORTF (before FR3 and France 3) before returning to TF1 in 1975 to co-host Journal télévisé de 13 heures with Yves Mourousi and Claude Pierrard for 2 and a half years.
In 1977, he integrated the sport division of TF1. From 1981 he hosted Téléfoot with Thierry Roland and was a football commentator.
In November 1998, he became a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, for his actions on Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
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