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Post by aubrey on Jun 12, 2017 8:58:18 GMT
He was born at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire.  You don't usually include specifics like this... This is quite specific: |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 12, 2017 9:14:11 GMT
" He was born at 17 Belle Vue Road, Andover, Hampshire. " You don't usually include specifics like this...was he your next door neighbour or something 😆 ? Never noticed it! Straight from the relevant website. PS If I'd known that ,when in my 20s, I'd have been down with a blue plaque.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 13, 2017 7:03:36 GMT
Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and Peabody Award-winning producer specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. She was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.  What a thing to ask - really: what a bloody cheek. |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 13, 2017 8:05:03 GMT
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney* and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–62). *or cystitis, as we call it now.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 13, 2017 8:13:53 GMT
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney* and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–62). *or cystitis, as we call it now. Her description of having a mastectomy with no anaesthetic is one of the best (or worst) accounts of this type of thing I've read. I've just found it(And I've just realised I have the book it's in.) Her writing generally still reads well today. |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 14, 2017 8:09:48 GMT
Mike Yarwood, OBE (born 14 June 1941 in Bredbury, Stockport, England) is an English impressionist and comedian. He was one of Britain's top-rated entertainers, regularly appearing on television from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s. He left Bredbury Secondary Modern School in 1956 and worked as a messenger and then salesman at a garment warehouse.  As of 2007, Yarwood lives alone in Weybridge, Surrey. |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 15, 2017 7:29:11 GMT
Christopher J Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English comedian, writer, director, actor, voice actor, and producer. He is known for his black humour, surrealism, and controversial subject matter, and has been hailed for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive" by the British Film Institute. In the early 1990s, Morris teamed up with his radio producer, Armando Iannucci, to create On the Hour, a satire of news programmes. This was expanded into a television spin off, The Day Today, which launched the career of Steve Coogan, and has since been hailed as one of the most important satirical shows of the 1990s. Morris further developed the satirical news format with Brass Eye, which lampooned celebrities whilst focusing on themes such as crime and drugs. For many, the apotheosis of Morris's career was a Brass Eye special, which dealt with the moral panic surrounding paedophilia. It quickly became one of the most complained about programmes in British television history, leading the Daily Mail to describe him as "the most loathed man on TV". (Not by me he wasn't.)  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 15, 2017 7:50:00 GMT
London born David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was a songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody". He also wrote music for many television series, including It's a Great Life, The Tony Martin Show, Little House on the Prairie, Highway To Heaven, Bonanza, and Highway Patrol.  |
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Post by marispiper on Jun 15, 2017 21:01:13 GMT
^^^
Loved all those, and the themes 😄
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Post by ARENA on Jun 16, 2017 7:06:29 GMT
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Born in 1934 she has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She has been nominated for and received many professional awards and was created a CBE in 1990 and later a DBE in 2001. Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 17, 2017 7:01:52 GMT
Philip Charles Lithman (17 June 1949 – 1 July 1987), who performed under the stage name Snakefinger, was an English musician, singer and songwriter. A multi-instrumentalist, he was best known for his guitar and violin work and his collaborations with The Residents. Lithman was born in Tooting, South London, and came from the British blues scene. He moved to San Francisco in 1971 and became associated with the avant-garde group The Residents. It is said he was given the name 'Snakefinger' by The Residents themselves based on a photograph of Lithman performing, in which his finger looks like a snake about to attack his violin. In 1972 Lithman returned to England and formed the pub rock band Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers with Martin Stone, ex-member of Mighty Baby and a fellow ex-member of Junior's Blues Band. As a duo, they released the album Kings of Robot Rhythm. In 1974, as a full band and popular live act in Britain, they released Bongos Over Balham. Chilli Willi lasted until 1975, their last record not selling well, and by 1976 Lithman was back in the United States, this time in Los Angeles, California, seeking a recording contract, shopping his rock-style demos. After a few years, Lithman moved back to San Francisco, reconnected with The Residents, and performed and recorded with them. Lithman's solo records, recorded under the name Snakefinger, were released by their record label Ralph Records. His first album on Ralph was Chewing Hides the Sound in 1979, featuring original material co-written with The Residents as well as esoteric covers like Kraftwerk's "The Model". The songs showcased Lithman's distinctive slide guitar playing and often surreal imagery. This album was followed by Greener Postures in 1980, which included his first solo compositions as Snakefinger.  (he is the one with the guitar) An example of his playing (really - this is wonderful): |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 17, 2017 7:30:27 GMT
Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress of stage and screen. Born in Hereford, England in 1919, Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in Manchester where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools. Leaving school at 16, she made her debut in 1936 as a music hall performer at the Floral Hall, Bridlington.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 18, 2017 7:21:14 GMT
Alison Moyet (born Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet 18 June 1961, Billericay) is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice. Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with over a million singles sold, All seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 30 UK Album Chart, with two of the albums reaching number one.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 18, 2017 9:36:12 GMT
Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor best known for his roles in the films of the Boulting brothers such as Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). Later he played Dorothy L. Sayers's Gentleman Detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, on television and radio. Carmichael also had a career on stage. Carmichael was born in Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA. He made his stage début as a robot at the People's Palace in Mile End, East London in 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War his acting career was interrupted by service with the Royal Armoured Corps as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons. He served in the Normandy campaign, losing the tip of one finger in an accident with the turret hatch of a Valentine tank, and reached the rank of major before returning to civilian life in 1947. Here he is at the end of our road (well, the road off our road anyway: Lambeth Bridge):  He was really too old for Bertie, but he still looked right:  Better as Lord Peter, though he should be 44 here:  Good chap, though. |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 19, 2017 6:59:44 GMT
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist, who has been the elected Mayor of London since 2008. He was previously the Member of Parliament for Henley and Editor in Chief of The Spectator magazine. Johnson was educated at Primrose Hill Primary School, the European School of Brussels.  |
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