Some
famous Libra personalities born under the sign of Libra...
John Lennon
John Ono Lennon, a famous libra man, born Liverpool, England,
October 9, 1940, died December 8, 1980, was considered the
most intellectual and outspoken member of The Beatles. Influenced
by early representatives of American rock 'n' roll--Chuck
Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard--Lennon organized
his first band, The Quarrymen, with Paul McCartney. A few
years after he enlisted the talents of George Harrison and
later Ringo Starr and changed the band's name. By the time
the group disbanded in 1970, The Beatles had grown into
a phenomenon of enormous sociological dimension. Lennon
went on to make a number of successful album recordings,
including Imagine (1971) and Mind Games (1973), and continued
to make political protests with the Japanese-born artist
Yoko Ono, whom he married in 1969. In 1975, however, Lennon
retreated entirely from public view, and it was not until
the release of his final album, Double Fantasy (1980), created
with Ono, that he re-emerged. Shortly after the release
of this album Mark Chapman, a former mental patient, outside
the Dakota apartment building in New York City, shot him
to death.
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, a famous libra, is the stage name of Julia
Elizabeth Wells, born in Walton-on-Thames, England, on October
1, 1935, an actress and singer who created the Broadway
roles of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1956) and Guinevere
in Camelot (1960). She is best known for her performances
in the films Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won an Academy
Award, and The Sound of Music (1965). Among the attempts
to change her saccharine image are the Hollywood farce S.O.B.
(1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), in which she plays a woman
masquerading as a homosexual female impersonator, and That's
Life!, about a woman facing the possibility of cancer. Her
husband, Blake Edwards, directed all these films.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, a famous libra woman, born on October
13, 1925, Britain's first woman prime minister and the longest-serving
British prime minister of the 20th century, reshaped the
image of her country's Conservative party. Born Margaret
Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where her father was
mayor, she studied chemistry at Oxford and worked as a research
chemist before marrying Denis Thatcher, a businessman, in
1951. A Conservative party activist since her school days,
she was elected to the House of Commons in 1959 and entered
Edward Heath's shadow cabinet in 1967. Thatcher served under
Heath as secretary of state for education and science from
1970 to 1974; then challenged him for the party leadership
in 1975 and won, becoming the first woman to lead a major
British party.
Miguel de
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a famous libran man, was born
on September 29, 1547, and died April 23, 1616, a Spanish
novelist, dramatist, and poet, was the author of the novel
Don Quixote, a masterpiece of world literature. Cervantes
was born to a poor family in the university town of Alcala
de Henares. Without the means for much formal education,
he became a soldier, lost the use of his left hand in the
Battle of Lepanto, and was imprisoned in Algiers. On his
return to Spain he worked at a series of government jobs
that involved extensive travel in Andalucia. His career
as a public servant was marked by as much misfortune as
was his military career. Only at the end of his life was
he able to obtain a patron and to devote full attention
to his writings.
Le Corbusier
Charles Edouard Jeanneret, a famous libran man, more popularly
known as Le Corbusier, was born in La Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland,
on October 6, 1887, and died 1965. He was a Swiss-French
architect who played a decisive role in the development
of modern architecture. He first studied in Paris with August
Perret, and then worked for several months in the Berlin
studio of industrial designer Peter Behrens, where he met
the future Bauhaus leaders Ludwig Mies Van Der Howe and
Walter Gropius. Shortly after World War I, Jeanneret turned
to painting and founded, with Amedee Ozenfant, the purist
offshoot of cubism. With the publication in 1923 of his
influential collection of polemical essays, 'Vers une architecture',
he adopted the name Le Corbusier and devoted his full energy
and talent to creating a radically modern form of architectural
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