Some
famous famous aries personalities born under the sign of Aries...
Elton John
Singer-pianist-composer Elton Hercules John, born Reginald
Kenneth Dwight in England on March 25, 1947, is one of rock
music's durable performers. For most of his career, he has
worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin. The albums Elton John
and Tumbleweed Connection (both 1970) were his first successes,
and throughout the 1970s, his popularity, bolstered by lavishly
staged and exuberant performances, was high. From 1972 to
1975, he recorded seven consecutive number-one albums; his
rendition of the song "Pinball Wizard" in the rock
opera Tommy (1975) was quintessential Elton John. In 1979,
he became the first Western pop star to tour the Soviet Union.
John maintained his visibility--though at a somewhat lower
level--throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. Few
singers have sold as many records. He was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1994.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County,
Virginia, on April 13, 1743. He treated his pedigree lightly,
but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of
the first families of Virginia; his father, Peter Jefferson,
was a well-to-do landowner, although not in the class of the
wealthiest planters. Jefferson attended (1760-62) the College
of William and Mary and then studied law with George Wythe.
In 1769, he began six years of service as a representative
in the Virginia House of Burgesses. The following year he
began building Monticello on land inherited from his father.
The mansion, which he designed in every detail, took years
to complete, but part of it was ready for occupancy when he
married Martha Wayles Skelton on Jan. 1, 1772. They had six
children, two of whom survived into adulthood. Thomas Jefferson
is the third President of the United States of America.
William Wordsworth
One of the earliest and perhaps the greatest of English romantic
poets, William Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland,
on April 7, 1770, and died April 23, 1850, did much to restore
simple diction to English poetry and to establish Romanticism
as the era's dominant literary movement. His verse celebrates
the moral influence exerted by nature on human thought and
feeling.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci,
not far from Florence. He was the illegitimate son of a Florentine
notary, Piero da Vinci, and a young woman named Caterina.
His artistic talent must have revealed itself early, for he
was soon apprenticed to Andrea Verrochio, a leading Renaissance
master. Leonardo worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan
for nearly 18 years. Although active as court artist, painting
portraits, designing festivals, and projecting a colossal
equestrian monument in sculpture to the duke's father, Leonardo
also became deeply interested in non-artistic matters during
this period. He applied his growing knowledge of mechanics
to his duties as a civil and military engineer; in addition,
he took up scientific fields as diverse as anatomy, biology,
mathematics, and physics. These activities, however, did not
prevent him from completing his single most important painting,
The Last Supper.
Hans Christian Andersen
The Danish writer was born on April 2, 1805, and died August
4, 1875, is renowned for his fairy tales, which combine childlike
fantasy with a penetrating wisdom. Between 1835 and 1872 he
wrote 168 such tales, as well as poetry, novels, plays, travel
sketches, and memoirs. |
