Chrissy Amphlett (1959 - 2013)

Chrissy Amphlett   Christine Joy “Chrissy” Amphlett (/æmflət/; 25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian singer who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls. Amphlett grew up in her home town of Geelong in Victoria, Australia as a singer and dancer. She left home as a teenager and travelled to […]

Christa “Nico” Paffgen (1938 - 1988)

Christa Päffgen, better known as Nico started out as a model, doing shoots for Vogue and other popular publications in the early 1960’s. Andy Warhol placed her in some of his experimental films and introduced her to The Velvet Underground with whom she recorded the legendary ‘Banana’ album. She recorded several solo albums during the […]

Christian “Chris” Madsen (1851 - 1944)

Deputy US Marshal and Folk Figure. Little is known of his early life in Denmark, but before migrating to America, he was a member of the Danish Army. He served in the Danish-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars and served in the Foreign Legion in Algeria. Upon immigrating to the United States, he joined the Fifth Calvary […]

Christian Audigier (1958 - 2015)

Audigier was born Christian Ginutti on 21 May 1958 in Avignon.  Audigier began working in the fashion industry at the age of fifteen. He designed a line of denim that was inspired by his love for rock and roll, specifically The Rolling Stones. His designs became so popular that a top executive from MacKeen Jeans […]

Christian Bérard (1902 - 1949)

Artist. Born in Paris, he exhibited his paintings as early as 1924 but won fame later in the decade as a fashion illustrator. He worked for Vogue magazine from 1935 to 1948 and his designs influenced Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli. Berard was also active in movies and the theatre, and is probably best remembered […]

Christian Brando (1958 - 2008)

Actor, eldest child of actor Marlon Brando. An actor in several lesser known films, he never gained the fame like that of his father, and was better known for his run-ins with the law.  He plead guilty to manslaughter  in the death of the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne, Dag Drollet, in 1990. (bio by: […]

Christian de Duve (1917 - 2013)

de Duve was born of a shopkeeper Alphonse de Duve and wife Madeleine Pungs in the village of Thames Ditton, near London. His parents fled Belgium at the outbreak of the First World War. After the war in 1920, at age three, he and his family returned to Belgium. He was a precocious boy, always […]

Christian Dior (1905 - 1957)

Fashion Designer.  He was the founder of Christian Dior, one of the world’s most renowned fashion houses.  One of five children of a successful fertilizer manufacturer, he took an interest in art at an early age and would sell his fashion sketches outside the family home in Paris, France.  In 1928 he established a small […]

Christian Frederic Martin (1796 - 1873)

Businessman. A guitar maker, he founded the C.F. Martin and Company. He was born into a family of cabinet makers, but during the 1820’s he moved to Vienna and learned the guitar making trade from famed guitar maker Johann Stauffer. In 1833 he left Germany and opened his own luthier shop in New York City, […]

Christian Krohg (1852 - 1925)

Painter,  Author.  He is probably best-known for his seascapes,  which he depicted from unusual angles. His novel “Albertine” (1886) caused such a scandal with its sexual suggestiveness that it was confiscated by the police.  Educated in Germany and later in Paris, Krohg was also a journalist for the Oslo-based newspaper “Verdens Gang” from 1890 to […]

Christian William Feigenspan (1876 - 1939)

Businessman. He took over Newark, New Jersey’s Feigenspan Brewery Company, founded by his father in 1868, when his father died in 1899. He then transformed the company into one of the best known breweries up until and after prohibition. Today it’s labels are the among the most sought after by collectors.

Christina Marie Riggs (1971 - 2000)

Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was a murderer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. She was convicted of the November 4, 1997, murder of her two young children, Justin Dalton Thomas and Shelby Alexis Riggs. The children were killed in their beds at the family’s Sherwood, Arkansas home. The murder […]

Christina Onassis (1950 - 1988)

Christina Onassis, the only daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his first wife, Athina Livanos, was born in New York City at LeRoy Sanitarium. Her maternal grandfather was Stavros G. Livanos, founder of the Livanos shipping empire. Onassis had an older brother, Alexander. She and Alexander were raised and educated in France, […]

Christine Ballard (1970 - 2016)

Television Program Producer. In 1969, she graduated with a degree in radio and television from Indiana University, where she also worked for several local radio stations. In 1973, she moved to Los Angeles where she began working as an associate director for such shows as ‘The Golden Girls’, ‘The Redd Foxx Show’ and ‘Benson’ before […]

Christine Cavanaugh (1963 - 2014)

Cavanaugh was born to Rheta Mason (née Sharky) and Waldo Eugene Sandberg. She graduated from Layton High School in 1981. She first attended Utah State University, then the University of Hawaii, where she met her future husband, Kevin Cavanaugh. The couple married in 1985 but divorced in 1988.  In 1991, Cavanaugh voiced Gosalyn Mallard, the […]

Christine Chubbuck (1944 - 1974)

Christine Chubbuck worked for WVIZ in Cleveland for a year in 1966/1967, and attended a summer workshop in radio and television at New York University in 1967. In 1968, Chubbuck worked for a few months for public television stations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Canton, Ohio, before moving on to spend four years as a hospital […]

Christine Fabrega (1931 - 1988)

Actress.

Christine Granville (1915 - 1952)

Anglo-Polish Spy. She was born on her parents’ estate at Mlodziesyn, thirty miles from Warsaw. Her father, Count Jerzy Skarbek, was a Roman Catholic; her mother, Stephanie Goldeder, was Jewish. On the 2nd. November 1938, at the Evangelical Reform Church in Warsaw, she married Jerzy Gizycki. Shortly after their marriage, he was sent to Ethiopia […]

Christine McGuire (1926 - 2018)

Christine McGuire Christine McGuire, the eldest of the singing McGuire Sisters, who struck gold on the pop charts in the 1950s with “Sincerely,” “Sugartime” and other close-harmony hits that won young American hearts not quite ready for rock ′n’ roll, died on Dec. 28 at her home in Las Vegas. She was 92. Ms. McGuire’s […]

Christine McIntyre (1911 - 1984)

Actress. She was the second-born child of John Edward McIntyre, Sr., a mining engineer and musician, and Edna Annette Barnaby McIntyre, also a musician. In 1928, she enrolled in Chicago Musical College and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in voice in 1933. She got into this school with a scholarship, which she won by auditioning […]

Christine Nelson (1926 - 1988)

Actress. Born in New York, she made her film debut in “Varietease” (1954). She also appeared in “The Helen Morgan Story” (1957), “Send Me No Flowers” (1964) and “Two Minute Warning” (1976). For television she was a regular on many programs to include “77 Sunset Strip”, “Surfside Six”, “The Joey Bishop Show”, “The Farmer’s Daughter” […]

Christine Pascal (1953 - 1996)

Christine Pascal was born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani’s Les Guichets du Louvre (1974), and began an association with Bertrand Tavernier with her next film, L’Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974). Other films with Tavernier include Que la fête commence (1975), for which she received a César nomination for […]

Christine White (1926 - 2013)

Christine White Christine Lamson White (May 4, 1926 – April 14, 2013) was an American actress, most noted for her role in the television show Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”. Early life White was born in Washington, D.C. to parents Lucia W. and James Andrew White. While studying English at the University of […]

Christl Mardayn (1896 - 1971)

Christl Mardayn started Music, Piano and Dancing in the Academy of Art of Vienna. She began as a Soubrette at the Vienna Volksoper and moved on to the Raimund-Theater and also engagement at the Carl-Theater. From 1929 she was acting at the theater in der Josefstadt. In 1938, she made in Paris the Film “Le […]

Christoph Probst (1919 - 1943)

Christoph Hermann Probst (born 6 November 1918, Murnau am Staffelsee – 22 February 1943, Munich) was a German student of medicine and member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group. White Rose was the name of a resistance group in Munich in the time of the Third Reich. The group, founded in June 1942, consisted […]

Christopher “Chris” Templeton (1952 - 2011)

Actress. She is best known for her role of Carol Robbins Evans in the daytime TV serial “The Young and the Restless” (1983 to 1993). Raised in the Chicago-area, she had a career as a child model in spite of her infliction with polio at the age of six months. After working at several occupations […]

Christopher Allport (1947 - 2008)

Allport was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut at the Children’s Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theater at Lincoln Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theatre; and in Los […]

Christopher Bernau (1940 - 1989)

Actor. He had a role in the daytime television series “Dark Shadows,” and later the role of ‘Alan Spaulding’ on the long-running daytime drama, “The Guiding Light.” Cause of death: AIDS related

Christopher Blake (1949 - 2004)

Actor. Born in London, England, he was best remembered for starring in the popular British TV sitcoms “That’s My Boy” (1981-86) and “Casualty” (1990-2001). His other television credits included “Mixed Blessings”, “Down to Earth”, “So Haunt Me”, plus the mini-series “Love for Lydia” and “Alexa”. For feature films, he appeared in “Because of Cats” (1973), […]

Christopher Cazenove (1943 - 2010)

He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, on 17 December 1943, the son of Brigadier Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura (née Gurney, 1914–1994) in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset. He was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College, Durham University’s College of the Venerable Bede and the Bristol Old […]