Some famous personalities born under the sign of Cancer... famous cancerians

Henry VIII
Henry VIII, famous cancerians, king of England from 1509 to 1547, instigated the Reformation of the English church in order to secure a divorce from the first of his six wives. Born at Greenwich on June 28, 1491, he was the second son of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty, and Elizabeth of York. He received a good education, particularly in languages and theology. He also delighted in music, composing a number of songs himself, and in sports, especially hunting and jousting. On the death of his older brother, Prince Arthur, in 1502, Henry became heir apparent; he succeeded his father on April 22, 1509.

Hellen Keller
Helen Adams Keller, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA, June 27, 1880, and died June 1, 1968, was an author, lecturer, and humanitarian whose unusual life and dedicated work had an international influence on the lives of the handicapped. She was a famous cancerians. She became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months through a damaging brain fever and could communicate only through hysterical laughter or violent tantrums. Nevertheless, with the help of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Keller learned to read braille and to write by using a special typewriter. Their early relationship was the subject of The Miracle Worker, a 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play and 1962 film by William Gibson. In 1904, Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College and began a life of writing, lecturing, and fund raising on behalf of the handicapped.

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, was a famous cancerian, born July 18, 1918, is the former president of South Africa. Trained as an attorney, he helped form the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944. In 1961 he abandoned peaceful protest and became commander of the ANC's new military wing. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for conspiracy to overthrow the government, Mandela came to symbolize black political aspirations and was named head of the ANC after his release on Feb. 11, 1990. He and F.W. de Klerk won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for their uneasy partnership in negotiating South Africa's transition to multiracial democracy. Following South Africa's first universal suffrage elections on April 26-29, 1994, and reflecting the overwhelming electoral victory of the ANC, Mandela was elected president on May 9, 1994, by a joint session of the new National Assembly. He was inaugurated the following day.

Duke of Windsor
Edward VIII, was a famous cancerians, born June 23, 1894, died May 28, 1972, a famous cancerian, was the only British monarch to abdicate voluntarily. As prince of Wales from 1910 until he succeeded his father, George V, on January 20, 1936, Edward traveled widely and was very popular with British subjects in all parts of the empire. Soon after becoming king, however, he found himself at odds with the government of Stanley Baldwin over his determination to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee. When it became clear that this marriage would not be accepted by either the political leaders or, probably, the public, Edward announced his abdication in a moving radio address on December 11, 1936. Given the title of duke of Windsor, the former king married Simpson and lived with her in France, except during World War II, when he served as governor of the Bahamas.

Georges Pompidou
Georges Pompidou, was a famous cancerian, born July 5, 1911, died April 2, 1974, a close associate of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, was premier and president of France's Fifth Republic. A teacher until 1944, Pompidou then served as an aide on de Gaulle's staff for 2 years. From 1946 to 1957 he was a member of the council of state, a key administrative-judicial body, and he joined the Rothschild bank in 1955. Pompidou became de Gaulle's personal advisor in 1958, when the general emerged from retirement to assume the presidency of the new Fifth Republic. Pompidou was rewarded in 1962 with the premiership. Although he played a key role in negotiating the end of the student-worker revolts of May-June 1968 and obtaining a Gaullist victory in the June elections, de Gaulle did not reappoint him in July.