American fashion designer Vera Wang, born today in 1949, is best known for her wedding dress collection. She has designer wedding gowns for celebrities such as VictoriaBeckman, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez. Wang has also extended her creativity to designing jewellery, shoes and eye wear.

Know the name J.J. Abrams?  You should! Born today in 1966, has used his Cancer traits of creativity and sense of mystery as a screenwriter, producer and director of some of the hottest hits from both small and silver screens over the past ten years. Abrams is the creator or co-creator of television series' "Lost", "Alias" and "Fringe" and also directed Mission Impossible 3 and the latest 2009 Star Trek film.

While we are on the topic of sci-fi hits, Tobey Maguire, (aka Spiderman) born today in 1975, has used his creative side as a successful actor.

Cancers have a sensitive side, with good maternal instincts, which might have inspired the work of Hans Spemann.  A German embryologist, born today in 1869, Spemann received the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his work on embryonic induction. (I'd love to give you an idea of what that actually was, but suffice to say it is very clever stuff!)

Your Horoscope for 27th June
Today is not a good day for love, celestially speaking.  Dates, proposals and declarations of love are best saved for another day!
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