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10 Nov, 1977

Brittany Murphy born in Atlanta, Georgia

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Brittany Murphy is born in Atlanta, Georgia to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. She is raised by her single mother in Edison, New Jersey. She has two older half-brothers and a younger half-sister. She attends Verne Fowler School of Dance and Theatre Arts in Colonia, New Jersey. Her mother:

I raised Brittany alone. We didn’t have much at first, but we always had each other. My daughter and I were our only family, and we were inseparable and always there for each other in good times and bad.

1978

Born in Beiruit, Lebanon

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Amal Ramzi Alamuddin is born in Beirut, Lebanon, Her mother Baria, is the foreign editor of Arab newspaper, al-Hayat. In her youth she was a newsreader on Lebanese television. Her father, Ramzi, is a retired professor of business studies at the American University of Beirut. According the the Daily Mail, Ramzi married outside the Druze faith. He met Baria in a nightclub in Beirut.

Her grandfather was a government minister. Her grandmother is said to be the first woman graduate of the American University in Beirut. She has three younger siblings; a sister, Tala, and two brothers Samer and Ziad. Her cousin is Rima Alamuddin, a poet who was tragically shot dead, aged only 22, by a disgruntled boyfriend while on holiday in Lebanon from her studies at Cambridge University.

9 Jan, 1978

A.J. McLean born

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Alexander James “A. J.” McLean is born in West Palm Beach, Florida, at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, to Denise (née Fernandez) and Bob McLean. He is of Cuban and German ancestry on his mother’s side and Scottish, Irish and English on his father’s side. His parents divorced when he was four years old.

10 Jan, 1978

Tamina Snuka born in Fiji, Samoa

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Snuka (Sarona Reiher) is born in Fiji, Samoa. She is the daughter of WWE legend “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka. Due to her family’s involvement in the world of wrestling, she decided to pursue it as a career. She trains at the Wild Samoan Training Center.

28 Jan, 1978

Sheamus born in Dublin, Ireland

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Sheamus is born in Dublin, Ireland. He develops an interest in wrestling through watching World of Sport and WWE as a child. He decides to pursue the sport as a career and enters Larry Sharpe’s Monster Factory training school on the advice of Bret Hart.

15 Apr, 1978

Austin Aries born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Aries (Daniel Solwold Jr.) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling through watching the NWA.

The influences I had growing up I think comes out in the way I perform and maybe that’s what helps set me apart from some of the guys who grew up watching different types of wrestling. I appreciated all of it, but what originally caught my attention was that dirty wrasslin’ with those real characters and blood and Dick Murdoch and Buzz Saywer. That was the stuff that really grabbed me as a kid and really fell in love with.

22 Apr, 1978

Ezekial Jackson born in Linden, Guyana

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Jackson (Rycklon Stephens) is born in Linden, Guyana. He grows up in a Christian household.

Without Christ I’d be nobody. I’m a Christian. For a long time, and it hasn’t been as much lately, but when I’d tweet a scripture I’d get replies saying “If there’s a God, why does he allow bad things to happen?” It’s funny that people who don’t believe in God always want God when bad things are happening, you know what I mean? For me, it’s my life. I have a standard in my house – God, my wife, my kids. Everything else comes after that.

26 Oct, 1978

CM Punk born in Chicago

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Punk is born in Chicago, Illinois. Punk grows up in the area as an active fan of rock music, comic books and the Chicago Cubs. Both of his parents struggle with substance abuse through his early life.

I grew up with an alcoholic father. He never beat me, he never raised a hand against my mother or anything like that, but I’d seen enough stupid and ridiculous things between that, my mother and her prescription pills, and just hanging out with an older crowd when I was a kid, that I didn’t understand a lot of the fun to what partying was, so I just never did it. I didn’t understand waking up next to somebody you don’t remember going to bed with; I didn’t understand getting, you know, blackout drunk and not remembering the good times you have with your buddies; and I feel so strongly about it that I’ve just always been this way—it just made sense.

1979

Roger Ver born in Silicon Valley

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Roger Ver is born and raised in Silicon Valley. He attends Valley Christian High School in San Jose.

In junior high he finds a copy of  Socialism by Ludwig von Mises, thinking it to be a pro-socialism book. This spurs an interest in libertarianism and through high school he reads economics books by authors like Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Fredric Bastiat, Leonard Reed, Henry Hazlitt and Friedrich Hayek:

The more I read the more I realized how government control and regulation is making the world a poor place. I learnt that if something’s worth doing, then you don’t need the government forcing people to do it because they will do it on their own.

He is particularly influenced by the writing of Murray Rothbard:

I devoured all of Rothbard’s books and was persuaded by the logic of his arguments. I remember being almost afraid to read such powerful truths. In all my years of schooling, no one before Rothbard had ever pointed out that taxation is the moral equivalent of theft, and the military draft is the moral equivalent of kidnapping and slavery. It shattered my remaining hopes that the State could be morally justified. For the first time I saw them for the criminal band of thieves, slave masters, and murderers that they are. My life has never been the same since.

16 Jan, 1979

Aaliyah Haughton born in Brooklyn

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aaliyah-infantAaliyah Dana Haughton is born to Michael and Diane Haughton in Brooklyn. Aaliyah is raised in Detroit with her older brother Rashad and attends Gesu Elementary School where she is cast as a lead in the stage play Annie.

My mom was an educator and has a really good head on her shoulders. She keeps me well rounded as an individual as well, making sure I am exposed to a lot of things other kids my age aren’t.

24 Jan, 1979

Nik Wallenda born in Sarasota, Florida

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Nik Wallenda is born Nikolas Wallenda in Sarasota, Florida to Terry Troffer and Delilah Wallenda.He is a seventh-generation member of The Flying Wallendas aerialists family. The family, of Austro-Hungarian descent, have been circus performers since the 1700s. They were made famous in the 1920s by Nik’s great-grandfather Karl Wallenda, for their high-wire balancing acts without nets. Karl died during a high-wire performance in Puerto Rico in 1978.

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

28 Jan, 1979

Rosamund Pike born in London

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Pike is born in Hammersmith, London, to Caroline, a violinist, and Julian, an opera singer.

I definitely found it hard to contain my feelings as a little girl, Everything was big, and it still is.

16 Feb, 1979

Valentino Rossi born in Urbino, Italy

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Rossi is born in Urbino, Italy, of Graziano and Stefina Rossi, and is brought up in the nearly city of Tavullia. His father, a former motorcycle racer, teaches him to ride a motorbike. Concerned for his safety, his mother forces his father to buy Rossi a kart, which his father upgrades from 60cc motor to 100cc.

18 Mar, 1979

Adam Levine born in Los Angeles, California

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Adam Noah Levine is born in Los Angeles, California to parents Fred, the founder of the retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy Levine, an admissions counselor. Levine has two brothers Michael and Sam. Levine’s parents divorce when he is 7-years-old and he attended therapy although he did not enjoy it.

They couldn’t accept the fact that I might have been OK with it. I cried my eyes out and kicked and screamed and said, ‘Why?’ and all the things you do when you find out. A few days later I was fine but I still had to go to therapy. It was such a waste of time.

21 Jun, 1979

Chris Pratt born in Virginia, Minnesota

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Chris Pratt teenChristopher Michael Pratt is born in Virginia, Minnesota but raised in Lake Stevens, Washington. His father is Dan Pratt, a home remodeler and his mother is Kathy Pratt (née Indahl), a Safeway supermarket employee. He has an older brother named Cully and an older sister named Angie. An accomplished athlete in high school, he lands fifth place in a state wrestling tournament. At 18 years old, he moves to Hawaii with some friends and works as a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Maui. On his father:

My dad, Dan, was the strong, silent type. He worked in a gold mine. He was a Golden Gloves boxer, tough as nails, and didn’t put up with any crap. I was a sensitive kid, and I don’t know if we always got along or were always on the same page, but he was there. His dad never went to any of his football games. He was an all-state player, and his parents never even saw a single game that he was in. But he made it to… every game I ever played. And when he wasn’t a coach, he was there leaning on a fence at practice.

6 Sep, 1979

Low Ki born in Brooklyn, NY

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Low Ki (Brandon Silvestry) is born in Brooklyn, New York. He decides  to become a professional wrestler at a young age.

I wanted to become a professional wrestler. I wanted to earn the respect of the audience, people who paid their hard-earned money to see professional wrestling and not insult their intelligence.

1 Oct, 1979

Curtis Axel born in Champlin, MN

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Axel is born in Champlin, Minnesota. He is the son of WWE legend, “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig and grandson of Larry “The Ax” Hennig. Due to his family’s involvement in wrestling he develops an early interest in the sport.

When I finally won at Payback, man – I just couldn’t stop thinking about my dad. Holding that same Intercontinental Championship that he held. He would bring (it) home and I would hold it and wear it as a kid. I now possess this thing.

15 Dec, 1979

Eric Young born in Ontario, Canada

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Young (Jeremy Fritz) is born in Ontario, Canada. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man.

I don’t remember whole matches from 20 years ago, but I remember moments from matches. I remember where I was and who I was with and how it made me feel.

1980

Brianna Wu born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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Wu is born John Flynt in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She is adopted. Her father is a Navy-trained obstetrician who founded a chain of women’s health centers. Her mother has a degree in microbiology and a passion for computers; she stayed home to take care of Wu. She has two younger siblings.

Her father supports her interest in technology by sending her to classes and buying hardware. She says she followed her father’s extreme conservative views in an effort to bond with him, including attending church as often as three times a week. Of her hometown:

Every part of my body is screaming that this is not right, this is not normal, this is not a good place to live. I don’t fit in with anyone there. So I end up just tuning completely out, which is why I have such good computer skills. Video games were the world that I cared about.