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5 Feb, 1985

Cristiano Ronaldo born in Madeira, Portugal

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Cristiano_Ronaldo_baby_photoCristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is born to Jose Dinez Aveiro and Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro. His mother names him after the former US president, Ronald Reagan. He is the fourth child in the family, the younger brother of Hugo, Elma and Katia. His father works as a kit man for the amateur football club CF Andorinha in Santo Antonio, and asks the team captain Fernao Barros Sousa to be his Cristiano’s godfather. Sousa recalls:

Sousa: One Christmas I gave him a remote-controlled car, thinking that would keep him busy, but he preferred to play with a football. He slept with his ball, it never left his side. It was always under his arm – wherever he went, it went with him.

16 Dec, 1984

Theo James born in Oxford

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Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is born in Oxford, England to parents Jane Martin and Philip Taptiklis. He is the youngest of five children and has two brothers and two sisters. He has Greek, Scottish, and New Zealand ancestry. On admiring his parents:

They raised five kids and they are very giving to their kids.

22 Nov, 1984

Scarlett Johansson born in New York City

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31b65c304b039039f480c894ae72d289Scarlett Johansson is born in New York City to architect Karsten Johansson and producer Melanie Sloan. She has an elder brother, an elder sister and a twin brother. She attends PS 41 Greenwich Village School in New York.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family.

27 Sep, 1984

Avril Lavigne Born in Belleville, Ontario

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181079_10151466254649300_1722749310_nAvril Ramona Lavigne is born in Belleville, Ontario. Her father is Jean-Claude Joseph Lavigne, her mother is Judith-Rosanne. She has older brother, Matthew, and a younger sister, Michelle. She started singing alongside her mother at the age of two in the church choir. She struggles with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHA).

My brother used to knock on the wall because I used to sing myself to sleep and he thought it was really annoying.

15 Sep, 1984

Prince Harry born in London

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Charles and Diana with HarryPrince Henry (Harry) Charles Albert David Windsor is born weighing six pounds, 14 ounces at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, Prince Harry arrived a week before expected.  He is the second child for Prince Charles and Princess Diana after William and is third in line to the throne. Charles:

Absolutely marvelous. It didn’t matter whether it was a boy or a girl

 

3 Sep, 1984

Manik is born in Los Angeles, Calif.

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Manik (TJ Perkins) is born in Los Angeles, California. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young boy.

I was into wrestling before I could form memories. My earliest memories are of me watching Saturday nights main event with my dad when I was 3 or so. I grew up always thinking I would be a wrestler.

28 Jul, 1984

John Washington born

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Washington and wife Pearson welcome their first child, John David Washington, into the world.

I remember my eldest boy saying ‘Dad, I always thought you were so strict – now I appreciate it.’

9 May, 1984

Ezra Klein born in Irvine, CA

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Ezra Klein is born in Irvine, Calif. His mother is an artist and his father is a mathematics professor. He is the middle child of the Jewish family. Growing up, he says he was

a chunky nerd.

28 Apr, 1984

Jessica Alba born in Pomona, California

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Jessica Alba is 132e072695371b76c15cce519d5c3647born in Pomona, California to Catherine and Mark David Alba. Her father works in the Air Force while his mother is a housewife. She has a younger brother named Joshua. She attends Claremont High School.

I was a very sick kid

21 Nov, 1983

The Bella Twins born in Scottsdale, AZ

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The Bellas are born sixteen minutes apart in Scottsdale, Arizona. The girls develop an interest in soccer and play in peewee leagues throughout school. Their mother ensures they are separated into different school classes to nurture their independence from one another.

10 Nov, 1983

Born in Longview, Texas

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Miranda Leigh Lambert is born in Longview, Texas to Richard Lee Lambert and Beverly June Hughes. She is raised in Lindale, Texas.

15 Jul, 1983

Heath Slater born in Pineville, West Virginia

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Slater is born in Pineville, West Virginia. He develops an early interest in the world of professional wrestling and decides to pursue it as a career, entering training in 2006.

11 May, 1983

Steven Sotloff Born in Miami

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Sotloff is the first child born to parents Arthur and Shirley Sotloff of Pinecrest, Florida, and older brother to a sister Lauren, born on May 27, 1986. Sotloff attends primary school at Temple Beit Am in Miami, and in high school attends Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H., where he plays on the rugby team, writes for the school newspaper, and performs free-style raps at talent shows.

17 Apr, 1983

Darren Young born in Union Township, NJ

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Young is born in Union Township, New Jersey despite being billed from Miami, Florida throughout his career. Young develops an early interest in professional wrestling and competed in backyard wrestling as a young man. He would pursue other sports as well, playing football in high school.

11 Apr, 1983

Zachary Pym Williams born

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Williams’s first child Zachary Pym Williams is born. Zachary is the only child he shares with first wife Valerie Velardi. On spending time with Zachary, who is nicknamed Zach or Zak:

In the morning I often watch TV with Zach. They show those wonderful old Warner Brothers cartoons. To hear a child laugh like that—to see him watch Wile E. Coyote! My God, it’s something incredible! Sometimes while the cartoons are showing, I do wacky voices—you know, the way I do in my act. Sometimes he likes that, but sometimes he says, “Daddy, don’t use that voice. Just be Daddy.” And that’s what I want to do. Just be Daddy.

1 Mar, 1983

Lupita Nyong’o born in Mexico City

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Lupita

Lupita Amondi Nyong’o is born in Mexico City, Mexico. Her father is Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, a Kenyan Senate politican and her mother is Dorothy Nyong’o, Africa Cancer Foundation’s managing director. She has five siblings and is of Luo descent.  The Luo tradition is to name a child after the events of the day, so her parents give her a Mexican name, Lupita (a diminutive of Our Lady of Guadalupe).  As a child, Nyong’o is teased about her race.

I got teased and taunted about my skin; my one prayer to God was that I would wake up lighter skinned.  The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of the mirror because I wanted to see my face first.  Every day I would feel the disappointment of being just as dark as the day before.

8 Dec, 1982

Nicki Minaj born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago

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Screen-Shot-2014-05-12-at-10.17.39-AMNicki Minaj is born as Onika Tanya Maraj in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago to Robert Maraj and Carol Maraj. Her father works as a financial executive while her mother is an accounting clerk. She has two brothers and a sister. She attends the Clarence Witherspoon School in Queens.

I don’t think I had lot of discipline in my home. My mom motivated me, but it wasn’t a strict household.

12 Aug, 1982

Chris Melendez born in Brooklyn, NY

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Melendez is born in Brooklyn, New York. He develops an early interest in the military and professional wrestling.

I was always attracted to it, these larger-than-life characters. I could see myself being one of them one day.