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4 Nov, 1969

Matthew McConaughey born in Uvalde, Texas

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682968-a7b1bf36-1f10-11e4-bee2-80d82dcd29dfMatthew McConaughey is born in Uvalde, Texas to Mary Kathleen and James Donald McConaughey. His father runs an oil pipe supply businesses while his mother is a published author. He has two elder brothers. He attends Longview High School.

I had a very fortunate upbringing. I had mom and dad that spent a lot of time with us.

28 Aug, 1969

Sheryl Sandberg born in Washington, D.C.

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article-2286584-185C617F000005DC-853_634x866Sheryl Sandberg is born in Washington, D.C. to Adele and Joel Sandberg. Her father works as an ophthalmologist while her mother is a college teacher. She has a younger sister and a younger brother. She attends North Miami Beach High School.

Looking back on my childhood, I thought of myself as a little bossy.

27 Jul, 1969

Triple H born in Nashua, NH

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Triple H (Paul Michael Levesque) is born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He begins watching professional wrestling at age five and begins bodybuilding at age 14. As a young man he enters Killer Kowalski’ professional wrestling training school to pursue the sport as a career.

24 Jul, 1969

Jennifer Lopez norn in New York City

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Jennifer Lynn Lopez is born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, to Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez. Her birth follows an older sister, Leslie, and precedes a younger sister, Lynda.

11 Apr, 1969

Dustin Rhodes born in Austin, TX

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Rhodes is born in Austin, Texas despite being billed from Hollywood, California in WWE. He is the son of WWE legend, Dusty Rhodes. He develops an early interest in wrestling due to his father’s involvement with the sport.

18 Jan, 1969

Dave Batista born in Washington, D.C.

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Batista (David Michael Bautista) is born in Washington, D.C. He grows up in a tough neighborhood, claiming to witness many traumatic events as a child.

We saw a couple of people die. There were fights all the time, stabbings were common. That’s all I knew. It didn’t seem out of the norm to me. Yes, there was a dead body in the alley, but I was still out there playing with my friends.

9 Dec, 1968

Kurt Angle born in Mt. Lebanon, PA

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Angle is born in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He develops an early interest in amateur wrestling and begins wrestling at age seven.

That’s all I dreamed about. I didn’t have fun as a kid. I didn’t go out and go to the movies. [Wrestling] is all I did. I was a kid with a dream. I wasn’t going to let anyone stop me. I had a very selfish childhood

8 Dec, 1968

Michael Cole born in Syracuse, NY

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Cole is born in Syracuse, New York. He develops an interest in broadcasting as a young man and begins his career while working for CBS Radio. Cole decides to pursue professional wrestling broadcasting when a friend recommends him to the WWE for steady work.

10 May, 1968

William Regal born in Codsall, UK

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Regal (Darren Kenneth Matthews) is born is born in Codsall, UK despite being billed from Liverpool, England during his wrestling career. Regal begins wrestling as a young man in shoot fights at a show bar at age fifteen. He would then pursue professional wrestling in local English promotions.

2 Nov, 1967

Scott Walker born in Colorado Springs

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Scott Walker is born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Llewellyn, a pastor, and Patricia Walker, a department store bookkeeper who also writes a column for the local newspaper. His family moves to Plainview, Iowa, when he is 2-1/2 years old where his father takes a job as pastor of the First Baptist Church. His third grade teacher says he is:

An excellent student. He was a mischievous little boy, but he wasn’t naughty.

When he is 10, they move to Delavan, Wisconsin. In 1985 he is selected as an Eagle Scout to represent Wisconsin at the American Legion Boys Nation in Washington, D.C.

9 Oct, 1967

Eddie Guerrero born in El Paso, Tx

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Guerrero is born in El Paso, Texas. He is the son of legendary wrestler and promoter Gory Guerrero. He begins amateur wrestling in college at The University of New Mexico and decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and pursue professional wrestling.

20 Jun, 1967

Nicole Kidman born in Honolulu, Hawaii

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ead7544166b8a2378f9a5227dfd25cc8Nicole Kidman is born in Honolulu, Hawaii to nursing instructor Janelle Ann and biochemist, clinical psychologist David Kidman. Her parents are of Australian descent. She has a younger sister named Antonia. She attends Lane Cove Public School in Sydney.

I remember Halloweening when I was about three, with my parents when we lived in Washington, D.C. And then I remember eating snow when I was about three as well — wanting to taste it and being told I wasn’t allowed to but still secretly doing it. Isn’t that crazy? And I have a vivid memory of both of those things.

26 Apr, 1967

Kane born in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain

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Kane is born in  Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid while his father (a member of the United States Air Force) is stationed there. He develops an early interest in sports and pursues basketball and football in college. He attends  Northeast Missouri State University to obtain a degree in English literature.

29 Nov, 1966

John “Bradshaw” Layfield born in Sweetwater, TX

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Layfield is born in Sweetwater, Texas. He develops an early interest in sports, pursuing football through high school and college. He attends Abilene Christian University as a student athlete before deciding to pursue professional wrestling.

8 Nov, 1966

Born in Johnstone, Scotland

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Gordon James Ramsay, Jr. is born in Johnstone, Scotland to Gordon James Sr., a shopkeeper, and Helen Ramsay, a nurse. Ramsay has describes his childhood as one filled with neglect and abuse from his “hard-drinking womanizer” father and later moved out at the age of sixteen. Ramsay’s father did not approve of his passion for cooking and often used gay slurs while talking to him about it.

He taught me how to swim and I think that’s important. His method involved holding my head underwater for minutes on end.

21 Sep, 1966

Abby Lee Miller born in Pittsburgh, PA

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15534_325335285082_774810082_9902854_1795727_nAbby Lee Miller is born in Pittsburgh, PA as the first and only child of Maryen Lorrain and George L. Miller. She takes dance lessons at her mother’s studio, the Mareyn Lorrain Dance Studio, from an early age, but then realizes she prefers working behind the scenes to performing. She starts the Abby Lee Miller Dance Company at age 14. Reflecting on her childhood, Miller states:

Obviously, I took classes all my life at my mother’s studio. Intuitively my mother chose not to push me or let me hang out at the studio. My dad took me to my class each week in addition to Girl Scouts (how much fun can you have for a quarter a week?), clarinet lessons (really hurt right after your braces were tightened), roller skating, ice skating, sewing lessons at Sears, swim team in the summer, ski club in the winter, and let’s not forget Charm School!

14 Aug, 1966

Halle Berry born in Cleveland

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halle berryHalle Maria Berry is born in Cleveland to mother Judith Ann Hawkins and father Jerome Jesse Berry. Berry’s mother, a psychiatric nurse, raises Berry and her sister Heidi, after her husband leaves them.

My mom always said, ‘Beauty is what you do’.