Barbara Corcoran born in New Jersey
0 0 reuben reuben2014-10-28 15:41:332014-11-02 13:59:52Barbara Corcoran born in New Jersey
Ric Flair born in Memphis, Tenn.
Flair (Richard Morgan Fliehr) is born in Memphis, Tennessee despite being billed from Charlotte, North Carolina his entire career. He attends the University of Minnesota on a football scholarship. After meeting Ken Patera in a bar, he is introduced to Verne Gagne who agrees to train him as a professional wrestler.
Bill Clinton born in Hope, Arkansas
William Jefferson Blythe III is born in Hope, Arkansas to Virginia Cassidy Blythe and William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. His father dies in a car accident before he is born. Clinton spends some of his childhood growing up with his grandparents, who were strict yet instilled in him the importance of education. He attributes his commitment to learning from his grandparents,
They taught me to count and read. I was reading little books when I was 3.
After being reunited with his mother, she marries Roger Clinton and Bill takes on the Clinton last name. From this marriage comes Bill’s half brother, Roger Clinton Jr.
Donald Trump born in Queens, New York
Trump is born to Fred Christ Trump and Mary MacLeod in the Queens borough of New York City, New York. His father is a multimillionaire who develops properties such as high rises and apartments. He attends the Kew Forest School for elementary school but due to behavioral problems there, is sent to the New York Military Academy for high school.
Andre the Giant born in Grenoble, France
Andre (Andre Rene Roussimoff) is born in Grenoble, France. He begins to deal with gigantism as a boy, reaching six feet and three inches by age twelve. At age seventeen he moves to Paris to begin training for professional wrestling.
Yonatan Netanyahu born in New York City
Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu is born in New York City to Benzion and Cela Netanyahu. Both parents are working towards the creation of a Jewish State on behalf of the New Zionist Organization. The family moves back to Israel when Yoni is two and he attends the local school in Jerusalem, Darom. He has two younger brothers.
The best and most beautiful days I ever had were those when I was a little child… hiding in huge fields, covered almost completely by grass, looking for ladybugs, seeing the world as the most marvelous place, and grown-ups—as veritable giants.
Dusty Rhodes born in Austin, Tx
Rhodes (Virgil Riley reynolds Jr) is born in Austin, Texas. Rhodes decides to pursue professional wrestling early in life and begins his professional career as a young man with the American Wrestling Association and various other regional promotions.
Vince McMahon born in Pinehurst, NC
McMahon is born in Pinheurst, North Carolina. McMahon’s father (legendary promoter Vincent James McMahon) leaves the family while Vince is still a child. He does not meet his father until age 12. After graduating from East Carolina University with a business degree, he decides to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Dean Koontz born in Everett, PA
Dean Ray Koontz is born in Everett, Pennsylvania and grows up in Bedford, PA. He is the only child of Ray and Florence Koontz. His alcoholic father and abusive childhood lead to an early love of books:
When I was a kid, writers were my heroes because they took me out of that awful house. Books were an escape from the violence of the household and the poverty.
Omar al-Bashir born
Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir is born to a farming family, and receives his primary education in Hoshe Bannaga, Sudan. He belongs to Al-Bedairyya Al-Dahmashyya, a Bedouin tribe belonging to the larger ja’alin coalition. He completes his secondary education in Khartoum.
George Harrison born in Liverpool, England
George Harrison is born in Liverpool, England to Harold Hargreaves Harrison and Louise Harrison. His father works as a bus conductor while his mother is a shop assistant. He has an elder sister and two elder brothers. He goes to Dovedale Primary School.
My earliest recollection is of sitting on a pot at the top of the stairs having a poop – shouting finished.
Janis Joplin born in Port Arthur, Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin is born in St. Mary’s Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas to a middle-class family. She is the first child of Seth Ward and Dorothy Joplin. Her father works as an engineer at a refinery, while her mother is a Sunday school teacher. She is a pretty, bright, and artistic little girl. In high school, she has shown signs of rebellion against the racial, sexual, and religious conservatism in her place; longing to leave her hometown.
I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
Kent McCord born in Los Angeles
Kent McCord is born Kent Franklin McWhirter to Bert and Laura McWhirter. McWhirter begins working at the age of 10 in his father’s gas station. At the age of 12 he works at the Brackett Field Airport.
I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I’d logged 100 hours at the controls.
Jacob Zuma born in Nkandla, South Aftica
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is born to Gcinamazwi Zuma and Nobhekisisa Bessie in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. His father dies at the end of World War II, after which his mother takes up employment as a domestic worker in Durban. Owing to his deprived childhood, he does not receive any formal schooling. He spends his childhood moving between Zululand and the suburbs of Durban, and by age 15 takes on odd jobs to supplement his mother’s income.
Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England
Stephen William Hawking is born in Oxford, England to research biologist Dr. Frank Hawking and Isobel Hawking. He has two younger sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward. In 1950, Hawking’s family moves to St. Albans, Hertfordshire, where he attends St. Albans High School for Girls, which allowed boys up to the age of 10, before attending St. Albans School. On his early schooling:
At school, I was never more than about halfway up the class. It was a very bright class. My classwork was very untidy, and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein, so presumably they saw signs of something better. When I was twelve, one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don’t know if this bet was ever settled, and if so, which way it was decided…
Fred West born in Much Marcle, England
Frederick Walter Stephen West is born into a poor family of farm workers in Bickerton Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, to Walter Stephen West and Daisy Hannah Hill. He is the 2nd child for the couple. At school, West shows an aptitude for woodwork and artwork, but does not excel academically.
Bernie Sanders born in Brooklyn, NY
Bernie Sanders is born in Brooklyn, New York to Eli Sanders and Dorothy Glassberg. His father is a Jewish immigrant from Poland, who works most of his life as a paint salesman.
Growing up without lots of money. I didn’t have to have a book to tell me how a family gets by when there is not a lot of money. I saw unfairness. That was the major inspiration in my politics.
Hayao Miyazaki born in Tokyo
Hayao Miyazaki is born in Tokyo, Japan to Kastuji Miyazaki (an aeronautical engineer) and Dola Miyazaki. He has three brothers, Arata, Shirou, and Yutaka, and is the second oldest child. The family moves from Tokyo to Utsunomiya City, to get closer to the Miyazaki Airplanes factory in Kanuma City, as well as to avoid the ongoing American bombing of Tokyo.
I spent a lot of time just imagining things. I was a physically weak child, but read a lot. I always wanted to be a strong hero.
Julian Bond born in Nashville, TN
Bond is born at Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the son of Horace and Julia Bond. Julia is a former librarian at Clark Atlanta University. The family resides on campus at Fort Valley State College, where Horace is president. The Bond’s house is a frequent stop for scholars and activists and celebrities passing by. He has two siblings, James and Jane Margaret.
Lee Harvey Oswald born in New Orleans
Oswald is born to Robert Oswald and Marguerite Oswald in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robert Oswald dies two months prior to Oswald’s birth and Oswald’s mother raises him alone. Although considered an intelligent boy, Oswald’s behavior at school is poor.
This 13 year old well built boy has superior mental resources and functions only slightly below his capacity level in spite of chronic truancy from school which brought him into Youth House.