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22 Aug, 1985

The Uso Brothers born in San Francisco, CA

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The Usos are born in San Fransisco, California. The twins are the sons of WWE legend, Rikishi. Due to their family’s heavy involvement in the world of professional wrestling, they follow in their footsteps and pursue a career in wrestling.

1985

Not Nothing Without You

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Noisy_MarthaFrankenberg writes, directs and stars in this comedy (renamed as Noisy Martha in 1987). Co-starring Klaus Bueb as Alfred. 

Martha, at 25, is a single mother, a painter, a filmmaker, impulsive, insecure, happy and unhappy. Financially well off through no fault of her own, her biggest problem, as she sees it, is her superficiality. Then there is Alfred, a decade older than Martha and all the more lost for it, he always seems to have misplaced something… something he thought he’d taken with him, back in ’68. Martha can’t cut it with men, Alfred likewise with women.

9 Aug, 1985

Anna Kendrick born in Portland

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Kendrick is born in Portland, Maine, to Janice Nee Cooke, an accountant and William Kendrick, a history teacher who also deals with finance. She attends Longfellow Elementary School, Lincoln Middle School, and Deering High School in Portland, with her brother, Michael Cooke Kendrick.

30 Jun, 1985

Cody Rhodes born in Marietta, GA

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Rhodes is born in Marietta, Ga. He is the son of WWE legend, Dusty Rhodes and younger brother of Dustin Rhodes. Cody develops an early interest in professional wrestling and pursues it as a career as a young man. He begins working of Ohio Valley Wrestling at the age of 21.

1 Jun, 1985

Mark Karpeles born in France

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Mark Marie Robert Karpelès is born in Chenove, in the Burgundy region of France. His mother is Anne Karpelès, a geologist turned realtor.

He writes his first computer program aged 10, the same year he is sent to Collège Prieuré de Binson, a Catholic boarding school two hours north of Dijon.

1985

Graduates from Princeton

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Obama graduates from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in African-American Studies. During her time at Princeton, she is a member of the Third World Center and Organization of Black Unity. She graduates with cum laude honors. About her freshman year she says,

Neither of my parents graduated from college, so when I got to campus as a freshman, I’ll admit I was a little overwhelmed. I didn’t know how to choose my classes, or find the right classrooms. I didn’t know how to furnish my own dorm room.

25 May, 1985

Roman Reigns born in Pensacola, Fl.

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Reigns is born in Pensacola, Florida. He is the son of Sika Anoa’i of WWE fame. Reigns would grow up with a natural interest in professional wrestling due to his family’s heavy involvement in the sport.

It’s a responsibility (wrestling); I’m from such a prestigious lineage. Multiple WWE Hall of Famers are in my bloodline. It’s one thing to reach par, but I’m trying to hit hole-in-ones every single night.

14 May, 1985

Zack Ryder born in Merrick, NY

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Ryder (Matthew Brett Cardona) is born in Merrick, New York. After developing an early interest in professional wrestling he decides to pursue the sport as a career. He makes his professional debut at age 19 for New york Wrestling Connection.

26 Mar, 1985

Keira Knightley born in Teddington, London

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galleryimage-1028467068-feb-4-2012-600x800Keira Christina Knightley is born in Teddington, London to playwright Sharman Macdonald and actor Will Knightley. She has an elder brother named Caleb. She attends Stanley Junior School in Teddington.

We managed to go on holidays, but there were periods when my parents were out of work and wouldn’t know if they could keep the house.

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.

1984

Weinfeld Bettelheim dies age 72

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Weinfeld “Trude” Bettelheim dies in Menlo Park, CA age 72. After forty-three years of marriage, Bruno is devastated. A brief live-in arrangement with a son ends when difficulties arise between them, and Bettelheim moves into a condominium, where he lives alone.

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.’