Triple H born in Nashua, NH
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.
Jennifer Lopez norn in New York City
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.
Dustin Rhodes born in Austin, TX
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.
McCartney, Eastman marry
McCartney marries Eastman in a civil ceremony in London. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Marylebone Register Office to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrived with Eastman’s six-year-old daughter, Heather, from a previous marriage.
Levi Eshkol dies at 73
Levi Eshkol dies of a heart attack (his third) at his official residence where is recovering from a case of the flu. He complains of chest pains, at which point a doctor is called but he dies several hours later. Eshkol is survived by his third wife and four daughters.
Dave Batista born in Washington, D.C.
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.
Kurt Angle born in Mt. Lebanon, PA
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
Michael Cole born in Syracuse, NY
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.
Erwitt, Dann marry
Erwitt marries his second wife, Dann, a Swedish-Irish American woman that at first he meets around 1963. He meets her again in 1968, while working on various photo shoots in nudist colonies in Ireland, and they marry. Dann:
He sees himself as one of those rag-tag mongrels, a little sad- eyed dog on his way to a great journey, or just stopping off for a few moments from one.
William Regal born in Codsall, UK
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.
Melissa Rivers born in New York
Melissa Warburg Rosenberg is born in Manhattan. She is the only child to Rosenberg and Joan Rivers. She takes her Mom’s stage name “Rivers” in 1990.
Scott Walker born in Colorado Springs
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.
Eddie Guerrero born in El Paso, Tx
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.
Nicole Kidman born in Honolulu, Hawaii
Nicole 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.
Dorothy Parker dies age 73
Parker dies of a heart attack in New York. She has outlived her friends and family. Her epitaph reads:
This Is On Me.
Kane born in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
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.
Jack Ruby dies age 55
Ruby dies of a pulmonary embolism caused by lung cancer in Parkfield Hospital shortly prior to when his second trial would have commenced. Parkfield Hospital is the same hospital where both JFK was pronounced dead and Oswald dies. He denies he is part of a conspiracy until his end.
I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.
Born in Glasgow
Mark is born in Glasgow and grows up in Kilwinning and Irvine, 30 miles south of Glasgow. Mary grows up in Uddingston, a village near Glasgow.
John “Bradshaw” Layfield born in Sweetwater, TX
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.
Born in Johnstone, Scotland
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.