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.
Abby Lee Miller born in Pittsburgh, PA
Abby 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!
Halle Berry born in Cleveland
Halle 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’.
Nhamodzenyika dies age three
Nhamodzenyika Mugabe dies due to a severe attack of malaria at three years old.
Darius Rucker born in Charleston, South Carolina
Darius Rucker is born in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother, Carolyn, looks after him and his siblings, due to the fact that his father is never really around. At one point in his life, he lives in a three-bedroom home with 14 brothers, sisters and cousins, a couple of aunts, his mother and his maternal grandmother. Although they barely get by, Rucker enjoys his childhood.
We had a great neighborhood. We just did what kids do. We hung out, played sports
Ben Stiller born in New York City
Benjamin Edward Meara “Ben” Stiller is born in New York City to comedian Jerry Stiller and actress Anne Meara. He has an elder sister named Amy. He attends The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine.
In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing—a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights—not what you’d call traditional.
Ashley Highfield born
0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin2016-04-07 20:11:262016-04-07 20:11:26Ashley Highfield bornPaul Heyman born in Scarsdale, NY
Heyman is born in Scarsdale, New York. Heyman runs a mail order business through his teenage years and becomes a wrestling photographer as a young man, selling many photographs to WWE. He begins working closely with professional wrestling by age 14.
Charlie Sheen born in New York
The actor is born under the name, Carlos Irwin Estévez. His father, Martin Sheen, is an an actor just breaking into the business with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen, is a former New York art student . Sheen has three other siblings , Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez, who are all actors.
What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.
Shawn Michaels born in San Antonio, Tx.
Michaels (Michael Shawn Hickenbottom) is born in Chandler, Arizona. He is the youngest of four children. He grows up in San Antonio, Texas. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling and other sports. He begins playing football at age six. As a young adult he drops out of college to pursue a career in professional wrestling. After training under the tutelage of Jose Lothario, he makes his professional debut for NWA Mid-South at the age of nineteen.
Rivers, Rosenberg marry
Rivers and Rosenberg marry. The two met while appearing on The Tonight Show.
It was a good match. We filled each other’s gaps like two pieces of a puzzle. I gave him warmth. He gave me style.
Moshe Sharett dies at 71
Sharett dies of lung cancer at Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital. After being in and out of the hospital for several months he is reportedly doing well until he is hospitalized again, falls into a coma and dies. The family discloses his will that:
News of my death not be published through mourning notices in the streets; no eulogies should be delivered at my funeral and interment; I should be laid to rest in the old cemetery at Tel Aviv, next to the graves of Dov Hoz and Eliahu Golomb.
Mick Foley born in Bloomington, Indiana
Foley (Michael Francis Foley) is born in Bloomington, Indiana. He pursues wrestling and lacrosse while in high school. He begins wrestling training as a young man under the tutelage of Dominic DeNucci. He makes his professional wrestling debut in 1983.
Robert Downey, Jr. born in New York City
Robert John Downey, Jr. is born in New York City’s Greenwich Village to parents in the entertainment industry. His father, Robert Downey, Sr, is actor, filmmaker, and producer, and his mother Elise Ford, is a singer and dancer. He has a sister named Allyson who is two years older than him. His father’s work requires the family to move a lot, and in 1977, his parents divorce. He lives with his mother in New York, while his sister stays with their dad in California. On his bohemian-influenced upbringing:
But speaking of the way I grew up, my mom and dad were actually kind of squares who found themselves entrenched in the counterculture, underground film making world. So it was all the people you would expect to be around Greenwich Village at that time, and to me, it was just really natural.
The Undertaker born in Houston, Texas
Undertaker is born in Houston, Texas. He grows up with four brothers and develops an early interest in basketball. He pursues basketball through high school and college at Texas Wesleyan University.
Booker T born in Houston, Tx.
Booker is born in Houston, Tx. He is the youngest of eight siblings. Both of his parents die by the time he reached fourteen years old. Booker becomes a drum major, basketball player and football player while in high school.
All the mistakes I made coming up prepared me to be the man I’ve become today. I needed those experiences to mold the person people see before them today.
Winston Churchill dies age 90
Churchill dies in his home in London, nine days after a stroke induced coma from which he never awakens. He is unhappy with his failing health.
I’m so bored with it all.
Robert Scoble born in California
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Hawking, Wilde marry
Despite his ailing health, Hawking continues his education at Cambridge. He marries Jane Wilde, an acquaintance from his years at Oxford. Wilde agrees to marry him in spite of his life threatening condition.
I loved Stephen so much that nothing could deter me from wanting to marry him: I would cook and wash and shop and make a home for him, dismissing all my own previous ambitions which were now insignificant by comparison with the challenge before me.
Paul Graham born in Weymouth, England
Paul Graham is born in Weymouth, Dorset. The family moves to the U.S. and he grows up outside Pittsburgh, where his father works as a physicist designing nuclear reactors and his mother takes raises him and his sister. He starts writing computer code in high school, including a program to predict the flight path of model rockets.
If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I’d tell him would be to stick his head up and look around.