Bio
Born November 6, 1955, the very same day as Maria Shriver.
Some of the other people who share this birthday:
- 1854 John Philip Sousa, composer/band conductor (Washington, DC; died 1932)
- 1860 Ignacy Paderewski, composer (Kurylowka, Poland; died 1941)
- 1861 James Naismith, inventor of basketball (Almonte, Ontario, Canada; died 1939)
- 1887 Walter Johnson, baseball pitcher (Humboldt, KS; died 1946)
- 1916 Ray Conniff, bandleader (Attleboro, MA)
- 1931 Mike Nichols, producer/director (Berlin, Germany)
- 1946 Sally Field, actress (Pasadena, CA)
- 1948 Glenn Frey, singer/songwriter (Detroit, MI)
- 1955 Maria Shriver, TV journalist (Chicago, IL)
- 1970 Ethan Hawke, actor (Austin, TX)
The wikipedia entry for 1955 shows a lot of information. Among the celebrities that were born in this year, we have:
- Kevin Costner, American actor
- John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
- Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musician
- John Grisham, American novelist
- Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
- Kelsey Grammer, American actor
- Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
- Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
- Gary Sinise, American actor
- Bruce Willis, American actor
- Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
- Kate Mulgrew, American actress
- Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon
- Debra Winger, American actress
- Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
- Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
- Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
- Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese cellist
- Bill Gates, American software entrepreneur
- Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedienne, and singer
- Elvis Ramone, American drummer The Ramones
- Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
Charlie Parker died in March, Albert Einstein in April; Disneyland opened in July, and James Dean died in September.
Other deaths were:
- January 15 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
- April 7 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
- August 12 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- November 4 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
- November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
And things like this were happening in 1955:
- May 2 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- May 15 - The Austrian Independence Treaty is signed.
- June - Noam Chomsky completes his 752-page magnum opus The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, laying the groundwork for modern Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
- June 20 - Very long (7min 08sec) total solar eclipse visible in Southeast Asia. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the next to last.
- July 27 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
- August 7-21 - Hurricane Diane storms from Nova Scotia to New England – 184 dead
- August 7 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
- September 11 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
- September 19 - Juan Peron resigns and flees to the embassy of Paraguay. Peronist militiamen barricade themselves to their HQ. Army troops defeat them with heavy casualties.
- September 22-28 - Hurricane Janet kills 200 in Honduras and 300 in Mexico.
- October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.
- Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, is founded in the City of New York.
- Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum.
This is only a beginning to my bio page. Check back, as it is [yet another] work-in-progress.
