Famous peples Birthdays for the 1st of March

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Below are some very famous celebrities, Past and present, who have their Birthday today. Some you will have heard of and others you may not have.

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David Niven was born March 1, 1910 - July 29, 1983 in London, England. He was an Academy Award-winning English actor. His first work as an extra was as a Mexican in a Western. This inauspicious start notwithstanding, he then found himself an agent - Bill Hawks. After this, he was then signed up for a non-speaking part in MGM's "Mutiny On The Bounty" (1935), starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh.He then landed a longterm contract as a supporting player with independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, which firmly established his career and enabled him to become a leading man in many films. One of his first major roles was in The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1936, 1937's The Prisoner of Zenda, However, not wanting to be typecast as a 'swashbuckler' as Flynn had been, Niven also made films in a light hearted vein such as the 1939 RKO comedy Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers, and Raffles 1939 fil), in which he played a gentleman thief..Niven died on the same day as Raymond Massey, his co-star in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter Of Life And Death.

Ralph Ellison was born March 1, 1913- April 16, 1994 in Oklahoma City U.S. He was a scholar and writer. Early in life he became enamored of music, studying trumpet and piano. Ellison lived at a time when several great jazz musicians were in Oklahoma City, so he became immersed in that genre of music as well as the classical composition which he studied in school. Jimmy Rushing would be a particularly strong influence..Ellison was also an accomplished sculptor, musician, photographer and college professor. He taught at Bard College, Rutgers, the University of Chicago, and New York University. Ellison was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers..He was best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act 1964, a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory 1986.He died of pancreatic cancer on April 16, 1994, and was buried in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City..After his death, more manuscripts were discovered in his home, resulting in the publication of Flying Home: And Other Stories in 1996.

Glenn Miller was born March 1, 1904- December 15, 1944 in Clarinda, Iowa. He was an American jazz musician and band leader in the swing era...In 1923, Miller entered the University of Colorado where he joined Sigma Nu Fraternity, but spent most of his time away from school, attending auditions and playing any gigs he could get, most notably with Boyd Senter's band in Denver. He dropped out of school after failing three out of five classes one semester, and decided to concentrate on making a career as a professional musician. He later studied the Schillinger technique with Joseph Schillinger..He later bacame one of the best selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands". Miller's signature recordings include, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and"Moonlight Serenade"..While travelling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found.In 2003, Miller posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jensen Ackles was born March 1, 1978 in Dallas, Texas. He is an American television actor who done modeling off and on since he was a young child at the age of 4. He later planned to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and become a physical therapist before moving to Los Angeles to become an actor.He appeared in several guest roles on Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High, and Cybill..He is best known for his television roles as Eric Brady in Days of Our Lives and Jason Teague in Smallville. He currently plays Dean Winchester on the CW series Supernatural.He won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer in 1998. He also appeared on stage from June 5-10, 2007 with Lou Diamond Phillips in A Few Good Men at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth Texas as Lt. Daniel Kaffee..

Russell Wong was born March 1, 1963. He is an American actor and photographer as well as the brother of actor-model Michael Wong. Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer (appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among others) before scoring his first screen roles in 1985, appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping (aka Musical Dancer) and in a screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller Tai-Pan..He finally scored a high-profile breakthrough role in 1994, when he was cast in the leading role in the made-for-TV movie Vanishing Son, in which he played a Chinese political activist exiled in America including major roles in Romeo Must Die, as well as the made-for-TV epic The Lost Empire and in Prophesy II, The Tracker..

Nik Kershaw was born March 1, 1958 in Bristol, England. He is an English singer-songwriter. After leaving school in 1976, Kershaw worked as a shop assistant and in the Department of Employment for several years, during which time he played guitar and sang in a number of underground Ipswich bands. However, when the last of these, Fusion, split up in 1982, he embarked on a full time career as a songwriter and performer. In 1983, he signed a recording contract with MCA Records, a deal which spawned his debut single, "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". At the beginning of 1984, Kershaw released his breakthrough song "Wouldn't It Be Good", featuring a music video of Kershaw as a chroma key-suited alien. The song reached Number 4 in the UK Singles Chart, and was a big success in Europe attracting admirers such as Elton John for his writing. Over the years, Nik Kershaw has collaborated on albums with artists such as Elton John, Bonnie Tyler, Tony Banks, Les Rythmes Digitales, Michael W. Smith and Imogen Heap.

Ron Howard was born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma. He is an Award-winning American actor and Academy Award-winning film director and producer. He is also the son of Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard, a director, writer, and actor. His younger brother, Clint Howard is a well-known character actor...Howard first earned recognition for playing Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp in the film version of The Music Man with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. After The Music Man, he appeared in the role of Opie Taylor in the television series The Andy Griffith Show, which was the successful spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show. He is also well known for his role as Richie Cunningham in television's Happy Days..He has since directed a number of great films, the most acclaimed of which include "Splash", "Willow", "Cocoon", "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind" for which he won the Oscar for "Best Director", and Cinderella Man. His latest film, "The Da Vinci Code" has been a box office hit earning nearly a billion dollars at the box office.On a VH1 special about the 100 greatest child stars, many of the interviewees considered Ron Howard to be the most successful child star of all-time

Alan Thicke was born March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. He is a Canadian actor, songwriter, game show host and talk-show emcee and the son, Robin Thicke, is a popular musician. Thicke was a guest on Later with Bob Costas. In the 1980s, he hosted a Saturday morning game show called Animal Crack-Ups. Then in 1997, he also hosted a television version of the board game Pictionary. In the early 2000s, he hosted All New 3's a Crowd on Game Show Network.He was also the host of his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called The Alan Thicke Show. The show at one point spawned a prime time spin-off entitled Prime Cuts, which consisted of edited highlights from the talk show..He has made a cameo appearance in a holiday Lexus commercial in the late 90s where he played various characters and had a quick cameo in the 2007 movie Alpha Dog, starring Emile Hirsch, as the father of the lead character's girlfriend. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains.

Roger Daltrey CBE was born 1 March 1944 in Hammersmith, London. He is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor. He became a sheet metal worker during the day, while practicing and performing nights with the band at weddings, pubs and men's clubs. He invited schoolmate John Entwistle to play bass in the band, and on the advice of Entwistle, invited Pete Townshend to play guitar. At that time, the band consisted of Daltrey on lead guitar, Pete Townshend on rhythm guitar, John Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals. After Colin Dawson left the band, Daltrey switched to vocals and played harmonica as well, while Townshend became the lead guitarist. In 1964 drummer Doug Sandom left the band, and Keith Moon became The Who's drummer which make up the "Who" for which he is best known for.Daltrey's appearances in over 30 feature films include early starring roles in Tommy, as "deaf, dumb and blind kid" Tommy Walker in 1975; Lisztomania, as Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1975, and McVicar, as British armed robber turned journalist John McVicar in 1980.

Booker T was born March 1, 1965 in Houston, Texas. He is an American professional wrestler. A single father working at a storage company in Houston, Texas, was looking to make a better life for himself and his young son. His brother suggested that he and Booker check out a new wrestling school being opened, run by former WWF star Ivan Putski, in conjunction with his Western Wrestling Alliance organization. His boss from the storage company loaned him the money to pay for the wrestling lessons and Booker began training under another former wrestling star Scott Casey. He is now the owner of Pro Wrestling Alliance and is best known for his work with World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. During his career in WCW and WWF/E, he won a total of six World Championships, a five time WCW Champion and a one time World Heavyweight Champion. In addition, he was the winner of the WWE King of the Ring tournament in 2006 and the sixteenth WWE.

Harry Belafonte was born March 1, 1927 in Harlem, New York. He is an American musician, actor and social activist who started his career in music as a club singer in New York, to pay for his acting classes. The first time he appeared in front of an audience he was backed by the Charlie Parker band, which included Charlie Parker himself, Max Roach, and Miles Davis among others. His first major film role was in Bright Road 1953, in which he appeared alongside Dorothy Dandridge. Belafonte was the first African American man to win an Emmy, with his first solo TV special Tonight with Belafonte 1959. During the 1960s he appeared in a number of TV specials.Belafonte's political beliefs are greatly inspired by the man that he still views to this day as his mentor, singer and activist Paul Robeson. Paul Robeson was in his time a controversial figure for strongly supporting the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. He strongly opposed racial prejudice in the United States, and western colonialism in Africa and is one of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso".

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