Famous peoples Birthdays for the 24th February

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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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Billy Zane was born born February 24, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois. He is an American actor and director and the the son of Thalia and William George Zane, Sr, both of whom were amateur actors and founders of a school for medical technicians. first screen role was in Back to the Future 1985 playing one of Biff Tannen's friends-henchmen. He later reprised the role for the 1989 sequel, Back to the Future II. Later the same year. He gained recognised with the role of psychotic villain Hughie Warriner in the thriller Dead Calm, alongside Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill. He also starred in the NBC film, The Case of the Hillside Stranglers 1989. He his role as Caledon Hockley in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic, as the deranged psychopath Hughie Warriner in Dead Calm, and as The Phantom in the 1996 eponymous. As of 2008, Zane has appeared in over 50 films and numerous TV-series.. In 1999, Zane participated in the first Gumball 3000 rally, driving a 1964 Aston Martin DB5.

Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. He is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc, and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.Jobs attended Cupertino Middle School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, and frequented after school lectures at the Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then backpacked around India in search of philosophical enlightenment. He did go and came back with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, He experimented with LSD, calling these experiences "one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life. Now He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Steve Jobs is listed as Fortune Magazine's most powerful businessman of 2007 out of twenty five other top businessmen.

Edward James Olmos was born February 24, 1947 in East Los Angeles, California. He is an Emmy winning and Oscar nominated American born Latino actor and director. He grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player and became the Golden State batting champion. In his teen years, he turned to rock and roll, and became the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean, so-called because it was "the biggest thing on the West Coast".In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called "El Pachuco", in the play Zoot Suit. His his most memorable roles were Gaff in Blade Runner, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re imagined series. He guest-starred in the series finale of the ABC sitcom George Lopez, titled George Decides to Sta-Local Where It's Familia as the new multi-millionare owner. Asteroid 5608 Olmos is named in his honor.

Joe Lieberman was born February 24, 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut. He is a United States Senator from Connecticut. Lieberman was elected as a "reform Democrat" to the Connecticut Senate in 1970, where he served for 10 years, including the last six as Majority Leader. He suffered his first defeat in Connecticut elections in the Reagan landslide year of 1980, losing the race for the Third District Congressional seat to Republican Lawrence Joseph DeNardis, a state senator from suburban Hamden with whom he had worked closely on bipartisan legislative efforts. From 1982 to 1988, he served as Connecticut's 21st Attorney General and emphasized consumer protection and environmental enforcement.He attempted to become the Democratic nominee in the 2004 Presidential election, but was unsuccessful.Lieberman endorsed Republican John McCain for President of the United States on December 16, 2007.

James Farentino was Born February 24, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American actor. He is best known for appearing in almost a hundred roles, among them in The Final Countdown, Jesus of Nazareth and Dynasty. He starred opposite Patty Duke in the 1969 film Me, Natalie and appeared as Frank Chaney in the short lived 1984 ABC series Blue Thunder, based on the 1983 film of the same name starring Roy Scheider. In the late 1990s, he appeared as Doug Ross' estranged father Ray on ER.Farentino was charged with stalking his former girlfriend Tina Sinatra (youngest child of Frank Sinatra) in 1993..He has been married 4 times.

Michel Legrand was born February 24, 1932 in les Bruyerres, France..He is a French- Armenian musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. He was one of the first Europeans to work with jazz innovators such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. His jazz-oriented projects, though infrequent, have been almost uniformly outstanding. While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, and Art Farmer in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz standards titled Legrand Jazz. He has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars out of 13 nominations, five Grammys. His sister, Christiane Legrand, was a member of The Swingle Singers.

Dennis Waterman was born February 24, 1948 in Clapham, London. He is an English actor and singer whos career began in childhood. In 1961 he played the part of Winthrop Paroo in the Adelphi Theatre production of The Music Man. In 1962 he starred as William Brown in the BBC TV series William based on the Just William books of Richmal Crompton. He became well-known and something of a pin-up as DS George Carter in The Sweeney, during the 1970s. As well as starring in Minder, he sang the theme tune, "I Could Be So Good For You", which was a top three UK hit in 1980, and had a brief singing career. He also appeared on stage as Alfred P. Doolittle in the 2001 London revival of My Fair Lady. He currently narrates the TV programme, Bad Lads Army to name a few. Waterman is a fan of Chelsea F.C. His love of football was reflected in him being chosen to present "Match of the Seventies" from 1995 to 1996.

George Harrison, MBE was born 24th February 1943 - 29 November 2001 in Liverpool, England,. He was an English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles..In the early days of the group, when it was still called the Quarrymen, Harrison was asked by McCartney to join, after John asked Paul. Harrison was the youngest member of the group, initially looked upon as a kid by the others. He was never officially asked to join the group, but hung out with the others and filled in when he was needed, and was soon looked upon as one of the group..Following the band's breakup, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury. He was also a film producer, with his production company Handmade Films, involving people as diverse as Madonna and the members of Monty Python. 2003, He was ranked #21 in Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame on 1 August 2006.

Kristin Davis was born February 23 or February 24! 1965 in in Boulder, Colorado. She is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award nominated actress. In 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1995 she got her big break when she landed the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. She left the show after one year when producers found that viewers disliked her less-than-agreeable character. Davis also had roles in other television series including Friends and Seinfeld. In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in "Sex and the City",which she remained an integral cast member until the series ended in 2004. She has also hosted the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons and also performed in ABC Family's Christmas movie, Three Days, and starred in a commercial for Head and Shoulders in 2006.

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