Famous peoples Birthdays for the 17th January

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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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Anthony Glise was born January 17, 1956 in St. Joseph, Missouri..He is a classical guitarist, composer and author. He is the only American guitarist who has won first prize in the International Toscanini Competition held in Italy and is also the only guitarist to be chosen as "Individual Artist of the Year" by the Missouri State Arts Council....His musical training began at a very early age under tutelage from his mother (a piano teacher) and father (an amateur baritone vocalist)...While in Boston, he pursued studies in classical guitar, composition, musicology, early music performance practice and historical dance, under Robert Paul Sullivan..In 1991 Glise became the only American-born guitarist to win First Prize at the International Toscanini Competition Italy, with an unprecedented unanimous vote from the competition jury. In 2006 "Individual Artist of the Year, 2006" (Jefferson City, US), presented by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt. (first guitarist ever cited for this award)...

Andy Kaufman was born January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984 in New York City, New York..He was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist...He grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and began performing at the age of 9. He attended the now defunct two-year Grahm Junior College in Boston, graduating in 1971. After leaving college he began performing stand-up comedy at various small clubs along the East coast....Another well-known Kaufman character is Tony Clifton, an abusive lounge singer who began opening for Kaufman at comedy clubs and eventually even performed concerts on his own around the country...He appeared in his first theatrical film God Told Me To in 1976, where he portrayed a murderous policeman. He also appeared in several others, including as a televangelist in the 1980 film In God We Tru$t. In 1983 diagnosed with cancer in December 1983. Despite his doctor's diagnosis that there was no hope for recovery..He was committed to fighting the disease until his death.

Maury Povich was born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C..He is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury which has earned him national recognition due to the paternity tests that are often aired...He is the son of Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich, who wrote a weekly column for the paper for more than 70 years. he followed his father into the journalism arena. In 1966, Povich was a news reporter and sportscaster for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. In 1967, he became the original host of the station's popular midday talk show, Panorama, which brought the rising star widespread acclaim and national recognition. Povich has become a popular culture icon in the United States. He and Maury were satirized on the South Park episode "Freak Strike".

Shari Lewis was born January 17, 1933 - August 2, 1998..She was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. Her parents encouraged her to perform, and by age 13 her father taught her to perform specialized magic acts. She also received instruction in acrobatics, juggling, piano and violin. She was taught ventriloquism by John W. Cooper., Lewis and her puppetry won first prize on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts television show. In March 1956, she and Lamb Chop were on Captain Kangaroo and by 1960 she had her own television program. On August 2, 1998, Lewis died while undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, for uterine cancer with which she had been diagnosed two months earlier. She developed viral pneumonia and died, aged 65.

James Earl Jones was born January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, U.S. He is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage..His first film role was as a young and trim B-52 crewman in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964 which was more famous for the work of Peter Sellers and Slim Pickens. His first big role came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in the film version of the Broadway play, The Great White Hope which was based on the life of boxer Jack Johnson. He has appeared in many roles since, but is best known as the sinister voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films.Jones has been married to Cecilia Hart since 1982, with whom he has two children..

Eartha Kitt was born Eartha Mae Keith on January 17, 1927 in North, South Carolina, U.S. She is an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She is best known for her role as Catwoman in the 1960s TV series Batman, and for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby...."Kitt got her start as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in Casbah 1948. A talented singer with a distinctive voice, her hits include "Let's Do It", "C'est si bon", "Just an Old Fashioned Girl", "Monotonous", "Love for Sale" to name a few..In 1950, Orson Welles gave her her first starring role, as Helen of Troy in his staging of Dr. Faustus.In the late 1990s she appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West in the North American national touring company of The Wizard of Oz..She was a great friend of the actor James Dean and makes appearances in films about the late actor. Orson Welles once called her "the most exciting woman in the world."

Betty White was born January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois..She is a five-time Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress with a career spanning sixty years. Before embarking on her television career, White found work modeling as a glamour model. She launched her television career with her portrayal of Elizabeth on Life with Elizabeth from 1953 to 1955...White also made frequent game show appearances on What's My Line? (starting in 1955), To Tell the Truth (in 1961 and in 1990), I've Got a Secret (in 1972-73), Match Game (1973-1982) and Pyramid (starting in 1982). White has lent her voice to several cartoons including The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Wild Thornberrys, and Family Guy.White is a pet enthusiast and animal welfare activist and works with a number of animal organizations including the Los Angeles Zoo Commission, the Morris Animal Foundation, and Actors & Others for Animals.

Al Capone was born January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947)n Brooklyn, New York. He is well known as Scarface..He was an Italian American gangster..Capone began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming the boss of the criminal organization known as the Chicago Outfit (although his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer..Capone's life of crime began early. As a teenager, he joined two gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors, and engaged in petty crime.After his initial stint with small-time gangs, Capone joined the notorious Five Points Gang, headed by Frankie Yale. It was at this time that he began working as a bartender and a bouncer at Yale's establishment, the seedy Harvard Inn. It was there that Capone got the scars that gave him the nickname "Scarface." 1947, Capone had an apoplectic stroke. He regained consciousness and started to improve but contracted pneumonia on January 24, and suffered a cardiac arrest the next day

Kid Rock was born January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan..He is an American musician...Ritchie's career started at the age of 11, as a member of the b-boy group 'The Furious Funkers'. After the success of Run DMC and The Beastie Boys, he bought a cheap belt driven turntable and honed his craft. In high school, Ritchie would DJ parties for beer. He eventually joined Bo Wisdom of Groove Time Productions, in Mt. Clemens, where he played a few shows. It was during these shows that he was given his stage name; Wisdom dubbed him with the moniker 'Kid Rock' after fans had enjoyed watching "that white kid rock."Kid started rapping and would go on to join hip hop group, The Beast Crew. The Beast Crew was comprised of The Blackman, Champtown, KDC, Crisp and Doc Rounce Cee. On December 17,2007 Kid Rock joined Robin Williams,Lance Armstrong,Lewis Black and Miss USA Rachel Smith for a Christmas USO Tour in Iraq...

Susanna Hoffs was born January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California..She is an American vocalist and rhythm guitarist..Her mother played records of The Beatles for Hoffs when she was a child and she began playing the guitar in her teens. She eventually joined with Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson, which would later become The Bangles. With her increasing fame, she also appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, and the Rickenbacker guitar company issued a Susanna Hoffs model of the 350 (which she customized herself), which she still plays during live shows.Hoffs appeared in the first Austin Powers movie as a member of the fictitious 1960s rock group Ming Tea, fronted by the title character. In real-life, Ming Tea consisted of actor Mike Myers, Hoffs, Canadian musician/producer Christopher Ward, and singer Matthew Sweet. In 1993, she married Jay Roach, the director of the Austin Powers movies and Meet the Parents and producer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yvonne Zima was born January 16, 1989 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey..She is an American actress best known for her long-term portrayal of Rachel Greene in ER, having first appeared in the 1994 pilot episode......In films, her breakthrough came when she appeared as Geena Davis' daughter "Caitlin" in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight. ..Her older sisters Madeline and Vanessa are also actresses; they share an official website.

Yvonne completed a novel when she was sixteen titled The Rise and Fall of a Deliberate Weirdo....

Vidal Sassoon was born January 17, 1928 in London, England..He is a hairdresser.....By the early 1980s, after moving to the United States, Sassoon had sold his name to manufacturers of haircare products and the multinational Procter & Gamble was applying his name to shampoos and conditioners sold worldwide....Vidal Sassoon has authored several books, including A Year of Beauty and Health co-written with his former wife, Beverly Sassoon......In 1982, Sassoon started the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, or SICSA, a research center devoted to the non-political, interdisciplinary gathering of information about antisemitism. In the late 1940s, he was a member of the 43 Group.Vidal Sassoon is married Beverly Adams...

Anne Bronte was born January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849 in Thornton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England..She was a British novelist and poet..1845 she worked as a governess while writing in her spare time, which she had begun to do in early childhood..in 1846, a year after she began her first novel, Agnes Grey. It was published within a month of Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre and was bound in three volumes with her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, shortly before the deaths of her brother Branwell and her sister Emily in September and December of 1848 respectively....Anne died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the seaside resort of Scarborough, England, where she had gone to convalesce after a prolonged illness. A blue plaque on the wall of the town's Grand Hotel marks her place of death. She was buried in the town's Saint Mary's Churchyard.

Benjamin Franklin was born January 17 1706 - April 17, 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts..He was one of the most important and influental Founding Fathers of the United States of America....Franklin learned printing from his older brother and became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy, writing and publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin was interested in science and technology, and gained international renown for his famous experiments..Franklin is known to have played the violin, the harp, and the guitar. He also composed music, notably a string quartet in early classical style..Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at age 84. His funeral was attended by approximately 20,000 people. He was interred in Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia.

Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S...He is a retired American boxer....Ali was best known for his fighting style which he described as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". His movement is often described as a dance, beautiful even....Ali was first directed toward boxing by Louisville police officer Joe E. Martin, who encountered the twelve year old Cassius Clay who was fuming over his bicycle being stolen. After his Olympic triumph, Ali returned to Louisville to begin his professional career. There, on October 29, 1960, he won his first professional fight, a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker, who was the police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and the BBC.Ali lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his 4th wife, Yolanda 'Lonnie' Ali. They own a house in Berrien Springs, Michigan, which is for sale. On January 9, 2007, they purchased a house in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky...

Mack Sennett was born January 17, 1880 - November 5, 1960 in Richmond, the province of Quebec, Canada ..He was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy. Sennett became a singer, dancer, clown, actor (mostly playing low comedy parts, usually oafish rural types), set designer and director for Biograph.With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California, (which is now a part of Echo Park). The original main building, the first totally enclosed film stage and studio in history, is still there.Sennett's slapstick comedies were noted for their wild car chases and custard pie warfare. His first comedienne was Mabel Normand, who became a major star (and with whom he embarked on a tumultuous personal relationship..He died on November 5, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 80 and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Dwyane Wade was born January 17, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois..He is an American basketball player who currently plays for the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association (NBA)...After entering the league with little fanfare as the fifth pick in the 2003 NBA Draft, Wade has become one of the more accomplished young players in the NBA today. After making the All-Rookie team in his first season, and the All-Star team the following two seasons, Wade led the Miami Heat to their first NBA Championship in franchise history in his third pro campaign..He has his own line of shoes with Converse named "The Wade" and T-Mobile released a series of Sidekick phones known as the D-Wade Edition. His nicknames include D-Wade and Flash, which was given to him by Shaquille O'Neal who would sing, "He's the greatest in the Universe," in reference to the Queen song of the same name from the 1980 film Flash Gordon..

Jim Carrey was born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario..He is a Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American actor and comedian...In 1990, Carrey's breakthrough came when he landed a starring comedic role on the hit television show In Living Color. Carrey made his film debut in a minor role in Rubberface 1983..He is known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene, The Cable Guy, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.He went public about his bouts with depression in a November 2004 interview on 60 Minutes. Carrey has made calls to the public, by way of internet videos, to try and bring attention to the political suppression in Burma, especially of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he describes as a "hero of his.

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