Famous peoples Birthdays for the 29th December

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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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Charles Goodyear was born December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860 in New Haven, Connecticut..He was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844.... Although Goodyear is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC.....Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process accidentally after five years of research.....While traveling to see his dying daughter. After arriving in New York, he was informed that she had already died. He collapsed and was taken to the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, where he died at the age of fifty-nine. He is buried in New Haven at Grove Street Cemetery.

Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was the seventeenth President of the United States 1865-1869, succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln....Johnson served as an alderman in Greeneville from 1828 to 1830 and mayor of Greeneville from 1830 to 1833. As a Democrat he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives....On April 14th, 1865, Abe Lincoln went to see a play at Ford's Theater. ....An assassin shot and killed Lincoln that night. Lincoln died early on April 15, 1865. Johnson took office that day as President of the United States.. He was the first Vice President to succeed to the U.S. Presidency upon the assassination of a President and the sixth Vice president to become a President..Johnson's most important foreign policy action was the purchase of Alaska from Russia (the future Soviet Union.

Billy Mitchell was born on December 28, 1879 - February 19, 1936 in Nice, France. He was an American general who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force. He was regarded as one of the most famous and most controversial figures in American airpower history...On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, and Mitchell, by then a lieutenant colonel, was immediately deployed to France. He collaborated extensively with British and French air leaders, studying their strategies as well as their aircraft. Before long, Mitchell had gained enough experience to begin preparations for American air operations. In 2007, the Air Force first awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal, which is based on the insignia painted on Billy Mitchell's own aircraft during World War I.

Jon Voight was born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York..He is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Voight, an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee, has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. Becoming a star in the 1970s.In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career, establishing him as one of the premier actors of his generation... He made his first foray into television movies, acting in 1991's Chernobyl The Final Warning, followed by The Last of his Tribe, in 1992.In the critically-acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the part.

Marianne Faithfull was born 29 December 1946 in Hampstead, London.She is an English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans over four decades.Faithfull's great-great-uncle on her mother's side of the family is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word "masochism".Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses...Faithfull was discovered at a Rolling Stones' launch party by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first major release, "As Tears Go By", was penned by Oldham, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and became a chart success. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Come and Stay With Me".

Ted Danson III was born December 29, 1947 in San Diego, California. He is an American actor notable for his television work, and specifically, for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He is currently a regular on Larry David's HBO sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm.....Danson began his television career as a contract player on daytime soap opera Somerset. .He played the role of Tom Conway from 1975 to 1976... He was also in a number of commercials, most recognizably as the "Aramis man"...Danson has also been featured in numerous films. His most notable film appearance was in Three Men and a Baby with Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg, as well as its sequel.While he was still legally married to Coates, Danson became romantically involved with Whoopi Goldberg. Danson experienced substantial negative press attention after his appearance in blackface at a Friar's Club comedy roast in Goldberg's honor.

Dexter Holland was born December 29, 1965. He is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the Californian punk rock band The Offspring and the owner of the independent record label Nitro Records....After failing to get into a Social Distortion show in 1984, he decided to form a band with friend and fellow cross-country teammate Greg Kriesel. That band, "Manic Subsidal," would eventually become The Offsprin.He also recently participated in the 2006 Los Angeles Marathon, his charity of choice was the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that handles legal cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. Holland finished with a time of 5:01. Afterward, Holland signed his shoes and donated them to charity.

Mary Moore was born December 29, 1936 in Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn, New York..She is an Academy Award-nominated and seven-time Emmy Award winning American actress and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television. .Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977).....At the age of 17, Moore started with a role as "Happy Hotpoint" on television commercials broadcast during Ozzie and Harriet. During these commercials she would dance around on the Hotpoint....She later appeared in several bit parts in movies and on TV shows, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six to name a few.. In 1970,Moore was cast in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, Moore made her film debut in 1961's X-15. She subsequently appeared in a string of 1960s films..

Jude Law was born 29 December 1972 in Lewisham, South London, England. He is an award-winning English actor best known for his award-winning role as Dickie Greenleaf in the American film The Talented Mr. Ripley....In 1987 Law began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre. His first major stage role was as Foxtrot Darling in Philip Ridley's multi-award-winning The Fastest Clock In The Universe.In 2006 he co-starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet in the romantic comedy The Holiday....Jude Law is on the Top Ten List from the 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, following the criteria of James Ulmer in The Ulmer Scale....He is a enthusiastic soccer fan and a supporter of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur.In 2006 he joined Robbie Williams in the Soccer Aid celebrity football match to benefit UNICEF.In July 2007, Jude Law traveled with Jeremy Gilley, the founder of Peace One Day, on a mission to document peace commitments and activities in Afghanistan for an upcoming film which will be released in May 2008..

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