Famous peoples Birthdays for the 30th 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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Rudyard Kipling was Born on December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936 in Bombay, India..He was an English author and poet, , and best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If-" (1910); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King"1878... Kipling was admitted to the United Services College, at Westward Ho!, Devon, a school founded a few years earlier to prepare boys for the armed forces..During the first decade of the twentieth century, at a time when Kipling was at the peak of his popularity, a town in southeast Saskatchewan, was named after him. Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. He died of a haemorrhage from a perforated duodenal ulcer on 18 January 1936, two days before George V, at the age of 70.

Davy Jones was born David Thomas Jones on December 30, 1945 in Manchester, England..He is an English actor and singer, best known as a member of The Monkees...As a teenager he appeared on British TV soap operas, including Coronation Street. He appeared to great acclaim in the musical Oliver! as the Artful Dodger, playing the role both in London and on Broadway....From 1965 to 1970, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a TV show of the same name...After the show went off the air and the group disbanded, he continued to perform solo, later joining with fellow-Monkee Micky Dolenz and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart as a short-lived group....In recent years, Jones has performed with his former bandmates in reunion tours..In September 2007, Jones signed on as the celebrity spokesman for stock picking service Gorilla Trades...On November 1, 2007, The Sandra Boynton book and CD titled "Blue Moo" was released. Davy is featured in the book and on the CD, singing "Your Personal Penguin"

Robert Nesmith, was born December 30, 1942 (1942-12-30) in Harris County, Texas, U.S. He is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, perhaps best known for his time in the musical group The Monkees and on the TV series of the same name....After a tour of duty in the Air Force, Nesmith won a singing spot with a band by knowing a number of Chuck Berry's songs. Seeing the chance to make a living with music, he bought a guitar with his parents' help, learning as he went, and joined a series of working bands, performing folk, country, and occasionally rock and roll..... Nesmith is exactly three years older than fellow Monkee Davy Jones and twelve years younger than fellow First National Band member Orville "Red" Rhodes, who both share his birthday: December 30.

Del Shannon was born on December 30, 1934, - d. February 8, 1990 in Santa Clarita, California. He was an American rock and roller who launched into fame with the No. 1 hit "Runaway" 1961.....Shannon took his stage name from a friend, Mark Shannon, and the Cadillac Coupe de Ville car.Shannon followed his first hit with "Hats Off to Larry",...On February 8, 1990, Shannon committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a .22 caliber rifle. Shannon's wife, Bonnie, found his body at 11:25 P.M. in their Santa Clarita, California home, 35 miles north of Los Angeles. The rifle was found next to his body in the den. His wife has expressed the opinion that his death might have been related to his recent use of the prescription drug Prozac....His final album was released after his death, titled Rock On!.

Jack Lord was born on December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.He was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O....After Hawaii Five-O, Lord concentrated on his painting and his work was well-renowned - one of his paintings was formerly housed by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art - and his art has been housed in some 40 museums worldwide.Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home on January 21, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 77. Friends reported that in his final years, Lord suffered from Alzheimer's or a similar degenerative disease.. He left an estate of $40 million, and being a philanthropist in his lifetime, the entire estate went to various Hawaiian charities upon his wife Marie's death in 2005....Portions of their estate were auctioned on eBay in March 2007].

Sanford Koufax was born on December 30, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York..He is an American left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966.....Koufax is also notable as one of the few outstanding Jewish athletes of his era in American professional sports.n 1967, he signed a ten-year contract with NBC for $1 million to be a broadcaster on the Saturday Game of the Week.... Never feeling comfortable in front of the camera, he quit after six years, just prior to the start of the 1973 season..41 years after he retired from baseball, Koufax was the final player chosen in the inaugural Israel Baseball League draft in April 2007..

Bert Parks was December 30, 1914 - February 2, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia.He is an American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America Pageant telecast....Parks got his first broadcasting job at age sixteen, for Atlanta's WGST radio. He moved to New York when he was nineteen. He was hired as a singer and straight man on The Eddie Cantor Show before becoming a CBS radio staff announcer. Parks became the host of Break the Bank, which premiered on radio in 1945 and went on to television..He also had a daytime variety show with The Bert Parks Show (1950), a variety show. He hosted the Miss America telecast from 1955 until 1979..Parks died of lung cancer at age 77...

Russ Tamblyn was born Russell Irving Tamblyn on December 30, 1934 in Los Angeles, California..He is an American actor who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang...Discovered at the age of ten by actor Lloyd Bridges after acting in a play, Tamblyn's first film appearance was a small non-speaking role in 1948's The Boy With Green Hair. Shortly thereafter, he portrayed the young Saul in Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 version of Samson and Delilah. He later had a minor role as Spencer Tracy's son and Elizabeth Taylor's younger brother in the 1950 version of Father of the Bride to name a few.Tamblyn has been married three times and has three children from his first and third marriages. He is the father of actress Amber Tamblyn, who played the starring role in the CBS television series Joan of Arcadia.

Noel Stookey was born December 30, 1937..He is a singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He is an alumnus of Michigan State University. While attending Michigan State University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. His best-known composition is "The Wedding Song (There is Love)", which charted in the early 1970s and remains popular for performance during wedding services...In addition to his recordings with the trio, he released a number of solo works, several albums with an ensemble called Bodyworks, and some anthologies....He remains active in the music industry, performing regularly both as a member of Peter, Paul, and Mary and as a solo act.

Matt Lauer was born December 30, 1957 in New York City. He is an American television personality, best known as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show (since 1994... after being a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond.... He was also host of PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980-1986 and worked for ESPN in the 1980s as a sideline reporter...Lauer began his television career in 1979 as a producer of the 12 o'clock news for WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. By 1980, he had become an on-air reporter on the 6 and 11 o'clock newscasts. Lauer also hosted The Greatest American on the Discovery Channel, which used Internet and telephone voting by viewers to select the winner... On June 19, 2007, he interviewed Prince Harry and Prince William of the United Kingdom.

Tracey Ullman was born December 30, 1959 in Slough, Buckinghamshire now Berkshire..She is a British-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show....Her early appearances were on such British TV sketch comedy shows as A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall) and Three of a Kind (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield ). She also appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls On Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders....She later found even greater success producing programs for HBO, including Tracey Takes On for which she has won numerous awards. She has also appeared in many feature films.To date Ullman has seven Emmy wins.In 2006, Ullman released a bestselling knitting book called Knit 2 Together with friend Mel Clark.

Tiger Woods was born on December 30, 1975..He is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Woods was a child prodigy who began to play golf at the age of two Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements....Woods has won 13 professional major golf championships, the second-most of any male player, and 61 PGA Tour events, the fifth-most of all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on Tour. Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks.

Laila Ali was born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. She is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali ..She was their second child and is the most famous of the nine children born to Muhammad Ali. She is a professional boxer. She made her debut on October 8, 1999, knocking out April Fowler in the first round. She ran off eight wins in a row, and many boxing fans started talking about wanting to see her square off in a boxing ring with George Foreman's daughter, Freeda Foreman, or Joe Frazier's daughter, Jackie Frazier-Lyde. On the evening of June 8, 2001, Ali and Frazier finally met. The fight was nicknamed Ali/Frazier IV in allusion to their fathers' famous fight trilogy. This fight was the first time a women's boxing fight was the main event of a Pay Per View fight card, and was part of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame induction weekend's activities//.Ali won by a majority judges' decision in eight rounds.

LeBron James was born December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio..He is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Commonly nicknamed "King James" and "The Chosen One",LeBron James appeared in SLAM Magazine, which began his nationwide exposure. Despite being compared to players such as Michael Jordan, Oscar Robertson, and Magic Johnson, James compared himself to a young Penny Hardaway. He stated, "Penny sees the whole floor and can score," James said. "He's still one of my favorite players of all-time.James has stated he wants to be the first billionaire athlete and a global icon. In December 2007, James is ranked at #1 in the Forbes Top 20 Earners Under 25 with an annual earnings of 27 million dollars...

Kristin Kreuk was born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles on the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont and on the American television series Smallville in which she stars as Clark Kent's star-crossed love Lana Lang.After shooting the first season of Edgemont (a teen soap opera set at a Vancouver-area high school) and getting herself an agent, Kreuk landed the lead role of Snow White in a TV movie titled Snow White..The executives at Neutrogena made her the spokesmodel for their new worldwide ad campaign; in this regard Kreuk followed in the footsteps of fellow teen stars such as Jennifer Love Hewitt and Mandy Moore. In 2005, she renewed her contract with Neutrogena for another two years, making her the company's longest-serving model spokesperson..In 2003, she made her first feature film, a cameo appearance in the film Eurotrip, starring Scott Mechlowicz and Michelle Trachtenberg.Kreuk recently signed onto the upcoming Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li movie, in which she will play Chun Li..

Bo Diddley was born December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, aka "The Originator".. He is an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter..He worked as a carpenter and mechanic, but also began a musical career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c.1934-1973), as a band called the Hipsters (later the Langley Avenue Jive Cats). In 1951 he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago's South Side with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. He adopted the stage name Bo Diddley, which is probably a southern black slang phrase meaning "nothing at all", as in "he ain't bo diddley".//Bo Diddley was one of the first musicians to have women in his band; Peggy Jones (aka Lady Bo, b.1940), Norma-Jean Wofford (aka The Duchess, c.1942-2005) and Cornelia Redmond (aka Cookie). He also set up one of the first home recording studios.He also had a small role as a pawnbroker in the 1983 film Trading Places starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

Patti Smith was born on December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. She is an American singer-songwriter and poet. Smith is perhaps most widely known for the song Because the Night, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. Smith's commercial success has been limited in that she has had just three Top 20 singles.She has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards...By 1974, however, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums) and Richard Sohl (piano). Financed by Robert Mapplethorpe, the band recorded a first single, "Hey Joe/Piss Factory", in 1974.

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