Famous peoples Birthdays for the 31st 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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Carol Channing was born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington..She is an American singer and actress....Channing was introduced to the stage while doing church work for her mother. She is easily recognized by her distinctive voice and wide eyes, and her unusual mannerisms and personality are frequently parodied.Channing's first job on stage in New York was in Marc Blitzstein's No For an Answer, which was given two special Sunday performances starting January 5, 1941 at the Mecca Temple (later New York's City Center)... Channing then moved to Broadway for Let's Face It, in which she was an understudy for Eve Arden. Decades later, Arden would be a road company "Dolly" after Channing finally relinquished the role..She came to national prominence as the star of Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! She never missed a performance during her run, attributing her good health to her Christian Science faith..Her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.Channing was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995, and an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts by California State University, Stanislaus in 2004.

Norman Mailer was born January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007 In Long Branch, New Jersey.. He was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director....At Harvard, he became interested in writing and published his first story at the age of 18. After graduating in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. In World War II, he served in the Philippines with 112th Cavalry. He was not involved in much combat and completed his service as a cook, but the experience provided enough material for The Naked and the Dead.Mailer later published The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in World War II.....Other works include: The Presidential Papers 1963, An American Dream 1965,Harlot's Ghost 1991, Oswald's Tale 1995, The Gospel According to the Son 1997 and The Castle in the Forest 2007.In 2005, he co-wrote a book with his youngest child, John Buffalo Mailer, titled The Big Empty. In 2007 Random House published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest.....Mailer died of acute renal failure on the morning of November 10, 2007, a month after undergoing lung surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York...

Richard Gephardt was born January 31, 1941 in Party St. Louis, Missouri...He is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper, an active consultant for Goldman Sachs, and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic. He graduated from the former Southwest High School in 1958, an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He earned his B.S. at Northwestern University in 1962 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and earned his J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.....In 1965, he was admitted to the Missouri bar. He then entered the Missouri Air National Guard, where he served until 1971.......A collection of Gephardt's congressional documents, ranging from 1944 to 2004, was processed from 2006 to 2007 by the Missouri Historical Society for academic use, with a grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services.... From 2008 on, it should be made available to the public.

Justin Timberlake born January 31, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee..He is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor...Timberlake was a member of the popular 1990s boy band, 'N Sync, and was considered a teen idol. The group formed in 1995 and started their career 1996 in Germany and hit it big in the States two years later in 1998, eventually releasing the fastest-selling album of all time, No Strings Attached in 2000....In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, FutureSex/LoveSounds, was released in 2006 with the U.S. number-one hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The album also spawned three additional U.S. top twenty hits "Summer Love", "LoveStoned", and "Until the End of Time" making it the first time a male artist has achieved six top twenty hits from one album since Michael Jackson did so from 1991-1992, with his album "Dangerous".As of January 2008,

Minnie Driver was born on January 31, 1970 in London.She is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated English actress, and singer-songwriter....Early in her career Driver was a member of a band called "Puff, Rocks and Brown"; the band was signed to a development deal with Island Records, which ended without a release..She began a low-profile return to music in 2000; the following year, she signed with EMI and Rounder Records and performed at SXSW. Canadian music producer Colin Craig assisted in the eventual release of Everything I've Got in My Pocket, which reached No. 43 in the UK, and a second single, "Invisible Girl" peaking at No. 68.She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.

Kelly Lynch was born January 31, 1959..She is an American actress...Lynch was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota to Robert Edward Lynch and Barbara Jean Dingmann. Once a model for the Elite modeling agency, she made a name for herself in the film Drugstore Cowboy which starred Matt Dillon..... She has featured in many films including # Normal Adolescent Behavior 2007 Helen... The Visitation 2006, Morgan Elliot..Welcome to California 2005, Susanna Smith, The Jacket 2005, Jean Price. Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life 2005, Diane Peterson..... Dallas 362 2003, Mary...... Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story 2003 (TV) Jean Murray........ The Slaughter Rule 2002, Evangeline Chutney....... Joe Somebody 2001, Callie Scheffer......Lynch has been married to Mitch Glazer since 1992 and has a daughter, Shane, from a previous relationship.

Nolan Ryan was born January 31, 1947 in Refugio, Texas. he is a former American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.. As a young boy, he enjoyed throwing objects at any target. His father thought that baseball was a better usage for his arm, therefore he encouraged Nolan to play the game.....Ryan joined Little League Baseball when he was nine, and pitched the first no-hitter of his life a few years later. He also played various positions besides pitcher.......In 1965, after graduating from high school, Ryan signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Mets, and was assigned to a minor league team in the Appalachian League called the Marion Mets in Marion, Virginia. When He was called up to the New York club, he was the second-youngest player in the league. He would end his career as the oldest player in Major League Baseball. Nolan Ryan currently resides in nearby Austin, Texas.

Ernie Banks was born January 31, 1931 in Dallas, Texas. He is an American former Major League baseball player. Banks signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1950 and broke into the Major Leagues in 1953 with the Chicago Cubs as their first black player. He played for the Cubs his entire career, starting at shortstop and moving to first base in 1962... On December 1, 1971, Banks retired as a player, and the Cubs signed him as a coach. Banks is regarded as one of the most popular baseball players in Chicago sports history. He was a constant promoter of the Cubs and of daytime play at Wrigley Field. His popularity and positive attitude led to the nicknames "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine".In 1977, in his first year of eligibility, Banks was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame......Banks is the great-uncle of Atlanta Hawks point guard Acie Law IV.

Mario Lanza was born 31 January 1921 – 7 October 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s...He was exposed to opera and singing at a young age, and by the age of 16 his vocal talent became apparent. Starting out in local operatic productions in Philadelphia, he later came to the attention of conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who provided young Cocozza with a full student scholarship to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in Massachusetts... Koussevitzky would later tell Lanza that, "Yours is a voice such as is heard once in a hundred years." He enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by some to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film The Great Caruso. Lanza was able to sing all types of music. He died in Rome in October of that year at the age of 38 from a pulmonary embolism

Charlie Musselwhite was born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. he is an American blues-harp player and bandleader..When he was a teenager, Memphis experienced the period when rockabilly, western swing, electric blues, and some forms of African American music were combining to give birth to rock and roll. The period featured legendary figures such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash.Since then, Musselwhite has released over 20 albums, as well as guesting on albums by many other musicians, such as Bonnie Raitt's Longing in Their Hearts and The Blind Boys of Alabama's Spirit of the Century, both winners of Grammy awards. He also appeared on Tom Waits' Mule Variations and INXS' Suicide Blonde. He himself has won 14 W. C. Handy awards and six Grammy nominations, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Monterey Blues Festival and the San Javier Jazz Festival in San Javier, Spain, and the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

James Franciscus was born January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991 in Clayton, Missouri. He was a leading and supporting American actor. He was also frequently seen in feature films of the 1960s and 1970s that included Marooned, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, City on Fire, and When Time Ran Out.........His first big role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the TV version of The Naked City. .He also found work in Italian cinema.... In 1971 he accepted the lead role in Dario Argento's second film, The Cat o' Nine Tails. 1979 saw him appear in Antonio Margheritti's Killer Fish, and in 1980 he starred in director Enzo G. Castellari's notorious Jaws rip-off, Great White film. James Franciscus died at the age of 57 from emphysema.

Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 in Cairo, Georgia..He became the first African-American major league baseball player of the modern era in 1947....His middle name was in honor of former President Theodore Roosevelt who had died 25 days before Jackie was born..... In 1920, his family who were sharecroppers moved to Pasadena, California after his father abandoned them. Later he became the first African-American major league baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first African American professional baseball player in United States history, his Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation, also known as the baseball color line.....On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Jackie Robinson will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame this December 5, 2007 located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

Garry Moore was born January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993 in Baltimore, Maryland..He was an American entertainer, game show host and comedian. Moore attended Baltimore City College, although dropped out to pursue a career in radio and writing....Starting in 1937, he worked for Baltimore radio station WBAL as an announcer, writer, and actor/comedian....He used his birth name until 1940 when he held a radio contest to find a more easily pronounceable one. "Garry Moore" became the winning choice, won by a housewife from Pittsburgh, who received a cash prize and a trip to Chicago.....the years that followed, Moore appeared on numerous network radio shows. Between 1947 and 1950, Moore began to make tentative steps into the new medium as a panelist and guest host on quiz and musical shows. By June 26, 1950, he was rewarded with his own 30-minute CBS early evening talk-variety program The Garry Moore Show, Moore died of emphysema on November 28, 1993, aged 78 and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Northeast Harbor, Maine. He was named one of the 15 Greatest Game Show Hosts of All Time by Time Magazine.

Jean Simmons, OBE was born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London, England. She is an Oscar-nominated English actress...Simmons distinguished herself in such roles as the young Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations 1946 and Ophelia in Olivier's opus Hamlet in 1948.... By this time, she was already well known for her work in other British films and her stage career....In 1950, she married the English actor Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood. Among her best-known leading roles are The Egyptian 1954, Guys and Dolls 1955, "The Big Country" 1958, Elmer Gantry 1960 directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks..She was married twice; in 1950 to Stewart Granger, divorcing in 1960, and again in 1960 to Richard Brooks divorcing him in 1977.Jean Simmons would make a late career appearance in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead" where she portrays a witch hunt inspiring investigator named Admiral Nora Satie.

Suzanne Pleshette was born January 31, 1937 – January 17, 2008 in Brooklyn, New York..She was an American actress....Pleshette began her career as a stage actress. She made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play Compulsion, adapted from his novel inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. Two years later she was featured in the comedy Golden Fleecing starring Tom Poston, who eventually would become her third husband... In February 1961, she replaced Anne Bancroft opposite 14-year-old Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker to rave reviews. She is best known for her role of Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s, and for prior roles in several major films, including The Birds and Rome Adventure, as well as in Broadway plays...Pleshette died early in the evening of January 17, 2008 of respiratory failure at her Los Angeles home at age 70. She had been scheduled to receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 31, 2008, which would have been her 71st birthday.

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