Famous peoples Birthdays for the 8th May

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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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Enrique Iglesias was born May 8, 1975 in Madrid, Spain..He is a Spanish pop singer-songwriter whos career started in Mexico on Indie label Fonovisa who helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States, selling more Spanish albums than any other artists in that period of time.

Darren Hayes wasborn May 8, 1972 in Brisbane, Australia..He is an Australian singer-songwriter who in 1996 debuted as the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden propelled them to stardom. It spawned the singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", and the airplay number-one "Truly Madly Deeply"...They had sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001...His first solo album Spin was in 2002 which sold two million copies worldwide,

Rick Nelson was born May 8, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey..He was an American singer, musician, and Golden Globe-nominated actor. With more than 50 Hot 100 hits... Nelson was second only to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the 1950s and 1960s.....December 31, 1985 aged 45 he died in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.

Don Rickles was born May 8, 1926 in the New York City borough of Queens..He is an American comedian and actor who made his film debut in Run Silent, Run Deep Throughout the 1960s and has appeared frequently on television in sitcoms and dramatic series including the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1965. The Dean Martin Show and from time to time he appeared as a panelist on Hollywood Squares.

Melissa Gilbert was born May 8, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family..She is an American actress, writer and producer, primarily in movies and television. The naturally red-headed Gilbert is best known as a child actor on the 1970s dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie and has provided the voicework for the roles of Clara in the Sanrio film, Nutcracker Fantasy and later Barbara Gordon in Batman.

Matthew Davis was born May 8, 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah..He is an American actor.......His movie debut was in 2000, with the well-reviewed film Tigerland. Between 2000 and 2002, Davis starred in several movies geared towards teenagers, including Legally Blonde and Blue Crush to name a few..

Fulton J Sheen was born May 8, 1895 in El Paso, Illinois..He was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Rochester, New York and American television's first religious broadcaster of note, hosting Life Is Worth Living in the early 1950s, first on the DuMont Television Network and later on ABC, and hosted The Fulton Sheen Program.. Date of death December 9, 1979.

Harry S. Truman was born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri.. He was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953). As vice president, he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died less than three months after he began his fourth term..As president, Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs......He subsequently developed multiple organ failure and died at 7:50 a.m. on December 26. Bess Truman died nearly ten years later.

Julia Whelan was born May 8, 1984 in the US..She is an American television actress who caught the acting bug at age 6 after travelling to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her film debut was in Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) (TV) with Kirsten Dunst. She has since appeared in "Once and Again" 1999 and most notably, "The Secret Life of Zoey " 2002 and had guest roles in "Dr. Vegas" 2004 and "Clubhouse" 2004 who is mostly known for her role as Grace Manning on "Once and Again".

Janet McTeer was born May 8, 1961 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She is an award-winning British actress from critical acclaim and has won both the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her performance as Nora in a West End production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The following year, the production transferred to Broadway, and she was honored with a Tony Award, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk Award as Best Actress in a Play.

Peter Benchley was born May 8, 1940 in Princeton, New Jersey..He was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation......He died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive, fatal scarring of the lungs, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 11, 2006. He was 65.

Ian Watkins better known as H from Steps was born 8 May 1976 in Llwynypia, Rhondda, Wales. He has said that "H" stands for "hyperactive", describing his character. He worked as a redcoat for Butlins holiday parksone of the five members of the now defunct pop group Steps...After Steps split in 2001, he formed a duo with fellow ex-Steps member Claire Richards and became H & Claire. They released a few singles and then went their separate ways.

Toni Tennille was born 8 May 1940 in Montgomery, Alabama..He is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo, Captain & Tennille. part of a talented family of entertainers. Her father, Frank, was a big band singer with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats and her mother, Cathryn, was a television pioneer..Toni did backup vocals on Pink Floyd's Wall.

Josie Maran was born May 8, 1978 in Menlo Park, California. She is an American model and actress whos modeling career began at the age of 12, when an agent spotted her at a local barbecue restaurant..At age 17 she was signed up with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles...Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998 and was recruited by EA Games to appear as a main character in the street-racing computer and video game, Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

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