May 5
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1809 - Who was the first woman to be issued a U.S. patent? It was Mary Kies of South Killingly, CT. She was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic. He was fifty one year old.
1862 - If you are Mexican or of Mexican descent or just like a party, today is the day to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla. General Ignacio Zaragoza's troops were outnumbered three to one as they battled the invading French army. They may have been outnumbered but they had the will to win. The Mexican forces defeated Napoleon III's army and Puebla stood. Now stand up and join that Cinco de Mayo parade, attend the festival, enjoy the salsa music and the salsa dip with your Margarita. We all salute General Ignacio Zaragoza and his brave contingent.
1891 - New York City was the site of the dedication of a building called the Music Hall. It was quite a celebration. A festival was held for five days, featuring guest conductor Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. The structure is not called the Music Hall anymore. It's called Carnegie Hall, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie.
1893 - The worst economic crisis in U.S. history (to that time) happened on this day. Stock prices plummeted, major railroads went into receivership, 15,000 businesses went bankrupt and 15 to 20 percent of the work force was unemployed. Within seven months, over 600 banks had closed.
1900 - The Billboard, a magazine for the music and entertainment industries, began weekly publication after six years as a monthly. The name was later shortened to Billboard.
1904 - Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox tossed a perfect game against the Philadelphia Americans. The final score was 3-0. No player on the Philadelphia team reached first base. It was the third perfect game ever thrown in the big leagues.
1935 - The radio program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the show was 24-year-old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love, Broadway.
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, IL was sitting at his kitchen table, admiring the piece of mail he had just received from the U.S. Patent Office. It was a patent for the screw-on bottle cap with the pour lip. For those who have always wondered, but maybe were a little shy to ask, now you know...
1943 - The Postal Zone System was inaugurated in 178 cities by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker.
1945 - In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. The explosion killed Elsie Mitchell, the pregnant wife of minister Archie Mitchell, and five children who were on a picnic.
1948 - Fighter Squadron 17-A, equipped with 16 FH-1 Phantoms, was the first carrier-qualified jet squadron in the U.S. Navy. The squadron was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saipan (CVL 48).
1949 - The ABC-TV World War II documentary series Crusade in Europe began. The series was based on the book of the same name by U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1952 - The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Herman Wouk for his The Caine Mutiny.
1955 - The musical, Damn Yankees, opened in New York City for a successful run of 1,019 performances. The show at the 42nd Street Theatre mixed both baseball and ballet. It is an adaptation of the book, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Gwen Verdon starred in the role of Lola. Whatever Lola wants Lola gets -- including the Tony for Best Actress in a musical for her performance.
1956 - The first runner to break the four-minute mile record within the United States was Jim Bailey and he did it on this day. He was clocked at a speedy 3:58.6 in Los Angeles, CA.
1958 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: "Fresh Hope on Cancer". A 2,000,000-volt radiation machine was pictured.
1961 - Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first U.S. space traveler as he rode a Redstone rocket on a 15-minute, suborbital flight that took him and his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule 116.5 miles high and 302 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral, FL.
1969 - The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction was awarded to Norman Mailer for his Armies of the Night.
1973 - 56,800 fans paid $309,000 to see Led Zeppelin at Tampa Stadium. This was the largest, paid crowd ever assembled in the U.S. to see a single musical act. The concert topped The Beatles 55,000-person audience at Shea Stadium in New York ($301,000).
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit. Not many years later, `Charlie Hustle' would break Ty Cobb's career record of 4,191 hits.
1981 - Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.
1985 - The first husband and wife team to win a major marathon, Ken and Lisa Martin, won over $50,000 for their first-place finishes in the Pittsburgh Marathon. Interesting also, because they had never run in the same race before.
1987 - The Congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened with former U.S. Air Force Major General Richard V. Secord as the lead-off witness.
1988 - Eugene Antonio Marino became the first black Roman Catholic archbishop in the United States. He was installed as the archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 - Unbridled won the 116th running of the Kentucky Derby.
1991 - The centennial of New York City's Carnegie Hall was celebrated with an all-day, all-star concert.
1994 - Four strokes with a cane on the buttocks was the punishment for Michael Fay. Fay, an American teenager, was charged along with eight others for vandalism in Singapore. He, Stephen Freehill, two Malaysian juveniles, and Shiu Chi Ho from Singapore went to trial. Freehill's crime was reduced to mishief. He was not caned and served no jail term. Shiu served about four months in jail and received six cane strokes. Fay's original sentence was four months in jail, a large fine and six caning strokes. With the enormous amount of media coverage in the United States and the intervention of U.S. President Clinton, this was reduced to approximately 3 months in jail, and four strokes. Although, in the U.S., this is considered unusual and harsh punishment for vandalism, U.S. public support for the whacking was overwhelming (running 90% in Fay's home town of Dayton, Ohio).
1995 - French Kiss opened in the U.S. The romatic comedy stars Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Jean Reno and Fran‡ois Cluzet.
1996 - At the Nenana Ice Classic in Alaska, twelve people guessed the breakup time of ice on the Tanana River (at 12:32 p.m.). The winners split the $300,000 jackpot.
1997 - Bruce Springsteen was awarded the Polar Music Prize (and $133,000) from King Carl Gustav of Sweden for an outstanding career as singer and stage performer. Springsteen honored for being an “uncompromising steward of the essential qualities of rock.”
1998 - The $816-million Ronald Reagan Federal Building in Washington DC was dedicated.
1999 - The first refugees from the war in Kosovo were flown to the United States. 453 of them arrived at McGuire Air Force Base on their way to Fort Dix, New Jersey.
2000 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Gladiator, the multi-Academy Award-winnner, with Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris; Human Traffic, starring John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington and Shaun Parkes; I Dreamed of Africa, featuring Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez and Eva Marie Saint; and Up at the Villa, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and James Fox.
2000 - On the final leg of a trip to the `Group of Eight' countries, Japan's new prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, stopped in Washington DC. U.S. President Clinton and Mori discussed the Japanese economy and structural reform, along with the stability of the world economy.
2001 - Cliff Hillegass, creator of Cliffs Notes, died at 83 years of age.
2001 - Monarchos won the Kentucky Derby. Monarchos stopped the clock in 1 minute, 59 4/5 seconds (1:59.97) -- only the second Kentucky Derby ever run in less than two minutes.
2002 - Film director George Sidney died in Las Vegas. He was 85 years old. Sidney was a president of the Screen Directors Guild (1951-1959) and the Directors Guild of America (1961-1967).
2003 - Tornadoes across Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee left at least 40 people dead.
2004 - A 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Garcon a la pipe (Boy with a Pipe) sold for a record $104 million at Sotheby's in New York City.
2005 - Tony Blair was elected to a historic third term as Great Britain’s prime minister; and Conservative Michael Howard announced that he would step down after the stinging defeat at the hands of Blair’s Labor Party.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: An American Haunting, starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy and Thom Fell; Hoot, with Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson and Cody Linley; and Mission: Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Keri Russell and Maggie Q.
2006 - U.S. CIA Director Porter Goss resigned -- under pressure -- after just 18 months on the job. The resignation was one in a series of moves by President George Bush (II) to shake up his team and invigorate his second term.
2007 - A Kenya Airways jet crashed a few seconds after takeoff in a torrential rainstorm in southern Cameroon. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 114 people, including 105 passengers from 23 countries. There were no survivors.
2007 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. won his boxing match against Oscar De La Hoya in a 12-round split decision at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. A sellout crowd of 16,200 brought in a record $19-million gate.
2007 - Street Sense was the winner of the 133rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. The colt rallied from behind to win by 2¬-lengths over Hard Spun. Jockey Calvin Borel was 0-4 at the Derby coming into this race.
2008 - Video shot by WTXF-TV from a helicopter showed Philadelphia police officers gathered around a stopped vehicle. About a half-dozen officers held two men on the ground on the driver’s side. Both were kicked repeatedly, while one was punched; one also appeared to be struck with a baton. A review led to the firing of 4 officers with disciplinary action for 4 others.
2009 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that the time had come to debate legalizing marijuana for recreational use in California.
2009 - The District of Columbia Council gave final approval to legislation that recognized same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
2010 - Road, Movie opened in the U.S. The romantic adventure comedy stars Abhay Deol, Mohammed Faisal, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Veerendra Saxena, Amitabh Srivastava, Suhita Thatte, Hardik Mehta, Shradha Shrivastav and Roshan Taneja.
2010 - The Bank of Montreal filed suit against lawyers, brokers and some of its own employees for an alleged C$140 million ($136 million) mortgage scam that may have involved hundreds of people. (On May 9 RCMP and the Calgary police told the bank they would not investigate. Former RCMP officer Chris Mathers explained that Canadian police forces simply cannot tackle alleged frauds of this magnitude.)
2012 - Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors, waving banners shaped as giant fish that had become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. In April 2014 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moved to revive nuclear power as a core part of the Japan energy mix, but many of those idled reactors will never come back online.
2013 - Libya’s parliament, under pressure from armed militias, passed a sweeping law that banned from government work anyone who had served as a senior official under Moammar Gadhafi during his 42-year rule.
2014 - A Paris court found a South African artist guilty of sexual exhibitionism after a performance in Paris that featured him dancing with a live rooster tied to his penis. Steven Cohen had danced on the French capital’s Trocadero Plaza dressed in a corset, high heels, long red gloves and an elaborate feathered headdress with a rooster attached to his penis by a ribbon. Under the amused and perplexed gaze of tourists, including a group of nuns, the spectacle lasted only a few moments before police arrested Mr. Cohen, dragging him across the plaza with the rooster still attached.
2015 - Four robbers looted 17.5 million euros in jewelry and watches from a boutique in the resort town of Cannes, France at the Cartier boutique on the beachfront promenade known as the Croisette.
2016 - Jordanian border guards said some 64,000 Syrians were stranded at the border with Jordan after intensified violence around Aleppo.
2017 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, starring Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Sylvester Stallone, Nathan Fillion, Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Michael Rooker, Chris Sullivan, Tommy Flanagan and Glenn Close; Chuck, with Naomi Watts, Ron Perlman and Elisabeth Moss; The Dinner, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan; Lady Bloodfight, with Amy Johnston, Muriel Hofmann and, Jenny Wu; and Take Me, starring Taylor Schilling, Pat Healy and Alycia Delmore.
2017 - The executive board of the United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO) ratified a resolution that identified Israel as “the occupying power” in Jerusalem. The board called on Israel to rescind any move changing Jerusalem’s “character and status.” The resolution had drawn the ire of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who responded by cutting his country’s U.N. funding by $1 million.
2018 - Justify won the Kentucky Derby -- on the way to winning the Triple crown. At 5/2 odds in the 1¼-mile race, Justify beat Good Magic and Audible by 2½ lengths each. The win for Justify pulled in $1.24 million of a guaranteed $2 million purse. Over three inches of rain fell on what one sportscaster called, “the wettest Kentucky Derby ever.”
2018 - In France the Palais du Tokyo museum opened its doors to nudists for a special visit. It was part of growing efforts by France’s nudist community to encourage acceptance of clothes-free activities. This, after a nudist restaurant and nudist park opened in Paris.
2018 - 31-year-old British academic Matthew Hedges was arrested at Dubai International Airport after a two-week visit to the United Arab Emirates. Hedges had been conducting field research for his thesis. (He was held in solitary confinement for five months, then convicted of spying and given a life sentence. In November 2018 Hedges was granted a “gracious clemency” by the UAE -- and released. Britain has denied he was a spy and welcomed his pardon.)
2018 - North Korea adjusted its time zone to match South Korea’s and described the change as an early step toward making the longtime rivals “become one” following a landmark summit. Pyongyang Time had been half an hour behind South Korea and Japan. It introduced the extra 30 minutes in 2015 as a stand against “wicked Japanese imperialists,” because its hours had been changed to match Tokyo’s when the Korean peninsula was under Japan’s rule.
2019 - Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless after cyclone Fani, packing winds of 200 km per hour, slammed into the state of Odisha in eastern India. At least 33 people were killed.
2020 - The Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission ordered the country’s leading broadcaster, ABS-CBN Corp, to cease operations. This, as a parliament dominated by President Rodrigo Duterte’s loyalists dragged its feet over renewing its license. Duterte repeatedly threatened to block the renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise, after the channel angered him during the 2016 presidential election by refusing to air his campaign commercials.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)A coronavirus mortality model predicted that 135,000 Americans would die by early August -- almost double previous projections.
2)Rick Bright, former director of the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed a whistle-blower complaint saying he was ousted from his position and reassigned to a lesser position after reporting the Trump administration wanted to flood coronavirus hot spots with the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
3)Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said they had begun delivering doses of their experimental coronavirus vaccines for initial human testing in the United States.
4)Britain became the first country in Europe to confirm more than 32,000 coronavirus deaths.
5)Italy announced plans to give work permits to thousands of irregular migrants to help farms deal with the pandemic that had cut the flow of cheap labor from abroad.2021 - The Biden administration blocked a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier to classify ‘gig workers’, who work for companies like Uber and Lyft as independent contractors instead of employees, signaling a policy shift toward greater worker protections.
2021 - Canada authorized the use of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children from 12 to 15. It was the first vaccine to be allowed for people that young.
2021 - Germany and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the creation of a new global hub in Berlin for gathering data on pandemics.
2022 - The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a half-percentage point to get a handle on the worst inflation the U.S. had seen in 40 years. It was the first time in 22 years that the central bank had hiked rates that much. And the hike was unanimous, with all 12 members of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee agreeing on it.
2022 - Investigators said they suspected a missing Alabama corrections officer and a murder suspect had a romantic relationship before they both disappeared last week, according to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. The pair went missing Friday after Vicky White, 56, said she was taking the inmate, Casey White, 38, to the courthouse and was planning to seek medical attention because she wasn’t feeling well.
2023 - Movies scheduled to open in U.S. theatres included: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and Karen Gillan; and Love Again, with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Russell Tovey, Celia Imrie and Céline Dion.
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Birthdays on This Day May 5
1818 - Karl Marx
socialist writer: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto; founder of communism; died Mar 14, 18831864 - Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman)
courageous journalist, writing about taboo subjects of her time: divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity; women's rights advocate; died Jan 27, 19221890 - Christopher Morley
writer: New York Evening Post, Saturday Review; novelist: Kitty Foyle, Thunder on the Left; died March 28, 19571913 - Duane Carter
auto racer: Sprint Car Hall of Famer; died Mar 8, 19931914 - Tyrone Power (Tyrone Edmund Power Jr.)
actor: Tom Brown of Culver, The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, This Above All, The Eddie Duchin Story, The Long Gray Line, Witness for the Prosecution; died Nov 15, 19581915 - Alice Faye (Alice Jeanne Leppert)
actress: In Old Chicago, Lillian Russell, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, State Fair; died May 9, 1998; more1922 - Joseph Stefano
screenwriter: Psycho, Two Bits, Blackout, Aloha Means Goodbye, Home for the Holidays, Revenge, Eye of the Cat; died Aug 25, 20061926 - Ann B. Davis
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Bob Cummings Show [1958, 1959]; The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Naked Gun 33?: The Final Insult, A Very Brady Christmas; died Jun 1, 20141927 - Art Pollard
auto racer: killed during Indianapolis 500 time trials May 12, 19731927 - Pat Carroll
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Caesar's Hour [1956], The Ted Knight Show, With Six You Get Eggroll, Brothers O'Toole; died Jul 30, 20221934 - Ace Cannon (John Henry Cannon Jr.)
saxophonist: Tuff, Blues [Stay Away From Me]; died Dec 6, 20181935 - Jose (Antonio Rodriguez) Pagan
baseball: SF Giants [World Series: 1962], Pittsburgh Pirates[World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies; died Jun 7, 20111937 - Sandy Baron (Sanford Beresofsky)
comedian, actor Leprechaun 2, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Motorama, Birdy, Seinfeld; died Jan 21, 20011938 - Michael Murphy
actor: Clean Slate, Batman Returns, The Year of Living Dangerously, Salvador, Manhattan, An Unmarried Woman, Nashville, Two Marriages, Tanner '88, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud, Countdown, Double Trouble, Hard Copy1940 - Lance Henriksen
actor: Powder, Felony, Dead Man, Baja, Spitfire, Color of Night, The Criminal Mind, Delta Heat, Alien 3, The Last Samurai, Johnny Handsome, Near Dark, The Terminator, The Right Stuff, Prince of the City, Damien: Omen 2, Dog Day Afternoon1941 - Tommy (Vann) Helms
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1967, 1968/World Series: 1970], Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox1942 - Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh)
Grammy Award-winning country singer: I Don't Wanna Play House [1967], Stand By Your Man [1969]; D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Near You, Apartment #9; died Apr 6, 19981943 - Michael Palin
comedian, actor: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Life of Brian, Brazil, A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud
actor: The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Love on the Run, LA Vie de Boheme, 36 Fillete, Last Tango in Paris1944 - Roger Rees
actor: M.A.N.T.I.S., Cheers, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Charles & Diana: A Palace Divided, If Looks Could Kill, Mountains of the Moon, Star 80, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; died Jul 10, 20151944 - John Rhys-Davies
actor: Sliders, Lord of the Rings series, Helen of Troy, The Gold Cross, Au Pair, Marquis de Sade, The Untouchables, The Lost World, War and Remembrance, Raiders of the Lost Ark1944 - Marc Zuber
actor: Murder, Jinnah, Two Oranges and a Mango, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Navy SEALS, Shirley Valentine, Ek Naya Rishta; died May 28, 20031947 - Larry (Eugene) Hisle
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1977], Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1978]1948 - Bill Ward
musician: drums: group: Black Sabbath: Paranoid1951 - Nick Bebout
football: Atlanta Falcons [1973–1975], Seattle Seahawks [1976–1979], Minnesota Vikings [1980]1951 - Rex Goh
musician: guitar: toured and recorded with: Air Supply, Savage Garden, Randy Crawford, Tom Jones, Daryl Braithwaite, QED1957 - Richard E. Grant
actor: Jack and Sarah, Cold Light of Day, Ready to Wear, L.A. Story, The Age of Innocence, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hudson Hawk, Henry and June; more1959 - Ian McCulloch
singer, musician: guitar: group: Echo & The Bunnymen: The Cutter, Silver, Seven Seas, Killing Moon, Rescue, Bring on the Dancing Horses1959 - Brian Williams
TV news anchor: NBC Nightly News, MSNBC: The 11th Hour with Brian Williams1962 - Gary Daly
singer: group: China Crisis: Wishful Thinking1962 - Kevin Mooney
musician: bass: group: Adam & The Ants: LPs: King's of the Wild Frontier, Prince Charming1966 - Mike Stapleton
hockey [center]: Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Atlanta Thrashers, NY Islanders, Vancouver Canucks1967 - Charles Nagy
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Conneticut; Cleveland Indians, SD Padres1970 - Juan Acevedo
baseball [pitcher]: Parkland College; MLB: Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays1971 - Mike Redmond
baseball [catcher]: Gonzaga Univ; Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins1973 - Muhsin Muhammad
football [wide receiver]: Michigan State Univ: Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears1973 - Tina Yothers
actress: Family Ties, Laker Girls, Spunk: The Tonya Harding Story1976 - Keith Ginter
baseball: Texas Tech Univ; Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics1977 - Navi Rawat
actress: The O.C., Numb3rs, Undead or Alive, Loveless in Los Angeles, Ocean of Pearls, Tom Cool, FlashForward, Castle, Burn Notice, Lauren, Grey's Anatomy1978 - Santiago Cabrera
actor: Heroes, Dexter, Covert Affairs, Alcatraz, For Greater Glory, Hemingway & Gellhorn1979 - Vincent Kartheiser
actor: Mad Men, Angel, Elektra Luxx, American Experience, Money, Rango, L.A. Noire, In Time, Fruit of Labor1980 - Alana Curry
actress: Days of Our Lives, Dead Calling, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Is This Seat Taken, Time Changer, Lay It Down1980 - Ike Taylor
football [cornerback]: Univ of Louisiana-Lafayette; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [Super Bowls XL, XLIII]1981 - Danielle Fishel
actress: Boy Meets World, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, The Chosen One, Rocket's Red Glare, Longshot1982 - Randall Gay
football [cornerback]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots1983 - Henry Cavill
actor: The Tudors, Hellraiser: Hellworld, Red Riding Hood, Tristan and Isolde, I Capture the Castle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder, The Count of Monte Cristo, Laguna1985 - Clark Duke
actor: Greek, Hot Tub Time Machine, Kick-Ass, Sex Drive, A Thousand Words, Identity Thief, Hearts Afire, The Croods, Robot Chicken1987 - Jessie Cave
actress: Harry Potter film series, Great Expectations, Pride, Tale of Tales, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Benjamin, Dani’s Castle, Glue, Trollied1988 - Adele (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Chasing Pavements, Make You Feel My Love, Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, Set Fire to the Rain, Skyfall; more1989 - Chris Brown
Grammy Award-winning singer: Run It!, Kiss Kiss, I Love U, Crawl, Superman, With You, Forever, Gimme That, Say Goodbye, Yo [Excuse Me Miss]1994 - Celeste (Epiphany Waite)
singer: Times Like These, Not Your Muse, Stop This Flame, A Little Love) 2003 - Carlos Alcaraz
tennis champ: won thirteen ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two majors [2022 U.S. Open, 2023 Wimbledon Championship] and five Masters 1000 titles
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