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Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer who appeared in films, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made 73 films, collaborating with Fred Astaire as a romantic lead actress and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of actress screen legends. Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911 in her mother's rented home at 100 Moore Street,Independence, Missouri.[1]:1, 2 She was the only living child of William "Eddins" McMath, a Scottish electrical engineer,[1]:9, 10 and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977) who was of Welsh heritage.[1]:16[2] Her mother did not want her born in a hospital, having lost a previous child there.[1]:11 Her parents had separated before she was born,[1]:1, 2, 11 but her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, lived nearby in Kansas City.[1]:3 After unsuccessfully trying to become a family again, McMath kidnapped his daughter twice.[1]:7, 15 [3] Rogers said that she never saw her natural born father again.[1]:15 Her mother divorced her father, soon thereafter. more...... |
Orville Clarence Redenbacher (July 16, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was an American businessman most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name.
Redenbacher was born in Brazil, Indiana, on July 16, 1907, to William Joseph Redenbacher (1873-1921), a farmer, and Julia Magdalena Dierdorff (1874-1944). He grew up on his family's farm where he sometimes sold popcorn from the back of his car. He graduated from Brazil High School in 1921 in the top 5% of his class. He attended Purdue University, where he joined the agriculture-oriented Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and the Purdue All-American Marching Band. He also joined the Purdue University track team. He graduated in 1928 with a degree in agronomy.[1] He spent most of his life in the agriculture industry, serving as a Vigo County Farm Bureau extension agent in Terre Haute, Indiana, and at Princeton Farms in Princeton, Indiana.[2] more....... |
Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958) is an Irish American stepdancer, choreographer and musician. He became internationally known for Irish dance shows Riverdance, Warlords, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, and Celtic Tiger.
Flatley is a native of the South Side of Chicago. He is of Irish American background, being born to Irish parents Michael and Eilish. His parents were both Irish-born, but migrated to the United States several years before Michael's birth. Michael was the second of five children. He has three sisters, Anne-Marie, Eliza, and Thomasina, as well as a brother, Patrick. He began dancing lessons at age 11 and, in 1975, at age 17 was the first American to secure a World Irish Dance title at the World Irish Dance Championships (Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne).[1] He is also an accomplished flautist, having won twice in the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil Concert Flute competitions from 1975-1976 and later in his career released twoalbums.[2] In his youth, Flatley also practiced amateur boxing, at age 17 he won the Chicago Golden Gloves Championship title.[3] In dance, Flatley was taught by Dennis Dennehy at the Dennehy School of Irish Dance in Chicago, then went on to produce his own show. After graduating from Brother Rice High School, on Chicago's Southwest Side, he opened a dance school, but later closed it down because he thought he would be a better performer than a teacher.[4] more....... |
James William "Jimmy" Johnson (born July 16, 1943) is an American football broadcaster and former player, coach, and executive. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from 1979 to 1983 and the University of Miami from 1984 to 1988. Johnson then moved to the National Football League (NFL), serving as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999. As of 2013, he is an analyst for Fox NFL Sunday, the Fox network's NFL pregame show.
Johnson was the first and one of only three football coaches to lead teams to both a major college football championship and a Super Bowl (the others being Barry Switzer and Pete Carroll). Johnson's coaching tree includes a number of future head coaches such as Butch Davis, Norv Turner, Tommy Tuberville, Dave Campo, and Dave Wannstedt. In 1993, Johnson wrote Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football, ghostwritten by Ed Hinton. Johnson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2012. more....... |
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