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Born today? February 29th - Leap Year
Well known people born on February 29th - your in good company
Well known people born on February 29th - your in good company
Tempest Storm (born February 29, 1928) is the stage name of Annie Banks,[1] an American exotic dancer, burlesque star and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand, and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s. She is regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer, spanning more than 60 years. She was still performing in the early 21st century. Storm was born Annie Banks[1] in Eastman, Georgia.[1] By the age of 20, she had already been married and divorced twice and decided to go to Hollywood. Her beauty landed her work as a chorus girl, but her figure, combined with a magnetic stage personality, led her to a highly successful career in burlesque. Her professional debut was at El Rey Theater in Oakland California. She adopted the stage name Tempest Storm circa 1950 and changed it legally in 1957.[citation needed] In 1955, while working at the Tropics Nightclub in Denver, Tempest visited the University of Colorado Boulder campus. All she took off was her mink coat, but this started a near-riot.[2] She was married to Duke Ellington's singer (black cowboy star) Herb Jeffries and, according to her own account, was the only woman to have been romantically involved with both Mickey Cohen and Elvis Presley. more...... |
James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, sJimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of a coal miner turned music educator, and older brother of Tommy Dorsey who also became a prominent musician. He played trumpet in his youth, appearing on stage with J. Carson McGee's King Trumpeters in 1913.[1] He switched to alto saxophone in 1915, and then learned to double on clarinet. Jimmy Dorsey played on a clarinet outfitted with the Albert system of fingering, as opposed to the axophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's The Dreamer In Me". more....... Tony Robbins (born Anthony J. Mahavorick February 29, 1960) is an American life coach and self-help author. He became well known through his infomercials and self-help books, Unlimited Power, Unleash the Power Within and Awaken the Giant Within. In 2007, he was named in Forbes magazine's "Celebrity 100" list.[1] Forbes estimated that Robbins earned approximately $30 million USD in that year.[2]Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavorick in North Hollywood, California, on February 29, 1960. His original surname was derived from the Croatian surname Mohorovic. His father was a parking garage attendant, and his mother was an alcoholic and drug user.[3] Robbins is the eldest of three children. His parents divorced when he was 7. His mother then had a series of husbands, including Jim Robbins, a former semi-professional baseball player who legally adopted Anthony. Robbins was raised in Azusa and Glendora, California, and attended Glendora High School. He worked as a handyman to help provide for his siblings. He was elected student body president in his senior year, and grew 10 inches in high school, a growth spurt later attributed to a pituitary tumor. He has said his home life was "chaotic" and "abusive", and that his mother chased him out of the house with a knife when he was 17, and he never returned.[3] Robbins worked as a janitor, and did not attend college.[3] more...... |
Arthur Sofield Franz (February 29, 1920 - June 17, 2006) was an American B-movie and television actor, whose most notable feature film role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade, H. Paynter Jr. in The Caine Mutiny (1954). He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy (1949), Eight Iron Men (1952), Invaders From Mars (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and The Unholy Wife (1957), among many others. In The Sniper (1952), he played a rare lead in the film’s title role as a tormented killer; earlier, he co-starred with John Wayne in the WWII film Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and with Ronald Reagan in Hellcats of the Navy (1957).
Franz was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His interest in acting developed while he was still a student in high school. During World War II, Franz served as a B-24 Liberator navigator in the United States Army Air Forces. He was shot down over Romania and incarcerated in a POW camp, from which he later escaped. more....... |
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