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Learn who the famous people are born on February 14 – Jack Benny And More!
Learn who the people Famous are born Feb. 14 – Jack Benny And More!
KUBELSKY Benjamin (Jack Benny) has been a comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio, television and film. He is considered one of the facilitators major 20th century. Its normal role was that of someone who was comically "tight" with his money and insisting that was 39 years, irrespective of his actual age could be. He also tried the violin but he played badly. He was born in 1984 in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of a Jewish saloonkeeper / haberdasher who came to America from Poland. His mother came from Lithuania. His weekly radio program, The Jack Benny Program (NBS-1932-CBS-1948 & 1949-1955) was one of the highest rated radio. It is famous Benny. Then there was the TV version its program, which ran from 1950 to 1965. He also starred in films including The Hollywood Revue of 1929, which won an Academy Award. († 1974)
HUGH MALCOLM Downs was born in Akron, Ohio in 1921. He is a retired broadcaster, television host, producer and author. He was the anchor of 20/20, (1978-1999), animator today's program, Announcer for The Tonight Show (w / Jack Paar), host of the show Concentration game, host of PBS talk show Over Easy (1977-1983). He earned a degree in gerontology from Hunter College, when he PBS was the show. He also co-host the talk show not for women only. He was special adviser to UN problems of refugees (1961-1964) and Chairman of the Board Committee of the United States for UNICEF. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society and president and head of its predecessor National Institute of space. It is an asteroid named after him Hughdowns 71,000.
PAUL EFTHEMIOS Tsongas was born in 1941 in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was educated at Dartmouth, Yale Law School and Kennedy School of Government (Harvard). Tsongas served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975-1979, the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-1964, and the Peace Corps country director in the West Indies from 1967 to 1968. He was a U.S. Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, since 1979-1985. The diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1984 made his retirement from the Senate to adjust to his illness. In 1992 he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. He lost to Bill Clinton. In 1997, cancer returned. He died of pneumonia and liver failure on January 18.
David Francis is a motivational speaker DRAVECKY Christian, an author and former baseball player with the San Diego Padres (1982-1987) and San Francisco Giants (1987-1989). He is known for his fight against cancer which ended his career as his team reached the World series. desmoid tumor cancer was found in his pitching arm. In October 1988, he underwent surgery on his arm to eliminate cancer cells. But in July 1989 as he was pitching in a game, his bones broken and he collapsed Dravecky. His left arm and shoulder were amputated 1991. The baseball career was over. He became a motivational speaker and author of his fight against cancer, his book was published back in 1990, and when you can not Come Back in 1992, written with his wife, Jan Ken Gire. He also wrote a book called called Christian motivation Comeback and was republished as "self-titled autobiography for children in 1992. He won the 1989 Willie Mac Award honoring his spirit and his leadership.
RENEE Fleming was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania in 1959. It is a Grammy Award winner (3 times) soprano who specializes in opera and lieder. It has a full lyric soprano voice. She studied at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. She won a Fulbright scholarship which enabled him to work in Europe and then followed by studies at the Juilliard School. Fleming has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech and Russian and English. His roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in La Traviata, the title role of Rusalka Dvolak the title role of Massenet Manon and Thais, the Marshal of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, and Arabella in the title heroine. She performed in opera houses and concert halls throughout worldwide. She was awarded the Swedish Polar in 2008,
OLIVER GREGORY HINES was born in New York in 1946. He is an actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. With his brother Maurice Hines began studying at the beginning with choreographer Henry Letang. He was a singer and musician in a rock band called Severance (1975-1976). His first film was in Brooks Mel History of the World Part 1 and later appeared in films such as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared, TAP and awaiting Exhale. In 1997, he had his own series, The Gregory Hines Show on CBS. He also had a recurring role on Will & Grace. His debut Broadway happened in the girl in pink tights, (1954) and obtained for his Tony Award nominations for Eubie (1979) and "Uptown Comin (1980). For Jelly Jam last he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony. Hines died of liver cancer on August 3 2003.
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The Very Best Of Supertramp $7.18 In the midst of the late 1970s punk/new wave revolution, England’s Supertramp tore a page from the Genesis playbook, suffusing their previously overwrought prog-rock influences and bittersweet hippie optimism gone sour with muscular pop hooks. They eventually became one of the world’s foremost rock acts–and later a rich source for contemporary TV commercial music. But while Supertramp peaked quic… |
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Lady Sings the Blues $9.32 Diana Ross stars as legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in this biopic that chronicles her rise and fall. It begins with her late childhood, a stint as a prostitute, those early days as a blues singer, her marriages, and her drug addiction. Overly glossy and lacking depth, this is worth seeing only for the performances. Diana Ross was nominated for an Oscar for her acting debut. A dynamo with sp… |
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Ginger Baker: Master Drum Technique $14.80 A unique chance to study with an all-time drum legend! The great rock drummer takes you through a wide range of techniques, from paradiddles, beat displacement, and tom-tom technique through African rhythms, double-bass drum technique, and much more. He even takes some examples and puts them into a band situation, also demonstrating his famous soloing style. A must-have disc for all drummers!… |
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biography – Sir Isaac Newton [VHS] $3.98 “By the age of 23, he had laid the foundations for calculus, the laws of gravity, motion and inertia, and begun experiments on light. His major work, The Principia, has become to science what the Mona Lisa is to art. Isaac Newton has been called the father of Modern Science. His incredible body of work represents arguably the greatest contribution to science ever made by an individual. But… |
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Yamaha Living Legends: Julius Baker [VHS] Julius Baker, one of the world’s great flutists, has performed internationally as a soloist with major symphony orchestras including Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago and New York. His artistry as a player and educator has secured him teaching positions at both Juilliard and the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Baker’s influence as a teacher is legendary. Many of his former students have gone on to dis… |
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3 – The Dale Earnhardt story (2 Disc Collector’s edition) $6.74 Despite a limited TV budget and a tight 20-day shooting schedule, ESPN’s 3 pays honorable tribute to NASCAR’s greatest hero. Barry Pepper (the ace marksman in Saving Private Ryan) is perfectly cast as Dale Earnhardt, who rose from humble beginnings as a cotton-mill worker to legendary status as “the Intimidator,” whose aggressive racing style was frequently controversial. While basing its drama on… |
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Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury Updated Edition $75.00 When Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury was published in 2004, the book was the first to describe the dramatic rise of the worldâs finest luxury company. Written with full access to the companyâs archives, it demonstrates Louis Vuittonâs passion for fine design with a stunning array of archival art, product designs, and cutting-edge advertising. The company is examined throug… |
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The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods $26.00 The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain. He was with Tiger 110 days a year, spoke to him over 200 days a year, and stayed at his home up to 30 da… |
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30 Pieces of Silver: An Extremely Controversial Historical Thriller $4.99 In celebration of the Indie Book Blowout…”30 Pieces of Silver” will be priced at just $3.99! Get it before it goes back up to its regular price of $5.99!!!Now onto 30 Pieces of Silver…Did you know James Rollins recommends, 30 Pieces of Silver, the #1 Kindle bestseller in Men’s Adventure, Techno-thriller & War genres!***Warning*** Before you purchase this book please be aware that 30 Pieces o… |
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Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them $20.99 Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella’s myriad en… |
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Autobiography of a Flea $4.99 Autobiography of a Flea contains, in abundance, all the elements of great 19th Century erotic English literature: innocent maidens, unscrupulous clerics, wayward wives, and duped husbands. These are the ingredients that have made this classic work of erotica so famous. |
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SAS: The Autobiography $10.66 SAS: The Autobiography is the story of the world’s most famous special forces regiment by those who truly know it – the troopers and officers themselves. From the dust of the wartime desert and raids on harboured Luftwaffe aircraft to sniping al-Qaeda in the far mountains of Afghanistan, SAS: The Autobiography takes the reader on a high adrenaline history of the regiment which simultaneously lifts the shroud of mystery from the regiment’s operations. |
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Autobiography of a Yogi $6.99 The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation. The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book: "Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended with priceless superphysical information-much needed to balance the Western… |
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Autobiography of a People $16.99 Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience.  From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait: Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs on running away James Cameron on escaping a mob lyniching Alvin Ailey on the world of dance Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on the Korean War Max ROach on “jazz” as a four-letter word LL Cool J on rap Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World’s Fair Rev. Bernice King on the future of Black America And many others. From the Trade paperback edition. |
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An Autobiography $7.99 The autobiography of the queen of mystery, agatha christie. |