Curated category
1956 births
- Rob PaulsenRob Paulsen's most famous moment may have happened before most people knew his name. In 1993, a radio announcer asks a desperate question about Alexander…
- Disco King MarioDisco King Mario was born on the 1st of July, 1956, in Edenton, North Carolina, and he died on the 21st of May, 1994 - a man who never released a single…
- Ian BryceIan Bryce was born on the 30th of November, 1956, in Bristol, England, and he would grow up to become one of the most commercially successful film producers…
- Larry BirdLarry Bird walked into the locker room at the inaugural Three-Point Shootout during the 1986 NBA All-Star Weekend and asked who was going to finish second.
- Tom HanksTom Hanks lost 35 pounds for a single role. He thinned his hair, learned to walk differently, and prepared to play a dying man on screen.
- Andrew LambertAndrew David Lambert took the title of Laughton Professor of Naval History in 2001. This appointment placed him at King's College London within the…
- Carrie FisherCarrie Frances Fisher once wrote that no matter how she died, she wanted it reported that she had drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra.
- Lamar Hunt Jr.Lamar Hunt Jr. entered the world on the 20th of October 1956 in Dallas, Texas. He was born to Lamar and Rose Mary Whittle Hunt. His grandfather H. L.
- Tony GilroyTony Gilroy was born in Manhattan on the 11th of September, 1956, into a household where storytelling was not a hobby but a profession. His father, Frank D.
- Paolo RossiPaolo Rossi was born on the 23rd of September 1956 in Prato, Tuscany, in the area of Santa Lucia. Twenty-six years later, he stood at the centre of one of…
- Jamie DimonJamie Dimon was born on the 13th of March, 1956, in New York City, the grandson of a Greek immigrant banker who once worked in Smyrna and Athens and renamed…
- Rebecca MoestaRebecca Moesta Anderson entered the world on the 17th of November 1956. Her birthplace was West Germany to American parents.