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 was born on the 31st of December 1956, and he has spent his career asking a question that most people never think to ask: why does…
- 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. is an American businessman who serves as president and owner of the Kansas City Mavericks, a professional ice hockey team.
- 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 was born on the 17th of November, 1956, not in the United States, but in West Germany, to American parents who had settled abroad.