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  • MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on the 16th of August 1958. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old on the…
  • Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. Her parents were Cynthia Louise and Joseph…
  • Jay-ZShawn Corey Carter entered the world on the 4th of December 1969 within Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. He grew up inside the Marcy Houses public…
  • Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
  • Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton was born on the 19th of August 1946 at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. His father died three months before his birth…
  • The New York TimesHenry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones established The New-York Daily Times in 1851. Their first issue appeared on the 18th of September 1851, with a…
  • The Boston GlobeSix Boston businessmen pooled $150,000 to launch The Boston Globe on the 4th of March 1872. Eben Dyer Jordan of the Jordan Marsh department store and Cyrus…
  • Variety (magazine)Variety was born from an act of defiance. In 1905, Sime Silverman lost his job at The Morning Telegraph for panning an act that had paid $50 for an…
  • Mariah CareyMariah Carey was born on the 27th of March 1969, in Huntington, New York. Her name came from the song They Call the Wind Maria, which appeared in the 1951…
  • NewsweekNewsweek launched on the 17th of February 1933 with a cover featuring seven photographs from that week's news. Thomas J. C.
  • The Denver PostIn August 1892, The Evening Post emerged from a $50,000 fund raised by supporters of Grover Cleveland. These backers sought to stem the flow of Colorado…
  • USA TodayUSA Today hit newsstands on the 14th of September 1982, priced at 25 cents a copy, in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas.
  • Billboard (magazine)The first issue of Billboard appeared in Cincinnati, Ohio on the 1st of November 1894. William Donaldson and James Hennegan published the eight-page weekly…
  • Russell SimmonsRussell Wendell Simmons was born in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens on the 4th of October 1957. His father worked as a public school administrator while…
  • Bruce VilanchBruce Gerald Vilanch arrived in the world on the 23rd of November 1948. He spent his earliest days in New York City before moving to Paterson, New Jersey.
  • Roland EmmerichRoland Emmerich was born on the 10th of November 1955 in Stuttgart, West Germany. He grew up in the nearby town of Sindelfingen while his father Hans ran a…