S.J. Perelman
20.12.2023
Humorist / Writer Date Of Birth: 1 February 1904 Date Of Death: 17 October 1979 Place Of Birth: Brooklyn, New York S.J. "Sid" Perelman was a writer of short comic pieces, many of which appeared in The New Yorker magazine between the 1930s and 1970s. Perelman was
Bridey Murphy
20.12.2023
Hypnosis Subject Date Of Birth: 27 April 1923 Date Of Death: 12 July 1995 Place Of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin Best Known As: Hypnotic regression celebrity of the 1950s Name at birth: Virginia Tighe Bridey Murphy was the alter ego of Virginia Tighe, who made news in th
Tobias Wolff
20.12.2023
Writer Date Of Birth: 19 June 1945 Place Of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama Tobias Wolff is best known as the author of This Boy’s Life (1989), a funny-sad memoir of growing up with an itinerant mother and abusive step-father. Born in Alabama, Wolff grew up mostly in the Skagit Rive
Matt Dillon
20.12.2023
Actor Date Of Birth: 18 February 1964 Place Of Birth: New Rochelle, New York Matt Dillon was a teen screen idol in the 1980s who became a versatile character actor, earning an Oscar nomination for his performance in Paul Haggis’s Crash (2004). Dillon got his start in 1979’s Ove
Gustave Flaubert
20.12.2023
Writer Date Of Birth: 12 December 1821 Date Of Death: 8 May 1880 Place Of Birth: Rouen, France French writer Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary is considered one of the earliest and best examples of what the literary world calls modernist realism. Flaubert was studying
Helen Fielding
20.12.2023
Writer Date Of Birth: 19 February 1959 Place Of Birth: Yorkshire, England English writer Helen Fielding is the author of the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, a late 1990s U.K. and U.S. sensation that ushered in a new wave of "chick lit" novels and spawned two movies starr
Seth MacFarlane
20.12.2023
Actor / Animator Date Of Birth: 26 October 1973 Place Of Birth: Kent, Connecticut Seth MacFarlane is the creator of the animated series Family Guy. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (1995), he began work as an animator for Hanna-Barbera, working on Cartoon Network
Mickey Mantle
20.12.2023
Baseball Player Date Of Birth: 20 October 1931 Date Of Death: 13 August 1995 cancer Place Of Birth: Spavinaw, Oklahoma Best Known As: New York Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle was the New York Yankees’ most beloved slugger since Babe Ruth. He played his first game for t