- Bob Weir
Robert Hall Weir (born October 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. - Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" was convicted and given a prison sentence of 22 years in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. - Dale Evans
Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith, a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. - Paul Miller
Paul Miller (born 1962) is an American theatrical lighting designer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Miller studied music and piano performance before attending the Theatre School (formerly known as the Goodman School of Drama) at DePaul University to study lighting design in 1982. He began his career in 1990 lighting for regional theatres and off-Broadway productions, including "Waiting for Godot" and Dan Goggin's "Nunsense II" and "Balancing Act". - Melissa Stark
Melissa Stark (born November 11, 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland), was an American television personality with NBC who used to anchor with MSNBC. She joined in 2005. Prior to joining NBC, she was best known for her three-year stint as a sideline reporter for "Monday Night Football", which she left in order to start a family. She has also worked as a reporter for fellow Disney entity ESPN. In 2005, Stark participated as a reporter for NBC's New Year's Eve coverage, … - Andy Stewart
Andy Stewart (30 December 1933 - 11 October 1993) was a Scottish singer and entertainer. The use of tartan patriotism and stereotypical Scottish humour goes back to Sir Harry Lauder and music hall songs. In the 1960s this strand was continued by entertainer Andy Stewart. He was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a teacher. He moved to Arbroath as a child and then trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. - Jason Earles
Jason Daniel Earles (born April 26, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American actor. - Manuela Testolini
Manuela Testolini was born September 19, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born to an Italian father and Egyptian mother. She went to live in the US after completing a degree in Law and Sociology from York University in Toronto. Testolini married Prince on New Year's Eve of 2001 in Hawaii and took Prince's family name, Nelson. Manuela filed for divorce May 24, 2006 and the couple had no children together. She is presently president and CEO of Gamillah Inc., … - Lonny Price
Lonny Price (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor, writer, and director, primarily in theatre. Born in New York City, Price attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. His early career was spent performing in off-Broadway productions. His first major Broadway credit was the ill-fated Stephen Sondheim musical "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981), … - Agnes Ozman
Agnes Ozman was a female student at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas. Ozman was considered by many as "“the first to speak in tongues,”" and her experience which sparked the modern Pentecostal-Holiness movement, which began in the early 20th century. *Her parents were farmers, and since childhood, Agnes and her six siblings attended the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nebraska, Wisconsin. - Sean Kanan
Sean Kanan (stage name) (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor. - Hiram Bithorn
Hiram Gabriel Bithorn (March 18, 1916 - December 30, 1951) was a Puerto Rican right-handed pitcher who became the first baseball player from Puerto Rico to play Major League Baseball. He was born in Santurce, a heavily populated area of San Juan. Bithorn played for the San Juan Senators and at age 22 became the youngest manager in the history of Puerto Rican winter ball. Soon enough, he was pitching at Wrigley Field. - Laurie Brown
Laurie Brown (born 7 October 1957 in Toronto) is a Canadian television journalist. She was a host on the Citytv program "The NewMusic" from 1985 to 1990. She interviewed numerous musicians for this show, including jazz performer Miles Davis in 1988. She was subsequently a reporter for the CBC Television news show "The Journal", and then host of "On the Arts" for CBC Newsworld. She was also one of the Canadian hosts of 2000 Today, … - Oswald West
Oswald West (May 20, 1873 - August 22, 1960) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served most notably as the 14th Governor of Oregon. Called "Os West" by Oregon writer Stewart Holbrook, who described him as "by all odds the most brilliant governor Oregon ever had." West was born in Ontario, Canada but moved to Salem, Oregon with his family at the age of four where he attended school and eventually went into banking. - Styles Bridges
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9 1898-November 26 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four year career in the United States Senate. Bridges was born in West Pembroke, Maine. He attended the public schools in Maine. He attended the University of Maine at Orono until 1918. From 1918 he held a variety of jobs, including teaching, newspaper editing, … - Linda McRae
Linda McRae is a Canadian rock and alternative country musician. - Günther Jauch
Günther Johannes Jauch (born July 13 1956) is one of Germany's most famous television hosts. He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea (Dorothea) Jauch and his 4 children (2 natural, 2 adopted). Jauch was born in Münster. He married Thea in 2006 without permitting the press to photograph the wedding. A photo that circulated in the tabloid media (which had not much detail) was published by "BILD". - Justina Morales
Justina Morales (February 19,1987 - December 31, 1995) was a young girl from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, USA who was killed at age eight by her mother's boyfriend Luis Santiago, on New Year's Eve in 1995. Her case gained notoriety primarily through the New York City tabloids. The girl's disappearance had gone unnoticed for more than a year until February 1997 when a relative informed the police that she had been missing and possibly killed. - Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany. A onetime professional boxer whose career was cut short (he had unintentionally killed a sailor in a street fight), Fascher found work in clubs along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. When the Beatles (including original drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe) made their first trip to Germany in August 1960, … - Viv Graham
Viv Graham (1959-December 31, 1993) was a British mobster and former professional heavyweight boxer who, operating a chain of Tyneside nightclubs and bars, was a reputed organized crime figure in the Geordie underworld involved in extortion and racketeering activities. A well known bouncer and "hardman" in the Tyneside-area, Graham earned a reputation as a hardened and violent criminal, … - Servant Girl Annihilator
The Servant Girl Annihilator or Austin Axe Murderer is the given name of a notorious serial killer or killers who terrorized Austin, Texas between 1884 and 1885. It is thought that at least seven women, mostly servant girls, died at the hands of the killer, who typically dragged his victims from their beds and raped them before slashing or axing them to death. Several victims were stabbed by some sort of spike in the ears or the face. - Tanya Falan
Tanya Falan, featured singer from "The Lawrence Welk Show", was born in Glendale, California on May 7, 1949. Very versatile and talented from a young age, she made her singing debut at age four on stage at "Little Joe's" restaurant in Los Angeles. A year later, she made her first television appearance on The Gene Norman Show, and later performed as a semi-regular on The Bill Stella Show. - Carl Gustaf Armfeldt
"Friherre" Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, was a Swedish officer who took part in the Great Northern War. He was born in Ingria to lieutenant colonel Gustaf Armfelt and Anna Elisabet Brakel. Like other members of his family Armfelt devoted himself to war and at seventeen years' age joined Nylands kavalleri as a cadet. In 1685 he left this position and left for France where he joined prince Ferdinand of Fürstenburg's regiment as a mere footsoldier. - Jessica Pacheco Calvente
Jessica Pacheco Calvente was a Puerto Rican who was one of 23 victims hit by stray bullets in Puerto Rico during the 2003 New Year's eve celebrations. She was the only fatal victim in Puerto Rico that New Year's eve. A four-month-old girl was also hit but not killed. Pacheco Calvente was a resident of one of San Juan's public residential areas (what is commonly known in the United States as "projects"). She was an elementary school student at Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer school. - Christine Jessop
Christine Marion Jessop was a nine-year-old Canadian girl from Queensville, Ontario who was abducted, raped, and murdered by an unknown criminal in October 1984. Her body was found about 50 km from her home, in Durham Region on New Year's Eve of the same year. Jessop's murder led to one of Canada's most famous wrongful conviction cases. Guy Paul Morin was initially convicted of the crime, and then exonerated by DNA evidence in 1995. As of 2007 the murder remains unsolved. - Richard Kimmel
Richard Kimmel is a New York-based theatre director, writer, and theatrical producer. He is currently Executive Director of The Box, a venue for theater, music, and nightlife in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and Artistic Director of Cannon Company, a performing ensemble. His New York directing and producing credits include: *Beat Generation (world premiere of lost play by Jack Kerouac, The Box, … - Amir El-Falaki
Amir El-Falaki (born August 12 1973 Copenhagen) is a Danish vocalist. He is a member of the band Toy-Box. Amir is of Moroccon descent and speaks Danish, English, Arabic, and French.. Amir wanted to be a doctor, but became a dance teacher instead. He met Anila Mirza at a New Year's Eve party. The two decided to form Toy-Box. As of 2006, he is planning a solo music career, or a dance teacher career. - Roger Penzabene
Roger Penzabene was an songwriter for the Motown label. Among his most notable compositions are "The End of Our Road" by Gladys Knight & the Pips and Marvin Gaye, and a trilogy of three hits for the Temptations: "You're My Everything", "I Wish It Would Rain", and "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)". The mournful break-up song "I Wish It Would Rain" in particular drew from Penzabene's real-life pain. The songwriter found out that his wife was cheating on him, … - Bambi Lashell
Bambi Lashell is a model. Bambi Lashell was born and raised in Dublin, California and graduated from Dublin High School. After high school, Lashell worked as a waitress at Hooters in San Diego, CA. In 2005, while working as a bartender in San Jose, California, Bambi was persuaded by her manager to enter The "Miss San Jose Grand Prix" pageant. Lashell placed as the second runner-up in this pageant, and decided to pursue modeling as a full-time career. - Anders Björck
Anders Björck is a Swedish politician and the current Governor of Uppsala County. Björck was born in Nässjö and was interested in politics from an early stage. He was national chairman of the Moderate Youth League, or the "Right Wing Youth League" ("Högern ungdomsförbund") as it was known at the time of his election. He was the first truly young - only 21 - chairman of the Youth League - his predecessor was 35 years old. - Bryan Smyth
Bryan Smyth (born 1963) is an Irish singer, television presenter, and an actor. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. Smyth came to light as a singer at a young age; as a boy soprano he found himself in demand in many churches in Dublin. He studied singing at the Leinster School of Music & Drama, but leaving school early in the hope of becoming a rock star failed. Then in a move which changed his life he joined in a drama society. - Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (January 1, 1878 - December 25, 1958) was the founder of the Women's International Association of Aeronautics. She was born on New Year's Eve in 1878 in Salem County, New Jersey. Elizabeth's parents were the Reverend Dr. Benjamin Crispin Lippincott, who was the first superintendent of public instruction in Washington Territory, and New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Church minister; and Deborah Hand Diverty. Deborah was his second wife. - Chuk Man Kwan
Chuk Man-kwan is an artiste of TVB. Until 2004, she was one of the presenters of the following programmes: Chinese New Year, Community Chest, Tung Wah, Dragon Boat Festival and New Year's eve. Between 1999 and 2000, she was a presenter of Mark Six, often known for telling a lot of things. In addition to TV, she is also active in social services, holding a post as an MC of some social activities. - Rade Lacković
Rade Lacković is a Serbian pop-folk singer. Rade performed a concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia on New Year's Eve 2001-2002 and was given 20,000 German Marks. Strangely enough, the German Mark would fall into disuse the following day (January 1, 2002). -Albums Released * "Ceo grad me zenio sa tobom" (2005) * "Pojacaj Radio" (2006) - Pope Silvester Sylvester I
Pope Saint Sylvester I or Silvester I was pope from January 314 to December 31, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The accounts of his Papacy preserved in the "Liber Pontificalis" (7th or 8th century) and in Anastasius are little else than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Roman Church by Emperor Constantine I. He was represented at the First Council of Nicaea, … - Elisha Hunt Allen
Elisha Hunt Allen was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Hawaiian justice. He was born in New Salem, Massachusetts, attended New Salem Academy and graduated from Williams College in 1823. Allen was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Brattleboro, Vermont; later moving to Bangor, Maine and continuing the practice of law. From 1835 to 1840 he was a member of the Maine House of Representatives, serving as Speaker in 1838. - Rodney Sheppard
Rodney Sheppard (born November 25, 1967) is the guitarist of rock band Sugar Ray. He was born in Trinidad, but grew up in Newport Beach, California. His mother's name is Gloria and he has an older brother named Alan. While attending Corona del Mar High School Rodney & friends formed a cover band inspired by the group The Jam. That band, initially called The Shrinky Dinx, went on to become Sugar Ray. - Pat Bullard
Patrick ("Pat") Bullard is a Canadian writer and comedian. He was born in Mississauga, Ontario. He has written for the sitcoms "Roseanne", "Reba", "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place", and "Grace Under Fire". He has also hosted two game shows; "Love Connection" (1998-1999), and "Card Sharks" (2001). He is the brother of Mike Bullard and appeared on his brother's show, "Open Mike", during the first New Years' Eve special. - As11
AS11 is a Greek musician who works with found sound. AS11's first CD, "00:00" uses samples gathered from internet radio broadcasts on New Years Eve 1999. The second CD, "5000m", uses samples recorded of a man's heartbeats and breathing whilst running a 5 kilometre race. The third CD 'New CD out now!" is more of a comment on noise and experimental CD overproduction. - Sandra Sims
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