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On This Day in History push out birthday greetings to the rich and famousThese are pushed out at random as we feel the birthday vibe coming on ;)If you would like us to wish your favourite celebrity a happy birthday then tells us and we'll see what we can do...
3rd December | 03/12/11 Born on this day 1795 Rowland Hill, 1857 Joseph Conrad, 1930 Andy Williams, 1944 Ralph McTell, 1945 Paul Nicholas, 1948 Ozzy Osbourne, 1952 Mel Smith, 1953 Eamonn Holmes, 1960 Daryl Hannah  more
On this day 19th January | 19/01/09 Born on this day 1839 Paul Cezanne, 1943 Janis Joplin, 1931 Tippi Hendren, 1939 Phil Everly, 1942 Michael Crawford, 1946 Dolly Parton, 1949 Denis Taylor, 1966 Stefan Edberg, 1970 Tim Foster more
inthepaper.co.uk | 19/11/07 New technology developed by inthepaper allows customers to create their very own ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC tabloid newspaper here, online now. more
Happy Birthday Stephen Fry | 24/08/11 Happy Birthday Stephen Fry - keep tweeting. Stephen is always tweeting and sharing interesting stuff with over 3,000,000 listeners, tune in @stephenfry. Need to buy his most recent book... then again, perhaps I'll opt for the talking book, sounds like it'll be easier on the eye ;) more
Happy Birthday Eliza Carthy | 23/08/11 Describing herself simply as A "Modern English Musician" Eliza Carthy, at 35, is only now beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. During q 20-Year journey / career she has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation. more
Happy Birthday Glen Johnson, Liverpool and England | 23/08/11 Happy Birthday Glen Johnson Liverpool & England. Glen Johnson scored Match of the Day Goal of the Season 2008/2009 -(Portsmouth v Hull City)... enjoy ;) more
This day in July | 27/07/11 Helping to index pages on the On this day in history .co.uk site I have simply added links to all the pages in July below. We have just changed the way that our web pages are indexed. By offering up the web pages again to Google for indexing we can speed up the process and see how many more visitors we get as a result of the new format. more
Happy Birthday Dame Helen Mirren | 26/07/11 Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards. more
Happy Birthday Sir Nick Faldo and Sir Richard Branson | 18/07/11 What with the golf and the apprentice on yesterday made sense to salute these two chaps. more
Happy birthday Tulisa Contostavlos and Ian Hislop | 13/07/11 In the interests of beauty before age, Tulisa goes first... like I needed to say that ;) more
Happy Birthday Cheryl Cole | 30/06/11 Cheryl Ann Cole (née Tweedy; born 30 June 1983) is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, and model. more
Happy birthday Danny Baker | 22/06/11 Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957, Deptford, South London) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio. more
Happy birthday to the ladies on Ladies Day | 16/06/11 There are a whole bunch of institutions whose birthday it is today but we'd best start, on this Ladies Day at Ascot 2011, with the WI ;) more
Happy Birthday James Hugh Calum Laurie | 11/06/11 As of August 2010, Laurie is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television. His debut album, Let Them Talk, was released in May 2011. more
Happy Birthday Björn Borg | 06/06/11 Watching the French Open at the weekend they were talking about Nadal taking Borg's record if he's not careful. Only polite to say happy birthday to one of the great tennis players of our time. more
Happy Birthday to the first talking cartoon | 31/05/11 The first talking cartoon was released today. Mickey Mouse - The Karnival Kid (1929) more
Happy Birthday Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) | 23/05/11 Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. more
Happy Birthday Pierce Brosnan | 16/05/11 Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist who holds Irish and American citizenship. more
Birthday drinks on Fred Astaire down at the Ritz ;) | 09/05/11 Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. more
Bucks Fizz for Jay Aston on her birthday please | 04/05/11 Jay Hilda Aston (born 4 May 1961, Purley, Surrey) is a singer, dancer, and occasional songwriter who was formerly with the British pop group, Bucks Fizz. She was the youngest member of the group's original line-up, being just 19 at the Eurovision Song Contest. more
Happy birthday Joanna Lumley | 01/05/11 Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, voice-over artist and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive Skin. She is a former model and Bond girl. more
Congratulations William and Kate on this | your wedding day 28/04/11 We have to start today by wishing William and Kate well on this their wedding day. I got together with my pal Hugh to shoot this Royal Wedding quiz. Have some fun with it and tell us how you got on, thank you. Jon Davey, Social Media Director, LiaiseOnline Limited. more
Happy birthday Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) | 26/04/11 Roger Andrew Taylor (born 26 April 1960) is an English musician who is best known as the drummer of English rock band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards. more
Have a happy talking birthday Captain Sensible and be Damned | 24/04/11 Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, 23 April 1955) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist (and sometimes bassist) who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image. His signature headwear is a red beret. more
The Simpsons premieres on this day | 19/04/11 In 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show more
Happy Birthday Gerry Anderson MBE Thunderbirds are GO | 14/04/11 His first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series The Adventures of Twizzle and it would be almost a decade before his most famous and successful production, Thunderbirds, would be produced. more
Happy birthday Dame Vivienne Westwood | 08/04/11 Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (born Vivienne Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. more
Happy Birthday Susan Boyle, Phillip Schofield and Chris Evans | 01/04/11 Happy Birthday 60's babies Susan Boyle, Phillip Schofield and Chris Evans ... what do they all have in common ;) more
Happy birthday Eric Idle | 29/03/11 Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer who wrote and performed as a member of the popular British comedy group Monty Python. more
Happy birthday Joe Calzaghe | 23/03/11 Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE (born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer. He was rated by Ring magazine as pound for pound one of the top 10 boxers in the world and was rated as the second best pound for pound boxer on the planet by the BBC before he retired. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, becoming only the fourth European boxer, after Terry Marsh, Michael Loewe and Sven Ottke, to retire as an undefeated world champion. After his retirement, Ricky Hatton described him as "the best British fighter we've ever had". more
Happy Birthday Gary Oldman | 21/03/11 Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor, filmmaker and musician, well-known to audiences for his portrayals of dark and morally ambiguous characters. He has starred in films such as Sid and Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, JFK, Dracula, True Romance, Léon, The Fifth Element, The Contender, the Harry Potter film series and the Batman film series, as well as in television shows such as Friends and Fallen Angels. more
Happy birthday Kenny Lynch | 17/03/11 Kenny Lynch, OBE (born 18 March 1938, Stepney, London, England) is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. He was one of the relatively few black singers on the British pop scene in the early 1960s. more
Happy Birthday Coleen Nolan | 12/03/11 Coleen Patricia Nolan (born 12 March 1965) is an English television presenter, author and singer. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters. She has since then appeared on various television shows both as a presenter and panellist as well as appearing on reality television programmes. In 2009 she toured again with the Nolans. more
Happy birthday Gary Numan | 08/03/11 Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" with his band Tubeway Army and his song "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals. more
Happy birthday Lou Reed have a Perfect Day | 01/03/11 Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed[1] (born Lewis Allen Rabinowitz[2] on March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era.[3] As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. more
Happy birthday Lou Reed have a Perfect Day | 01/03/11 Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed[1] (born Lewis Allen Rabinowitz[2] on March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era.[3] As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. more
Happy birthday Roger Daltrey WHO? | 01/03/11 Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films. more
Happy birthday Julie Walters | 22/02/11 Julie Walters, CBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite Michael Caine. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress. more
Happy Birthday Nina Simone | 21/02/11 Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), also known by her stage name Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Nina's prodigious musical talent encouraged her ambition to become the first black concert pianist, but the realities of poverty and racial prejudice forced her to reconsider [1]. Her musical path changed direction after she was turned down for full scholarship at a prestigious music institute - the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia. She began playing in a small club in Phildelphia to fund her continuing musical education to become a classical pianist, and was required to sing. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and "I love you Porgy" became a smash hit in America in 1958. [2]. Over her career, Simone recorded over 40 albums, mostly between 1958 — when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue — and 1974. Her original style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular her first inspiration, classical composer Bach, [3] and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in characteristic low tenor. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, and as she felt that pop music was inferior [4]. Also, her intuitive grasp on the audience/performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years[5]. After twenty years of performing, she became involved in the civil rights movement and the direction of her life shifted once more [6]. Simone's music was highly influential in the fight black people faced for equal rights at this time in America, regardless of race [7]. Her powerful music was a source of inspiration and enjoyment for her generation, and continues to be for those that follow. more
Happy birthday John Travolta | 18/02/11 John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. more
Happy Valentine's Day | 14/02/11 It would appear we celebrate valentines day but there is little clarity around who st valentine was ... but it's OK, search valentines day and you can buy plenty of stuff ... phew, that's OK then ;) more
Happy birthday Mary Quant | 11/02/11 Mary Quant, OBE, FCSD (born 11 February 1934 in Blackheath, London) is a British fashion designer who was instrumental in the mod fashion movement and one of the designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Mary Quant brought fun and fantasy to fashion in the 1960s. As creator of the mini skirt and hot pants, she showed a generation how to dress to please themselves. Her instant success made traditionally cautious designers change their attitudes and make their designs appeal to the newly important youth market. more
Happy birthday Holly Willoughby | 10/02/11 Holly Marie Willoughby (born 10 February 1981) is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK. more
Happy birthday Holly Johnson | 09/02/11 Holly Johnson is an English artist, writer and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. more
Happy birthday Dani Harmer aka "Tracy Beaker" | 08/02/11 Danielle Jane "Dani" Harmer (born 8 February 1989) is a BAFTA nominated British television actress and singer. Harmer is best known as the title character in the UK television programme The Story of Tracy Beaker/Tracy Beaker Returns, and as Molly Venables in the BBC sitcom After You've Gone. more
Happy birthday Charles Dickens | 07/02/11 Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870 was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. more
Happy birthday Alice Cooper | 04/02/11 Alice Cooper born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948 is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that includes guillotines, the gallows, the electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper had drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. more
Happy birthday Lol Tolhurst | 03/02/11 Laurence Andrew "Lol" Tolhurst (born 3 February 1959) is a founding member and former drummer and keyboardist of British band The Cure. more
Happy birthday Nell Gwyn | 02/02/11 Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne) (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687) was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England. more
Happy birthday Sir Stanley Matthews | 01/02/11 Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards. Matthews' nicknames included The Wizard of the Dribble and The Magician. more |
