Today's Famous Birthdays

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Jeffrey Bruce Atkins
(born February 29, 1976),

better known by his stage name Ja Rule ,is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, record producer
and actor. Born and raised in New York City, he debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its lead
single "Holla Holla". During the 2000s, Ja Rule was signed to Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records, formerly
known as The Inc. From 1999 to 2005, Ja Rule had multiple hits that made the top 20 of the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 chart, including "Between Me and You" (featuring Christina Milian), "I'm Real
(Murder Remix)" and "Ain't It Funny" (both with Jennifer Lopez)—which both topped the Hot 100—the
number 1 hit "Always on Time" (featuring Ashanti), "Mesmerize" (featuring Ashanti), and "Wonderful"
(featuring R. Kelly and Ashanti).











Gioachino Rossini
(born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868)

was an Italian composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in his time. His operas had lots
of new ideas. Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers such as Cimarosa and
Paisiello writing the same sort of thing each time. Rossini made his operas interesting by writing skillfully
for the singers, giving them good tunes, as well as giving the orchestra interesting music, and by
choosing a variety of stories for his operas. The opera for which he is best known today is the Il
Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Many of the overtures to his operas are played at orchestral
concerts. The most popular is the overture to his opera Guillaume Tell (William Tell) with its feature in
the British TV show The Adventures of William Tell.










John Philip Holland
(24 February 1841 – 12 August 1914)

was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy,
and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1











James Francis Dorsey
(February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957)

was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and
composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)"
and "It's The Dreamer In Me". His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John Silver",
"So Many Times", "Amapola", "Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby,
Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare". He played
clarinet on the seminal jazz standards "Singin' the Blues" in 1927 and the original 1930 recording
of "Georgia on My Mind", which were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.










Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez
(February 28, 1960 – June 7, 2013),

dubbed the Night Stalker, the Valley Intruder (as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley),
and the Walk-In Killer was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in
California between June 1984 and August 1985. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989.
He died in 2013 while awaiting execution.

Ramirez's childhood is considered an influence on his crimes. Frequently abused by his father, Ramirez
began developing gruesome and macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin,
Miguel ("Mike") Ramirez, who also taught him some of the military skills that he would go on to use
during his year-long killing spree. Ramirez also cultivated a strong interest in Satanism and the occult.
By the time he had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22, he had begun
frequently using cocaine. Ramirez would often commit burglaries to support his drug addiction, many
of which were later frequently accompanied by murders, attempted murders, rapes,
attempted rapes, and assaults.












Anthony Jay Robbins
(born February 29, 1960)

is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials,
seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within.