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- The man who would eventually become known as Yokozuna was born in San Francisco on October 22, 1966. He came from a wrestling family, as his uncles were Afa Anoai and Sika Anoai. He was trained by his uncles and Sam Fatu as a teenager and wrestled in Alabama and the USWA under the name Kokina Anoai. He already weighed 400 pounds.
In Japan, he would work in main events against Big Van Vader (Leon White), and there he met a contingent of sumo wrestlers, which led to the gimmick which would get him the most over, the character Yokozuna, or sumo grand champion. Vince McMahon brought him into the WWF and gave him a monster push in 1992. He wasn't even knocked off his feet for months, until finally Jim Duggan finally pulled it off, and he still won the match. He later won the Royal Rumble (1993), which allowed him to challenge for the WWF Title at WrestleMania IX (1993) against Bret Hart. Anoai won the match and the title, but immediately lost it at the same event to Hulk Hogan. Anoai won the title back at the King of the Ring (1993) and kept it for over 10 months, an incredible amount of time for a 'heel' wrestler. He lost it back to Hart at WrestleMania X (1994).
His weight was becoming a huge issue, and multiple attempts to get Anoai to lose it were failures. The WWF kept him off TV for awhile, then brought him back in as a tag team partner for Owen Hart, with whom he won the Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania XI (1995). His weight gain continued, and at his final appearance in the WWF, during the _Survivor Series (1996) (V)_, he weighed almost 800 pounds. This would make him the heaviest pro wrestler in history, but he was never officially weighed.
He wrestled in the main event of the Heroes of Wrestling pay per view in 1999 and went on a European tour in October 2000. It was during this tour that he died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Liverpool, England. He was only 34. - Writer
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Ken Dodd was born on 8 November 1927 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Hamlet (1996), Cruella (2021) and The Ken Dodd Laughter Show (1979). He was married to Anne Dodd. He died on 11 March 2018 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Actress
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Mary Lawson was born on 30 August 1910 in Darlington, Durham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Can You Hear Me, Mother? (1935), Toilers of the Sea (1936) and D'Ye Ken John Peel? (1935). She was married to L.C. Beaumont. She died on 6 May 1941 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Georgina Smith was born on 9 October 1933 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for No Surrender (1985), Devices and Desires (1991) and Married 2 Malcolm (2000). She died on 14 July 2016 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Carla Lane was born on 5 August 1928 in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for Bread (1986), The Liver Birds (1969) and The Last Song (1981). She was married to Arthur Hollins. She died on 31 May 2016 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- He became interested in theatre by acting in children's plays in his fathers church. He worked in Ottawa Little Theatre, The Canadian Repertory Theatre then on graduating from McMasters University came to England in 1952 to study at the Central School of Speach and Drama. He worked at Scottish National Childres Theatre and Glasgow Citizens Theatre then rep at Newcastle and Darlington. In the West End he played Brink in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was voted Most Promising Actor of 1958 by The British Film Accademy
- James Bulger was a boy from Kirkby, England, who was murdered on 12 February 1993, at age 2. He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982). Bulger disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two-and-a-half miles (4 km) away in Walton, two days after his murder. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with Bulger's abduction and murder.
- Iggy Navarro was an actor, known for Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Double X: The Name of the Game (1992) and Boys from the Blackstuff (1982). He died on 7 December 2015 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Josie Jones is known for Everyday (2012). She died on 23 March 2015 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Ray Dunbobbin was born on 31 March 1931 in Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for I Didn't Know You Cared (1975), The Liver Birds (1969) and Brookside (1982). He died in August 1998 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Ken Hodgkinson was born in 1924 in Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He died on 4 October 2017 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 - 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith, she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia Baird and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humor. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatized by her death and wrote several songs about her, including "Julia" and "Mother". - Director
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Killjoy was born on 4 November 1966 in East Liverpool, Ohio, USA. He was a director and actor, known for August Underground's Mordum (2003), Torched (2004) and Necrophagia: Sickcess (2004). He died on 18 March 2018 in East Liverpool, Ohio, USA.- Louise Duprey was born on 26 April 1957 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coasting (1990) and Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990). She was married to Geoffrey Kasseum. She died in February 2000 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Eric Bristow was born on 27 April 1957 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Heartlands (2002), Never the Twain (1981) and The Unipart British Professional Darts Championship (1981). He was married to Jane Higginbotham. He died on 5 April 2018 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- One of seven children of dirt-poor Georgia farmers, Charles Arthur Floyd was born on February 3, 1904. His family moved to Oklahoma shortly after his birth, where they bought a small farm. Their luck was no better in Oklahoma than it was in Georgia, and drought, plagues of insects and devastating dust storms combined to keep them just barely out of the poorhouse. When Floyd was 16 he married, had a son and left the farm looking for work, but was unable to find any. Desperate to keep his family fed, he got hold of a gun and robbed a post office, netting $350 in pennies. He was soon arrested for the crime, but his father managed to get him out of trouble. Charles, however, liked the idea of being able to score such "easy money" and he and his wife headed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he figured the pickings were better than they were in rural Oklahoma. He robbed a grocery store and got more than $16,000. The money didn't last long, however, as he was soon arrested by local police who became suspicious of someone who had no job and no means of support driving a brand-new car and wearing expensive clothes. They searched the car and found money from the grocery store robbery, some of it still wrapped in paper with the store's name on it. He was sentenced to five years in state prison, during which time his wife gave birth to a son and divorced him. Released after having served three years, Floyd vowed that he would die before going back to prison again. He went back home to Oklahoma and discovered that his father had been killed in an argument with a local man, who was tried for the crime but acquitted. Soon afterward the man disappeared and was never seen again. Floyd, who had told several people that he would kill the man the first chance he got, was suspected of murdering him, but there was no evidence and he was never charged. He soon moved to East Liverpool, Ohio, which was a haven for bootleggers and liquor smugglers. He hired himself out as an enforcer for many of the gangs that operated in the area and gained a reputation as a cold, efficient killer. Heading to Kansas City, he hooked up with one of the criminal gangs that infested the area at the time, many of which were under the protection of the corrupt Pendergast political machine. It was there that he picked up the two things that would make him one of the era's most famous criminals: his skill with a machine gun and the nickname "Pretty Boy," given to him by a prostitute who was enamored of him. He hated the name, but it stuck and added to his reputation. Also adding to his reputation was his involvement in more than 30 bank robberies and ten murders.
Floyd robbed so many banks in Oklahoma that bank insurance rates doubled. He was involved in a shootout with police in Bowling Green, Ohio, in which his accomplice and a police officer were killed and his girlfriend was shot and captured, but he managed to escape. His name and that of fellow professional triggerman Adam Richetti surfaced during the investigation into the infamous "Kansas City Massacre" of June 17, 1933, in which five men, including an FBI agent and several local police officers, were killed during an attempt to free a gang leader being transported to prison, although Floyd always denied being involved. One theory, however, was that it wasn't an attempt to free the hood, a small-timer named Frank Nash--who was one of those killed--but an assassination ordered by Nash's associates, who were afraid he'd rat them out in exchange for a release from prison or a reduced sentence. The theory was given credence by the fact that both Floyd and Richetti didn't belong to any particular gang and had no real ties to Kansas City, but were well known as killers for hire.
His spree of murders and robberies continued, and after gangster John Dillinger was shot to death in an FBI ambush in Chicago in 1934, Floyd was named "Public Enemy #1." Although there was a $25,000 reward for his capture, Floyd was considered a hero in his area of Oklahoma, one reason being that whenever he returned there he would use some of the loot from his previous robberies to buy food and clothes for many of the poverty-stricken residents of the Cookson Hills, where he grew up. Also, whenever he robbed banks in the area, the first thing he did was tear up all the mortgages he could find, an act that endeared him to many of the local residents who were on the verge of losing their homes, farms and businesses to the banks.
Floyd's career was coming to a close, though. On October 19, 1934, three men robbed the Tiltonsville (Ohio) Bank. Two of them were positively identified as Floyd and Richetti. The next day the two gunmen were spotted by police in nearby Wellsville, and in the ensuing chase and gun battle Richetti was shot and captured, but Floyd once again escaped. Three days later, acting on a tip, police and FBI agents surrounded him at a farm outside East Liverpool, Ohio. Although armed, he didn't fire at the lawmen but attempted to flee. After ignoring orders to halt, Pretty Boy Floyd was shot dead by an East Liverpool sheriff's deputy. - Writer
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Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. Besides being an author, he's held several jobs over the years, as a stand-up comedian, a docker, a long-distance lorry driver, postmaster, boxer, and many others. His first book, Redwall, was discovered in the mid-1980s by one of his teachers from when he was in school, Alan Durband. Now, to this day, he has 16 original Redwall novels released, along with several other non-Redwall novels. He still lives in Liverpool to this day.- Actress
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Janice Long was born on 5 April 1955 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Lift Off! (1984), Stopwatch (1978) and You Bet! (1988). She was married to Paul Berry and Trevor Long. She died on 25 December 2021 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Comedian George Roper was best known for his television appearances on ITV's long running series The Comedians, first shown in the UK in the early 1970s. Roper's jokes were clean, inoffensive and usually centres around 'wellies' (wellington boots). His fascination for 'wellies' stemmed from a brief spell working as a builder's labourer.
Born in Liverpool, Roper was the son of a window cleaner. On leaving school he joined the Merchant Navy, working as a galley boy and then a steward.
He joined the RAF as a drill instructor and while stationed in Holland began entertaining troops at a forces concert party. After leaving the RAF he worked in various manual jobs and singing and telling jokes in clubs at night. The music hall comedian Sandy Powell encouraged him to become a professional entertainer.
He moved to Manchester in the 1960s and whilst working in cabaret was spotted by Johnny Hamp, creator of The Comedians. Hamp booked him for the first series in 1971.
When The Comedians finished in the 1980s Roper was still in demand in clubs and summer shows and for some years appeared in cabaret in Benidorm, Spain. - L.C. Beaumont was born on 6 August 1903 in Lawshall, Suffolk, England, UK. L.C. was a producer, known for Toilers of the Sea (1936). L.C. was married to Mary Lawson and Enid Corinne Ripley. L.C. died on 4 May 1941 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Jamie Reid was born on 16 January 1947 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Blonde Fist (1991) and Rosemary & Thyme (2003). He was married to Maria Hughes. He died on 8 August 2023 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Adriana Xenides was born on 9 January 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Golden Fiddles (1991), Angel Baby (1995) and A Current Affair (1971). She was married to Micheal Xenides, Frank Cortazzo and Robert Phillips. She died on 7 June 2010 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
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Seb Patrick was born on 30 November 1982 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Movie: Yeah, No, Yeah, No (2005), Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years (2020) and PortsCenter (2012). He was married to Josephine Patrick. He died on 2 August 2020 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Stephanie Roscoe was born on 26 April 1945 in the UK. She was an actress, known for Priest (1994), Grow Your Own (2007) and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996). She died on 19 January 2013 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Fritz Spiegl was born on 27 January 1926 in Zurndorf, Burgenland, Austria. He was an actor, known for Softly Softly: Task Force (1969), ABC Stage 67 (1966) and Z Cars (1962). He was married to Romnes, Ingrid and Bridget Fry. He died on 23 March 2003 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Rusty Ryan was born on 28 December 1947 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Outrageous! (1977), Too Outrageous! (1987) and The Wharf Rat (1995). He died on 28 July 2003 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Bob Paisley was born on 23 January 1919 in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, England, UK. He was a director, known for First Division Liverpool FC versus Derby County (1978), First Division 42. Matchday Liverpool FC versus Southampton FC (1979) and First Division 22. Matchday Stoke City vs Liverpool FC (1982). He died on 14 February 1996 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Joe Flannery was born in 1931 in England, UK. He is known for Superheroes of Stoke (2012), The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (2018) and I Knew John Lennon (2003). He died on 27 March 2019 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Gerard Hely was born on 23 October 1928 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Message (1976), The Message (1976) and The Liver Birds (1969). He died on 7 April 2013 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Chris Crookall was born on 9 March 1988 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and editor, known for Fighting with My Family (2019), Tolkien (2019) and Lucky Man (2016). He died on 27 October 2020 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Music Department
Tony Davis was born on 24 August 1930 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK. He is known for Twice a Fortnight (1967), How It Is (1968) and Singalong (1964). He was married to Beryl. He died on 10 February 2017 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Dennis Harkin was born on 23 August 1918 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Home to Danger (1951), It Depends What You Mean (1946) and Holiday Camp (1947). He died on 28 November 1991 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Vicki Moore was married to Tony Moore. Vicki died on 6 February 2000 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Dixie Dean was born on 22 January 1907 in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK. He died on 1 March 1980 in Liverpool, England, UK.
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Mandy Walsh was an actress, known for Priest (1994), Blonde Fist (1991) and Land and Freedom (1995). She died on 25 May 2015 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Rose Farley was born on 11 February 1997 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mr. Vincent (1997) and Lilies (2007). She died on 2 June 2012 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Henry Montsash was born on 17 September 1905 in Liverpool, England, UK. He is known for Horror of Dracula (1958), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and UFO (1970). He died on 29 September 1974 in Liverpool, England, UK.- Harry Catterick was born on 26 November 1919 in Darlington, England, UK. He died on 9 March 1985 in Liverpool, England, UK.
- Richard Gardiner was born in 1958 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Dressmaker (1988), The League of Gentlemen (1999) and The Lesson (1999). He died on 4 November 2014 in Liverpool, England, UK.
- Papa Spyk Recalls Colorful Life Journey in... 'A Naughty Thing called Life...The Papa Spyk Story
My Autobiography chronicles Papa Spyk's life and how it was turned around after suffering a near death experience with a massive Aortic Dissection due to my drug abuse for half of my life that almost killed me.
Some people live pretty colorful and incredibly intense lives. Sometimes all it takes is one dramatic event to be the catalyst for change. Author Papa Spyk takes readers on a nostalgic road down memory lane as he recalls A Naughty Thing called Life.
Papa Spyk, an ex professional rugby player, top international model, actor and stuntman. Born in the sixties. Papa Spyk was an overly intelligent child, trapped in a hopelessly dysfunctional world. He lived life on the edge until he suffered a near death experience. When he was told he would never walk again, be paraplegic, never father a child. He thought his life was over. Fortunately his amazing family and close friends gave him the strength to survive. Learning to walk again and father his very own little Angel, his Angelyna.
A Naughty Thing called Life shares the honest story of Papa Spyk's experience, hoping to make a difference to other people's lives. Its about courage to love and be loved and the way he healed himself by going through hell and back. It remind's the reader that there is a silver lining in every cloud. This book is a testament to Papa Spyk's focus of his energy from self-destruction to creation. Papa Spyk - Allan Williams was born on 17 March 1930 in Bootle, Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for And the Beat Goes On (1996), Imagine: John Lennon (1988) and Some Other Guys: The Story of the Big Three (2017). He was married to Beryl. He died on 30 December 2016 in Liverpool, England, UK.
- Bob Wooler was born on 19 January 1926 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was married to Beryl Adams. He died on 8 February 2002 in Liverpool, England, UK.
- Johnny Hackett was born on 20 December 1930 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Who Do You Do (1972), Play for Today (1970) and The Good Old Days (1953). He died on 21 May 2002 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Bacon was born in Romford, Essex. He grew up in Australia.
Bacon's acting career comprised of starring in 25 episodes of Australian soap Sons and Daughters (1982) and one episode of the British sitcom 2point4 Children (1991). He turned down a part in Neighbours (1985).
In 1987, Bacon moved to London, where he worked in TGI Fridays in Covent Garden. He then decided to become a professional bartender, forming his own company, Bar Biz. In 1989, Bacon appeared on Richard & Judy and Wogan; the latter appearance helped him get a job in Manchester and in 1991 he met his long term business partner Jeremy Roberts and helped open the Chalon Court Hotel in Lancashire. In 1993, Bacon and his friend David Hinds bought the JW Johnsons bar in Manchester, a popular bar restaurant and club; this led to the later development of Via Vita, a Mediterranean-style bar-restaurant, developed with Roberts and Hinds which was sold in 1998.
In 1999, Bacon set up the Living Room with Jeremy Roberts and developed the business to 13 restaurants; there were 34 restaurants in the group when Bacon and Roberts sold the Living Room to trade in 2007. In 2005, the Est Est Est restaurant business was acquired, which in 2016 had 15 restaurants. Between 2010 and 2012 the business grew adding the Oast House (which grew into the New World Trading Company), the Alchemist, Australasia and Artisan - all developed in Manchester City Centre. In 2013, the Manchester House restaurant was opened, with the aim of it becoming the first Michelin star restaurant in Manchester. In 2015, the Group led by Bacon had a turnover in excess of £100 million, and was awarded the Manchester Evening News Business of the Year award.
In 1999, Bacon was diagnosed with lymphoma and in 2014, he was diagnosed with advanced melanoma. He died on 30 April 2016. Bacon's 12-year-old nephew Jett died of Ewing's sarcoma five days after.
A memorial service was held for Bacon on 16 May 2016.
Bacon was married three times and had three children. - Edward Devlin was born in 1930 in South Shields, County Durham, England, UK. He died on 25 April 1952 in Walton, Liverpool, England, UK.
- Ebony Gray was born on 25 January 1954 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Brookside (1982). She died on 8 August 2003 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Rhys Jones was born on 27 September 1995 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He died on 22 August 2007 in Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Joe Glover was born on 26 May 1966. He died on 12 May 1999 in Everton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Al Dean was born on 7 January 1942 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Who Do You Do (1972), The Krankies Klub (1982) and Ronnie Corbett's Saturday Special (1977). He died on 7 September 1994 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Bill Morrison was a writer and actor, known for Screenplay (1986), BBC2 Playhouse (1973) and Screen Two (1985). He died on 7 December 2011 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.