[BaltimoreBob]

My #1 Celebrity Birthday Person for September 1st is
Rocky Marciano (Would have been 86) 1923 - Died age 45
Born 1 September 1923 - Brockton, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of death 31 August 1969 - Newton, Iowa, USA. (plane crash)
Rocky died just one day before his 46th Birthday.
Birth name: Rocco Francis Marchegiano / Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Nickname: The Brockton Bomber and The Brockton Blockbuster
He was the only undefeated boxing champion in any weight division.
At the end of his career he was 49-0-43 Ko's.
Rocky made his boxing debut at the age of 24 in 1947 by knocking out
Lee Epperson in the third round in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Then he would go on to fight such legends as Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott.
On September 23rd, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pa. Rocky ko'd Jersey Joe Walcott
in the 13th round to win the Heavyweight Championship Of The World.
Rocky fought his last boxing match on September 21, 1955 knocking out
'The Mongoose' Archie Moore in the 9th round at the Yankee Stadium.
Rocky then announced his retirement on April 27, 1956.
Though the life of Rocky Marciano ended nearly 30 years ago the legend still lives on.
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Gloria Estefan (52) 1957 - Singer
Born: Havana, Cuba / Birth name: Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo
/ Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Named after her mother.
Father was a Vietnam veteran
and died of suspected exposure to agent-orange.
(another Killed By The American COWARDS)
Has one sister, Becky / Graduated from the University of Miami
Her band is ‘The Miami Sound Machine’.
Spouse: Emilio Estefan Jr. (2 September 1978 - present) 2 children
Children: Nayib and Emily Marie
Her husband, Emilio was her first and only boyfriend.
Tour bus crash left her with a broken back. [March 1990]
Together with her husband, Emilio Estefan Jr.,
won the court case for the right to use the name Bongo Cuban Cafe
for the cafe they own in Disney World.
Performed at The Olympics; this is her third time performing there.
[Feb 24, 2002]
Once worked as a translator for the U. S. Customs Service at Miami airport.
Only movie role ‘Music of the Heart’ (1999) as Isabel Vasquez.
Baltimore Bob would see her live & the Miami Sound Machine a couple times
at the ‘Tonight Show’ between 1987 & August 1992.
Ranked #81 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.