The first child of Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel, Neil Armstrong was born at 12:31:39 a.m. on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, a town outside Dayton.Stephen Armstrong worked for the Ohio government, and the family moved around the state repeatedly for the next 14 years, living in 16 different towns. Armstrong had two siblings, June and Dean. His father’s last forced move was to Wapakoneta in 1944. By this time, Armstrong was active in the Boy Scouts and he eventually earned the rank of Eagle Scout. As an adult, he would be recognized by the Boy Scouts of America with their Distinguished Eagle Scout Award and Silver Buffalo Award. In Wapakoneta, he attended Blume High School.

In 1947, Armstrong began studying aeronautical engineering at Purdue University. He was only the second person in his family to attend college. He was also accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but the only engineer he knew (who had attended MIT) dissuaded him from attending, telling Armstrong that it was not necessary to go all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a good education. His college tuition was paid for under the Holloway Plan; successful applicants committed to two years of study, followed by three years of service in the United States Navy, then completion of the final two years of the degree. At Purdue, he received average marks in his subjects, with a GPA that rose and fell over the eight semesters.

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Clooney, an Irish American, was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren), was a former pageant queen, while his father, Nick Clooney, was a journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky. Clooney has a sister, Ada, and is the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer, as well as the cousin of their children, among them actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer. He is also the cousin-in-law of another singer Debby Boone, who married Jose’s son Gabriel Ferrer. From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father’s sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favorite. Clooney briefly attended Ohio’s William Mason High School but graduated from Kentucky’s Augusta High School in 1979. He was a poor student. George did excel in athletics; baseball in particular. He was invited to try out for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but was not offered a contract.

He briefly attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979-1981, but did not graduate, earning no more than freshman-level credits. He also very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati, but again did not graduate.

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Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894–1969), and Natalie Dolly Garaventa (1896–1977).

Sinatra weighed 13½lb at birth, and appeared stillborn , but spluttered into life when placed under a cold tap.

Sinatra left school without graduating and worked for some time at the Jersey Observer newspaper, and as a riveter at the Tietjan and Lang shipyard.

Sinatra met Nancy Barbato at the age of fourteen, whom he would marry in 1939. It was in the early 1930s that Sinatra started singing in public

In 1935, he got his first break when his mother persuaded a local singing group, The Three Flashes, to let him join. With Sinatra, the group became known as the Hoboken Four, and they sufficiently impressed Edward Bowes that they appeared on his show, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, and with a record 40,000 votes they won the first prize, a six month contract to perform on stage and radio across the United States.

Sinatra left the Hoboken Four and returned home in late 1935. His mother secured him a job as a singing waiter and MC at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood, New Jersey, for which he was paid $15 a week. . Sinatra was arrested on a ‘morals charge’ in 1938, after an ex-lover had accused him of a ‘breach of promise’. The case was dismissed in court in January 1939, and within weeks Sinatra married Nancy Barbato.

On March 18, 1939, Sinatra made his first recording, of a song called “Our Love”, with the Frank Mane band. In June, Harry James hired Sinatra on a one year contract of $75 a week .

Growing dissatisfied with the James band, Sinatra was approached by Tommy Dorsey in November 1939, and formally joined Dorsey’s band the following January.

In his first year with Dorsey, Sinatra released more than forty songs, with “I’ll Never Smile Again” topping the charts for twelve weeks in mid-July.

In the autumn of 1940, Sinatra appeared in his first film, Las Vegas Nights. In May 1941 Sinatra came top of the male singer polls in the Billboard and Downbeat magazines.

Sinatra’s relationship with Tommy Dorsey was tenuous, and Sinatra recorded his first solo sessions without the Dorsey band in January 1942.

His appeal to the “bobby soxers”, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time.

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