Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) has won 17 Grammy Awards
(including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001) and two Emmy
Awards, and has been named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center
Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million records worldwide.

 
Bob Richards

Dr. Bob Richards was a two time Olympic gold medalist for pole vaulting in 
1952 and again in 1956, the first athlete to appear on “Wheaties, Breakfast
of Champions” cereal boxes, and was a sportscaster for NBC Television. He
was Ordained in 1946 as a minister in the Church of the Brethren, and elected
to the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1975 and the U.S.
Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.

Bob Richards as the first Wheaties spokesman

Bob Richards’ 1969 appearance on a Wheaties box, and the Olympian
today. He turned 86 on Feb. 20th.

African American track star Jesse Owens participated in the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by
winning four gold medals. The first medal was for the 100m sprint on
August 3rd, defeating Ralph Metcalfe.

               
                    James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913-1980)

Jay North holds a photo of himself as Dennis the Menace

Jay North began a career as a child actor at the age of six. He became a household name for his portrayal of Dennis Mitchell on the CBS sitcom Dennis the Menace
(1959-1963), based on the comic strip created by Hank Ketcham.

As an adult, North turned to voice acting work for animated television series, voicing
the roles of Prince Turhan in Arabian Knights and a teenage Bamm-Bamm Rubble
on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.

After leaving show business and disclosing the truth of a troubled childhood as a
child actor, North began working with fellow former child star Paul Petersen and
the organization, A Minor Consideration, using his own experiences as a child
performer to counsel other children working within the entertainment industry.

Teenager North in 16 Magazine, May1968

Peter Seamus Lorcan O’Toole is a retired Irish actor of stage and screen 
who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of 
Arabia, and then went on to become a highly acclaimed film and stage 
actor. O’toole has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds
the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without 
a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and an Emmy and was 
the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in in 2003 for his work. 

1964