American actor

Ving Rhames

Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase before transferring to the Juilliard School, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983. After early stage work in Shakespeare and contemporary plays, he made his screen debut in 1985 and gained attention through roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and as Marsellus Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Rhames achieved further recognition as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, appearing in all eight installments.

Born

1959

May 12

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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Ving, in brief

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113 Roman emperor Trajan dedicates a column celebrating and depicting his victory over the Dacians.
254 Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
907 Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
1157 A church council presided over by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos in the Palace of Blachernae investigates the orthodoxy of the patriarch of Antioch, Soterichos Panteugenos.

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The world in 1959

When Ving arrived

april 25 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
april 8 A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
april 8 The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
april 9 Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

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Same-day contemporaries

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Abelardo L. Rodríguez 1889–1967 substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828–1882 English poet and painter (born 1828) Domingos Maubere 1952–2025 East Timorese Catholic priest and activist (died 2025) Felipe Alou 1935– Dominican-American baseball player, coach, and manager Florence Nightingale 1820–1910 Italian-English nurse and theologian (born 1820) Gabriel Fauré 1845–1924 French pianist, composer, and educator (died 1924) George Karl 1951– American basketball player and coach Graeme Dott 1977– Scottish snooker player and coach Henry Cabot Lodge 1850–1924 American historian and politician (died 1924)

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Also born in 1959

Ahmet Davutoğlu 1959– Turkish political scientist, academic, and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Turkey Aidan Quinn 1959– American actor Albert Owen 1959– Welsh sailor and politician Andrew Bolt 1959– Australian journalist Anna Escobedo Cabral 1959– American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Boris Nemtsov 1959–2015 Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (born 1959) Brad McCrimmon 1959– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011) Brett Bodine 1959– American NASCAR driver

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