By Kiesly Jamison
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Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and dancer. Dubbed the “Prince of Pop“, Billboard honored him as the best performing solo act on Pop Airplay and one of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century. Timberlake remains among the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales of over 117 million records worldwide. His awards include ten Grammy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Brit Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, the Contemporary Icon Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and MTV‘s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Timberlake appeared on musical television shows as a child, competing on Star Search; in the early to mid-1990s, he was a cast member on the Disney Channel‘s The All New Mickey Mouse Club, where he performed cover songs, skits, and choreography. While on the show, Timberlake worked with future bandmate JC Chasez, and the two rose to prominence in 1997 as the lead vocalists for the boyband NSYNC. The group released four commercially successful studio albums, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands of all time with sales of over 70 million units worldwide.
Timberlake established himself as a solo artist with his first two albums, Justified (2002) and FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), both of which sold over 10 million copies and received triple platinum certification by the RIAA, with the latter becoming his first US Billboard 200 chart number-one album. He further topped the chart on three more occasions, with The 20/20 Experience, The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 (both 2013) and Man of the Woods (2018). The 20/20 Experience became the best-selling album of the year. Throughout his career, Timberlake scored numerous high-charting US Billboard Hot 100 singles, including “Cry Me a River“, “Rock Your Body“, “SexyBack“, “My Love“, “What Goes Around… Comes Around“, “Dick in a Box“, “Give It to Me“, “4 Minutes“, “Suit & Tie“, “Mirrors” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!“, which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Timberlake enhanced his popularity with an acting career. He landed starring roles in the films The Love Guru (2008), The Social Network (2010), Bad Teacher (2011), Friends with Benefits (2011), In Time (2011), Wonder Wheel (2017) and Palmer (2021). He also voiced Artie in Shrek the Third (2007), Boo-Boo Bear in Yogi Bear (2010) and Branch in the Trolls franchise (2016–2024).
In January 2007, Timberlake began dating actress Jessica Biel. They became engaged in December 2011 and married on October 19, 2012, at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy. Their first child, a son, was born in April 2015. In July 2020, they had a second son.
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Born
- Franz Peter Schubert (Austrian composer) –
- Zane Grey (novelist) –
- Eddie Cantor (comedian) –
- John Henry O’Hara (author) –
- Jersey Joe Walcott (boxer) –
- Garry Moore (TV personality) –
- Jackie Robinson (first African American baseball player in major leagues) –
- Carol Channing (actress) –
- Mario Lanza (singer & actor) –
- Norman Mailer (author) –
- Jean Simmons (actress) –
- Ernie Banks (baseball player) –
- Phillip Glass (musician) –
- Nolan Ryan (baseball player) –
- Anthony LaPaglia (actor) –
- Portia de Rossi (actress) –
- Justin Timberlake (singer) –
- Tyler Seguin (ice hockey player) –
Died
- Timothy Eaton (retailer) –
- A. A. Milne (author) –
- Sam Goldwyn (movie mogul) –
- Francis Gabreski (retired colonel who recorded 37.5 kills and was known as “America’s Greatest Living Ace” ) –
- Horace Hagedorn (founder of Miracle-Gro plant food) –
- Eunice Sanborn (American supercentenarian) –
Events
- Anton Chekov’s play, Three Sisters, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre –
- A Napier was the first car to go over 100 mph –
- The German government informed the U.S. that unrestricted submarine warfare would begin on February 1, 1917 –
- The Green Hornet made its radio debut –
- Yugoslavia adopted its constitution and officially became a people’s republic –
- The U.S. released 33 former Nazis incarcerated for war crimes, including Alfred Krupp –
- Explorer I, first U.S. satellite, launched –
- Explorer 1, first successful U.S. satellite, was launched –
- Ham, a male chimpanzee, was recovered alive in the Caribbean after being carried to a height of 155 miles in a U.S. space capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida –
- National Traffic Safety Agency issued the first set of U.S. federal safety standards for vehicle safety –
- North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive, attacking South Vietnamese towns –
- Limited telephone service re-established between East and West Berlin for the first time in 19 years –
- Apollo 14 manned spacecraft launched –
- Paul and Linda McCartney appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. This made Linda McCartney the first person to have both taken a photo, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine. –
- The first McDonald’s opened in Moscow, Russia –
- Samuel Alito was sworn in as the 110th U.S. Supreme Court justice –
Weather
- Snowy month left 54 inches of snow on the ground at low levels, Northfield, Vermont –
- Big snow in Oregon set a record: Portland 16 inches; Salem 25 inches –
- A record low of 0 degrees F hit San Antonio, Texas –
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