Golf Central

Fred Couples was born, not wearing a golf glove, in Seattle, Washington on this day in 1959. To this day, not many people can swing a club or mangle a quote quite as beautifully as the son of Violet and Tom Coppola.

The world’s No. 1 golfer for 16 weeks after winning the Masters in 1992, Fred Couples remains the undisputed king of golf’s Silly Season, counting 26 'other' victories among the 43 professional wins on his CV.

Freddie made a real charge at winning his second Masters in 2006 at the age of 46 and then gave the press some more wonderfully daft pearls of wisdom, like,'I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.'

His ex-wife wife, Deborah (pictured above), took her own life in 2001 by jumping from the roof of a chapel. By this time Couples had remarried and had successfully help nurse his second wife Thais through treatment for breast cancer.
   
On this day in 1990 West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country, while in 1995 OJ Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole and her 'friend' Ronald Goldman.    

So it’s Felichan Naskightagon!, as they say in Esperanto, to American writer and establishment wind-up merchant Gore Vidal (b.1925), the world's worst DJ Tim Westwood (b.1957) and Mötley Crüe drum-thumper and former Mr Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee (b.1962).