Baker

As a matter of fact, he completed an apprenticeship as a baker before he started selling track shoes.

Marilyn Monroe, baptized as Norma Jean Baker , was born in June 1926.

As a child, Marilyn Monroe's mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, was institutionalised and then Norma Jeane, lived an orphanage and had eleven different sets of foster parents.The traumatic childhood made her shy and reserved.

1946 was a pivotal year for Marilyn, she divorced her young husband and changed her name from, the boring, Norma Baker to the more glamorous Marilyn Monroe (a combination of a 20's star Marilyn Miller with Monroe, her mother's maiden name.).

In 1930, Ruth Wakefield mixed Nestle chocolate pieces into her cookie dough after running out of baker's chocolate whilst making chocolate cookies.