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slowpoke2
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
ty hun 
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Re: Re: Famous Birthdays Today
QUOTE (slowpoke2 @ September 2, 2008, 23:00)ty hun
You are very welcome!
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ticaD
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QUOTE (slowpoke2 @ September 2, 2008, 14:30) QUOTE (Goody @ September 2, 2008, 08:03)Sept 2
1976-Erin Hershey (married to Brian Presley her co-star on TV's "Port Charles" )
1968-Salma Hayek (fiery Mexican actress memorable in "Frida" 2002)
1965-Lennox Lewis (prizefighter, three time world heavyweight champion)
1964-Keanu Reeves (star of the movie "Speed" and "The Matrix" )
1952-Jimmy Connors (Tennis player, known for his temper, won 109 tournaments)
1951-Mark Harmon ("St. Elsewhere" actor, son of football star Tom Harmon)
1948-Christa McAuliffe (NASA's first teacher in space died when Challenger exploded)
my one 
Happy Birthday Hun! 
 ... xox
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slowpoke2
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Famous Birthdays Today
QUOTE (ticaD @ September 2, 2008, 23:07) QUOTE (slowpoke2 @ September 2, 2008, 14:30) QUOTE (Goody @ September 2, 2008, 08:03)Sept 2
1976-Erin Hershey (married to Brian Presley her co-star on TV's "Port Charles" )
1968-Salma Hayek (fiery Mexican actress memorable in "Frida" 2002)
1965-Lennox Lewis (prizefighter, three time world heavyweight champion)
1964-Keanu Reeves (star of the movie "Speed" and "The Matrix" )
1952-Jimmy Connors (Tennis player, known for his temper, won 109 tournaments)
1951-Mark Harmon ("St. Elsewhere" actor, son of football star Tom Harmon)
1948-Christa McAuliffe (NASA's first teacher in space died when Challenger exploded)
my one
Happy Birthday Hun!
... xox
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Sept 3
1965-Charlie Sheen (Versatile actor in drama "Platoon" and "Spin City" )
1943-Valerie Perrine (portrayed Honey Bruce, dancer wife of comedian "Lenny" )
1935-Eileen Brennan (Captain Doreen Lewis of movie and TV's "Private Benjamin" )
1914-Kitty Carlisle Hart ("To Tell the Truth" panelist married to playwright Moss Hart)
1913-Alan Ladd (popular actor played title role in western "Shane" 1953)
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Sept 4
1981-Beyonce Knowles (Member of "Destiny's Child" later went solo)
1980-Dan Miller ((O-Town singer discovered on TV's "Making the Band" )
1973-Jason David Frank ("Power Rangers" original green ranger Tommy Oliver)
1970-Lone Skye ("Rivers Edge" actress, daughter of folk singer Donovan)
1968-Mike Piazza (baseball catcher with L.A. Dodgers and N.Y. Mets)
1960-Damon Wayans (("Saturday Night Live" alumnus from a show biz family)
1958-Dr.Drew Pinsky (radio "Love Line" counselor on drugs and sexuality issues)
1949-Tom Watson (professional golfer was six-time PGA player of the year)
1930-Mitzi Gaynor (dancer, singer, and actress in "South Pacific" 1958)
1918-Paul Harvey (radio newscaster/commentator on "The Rest of the Story" )
1917-Henry Ford II (Ford CEO [1960-1979], grandson of founder Henry Ford)
1908-Richard Wright (influential author of "Black Boy" and "Native Son" )
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
Sept 5
1927-Paul A. Volcker, 78, Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman
1936-Bill Mazeroski, 69, Baseball Hall-of-Famer
1939-William Devane, 66, Actor
1939-George Lazenby, 66, Actor
1940-Raquel Welch, 65, Actress
1939-John Stewart, 66, Singer
1945-Al Stewart, 60, Singer
1946-Dennis Dugan, 59, Actor-director
1946-Buddy Miles, 59, Drummer
1946-Loudon Wainwright III, 59, Singer
1950-Cathy Guisewite, 55, Cartoonist ( "Cathy" )
1951-Michael Keaton, 54, Actor
1951-Jamie Oldaker, 54, Country Musician (The Tractors)
1966-Terry Ellis, 39, R&B Singer (En Vogue)
1968-Brad Wilk, 37, Rock Musician (Audioslave)
1969-Dweezil Zappa, 36, TV personality
1973-Alexandra Kerry, 32, Actress-Director
1974-Rose McGowan, 31, Actress
1986-Andrew Ducote, 19, Actor
I'm helping out Goody for awhile, hope it looks okay.
... xox
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| September 5, 2008, 20:01 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
Sept 6
1548-Catherine Parr, 6th & last wife of Henry VIII
1553-Queen Elizabeth I, (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII
1707-George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
1726-Fran‡ois-Andre Philidor, of France, chess champion & musician
1829-August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
1836-Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, (Liberal), British P.M. (1905-08)
1860-Grandma Moses, American primitive painter
1908-Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
1908-Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland Browns (1946-62), Cincinnati
1913-Anthony Quayle, Actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
1914-James Van Allen, discovered radiation belts
1923-Peter Lawford, Actor (Mrs. Miniver, Little Women)
1924-Daniel Inouye, (D-Hi.), US senator, chair of Iran-Contra hearings
1930-Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951-, )
1930-Sonny Rollins, saxophonist
1936-Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
1942-Richard Roundtree, Actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
1950-Chrissie Hynde, (Pretenders)
1953-Linda Kaye Miller, Author
1954-Corbin Bernsen, (LA Law)
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| September 6, 2008, 19:33 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
Sept 7
1157
Richard I, King of England (1189-99), known as Richard the Lion-Hearted.
1685
Thomas Fleet, American printer, he published (1719) a book of nursery rhymes that his mother-in-law sang to his son. Since her name was Goose, they became Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.
1908
Austin Briggs, American cartoonist, drew Secret Agent X-9 (1938-40) and Flash Gordon dailies (1940-44) and Sundays (1944-48).
1911
Euell Gibbons, American naturalist. Writings: Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962). He was the spokesman for Post Grape-Nuts.
1914
Hillary Brooke (Beatrice Peterson), American actress. TV: My Little Margie (Roberta).
1922
Sid Caesar, American actor, comedian. TV: Your Show of Shows (co-host).
1925
Peter Sellers, British actor. Film: The Pink Panther (1964, Inspector Clouseau) and Being There (1979, the gardner).
1929
Darwood Kaye (Darwood Kenneth Smith), American actor, the scholarly Waldo of The Little Rascals, he appeared in 21 Our Gang films.
1932
Patsy Cline (Virginia Peterson Hensley), American country singer. Music: I Fall to Pieces (1961, #1) and Crazy (1961). She was the first female solo performer elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1973). She died in a plane crash.
1952
Mitch Robbins, character played by Billy Crystal in the movie City Slickers (1991).
1957
Heather Thomas, American actress. TV: The Fall Guy (Jody).
1971
Henry Thomas, American actor. Film: E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1984).
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| September 7, 2008, 20:59 |
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Sept 8
1981-Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Tim Allen's TV son Randy Taylor in "Home Improvement" )
1979-Pink ("Get the Party Started" signature song for alt-rock vocalist)
1971-Henry Thomas (best known as the the boy Elliott befriended by "E.T." )
1932-Patsy Cline (legendary country singer recorded "I Fall to Pieces" 1961)
1925-Peter Sellers (British actor from "Dr. Strangelove" to "The Pink Panther" )
1922-Sid Caesar (1950s TV comedy innovator on "Your Show of Shows" )
1900-Claude Pepper (Florida senator/congressman spoke out for senior citizens)
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Sept 9
1980-Michelle Williams (bad girl Jennifer Lindley on "Dawson's Creek" )
1966-Adam Sandler (comedian in movies such as "The Wedding Singer" 1998)
1960-Hugh Grant (romantic English actor with Julia Roberts in ""Notting Hill" )
1952-Angela Cartwright (young actress in "The Sound of Music" and "Lost in Space" )
1951-Michael Keaton (starred in Tim Burton movies "Beetlejuice" and "Batman" )
1946-Billy Preston (keyboardist recorded with the Beatles on "Let it Be" 1970)
1941-Otis Reading (soul singer of "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" )
1925-Cliff Robertson (heartbreaking Academy Award performance as "Charly" )
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| September 9, 2008, 08:35 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
Sept. 10
1736 d. 1797
Carter Braxton, American statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1839 d. 1912
Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company (1891), which first published its famous dictionary in 1912.
1890 d. 1973
Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-born French fashion designer. She was the first major designer to include zippers in their creations (1931) and was the inventor of "shocking pink."
1907
Fay Wray, Canadian actress, King Kong's main squeeze (1933).
1914
Robert Wise, American director. Film: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story (1961), and The Sound of Music (1965).
1928
Yma Sumac, Peruvian-born singer, Voice of the Xtabay (1950, #1).
1929
Arnold Palmer, American golfer. He was the first golfer to win $1,000,000 in career earnings.
1934
Charles Kuralt, American Emmy-winning TV journalist.
1934 d. 1985
Roger Eugene Maris, American baseball legend, American League MVP (1960-61). He broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record by hitting 61 (1961).
1939
Greg Mullavey, American actor. TV: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Mary's husband Tom).
1945
Jose Feliciano, Grammy-winning singer, born blind. He created and performed the theme song for TV's Chico and the Man (1974).
1953
Amy Irving, American actress, ex-wife of Steven Spielberg. Film: Yentl (1983)
1958
Dan Castellanetta, Italian-American actor. TV: The Simpsons (voice of Homer, Grampa, Barney, Krusty, and others).
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| September 10, 2008, 18:09 |
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ticaD
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Sept. 11
1575 d. 1611
Henry Hudson, English explorer. He was the first white man to go up the Hudson River (1609).
1812 d. 1886
Richard March Hoe, American inventor. He created the rotary press (1846), which enabled high-speed printing.
1818 d. 1903
Richard Jordan Gatling, American physician, invented the rapid-fire machine gun (1862).
1829 d. 1900
Charles Dudley Warner, American newspaperman, made the famous quote "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
1880 d. 1956
H.L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken), American newspaperman, critic for the Baltimore Sun.
1913 d. 1980
Jesse Owens (James Cleveland Owens), American track star. He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. At the 1935 Big Ten meet, he set three world records and tied a fourth - all within a span of 45 minutes. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1976).
1914 d. 1999
Desmond Llewellyn, Welsh actor. Film: Q in the James Bond movies.
1925
Dickie Moore (John Richard Moore Jr.), American actor, one of The Little Rascals. He gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss, in Miss Annie Rooney (1942).
1938 d. 1993
Tatiana Troyanos, American mezzo-soprano singer, known for her roles as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro.
1940
Linda Gray, American actress, Sue Ellen of TV's Dallas.
1943
Maria Muldaur (Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato), American singer. Music: Midnight at the Oasis (1972).
1944
Barry White, singer, wrote The Harlem Shuffle, and recorded the #1 hit Can't Get Enough of Your Love Baby.
1954
Peter Scolari, American actor. TV: Bosom Buddies (cross-dresser Henry/Hildegarde) and Newhart (Michael Harris).
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| September 11, 2008, 05:25 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
Sept. 12
1880 - H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
newspaper journalist, critic: Baltimore Sun; author: The Smart Set, American Mercury, The American Language; son of cigar maker, August Mencken
1888 - Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier
actor, singer: Gigi, Fanny, Can-Can
1901 - Ben Blue (Benjamin Bernstein)
actor, comedian: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Broadway Rhythm, The Big Broadcast of 1938
1916 - Tony (Melvin) Bettenhausen
International Motor sports Hall of Famer; killed while test driving a race car at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 12, 1961
1924 - Ella Mae Morse
singer: Cow Cow Boogie, Shoo Shoo Baby, House of Blue Lights, The Blacksmith Blues; 1st artist to record for Capitol Records
1925 - Stan (Stanley Edward) ‘Stash’ Lopata
baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1950/all-star: 1955, 1956], Milwaukee Braves
1946 - John ‘Frenchy’ Fuqua
football: Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Super Bowl X
1952 - Neil Peart
musician: drums: group: Rush: Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning
1957 - Michael Hegstrand
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania VII, VIII, XIII, XIV, Summerslam, Royal Rumble, WWF Judgement Day, Beyond the Mat; died Oct 19, 2003
1957 - Rachel (Claire) Ward
actress: The Thorn Birds, Night School, Sharky’s Machine, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Against All Odds, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Double Jeopardy
xox
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ticaD
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Sept. 13
1761 d. 1818
Caspar Wistar, American physician, for whom the wisteria is named.
1766 d. 1854
Samuel Wilson, American meat packer, the original "Uncle Sam." During the War of 1812 he stamped his merchandise with "U.S." - the initials of his nickname - causing it to be confused with government approved packages.
1813 d. 1864
John Sedgwick, American general, killed in the Civil War battle of Spotsylvania. His last words were "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
1813 d. 1865
William Augustus Barstow, American politician, governor of Wisconsin (1854-56). After the discovery of election irregularities, he became the first U.S. governor removed from office by a state supreme court (1856).
1851 d. 1902
Walter Reed, American Army surgeon. He proved that Aëdes aegypti mosquitoes carry the yellow-fever virus (1900).
1857 d. 1945
Milton Snavely Hershey, American candy-maker, invented the Hershey bar (1894).
1860 d. 1948
John Joseph Pershing, American general, commander in chief of the American forces during World War I (1917-19) and U.S. Army chief of staff (1921-24).
1903 d. 1974
Alberta Christine Williams King, mother of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She was shot to death while playing the organ during a church service by a 21-year-old black man who proclaimed "all Christians are my enemies."
1903 d. 1996
Claudette Colbert (Claudette Lily Chauchoin), Oscar-winning French-American actress. Film: It Happened One Night (Oscar).
1916 d. 1990
Roald Dahl, British author, coined the word "Gremlin" and wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (made into the 1971 movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
1924
Norman Alden, American actor. TV: Rango (Ranger Rango's boss).
1924 d. 1985
Scott Brady (Gerald Tierney), American actor. TV: Laverne & Shirley (Shirley Feeney's dad).
1925
Mel Torme, American singer, Judge Stone's favorite. He co-wrote Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (1946).
1931
Barbara Bain, American actress. TV: Mission: Impossible (Cinnamon Carter).
1931 d. 1991
Joseph "Mr. Google Eyes" August, pioneer rhythm and blues musician.
1937
Fred Silverman, ABC program manager.
1938
Miss Manners (Judith Martin), author, journalist.
1939
Richard Kiel, American 7-foot 2-inch tall actor. Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Jaws - Bond's steel-mouthed foe), and Moonraker (1979).
1944
Jacqueline Bisset, English actress. Film: Casino Royale (1967, Miss Goodthighs).
1948
Nell Carter, American Emmy-winning actress, Nell Harper of Gimme a Break.
xox
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| September 13, 2008, 19:05 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
September 14
1742 d. 1798
James Wilson, Scottish-born American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention of 1787, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1867 d. 1944
Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator, creator of the "Gibson Girl," which idealized the true American girl.
1883 d. 1966
Margaret Sanger, American birth-control advocate. She coined the term "birth control" (1914) and opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. (for which she was promptly arrested).
1899 d. 1973
Norman Chandler, American newspaper publisher. As publisher of the Los Angeles Times (1945-60), he built it into the nation's second largest daily newspaper.
1914
Clayton Moore, American actor, circus performer. TV: The Lone Ranger (kemo sabe).
1915
John Dobson, American astronomer, "The Pied Piper of Astronomy." He co-founded the Sidewalk Astronomers and invented the Dobsonian telescope, an inexpensive, easy-to-build telescope. (source: How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope)
1921
Constance Baker Motley, American judge, the first black woman judge of a federal district court (1966, New York).
1947
Jon "Bowser" Bauman, singer with Sha Na Na.
1951
Mary Fleener, American underground cartoonist, creator of Hoodoo.
1954
Barry Cowsill, American singer, guitarist, member of the singing family The Cowsills. Music: The Rain The Park And Other Things (1967, #2). They were the basis for TV's The Partridge Family.
1956
Joe Penny, English actor. TV: Jake and the Fatman (Jake).
1959
Mary Crosby, American actress, Bing's daughter. TV: Dallas (Kristin).
1963
Cathy, Jimmie, Maggie, Margie, and Mary Ann Fischer, American quintuplets.
xox
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| September 14, 2008, 14:16 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
September 15
1787 d. 1875
Guillaume Henry Dufour, engineer. He and Robert Marc Séguin designed and built the first permanent wire-cable suspension bridge (1823).
1789 d. 1851
James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist, The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
1850 d. 1898
Mary Downing Barnes, American educator, the first woman faculty member of Stanford University (1891).
1857 d. 1930
William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President (1909-13), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-30). He was the first president to throw out the opening ball of baseball season (1910).
1876 d. 1957
Frank Ernest Gannett, American publisher. He built a media network of 21 newspapers and 7 radio and TV stations.
1890 d. 1976
Dame Agatha Christie, English mystery author, creator of Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Her literary career began when her sister challenged her to write a mystery in which the identity of the culprit couldn't be guessed.
1903 d. 1992
Roy Claxton Acuff, American country singer, called the King of country. Songs: Wabash Cannonball and The Great Speckled Bird. He was the first living artist to be elected (1962) the Country Music Hall of Fame.
1907 d. 1980
Jack Bailey, American game-show host. TV: Truth or Consequences, and Queen for a Day.
1913 d. 1988
John Newton Mitchell, U.S. attorney general (1968-72), convicted in the Watergate scandal (1975).
1922
Jackie Cooper (John Cooperman Jr.), American actor, Emmy-winning director, called "America's Boy". He appeared in 15 Our Gang films. Film: The Champ (1931), Sooky (1931), Superman (1978, Superman's boss).
1940
Merlin Olsen, American football player, actor. TV: Little House on the Prairie (Jonathan Garvey) and Father Murphy.
1946
Oliver Stone, American film director, screenwriter, Midnight Express (1978, Oscar) and Platoon (1987, Oscar).
xox
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| September 15, 2008, 10:48 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
September 16
1387 d. 1422
Henry V, King of England (1413-22). Although greatly outnumbered (13,000 to 50,000), he defeated the French at Agincourt (1415).
1875 d. 1971
J.C. Penney (James Cash Penny), American businessman, founded the J.C. Penney department store chain (1902).
1914 d. 1999
Allen Funt, American TV personality, creator and host of Candid Camera.
1919 d. 1990
Laurence Johnston Peter, Canadian author, creator of the Peter Principle - "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
1924
Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske), American Tony-winning actress. Film: To Have and Have Not (1944), Key Largo (1948), and Applause (1970, Tony).
1925
B.B. King (Riley B. King), American Grammy-winning blues singer. He was the first blues singer to tour the USSR (1979). Music: Three O'Clock Blues (1951, #1).
1926
Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist, founder of the Crystal Cathedral and host of TV's Hour of Power.
1926
Tommy Bond, American actor. Film: The Little Rascals (Butch). He appeared in 27 Our Gang films.
1927
Peter Falk, American Emmy-winning actor. TV: Columbo (title role).
1930
Anne Francis, American actress. TV: Rip Tide (charter boat operator Mama Jo). She started as a child star of radio soap operas.
1948
Kenny Jones, British drummer. With Small Faces (1965-78), then joined The Who (1979) after the death of Keith Moon.
1949
Ed Begley Jr., American actor. TV: St. Elsewhere (Dr. Victor Ehrlich).
1950
David Bellamy, American singer, with the Bellamy Brothers. Music: Let Your Love Flow (1976, #1), If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me? (1979, #1), and Kids of the Baby Boom (1987, #1).
1956
David Copperfield, American magician. He made both a Lear Jet (1981) and the Statue of Liberty (1983) disappear on TV.
xox
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| September 16, 2008, 10:56 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
September 17
1923 d. 1953
Hank Williams, American country singer, composed Your Cheatin' Heart. His chauffeur was stopped by a highway patrolman who commented that Hank looked dead. Later on he realized that Hank really was dead.
1928 d. 1998
Roddy McDowall (Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall), British-born American Tony-winning actor. Film: Lassie Come Home (1943, Joe Carraclough), Planet of the Apes (1968, Cornelius). TV: Batman (Bookworm). He won both the Charleston and Cha-Cha contests on the The Arthur Murray Party (1950).
1931
Anne Bancroft (Anne Maria Louise Italiano), American Oscar-winning actress. Film: The Miracle Worker (1962, Oscar), The Graduate (1967, Mrs. Robinson), and Agnes of God (1985).
1934 d. 1969
Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, American tennis player. She was the first woman to win the Grand Slam (1953, by winning Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open, and U.S. Open in the same year).
1935
Ken Kesey, American author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962).
1938
Paul Benedict, American actor. Film: The Addams Family (1991, Judge Womack). TV: The Jeffersons (Harry Bentley).
1947
Jeff MacNelly, American Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, creator of Shoe (1977).
1948 d. 2003
John Ritter (Jonathan Southworth Ritter), American Emmy-winning actor. TV: Three's Company (Jack Tripper), The Waltons (Rev. Fordwick), and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (the Father).
1951
Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), American horror show host, "Hostess with the Mostest."
xox
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| September 17, 2008, 10:02 |
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ticaD
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Re: Famous Birthdays Today
September 18
1709 d. 1784
Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, poet. He wrote the first major English language dictionary (1755).
1733 d. 1798
George Read, American lawyer, politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1819 d. 1868
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist, one of the first to measure the speed of light (1850), demonstrated the rotation of the Earth with a pendulum (1851), and invented the gyroscope (1852).
1838 d. 1888
Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, for whom the color "mauve" is named.
1905 d. 1993
Agnes De Mille, American Tony-winning choreographer, Oklahoma! (1943), Brigadoon (1947, Tony), and Kwamina (1962, Tony).
1905 d. 1977
Eddie Anderson, American actor. TV: The Jack Benny Program (Benny's valet Rochester).
1905 d. 1990
Greta Garbo (Greta Gustafsson), Swedish-born actress. Film: Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1937).
1907
Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist. He co-discovered plutonium (1940), for which he shared a 1951 Nobel Prize.
1916 d. 1994
Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor, specializing in Continental lover roles. Film: The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Summertime (1955), and South Pacific (1958). TV: The Survivors (Riakos).
1920
Jack Warden, American actor. TV: Crazy Like a Fox (Harry Fox).
1930
Phyllis Kirk (Phyllis Kirkegaard), American actress. TV: The Thin Man (Nora Charles).
1933
Robert Blake (Michael Gubitosi), American Emmy-winning actor. Film: The Little Rascals (Mickey) and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1967, killer Perry Wilson). TV: Baretta (title role).
1940
Frankie Avalon (Francis Thomas Avallone), American singer, actor.
1971
Lance Armstrong, American cyclist. After being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996 that had metastasized and spread to his lungs and brain, he came back to win the Tour de France a record seven straight times (1999-2005).
xox
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| September 18, 2008, 13:06 |
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ticaD
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September 19
86 A.D. d. 161
Antonius Pius, Roman emperor (138-161 A.D.).
1737 d. 1832
Charles Carroll, American Revolutionary leader. He was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the richest U.S. citizen at the time of his death.
1778 d. 1868
Henry Peter Brougham, Scottish orator. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
1911 d. 1993
Sir William Golding, British Nobel-winning author. Writings: Lord of the Flies (1954) and Rights of Passage (1980).
1928
Adam West (William Anderson), American actor. TV: Batman (Bruce Wayne).
1933
David McCallum, Scottish actor. TV: The Man From UNCLE (Illya Kuryakin).
1934 d. 1967
Brian Epstein, British impresario, discoverer and first manager of The Beatles.
1940
Paul Williams, American singer, songwriter. He co-wrote hits We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, and Just an Old Fashioned Love Song.
1941 d. 1974
"Mama" Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen), American folk singer, with The Mamas and the Papas. Music: California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday. The urban legend that she died from choking on a ham sandwich are false. She actually died of heart failure.
1945
Randolph Mantooth, American actor. TV: Emergency! (John Gage) and Loving (Alex Masters).
1948
Jeremy Irons, English Oscar-winning actor. Film: Reversal of Fortune (1990, Oscar, Claus von Bulow).
1949
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby), English actress, model.
1950
Joan Lunden, American broadcast journalist.
1967
Jim Abbott, American Major League Baseball pitcher, despite being born with only one hand. He pitched a no-hitter for the New York Yankees against Cleveland (1993) and also won a gold medal pitching for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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1842 d. 1923
Sir James Dewar, British chemist, physicist, inventor of the Dewar flask (the vacuum thermos bottle).
1878 d. 1968
Upton Sinclair, American author. Writings: The Jungle (1906).
1885 d. 1941
Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph Morton), American jazz musician, the first great composer in jazz.
1901 d. 1966
Gus Edson, cartoonist, creator of Dondi (1955).
1917
Arnold "Red" Auerbach, American basketball coach, manager. His 938 wins with the Boston Celtics makes him the NBA all-time win leader.
1917 d. 1994
Fernando Rey (Fernando Casado Arambillet, Spanish actor. He was one of Spain's best-known actors. Film: The French Connection (1971, the French drug king) and Elisa, Vida mia (1977, Cannes Best Actor).
1924
James Galanos, American fashion designer. Famous for his chiffons, he is considered one today's greatest American fashion designers.
1929
Anne Meara, American actress. TV: Archie Bunker's Place (Veronica) and Alf (Dorothy).
1934
Sophia Loren (Sophia Scicoloni), Italian Oscar-winning actress. Film: The Millionairess (1960) and Two Women (1960, Oscar).
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September 21
1756 d. 1836
John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer, creator of asphalt.
1853 d. 1956
Heike Onnes, Dutch Nobel-winning physicist, first to liquefy helium (1908), and coined the term "super-conductivity" after discovering the drop in electrical resistance exhibited by solids at extremely low temperatures.
1863 d. 1915
John Bunny, American actor, comedian, the first comic star of the American screen (1910). This 300-pound actor made over 200 comic shorts during his brief five-year film career.
1866 d. 1946
H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells), English novelist, The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
1874 d. 1934
Gustav Holst, English composer. Music: The Planets (1919) and The Perfect Fool (1923).
1902 d. 1970
Sir Allen Lane, British publisher. He founded Penguin Books (1935), which introduced low-priced paperbacks to the world.
1918 d. 2003
Rand Brooks, American actor. TV: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (Corporal Boone). Film: Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Lucky Jenkins in 12 movies.
1931
Larry Hagman, American actor. TV: I Dream of Jeanie (Master) and Dallas (J.R. Ewing).
1934
Birger Pellas, Swedish man. He grew the world's longest mustache: 10 ft. as measured in 1991.
1935
Henry Gibson, American comedian. TV: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (known for his verse).
1947
Stephen Edwin King, American horror writer. Writings: Carrie (1974) and The Shining (1976).
1950
Bill Murray, American Emmy-winning comedian. TV: Saturday Night Live.
1962
Rob Morrow, American actor. TV: Northern Exposure.
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1791 d. 1867
Michael Faraday, English scientist. He discovered electromagnetic induction (1831), the magnetism of light (1845), the compound bencene, and developed the first dynamo.
1885 d. 1957
Erich Von Stroheim (Erich Oswald Stroheim), German-born actor, director. He was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate."
1902 d. 1988
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann), American Oscar-winning actor. Film: The Paper Chase (1973, Oscar). TV: He proclaimed in commercials "They make money the old-fashioned way; They earn it."
1904 d. 1973
Allan "Rocky" Lane (Harold Albershart), American western actor. TV: Mr. Ed (voice of Mr. Ed).
1914
Martha Scott, American actress. Film: Our Town (1940).
1927
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball pitcher, manager. Quote: Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
1954
Shari Belafonte, American actress. TV: Hotel (Julie Gillette).
1956
Debby Boone, American singer.
1960
Joan Jett, American singer. Music: I Love Rock 'n' Roll (1982, #1).
1961
Scott Baio, American actor. TV: Happy Days (Chachi) and Charles in Charge (title role).
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September 23
63 B.C. d. 14 A.D.
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. He was the heir of Julius Caesar. His defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 A.D. made him ruler of the world.
1712 d. 1759
Ferdinand VI, King of Spain (1746-59).
1745 d. 1815
John Sevier, American pioneer and Indian fighter, first and only governor (1785-88) of the American state of Franklin. He was also the first governor (1796-1801) of Tennessee.
1838 d. 1927
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, American politician. She was the first woman nominated for U.S. President - by the Equal Rights Party in 1872 with Frederick Douglas as her running mate.
1861 d. 1942
Robert Bosch, German industrialist, invented the spark plug (1902).
1882
Herbert McLean Evans, American biologist. He discovered vitamin E (1922) and proved that iodine is used by the thyroid gland (1940).
1897 d. 1984
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-born actor, noted for his films with Greer Garson. Film: The Gorilla (1931, title role).
1899 d. 1977
Tom Campbell Clark, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (1945-49), and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1949-67).
1907 d. 1985
Rudd Weatherwax, American actor, animal trainer. Lassie's trainer for the film Lassie Come Home (1943) and the TV series. He is also the uncle of Ken Weatherwax who played Pugsley in The Addams Family.
1920
Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), American Emmy-winning actor. Film: Andy Hardy movies (1937-) and National Velvet (1944). He made national headlines in 1959 by appearing drunk on The Jack Paar Tonight Show.
1926 d. 1967
John Coltrane, American tenor saxophonist, the most influential jazz musician of the 60s. Music: My Favorite Things (1960).
1930
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson), American singer, composer, pianist, blind since the age of 6. Music: Georgia On My Mind (1960, #1) and Hit the Road, Jack (1961, #1).
1938 d. 1982
Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Albach-Retty), Austrian actress. Film: Visconti's segment of Boccaccio '70 (1962, for which she gained international acclaim), The Trial (1962), and What's New, Pussycat? (1965).
1938
Tom Lester, American actor. TV: Green Acres (Eb).
1939 d. 1988
Roy Buchanan, American guitarist, one of the world's greatest rock guitarists.
1943
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer, songwriter, who has sold over 100,000,000 records. Music: To All The Girls I've Loved Before (1984, with Willie Nelson).
1947
Mary Kay Place, American Emmy-winning actress. Film: The Big Chill (1983). TV: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Loretta).
1949
Bruce Springsteen, American singer, songwriter, "The Boss." Music: Born To Run (1975) and Born In The USA (1984).
1959
Jason Alexander, American actor. TV: Seinfeld (chronically unemployed George).
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September 24
1755 d. 1835
John Marshall, 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1801-35), and principle founder of the U.S. system of constitutional law. The Liberty Bell cracked whiled tolling his death.
1843 d. 1924
Adam Willis Wagnalls, American publisher, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company (1891), who first published their famous dictionary in 1912.
1870 d. 1960
Georges Claude, French physicist, inventor of the neon light (1910).
1883 d. ?
Frank C. Mars, American candy maker, founder of Mars, Inc.
1884 d. 1973
Ismet Inönü, Turkish statesman and its first prime minister (1923-37) and second president (1938-50).
1896 d. 1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald), American author. Writings: This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Great Gatsby (1925).
1898 d. 1968
Sir Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born British physician, won a Nobel prize (1945) for his work with Alexander Fleming in developing penicillin.
1900 d. 1955
Ham Fisher (Hammond Edward Fisher), American cartoonist, created Joe Palooka (1927).
1905 d. 1993
Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born American Nobel-winning biochemist. He shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology with Arthur Kornberg for his discoveries that furthered the research in heredity.
1911 d. 1985
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, president of the Soviet Union and general secretary of Soviet Communist Party.
1921
Jim McKay, American ABC sportscaster.
1924
Shiela MacRae, English singer, actress. TV: The Honeymooners (Alice Kramden from 1966-71).
1931
Anthony Newley, English singer, actor, composer. Film: Oliver Twist (the Artful Dodger). He and Leslie Bricussse wrote the musical Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.
1932
Svetlana Beriosova, Russian prima ballerina, created the leads in Le Baiser de la Fée and Perséphone.
1936 d. 1990
Jim Henson, American muppeteer, created the Muppets (1956) and has won 18 Emmy, 7 Grammy, 4 Peabody, and 5 ACE awards. He died of toxic shock syndrome.
1942
Linda McCartney, American photographer, singer, wife of Paul.
1943
Lee Aaker, American actor. TV: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (Rusty).
1948
Phil Hartman, Canadian actor. TV: Saturday Night Live.
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1866 d. 1945
Thomas Hunt Morgan, American zoologist. He won a 1933 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the chromosome's role in heredity.
1897 d. 1962
William Faulkner, American Nobel-Pulitzer-winning author, wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), Sanctuary (1931), A Fable (1954), and The Reivers (1962, Nobel).
1931
Barbara Walters, American Emmy-winning interviewer, commentator, the first woman anchor of a network TV news program (1976).
1936
Juliet Prowse, dancer, actress.
1943
Robert Walden, American actor. TV: Lou Grant (Joe Rossi).
1944
Michael Douglas, American Oscar-winning actor. Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, co-producer: it won five Oscars). He also did the voice overs for the Nissan Infiniti commercials.
1947
Cheryl Tiegs, American model.
1949
Anson Williams, American actor. TV: Happy Days (Potsie).
1952 d. 2004
Christopher Reeve, American actor. Film: The Superman movies (1978-, the man of steel).
1952
Mark Hamill, American actor. Film: Star Wars (1977, Luke Skywalker). TV: General Hospital (Kent Murray).
1961
Heather Locklear, American actress. TV: Dynasty (Sammy Jo).
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1774 d. 1847
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American folk hero who devoted his life to planting apple seeds. It is said that his usual dress consisted of bare feet, a burlap sack for a shirt, and a tin pan hat.
1875 d. 1959
Edmund Gwenn, English Oscar-winning actor. Film: Miracle on 34th Street (1947, Oscar as Kris Kringle) and The Trouble with Harry (1955).
1888 d. 1965
T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), American Nobel-winning poet, playwright.
1897 d. 1978
Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), 262nd Pope (1963-78). He was the first pope to fly in an airplane, the first to visit Jesus' birthplace, and the first to visit the U.S.
1898 d. 1937
George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), American Pulitzer-winning composer. Music: Rhapsody in Blue (1923) and Of Thee I Sing (1931).
1914
Jack La Lanne (Francois Henri LaLanne), American fitness expert. He invented the jumping jack, designed the first leg extension machines, and pulley machines using cables. TV: The Jack LaLanne Show (1951-85, the first television exercise program).
1919 d. 1980
Barbara Britton, American actress. TV: Mr. and Mrs. North (Pamela North).
1926
Julie London (Julie Peck), American singer, actress. TV: Emergency (nurse Dixie McCall).
1927
Patrick O'Neal, American actor of TV and film.
1933
Donna Douglas (Dorothy Smith), American actress, Miss New Orleans (1957). TV: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71, Elly May), The Twilight Zone (1960, The Eye of the Beholder). Film: Frankie and Johnny (1966, starring opposite Elvis Presley).
1942
Kent McCord, American actor. TV: Adam 12 (officer Jim Reed).
1947
Lynn Anderson, American Grammy-winning country singer. Music: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1971).
1948
Olivia Newton-John, British singer, actress. Music: Let Me Be There (1973) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Film: Grease (1978) and Xanadu (1980).
1956
Linda Hamilton, American actress, Catherine of Beauty and the Beast, and co-star of the Terminator films.
1962
Melissa Sue Anderson, American Emmy-winning actress. TV: Little House on the Prairie (Mary Ingalls).
1985
Shamu, first killer whale born in captivity to survive. Born at Sea World Orlando, Florida.
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1601 d. 1643
Louis XIII, King of France. His death made his 5-year-old son, Louis XIV, king.
1722 d. 1803
Samuel Adams, American patriot, one of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party (1773), signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Massachusetts (1794-97).
1792 d. 1878
George Cruikshank, English political cartoonist, illustrator of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838).
1840 d. 1902
Thomas Nast, American cartoonist, created the donkey and elephant symbols used by the Democratic and Republican parties.
1895 d. 1980
George Raft, American actor. Film: Scarface (1932, Guido Rinaldo). He was reputed to be the world's fastest Charleston dancer.
1920 d. 1994
William Conrad, American actor. Radio: Gunsmoke (Matt Dillon). TV: The Fugitive (narrator), The Bullwinkle Show (narrator), Cannon (title role), and Jake and the Fatman (the Fatman).
1922
Arthur Penn, American film director. Film: The Miracle Worker (1962), Bonny and Clyde (1967), and Alice's Restaurant (1969).
1929
Sada Thompson, American Emmy-winning actress. TV: Family (Kate Lawrence).
1933
Lina Medina, Peruvian mother. She gave birth at age 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days, the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
1933
Kathleen Nolan (Joycelyn Schrum), American actress. TV: The Real McCoys (Kate McCoy).
1934
Greg Morris, American actor. TV: Mission: Impossible (Barney Collier).
1934
Wilford Brimley, American actor. TV: Our House (Gus Witherspoon).
1943
Randy Bachman, Canadian singer, with Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Music: Takin' Care of Business (1974) and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (1974, #1).
1947
Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), American singer. Film: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Eddie).
1949
Mike Schmidt, American baseball player, 3rd baseman for Philadelphia, 3-time MVP (1980-81, 86). He hit 548 career home runs and won 10 gold gloves.
1958
Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer. TV: The Hardy Boys Mysteries (Joe Hardy) on which he sang Da Do Ron Ron (1977, #1).
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1856 d. 1923
Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author. Writings: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).
1901 d. 1974
Ed Sullivan, American Broadway columnist, TV personality, host of a "Really big shew" for 23 years.
1909 d. 1979
Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), American cartoonist, creator of Li'l Abner (1934).
1913 d. 1990
Alice Marble, American tennis player, winner of four U.S. amateur singles titles.
1915 d. 1953
Ethel Rosenberg, American traitor, she and her husband Julius became the first U.S. citizens executed for treason during peace time. They had been convicted of selling top secret information to the Soviets.
1916 d. 1977
Peter Finch (William Mitchell), British Oscar-winning actor. Film: Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, British Film Academy Award) and Network (1976, Oscar - the first posthumously-awarded Oscar).
1923
Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Mastrojanni), Italian actor. Film: La Dolce Vita (1959), 8½ (1963), and Divorce Italian Style (1961).
1923
William Windom, American actor. TV: Murder, She Wrote (Dr. Seth Hazlitt).
1926 d. 1998
Jerry Clower, American comedian, with many jokes about the Ledbetter family.
1934
Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), French actress, "Sex Kitten." Film: And God Created Woman (1957).
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1547 d. 1616
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author. Writings: Don Quixote (1605).
1725 d. 1774
Baron Clive of Plassey (Robert Clive), British soldier, founder of the British Indian empire.
1758 d. 1805
Horatio Nelson, British naval commander. He died while leading the British fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar in which he defeated the Spanish and French fleets ending Napoleon's threat of invading England.
1810 d. 1865
Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist, one of the most popular of the Victorian novelists, Mary Barton (1848) and Cranford (1853).
1895 d. 1980
Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist. He created the familiar "extrasensory perception" (ESP) cards (picturing wavy lines, square, circle, and cross), and co-edited Parapsychology Today.
1900 d. 1983
Miguel Alemán, Mexican president (1946-52). As the first non-military candidate ever elected president of Mexico, he promoted industrialization and agriculture.
1901 d. 1954
Enrico Fermi, Italian-born American physicist, one of the pioneers of the nuclear age. He led the team which performed the first controlled nuclear chain reaction (1942).
1907 d. 1998
Gene Autry, American actor, the singing cowboy. He wrote and recorded more than 200 songs.
1908
Greer Garson, Irish-born Oscar-winning actress, Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) and Mrs. Miniver (1942, Oscar).
1910 d. 1982
Virginia Bruce, American actress. Film: The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Invisible Woman (1941).
1912
Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian award-winning film director, The Red Desert (1964) and Blow-Up (1966, featuring its ball-less tennis match). His films, using minimal plots and dialogues, are known for using their sets and long lingering shots to reveal their character's innermost feelings.
1913
Stanley Kramer, American Oscar-winning film producer, director. Film: High Noon (1952), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
1916 d. 1988
Trevor Howard, English Emmy-winning actor. Film: Brief Encounter (1945) and Sons and Lovers (1960). TV: The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963, Emmy).
1926 d. 1984
Charles "Chuck" Cooper, American basketball player. He was the first black drafted by the NBA (1950, Boston Celtics).
1931
Anita Ekberg, Swedish voluptuous actress, Mrs. Sweden (1951). Film: La Dolce Vita (1959).
1935
Jerry Lee Lewis, American rock 'n' roll singer. Music: Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (1957, #1) and Great Balls of Fire (1957, #1). He created a scandal in 1957 by marrying his 13-year-old cousin.
1939
Larry Linville, American actor. TV: M*A*S*H (Maj. Frank Burns).
1941 d. 1983
Jon Brower Minnoch, American heavyweight, world's heaviest human weighing in at 1,387 pounds. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)
1942
Madeline Kahn, American actress, Paper Moon (1973), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), and History of the World - Part I (1981).
1943
Lech Walesa, Polish union leader. He formed the labor union Solidarity (1980).
1948
Bryant Gumbel, American TV sportscaster and Today show host.
1955
Ken Weatherwax, American actor. TV: The Addams Family (Pugsley).
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1861 d. 1932
William Wrigley Jr., American businessman. He founded the Wrigley Co. (1891), which first sold soap and baking powder and then of course chewing gum (1892).
1882 d. 1945
Hans Geiger, German physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter (1908). He also helped to prove that the atom is composed of a dense nucleus surrounded by electrons (1913).
1921
Deborah Kerr (Deborah Kerr-Trimmer), Scottish actress. Film: From Here to Eternity (1953) and The King and I (1956, Anna).
1924 d. 1984
Truman Capote, American author. Writings: In Cold Blood (1965). He also won an Emmy for A Christmas Memory (1966).
1931
Angie Dickinson (Angeline Brown), American actress. TV: Police Woman.
1935
Johnny Mathis, American singer, and world-class high jumper. His hits span across 30 years with more than 60 gold and platinum record. Music: Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (1978, #1).
1947 d. 1977
Marc Bolan (Mark Feld), English musician, lead singer for T-Rex. Music: Bang a Gong (1971, #1 Britain) and Jeepster (1971, #2 Britain). He died in a car accident.
1953
Victoria Tennant, English actress. Film: All of Me (1984) and L.A. Story (1991). TV: The Winds of War (Pamela Tudsbury).
1964
Crystal Bernard, American actress. TV: Happy Days (K.C. Cunningham), It's a Living (Amy), and Wings (Helen).
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1799 d. 1851
John Brown Russwurm, American publisher. He co-published the first Negro newspaper in American (1827, Freedom's Journal).
1916 d. 1995
James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), Scottish veterinarian. His book All Creatures Great and Small (1972) was the basis for the popular BBC series.
1920 d. 2000
Walter Matthau (Walter Matthow), American Oscar-Tony-winning actor. Film: A Shot in the Dark (1961, Tony), The Fortune Cookie (1966, Oscar), and The Odd Couple (1968, Oscar Madison). Quote: "I never mind my wife having the last word. In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it."
1921
James Whitmore, American actor. TV: The Law and Mr. Jones (Abe Lincoln Jones).
1924
Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter), 39th U.S. President (1977-81). He is the only president to have reported seeing a UFO (1973) and the first president to have been born in a hospital.
1927
Tom Bosley, American actor. TV: Happy Days (Mr. C.) and The Father Dowling Mysteries (Father Dowling).
1928 d. 1994
George Peppard, American actor. Film: Pork Chop Hill (1959) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). TV: Banacek (title role), Doctors' Hospital and The A-Team (Hannibal Smith).
1928 d. 1973
Laurence Harvey (L. Mischa Skikne), Lithuanian-born American actor. Film: Room at the Top (1958, Joe Lampton), The Manchurian Candidate (1962, the assassin).
1935
Julie Andrews (Julia Elizabeth Wells), English actress, singer.
1946
Ewa Klobukowska, Russian female athlete, first to fail a sex test (1967). The I.A.A.F. declared her a male and took away the gold and bronze medals she had won in the 1964 Olympics. Several years later she became pregnant and had a child.
1950
Randy Quaid, American actor. Film: The Last Picture Show (1971).
1953
Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner, 9-time New York City Marathon winner (1978-80, 82-86, 88).
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1452 d. 1485
Richard III, King of England (1483-85). He was killed in battle with Henry Tudor after being deserted by his key nobleman.
1869 d. 1948
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand), Indian political, spiritual, and civil rights leader. He gained world honor for his advocacy of nonviolence.
1871 d. 1955
Cordell Hull, American statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1945). He served in both houses of Congress and as secretary of state (1933-44).
1897 d. 1974
Bud Abbott (William Alexander Abbott), American comedian, Costello's partner.
1928 d. 1993
Spanky McFarland (George McFarland), American actor. Film: The Little Rascals (Spanky). He appeared in 95 Our Gang films.
1929
Moses Gunn, American actor. TV: Father Murphy (Moses Gage) and Roots (Kintango).
1938
Rex Reed, American movie critic.
1945
Don McLean, American singer. Music: American Pie (1971).
1951
Sting (Gordon Sumner), British singer, with The Police, actor. Music: Roxanne (1978), Message In A Bottle (1979, #1), Every Breath You Take (1983, #1).
1971
Tiffany (Tiffany Darwish), American singer. Music: I Think We're Alone Now (1987, #1).
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1800 d. 1891
George Bancroft, American historian, Father of American History.
1844 d. 1922
Patrick Manson, British parasitologist, Father of Tropical Medicine. His insect research led to the discovery of how malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1854 d. 1920
William Crawford Gorgas, American sanitarian, controlled malaria and yellow fever outbreaks during the construction of the Panama Canal.
1859 d. 1924
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress. She was the first woman featured on the cover of Time magazine (July 30, 1923). She is considered the greatest tragic actress of modern time.
1873 d. 1960
Emily Post, American etiquette columnist and author.
1879 d. 1949
Charles Middleton, American actor. Film: Flash Gordon series (Ming the Merciless).
1880 d. 1938
Warner Oland (Werner Ohlund), Swedish-born actor. Film: Charlie Chan movies (title role).
1899 d. 1966
Gertrude Berg, American actress, Molly Goldberg of The Goldbergs.
1924 d. 1992
Franco Cristaldi, Italian Oscar-winning producer, Amarcord (1973) and Cinema Paradiso (1990).
1924
Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist, founder of Mad magazine (1952).
1925
Gore Vidal (Eugene Luther Vidal), American author.
1938 d. 1960
Eddie Cochran, American musician. Music: Summertime Blues (1958).
1941
Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), American singer, his hit The Twist reached #1 in 1960 and 1962.
1947
Lindsey Buckingham, American musician, with Fleetwood Mac.
1951
Kathryn D. Sullivan, American astronaut, first U.S. woman to walk in space (1984).
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Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
Juan Peron 1895
Billy Conn 1917
Rona Barrett 1936
Fred Stolle 1938
Paul Hogan 1939
David Carradine 1940
Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
Jesse Jackson 1941
George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
Buzz Clifford 1942
R.L. Stine 1943
Chevy Chase 1943
Susan Raye 1944
Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
Sarah Purcell 1948
Brian Glenwright 1949
Sigourney Weaver 1949
Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
Michael Dudikoff 1954
Darrell Hammond 1955
Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
Teddy Riley 1966
Emily Proctor 1968
Matt Damon 1970
Kristanna Loken 1979
Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
Nick Cannon 1980
Angus T. Jones 1993
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October 10
1900 d. 1993
Helen Hayes, American Oscar-Tony-Emmy-winning actress. Film: Victoria Regina (1935), Airport (1970, Oscar), and Herbie Rides Again (1974).
1901 d. 1988
Frederick Douglass Patterson, American educator, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, President of the Tuskegee Institute (1935-53), and founder of the United Negro College Fund (1944).
1908 d. 1989
Johnny Green, American Oscar-winning songwriter. Music: Coquette (1928) and Body and Soul (1930). West Side Story (1961), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), and Oliver! (1968).
1908 d. 1991
Min Chueh Chang, Chinese-born American biologist, co-inventor of the birth control pill.
1913 d. 1994
Johnny Downs, American actor, as one of the Little Rascals, he appeared in 24 Our Gang films (1923-26). Film: Babes in Toyland (1934, Little Boy Blue).
1924 d. 1994
James Clavell, British-born American author, screenwriter. Film: The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), To Sir With Love (1967), and Shogun (1975).
1908 d. 1991
Min Chueh Chang, Chinese-born American biologist, co-inventor of the birth control pill.
1913 d. 1994
Johnny Downs, American actor, as one of the Little Rascals, he appeared in 24 Our Gang films (1923-26). Film: Babes in Toyland (1934, Little Boy Blue).
1924 d. 1994
James Clavell, British-born American author, screenwriter. Film: The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), To Sir With Love (1967), and Shogun (1975).
1958
Tanya Tucker, American country singer, Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year (1991). Music: Just Another Love (1986, #1) and Strong Enough to Bend (1988, #1).
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October 11
1758 d. 1840
Wilhelm Olbers, German astronomer, discovered two asteroids, several comets, a method of determining their orbits, and Olbers' Paradox: "If the stars are distributed evenly through infinite space, why is the night sky dark?"
1821 d. 1905
Sir George Williams, English merchant, founded the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA, 1844).
1844 d. 1919
Henry John Heinz, American food manufacturer, founder of H.J. Heinz Co. (1888).
1884 d. 1962
Eleanor Roosevelt, Pres. F.D. Roosevelt's wife.
1884 d. 1949
Friedrich Bergius, German Nobel-winning chemist. He invented the process of extracting oil from coal and discovered a process for converting wood into sugar.
1900 d. 1964
Eddie Dyer, American baseball player, manager. He was the first rookie manager to win the World Series (1946, St. Louis Cardinals).
1910 d. 1989
Joseph W. Alsop, American syndicated political columnist, co-wrote the columns Capitol Parade (1937-40) and Matter of Fact (1945-58).
1914 d. 1970
Mickey Daniels (Richard Daniels, Jr.), American actor, appeared in 49 of the Our Gang films.
1928 d. 1993
Roscoe Robinson Jr., American brigadier general, first black U.S. four-star general.
1948
Daryl Hall (Daryl Hohl), American singer with Hall & Oates.
1950
Andrew Woolfolk, American reeds player, with Earth, Wind & Fire. Music: Shining Star (1975, #1, Grammy), Best of My Love (1977, #1), and After the Love has Gone (1979, #2, Grammy).
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Wood into sugar? Whoa...
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October 12
1537 d. 1553
Edward VI, King of England (1547-53). He was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
1798 d. 1834
Pedro I, first Emperor of Brazil (1822-31).
1860 d. 1930
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer, inventor of the gyro-compass (1910) and founder of Sperry Electric Co. (1888).
1932
Dick Gregory, American comedian, diet-mix salesman.
1932
Jake Garn, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Utah). He was the first U.S. public official launched into space (1985, aboard the space shuttle Discovery).
1935
Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor. He was caught lip-syncing during a live BBC radio performance (1992).
1950
Susan Anton, American actress, Miss California. (1969). Film: Goldengirl (1979). TV: Baywatch.
1970
Kirk Cameron, American actor. TV: Growing Pains (Mike Seaver).
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| October 11, 2008, 21:44 |
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October 13
1754 d. 1832
Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays McCauley), American Revolutionary War heroine. She risked her life to carry water to the troops during the Battle of Monmouth (June 1778) and operated her husband's cannon after he was wounded. For her bravery, Gen. Washington made her a non commissioned officer.
1821 d. 1902
Rudolf Virchow, German scientist, political leader, "Founder of Cellular Pathology."
1915 d. 1989
Cornel Wilde (Cornelius Wilde), American actor. Film: A Song to Remember (1945, Chopin). He quit the 1936 U.S. Olympic fencing team to pursue his acting career.
1917 d. 1985
Burr Tillstrom, American Emmy-winning puppeteer. TV: Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (creator and operator of the puppets).
1917
Laraine Day (Laraine Johnson), American actress, Nurse Mary of Lamont of Dr. Kildare. After her marriage to baseball manager Leo Durocher, she took an interest in the sport and became known as "The First Lady of Baseball."
1918 d. 1951
Robert Walker, American actor. Film: Bataan (1943), The Clock (1945), and played the psychopathic killer in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951).
1921
Yves Montand (Ivo Livi), Italian-born French singer, actor. Film: The Wages of Fear (1953) and Let's Make Love (1960).
1924
Nipsey Russell, American comic actor.
1925
Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-90). She was Great Britain's first woman prime minister.
1926 d. 1966
Lenny Bruce (Leonard A. Schneider), American "blue" comedian, author of How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography (1965). He was deported from Britain in 1963, arrested for obscenity on several occasions, and banned from Australia after his first performance there.
1926 d. 2002
Ray Brown, American Grammy-winning jazz string bassist, performed with Dizzy Gillespie in the late '40s.
1941
Art Garfunkel, American singer with Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water and Mrs. Robinson.
1946
Demond Wilson, American actor. TV: Sanford and Son (Lamont - son).
1947
Sammy Hagar, American singer. Music: Bad Motor Scooter (1973) and I Can't Drive 55 (1984). In 1986, he replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen.
1959
Marie Osmond, American singer. Music: Paper Roses (1973, #1) and Meet Me In Montana (1985, #1). She also wrote Marie Osmond's Guide to Beauty and Dating.
1967
Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper, first to break the 8-foot barrier (1989).
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October 14
1644 d. 1718
William Penn, English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania. He was expelled from the Christ Church College, Oxford in 1662 and jailed several times for his religious beliefs.
1784 d. 1833
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1808-33). It was during his rule that most of the Spanish possessions in Latin America rebelled and won their independence.
1857 d. 1925
Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer. He developed the first U.S. automobile (1894). He also discovered tungsten chrome steel (1881) and patented stainless steel (1919).
1877 d. 1936
Grace Gebbie Wiedersheim Drayton, cartoonist, famous for her drawings of The Campbell Kids (1905).
1890 d. 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-61) and 5-star general. He was the first president to conduct a televised news conference.
1894 d. 1962
e.e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), American poet. Writings: The Enormous Room (1922) describing his imprisonment by the French after being mistaken for a spy.
1896 d. 1993
Lillian Gish, American actress. Film: Birth of a Nation (1915).
1910
John Wooden, American basketball Hall of Fame player and Hall of Fame coach (He was the first person to achieve both honors), winner of 10 NCAA National Championships while at UCLA. generally considered the greatest coach in history. Quote: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
1916
C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General.
1927
Roger Moore, English actor. Film: The James Bond movies (1973-85, "Bond, James Bond"  . TV: The Saint (Simon Templar).
1939
Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer.
1952
Harry Anderson, American actor. TV: Night Court (Judge Stone).
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October 15
70 B.C. d. 19 B.C.
Virgil, Roman epic poet, teacher. He is considered the greatest poet of Rome's Golden Age. Writings: Aeneid.
1608 d. 1647
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist, inventor of the barometer (1643).
1767 d. 1832
Father Gabriel Richard, first Catholic priest to serve in Congress (1823-25).
1844 d. 1900
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, author of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883), in which he developed the idea of "Übermensch" (Superman) who would control society. Quote: "Two great European narcotics are alcohol and Christianity" and "What doesn't kill you makes you strong."
1858 d. 1918
John L. Sullivan, American boxer, heavyweight champion (1882-92) and the last bare-knuckle champion.
1904 d. 1980
Marty Mann, American social activist, founder of the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (1944).
1920
Mario Puzo, American author. Writings: The Godfather (1969, he won an Oscar for the 1972 screenplay).
1924
Lee Iacocca, American auto maker, ex-president of Ford Motor Company and chairman of Chrysler Corporation.
1937
Linda Lavin, American actress. TV: Alice (title role).
1942
Penny Marshall, American actress. TV: Laverne & Shirley (Laverne).
1946
Richard Carpenter, American singer with the Carpenters. Music: We've Only Just Begun (1970, #2) and Rainy Days and Mondays (1971, #2).
1953
Tito Jackson (Toriano Adryll Jackson), American singer, one of the Jackson Five.
1955
Tanya Roberts, American actress. TV: Charlie's Angels (Julie).
1959
Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, Britain's Duchess of York.
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October 16
1758 d. 1843
Noah Webster, American lexicographer, schoolmaster to America. Works: Blue-Backed Speller (1783) and An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
1797 d. 1868
Seventh Earl of Cardigan (James Thomas Brudenell), English soldier. He led the charge of the Light Brigade (1854) and for whom cardigan sweaters are named.
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