Today's Birthdays – April 28, 2011

You share your birthday with the following “Celebrities”. But we think you are all rock stars! 1758 James Monroe Westmoreland VA, 5th US President (1817-25, Democratic Republican) 1774 Francis Baily describer of “Baily’s Beads” during solar eclipse 1846 Johann E Backlund Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids) 1900 Jan Hendrik Oort Dutch astronomer (hypothesized “Oort Cloud”) 1906 Bartholomeus J “Bart” Bok Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way) 1917 Robert Cornthwaite St Helen OR, actor (Thing, War of the Worlds) 1926 Harper Lee author (To Kill a Mockingbird) 1929 Carolyn Jones Amarillo TX, actress (Morticia-Addams Family) 1937 Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti] President of Iraq (1979- ) 1941 Ann-Margret [Olsson] Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Carnal Knowledge, Viva Las Vegas, Tommy) 1943 John Oliver Creighton Orange TX, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48) 1948 Marcia Strassman New York NY, actress (Julle Kotter-Welcome Back Kotter) 1949 Jerome “Jay” Apt Springfield MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79) 1950 Jay Leno New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show) 1952 Mary McDonnell Wilkes-Barre PA, actress (Sneakers, Independence Day) 1956 Paul S Lockhart Amarillo TX, Major USAF/astronaut 1957 Leopold Eyharts France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27) 1971 Chris[topher Tyler] Young Chambersburg PA, actor (Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors) 1971 Simbi Khali actress (Nina-Third Rock From the Sun) 1978 Nate Richert St Paul MN, actor (Harvey-Sabrina)]]]]> ]]>