Today's Birthdays – August 16, 2011

Celebrity Birthdays 1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy) 1892 Harold Foster cartoonist (created “Prince Valiant”) 1894 George Meany NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO) 1897 Robert Ringling circus master 1899 Glenn Strange Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke) 1902 Georgette Heyer England, novelist (Friday’s Child) 1904 Wendell Stanley biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel ’46) 1910 Mae Clarke Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl) 1925 Fess Parker Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller) 1928 Eddie Kirkland American blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter (d. 2011) 1929 Fritz Von Erich American professional wrestler (d. 1997) 1930 Frank Gifford Calif, NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster 1930 Robert Culp Berkley Calif, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) 1933 Stuart A “Smokey” Roosa Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14) 1935 Julie Newmar Hollywood Calif, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll) 1936 Anita Gillette Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck) 1938 Ketty Lester Hope Ark, actress (Hester-Little House on the Prairie) 1939 Carol Shelly London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple) 1945 Robert Balaban Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States) 1946 Dick Murdoch American professional wrestler (d. 1996) 1946 Lesley Ann Warren NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible) 1952 Reginald Veljohnson actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard) 1953 James Taylor rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna) 1953 Kathie Lee Gifford Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee) 1953 Nick Leyva baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91) 1957 Tim Farriss rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt) 1958 Jonathan Prince Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice) 1958 Madonna (Ciccone) Bay City Mich, singer/actress (Like a Virgin) 1958 Angela Bassett American actress 1960 Timothy Hutton actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People) 1972 Emily Robison American country singer (Dixie Chicks) 1980 Vanessa Carlton American singer/songwriter 1983 Colt Brennan American football player 1984 Candice Dupree American basketball player 1985 Agnes Bruckner American actress 1986 Shawn Pyfrom American actor 1988 Kevin Schmidt American actor 1988 Rumer Willis actor, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore 1997 Greyson Chance American singer]]]]> ]]>