Today's Birthdays – August 18, 2011

Denise Hluska from The Cricket Box. Your treat will have other goodies too, from great Vicksburg places like The Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge.

Celebrity Birthdays

1587 Virginia Dare 1st American born of English parents 1774 Meriwether Lewis American explorer (d. 1809) 1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica 1834 Marshall Field founded Chicago-based store chain 1904 Max Factor Jr CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics) 1921 Lydia Litvyak Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943) 1927 Rosalynn Carter Georgia, 1st lady, Pres Carter’s wife 1934 Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972) 1937 Robert Redford Calif, actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby) 1939 Johnny Preston American singer (d. 2011) 1943 Martin Mull American comedian 1945 Nona Hendryx Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade) 1952 Patrick Swayze Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) 1957 Denis Leary American comedian and actor 1959 Tom Prichard American wrestler 1961 John Viscardi NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live) 1965 Jim Florentine American comedian 1967 Blas Elias Gomez Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live) 1967 Tracy Tracy rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal) 1968 Greta Lind actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children) 1969 Everlast American musician 1969 Masta Killa American rapper 1969 Edward Norton American actor 1969 Christian Slater American actor 1970 Malcolm Jamal Warner Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show) 1971 Trey Ames Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life) 1975 Kaitlin Olson American actress 1980 Bart Scott American football player 1980 Jeremy Shockey American football player 1994 Jessie Flower American voice actress]]]]> ]]>

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