Celebrity Birthdays
1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1835 – Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer (d. 1910)
1874 – Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965
1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 – Graham Crowden, Scottish actor (d. 2010)
1924 – Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
1926 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Robert Guillaume, American actor
1929 – Dick Clark, American television host
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
1931 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1937 – Ridley Scott, British film director
1944 – Dian Parkinson, TV model (Price is Right)
1945 – Roger Glover, Rocker (Deep Purple)
1947 – David Mamet, American playwright
1952 – Mandy Patinkin, Actor and singer
1954 – Lawrence Summers, Former US Treasury Secretary
1955 – Kevin Conroy, Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
1955 – Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad), Rocker
1957 – John Ashton, Rocker (The Psychedelic Furs)
1957 – Margaret Spellings, American politician and 8th United States Secretary of Education
1958 – Stacey Q, American singer
1958 – Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
1959 – Cherie Currie, American musician (Go-Go’s, Runaways)
1964 – Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, Actor
1965 – Ben Stiller, Actor
1968 – Des’ree, Singer
1969 – Amy Ryan, Actress
1969 – Mike Stone, Rocker (Queensryche)
1973 – Jason Reso (aka “Christian Cage” or “Christian” in WWE), Professional wrestler
1975 – Mindy McCready, Musician
1978 – Clay Aiken, Singer
1982 – Elisha Cuthbert, Actress]]]]> ]]>
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