Today's Birthdays – October 19, 2011

Celebrity Birthdays

1605 Sir Thomas Browne British writer (Garden of Cyrus) 1784 John McLoughlin Hudson’s Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country 1810 Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903) 1850 Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935) 1862 Auguste LumiŠre made 1st movie (Workers Leaving LumiŠre Factory) 1868 Bertha Landes 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle) 1876 Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945) 1885 Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956) 1895 Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999) 1895 Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990) 1896 Bob O’Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988) 1901 Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996) 1920 LaWanda Page Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons) 1932 Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992) 1936 Tony Lo Bianco, American actor 1937 Peter Max, American artist 1944 George McCrae, American soul singer 1944 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers) (d. 1987) 1945 John Lithgow actor (Harry & the Hendersons) 1945 Gloria Jones, American Soul singer 1945 Divine, American actor (d. 1988) 1945 Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer 1948 Patrick Simmons, American musician 1949 Lynn Dickey, American football player 1953 Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach 1954 Deborah Blum, American writer 1954 Joe Bryant, American basketball player 1955 Lonnie Shelton NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics) 1955 Pat Klous Hutchinson Ks, actress (Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat) 1956 Bruce Weber, American basketball coach 1957 Dorinda Clark-Cole, American gospel singer 1957 Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide 1957 Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic 1960 Jennifer Holiday singer/actress (Dream Girls) 1960 Woody rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee) 1962 Tracy Chevalier, American author 1962 Evander Holyfield, American boxer 1964 Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer 1965 Brad Daugherty, American basketball player 1965 Ty Pennington, American television personality 1966 Sinitta, American singer 1967 Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter 1969 John Edward, American TV Psychic 1969 Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor 1970 Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor 1972 Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher 1972 Pras, American musician 1976 Joy Bryant, American actress 1976 Omar Gooding, American actor 1976 Desmond Harrington, American actor 1976 Michael Young, baseball player 1980 Rajai Davis, American baseball player 1980 Benjamin Salisbury, American actor]]]]> ]]>

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