Birthdays On This Day October 2 1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi political and spiritual leader: India; died Jan 30, 1948 1879 - Wallace Stevens Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955]; died Aug 2, 1955 1890 - Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx “The one, the only, Groucho.”: TV host: You Bet Your Life; comedian, actor: one of the Marx Brothers of vaudeville and film fame: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business; died Aug 19, 1977 1895 - (William Alexander) Bud Abbott comedian, actor: Abbott of Abbott & Costello; Who’s on First?, The Abbott & Costello Show; died Apr 24, 1974 1904 - (Henry) Graham Greene author: The Third Man, The Power and the Glory; died Apr 3, 1991 1927 - Paul Goldsmith motorcycle hall of famer: champ Daytona 200 [1953]; auto racer: finished 3rd Indy 500 [1960] 1928 - (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland actor: Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies; died June 30, 1993 1929 - Moses Gunn NAACP Image Award-winning actor: Ragtime [1981]; Othello, The Blacks, Shaft, The Great White Hope, Good Times, Father Murphy; died Dec 16, 1993 1932 - Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966/all-star: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1962/AP Male Athlete of the Year: 1962], Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos 1938 - Rex Reed movie critic; actor: Myra Breckenridge 1945 - Don McLean songwriter, singer: American Pie, Vincent, Castles in the Air 1946 - Bob (Robert Eugene) Robertson baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays 1948 - Avery Brooks actor: Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al, Jesus: The Complete Story 1948 - Donna Karan (Faske) fashion designer: DKNY line of clothes 1949 - Richard Hell (Myers) musician: bass: groups: Television; Heartbreakers; Neon Boys: Love Comes in Spurts, That’s All I Know Right Now; Voidoids: Kid with the Replaceable Head, Blank Generation 1950 - Michael Rutherford musician: guitarist: group: Mike + The Mechanics: Silent Running, All I Need is a Miracle, The Living Years 1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner) singer: group: The Police; solo: Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Heart; songwriter: Every Breath You Take; actor: Dune 1955 - Philip Oakey singer: group: The Human League: Don’t You Want Me?, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise, Electric Dreams 1956 - Freddie Jackson singer, songwriter: You are My Lady 1971 - Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) singer: I Saw Him Standing There, I Think We’re Alone Now, Could’ve Been; voice of Judy Jetson: The Jetsons
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