FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN TODAY INCLUDE 1769 - Napolean Bonaparte emperor of France; died May 5, 1821 1771 - Sir Walter Scott writer: Ivanhoe, The Talisman, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy, The Fortunes of Nigel; died Sep 21, 1832 1879 - Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe) Academy Award-winning actress: None But the Lonely Heart [1944]; The Farmer’s Daughter, Pinky; died June 18, 1959 1885 - Edna Ferber Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: So Big [1925]; Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Ice Palace, Giant, Dawn O’Hara; playwright [w/George Kaufman]: The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Land is Bright, Bravo; died Apr 16, 1968 1904 - Bil Baird puppeteer: Bil Baird Puppets: Life with Snarky Parker; died Mar 18, 1987 1909 - Hugo Winterhalter orchestra leader: Canadian Sunset, Rhapsody in Blue; died Sep 17, 1973 1912 - Julia Child (McWilliams) Culinary Institute of America’s Hall of Famer: chef, author: The French Chef; TV host: Dinner with Julia; died Aug 13, 2004 1912 - Dame Wendy Hiller Academy Award-winning actress: Separate Tables [1958]; A Man for All Seasons, Making Love, Murder on the Orient Express, Pygmalion, The Elephant Man, Toys in the Attic, David Copperfield; died May 14, 2003 1923 - Rose Marie (Mazetta) comedienne, actress: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hollywood Squares, The Doris Day Show, My Sister Eileen, Ghetto Blaster, Witchboard, Memory of Us 1924 - Phyllis Schlafly antifeminist; author 1925 - Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian) actor: Mannix, Tightrope, Today’s F.B.I., Sudden Fear 1925 - Oscar Peterson jazz pianist: jazz trios, solos, played with all jazz greats, composer; biography: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing; died Dec 23, 2007 1925 - Bill Pinkney musician: bass: group: The Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night, Lucille, Honey Love, Bip Bam, What’cha Gonna Do, White Christmas; died July 4, 2007 1931 - Janice Rule actress: American Flyers, L.A. Bad, Invitation to a Gunfighter, The Life You Save; died Oct 17, 2003 1933 - Bobby Helms singer: My Special Angel, Jingle Bell Rock, Fraulein; died Jun 19, 1997 1935 - Abby Dalton actress: Falcon Crest, Barney Miller, Hennesey, The Joey Bishop Show 1941 - Don Rich country musician, songwriter: Waiting in Your Welfare Line; one of Buck Owens’ Buckaroos 1942 - Peter York musician: drums: group: Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin’, Keep on Runnin’, Somebody Help Me 1944 - Linda Ellerbee journalist, TV co-host: Our World; Maxwell House commercials 1945 - Duffy (Don Robert) Dyer baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers 1945 - Jill Haworth actress: Exodus, In Harm’s Way, Tower of Evil; died Jan 3, 2011 1945 - GeneUpshaw Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raiders guard: Super Bowl II, XI, XIV; died Aug 20, 2008 1946 - Jimmy Webb Grammy Award-winning songwriter: Up, Up and Away [1967]; MacArthur Park, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Galveston 1950 - Princess Anne (Mountbatten) British royalty: daughter of Philip Mountbatten [Duke of Edinburgh] and Alexandra Mary Windsor [Queen Elizabeth II], sister of Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward 1950 - Tess Harper (Washam) actress: Tender Mercies, Flashpoint 1961 - Matt Johnson musician: guitar, singer: solo as: The The: Controversial Subject, Untitled, Cold Spell Ahead, Uncertain Smile, Perfect, This is the Day, Giant, Heartland 1968 - Debra Messing actress: Will & Grace, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Ned and Stacey 1972 - Ben Affleck actor: Pearl Harbor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glory Daze, Good Will Hunting, Armageddon, Forces of Nature, Reindeer Games
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