FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN TODAY INCLUDE: 1877 - Frank (Leroy) Chance ‘Husk’, ‘The Peerless Leader’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Orphans, Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910], NY Yankees; manager: NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox; minor-league team owner; subject of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play; died Sep 15, 1924 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders businessman: see Colonel Sanders Day [above]; died Dec 16, 1980 1893 - Esther Cleveland daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House; died June 25, 1980 1898 - Frankie (Francis) Frisch ‘The Fordham Flash’: baseball: NY Giants [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1931/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935]; died Mar 12, 1973 1899 - Waite (Charles) Hoyt ‘Schoolboy’: Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: NY Giants, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928], Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1931], Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates; radio sportscaster; died Aug 25, 1984 1905 - Joseph E. Levine movie producer: The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter; died July 31, 1987 1923 - Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder (Demetrios Georgios Synodinos) oddsmaker, broadcaster: The NFL Today; died Apr 21, 1996 1924 - Jane Greer actress: Immediate Family, Just Between Friends, Against All Odds, Man of a Thousand Faces, Clown, Prisoner of Zenda, Out of the Past, Dick Tracy Detective; died Aug 24, 2001 1925 - Cliff Robertson Academy Award-winning actor: Charly [1968]; PT 109, Days of Wine and Roses, The Devil’s Brigade, Midway, Gidget, Picnic, Three Days of the Condor, Brainstorm, Falcon Crest; AT&T commercials; died Sep 10, 2011 1932 - Sylvia Miles actress: Midnight Cowboy, Crossing Delancey 1941 - Otis Redding musician, singer: [Sittin’ on] The Dock of the Bay; killed in plane crash Dec 10, 1967 1942 - Inez Foxx singer: Mockingbird [w/brother, Charlie] 1942 - Luther Simmons singer: group: Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp (Dione LaRue) singer: Mashed Potato Time, Gravy [For My Mashed Potatoes], Ride!, Do the Bird, Slow Twistin’ [w/Chubby Checker] 1946 - Doug Ingle musician: keyboard, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 1946 - Billy Preston musician, songwriter, singer: Will It Go Round in Circles, Nothing from Nothing, Outa-Space, Get Back [w/The Beatles], With You I’m Born Again [w/Syreeta]; appeared in film: St. Louis Blues; played w/Little Richard’s Band; died June 6, 2006 1947 - Freddy Weller musician: guitar: Paul Revere and The Raiders [1969]; solo: Games People Play; songwriter: Dizzy 1949 - Joe Theismann football: Washington Redskins QB: Bert Bell Award [1982], AP Player of the Year [1983], Super Bowl XVII, XVIII;, Toronto Argonauts; ESPN sportscaster 1951 - Tom Wopat actor: Cybill, The Dukes of Hazzard, A Peaceable Kingdom, Blue Skies; singer: The Rock and Roll of Love 1952 - Angela Cartwright actress: Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space 1952 - Jerry (Wayne) Mumphrey baseball: SL Cardinals, SD Padres, NY Yankees [World Series: 1981], Houston Astros [all-star: 1984], Chicago Cubs 1952 - David Stewart musician: guitar, keyboard: duo: Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, Who’s That Girl, Right by Your Side, Here Comes the Rain Again; Tourists: Loneliest Man in the World 1960 - Hugh Grant actor: Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Remains of the Day, Impromptu, The Dawning, Maurice, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes 1966 - Adam Sandler comedian: The Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live [opera man]; actor: Happy Gilmore, Mixed Nuts, Airheads, Coneheads, Shakes the Clown, Going Overboard, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy 1969 - Scott DeFreitas actor: As the World Turns 1971 - Henry Thomas actor: Riders of the Purple Sage, Legends of the Fall, Fire in the Sky, A Taste for Killing, Psycho 4: The Beginning, The Quest, Cloak & Dagger, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raggedy Man 1980 - Michelle Williams actress: Dawson’s Creek, Species, A Thousand Acres, Prozac Nation, Perfume
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