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Birthdays October 10 1813 - Guiseppe Verdi composer: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida; died Jan 27, 1901 1825 - Paul Kruger president: South Africa; leader of the Boers; died July 14, 1904 1900 - Helen Hayes (Brown) actress: See First Lady of the American Theater Day [above]; died Mar 17, 1993 1908 - Johnny Green songwriter: Coquette, Body and Soul, I’m Yours, [You Came Along From] Out of Nowhere, I Cover the Waterfront, Easy Come, Easy Go; won five Oscars for work on MGM films: Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris, Bye Bye Birdie, High Society, Raintree County, The Great Caruso, Summer Stock, Brigadoon; died May 15, 1989 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Ain’t That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise; died Nov 8, 1974 1917 - Thelonious (Sphere) Monk composer, jazz musician: piano: Round Midnight, Misterioso, Straight No Chaser, Blue Monk, Epistrophy; died Feb 17, 1982 1924 - James Clavell author: Shogun, Noble House, Tai-pan, Gai-Jin; died Sep 7, 1994 1926 - Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel actor: Come Back Little Sheba, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Drowning Pool, Sands of Iwo Jima, Starman, Walking Tall, Part 2, Supercarrier, Spenser: For Hire, Frontier Circus, Baywatch; died June 14, 1997 1930 - Harold Pinter playwright: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Quiller Memorandum, The Trial, The Comfort of Strangers; died Dec 24, 2008 1937 - Bruce Devlin golf: 8 PGA Tour titles, 3-time Australian PGA champ, Australian Open champ: 1960, desiged over 140 courses, TV commentator: NBC, ESPN 1941 - Dallas Smith hockey: Pittsburgh Hornets, Portland Buckaroos, San Francisco Seals, Oklahoma City Blazers, Boston Bruins, NY Rangers 1942 - Joe Don Looney football: Univ. of Oklahoma, NY Giants, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins 1946 - Charles Dance actor: Undertow, The Surgeon, Last Action Hero, Alien 3, China Moon, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief, The Jewel in the Crown, For Your Eyes Only 1946 - John Prine singer, songwriter: Sam Stone; LPs: Common Sense, Aimless Love 1946 - (Fury) Gene Tenace baseball: Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974/all-star: 1975], SD Padres, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982], Pittsburgh Pirates 1946 - Pete Mahovlich hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins 1946 - Ben Vereen singer, dancer, Tony Award-winning actor: Pippin; All that Jazz, Funny Lady, Webster, Roots, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Ben Vereen...Comin’ at Ya; TV host: You Write the Songs 1949 - Jessica Harper actress: Eat a Bowl of Tea, Blue Iguana, My Favorite Year, Pennies from Heaven, Stardust Memories, Phantom of the Paradise, The Innocent and the Damned, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show 1953 - Midge (James) Ure singer, songwriter: Do They Know It’s Christmas?; groups: Slik, Rich Kids 1954 - David Lee Roth singer: group: Van Halen: Jump, Eat ’Em and Smile; solo: California Girls, Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody, Yankee Rose, Just Like Paradise 1956 - Melissa Belote Olympic gold medalist:100-meter & 200-meter backstroke [world record: 2:19:19], 4x100 meter medley relay [1972] 1958 - Tanya Tucker singer: Delta Dawn, Lizzie and the Rainman, San Antonio Stroll, Here’s Some Love, Texas (When I Die), Pecos Promenade; in film: Jeremiah Johnson 1959 - Bradley Whitford actor: The West Wing, Adventures in Babysitting, Scent of a Woman, Black Tie Affair, Billy Madison, In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 1961 - Martin Kemp musician: bass: group: Spandau Ballet: True, To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, Gold, Only When You Leave; actor: Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Growing Rich, Aspen Extreme, Murder Between Friends, Embrace of the Vampire, Cyber Bandits, Sugar Town; brother of musician Gary Kemp 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon actress: Heist, Homicide, The Winslow Boy, State and Main 1969 - Brett Favre football [QB]: Southern Mississippi [6 school passing records; 2.9 INT rate for 4-year career ranks as one of best in NCAA history]; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers [Super Bowls XXXI, XXXII], New York Jets 1978 - Jodi Lyn O’Keefe actress: Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Whatever It Takes, Teacher’s Pet 1979 - Mya (Marie Harrison) singer: LPs: Mya, Fear Of Flying; in films: Bulworth, The Rugrats Movie, Moulin Rouge!, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:36:08 +0000

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