FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN TODAY INCLUDE: 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes physician, author: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Elsie Venner; poet: Old Ironsides; died Oct 7, 1894 1912 - (Patrick) Barry Sullivan actor: The Bad and the Beautiful, The Road West, Oh, God! , Earthquake, The Bastard; died June 6, 1994 1915 - Ingrid Bergman Academy Award-winning actress: Gaslight [1944], Anastasia [1966], Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; Casablanca; Emmy Award-winner: The Turn of the Screw [1959-60], A Woman Called Golda [1981-82]; died Aug 29, 1982 1916 - George Montgomery (Letz) actor: Battle of the Bulge, The Texas Rangers, Young People, Cimarron City; died Dec 12, 2000 1919 - Billy (William Richard) Cox baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1949, 1952, 1953], Baltimore Orioles; died Mar 30, 1978 1920 - Charlie (Charles Christopher) Parker Jr. ‘The Bird’: musician: saxophone: Now’s the Time, Yardbird Suite Confirmation, Relaxin’ at Camarillo; died Mar 12, 1955 1923 - Sir Richard Attenborough actor: Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape; director: Chaplin, Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far 1924 - Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones) singer: What A Diff’rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You, Our Love is Here to Stay, For All We Know, Baby [You’ve Got What It Takes], A Rockin’ Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall in Love] , Baby Get Lost, This Bitter Earth; w/Lionel Hampton band [1943-46]; died Dec 14, 1963 1935 - William Friedkin Academy Award-winning director: The French Connection [1971]; The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band 1936 - John McCain U.S. Senator from Arizona [1987-present]; 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. president; Congressional Representative from Arizona [1983-1987]; captain in the U.S. Navy, Vietnamese prisoner of war 1938 - Elliott Gould (Goldstein) actor: Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minsky’s 1940 - JamesBrady Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan; seriously wounded when John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan; Brady gun law [requires waiting period and background check on handguns purchased through licensed dealers] named for him 1941 - Ellen Geer actress: Hard Traveling, Harold and Maude, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Beauty and the Beast 1941 - Robin Leach TV host: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous 1942 - Sterling Morrison musician: bass, guitar, singer: group: The Velvet Underground: Heroin, I’m Waiting for the Man, Venus in Furs, I’ll Be Your Mirror, Sister Ray; died Aug 30, 1995 1946 - Bob Beamon U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame long jumper: gold medal: 1968/Mexico City: 29 feet, two-and-one-half inches 1947 - Bob Lutz tennis: Univ. Southern Cal, Davis Cup champ [w/Stan Smith]: 1968 1949 - Tony Greene football: Buffalo Bills 1950 - Doug (Douglas Vernon) DeCinces baseball: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979], California Angels [all-star: 1983], SL Cardinals 1958 - Michael Jackson ‘King of Pop’: singer, entertainer; died Jun 25, 2009; see King of Pop Day [above] 1959 - Rebecca De Mornay actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin, Backdraft
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