FAMOUS PEOPLE BOTN TODAY INCLUDE: 1863 - Ernest Thayer writer: Casey at the Bat; died Aug 21, 1940 1867 - John Galsworthy Nobel Prize-winning author [1932]; The Forsyte Saga; died Jan 31, 1933 1926 - Buddy (Armando) Greco singer: Mr. Lonely, The Lady is a Tramp, I Ran All the Way Home; musician: piano 1926 - Alice Ghostley actress: Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, With Six You Get Eggroll; died Sep 21, 2007 1929 - Dick Tiger (Ihetu) International Boxing Hall of Famer: world champion middleweight boxer [1962-1963, 1964], lightweight champion [1965-1968]; bouts: 81 [won 61, lost 17, drew 3, KOs 26]; died Dec 14, 1971 1930 - Earl Weaver baseball: Baltimore Orioles manager; TV analyst: ABC’s Monday Night Baseball, playoffs, World Series; autobiography: It’s What You Learn After You Know It All that Counts; died Jan 19, 2013 1935 - John Brodie College Football Hall of Famer: Stanford University quarterback; San Francisco 49ers; sportscaster: NBC Sports 1937 - Joe (Joel Edward) Horlen baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1967], Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972] 1940 - Dash Crofts musician: drums, mandolin, keyboard: w/Champs: Tequila; singer: duo: Seals and Crofts: Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Get Closer, We May Never Pass This Way Again, You’re the Love, Hummingbird 1941 - David Crosby (Van Cortland) musician: guitar, songwriter: singer: Immigration Man; groups: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children, Woodstock; Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 1941 - Connie Smith (Meadows) singer: Once a Day, Ain’t Had No Lovin’, The Hurtin’s All Over, Baby’s Back Again, Just One Time 1945 - Joyce Kazmierski golf: LPGA Tour pro; LPGA teaching pro; owner: Sun Spirit Golf Tours 1945 - Steve Martin Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1968-69]; comedian, actor: All of Me, Roxanne, L.A. Story, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Three Amigos, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live 1946 - Antonio Fargas actor: Car Wash, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!, Shaft, Starsky and Hutch 1946 - Larry Graham musician: bassist, singer: groups: Sly and the Family Stone; Graham Central Station: Your Love; solo: One in a Million, I Never Forgot Your Eyes 1946 - Susan Saint James (Susan Jane Miller) Emmy Award-winning actress: The Name of the Game [1968-69]; McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Carbon Copy, Love at First Bite, Desperate Women 1947 - Danielle Steel (Schuelein-Steel) author: Vanished, Wanderlust, Daddy, The Ring, Secrets, Going Home 1950 - Gary Larson cartoonist: The Far Side 1951 - Warren Capone football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X 1952 - Debbie Meyer International Women’s Sports and Olympic Hall of Famer: the 1st swimmer to win three gold medals at one single Olympics [1968: 200, 400 & 800-meter]; 1968 Sullivan Award-winner; AP Woman Athlete of the Year [1969] 1954 - Mark (Steven) Fidrych ‘The Bird’: baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [Rookie of the Year: 1976/all-star: 1976, 1977 1956 - Jackée Harry Emmy Award-winning actress: 227 [1987]; Sister, Sister, The Royal Family 1959 - Magic (Earvin Jr.) Johnson basketball: LA Lakers: NBA individual record: career assists [9,921]; NBA MVP [1987, 89, 90]; Olympic Dream Team [1992] 1961 - Susan Olsen actress: The Bradys, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Bunch 1966 - Halle Berry Academy Award-winning actress: Monster’s Ball [2001];: Living Dolls, Knots Landing, Boomerang, Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah, Executive Decision, Bulworth, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, X-Men; first runner-up: Miss USA [1986] 1968 - Catherine Bell actress: JAG, Mother of the Bride, Crash Dive, Black Thunder, The Time Shifters
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