Birthdays March 28 1966 - Salt (Cheryl James) Grammy Award-winning rap singer: duo: Salt-N-Pepa: None of Your Business [1994]; Push It, LP: Hot, Cool & Vicious 1890 - Paul Whiteman bandleader: Washboard Blues, Ol’ Man River, Felix the Cat, Heartache, Ain’t Misbehavin’; died Dec 29, 1967 1899 - August A. Busch Jr. beer magnate; St. Louis Cardinals owner; died Sep 29, 1989 1903 - Rudolf Serkin concert pianist: “An artist of unusual and impressive talents in possession of a crystalline technique, plenty of power, delicacy, and tone pure and full.”; “A masterly musician ... a scholar of profound art without pedantry, with the loftiest conceptions of beauty, whose every thought and emotion is for the glory of his art.”; died May 8, 1991 1907 - Irving (Paul) ‘Swifty’ Lazar Hollywood talent agent to the stars: Humphrey Bogart, Cole Porter, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway; died Dec 30, 1993 1912 - Frank Lovejoy actor: House of Wax, Strategic Air Command; died Oct 2, 1962 1914 - Edmund S. (Sixtus) Muskie Governor of Maine [1955-1959]; U.S. Senator from Maine [1959-1980]; Democratic nominee for vice-president [1968 w/Hubert Humphrey]; Secretary of State [1980-1981]; died Mar 26, 1996 1915 - Jay Livingston composer: To Each His Own, Mona Lisa, Tammy; died Oct 17, 2001 1919 - Vic (Victor John Angelo) Raschi baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953/all-star: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952], SL Cardinals, KC Athletics; died Oct 14, 1988 1921 - Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde) actor: The Damned, Death in Venice, The Vision, A Bridge Too Far, Night Flight from Moscow; died May 8, 1999 1923 - Thad Jones (Thaddeus Joseph Jones) musician: trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn: played with Count Basie, Thelonious Monk; bandleader: Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra; composer: A Child is Born; died Aug 20, 1986 1924 - Freddie Bartholomew (Frederick Llewellyn March) actor: Anna Karenina, Captains Courageous, David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy; died Jan 23, 1992 1930 - Eric Dixon musician: saxophonist/flutist: Count Basie orchestra; died Oct 19, 1989 1940 - Kevin Loughery basketball: Baltimore Bullets, Miami Heat; coach: New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers Miami Heat; TV host: CNN: This Week in the NBA; columnist: CNNSI 1941 - Jim Turner football: NY Jets kicker: Super Bowl III, Denver Broncos kicker: Super Bowl XII 1942 - Jerry Sloan basketball: Evansville (Indiana) College, Baltimore Bullets, Chicago Bulls; coach: Chicago Bulls, Utah Jazz 1943 - Conchata Ferrell actress: L.A. Law, Hearts Afire, A Peaceable Kingdom, McClain’s Law, Hot L Baltimore, E/R, B.J. and the Bear, The Buccaneers, True Romance, Mystic Pizza, Edward Scissorhands, Deadly Hero 1944 - Rick Barry basketball: Golden State Warriors: NBA Playoff Record for 8 steals in a game [shared with 5 others] 1944 - Ken Howard actor: The White Shadow, The Thorn Birds, Country Girl, Oscar 1945 - Chuck Portz musician: bass: group: The Turtles: It Ain’t Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, Happy Together, She’d Rather be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me 1947 - Barry Miles musician: drums, keyboards: group: Silverlight; Roberta Flack’s musical director 1948 - Sam Lacey basketball: New Mexico State Univ., Sacramento Kings 1948 - Dianne Wiest Academy Award-winning actress: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; Bullets over Broadway, Radio Days, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Footloose 1948 - Milan Williams musician: keyboards, drums, trombone, guitar: group: Commodores: Machine Gun, Just to be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Sail On, Three Times a Lady, Still, Nightshift; died Jul 9, 2006 1949 - Ronnie Ray Smith sprinter: 1968 Olympics gold medal winner: 4-by-100 meter relay [w/Charles Greene, Melvin Pender & Jim Hines]
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