FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN TODAY INCLUDE: 1803 - Sarah Childress Polk First Lady: wife of 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk; died Aug 14, 1891 1824 - Anton Bruckner composer: wrote symphonies [9], masses and a Te Deum; died Oct 11, 1896 1846 - Daniel Burnham architect: Railway Exchange Building [Chicago, one of the 1st skyscrapers in U.S.], Chicago’s Monadnock Building [1891] and Reliance Building [1894]; long-range city plan for Chicago [1909], Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.; died Jun 1, 1912 1908 - Richard Wright author: Black Boy, The Outsider, Black Power, The Color Curtain, Pagan Spain; died Nov 28, 1960 1917 - Henry Ford II industrialist: head of Ford Motor Co. [1945-1980]; died Sep 29, 1987 1918 - Paul Harvey news commentator: “Hello Americans. Stand by for news!”: The Rest of the Story; died Feb 28, 2009 1919 - Howard Morris comedian, actor: Boys Night Out, Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor; Your Show of Shows, Caesar’s Hour, Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo; director: With Six You Get Egg Roll, Don’t Drink the Water, Goin’ Coconuts; died May 21, 2005 1928 - Dick (Richard Allen) York actor: Bewitched, That Brewster Boy, Going My Way, Inherit the Wind, They Came to Cordura, My Sister Eileen, Tea and Sympathy, Bus Stop; died Feb 20, 1992 1931 - Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber) singer, dancer, actress: South Pacific, Anything Goes, There’s No Business like Show Business, For Love or Money 1933 - Richard S. Castellano actor: The Godfather, Lovers and Other Strangers, Honor Thy Father, Night of the Juggler, The Gangster Chronicles, Joe and Sons, The Super; died Dec 10, 1988 1937 - Dawn Fraser Olympic swimmer [Australia]: 1st to win 8 medals: 4 gold [1956,1960,1964 - 100 meter freestyle; 1956 - relay), and 4 silver 1938 - Leonard Frey actor: Fiddler on the Roof, The Boys in the Band; died Aug 24, 1988 1941 - Ken (Kenneth Smith) Harrelson ‘Hawk’: baseball: KC Athletics, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1968], Cleveland Indians; baseball broadcaster: WSBK-TV, Boston; GM: Chicago White Sox 1942 - Raymond Floyd golf champion: Masters [1976], U.S. Open [1986], PGA [1969, 1982] 1942 - Merald ‘Bubba’ Knight singer: group: Gladys Night and the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, The Way We Were/Try to Remember medley 1944 - Jennifer Salt actress: Soap, The Marshall Chronicles, Play It Again, Sam, Out of the Darkness 1945 - Gene Parsons musician: drums: group: The Byrds; solo: Kindling 1946 - Gary Duncan (Grubb) musician: guitar: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino’s Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool 1946 - Greg Elmore musician: drums: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino’s Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool 1947 - Wayne LaChance hockey: Clarkson University, Springfield Kings, Greensboro Generals, Syracuse Eagles; owner [w/Bruce Landon] of AHL Springfield [MA] Falcons 1949 - Tom Watson golf champion: Masters [1977, 1981], U.S. Open [1982], British Open [1975, 1977, 1982, 1983] 1950 - Doyle (Lafayette) Alexander baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976], Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, SF Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1988] 1950 - Ronald LaPread musician: bass: group: Commodores: Still, Three Times a Lady, Nightshift 1951 - Martin Chambers musician: drums: group: The Pretenders: Kid, Brass in Pocket, Back on the Chain Gang 1951 - Judith Ivey Tony Award-winning actress: Steaming [1983], Hurly Burly [1985]; Designing Women, The Critic, Down Home, The 5 Mrs. Buchanans 1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs actor: Alien Nation, Rituals, Roots, Welcome Back, Kotter, Quiet Fire, L.A. Heat, L.A. Vice 1953 - Steve Luke football: Green Bay Packers 1958 - Paul (Wesley) Householder baseball: Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros 1970 - Ione Skye actress: Say Anything, Covington Cross, Guncrazy, Dream for an Insomniac
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