Edited From Those Were The Days
1818 – Emily Bronte
author: Wuthering Heights; died Dec 19, 1848
1857 – Thorstein Veblen
economist, author: The Theory of the Leisure Class; died Aug 3, 1929
1863 – Henry Ford
auto manufacturer: first assembly line production: the Tin Lizzie; died Apr 7, 1947
1890 – Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
‘The Old Professor’: baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916], Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Giants [World Series: 1922, 1923], Boston Braves; manager: NY Yankees: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958]; died Sep 29, 1975
1898 – Henry Moore
English sculptor: Sheep Piece, Large Oval with Points, Stringed Figure No. 1; died Aug 31, 1986
1925 – Jacques Sernas
actor: 55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.
1928 – Joe (Joseph Henry) Nuxhall
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [youngest major-league player: 15 yrs, 314 days], Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1955, 1956], KC Athletics, LA Angels; died Nov 15, 2007
1929 – Christine McGuire
singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something’s Gotta Give, He, Sugartime
1933 – Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger)
actor: 77 Sunset Strip, Darby’s Rangers; singer [w/Connie Stevens]: Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb; holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960]
1934 – Ben Piazza
actor: The Hanging Tree, The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas, The Winds of War, Guilty by Suspicion; died Sep 7, 1991
1936 – Buddy (George) Guy
musician: blues guitar, singer: Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues; on BBC-TV: Supershow, Chicago Blues
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich
director: What’s Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon; director/writer: The Last Picture Show, Texasville
1941 – Paul Anka
songwriter: Johnny’s Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana; singer: 33 hits over 3 decades: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You’re Having My Baby
1945 – David Sanborn
Grammy Award-winning musician: saxophone, flute: LP: Voyeur [1981]; Sanborn, David Sanborn Band, Heart to Heart, Hideaway, As We Speak, Backstreet, Straight to the Heart, Love and Happiness; composer: TV movie score: Finnegan Begin Again
1947 – William Atherton
actor: Bio-Dome, Saints and Sinners, The Pelican Brief, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Day of the Locust, Class of ’44, Centennial
1947 – Marc Bolan (Feld)
singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; killed in car crash Sep 16, 1977
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger
actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; married to Maria Shriver; 5-time Mr. Universe; part owner of Planet Hollywood restaurants; governor of California [2003- ]
1948 – Jean Reno
actor: Le Grand bleu, Les Visiteurs, Léon, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, Just Visiting
1949 – Dwight White
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; died June 6, 2008
1950 – Frank Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Staying Alive, Ten Little Indians, Hudson Hawk, Tombstone, Doublecross On Costa’s Island; brother of actor Sylvester Stallone
1954 – Ken Olin
actor: Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething
1956 – Delta Burke
actress: Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida
1956 – Anita Hill
law professor: Hill-Thomas hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court
1957 – Rat Scabies (Chris Millar)
musician: drums: group: The Damned: Neat, Neat, Neat, New Rose, Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, LP: Phantasmagoria
1958 – Kate Bush
singer: Experimental IV, Running Up That Hill, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Wuthering Heights
1961 – Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III/Larry Fishburne)
Tony Award-winning actor: Two Trains Running; Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz N the Hood
1963 – Monique Gabrielle
actress: Night Shift, Bachelor Party, Young Lady Chatterley II, Electric Blue series Bad Girls IV, Emmanuelle 5, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hard To Die, Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, Angel Eyes
1963 – Lisa Kudrow
actress: Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This, Dr. Dolittle 2
1964 – Vivica A. Fox
actress: Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Independence Day, Booty Call, Hollywood Squares, City of Angels
1974 – Hilary Swank
actress: Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid
And me!
don’y you… forget about me!