Category Archives: Birthdays

August 13 Notable Birthdays

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Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is 86.

Actor – comedian Pat Harrington (The Jack Paar Show, The Steve Allen Show, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Danny Thomas Show, One Day at a Time) is 83.

Acto Kevin Tighe (Emergency, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Newsies, Double Cross, City of Hope, Another 48 Hrs., Caught in the Act) is 68.

Actress Gretchen Corbett (The Rockford Files, Jaws of Satan, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Savage Bees) is 65.

Actor – comedian – radio host Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family, H.O.T.S., America’s Deadliest Home Video) is 53.

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August 12 Notable Birthdays

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Screenwriter William Goldman (Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Chaplin) is 81.

Actor George Hamilton (Love at First Bite, Act One, The Survivors, Zorro, the Gay Blade, Where the Boys Are, Evel Knievel, The Dead Don’t Die, Doc Hollywood) is 73.

Actress Jennifer Warren (Amazons, Slap Shot, The Intruder Within, Confessions of a Married Man, Fatal Beauty, Partners in Crime) is 71.

Singer – songwriter – guitarist Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 63.

Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny (Bright Size Life, Watercolors, New Chautauqua, American Garage, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, Offramp, Travels, Rejoicing, First Circle, Song X, Still Life [Talking]) is 58.

Tennis champion Pete Sampras (Australian Open [1994], Wimbledon [1993, 1994, 1995], U.S. Open [1990, 1993, 1995]) is 41.

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August 11 Notable Birthdays

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Actress Arlene Dahl (Night of the Warrior, Slightly Scarlet, Three Little Words, One Life to Live) is 84.

Bass guitarist Jim Kale (The Guess Who) is 69.

Guitarist – singer Erik Braunn (Iron Butterfly) is 62.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, is 62.

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August 10 Notable Birthdays

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Singer Ronnie Spector (Veronica Bennett; The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You; solo: Try Some Buy Some, Say Goodbye to Hollywood) is 69.

Singer – flute player Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 65.

Actress Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan, New York Stories, The Executioner’s Song, After Hours) is 53.

Actor Antonio Banderas (José Antonio Domínguez Banderas; Too Much, Never Talk to Strangers, Assassins, Interview with the Vampire, Philadelphia, Against of the Wind, Law of Desire, Labyrinth of Passion, Los Tarantos, The Mask of Zorro) is 52.

Drummer – singer Jon Farriss (INXS) is 51.

Actress Claudia Christian (Babylon 5, Dallas, The Calendar Girl Murders, A Wing and a Prayer, The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, Atlantis: The Lost Empire) is 47.

Actress Angie Harmon (Law & Order, Baywatch Nights, Lawn Dogs, Batman Beyond) is 40.

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August 9 Notable Birthdays

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Actor Sam Elliott (Gettysburg, Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Mission Impossible TV series) is 68.

Actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Night Moves, Smile, A Stranger Among Us, Born Yesterday, Mulholland Falls, Lolita, Crazy in Alabama) is 55.

Actress Amanda Bearse (actress: Married……with Children; director: Dharma & Greg, Veronica’s Closet) is 54.

Actress Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Future Fantastic, Playing by Heart, The House of Mirth) is 44.

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August 8 Notable Birthdays

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Actress – swimmer Esther Williams (Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Dangerous When Wet, Neptune’s Daughter, Million Dollar Mermaid) is 91.

Actor Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Escape from Fort Bravo, The Long Hot Summer, Hit the Deck) is 86.

Singer – songwriter Mel Tillis (I Believe In You, Coca-Cola Cowboy, Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Detroit City, I Ain’t Never, Commercial Affection, Good Woman Blues) is 80.

Actor Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man, Dick Tracy, Hook, Search for Tomorrow, Outbreak, Sphere) is 75.

Connie Stevens (Concetta Ingolia; singer: Sixteen Reasons, Kookie, Kookie [Lend Me Your Comb]; actress: Hawaiian Eye, The Grissom Gang, Parrish, Back to the Beach) is 74.

Actor Keith Carradine (Pretty Baby, The Long Riders, The Moderns, Kung Fu, Will Rogers Follies, Nashville) is 63.

TV host Deborah Norville (Today, Inside Edition) is 54.

Guitarist David Evans (‘The Edge’; U2) is 51.

Singer J.C. Chasez (’N Sync) is 36.

Actress Lindsay Sloane (Mr. Rhodes, The Wonder Years, Dharma & Greg, Working, My So-Called Life, Between Mother and Daughter) is 35.

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August 7 Notable Birthdays

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Garrison Keillor (humorist, radio host: A Prairie Home Companion; author: Radio Days) is 70.

Singer B.J. (Billy Joe) Thomas (Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Hooked on a Feeling, [Hey Won’t You Play] Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, I Just Can’t Help Believing, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry) is 70.

Actor John Glover (Julia, Melvin and Howard, Great God Brown, In the Mouth of Madness, Night of the Running Man, Dead on the Money, A Killing Affair, An Early Frost, The Evil that Men Do, Last Embrace, Annie Hall) is 68.

Actor David Rasche (Out There, Dead Weekend, The Masters of Menace, An Innocent Man, Native Son, Manhattan, Sledge Hammer!, Nurses) is 68.

Actress Caroline Aaron (Crimes and Misdemeanors, Edward Scissorhands, Husbands and Wives, Sleepless in Seattle, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Primary Colors, Running Mates) is 60.

Bass guitarist Andy Fraser (Free) is 60.

Actor Alexei Sayle (Stuff, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, Gorky Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Carry On Columbus) is 60.

Actor Wayne Knight (Seinfeld, Dead Again, JFK, Jurassic Park, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Space Jam, For Richer or Poorer, Toy Story 2) is 57.

Singer Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) is 54.

Actor David Duchovny (The X-Files, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Beethoven, Red Shoe Diaries series, Playing God) is 52.

Actress DeLane Matthews (Dave’s World, FM, Eisenhower & Lutz) is 51.

Actress Sydney Penny (The Thorn Birds, Santa Barbara, All My Children, Pale Rider, Running Away, Bernadette, St. Elsewhere) is 41.

Actress Charlize Theron (That Thing You Do!, Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, The Devil’s Advocate, Hollywood Confidential, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules, Reindeer Games) is 37.

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August 6 Notable Birthdays

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Peter Bonerz (actor: The Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5; director: Murphy Brown) is 74.

Actor Dorian Harewood (Sudden Death, Pacific Heights, Full Metal Jacket, Against All Odds, An American Christmas Carol, Sparkle, Viper, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, Trauma Center, Strike Force, Roots: The Next Generation, Glitter) is 62.

Actress Catherine Hicks (7th Heaven, Marilyn, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Bad News Bears, Ryan’s Hope, Tucker’s Witch) is 61.

Actress Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies, Jackie Chan: My Story, Moonlight Express) is 50.

Actress Melissa George (Home and Away, Dark City, Hollyweird, Sugar & Spice, Mulholland Drive, Thieves) is 36.

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August 5 Notable Birthdays

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NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong (command pilot of Gemini 8; performed first successful docking of two vehicles in space; commander of Apollo 11; first man to land a craft on the Moon and first man to step onto its surface) is 82.

Actor John Saxon (Carmen Orrico; Raid on Entebbe, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Cardinal, Death of a Gunfighter, The Unforgiven, The Bold Ones) is 77.

Actress Loni Anderson (WKRP in Cincinnati, The Jayne Mansfield Story, Easy Street, Necessity, Nurses) is 67.

Actress Erika Slezak (One Life to Live) is 66.

Singer – songwriter – music producer Rick Derringer (Zehringer; The McCoys) is 65.

Actress Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch) is 56.

Actor Jonathan Silverman (At First Sight, Little Big League, Weekend at Bernie’s series, Little Sister, Caddyshack 2, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Gimme a Break) is 46.

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August 4 Notable Birthdays

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Actor – comedian Richard Belzer (Mad Dog and Glory, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Big Picture, The Groove Tube) is 68.

Actor Kristoffer Tabori (Christopher Donald Siegel; Chicago Story, Seventh Avenue) is 60.

Actor – director – screenwriter Billy Bob Thornton (One False Move, Tombstone, On Deadly Ground, Primary Colors, Armageddon, Pushing Tin, Franky Goes to Hollywood) is 57.

President Barack Obama is 51.

Actress Lauren Tom (The Joy Luck Club, When a Man Loves a Woman, Grace Under Fire, DAG, Max Steel) is 51.

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