Good Morning from the Celebrity Birthday reporter.
Today, a Happy Birthday to Uncle Walt.
Date of birth -5 December 1901, Chicago, Illinois
Date of death 15 December 1966
Los Angeles, California, USA. (cardiac arrest/lung cancer)
Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an Army draft notice, addressed to "Mr. Donald Duck", was delivered to the Disney studios.
The Disney family came from Kilkenny, Ireland. The D'Isney family settled in Co. Kilkenny to escape religious persecution and later travelled to America.
Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mom he dated.
He often called composer Robert Sherman into his office to play piano for him. His favorite song was "Feed the Birds" from "Mary Poppins."
Became interested in personalizing animals' characters after carelessly killing a small owl as a young boy. He felt deeply remorseful and guilty and vowed never again to kill a living creature.
Others born on this fifth day of December are:
1830 Christina Rossetti, poet (Britain; died 1894)
1839 George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer (New Rumley, OH; died 1876)
1906 Otto Preminger, director (Austria; died 1986)
1932 Little Richard (Penniman), singer/songwriter (Macon, GA)
1934 Joan Didion, writer (Sacramento, CA)
1946 José Carreras, opera singer (Barcelona, Spain)
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