Good morning WA2K.
Sorry I missed yesterday's birthdays. We were without power here for most of the day.
Here are some of today's birthdays:
1891 -
Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942); 1915 -
Lyle Bettger, American actor (elephant handler Klaus in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), (d. 2003) ; 1919 -
Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991) ; 1923 -
Chuck Yeager, American fighter and test pilot ; 1928 -
Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters) ; 1933 -
Kim Novak, American actress (Picnic, Vertigo, Bell, Book and Candle, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders , et al); 1934 -
George Segal, American actor , (Ship of Fools, King Rat, Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), The Owl and the Pussycat, The Hot Rock , A Touch of Class, with Jane Fonda in Fun with Dick and Jane, and more ); 1938 -
Oliver Reed, English actor (Bill Sykes in Oliver!, Women in Love, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway and Gladiator, et al (d. 1999) ;1942 -
Carol Lynley, American actress (known for her roles in Blue Denim, Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, Harlow, the original version of The Poseidon Adventure, and the pilot television movie for Fantasy Island) ; 1942 -
Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees) ; 1944 -
Stockard Channing, three time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation; 1944 -
Jerry Springer, American television host ; 1944 -
Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor (In the mid-'70s, he took over the role (from Joe Don Baker) of lawman Buford Pusser in both sequels to the hit 1973 film Walking Tall. While the sequels were less successful than the original, he reprised the role again for the short-lived 1981 television series of the same name " a show for which he was the highest paid television actor at the time); 1950 -
Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian ; 1974 -
Robbie Williams, English singer
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Kim Novak, George Segal, Oliver Reed, Carol Lynley, Stockard Channing and Bo Svensen
Wishing all a pleasant day.
