Celebrity Birthdays – April 10, 2011

1794 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened Japan 1806 Leonidas Polk Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1827 Lewis Wallace Major General (Union volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur) 1829 William Booth founder (Salvation Army) 1847 Joseph Pulitzer Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World) 1915 Harry Morgan Detroit MI, actor (December Bride, MASH, Dragnet) 1921 Chuck Connors Brooklyn NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa) 1921 Sheb Wooley Erick OK, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw) 1926 Johnnie Tillmon civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association) 1927 “Alvin” Junior Samples Cummings GA, country performer (Hee Haw) 1929 Max [Carl Adolf] Von Sydow Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape) 1934 David Halberstam New York Times international correspondent (New York Times/Pulitzer 1964) 1936 Robert “Bobby” Smith US singer (Spinners) 1947 Bunny Waller vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers) 1950 Dave Peverett rocker (Foghat) 1951 Steven Seagal Detroit MI, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill) 1954 Peter MacNicol Dallas TX, actor (John Cage-Ally McBeal, Alan Birch-Chicago Hope, Dragonslayer, Sophie’s Choice) 1958 Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds Indianapolis IN, singer/producer/songwriter (Boyz II Men, Bobby Brown) 1959 Brian Setzer Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats) 1961 Olivia Brown Frankfurt German Federal Republic, actress (Detective Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice) 1963 Warren DeMartini heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt) 1964 Felicia Collins Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman) 1965 Tim “Herb” Alexander US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda) 1969 Billy Jacoby Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie) 1969 William Jayne actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can’t Lose) 1984 Zoe Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child 1988 Haley Joel Osment Los Angeles CA, actor (Cole Sear-The Sixth Sense, Trevor ‘Trev’ McKinney-Pay It Forward)]]]]> ]]>