Celebrity Birthdays – April 13, 2011

1743 Thomas Jefferson Shadwell VA, (D-R) 3rd US President (1801-09) 1771 Richard Trevithick Illogan Cornwall England, inventor (steam locomotive) 1852 Frank W Woolworth 5¢ & 10¢ King (Woolworths) 1899 Alfred Moser Butts game inventor (Scrabble) 1903 Rex Evans actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker) 1909 Eudora Welty Jackson MS, novelist (Optimist’s Daughter-Pulitzer 1973) 1919 Howard Keel [Harry Clifford Leek] Gillespie IL, actor/singer (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate) 1919 Madalyn Murray O’Hair American atheist (opppsed prayer in school) 1935 Erich von Däniken author (Chariots of the Gods) 1935 Lyle Waggoner Kansas City KS, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman) 1937 Edward Fox London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again) 1939 Paul Sorvino Brookyn NY, stage/screen actor, (Law and Order, Reds, Goodfellas, A Touch of Class, That Championship Season, An American Millionaire, The Mating Dance, Skyscraper, King Lear) 1940 Lester Chambers Flora MS, vocalist (Chambers Brothers-Time Has Come Today) 1944 Jack Casady Washington DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane) 1945 Tony Dow Hollywood CA, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver) 1950 Terry Lester Indianapolis IN, actor (Royce Keller-As The World Turns, Mason Capwell-Santa Barbara, Jack Abbott-Young & Restless) 1950 Riff West rock bassist (Molly Hatchet) 1950 Ron Perlman Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast) 1951 Max Weinberg rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O’Brien Show) 1951 Peabo Bryson Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I’m So into You) 1951 Peter Davison actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three) 1954 Jimmy Destri rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture) 1957 Saundra Santiago Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice) 1957 Gary Kroeger Cedar Falls IA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Return of Shaggy Dog) 1970 Rick Schroder Staten Island NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling) 1976 Jonathan Brandis Danbury CT, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV, Never Ending Story II) 1992 Jet Travolta daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston]]]]> ]]>