Celebrity Birthdays – April 27, 2011

1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse US painter/inventor (telegraph) 1822 [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant Point Pleasant OH, 18th US President (1869-77, Republican) 1840 Edward Whymper 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers inventor (nylon) 1900 Walter Lantz animator (Woody Woodpecker’s creator) 1902 Kitty Kelly New York NY, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors) 1927 Coretta Scott King Marion AL, civil rights leader 1931 Robert Donner New York NY, actor (Yancy-The Waltons, Exidor-Mork & Mindy) 1932 Casey Kasem Detroit MI, radio personality (American Top 40) 1939 Judy Carne Northhampton England, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) 1944 Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool) 1947 Ann Peebles St Louis MO, soul singer (I Can’t Stand the Rain) 1947 Pete Ham Swansea South Wales, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It) 1947 Herbie Murrell US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything) 1948 Kate Pierson Weehawken NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52’s-Rock Lobster, Love Shack) 1951 Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley’s Comet) 1959 Sheena [Shirley Orr] Easton Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only) 1962 Grant Show Detroit MI, actor (Jake-Melrose Place, Rick-Ryan’s Hope) 1963 Schae Harrison [Deborah Schaeffer] Anaheim Hills CA, actress (Darla-The Bold & Beautiful) 1971 Hayley Barr [Sparks] Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns) 1972 David Lascher New York NY, actor (Josh-Clueless, Kidz in the Wood) 1973 André Gower Culver City CA, actor (Monster Squad, Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President) 1980 Lindsey Tindoll The Most Awesome of Awesomeness]]]]> ]]>