Today's Birthdays – April 30, 2011

1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle French priest/theorist/saint 1858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison 1st lady (1889-1893) 1923 Al Lewis actor (Grandpa-The Munsters) 1926 Edmund Cooper UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool’s Day) 1933 Willie Nelson Abbott TX, country singer (On the Road Again) 1938 Gary Collins Venice CA, actor (6th Sense, Home Show) 1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star, Flash Crowd) 1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich Miami FL, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982) 1940 Burt Young New York NY, actor (Convoy, Rocky) 1952 Tom Pesek PC programmer (creator of HAL 9000 program) 1953 Merrill Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie) 1965 Adrian Pasdar Pittsfield MA, actor (C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun) 1975 Johnny Galecki Bree Belgium, actor (American Dreamer, David-Roseanne) 1982 Kirsten Dunst actress (Interview with the Vampire) 1988 Molloko San Diego Zoo, 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity]]]]> ]]>