Today's Birthdays – August 9, 2011

Celebrity Birthdays

1809 William Barret Travis American Battle of the Alamo figure (d. 1836) 1883 George Hoyt NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961) 1897 Ralph Wyckoff American pioneer in x-ray crystallography 1911 Eddie Futch American boxing trainer (d. 2001) 1927 Robert Shaw England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday) 1930 Betty Boop animation 1942 David Steinberg Canadian comedian 1944 Sam Elliot Calif, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) 1945 Ken Norton Heavyweight Boxing Champ/TV panelist (Gong Show) 1947 Barbara Mason American soul singer 1949 Jonathan Kellerman American writer 1955 Doug Williams Louisiana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Wash Redskins) 1957 Melanie Griffith NYC, actress (Something Wild, Working Girl) 1958 Greg Chaisson heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark) 1959 Kurtis Blow NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks) 1963 Lonnie Quinn Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children) 1963 Whitney Houston Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time) 1965 Kyle Kyle Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin’ on Coals) 1966 Pat Petersen LA Calif, actor (Michael-Knots Landing) 1967 Deion Sanders American football player 1968 Gillian Andersn American actress 1970 Chris Cuomo American TV journalist 1970 Arion Salazar American bassist (Third Eye Blind) 1972 Elizabeth Vassey Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children) 1983 Ashley Johnson American actress 1989 Jason Heyward American baseball player]]]]> ]]>

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