Notable Birthdays
1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
1839 – Seldon Connor, American Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1860 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965) (Of Human Bondage)
1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941) (Jacob’s Room, To the Lighthouse)
1896 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian (d. 1927)
1899 – Ace Goodman, American comedian (Easy Aces)
1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist (d. 1977)
1918 – Ken Mayers, American actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol)
1919 – Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (d. 2010) (NBC-TV, Comment)
1924 – Lou Groza, American Hall of Fame football player (d. 2000) (Cleveland Browns)
1931 – Dean Jones, American actor (The Shaggy Dog, The Love Bug)
1933 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977) (Peyton Place, Eight is Enough)
1938 – Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins], American singer (d. 2012) (At Last, Roll with Me Henry)
1943 – Tobe Hooper, American film director
1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1954 – Richard Finch rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That’s the Way I Like It)
1956 – Andy Cox Birmingham England, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1976 – Tara Fleming N York Ontario, LPGA golfer (1992 LPGA Corning-10th)
1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
1980 – Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler]]]]> ]]>
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