Today's Birthdays – July 26, 2011

Denise Hluska from The Cricket Box. Your treat will have other goodies too, from great Vicksburg places like The Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge. Celebrity Birthdays 1856 George Bernard Shaw Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925) 1892 Pearl S Buck US, novelist (The Good Earth) 1894 Aldous Huxley England, author (Brave New World) 1902 Gracie Allen SF Calif, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen) 1922 Blake Edwards writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) 1922 Jason Robards Jr actor (A Thousand Clowns, Act 1, Any Wednesday) 1926 James Best Corydon Ind, actor (Savages, Sounder, Rolling Thunder) 1928 Stanley Kubrick NYC, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita) 1929 Alexis Weissenberg Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948) 1929 Jean Shepherd humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969) 1931 Takashi Ono Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60) 1936 Kathryn Hays actress (Kim-As the World Turns) 1940 Mary Jo Kopechne Ted Kennedy’s driving buddy 1941 Darlene Love singer/actress (Lethal Weapon) 1942 Dobie Gray Brookshire Tx, singer (In Crowd) 1943 Mick Jagger Rolling Stone, never gathers moss 1946 Helen Mirren [Eleni Mironova], England, actress (Cook Thief Wife) 1949 Roger Taylor rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody) 1956 Dorothy Hamill Ct, ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976) 1961 Gary Cherone Boston, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words) 1963 AndyTimmons Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger)]]]]> ]]>