Today's Birthdays – November 29, 2011

Celebrity Birthdays

1803 Christian Doppler discovered Doppler Effect (color shift) 1811 Wendell Phillips women’s suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer 1832 Louisa May Alcott Germantown PA, author (Little Women) 1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming inventor (diode) 1898 CS Lewis English writer/scholar (Le Roman de la Rosa) 1907 Merle Travis country singer (16 Tons) 1908 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American civil rights leader and politician (d. 1972) 1921 Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone 1927 Vin Scully sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week) 1932 Diane Ladd Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart) 1933 John Mayall blues singer (Crusade, Looking Back) 1938 Gene Okerlund, American wrestling interviewer and announcer 1940 Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2007) 1940 Chuck Mangione, American musician 1941 Bill Freehan, American baseball player 1949 Wayne Cowan, American wrestler 1944 Felix Cavaliere Pelham NY, rocker (Rascals-Lonely too Long) 1949 Garry Shandling comedian (It’s Garry Shandling Show) 1949 Kenneth D Cameron Cleveland OH, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (Sked:STS-37) 1949 Jerry Lawler, American wrestler 1951 Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston) 1951 Roger Troutman, American musician (d. 1999) 1952 Jeff Fahey, American actor 1953 Alex Grey, American artist 1954 Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer 1955 Howie Mandel Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere) 1956 Eric Laakso, American football player 1957 Janet Napolitano, United States Secretary of Homeland Security 1958 Michael Dempsey, English musician (The Cure) 1958 Devon Scott, American actress 1959 Neal Broten, American ice hockey player 1959 Rahm Emanuel, American politician 1959 Rich Camarillo, American football player 1959 Charles Grant Winston Salem NC, actor (Another World) 1960 Cathy Moriarty actress (Neighbors, Raging Bull) 1960 Howard Johnson, American baseball player 1961 Kim Delaney Philadelphia PA, actress (All My Children, Tour of Duty) 1963 Andrew McCarthy actor (St Elmo’s Fire) 1964 Kris Kamm Evanston IL, actor (Stuart Rosebrock-Coach) 1964 Tom Sizemore, American actor 1965 Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian 1965 Neill Barry NYC, actor (Old Enough, Heat) 1966 John Layfield, American professional wrestler 1968 Jonathan Raleigh Knight Massachusetts, rocker (New Kids-Hangin’ Tough) 1968 Howard K. Stern, American attorney and reality TV personality 1969 Kasey Keller, American soccer player 1970 Frank Delgado, American keyboardist (Deftones) 1971 Gena Lee Nolin, American actress 1972 Brian Baumgartner, American actor 1972 Larry Joe Campbell, American actor 1972 Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player 1976 Anna Faris, American actress 1976 Ehren McGhehey, American actor 1976 Chris Akins, American football safety 1978 Lauren German, American actress 1979 Jayceon “The Game” Taylor, American rapper 1980 Brian Wolfe, American baseball player 1982 Lucas Black, American actor 1982 Ashley Force, American race car driver 1985 Shannon Brown, American basketball player]]]]> ]]>

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