Today's Birthdays – October 17, 2011

Celebrity Birthdays

1711 Jupiter Hammon 1st American black to publish poetry (Complete Works) 1900 Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) 1902 Irene Ryan El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies) 1903 Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940) 1906 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987) 1908 Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969) 1912 Pope John Paul I (d. 1978) 1912 Jack Owens, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982) 1914 Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1996) 1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) 1917 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991) 1917 Marsha Hunt, American actress 1918 Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987) 1918 Ralph Wilson, American pro football team owner 1920 Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) 1921 Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007) 1923 Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004) 1923 Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001) 1924 Don Coryell, American football head coach (d. 2010) 1926 Julie Adams, American film actress 1926 Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008) 1930 Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003) 1933 Bill Anders, American astronaut 1938 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007) 1941 Earl Thomas Conley, American singer 1942 Steve Jones, American basketball player 1942 Gary Puckett, American musician 1946 Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) 1948 George Wendt, American actor 1950 Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996) 1953 Joseph Bowie, American trombonist, founder of the jazz fusion band Defunkt 1956 Mae Jemison, American astronaut and physician 1957 Lawrence Bender, American film producer 1957 Steve McMichael, American football player 1958 Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter 1959 Ron Drummond, American writer 1959 Dolph Lundgren actor (Rocky 4, Masters of the Universe) 1959 Richard Roeper, American film critic 1960 Rob Marshall, American director 1962 Mike Judge, American cartoonist, filmmaker and voice actor 1966 Danny Ferry, American basketball player 1966 Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality 1969 Wood Harris, American actor 1970 John Mabry, American baseball player 1970 Shauna O’Brien, American model and actress 1970 Blues Saraceno, American guitarist 1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer (‘N Sync) 1972 Eminem, American rapper 1972 Sharon Leal, American actress 1972 Joe McEwing, American baseball player 1974 John Rocker, American baseball player 1975 Francis Bouillon, American hockey player 1977 Alimi Ballard, American actor 1977 Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter 1983 Daniel Booko, American actor 1983 Mitch Talbot, American baseball player 1984 Chris Lowell, American actor 1984 Randall Munroe, American cartoonist 1988 Christina Crawford, American dancer and professional wrestler]]]]> ]]>

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