Guest Author - Judith Hodges
Birthdays:
1907 Frida Kahlo, painter
1911 Laverne Andrews, singer from Andrews sisters (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
1918 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Family Affair, The Jungle Book)
1921 Nancy Reagan, actress/ U.S. First Lady
1922 William Schallert, actor (Dobie Gillis, The Patty Duke Show)
1925 Merv Griffin, singer/TV host (Jeopardy!)
1925 Bill Haley, singer from Bill Haley and His Comets (Rock Around the Clock)
1927 Janet Leigh, actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate)
1927 Pat Paulsen, comedian (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
1931 Della Reese, singer/ actress (Touch By an Angel)
1935 Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup-14th Dalai Lama)
1937 Ned Beatty, actor (Deliverance, Superman, Rudy)
1937 Gene Chandler, singer (Duke of Earl)
1946 George W. Bush, President of the U.S.
1946 Fred Dryer, actor (Hunter)
1946 Sylvester Stallone, actor (Rocky series, Rambo series)
1946 Burt Ward, actor (Robin from Batman (TV)
1951 Geoffrey Rush, actor (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Shakespeare in Love)
1952 Grant Goodeve, actor (Eight is Enough)
1952 Shelley Hack, actress (Charlie’s Angels)
1954 Allyce Beasley, actress (Moonlighting, Rumpelstiltskin, Stuart Little)
1954 Nanci Griffith, singer (Never Mind)
1975 50 Cent, rapper
1978 Tamera Mowry, actress (Sister, Sister)
1978 Tia Mowry, actress (Sister, Sister)
1983 Gregory Smith, actor (The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, Everwood)
Deaths:
1962 William Faulkner, author (The Sound and the Fury)
1971 Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpet player
1973 Joe E. Brown, actor (Some Like It Hot)
1998 Roy Rogers, western actor
2003 Buddy Ebsen, actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Events:
1885 Louis Pasteur invents the rabies shot.
