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March 7th
1917 Lee Young (drummer: Nat King Cole Trio) (d 7/31/08, age 94)
1925 Richard Vernon (actor) (d 12/4/97, age 72)
1926 Alan Sues (breathless regular on "Laugh-In") (d 12/1/11, age 85)
1930 James Broderick (actor: Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon, father of Matthew Broderick) (d 11/1/82, age 52)
1934 Willard Scott (weatherman: The Today Show) (d 9/4/21, age 87)
1936 Perry Henzell (director: The Harder They Fall) (d 11/30/06, age 70)
1937 Anne Kristen (actress) (d 8/7/96, age 59)
1938 Janice Guthrie (first woman to race in the Indy 500)
1940 Daniel J. Travanti (actor)
1942 Tammy Faye Bakker (d 7/20/07, age 65)
1942 Michael Eisner (Disney CEO)
1943 Chris White (bassist: The Zombies - "She's Not There")
1944 Townes Van Zandt (singer/songwriter) (d 1/1/97, age 52)
1945 Arthur Lee (singer/guitarist: Love, psychedelic 60s band who influenced Led Zeppelin, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie & the Banshees) (d 8/3/06, age 61)
1946 John Heard (actor) (d 7/21/17, age 71)
1946 Matthew Fisher (keyboardist: Procol Harum - "Whiter Shade of Pale")
1946 Peter Wolf (singer: J. Geils Band 1967-1983)
1947 Richard Lawson (actor)
1947 Donna Loren (actress: Beach Blanket Bingo)
1947 Lewis J. Stadlin (actor)
1949 Daniel Goldberg (producer: Meatballs, Stripes) (d 7/12/23, age 74)
1950 Franco Harris (Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV, caught the "Immaculate Reception" and died a few days shy of its 50th anniversary) (d 12/20/22, age 72)
1950 Billy Joe DuPree (Dallas Cowboys tight end: Super Bowls X,XII,XIII)
1950 Mark Pinter (actor)
1951 Linda Gibboney (actress: Search for Tomorrow, Generations)
1952 Ernie Isley (guitarist/singer: The Isley Brothers)
1952 Lynn Swann (Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver: Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1954 Matt Frenette (drummer: Loverboy)
1956 Bryan Cranston (actor: Dad on "Malcolm in the Middle")
1958 Rik Mayall (comedian: The Young Ones) (d 6/9/14, age 56)
1960 Ivan Lendl (tennis great)
1961 Mary Beth Evans (actress)
1962 Taylor Dayne (singer)
1964 Wanda Sykes (actress: Barb on "The New Adventures of Old Christine")
1965 Cameron Daddo (actor)
1971 Rachel Weisz (actress)
1974 Jenna Fischer (actress)
1980 Laura Prepon (actress: Donna on "That '70s Show")
March 8th
1909 Claire Trevor (d 4/8/00, age 91)
1918 Alan Hale, Jr. (actor: Skipper Jonas Grumby on "Gilligan's Island") (d 1/2/90, age 71)
1920 Eileen Herlie (actress: Myrtle Fargate on "All My Children" for 30+ years) (d 10/8/08, age 88)
1922 Cyd Charisse (d 6/17/08, age 86)
1924 Sean McClory (actor) (d 12/10/03, age 79)
1929 Daryl Duke (director) (d 10/21/06, age 77)
1933 Johnny Dollar (singer) (d 4/13/86, age 53)
1936 Robert 'Red' West (actor/songwriter/stuntman, close confidant of Elvis Presley who exposed his drug use in a book weeks before Elvis' death; as an actor, starred as Red in "Road House") (d 7/18/17, age 81)
1936 Sue Ane Langdon (actress)
1940 Susan Clark (actress: Katherine on "Webster")
1942 Ralph Ellis (guitarist: Swinging Blue Jeans - "You're No Good")
1943 Lynn Redgrave (actress) (d 5/2/10, age 67)
1944 Carole Bayer Sager (lyricist)
1945 Micky Dolenz (drummer: The Monkees, only surviving member)
1945 Keith Jarrett (jazz pianist/composer)
1946 Randy Meisner (bassist/keyboardist: The Eagles, Poco) (d 7/26/23, age 77)
1947 Michael Allsup (singer: Three Dog Night)
1947 Phil Sawyer (guitarist: Spencer Davis Group)
1948 Margaret Battavio (aka Little Peggy March, singer: I Will Follow Him)
1957 Clive Burr (drummer: Iron Maiden 1979-1982) (d 3/12/13, age 56)
1957 Cynthia Rothrock (actress)
1958 Gary Numan (singer: (Here in my) Cars)
1959 Aidan Quinn (actor)
1961 Camryn Manheim (actress: What Planet Are You From, Eraser)
1963 Kathy Ireland
1964 Peter Gill (drummer: Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1969 Andrea Parker (actress: Miss Parker on "The Pretender," Lydia on "Less Than Perfect")
1970 Jason Elam (kicker: Denver Broncos)
1975 Brett Conway (kicker: Green Bay Packers)
1976 Freddie Prinze, Jr. (actor: Freddie, 24)
1977 James VanDerBeek (actor: Varsity Blues, Dawson on "Dawson's Creek") (d 02/11/26, age 48)
1982 Kat Von D (von Drachenberg) (tattoo artist, reality TV star)
March 9th
1902 Will Geer (actor: Grandpa Zeb Walton on "The Waltons") (d 4/22/78, age 76)
1918 Mickey Spillane (author: Mike Hammer mysteries) (d 7/17/06, age 88)
1920 Carl Betz (actor) (d 1/18/78, age 57)
1922 Francis Yohannan (WW II aviator who was an inspiration for the protagonist of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22") (d 3/17/01, age 79)
1925 Jerome Rubin (lawyer/futurist, developed an early commercial database and predicted eBooks) (d 1/9/12, age 86)
1928 Joanne Rogers (widow of (Mr) Fred Rogers, he said the neighborhood would not have happened without her) (d 1/14/21, age 92)
1928 Keely Smith (actress/singer, Mrs. Louis Prima) (d 12/16/17, age 89)
1933 Lloyd Price (singer/songwriter: Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality) (d 5/3/21, age 88)
1934 Joyce Van Patten
1936 Mickey Gilley (singer) (d 5/7/22, age 86)
1936 Marty Ingels (actor/comedian) (d 10/21/15, age 79)
1938 Charles Siebert (actor) (d 5/1/22, age 84)
1939 John Chappell (actor: 10) (d 3/2/15, age 75)
1940 Raul Julia (actor: Gomez Addams in Addams Family movies) (d 10/24/94, age 54)
1942 John Cale (singer/keyboardist/violinist/bassist: The Velvet Underground)
1942 Mark Lindsay (saxophonist/singer: Paul Revere & the Raiders)
1942 Gary Leeds (aka Gary Walker, singer/drummer: The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore," The Standells)
1943 Bobby Fischer (World Chess Champion 1972-1975) (d 1/17/08, age 64)
1943 Charles Gibson (ABC News Anchor)
1943 Trish Van Devere (actress)
1945 Robin Trower (guitarist, once of Procol Harum - "Whiter Shade of Pale")
1948 Jamie Lyn Bauer (actress)
1948 Jimmie Fadden (harmonica/guitarist/singer: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Mr Bojangles")
1948 Jeffrey Osborne (singer: On the Wings of Love)
1950 Andy North (golfer)
1950 Danny Sullivan (Indy-car racer)
1952 William Kirby Cullen
1954 Kevin Wade (screenwriter: Working Girls)
1957 Faith Daniels (CBS News Anchor)
1958 Martin Fry (singer: ABC)
1959 Barbie (doll)
1959 Kato Kaelin (actor, O.J. Simpson houseguest)
1959 Lonny Price (actor)
1960 Linda Fiorentino (actress)
1962 Brian Green (actor)
1964 Ford Mustang (car)
1965 Juliette Binoche (actress: The English Patient, Chocolat)
1965 Brian Bosworth
1965 Benito Santiago (baseball player)
1971 Emmanuel Lewis (actor: Webster)
1972 Jean Louisa Kelly (actress: Kim Warner on "Yes Dear")
1972 Kerr Smith
1980 Matthew Gray Gubler (actor: Dr. Spencer Reid on "Criminal Minds")
1986 Brittany Snow (actress: Meg Pryor on "American Dreams")
1987 Shad 'Bow Wow' Moss (rapper)
March 10th
1891 Sam Jaffe (actor) (d 3/24/84, age 93)
1903 Bix Beiderbecke (cornetist: In the Mist, theme of "Man and a Horn" movie) (d 8/7/31, age 28)
1903 Claire Booth Luce (playwright, journalist, congresswoman) (d 10/9/87, age 84)
1910 Julio Gallo (winemaker: Ernest and Julio Gallo) (d 5/2/93, age 83)
1915 James 'Guitar Slim' Stephens (d 2/9/91, age 75)
1918 Heywood Hale Broun (commentator / sportscaster: ABC) (d 9/5/01, age 83)
1920 Kennth 'Jethro' Burns (singer: Homer & Jethro / "How Much is that Doggie in the Window") (d 2/4/89, age 68)
1922 Pamelia Mason (d 6/29/96, age 74)
1922 Joe Gold (bodybuilding pioneer who founded Gold's Gym) (d 7/11/04, age 82)
1927 Barbara Sinatra (wife of Frank) (d 7/25/17, age 90)
1928 James Earl Ray (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr assassin) (d 4/23/98, age 70)
1933 Ralph Emery (host: Nashville Now, DJ) (d 1/15/22, age 88)
1938 Omar Sharriff (blues pianist/singer) (d 1/8/12, age 73)
1940 Chuck Norris (d 3/19/26, age 86)
1940 David Rabe (playwright: Streamers, Casualties of War)
1940 Dean Torrence (singer: Jan & Dean - "Surf City")
1941 Betty Willis (soul singer) (d 1/1/18, age 76)
1941 Joe Viterelli (actor: Jelly in "Analyze This") (d 1/28/04, age 62)
1943 Jeff Sauer (hockey coach: Wisconsin Badgers 1982-2002, won national titles 1983 and 1990) (d 2/2/17, age 73)
1943 Angelique Pettyjohn (actress) (d 2/14/92, age 48)
1945 Katherine Houghton (actress)
1946 Jim Valvano (d 4/28/93, age 47)
1947 Bob Greene (journalist)
1947 Tom Scholz (guitarist/keyboardist/singer/founder: Boston)
1953 Marc Donahue (actor) (d 9/1/02, age 49)
1953 Ronald Earl Horvath (aka Ronnie Earl, blues guitarist)
1955 Bunny DeBarge (singer: DeBarge)
1957 Osama Bin Laden (d 5/1/11, age 54)
1958 Sharon Stone
1963 Jeff Ament (bassist: Pearl Jam)
1964 Neneh Cherry (singer: Buffalo Stance)
1964 Jasmine Guy
1966 Edie Brickell (singer: Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians - "What I Am")
1966 Stephen Mailer (actor)
1966 Christopher Titus (actor/comedian: Titus)
1969 Rick Seagall (actor: Ricky on "The Partridge Family")
1971 Daryle Singletary (country singer) (d 2/12/18, age 46)
1973 Eva Herzigova (model)
1974 Cristian de la Fuente (actor: Aaron on "The Class")
1977 Shannon Miller (gymnist)
1983 Carrie Underwood (singer, winner of 2005 American Idol)
1992 Emily Osment (actress)
March 11th
1898 Dorothy Gish (actress, sister of Lillian Gish) (d 6/4/68, age 70)
1903 Lawrence Welk (bandleader) (d 5/17/92, age 89)
1919 Mercer Ellington (son of Duke Ellington, conducted his band after Duke died) (d 2/8/96, age 76)
1926 Ralph Abernathy (civil rights leader) (d 4/17/90, age 64)
1930 Troy Ruttman (Indy 500 winner - 1952) (d 5/19/97, age 67)
1931 Rupert Murdoch (owner: Fox TV, TV Guide)
1932 LeRoy Jenkins (jazz violinist) (d 2/24/07, age 74)
1932 Valerie French (actress) (d 11/30/90, age 58)
1934 Sam Donaldson
1936 Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) (d 2/13/16, age 79)
1945 Harvey Mandel (guitarist)
1945 Tricia O'Neal (actress)
1947 Mark Stein (singer/keyboardist: Vanilla Fudge)
1948 George Kooymans (guitarist: Golden Earring - "Radar Love") (d 7/22/25, age 77)
1950 Bobby McFerrin (singer: Don't Worry Be Happy)
1950 Jerry Zucker (producer: Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad, Top Secret)
1952 Douglas Adams(author: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (d 5/11/01, age 49)
1952 Susan Richardson (actress: Susan on "Eight is Enough")
1955 Joseph Siravo (actor: Johnny Soprano on "The Sopranos") (d 4/11/21, age 66)
1957 Cheryl Lynn (singer)
1961 Mike Percy (bassist: Dead or Alive - "Spin Me Round")
1961 Bruce Watson (guitarist: Big Country - "In a Big Country")
1962 Peter Berg (actor: Chicago Hope)
1963 Alex Kingston (actress: E.R.)
1964 Vinnie Paul (drummer and co-founder: Pantera) (d 6/22/18, age 54)
1965 Johnny Holland (Green Bay Packers: linebacker 1987-1993, Special Teams coach 1998, Linebackers coach 1999)
1968 John Barrowman (actor: Peter Fairchild on "Central Park West")
1968 Lisa Loeb (singer)
1969 Terrence Howard (actor)
1971 Johnny Knoxville (actor)
1982 Thora Birch (actress: American Beauty)
1989 Anton Yelchin (actor) (d 6/19/16, age 27)
March 12th
1917 Leonard Chess (producer/owner/co-founder: Chess Records) (d 10/16/69, age 52)
1919 Frank Campanella (actor) (d 12/30/06, age 87)
1920 Arthur Cantor (play producer, more than 100 productions in New York, London and Paris) (d 4/8/01, age 81)
1921 Gordon MacRae (actor/singer) (d 1/24/86, age 64)
1922 Jack Kerouac (beatnik author) (d 10/21/69, age 47)
1923 Johnnie Mae Young (female professional wrestling pioneer, her first bout was at age 15) (d 1/14/14, age 90)
1923 Wally Schirra (astronaut in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs; fifth American in space, third to orbit Earth) (d 5/3/07, age 84)
1924 L.C. Williams (blues singer) (d 10/18/60, age 36)
1928 Edward Albee (playwrite: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) (d 9/16/16, age 88)
1931 Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas (actor: Little Rascals) (d 10/10/80, age 49)
1935 John Gross (author) (d 1/10/11, age 75)
1938 Lew DeWitt (singer: The Statler Brothers, until 1981) (d 8/15/90, age 52)
1938 Johnny Rutherford (Indy 500 winner: 1974, 1976, 1980)
1939 Barbara Feldon (actress: Agent 99 (Susan Hilton)on "Get Smart")
1940 Al Jarreau (singer) (d 2/12/17, age 76)
1942 James 'The Toy Cannon' Wynn (baseball player: Houston Astros) (d 3/26/20, age 78)
1945 George Jackson (soul singer, songwriter: Old Time Rock 'n' Roll) (d 4/14/13, age 68)
1946 Liza Minnelli
1947 Willard 'Mitt' Romney (2012 Republican Presidential Candidate)
1948 James Taylor (singer: Fire and Rain, You've Got a Friend)
1949 Sara Lane (actress) (d 3/3/23, age 73)
1949 Mike Gibbins (drummer/singer: Badfinger) (d 10/4/05, age 56)
1949 Bill Payne (keyboardist: Little Feat)
1950 Jon Provost (actor)
1951 Caren Kaye (actress: My Tutor)
1957 Steve Harris (bassist: Iron Maiden)
1957 Jerry Levine (actor)
1960 Courtney B. Vance (actor)
1962 Darryl Strawberry (right fielder: New York Mets/LA Dodgers/New York Yankees)
1963 John Andretti (race car driver)
1963 Julia Campbell (actress)
1968 Aaron Eckhart (actor)
1969 Graham Coxon (singer: Blur)
1994 Christina Grimmie (singer, was on "The Voice," shot to death at an autograph session following a concert) (d 6/11/16, age 22)
Friday the 13th
1908 Walter Annenberg (founder: TV Guide 1953, Seventeen 1944, gave billions of dollars to charity and endowed two leading journalism schools) (d 10/1/02, age 94)
1910 Sammy Kaye (bandleader) (d 3/3/87, age 76)
1911 L. Ron Hubbard (d 1/24/86, age 74)
1913 William Casey (CIA director 1981-1987) (d 1/29/87, age 73)
1913 Otis 'Lightnin' Slim' Hicks (blues guitarist) (d 7/27/74, age 61)
1914 Bob Weiskopf (writer: All in the Family, Maude, I Love Lucy) (d 2/20/01, age 86)
1918 George McAfee (halfback: Chicago Bears) (d 3/4/09, age 90)
1921 Alan Jaffee (illustrator: Mad Magazine) (d 4/10/23, age 102)
1928 Douglas Rain (voice actor: HAL 9000 in "2001 A Space Odyssey") (d 11/11/18, age 90)
1929 Peter Breck (actor: The Big Valley) (d 2/6/12, age 82)
1929 Joseph Mascolo (actor: Stefano DiMera on "Days of Our Lives") (d 12/7/16, age 87)
1930 Liz Anderson (country singer) (d 10/31/11, age 81)
1933 Mike Stoller (songwriter: Leiber & Stoller, responsible for such classics as Up on the Roof, Jailhouse Rock, On Broadway, and Chapel of Love)
1935 Leslie Parrish (actress)
1939 Neil Sedaka (d 2/27/26, age 86)
1950 Steve Hill (country singer)
1950 William H. Macy (actor)
1950 Robert S. Woods (actor)
1951 Fred Berry (actor: Rerun on "What's Happening") (d 10/21/03, age 52)
1951 Steve Craig (tight end: Minnesota Vikings 1974-1978, Super Bowls IX, XI)
1953 Andy Bean (golfer) (d 10/14/23, age 70)
1953 Deborah Raffin (actress: Foul Play, Death Wish 3) (d 11/21/12, age 59)
1954 Robin Duke (comedienne)
1955 Glenne Headly (actress) (d 6/8/17, age 62)
1956 Dana Delany (actress: Colleen on "China Beach")
1960 Adam Clayton (bassist: U2)
1961 Toni Price (blues singer) (d 11/22/24, age 63)
1961 Ken Carson (doll - Barbie's Bo)
1968 Christopher Collett (actor)
1971 Annabeth Gish (actress)
1971 Tracy Wells (actress: Heather on "Mr. Belvedere")
1972 Trent Dilfer (quarterback)
1976 Josh Bidwell (punter: Green Bay Packers 1999-2003)
1976 Danny Masterson (actor: Steven Hyde on "That '70s Show")
1985 Emilie Hirsch (actor: Milk)
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