Dead Celebrity Alert Roll Call, 2005
Posted: Friday, December 30th, 2005 10:10 pmJANUARY
1 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian, husband of actress Betty Astell (see July 26)
1 - Shirley Chisholm, ex-U.S. Rep.; first black woman to serve in U.S. Congress
1 - Robert Fortier, actor
2 - Paul Manning, TV writer (”E.R.”)
2 - Ronald ‘Bo’ Ginn, ex-rep. from Georgia
2 - H. David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware, invented Bundt cake pan
3 - Will Eisner, pioneering comic artist/graphic novelist
4 - Bud Poile, Hockey Hall of Famer
4 - Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province
5 - René Le Henaff, French film director who sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism
5 - Danny Sugerman, manager for The Doors
6 - Makgatho Mandela, last surviving son of Nelson Mandela
7 - Rosemary Kennedy, developmentally-disabled sister of JFK
8 - David White, British Commander of British forces at Gibraltar
8 - Lee Abrams, co-founder of Bay Area Women Against Rape
9 - Gonzalo Gavira, sound effects guy (”The Exorcist”; “The Towering Inferno”)
9 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese movie director
9 - Liz Whitfeld, Scottish historian
10 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg
10 - Tommy Fine, pro baseball player
10 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer
10 - Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad
10 - Bunty Webb, actress
11 - Spencer Dryden, Jefferson Airplane drummer
11 - James Griffin, member of Bread (the band)
11 - Thelma White, “Reefer Madness” actress
11 - Richard Hirschfeld, confidante of Muhammad Ali
12 - Sal Pacino, actor, father of Al Pacino
12 - Edmund S. Valtman, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
12 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (e.g., “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”)
13 - Nell Rankin, Metropolitan Opera singer
14 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer
14 - Charlotte MacLeod, mystery writer
15 - Elizabeth Janeway, author (”Daisy Kenyon”)
15 - Ruth Warrick, actress (”All My Children”)
15 - Deem Bristow, video game (e.g., Sonic the Hedgehog) voice actor
15 - Dan Lee, “Finding Nemo” animator
16 - Agustín González, prolific Spanish movie actor
16 - Marjorie Williams, Washington Post columnist, Vanity Fair writer
17 - Virginia Mayo, actress (”The Best Years of Our Lives”)
17 - Zhao Ziyang, ex-Communist Party leader of China
17 - Charlie Bell, ex-CEO of McDonald’s
18 - Peter Whatley, a.k.a. Pez Whatley, pro wrestler
19 - Lamont Bentley, actor (”Moesha”)
20 - Per Borten, former Prime Minister of Norway
20 - Beverly Dennis, actress (”The Red Buttons Show”)
20 - Dick Gallagher, off-Broadway composer
20 - Chuck Olin, filmmaker
19 - Cal Bolder, bodybuilder, actor
19 - Donald Beardslee, murderer at San Quentin (executed)
21 - Steve Susskind, voice actor
21 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress
22 - Patsy Rowlands, “Carry On” actress
22 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (”Besame mucho”)
22 - Rose Mary Woods, Nixon secretary who “accidentally” erased those pesky tapes
23 - Johnny Carson, TV legend
23 - David Nyhan, political columnist
23 - Charles Martin, pro football player
23 - Mutsuko Sakura, Japanese actress
24 - June Bronhill, Australian opera singer
25 - Ray Peterson, singer (”Tell Laura I Love Her”)
25 - Vicki LaMotta, ex-wife of Jake LaMotta
25 - Darryl Armstrong, “Degrassi”/”Queer As Folk” actor
27 - Nick McDonald, Dallas cop who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald
27 - Cordelia Scaife May, super-rich sister of billionaire Richard Scaife
27 - Josie MacAvin, award-winning set decorator
29 - Eric Griffiths, member of The Quarrymen (later The Beatles)
29 - Jean Hengen, Archbishop of Luxembourg
29 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli screenwriter & director
29 - Joan Tompkins, actress, widow of actor Karl Swenson
29 - Bill Shadel, journalist; moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate
29 - Ron Tomme, soap opera actor
29 - Karen Bach, French porn star
30 - Coley Wallace, pro boxer, played Joe Louis on film
31 - Ivan Noble, BBC journalist
31 - Yutsuko Chusonji, Japanese manga artist
31 - Horace Hagedorn, developer of Miracle-Gro plant food
FEBRUARY
1 - John Vernon, actor (”Animal House”’s Dean Wormer)
1 - Zurab Zhvania, Georgian Prime Minister
1 - Zurab Usupov, deputy governor of Kvemo-Kartli (Georgia)
1 - Franco Mannino, prolific Italian composer
2 - Max Schmeling, German pro boxer; fought Joe Louis
2 - Birgitte Federspiel, Swedish actress (e.g., “Babette’s Feast”)
3 - Rosie Sturgess, Australian comedian
3 - Malou Hallstrom, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallstrom
3 - Tamara Lee, porn star
4 - Ossie Davis, acclaimed actor, husband of Ruby Dee since 1948
4 - Georgi Khelashvili, aide to Georgian PM Zurab Zhvania
5 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of Togo since 1967
5 - David Measham, British-born Australian conductor
5 - Derick Daniels, ex-CEO of Playboy Enterprises
6 - Elbert N. Carvel, ex-governor of Delaware
7 - John Patterson, prolific TV director
8 - Keith Knudsen, Doobie Brothers drummer
8 - Nathalie Krassovska, ballerina
9 - Richard Lupino, actor, cousin of Ida Lupino
9 - Tyrone Davis, R&B singer
9 - Kate Peyton, BBC producer
10 - Arthur Miller, playwright (”Death of a Salesman”); ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe
11 - Pete Sayers, bluegrass singer
11 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction writer
11 - Samuel W. Alderson, invented crash test dummies
12 - Brian Kelly, actor (”Flipper” dad)
12 - Sammi Smith, country singer-songwriter
13 - Najai “Nitro” Turpin, boxer on reality show “The Contender”
13 - Lúcia dos Santos, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three “Fatima” children
13 - Mary Hallaren, first woman to join U.S. Army
14 - Rafik Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
14 - Dick Weber, pro bowler
14 - Otto Plaschkes, British movie producer (e.g., “Georgy Girl”)
16 - Nicole DeHuff, actress (”Meet the Parents”)
16 - William Gibson, independent movie producer-director
16 - Narriman Sadek, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
16 - Cecilia Cubas, kidnapped (& murdered) daughter of ex-president of Paraguay
17 - Giovanni Bertolucci, film producer, cousin of Bernardo
17 - Peter Foy, stage flying rigger
20 - Tina Wiseman, B-movie actress
20 - John Raitt, singer, father of Bonnie
20 - Hunter S. Thompson, author
20 - Sandra Dee, actress (”Gidget,” “A Summer Place”)
21 - Dr. Gene Scott, colorful TV preacher
21 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, exiled Cuban writer
21 - Ara Berberian, Metropolitan Opera singer
21 - Ernest Vandiver, former governor of Georgia
21 - Isabelle Goldenson, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
22 - Simone Simon, French actress
22 - Reggie Roby, pro football player
25 - Edward Patten, one of the Pips (as in Gladys Knight and the)
25 - Atef Sedki, former prime minister of Egypt
25 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International
25 - Don LeJohn, pro baseball player (L.A. Dodgers)
25 - Uli Derickson, lead flight attendant on hijacked TWA Flight 847 (1985)
26 - Jef Raskin, Apple Macintosh creator
26 - Henry Grunwald, ex-Time magazine editor; ex-U.S. ambassador to Austria
28 - Chris Curtis, Searchers/Deep Purple drummer
MARCH
1 - Walter H. Halloran, priest who inspired “The Exorcist”
1 - Peter Malkin, Israeli Mossad agent who captured Adolf Eichmann
2 - Joe Carter, member of singing Carter Family
2 - Tillie Fowler, ex-rep. from Florida
5 - Vance Gerry, Disney screenwriter/artist
5 - Morris Engel, pioneering nouvelle vague director
6 - Teresa Wright, actress (”The Little Foxes,” “Mrs. Miniver”)
6 - Sandy Ward, actor
7 - Debra Hill, “Halloween” producer, co-writer
7 - John Box, movie production designer, esp. w/David Lean
10 - Danny Joe Brown, Molly Hatchet lead singer
10 - Dave Allen, Irish-born Australian-TV host
10 - Baroness Lips von Lipstrill, MtF & professional whistler
11 - Bill Cameron, Canadian reporter & voice of several “The Sims” characters
13 - Jason Evers, actor (”The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”)
13 - Winnie Dangerfield, British silent-film child actor
14 - Dick Smyser, journalist who provoked Nixon to say, “I am not a crook.”
15 - Don Durant, actor (”Johnny Ringo”)
15 - Betsy Cronkite, journalist, wife of Walter Cronkite
15 - Sy Wexler, educational filmmaker
16 - Wanda R. Alston, murdered D.C. Gay Affairs director
16 - Anthony George, actor
16 - Todd Bell, pro football player
16 - Dick Radatz, pro baseball player
16 - Bob Bellear, first Aboriginal Australian judge
17 - Andre Norton, sci-fi/fantasy novelist
17 - David Little, pro football player
18 - Theodor Uppman, opera singer
18 - Wayne Southworth, Doom lead singer
19 - John DeLorean, automobile inventor
21 - Barney Martin, actor (Jerry’s father on “Seinfeld”)
21 - Bobby Short, cabaret singer, pianist
21 - Barney Martin, actor (e.g., “Seinfeld”)
22 - Rod Price, Foghat guitarist
24 - David P. Bushnell, binocular guy
25 - Davis McCaughey, ex-governor of Victoria, Australia
25 - Paul Henning, TV writer, “Beverly Hillbillies” creator
26 - Lord James Callaghan, ex-U.K. Prime Minister
26 - Paul Hester, Crowded House & Split Enz drummer
26 - Frank Searle, Loch Ness Monster hoaxster
28 - Robert Slatzer, alleged ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe; author
28 - Dave Freeman, TV & movie writer (”Carry On” films; “Benny Hill Show”)
29 - Johnnie Cochran, O.J. Simpson lawyer
29 - Howell Heflin, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
30 - Mitch Hedberg, comedian/actor
30 - Robert Creeley, Beat Generation poet
30 - “Dr.” Don Rose, San Francisco radio personality
31 - Terri Schiavo, center of death-with-dignity imbroglio
31 - Frank Perdue, poultry-processing magnate
31 - Hideaki Sekiguchi, Guitar Wolf bassist
APRIL
1 - Jack Keller, wrote theme tunes for “Bewitched” and “Gidget”
2 - Pope John Paul II
5 - Saul Bellow, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-winning author (”Herzog,” et al.)
5 - Debralee Scott, actress (”Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”)
5 - Dale Messick, “Brenda Starr” creator
6 - Prince Rainier of Monaco
7 - Charlotte Huck, children’s author
7 - Bob Kennedy, pro ballplayer; first manager of Oakland A’s
7 - Jose Melis, former “Tonight Show” bandleader
8 - Yoshitaro Nomura, Japanese movie director
9 - Andrea Dworkin, feminist author
9 - Scott Mason, Tasmanian cricketer
10 - Al Lucas, pro football player
11 - John Bennett, British actor
11 - Margo Skinner, stage actress
12 - Peter Bramley, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director
12 - Corky Gonzales, boxer, civil rights activist
13 - Johnnie Johnson, early rock and roller
13 - Tutti Camarata, co-founder of Disneyland Records
13 - Julia Darling, author
13 - Wolfgang Droege, founder of Canadian white supremacist group Heritage Front
13 - Kay Gardella, New York Daily News TV critic
15 - John Fred Gourrier, pop singer (”Judy in Disguise”)
15 - Margaretta Scott, British actress (e.g., “All Creatures Great and Small”)
16 - Kay Walsh, British actress
16 - Laura Canales, Tejano star
16 - Marla Ruzicka, American aid worker & activist in Iraq
17 - Juan Pablo Torres, Cuban salsa star
17 - Faith McNulty, battered wife turned killer; wrote “The Burning Bed”
18 - Sam Mills, pro football player
19 - Ruth Hussey, actress (e.g., “The Philadelphia Story”)
19 - George Pan Cosmatos, movie director (e.g., “Rambo: First Blood Part II”)
21 - Zhang Chunqiao, member of China’s Gang of Four
21 - Jimmy Thompson, British actor-comedian (”Carry On” films)
21 - Bob Gardiner, Academy Award-winning clay animator
22 - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, longest-serving Premier of Queensland
22 - Philip Morrison, physicist; Manhattan Project group leader
22 - Norman Bird, British actor
22 - Robert Farnon, Grammy Award winning songwriter-arranger
22 - Eduardo Paolozzi, QEII’s official palace sculptor
23 - Sir John Mills, actor, father of Hayley & Juliet, husband of Mary Hayley Bell (see December 1)
23 - Al Grassby, Australian politician; minister under Gough Whitlam
23 - Earl Wilson, pro baseball player
23 - Romano Scarpa, Italian Disney comic book artist
23 - Jimmy Woode, jazz bassist
24 - Ezer Weizman, ex-Israeli president
24 - Jack Gleason, movie editor
25 - Tunney Hunsaker, first boxer Muhammad Ali fought professionally
25 - Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, ex-CEO of Ford Motor Company
26 - Maria Schell, Austrian actress occasionally in Hollywood; sister of Maximilian
26 - Mason Adams, familiar character actor & commercial voice actor
26 - Robert Schiffer, prolific Hollywood makeup artist
26 - Hasil Adkins, rockabilly musician
26 - Robert J. Schiffer, legendary movie makeup artist
26 - Red Horner, oldest living member of Hockey Hall of Fame
26 - Leon Navarre, youngest (at 105) living French WWI veteran
26 - Johnny Sample, pro football player
27 - Red Horner, ice hockey star
28 - Chris Candido, a.k.a. “Hard Knox,” pro wrestler
28 - Lane Nakano, Japanese singer, minor actor
29 - Johnnie Stewart, TV producer; created “Top of the Pops”
29 - Sara Henderson, Australian author
29 - William J. Bell, prolific soap opera writer
29 - Lance Heywood, porn star
29 - Sean Egan, Mount Everest climber (on Mount Everest)
30 - Britney Madison, porn star
MAY
1 - Michael “Big Mike” O’Brien, Mount Everest climber (on Mount Everest)
1 - Isabelle “Sis” Lennon Miller, mother of the Lennon Sisters
1 - Kenneth Clark, African-American civil rights activist
2 - Bob Hunter, Greenpeace founder
2 - Jack Nichols, gay-rights pioneer; Mattachine Society co-founder
2 - Wee Kim Wee, ex-president of Singapore
3 - Peter West, documentary filmmaker
4 - Col. David H. Hackworth, war hero, author, political commentator
4 - Evelyn Roberts, wife of preacher Oral Roberts
5 - Elisabeth Fraser, actress (”Sgt. Bilko”’s girlfriend)
5 - June MacCloy, 1920s-30s actress, singer
5 - Edgar Ponce, Mexican TV star
6 - Herb Sargent, “Saturday Night Live” writer/producer
6 - Joe Grant, Disney artist
7 - Peter Rodino, former U.S. rep, led Watergate hearings
8 - Lloyd Cutler, White House counsel under Carter & Clinton
8 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghan pop star
9 - Jay Marshall, magician, ventriloquist
9 - Wayne Suttles, Sasquatch researcher
9 - Chris Kreski, co-biographer (e.g., “Growing Up Brady”)
9 - Stanley H. Silverman, TV writer
9 - Martha Montgomery, Goldwyn Girl
9 - Gordon Craddock, independent movie distributor (”Pippi Longstocking”)
10 - Hal Griggs, Washington Senators ballplayer
10 - David Wayne, Metal Church singer
10 - Li Cairong, world’s oldest woman (119)
12 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer-actress
12 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer
13 - Michael Ross, serial killer (executed)
13 - Richy Victor, sold squares of bedsheets Beatles slept on
14 - Ed Kelleher, gore-movie screenwriter
14 - Jimmy Martin, bluegrass musician, western actor
15 - Mahipal Bhandari, Bollywood star
15 - Theola Kilgore, R&B singer
15 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
15 - Paul Cassidy, Superman comic artist
16 - June Lang, actress
16 - Vince Viverito, actor (e.g., “The Sopranos”)
16 - Albert Marshall, last living British WWI cavalryman
17 - Frank Gorshin, actor (The Riddler), master impressionist
18 - Lt. Col. Paul Tate, father of Sharon Tate
18 - Bobby Thompson, bluegrass banjoist
19 - Richard Lewine, Broadway & TV producer
19 - Victor Wouk, hybrid-car developer
19 - Linda Martinez, child music prodigy
19 - Henry Corden, latter-day voice of Fred Flintstone
19 - Richard Lewine, composer, playwright, ex-VP of CBS
19 - Henry Corden, prolific voice actor
19 - Carina Stephenson, 17-yo “Colony” reality-show participant
20 - J.D. Cannon, character actor
21 - Howard Morris, Andy Griffith’s Ernest T. Bass; TV director
21 - Subodh Mukherjee, Bollywood pioneer
21 - Stephen Elliott, stage, screen, & TV actor
21 - Bill Dearth, actor
21 - Chung Se-yung, Hyundai Motors founder
21 - Sol Stetin, American union organizer
22 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor (Tony the Tiger, Disney rides, the original Grinch)
22 - Bernard Kamber, big-time Hollywood press agent
23 - Cicely Paget-Bowman, English actress
23 - E. Harris Nober, smoke alarm developer
24 - Vivian Cash, ex-wife of Johnny Cash; mother of Roseanne Cash
24 - Mohammed Saeed Khan, popular Pakistani (comedic) film actor
25 - Graham Kennedy, Australian TV icon
25 - Sunil Dutt, Bollywood actor & Indian MP
25 - Ben Peters, country songwriter
25 - Donovan Leighton, Tuskegee Airman (possibly oldest surviving)
25 - Robert Jankel, automobile designer
25 - Ruth Laredo, concert pianist
25 - Ismail Merchant, Merchant Ivory founder & producer
25 - Sunil Dutt, Bollywood actor
26 - Eddie Albert, actor (”Green Acres”)
26 - Lloyd Doug Dugger, country music singer
26 - Dale Velzy, legendary California surfer & boardmaker
26 - Sangoulé Lamizana, ex-president of Burkina Faso
27 - Daniel Sales, low-budget movie producer & distributor
27 - John K. Vance, blew lid off CIA’s MKULTRA LSD experiments
28 - Shirley Eder, actress, gossip columnist
28 - Arnold Morton, founder of Morton’s of Chicago steakhouses
29 - Luciano Rossi, spaghetti western bad guy
29 - Patsy Calton, U.K. Liberal Democrat MP
29 - Oscar Brown, Jr., singer-songwriter, Jackson 5 discoverer
29 - Percy Strother, blues singer
29 - Margaret Russell, oldest Californian (112)
30 - Leslie Smith, founder, president & CEO of Matchbox Toys
30 - Takanohana Kenshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
31 - Jaime Mendoza-Nava, prolific film scorer
JUNE
1 - Lucy Richardson, inspired “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
1 - George Mikan, 6′10″ pro basketball player
1 - Geoffrey Toone, character actor
1 - Fernando Ghia, Italian movie producer
1 - Josephine Clay Ford, Ford Motor Company heiress
2 - Chloe Jones, porn star, Penthouse Pet
2 - Corey Rudl, Internet marketing guru
2 - Mike Marshall, actor
2 - Pastor Vega, Cuban filmmaker
3 - Leon Askin, actor
3 - Michael Billington, British actor
4 - Lorna Thayer, actress (”Five Easy Pieces” waitress)
4 - Jean O’Leary, ex-nun turned gay-rights pioneer; helped create Nat’l Coming Out Day
5 - Lothar Warneke, East German film director
5 - Kurt Graunke, composer, conductor & Munich Symphony Orchestra founder
6 - Anne Bancroft, actress (”The Graduate”)
6 - Dana Elcar, actor
7 - Simon Waronker, Liberty Records founder
8 - Ed Bishop, actor
8 - Jody Gibson, rockabilly singer
9 - Richard Eberhart, poet
9 - Stan Wilson, folk singer
9 - Trude Marlen, Austrian actress
10 - Jim Exon, ex-Nebraska senator/governor
10 - Lillian Lux, Yiddish theatre star
10 - Jon Clarke, studio musician, formerly with Loggins & Messina
11 - Ron Randell, Australian actor
11 - Lon McCallister, actor
11 - Robert Clarke, actor
11 - Krissy Wood, ex-model, ex-wife of Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood
12 - Scott Young, author/journalist, father of Neil Young
13 - Jonathan Adams, actor; “Rocky Horror Picture Show”’s Dr. Scott
13 - Lane Smith, actor
14 - Robie Lester, voice actor
15 - Suzanne Flon, French stage & screen actress
15 - Percy Arrowsmith, cited by Guinness for longest marriage (80 years)
15 - Phil Ford, comedian, actor (of Ford and Hines stage/TV act)
15 - Kathi Norris, U.K. TV personality; mother of Koo Stark
16 - James Weinstein, founder, In These Times magazine
16 - Ross Stretton, Australian Ballet artistic director
16 - Alex McAvoy, Scottish actor
17 - Susanna Javicoli, Italian actress (”Suspiria”)
17 - Karl Mueller, Soul Asylum bass player
17 - Ronald Winans, Gospel singer
17 - Keith Morris, rock and roll photographer
17 - Billy Bauer, Big Band jazz guitarist
18 - Johnny Reed, R&B singer (The Orioles)
18 - Cay Forrester, minor film actress
18 - Tatsuo Matsumura, character actor, esp. w/Kurosawa
19 - Brian J. King, editor of kids’ films; as Brian Knight, porn actor
20 - Larry Collins, author (”Is Paris Burning?”)
20 - Charles White, actor
21 - Taylor Lacher, actor
21 - Robert Achs, filmmaker & uncle of Jake Gyllenhaal
21 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, ex-Archbishop of Manila
22 - Carson Parks, singer-songwriter
23 - Shana Alexander, writer, “60 Minutes” debater
23 - Ramon L. Posel, art-movie house impresario
24 - Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, actor, illustrator
24 - Jack Kosslyn, B-movie & TV actor
24 - Imogen Claire, actress, esp. with Ken Russell; “Rocky Horror” choreographer
24 - Eddie Smith, stuntman, founded Black Stuntmen’s Association
24 - Peter Casserly, oldest Australian WWI veteran, oldest Aussie man (107)
24 - Carol Scott, “General Hospital” producer
25 - John Fiedler, familiar, high-voiced character actor
25 - Frederick G. Dutton, advisor to JFK
25 - Sir Harry Gibbs, ex-Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
25 - Chet Helms, artist, 1960s rock promoter
25 - Michael Cuneo, “Star Trek” (TV & movies) modelmaker
25 - Chas Dewey, child model, actor
25 - Chet Helms, rock promoter
26 - William Mather-Brown, Australian film director
26 - Richard Whiteley, U.K. TV personality
27 - Shelby Foote, historian, author
27 - John Walton, Wal-Mart heir
27 - Domino Harvey, bounty hunter, ex-model, daughter of Laurence Harvey
28 - Bruce Malmuth, movie director (e.g., “Nighthawk”)
28 - Brenda Howard, LGBT rights activist; “Mother of Pride”
JULY
1 - Luther Vandross, R&B singer-songwriter
1 - Renaldo “Obie” Benson, one of The Four Tops
1 - Mindy O’Toole, former child model, actress
1 - James L. Fisher, movie “Fisher boom” inventor
2 - Norm Prescott, prolific kid-TV producer
2 - Ernest Lehman, screenwriter (”West Side Story,” “Sound of Music,” et al.)
3 - Gaylord Nelson, former Wisconsin governor & senator; founded Earth Day
3 - Harrison Young, actor
3 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian movie director, actor
3 - Scott Byrne, Instant Death drummer
4 - June Haver, actress, widow of Fred MacMurray
4 - Chris Bunch, science fiction writer
4 - Hank Stram, pro football coach
5 - Jim Stockdale, Ross Perot’s running mate
5 - Ray Davis, founding member of Funkadelic
6 - L. Patrick Gray, former FBI director
6 - Evan Hunter, a.k.a. Ed McBain, author
6 - Dennis D’Ell, member of 60s group, The Honeycombs
6 - Jim Haskins, author (”The Cotton Club”)
7 - Pauline Nicholson, Elvis Presley’s cook
7 - Bertram F. Given, inventor of Waste King garbage disposal
7 - Jocelyn Rickards, Australian-born movie costume designer
9 - Kevin Hagen, sctor (”Little House on the Prairie” doctor)
9 - Abe Hirschfeld, real estate magnate, perennial NYC political candidate
9 - Alex Shibicky, hockey player credited with making world’s first slapshot
10 - Ann Loring, actress (”Love of Life”)
10 - Dick Sabot, co-founder of tripod.com
10 - Richard Eastham, actor
10 - Freddy Soto, comedian, actor
10 - Frank Moores, former premier of Newfoundland
11 - Frances Langford, actress, singer
11 - Gretchen Franklin, Ethel Skinner on “EastEnders”
12 - Axel Strobye, Danish actor (”Babette’s Feast”)
12 - Arthur Fletcher, Nixon’s Assistant Labor Secretary
12 - Scott Paul, actor
12 - Meimei, at 36 world’s oldest captive panda
13 - Tim Barnett, porn actor
14 - Joseph Harnell, composer
14 - Dame Cicely Saunders, British creator of modern hospice
15 - Sir Ronald Wilson, Australian High Court justice.
16 - Mark Chorvinsky, cryptozoologist & editor of Strange Magazine
16 - Adrian Loudermilk, 30-year-old producer of the film “Bushisms”
17 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress
17 - Sir Edward Heath, former U.K. Conservative Prime Minister
17 - Gavin Lambert, novelist (”Inisde Daisy Clover”), screenwriter, biographer
18 - Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam
18 - Paul Duke, longtime host of “Washington Week in Review”
18 - Jim Parker, pro football player
18 - Amy Gillett, Australian athlete
18 - Gerry Thomas, invented the TV dinner
19 - Edward Bunker, “Reservoir Dogs”‘ Mr. Blue
19 - John Herald, folk musician; one of the Greenbriar Boys
19 - Hastings Keith, ex-Massachusetts Republican representative
19 - John Tyndall, founder of British National Party
20 - James Doohan, “Star Trek’s” Scotty
20 - Charles Chibitty, last Comanche code talker
21 - Lord Alfred Hayes, U.K.-born pro wrestler
21 - Long John Baldry, British blues legend
22 - George D. Wallace, actor (e.g., “Forbidden Planet”)
22 - Eugene Record, Chi-Lites lead singer
22 - Jerry Marcus, cartoonist (”Trudy”)
23 - Catherine Woolley, children’s author
23 - Myron Floren, Lawrence Welk’s accordion player
23 - Dan Taylor, captain of Loch Ness minisub (1969)
25 - Ford Rainey, actor
26 - Betty Astell, British actress, widow of comedian Cyril Fletcher (see January 1)
27 - Tungia Baker, Maori artist, actress (”The Piano”)
27 - Danny Simon, TV comedy writer, brother of playwright Neil
27 - Art Collins, Iggy Pop’s manager
27 - Bob Wright, orchestra leader
28 - Robert Wright, lyricist (e.g., “Kismet”)
28 - Gary Belkin, comedy writer
29 - Hildegarde, professional celebrity
29 - Pat McCormick, comedian
30 - John Garang, vice president of Sudan
30 - Renee Roy, actress (”Love of Life”)
31 - Lawrence Teeter, Sirhan Sirhan’s lawyer
AUGUST
1 - Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, King Faud of Saudi Arabia
1 - Max Steele, author, professor
1 - Donald Brooks, cotsume designer
1 - Al Aronowitz, rock and roll journalist
2 - Jay Hammond, ex-governor of Alaska
3 - Nick Perito, orchestra leader, TV musical director
4 - Mary Dees, 30s actress; Jean Harlow’s “Saratgoa” stand-in
4 - Little Milton, blues musician
4 - Ileen Getz, actress (”3rd Rock from the Sun”)
4 - Sue Gunter, LSU women’s head basketball coach
4 - Charles Alden Black, husband of Shirley Temple
5 - Benjamin 2X, Malcolm X’s right-hand man
6 - Robin Cook, British MP
7 - Peter Jennings, journalist, longtime ABC News anchor
8 - Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
8 - Gene Mauch, pro baseball player, manager
8 - John H. Johnson, founder/publisher, Ebony & Jet magazines
9 - Judith Rossner, author (”Looking for Mr. Goodbar”)
9 - Kay Tremblay, actress
9 - Matthew McGrory, 7′6″ actor
10 - Jerry Stovin, actor
10 - John Bryson, portrait photographer
11 - James Booth, actor
11 - Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, Negro Leagues ballplayer
12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister
12 - David Lange, former New Zealand Prime Minister
12 - Joe Korp, accused wife-in-the-boot killer
12 - Stavis Ellis, head of motorcycle cop escort for JFK’s Dallas motorcade
12 - Elwood Perry, Spoonplug fishing lure innovator
12 - George Ernst, ex-dean of Gallaudet University
13 - James Gavin, TV (mostly western) actor
13 - Armand Deutsch, movie producer
15 - James Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe’s first husband
17 - Esther Wong, punk rock promoter
18 - Hal Frank, character actor
18 - Joe Ranft, Oscar-nominated “Toy Story” writer, Pixar employee
19 - Mo Mowlam, Labour MP; Sec’y of State for N. Ireland
20 - Clifford Williams, Broadway director
20 - Mohammed Islam Siddiqui, would-be assassin of Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf
21 - Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer keyboard
21 - Colin McEwan, Australian actor
21 - Thomas Herrion, pro football player (San Francisco 49ers)
22 - Suzy Healey, Hygena Kitchens heir
23 - Brock Peters, actor (e.g., “To Kill a Mockingbird”)
23 - Stanley DeSantis, actor (e.g., “Tales of the City”)
24 - Harold Ensley, prolific radio & TV producer
24 - Herbert Wright, TV writer, producer
24 - George Smith, British royal servant who claimed rape by aide to Prince Charles
25 - Terence Morgan, British actor
25 - Ruth Hampton, 1950s model-actress; Miss New Jersey 1952
27 - Ronnie Dayton, actor, frequent double for Frankie Avalon
28 - Richard Loring, composer
28 - George & Esther Szekeres, married Hungarian mathematicians; died within an hour of each other
30 - James H. Scheuer, ex-rep. from New York
30 - Daniel Ruge, Reagan’s White House physician
30 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, world’s oldest living person (115)
30 - Florence Reeves, U.K.’s oldest living person (111); British sufragette
31 - Michael Sheard, Scottish actor
31 - Prof. Joseph Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner
SEPTEMBER
2 - Bob Denver, Maynard G. Krebs/Gilligan
2 - Adrian Karsten, ESPN announcer
3 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
4 - Patricia McQueeney, former model; Harrison Ford’s manager for 35 years
4 - Bill Charmatz, Sports Illustrated illustrator
4 - Alan Truscott, bridge columnist
5 - Rizal Nurdin, governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia
5 - Raja Inal Siregar, ex-governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia
6 - Jack Real, co-developed Apache helicopter
6 - Mark Matthews, at 111, oldest living Buffalo Soldier
7 - Henry Luce III, Time magazine publisher
7 - Moussa Arafat, ex-security head in Gaza; cousin of Yasser Arafat
7 - Hope Garber, Canadian TV personality
8 - Randall Behr, Los Angeles Opera conductor
8 - Lewis Platt, former Hewlett-Packard CEO
8 - Perry Stephens, actor (”Loving”)
8 - Andre Blair, Will Smith’s official stand-in
10 - Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, blues musician
11 - Chris Schenkel, sportscaster
11 - Joseph Smitherman, segregationist mayor of Selma, Alabama
12 - Honey Bruce Friedman, stripper, ex-wife of Lenny Bruce
14 - Bess Clemens-Booher, mother of Roger Clemens
14 - Robert Wise, director (”West Side Story,” “Sound of Music”)
14 - Guy Green, British film director
15 - Sid Luft, ex-husband of Judy Garland; father of Lorna & Joey
16 - Constance Moore, actress
16 - Gordon Gould, inventor, laser developer
17 - Walter Marsh, actor
18 - Eva Lux, porn actress
18 - Joel Hirschhorn, Oscar-winning songwriter; husband of Titanic diver Jennifer
18 - Richard E. Cunha, cinematographer, director
18 - John Bromfield, actor
20 - Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor & Nazi-hunter
21 - Molly Yard, former president of NOW
22 - Gregg Martell, bit/character actor
22 - Ursula Cavalcanti
22 - Julie Robbins, porn star
23 - Roger Brierley, British actor
24 - Denver Mattson, stuntman, actor
24 - Tommy Bond, “Our Gang’s” Butch
24 - Vivian Brunner, professional marionette artist
25 - Don Adams, Maxwell Smart
25 - M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist-author
25 - George Archer, pro golfer
26 - Robert F. Corrigan, former U.S. ambassador to Rwanda
26 - Helen Cresswell, British children’s author
26 - Troy Steele, porn star & AIDS activist
26 - Michael Wittenberg, husband of Bernadette Peters
26 - Jerry Juhl, Muppets writer; Jim Henson’s first full-time employee
27 - Mary Lee Settle, author
27 - Ronald Pearsall, British author
27 - John McCabe, biographer
27 - Bruce Johnson, TV producer
28 - Constance Baker Motley, first black woman in NY state senate
28 - Leo Sternbach, Austrian chemist who came up with Valium
29 - Barbara Pittman, early rock and roll singer
29 - Benjamin DeMott, author & critic
29 - Austin Leslie, renowned New Orleans chef
29 - Gennadi Sarafanov, Soyuz 15 cosmonaut
30 - Sig Frohlich, head (& last surviving) winged monkey in “The Wizard of Oz”
OCTOBER
1 - David Case, prolific Books on Tape reader
1 - Robert J. Hanson, last surviving Memphis Belle crew member
2 - Nipsey Russell, comedian, perennial TV game-show guest
2 - Hamilton (Bob) Camp, prolific actor, ex-folk singer
2 - August Wilson, playwright
3 - Ronnie Barker, legendary British comedian (”The Two Ronnies”)
3 - Louis Garfinkle, screenwriter, scriptwriting-software developer
3 - Bob Houston, rock and roll writer, Creem editor
4 - Mike Gibbins, Badfinger drummer
4 - Stanley K. Hathaway, ex-governor of Wyoming
5 - John van Hengel, founder of America’s Second Harvest Food Bank
6 - Sparkle, character actress
7 - Charles Rocket, actor, former SNL comedian
7 - Michael Ward, physician for Sir Edmund Hillary’s 1963 Mount Everest climb
7 - Devery Freeman, screenwriter, Screen Writers Guild co-founder
8 - George Hislop, Canadian gay-rights pioneer
9 - Goldie Glitters, member of The Cockettes
9 - Louis Nye, comedic actor, perennial TV-show guest
9 - Ted Peshak, prolific educational/etiquette film director
9 - Raju Patel, movie producer-director
9 - LeRoy Whitfield, AIDS journalist
10 - Angelo Argea, Jack Nicklaus’s longtime caddy
10 - Margaret Russo, Australian tennis player
11 - Nick Hawkins, Big Audio Dynamite guitarist
11 - Jan Holden, U.K.-born actress
12 - C. Delores Tucker, controversial Pennsylvania politician; Tupac nemesis
12 - Ghazi Kanaan, Syrian Interior Minister
12 - Mary Chaney, well-known courtroom sketch artist
13 - Vivian Malone, first black graduate of U. of Alabama
13 - Marie Lord, actress, widow of Jack Lord
14 - Edmund Bacon, father of Kevin Bacon
15 - Mildred Shay, actress
15 - Jason Collier, pro basketball player (Atlanta Hawks)
16 - Eugene Lee, “Our Gang’s” Porky
16 - Len Dresslar, voice of the Jolly Green Giant
16 - John Larch, character actor
16 - Ursula Howells, British character actress
16 - Debbie Runions, AIDS activist
17 - William Evan Allan, last Australian WWI veteran
17 - Tom Gill, “Lone Ranger” comic book artist
17 - Charles Yates, pro golfer who played in first Masters
18 - Bernard Carr, actor & director
20 - Shirley Horn, jazz pianist
21 - Tara Correa-McMullen, 16-year-old actress (”Judging Amy”)
21 - Dick Galiette, sportscaster; former ESPN anchor
21 - Bob White, “Archie” comic cartoonist
22 - Reginald “The Crusher” Lisowski, pro wrestler
22 - Tony Adams, movie producer, esp. for Blake Edwards
22 - Arley Reece, opera singer
23 - William Hootkins, actor
23 - Fred S. Fox, TV comedy writer; Bob Hope staff writer
23 - Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria
24 - Rosa Parks, mother of American civil rights movement
24 - Frank Wilson, Australian actor
25 - Barbara Keogh, British actress
25 - Wellington Mara, National Football Conference prez, NY Giants co-owner
25 - George T. Alexander, Jr., 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq
25 - Cheryl McCall, journalist, anti-war activist
25 - Barbara Keogh, British actress
26 - Keith Parkinson, science fiction/fantasy illustrator
26 - Jany Holt, French actress; WWII resistance fighter
27 - Tom Masland, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
27 - Christine Gossett, ex-starlet, widow of Leon Ames
28 - Eugene K. Bird, Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess
28 - Cheryl McCall, documentary director; homeless advocate
29 - Lloyd Bochner, prolific (& very familiar) character actor
29 - Al Lopez, oldest (97) living member of Baseball Hall of Fame
30 - Maurice Rosenfield, successful anti-censorship attorney
30 - Al Lopez, pro baseball player, manager
30 - Kyle Lake, pastor electrocuted at Waco, TX, University Baptist Church
31 - Mary Wimbush, British actress
31 - Hal O. Anger, invented gamma ray camera
31 - William O. Baker, scientist; ex-Bell Labs president
31 - Alan Pifer, ex-head of Carnegie Corporation
31 - Thomas P. Ronan, New York Times reporter
NOVEMBER
1 - Michael Piller, TV writer (esp. later “Star Trek” series)
1 - Skitch Henderson, first “Tonight Show” bandleader
2 - Jean Carson, comedic blonde actress
2 - Rick Rhodes, Emmy Award-winning composer
2 - Joseph Bonanno Jr., son of mobster
3 - Geoffrey Keen, prolific British character actor
3 - Simon Muntner, TV writer
4 - Sheree North, sultry blonde bombshell
4 - Graham Payn, actor-singer, biographer, & life partner of Noel Coward
5 - Link Wray, rockabilly pioneer
5 - John Fowles, bestselling author
5 - Hugh Alexander Dunn, Australian ex-ambassador to China & Taiwan
5 - John E. Rice, actor & little people activist
6 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Green Party leader
6 - Carl Thayler, B-movie actor
6 - Minako Honda, Japanese pop star
7 - Carl S. Whillock, former assistant to Bill Clinton
7 - Rick Corrales, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
7 - Steve Whatley, British TV-shopping presenter
8 - David Westheimer, author (”Von Ryan’s Express”)
8 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor
9 - K.R. Narayanan, ex-president of India
9 - Muriel Degauque, Belgian-born waitress; first Western female suicide bomber
9 - Avril Angers, Britain’s Lucille Ball
10 - Steve Flanagin, bit player
10 - Steve Courson, pro football player, confessed steroid user
10 - Fernando Bujones, classical danseur
10 - Ernest Crichlow, Harlem Renaissance artist
11 - Keith Andes, A-movie supporting actor, B-movie lead
11 - Moustapha Akkad, “Halloween” film series producer
11 - Patrick Lichfield, renowned portrait photographer
11 - Pamela Duncan, B-movie & TV actress
12 - Rik Van Nutter, actor
13 - Eddie Guerrero, pro wrestler
13 - John Campo, esteemed horse trainer
13 - Ruth M. Siems, inventor of Stove Top Stuffing
15 - Adrian Rogers, ex-prez So. Baptist Convention; megachurch pastor
15 - Preston Robert (Bob) Tisch, NY Giants co-owner
15 - Ruthie Robinson, former child actress
16 - Ralph Edwards, “This Is Your Life” host
17 - Sybil Shearer, choreographer
17 - Maurice Zimring, screenwriter (”Creature from the Black Lagoon”)
18 - Carolyn Kearney, B-movie & TV actress
18 - Lee Yoon-Hyung, 26-year-old Samsung heiress
18 - Sam, three-time winner of World’s Ugliest Dog Contest
18 - Harold Stone, hugely prolific (& recognizable) character actor
19 - Dutch Hiller, Speedy Ranger on 1940 Stanley Cup Team
19 - John Timpson, BBC reporter
19 - David Austin, Guardian U.K. cartoonist
20 - Lou Myers, New Yorker cartoonist
20 - Nora “Dodo” Denney, character actress
20 - James King, opera singer
20 - Harry Lawton, Time magazine writer, narrator
21 - Alfred Anderson, last known survivor of WWI Christmas Truce
21 - Luz Potter, actress; one of the last living “Wizard of Oz” Munchkins
21 - Bernard “Red” Sarachek, legendary Yeshiva U. basketball coach
22 - Michael Austin, pro golfer
22 - Kenneth Mackintosh, british bandleader
23 - Constance Cummings, actress
23 - Beverly Tyler, 1940s-50s B-movie actress
24 - Adele Lamont, minor actress (”The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”)
24 - Wilson Waters, Jr., Gospel singer
24 - Pat Morita, prolific Asian-American actor (”The Karate Kid”)
25 - Pierre Seel, Paragraph 175 Holocaust survivor, author
25 - George Best, Manchester United soccer star
26 - Stan Berenstain, co-creator (w/wife Jan) of Berenstain Bears books
26 - Irving Ludwig, longtime president of Buena Vista Pictures
26 - Clarence Laking, one of five remaining Canadian WWI veterans
26 - Gopal Godse, last living Gandhi assassination conspirator
27 - Jocelyn Brando, actress, older sister of Marlon
27 - Marc Lawrence, prolific movie bad guy since the 1930s
28 - E. Cardon Walker, president/CEO of the Walt Disney Company
28 - Tony Meehan, one The Drifters
28 - Jack Concannon, pro football player
29 - Wendie Jo Sperber, easily recognizable actress (”Bosom Buddies”)
29 - Macon “Sonny” McCalman, character actor
29 - Robert B. Luce, former publisher of The New Republic
30 - Jean Parker, actress (esp. in westerns)
30 - Steve Harvey, Jamaican AIDS activist
30 - Lenford (Steve) Harvey, murdered AIDS activist
30 - Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer
30 - Herbert L. Strock, B-horror movie director
30 - John S. Detlie, 1930s-40s set designer
DECEMBER
1 - Mary Hayley Bell, author, widow of Sir John Mills (see April 23), mother of Juliet & Hayley Mills
1 - Jack Colvin, character actor (mostly TV)
1 - Werner Enders, German opera singer
1 - Michael Evans, White House photographer
2 - John Iannacone, member of Hindenburg ground crew
2 - Malik Joyeux, pro surfer
2 - Peter Menegazzo, Australian cattle baron
2 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian national executed in Singapore for drug smuggling
2 - Kenneth Boyd, 1,000th person executed in U.S. execution since DP reinstated in 1976
2 - Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi prime minister under Saddam Hussein
3 - Fred Ashworth, weaponeer who dropped A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki
3 - Peter E. Haas, Sr. great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, Levi executive
4 - Gregg Hoffman, movie producer (”Saw”)
4 - Doug Murphy, former KPIX (San Francisco) news anchor
5 - Ed Masry, the real Erin Brockovich’s boss
6 - Gerry Humphries, singer for Australian band, The Loved Ones
6 - Charly Gaul, 1958 Tour de France winner
7 - Beach Dickerson, B-movie actor
7 - Devan Nair, ex-president of Singapore
7 - Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., ex-governor of South Carolina & U.S. rep
7 - Bob O’Brien, comedy writer (”Here’s Lucy”)
7 - Loomis Dean, Life magazine photographer
7 - Adrian Biddle, British cinematographer
7 - Bud Carson, ex-Cleveland Browns coach
8 - Roger Shattuck, author
8 - J.N. Williamson, horror writer & publisher
9 - Robert Sheckley, novelist
9 - Mike Botts, Bread drummer
9 - Homer Mensch, bassist, Juilliard instructor
9 - Gyorgy Sándor, pianist, Juilliard instructor
9 - Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer
10 - Mary Jackson, “The Waltons’” Miss Emily Baldwin
10 - Eugene McCarthy, former Minnesota rep; 1968 presidential hopeful
10 - Richard Pryor, legendary comedian, actor
11 - Walter Cudzik, pro football player
11 - Richard Sandbrook, co-founder of Friends of the Earth
12 - Annette Stroyberg Vadim, Danish actress, ex-wife of Roger Vadim
12 - Annie Dodds, documentary filmmaker
12 - Robert F. Newmyer, movie producer, Columbia Pictures executive
12 - Ramanand Sagar, Bollywood producer
13 - Stanley “Tookie” Williams, reformed Crips founder, executed at San Quentin
14 - Rod Whitaker, author (e.g., “The Eiger Sanction”)
14 - William Proxmire, longtime Senator from Wisconsin
14 - Stevenson J. Palfi, filmmaker
15 - Darrell Russell, pro football player
15 - Charles Heard, bit player
15 - James Ingo Freed, architect who designed U.S. Holocaust Museum
15 - Walter Haut, Army press officer who issued Roswell UFO release
15 - Heinrich Gross, reported Nazi doctor, war criminal
15 - Sidney B. Factor, Max Factor makeup heir
15 - T.K. Balachandran, Bollywood producer
15 - Darrell Russell, pro football player
16 - John Spencer, familiar character actor, late of “The West Wing”
17 - Jack Anderson, venerable newspaper columnist, Nixon enemy
19 - Hyman Engelberg, Marilyn Monroe’s doctor at the time of her death
19 - Patricia Anne Van Tighem, survivor of bear attack, author
19 - Vincent Gigante, Genovese family mob boss
19 - Ted Tulchin, Broadway producer (”Sweeney Todd”)
19 - Phyllis Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky’s mother
19 - Julio Iglesias, Sr., Julio Iglesias’s father
20 - Argentina Brunetti, actress (”It’s a Wonderful Life”)
20 - Alma Thorpe, schizophrenic subject of 1997 documentary “Alma”
21 - Hallam Tennyson, British radio producer; great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
21 - Elrod Hendricks, longtime player & coach for Baltimore Orioles
22 - Aurora Miranda, Brazilian dancer, sister of Carmen Miranda
22 - James Dungy, 18-year-old son of NFL coach Tony Dungy
23 - Norman D. Vaughan, last surviving member of Adm. Byrd’s 1928 South Pole expedition
24 - Michael Vale, actor in Dunkin’ Donuts commercials
25 - Roy Stuart, actor
25 - Charles W. Socarides, anti-gay NARTH crusader (& father of gay son)
26 - Vincent Schiavelli, easily-recognizable character actor
26 - Kerry Packer, media mogul & richest man in Australia
