“BORN TODAY”
- Abigail Breslin (1996) – Actress (“Little Miss Sunshine”)
- Nick Krause (1992) – Actor (“White Rabbit”)
- Chris Wood (1988) – Actor (“The Vampire Diaries”)
- Win Butler (1980) – Musician, “Arcade Fire”
- Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) – Actress (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)
- Rob McElhenney (1977) American Actor, Director, Producer, & Screenwriter (“Always Sunny In Philadelphia”)
- Georgina Chapman (1976) – English Designer & Actress
- Amy Dumas (1975) – Retired Professional Wrestler
- Antwon Tanner (1975) – Actor (“Moesha” & “One Tree Hill”)
- Da Brat (1974) – Rapper
- Adrien Brody (1973) – Award Winning Actor (“The Pianist”, “Midnight In Paris”)
- Faith Salie (1971) – American Journalist, Writer, Actor, Comedian & TV and Radio Host
- Anthony Michael Hall (1968) – Actor (Movies:”Sixteen Candles”, “The Breakfast Club”, TV:”The Dead Zone”)
- Robert Carlyle (1961) – Scottish Actor
- Brad Garrett ((born Brad H. Gerstenfeld) (1960) – Actor (“Everybody Loves Raymond”)
- Peter Capaldi (1958) – Scottish Actor
- Lothaire Bluteau (1957) – Canadian Actor
- Bobbi Brown (1957) – Professional Makeup Artist
- John Shea (1949) – Actor (“Lois & Clark”, “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid”)
- Larry Ferguson (1948 – RIP 2015) – Musician (Hot Chocolate)
- Ritchie Blackmore (1945) – Musician (Deep Purple)
- Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) – Nicknamed “Charlie Hustle” (1941) – Baseball player
- Julie Christie (1940) – (Featured Above) Award Winning Actress (“Dr. Zhivago”, “Shampoo”)
- Joan Darling (1935) – Actress & Director
- Francesco Vincent “Frank” Serpico (1936) – Retired NYPD (“Serpico” was based on his character)
- Loretta Lynn (1932) – Country Music Singer/Songwriter
- Bradford Dillman (1930) – Actor & Auther (“Compulsion”, “Falcon Crest”)
- Jay Robinson (1930 – RIP 2013) – Character Actor
- Gloria Jean (Schoonover) – (1926) – Actress & Singer (“Copacabana”, “The Ladies Man”)
- Rod Steiger (Rodney Stephen Steiger) – (1925 – RIP 2002) Actor (“Dr. Zhivago”, “The Longest Day”)
- Anne Mansfield Sullivan (1866 – RIP 1936) – “The Miracle Worker”, best known for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak
“DIED TODAY”
- Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975)
- Burl Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995)
- Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999)
- Anthony Newley (September 24, 1931 – April 14, 1999)
- Percy Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015)
“MOVIES TODAY”
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- 1989 – Disorganized Crime
- 1989 – Say Anything…
- 1989 – She’s Out of Control
- 1989 – Winter People
“MUSIC TODAY”
- 1958 – Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky piano competition.
- 1958 – Van Cliburn appeared on national TV for the first time. He was on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar.
- 1960 – The musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opened in New York City.
- 1963 – The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England.
- 1967 – The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was “New York Mining Disaster 1941.”
- 1970 – Stephen Stills broke his wrist in an auto accident.
- 1970 – The 5th Academy of Country Music Awards was hosted. Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette won.
- 1976 – Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a “$13 million-plus” contract with the label.
- 1976 – Bay City Rollers singer Eric Faulkner almost died after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets.
- 1980 – A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” the official state song. Springsteen also decided if this song wasn’t going to be a hit, he would quit his musical career forever.
- 1980 – Iron Maiden’s self-titled debut album was released.
- 1983 – Pete Farndon died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem.
- 1989 – Tom Petty released his first solo album “Full Moon Fever.”
- 1999 – It was reported that Prince intended to re-record the entire catalog of his music and re-release it.
“TV/RADIO TODAY”
- 1953 – WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
- 1955 – WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1959 – KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 – 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
- 1969 – 41st Academy Awards is hosted.
- 1969 – KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”
- 1910 – U.S. President William Howard Taft threw out the first ball for the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
- 1939 – John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published.
- 1956 – Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture.
- 1959 – The Taft Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated in Washington, DC.
- 1969 – For the first time, a major league baseball game was played in Montreal, Canada.
- 1981 – America’s first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission.
- 1984 – The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state’s public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as “theory rather than fact”.
- 1986 – U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
- 2008 – Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were merging.
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