Famous Birthdays for August 24Joshua Lionel Cowen 1880 Jose Luis Borges 1899 Preston Foster 1900 - Actor Edmund Germer 1901 Preston Foster 1901 Durward Kirby 1912 Dennis James 1917 Penny Edwards 1919 Louis Teicher 1924 Yasser Arafat 1929 Roger McCluskey 1930 Kenny Baker 1934 - Actor (R2D2 in "Star Wars" movie series) Murray Balfour 1936 Mason Williams 1938 David Freiberg 1938 - Musician (Jefferson Starship) Ernest Wright (Little Anthony and the Imperials) 1941 Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) 1942 John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger) 1943 Gregory Jarvis 1944 Jim Capaldi (Traffic) 1944 Jim Brady (The Sandpipers) 1944 Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) 1945 Anne Archer 1947 - Actress Joe Regalbuto 1949 - Actor (TV: Murphy Brown) Mike Shanahan 1952 - Football coach Jeffrey Daniel (Shalamar) 1955 Gerry Cooney 1956 - Boxer Stephen Fry 1957 Steve Guttenberg 1958 - Actor Cal Ripken, Jr. 1960 - Baseball player Mark Bedford (Madness) 1961 Jared Harris 1961 - Actor (Mad Men) Craig Kilborn 1962 - Talk show host John Bush 1963 - Vocalist (Anthrax, Armored Saint) Marlee Matlin 1965 - Actress Reggie Miller 1965 - Basketball player Kristin Osborn 1970 - Singer (SHeDAISY) David Gregory 1970 - Television personality (TV: Meet the Press) Ava DuVernay 1972 - Filmmaker, television producer David Chappelle 1973 - Actor, comedian (Chappelle's Show) James D’Arcy 1973 - Actor (Movie: Dunkirk) (TV: Agent Carter) Carmine Giovinazzo 1973 - Actor (CSI: NY) Alex O’Loughlin 1976 - Actor (TV: remake of Hawaii Five-0) (Movie: The Back-up Plan) Beth Riesgraf 1978 - Actor (TV: Leverage) Chad Michael Murray 1981 - Actor ("One Tree Hill") Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) 1983 - Singer, songwriter Blake Berris 1984 - Actor (TV: Days of Our Lives, Longmire) Rupert Grint 1988 - Actor ("Harry Potter" movie series) |
