Famous Birthdays for December 21
Today's:
Jean Baptiste Racine 1639 - Dramatist
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - Author, statesman: "No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."
Henrietta Szold 1860
Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 - Georgian Marxist revolutionary and later dictator of USSR (1928-53)
Walter Hagen 1892 - Golf champion
Pat Weaver 1908 - President of NBC-TV, father of Sigourney Weaver
Andor Foldes 1913
Heinrich Böll 1917
Kurt Waldheim 1918 - Austrian president and U.N. secretary-general
Alicia Alonso 1921 - Dancer
Paul Winchell 1922 - Ventriloquist
Phyliss Love 1925 - Actress
Ed Nelson 1928 - Actor ("Anatomy of a Seduction," "Deadly Weapon")
Freddie Hart 1933 - Singer
Phil Donahue 1935 - TV host ("The Phil Donahue Show"), known for pioneering the audience-participation style of TV talk shows.
John Avildsen 1935 - Director
Jane Fonda 1937 - Daughter of actor Henry Fonda and sister of actor Peter Fonda
Frank Zappa 1940 - Musician (The Mothers of Invention, Valley Girl (w/daughter Moon))
Ray Hildebrand 1940 - Singer (Paul & Paula)
Carla Thomas 1942 - Singer
Albert Lee 1943 - Musician
Gwen McCrae 1943 - Singer
Jared Martin 1943 - Actor ("The New Gladiators," "Karate Warrior")
Michael Tilson Thomas 1944 - Jazz band conductor, led London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gordon Kannegiesser 1945 - Hockey player
Josh Mostel 1946 - Actor
Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys) 1946 - Musician (The Beach Boys)
Nate Wright 1947 - Football player
Elliott Maddox 1947 - Baseball player
Samuel L. Jackson 1948 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction," "A Time to Kill," "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith")
Claude Chartre 1949 - Hockey player
Nick Gilder 1951 - Musician ("Sweeney Todd")
Betty Wright 1953 - Singer
Chris Evert 1954 - Tennis player, she won her first Wimbledon title in 1974 at age 19
Jane Kaczmarek 1955 - Actress ("Malcolm in the Middle")
Jim Rose 1956 - The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow
Lee Roy Parnell 1956 - Singer
Ray Romano 1957 - Actor,comedian ("Everybody Loves Raymond")
Florence Griffith Joyner 1959 - Olympic medalist in track
Christy Forester 1962 - Singer (The Forester Sisters)
Andy Dick 1965 - Actor, comedian
Gabrielle Glaser 1965 - Musician (Luscious Jackson)
Kiefer Sutherland 1966 - Actor ("The Lost Boys," "Young Guns," "A Time to Kill"), son of actor Donald Sutherland
Khrystyne Haje 1968 - Actress
Brad Warren 1968 - Singer (The Warren Brothers)
Julie Delpy 1969 - Actress
Brett Scallions 1971 - Musician (Fuel)
Steven Yeun 1983 - Actor (TV: "The Walking Dead")
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