Famous Birthdays for January 15Jean Baptiste Moliere 1622 - Playwright Frederick Arthur Stanley 1841 - Gave Canada the Stanley Cup Pierre S. DuPont 1870 - Industrialist Rex Ingram (Hitchcock) 1892 - Writer, director Edward Teller 1908 Physicist, Father of the hydrogen bomb Gene Krupa 1909 - Drummer, bandleader Lloyd Bridges 1913 Actor: ("Airplane!," "Airplane 2") Steve Gromek 1920 - Baseball player Maria Schell 1926 Actress ("The Hanging Tree," "The Odessa File") Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - Pastor, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement Margaret O'Brien 1937 Actress ("Meet Me in St. Louis," "Little Women") Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band) 1941 Mike Marshall 1943 - Baseball player Andrea Martin 1947 - Actress Ronnie Van Zant 1949 - Singer, songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Nate Hawthorne 1950 - Basketball player Bobby Wilson 1951 - Basketball player Ernie DiGregorio 1951 - Basketball player Charo (Maria Martinez) 1951 Actress ("Chico and the Man," "Airport 79"), singer Mario Van Peebles 1957 - Actor, director Julian Sands 1958 Peter Trewavas 1959 - Musician (Marillion) Lisa Lisa 1967 - Singer (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) Chad Lowe 1968 - Actor, brother of Rob Lowe Regina King 1971 - Actress ("Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous") Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez) 1981 - Rapper Dove Olivia Cameron 1996 - Singer, actress ("Descendants") |
