Famous Birthdays for September 1Lydia Sigourney 1791 - Author Alfred Ely Beach 1826 - Designer of New York City's earliest subway, patented a typewriter for the blind Engelbert Humperdinck 1854 - German composer, his name was borrowed by singer Arnold Dorsey Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes) Richard Arlen (van Mattimore) 1898 - Actor ("Road to Nashville", "Island of the Lost Souls") Don Wilson 1900 - Announcer, Actor ("The Jack Benny Show") Johnny Mack Brown 1904 - Actor (Ghost Rider, Texas Kid) Walter Reuther 1907 - Labor union leader Arleen Whelan 1916 - Actress (Never Wave at a WAC) Richard Farnsworth 1920 - Actor (Lassie, The Grey Fox, Legend of the Lone Ranger) Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) 1922 - Actress (The Munsters, Salome, McLintock!) Vittorio Gassman 1922 - Actor (Sharkey's Machine, War and Peace) Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) 1923 - Boxer, the only heavyweight champion to have won every fight in professional career George Maharis 1928 - Actor (Route 66, Return to Fantasy Island) Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin) 1931 - Singer, songwriter, known as "The Singing Hobo" Ann Richards 1933 - Texas Governor Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) 1933 - Singer, songwriter Seiji Ozawa 1935 - Orchestra leader (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra) Guy Rodgers 1935 - Basketball player Ron O'Neal 1937 Al Geiberger 1937 - Golfer, recorded a score of 59 in a PGA Tour Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian Rico Carty (Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo) 1939 - Baseball player Dave White 1940 - Singer, songwriter (Danny & The Juniors) Don Stroud 1943 - Actor (Dillinger and Capone, Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story), son of Clarence Stroud Archie Bell 1944 Leonard Slatkin 1944 - Orchestra director Barry Gibb 1946 - Singer, songwriter, musician (The Bee Gees) Greg Errico 1946 - Musician (Sly and The Family Stone) Dennis Partee 1946 - Football player Ed Podolak 1947 - Football player Garry (Lee) Maddox 1949 - Baseball player Bruce Foxton 1955 - Musician (100 Men, The Jam) Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) 1957 - Singer (Miami Sound Machine) Boney James 1961 Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow 1961 - Wrestler, actor Spigg Nice (Lost Boyz) 1970 Scott Speedman 1975 |
