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Celebrity Birthdays
Celebrities born on January 18 include English physician and thesaurus guru Peter Roget in 1779; American orator and statesman Daniel Webster in 1782; Winnie the Pooh author A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne in 1882; comedian Oliver Hardy in 1892; leading man extraordinaire Cary Grant in 1904; actor Danny Kaye in 1913; filmmaker John Boorman in 1933; Temptations singer David Ruffin in 1941; and Waterworld actor Kevin Costner in 1955. On January 19, famous birthdays include Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam engine James Watt in 1736; Confederate General Robert E. Lee in 1807; American horror master Edgar Allan Poe in 1809; English metallurgist Henry Bessemer in 1813; French post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne in 1839; Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson in 1918; former United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar in 1920; the one and only Enid Bunker, Jean Stapleton in 1923; actor Fritz Weaver in 1926; television newscaster Robert MacNeil in 1931; singer Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers in 1939; actress Shelley Fabares in 1942; Me and Bobby McGee folkster Janis Joplin in 1943; country sensation Dolly Parton in 1946; Broadway's original Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford in 1942 and America's television baby, Desi Arnez Jr. in 1953. January 20's celebs include Little Orphan Annie creator Harold Gray (see this week's Did You Know for more!) in 1894; comedian George Burns in 1896; Italian film director Federico Fellini and actor DeForest Kelley (both) in 1920; country singer Otis "Slim" Whitman in 1924; actress Patricia Neal in 1926; astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (the second man to set foot on the moon) in 1930; comic Artie Johnson in 1934; eccentric director David Lynch in 1946; Politically Incorrect host Bill Maher in 1956; and actor Lorenzo Lamas in 1958. Today, January 21, birthdays include soldier and Vermont folk hero Ethan Allen in 1738; explorer and historian John Fremont in 1813; Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in 1824; firearms designer John Browning in 1855; American Civil Liberties Union founder Roger Nash Baldwin in 1884; fashion designer Christian Dior in 1905; actors Paul Scofield in 1922 and Telly Savalas in 1924; quintessential British comedian Benny Hill in 1925; famed DJ Robert "Wolfman Jack" Smith in 1938; golfer and wine connoisseur Jack Nicklaus in 1940; opera star Placido Domingo in 1941; singer Mac Davis in 1942; soul-crooner Billy Ocean in 1950; actress Jill Eikenberry in 1947; actor Robby Benson in 1955 and Earth Girls Are Easy's Geena Davis in 1957. Celebs born on January 22 include Russian Czar Ivan the Great, in 1440; English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon in 1561; French physicist Andre Ampere in 1775; British Romantic poet Lord George Byron in 1788; silent film director D.W. Griffith in 1875; U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in 1909; actresses Ann Sothern in 1909 and Piper Laurie in 1932; actor Bill Bixby in 1934; soul singer Sam Cooke in 1935; author Joseph Wambaugh in 1937; actor John Hurt in 1940; Journey lead singer Steve Perry in 1950; The Exorcist actress Linda Blair in 1959, The Wonder Years' Olivia D'Abo in 1967 and actor-heir Balthazar Getty in 1975. January 23's birthdays include French author Stendhal (a pseudonym for Marie Henri Beyle) in 1783; French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet in 1832; Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein in 1898; actors Randolph Scott in 1903 and Dan Duryea in 1907; comedian Ernie Kovacs in 1919; actress/singer Chita Rivera in 1933; actors Gil Gerard in 1943, Rutger Hauer in 1944 (age 58), and Richard Dean Anderson in 1950; Princess Caroline of Monaco in 1957; actress Gail O'Grady in 1963 and Saved by the Bell thespian Tiffini-Amber Thiessen in 1974.
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