April 7
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1864 - The first camel race in America was held. Nope -- not in the Mojave Desert; but in Sacramento, California.1902 - The Texas Company (Texaco) was formed. Oilman Joseph ‘Buckskin Joe’ Cullinan and New York investor Arnold Schlaet chartered the company to capitalize on the oil boom and their discovery of oil on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas.
1928 - New York Rangers manager Lester Patrick (a 45-year-old former goalie) stepped in to save the game for the Rangers, following an injury to the Rangers’ regular goaltender. The Rangers went on to beat the Montreal Maroons and win the Stanley Cup in this, the final game of the series.
1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp. His likeness was issued on a 10-cent stamp this day.
1945 - American planes intercepted a Japanese force that was headed for Okinawa on a suicide mission. The battleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk.
1948 - The U.N. established the World Health Organization.
1949 - The Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein musical classic of love and war, South Pacific, unfolded on a lush tropical island swarming with Seabees, nurses, natives and coconut trees on this night in 1949. Actually, it was not a tropical island, but the stage of the Majestic Theatre in New York City. Ezio Pinza starred as the suave French plantation owner with a shady past and Mary Martin portrayed the bubbly, pretty, but naive Navy nurse. Mary Martin washed her hair a zillion times as she sang, I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair in 1,925 performances. The 1950 Tony Awards awarded the show and its producers, performers, director (Joshua Logan) and composers with no less than 9 statuettes. It also earned a Pulitzer Prize in the same year and in 1958 was made into a movie. South Pacific caused a lot of Happy Talk and this night, so many years ago, was certainly Some Enchanted Evening.
1953 - The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden to be secretary-general. The vote was 57 to one. (Hammarskjöld was elected for a five-year term and reelected in 1957).
1954 - Gee, by The Crows, became the first rhythm and blues single to gain attention on pop music charts. Gee, written by William Davis, the baritone of The Crows, made it to #17 on the pop music chart and stayed for one week. This was also one of the first songs by a black group to be played on white radio stations. The Crows came together in the late 1940s in New York City, singing on street corners. Daniel ‘Sonny’ Norton (lead singer), Harold Major (tenor), Gerald Hamilton (bass) and Davis entered a talent contest at the Apollo Theatre and that was the beginning of their recording career. The group split up in the late 1950s.
1956 - Arthur Hailey had a script accepted and presented just 20 days after it was submitted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The drama, Flight into Danger, had an unprecedented audience response. A number of years later, Arthur Hailey also wrote the best-selling novel, Airport; which was then adapted for the popular movie by the same title.
1957 - The last of New York City’s electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. The ‘Golden Bear’ earned the win at one of golf’s premier events at the age of 23.
1968 - As the news of the April 4th murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. spread, black urban centers across the U.S. erupted in violence. Rioters, looters, and arsonists rampaged through communities, destroying homes and businesses. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Louisville, Kansas City, and by this day, in Chicago alone, 11 people were dead, more than 500 were injured, and 3,000 had been arrested. Businesses were devastated as looters smashed windows, destroyed property, and brazenly made off with armloads of merchandise. People ran in fear as snipers shot off rounds. Rioters blocked streets, keeping emergency personnel from responding to calls for help. Fires burned freely as the overwhelmed fire departments struggled to keep up amidst the chaos.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material (Stanley v. Georgia).
1970 - John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar. The Duke earned an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in True Grit, also starring Kim Darby and Glen Campbell. It is estimated that movie-goers paid over $500 million to see John Wayne in his many films which include: The Big Trail, Reap the Wild Wind, The Long Voyage Home, Red River, The Quiet Man and The Sands of Iwo Jima (the only other film to earn him an Oscar nomination).
1970 - If you weren’t lucky enough to be at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA on this night, you were probably watching the 42nd Annual Academy Awards ceremonies on TV. John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his only Oscar: Best Actor for his role in True Grit. It is estimated that movie-goers paid over $500 million to see John Wayne in his many films which include: The Big Trail, Reap the Wild Wind, The Long Voyage Home, Red River, The Quiet Man and The Sands of Iwo Jima (the only other film to earn him an Oscar nomination). Another movie veteran, Cary Grant, received his only Oscar this same night. It was an honorary award for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. (Grant had been nominated for Best Actor in Penny Serenade [1941] and None but the Lonely Heart [1944].) Other Oscar firsts at this celebration of the films of 1969 went to: Burt Bacharach for Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture/not a Musical (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and for Best Music/Song (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the award shared with Hal David/lyrics); Maggie Smith, Best Actress in Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Gig Young, Best Supporting Actor in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; Goldie Hawn, Best Supporting Actress in Cactus Flower; John Schlesinger, Best Director for Midnight Cowboy. As in most Academy Award ceremonies, the picture with the Best Director also won the top prize, Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy (Jerome Hellman, producer).
1973 - Vicki Lawrence got her number one single as The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia made it to the top of the pop charts on this day. Lawrence had become well known as the comedienne who played Eunice’s mother on The Carol Burnett Show and Mama’s Family.
1977 - In the first American League baseball game played outside the United States, Toronto’s Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5 at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto.
1979 - Ken Forsch of Houston pitched a no-hitter over the Atlanta Braves, 6-0. Forsch walked only two batters. It was the earliest no-hitter ever pitched in a baseball season. He and his brother, Bob, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, were the only brothers to pitch no-hitters in the big leagues. Bob threw a no-hitter on April 16, 1978.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke off diplomatic relations with Iran and the imposition of economic sanctions against the country. The U.S. also ordered out all Iranian embassy staff because of the detention of U.S. embassy hostages in Tehran.
1984 - Jack Morris of the Detroit Tigers tied the record for the earliest no-hitter in a season when he whipped Chicago 4-0. A national television audience saw Morris strike out eight batters and walk six in the first no-hitter thrown in Comiskey Park, Chicago, in 17 years.
1985 - Prince ended his 32-city Purple Rain Tour and said that he was withdrawing from live performances for “an indeterminate number of years.” The last city on the tour was Miami, FL. He meant it so much, he even changed his name to a symbol and the name TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince).
1989 - In the Norwegian Sea, 42 seamen died when Soviet Mike-class nuclear-powered submarine, the K278 Komsomolets, sank more than 300 miles off coast of Norway after an undersea accident and fire. Twenty-seven crew members were rescued.
1990 - Suspected arson fires aboard the ferry Scandinavian Star, which was cruising between Oslo in Norway and Fredrikshavn in Denmark, killed some 158 people. There were 99 crew members and 383 passengers on board.
1992 - The Sacramento Bee, The New York Times and Newsday were Pulitzer-prize winners; playwright Robert Schenkkan won for The Kentucky Cycle, and novelist Jane Smiley was honored for A Thousand Acres.
1995 - House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared the GOP "Contract with America" was “only a beginning.” Gingrich spoke in a prime-time TV address.
1997 - The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was presented to Steven Millhauser for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) won two journalism Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service prize. And trumpter Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for music. He won for Blood on the Fields, a three-hour work for big band and three singers.
1998 - Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband’s congressional term.
2000 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Ready to Rumble, starring David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg and Rose Mcgowan; and Return to Me, with David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O’connor, Robert Loggia and Bonnie Hunt.
2001 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants, was fatally shot by a white police officer, sparking three days of riots.
2002 - Movie actor John Agar died in Burbank, California. He was 81 years old. Agar’s 1945 marriage to Shirley Temple put him in the public eye for the first time, and a movie contract with independent producer David O. Selznick quickly ensued. Some of his more memorable film appearances include: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Along the Great Divide, Jet Attack, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and Big Jake.
2003 - Syracuse University beat the University of Kansas 81-78 and won the NCAA Basketball final.
2003 - Pulitzer Prize winners included The Boston Globe for public service, Jeffrey Eugenides for fiction (Middlesex); Rick Atkinson for history (An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943); and Samantha Power for general nonfiction (A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide).
2004 - New in U.S. theatres: Johnson Family Vacation, a comedy starring Cedric the Entertainer, Bow Wow, Vanessa Williams, Steve Harvey, Solange Knowles, Gabby Soleil and Shannon Elizabeth.
2005 - Pfizer Inc. agreed to suspend sales and marketing of its arthritis drug Bextra at the request of U.S. and E.U. drug regulators. The agencies said the risks (heart attacks, strokes) outweighed the Bextra’s benefits.
2006 - Scientists at MIT reported that they had harnessed a replicating virus that binds to gold and cobalt oxide, to create a nanotech battery.
2007 - It was reported that Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s chairman and chief executive, took more than $400 million in compensation in 2006 -- one of the largest single-year payouts (to that time) in U.S. corporate history.
2007 - Johnny Hart (76), creator of the B.C. comic strip (1958), died at his home in Endicott, NY. He was 76 years old. Hart and Brant Parker created the Wizard of Id strip.
2008 - Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The Washington Post won six, the most in its history; Junot Diaz won the fiction award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Tracy Letts won the drama award for August: Osage County; and Bob Dylan won a special citation for his life’s work.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Iraq from Turkey on a trip shrouded in secrecy. Obama wanted a look at the war he opposed as a candidate and vowed to end as commander in chief.
2009 - Vermont became the first state to legalize same sex marriage through its legislature’s vote.
2009 - U.S. military leaders said the Pentagon had spent over $100 million in the previous six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems.
2009 - Rock of Ages opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The rock/jukebox musical was built around classic rock songs from the 1980s, especially from the famous glam metal bands of that decade. The show featured songs from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison and Europe among other well-known rock bands. Rock of Ages closed on January 18, 2015 after 2,328 performances.
2010 - Auto giants Renault, Nissan and Daimler launched a partnership to save billions of euros and accelerate sales of low-pollution electric cars.
2011 - Japan was rattled by a 7.4 magnitude aftershock nearly a month after an earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast. Four people died in this aftershock, the worst since the March 11 9.0 quake.
2012 - ‘It’s over, and Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee for president.’ The growing consensus among Republican National Committee members was that Romney would indeed be the Republican Party nominee for president. “I would be surprised if Romney doesn’t get the number he needs,” said Jeff Johnson, an RNC member from Minnesota who had supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
2013 - A federal magistrate in California ruled federal authorities broke the law when they leased land to oil drillers without studying the possible risks of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
2014 - Film censors in Indonesia and Malaysia banned the biblical movie, Noah, saying that the portrayal of Noah by Russell Crowe was against Islamic laws. Depictions of any prophet are shunned in Islam to avoid worship of a person rather than God.
2015 - Incumbant Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel was re-elected with 56% of the vote. Jesus Garcia took 44%. Voter turnout in the runoff election was just 40%.
2016 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that Puerto Rico cannot prohibit gay marriage. Previously, a U.S. District Court judge had said the Supreme Court ruling egalizing marriage equality nationwide did not apply to Puerto Rico because it is a territory, not a state. But in an unsigned opinion, the First Circuit Court of Appeals responded with the judicial equivalent of a smackdown.
2017 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: The Case for Christ, with Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen and Faye Dunaway; Going in Style, starring Joey King, Morgan Freeman and Ann-Margret; the animated Smurfs: The Lost Village, featuring the voices of Michelle Rodriguez, Ariel Winter and Julia Roberts; Aftermath, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maggie Grace and Kevin Zegers; Colossal, with Dan Stevens, Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis; The Eyes, starring Nicholas Turturro, Vincent Pastore and Megan West; Gifted, with Octavia Spencer, Chris Evans and Jenny Slate; Mine, starring Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis and Tom Cullen; November Criminals, with Chloë Grace Moretz, Catherine Keener and Ansel Elgort; Salt and Fire, with Michael Shannon, Anita Briem and Gael García Bernal; Speech & Debate, starring Liam James, Sarah Steele and Austin P. McKenzie; Their Finest, with Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy; The Ticket, starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman and Oliver Platt; and The Void, with Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong and Kenneth Welsh.
2017 - The U.S. Senate voted 54 to 45 to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court following a rules change a day earlier.
2017 - A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, Sweden, killing two Swedes, a British man and a Belgian woman (A 5th victim died three weeks later). Police detained Rakhmat Akilov (39), who had been recruited by the Islamic State and had encouraged fellow nationals to fight for the IS in Syria.
2018 - Jens Ruther drove a camper van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in Münster, Germany killing two people. The 48-year-old Ruther then shot himself and died. A third person died three weeks later from injuries sustained in the crash. Friends said Ruther had been affected by attending a show at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris shortly before a 2015 attack and it had shocked him. How or why that shock had turned him into a killer is unknown.
2018 - An apartment fire in an apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York City left one person, a 67-year-old an art dealer, dead. Fire commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters outside the building: “This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The upper floors, which are residence floors, are not sprinklered, but the building sure stood up quite well.”
2019 - Some 1,300 people were killed by Cyclone Idai, the flooding it caused and heavy rains after it hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. (In the Southern Hemisphere, which includes the Australian, South Pacific, and South Atlantic basins, Idai ranks as the second-deadliest tropical cyclone on record. The only system with a higher death toll was the 1973 Flores cyclone that killed 1,650 off the coast of Indonesia.)
2019 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was named the recipient of the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award “for putting the national interest above her party’s interest to expand access to health care for all Americans and then, against a wave of political attacks, leading the effort to retake the majority and elect the most diverse Congress in our nation’s history.”
2020 - Israel’s domestic security agency said it had arrested an Israeli citizen for spying for Iran. The man was indicted for “serious security-related offenses.” The alleged spy was later identified as Haj Yahya, a well-known political leader and activist within the Palestinian community in Israel.
2020 - The U.N. patent agency said China was the biggest source of applications for international patents in the world in 2019, pushing the U.S. out of the top spot it has held since the global system was set up more than 40 years ago.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. Navy reported 230 crew members of the USS Theodore Roosevelt had tested positive. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned over fallout from his ouster of Capt. Brett Crozier. 2)Mainland China reported no coronavirus deaths for the first time since the pandemic began. 3)Sales of sex toys in Denmark more than doubled after Danes were told to stay at home to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
2021 - Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife and two of their grandchildren were among six people who were fatally shot in South Carolina. The next morning suspect Phillip Adams -- a former NFL player -- was found after he killed himself. A posthumous brain examination of Adams revealed that he had an unusually severe form of C.T.E., a degenerative brain disease found in athletes and others with a history of repeated hits to the head.
2021 - U.S. lawyers working to reunite migrant families that Donald Trump had separated said they still could not find the parents of 445 children.
2022 - European leaders, punishing Russia for atrocities carried out in Ukraine, approved a ban on Russian coal.
2022 - Congress voted to end normal trade relations with Moscow and codify the ban on Russian oil. Votes on the two bills were unanimous in the Senate, with all 100 senators supporting the measures. There was minimal opposition in the House.
2022 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Three Republicans joined Democrats in confirming the 51-year-old Jackson -- the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.
2023 - Paint opened in the U.S. The comedy stars Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lucy Freyer, Lusia Strus and Stephen Root. (Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public TV painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke... until a younger, better artist steals everything [and everyone] Carl loves.)
2023 - Israeli authorities said at least one person was killed and six were wounded when a car rammed into a group in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub. In a separate incident, two Israeli women were shot to death near a settlement on the occupied West Bank.
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Birthdays on This Day April 7
1770 - William Wordsworth
poet: The Prelude: Growth of a Poet’s Mind; died Apr 23, 18501786 - William King
13th U.S. Vice President: 1st VP to have served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; took the only presidential or vice presidential oath ever administered outside of the United States [Havana, Cuba]; died Apr 18, 1853 [a month after taking that oath]1873 - John (Joseph) ‘Mugsy’ McGraw
‘Little Napoleon’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Orioles [1891-1899/champs: 1894-1897], SL Cardinals [1900], Baltimore Orioles [1901-1902], NY Giants [1902-1906]; manager: NY Giants: most World Series losses [6]; former baseball commissioner; died Feb 25, 19341897 - Walter Winchell
vaudeville performer, journalist, gossip columnist: New York Mirror, radio commentator: “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.”; died Feb 20, 19721908 - Percy Faith
Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, composer: The Theme from "A Summer Place" [1960]; My Heart Cries for You [Guy Mitchell hit], Delicado, Song from Moulin Rouge, Theme for Young Lovers; died Feb 9, 19761913 - Anthony Caruso
actor: The Legend of Grizzly Adams, Savage Harbor, Tierra sangrienta, The Legend of Earl Durand, The Desperate Mission, Daniel Boone; died Apr 4, 20031914 - Ralph Flanagan
pianist, arranger for Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Tony Pastor, Boyd Raeburn, Alvino Rey, Tony Martin, Mindy Carson, Perry Como Supper Club radio show; bandleader: Nevertheless, Rag Mop, Harbor Lights, Slow Poke, Hot Toddy; theme song: Singing Winds; died Dec 30, 19951915 - Stanley Adams
actor: Woman in the Rain, Cop on the Beat, The Clones, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask, Mannix, Adam-12; died Apr 27, 19771915 - Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)
‘Lady Day’: jazz singer: Lover Man, They Can’t Take that Away from Me, Fine and Mellow, Don’t Explain, Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child; died July 17, 19591917 - R.G. Armstrong
actor: The Waking, The Man in the Iron Mask [1998], Payback, Warlock: The Armageddon, Dick Tracy [1990], War and Remembrance; died Jul 27, 20121920 - Ravi Shankar
musician: sitar: played at Woodstock [1969] and with George Harrison in the Bangla-Desh Benefit concerts [1971]; was George Harrison’s sitar teacher; was resident lecturer at CCNY; died Dec 11, 20121922 - Mongo (Ramon) Santamaria
bandleader, composer, musician: conga drums: Afro Blue, Watermelon Man; appeared in film: Made in Paris; played with Perez Prado and Tito Puente; died Feb 1, 20031928 - James Garner (James Scott Bumgarner)
actor: Rockford Files, Maverick, The Americanization of Emily, Victor/Victoria, Tank, A Man Called Sledge, Duel at Diablo, The Distinguished Gentleman, My Fellow Americans, Space Cowboys; died Jul 19, 20141930 - Andrew Sachs
actor: Fawlty Towers, Frightmare, Revenge of the Pink Panther, History of the World, Part I, Coronation Street, Run For Your Wife, Quartet; died Nov 23, 20161931 - Daniel Ellsberg
author: known for releasing Pentagon Papers to the New York Times; died Jun 16, 20231932 - Cal Smith
singer: Country Bumpkin, I’ll Just Go Home, The Only Thing I Want, I’ve Found Somone of My Own, It’s Time to Pay the Fiddler, Come See About Me; died Oct 10, 20131933 - Wayne Rogers
actor: M*A*S*H, Cool Hand Luke, Passion in Paradise, Pocket Money, The Killing Time, Chiefs, The Gig; died Dec 31, 20151935 - Bobby Bare
Grammy Award-winning country singer: Detroit City [1964]; All America Boy [as Bill Parsons], Shame on Me, 500 Miles Away from Home; actor: A Distant Trumpet1937 - Gail Cogdill
football: Detroit Lions [one of the Lion’s all-time receiving champs], Baltimore Colts; died Oct 20, 20161937 - Charlie Thomas
singer: group: The Drifters: There Goes My Baby, When My Little Girl is Smiling, Save the Last Dance for Me, Up on the Roof, This Magic Moment, Under the Boardwalk, Sweets for My Sweet, Saturday Night at the Movies, On Broadway, Dance With Me; died Jan 31, 20231938 - Jerry Brown
career politician: Governor of California [1975-1983, 2011-2019], Mayor of Oakland CA [1999-2007], California Attorney General [2007-2011]1938 - Spencer Dryden
musician: drums: group: Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit; died Jan 11, 20051939 - Francis Ford Coppola
Academy Award-winning director: The Godfather: Part II [1974], screenwriter: Patton [1970], The Godfather [1973], The Godfather: Part II [1974]; The Godfather: Part III, Apocalypse Now, Finian’s Rainbow, Peggy Sue Got Married1939 - David Frost
TV host: That Was the Week that Was, The David Frost Show; died Aug 31, 20131943 - Mick Abrahams
musician: guitar: groups: Blodwyn Pig; Jethro Tull: Serenade to a Cuckoo1945 - Joël Robuchon
French chef, restaurateur: operates restaurants around the world with a total of 28 Michelin Guide stars among them – the most of any chef in the world; died Aug 6, 20181947 - Patricia Bennett
singer: The Chiffons: Tonight’s the Night, He’s So Fine, One Fine Day, A Love So Fine, I Have a Boyfriend, Sweet Talkin’ Guy1949 - John Oates
songwriter, singer: group: Hall and Oates: She’s Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl, I Can’t Go for That, Private Eyes, Maneater1951 - John Dittrich
musician: drums, singer: group: Restless Heart: A Tender Lie, The Bluest Eyes in Texas, Why Does It Have to Be [Wrong or Right], Wheels, That Rock Won’t Roll, I’ll Still Be Loving You1951 - Janis Ian (Fink)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: At Seventeen [1975]; Society’s Child1952 - Bruce Gary
musician: drums: group: The Knack: My Sharona, Good Girls Don’t, Baby Talks Dirty1954 - Jackie Chan
martial arts performer, actor: Rush Hour film series, The Big Brawl, The Cannonball Run, The Protector, Ninja Thunderbolt, Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights; more1954 - Tony Dorsett
Pro Football Hall Famer: Univ of Pittsburgh: career record: for yards gained: 1976 Heisman Trophy winner; Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl XII champs, Super Bowl XIII1955 - Alexandra Neil
actress: Texas, Ryan’s Hope, Another World, Guiding Light, Something’s Gotta Give, Suits, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Wall Street1960 - James ‘Buster’ Douglas
boxing champion: defeated Mike Tyson1964 - Russell Crowe
Academy Award-winning actor: Gladiator [2001]; A Beautiful Mind, The Quick and the Dead, L.A. Confidential, The Insider1965 - Bill Bellamy
stand-up comic, actor: Dress 2 Impre$$, Getting Played, Buying the Cow, The Brothers, Any Given Sunday, Love Stinks1967 - Steve Wisniewski
football [guard]: Penn State Univ; NFL: LA/Oakland Raiders1969 - Ricky Watters
football [running back]: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks1975 - Rondé Barber
football [cornerback]: Univ of Virginia; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1997–2012]: 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII champs; twin brother of football player Tiki Barber1975 - Tiki Barber
football [running back]: Univ of Virginia; NFL: NY Giants; twin brother of football player Rondé Barber1975 - Ron Belliard
baseball [shortstop, second/third base]: Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals1975 - Heather Burns
actress: Miss Congeniality, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, You’ve Got Mail, The Groomsmen, One Life to Live, Two Weeks Notice, What’s Your Number?, Bored to Death1976 - Kevin Alejandro
actor: Golden Boy, Southland, True Blood, Ugly Betty, Sleeper Cell, The Young and the Restless, Shark, Crossing Over, Red State, Cassadaga1977 - Troy Edwards
football [wide receiver]: Louisiana Tech Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, SL Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars1979 - Adrián Beltré
baseball [shortstop, third base]: Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners1985 - Ben McKee
musician: bass: group: Imagine Dragons: It’s Time, Demons, Radioactive1988 - Ed Speleers
actor: Eragon, Outlander, Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Star Trek: Picard, You
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1946Oh, What It Seemed to Be (facts) - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Personality (facts) - Johnny Mercer
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