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Friday’s Nostalgic News – May 19

“BORN TODAY”

  • Sam Smith (Samuel Frederick Smith) 1992 – Singer
  • Eric Lloyd 1986 – Actor
  • Rebecca Hall 1982 – Actress
  • Drew Fuller1980 – Actor/Producer (Army Wives (2007), Charmed (1998) and The Ultimate Gift (2006))
  • Shooter Jennings 1979 – Singer/Songwriter
  • Amanda De Cadenet 1972 – Photographer, actress and television presenter.
  • Jenny Berggren 1972 – Musician (Ace of Base)
    Alison Elliott 1970 – Actress (The Wings of the Dove)
  • Geraldine Somerville 1967 – Actress (Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone)
  • Polly Walker 1966 Actress – (“Clash Of The Titans”)
  • Sean Whalen 1964 – Actor (Special Unit 2, The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, The 1/2 Hour News Hour)
  • Martyn Ware 1956 – Musician (The Human League)
  • Steven Ford (Steven Meigs Ford) 1956 – Actor, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford
  • Phil Rudd 1954 – Musician (AC/DC)
  • Grace Jones 1952 – Singer, model, actress
  • Joey Ramone 1951 – Musician (The Ramones)
  • Dusty Hill 1949 – Musician (ZZ Top)
  • Pete Townshend 1945 – Musician (The Who)
  • Peter Mayhew 1944 – Actor (“Star Wars”)
  • Nora Ephron 1941 – Diretor, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist
  • Francis Scobee (Francis Richard “Dick” Scobee) 1939 – Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger
  • Stephen Young (Stephen Levy) 1939 – Actor
  • Nancy Kwan 1939 – Actress
  • Andre the Giant 1946 (RIP) – Professional wrestler and actor
  • Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 (RIP) – African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist Ferdinand Magellan (RIP)
  • James Fox 1939 – Actor (The Remains of the Day and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory)
  • David Hartman 1935 – Television personality
  • Jim Lehrer (James Charles “Jim” Lehrer) 1934 – Journalist, news anchor
  • Johns Hopkins 1795 – entrepreneur, philanthropist, mosted noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital

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