August 18 – Famous Birthdays
Patrick Swayze (MOVIE ACTOR) 1952 2009
Edward Norton (MOVIE ACTOR) 1969
Christian Slater (MOVIE ACTOR) 1969
August 18 – Famous Birthdays
472 Flavius Ricimer general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1587 Virginia Dare 1st American born of English parents
1685 Brook Taylor England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor’s Theorem
1750 Antonio Salieri Italy, composer (Tatare)
1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1792 John 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
1834 Marshall Field founded Chicago-based store chain
1873 Otto Harbach songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1896 Alan Mowbray London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
19– Karen Jensen SF Calif, actress (Rachel Holt-Bracken’s World)
19– Taylor Miller New Orleans, actress (All My Children, Another World)
1900 Walter O’Keefe Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1904 Max Factor Jr CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
1904 Sterling W Cole (Rep-R-NY)
1906 Andre Van Gyseghem England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 Enoch Light Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1916 Elsa Morante Italy, writer (L’isola di Arturo)
1916 Moura Lympany Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1917 Casper Weinberger US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1919 Walter J Hickel (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet France, novelist (Voyeur)
1922 Shelley Winters [Schrift], St Louis Mo, actress (Poisidon Adventure)
1924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq pres of Pakistan (1978-88)
1927 Rosalynn Carter Georgia, 1st lady, Pres Carter’s main lust
1930 Grant Williams NYC, actor (Greg-Hawaiian Eye)
1930 Johnny Preston Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1933 Roman Polanski director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
1934 Rafer Lewis Johnson US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 Roberto Clemente pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1935 Gail Fisher Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
1937 Robert Redford Calif, actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
1941 Christopher Jones Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
1943 Martin Mull Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
1945 Nona Hendryx Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1948 Rudy Hartono Kurniawan Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1951 Candice Earley actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
1952 Patrick Swayze Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
1961 John Viscardi NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
1967 Blas Elias Gomez Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 Tracy Tracy rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1968 Greta Lind actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
1970 Malcolm Jamal Warner Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
1971 Trey Ames Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
