October 2 – Famous Birthdays
Sting (ROCK SINGER) 1951
Camilla Belle (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1986
Lene Nystrom (POP SINGER) 1973
October 2 – Famous Birthdays
1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
1851 Ferdinand Foch believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
1869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
1871 Cordell Hull US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
1879 Wallace Stevens Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
1885 Ruth Bryan Rohde US, (Rep), minister to Denmark
1890 Julius “Groucho” Marx NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
1891 H V Porter basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
1895 Bud Abbott Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
1899 Nat Turner famous African
19– Avery Brooks Evansville Ind, actor (Hawk-Spenser for Hire)
19– Betty Kennedy Roswell NM, actress (Andrea-Ladies’ Man)
19– Chip McAllister St Louis Mo, actor (Luther-Better Days)
19– Lani O’Grady Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)
19– Wesley Thompson Chicago Ill, actor (Wardell-He’s the Mayor)
1904 Graham Greene England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
1914 Charles Drake Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)
1921 Robert Runcie archbishop of Canterbury
1928 Clay Felker St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
1928 Spanky McFarland actor (Little Rascals)
1929 Moses Gunn St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
1932 Maury Wills baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
1938 Rex Reed Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
1939 Yuri N Glazkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
1945 Don McLean singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
1945 Neil Frances Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)
1946 Roger Jett Maryland, actor (Smithereens)
1948 Donna Karan Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
1950 Persis Khambatta Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
1951 Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
1951 Romina Power LA Calif, actress (Justine)
1951 Sting AKA Gordon Sumner, rocker (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
1952 George Meegen England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
1954 Lorraine Bracco actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
1957 Kimberly Herrin Santa Barbara Calif, playmate (March, 1981)
1960 Glenn Anderson Vancouver, NHL (Edmonton Oilers)
1961 Phil Oakey rocker (Human League-Human)
1961 Robbie Nevil rocker (A Place Like This)
1962 Esai Morales actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
1964 Sherry Arnett St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
1965 Jill Powell Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
1970 Kelly Ripa actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
1971 “Tiffany” Renee Darwich Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1991 Beau Grayson son of country singer Tanya Tucker
