September 28 – Famous Birthdays
Naomi Watts (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1968
Dita Von Teese (DANCER) 1972
Brigitte Bardot (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1934
September 28 – Famous Birthdays
551 -BC- Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
106 -BC- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior
1573 Caravaggio Italy, painter
1785 David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free
1824 Francis Turner Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women’s Christian Temperance Union
1841 Georges Clemenceau France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss)
1849 Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1852 Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1856 Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1870 Florent Schmitt BlÉmont France, composer (FrÇdÇgonde)
1880 Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1882 Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 Wilbur ‘Lefty’ Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president
1895 Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
19– Eloy Phil Casados Long Beach Calif, actor (Young Daniel Boone)
19– George Lynch rocker (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
19– Michael Clayton Staten Island NY, rock drummer (Tyketto-Wings)
19– Robert Wolders Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
19– Sam Whipple Venice Calif, actor (Terry-Open All Night)
19– Susan Walters Georgia, actress (Loving)
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1905 Max Schmeling Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1905 William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948)
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li’l Abner)
1910 Fran Lee NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr tennis (US Open 1931,32)/golf player
1913 Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1914 Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1916 Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom’s Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London)
1919 Thomas Harmon football player/sportscaster (Heisman winner)
1922 Joe Silver Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1923 Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest)
1923 William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer’s Daughter, Murder She Wrote)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni actor (8´, La Dolce Vita)
1925 Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 Jerry Clower Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1933 Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934 Brigitte Bardot Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1936 Robert Hogan NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1938 Ben E King NC, singer (Stand by Me)
1940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1941 Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1942 Grant Jackson pitcher (1972 NY Yankees)
1943 Gertrud “Traudl” Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1946 Fiona Lewis Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 Larry Breeding Winchester Ill, actor (Who’s Watching the Kids?)
1948 Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up)
1948 Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Phil Hartman comedian (SNL)
1951 Christian Marlowe LA Calif, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 Dave Rajsich pitcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls)
1954 Steve Largent wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1958 Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980)
1961 Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in ’85 Wimbledon)
1962 Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa rocker (Valley Girl), Frank’s daughter
1968 CarrÇ Otis SF Calif, actress (Wild Orchid)
