August 1st:
On her Birthday, remembering Henrietta Lacks [formerly Loretta Pleasant; 1920-1951]; source of the HeLa cell line; the first immortalised human cell line....
August 1st:
On her Birthday, remembering Henrietta Lacks [formerly Loretta Pleasant; 1920-1951]; source of the HeLa cell line; the first immortalised human cell line....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Mrunal Thakur; actress....
August 1st:
On her Birthday, remembering Meena Kumari [1933-1972]; actress and poet....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Honeysuckle Weeks; actress....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Henry Lloyd Hughes; actor....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Leon Thomas III; actor, record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Michael Penn; singer-songwriter and composer....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Tiffany Young; singer....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Giancarlo Giannini; actor, voice actor, film director and screenwriter....
August 1st
Happy Birthday to Tempestt Bledsoe; actress.....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Laila Morse [Maureen Oldman]; actress.....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Max Carver; actor....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Joe Elliott; actor;
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Chuck D [Carlton Douglas Ridenhour]; rapper, Public Enemy.....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Surveen Chawla; actress and dancer....
August 1st:
On his Birthday, remembering Taylor Negron [Brad Stephen Negron; 1957-2015]; actor, comedian, painter and playwright...
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Cymphonique Miller; singer and actress....
August 1st:
On his Birthday, remembering Geoffrey Holder [Geoffrey Lamont Holder; 1930-2014]; actor, dancer, musician and artist....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Oona Laurence; actress.....
August 1st:
On her Birthday, remembering Nathalie Delon [Francine Canovas, formerly Nathalie Barthelemy; 1941-2021]; actress and film director.....
August 1st:
Happy Birthday to Elijah Kelley; actor, singer and dancer....
August 2nd:
Quote for the Day:
"Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant?
How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse, carrying a briefcase?"
- Myrna Loy, in her autobiography, 'Being And Becoming', 1987.
On her Birthday, remembering Myrna Loy [Myrna Adele Williams; 1905-1993]; actress...
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Joe Harnell [Joseph Harnell; 1924-2005]; composer, musician and arranger....
August 2nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Doris Coley [Doris Coley Kenner; Doris Kenner Jackson; 1941-2000]; R&B, doo-wop and soul singer; The Shirelles....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Apollonia Kotero [Patricia Apollonia Kotero]; R&B, disco, funk and soul singer; actress, former model and talent manager....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Homer Banks [1941-2003]; soul singer, songwriter and record producer.....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Garth Hudson [Eric Garth Hudson]; rock multi-instrumentalist, organist, keyboards and saxophonist with The Band....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Andy Fairweather Low [rock and pop guitarist, songwriter, producer and vocalist; founder member of Amen Corner...
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Kathy Lennon [Kathleen Mary Lennon]; traditional pop singer; The Lennon Sisters....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Ted Turner [David Alan Turner]; rock guitarist and vocalist; Wishbone Ash....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Butch Patrick [Patrick Alan Lilley]; former child actor; Eddie Munster; Mark on 'Lidsville'.....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Joanna Cassidy [Joanna Virginia Caskey]; actress....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Edward Furlong [Edward Walter Furlong]; actor and musician....
August 2nd:
Happy Birthday to Nehemiah Persoff; retired actor and painter; celebrating his 102nd Birthday.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Andrew Gold [Andrew Maurice Gold; 1951-2011]; pop singer, songwriter, musician and arranger.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Fat Larry [Larry James; 1949-1987]; R&B and funk drummer and vocalist; Fat Larry's Band......
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Jim Capaldi [1944-2005]; rock and pop drummer, singer and songwriter.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Peter O'Toole [Peter Seamus O'Toole]; 1932-2013; actor....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Carroll O'Connor [John Carroll O'Connor; 1924-2001]; actor, producer and director.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Gary Merrill [Gary Fred Merrill; 1915-1990]; actor....
August 2nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Beatrice Straight [Beatrice Whitney Straight; 1914-2001]; actress.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Hank Cochran [Garland Perry Cochran; 1935-2010]; country music singer and songwriter.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Tom Bell [Thomas George Bell; 1933-2006]; actor....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering James Baldwin [James Arthur Baldwin; 1924-1987]; novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Bill Scott [William John Scott; 1920-1985]; voice actor, writer and producer for animated cartoons....
August 2nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Ann Dvorak [Anna McKim; 1912-1979]; actress.....
August 2nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Ruth Nelson [Ruth Gloria Nelson; 1905-1992]; actress.....
August 2nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Helen Morgan [Helen Riggins; 1900-1941]; singer and actress....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Jack L. Warner [Jacob Warner, later Jack Leonard Warner; 1892-1978]; film executive, Warner Brothers studios.....
August 2nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Bob Burns [Robin Burn; 1890-1956]; actor and comedian....
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