Celebrity Birthdays
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statesman and orator Edward Everett in 1794; U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Charles Evans Hughes in 1862; fashion designer Oleg Cassini
in 1913; Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in 1928;
actor Joel Grey in 1932; and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Ellen Goodman in 1948.
For April 12, celeb birthdays
include American statesman Henry Clay in 1777; opera singer Lily
Pons in 1904; bandleader Lionel Hampton in 1909; singer Tiny
Tim in 1922; actress/dancer Ann Miller in 1923; jazz keyboard player
Herbie Hancock in 1940; Married…With Children actor Ed
O’Neill in 1946; Hunt for Red October author Tom Clancy in
1947; talk show host David Letterman in 1947; actor Dan Lauria in
1947; actor/singer David Cassidy in 1950; The Untouchables actor
Andy Garcia in 1956; country singer Vince Gill in 1957; bad girl
actress Shannen Doherty in 1971; and Igby Goes Down actress
Claire Danes in 1979.
On April 13, our birthdays include Thomas
Jefferson, third president of the United States, in 1743; Frank
Woolworth, founder of the five-and-dime stores, in 1852; Alfred
Butts, inventor of the game Scrabble, in 1899; Waiting for Godot
playwright Samuel Beckett in 1906; A Worn Path author
Eudora Welty in 1909; actor/singer Howard Keel in 1917; actor
Lyle Waggoner in 1935; actor Paul Sorvino in 1939; Leave It To
Beaver actor Tony Dowin 1945; soulful crooner Al Green in
1946; soulful crooner Peabo Bryson in 1951; Late Night with Conan
O’Brien bandleader Max Weinberg in 1951; Beauty and the Beast
actor Ron Perlman in 1950; and actor Rick (tho’ we’ll always
remember him as Ricky) Schroeder in 1970.
Those celebs born on
April 14 include “miracle worker” Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen
Keller, in 1866; British actor Sir John Gielgud in 1904; Haitian dictator
Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier in 1907; actor Rod Steiger in 1925;
actor Bradford Dillman in 1930; country superstar Loretta Lynn in
1935; former New York City police detective Frank Serpico in 1936;
actress Julie Christie in 1941; former Cincinnati Reds player/manager
Pete Rose in 1941; actress Emma Thompson in 1959; actor Robert
Carlyle in 1961; The Breakfast Club actor Anthony Michael Hall
in 1968; and everyone’s favorite slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar in
1977.
On April 15, we have celebrity birthdays that include
Italian master painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in 1452; British
polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross in 1800; Washington Square
author Henry James in 1843; painter Thomas Hart Benton in
1889; Molly McGee radio actress Marian Jordan in 1897;
Bewitched actress Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933, actress Claudia
Cardinale in 1939; Hints from Heloise columnist Heloise Cruse
in 1951; and Imagining Argentina actress Emma Thompson in
1959.
The birthdays of April 16 include French writer Anatole
France in 1844; aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright in 1867; legendary
actor/comedian/director Charlie Chaplin in 1889; British actor Peter
Ustinov in 1921; composer/conductor Henry Mancini in 1924; jazz
flutist Herbie Mann in 1930; singer Bobby Vinton in 1935;
basketball player-turned-actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1947; actress
Ellen Barkin in 1955; actor Jon Cryer in 1965; actor Martin
Lawrence in 1965; and singer Selena in 1971.
On April
17, celebrating celebs include American industrialist and financier J.P.
Morgan in 1837; Out of Africa author Baroness Karen Blixen
(Isak Dinesen) in 1885; Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1894;
novelist and Our Town playwright Thornton Wilder in 1897; actor
William Holden in 1918; television journalist Harry Reasoner in
1923; music promoter Don Kirshner in 1934; and actress Olivia
Hussey in 1951.
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<i>Hush</i>, in hardcover format on April 30. This will be just in time for Free
Comic Book Day and the signing, both of which are scheduled for May
3.<br><br>”Being at Flying Colors for Free Comic Book Day makes a lot of sense,”
said Jim Lee. ”The very first store signing I ever did was at Flying Colors’
Grand Opening. At the time, Joe was passionate aboster
County, and make a stop by Shupps Grove while you’re at it? Shupps Grove is the
first outdoor antique market in the Adamstown area, and they’ve been in
operation since 1962.<br><br>Now, they’re kicking the season off on April 18, 19
and 20 with their Spring Opening, and continuing April 24 - 27 with their Spring
Extravaganza. Acres upon acres of unique and wonr><br>”I think I’d pick the Silver Age
Flash. There’s too many books to read, too many photographs to catalogue, too
many exhibits to see...super-speed would make all that much easier. And in the
Silver Age, nobody was really trying to kill you. ”<br>Mike Rhode <br>Archivist,
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC<br><br>”Wonder Woman is
an inspirational role model in that she values democracy and respects the right