Entertainment:
Amanda Peet is an actress known for the TV shows “Brockmire” and “Jack & Jill”.
Marc Blucas is an actor known for the TV shows “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Necessary Roughness”.
Jedidiah Goodacre is an actor known for the TV shows “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “The Order”.
Kim Coles is an actress known for the TV shows “Living Single” and “The Geena Davis Show”.
Rockmond Dunbar is an actor known for the TV shows “Prison Break” and “9-1-1”.
Aja Naomi King is an actress known for the movie “The Birth of A Nation” and the TV show “How to Get Away with Murder”.
Phyllis Logan is an actress known for the TV shows “Lovejoy” and “Downton Abbey”.
Dawn Lyn is an actress known for the TV show “My Three Sons” and the movie “Walking Tall”.
Joel Zwick is a director known for the movies “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “Elvis Has Left the Building”.
Malcom D Lee is a director known for the movies “The Best Man” franchise and “Soul Men”.
Mary J Blige is a singer-actress who has won nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award.
Sports:
Baseball:
Elly De La Cruz is an infielder for the Cincinnati Reds who has made one All-Star team and has the league in stolen bases once.
JP Crawford is a shortstop for the Seattle Mariners who has won one Gold Glove Award.
Rey Ordonez is a former shortstop who won three Gold Glove Awards.
Danny Salazar is a starting pitcher who made one All-Star team.
Lloyd McClendon is a former outfielder who is known for becoming the first African American manager or head coach of any of Pittsburgh’s three major sports teams and is famous for his arguments with umpires that led to him taking a base with him.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Donn Pall, Ben Rivera, Warren Morris, Jack Curtis, Hank Fischer, Rick Henninger, Glenn Redmon, Dan Norman, Nicko Riesgo, Alex Delgado, Jermaine Allensworth, Cody McKay, Greg Aquino, Rico Noel, Stevie Wilkerson, Stephen Nogosek & Nick Solak!
In Memoriam:
Entertainment:
Rod Taylor was an actor known for the movie “The Birds” and the TV show “Falcon Crest”.
Naomi Judd was a singer-actress who formed the duo known as The Judds, with her daughter Wynonna that became a successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards.
Sports:
Basketball:
Chris Ford was a former guard-coach who won one NBA Championship in 1981 with the Boston Celtics and is credited with the hitting the first official three point ever. He also won two more NBA Championships as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics.
Darryl Dawkins was a center who one NBA Championship in 1989 with the Detroit Pistons and is known his powerful dunks which led the NBA to adopting breakaway rims due to him shattering a backboard on occasion.
Baseball:
Max Carey was a Hall of Fame center fielder who led the league in stolen bases ten times and won one World Series Championship in 1925 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Elmer Flick was a Hall of Fame outfielder who led the league in stolen bases twice and won one batting title.
Schoolboy Rowe was a starting pitcher who won made three All-Star teams and one World Series Championship in 1935 with the Detroit Tigers. He got his nickname for playing for a men’s team at age 15 but he was mostly known for his eccentric superstitions, including talking to the baseball. He was also famous for his catchphrase, “How’m I doing, Edna?” which was a way to refer to his beloved high school sweetheart (and later his wife) back in Arkansas.
Don Mossi was a starting pitcher who made one All-Star and is known more now for his notoriously odd-looking picture on his baseball card, which accentuated his unusual looks. Bill James wrote that Mossi was the “complete ugly player. He could run ugly, hit ugly, throw ugly, field ugly, and ugly for power. He was ugly to all fields”.
General Crowder was pitcher who made one All-Star team and won one World Series Championship in 1935 with the Detroit Tigers.
Silver King was a pitcher who 203 games for seven different teams before the turn of the century.