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”.
Mary J Blige is a singer-actress who is often referred to as the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” and “Queen of R&B”, Blige 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:
Donn Pall is a former starting pitcher who one World Series Championship in 1997 with the Miami Marlins.
JP Crawford is the current shortstop for the Seattle Mariners who has won one Gold Glove Award.
Rey Ordonez was a former shortstop who won three Gold Glove Awards.
Lloyd McClendon is a former outfielder who played seven seasons for three times, coached for two teams and managed three teams for twenty three seasons. He 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.
Elly De La Cruz is an infielder for the Cincinnati Reds who became the fifth-youngest NL ballplayer at 21 years of age, one of the tallest shortstops in MLB history at 6-foot-5, and one of the fastest ballplayers in baseball and was the youngest player to hit for the cycle since 1972. He also became the first Reds player since Greasy Neale in 1919 to steal second, third and home in the same inning.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Ben Rivera, Warren Morris, Jack Curtis, Hank Fischer, Jim McAndrew, Rick Henninger, Glenn Redmon, Dan Norman, Nicko Riesgo, Alex Delgado, Jermaine Allensworth, Cody McKay, Greg Aquino, Rico Noel, Danny Salazar, 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”.
Sports:
Basketball:
Chris Ford was a former guard who the NBA Championship in 1981 with the Boston Celtics and is credited with the hitting the first official three point ever. He won two more NBA Championships as an assistant coach with those Celtics, coached NBA three teams and for Brandeis in college and was a scout/coaching consultant as well.
Darryl Dawkins was a center known as Chocolate Thunder for his powerful dunks which led the NBA to adopting breakaway rims due to him shattering a backboard on occasion. He played in three NBA Finals and set the record for fouls in a season.
Baseball:
Max Carey was a Hall of Fame center fielder who stole 738 career bases, still ninth all-time, led the league in stolen bases ten times and won one World Series Championship.
Elmer Flick was a Hall of Fame outfielder who led the league in stolen bases twice, led the league in RBIs once and won one batting title.
Schoolboy Rowe was a three time All-Star pitcher who won 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 former starting pitcher who was a one time 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 a one time All-Star pitcher who led the league in wins twice 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.