September 5th Birthdays
If you were born on September 5th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Carol Lawrence (nee Carolina Maria Laraia; ex of Robert Goulet)
American Tony Award-winning actress of stage (West Side Story), TV (Bernice Stein on Valley of the Dolls; Angela Eckert on General Hospital; The Mighty Mouse Playhouse; Mr. and Mrs. Dracula) and movies (A View From the Bridge; Amore!), born September 5, 1932. (Carol Lawrence 1961 Photo: GE)
William Devane
American actor of TV (Greg Sumner on Knots Landing; From Here to Eternity; James Heller on 24 & 24: Live Another Day; Jesse Stone movies) and films (Marathon Man; Family Plot; Yanks; Space Cowboys; The Dark Knight Rises), born September 5, 1939. (William Devane 1983 Photo)
George Lazenby (ex of Pam Shriver)
Australian actor of movies (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; Star of Jaipur; Universal Soldier; Who Saw Her Die?; Four Dogs Playing Poker) and television (General Hospital; Rituals; The Pretender), born September 5, 1939. (George Lazenby 1969 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Album Illustration: Johan Oomen)
Al Stewart (nee Alastair Ian Stewart)
Scottish folk rock singer & songwriter (Year of the Cat; Time Passages; Song on the Radio; Midnight Rocks; On the Border; Lord Grenville; Fields of France; The Palace of Versailles; Running Man; Nostradamus; Sand in Your Shoes; Roads to Moscow), born September 5, 1945. (Al Stewart 1978 Photo: Janus)
Loudon Wainwright III (son of Loudon Wainwright Jr.)
Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter (Dead Skunk), actor of TV & movies (Undeclared; M*A*S*H; Parks and Recreation; Knocked Up; The 40-Year-Old Virgin; The Slugger’s Wife) born September 5, 1946. Father of Rufus Wainwright; ex of Kate McGarrigle. (Loudon Wainwright III 2006: Carl Lender)
Dennis Dugan (ex of Joyce Van Patten)
American director, actor of TV (Richie Brockelman, Private Eye; Empire; Shadow Chasers; Moonlighting; Hill Street Blues) and movies (Parenthood; Can’t Buy Me Love; She’s Having a Baby; Happy Gilmore; The Howling; Big Daddy; Grown Ups 2), born September 5, 1946. (Dennis Dugan 1978 Photo: NBC TV)
Cathy Guisewite (ex of Christopher Wilkinson)
Reuben & Emmy Award-winning American TV movie screenwriter (Cathy’s Valentine; Cathy’s Last Resort; Cathy), former advertising executive, Cathy cartoonist & comic strip creator (1976-2010), and author (The Cathy Chronicles), born September 5, 1950. (Cathy Guisewite 1987 Photo: Alan Light)
Michael Keaton (nee Michael John Douglas; ex of Caroline McWilliams)
Emmy-winning American actor of TV & films (Mr. Mom; Beetlejuice; Clean and Sober; Batman movies; Pacific Heights; The Paper; RoboCop; Birdman; Jack Frost; Desperate Measures; First Daughter; Gung Ho), born September 5, 1951. Ex-partner of Courteney Cox. (Michael Keaton 2002: Georges Biard)
Kristian Alfonso (nee Kristian-Joy Alfonso)
American fashion model cover girl (Seventeen; Vogue), hostess and actress of television (Hope Williams Brady on Days of Our Lives; Pilar Ortega Cumson on Falcon Crest; Melrose Place; Secret Lives) and movies (Joshua Tree), born September 5, 1963. (Kristian Alfonso 2006 Photo: Jennifer Tse)
Rose McGowan (nee Rósa Arianna McGowan)
Italian-born American child model, actress of TV (Paige on Charmed; Chosen; Nip/Tuck) & films (Grindhouse; Planet Terror; The Doom Generation; Jawbreaker; Southie; Phantoms; Scream; The Black Dahlia), born September 5, 1973. Ex-fiance of Marilyn Manson, Robert Rodriguez. (Rose McGowan 2007: Jeff Balke)
(Freddie Mercury 1975: EMI | Raquel Welch 1975 NBC Television)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on September 5th!
Remember These September 5th Famous Birthdays
Bob Newhart (nee George Robert Newhart; son-in-law of Bill Quinn)
Peabody, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning American comedian (The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart), actor of TV (The Bob Newhart Show; Newhart; Bob) and movies (Hell is For Heroes; Catch-22; Elf; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; In & Out; The Rescuers Down Under) (born Sept. 5, 1929 – died July 18, 2024; age 94). (Bob Newhart 1962 What’s My Line?)
Raquel Welch (nee Jo Raquel Tejada; ex of Patrick Curtis, Andre Weinfeld)
American Playboy model, actress of TV & films (One Million Years B.C.; Fantastic Voyage; Bandolero!; 100 Rifles; Hannie Caulder; The Three Musketeers; Fuzz; Kansas City Bomber; The Biggest Bundle of Them All; Fathom), author, and businesswoman (born Sept. 5, 1940 – died Feb. 15, 2023; age 82). Mother of Tahnee Welch. (Raquel Welch 1975 Saturday Night Live: NBC TV)
Rod Arrants (nee Rodney Allen Arrants; ex of Patricia Estin)
American actor of TV (Austin Cushing on Another World & For Richer, for Poorer; Dr. Steven Lassiter on The Young and the Restless; Richard Cates on Days of Our Lives; Travis Sentell on Search for Tomorrow; Dallas) and movies (Ape; Vamping; Dark Planet; Rent) (born Sept. 5, 1944 – died Feb. 21, 2021; age 76). (Rod Arrants c. 1980 Photo: KingKongKuddy)
Freddie Mercury (nee Farrokh Bulsara)
Songwriters & Rock and Roll Halls of Fame Zanzibari-British 4-octave lead singer of Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody; We Are the Champions; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Killer Queen; Another One Bites the Dust; Radio Ga Ga; I Want to Break Free; Somebody to Love) (born Sept. 5, 1946 – died Nov. 24, 1991; age 45). Freddie Mercury died of AIDS. (Freddie Mercury 1975: EMI)
Darryl F. Zanuck (married Virginia Fox; father of Richard D. Zanuck)
Academy Award-winning American movie studio executive (Warner Bros.; Twentieth Century-Fox) & producer (The Grapes of Wrath; How Green Was My Valley; Gentleman’s Agreement; All About Eve; The Longest Day; The Snows of Kilimanjaro) (born Sept. 5, 1902 – died Dec. 22, 1979; age 77). Darryl F. Zanuck died of pneumonia. (Darryl F. Zanuck 1950 Photo)
American best-selling historical and romance novelist (The Foxes of Harrow; The Saracen Blade; Fair Oaks; Goat Song; Judas, My Brother; The Dahomean; Floodtide; The Vixens; The Golden Hawk) (born Sept. 5, 1916 – died July 17, 1991; age 89). Frank Yerby died of congestive heart failure. (Frank Yerby 1947 Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper / LoC)
Blacklisted American movie actor (Dead Reckoning; Address Unknown; Joe Palooka in the Knockout; Cyrano de Bergerac; Cornered; Rhapsody in Blue; Our Vines Have Tender Grapes; The Gambler; Gun Crazy; A View From the Bridge; Siren of Atlantis; The Second Woman; Saigon; Edge of Darkness) (born Sept. 5, 1897 – died Sept. 1, 1992; age 94). (Morris Carnovsky 1947 Dishonored Lady)
Florence Eldridge (married Fredric March)
American actress of stage and movies (Christopher Columbus; The Greene Murder Case; An Act of Murder; Mary of Scotland; Les Misérables; The Story of Temple Drake; The Great Jasper; Another Part of the Forest; A Modern Hero; The Matrimonial Bed) (born Sept. 5, 1901 – died Aug. 1, 1988; age 86). Florence Eldridge died of a heart attack. (Florence Eldridge 1960 Inherit the Wind)
Andrew Arbuckle (brother of Macklyn Arbuckle; cousin of “Fatty” Arbuckle)
American actor of vaudeville & silent films (Little Mary Sunshine; Peggy Leads the Way; Jazz Mad; The Heart Breakers; The Family Skeleton; The Red Circle; The Matrimonial Martyr; Big Tremaine; The Hoodlum; Happiness; His Own Home Town; A Romance of Happy Valley; The Clean Heart;Name the Man!) (born Sept. 5, 1887 – died Sept. 21, 1938; age 51). (Andrew Arbuckle 1922 Photo: Camera)
Mel Sheppard (nee Melvin Whinfield Sheppard; aka “Peerless Mel“)
American world record-setting middle distance runner, Summer Olympic Games multiple medalist (1908 London 3X gold – 1500m, 800m, 4X 400 medley relay; 1912 Stockholm – 4X400m relay gold, 800m silver), World War I military training camp athletic director, & amateur athletic club coach (born Sept. 5, 1883 – died Jan. 4, 1942; age 58). (Mel Sheppard c. 1908)
Frank Shuster (father of Rosie Shuster; cousin of Joe Shuster)
Canadian comedian with comedy partner Johnny Wayne in the Canadian Army during WWII, on stage, radio, & TV (The Wayne and Shuster Hour; The Wayne & Shuster Show; The Ed Sullivan Show; THe Wayne & Shuster Superspecial) (born Sept. 5, 1916 – died Jan. 13, 2002; age 85). Frank Shuster died of pneumonia. (Frank Shuster c. 1939-1945 Photo: Ken Bell / DoD Canada)
John Stewart
American folk musician (banjo & guitar), songwriter (Daydream Believer; Strange Rivers), singer solo (Gold) and with The Kingston Trio from 1961-1967 (Where Have All the Flowers Gone?; Greenback Dollar) (born Sept. 5, 1939 – died Jan. 19, 2008; age 68). John Stewart had Alzheimer’s Disease and died of a brain aneurism. (John Stewart 1961 The Gertrude Berg Show)
American silent film actress (The Primrose Path; In Again, Out Again; Love in the Dark; Stormswept; The Treasure Train; When the Devil Drives; The Valley of Doubt; Tipped Off; The Hidden Hand; Bucking the Barrier; Life; The Dawn of Freedom; The Man Who Found Himself; Barriers Burned Away) (born Sept. 5, 1885 – died Apr. 5, 1978; age 92). (Arline Pretty 1917: Vitagraph / Motography)
Jack Buetel (nee John Alexander Beutel)
American actor of television (Deputy Jeff Taggert on Judge Roy Bean; Wagon Train; 26 Men; Hawaiian Eye; Lawman; Maverick; Mackenzie’s Raiders; Your Favorite Story) and feature films (The Outlaw; Best of the Badmen; Rose of Cimarron; The Half-Breed; Jesse James’ Women; Mustang!) (born Sept. 5, 1915 – died June 27, 1989; age 73). (Jack Buetel 1941: Motion Picture Herald)
Doris Kenyon (married Milton Sills; ex of Arthur Hopkins, Albert D. Lasker)
American singer, actress of stage, TV, silent movies (Monsieur Beaucaire; Idle Tongues; Burning Daylight; Ladies at Play; A Thief in Paradise; Bright Lights of Broadway), classic films (Counsellor at Law; Whom the Gods Destroy; The Road to Singapore; Young America; Voltaire; Along Came Love; The Man in the Iron Mask) (born Sept. 5, 1897 – died Sept. 1, 1979; age 81). (Doris Kenyon 1928)
King Louis XIV of France (nee Louis Dieudonné; aka “The Sun King“)
Longest-reigning sovereign, Bourbon King of France (1643 -1715, 72 years); son of King Louis XIII of France & Anne of Austria (Queen Anne of France); married Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain, Archduchess of Austria; grandfather of King Louis XV of France; patron of the arts, & built the Palace of Versailles (born Sept. 5, 1638 – died Sept. 1, 1715; age 76). (King Louis XIV c. 1670)
Arthur C. Nielsen (nee Arthur Charles Nielsen; father of Arthur Nielsen Jr.)
International Tennis Hall of Fame American Father and Son doubles tennis winner (1945, 1948), pioneering market research analyst; A.C. Nielsen Company founder (test marketing new products; measuring product sales at sample stores; Nielsen TV ratings; National Radio Index) (born Sept. 5, 1897 – died June 1, 1980; age 82). (Arthur c. Nielsen Sr. Painting: A. Hamilton)
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