August 23rd Birthdays
If you were born on August 23rd you share a birthday with these famous people:
Vera Miles is 91 (nee Vera Ralston)
Retired American actress of movies (Psycho; The Searchers; The Wrong Man; Web of Evidence; The FBI Story; One of Our Spies is Missing; Follow Me, Boys!; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Gentle Giant; The Wild Country) and TV (My Three Sons), born August 23, 1929. (Vera Miles 1970 Dan August)
Barbara Eden is 89 (nee Barbara Jean Morehead)
American actress of stage, TV (Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie; Stella Johnson on Harper Valley P.T.A.; Loco Jones on How to Marry a Millionaire) and movies (Flaming Star; Five Weeks in a Balloon; The Brass Bottle; The Amazing Dobermans) born August 23, 1931. (Barbara Eden 1972 The Woman Hater)
American actress of TV (Belle Clemmens Britton Kincaid on The Secret Storm; Dina Abbott Mergeron on The Young and the Restless; General Hospital; The Bold and the Beautiful; Generations; Capitol; Barnaby Jones) and movies (Splendor in the Grass), born August 23, 1938. (Marla Adams 1968 Photo: CBS)
Richard Sanders is 80
American screenwriter & character actor of TV (Les Nessman on WKRP in Cincinnati & The New WKRP in Cincinnati; Spencer; Berrengers) and movies (Neon City; The Nude Bomb; Valley Girl; Men of Honor; The Beans of Egypt, Maine), born August 23, 1940. (Richard Sanders 1981 Photo: AP Newsfeatures Photo)
Tony Bill is 80 (nee Gerard Anthony Bill)
Academy Award-winning American producer, director, and actor of TV (Dr. Kildare) and films (The Sting; Steelyard Blues; Hearts of the West; My Bodyguard; Flyboys; Shampoo; Ice Station Zebra; Less Than Zero; Come Blow Your Horn; Heart Beat), born August 23, 1940. (Tony Bill 1977 Photo: ABC TV)
Nancy Richey is 78
International Tennis Hall of Fame American professional tennis player, Grand Slam women’s tennis winner (Singles – 1967 Australian & 1968 French Open; Doubles – 1965 US Open, 1966 US & Australian Open, Wimbledon), born August 23, 1942. (Nancy Richey 1967 Photo)
Nelson DeMille is 77
American author of the Paul Brenner, Joe Ryker, John Corey, and John Sutter mystery-thriller novels and other books (The Sniper; Plum Island; The General’s Daughter; The Gold Coast; Cathedral; Spencerville; Up Country; The Lion), born August 23, 1943. (Nelson DeMille 2015 Photo: Sandy DeMille)
Rick Springfield is 71 (nee Richard Lewis Springthorp)
Grammy Award-winning Australian singer, songwriter (Jessie’s Girl; Don’t Talk to Strangers; Affair of the Heart), and actor (Hard to Hold; Battlestar Galactica; Mick Barrett on High Tide; Noah Drake on General Hospital), born August 23, 1949. (Rick Springfield 2010 Photo: Photobra Adam Bielawski)
Shelley Long is 71
Emmy Award-winning American senior, actress of TV (Diane Chambers on Cheers & Frasier; Good Advice; Modern Family) and movies (The Money Pit; Outrageous Fortune; Hello Again; Troop Beverly Hills; Irreconcilable Differences; Night Shift), born August 23, 1949. (Shelley Long 1996 Photo: TwinsofSedona)
Woody Paul is 71 (nee Paul Woodrow Chrisman)
American lariat trick artist, country music singer, children’s musical comedy musician (violinist) and performer with Grammy Award-winning band Riders in the Sky (Woody’s Roundup; For the Birds), songwriter (So Long, Saddle Pals), and senior born August 23, 1949. (Woody Paul 2008 Photo: Hugh Pickens)
Mark Hudson is 69
American senior, musician, composer, songwriter (Livin’ on the Edge) & producer of artists and TV (Aerosmith; Ringo Starr; Dog the Bounty Hunter), and performer with the Hudson Brothers (The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show) born August 23, 1951. (Mark Hudson 1975 Photo: CBS TV)
Chris Potter is 60 (nee Christopher Jay Potter)
Canadian actor of TV (Tim Fleming on Heartland; Peter Caine on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues; Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan on Silk Stalkings; Wild Card; Material World; Queer as Folk; The Young and the Restless) and movies (Rockets’ Red Glare), born August 23, 1960. (Chris Potter 2015 Photo: BruceK)
Jay Mohr is 50 (nee Jon Ferguson Mohr)
American comedian and actor of TV (Ghost Whisperer; Gary Unmarried; Saturday Night Live; Last Comic Standing; Camp Wilder) and films (Hereafter; Pay it Forward; Suicide Kings; The Groomsmen; Jerry Maguire), born August 23, 1970. (Jay Mohr 2004 Photo: Journalist 3rd Class Corwin Colbert / US Navy)
(Coffee, Macarons & Flowers Photo: Brook Lark via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on August 23rd!
And remembering
Gene Kelly (nee Eugene Curran Kelly)
American dancer, choreographer, singer & actor on stage, TV (Going My Way), and movies (An American in Paris; Brigadoon; Singin’ in the Rain; For Me and My Gal; Cover Girl; Anchors Aweigh; What a Way to Go!; Marjorie Morningstar) (born Aug. 23, 1912 – died Feb. 2, 1996; age 83). Gene Kelly’s cause of death is unknown. (Gene Kelly 1943 Du Barry Was a Lady Trailer)
American actor of TV (Tom Jeffords on Broken Arrow; Never Too Young; Days of Our Lives; The Young and the Restless; The Virginian; Kung Fu; THe F.B.I.), movies (Escape From Fort Bravo; Taming Sutton’s Gal; The Rebel Set; Three Came to Kill; Airport 1975; Three Came to Kill) (born Aug. 23, 1928 – died Nov. 3, 1993; age 65). John Lupton died of unknown causes. (John Lupton 1959 Black Saddle)
James Millhollin (nee Arthur James Millhollin)
American character actor of TV (Love, American Style; The Odd Couple; 77 Sunset Strip; The Twilight Zone; The Red Skelton Hour; That Girl; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Grindl; Dennis the Menace) and movies (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken; How to Frame a Figg; Zotz!) (born Aug. 23, 1915 – died May 23, 1993; age 77). James Millhollin died of cancer. (James Millhollin 1960 One Step Beyond)
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