December 4th Birthdays
If you were born on December 4th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Wink Martindale (nee Winston Conrad Martindale)
American television producer, game show announcer, host & actor (The New Tic-Tac-Dough; Dream Girl of ’67; How’s Your Mother-in-Law; Words and Music; The Bold and the Beautiful; Trivial Pursuit; Hilton Head Island), born December 4, 1933. (Wink Martindale 1964-1965 Photo: NBC TV)
Freddy Cannon (nee Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr.; “Boom Boom“)
American rock & roll musician, and singer-songwriter (Palisades Park; Tallahassee Lassie; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Abigail Beecher; In the Night; Action; Jump Over; The Dedication Song; Patty Baby), born December 4, 1936. (Freddy Cannon 1965 Photo: Warner Brothers Records)
Max Baer Jr. (nee Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr.; son of Max Baer Sr.)
American producer, director, & actor of TV (Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies; Cheyenne; Maverick; 77 Sunset Strip; Hawaiian Eye; Matt Houston; Maverick), movies (The Wild McCullochs; Macon County Line; A Time for Killing), born December 4, 1937. Nephew of Buddy Baer. (Max Baer Jr. 1962)
Chris Hillman
American country-rock musician, singer-songwriter (Love Reunited), and founding member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band The Byrds (So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star; Have You Seen Her Face; Turn! Turn! Turn!), born December 4, 1944. (Chris Hillman 1972 TopPop Photo: Beeld en Geluid Wiki)
Anna McGarrigle
Juno Award-winning Canadian folk-rock musician, songwriter (Heart Like a Wheel; Heartbeats Accelerating), and singer with her sister Kate McGarrigle (The Log Driver’s Waltz; Gentle Annie; Go Leave), born December 4, 1944. (Anna McGarrigle 1948 Photo: Penguin Random House Canada)
Landscape photographer, author (Canada A Landscape of Dreams), NASA research scientist, environmental philanthropist (The Roberta Bondar Foundation), & the first neurologist & female Canadian astronaut in space (STS-42), born December 4, 1945. (Roberta Bondar 1991 Photo: JSC / NASA)
Southside Johnny (nee John Lyon)
American songwriter, lead singer of “The New Jersey Sound” rock band Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (I Don’t Want to Go Home; Talk to Me; The Fever; Hearts of Stone; Tuff Turf; Having a Party), born December 4, 1948. (Southside Johnny 2008 Photo: Wasted Time R at English Wikipedia)
Jeff Bridges (nee Jeffrey Leon Bridges; son of Lloyd Bridges)
Oscar-winning American producer, actor of movies (Crazy Heart; Starman; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Against All Odds; True Grit; Jagged Edge; Hearts of the West; Seabiscuit; The Big Lebowski; King Kong) and TV (Sea Hunt), born December 4, 1949. Brother of Beau Bridges. (Jeff Bridges 2000: Ronald Lewis)
Patricia Wettig (married Ken Olin)
Emmy Award-winning American actress of TV (Holly Harper on Brothers & Sisters; Nancy on Thirtysomething; Prison Break; L. A. Doctors; Alias; Breaking News; St. Elsewhere; Courthouse) and movies (City Slickers; Guilty by Suspicion) born December 4, 1951. (Patricia Wettig 1989 Photo: Alan Light)
Marisa Tomei (ex-partner of Logan Marshall-Green)
Academy Award-winning American actress of movies (My Cousin Vinny; Only You; Chaplin; Untamed Heart; What Women Want; In the Bedroom; Someone Like You; Anger Management) & TV (A Different World; Empire; As the World Turns), born December 4, 1964. (Marisa Tomei 2008: David Shankbone)
Chelsea Noble (nee Nancy Mueller; married Kirk Cameron)
American actress of TV (Kristina Andropolous on Days of Our Lives; Growing Pains; Who’s the Boss?; Star Struck; You Lucky Dog; Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers) and films (Instant Karma; The Willies; Left Behind II: Tribulation Force), born December 4, 1964. (Chelsea Noble c 1990s Painting: A. Hamilton)
Fred Armisen (nee Fereydun Robert Armisen; ex of Elisabeth Moss)
Peabody Award-winning American drummer & bandleader (Late Night with Seth Meyers), comedian, producer, & actor of TV (Portlandia; Saturday Night Live) and films (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), born December 4, 1966. Ex-partner of Natasha Lyonne. (Fred Armisen 2008: David Shankbone)
Mike Barrowman (nee Michael Ray Barrowman)
International Swimming Hall of Fame American competitive swimmer, world record-setting 200 m breaststroke World Champion, and 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics 200m breaststroke gold medalist, born December 4, 1968. (Mike Barrowman 1997 Photo: Courtesy Mike Barrowman)
Jay-Z (married Beyoncé)
Grammy-winning Songwriters Hall of Fame American record producer (Roc Nation) & rap singer (Empire State of Mind; Run This Town; Holy Grail; 03 Bonnie & Clyde; Dirt Off Your Shoulder; Swagga Like Us), and entrepreneur (Rocawear; Tidal), born December 4, 1969. (Jay-Z 2003 Photo: Mikamote)
Kevin Sussman
American comedic, actor of TV (Stuart Bloom on The Big Bang Theory; Ugly Betty; Weeds; My Name is Earl), and films (Killers; 2nd Serve; Freeloaders; Little Black Book; Funny Money; Burn After Reading; Wet Hot American Summer), born December 4, 1970. (Kevin Sussman 2017 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Tyra Banks (“Bankx”)
American supermodel, magazine cover girl (Sports Illustrated; Victoria’s Secret; Cosmopolitan; Seventeen), film actress (Coyote Ugly), & Daytime Emmy-winning TV hostess (The Tyra Banks Show; America’s Next Top Model; Dancing with the Stars), born December 4, 1970. (Tyra Banks 2011: Digitas Photos)
(Deanna Durbin 1947 | Lillian Russell 1905: Benjamin Joseph Falk [colorized])
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on December 4th!
Remember These December 4th Famous Birthdays
Horst Buchholz (nee Horst Werner Hasenkamp; “the German James Dean” )
German actor of TV and movies (Tiger Bay; The Magnificent Seven; Avalanche Express; The Young Rebel; Marco the Magnificent; The Enemy; Code Name: Emerald; From Hell to Victory; One, Two, Three; Fanny; The Great Waltz; Aces: Iron Eagle III; Aphrodite) (born Dec. 4, 1933 – died Mar. 3, 2003; age 69). Horst Buchholz died of pneumonia. (Horst Buchholz 1959 Tiger Bay)
Ronnie Corbett (nee Ronald Balfour Corbett)
Scottish comedian, screenwriter, actor of radio, TV (The Two Ronnies; Sorry!; Crackerjack; The Frost Report; No, That’s Me Over Here!; Small Talk; The Corbett Follies) & movies (No Sex Please, We’re British; Fierce Creatures; After the Ball) (born Dec. 4, 1930 – died Mar. 31, 2016; age 85). Ronnie Corbett had motor neurone disease before he died. (Ronnie Corbett 2010 Photo: William melotti)
Deanna Durbin (nee Edna Mae Durbin; married Charles Henri David)
Academy Juvenile Award-winning Canadian singer-actress of movies (Three Smart Girls; That Certain Age; First Love; It’s a Date; Spring Parade; It Started with Eve; The Amazing Mrs. Holliday; Hers to Hold; His Butler’s Sister; Christmas Holiday; Lady on a Train; For the Love of Mary) (born Dec. 4, 1921 – died Apr. 20, 2013; age 91). (Deanna Durbin 1948 Photo: Universal Pictures)
Victor French (ex of Julie Cobb)
American director, stuntman & character actor of TV (Isaiah Edwards on Little House on the Prairie; Mark Gordon on Highway to Heaven; Agent 44 on Get Smart; Chief Mobey on Carter Country; Gunsmoke; Bonanza) and movies (The Quick and the Dead; Charro!) (born Dec. 4, 1934 – died June 15, 1989; age 54). Victor French died of lung cancer. (Victor French 1970 Daniel Boone)
Nurse Edith Cavell
British nurse who saved soldiers in German-occupied Belgium during WWI (born Dec. 4, 1865 – died Oct. 12, 1915; age 49). Nurse Edith Cavell was accused of treason under German military law for helping 200 Allied British & French soldiers escape; she was court-martialed, sentenced to death, and executed by firing squad. (Nurse Edith Cavell c. 1900s)
Donnelly Rhodes (nee Donnelly Rhodes Henry)
Canadian actor of TV (Doc Roberts on Danger Bay; Leo Shannon on Da Vinci’s Inquest; Battlestar Galactica; Soap; The Young and the Restless; Street Legal; The Heights; Hill Street Blues; Sidestreet) and movies (Gunfight in Abilene; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) (born Dec. 4, 1937 – died Jan. 8, 2018; age 80). Donnelly Rhodes died of cancer. (Donnelly Rhodes 1960 Bonanza)
Ned Romero
American opera signer, actor of stage, TV (Dan August; Walker, Texas Ranger; Roswell; Santa Barbara; Shane; Death Valley Days; The F.B.I.; Police Woman; Ironside; Kung Fu; Cannon; The High Chaparral), and movies (Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion; The Violent Ones; Tell Them Willie Boy is Here) (born Dec. 4, 1926 – died Nov. 4, 2017; age 90). (Ned Romero 1971 Dan August)
Colin Kenny
Irish actor and extra of TV, and 300+ classic & silent films (The Egg; Unexpected Places; Little Lord Fauntleroy; Tarzan of the Apes; 813; The Seal of Silence; Toby’s Bow; The Last Straw; Black Beauty; The Fighting Lover; Seeing’s Believing; Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall; Captain Blood; We Are Not Alone) (born Dec. 4, 1888 – died Dec. 2, 1968; age 79). (Colin Kenny 1925)
Lillian Russell (nee Helen Louise Leonard; partner of Diamond Jim Brady)
American singer-actress of comic operas, operettas, Broadway & vaudeville stages, and silent movies (Wildfire; La Tosca; Potted Pantomimes), suffragism advocate, newspaper columnist, and thoroughbred race horse owner (born Dec. 4, 1860 – died June 6, 1922; age 61). Ex of Edward Solomon, Alexander Pollock Moore. (Lillian Russell c. 1905: Benjamin Joseph Falk)
Dennis Wilson (brother of Carl & Brian Wilson; 2X ex of Karen Lamm)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame American pianist, drummer, songwriter, & singer, co-founder of the Beach Boys (Do You Wanna Dance?; [Wouldn’t It Be Nice To] Live Again; Forever; In the Back of My Mind; Good Vibrations; All I Want to Do), & actor (Two-Lane Blacktop) (born Dec. 4, 1944 – died Dec. 28, 1983; age 39). Ex-partner of Christine McVie. (Dennis Wilson 1968)
Lloyd Bacon (son of Frank Bacon; uncle of Virginia O’Brien)
American Broadway & movie actor and director (42nd Street; The Singing Fool; Footlight Parade; Knute Rockne All American; Marked Woman; Wonder Bar; Boy Meets Girl; Captain Eddie; The Fighting Sullivans; Larceny, Inc.; Home, Sweet Homicide; It Happens Every Spring; Footsteps in the Dark; Broncho Billy Misled) (born Dec. 4, 1889 – died Nov. 15, 1955; age 65). (Lloyd Bacon 1924)
Colonel Pappy Boyington (nee Charles Boyington; aka Gregory Hallenbeck)
American U.S. Marine Corps naval aviator, flight instructor; Flying Tigers pilot; WWII Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 214 “Black Sheep Squadron” commanding officer who shot down 28 planes & was a Japanese POW after his own plane was shot down; awarded the Medal of Honor (born Dec. 4, 1912 – died Jan. 11, 1988; age 75). (Pappy Boyington c. 1942-1945: USMC)
Richard Meade (nee Richard John Hannay Meade)
English rider / equestrian, winner of 5 World Championship Eventing medals and 3 Olympic gold medals for Britain (1968 Mexico City Team Eventing; 1972 Munich Individual & Team Eventing), horse show judge and horse trainer (born Dec. 4, 1938 – died Jan. 8, 2015; age 76). Richard Meade died after cancer treatment. (Richard Meade 1974 Photo)
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