December 4th Birthdays
If you were born on December 4th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Wink Martindale is 88 (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 is 85 (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. is 84 (nee Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr.)
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. (Max Baer Jr. 1962 The Beverly Hillbillies)
Chris Hillman is 77
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 is 77
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)
Roberta Bondar is 76
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 is 73 (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 is 72 (nee Jeffrey Leon Bridges)
Academy Award-winning American singer, producer, and 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. (Jeff Bridges 2000 Photo: Ronald Lewis)
Patricia Wettig is 70
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 is 57
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; As the World Turns; Empire), born December 4, 1964. (Marisa Tomei 2008 Photo: David Shankbone)
Chelsea Noble is 57 (nee Nancy Mueller; aka Mrs. Kirk Cameron)
American actress of TV series (Kristina Andropolous on Days of Our Lives; Growing Pains; Who’s the Boss?; Kirk), TV movies (Star Struck; You Lucky Dog; Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers), and feature films (Instant Karma; The Willies; Left Behind II: Tribulation Force; Left Behind III: World at War), born December 4, 1964.
Fred Armisen is 55 (nee Fereydun Robert Armisen)
Peabody Award-winning American drummer and bandleader (Late Night with Seth Meyers house band), comedian, producer, & actor of TV (Saturday Night Live; Portlandia) and movies (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; The Ex), born December 4, 1966. (Fred Armisen 2008 Photo: David Shankbone)
Mike Barrowman is 53 (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)
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)
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)
(Elk in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Photo by Nina Perminovay via Unsplash)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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