January 11th Birthdays
If you were born on this day January 11th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Jill Churchill (nee Janice Young Brooks)
Agatha & Macavity Award-winning American mystery author (Grime and Punishment, A Farewell to Yarns & Jane Jeffry series; Anything Goes, Love For Sale & Grace and Favor series; Ozark Legacy; The Circling Years; Seaflame), born January 11, 1943. (Jill Churchill Photo: Isaac Alongi / By permission)
Tracy Caulkins (married Mark Stockwell)
International Swimming Hall of Fame American-Australian 3-time 1984 Los Angeles Olympics gold medalist (200 & 400m individual medley; 400m medley relay), with 5 world records, born January 11, 1963. (Tracy Caulkins 1981 Photo: Marcel Antonisse / Dutch National Archives)
Grammy Award-winning American actress of TV (The Umbrella Academy) and films (Mudbound; Rock of Ages; Betty and Coretta), and singer-songwriter (Family Affair; Be Without You; No More Drama; Rainy Dayz; Not Gon’ Cry; Mighty River), born January 11, 1971. (Mary J. Blige 2010 Photo: Angela George)
Amanda Peet (great-granddaughter of Samuel Roxy Rothafel)
American actress of TV (Jack Barrett on Jack & Jill; Brockmire; The Good Wife; Dirty John) & films (The Whole Nine Yards; Something’s Gotta Give; Syriana; The Way, Way, Back; Identity Thief; Saving Silverman; High Crimes; Gulliver’s Travels), born January 11, 1972. Married David Benioff, (Amanda Peet 2008: Jeff)
(Kathleen Byron 1947 Black Narcissus | Rod Taylor 1970 Darker Than Amber)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on January 11!
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Naomi Judd (nee Diana Ellen Judd)
Country Music Hall of Fame American singer-songwriter with daughter Wynona Judd, as The Judds (Mama He’s Crazy; Why Not Me; Give A Little Love; Love is Alive; Have Mercy; Cry Myself to Sleep; Turn it Loose; Grandpa), author, and TV personality (born Jan. 11, 1946 – died Apr. 30, 2022; age 76). (Naomi Judd 2008 Photo: Senior Airman Jonathan Steffen / U.S. Air Force)
American actor of TV (Burke on Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse; Edward on Dharma & Greg; General Hospital; Santa Barbara; Chase; Executive Suite) & films (Monte Walsh; Magnum Force; High Plains Drifter; Lethal Weapon; Electra Glide in Blue; The Friends of Eddy Coyle; The Devil’s Own; Grosse Pointe Blank) (born Jan. 11, 1934 – died Mar. 4, 2022; age 88). (Mitchell Ryan 1973: NBC)
Italian circus performer, film stuntman (A Ticklish Affair; Earthquake; Poltergeist), actor of TV (Cousin Itt on The Addams Family; Twiki on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; Lidsville; H.R. Pufnstuf) and films (The Black Bird; Little Cigars; CHARACTERz; Mastermind; Black Samurai; The Legend of Galgameth) (born Jan. 11, 1937 – died Apr. 16, 2021; age 84). (Felix Silla 2007: Nihonjoe)
American fantasy series author (The Sword of Truth, etc.; Wizard’s First Rule; Blood of the Fold; The Pillars of Creation; Chainfire; The Omen Machine; Death’s Mistress; The Scribbly Man; Nest) and suspense novelist (The Law of Nines) (born Jan. 11, 1948 – died Sept. 17, 2020; age 72). Cause of death for Terry Goodkind is unknown. (Terry Goodkind 2005 Photo: Mystar1959)
Chester Conklin (no relation to Heinie Conklin)
American film actor (The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus; Tillie’s Punctured Romance; The Duchess of Buffalo; The Big Noise; Stairs of Sand; Souls for Sale; Mabel at the Wheel; Modern Times; Keystone Hotel; The Great Dictator; Paradise Alley; The Perils of Pauline; The Love Trader; The Virginian; Between Showers) (born Jan. 11, 1886 – died Oct. 11, 1971; age 85). (Chester Conklin 1916)
Australian actor of TV (Hong Kong; The Oregon Trail; Masquerade; Falcon Crest; Bearcats!; Outlaws) and movies (The Birds; The Glass Bottom Boat; Giant; The Time Machine; Hotel; Sunday in New York; Trader Horn; Dark of the Sun; The Train Robbers; Raintree County) (born Jan. 11, 1930 – died Jan. 7, 2015; age 83). Rod Taylor died of a heart attack. (Rod Taylor 1957 The V.I.P.s Photo)
Lionel Stander
Blacklisted American actor of radio, stage, TV (Max on Hart to Hart), and movies (The Moving Finger; Meet Nero Wolfe; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Two Gals and a Guy; The Cassandra Crossing; Mark of Zorro; More Than a Secretary; A Star is Born; They Met in a Taxi) (born Jan. 11, 1908 – Nov. 30, 1994; age 86). Lionel Stander died of lung cancer. (Lionel Stander 1968 Gates to Paradiset)
Don “Red” Barry (nee Donald Barry de Acosta; ex of Peggy Stewart)
American actor of movies (The Adventures of Red Ryder; Days of Jesse James; The Crowd Roars; The Tulsa Kid; Wyoming Wildcat; Calling Dr. Kildare; Saga of Death Valley; Calling All Marines) and TV (Surfside 6; Police Woman; Sugarfoot) (born Jan. 11, 1912 – died July 17, 1980; age 68). Don Barry killed himself with a gun. (Don “Red” Barry 1970 The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County)
British movie actor (Dead Men Walk; The Black Raven; London By Night; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; My Favorite Blonde; Fog Island; Saratoga; Souls at Sea; International Lady; The Bride Wore Red; The Mummy’s Tomb; The Cat and the Canary; Desire Me; Lured) (born Jan. 11, 1886 – died May 27, 1960; age 74). George Zucco died of pneumonia. (George Zucco 1941 Topper Returns)
Eva Le Gallienne (daughter of Richard Le Gallienne)
Emmy & Tony-winning English-American stage director & producer (National & Civic Repertory Theatre Company[s]), actress of TV & films (Resurrection; The Devil’s Disciple) (born Jan. 11, 1899 – died June 3, 1991; age 92). Ex-partner of Tallulah Bankhead, Nazimova, Josephine Hutchinson, Mercedes Acosta, etc. (Eva Le Gallienne 1921: Kenneth Alexander / Shadowland)
Mort Mills (nee Mortimer Morris Kaplan)
American film & TV actor (Marshall Frank Tallman on Man Without a Gun; Gunsmoke; The Big Valley; Bonanza; The Virginian; Mission: Impossible; Wanted: Dead or Alive; The Fugitive; Perry Mason; Laramie; Stagecoach West; Ironside; Mannix; Zane Grey Theater) (born Jan. 11, 1919 – died June 5, 1993; age 74). Cause of death for Mort Mills is unknown. (Mort Mills 1967 Daniel Boone)
American actor of TV (The Virginian; Bonanza; Bat Masterson; Gunsmoke; The Wild Wild West; The Californians; Zane Grey Theater; Death Valley Days; My Three Sons; Iron Horse; Adam-12) and films (Five Guns to Tombstone; This Property is Condemned) (born Jan. 11, 1925 – died Feb. 15, 1984; age 59). (Quentin Sondergaard 1960 as Deputy Quint, Tombstone Territory)
Kathleen Byron (nee Kathleen Elizabeth Fell; married Alaric Jacob)
English actress of stage, TV (Together; Emmerdale; Heidi), and movies (Scarlet Thread; Hour of Glory; Madness of the Heart; Tom Brown’s Schooldays; Young Bess; Gambler and the Lady; The Inheritance) (born Jan. 11, 1921 – died Jan. 18, 2009; age 88). Kathleen Byron had breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease when she died. (Kathleen Byron 1947 Black Narcissus Trailer)
Manfred Bennington Lee (nee Emanuel Lepofsky; aka Ellery Queen)
Edgar-winning American screenwriter & mystery novelist with his cousin Daniel Nathan / Frederic Dannay, as Ellery Queen (The Roman Hat Mystery; The Spanish Cape Mystery; The Mandarin Mystery; The Scarlet Letters) (born Jan. 11, 1905 – Apr. 3 1971; age 66). Cause of death for Manfred Bennington Lee is unknown. (Ellery Queen 1936 Photo: Motion Picture Herald)
Monte Blue (nee Gerard Montgomery Blue)
American actor of classic & silent films (Orphans of the Storm; Peacock Alley; The Affairs of Anatol; Wolf’s Clothing; Skin Deep; Kiss Me Again; Conquest; Intolerance; The Romance of Tarzan; Too Much Johnson; The Thundering Herd; Come On, Marines!; Desert Gold; The Mysterious Rider; Key Largo) (born Jan. 11, 1887 – died Feb. 18, 1963; age 76). (Monte Blue 1920 Photo: Photoplay)
Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr.
American retail marketing pioneer “Only xx shopping days until Christmas“, junior partner at Marshall Field / Macy’s Department Store, Chicago (1870s-1903), and founder of Selfridge’s Department Store in London (1909) (born Jan. 11, 1858 – died May 8, 1947; age 89). Harry Gordon Selfridge died of pneumonia. (Harry Gordon Selfridge c. 1910 Photo)
Jack Hoxie (nee John Hartford Hoxie; aka Hart Hoxie)
American cowboy, rodeo rider, & actor of westerns & silent movies (Lightning Bryce; The Last Frontier; Joan the Woman; The Wild Horse Stampede; Nan of Music Mountain; The White Outlaw; Fighting Fury; The Three Godfathers; Looking for Trouble) (born Jan. 11, 1885 – died Mar. 28, 1965; age 80). Brother of Al Hoxie; ex of Marin Sais. (Jack Hoxie 1924: Freulich / Stars of the Photoplay)
Agnes Christine Johnston (married Frank Dazey)
American scenarist of silent films (Daddy-Long-Legs; Children of Dust; The Patsy; Prudence, the Pirate) and classic movies (Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble; The Divine Lady; Lucky Devils; Headline Shooter; Stage Struck ; Janie Gets Married; Three Wise Girls; When a Man’s a Man; Black Beauty) (born Jan. 11, 1896 – died July 19, 1978; age 82). (Agnes Christine Johnston 1925 Photo: Wid’s)
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