January 16th Birthdays
If you were born on this day January 16th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Grammy Award-winning American mezzo-soprano opera singer of stage (Carnegie Hall, Royal Opera House), guest-starring actress-singer of TV (The Odd Couple; The Metropolitan Opera Presents) and movies (Carmen Jones; Flower Drum Song), born January 16, 1934. (Marilyn Horne 1978 Photo: CBS)
A. J. Foyt is 86 (nee Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr.)
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America NASCAR and USAC stock car driver, 4-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, 1976 & 1977 International Race of Champions winner, and owner of A. J. Foyt Enterprises CART & NASCAR teams, born January 16, 1935. (A. J. Foyt 1961 I’ve Got a Secret)
Ronnie Milsap is 78
Grammy Award-winning blind American pianist and Country Music Hall of Fame singer (Pure Love; Daydreams About Night Things; There’s No Gettin’ Over Me; Nobody Likes Sad Songs; Smoky Mountain Rain; It Was Almost Like a Song), born January 16, 1943. (Ronnie Milsap 1974 Photo: MCA Records)
Jim Stafford is 77 (nee James Wayne Stafford)
American musician, singer-songwriter (Spiders & Snakes; My Girl Bill; Wildwood Weed), comedic actor & host of TV (Nashville on the Road; The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; The Jim Stafford Show), movies (Any Which Way You Can), born January 16, 1944. (Jim Stafford 1975 Photo: MGM Records)
John Carpenter is 73
American musician & film score composer (Vampires), sci-fi and horror movie producer, director & screenwriter (Eyes of Laura Mars; Halloween films; Escape from New York; Starman; The Thing; The Fog), born January 16, 1948. (John Carpenter 2001 Photo: Thomas Peter Schulz)
Debbie Allen is 71 (nee Deborrah Kaye Allen)
Emmy Award-winning American dancer, choreographer, and actress of TV (Fame series; Grey’s Anatomy; The Academy Awards Show) & movies (Fame; Ragtime), producer and director (A Different World; All of Us), born January 16, 1950. (Debbie Allen 1983 Photo: Rob C. Croes / Dutch National Archives)
Jennifer Dale is 65 (nee Jennifer Ciurluini)
Canadian dancer & actress of TV (Side Effects; Once a Thief; Rumours; Power Play; Empire, Inc.; Love & Larceny; What Would Sal Do; Night Heat; Saving Hope; Men With Brooms; E.N.G.) and movies (Separate Vacations; Suzanne), born January 16, 1956. (Jennifer Dale 1986 Separate Vacations Trailer)
Sade is 62 (nee Helen Folasade Adu)
Nigerian-British model turned singer-songwriter (Smooth Operator; Your Love is King; The Sweetest Taboo; Paradise; Never as Good as the First Time; No Ordinary Love; By Your Side; Soldier of Love), born January 16, 1959. (Sade 2011 Photo: Thilo Parg / Wikimedia Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0)
Craig Johnson is 60
American western crime fiction author, creator of the Walt Longmire character (inspiration for the Longmire TV series) and mystery novels (The Cold Dish; Death Without Company; The Dark Horse; Junkyard Dogs; Hell is Empty), born January 16, 1961. (Craig Johnson 2014 Photo: © Larry D. Moore)
Denis O’Hare is 59 (nee Denis Patrick Seamus O’Hare)
Tony Award-winning plus American actor of stage, TV (American Horror Story; Brothers & Sisters; True Blood; The Good Wife; This is Us), and movies (Dallas Buyer’s Club; American Loser; Milk; Michael Clayton; Baby Mama), born January 16, 1962. (Denis O’Hare 2009 Photo: David Shankbone)
David Chokachi is 53 (nee David Al-Chokhachy)
American actor of TV (Cody Madison on Baywatch; Witchblade; Beyond the Break; Confessions of a Teen Idol) and movies (Collision Course; Murder Dot Com; The Putt Putt Syndrome; Christmas in Palm Springs; Cyber Case), born January 16, 1968. (David Chokachi 2008 Photo: Angela George)
(Wild Bird in Winter Photo: Zab Consulting via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on January 16!
And remembering these famous birthdays
Ethel Merman (nee Ethel Agnes Zimmermann)
Tony Award-winning American singer (You’re The Top; I Get a Kick Out of You), dancer and actress of stage (Hello Dolly), TV, and movies (Anything Goes; The Art of Love; There’s No Business Like Show Business; Airplane!; It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) (born Jan. 16, 1908 – died Feb. 15, 1984; age 76). Ethel Merman died of brain cancer. (Ethel Merman 1956 Photo: Cris Alexander)
Francesco Scavullo
American photographer of fashion (Cosmopolitan; Seventeen; Vogue; Harper’s Bazaar), celebrity portraits (Janis Joplin; Grace Kelly; Alana Collins; Burt Reynolds; Elizabeth Taylor; Brooke Shields; Mick Jagger), album covers, and movie posters (born Jan. 16, 1921 – died May 16, 2004; age 82). Francesco Scavullo died of heart failure. (Francesco Scavullo 1980s Photo: Chris Gulker)
Michael Pataki
American character and voice over actor of stage, TV (The Flying Nun; The Amazing Spider-Man; Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers; McCloud; The Lieutenant), and movies (Airport ’77; Rocky IV; American Anthem; Five the Hard Way; The Onion Field) (born Jan. 16, 1938 – died Apr. 15, 2010; age 72). Michael Pataki died of cancer. (Michael Pataki 1974 Photo: CBS Television)
Robert W. Service (nee Robert William Service; “The Bard of the Yukon“)
English-Canadian writer, journalist (The Toronto Star) and poet (The Shooting of Dan McGrew; The Cremation of Sam McGee) and novelist (The Trail of ’98; The Roughneck: A Tale of Tahiti; The House of Fear) memorializing the Klondike Gold Rush (born Jan. 16, 1874 – died Sept. 11, 1958; age 84). Cause of death for Robert Service is unknown. (Robert Service 1905 Photo)
Harry Carey (nee Henry DeWitt Carey II)
American movie actor (Cheyenne Harry in Ghost Town; Red River; The Shepherd of the Hills; Sundown; Air Force; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Trader Horn; Sunset Pass; The Thundering Herd; The Trail of ’98) (born Jan. 16, 1878 – died Sept. 21, 1947; age 69). Harry Carey died of lung cancer, emphysema and a coronary thrombosis .(Harry Carey 1947 Angel and the Badman)
Dian Fossey
American wildlife & nature conservationist, African mountain gorilla researcher and primatologist in the Congo and Rwanda, and non-fiction author (Gorillas in the Mist) (born Jan. 16, 1932 – died Dec. 25, 1985; age 53). Dian Fossey opposed tourism and poachers, and was found murdered in her Karisoke Research Center camp cabin. (Diane Fossey Photo: Mary-Lynn)
Peter Brocco (nee Carl Peter Brocco)
American actor of TV (The Loretta Young Show; You Are There; Trapper John, M.D.; The Rockford Files; Mannix; Adam-12; The Odd Couple; Ironside; Mission: Impossible; The F.B.I.; Quincy M.E.; Zorro; The Fugitive; Combat! Thriller) and movies (Homebodies) (born Jan. 16, 1903 – died Dec. 20, 1992; age 89). Peter Brocco died of a heart attack. (Peter Brocco 1951 Drums in the Deep South)
André Michelin
Automotive Hall of Fame French engineer, industrial pioneer, and entrepreneur, co-founder of the Michelin Tyre Company and publisher of the 1st Michelin Guide for tourists (born Jan. 16, 1853 – died Apr. 4, 1931; age 78). Cause of death for André Michelin is unknown. (André Michelin 1920 Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse)
Susan Sontag (nee Susan Rosenblatt)
American human rights activist, short story writer (The Way We Live Now), essayist (On Photography; AIDS and Its Metaphors; Where the Stress Falls), and novelist (The Volcano Lover; In America) (born Jan. 16, 1933 – died Dec. 28, 2004; age 71). Susan Sontag died of Myelodysplastic syndrome. (Susan Sontag 1972 Photo: © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Gonzague Petit Trabal)
Frank Zamboni (nee Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr.)
American engineer and inventor of the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine, machines for artificial turf (roll it up, lay it down, remove water or paint from the surface), and founder of Frank J. Zamboni & Co. (born Jan. 16, 1901 – died Feb. 3, 1988; age 95). Frank Zamboni died of cardiac arrest. (Frank Zamboni Photo: Zamboni Company Archives)
Jason Johnson (nee John Johnson)
American actor of TV (Tales of Wells Fargo; Lassie; Perry Mason; The Rifleman; Bonanza; 26 Men; Gunsmoke; Sergeant Preston of the Yukon; The Twilight Zone; The Andy Griffith Show; The F.B.I.; Have Gun – Will Travel; Mission: Impossible; The Fugitive; Dr. Kildare) (born Jan. 16, 1907 – died Nov. 24, 1977; age 70). Jason Johnson died of a stroke. (Jason Johnson 1958 Zane Grey Theater)
Katy Jurado (nee María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García)
Mexican actress of stage, TV, and films (High Noon; One-Eyed Jacks; Stay Away, Joe; Vera Cruz; A Covenant With Death; Smoky; Barabbas; Trapeze; Broken Lance; Arrowhead; Bullfighter and the Lady; San Antone; Sword of Granada; The Racers) (born Jan. 16, 1924 – died July 5, 2002; age 78). Katy Jurado died of pulmonary disease and kidney failure. (Katy Jurado 1953 Modern Screen)
American actor of stage, TV (Perry White on The Adventures of Superman), and films (The Roaring Twenties; Phantom Killer; Seventh Heaven; The Maltese Falcon; Zorro’s Black Whip; Sheriff of Las Vegas; The Girl Who Dared; Inspector Carr in 1930s movie shorts) (born Jan. 16, 1887 – d. Oct. 15, 1958; age 71). John Hamilton died of heart failure. (John Hamilton 1953 The Cisco Kid)
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