January 6th Birthdays

If you were born on this day January 6th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:

Ian Millar (“Captain Canada“)

Canadian Sports Hall of Fame equestrian / horseman (Big Ben), Show Jumping World Cup winner, 2008 Beijing Olympics Team Show Jumping silver medalist, and 12-time Canadian Show Jumping Champion, born January 6, 1947. (Ian Millar 2007 Photo: Thivierr)

Kim Wilson (“Goleta Slim“)

American blues harmonica/harp player, solo recording artist, and Fabulous Thunderbirds lead singer and songwriter (Tuff Enuff; Wrap It Up; Powerful Stuff; Twist it Off; Two Time Fool), movie performer (Light of Day), born January 6, 1951. (Kim Wilson 2007 Photo: Bengt Nyman)

Rowan Atkinson

English screenwriter, voice over & comedic actor of TV (Mr. Bean; The Black Adder; The Thin Blue LIne; Mr. Bean: The Animated Series) and film (Never Say Never Again; Mr. Bean’s Holiday; Johnny English films; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Rat Race), born January 6, 1955. (Rowan Atkinson 2007 Photo: Jack)

Nancy Lopez (ex of Ray Knight)

World Golf Hall of Fame American LPGA Tour professional golfer, 1978 LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year, 4-time Player of the Year (1978, 1979, 1985 & 1988), 3-time Vare Trophy winner (1978, 1979, 1985), and AP Female Athlete of the Year (1978 & 1985), born January 6, 1957. (Nancy Lopez 1975 Photo)

Scott Bryce

American actor of stage, TV (Craig Montgomery on As the World Turns; Popular; One Life to Live; The Facts of Life; Murphy Brown; L.A. Law; Deception; Homeland) and movies (Up Close & Personal; Not Waving But Drowning), born January 6, 1958. (Scott Bryce Photo: Seth Barkan / Courtesy Scott Bryce)

Kathy Sledge (sister of Norma, Debra, Joan, & Kim Sledge)

American songwriter & singer solo (Take Me Back to Love Again) and with Sister Sledge (We Are Family; He’s The Greatest Dancer; Lost in Music; My Guy; Got To Love Somebody; He’s Just a Runaway; All the Man That I Need), born January 6, 1959. (Kathy Sledge 1977 Photo: Regency Artists Ltd. / Cotillion)

Howie Long (nee Howard Matthew Moses Long)

Retired American NFL football player, 1985 NFL defensive player of the year (Oakland Raiders; Los Angeles Raiders), Fox Network NFL TV analyst, Foxsports.com columnist, and actor (Broken Arrow; Firestorm; In ‘N Out), born January 6, 1960. (Howie Long 2009 Photo: 2nd Lt. Holly Hess / U.S. Air Force)

Nigella Lawson (married John Diamond; ex of Charles Saatchi)

English gourmet chef, food and cooking columnist (Gourmet; Bon Appetit), TV host (Nigella; Nigella Bites; Nigella Feasts), cookbook author (How to Eat; How to Be a Domestic Goddess; Nigella Bites), & businesswoman born January 6, 1960. (Nigella Lawson 2012 Photo: Brian Minkoff / London Pixels)

Norman Reedus (partner of Diane Kruger)

American actor of TV (Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead) & films (The Boondock Saints; Until the Night; Octane; Tough Luck; Red Canyon; The Notorious Bettie Page; Bad Seed; Blade II; Gossip; Six Ways to Sunday), born January 6, 1969. Ex-partner of Helena Christensen. (Norman Reedus 2009: Rick Marshall)

(Florence Turner 1915: Edwin Neame | Tom Mix 1924)

Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on January 6th!

Remember These January 6th Famous Birthdays

Malcolm Young

Scottish-Australian songwriter, guitarist, backing singer and co-founder with brother Angus Young, of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band AC/DC (TNT; Highway to Hell; Hell’s Bells; Back in Black; Thunderstruck; You Shook Me All Night Long) (born Jan. 6, 1953 – died Nov. 18, 2017; age 64). Malcolm Young had dementia before he died. (Malcolm Young 2008 Photo: Doctoracdc72) 

Loretta Young (nee Gretchen Young; married Jean Louis)

Emmy & Oscar-winning American actress of TV (The Loretta Young Show) & films (The Farmer’s Daughter; The Bishop’s Wife; Call of the Wild; Scarlet Seas; Loose Ankles; Life Begins; Along Came Jones; Come to the Stable) (born Jan. 6, 1913 – Aug. 12, 2000; age 87). Sister of Polly Ann Young, Georgiana Young, Sally Blane; ex of Grant Withers. (Loretta Young 1951 Cause for Alarm)

Bonnie Franklin

American actress of television (Ann Romano on One Day at a Time; The Young and the Restless; Match Game 73; Please Don’t Eat the Daisies; Gidget), stage (Applause), and TV director (The Munsters Today) (born Jan. 6, 1944 – died Mar. 1, 2013; age 69). Bonnie Franklin had pancreatic cancer before she died. (Bonnie Franklin 1975 One Day at a Time Photo: CBS Television)

Tom Mix (nee Thomas Hezikiah Mix; “King of Cowboys“; father of Ruth Mix)

American rancher (Bar Circle A Ranch), circus performer, & western movie actor (Destry Rides Again; A Child of the Prairie; The Lone Star Ranger; The Wilderness Trail; The Last of the Duanes; Riders of the Purple Sage) (born Jan. 6, 1880 – died Oct. 12, 1940; age 60). Ex of Olive Stokes, Victoria Forde. Tom Mix died in a car accident. (Tom Mix c. 1920s: Insomnia Cured Here)

Earl Scruggs

American Grammy Award-winning Country Music Hall of Fame bluegrass banjo player solo, with Flatt and Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys (The Ballad of Jed Clampett; Foggy Mountain Breakdown; Blue Moon of Kentucky; Will the Circle Be Unbroken) (born Jan. 6, 1924 – died Mar. 28, 2012; age 88). Earl Scruggs died of natural causes. (Earl Scruggs 1963 The Beverly Hillbillies)

Phyllis Haver

American actress, Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty girl & silent movie star (Chicago; Up in Mabel’s Room; The Way of All Flesh; Thunder; The Battle of the Sexes; The Nervous Wreck; The Midnight Express; The Fighting Eagle; A Small Town Idol; Fig Leaves; Bright Eyes; Sal of Singapore) (born Jan. 6, 1899 – died Nov. 19, 1960; age 61). (Phyllis Haver 1923 Edwin Bower Hesser)

Mickey Hargitay (nee Miklós Hargitay)

Hungarian-American acrobat, speed skater, 1955 Mr. Universe bodybuilder, and actor (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?; The Loves of Hercules; Promises…. Promises!), husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of Mariska Hargitay (born Jan. 6, 1926 – died Sept. 14, 2006; age 80). Mickey Hargitay died of multiple myeloma. (Mickey Hargitay 1964 Photo: Ross W. Christera and Associates)

Danny Thomas (nee Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz)

American TV producer (The Dick Van Dyke Show; That Girl; Mod Squad), comedian, singer, & actor of TV (Make Room for Daddy; The Practice), movies (I’ll See You in My Dreams; The Jazz Singer), founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (born Jan. 6, 1912 – died Feb. 6, 1991; age 79). Father of Tony & Marlo Thomas. (Danny Thomas 1961 Zane Grey Theater)

Vic Tayback (nee Victor Tayback)

American character actor of TV (Alice; Griff; Streets of San Francisco; Khan) and movies (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore; Treasure Island; Lepke; The Gambler; The Shaggy D.A.; Weekend Warriors; Five Minutes to Live; Blood and Lace; Loverboy; Maxie) (born Jan. 6, 1930 – died May 25, 1990; age 60). Vic Tayback died of a heart attack. (Vic Tayback 1976 Photo: CBS Network)

Florence Turner (“The Vitagraph Girl“)

American silent film producer (Turner Films) & actress (A Welsh Singer; Far From the Madding Crowd; My Old Dutch; The Murdoch Trial; Jean’s Evidence; How to Cure a Cold; Francesca di Rimini; Jealousy; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; The Deerslayer; Indian Romeo and Juliet; The Dark Angel; The Chinese Parrot) (born Jan. 6, 1885 – died Aug. 28, 1946; age 61). (Florence Turner 1916)

Capucine (nee Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre; ex-lover of William Holden)

French fashion model and movie actress (The Pink Panther; Trail of the Pink Panther; Curse of the Pink Panther; Song Without End; What’s New Pussycat?; North to Alaska; The Honey Pot; Aphrodite; The 7th Dawn) (born Jan. 6, 1928 – died Mar. 17, 1990; age 62). Capucine killed herself by jumping from her apartment. (Capucine 1963 The Pink Panther Trailer)

E. L. Doctorow (nee Edgar Lawrence Doctorow)

American book editor (NAL; Dial Press) & National Book Critics Circle Award-winning historical fiction novelist (Ragtime; Billy Bathgate; The Book of Daniel; The March; World’s Fair; City of God; Loon Lake; Homer & Langley) (born Jan. 6, 1931 – died July 21, 2015; age 84). E. L. Doctorow died of lung cancer. (E. L. Doctorow 1976 Photo: Jill Krementz / Macmillan London / Camera Press)

Anthony Minghella (brother of Dominic Minghella)

English producer, director and screenwriter of movies (Nine; Cold Mountain; The Talented Mr. Ripley; The English Patient; Truly Madly Deeply) and TV (Grange Hill; The Storyteller; Inspector Morse) (born Jan. 6, 1954 – died Mar. 18, 2008; age 54). Anthony Minghella died of a haemorrhage a week after a cancer operation. (Anthony Minghella c. 1970s Photo: Tony Meech)

William Prince (married Augusta Dabney)

American actor of TV (Young Dr. Malone; Another World; A World Apart; As The World Turns; The Edge of Night; Search for Tomorrow; Justice; Dallas) and films (Cyrano de Bergerac; Objective, Burma!; Pillow to Post; Cinderella Jones; Dead Reckoning) (born Jan. 26, 1913 – died Oct. 8, 1996; age 83). Cause of death for William Prince is unknown. (William Prince 1945 Photo: Screenland)

David Bruce (nee Marden Andrew McBroom; father of Amanda McBroom)

American actor of TV (Beulah) and movies (The Mad Ghoul; Singapore Woman; Honeymoon Lodge; Calling Dr. Death; Lady on a Train; That Night With You; Young Daniel Boone; The Sea Wolf; The Smiling Ghost; The Great Plane Robbery; Ladies Courageous) (born Jan. 6, 1914 – died May 3, 1976; age 62). David Bruce died of a heart attack. (David Bruce 1945 Salome Where She Danced)

Fred Niblo (nee Frederick Liedtke; married Enid Bennett)

American early sound & silent film actor, writer, producer & director (The Mark of Zorro; Blood and Sand; Ben-Hur: The Tale of the Christ; The Mysterious Lady; The Red Lily; Two Lovers; The Enemy; The Three Musketeers; The Temptress; Redemption; Sex; Hairpins) (born Jan. 6, 1874 – died Nov. 11, 1948; age 74). Father of Fred Niblo Jr.; ex of Josephine Cohan. (Fred Niblo 1920: Camera)

Helen Kleeb

American actress of movies & TV (Mamie Baldwin on The Waltons; Dennis the Menace; Dragnet; The Red Skelton Hour; Gunsmoke; Room 222; Bonanza; The Virginian; Death Valley Days; The Munsters; One Day at a Time; Pete and Gladys; The Deputy) (born Jan. 6, 1907 – died Dec. 28, 2003; age 96). Cause of death for Helen Kleeb is unknown. (Helen Kleeb 1971 They Call It Murder)

Henry Corden (nee Henry Cohen)

Canadian-American character and voice-over actor of movies & TV (Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones; The Doris Day Show; Hogan’s Heroes; The Monkees; The Lawless Years; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Flying Nun; Peter Gunn; Mister Ed; My Favorite Martian) (born Jan. 6, 1920 – died May 19, 2005; age 85). Henry Corded died of emphysema. (Henry Corden 1961 Thriller)

Ludwig Berger (nee Ludwig Bambergner)

German screenwriter & director of theatre, television, classic movies and silent films (Sins of the Fathers; The Thief of Bagdad; The Woman from Moscow; Early to Bed; Playboy of Paris; The Vagabond King; The Waltz Dream; Dream Ballerina) (born Jan. 6, 1892 – died May 18, 1969; age 77). (Ludwig Bergner 1930: The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures)

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley)

Macavity and Agatha Award-winning American mystery novelist (Strangled Prose, Dear Miss Demanor, etc. Claire Malloy series; Malice in Maggody, Maggody in Manhattan & Maggody / Arly Hanks series; The Night-Blooming Cereus & The Deadly Ackee, Theo Bloomer Mystery series) (born Jan. 6, 1949 – died Nov. 23, 2017; age 68). (Joan Hess Painting: A. Hamilton)

Kahlil Gibran (nee Gibran Khalil Gibran)

Lebanese-American symbolist painter, portrait artist (Charlotte Teller; Mary Haskell), writer, Arabic novelist & poet (The Prophet; The Madman; The Earth Gods; Sand and Foam; Broken Wings; A Tear and a Smile; Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Love) (born Jan. 6, 1883 – died Apr. 10, 1931; age 48). Kahlil Gibran died of cirrhosis & tuberculosis. (Kahlil Gibran c. 1898: F.H. Day)

Pat Aherne (nee Patrick de Lacy Aherne; brother of Brian Aherne)

English boxer, motorcycle trick rider, actor of TV & movies (The Pride of the Force; Love’s Option; Huntingtower; Auld Lang Syne; The Inseparables; Rogue’s March; My Old Duchess; The Outcast; The Return of Bulldog Drummond; Blinkeyes; Green Dolphin Street) (born Jan. 6, 1901 – died Sept. 30, 1970; age 69). Married Renée Houston. (Pat Aherne 1920s-1930s Painting: A. Hamilton)

Barbara Worth (nee Verna Louise Dooley; married Maurice Conn)

American movie screenwriter (Dragnet; The Counterfeiters; Zamba) & actress (Racing Luck; Men of Action; Fast and Furious; Broken Hearts of Hollywood; The Fearless Rider; The Prairie King; On Your Toes; An Old Sweetheart of Mine) (born Jan. 6, 1906 – died Feb. 15, 1955; age 49). Ex of Tamar Lane. Barbara Worth died by suicide (drug overdose). (Barbara Worth 1927: Cinelandia)

John DeLorean (ex of Kelly Harmon, Cristina Ferrare

American automobile engineer (Chrysler Institute of Engineering), inventor & executive for Packard Motor Company, General Motors (Pontiac Grand Prix, Firebird; GTO; Chevrolet Vega) and DeLorean Motor Company (DMC DeLorean, featured in Back to the Future 1985 film) (born Jan. 6, 1925 – died Mar. 19, 2005; age 80). (John DeLorean 1982: Bernard Gotfryd)

Edson Stroll (nee Edward Stroll)

American actor stage, TV (Virgil Edwards on McHale’s Navy; The Twilight Zone; Simon & Simon; Dallas; Hotel; Dynasty; Sea Hunt), and movies (McHale’s Navy; McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force; The Three Stooges in Orbit; Snow White and the Three Stooges; Bad Memories) (born Jan. 6, 1929 – died July 18, 2011; age 82). Edson Stroll died of cancer. (Edson Stroll 1960 Tombstone Territory)

Tom Brown (nee Thomas Edward Brown)

American child model (Buster Brown), classic film actor (Freckles; Anne of Green Gables; Duke of Chicago; The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack; Gentle Julia; Bachelor of Arts; Buck Privates Come Home; Tom Brown of Culver; These Glamour Girls), Korean War & WWII veteran (Bronze Star; Croix de Guerre) (born Jan. 6, 1913 – died June 3, 1990; age 77). (Tom Brown 1935: Bachrach)

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