June 16th Birthdays
If you were born on June 16th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Crash Craddock is 83 nee Billy Wayne Craddock; “King of Country Rock“)
American rockabilly and country-rock music singer (Boom Boom Baby; Ruby Baby; Broken Down in Tiny Pieces; Rub It In; I Want That; One Last Kiss; Knock Three Times; Dream Lover; Sweet Magnolia Blossom; Easy as Pie), born June 16, 1939. (Billy Craddock 1971 Photo: Hubert Long International / Billboard Ad)
Eddie Levert is 80
American songwriter and lead singer of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vocal group the O’Jays (Back Stabbers; Love Train; Use ta Be My Girl; Put Your Hands Together; For the Love of Money; Livin’ For the Weekend; Forever Mine) born June 16, 1942. (Eddie Levert 1974 Photo: Edward Windsor Wright PR)
Joan Van Ark is 79
American actress of TV (Valene Ewing on Knots Landing & Dallas; Days of Our Lives; Gloria Abbott on The Young and the Restless; The New Temperatures Rising Show; The F.B.I.; Peyton Place; The Rockford Files; M*A*S*H; Medical Center; Cannon), born June 16, 1943. (Joan Van Ark 1970 Dan August)
Kale Browne is 73 (nee David Charles Browne)
American actor of TV soap operas (Michael Hudson on Another World; Sam Rappaport on One Life to Live; All My Children; General Hospital; Hill Street Blues; Days of Our Lives; Dallas; Dynasty) and feature films (‘Til There Was You; Losin’ It), born June 16, 1949. (Kale Browne 1986 Another World Promo)
Sônia Braga is 72
Brazilian-American actress of movies (Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Milagro Beanfield War; Moon Over Parador; The Rookie; Bordertown) and TV (Streets of Laredo; Pages of Life; Sex and the City; Royal Pains; American Family; Alias), born June 16, 1950. (Sônia Braga 2010 Photo: Israel Segundo)
Roberto Durán is 71 (nee Roberto Durán Samaniego; “Manos de Piedra“)
Panamanian former World Champion professional boxer, titleholder for multiple weight divisions (lightweight 1972-79; welterweight 1980; light middleweight 1983-1984; middleweight 1989), born June 16, 1951. (Roberto Durán 1994 Photo: Jim Accordino)
Gino Vannelli is 70
Juno Award-winning Canadian musician, pop-rock singer-songwriter (I Just Wanna Stop; Living Inside Myself; People Gotta Move; Black Cars; Hurts to Be in Love; Wild Horses; The Time of Day; Wheels of Life), and music teacher, born June 16, 1952. (Gino Vannelli 2008 Photo: Ross Vannelli)
Russian pairs figure skater, 2-time Olympic gold medalist (1976 Innsbruck & 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games), and 6-time World Champion Pairs figure skater (1973-1978) with partner Irina Rodnina (they married in 1975 and divorced c 1985), born June 16, 1952. (Alexander Zaitsev 1974 Photo)
Valerie Mahaffey is 69
Emmy Award-winning American actress of television (Northern Exposure; The Doctors; Desperate Housewives; The Powers That Be; ER; Wings; The Client; United States of Tara; Glee) and movies (Seabiscuit; Senior Trip), born June 16, 1953. (Valerie Mahaffey 2012 Photo: Mark Sullivan / Canadian Film Centre)
Laurie Metcalf is 67 (nee Laura Elizabeth Metcalf)
Tony & Emmy Award-winning American actress of stage, TV (Jackie Harris on Roseanne; Norm; The Big Bang Theory; Desperate Housewives) and movies (Uncle Buck; Dear God; Internal Affairs; Pacific Heights; Blink; Scream 2; Making Mr. Right), born June 16, 1955. (Laurie Metcalf 1992 Photo: Alan Light)
Ian Buchanan is 65
Scottish actor of TV (Duke Lavery on General Hospital; Dr. James Warwick on The Bold and the Beautiful; Ian McAllister on Days of Our Lives; All My Children; Port Charles; Twin Peaks) & movies (Double Exposure; Panic Room), born June 16, 1957. (Ian Buchanan 1989 General Hospital Photo: ABC)
James Patrick Stuart is 54 (aka Patrick D. Stuart)
American actor of TV (Valentin Cassadine on General Hospital; Will Cortlandt on All My Children; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; The Closer; 90210; Supernatural; Hot in Cleveland; Galactica 1980) and films (Something Wicked; Gettysburg), born June 16, 1968. (James Patrick Stuart 2010 Photo: sean.koo)
Phil Mickelson is 52 (nee Philip Alfred Mickelson; “Lefty”)
World Golf Hall of Fame American pro golfer, winner of 44 PGA Tour events (2005 PGA Championship; 3 Masters [2004, 2006, 2010]; 2013 Open Championship; 6-time U.S. Open runner-up), and 3 Haskins Awards (1990-1992), born June 16, 1970. (Phil Mickelson 2007 Photo: minds-eye)
American actor of TV (Off Centre; Flashforward; Go On) & films (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; Identity Thief; Star Trek; That Burning Feeling; Total Recall; Pavilion of Earth; Saint John of Las Vegas; Down to Earth; American Dreamz), born June 16, 1972. (John Cho 2008 Photo: Charlie Nguyen)
(Stan Laurel 1920: Stax [colorized] | Ona Munson 1941 [colorized]))
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on June 16th!
Remember These June 16th Famous Birthdays
Lamont Dozier
American record producer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Holland-Dozier-Holland Motown songwriter (Heat Wave; Baby Love; Stop! In the Name of Love; How Sweet It Is to be Loved By You; I Hear a Symphony; Invisible; Two Hearts; Trying to Hold on to My Woman; All Cried Out) (born June 16, 1941 – died Aug. 8, 2022; age 81). (Lamont Dozier 2009 Photo: Phil Konstantin)
Jack Albertson (nee Harold Albertson)
Tony, Emmy, & Academy Award-winning American actor of TV (Ed Brown on Chico and the Man; Ensign O’Toole; The Thin Man; Police Surgeon) & movies (The Subject Was Roses; The Poseidon Adventure; The George Raft Story; Kissin’ Cousins) (born June 16, 1907 – died Nov. 25, 1981; age 74). Jack Albertson died of colorectal cancer. (Jack Albertson 1971 Photo: WMAQ TV)
Stan Laurel (nee Arthur Stanley Jefferson)
English early film comic screenwriter, director, and actor solo and with comedy partner Oliver Hardy (Another Fine Mess; Pack Up Your Troubles; Way Out West; A Chump at Oxford; Saps at Sea; Blotto; Pardon Us; Me and My Pal; Block-Heads; Swiss Miss; Jitterbugs) (born June 16, 1890 – died Feb. 23, 1965; age 74). Stan Laurel died of a heart attack. (Stan Laurel circa 1920 Photo)
Erich Segal
American professor (Harvard, Yale & Princeton Universities), non-fiction author (The Death of Comedy), novelist and screenwriter (Love Story; Oliver’s Story; The Yellow Submarine; Fairy Tale; Acts of Faith; Man, Woman and Child) (born June 16, 1937 – died Jan. 17, 2010; age 72). Erich Segal had Parkinson’s Disease and died of a heart attack. (Erich Segal: Karen Segal)
English film actor (The Snow Creature; Bombs Over Burma; Signpost to Murder; The Fighting O’Flynn; The Black Arrow; Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back; Murder in Times Square; The Bandit of Sherwood Forest; They Raid By Night; Counter-Espionage; Charlie Chan in Rio) (born June 16, 1905 – died Sept. 25, 1992; age 87). (Leslie Denison 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans)
Murray Leinster (nee William Fitzgerald Jenkins; aka Louisa Carter Lee)
Hugo Award-winning American sci-fi short story writer (A Logic Named Joe; Sidewise in Time) and novelist (The Forgotten Planet; The Pirates of Zan; The Time Tunnel; Land of the Giants; Murder Will Out; Men Into Space; The Other Side of Here; City on the Moon) (born June 16, 1896 – died June 8, 1975; age 78). (William F. Jenkins Photo: By permission of MurrayLeinster.Com)
Bill Catching (nee Jerome P. Catching)
American stuntman, actor of TV (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp; The Cisco Kid; The Wild Wild West; The Roy Rogers Show; Zane Grey Theater; Bat Masterson; The Virginian; Death Valley Days; Tales of Wells Fargo; Gunsmoke; Sea Hunt; Boston Blackie; Tombstone Territory) & films (Operation C.I.A.) (born June 16, 1926 – died Aug. 24, 2007; age 81). (Bill Catching 1960 Bonanza)
Barry Norton (nee Alfredo Carlos Birabén)
Argentine-American film actor (The Sea Fiend; Unknown Blonde; Grand Canary; The Legion of the Condemned; Mother Knows Best; The Exalted Flapper; Sins of the Fathers; Cocktail Hour; 4 Devils; Storm Over the Andes; Ankles Preferred; The Criminal Within; Dishonored; The Lily; Luxury Liner; I’ll Take Romance) (born June 16, 1905 – died Aug. 24, 1956; age 51). (Barry Norton 1928 Photo: Autrey)
Ona Munson (nee Owena Elizabeth Wolcott)
American stage & film actress (Scandal Sheet; Five Star Final; Going Wild; Lady from Louisiana; The Big Guy; Wagons Westward; The Red House; The Hot Heiress; Broadminded; His Exciting Night; Wild Geese Calling; Legion of Lost Flyers; Gone With the Wind; The Cheaters; Dakota; Drums of the Congo) (born June 16, 1903 – died Feb. 11, 1955; age 51). (Ona Munson 1931: Nikolas Muray)
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