June 8th Birthdays
If you were born on June 8th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Don Kennedy is 102 (nee Donald Kennedy)
American actor of TV (Laramie; Tales of Wells Fargo; The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp; Death Valley Days; Gomer Pyle: USMC: The Monkees; Hazel; The Rifleman; Bat Masterson) and films (Spring Affair; The Stunt Man; An Annapolis Story), born June 8, 1920. (Don Kennedy 1959 Tombstone Territory)
Millicent Martin is 88
Tony Award-winning British-American singer & actress of stage, television (Millicent; Downtown; Frasier; That Was the Week That Was), and movies (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Alfie; Stop the World I Want to Get Off), born June 8, 1934. (Millicent Martin 1985 Photo: Chris Hewitt)
James Darren is 86 (nee James William Ercolani; “Moondoggie“)
American singer (Goodbye Cruel World; Her Royal Majesty), film star (Gidget; The Guns of Navarone; The Lively Set; For Those Who Think Young; Diamond Head) & TV actor-director (Jim Corrigon on T. J. Hooker; The Time Tunnel; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Melrose Place), born June 8, 1936. (James Darren 1961)
Herb Adderley is 83 (nee Herbert Allen Adderley)
American Pro Football Hall of Fame retired professional football player, NFL cornerback (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys) with 3 Super Bowl championships, born June 8, 1939. (Herb Adderley 1960 Photo: Photography Laboratory Information Services / Michigan State University)
Nancy Sinatra Jr. is 82
American singer (These Boots Are Made for Walkin’; Somethin’ Stupid; Summer Wine; Sugar Town; Bang Bang [My Baby Shot Me Down]) and movie actress (Speedway; Get Yourself a College Girl; The Wild Angels; For Those Who Think Young; Marriage on the Rocks), born June 8, 1940. (Nancy Sinatra 1969 Photo)
Chuck Negron is 80 (nee Charles Negron)
American songwriter, singer solo and with Vocal Group Hall of Fame Three Dog Night (An Old Fashioned Love Song; Easy to Be Hard; Joy to the World; One; Shambala; Black and White; The Show Must Go On; Mama Told Me Not to Come), born June 8, 1942. (Chuck Negron 1969 Photo: Contemporary PR)
Colin Baker is 79
English actor of movies (A Christmas Carol; Shadows of a Stranger; A Dozen Summers), TV (Paul Merroney on The Brothers; The Doctor on Doctor Who & Doctor Who: Real Time; Roads to Freedom; Cousin Bette; War & Peace; The Edwardians), born June 8, 1943. (Colin Baker 2014 Photo: Counse)
Boz Scaggs is 78 (nee William Royce Scaggs)
American guitarist, songwriter, & singer solo & with the Steve Miller Band (Lido Shuffle; Lowdown; Look What You’ve Done to Me; Miss Sun; Breakdown Dead Ahead; Gangster of Love), born June 8, 1944. (Boz Scaggs 2006 Photo: Dwight McCann/Chumash Casino Resort / www.DwightMcCann.com)
Sara Paretsky is 75
American short story writer (Windy City Blues), mystery novelist, and author of the V.I. Warshawski female P.I. detective fiction books (Indemnity Only; Deadlock; Blood Shot; Blacklist; Killing Orders; Brush Back; Hard Time; Fallout), (born June 8, 1947. (Sara Paretsky 2009 Photo: Mark Coggins)
Kathy Baker is 72 (nee Katherine Whitton Baker)
American actress of stage, TV (Dr. Jill Brock on Picket Fences; Boston Public; Medium; Jesse Stone movies), and films (The Right Stuff; Street Smart; Edward Scissorhands; Jennifer 8; The Cider House Rules; Cold Mountain; The Jane Austen Book Club), born June 8, 1950. (Kathy Baker 1993 Photo: Alan Light)
Bonnie Tyler is 71 (nee Gaynor Hopkins)
Husky-voiced Welsh rock singer (It’s a Heartache; Total Eclipse of the Heart; Holding out for a Hero; Believe in Me; Lost in France; A Rockin’ Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall in Love]; Making Love Out of Nothing at All; Turn Around), born June 8, 1951. (Bonnie Tyler 1997 Photo: Nadir Chanyshev)
Griffin Dunne is 67 (nee Thomas Griffin Dunne)
American producer, screenwriter, director, & actor of movies (Head Over Heels; An American Werewolf in London; Baby It’s You; Running on Empty; Addicted to Love; Practical Magic; Fierce People; Almost You) and TV (Trust Me; House of Lies), born June 8, 1955. (Griffin Dunne 2010 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Tim Berners-Lee is 67 (aka Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee; aka TimBL)
British computer scientist and engineer who invented the World Wide Web and completed the first successful HTTP client-server communication in 1989, W3C & WSRI director, Open Data Institute founder, born June 8, 1955. (Tim Berners-Lee 2014 Photo: Paul Clarke)
Keenen Ivory Wayans is 64
American screenwriter, director, comedian, host & actor of movies (Scary Movie; White Chicks; A Low Down Dirty Shame; I’m Gonna Git You Sucka; Star 80) and TV (In Living Color; The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show; For Love and Honor), born June 8, 1958. (Keenen Ivory Wayans 2013 Photo: Angela George)
Mick Hucknall is 62 (nee Michael James Hucknall)
English lead singer-songwriter of blue-eyed soul & rock group Simply Red (Holding Back the Years; I You Don’t Know Me By Now; Sunrise; The Right Thing; Fairground; It’s Only Love; You Make Me Feel Brand New; Stars; Perfect Love), born June 8, 1960. (Mick Hucknall 1989 Photo: Aaron Rapoport / Elektra)
Frank Grillo is 57
American actor of TV (Alvey Kulina on Kingdom; Hart Jessup on Guiding Light; Prison Break; For The People; The Shield; Battery Park; Blind Justice; The Gates) and movies (Captain America films; Collision; April’s Shower; The Purge: Election Year), born June 8, 1965. (Frank Grillo 2013 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Julianna Margulies is 56
Emmy Award-winning American producer & actress of stage, TV (Carol Hathaway on ER; Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife; Dietland ) and movies (Ghost Ship; Evelyn; Traveller; Snakes on a Plane; The Big Day; A Price Above Rubies), born June 8, 1966. (Julianna Margulies 2009 Photo: David Shankbone)
American actor of TV (Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls; Cracked; Proof; I’m With Her; Private Practice; The Division; Cold Feet; Grapevine; Mistresses) and movies (Testosterone; Cake; Under the Tuscan Sun; Happy Endings), born June 8, 1969. (David Sutcliffe 2012 Photo: Jesse Grant / Canadian Film Centre)
American pro football player, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles; Miami Dolphins; Buffalo Bills; Washington Redskins) 5-time Pro Bowl player (1999-2003), Walter Payton Man of the Year Award 2002, & NFL Head of Football Operations, born June 8, 1970. (Troy Vincent 2012 Photo: Careerupdate)
American filmmaker & actor of TV (Hank Lawson on Royal Pains; Jake Silver on Good Morning, Miami; Fired Up; Caroline in the City; Conrad Bloom; 9JKL; The West Wing) and films (Defiance; Practical Magic; What Women Want; Abandon; 30 Days), born June 8, 1971. (Mark Feuerstein 2020 Photo: Christopher Michel)
(Nancy Sinatra 1966: Reprise Records {colorized]| James Darren 1961)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on June 8th!
Remember These June 8th Famous Birthdays
Jerry Stiller (nee Gerald Isaac Stiller)
American comedian & actor of stage, TV (Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens; Frank Costanza on Seinfeld; Stiller & Meara; Tattinger’s), and movies (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; Nadine; The Heartbreak Kid; Zoolander), & father of Ben Stiller (born June 8, 1927 – died Feb 8, 2020; age 92). Jerry Stiller died of natural causes. (Jerry Stiller 1965 Photo)
Robert Preston (nee Robert Preston Meservey)
Tony Award-winning American singer-actor of stage, movies (The Music Man; Victor Victoria; S.O.B.; Pacific Blackout; The Macomber Affair; Big City; How the West Was Won; Mame; Semi-Tough), and TV (Man Against Crime; The Chisholms; What’s My Line?) (born June 8, 1918 – died Mar. 21, 1987; age 68). Robert Preston died of lung cancer. (Robert Preston 1949 Tulsa)
Don Grady (nee Don Louis Agrati)
American composer (The Phil Donahue Show theme song), musician, and actor of stage, TV (Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons; Dream Girl of ’67; The Mickey Mouse Club; Mr. Novak; The Rifleman), and movies (The Wild McCullochs; Ma Barker’s Killer Brood) (born June 8, 1944 – died June 27, 2012; age 68). Don Grady died of cancer. (Don Grady 1967 Photo: CBS TV)
Bernie Casey (nee Bernard Terry Casey)
American NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers; LA Rams) and actor of movies (Guns of the Magnificent Seven; Sharkey’s Machine, Never Say Never Again; Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; Another 48 Hours) & TV (Brian’s Song; Bay City Blues) (born June 8, 1939 – died Sept. 19, 2017; age 78). Bernie Casey died of a stroke. (Bernie Casey 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me)
Dana Wynter (nee Dagmar Winter)
German-English actress of movies (The View from Pompey’s Head; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; In Love and War; Shake Hands with the Devil; Sink the Bismarck!; The List of Adrian Messenger) and TV (The Man Who Never Was; The F.B.I.; Bracken) (born June 8, 1931 – died May 11, 2011; age 79). Dana Wynter died of congestive heart failure. (Dana Wynter 1965 Photo: NBC TV)
Joan Rivers (nee Joan Alexandra Molinsky)
Daytime Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter, comedian, actress & host of TV (The Late Show with Joan Rivers; The Joan Rivers Show; Fashion Police; In Bed With Joan; Another World; Fashion Police; Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?) (born June 8, 1933 – died Sept. 4, 2014; age 81). Joan Rivers died of cerebral hypoxia. (Joan Rivers 1967 Photo: Rollins and Joffe Inc.)
Frank Lloyd Wright (nee Frank Lincoln Wright)
American architect, developer of home design styles (Prairie; textile block; Usonian; organic homes – Graycliff; Fallingwater, Taliesin West), & author (In the Cause of Architecture) (born June 8, 1867 – died Apr. 9, 1959; age 91). Frank Lloyd Wright died after intestinal obstruction surgery. (Frank Lloyd Wright 1954 Photo: Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun)
Alexis Smith (nee Margaret Alexis Fitzsimmons)
Canadian-American Tony Award-winning actress of stage, TV (Dallas; Hothouse), & movies (The Constant Nymph; East of Eden; Of Human Bondage; The Two Mrs. Carrolls; The Young Philadelphians; Once is Not Enough; Conflict; Night and Day) (born June 8, 1921 – died June 9, 1993; age 72). Alexis Smith died of brain cancer. (Alexis Smith 1946 Night and Day Trailer)
Francis Crick
English neuroscientist, biophysicist, and molecular biologist, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of nucleic acids, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule (born June 8, 1916 – died July 28 2004; age 88). Francis Crick died of colon cancer. (Francis Crick 2004 Photo: Marc Lieberman)
George Wallace (aka George D.H. Wallace)
American actor of films & TV (The Edge of Night; Remington Steele; The Young and the Restless; Knots Landing; Laramie; Hill Street Blues; Barnaby Jones; The Waltons; The Streets of San Francisco; Sons and Daughters; Rawhide; Death Valley Days; Shotgun Slade) (born June 8, 1917 – died July 22, 2005; age 88). (George Wallace 1959 Zane Grey Theater)
Henry Brandon (nee Heinrich von Kleinbach)
German-American actor of stage, TV (Wagon Train; Gunsmoke; Combat!; Get Smart), & movies (Drums of Fu Manchu; The Marshal of Mesa City; Babes in Toyland; Edge of Darkness; Wagons West; Raiders of the Seven Seas; Bandido!; The Searchers) (born June 8, 1912 – died Feb. 15, 1990; age 77). Henry Brandon died of a heart attack. (Henry Brandon 1958 Tombstone Territory)
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