March 12th Birthdays
If you were born on March 12th you share a birthday with these famous people:
Barbara Feldon is 88 (nee Barbara Anne Hall)
American writer, retired model, singer, host and actress of stage, TV (Agent 99 on Get Smart; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; The Hollywood Squares) and movies (Fitzwilly; Smile; No Deposit, No Return; The Last Request), born March 12, 1933. (Barbara Feldon 1973 Photo: ABC TV)
Millie Perkins is 83
American actress of movies (The Diary of Anne Frank; Wild in the Country; Ride in the Whirlwind; Ensign Pulver; The Shooting; Table for Five; At Close Range) and TV (Elvis; Knots Landing; Any Day Now; The Young and the Restless), born March 12, 1938. (Millie Perkins 1959 Photo: Fritz Cohen)
Johnny Rutherford is 83 (nee John Sherman Rutherford III; “Lone Star JR“)
American and International Motorsports Hall of Fame septuagenarian NASCAR race car driver, National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, and 3-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 (1974, 1975, 1980), born March 12, 1938. (Johnny Rutherford III 1974 Photo: AP Wirephoto)
Liza Minnelli is 75
American Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer & actress of movies (Cabaret; Lucky Lady; New York, New York; Arthur; Charlie Bubbles), TV (Lucille Austero on Arrested Development), born March 12, 1946. (Liza Minnelli 1972 Photo: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation)
Frank Welker is 75
American Emmy Award-winning movie actor (The Trouble With Girls; How to Frame a Figg; The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes), and voice artist (Scooby Doo; The Transformers; Inspector Gadget), born March 12, 1946. (Frank Welker 2015 Rhode Island Comic Con / paunchstevenson)
James Taylor is 73
Grammy Award-winning American septuagenarian Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer and songwriter (Fire and Rain; You’ve Got a Friend; How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You; Your Smiling Face; Her Town Too; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight), born March 12, 1948. (James Taylor Photo: Columbia Records)
Jon Provost is 71 (nee Jonathan Bion Provost)
American child actor of television (Timmy Martin on Lassie; The New Lassie) and movies (Lassie’s Great Adventure; This Property is Condemned; The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; Lassie: A Christmas Tail; All Mine to Give), born March 12, 1950. (John Provost 1959 Lassie)
Carl Hiaasen is 68
American newspaper journalist & investigative reporter (Miami Herald), non-fiction writer (Kick Ass; Paradise Screwed), children’s author, and thriller novelist (Tourist Season; Skin Tight; Strip Tease; Bad Monkey; A Death in China), born March 12, 1953. (Carl HIaasen 2012 Photo: Marcus Kwan)
Marlon Jackson is 64
American choreographer, dancer and singer with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group the Jackson 5 (Body; Give It Up; Mama I Gotta Brand New Thing [Don’t Say No]; Feelin’ Alright; Corner of the Sky; Little Bitty Pretty One), born March 12, 1957. (Marlon Jackson 1977 The Jacksons Photo: CBS TV)
Courtney B. Vance is 61 (nee Courtney Bernard Vance)
Tony Award-winning American actor of TV (Ron Carver on Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Johnnie Cochran on American Crime Story; ER; Flashforward), and movies (Dangerous Minds; The Hunt for Red October; The Preacher’s Wife) born March 12, 1960. (Michael Dorn 2012 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Darryl Strawberry Sr. is 59 (nee Darryl Eugene Strawberry)
Retired American MLB right fielder (New York Mets; New York Yankees; Los Angeles Dodgers; San Francisco Giants) with 4 World Series wins (1986, 1996, 1998, 1999), 1983 Rookie of the Year, 1988 NL home run leader, born March 12, 1962. (Darryl Strawberry 2016 Project Hope Message)
Gunde Svan is 59 (nee Anders Gunde Svan)
Swedish 6-time World Championship & 5-time World Cup 55+ cross-country-skier, winner of 6 Winter Olympic Games medals (1984 Sarajevo – gold 15km & relay, silver 50Km, bronze 30km; 1988 Calgary – gold 50km & relay) (born March 12, 1962. (Gunde Svan 1994 Photo: Eddi Laumanns / RX-Guru)
Aaron Eckhart is 53
American actor of stage and film (Erin Brockovich; Nurse Betty; The Missing; Paycheck; The Black Dahlia; No Reservations; The Dark Knight; Love Happens; The Rum Diary; Olympus Has Fallen; Sully; Erased; I, Frankenstein; My All-American), born March 12, 1968. (Aaron Eckhart 2008 Photo: Shelby White)
(Pink Blooming Trees Reflection Photo: Philadelphia Bantersnaps via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on March 12!
And remembering
Gordon MacRae (nee Albert Gordon MacRae)
American singer-actor of stage, radio & TV (The Gordon MacRae Show; Lux Video Theatre), Doris Day musicals (On Moonlight Bay; Tea for Two; Starlift; By the Light of the Silvery Moon), and other films (Oklahoma!; Carousel) (born Mar. 12, 1921 – died Jan. 24, 1986; age 64). Gordon MacRae died of pneumonia. (Gordon MacRae 1950 Tea for Two Trailer)
Edward Albee (nee Edward Franklin Albee III)
Tony Award and 3-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American Theatre Hall of Fame playwright (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Sandbox; The Zoo Story; Tiny Alice) (born Mar. 12, 1928 – died Sept. 16, 2016; age 88). Edward Albee’s cause of death has not been given. (Edward Albee c 1948-2000 Photo: UH Photographs Collection)
Al Jarreau (nee Alwin Lopez Jarreau)
Grammy Award-winning American jazz musician, singer (Moonlighting theme; Never Givin’ Up; Breakin’ Away, We’re in This Love Together; We Are the World; After All; Your Precious Love ; The Music of Goodbye; It’s Not Hard to Love You) (born Mar. 12, 1940 – died Feb. 12, 2017; age 76). Al Jarreau died of respiratory failure. (Al Jarreau 1981 Photo: Eddi Laumanns / RX-Guru)
Vaslav Nijinsky (nee Waclaw Nizynski; aka Vatslav Nijinsky)
Russian-Polish ballet choreographer (The Rite of Spring; Jeux; L’après-midi d’un faune; Till Eulenspiegel) and athletic principal male ballet dancer for the Imperial Russian Ballet and Ballet Russes (Giselle; Scheherazade; Carnaval; Cleopatra; Bluebird) (born Mar. 12, 1889 – died Apr. 8, 1950; age 61). Vaslav Nijinsky died of kidney failure. (Vaslav Nijinsky 1916 Photo: Bain / LoC)
Paul Weston (nee Paul Wetstein)
American pianist, composer, musical arranger for artists (Johnny Mercer; Dinah Shore), music director (Capitol & Columbia Records), Grammy Awards co-founder, Best Comedy Album winner with wife Jo Stafford (Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris) (born Mar. 12, 1912 – Sept. 20, 1996; age 84). Paul Weston died of natural causes. (Paul Weston 1940s Photo: Capitol Records)
British-American film actor (Boys Town; East Lynne; The Road to Glory; Girls Gone Wild; The Public Enemy) & director (Streets of Laredo; Pardon My Past; Tomorrow, the World!; Stronger Than Desire; Tell No Tales; The Redhead and the Cowboy; Whispering Smith; Lulu Belle; Saigon) (born Mar. 12, 1902 – died Mar. 25, 1978; age 76). (Leslie Fenton 1931 Photo: Photoplay)
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