March 4th Birthdays
If you were born on March 4th you share a birthday with these famous people:
Paula Prentiss is 83 (nee Paula Ragusa)
American actress of TV (He & She) and movies (Where the Boys Are; The World of Henry Orient, Looking for Love; Man’s Favorite Sport?; Catch-22; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; The Stepford Wives; The Black Marble), born March 4, 1938. (Paula Prentiss 1963 Photo: Friedman-Abeles)
John Aprea is 80 (nee Jonathan Aprea)
American actor of TV (Matt Houston; Falcon Crest; Knots Landing; Another World; Full House; The Montefuscos; The Gangster Chronicles) and movies (The Godfather: Part II; The Idolmaker; Dead Man on Campus) born March 4, 1941. (John Aprea 1982 Matt Houston Photo: ABC Photograph)
James Ellroy is 73 (nee Lee Earle Ellroy)
American memoirist (My Dark Places) and crime fiction novelist (The Black Dahlia; L. A. Confidential; The Cold Six Thousand; Blood on the Moon; Because the Night; American Tabloid; Perfidia) born March 4, 1948. (James Ellroy 2011 Photo: Guillaume Paumier, CC-BY.)
Carroll Baker is 72 (nee Carroll Anne Baker)
Juno Award-winning Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame singer and songwriter (I’ve Never Been This Far Before; Why I Had to Pass This Way; The Morning After Baby Let Me Down; Hollywood Love; Ten Little Fingers) born March 4, 1949. (Carroll Baker Photo: George Petralia)
Ronn Moss is 69 (nee Ronald Montague Moss)
American musician, singer-songwriter solo and with Player (Baby Come Back; This Time I’m In It For Love), actor of web and TV soap operas (Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful; John Blackwell on The Bay), born March 4, 1952. (Ronn Moss 2011 Photo: MnSPaul)
Kay Lenz is 68
Emmy Award-winning American actress of TV (Midnight Caller; Reasonable Doubts; Rich Man, Poor Man – Book II; How the West Was Won) and movies (Breezy; Moving Violation; White Line Fever; House; Physical Evidence), born March 4, 1953. (Kay Lenz 1973 Breezy Trailer)
Catherine O’Hara is 67
Canadian-American comedy writer & actress of TV (SCTV; Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek; Coming Up Rosie) & movies (Beetlejuice; Home Fries; Best in Show; A Mighty Wind; A Simple Twist of Fate; Home Alone), born March 4, 1954. (Catherine O’Hara 2006 Photo: Jerry Avenaim at English Wikipedia)
Mykelti Williamson is 64 (nee Michael T. Williamson)
American actor of TV (Midnight Caller; The New WKRP in Cincinnati; The Bronx Zoo; The Hoop Life; The Fugitive; Boomtown; 24; Cover Up; Justified; CSI: NY), and movies (Forrest Gump; Free Willy; Con Air; Species II), born 4, 1957. (Mykelti Williamson 2003 Photo: Anders Krusberg / Peabody Awards)
Patricia Heaton is 63
Emmy Award-winning American TV actress and host (Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond; Frankie Heck on The Middle; Patricia Heaton Parties; Room for Two; Women of the House; Back to You; Thirtysomething), born March 4, 1958. (Patricia Heaton 2008 Photo: Matt)
Steven Weber is 60
American actor of TV (Wings; Chasing Life; NCIS: New Orleans; Once and Again; Brothers & Sisters) and movies (Single White Female; Inside Out; The Temp; Jeffrey; Leaving Las Vegas; Dracula: Dead and Loving It; At First Sight), born March 4, 1961. (Steven Weber 2010 Photo: Greg Hernandez)
Ray Mancini is 60 (nee Raymond Michael Mancino; “Boom Boom“)
International Boxing Hall of Fame professional American boxer (1982-1984 WBA lightweight champion), and actor of TV & movies (Turn of Faith; Body and Soul; Bad Frank; The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone; Deadly Bet), born March 4, 1961. (Ray Mancini 2008 Photo: David Shankbone)
Khaled Hosseini is 56
Afgani-American doctor, writer, best-selling novelist (The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns; And the Mountains Echoed; Sea Prayer), and humanitarian philanthropist (Khaled Hosseini Foundation), born March 4, 1965. (Khaled Hosseini 2007 Photo: U.S. Department of State)
Evan Dando is 54
American musician, songwriter, and lead singer of the Lemonheads (Luka; It’s a Shame About Ray; Mrs. Robinson; Into Your Arms; The Great Big No; If I Could Talk I’d Tell You; Different Drum; Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now; It’s About Time), born March 4, 1967. (Evan Dando 2014 Photo: Canley)
Patsy Kensit is 53 (nee Patricia Jude Francis Kensit)
English former model & lead singer of Eight Wonder (I’m Not Scared), actress of TV (Emmerdale; Holby City), and movies (Absolute Beginners; Shelter Island; Lethal Weapon 2; Twenty-One; The One and Only; The Pavilion; Alfie Darling), born March 4, 1968. (Patsy Kensit 2009 Photo: Damien Everett)
American actor of TV (Gabe Capshaw on Saints & Sinners; Mark Wolper on Sunset Beach; Passions; Days of Our Lives; General Hospital; Popular; Half & Half) and films (Bride of Chucky; Descendant; Dead Write; Sheltered; Telling of the Shoes), born March 4, 1971. (Nick Stabile 2007 Photo: Kevin Tostado)
(Red Panda Photo: Aj Robbie via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on March 4!
And remembering
Bobby Womack (nee Robert Dwayne Womack)
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame American musician, guitarist for Sam Cooke, singer and songwriter (It’s All Over Now; Woman’s Gotta Have It; I Can’t Afford to Lose Him; Trust Me; I’m In Love; Lookin’ For a Love) (born Mar. 4, 1944 – died June 27, 2014; age 70). Bobby Womack had diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease; his cause of death is unknown. (Bobby Womack Photo: Paragon Agency)
Alan Sillitoe
English poet (Without Beer or Bread), screenwriter, short story writer (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) and novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The General; Key to the Door; The Storyteller; Life Goes On; The Broken Chariot) (born Mar. 4, 1928 – died Apr. 25, 2010; age 82). Cause of death for Alan Sillitoe was cancer. (Alan Sillitoe 2009 Photo: Ian Brown LRPS)
French orchestra leader (Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat) & composer (Love is Blue; Gone is Love; Love in Every Room; Apres Toi Come What May; Love Theme From The Godfather; El Bimbo; Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang) (born Mar. 4, 1925 – died Nov. 3, 2006; age 81). Cause of death for Paul Mauriat is unknown. (Paul Mauriat 1969 Philips Records / Mercury Record Corporation)
English-American dancer & actress of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), TV (Hawaii Five-O), and movies (Love Affair; No Man of Her Own; What Shall I Do; Picture Brides; Kept Husbands; The Reckless Hour; Strictly Modern; A Woman’s Woman) (born March 4, 1903 – died Aug. 12, 1990; age 87). Dorothy Mackaill died of liver failure. (Dorothy Mackaill 1934 Photo: The New Movie Magazine)
Garrett Morgan
American hero (1916 Lake Erie tunnel rescue), businessman (G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company) and inventor (chemical hair straightener, firefighters safety hood) (born Mar. 4, 1877 – died July 27, 1963; age 86). Cause of death for Garrett Morgan is unknown. (Garrett August Morgan Sr. Photo)
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