March 5th Birthdays
If you were born on March 5th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Paul Sand (nee Pablo Sanchez)
Tony Award-winning American comedian, actor of TV (St. Elsewhere; Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers; Gimme a Break!; True Colors) and movies (The Hot Rock; Every Little Crook and Nanny; The Main Event; Wholly Moses!; Teen Wolf Too), born March 5, 1932. (Paul Sand 1966 Photo: Bert Andrews Photography
Samantha Eggar (nee Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Eggar)
British-American actress of TV (All My Children; Anna and the King) & films (The Collector; Doctor Dolittle; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; The Astronaut’s Wife; Why Shoot the Teacher?), born March 5, 1939. Ex of Tom Stern; mother of Nicolas & Jenna Stern. (Samantha Eggar 1963: Rank Film Distributors)
Michael Warren (nee Lloyd Michael Warren)
American actor of TV (Officer Bobby Hill on Hill Street Blues; Days of Our Lives; City of Angels; Murder One; Paris; Soul Food; Sierra; The White Shadow) and movies (Butterflies Are Free; Norman…Is That You?; Fast Break; Storyville), born March 5, 1946. (Michael Warren 1980 NYPD Blue Photo: NBC TV)
Murray Head (son of Helen Shingler; brother of Anthony Head)
English singer, songwriter (Superstar; One Night in Bangkok; Say It Ain’t So, Joe; Pity the Child), character actor of movies (Sunday Bloody Sunday; The Family Way; White Mischief; Gawain and the Green Knight) & TV (Heartbeat; Holby City; Prince Regent), born March 5, 1946. (Murray Head 1972: Allan warren)
Eddy Grant (nee Edmond Montague Grant)
Guyanese-British “ringbang” and reggae musician, music producer, singer, and songwriter (Electric Avenue; I Don’t Wanna Dance; Baby Come Back; Gimme Hope Jo’anna; Romancing the Stone; Do You Feel My Love; Living on the Frontline), born March 5, 1948. (Eddy Grant 2009 Photo: Stuart Sevastos)
Robin Hobb (nee Margaret Astrid Lindholm; aka Megan Lindholm)
American children’s author, fantasy fiction short story writer and novelist (Assassin’s Apprentice; Fool’s Fate; Ship of Magic; Dragon Haven; Shaman’s Crossing; Fool’s Assassin; Harpy’s Flight; The Gypsy; Wizard of the Pigeons; The Golden Fool), born March 5, 1952. (Robin Hobb 2006 Photo: Georges Seguin)
American author (Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends), radio and web podcast personality (Penn’s Sunday School), magician, comedian, comedy writer, and actor of stage, TV (Penn & Teller: Bullshit!; Penn & Teller: Fool Us) and movies, born March 5, 1955. (Penn Jillette 2013 Photo: Loadmaster / David R. Tribble)
Talia Balsam (daughter of Martin Balsam & Joyce Van Patten)
American actress of TV (Mad Men; Homeland; Divorce; L.A. Doctors; Without a Trace) & films (Mass Appeal; The Supernaturals; P.I. Private Investigations; In the Mood; Killer Instinct; Trust Me; Little Men; No Strings Attached), born March 5, 1959. Married John Slattery; ex of George Clooney. (Talia Balsam 1983: CBS)
Charlie Reid and Craig Reid
Scottish twins, folk rock musicians, singers, and founders of the Proclaimers (I’m Gonna Be [500 Miles]; King of the Road; I’m on My Way; Sunshine on Leith; Letter from America; Cap in Hand; Over and Done With), born March 5, 1962. (Charlie Reid & Craig Reid 2009 The Proclaimers Photo: Thomas Quine)
Michael Irvin (“The Playmaker“)
Pro Football Hall of Fame retired American NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys), TV personality (Dancing with the Stars), football analyst (Sunday NFL Countdown; NFL Network), and actor (The Longest Yard; Jack and Jill), born March 5, 1966. (Michael Irvin 2011 Photo: sportiqe)
Aasif Mandvi (nee Aasif Hakim Mandviwala)
British Indian-American producer, comedy writer, comedian, and actor of TV (The Daily Show; The Brink; Jericho; The Bedford Diaries) and movies (The Understudy; The Internship; Music and Lyrics; The Proposal), born March 5, 1966. (Aasif Mandvi 2016 Photo: Sarah E. Greeman / Peabody Awards)
British actor of TV (Quentin Lance on Arrow & The Flash; Lipstick Jungle; 24; ER; Presidio Med; The Dresden Files; Holby City; Big Shots; Peak Practice; Deadwood; White Collar) and movies (The Truth Game; Rhythm & Blues; Four Corners of Suburbia), born March 5, 1969. (Paul Blackthorne 2013 Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Yuri Lowenthal (married Tara Platt)
American screenwriter, producer, and voice-over actor of movies, TV (Mega Man Star Force; Blue Dragon; Ben 10: Ultimate Alien; Shelf Life), and video games (Prince of Persia; Castlevania; Persona 3; Call of Duty: Black Ops; Spider-Man), born March 5, 1971. (Yuri Lowenthal 2009 Photo: Tara Platt)
Eva Mendes (nee Eva de la Caridad Méndez; partner of Ryan Gosling)
American model (Revlon) & actress of commercials, music videos, TV shows, & films (The Place Beyond the Pines; The Other Guys; Hitch; We Own the Night; Last Night; Out of Time; Holy Motors; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), born March 5, 1974. (Eva Mendes 2009: Nicolas Genin)
Kevin Connolly (partner of Zulay Henao)
American director & actor of podcasts (Victory the Podcast), TV (Ryan Malloy on Unhappily Ever After; Eric Murphy on Entourage; Pitch; Friends With Better Lives) and movies (Entourage; Angus; Hotel Noir; Antwone Fisher; Alan & Naomi), born March 5, 1974. (Kevin Connolly 2007: David Shankbone)
(Murray Head 1972: Allen Warren | Dean Stockwell 1958)
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James B. Sikking (nee James Barrie Sikking; father of Andrew Sikking)
American actor of TV (Lt. Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues; Dr. David Howser on Doogie Howser, M.D.; Brooklyn South; Dr. James Hobart on General Hospital) & films (Final Approach; Narrow Margin; The Pelican Brief; The Electric Horseman; Fever Pitch; Ordinary People; The Star Chamber) (born Mar. 5, 1934 – died July 13, 2024; age 90). (James Sikking 1966 12 O’Clock High)
Dean Stockwell (son of Harry Stockwell, brother of Guy Stockwell)
Oscar-winning American actor of TV (Quantum Leap; Battlestar Galactica; Street Gear; Dr. Kildare) & movies (Compulsion; Married to the Mob; Kim; Win, Place or Steal; The Boy With Green Hair; Gentleman’s Agreement; The Valley of Decision; Anchors Aweigh; McHale’s Navy; Blue Velvet) (born Mar. 5, 1936 – died Nov. 7, 2021; age 85). Ex of Millie Perkins. (Dean Stockwell 1957)
Mike Resnick (nee Michael Diamond Resnick)
5-time Hugo Award-winning American erotic fiction and sci-fi columnist, editor, short story writer (Kirinyaga; The Manamouki; Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; The 43 Antarean Dynasties; Travels with My Cats), and novelist (Pursuit on Ganymede; Lucifer Jones novels) (born Mar. 5, 1942 – died Jan. 9, 2020; age 77). Mike Resnick died of cancer. (Mike Resnick 2008 Photo: pyropyga)
Rex Harrison (nee Reginald Carey Harrison; ex of Lilli Palmer, Kay Kendall)
Tony & Oscar-winning English film (My Fair Lady; Anna and the King of Siam; Cleopatra; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Doctor Dolittle; The Yellow Rolls Royce; Unfaithfully Yours; Blithe Spirit; The Reluctant Debutante; The Foxes of Harrow) (born Mar. 5, 1908 – died June 2, 1990; age 82). Rex Harrison died of pancreatic cancer. (Rex Harrison 1960 Midnight Lace Trailer)
James Noble (married Carolyn Coates)
American actor of TV (Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling on Benson; First Impressions; One Life to Live; The Doctors; Another World; As The World Turns; The Brighter Day) and movies (10; 1776; Summer of My German Soldier; Being There; Airplane II: The Sequel) (born Mar. 5, 1922 – died Mar. 28, 2016; age 94). James Noble had a stroke before he died. (James Noble 1981 Photo)
George Frideric Handel (nee Georg Friedrich Handel)
German-British organist, composer of baroque style operas (Messiah), other choral and classical music works (Joy to the World; Music for the Royal Fireworks; Sarabande; Water Music – Allegro Moderato; The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Hallelujah Chorus; For Unto Us a Child is Born) (born Mar. 5, 1685 – died Apr. 14, 1759; age 74) (Georg Handel c. 1726-1728: Balthasar Denner)
Andy Gibb (nee Andrew Roy Gibb; brother of Robin, Maurice, & Barry Gibb)
English singer-songwriter (I Just Want to Be Your Everything; Shadow Dancing; An Everlasting Love; [Love is] Thicker Than Water; [Our Love] Don’t Throw It All Away), host & actor of stage (The Pirates of Penzance) & TV (Solid Gold) (born Mar. 5, 1958 – died Mar. 10, 1988; age 30). Ex-partner of Victoria Principal. Andy Gibb died of myocarditis. (Andy Gibb c. 1978)
Henry Daniell (nee Charles Henry Pywell Daniel)
British actor of stage, TV (Wagon Train; 77 Sunset Strip) & movies (Song of Love; The Body Snatcher; Sherlock Holmes in Washington; The Great Dictator; We Are Not Alone; The Sea Hawk; Wake of the Red Witch; The Thirteenth Chair; Madame X; All This, and Heaven Too; The Path of Glory; The Philadelphia Story) (born Mar. 5, 1894 – died Oct. 31, 1963; age 69). (Henry Daniell 1961 Thriller)
American character actor of TV (Daniel Boone; Jigsaw; Beyond Westworld; Cannon; Death Valley Days; McCloud; The Virginian; The Fall Guy; The Guns of Will Sonnett) and films (The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover; The Survivors; Joe Kidd; Mean Dog Blues; The President’s Plane is Missing) (born Mar. 5, 1938 – died Dec. 20, 1999; age 61). (James Wainwright 1970 Daniel Boone)
Craig Hill (nee Craig Hill Fowler; married Teresa Gimpera)
American actor of TV (P.T. Moore on Whirlybirds; My Friend Flicka) & films (Detective Story; Black Box Affair; All About Eve; What Price Glory; Tammy and the Bachelor; The Black Shield of Falworth; Fixed Bayonets; Deadly Duo; Food of Love; The Swinger; The Outcasts of Poker Flat) (born Mar. 5, 1926 – died Apr. 21, 2014; age 88). Ex-partner of Ray Stricklyn. (Craig Hill 1950: Fink and Smith)
American film actor (Murder in the Big House; Strictly Dishonorable; Back Street; Thief in the Dark; Chicken a La King; The Girl-Shy Cowboy; The Misleading Lady; Vanity Street; Afraid to Talk; Tess of the Storm Country) (born Mar. 5, 1904 – died Aug. 19, 1984; age 80). George Meeker died of Alzheimer’s disease complications. (George Meeker 1935 Photo: Universal Weekly)
Ann Codee (nee Anna Marie Vannuefflin; married Frank Orth)
Belgian actress of vaudeville (Codee and Orth) & films (42nd Street; Brilliant Marriage; So Dark the Night; Can-Can; Hi, Gaucho!; Arise, My Love; Come Live With Me; Tonight We Raid Calais; Rose of Santa Rosa; Mr. Imperium; It’s Great to Be Young; The Lady Pays Off; So This is Paris; Kings Go Forth) (born Mar. 5, 1890 – died May 18, 1961; age 71). (Ann Codeeo: 1926 N.V.A. Yearbook)
Jack Cassidy (nee John Joseph Edward Cassidy)
Tony Award-winning American actor of stage, TV (He & She; Columbo) & films (W.C. Fields and Me; The Eiger Sanction; Bunny O’Hare; Look in Any Window; The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover) (born Mar. 5, 1927 – died Dec. 12, 1976; age 49). Ex of Evelyn Ward & Shirley Jones; father of David, Shaun & Patrick Cassidy. Jack Cassidy died in a house fire. (Jack Cassidy 1967-1968: CBS)
Henry Travers (nee Travers John Heagerty)
English film actor Henry Travers (It’s a Wonderful Life; The Bells of St. Mary’s; Random Harvest; The Invisible Man; Mrs. Miniver; Shadow of a Doubt; The Yearling; Madame Curie; High Sierra; Anne of Windy Poplars; Primrose Path; Stanley and Livingstone; Dark Victory; Dodge City) (born Mar. 5, 1874 – died Oct. 18, 1965; age 91). (Henry Travers 1939 The Rains Came Ad)
American press agent, actress of stage & films (The Silk Express; The Sphinx; Haunted Gold; ‘Neath the Arizona Skies; Scarlet Dawn; The Lawless Frontier; Murder on a Bridle Path; Society Fever; Son of a Sailor; The House on 56th Street; Week-End Marriage) (born Mar. 5, 1910 – died Jan. 19, 1957; age 46). Sheila Terry was impoverished & died of an overdose. (Sheila Terry 1932)
Milt Schmidt (nee Milton Conrad Schmidt)
Hockey Hall of Fame Canadian pro hockey player, NHL All-Star centre for the Boston Bruins (1939 & 1941 Stanley Cup Champions; 1951 NHL MVP / Hart Trophy winner), WWII veteran, NHL coach & General Manager (Boston Bruins – 1970 & 1972 Stanley Cup Champions; Washington Capitals) (born Mar. 5, 1918 – died Jan. 4, 2017; age 98). (Milt Schmidt 1954: TGC)
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