March 6th Birthdays
If you were born on March 6th you share a birthday with these famous people:
Soviet Russian retired engineer and astronaut, the first woman and first civilian (former factory worked and amateur skydiver) to fly in space (Vostok 6, June 1963), and the only woman to fly in space solo, born March 6, 1937. (Valentina Tereshkova 1969 Photo: Alexander Mokletsov)
Ben Murphy is 78 (nee Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr.)
American actor on TV (Jed “Kid” Curry on Alias Smith and Jones; The Name of the Game; Berrenger’s; Gemini Man; Griff; The Chisholms; Lottery!; Dirty Dozen: The Series; The Winds of War; JAG), movies (Time Walker; Yours, Mine and Ours), born March 6, 1942. (Ben Murphy 1973 Griff Photo: ABC TV)
Mary Wilson is 76
American singer solo and with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group the Supremes (The Happening; Back in My Arms Again; Where Did Our Love Go; Baby Love; You Can’t Hurry Love), born March 6, 1944. (Mary Wilson 1965 To Tell The Truth Screenshot)
David Gilmour is 74
English music producer, guitarist, lead singer solo and with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Pink Floyd (Money; Another Brick in the Wall; Learning to Fly; Keep Talking; On The Turning Away) and septuagenarian born March 6, 1946. (David Gilmour 1971 Photo: Capitol Records / Billboard)
Martin Kove is 74
American actor in movies (The Karate Kid; Kung Fu: The Legend Continues; Rambo: First Blood Part II; Wyatt Earp; Baby Face Nelson; Bloodtide) and on TV (Cagney & Lacey; The Edge of Night; Code R), born March 6, 1946. (Martin Kove 1982 Bloodtide Screenshot)
Kiki Dee is 73 (nee Pauline Matthews)
English soul singer solo (I’ve Got The Music In Me; Amoureuse; Loving and Free; Star) and with Elton John (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart; True Love) born March 6, 1947. (Kiki Dee 1978 Photo: The Rocket Record Company / Erik Management Corporation)
Rob Reiner is 73 (nee Robert Reiner)
Emmy Award-winning American TV actor (All in the Family), television and film screenwriter, producer, and director (When Harry Met Sally; A Few Good Men; The Princess Bride; Stand By Me; Misery; The Story of Us), born Mar. 6, 1947. (Rob Reiner 1976 All in the Family Photo: CBS TV)
Jacklyn Zeman is 67 (aka Jackie Zeman)
American actress of TV soap operas (Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital; Sofia Madison on The Bay; Bobbi on The Edge of Night; Lana McClain on One Life to Live) and movies (Class Reunion; Young Doctors in Love), born March 6, 1953. (Jaclyn Zeman 1978 General Hospital Promo Video)
American actor of TV (Duel McCall on Desperado; Knots Landing; The Road Home) and movies (Suspended Animation; Kiss the Girls; Conspiracy Theory; Rampage; Desert Hearts; The Spearhead Effect; The Commission; Race for Glory; Perfect Alibi; Ladykiller), born March 6, 1957. (Alex McArthur 1989 Photo)
Eddie Deezen is 63 (nee Edward Harry Deezen)
American character actor of TV (Punky Brewster) and movies (Beverly Hills Vamp; Delta Pi; The Polar Express; The Rosebud Beach Hotel; The Whoopee Boys; I Wanna Hold Your Hand; All I Want for Christmas; Hollywood Boulevard II), born March 6, 1957. (Eddie Deezen 2004 Photo: HerbertMMarx)
Tom Arnold is 61 (nee Thomas Duane Arnold)
American comedian, producer, and actor of stage, TV (Roseanne; The Jackie Thomas Show; General Hospital; The Tom Show; Sons of Anarchy), and movies (True Lies; Happy Endings; Hero; Nine Months; McHales Navy), born March 6, 1959. (Tom Arnold 2006 Photo: Mark Gstohl)
Connie Britton is 53 (nee Constance Elaine Womack)
American actress of TV (Rayna James on Nashville; Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights; Nikki Faber on Spin City; American Horror Story; 24; The Fighting Fitzgeralds; 9-1-1) and movies (Friday Night Lights; The Next Big Thing; Looking for Kitty), born March 6, 1967. (Connie Britton 2007 Photo: Jeff Balke)
Moira Kelly is 52
American actress of TV (One Tree Hill; To Have & to Hold; The West Wing) & films (The Cutting Edge; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; Chaplin; Billy Bathgate; The Tie That Binds; Drive, She Said; Dangerous Beauty; Two Tickets to Paradise; Remember the Daze; the Safety of Objects), born March 6, 1968.
(Frozen Berries & Leaves Photo: Freestocks.org via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on March 6!
And remembering
Lou Costello (nee Louis Francis Cristillo)
American comedic actor of radio, stage, TV (The Abbott and Costello Show) and movies (Who Done It? Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy; Hold That Ghost; Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion; Buck Privates; Africa Screams) (born Mar. 6, 1906 – died Mar. 3, 1959; age 52). Lou Costello died of a heart attack. (Lou Costello c. 1940s Photo: Insomnia Cured Here)
Ed McMahon (nee Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr.)
American comedian, actor, & host of TV (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; Star Search; The Tom Show; The Match Game) and movies (Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off; Fun With Dick and Jane; Bewitched) (born Mar. 6, 1923 – died June 23, 2009; age 86). Cause of death for Ed McMahon is unknown. (Ed McMahon 1962 The Tonight Show Photo: NBC Television)
American character actress of radio, TV (Dragnet; Ben Casey; Gunsmoke; Emergency; Adam-12), and movies (Operation Petticoat; Spencer’s Mountain; The Amazing Mr. X; I’ll Cry Tomorrow; Psycho; Two on a Guillotine) (born Mar. 6, 1916 – died Sept. 15, 1986; age 70). Cause of death for Virginia Gregg was lung cancer. (Virginia Gregg 1959 Operation Petticoat)
John Smith (nee Robert Errol Van Orden)
American actor of TV (Cimarron City; Laramie) and movies (Circus World; The Crooked Circle; Tomahawk Trail; Ghost Town; Justin Morgan Had a Horse; Rebel in Town; Hot Rod Girl; Handle With Care; Seven Angry Men; Wichita; We’re No Angels) (born Mar. 6, 1931 – died Jan. 25, 1995; age 63). John Smith died of heart problems and cirrhosis of the liver. (John Smith 1966 I Spy)
Gabriel García Márquez (nee Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez)
Colombian journalist, screenwriter, and 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature novelist (One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Autumn of the Patriarch; The General in His Labyrinth) (born Mar. 6, 1927 – died Apr. 17, 2014; age 87). Cause of death for Gabriel Garcia Marquez was pneumonia. (Gabriel García Márquez 2002 Photo: Jose Lara)
Frankie Howerd (nee Francis Alick Howard)
English comedic actor of stage, TV (The Frankie Howerd Show; Superfrank!; Up Pompeii; Frankly Howerd; Frankie Howerd), and movies (Up Pompeii; Carry On Doctor; Further Up the Creek; A Touch of the Sun; The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery) (born Mar. 6, 1917 – died Apr. 19, 1992; age 75). Frankie Howerd died of heart failure. (Frankie Howerd 2010 Photo: Allan warren)
Hal Needham
American movie screenwriter & director (Smokey and the Bandit; The Cannonball Run; Stroker Ace; Hooper), actor & stuntman of movies (Foul Play; The War Wagon) and TV (Have Gun – Will Travel; Zorro; Gunsmoke) (born Mar. 6, 1931 – died Oct. 25, 2013; age 82). Hal Needham had cancer before he died. (Hal Needham 1980s Photo: Ralph Dominguez / Globe Photos)
American character actor of movies & TV (The Big Valley; The Virginian; Gunsmoke; Lancer; Dennis the Menace; The Guns of Will Sonnett; Iron Horse; Mannix; Maverick; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Untouchables; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Laredo; Riverboat) (born Mar. 6, 1919 – died June 14, 1970; age 51). Cause of death for Harry Swoger is unknown. (Harry Swoger 1960 Bonanza)
Molla Mallory (nee Anna Margrethe Bjurstedt)
International Tennis Hall of Fame Norwegian-American tennis player, 1912 Stockholm Olympics singles bronze medalist, winner of 13 US Open Grand Slam Championships between 1915-1926 (8 Singles, 2 Doubles & 3 Mixed Doubles) (born Mar. 6, 1884 – died Nov. 22, 1959; age 75). Cause of death for Molla Mallory is unknown. (Molla Mallory 1909 Photo: Gustav Borgen)
Ann Curtis
International Swimming Hall of Fame American record-setting freestyle swimmer, winner of 3 1948 London Olympic Games medals (Gold – 400m individual & 4 x 100m relay freestyle; Silver – 100m individual) (born Mar. 6, 1926 – died June 26, 2012; age 86). Cause of death for Ann Curtis is unknown. (Ann Curtis 1948 Photo: ACME)
American actor of TV (Dr. Kildare; Ramar of the Jungle; Burke’s Law) and movies (Home of the Brave; Pork Chop Hill; The Killing; Bright Victory; Battle Hymn; Men in War; Anna Lucasta; Seven Angry Men; The Manchurian Candidate; Coogan’s Bluff) (born Mar. 6, 1918 – died Jan. 4, 1970; age 51). James Edwards died of a heart attack. (James Edwards 1953 The Joe Louis Story)
American actor of TV (Ensign O’Toole; Climax!; Burke’s Law; The Virginian; The Name of the Game; Rawhide) and movies (The Restless Breed; The Midnight Story; The Killing; The Far Country; The Wild One; Winchester ’73) (born Mar. 6, 1899 – died Feb. 3, 1971; age 71). Jay C. Flippen died during aneurysm surgery. (Jay C. Flippen 1970 The Old Man Who Cried Wolf)
Lisa Gaye (nee Leslie Gaye Griffin)
American actress of TV (Perry Mason; How to Marry a Millionaire; The Bob Cummings Show; Sea Hunt; Death Valley Days; 77 Sunset Strip; Hawaiian Eye; The Flying Nun; Bat Masterson; Tombstone Territory; Surfside 6) and movies (Face of Terror; Night of Evil; Drums Across the River) (born Mar. 6, 1935 – died July 14, 2016; age 81). Cause of Lisa Gaye is unknown. (Lisa Gaye 1959 Black Saddle)
Patricia Donahue (nee Patricia Mahar)
American actress of TV (Birdie Wells on General Hospital; Michael Shayne; Richard Diamond, Private Detective; The Thin Man; The F.B.I.; The Saint; Barnaby Jones; The Rockford Files; Perry Mason) and movies (In the Money; The Fastest Guitar Alive) (born Mar. 6, 1925 – died June 11, 2012; age 87). Cause of death for Patricia Donahue is unknown. (Patricia Donahue 1960 Bonanza)
American performer of circuses, stage, & films (The Goat; Under the Top; Alice Adams; The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; The Farmer in the Dell; Grand Jury; My American Wife; Hideaway; Life Begins in College; Quick Money; No Place to Go; The Westerner) (born Aug. 19, 1873 – died Mar. 6, 1959). Fred Stone’s cause of death is unknown. (Fred Stone 1919 Johnny Get Your Gun)
William J. Bell
American TV screenwriter and producer (Days of Our Lives; The Bold and the Beautiful; The Young and the Restless; Our Private World) (born Mar. 6, 1927 – died Apr. 29, 2005; age 78). Bill Bell died of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease.
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