September 1st Birthdays
If you were born on September 1st you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
George Maharis is 94
American singer (Teach Me Tonight), painter, actor of TV (Buz Murdock on Route 66; Bud Gardner on Search for Tomorrow; The Most Deadly Game; Fantasy Island) and movies (The Happening; Quick Before it Melts; Sylvia; The Satan Bug), born September 1, 1928. (George Maharis 1975 Movin’ On)
Lily Tomlin is 83 (nee Mary Jean Tomlin)
American Grammy, Tony & Emmy Award-winning actress-comedian of TV (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; Murphy Brown; The West Wing; Grace & Frankie; Prof. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus), movies (Nashville; 9 to 5; All of Me), born September 1, 1939. (Lily Tomlin 1970 Laugh-In Photo: Jerry Avenaim)
Don Stroud is 79 (nee Donald Lee Stroud)
American actor of TV (The New Mike Hammer; Dragnet) & movies (Coogan’s Bluff; Madigan; Explosion; Angel Unchained; Joe Kidd; Murph the Surf; The Choirboys; Licence to Kill; Bloody Mama; The House by the Lake), born September 1, 1943. (Don Stroud 1973 Slaughter’s Big Rip Off)
Barry Gibb is 76
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame British songwriter & lead singe of The Bee Gees (How Deep is Your Love; I Started a Joke; To Love Somebody; Holiday; Massachusetts; Night Fever; Stayin’ Alive; Lonely Days; More Than a Woman), born September 1, 1946. (Barry Gibb 1973 TopPop Photo: Beeld en Geluidwiki)
American actress of TV series (CHiPs; Fantasy Island; Baretta; Kojak; Starsky and Hutch; B.J. and the Bear; Vega$) and movies (National Lampoon’s Animal House; Forced Vengeance; The Bell Jar; The Evil; Hail; Hunters of the Reef; Once Upon a Spy), born September 1, 1946. (Mary Louise Weller 1982 Bloodtide)
Phil McGraw is 72 (nee Phillip Calvin McGraw; “Dr. Phil“)
American psychologist, author (life Strategies), TV personality, host & producer (The Oprah Winfrey Show; Rachel Ray; Entertainment Tonight; Dr. Phil; Bull; The Doctors), and former trial consultant (Courtroom Sciences, Inc. co-founder) born September 1, 1950. (Dr. Phil 2001 Photo: Jerry Avenaim)
Billy Blanks is 67 (nee William Wayne Blanks)
American martial arts & fitness expert who created the Tae Bo (boxing & taekwondo) system and exercise videos (Tae-Bo Workout: Basic), actor of TV and movies (The King of the Kickboxers; Kiss the Girls), born September 1, 1955. (Billy Blanks 2008 Photo: Airman 1st Class Katie Gieratz / USAF)
Gloria Estefan is 65 (nee Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo)
Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American songwriter & lead singer of Miami Sound Machine (Conga; Rhythm is Gonna Get You; Anything For You; Turn the Beat Around; 1-2-3; Coming Out of the Dark), and actress (Music of the Heart), born September 1, 1957. (Gloria Estefan 1990 Photo: Alan Light)
Padma Lakshmi is 52 (nee Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan)
Emmy Award-winning Indian-American model, chef, host & actress of TV (Top Chef; Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi) and movies (Glitter; The Mistress of Spices; Boom; Girl Most Likely), and author (Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet), born September 1, 1970. (Padma Lakshmi 2020 Photo: Madison Vain)
(Marilyn Miller 1931: Jules Erbit | Richard Arlen 1935 [colorized])
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on September 1st!
Remember These September 1st Famous Birthdays
Yvonne De Carlo (nee Margaret Yvonne Middleton)
Canadian-American actress of TV (Lily Munster on The Munsters) & movies (Salome Where She Danced; Frontier Gal; Song of Scheherazade, Slave Girl; Calamity Jane and Sam Bass; The Desert Hawk; Death of a Scoundrel; McLintock!) (born Sept. 1, 1922 – died Jan. 8, 2007; age 84). Yvonne De Carlo died of heart failure. (Yvonne De Carlo 1945 Salome Where She Danced)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
American Science Fiction Hall of Fame author (John Carter of Mars and Barsoom series; The Land that Time Forgot), adventure story novelist and creator of the Tarzan character (Tarzan of the Apes; Tarzan and the Forbidden City) (born Sept. 1, 1875 – died Mar. 19, 1950; age 74). Edgar Rice Burroughs died of a heart attack. (Edgar Rice Burroughs c. 1920 Photo)
Vittorio Gassman (nee Vittorio Gassmann)
Italian film actor (Rhapsody; The Glass Wall; Sombrero; Cry of the Hunted; Mambo; Beautiful But Dangerous; Big Deal on Madonna Street; Tempest; The Love Specialist; The Miracle; The Great War; Barabbas; The Secret Agents; The Tiger and the Pussycat; Sleepers; The Palermo Connection) (born Sept. 1, 1922 – died June 29, 2000; age 77). (Vittorio Gassman 1956 War and Peace Trailer)
Conway Twitty (nee Harold Lloyd Jenkins)
Grammy Award-winning Rockabilly & Country Music Hall of Fame American songwriter & singer (It’s Only Make Believe; Hello Darlin’; I Can’t Stop Loving You; You’ve Never Been This Far Before; I May Never Get to Heaven; I Love You More Today) (born Sept. 1, 1933 – died June 5, 1993; age 59). Conway Twitty died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. (Conway Twitty 1967 Photo: MGM)
Rocky Marciano (nee Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
International Boxing Hall of Fame American pro boxer (undefeated; 49 wins over Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, etc.), 1952-1956 World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, television boxing commentator, & wrestling referee (born Sept. 1, 1923 – died Aug. 31, 1969; age 45). Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash. (Rocky Marciano 1953: Sponsor)
Marilyn Miller (nee Mary Ellen Reynolds; aka Mrs. Jack Pickford)
American dancer, singer & actress of Broadway stages (Ziegfeld Follies of 1918; Follies of 1919; Peter Pan; Rosalie; Smiles; As Thousands Cheer), and early sound movies (Sally; Sunny; Her Majesty, Love); she inspired the 1949 biopic Look for the Silver Lining (born Sept. 1, 1898 – died Apr. 7, 1936; age 37). Marilyn Miller died of nasal surgery complications. (Marilyn Miller 1932)
Richard Farnsworth
American western movie stuntman, TV & movie actor (Anne of Green Gables; The Grey Fox; The Natural; The Straight Story; Comes a Horseman; Misery; The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) (born Sept. 1, 1920 – died Oct. 6, 2000; age 80). Richard Farnsworth had prostate cancer and died of a self-inflicted gunshot (suicide). (Richard Farnsworth 1956 Zane Grey Theater)
Richard Arlen (nee Sylvanus Richard Mattimore)
American actor of TV & movies (Wings; Sky Bride; Ladies of the Mob, The Four Feathers; Golden Harvest; The Border Legion; The Sea God; Come On, Marines; Legion of Lost Flyers; Warlock; Artists and Models; The All American; Beggars of Life; The Virginian; Under the Tonto Rim) (born Sept. 1, 1899 – died Mar. 28, 1976; age 76). Richard Arlen died of emphysema. (Richard Arlen 1932 Photo)
American water polo Olympic silver medalist (1904 St. Louis), playwright, author & screenwriter (The World in His Arms; White Shoulders; The Silver Horde; The Barrier; The Spoilers; The Ne’er Do Well; The Iron Trail; The Crimson Gardenia) (born Sept. 1, 1877 – died Dec. 7, 1949; age 72). Rex Beach died by suicide (gunshot). (Rex Beach 1919 Photo: Motion Picture Magazine)
Johnny Mack Brown (nee Johnny Brown)
American actor in westerns (The Fair Co-Ed; The Divine Woman; Our Dancing Daughters, A Lady of Chance; A Woman of Affairs; Coquette; The Valiant; Billy the Kid; Born to the West; Ride ‘Em Cowboy; Deep in the Heart of Texas; Requiem for a Gunfighter; Annapolis; The Secret Six; Hurricane; Triggerman) (born Sept. 1, 1904 – died Nov. 14, 1974; age 70). (Johnny Mack Brown 1935: MGM)
Eleanor Hibbert (nee Eleanor Burford)
English author of romances (Heart’s Afire), gothic romance novels (Victoria Holt – Mistress of Mellyn), historical fiction (Jean Plaidy – Queen Jezebel; Royal Road to Fotheringhay), & sagas (Philippa Carr – The Changeling) (born Sept. 1, 1906 – died Jan. 18, 1993; age 86). Cause of death for Eleanor Hibbert is unknown. (Eleanor Hibbert c 1930s Photo: Courtesy Royal-Intrigue.net)
Allene Roberts (nee Emma Allene Roberts)
American actress of TV (Dragnet; Adventures of Superman; Public Defender) and movies (The Sign of the Ram; Michael O’Halloran; Knock on Any Door; Bomba on Panther Island; Union Station; Santa Fe; The Hoodlum; Kid Monk Baroni; Thunderbirds) (born Sept. 1, 1928 – died May 9, 2019; age 90). Cause of death for Allene Roberts is unknown. (Allene Roberts 1947 The Red House)
American film actress (Kidnapped; Raiders of Old California; Never Wave at a WAC; Flaming Feather; Passage West; Dear Wife; That Wonderful Urge; The Senator Was Indiscreet; Charley’s Aunt; Sabotage; Young Mr. Lincoln) (born Sept. 1, 1916 – died Apr. 7, 1993; age 76). Arleen Whelan died after a stroke. (Arleen Whelan 1939 Photo: 20th Century-Fox / Glamour of Hollywood)
Betty Blythe (nee Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter)
American film actress (The Queen of Sheba; The Miracle Kid; Misbehaving Husbands; Romance of the Limberlost; Western Courage; Hollywood Story; Madonna of the Desert; The Undercover Woman; Docks of New York; Crime Doctor; Before Midnight; She; Chu-Chin-Chow; The Silver Horde; The Spitfire) (born Sept. 1, 1893 – died Apr. 7, 1972; age 78). (Betty Blythe 1919: Photoplay)
Allan Forrest (nee Allan Forrest Fisher)
American silent movie actor (The Desert Bride; The Hole in the Wall; Summer Bachelors; Fifth Avenue; Two Can Play; The Phantom Bullet; Sally of the Scandals; Tillie; The Man From Lost River; The Winged Horseman; Rose of the World; Pampered Youth; The Phantom Express; Dangerous Nan McGrew) (born Sept. 1, 1885 – died July 25, 1941; age 55). (Allan Forrest 1921: The Picturegoer)
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