September 30th Birthdays
If you were born on September 30, you share a birthday with these famous people:
Angie Dickinson is 89 (nee Angeline Brown)
American actress of TV (Sgt. Pepper Anderson on Police Woman; Dr. Kildare) and films (Rio Bravo; Ocean’s 11; The Killers; Captain Newman, M.D.; Dressed to Kill; The Chase; The Art of Love; Big Bad Mama; Rome Adventure), born September 30, 1931. (Angie Dickinson 1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade Trailer)
Johnny Mathis is 85
Grammy Hall of Fame American singer & songwriter (Chances Are; The Twelfth of Never; It’s Not For Me to Say; A Certain Smile; Too Much, Too Little, Too Late; Winter Wonderland; Misty; What Will My Mary Say; Family Ties Theme Song), born September 30, 1935. (Johnny Mathis 1960 Photo: MCA)
Len Cariou 81 (nee Leonard Joseph Cariou)
Canadian actor of TV (Henry Reagan on Blue Bloods; Brotherhood; Murder, She Wrote) and movies (The Four Seasons; Lady in White; A Little Night Music; Never Talk to Strangers; Getting In; Secret Window; Boynton Beach Club), born September 30, 1939. (Len Cariou 2010 Photo permission © Rob Rich)
Marilyn McCoo is 77
American actress & host of TV (Solid Gold; The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show; Days of Our Lives) and singer with The 5th Dimension (You Don’t Have to Be a Star; Saving All My Love For You; Last Night I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All; One Less Bell to Answer) born September 30, 1943. (Marilyn McCoo Photo)
American actor of TV (John Stillman on Cold Case; EZ Streets; Brooklyn South; The Walking Dead; Dawson’s Creek; NYPD Blue) & films (Cover-Up; Glory; Blown Away; Turbulence; The Hunted; The Gift; Catch Me if You Can; Analyze That), born September 30, 1952. (Photo: © John Finn / The Lisa Richards Agency)
Barry Williams is 66 (nee Barry William Blenkhorn)
American actor of stage, TV (Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch & The Brady Bunch Variety Hour; Hannibal on General Hospital; The F.B.I.; It Takes a Thief; Adam-12; Mission: Impossible; Marcus Welby, M.D), and movies (The Brady Bunch Movie), born September 30, 1954. (Barry Williams 1973 Photo: ABC TV)
Fran Drescher is 63 (nee Francine Joy Drescher)
American producer, screenwriter & actress of TV (Fran Fine on The Nanny; Happily Divorced; Living With Fran) and movies (The Beautician and the Beast; American Hot Wax; The Rosebud Beach Hotel; Cadillac Man; Jack; This is Spinal Tap), born September 30, 1957. (Fran Drescher 2008 Photo: Bonnie H)
William Christian is 63
American actor of TV (Hand of God; Derek Frye on All My Children; Dr. Marshall Redd on Another World; Days of Our Lives; Law & Order; Without a Trace; Tattinger’s; Spin City; The Cosby Show) and movies (The January Man; Nine Lives; Love & Orgasms), born September 30, 1957.
Marty Stuart is 62
Grammy Award-winning American rockabilly and country music singer-songwriter (Arlene; Tempted; Hillbilly Rock; Little Things; Burn Me Down; This One’s Gonna Hurt You [For a Long, Long Time]), and The Marty Stuart Show host, born September 30, 1958. (Marty Stuart 2012 Photo: Forrest L. Smith, III)
American director & actor of TV (Jack Forbes on Loving; Scott Eldridge on As the World Turns; Passions; Eden; Guiding Light) & movies (Streets of Rage; Someone to Watch Over Me; Game Over), and acting teacher, born September 30, 1958. (Christopher Cass 2003 Photo: Ron Rinaldi / © Christopher Cass)
Debrah Farentino is 61 (nee Deborah Mullowney)
American journalist, TV producer (Trouble Creek), and actress of TV (Sloane Denning Clegg Mamoud on Capitol; Hooperman; Equal Justice; NYPD Blue; Earth 2; EZ Streets; Eureka; Total Security; The District) & movies (Cellar Dweller), born September 30, 1959. (Debrah Farentino 1990 Photo: Alan Light)
Susan Keith is 60
American daytime television soap opera actress (Shana Sloane Vochek Burnell on Loving; Cecile dePoulignac Frame on Another World; The Hollywood Squares; One Life to Live), and wife of former Loving co-star James Kiberd, born September 30, 1960. (Susan Keith 1985 Loving Promo: ABC Television)
Crystal Bernard is 59
American actress of TV (Helen Chapel Hackett on Wings; Amy Tompkins on It’s a Living; Happy Days; To Love, Honor & Betray) and movies (Young Doctors in Love; Gideon; Jackpot; Welcome to Paradise; Slumber Party Massacre II), born September 30, 1961. (Crystal Bernard 1994 Photo: Alan Light)
Eric Stoltz is 59
American director, producer & actor of stage, TV (Chicago Hope; Mad About You; Once and Again; St. Elsewhere; Madam Secretary) and movies (Mask; Pulp Fiction; Some Kind of Wonderful; Memphis Belle; Little Women; Rob Roy; Singles), born September 30, 1961. (Eric Stoltz 2012 Photo: Maggslafay)
Monica Bellucci is 56
Italian Elite model (Maxim; Dior; Elle; Dolce & Gabbana), and actress of movies (Spectre; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; The Matrix Reloaded; The Passion of the Christ; The Brothers Grimm; Tears of the Sun Brotherhood of the Wolf), born September 30, 1964. (Monica Bellucci 2003 Photo: Georges Biard)
Jenna Elfman is 49 (nee Jennifer Mary Butala)
American actress of TV (Dharma & Greg; Fear the Walking Dead; Accidentally on Purpose; Damages) and films (Venus; Keeping the Faith; Town & Country; Edtv; Krippendorf’s Tribe; Grosse Pointe Blank; Love Hurts), born September 30, 1971. (Jenna Elfman 2012 Photo: Dan&Corina Lecca / The Hearth Truth)
(Manatee Balloon, Seminole County, Florida Photo: Kenneth Cossin via Unsplash)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on September 30th!
And remembering
Ben Cooper
American actor of movies (Arizona Raiders; Thunderbirds; Johnny Guitar; Duel at Apache Wells; The Rose Tattoo) and TV (The Fall Guy; The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo; Perry Mason; Combat!; Gunsmoke; Zane Grey Theater; Wagon Train; Dallas) (born Sept. 30, 1933 – died Feb. 24, 2020; age 86). Cause of death for Ben Cooper is unknown. (Ben Cooper 1960 Bonanza)
Deborah Kerr (nee Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer)
Academy Award-winning Scottish movie actress (The King and I; From Here to Eternity; An Affair to Remember, The End of the Affair; Quo Vadis; Julius Caesar; Tea and Sympathy; The Sundowners; The Chalk Garden; Separate Tables) (born Sept. 30, 1921 – died Oct. 16, 2007; age 86). Deborah Kerr had Parkinson’s Disease before she died. (Deborah Kerr 1947 Black Narcissus)
Truman Capote (nee Truman Streckfus Persons)
O. Henry Award-winning American playwright, short story writer, (Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Shut a Final Door; Miriam; The Grass Harp), true-crime novelist (In Cold Blood; Other Voices, Other Rooms) (born Sept. 30, 1924 – died Aug. 25, 1984; age 59). Truman Capote died of liver disease complications. (Truman Capote 1959 Photo: Roger Higgins / New York World-Telegram and the Sun)
Jack Wild
British 1970s teen idol, singer and actor of stage, movies (The Artful Dodger in Oliver!; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Pufnstuf; Flight of the Doves; The Pied Piper) and TV (H. R. Pufnstuf; The Newcomers) (born Sept. 30, 1952 – died Mar. 1, 2006; age 53). Jack Wild was a smoker and alcoholic for much of his life, and died of oral cancer. (Jack Wild 1970 Photo: Capitol Records)
Elie Wiesel (nee Eliezer Wiesel)
Romanian-American Holocaust survivor, human rights activist (Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity), 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, journalist and author (Night; The Fifth Son; The Testament) (born Sept. 30, 1928 – died July 2, 2016; age 87). Elie Wiesel’s cause of death is unknown. (Elie Wiesel 2009 Photo: Sbakurian)
Canadian TV host (Cross Canada Hit Parade; This is the Law), actor of TV (Admiral Fox on Seaway; On Camera; Encounter; Mannix; The F.B.I.) and movies (Bush Pilot; Goldfinger; Sins of the Fathers; The Mouse That Roared; Wolf Dog; Crack in the Mirror) (born Sept. 30, 1917 – died Apr. 4, 2004; age 86). Cause of death for Austin Willis is unknown. (Austin Willis 1965 Seaway)
Dewey Martin (nee Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff)
Canadian drummer & singer for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Buffalo Springfield (For What It’s Worth), and Nashville session drummer for Patsy Cline, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, and others (born Sept. 30, 1940 – died Jan. 31, 2009; age 68). Dewey Martin is believed to have died from natural causes. (Dewey Martin 2004 Photo: Alrie L. Sego Jr.)
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