#653 Morgan Fairchild / Pamela Franklin – 3 February 1950

Morgan Fairchild

Morgan Fairchild (born February 3, 1950) is an American actress. She achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild began her career in the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 to 1977. In 1978 she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as the first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a lead role in the NBC series Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama). Born Patsy Ann McClenny in Dallas, Texas.

Pamela Franklin

Pamela Franklin (born 3 February 1950) is a British actress who appeared in feature films from 1961 until 1976, and on American television throughout the 1970s. She is best known for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), for which she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress. Born in Yokohama, Japan.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Fairchild
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Franklin

On this day:
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets

#652 U Thant / Ann Sothern – 22 January 1909

U Thant

U Thant (January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971.

Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American stage, radio, film and television actress whose career spanned six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films. In 1930, she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked her way up to starring roles. In 1939, MGM cast her as Maisie Ravier, a brash yet lovable Brooklyn showgirl. The character proved to be popular and spawned a successful film series (Congo Maisie, Gold Rush Maisie, Up Goes Maisie, etc.) and a network radio series (The Adventures of Maisie). In 1953, Sothern moved into television as the star of her own sitcom Private Secretary. The series aired for five seasons on CBS and earned Sothern three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 1958, she starred in another sitcom for CBS, The Ann Sothern Show which aired for three seasons. From 1965 to 1966, Sothern provided the voice of Gladys Crabtree, the titular character in the sitcom My Mother the Car. Sothern earned her first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Whales of August.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Sothern

On this day:
The National Conservation Commission released its final report. President Roosevelt endorsed it as “one of the most fundamentally important documents ever laid before the American people”.

#651 John Schlesinger / Margot Frank – 16 February 1926

John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday).

Margot Frank

Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – early March 1945) was the elder daughter of Otto and Edith Frank, and the older sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. According to the diary of her younger sister Anne, Margot was keeping a diary as well, but no trace of Margot’s diary has ever been found.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schlesinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Frank

On this day:
French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen defeated U.S. champion Helen Wills in a special match at Cannes.

#650 Emily Watson / Nicki Chapman / Saskia Wickham – 14 January 1967

Emily Watson

Emily Margaret Watson, OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress who gave an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. She is a two-time Academy Award nominee and four-time BAFTA Award nominee. Her other films include, Angela’s Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), and The Book Thief (2013).

Nicki Chapman

Nicki Chapman (born 14 January 1967, Herne Bay, Kent, England) is an English television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry. She was also a judge on the ITV reality shows Popstars, with Nigel Lythgoe and Paul Adam, and Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox. Nicki currently hosts Wanted Down Under, Escape To The Country and The RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Saskia Wickham

Saskia Wickham (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress best known for playing Dr. Erica Matthews in the ITV television drama series Peak Practice between 1996 and 1998. Other major roles include Clarissa Harlowe on Clarissa, Alex Wilton in the ITV series Boon and Claudia Seabrook MP in the BBC drama Our Friends in the North (1996).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Watson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicki_Chapman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Wickham

On this day:

• The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
• The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love.

#649 Ed McBain / Jean Peters – 15 October 1926

Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)

Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.  As Evan Hunter, he gained notice with his 1954 novel Blackboard Jungle.  He wrote the screenplay of the Hitchcock film The Birds (1963). From 1958 until his death, McBain’s “87th Precinct” novels appeared at a rate of approximately one or two novels a year.

Jean Peters

Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second (or possibly third) wife ofHoward Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women. Peters and Marilyn Monroe starred together in the 1953 film noir, Niagara, also starring Joseph Cotten. She replaced Jeannie Crain in the film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McBain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Peters

On this day:
12 police and 35 miners were injured at a mine near Port Talbot, Wales when 500 locked-out miners attacked a colliery that was operating under police protection.

#648 Ronald Lacey / Heather Sears – 28 September 1935

Ronald Lacey

Ronald William Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30 year period and is perhaps best remembered for his villainous roles in Hollywood films, most famously Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Heather Sears

Heather Christine Sears: (28 September 1935 – 3 January 1994), was a British stage and screen actress. On screen, she was cast as Susan Brown, the naive daughter of an industrial magnate who falls for Joe Lampton in the adaptation of John Braine’s novel Room at the Top (1959).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lacey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Sears

#647 – Dobie Gray / Mary Jo Kopechne – 26 July 1940

Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown on July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit records included “The ‘In’ Crowd” in 1965 and “Drift Away”, which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, sold over one million copies.

Mary Jo Kopechne

Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident at Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, while a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, according to his own account.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobie_Gray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne

#646 Peggy Fleming / Betty Thomas – 27 July 1948

Peggy Fleming

Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies’ singles and a three-time World Champion (1966–1968). Fleming has been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years, including several Winter Olympic Games. Born in San Jose, California.

Betty Thomas

Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1948) is an American actress, director of television, and motion pictures. She is known for her Emmy-award winning role as Lucy Bates on the television series Hill Street Blues. Born Betty Lucille Nienhauser in St. Louis, Missouri.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Fleming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Thomas

#645 Kym Marsh / Lisa Riley – 13 June 1976

Kym Marsh

Kimberley Gail Marsh (formerly Ryder and Lomas; born 13 June 1976) is a British actress and former singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the group Hear’Say from 2001 until 2002 when she left and released her solo album Standing Tall. In 2006, Marsh joined the cast of the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, where she currently plays Michelle Connor.

Lisa Riley

Lisa Riley (born 13 June 1976, Bury) is a British television presenter and actress best known for playing the role of Mandy Dingle in the television soap opera Emmerdale and succeeding Jeremy Beadle as presenter of You’ve Been Framed!.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kym_Marsh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Riley

On this day:
A tornado (F-5 on the Fujita scale) destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa.

#644 Morrissey / Graham Fellows – 22 May 1959

Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), commonly known by his last name, Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band the Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. He is widely regarded as an important innovator in the indie music scene.

Graham Fellows

Graham David Fellows (born 22 May 1959, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Fellows

#643 Malin Åkerman / Jason Biggs – 12 May 1978

Malin Åkerman

Malin Maria Åkerman (born May 12, 1978) is a Swedish Canadian actress, model and singer. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to Canada at the age of two. As a child, she appeared in several television commercials before going on to win a modelling contract at age sixteen. Åkerman was cast as Silk Spectre II in the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, a role for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Since 2012, she has had a recurring role on the sitcom Suburgatory.

Jason Biggs

Jason Matthew Biggs (born on May 12, 1978) is an American actor best known for his role as Jim Levenstein in the American Pie series of teen comedy films and the current voice of Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and plays Larry Bloom in Orange Is the New Black.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malin_Åkerman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Biggs

#642 Michelle Pfeiffer / Martin Whitmarsh – 29 April 1958

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and singer. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her breakout performance in Scarface (1983). Pfeiffer has had her greatest commercial successes with Batman Returns (1992), What Lies Beneath (2000), and Hairspray (2007). During her career, Pfeiffer has won numerous awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best Actress awards from theNational Board of Review, the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, as well as Best Supporting Actress awards from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle and the San Diego Film Critics Society. She has received three Academy Award nominations to date: Best Supporting Actress for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and Best Actress in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Love Field (1992).

Martin Whitmarsh

Martin Whitmarsh (born 29 April 1958) is a British businessman and former CEO of McLaren Racing, a subsidiary company of the McLaren Group and Chief Operating Officer of that group, as well as team principal of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, following Ron Dennis‘s retirement on 1 March 2009. Whitmarsh was also the chairman of the Formula One Teams Association and therefore had the responsibility of representing the F1 teams’ interests, until the organisation was disbanded in 2014.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Pfeiffer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Whitmarsh

#641 Sheena Easton / Neil Pearson – 27 April 1959

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr; 27 April 1959) is a Scottish/American international recording artist and stage and TV/film actress. Easton first came into the public eye as the focus of an episode in the first British reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop hits “9 to 5″ (known as “Morning Train” in the United States), “For Your Eyes Only”, “Strut”, “Sugar Walls”, “U Got the Look” with Prince, and “The Lover in Me”.

Neil Pearson

Neil Joshua Pearson (born 27 April 1959) is an English actor, best known for his work on English television, and is an antiquarian book dealer who specialises in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the wars. It was in the roles of associate editor and office lothario, Dave Charnley, in the sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey and of Detective Superintendent Tony Clark in the thriller Between the Lines, that he made his greatest impact on the viewing public.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheena_Easton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Pearson

On this day:
Liu Shao-chi was named as the new President of the People’s Republic of China, as Mao Zedong gave up the ceremonial post

#640 Camilla Dallerup / Gina Yashere – 6 April 1974

Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup (born 6 April 1974) is a British-based Danish ballroom dancer, dance teacher and model. She is probably best known for her appearances on the BBC’s celebrity dance competition, Strictly Come Dancing. Born in Aalborg, Denmark.

Gina Yashere

Gina Obedapo Yashere (born 6 April 1974) is a British comedian of Nigerian descent. May be best known for appearing in the comedy series The Lenny Henry Show and numerous appearances on Mock the Week. Born in Bethnal Green, London.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_Dallerup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Yashere

On this day:
Swedish pop group ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.

#639 Nick Mason / Mairead Maguire – 27 January 1944

Nick Mason

Nicholas Berkeley “Nick” Mason (born 27 January 1944) is an English drummer and composer, best known for his work with Pink Floyd. He is the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965. Despite solely writing only a few Pink Floyd songs, Mason has co-written some of Pink Floyd’s most popular compositions such as “Echoes” and “Time”. Mason is the only Pink Floyd member to be featured on every one of their albums. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States. He competes in auto racing events, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Maguire has also won several other awards.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Maguire

On this day:
World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

#638 Mick Ronson / Simon Hoggart – 26 May 1946

Mick Ronson

Michael “Mick” Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is best known for his work with David Bowie, as one of The Spiders from Mars. Ronson was a busy session musician who recorded with artists as diverse as Bowie and Morrissey, as well as appearing as a sideman in touring bands with performers such as Van Morrison. He also recorded several solo albums, the most notable example of which was Slaughter on 10th Avenue, which reached No. 9 on the UK Albums Chart.

Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He wrote on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for The Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4. His journalism sketches have been published in a series of books.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Ronson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hoggart

#637 Louise Brooks / Harley O. Teets – 14 November 1906

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), born Mary Louise Brooks, was an American dancer and actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known as the lead in three feature films made in Europe, including two G. W. Pabst films: Pandora’s Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe, 1930). She starred in seventeen silent films and eight sound films before retiring in 1935. Brooks published her memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982.

Harley O. Teets

Harley Oliver Teets (born on 14 November 1906 in Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia)  was the warden of San Quentin State Prison from 1951 until his death in 1957. During that time he presided over executions performed in San Quentin’s notorious gas chamber. Teets is probably best known for seizing the manuscript of one of condemned prisoner Caryl Chessman’s books, arguing that since it was written on death row, it constituted “prison labor”.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_O._Teets

#636 Leon Trotsky / King Baggot – 7 November 1879

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky ( 7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico with an ice axe by undercover NKVD agent Ramón Mercader suffering injuries from which he later died. Born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire.

King Baggot

William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as “King of the Movies,” “The Most Photographed Man in the World” and “The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon.” Baggot appeared in at least 269 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Baggot

#635 Winston Churchill / Lucy Maud Montgomery – 30 November 1874

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (that is, for most of the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), called “Maud” by family and friends and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery

#634 Sigmund Freud / Robert Peary – 6 May 1856

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process.

Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Peary’s claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook, who said he got there a year earlier. Both claims were widely debated in newspapers until 1913.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peary