#659 Curtis Mayfield / Anita Harris – 3 June 1942

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was a soul, R&B, and funk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who was one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music Born Curtis Lee Mayfield in Chicago, Illinois. (d. 1999)

Anita Harris

Anita Harris (born 3 June 1942) is an English actress, singer and entertainer. Harris sang with the Cliff Adams Singers, and had a number of chart hits in the 1960s. She appeared in the Carry On films Follow That Camel and Carry On Doctor. Born Anita Madeleine Harris in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England.

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Harris

#658 Sophie Dahl / Tom Hardy – 15 September 1977

Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl (born 15 September 1977) is an English author and former fashion model. Dahl is the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were the children’s author Roald Dahl and the American actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were the actor Stanley Holloway and the former chorus dancer Violet Lane. Born Sophie Holloway in London.

Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, screenwriter, and producer. He made his debut in Ridley Scott’s film Black Hawk Down. Hardy’s other notable films include Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Inception (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also portrayed Bane in the superhero film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), “Mad” Max Rockatansky in the post-apocalyptic film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and both Kray twins in the crime thriller Legend (2015). Born Edward Thomas Hardy in Hammersmith, London, England.

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Dahl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hardy

#657 Susan Hampshire / Beryl Burton / Miriam Stoppard / George Carlin – 12 May 1937

Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born 12 May 1937) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning English actress, best known for her many television and film roles.

Beryl Burton

Beryl Burton, OBE (12 May 1937 – 5 May 1996) was an English racing cyclist. She dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records. She set a women’s record for the 12-hour time-trial which exceeded the men’s record for two years.

Miriam Stoppard

Miriam Stoppard, OBE (née Stern and subsequently Miriam Moore-Robinson, born 12 May 1937) is an English doctor, author, television presenter and advice columnist.

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, and author. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects..

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Hampshire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Stoppard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin

#656 Robert De Niro / John Humphrys – 17 August 1943

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films. His first major film roles were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Martin Scorsese’s crime film Mean Streets (1973). In 1974, after being turned down for the role of Sonny Corleone in the crime film The Godfather (1972), he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull.

John Humphrys

Desmond John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is an award-winning Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the Nine O’Clock News, the flagship BBC news television programme, and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 programme, Today. Since 2003 he has been the host of the BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind.

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys

#655 Anna Paquin / Elisabeth Moss – 24 July 1982

Anna Paquin

Anna Helene Paquin (born 24 July 1982) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Her first film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in March 1994 at the age of 11, making her the second youngest winner in Oscar history. She later appeared in a number of successful films, including Fly Away Home, She’s All That, Almost Famous, The Squid and the Whale, 25th Hour and the X-Men franchise as Rogue from Marvel Comics. Paquin is also known for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2009.

Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor, known for her roles as Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, on the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006); Peggy Olson, secretary-turned-copywriter on the AMCseries, Mad Men (2007–2015), which earned her six Emmy Awards nominations and one Golden Globe nomination; and Det. Robin Griffin in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), the last of which won her a Golden Globe and Satellite Awards for Best Actress in a Miniseries and/or TV film.

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Paquin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Moss

#654 Maxine Peake / David Mitchell – 14 July 1974

Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, film and television actress, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood’s sitcom dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4’s Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello QC in BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton in The Village. She is also an accomplished stage actress, and co-starred in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.

David Mitchell

David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. Together the duo star in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. Mitchell won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance in the show. Mitchell is a frequent participant on British panel shows, being a team captain on Would I Lie to You?, and a frequent guest on other panel shows, including QI, Mock the Week and Have I Got News for You.

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Peake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(comedian)

#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.