Date 11/05/2008

Birthdays - November 5

1855 - Eugene (Victor) Debs (politician: founded Social Democratic Party of America; Socialist Party nominee for U.S. President {1904, 1908, 1912, 1920}; died Oct 20, 1926)

1857 - Ida Tarbell (author: History of the Standard Oil Company; associate editor: The Chautauquan, McClure’s Magazine, American Magazine; autobiography: All in the Day’s Work; died Jan 6, 1944)

1885 - Will Durant (author, historian: The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization {w/wife Ariel}; died Nov 7, 1981)

1891 - Earle ‘Greasy’ Neale (Football Hall of Famer: West Virginia Wesleyan, Canton Bulldogs; coach: Philadelphia Eagles {1941-1950}, three straight eastern division crowns and NFL championships {1948, 1949}; created the 5-man defensive line; died Nov 2, 1973)

1893 - Raymond Loewy (inventor, engineer, industrial designing: ‘father of streamlining’: US Postal Service logo, Air Force One and many other products such as pens, appliances, cars and trains; died July 14, 1986)

1900 - Natalie Schafer (actress: Gilligan’s Island, The Survivors, Forever Darling, The Time of Your Life; died Apr 10, 1991)

1905 - Joel (Albert) McCrea (actor: Ride the High Country, The Oklahoman, Four Faces West, Buffalo Bill, Barbary Coast, Wichita Town; died Oct 20, 1990)

1911 - Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) (‘King of the Cowboys’: actor: 85+ westerns, The Roy Rogers Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show; singer: Happy Trails to You; died July 6, 1998)

1913 - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) (Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind {1939}, A Streetcar Named Desire {1951}; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina; died July 7, 1967)

1913 - John McGiver (actor: Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Patty Duke Show, Mr. Terrific, Many Happy Returns, The Jimmy Stewart Show; died Sep 9, 1975)

1931 - Ike Turner (musician: piano, singer: duo: Ike & Tina Turner Revue: It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, Poor Fool, Tra La La La, I Idolize You, Proud Mary; owner: recording studio)

1936 - Billy Sherrill (songwriter, musician: saxophone: Tipsy; record producer: Almost Persuaded; VP/Executive Producer: CBS Nashville)

1940 - Elke Sommer (Schletz) (actress: A Shot in the Dark, The Prize, The Oscar, Prisoner of Zenda; Miss Italy {1959})

1941 - Art Garfunkel (singer: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; solo: All I Know, Second Avenue, I Only Have Eyes for You, Wonderful World {w/James Taylor, Paul Simon}; actor: Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Bad Timing)

1943 - Sam Shepard (Sam Shepard Rogers) (actor: Days of Heaven, The Pelican Brief, The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Voyager; playwright: Silent Tongue, Far North, Fool for Love, Zabriskie Point, Paris Texas)

1946 - Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors) (singer: group: The Byrds: LP: Sweetheart of the Rodeo; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LP: The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe; songwriter: She, How Much I’ve Lied, The New Soft Shoe, Grievous Angel, Hickory Wind, Las Vegas, In My Hour of Darkness; died Sep 19, 1973)

1947 - Peter Noone (Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone) (musician {guitar, piano}, singer: Herman of Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, I’m Henry VIII, I Am; solo: Oh You Pretty Thing; actor: The Pirates of Penzance)

1952 - Bill Walton (Basketball Hall of Famer: UCLA: NCAA championship {1972, 1973}: MVP, Sullivan Award {1973}; Portland Trail Blazers: NBA Championship title {1977}, MVP {1978}; San Diego Clippers; Boston Celtics: 1986 NBA championship)

1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum (actor: Voyagers, Cover Up; killed Oct 18, 1984 {accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks on set of Cover Up}; died Oct 18, 1984)

1958 - Robert Patrick (actor: Killer Instinct, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Wayne’s World, Fire in the Sky, Rosewood, Cop Land, Renegade Force, The X Files {TV})

1959 - Bryan Adams (singer: Heaven, Summer of ’69; songwriter: Everything I Do; songwriter: Tears are Not Enough)

1959 - Lloyd (Anthony) Moseby (baseball: Toronto Blue Jays {all-star: 1986}, Detroit Tigers)

1963 - Andrea McArdle (actress, singer: Annie)

1963 - Tatum O’Neal (Academy Award-winning actress: Paper Moon {1973}; Bad News Bears, Little Darlings)

1965 - Famke Janssen (actress: Fathers & Sons, GoldenEye, The Gingerbread Man, Rounders, X-Men)

1968 - Sam Rockwell (actor: Clownhouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Strictly Business, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Safe Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Green Mile, Charlie’s Angels)

1971 - Corin ‘Corky’ Nemec (actor: Operation Dumbo Drop, Stephen King’s The Stand, Drop Zone, Solar Crisis, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Webster)