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Today In History Basic Datebook-February 1st

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People on February 1st: birthdates

Big Boi: 1975 (is 34 in 2009, 35 in 2010)
Rap Performer, of Outkast
Jimmy Carl Black: 1938 (is 71 in 2009, 72 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Musician, of Mothers of Invention
Vasili Bogazianos: 1945 (is 64 in 2009, 65 in 2010)
Soap Actor, All My Children's Benny Sago, Days of Our Lives' Ozzie, Young and the Restless' Al, As the World Turns' Bud
Bart Braverman: 1946 (is 63 in 2009, 64 in 2010)
Actor, Vega$'s Bobby Borso Binzer, New Odd Couple's Roy
Sharon Bruneau: 1964 (is 45 in 2009, 46 in 2010)
Actress
Leo Burmester: 1944 (is 65 in 2009, 66 in 2010)
Actor, Flo's Randy, Chiefs
Mike Campbell: 1954 (is 55 in 2009, 56 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Guitarist, of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Exene Cervenka: 1956 (is 53 in 2009, 54 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Singer, of X; correct spelling
Nick Chastain: 1981 (is 28 in 2009, 29 in 2010)
Soap Actor, Young and the Restless' Alex
Fran Christina: 1951 (is 58 in 2009, 59 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Drummer, of Fabulous Thunderbirds
Noname Clapton: 2005 (is 4 in 2009, 5 in 2010)
Celebrity Daughter, Melia and Eric's daughter
Rebecca Creskoff: 1971 (is 38 in 2009, 39 in 2010)
Actress, Quintuplets' Carol Chase
Darby Galen Dempsey: 2007 (is 2 in 2009, 3 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Jillian and Patrick's son
Sullivan Patrick Dempsey: 2007 (is 2 in 2009, 3 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Jillian and Patrick's son
Chuck Dukowski: 1954 (is 55 in 2009, 56 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Musician, of Black Flag
Dwayne Dupuy: 1965 (is 44 in 2009, 45 in 2010)
Country Singer, of Ricochet
Don Everly: 1937 (is 72 in 2009, 73 in 2010)
HALL OF FAMER, Pop Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, b. in Brownie, KY; RFN:Isaac Donald; of The Everly Bros with brother Phil
Sherilyn Fenn: 1965 (is 44 in 2009, 45 in 2010)
TV/Movie Actress, born in Detorit, Twin Peaks' Audrey Horne, Dawson's Creek's Alex Pearl
Michael Samarie George: 1996 (is 13 in 2009, 14 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Conni Marie Brazelton and Michael's son
Michael C. Hall: 1971 (is 38 in 2009, 39 in 2010)
Actor
John Hart: 1932 (is 77 in 2009, 78 in 2010)
Newscaster, Journalist, of CBS & NBC News; World Monitor
Sherman Hemsley: 1938 (is 71 in 2009, 72 in 2010)
TV Actor, Cartoon Voicist, b. in Philadelphia; All in the Family's & The Jeffersons' George Jefferson; Amen's Deacon Ernest Frye, Dinosaurs' boss B.P. Richfield, Goode Behavior
Kaitlin Hopkins: 1964 (is 45 in 2009, 46 in 2010)
Soap Actress, Another World's Dr. Kelsey Harrison
Terry Jones: 1942 (is 67 in 2009, 68 in 2010)
TV/Movie Actor, Comedian, Movie Director, Comedy Writer, Wales, of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, Erik the Viking
Randy Josselyn: 1974 (is 35 in 2009, 36 in 2010)
TV Actor, Family Matters' Rodney
Brandis Kemp: 1951 (is 58 in 2009, 59 in 2010)
Actress, Comedienne, Fridays reg, AfrerMASH's Alma Cox; Mark Blankfield's wife
Brian Krause: 1972 (is 37 in 2009, 38 in 2010)
Soap Actor, Another World's Matthew Cory, Charmed's Leo Wyatt
Brian Jeffrey Krause: 1972 (is 37 in 2009, 38 in 2010)
Movie Actor
Jani Lane: 1964 (is 45 in 2009, 46 in 2010)
Heavy Metal Singer, Drummer, Lyricist, of Warrant
Jarrett Lennon: 1982 (is 27 in 2009, 28 in 2010)
Actor, Not Another Teen Movie
Noah Mamet: 1999 (is 10 in 2009, 11 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Rebecca Pidgeon and David's son
Jack Marsden: 2001 (is 8 in 2009, 9 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Lisa Linde and James' son
Del McCoury: 1939 (is 70 in 2009, 71 in 2010)
Bluegrass Performer, Singer
Garrett Morris: 1937 (is 72 in 2009, 73 in 2010)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Comedian, Singer, Arranger, Comedy Writer, b. in New Orleans; Roll Out's Wheens, Saturday Night Live's Chico Escuela & reg 1975-80, It's Your Move's Principal Dwight Ellis, General Hospital's Mouth, Hunter's Sporty James, Roc's Wiz, Martin's Stan
Bill "Billy" Mumy: 1954 (is 55 in 2009, 56 in 2010)
TV Actor, Novelty Singer, Rock & Roll Guitarist, Songwriter, ComicStrip Cartoonist, Cartoon Voicist, Lost in Space's Will Robinson, Sunshine, Barnes and Barnes' Art, not Artie: Fish Heads & other demented hits, The Generators, Marvel Comics, Matlock's nephew Irwin Bruckner, Babylon 5's Lennier, Batman: The Animated Series and other cartoons
Lisa Marie Presley: 1968 (is 41 in 2009, 42 in 2010)
Singer, b. in Memphis, TN; Elvis & Priscilla's daughter, Danny Keough's ex-wife; Michael Jackson's ex-wife
Reynolds Price: 1933 (is 76 in 2009, 77 in 2010)
Novelist
Princess Stephanie: 1965 (is 44 in 2009, 45 in 2010)
Pop Singer, Princess, RMLN:Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi; of Monaco; Grace Kelly's & Prince Rainier's daughter, Caroline's sister
Joshua Redman: 1969 (is 40 in 2009, 41 in 2010)
Jazz Saxphonist, Dewey's son
Linus Roache: 1964 (is 45 in 2009, 46 in 2010)
Actor, The Forgotten
Julie Roberts: 1979 (is 30 in 2009, 31 in 2010)
Actress, NOT to be confused with Julia
Joseph "Joe" Sample: 1939 (is 70 in 2009, 71 in 2010)
Soul Singer, Keyboardist, Songwriter, of The Crusaders
Ray Sawyer: 1937 (is 72 in 2009, 73 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Singer/Guitarist, Guitarist, aka Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Bob Shane: 1934 (is 75 in 2009, 76 in 2010)
Folk Singer, Guitarist, Banjoist, of The Kingston Trio
Pauly Shore: 1968 (is 41 in 2009, 42 in 2010)
Comedian, TV/Movie Actor, Novelty Singer, born in Hollywood, the MTV VJ Weasel dude; he's Totally Pauly; Encino Man, Bio-Dome
Elisabeth Sladen: 1948 (is 61 in 2009, 62 in 2010)
TV Actress, Dr. Who's Sarah-Jane
Tina Sloan: 1943 (is 66 in 2009, 67 in 2010)
Soap Actress, Guiding Light's Lillian Raines
Samantha Raine Treadway: 2005 (is 4 in 2009, 5 in 2010)
Celebrity Daughter, Monica and Ty's daughter
Sadao Watanabe: 1933 (is 76 in 2009, 77 in 2010)
Reeds, Japanese
Ron Welty: 1971 (is 38 in 2009, 39 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Performer, of The Offspring
Stuart Whitman: 1926 (is 83 in 2009, 84 in 2010)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Boxer, Cimarron Strip's US Marshal Jim Crown; AP says b. 1928
Richard Williams: 1950 (is 59 in 2009, 60 in 2010)?
Rock & Roll Guitarist, of Kansas; some say b. Feb 1, 1951 (is 58 in 2009)
Patrick Wilson: 1969 (is 40 in 2009, 41 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Performer, of Weezer, Evening
Ramy Zada: 1958 (is 51 in 2009, 52 in 2010)
Soap Actor, Guiding Light's Jeffrey Morgan

People on February 1st: birth anniversaries

Bibi Besch: 1940=d.Sep 7, 1996 (was 56)
Actress, Austrian, Star Trek II
Dennis Brown: 1956=d.Jul 1, 1999 (was 43)
Reggae Singer, Jamaican, NN:Crown Prince of Reggae
Hattie Caraway: 1878=d.Dec 21, 1950 (was 72)
Senator, 1st woman elected
Paul Carr: 1934=d.Feb 17, 2006 (was 72)
Soap Actor, General Hospital's Milton Stanis
Helen Chandler: 1909=d.Apr 30, 1965 (was 56)
Movie Actress, Dracula 1931
John Ford: 1895=d.Aug 31, 1973 (was 78)
Movie Producer/Director, b. in Cape Elizabeth, ME; RN:Sean O'Fearna; Over a hundred films, including "Drums Along the Mohawk" '39, "The Grapes of Wrath" '40, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" '49, "The Quiet Man" '52, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" '62.
Clark Gable: 1901=d.Nov 16, 1960 (was 59)
Movie Actor, Gay, b. in Cadiz, OH; FN:William; NN:King of Hollywood; Gone With the Wind's Rhett Butler, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Misfits, It Happened One Night; wed 5x's
Meyer Guggenheim: 1828=d.Mar 15, 1905 (was 77)
Financier, Industrialist, Capitalist
Granville Hall: 1844=d.Apr 24, 1924 (was 80)
Psychologist, Educator, Writer, founder of Child Psychology
Victor August Herbert: 1859=d.May 26, 1924 (was 65)
Conductor/Composer, Cellist, Songwriter, Irish, b. in Dublin; Classical; responsible for ASCAP, Babes in Toyland
Hildegarde: 1906=d.Jul 29, 2005 (was 99)
Singer, MLN:Loretta Sell; cabaret
H. Richard Hornberger: 1924=d.Nov 4, 1997 (was 73)
Author, a thoracic surgeon whose novel inspired the movie and TV series "M*A*S*H"
Langston Hughes: 1902=d.May 22, 1967 (was 65)
Poet, Lyricist, Dramatist/Playwright, Journalist, FN:James; poer laureate
Herman Hupfield: 1894=d.Jun 8, 1951 (was 57)
Songwriter, wrote As Time Goes By
Rick James: 1948=d.Aug 6, 2004 (was 56)
Rhythm and Blues Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Music Producer, b. in Buffalo, NY; Punk Funk; RN:James Johnson; Superfreak, Give It To Me Baby
James Price Johnson: 1894?=d.Nov 17, 1955 (was 64)
Jazz Pianist, Composer, Charleston writer; some say b. Feb 1, 1891
Michael Kanin: 1910=d.Mar 12, 1993 (was 83)
Screen/Scriptwriter, Movie Producer/Director, Dramatist/Playwright
John Philip Kemble: 1757=d.Feb 26, 1823 (was 66)
Stage Actor, Director, English, theater manager
Joseph Keppler: 1838=d.Feb 19, 1894 (was 56)
Cartoonist, Australian, caricaturist and founder of; Puck, the first successful humorous weekly in the United States.
Brandon Lee: 1965=d.Mar 31, 1993 (was 27)
Movie Actor, Showdown in Little Tokyo, The Crow; Bruce's son
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton: 1904=d.Jul 20, 1946 (was 42)
Jazz Performer, Trombonist, of Duke Ellington band
George Pal: 1908=d.May 2, 1980 (was 72)
Movie Producer/Director, Animator, Hungarian
S. J. Perelman: 1904=d.Oct 17, 1979 (was 75)
Humorist, Author, RFN:Sidney Joseph; Around the World in 80 Days
Stephen Potter: 1900=d.????
Humorist
Leo Salkin: 1913=d.Oct 13, 1993 (was 80)
Animator, Screen/Scriptwriter, of Walt Disney, Tex Avery, & Walter Lantz cartoons
Charles J. Sax: 1791=d.Apr 26, 1865 (was 74)
Manufacturer, Inventor, Belgiumese, of saxophones
Harry Scherman: 1887=d.????
Author, Publisher, Canadian, co-founded Book of the Month club
Gene Sheldon: 1908=d.May 1, 1982 (was 74)
Actor, Zorro's Bernardo
Dame Muriel Spark: 1918=d.Apr 13, 2006 (was 88)
Novelist, Scotish
Boris N. Yeltsin: 1931=d.Apr 23, 2007 (was 76)
Head of State, Russian, President of the Russian Republic

People on February 1st: death anniversaries

Jack Bailey: 1980 (was 72)/b.Sep 15, 1907
Game Show Host, Jokers' Wild, Place the Face, Truth or Consequences, Queen for a Day
Sir William Bennett: 1875 (was 58)/b.Apr 13, 1816
Pianist, Conductor/Composer, British
Vincent Crane: 1989 (was 45)/b.May 21, 1943
Organist, Singer, Songwriter, RN:Vincent Rodney Chessman; of Atomic Rooster, Dexy's Midnight Runners
George Cruikshank: 1878 (was 85)/b.Sep 27, 1792
Illustrator, Children's Author, English, for Charles Dickens
Rene Descartes: 1650 O.S. (was 53)?/b.Mar 31, 1596
Philosopher, Mathematician, Scientist, French, b. in La Haye; "I think, therefore I am" (...insane); Father of Modern Philosophy; some say d. Feb 11, 1650 N.S. (was 53)
Werner Karl Heisenberg: 1976 (was 74)/b.Dec 5, 1901
Physicist, Philosopher, German, discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices (1925). For that discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
Dick James: 1986 (was 65)/b.Dec 12, 1920
Singer, Music Publisher, Songwriter, British, Music Publisher of The Beatles (Howard Stern says there's nothing worse than a dead...)
Irving R. Kaufman: 1992 (was 81)/b.Jun 24, 1910
Judge/Jurist, sentenced the Rosenbergs to the electric chair in 1951
Buster Keaton: 1966 (was 70)/b.Oct 4, 1895
Movie Actor, Comedian, Movie Director, Vaudevillan, NN:The Great Stone Face; b. in Piqua, KS; RFMN:Joseph Francis; Silent Film Legend; some say b. 1896
Shell Kepler: 2008 (was 49)/b.Oct 5, 1958
Soap Actress, General Hospital's Amy Vining
James MacDonald: 1991 (was 84)/b.May 19, 1906
Cartoon Voicist, Scotish, Mickey Mouse voice, sound effects specialist
William Gibbs McAdoo: 1941 (was 77)/b.Oct 31, 1863
Financier, U.S. secretary of the treasury (1913-18), a founder and chairman (1914) of the Federal Reserve Board, and director general of the U.S. railroads during and shortly after World War I (1917-19).
Irish McCalla: 2002 (was 72)/b.Dec 25, 1929
Actress, Model, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle star
Paul Mellon: 1999 (was 91)/b.Jun 11, 1907
Philanthropist, put Van Goghs in American museums
Gian-Carlo Menotti: 2007 (was 95)/b.Jul 7, 1911
Composer, Italian, among his works are the operas "The Consul" and "The Medium," and was also the founder of the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto.
Robin Nedwell: 1999 (was 52)/b.Sep 27, 1946
Actor, Dr. in the House's Dr. Duncan Waring (character also in Doctor in Charge, Doctor on the Go, Doctor Down Under, and Doctor at the Top); Zany Adventures of Robin Hood's Will Scarlett (TV movie)
Hildegarde Neff: 2002 (was 76)/b.Dec 28, 1925
Movie/Stage Actress, Author, German, also spelled Hildgard Knef; Touch of Class, Mozambique
Heather O'Rourke: 1988 (was 12)/b.Dec 27, 1975
TV/Movie Actress, Happy Days' Heather Pfister, Poltergeist
Pope Alexander VIII: 1691 (was 80)/b.Apr 22, 1610
Pope, Pope 1689-1691
Marjorie Reynolds: 1997 (was 75)/b.Aug 12, 1921
TV/Movie Actress, b. in Buhl, Idaho; RLN:Moore; The Life of Riley's Peg Riley; Holiday Inn movie
Paul Robi: 1989 (was 57)/b.Aug 20, 1931
HALL OF FAMER, Baritone, of The Platters
Mongo Santa Maria: 2003 (was 80)/b.Apr 7, 1922
Percussionist, Bandleader, Composer, Cuban, RFN:Ramon
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 1851 (was 53)/b.Aug 30, 1797
Author, British, b. in London; Frankenstein creator 1818; Mary's daughter, Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife
Olan Soule: 1994 (was 84)/b.Feb 28, 1909
Actor, Cartoon Voicist, My Three Sons' Mr. Pfeiffer, Batman's Batman (cartoon), Arnie
John Vernon: 2005 (was 72)/b.Feb 24, 1932
TV/Movie Actor, Canadian, RN:Adolphus Vernon Agopsowicz; Dirty Harry, Animal House, Delta House's Dean Vernon Wormer, The Blue & the Gray, Hail to the Chief, Acapulco H.E.A.T.'s Mr. Smith
Scotty Wiseman: 1981 (was 71)/b.Nov 8, 1909
Country Singer, of the pioneering country duo of Lulu Belle and Scotty

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