Famous Births and Deaths on this day in history
Births
1947 – Dwight Schultz
William Dwight Schultz is an American actor and voice artist. He is known for his roles as Captain “Howling Mad” Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and the film Star Trek: First Contact. He is also well known in animation as the mad scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series, Chef Mung Daal in the children’s cartoon Chowder, and Eddie the Squirrel in CatDog.
Age 70
1954 – Clem Burke
Clement Burke is an American musician who is best known as the drummer for the band Blondie from 1975, shortly after the band formed, throughout the band’s entire career.
Age 63
1955 – Clive Whitehead
Clive Robert Whitehead is an English former footballer.
Whitehead played 73 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 1987 – 1989
Age 62
1957 – Denise Crosby
Denise Michelle Crosby is an American actress and model, best known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Yar’s own daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles, and for starring in and producing the film Trekkies.
Age 60
1967 – Gavin Maguire
Gavin Terence Maguire is an English-born Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international.
Maguire played 109 times for Portsmouth between 1989 – 1993
Age 50
1968 – Scott Krinsky
Scott Krinsky is a Los Angeles-based actor and comic best known for his role as Jeffrey “Jeff” Barnes on the hit TV series Chuck and his role as Darryl on The O.C.
He was born in Washington D.C. in 1968 and attended Salisbury University where he majored in Communication and Broadcast Journalism. He has also attended The Epicurean School of Culinary Arts in L.A. In addition to being an actor, he is a writer and a stand-up comedian who performs at The Comedy Store and Improv in L.A.
Age 49
1970 – Jerome Froese
Jerome Froese is a German musician who, in 1990, officially joined his father Edgar Froese in the band Tangerine Dream. He remained a member until 2006. Prior to his direct involvement in Tangerine Dream, Froese often appeared on the covers of the band’s albums as a child, beginning with the 1973 release of Atem, when he was two years four months old at the time the album was released.
Age 47
1977 – Colin Hanks
Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for starring as characters in films such as Shaun Brumder in Orange County, Preston in King Kong, Oliver in The House Bunny, and Troy Gable in The Great Buck Howard. His television roles include Alex Whitman in Roswell, Hank Jones in Band of Brothers, Travis Marshall in Dexter, officer Gus Grimly in Fargo, Jack Bailey in The Good Guys, and Greg Short in Life in Pieces. He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks. In the Talking Tom and Friends animated series, he voices Tom, who is the title character.
Age 40
1978 – Katherine Heigl
Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress, film producer and former fashion model. She started her career as a child model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting. She made her film debut in That Night (1992) and later appeared in My Father the Hero (1994) as well as Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). From 2005 to 2010, Heigl starred as Isobel Stevens on the television series Grey’s Anatomy.
Heigl played Izzie Stevens on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, a role for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007. Heigl has also had a prominent film career, with appearances in Knocked Up (2007), 27 Dresses (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), Killers (2010), Life As We Know It (2010) and New Year’s Eve (2011). She played the lead role on the short-lived NBC television series State of Affairs from 2014 to 2015.
Age 39
1990 – Sarah Hyland
Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress. Born in New York City, Hyland attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, followed by small roles in the films Private Parts (1997), Annie (1999), and Blind Date (2007). She gained her first major role as Haley Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades and nominations, sharing four Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with her cast members and garnering a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Hyland is also known for her roles in the films Struck by Lightning (2012), Scary Movie 5 (2013), Vampire Academy (2014), and XOXO (2016).
Age 27