FYI...St. Patrick's Day Births...

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Nothing spectacular here. Just an interesting bunch that share(d) a birthday.



Births

1964 Rob Lowe American actor. Film: St. Elmo's Fire and About Last Night. He also made headlines by starring in a home pornographic video.

1954 Lesley-Anne Down English actress. TV: Dallas (Stephanie Rogers).

1951 Kurt Russell American actor. Film: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), The Barefoot Executive (1970), Escape From New York (1981), and Backdraft (1991).

1949 Patrick Duffy American actor. TV: Man From Atlantis (title role) and Dallas (Bobby Ewing).

1948 George Stallings, Jr American ex-catholic priest. He formed the African American Catholic Congregation (c1989), and is one of the leading proponents of the theory that Jesus Christ was a black man.

1942 John Wayne Gacy, Jr d. 1994 American serial killer, aka "Killer Clown." He was confessed to raping and killing 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 - more than any other person in U.S. history at that time.  He buried 28 of his victims in his crawl space.  He was executed in 1994.

1938 Rudolf Nureyev d. 1993 Russian ballet dancer. He defected to the West in 1961, and became the Paris Opera ballet director (1983-89). He died of AIDS.

1919 Nat King Cole d. 1965 (Nathaniel Adams Coles), American jazz singer. Music: Unforgettable (1951) and Stardust (1957).

1918 Mercedes McCambridge American Oscar-winning actress. Film: All the King's Men (1949, Oscar), Giant (1956), and The Exorcist (1973, voice of the demon-child).

1908 Brigitte Helm d. 1996 (Gisele Eva Schittenhelm), German actress. Film: Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926, the female robot Robotrix).

1900 Shemp Howard d. 1955 (Samuel Howard), American comic actor, one of the original 3-Stooges.

1849 Charles Francis Brush d. 1929 American electrician, inventor of the arc light.

1834 Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler d. 1900 German inventor. He developed the first high speed internal combustion engine (1883) and invented the motorboat (1883) and the motorcycle (1885).

1473 James IV d. 1513 King of Scotland (1488-1513), outlawed golf (1491), although he later became a golfer himself.