While some of us are off somewhere surrounded by food and gorging ourselves almost to the point of combustion, others will be celebrating their birthdays.
Happy Birthday! Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!
1981 Jenna Bush, daughter of George W. and Laura Bush, twin of Barbara Bush
1981 Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. and Laura Bush, twin of Jenna Bush
1971 Christina Applegate, actress, Kelly from Married With Children
1969 Jacqueline Hennessy, actress, Dead Ringers, twin of Jill Hennessy
1969 Jill Hennessy, actress, Claire from Law and Order, twin of Jacqueline Hennessy
1967 Curtis Baldwin, actor, Calvin from 227
1961 Amy Gibson, actress, General Hospital
1960 Amy Grant, gospel/rock singer, “Glory of Love”, “Baby Baby”
1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of John F. Kennedy, lawyer/magazine publisher, ‘George’ magazine [died July 16, 1999]
1952 Ernest Harden, Jr., actor, Marcus from The Jeffersons
1949 Boris Alexander Godunov, dancer/actor, Karl in Die Hard [died May 18, 1995]
1947 John Larroquette, actor, Dan Fielding from Night Court
1944 Ben Stein, actor, economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
1942 Tracey Walter, actor, Frog Rothchild Jr. from Best of the West
1940 Percy Sledge, soul singer, “When A Man Loves A Woman”
1935 Gloria Steinem, feminist/author, Ms. Magazine and New York Magazine
1933 Rene Enriquez, actor, Ray Calletano from Hill Street Blues
1929 Jack Hogan, actor, Sgt. Jerry Miller from Adam-12
1928 James “Jimmy” Johnson, U.S. gospel/blues singer/guitarist
1925 Jeffrey Hunter, actor, Captain Christopher Pike from Star Trek [died May 27, 1969]
1924 Paul Desmond, U.S. jazz saxophonist [died May 30, 1977]
1920 Ricardo Montalban, actor, Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island [died January 14, 2009]