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BaltimoreBob — 15 years ago(July 01, 2010 10:08 AM)

#1 Celebrity Birthday Person for July 4th is
Ron Kovic (64 in 2010) 1946 Private Citizen and Vietnam Veteran.
Born: Ladysmith, Wisconsin / Birth name: Ronald L. Kovic
Imagine having Tom Cruise play your life story in a movie, 'Born on the Fourth of July',
(1989) and ending up on stage in Hollywood celebrating the movie's two Oscars?
All Ron Kovic had to do to achieve this fantasy was serve three tours of duty in Vietnam,
get paralyzed for life by combat wounds, and write a best-selling book about it all.
A war veteran turned antiwar-activist, Kovic turned his 1976 autobiography,
into the eponymous film with the help of fellow Vietnam vet Oliver Stone.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) (uncredited) as Veteran at Parade.
He and director Oliver Stone wrote much of the script together at a cafe in Venice, CA.
Baltimore Bob once lived in Venice, CA circa March/April 1987.
He gave Tom Cruise his Bronze star as a birthday present in 1990.

Birthdays set for 2005

Pam Shriver (43) 1962

Born: Baltimore, Marda0yland / Birth Name: Pamela Howard Shriver / Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Pam has two sisters, Marion who died from cancer in 1997 and Eleanor who lives in Maryland.
Shriver is a graduate of McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland.
She is a minority owner of the Baltimore Orioles
and is active in various charitable organizations.
Spouses: George Lazenby (12 June 2002 - present) (filed for divorce) 3 children
Joe Shapiro (5 December 1998 - 23 September 1999) (his death)
Step-daughter: Melanie Lazenby - born September 13, 1973.
Son: George Samuel Lazenby (12 July 2004).
Daughter: Kate Lazenby - born October 1, 2005.
Son: Sam Lazenby - born October 1, 2005.
A 5-time Wimbledon doubles champ and 1988 Olympic gold medalist,
she and Martina Navratilova won 79 doubles titles, including 20 Grand Slams.
In total, Shriver won 21 singles and 112 doubles titles.
Baltimore Bob added Pam on Tuesday April 13th 2010.
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (54) 1951
Born: Greenwich, Connecticut / Birth name: Kathleen Hartington Kennedy
Eldest Daughter (1st of 11 children) of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy.
Sister of Joseph Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Rory Kennedy.
Kathleen is also the first grandchild of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Named after her aunt, Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
who was killed in a plane crash. Kathleen followed her as the first of her generation to marry.
On the same day that Kathleen was being given away by her Uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy,
her cousin, Ted Jr. was having his leg amputated.
However, tragedy would later find Kathleen at a wedding.
While gathering with her family to celebrate the wedding of her youngest sister, Rory,
Kathleen learned that another cousin, JFK Jr., was missing & then later killed in a plane crash.
Spouse: David Townsend (17 November 1973 - present) 4 children
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1995-2003).
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Robert A. Nowotny (57) 1948
Born: New Braunfels, Texas / Birth Name: Robert Allen Nowotny

New Braunfels is Home to the #1 WaterPark in America.
Baltimore Bob visited the park on his 1987 Texas vacation.
In 1970, Robert A. Nowotny graduated with double honors from the highly prestigious
Honors Program of the School of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nine years later he earned a Master's Degree in Radio-TV-Film, with Honors,
from the same university.
A frequent judge at film festivals throughout North America,
Nowotny is co-founder of the Crested Butte Reel Fest.
Movie debut at age 42 in The Radicals (1990) as Tortured Man.
2009: Latest movie role at age 61 in Palo Pinto Gold (2009) as The Town Drunk.
Baltimore Bob added fellow Robert on Wednesday July 1st 2009.
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Morganna (58) 1947

Born: Louisville, Kentucky / Birth name: Morganna Cottrell
Nicknames: The Kissing Bandit, The Wild One / Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
In her first Playboy pictorial, it was claimed that she had a 60 inch chest measurement.
Started kissing athletes on a $5 bet when she was 15.
Arrested nineteen times for her kiss attempts.
Movie debut in Girls Cob68me Too (1968) aka How I Became a Nudist (USA: new title).
Measurements: (as noted throughout her career as a stripper&publicity seeking
'athlete kisser').
36-24-36 [early in her burlesque career)
45-23-39 [dancing as Morganna the Wild One]
60-24-39 [as the baseball game crashing phenom known simply as
Morganna the Kissing Bandit]
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Ron Kovic (59) 1946 See # 1 for today
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Geraldo Rivera (62) 1943 - Newsperson
Born: Brooklyn, NY / Birth Name: Gerald Michael Riviera / Nickname: Jerry
Height: 5' 9" (1.77 m) the same exact height as is Baltimore Bob
Spouses:

Erica Michelle Levy (10 August 2003 - present)
C.C. Dyer (July 1987 - 2000) (divorced) 2 children
Sherryl Raymond (31 December 1976 - 1984) (divorced) 1 child
Edie Vonnegut (14 December 1971 - 1975) (divorced)
Linda Coblentz (1965 - ?) (divorced)
His wife, Edie, was Kur

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BaltimoreBob — 15 years ago(July 01, 2010 10:09 AM)

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Dead Persons:
Morgan Roberts (Would have been 58) 1947 - Died age 39
Born 4 July 1947 - Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Date of death 17 July 1986.
AKA: The Kissing Bandit / isn't this Morganna ?
Baltimore Bob thinks that this was the Male version of Morganna.
That he Morgan Roberts underwent a sex change operation and was reborn as Morganna.
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Ann Landers (Would have been 87) 1918 - Died age 83
Born 4 July 1918 - Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Date of death 22 June 2002 - Chicago, Illinois, USA. (multiple melanoma)
Popular newspaper advice columnist who attended Morningside College.
Birth name: Esther Pauline Friedman / Nickname: Eppie / Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Was the daughter of Russian immigrants.
Spouse: Jules Lederer (2 July 1939 - July 1975) (divorced) 1 daughter Margo
She and her sister and their husbands married in a double ceremony.
Married Jules Lederer, founder of the Budget Rent-a-Car, and her twin sister
Pauline Friedman (aka 'Dear Abby') married Morton Phillips in an elaborate
Orthodox Jewish double wedding in the twins' hometown of Sioux City.
Her first column appeared in print October 16, 1955, in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1978 World Almanac survey named her the most influential woman in the USA.
At the time of her death, her column was carried in more than 1,200 newspapers
around the world, with a readership of 90 million.
Once referred to Pope John Paul II as a 'polack' but later apologized for doing so.
Coined the phrase 'wake up and smell the coffee'.
Daughter, Margo Howard, also has an advice column,
called Dear Prudence, which appears in Slate magazine.
She was the Mystery Guest (1 episode, 1956) on "What's My Line?"

Episode dated 3/18/1956 (3/9/1956 - Baltimore Bobs ex born) (1956) TV episode.
She became the first journalist to win the Albert Lasker Public Service Award
for her efforts in persuading Congress to approve millions of dollars for
cancer research. (Ironically, she would later die of cancer herself).
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Irving Caesar (Would have been 110) 1895 - Died age 101
Date of Bir2000th 4 July 1895, New York City, New York, USA.
Date of Death 17 December 1996, New York City, New York, USA.
Birth Name: Isaac Caesar / Brother of writer Arthur Caesar.
Composer, songwriter ("Swanee", "Tea for Two", "Crazy Rhythm", "Just a Gigolo"),
author and publisher, educated at Chautauqua Mountain Institute and City College of New York.
He was a stenographer aboard the Henry Ford Peace Ship during World War I.
He joined ASCAP in 1920 and was a director between 1920 and 1946, and again in 1949,
and he was the co-founder and a past-president of AGAC.
Spouse: Christina Ballestros (? - 17 December 1996) (his death)
SoundTrack: (lyrics: "Just a Gigolo") from What Price Pants (1931) to Where the Truth Lies (2005).
SoundTrack: (lyrics: "Swanee") from The Singing Kid (1936) to Ghetto (2006).
SoundTrack: (writer: "Tea For Two") from No, No, Nanette (1940)
To Emily's First 100 Days of School (2006) (V).
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1,
pp. 90-91. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Baltimore Bob added Irving on Wednesday July 22nd 2009.
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Calvin Coolidge (Would have been 133) 1872 - Died age 60
Born 4 July 1872 - Plymouth Notch, Vermont, USA
Date of death 5 January 1933 - Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. (heart failure)
30th president of The United States (1923-29).
Birth name: John Calvin Coolidge / Nickname: Silent Cal / Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
John Calvin Coolidge is the only President to have had the oath of office
administered by his father, a justice of the peace, who swore him in when
the Coolidges received word of President Harding's death.
Spouse: Grace Anna Goodhue (4 October 1905 - 5 January 1933) (his death)
2 sons - John Coolidge (1906-2000) and Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1908-1924)
Has been called 'The Dullest President of All Time.'
12th cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Vice President of United States (1921-1923).
/ Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1920).
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918).
/ Massachusetts State Senator (1912-1915). Mayor of Northampton, MA (1910-1911).
/ Member Massachusetts General Court (1907-1908).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge

These three former Presidents died this date:
James Monroe (II) (Died age 73) 1831
Date of Birth: 28 April 1758, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.
Date of Death: 4 July 1831, New York, New York, USA. (pulmonary tuberculosis)
Trivia: First US senator to become president (served as a senator from Virginia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe
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Thomas Jefferson (II) (Died age 83) 1826
Born 13 April 1743, Shadwell, Goochland County (now Albemarle County), Virginia, USA.
Died 4 July 1826, Monticello estate, near Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. (chronic diarrhea)
3rd President of the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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John Adams (XV) (Died age 90) 1826
Date of Birth: 30 October 1735, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Death: 4

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