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Celebrity-Birthdays-Jul01

Celebrity Birthdays for July 1: Actress Leslie Caron is 92. Actor Jamie Farr is 89. Actress Jean Marsh ("Upstairs, Downstairs") is 89. Cookiemaker Wally Amos is 87. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 82. Actress Genevieve Bujold is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for July 1:


Actress Leslie Caron is 92.

Actor Jamie Farr is 89.

Actress Jean Marsh ("Upstairs, Downstairs") is 89.

Cookiemaker Wally Amos is 87.

Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 82.

Actress Genevieve Bujold is 81.

Composer and conductor Francois Dompierre is 80.

Singer Deborah Harry of Blondie is 78.

Australian rock singer John Farnham, former lead vocalist with Little River Band, is 74.

Movie-TV producer-director Michael Pressman is 73.

'70s pop singer David Geddes is 73.

Actor Trevor Eve is 72.

Actor Daryl Anderson ("Lou Grant") is 72.

Singer Fred Schneider of The B-52's is 72.

Actor Terrence Mann is 72.

Singer Victor Willis of the Village People is 72.

Actor Dan Aykroyd is 71.

Hockey Hall of Fame forward Steve Shutt is 71.

Actress Lorna Patterson ("Airplane!") is 67.

Actor Alan Ruck ("Spin City," ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off") is 67.

Singer Evelyn "Champagne" King is 63.

Country singer Michelle Wright is 62.

Olympic gold medal track star Carl Lewis is 62.

Actor Dominic Keating is 62.

Keyboardist Roddy Bottum (Faith No More) is 60.

Rock musician Franny Griffiths (Space) is 57.

Actress Pamela Anderson is 56.

Bassist Mark Pirro of Polyphonic Spree is 53.

Actor Henry Simmons ("Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," ''NYPD Blue") is 53.

Rapper Missy Elliott is 52.

Actress Julianne Nicholson ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent," ''Ally McBeal") is 52.

Actress Melissa Peterman is 52.

Drummer Bryan Devendorf of The National is 48.

Actor Thomas Sadoski is 47.

Rapper Plies (born Algernod Lanier Washington) is 47.

Actress Liv Tyler is 46.

NHL All-Star Jarome Iginla is 46.

Actress Hilarie Burton ("One Tree Hill") is 41.

Actress Lynsey Bartilson is 40.

Actor Jared Keeso ("Letterkenny") is 39.

Actress Lea Seydoux ("Spectre," ''The Grand Budapest Hotel") is 38.

Actress Storm Reid ("12 Years A Slave," ''A Wrinkle in Time") is 20.


Also born on this date (death in parentheses):


In 1899, gospel music's Thomas Dorsey. (Jan. 23, 1993)

In 1899, actor Charles Laughton. (Dec. 15, 1962)

In 1906, cosmetics maker Estee Lauder. (April 24, 2004)

In 1907, broadcaster Bill Stern. (Nov. 19, 1971)

In 1915, bluesman Willie Dixon. (Jan. 29, 1992)

In 1920, actor Harold Sakata. (July 29, 1982)

In 1921, Canadian country singer Stu Davis. (March 25, 2007)

In 1925, actor Farley Granger. (March 27, 2011)

In 1928, singer Bobby Day. (July 27, 1990)

In 1934, Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack. (May 26, 2008)

In 1934, French actor-director-writer Claude Berri. (Jan. 12, 2009)

In 1935, bluesman James Cotton. (March 16, 2017)

In 1935, actor David Prowse ("Star Wars" films). (Nov. 28, 2020)

In 1939, actress Karen Black is 74. (Aug. 7, 2013)

In 1939, rock musician Delaney Bramlett. (Dec. 27, 2008)

In 1941, Hockey Hall of Fame forward Rod Gilbert. (Aug. 19, 2021)

In 1942, gospel singer-choir leader Andrae Crouch. (Jan. 8, 2015)

In 1954, country music singer Keith Whitley. (May 9, 1989)

In 1957, actress Lisa Blount. (c. Oct. 25, 2010)

In 1961, Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Spencer). (Aug. 31, 1997)

In 1962, actor Andre Braugher ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine," ''Homicide"). (Dec. 11, 2023)

In 1988, actor Evan Ellingson. (Nov. 5, 2023)

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