January 6th Birthdays

Singer Nino Tempo was born on this day in 1935 in Niagara Falls, NY, as Antonino LoTempio. Here is he is singing the 1963 No. 1 hit “Deep Purple” with April Stevens, the stage name of his sister Carol.

Also born on January 6th:

• 1934
  Sylvia Sims, English actress
• 1935
  Tsaritsa Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela of Bulgaria
• 1951
  Don Gullett, American baseball player
  Kim Wilson, American musician
• 1952
  Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
• 1953
  Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist
• 1954
  Trudie Styler, English actress
• 1955
  Rowan Atkinson, English comedian, actor
• 1958
  Scott Bryce, American actor
• 1959
  Kathy Sledge, American singer
• 1960
  Howie Long, National Football League player
  Andrea Thompson, American actress
• 1964
  Charles Haley, American football player
  Mark O’Toole, English bass guitarist
• 1969
  Norman Reedus, American actor
• 1971
  Gary Wiseman, American punk-rock drummer
  Irwin Thomas, Australian singer
• 1974
  Paul Grant, American basketball player
• 1975
  James Farrior, American football player
• 1976
  Danny Pintauro, American actor
  Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, musician
• 1978
  Bubba Franks, American football player
  Casey Fossum, American baseball player
• 1981
  Mike Jones, American rapper
  Asante Samuel, American football player
• 1982
  Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
  Brian Bass, American baseball player
  Eddie Redmayne, English actor
• 1986
  Irina Shayk, Russian model
  Alex Turner, English musician
• 1994
  Jameis Winston, American football player
• 1999
  Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress

January Birthday Calendar

Died on January 6th:

• 1852
  Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (age 43)
• 1919
  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President (age 60)
• 1921
  Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (age 81)
• 1949
  Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer (age 59)
• 1993
  Dizzy Gillespie, American singer, trumpet player (age 75)
  Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer, choreographer (age 54)
• 2006
  Lou Rawls, American singer, songwriter (age 76)
• 2016
  Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor, screenwriter (age 86)
• 2019
  W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (age 86)
• 2020
  Peter Bogdanovitch, American actor, director (age 82)
• 2022
  Sidney Poitier, American actor (age 94)