August 22nd Birthdays

American singer, Ron Dante, was born on this day in 1945, as Carmine Granito, in Staten Island, NY

Also born on August 22nd

1939
Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1940
Bill McCartney, American football coach
1941
Bill Parcells, American football coach
1947
Cindy Williams, American actress
Donna Godchaux, American singer
1948
Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1950
Ray Burris, American baseball player
1956
Paul Molitor, baseball player
1958
Colm Feore, American actor
Vernon Reid, American musician
1959
Juan Croucier, American musician
1961
Roland Orzabal, British musician
Debbi Peterson, American musician
1963
Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
1965
Tom Gibis, American voice actor
Courtney Gains, American actor
1966
GZA, American rapper
1967
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967
Ty Burrell, American actor
1971
Richard Armitage, English actor
Rick Yune, American actor
Craig Finn, American musician
1972
Steve Kline, American baseball player
Paul Doucette, American drummer
1973
Kristen Wiig, American comedian
Howie Dorough, American singer
1975
Sheree Murphy, British actress
Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1977
Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978
Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician
1979
Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian-born actress
Matt Walters, American football player
1981
Alex Holmes, American football player
1983
Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1985
Kether Donahue, American voice actress
1986
Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

Died on August 22nd:

1977
Sebastian Cabot, English actor (age 59)
1978
Jomo Kenyatta, 1st President of Kenya (est. age 80)
1989
Huey P. Newton, American activist, Black Panther Party co-founder (age 47)
2013
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (age 67)
2004
Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (age 83)
2011
Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (age 70)
2018
Ed King, American musician (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd), (age 68)