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. Nino passed away at the age of 90 on April 10, 2025 in West Hollywood, CA.
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
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)
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