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

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)