Wake Up, Crystal Lake - April 16 (Happy Birthday, Charlie Chaplin)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1965 Martin Lawrence (actor)
• 1955 Ellen Barkin (actress)
• 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball)
• 1939 Dusty Springfield (rock vocalist)
• 1935 Bobby Vinton (singer)
• 1930 Herbie Mann (jazz flutist, composer)
• 1929 Roy Hamilton (singer)
• 1924 Henry Mancini (composer/conductor)
• 1921 Peter Ustinov (actor)
• 1920 Barry Nelson (actor)
• 1918 Spike Milligan India, (actor/comedian)
• 1889 Charlie Chaplin (actor)
• 1867 Wilbur Wright (aeronautical)
• 1850 Herbert Baxter Adams US, (historian)
• 1660 Hans Sloane (physician/naturalist)