Wake Up, Crystal Lake - April 21 (Happy Birthday, Tony Danza)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1987 Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress)
• 1971 Samantha Druce (youngest woman to have swum the English Channel
• 1959 Robert Smith (singer)
• 1958 Andie MacDowell (actress)
• 1951 Tony Danza (actor)
• 1947 Iggy Pop (singer/songwriter)
• 1935 Charles Grodin (actor)
• 1932 Elaine May (comedienne)
• 1926 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor II, (queen of England)
• 1915 Anthony Quinn (actor)
• 1913 Norman Parkinson (fashion photographer)
• 1838 John Muir (naturalist, conservationist)
• 1816 Charlotte Bronte (novelist)
• 1729 Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
• 1619 Jan van Riebeeck (founder of cape town)