Wake Up, Crystal Lake - April 26 (Happy Birthday, Gracie Allen)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1982 Jon Lee (singer)
• 1970 Tionne "t-boz" Watkins (rapper)
• 1967 Kane (wrestler)
• 1966 Andrea Temesvari (tennis player)
• 1962 Michael Damian (actor, singer)
• 1960 Roger Taylor (percussionist, drummer)
• 1948 Stevie Nicks (rocker)
• 1942 Boby Rydell (actor)
• 1938 Duane Eddy (guitarist)
• 1933 Carol Burnett (comedian/actress)
• 1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen (athlete)
• 1916 Morris L West (novelist)
• 1906 Gracie Allen (comedienne)
• 1900 Charles Richter (earthquakes similogist)
• 1895 Rudolf Hess (Hitler's Deputy)
• 1879 Sir Owen Williams Richardson (physicist)