Wake Up, Crystal Lake - March 6 (Happy Birthday, Lou Costello)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1986 Eli Marienthal (actress)
• 1972 Shaquille O'Neal (basketballer, actor)
• 1959 Tom Arnold (actor)
• 1947 Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews) (singer)
• 1946 David Gilmour (lead guitarist - pink floyd left for solo career)
• 1945 Rob Reiner (actor)
• 1944 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (opera singer)
• 1942 Ben Murphy (actor)
• 1937 Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva (Russian cosmonaut)
• 1930 Lorin Maazel (music director NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
• 1927 Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper (U.S. astronaut)
• 1927 Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery (jazz guitarist)
• 1926 Alan Greenspan (economist)
• 1923 Ed McMahon (radio/tv announcer, pitchman)
• 1906 Lou Costello (Cristillo) (comedian, actor)
• 1885 Ring Lardner (sports reporter, humorist, writer)
• 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (poet)
• 1619 Cyrano De Bergerac (French soldier, author)
• 1475 Michelangelo (de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (Renaissance artist)