Celebrity Birthdays for March 6:
Dancer-actress Carmen de Lavallade is 94.
Actress-writer Joanna Miles is 85.
Actor Ben Murphy is 83.
Jazz singer Flora Purim is 83.
Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is 81.
Drummer Hugh Grundy of The Zombies is 80.
Guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is 79.
Actress Anna Maria Horsford (``The Bold and the Beautiful'') is 78.
Actor-director Rob Reiner is 78.
Singer Kiki Dee is 78.
Broadcast journalist John Stossel is 78.
Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz is 77.
Sports correspondent Armen Keteyian is 72.
Rock singer-musician Phil Alvin (The Blasters) is 72.
Actor Tom Arnold is 66.
Actor D.L. Hughley (``The Hughleys'') is 62.
Country songwriter Skip Ewing is 61.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald is 58.
Actor Shuler Hensley is 58.
Actress Connie Britton (``Nashville'') is 58.
Actress Moira Kelly is 57.
Actress Amy Pietz (``Aliens in America,'' ''Caroline in the City``) is 56.
Guitarist Chris Broderick of Megadeth is 55.
Basketball Hall of Fame centre Shaquille O'Neal is 53.
Country singer Trent Willmon is 52.
Rapper Beanie Sigel is 51.
Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin is 50.
Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 48.
Drummer Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend is 41.
Actor Eli Marienthal is 39.
Actor Jimmy Galeota is 39.
Rapper-producer Tyler, the Creator is 34.
Actor Dillon Freasier (``There Will Be Blood'') is 29.
Actress Savannah Stehlin is 29.
Also born on this date:
In 1475, artist Michelangelo. (Feb. 18, 1564)
In 1619, French playwright Cyrano de Bergerac. (July 28, 1655)
In 1806, English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (June 29, 1861)
In 1870, Viennese waltz composer Oscar Strauss. (Jan. 11, 1954)
In 1882, Barbara Hanley, Canada's first woman mayor (Webbwood, Ont.). (Jan. 26, 1959)
In 1885, Canadian conductor and cellist Rosario Bourdon. (April 24, 1961)
In 1893, legendary bluesman Walter ``Furry'' Lewis. (Sept. 14, 1981)
In 1900, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove. (May 22, 1975)
In 1905, western swing music originator Bob Wills. (May 13, 1975)
In 1906, comedian Lou Costello. (March 3, 1959)
In 1916, jazz bassist Red Callender. (March 8, 1992)
In 1921, orchestra conductor Julius Rudel. (June 26, 2014)
In 1923, former ``Tonight Show'' announcer Ed McMahon. (June 23, 2009)
In 1923, jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. (June 15, 1968)
In 1924, conductor Sarah Caldwell. (March 23, 2006)
In 1927, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (April 17, 2014).
In 1930, orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel. (July 13, 2014)
In 1936, singer-musician-Sugar Hill Records founder/CEO Sylvia Robinson. (Sept. 29, 2011)
In 1937, steel guitarist Ben Keith. (July 27, 2010)
In 1937, banjo player Doug Dillard. (May 16, 2012)
In 1940, Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Stargell. (April 9, 2001)
In 1940, Canadian artist Ken Danby. (Sept. 23, 2007)
In 1941, saxophonist Peter Brotzmann. (June 22, 2023)
In 1944, singer Mary Wilson of The Supremes. (Feb. 8, 2021)
In 1963, actress Suzanne Crough (``The Partridge Family''). (April 27, 2015)
In 1964, actress Yvette Wilson. (June 14, 2012)
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