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Gene Garber (57) 1947
---------- Born: Lancaster, PA & Baltimore Bob grew up in New Holland, PA – 10 miles east.
---------- Born: Lancaster, Pennsylvania / Batted: Right & Threw: Right
---------- Birth Name: Henry Eugene Garber / College: Elizabethtown in PA.
---------- He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round of the 1965 amateur draft.
---------- MLB debut (age 21): June 17, 1969 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
---------- Last MLB appearance (age 40): July 1, 1988 for the Kansas City Royals.
---------- A former sidearm relief pitcher for NL; Pittsburgh Pirates (1969–1972),
---------- Philadelphia Phillies (1974–1978), Atlanta Braves (1978–1987)
---------- and AL; Kansas City Royals (1973–1974, 1987-1988).
---------- His most effective pitch was a change-up, which he effectively delivered from an
---------- unusual, herky-jerky motion, turning his back to the batter
---------- before delivering the ball in a side-arm, "submarine-style" manner.
---------- In 1977, he won his only postseason game.
---------- He was the first Philadelphia Phillie to win a postseason game for 62 years:
---------- this is a major league record for any team.
---------- On August 1, 1978 just after being traded from Philadelphia to Atlanta,
---------- Pete Rose was on his famous hitting streak but was hitless going into the 9th.
---------- In dramatic fashion, Garber, on a 2-2 change-up
---------- ended Rose's hitting streak at 44 consecutive games.
---------- Garber ranks second on the Atlanta Braves all time save list, behind John Smoltz..
---------- Career statistics: Win-Loss 96-113 / Saves 218 / ERA 3.34 / Strikeouts 940.
---------- Upon his retirement in 1988, his 931 career pitching appearances ranked
---------- 5th in major league history, trailing Hoyt Wilhelm (1070), Kent Tekulve (1013),
---------- Lindy McDaniel (987), and Rollie Fingers (944).
---------- Baltimore Bob added Gene on Wednesday November 3rd 2010.
---------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Garber
---------- Gene Garber (1947) born exact same day as actor Joe Mantegna (see below).

Joe Mantegna (57) 1947
----------- Born: Chicago, Illinois / Birth name: Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr. / Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
----------- Spouse: Arlene Vrhel (3 December 1975 - present) 2 children
----------- His daughter, Mia, is autistic / Baltimore Bob’s son is autistic.
----------- Mantegna made his acting debut in the 1969 production of Hair.
----------- Formerly an actor with an Chicago's Organic Theatre Company.
----------- Movie debut at age 30 in ‘Medusa Challenger’ (1977) as Joe.
----------- Received the lifetime acheivment award at the Los Angeles Italian Film Festival
----------- April 26, 2004.
----------- Will Girardi, Mantegna's character on 'Joan of Arcadia' (2003), was ranked #40
----------- in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
----------- Joe Mantegna (1947) born exact same day as MLB Pitcher Gene Garber (see above).

Mel Stottlemyre (63) 1941
------------ Born: Hazleton, Missouri / Birth Name: Melvin Leon Stottlemyre Sr.
------------ Bats Right, Throws Right / Height 6' 2", Weight 190 lb.
------------ Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1961.
------------ MLB debut August 12, 1964 and Final Game August 16, 1974.
------------ A 11 tear career with American League NY Yankees with 164 wins and 139 lost.
------------ Current Pitching coach with the NY Yankees.

Carol Connors (II) (64) 1940
------------- Born: New Brunswick, New Jersey / Birth Name: Annette Kleinbard
------------- Carol began her singing career while still in high school.
------------- She was the lead singer of the pop vocal trio the Teddy Bears, who had a number
------------- one hit song in 1958 with the lovely pop ballad "To Know Him is to Love Him."
------------- Phil Spector specifically wrote the song to showcase Connors' voice.
------------- Carol holds the distinction of being the only woman to co-write a hit hotrod song;
------------- she penned "Hey Little Cobra" for the Rip Chords.
------------- SoundTracks:
------------- Catalina Caper (1967) (writer: "Book of Love") (performer: "Book of Love"),
------------- Rocky (1976) (lyrics: "Rocky's Theme", "Gonna Fly"),
------------- My Baby's Daddy (2004) (writer: "Gonna Fly Now"), &
------------- You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) (writer: "Gonna Fly Now").
------------- Received the Orchid Award from the Asthma Allergy Foundation of America in 1999.
------------- Received the "Woman of Action" honor from the Israeli Cancer Research Fund in 2003.
------------- Received the "Woman of Excitement" Award from the Southeast Symphony in 2004.
------------- Baltimore Bob added Carol today Friday November 13th 2009.
------------- Baltimore Bob states “Today is the only day of the year with two Celebrities have
------------- the same name singer Carol Connors & Deep Throat actress Carol Connors (1952).”

Garry Marshall (70) 1934
-------------- Born: NY, NY / Birth name: Garry Kent Marsciarelli
-------------- Son of Anthony W. Marshall and Marjorie Irene Marshall (née Ward), a dance instructor.
-------------- Brother of Penny Marshall and Ronny Hallin (née Marshall).
-------------- Graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York [1952]
-------------- Baltimore Bob’s ex wife Faith turned 7 years of age on 3/9/1963.
-------------- Spouse: Barbara Marshall (March 9th 1963 - present) 3 children
-------------- Three children: Lori, Scott, Kathleen -
-------------- all actors who have appeared in several of Garry's films.
-------------- Trade mark: Uses Hector Elizondo is almost all of his movies.
-------------- Marshall is known for his obsession with basketball: his contract has often
-------------- obligated studios to provide a basketball court on his film locations.
-------------- Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), where he has a building specializing
-------------- in radio/television/film production named for him and his wife.
-------------- Wrote for the Daily Northwestern sports beat while in college,
-------------- advocating that NU drop out of the Big Ten athletic conference.
-------------- Career started as a comedy writer.
-------------- When Robin Williams auditioned for the role of Mork from Ork, he met Garry Marshall
-------------- who told him to sit down. Robin immediately sat on his head on the chair.
-------------- Marshall immediately chose him saying that he was the only alien who auditioned.
-------------- Movie debut at age 27 in ‘Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour’ (1961)
-------------- as US Recruiting Officer.
-------------- Directorial film debut at age 48 in ‘Young Doctors in Love’ (1982).
-------------- Directed at age 60: Exit to Eden (1994) / Release Date:14 October 1994 (USA).
-------------- Exit to Eden starred Dana Delany at age 38 as Lisa Emerson.
-------------- * Dana Delany born 13 March 1956, New York City, New York.
-------------- * Faith Bailey born 9 March 1956 (Baltimore Bob’s ex-wife) Wilmington, DE.
-------------- Baltimore Bob states “This is the only movie that Baltimore Bob knows of
-------------- where you see Dana topless in at least one scene – great rack.”
-------------- Baltimore Bob got this rental once and his ex-wife would not watch it with him.

Robert Sterling (I) (87) 1917
--------------- Born: New Castle, Pennsylvania / Birth name: William John Hart
--------------- The son of baseball player and umpire Bill Hart,
--------------- born 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Pittsburgh.
--------------- He attended the University of Pittsburgh
--------------- and worked as a clothing salesman before pursuing an acting career.
--------------- He certainly had the requisite good looks. Columbia signed this dark-haired,
--------------- extraordinary-looking specimen in 1939 and billed him as Robert Sterling, as not to
--------------- confuse anyone with the silent screen legend William S. Hart.
--------------- Groomed in two-reeled shorts and bits in minor features, he went nowhere fast.
--------------- In 1941, MGM took him on as a possible replacement for another gorgeous Robert -
--------------- Robert Taylor (who Baltimore Bob is named after) - who was about to join the Navy.
--------------- Sterling met and married actress Ann Sothern at around this time and had a daughter,
--------------- Tisha Sterling, who later came into her own as an actress as well.
--------------- Spouses: Anne Jeffreys (1951 - present) 2 sons
--------------- Ann Sothern (1943 - 1949) (divorced)
--------------- Father, with Ann Sothern, of actress Tisha Sterling.
--------------- Once considered for the title role in the classic 'Perry Mason' series,
--------------- which eventually went to Raymond Burr.
--------------- Movie debut at age 22 in ‘Blondie Meets the Boss’ (1939) (uncredited)
--------------- as Office Worker/Man Dancing with Millie.
--------------- Appears in one 'Twilight Zone, The' playing 'Douglas'
--------------- in episode: "Printer's Devil" (episode # 4.9) 28 February 1963.
--------------- 2006 Update: Died at age 88 on May 30, 2006 in Brentwood, California, USA.

Aída Alberti (89) 1915
--------------- Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
--------------- Foreign Film Actress from 1938 to 1952.
--------------- The 1st actor/actress in Alphabetical order (First by 1st name).
--------------- http://www.absolutenow.com/features/deathdate2.html#A
--------------- 2006 Update: Died at age 90 on 18 April 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
--------------- Baltimore Bob added Aida on Wednesday May 13th 2009.

Dead Persons:
Jean Seberg (Would have been 66) 1938 – Died age 40
Date of Birth 13 November 1938, Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
Date of Death 30 August 1979, Paris, France (barbiturate overdose)
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Her second marriage to second husband/Russian novelist Romain Gary was tempestuous
and profoundly unhappy due to his obsessive, Svengali-like influence on her.
Divorced in 1970, she committed suicide in 1979
while he took his own life by gunshot the very next year.
Spouses: Ahmed Hasni (30 May 1979 - 30 August 1979) (her death)
Dennis Berry (1972 - 1978) (divorced)
Romain Gary (16 October 1962 - 1970) (divorced) 1 child
François Moreuil (5 September 1958 - 1 June 1960) (divorced)
Gave birth to her son Alexandre Diego Gary in July 1963.
Although her husband Romain Gary acknowledged her daughter Nina as his own,
during her pregnancy she confessed that she was actually the product of an affair
(during a separation from Gary) with a student revolutionary named Carlos Navarra.
Daughter Nina died as a result of complications sustained from Jean overdosing
on sleeping pills during her pregnancy, on 25 August 1970, two days after her birth.
Educated at Iowa University, this blonde actress landed
the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957)
after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls.
1st movie role at age 19 in ‘Saint Joan’ (1957) as St.Joan of Arc.
At age 26 in ‘Lilith’ (1964) as Lilith Arthur.
She dropped out of 'Francois Truffaut''s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
and was replaced by Julie Christie.
At age 32 in ‘Airport’ (1970) as Tanya Livingston.
Last movie role at her death in ‘Le bleu des origines’ (1979).
Baltimore Bob added Jean on Tuesday December 8th 2009.
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Richard Mulligan (Would have been 72) 1932 - Died age 67
Born 13 November 1932 - New York, New York
Date of death 26 September 2000 - Los Angeles, California. (cancer)
He is the brother of director Robert Mulligan.
Originally a student of playwriting at Columbia University, Richard Mulligan began his
acting career in regional theater and soon after made his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer
Prize-winning play 'All the Way Home.' In addition to his continuing Broadway career,
Mulligan has successfully transferred his unique comedic talents to television and film.
On the big screen he has appeared in such films as 'The Heavenly Kid,' 'Teachers,'
'Little Big Man' and 'The Big Bus.'
He has also performed in a number of Blake Edwards' films, including
'S.O.B.,' 'A Fine Mess,' 'Micki and Maude' and 'Trail of the Pink Panther'.
1st movie role at age 30 in ‘The Chapman Report’ (1962) (uncredited) as a Jazz Musician.
Last movie role at age 54 in ‘A Fine Mess’ (1986) as Wayne 'Turnip' Parragella.
Major TV roles: "Empty Nest" as Dr. Harry Weston (170 episodes, 1988-1995),
and "Soap" as Burt Campbell (81 episodes, 1977-1981).
Spouses:
4. Rachel Ryan (27 April 1992 - 1993) (divorced)
3. Lenore Stevens (1978 - ?) (divorced)
2. Joan Hackett (1965 - 1973) (divorced)
1. Patricia Jones (1955 - 1960) (divorced) 1 son
Mulligan was cremated, and no memorial service was held, at his own request.
Won two Emmys for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.
However, he finally accepted his Emmy in 1989 for 'Empty Nest', because in
1980 he had been participating in the Screen Actors' Guild strike at the time
of the 32nd annual Emmy awards, during which he had won for his role as
Burt Campbell in Witt-Thomas-Harris' offbeat comedy series 'SOAP'.
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Oskar Werner (Would have been 82) 1922 - Died age 61
Date of Birth 13 November 1922, Vienna, Austria.
Date of Death 23 October 1984, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. (heart attack)
Birth Name: Oskar Josef Bschließmayer
Spouses: Ann Power (1954 - 1968) (divorced)
Elisabeth Kallina (1944 - 1952) 1 child
He died only two days after the death of director François Truffaut, who directed him
in two of his most famous films, ‘Jules et Jim’ (1962), and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ (1966).
For the final scene of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ (1966), he cut his hair to purposely create continuity error.
This was done to show his hatred for director François Truffaut.
1st movie role at age 16 in ‘Geld fällt vom Himmel’ (1938/I).
At age 44 in ‘Fahrenheit 451’ (1966) as Guy Montag.
Last movie role in ‘Voyage of the Damned’ (1976) as Dr. Egon Kreisler.
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Jack Elam (Would have been 86) 1918 - Died age 84
Born 13 November 1918 - Miami, Arizona
Date of death 20 October 2003 - Ashland, Oregon.
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks.
As a child he worked in the cotton fields.
He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently
became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel.
Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role.
In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood,
thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye,
sightless from a childhood fight.
He appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike,
and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles.
Spouse: Margaret Jennison (1961 - 20 October 2003) (his death)
Jean Elam (1937 - 1961) (her death)
Daughters: Jeri Elam and Jacqueline Elam. / Son: Scott Elam.
Made an infamous career with his eerie, immobile eye, which was caused by a fight with
another kid at the age of 12. It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when another boy
took a pencil, threw it, and it jabbed his eyeball.
Working for Samuel Goldwyn Studios as a bookkeeper for their accounting department,
he progressed to Office Controller for cowboy star William Boyd
at Hopalong Cassidy Productions before breaking into films.
1st movie role at age 26 in “Trailin' West” (1944) as The Killer.
Movies(9) the birth year of Baltimore Bob:
High Lonesome (1950) as Smiling Man,
The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950) (uncredited) as a Henchman
... aka Calamity Jane and the Texan,
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) as The Speaker
... aka I Shall Return (UK),
Love That Brute (1950) (uncredited) as a Gangster,
A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950) (uncredited) as Fargo,
The Sundowners (1950) as Earl Boyce
... aka Thunder in the Dust (UK),
One Way Street (1950) (uncredited) as Arnie,
Quicksand (1950) (uncredited) as Man at Bar,
& Key to the City (1950) (uncredited) as Councilman.
"The Twilight Zone" ... aka The Twilight Zone: The Original Series (Australia)
- Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (1961) TV Episode as Avery (Age 43).
Original Air Date: 26 May 1961 (Season 2, Episode 28) Baltimore Bob is 11.
Plot: Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try and determine
who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
Last movie role at age 75 in ‘Shadow Force’ (1993) as Tommy.
Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of
the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1994.
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William Noble Andrews (Would have been 128) 1876 - Died age 61
Date of Birth November 13, 1876 - Hurlock, Maryland.
Date of Death December 27, 1937 - ?, ? (?)
Congressman for the 1st congressional district of Maryland
who served one term from 1919 to 1921.
Andrews attended Dixon College as a youth.
He graduated from Wesley Collegiate Institute of Dover, Delaware in 1898
and from the law department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1903.
He was admitted to the bar in 1903
and commenced the practice of law in Cambridge, Maryland soon after.
From 1904 to 1911, he served as State attorney for Dorchester County, MD.
He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1914,
and in the Maryland State Senate from 1918 until 1919,
when he resigned to enter Congress.
He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Congress in 1918,
and served the Maryland's 1st congressional district for one full term
from March 4, 1919 to March 3, 1921.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920, and resumed
the practice of law until his death in Cambridge.
He is interred in Washington Cemetery of Hurlock, Maryland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Noble_Andrews
Baltimore Bob added William on Wednesday June 2nd 2010.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Would have been 154) 1850 - Died age 44
Born exactly 100 years before Baltimore Bob.
Born 13 November 1850 - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Date of death 3 December 1894 - Vailima, Samoa. (cerebral hemorrhage)
Spouse: Fanny Osbourne (19 May 1880 - 3 December 1894) (his death)
Wrote books that eventually were made into movies.
After his death, Samoans cut a path to the summit of Mount Vaea, where he was buried.
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Edwin Booth (I) (Would have been 171) 1833 - Died age 59
Date of Birth 12 November 1833.
Date of Death 7 June 1893.
He was born near Bel Air, Maryland into the English American theatrical Booth family.
The brother of John Wilkes Booth, his career was almost derailed
by John's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Booth toured throughout America and to the major capitals of Europe,
performing Shakespeare; in 1869 he founded Booth's Theatre in New York,
a spectacular theatre that was quite modern for its time.
Edwin Booth was considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of his time,
and his "Hamlet" had an unusually long run on Broadway (five months) for its time.
Baltimore Bob added Edwin on Thursday November 13th 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Booth

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