Today is January 21, 2010 and the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days left in the year 2010. According the Mayan calendar, there are 1065 days till the end of the current cycle. On this date in 1977, Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all draft dodgers from the Vietnam War. Here are five people that share a birthday on this day:
Geena Davis (Born 1956)
Born Virginia Elizabeth Davis in Wareham, MA is an Academy Award-winning actress, producer, writer, ex-model and archer. She made her film debut in the Chevy Chase classic, Fletch, in 1985, which led to larger roles in The Fly (where she met husband Jeff Goldblum) and Beetlejuice. Other hit movies included Thelma and Louise, where she got a Best Actress Nomination, and A League of Their Own.
Michael Wincott (Born 1957)
Canadian actor born Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott, is best known for his deep, gravelly voice. This Julliard School of Music graduate has appeared in such movies as, The Crow, The Doors, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Three Musketeers. The Count of Monte Cristo and Along Came a Spider. Because of his voice, he is typically cast as the quintessential villain. In real life he is an accomplished fencer that has aided him in some of his action sword fighting roles. He is also a musician that plays harmonica, drums and guitar.
Ethan Allen (1738-1789)
American soldier and frontiersman. After fighting in the French and Indian War (1754–63), he settled in what is now Vermont. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, his force of Green Mountain Boys (organized in 1770) helped defeat the British in the Battle of Ticonderoga (1775). As a volunteer with troops commanded by Gen. Phillip Schuvler, he attempted to take Montreal but was captured by the British and held prisoner until 1778. He returned to Vermont, where he worked for statehood. Failing to achieve this, he attempted to negotiate the annexation of Vermont to Canada.
Benny Hill (1925-1992)
Comedian, born in Southampton, Hampshire, South England, UK. An enthusiastic performer in school shows, he was a milkman, drummer, and driver before finding employment as an assistant stage manager. During World War 2 he appeared in Stars in Battledress, and later followed the traditional comic’s route of working-men’s clubs, revues, and end-of-the-pier shows. An early convert to the potential of television, he appeared in Hi There (1949), and was named TV personality of the year in 1954. He gained national popularity with the saucy The Benny Hill Show (1957–66), and spent over two decades writing and performing in top-rated television specials that were seen around the world. A notable appearance was as the Toymaker in Ian Flemming’s Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang.
Roger Baldwin (1884-1981)
U.S. civil-rights leader. Born into an aristocratic Massachusetts family, Baldwin attended Harvard University and taught sociology at Washington University (1906–09) in St. Louis, where he also was chief probation officer of the city’s juvenile court and secretary of its Civic League. When the U.S. entered World War I, he became director of the pacifist American Union Against Militarism, the predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As the ACLU’s director (1920–50) and national chairman (1950–55), he made civil rights, once a predominantly leftist cause, a universal one.
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