Birthdays & Passings (January 1st - January 10th) [1466]

Happy Birthday!

January 1st
Dana Andrews (1909)

January 2nd
Anna Lee (1913)

January 3rd
Zasu Pitts (1894)
Ray Milland (1907)
Victor Borge (1909)
Maxene Andrews (1916)
Betty Furness (1916)
Barbara Stuart (1930)

January 4th
Sterling Holloway (1905)
Jesse White (1917)
Sorrell Booke (1930)

January 6th
Danny Thomas (1912)
Loretta Young (1913)
Henry Corden (1920)
Mickey Hargitay (1926)
Vic Tayback (1930)
Bonnie Franklin (1944)

January 7th
Alan Napier (1903)
Butterfly McQueen (1911)
Vincent Gardenia (1920)

 January 8th
Jose Ferrer (1912)
Soupy Sales (1926)

January 9th
Fernando Lamas (1915)
Lee Van Cleef (1925)
Bob Denver (1935)
 Susannah York (1939)

January 10th
Francis X. Bushman (1883)
Ray Bolger (1904)
Gisele MacKenzie (1927)
Sal Mineo (1939)

At Rest:

January 1st
Maurice Chevalier (1972)
Victor Buono (1982)
Lloyd Haynes (1987)
Cesar Romero (1994)
Ray Walston (2001)

January 2nd
Dick Powell (1963)
Alan Hale, Jr. (1990)
Anne Francis (2011)

January 3rd
Howard McNear (1969)
Pat Hingle (2009)

January 4th 
Mae Questel (1998)

January 5th
Hans Conried (1982)
Sonny Bono (1998)

January 7th
Trevor Howard (1988)
Avery Schreiber (2002)

January 8th
Reta Shaw (1982)
Pat Buttram (1994)
Yvonne De Carlo (2007)
Don Galloway (2009)

January 9th
Jesse White (1997)

January 10th
Dashiell Hammett (1961)
Paul Lynde (1982)
Sheldon Leonard (1997)

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