january 20 famous birthdays
Minnesota built-in son Bob Dylan came out of aloneness to account folk fable Woody Guthrie, who had mentored Dylan, on this day in 1968.
Guthrie was ill with Huntington’s ache by the time Dylan confused to New York and began visiting him regularly, until Guthrie’s afterlife in October 1967. At the Carnegie Hall tribute, Dylan apprehend his “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie,” and sang Guthrie’s “Grand Coulee,” “Mrs. Roosevelt” and “I Ain’t Got No Home.”
“Dylan smiled in animosity of himself at the abundant acknowledgment he got to anniversary song,” wrote Sue C. Clark for Rolling Stone, but — in his accepted appearance — “wasted no time amid numbers.”
Actor Rainn Wilson — who fabricated Dwight Schrute of “The Office” so adorable and awe-inspiring — is 51.
Singer Kevin Parker of Tame Impala is 31.
Actor Evan Peters of “American Horror Story” and the “X-Men” movies is 30.
Country accompanist Brantley Gilbert is 32.
Drummer Rob Bourdon of Linkin Park is 38.
DJ Sid Wilson, aka DJ Starscream, of Iowa metal bandage Slipknot, is 40.
Drummer ?uestlove of The Roots — and apparent nightly in the abode bandage of ” The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” is 46.
Actor Reno Wilson of “Mike and Molly” is 48.
TV personality Melissa Rivers, babe of the backward Joan Rivers, is 49.
Actress Stacey Dash of “Clueless” is 50.
Country accompanist John Michael Montgomery is 52.
Actor James Denton — “Desperate Housewives,” “Devious Maids” — is 54.
TV host Bill Maher is 61.
Actor Lorenzo Lamas of “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “Lucha Underground” is 59.
Guitarist Paul Stanley — the Starchild of Kiss — is 65.
Bassist Ian Hill of Judas Priest is 66. Here’s a joke: Why can’t bassists acquaint jokes? Timing.
Director David Lynch — who brought us the askance “Twin Peaks” and now the new, askance “Twin Peaks” — is 71.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the additional guy to airing on the moon, is 87. He’s the astronaut who punched the moon-landing denier in 2002.
The backward administrator Federico Fellini — who brought us “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2” — was built-in on this day in 1920. He died in 1993.
The backward folk and dejection guitar fable Lead Belly was built-in Huddie William Ledbetter on this day in 1888. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, years afterwards his afterlife in 1949.
