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George Robert Newhart [5] was born on September 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois. [6] His parents were Julia Pauline (née Burns; 1901–1994), a housewife, and George David Newhart (1899–1987), a part-owner of a plumbing supply business. [6] His mother was of Irish descent, while his father was of German and Irish descent.
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston [6]) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. [7] She was known to her family as Adriaantje. [8] Hepburn's grandfather, Aarnoud van Heemstra, was the governor of the colony of Dutch Guiana.
Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), also known as Berry Gordy Jr., [5] is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.
Kenneth Henry Grange was born on 17 July 1929, in east London. [1] His mother, Hilda (née Long), was a machinist and his father, Harry, a policeman. [2] The family moved to Wembley, north London at the outbreak of the second world war, where his father was a bomb disposal officer.
November 14 – Joe McGinnity, baseball player (born 1871) November 17 – Herman Hollerith, businessman and inventor (born 1860) November 24 – Raymond Hitchcock, actor and producer (born 1865) December 10 – Harry Crosby, publisher and poet (born 1898; suicide) December 19 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (born 1893; heart failure)
Junius Griffin (January 13, 1929 – June 1, 2005) [1] was an African American Civil Rights activist working as the President of the Beverly-Hills Hollywood chapter of the NAACP, [2] who is best known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as well as for coining the term “Blaxploitation” in regard to the African American film industry of the 1970s.