Friday the 13th - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Butch Cassidy (born Friday the 13th in April 1866). The bank and train robber also went by the aliases George Parker, George Cassidy, Lowe Maxwell, James "Santiago" Maxwell, James Ryan, Butch Casady, and Santiago Lowe.
• A2) Bess Truman (born Friday the 13th in February 1885). She passed away on October 18, 1982 at 97½ years of age.
• A3) Samuel Beckett (born Friday the 13th in April 1906). His most recent works had been the novel How It Is and the play Come and Go.
• A4) Don Adams (born Friday the 13th in April 1923). In a role reversal, the comedian borrowed his last name from his wife Adelaide Efantis's stage name, Adelaide Adams.
• A5) Fidel Castro (born Friday the 13th in August 1926). The Cuban leader, whose full birth name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, is now officially First Secretary of the Communist Party, after resigning his presidency in February 2008.
• A6) Bob Crane (born Friday the 13th in July 1928). The Colonel's name, Robert E. Hogan, was taken from the actor's (Robert Edward Crane).
• A7) Peter Tork (born Friday the 13th in February 1942). Tork played some guitar on "Papa Gene's Blues" but could also find his way around the keyboard, bass, and banjo. When the Monkees debuted, his birth year was intentionally listed as 1944 to make him appear younger (22 instead of 24; I can't find any mention of the change having anything to do with superstition).
• A8) Darius Rucker (born Friday the 13th in May 1966). The former Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer followed in the footsteps of Charley Pride, who topped the charts in 1983 with "Night Games".
• A9) Trevor Hoffman (born Friday the 13th in October 1967). The righty closer passed Lee Smith on September 24, 2006 and ended 2008 with 554 career saves.
• A10) Brad Johnson (born Friday the 13th in September 1968). In a 1997 game against the Carolina Panthers, the then-Minnesota Vikings quarterback hauled in a deflected pass and ran it three yards into the endzone. Major League Baseball player Bernie Williams shares his birthday.
• A11) Jermaine O'Neal (born Friday the 13th in October 1978). The 6'11" center and power forward didn't blossom until he was traded from the Trailblazers to the Indiana Pacers in 2000, making the All-Star team six times with his new team before being traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2008.
• A12) Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson (born Friday the 13th in June 1986). At the other end, they have the "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls" line at Wal-Mart.

Other famous people born on Friday the 13th include Pope Sixtus V (December 1521), author Horatio Alger (January 1832), radio and television host and producer Ralph Edwards (June 1913), actor Christopher Plummer (December 1929), producer, director, and actor Tony Dow (April 1945), singer Peabo Bryson (April 1951), boxer Michael Spinks (July 1956), actor Steve Buscemi (December 1957), actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (January 1961), NBA player and coach Doc Rivers (October 1961), baseball player Will Clark (March 1964), actor and singer Jamie Walters (June 1969), swimmer Summer Sanders (October 1972), NBA player Baron Davis (April 1979), tennis player Meghann Shaughnessy (April 1979), and race car driver Marco Andretti (March 1987).