1676) Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (1936 – 2025). American actor, director, and producer. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award amd five Golden Globe Awards.
He achieved stardom with Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). His subsequent performances in Downhill Racer (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), and The Sting (1973) established him as one of Hollywood’s leading actors, with the latter earning him an Academy Award nomination.
Redford made his directorial debut with the family drama Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. His later directing credits include The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). A major advocate for independent cinema, Redford co-founded the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival in 1978.
Redford was of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry.

 

- "With Irish red hair and a wrinkled face from a very young age, Redford was perfect in every role..." https://www.unionesarda.it/en/robert-redford-has-died-the-film-icon-was-89-cil09syg

 

- "Redford, with his freckled face and red hair stood out and not just for his striking looks but also for the kind of cinema he was associated to." https://www.wionews.com/photos/rembering-robert-redford-1936-2025-7-films-of-the-iconic-actor-director-that-you-must-watch-1758031548909/1758031548911

 

- " I recall talking to an old friend of Redford’s on the phone once, a guy he used to hang out with in Van Nuys, and this guy told me that Redford’s high-school nickname at the time was “Red.” But eventually he let the blonde thing go. I know that he walked around as a natural copperhead when he was hosting the Sundance Film Festival in the ’90s." https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/robert-redford-james-cagney-no-one-else/

 

 - "My hair was red and unmanageable and I had cowlicks going all over the place. I had freckles and my teeth were too big..." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/style/fashion-robert-redford-intl-scli

 

 

1675) Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Baldwin III (1130 – 1163). King of Jerusalem from 1143 until his death. Although he only took up sole rule in 1152 and died young, he was the longest-reigning of the 12th-century kings of Jerusalem. He expanded the borders of the kingdom, paved the way for the later kings' attempts to conquer Egypt, and acted as the defender of the other crusader states in the Levant.
Baldwin was the eldest son of Queen Melisende and King Fulk and brother of Geoffrey V Plantagenet.

- "Give me thy gittern, Isa," said the boy, a ruddy-faced youth, with gray eyes and auburn hair..." https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=brooks&book=boys&story=baldwin#:~:text=In%20the%20palace%20of%20the,In%20vain%20shall%20try%20me!