Top 10 January 6 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 6, 1913: Loretta Young. A star actress of the 1930s and '40s, she was an early TV star hosting The Loretta Young Show in the 1950s. Honorable Mention: January 6, 1939: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. He's a sports legend that most Americans have never heard of. But he was one of the most innovative managers soccer has ever had, creating a form of "Total Football" at the same time that Rinus Michels was doing it at Ajax Amsterdam. Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, he led Dynamo Kyiv to win the Soviet Top League 8 times; after it, he led them to the title of the Ukrainian National League 5 times. That's 13 league titles, the 1st in 1974, the last in 2001. He also won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986. Honorable Mention: January 6, 1940: Van McCoy. One of the top music producers of the 1970s, he wrote and recorded "The Hustle," which hit Number 1 in 1975 and helped turn disco from a fad into a craze. He died o...