Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher and the first African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

29 August 1917

Born on the same birth day (29 August): Celestine Babayaro • Charalampos Xanthopoulos • Eddi Reader • Georgios Kalaitzis • Henry Bergh • Ingrid Bergman • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres • Jean-Baptiste Colbert • Kyle Cook • Michael P. Kube-McDowell • Nathan Pritikin • Richard Attenborough

Born in the same month (August 1917): Barbara Cooney • Caspar Weinberger • Denis Healey • Ebba Haslund • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia • Jack Kirby • Jack Lynch • John Fitch (racing driver) • John Lee Hooker • Leonid Hurwicz • Les Elgart • Matt Christopher • Mel Ferrer • Oliver Crawford • Peanuts Lowrey • Robert Mitchum • Roque Cordero • Sid Gordon • Terry Sanford • Wah Chang • Óscar Romero