Redd Foxx

John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub act before and during the civil rights movement. Known as the "King of the Party Records", he performed on more than 50 records in his lifetime. He portrayed Fred G. Sanford on the television show Sanford and Son and starred in The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family, where he played the husband of Della Reese, and grandfather to actor Larenz Tate.

9 December 1922

Born on the same birth day (9 December): Albert Weisbord • Canibus • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. • Edwin Sandys (1561–1629) • Fiona MacDonald • Jesse Metcalfe • Joshua Sasse • Juan Samuel • Kostas Giannoulis • Ladislav Smoljak • Liaqat Baloch • Mardy Fish • Neslihan Demir • Peter O'Mara • Peter Pelham (composer) • Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi • Raphaël Rouquier • Simone Fontecchio • Tabitha Babbitt • Tamilla Abassova • Tip O'Neill

Born in the same month (December 1922): Agnes Nixon • Alan Voorhees • Ava Gardner • Beverly Pepper • Cécile DeWitt-Morette • Don Robertson (songwriter) • Esther Lederberg • Halina Czerny-Stefańska • Iakovos Kambanellis • Itubwa Amram • Lionel Bowen • Little Joe Cook • Lucian Freud • Luis Zuloaga • Paul Winchell • Ruth Roman • Stan Lee • Sven Nykvist • William Demby • William Soeryadjaya