Today's Famous Birthdays

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Melvin Jerome Blanc
(born Blank May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the
Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs,
including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova,
and his own short-lived sitcom. Blanc was born on May 30, 1908 in San Francisco, California, to Eva (née Katz),
a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, and Frederick Blank (born in New York to German Jewish parents), the
younger of two children. He grew up in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, and later in
Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lincoln High School.








Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker
(May 30, 1927 – May 21, 2018)

was an American actor. He played cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series
Cheyenne from 1955 to 1963. Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois, on May 30, 1927;
the son of Gladys Huldah (née Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker. His mother was Czech.
He had a twin sister named Lucy. Walker left school to work at a factory and on a riverboat, then joined the
United States Merchant Marine at the age of 17 in the last months of World War II. After leaving the
Merchant Marine, he did odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas; Long Beach, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada,
where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel. Walker was also employed as a sheet metal worker
and a nightclub bouncer.









Michael J. Pollard
(born Michael John Pollack Jr.; May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019)

was an American actor. He is best known for his role as C.W. Moss in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which earned
him critical acclaim along with nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award,
and two Golden Globe Awards. Pollard was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and brought up in the nearby North Jersey
communities of Garfield and Clifton. He was the son of Sonia V. (née Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack,
a bar manager. His parents were both of Polish descent. His mother was born in New York and his father was born
in New Jersey. Pollard's father supported his wife and Michael Jr. by working 60 hours a week as a barman at
O'Rourke's Tap Room.








Meredith Lynn MacRae
(May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000)

was an American actress, singer and talk show host. She is most remembered for her roles as Sally Morrison
on My Three Sons (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction (1966–1970). MacRae was born
in Houston, Texas, to parents Gordon and Sheila MacRae. Her father was stationed with the Army Air Corps in
Houston at the time of her birth. Both of her parents went on to be actors. She is the sister of
William Gordon MacRae, Robert Bruce MacRae, and Heather MacRae.









Ted McGinley
(born May 30, 1958)

is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom Married... with Children
and as Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith. He was a late regular on Happy Days, Dynasty and
The Love Boat and is known for playing the villainous role of Stan Gable in the film Revenge of the Nerds and
several made-for-television sequels. McGinley grew up in Newport Beach, California. His paternal grandfather was
an Irish immigrant. At Newport Harbor High School, he focused on athletics and swimming and was a star player
on the water polo team.









Benjamin David Goodman
(May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)

was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman
led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on
January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in
history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born
to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. His father, David Goodman (1873–1926), came to the United States
in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, (1873–1964), came
from Kaunas. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman's birth. With little income
and a large family, they moved to the Maxwell Street neighborhood, an overcrowded slum near railroad yards and
factories that was populated by German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Jewish immigrants.









Wynonna Ellen Judd, or simply Wynonna
(born Christina Claire Ciminella; May 30, 1964),

is an American country music singer. She is one of the most widely recognized and awarded female country singers.
In all, she has had 19 No. 1 singles, including those with The Judds, making her one of the best-selling country artists
of all time. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna. She first rose to fame in the
1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records,
in addition to 26 singles of which fourteen were No. 1 hits. Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in
Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964. Her mother (then known as Diana) had quickly married Michael Ciminella after
being abandoned by Charles Jordan, her boyfriend and Judd's biological father. Jordan died in 2000.

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John Florence Sullivan
(May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956),

known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically
pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most
popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio. His
best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian
Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; radio historian John Dunning
(in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) wrote that Allen was perhaps radio's
most admired comedian and most frequently censored. John Florence Sullivan was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Irish Catholic parents. Taking one of his regular late night
strolls up New York's West 57th Street on Saturday night, March 17, 1956, Allen suffered
a heart attack and died at the age of 61.










Don Ameche
(born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993)

was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stocks, and
vaudevilles, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie
contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935. Don Ameche was born as Dominic Felix Amici on
May 31, 1908, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from
Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of
Scottish, Irish, and German ancestry.









Barbara Pepper
(born Marion Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969)

was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first
Doris Ziffel on the sitcom Green Acres. Marion Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter
of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started
life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met Lucille Ball,
with whom she would remain friends, during production of Eddie Cantor's Roman Scandals in 1933.









Clinton Eastwood Jr.
(born May 31, 1930)

is an American actor and filmmaker. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide,
he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's
"Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan
in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others,
have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood
served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Eastwood was born on
May 31, 1930, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California,
to Ruth (née Runner; 1909–2006) and Clinton Eastwood (1906–1970). During her son's fame,
Ruth was known by the surname of her second husband, John Belden Wood (1913–2004),
whom she married after the death of Clinton Sr. Eastwood was nicknamed "Samson" by the
hospital nurses because he weighed 11 pounds 6 ounces (5.2 kg) at birth.










Brooke Christa Shields
(born May 31, 1965)

is an American actress and model. She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at
age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978). She continued to model into
her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980),
and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981). Shields was born in Manhattan, New York City, on
May 31, 1965, the daughter of actress and model Teri Shields (née Schmon) and businessman
Francis Alexander Shields. Her mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent,
while her father had English, French, Irish, and Italian ancestry.









Walter Whitman Jr.
(May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)

was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets
in American history. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and
is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855
poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality.
Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, the second
of nine children of Quaker parents Walter (1789–1855) and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795–1873).









Johnny Paycheck
(born Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003)

was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the
David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s
as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr.,
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In 1980, Paycheck appeared
on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5). But during that decade, his music career
slowed due to drug, alcohol, and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s
and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.
In autographs, Paycheck signed his name "PayCheck". Johnny Paycheck was born
Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio. By age 9, Lytle was already
playing in talent contests. He was singing professionally by age 15.











Peter Yarrow
(born May 31, 1938)

is an American singer and songwriter who found fame for being in the 1960s folk trio
Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's best
known hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". He is also a political activist and has supported
causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam War to school anti-bullying programs.
Peter Yarrow was born in Manhattan, the son of Vera Wisebrode (née Vira Burtakoff)
and Bernard Yarrow. His parents were educated Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, whose
families had settled in Providence, Rhode Island.









Joseph William Namath
(born May 31, 1943)

is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the
American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons,
primarily with the New York Jets. He played college football at Alabama, where he
won the national championship as a senior, and was selected by the Jets first overall
in the 1965 AFL Draft. Nicknamed "Broadway Joe", Namath became a media icon who
attracted mainstream popularity outside of sports. Namath was born and raised in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. He grew up
in the Lower End neighborhood of Beaver Falls. He is the son of Roman Catholic parents,
Rose (née Juhász) and János "John Andrew" Namath, a steelworker, both of Hungarian descent.









Sharon Marguerite Gless
(born May 31, 1943)

is an American actress and author, who is known for her television roles as Maggie Philbin
on Switch (1975–78), Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series
Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), the title role in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990–92), Debbie Novotny
in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk (2000–2005), and Madeline Westen on
Burn Notice (2007–2013). A 10-time Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Golden Globe Award
nominee, she won a Golden Globe in 1986 and Emmys in 1986 and 1987 for Cagney & Lacey,
and a second Golden Globe in 1991 for The Trials of Rosie O'Neill. Gless received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. A fifth-generation Californian, Gless was born in Los Angeles,
the daughter of Marjorie (McCarthy) and sportswear manufacturing executive Dennis J. Gless.
She was raised Catholic.









John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980)

was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed,
power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel for groove, he is regarded as
one of the greatest and most influential drummers in music history. A mostly self-taught drummer,
Bonham was influenced by Max Roach, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. He was close with Vanilla Fudge
drummer Carmine Appice, who introduced him to Ludwig drums. John Henry Bonham was born on
31 May 1948, in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, to Joan and Jack Bonham. He began learning to
play drums at age five, making a kit of containers and coffee tins, imitating his idols Max Roach,
Gene Krupa, and Buddy Rich. His mother gave him a snare drum when he was 10.
On 24 September 1980, Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend
rehearsals at Bray Studios for a tour of North America, to begin 17 October in Montreal; it was the
band's first tour since 1977. During the journey, Bonham asked to stop for breakfast, where he drank
four quadruple vodka screwdrivers (16 shots between 400 and 560 ml). He then continued to drink
heavily after arriving at rehearsals. The band stopped rehearsing late in the evening and then went
to Page's house, the Old Mill House in Clewer, Windsor. After midnight on 25 September, Bonham
fell asleep; someone took him to bed and placed him on his side. Led Zeppelin tour manager
Benji LeFevre and Jones found him unresponsive the next afternoon. Bonham was later pronounced
dead at 32 years old.

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Darryl Matthews McDaniels
(born May 31, 1964),

better known by his stage name DMC, is an American rapper. He is a founding member of the hip hop
group Run-DMC, and is considered one of the pioneers of hip hop culture. McDaniels grew up in
Hollis, Queens. He was born to an unwed mother who surrendered him to the New York Foundling
home. He was a ward of the Foundling, in foster care, until placed with the McDaniels and eventually
adopted by them. They raised him as a Catholic. He attended Rice High School in Manhattan and
later enrolled in St. John's University in Queens.

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Marilyn Monroe
(born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

was an American actress, model, and singer. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters,
she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem
of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200
million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2022) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death,
Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the
sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe was born
Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, at the Los Angeles General Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe; 1902–1984), was born in Piedras Negras,
Coahuila, Mexico to a poor Midwestern family who migrated to California at the turn of the century.
At age 15, Gladys married John Newton Baker, an abusive man nine years her senior. They had two
children, Robert (1918–1933) and Berniece (1919–2014). She successfully filed for divorce and
sole custody in 1923, but Baker kidnapped the children soon after and moved with them
to his native Kentucky










Patrick Charles Eugene Boone
(born June 1, 1934)

is an American singer, actor, and composer. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during
the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in
more than 12 Hollywood films. According to Billboard, Boone was the second-biggest-charting artist of
the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40
Artists 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive
weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week. Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in
Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margaret Virginia (née Pritchard) and Archie Altman Boone.









Morgan Freeman
(born June 1, 1937)

is an American actor, producer, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and various
roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has
received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a
Golden Globe Award. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and the Screen Actors Guild
Life Achievement Award in 2018. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi
where he began acting in school plays. He studied theater arts in Los Angeles and appeared in
stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's
television series The Electric Company.










René Murat Auberjonois
(June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019)

was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in
a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan
Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's
The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won
a Drama Desk Award for Big River. Auberjonois was born June 1, 1940, in New York City. His father,
Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated
writer. Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter
of Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire),
and his wife—Napoleon's youngest sister—Caroline Bonaparte.










Powers Allen Boothe
(June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017)

was an American actor known for his commanding character actor roles on film and television. He received
a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is also known for his
performances as "Curly Bill" Brocius in the western Tombstone (1993) and Alexander Haig in historical
drama Nixon (1995). Other notable film roles include Cruising (1980), Red Dawn (1984), Blue Sky (1994),
Sudden Death (1995), Sin City (2005), and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). Boothe, the youngest of
three boys, was born June 1, 1948, at home on a cotton farm in Snyder, Texas, to Merrill Vestal Boothe
(1924–1985), a rancher, and his wife Emily (née Reeves) Boothe (1924–1999). His father named him
after his best friend, who had been killed in the Second World War.









Heidi Klum
(born 1 June 1973)

is a German and American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the
cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a
Victoria's Secret Angel. Klum was born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, a city near Cologne, West Germany.
She is the daughter of Erna Klum (née Berger), a hairdresser, and Günther Klum, a cosmetics company executive.










Michael Stephen Levine
(born 1 June 1949)

is the bassist and keyboardist for the Canadian hard rock band Triumph. Levine was born in Toronto, Ontario.
He attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in Scarborough. In 1970 Levine helped to bring back
together the band Motherlode, which had broken up after releasing one hit single and a couple of less
popular recordings. They toured around northern and western Ontario before disbanding once again.
Although he did not sing lead on any of Triumph's music, Levine contributed backing vocals, bass, keyboard
work, as well as songwriting. He also produced much of the band's early work, and performed on
all of the band's ten studio albums.











Alanis Nadine Morissette
(born June 1, 1974)

is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and
confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop
albums. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, an alternative rock-oriented album with elements of
post-grunge, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and made her a cultural phenomenon.
Morissette was born June 1, 1974, at Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to teacher
Georgia Mary Ann (née Feuerstein) and high-school principal and French teacher Alan Richard Morissette.

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Johnny Weissmuller
(born Johann Peter Weißmüller ; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984)

was an American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He was known for having one
of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. He set numerous world records
alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics. He won the 100m freestyle and the 4 × 200 m
relay team event in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam. Weissmuller also won gold in the 400m freestyle, as well as a bronze medal in
the water polo competition in Paris. Johann Peter Weißmüller was born on June 2, 1904, in
Szabadfalva, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now part of Romania, and called Freidorf)
into an ethnically Banat Swabian family.









Walter Stacy Keach Jr.
(born June 2, 1941)

is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. He is the recipient of
several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards,
and nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a Tony Award. Keach is known to television audiences
for his portrayal of fictional private detective Mike Hammer on the 1980s television series
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and several revivals and spinoffs, for which he was nominated
for a Golden Globe nomination in 1984. He played the supporting role of Sergeant Stedenko in
Cheech & Chong's films Up in Smoke (1978) and Nice Dreams (1981), and Ken Titus on the
sitcom Titus (2000–2002). He won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy Award for
playing Ernest Hemingway on the television miniseries Hemingway (1988). Keach was born in
Savannah, Georgia, to Mary Cain (née Peckham), an actress, and Stacy Keach Sr., a theatre
director, drama teacher, and actor with dozens of television and theatrical film credits billed as
"Stacy Keach." The younger Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate,
and he underwent numerous operations as a child.










Charles Maurice Haid III
(born June 2, 1943)

is an American actor and television director, with notable work in both movies and television.
He is best known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues. Haid was born in
San Francisco, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid Jr. He is of Dutch
(original last name Van Heidt) and Irish descent  He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology
(now Carnegie Mellon University), where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer
of the original stage production of Godspell in 1971, which was developed at CMU.









Gerald Patrick Mathers
(born June 2, 1948)

is an American actor best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally
broadcast from 1957 to 1963. He played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger
son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont,
respectively) and the younger brother of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow). Mathers was born in
Sioux City, Iowa, in 1948, the son of a high school principal, and grew up in the
San Fernando Valley, California. Mathers has one sister and two brothers,
including Jimmy Mathers.









Dana Thomas Carvey
(born June 2, 1955)

is an American stand-up comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. Carvey is best
known for his seven seasons as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live
from 1986 to 1993, which earned him five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Carvey
is also known for his film roles in comedies such as Tough Guys (1986), Opportunity Knocks (1990),
Trapped in Paradise (1994), and The Master of Disguise (2002), as well as reprising his role of
Garth Algar in the SNL spin-off film Wayne's World (1992) and its sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993).
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the fourth of five (with three older brothers and one younger sister)
born to Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher, and William John (Bud) Carvey, a high school business teacher.










Wayne Alphonso Brady
(born June 2, 1972)

is an American television personality, comedian, actor, and singer. He is a regular on the American
version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? He was the host
of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, was the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!,
and has hosted Let's Make a Deal since its 2009 revival. Brady also performed in the Tony
Award–winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway as Simon—who is also drag queen Lola—from
November 2015 to March 2016, and as James Stinson on the American TV series How I Met Your Mother.
Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia, to West Indian parents. He was moved to Orlando, Florida,
as a young child to live with his grandmother and aunt. Brady refers to his grandmother,
Valerie Petersen, as his "mom", since she raised him.









Charles Robert Watts
(2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021)

was an English musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the Rolling Stones from
1963 until his death in 2021. Charles Robert Watts was born at University College Hospital in
Bloomsbury, London, to Charles Richard Watts, a lorry driver for the London, Midland and
Scottish Railway, and wife Lillian Charlotte (née Eaves), who had been a factory worker.
He has a sister, Linda (born 1944), with whom he was close.









Peter William Sutcliffe
(2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020),

also known as Peter Coonan, and dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper
(an allusion to Jack the Ripper), was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen
women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.  He was sentenced to
twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010.
Two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in Manchester; all the others were in West Yorkshire.
Peter Sutcliffe was born to a working-class family in Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire. His parents
were John William Sutcliffe and his wife Kathleen Frances (née Coonan), a native of Connemara.










Michael Steele
(born Susan Nancy Thomas on June 2, 1955)

is a retired American musician, best known as the bassist for The Bangles. Under the name Micki Steele,
she was a founding member of The Runaways but left in 1975, shortly before the band's major label
debut. For the next several years, she played with various other musical groups for short periods of time.
Steele began her professional career as Micki Steele in the teen-girl band The Runaways, one of the first
all-female rock groups. Her stay in The Runaways was brief, leaving the band in late 1975, months before
the recording of their first self-titled album. The main recording of this early period is an August 1975
demo session, bootlegged and later released as the 1993 album Born to Be Bad, with Steele playing bass
and singing lead vocals on most songs.

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Tony Curtis
(born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)

was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity
in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of
genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Tony Curtis was born
Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, at the Fifth Avenue Hospital corner of East 105th Street in
East Harlem, Manhattan the first of three boys born to Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz.








Charles Hirsch Barris
(June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017)

was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting
The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He was also a
songwriter who wrote "Palisades Park", recorded by Freddy Cannon and also recorded by
Ramones. Barris wrote an autobiography titled Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which
was made into the film of the same name and directed by George Clooney. Barris was
born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 3, 1929, the son of
Edith (née Cohen) and Nathaniel Barris, a dentist. He was raised in Lower Merion Township
and attended Lower Merion High School. His uncle was singer, songwriter and actor
Harry Barris. He graduated in 1953 from Drexel University where he was a columnist
for the student newspaper, The Triangle.











Jefferson F. Davis
(June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889)

was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States
from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of
Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War. He had
previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under
President Franklin Pierce. Davis, who was named after then-President Thomas Jefferson, was
the youngest of ten children of Jane (née Cook) and Samuel Emory Davis. Samuel Davis's father,
Evan, who had a Welsh background, came to the colony of Georgia from Philadelphia. Samuel
served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and for his service
received a land grant near what is now Washington, Georgia.











Jimmy Rogers
(June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997)

was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his
work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s. He also had a solo career and
recorded several popular blues songs, including "That's All Right" (now a blues standard),
"Chicago Bound", "Walking by Myself" (his sole R&B chart appearance), and "Rock This House".
He withdrew from the music industry at the end of the 1950s, but returned to recording
and touring in the 1970s. Rogers was born Jay or James Arthur Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi,
on June 3, 1924. He was raised in Atlanta and Memphis. He adopted his stepfather's surname.










Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III
(June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007)

was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax"
(which became Benny Hill's signature tune). Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville sound"
for most of his professional career. Randolph was born in Paducah, Kentucky, United States,
and raised in Cadiz, Kentucky, attending Central High School in Evansville, Indiana.










Ian Hunter Patterson
(born 3 June 1939)

is an English singer-songwriter and musician who is best known as the lead singer of the English
rock band Mott the Hoople, from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and at the time
of its 2009, 2013, and 2019 reunions. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before joining Mott
the Hoople, and continued in this vein after he left the band. He embarked on a solo career
despite ill health and disillusionment with commercial success, and often worked in collaboration
with Mick Ronson, David Bowie's sideman and arranger from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
and the Spiders from Mars period. Hunter was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. Due to the
onset of war, the family moved to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire to live with the family of his
Scottish father. Hunter was brought up there until the age of six and has stated that he considers
himself a Scot, but also identifies as English and British.










Curtis Lee Mayfield
(June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999)

was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential
musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. Dubbed the "Gentle Genius",
he first achieved success and recognition with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted group the
Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s, and later worked
as a solo artist. Curtis Lee Mayfield was born on Wednesday, June 3, 1942, in Cook County Hospital
in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Marion Washington and Kenneth Mayfield, one of five children. Mayfield's
father left the family when Curtis was five; his mother (and maternal grandmother) moved the family
into several Chicago public housing projects before settling in Cabrini–Green during his teen years.










Michael Norman Finn
(3 June 1947 – 11 January 2003)

was the percussionist and sideman to Marc Bolan in his band Tyrannosaurus Rex (on one album, A Beard of Stars)
and later the 1970s glam rock group T. Rex. After Bolan's death and T. Rex's demise, he worked as
a session musician for The Blow Monkeys and The Soup Dragons. Finn was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey.
After he joined Tyrannosaurus Rex in late 1969, it was rumored that Bolan had hired Finn for his
good looks, and because he admired his motorcycle, rather than for his musical ability.

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William Dennis Weaver
(June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006)

was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work
in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two
most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's trusty partner Chester Goode/Proudfoot on the
CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud.
He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also
remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).
Weaver was born June 4, 1924, in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Walter Leon "Doc" Weaver and his
wife Lenna Leora (née Prather). His father was of English, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, and Osage
ancestry. Weaver wanted to be an actor from childhood. He lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, for
several years and for a short time in Manteca, California.









Angelina Jolie DCMG
(born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975)

is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including
an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid
actress multiple times. Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in
Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor
James Haven as well as the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and geologist and volcanologist
Barry Voight. Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side,
Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, while her mother was of French-Canadian ancestry. Jolie has
claimed to have partial Indigenous (Iroquois) ancestry.











Russell Edward Brand
(born 4 June 1975)

is an English comedian and actor. He is known for his flamboyant,  loquacious style and manner.
Brand has received three British Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer (2006),
Best Live Stand-Up (2008), and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy (2011).
Russell Edward Brand was born in Orsett Hospital in Grays, Essex, England. He is the only child of
Barbara Elizabeth (née Nichols) and photographer Ronald Henry Brand. Brand's parents separated when
he was six months old, and he was raised by his mother. When Brand was 8, his mother was diagnosed
with uterine cancer and then breast cancer one year later. While she underwent treatment, Brand lived
with relatives. When he was 14, he suffered from bulimia nervosa. When he was 16, he left home because
of disagreements with his mother's partner. Brand then started to use illegal drugs such as cannabis,
amphetamines, LSD, and ecstasy. Brand was sexually abused by a tutor.










Freddy Fender
(born Baldemar Garza Huerta; June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006)

was an American Tejano singer-songwriter, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups
Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, swamp pop
and Tex-Mex styles. Fender was born in San Benito, Texas, United States, to Margarita Garza and
her Mexican husband, Serapio Huerta. He made his debut radio performance at age 10 on
Harlingen, Texas, radio station KGBT, singing a then-hit "Paloma Querida."

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Richard Allen Boone
(June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981)

was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns,
including his starring role in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel. Boone was born in
Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone,
a corporate lawyer and fourth great-grandson of Squire Boone, frontiersman Daniel Boone's
brother. His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia.









Roger Joseph Ebert
(June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)

was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic
for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film
critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert
"was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan
of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America." Ebert was diagnosed
with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands in 2002. He required treatment that included removing
a section of his lower jaw in 2006, leaving him severely disfigured and unable to speak or eat normally.










Blake Tollison Shelton
(born June 18, 1976)

is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the
single "Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at
number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The now Platinum-certified debut album also
produced two more top 20 entries ("All Over Me" and "Ol' Red"). Blake Tollison Shelton was born in
Ada, Oklahoma, to Dorothy Ann (née Bristol) (born 1936), a beauty salon owner, and Richard Lee
"Dick" Shelton (1940–2012), a car salesman. Shelton began singing at an early age and by the age
of 12, he was taught how to play the guitar by his uncle.










Sir James Paul McCartney
(born 18 June 1942)

is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom
he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One
of the most successful composers and performers of all time, McCartney is known for his melodic
approach to bass-playing, versatile and wide tenor vocal range, and musical eclecticism, exploring
genres ranging from pre–rock and roll pop to classical, ballads, and electronica. His songwriting
partnership with Lennon remains the most successful in history. McCartney was born on 18 June 1942
at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool, where his mother, Mary Patricia (née Mohin),
had qualified to practise as a nurse. His father, James ("Jim") McCartney, was absent from his son's
birth, due to his work as a volunteer firefighter during World War II. Both of his parents were of Irish descent.