Today's Famous Birthdays

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Alan Hale Jr.
(born Alan Hale MacKahan; (March 8, 1921 - January 2, 1990)

was an American actor and restaurateur. He was the son of actor Alan Hale Sr. His television career
spanned four decades, but he was best known for his secondary lead role as Captain Jonas Grumby,
better known as The Skipper, on the 1960s CBS comedy series Gilligan's Island (1964–1967), a role
he reprised in three Gilligan's Island television films and two spin-off cartoon series.

Hale appeared in more than 200 films and television roles from 1941. He appeared primarily in Westerns,
portraying the Sundance Kid in The Three Outlaws (1956) opposite Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy,
performing with Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees (1952), Audie Murphy in Destry (1954), Ray Milland
in A Man Alone (1955), Robert Wagner in The True Story of Jesse James (1957), and Hugh Marlowe
in The Long Rope (1961). He also appeared in musical comedies opposite Don DeFore in It Happened
on Fifth Avenue (1947), James Cagney in The West Point Story (1950), and Judy Canova in
Honeychile (1951). He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.











Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE
(8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010)

was an English actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards throughout her career.

A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making
her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films,
including Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966), which won her a New York Film
Critics Award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well
as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.











George Michael Dolenz Jr.
(born March 8, 1945)

is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He was the drummer and one
of two primary vocalists for the pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and multiple reunions
through 2021), and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). Following the death
of Michael Nesmith in 2021, Dolenz is the only surviving member of the band.










Lester Don Holt Jr.
(born March 8, 1959)

is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly
News Kids Edition and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of
NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams. Holt followed in the career footsteps
of Max Robinson, an ABC News evening co-anchor, and Holt became the first African-American to
solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.











Frederick James Prinze Sr.
(born Frederick Karl Pruetzel; June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977)

was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Prinze was the star of the NBC-TV sitcom Chico and the Man
from 1974 until his death in 1977. Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr.










Anne Bonny
(8 March 1697 – disappeared April 1721),

sometimes Anne Bonney, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates
in recorded history. What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724
book A General History of the Pirates.











Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935)

was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and
most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly
those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy—and deference to the decisions of elected
legislatures. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on
the Supreme Court. He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he
was wounded three times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive personality,
and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.










Katherine von Drachenberg
(born March 8, 1982),

known professionally as Kat Von D, is a Mexican-born American tattoo artist, model, entrepreneur and
recording artist. She is best known for her work as a tattoo artist on the TLC reality television show LA Ink,
which premiered in the United States on August 7, 2007, and ran for four seasons. She is also known for
being the former head of Kat Von D Beauty (renamed KVD Vegan Beauty). In May 2021, Kat Von D
released her first single "Exorcism" from her album Love Made Me Do It.