Today's Famous Birthdays

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Samuel Horwitz
(March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955),

better known by his stage name Shemp Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was
called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent.

He is best known as the third Stooge in the Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began
in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it was still associated with Ted Healy and known as
"Ted Healy and his Stooges"; and again from 1946 until his death in 1955. During the fourteen
years between his times with the Stooges, he had a successful solo career as a film comedian,
including a series of shorts by himself and with partners. He reluctantly returned to the Stooges
as a favor to his brother Moe and friend Larry Fine to replace his brother Curly as the third Stooge
after Curly's illness.










Philip John Clapp
(born March 11, 1971),

best known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, actor, writer,
producer, and professional wrestler. He is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV
reality stunt show Jackass, which aired for three seasons from 2000 to 2001. A year later,
Knoxville and his co-stars returned for the first installment in the Jackass film series, with
a second and third installment being released in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), the first film in the series with a storyline,
saw him star as his Jackass character Irving Zisman. Jackass Forever was released in 2022,
it is said to be his final installment of the Jackass franchise.









Lawrence Welk
(March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992)

was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted
The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known as
"champagne music" to his radio, television, and live-performance audiences.










Antonin Gregory Scalia
(March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016)

was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist
and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist
and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists
of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump,
and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.









Mark Stein
(born March 11, 1947)

is an American keyboardist, composer and arranger, who is a member of the Psychedelic rock group
Vanilla Fudge. Stein also worked in the Tommy Bolin band and Alice Cooper's band during 1978 and 1979.










George Jan Kooymans
(born 11 March 1948, The Hague, Netherlands)

is a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring.
Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone", the group's only Top 10 Pop Single on the US Billboard Hot 100,
which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart.









Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
(born March 11, 1950)

is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly
but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also
rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone
singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. He is widely known for performing and recording
regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist. He has frequently collaborated with other artists
from both the jazz and classical scenes.

McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a No. 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year
and Record of the Year honors at the 1989 Grammy Awards.










Rami Jaffee
(born March 11, 1969)

is an American musician. He is best known as the keyboardist for the rock band Foo Fighters, whom
he initially joined in a touring and session capacity in 2005. Jaffee has contributed to six of the band's
studio albums, and in 2017 formally joined the band as a full-time member.