Today's Famous Birthdays

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Peter Paul Fix
(March 13, 1901 – October 14, 1983)

was an American film and television character actor who was best known for his work in Westerns.
Fix appeared in more than 100 movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career
between 1925 and 1981. Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance, opposite
Chuck Connors's character in The Rifleman from 1958 to 1963. He later appeared with Connors
in the 1966 Western film Ride Beyond Vengeance and The Time Tunnel episode, ""End of the World".








Frank Reppy Wilcox
(March 13, 1907 – March 3, 1974)

was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as Broadway plays.
His best known television role, the one which brought him great recognition from millions of viewers,
was that of the oil executive John Brewster in the first season of The Beverly Hillbillies.









Fred Allen Berry
(March 19, 1951 – October 21, 2003)

was an American actor and street dancer. He was best known for his role as Freddie "Rerun" Stubbs
on the 1970s television show What's Happening!!









Daniel Peter Masterson
(born March 13, 1976)

is an American actor. He played the roles of Steven Hyde in That '70s Show (1998–2006),
Milo Foster in Men at Work (2012–2014) and Jameson "Rooster" Bennett
in The Ranch (2016–2018).

On June 17, 2020, Masterson was arrested and charged with three counts of forcible rape. 
After a 2022 trial, the judge declared a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked on the charges.
A new trial was set for March 2023, then rescheduled to April 2023








Joe Walcott
(March 13, 1873 – October 1, 1935),

also known as Barbados Joe Walcott to distinguish him from the more contemporary American
boxer known by the same name, was a Bajan professional boxer who reigned as the World
Welterweight Champion from 1901 to 1906, becoming the first black man ever to capture
the title. He was elected to The Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1955 and the International
Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.

Walcott was a formidable fighter with exceptional power to his punch. His manager was
Tom O'Rourke. In evidence, his wins were an impressive 60% by knockout.









Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
(March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986)

was an American author, primarily of science fiction and fantasy stories, who is best known for
having founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics.
In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in bankruptcy proceedings, and he subsequently
founded Scientology. Thereafter, Hubbard oversaw the growth of the Church of Scientology
into a worldwide organization.








Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr.
(born Donald Henry Parrott Jr.; March 13, 1933 – September 6, 1991)

was an American serial killer and rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned
more than a dozen people. Before his convictions for murder, Gaskins had a long history of criminal
activities resulting in prison sentences for assault, burglary, and statutory rape. His last arrest was for
contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 13-year-old Kim Gehlken, who had gone missing in
September 1975. During their search for the missing girl, police discovered eight bodies buried in
shallow graves near Gaskins's home in Prospect, South Carolina.

In May 1976, a Florence County jury took only 47 minutes before finding Gaskins guilty for the
murder of one of the eight victims, Dennis Bellamy, and sentenced him to death by the electric chair.
That death sentence was overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court in February 1978, and
rather than face a new trial, Gaskins pled guilty to the murders of Bellamy and eight other friends
and associates. He was given 10 concurrent life sentences, to be served at Central Correctional Institution
(CCI) prison in Columbia, South Carolina.


While at CCI, Gaskins brutally murdered Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on death row, using C4 explosive.
After his conviction for killing Tyner, he received his second death sentence, which was administered
in September 1991. Just before his execution Gaskins said he killed 110 people but, with few exceptions,
these statements have been discredited by law enforcement and journalists who allege this was his
attempt to gain notoriety









Neil Sedaka
(born March 13, 1939)

is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions
of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists,
collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody.








James Dimon (born March 13, 1956)

is an American billionaire businessman and banker who has been the chairman and chief executive officer
of JPMorgan Chase since 2005. Dimon was previously on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of
the world's 100 most influential people. Dimon's net worth is estimated at $1.8 billion.









Adam Charles Clayton
(born 13 March 1960)

is an English-born Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2. He has resided
in County Dublin, Ireland since his family moved to Malahide in 1965, when he was five years old.
Clayton attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, where he met schoolmates with whom
he co-founded U2 in 1976. A member of the band since its inception,
he has recorded 14 studio albums with U2.










David Michael Draiman
( born March 13, 1973)

is an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distorted, operatic, baritone voice and
percussive singing style, he is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band
Disturbed since 1996. He has written some of the band's most successful singles, such as
"Stupify", "Down with the Sickness", "Indestructible", and "Inside the Fire". In 2006, he was
ranked at No. 42 on the Hit Parader list of "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time".
During Disturbed's hiatus from 2011 to 2015, he worked on an industrial metal project
with Geno Lenardo, which was later named Device. They released one self-titled album
in 2013. Disturbed returned with the album Immortalized in 2015 and Evolution in 2018.