Today's Famous Birthdays

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Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison
(17 March 1928 – 8 June 2018),

known professionally as Eunice Gayson, was an English actress best known for playing
Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond films
(Dr. No and From Russia with Love) and is thus considered to have been the first "Bond girl".
Appearing in this capacity in two movies, she was unique in this regard until
Lea Seydoux (as Madeleine Swann).









Patricia Anne Boyd
(born 17 March 1944)

is an English model and photographer. She was one of the leading international models during
the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton, epitomised the British female look of the era. Boyd
married George Harrison in 1966, experiencing the height of the Beatles' popularity and
sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married
Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs
"I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs
"Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight".










Kurt Vogel Russell
(born March 17, 1951)

is an American actor. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the western series
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year
contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films, such
as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972),
and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). According to Robert Osborne of Turner
Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s.











Gary Alan Sinise
(born March 17, 1955)

is an American actor, humanitarian, and musician. Among other awards, he has won a Primetime
Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has
also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Sinise has also received numerous awards and honors for his extensive humanitarian work and
involvement with charitable organizations. He is a supporter of various veterans' organizations
and founded the Lt. Dan Band (named after his character in Forrest Gump), which plays at military
bases around the world.










Robert Hepler Lowe
(born March 17, 1964)

is an American actor, filmmaker, and podcast host. He made his acting debut at the age of 15
with ABC's short-lived sitcom A New Kind of Family (1979–1980). Following numerous television
roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with
roles in films like The Outsiders (1983), Class (1983), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984),
Oxford Blues (1984), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), About Last Night... (1986), and Square Dance (1987).
The success of these films established him as a Hollywood star.











Stephanie Gregory Clifford
(born March 17, 1979),

known professionally as Stormy Daniels, is an American pornographic film actress and director,
and former stripper. She has won numerous industry awards, and is a member of the NightMoves,
AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. In 2009, a recruitment effort led her to consider challenging
incumbent David Vitter for the 2010 Senate election in her native Louisiana.










Roger Brooke Taney
(March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864)

was the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death
in 1864. Taney infamously delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857),
ruling that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens and that Congress could
not prohibit slavery in the U.S. territories. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Taney
served as the U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary of the treasury under President
Andrew Jackson. He was the first Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.










Nathaniel Adams Coles
(March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965),

known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.
Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost
three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits
on the pop charts. He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame (1960) and a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award. Posthumously,
Cole has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1990), along with the
Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award (1992) and has been inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame (2020).











Paul Lorin Kantner
(March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016)

was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and
vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He
continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band.

Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became
the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period. In 1970,
while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded
the album Blows Against the Empire, which was co-credited to both Paul Kantner and
"Jefferson Starship".











John Wayne Gacy
(March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994)

was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least
33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He became
known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as "Pogo the Clown" or
"Patches the Clown", personas he had devised, prior to the discovery of his crimes.

Gacy committed all of his murders inside his ranch-style house in Norwood Park Township.
Typically, he would lure a victim to his home and dupe them into donning handcuffs on the
pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive before
killing them by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a garrote. Twenty-six victims were
buried in the crawl space of his home, and three others were buried elsewhere on his property;
four were discarded in the Des Plaines River.










John Benson Sebastian
(born March 17, 1944)

is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonicist who founded the rock band
The Lovin' Spoonful. He made an impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969
and scored a U.S. No. 1 hit in 1976 with "Welcome Back."

Sebastian was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 as a member of
the Lovin' Spoonful.

Sebastian was born in New York City and grew up in Italy and Greenwich Village. His father,
John Sebastian (John Sebastian Pugliese), was a noted classical harmonica player, and his
mother, Jane (born Mary Jane Bishir), was a radio script writer. His godmother was
Vivian Vance ("Ethel Mertz" of I Love Lucy), who was a close friend of his mother.
His godfather and first babysitter was children's book illustrator Garth Williams,
a friend of his father. Eleanor Roosevelt was a neighbor who lived across the hall.