Today's Famous Birthdays

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Loretta Mary Aiken
(March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975),

known by her stage name Jackie "Moms" Mabley, was an American stand-up comedian and actress.
Mabley began her career on the theater stage in the 1920s and became a veteran entertainer of the
Chitlin' Circuit of African-American vaudeville. Mabley later recorded comedy albums and appeared
in films and on television programs including The Ed Sullivan Show and
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.










Roy Roberts
(born Roy Barnes Jones, March 19, 1906 – May 28, 1975)

was an American character actor. Over his more than 40-year career, he appeared in more than
nine hundred productions on stage and screen.

Bank president Mr. Cheever on CBS's The Lucy Show

John Cushing, president of the rival Merchants Bank
on CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies

Railroad president Norman Curtis on CBS's Petticoat Junction

Darrin's father Frank Stephens on ABC's Bewitched, alternating
with actor Robert F. Simon depending upon availability.

Banker Harry Bodkin on CBS's Gunsmoke

Neighbor Bruce MacDermott on ABC's Our Man Higgins

Preston "Press" Wasco and Kelly on the NBC western, Laredo

"Doc" on John Payne's The Restless Gun in the
1957 episode "Trail to Sunset"

Banker George Bristol on NBC's Bonanza

Admiral Rogers on McHale's Navy
(in some episodes, his first name is given as "John" and
in others his name is given as "Bruce").

The Governor in a season two episode of Green Acres,
"One of Our Assemblymen is Missing".









Ursula Andress
(born 19 March 1936)

is a Swiss-German actress, former model and sex symbol who has appeared in American,
British and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first
James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody
Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965),
The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970),
Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978),
The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986).









Glenn Close
(born March 19, 1947)

is an American actress. Throughout her career spanning over four decades, Close has garnered
numerous accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards,
and three Tony Awards. Additionally, she has been nominated eight times for an Academy Award,
holding the record for the most nominations in an acting category without a win. In 2016, she was
inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2019, Time magazine named her one of
the 100 most influential people in the world.









Harvey Weinstein
(born March 19, 1952)

is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He and his brother, Bob Weinstein,
co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent
films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994);
Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven
Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and
August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded
The Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob,
from 2005 to 2017.

In October 2017, following sexual abuse allegations dating back to the late 1970s,
Weinstein was dismissed from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. More than 80 women made allegations of sexual harassment and/or rape
against Weinstein by October 31.









Walter Bruce Willis
(born March 19, 1955)

is a retired American actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series
Moonlighting (1985–1989) and appeared in over a hundred films, gaining recognition as an action
hero after his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013) and other roles.

Willis's other credits include The Last Boy Scout (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992),
Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998),
The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Red (2010), Moonrise Kingdom (2012),
Looper (2012) and Red 2 (2013). In the later years of his career, Willis starred in many low-budget
direct-to-video films, which were poorly received. In March 2022, Willis's family announced that
he was retiring after suffering from aphasia, and in February 2023
he was officially diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.








Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
(March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)

was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and
Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed
three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the
shootout, although his brother Virgil was the Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day and
had far more experience in combat as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier.










John Joseph Sirica
(March 19, 1904 – August 14, 1992)

was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,
where he became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal.

Experienced as a trial lawyer, Sirica was known for his "no-nonsense" demeanor on the bench.
His critics said he lacked understanding of people and compassion, that he was guilty of careless
legal errors, that he had a misguided view of the purposes of judicial power. Most of all, they
attacked him for his handling of the Watergate trial. He was nicknamed "Maximum John" for
giving defendants the maximum sentence that guidelines allowed.








Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (born March 19, 1944)

is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted of the June 5, 1968, assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Sirhan shot Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy, at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles, California; Kennedy died the next day at Good Samaritan Hospital.