Today's Famous Birthdays

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Doris Day
(born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019)

was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939,
achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left
Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

Day was one of the biggest film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Day's film career began during the
Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948). She starred in films
of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in
Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson,
chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and
The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney,
David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and
Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed
from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).










Marlon Brando Jr.
(April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he
received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two
Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, one Cannes Film Festival Award and three
British Academy Film Awards. Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the civil
rights movement and various Native American movements. Having studied with Stella Adler
in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system
of acting, and method acting, to mainstream audiences.










Petunia Pig

is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
from Warner Bros. She looks much like her significant other, Porky Pig, except that she wears
a dress and has pigtailed black hair. Petunia was introduced by animator Frank Tashlin in the
1937 short Porky's Romance. The film is a parody of a 1932 Walt Disney cartoon called
Mickey's Nightmare. Whereas Mickey Mouse marries his longtime girlfriend Minnie in that film,
Porky's overtures toward Petunia bring him only the scornful laughter of his porcine paramour.








Edward Regan Murphy
(born April 3, 1961)

is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show
Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy
has also worked as a stand-up comedian and is ranked No. 10 on Comedy Central's list of
the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. Murphy has received a Grammy Award and
Emmy Award and was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015 and
the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023.









Washington Irving
(April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859)

was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early
19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of
Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad,
and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects
such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as American
ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.








Helmut Josef Michael Kohl
(3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017)

was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of
the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of
any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German
reunification and the creation of the European Union (EU). Furthermore, Kohl's 16 years and
30 day tenure is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.








Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE
(born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934),

formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. She is
considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years studying the social and
family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania
in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees, including armed conflict.

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has
worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the
Nonhuman Rights Project. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an
honorary member of the World Future Council.








Picabo Street
(born 3 April 1971)

is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at
the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other
Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995
and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street
was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.