Today's Famous Birthdays

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Wardell Edwin Bond
(April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960)

was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and starred
in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered
roles are Bert the cop in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton
in John Ford's The Searchers (1956).







Cheeta
(sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta, and Chita)

is a chimpanzee character that appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan films of the
1930s–1960s, as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the
title character, Tarzan. Cheeta has usually been characterized as male, but sometimes
as female, and has been portrayed by chimpanzees of both sexes.

While the character of Cheeta is inextricably associated in the public mind with Tarzan,
no chimpanzees appear in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that
inspired the films. The closest analog to Cheeta in the Burroughs novels is Tarzan's
monkey companion Nkima, who appears in several of the later books in the series.








Dennis William Quaid
(born April 9, 1954)

is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining
widespread attention in the late 1970s, some of his notable credits include
Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987),
Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000),
The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), In Good Company (2004),
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), and Vantage Point (2008).

His other film credits include Jaws 3-D (1983), Come See the Paradise (1990),
Any Given Sunday (1999), Traffic (2000), The Alamo (2004), Flight of the Phoenix (2004),
American Dreamz (2006), Battle for Terra (2007), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009),
Footloose (2011), Soul Surfer (2011), Beneath the Darkness (2012), Playing for Keeps (2012),
Truth (2015), The Pretenders (2018), Midway (2019), The Intruder (2019), Blue Miracle (2021),
American Underdog (2021), and Strange World (2022). For his role in Far from Heaven (2002),
he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor among other
accolades. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an
Academy Award nomination.








Hugh Marston Hefner
(April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017)

was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine,
a publication with revealing photographs and articles that provoked charges of obscenity. Hefner
extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury
mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling media interest. He was
a political activist in the Democratic Party and for the causes of First Amendment rights,
animal rescue, and the restoration of the Hollywood Sign. A highly controversial figure in
popular culture, in the years since his death Hefner has been accused of personally perpetrating
and fostering acts of sexual abuse and exploitation stretching back decades, and Playboy
has since distanced itself from association with him.








Carl Lee Perkins
(April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)

was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll,
he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Among his
best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Honey Don't", "Matchbox" and
"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby". According to fellow musician Charlie Daniels,
"Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies
the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed."
Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley,
the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton, which further established
his prominent place in the history of popular music. Paul McCartney said "if there
were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles."

Nicknamed the "King of Rockabilly", Perkins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Nashville
Songwriters Hall of Fame. He also received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.








James Mark Fowler
(April 9, 1930 – May 8, 2019)

was an American professional zoologist and host of the acclaimed wildlife documentary
television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.