Today's Famous Birthdays

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Eve Arden
(born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990)

was an American film, radio, stage and television actress. She performed in leading and
supporting roles for nearly six decades. Beginning her film career in 1929 and on Broadway
in the early 1930s, Arden's first major role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama
Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed by roles in the comedies
Having Wonderful Time (1938) and the Marx Brothers' At the Circus (1939).
She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role
in Mildred Pierce (1945). Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in
Mill Valley, California, to Charles Peter Quedens, the son of Charles Henry Augustus
Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks; and Lucille Frank, the daughter of Bernard Frank and
Louisa Mertens. Lucille, a milliner, divorced Charles over his gambling and went into
business for herself.









Gerald Tommaso DeLouise
(born April 30, 1940),

known professionally as Burt Young, is an American actor, author, and painter. He played
Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series, his
performance in the first installment of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974),
The Killer Elite (1975), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe Shannon (1978),
Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984),
A Summer to Remember (1985), Back to School (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990),
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), Transamerica (2005), Win Win (2011), Bottom of the 9th (2019),
Beckman (2020) and the documentary film Stallone: Frank, That Is (2021) and had a guest
appearance on The Sopranos in 2001. Young was born and raised in Corona, Queens, New York,
the son of Josephine and Michael DeLouise, a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent.









John Mark Galecki
(born April 30, 1975)

is an American actor. He played Leonard Hofstadter in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and David Healy in the ABC sitcoms
Roseanne (1992–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–2019). Galecki also appeared in the films
Prancer (1989), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Suicide Kings (1997),
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Bookies (2003), In Time (2011), and Rings (2017).
Galecki was one of the highest paid television actors in the world, with his role in The Big Bang Theory
earning him approximately US$900,000 per episode between 2017 and 2019. In 2018, he was
estimated to be the world's second highest-paid male TV actor by Forbes (behind only his
The Big Bang Theory co-star Jim Parsons), earning $25 million. Galecki was born in Bree, Limburg,
Belgium to American parents of Polish, Irish, and Italian descent.










Kirsten Caroline Dunst
(born April 30, 1982)

is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the short Oedipus Wrecks directed by Woody Allen
in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). She then gained recognition for her role as child
vampiress Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), which earned her a
Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also had roles in her youth in
Little Women (1994) and the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). In the late 1990s,
Dunst transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the satires Dick and
Drop Dead Gorgeous and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (all in 1999). In 2000,
she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On, which has become a cult classic.
She gained further wide attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy
(2002–2007). Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005), and as the title character
in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). Dunst was born on April 30, 1982, at Point Pleasant Hospital in
Point Pleasant, New Jersey.








Al Lewis
(born Abraham Meister; April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006)

was an American actor and activist, best known for his role as Count Dracula-lookalike Grandpa on the
television series The Munsters from 1964 to 1966 and its film versions. He previously also co-starred
with The Munsters’s Fred Gwynne in the television show Car 54, Where Are You? from 1961–1963.
Later in life, he was a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster. Lewis was born
Abraham Meister on April 30, 1923 in Manhattan.









Cloris Leachman
(April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021)

was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many
accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated
and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. She won an Academy Award,
a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Leachman was born on
April 30, 1926, in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters.