Today's Famous Birthdays

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Beatrice Arthur
(born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009)

was an American actress and comedian. Arthur began her career on stage in 1947,
attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television
beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972)
and Maude (1972–1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy Zbornak on
The Golden Girls (1985–1992). Bernice Frankel was born on May 13, 1922, in the Brooklyn
borough of New York City, to Rebecca (née Pressner, born in Austria) and Philip Frankel
(born in Poland). Arthur was raised in a Jewish home with her older sister Gertrude and
younger sister Marian (1926–2014).










Buck Taylor
(born May 13, 1938)

is an American actor and artist, best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brian
in the CBS television series Gunsmoke. He is the son of Florence Gertrude Heffernan and character
actor Dub Taylor. Taylor graduated from North Hollywood High School, where he became a talented
gymnast. Actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams sponsored him to go to the U.S. Olympic Trials as a gymnast,
but he failed to qualify for the 1960 Summer Olympics. He served two years in the United States Navy.









Stephen Tyrone Colbert
(born May 13, 1964)

is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is
best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014
and the CBS talk program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beginning in September 2015.
Colbert was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of eleven children in a Catholic family.








Robert Rennick Dalton
(May 13, 1869 – October 5, 1892)

was an American outlaw in the American Old West. Beginning in 1891, he led the Dalton Gang,
whose varying members included three of his brothers. They were known for robbing banks,
stagecoaches and trains, primarily in Kansas and Oklahoma Territory, quickly attracting
pursuit by lawmen. Born in 1869 in Cass County, Missouri, Bob was one of nine sons of
Lewis Dalton, from Kentucky and Jackson County, Missouri, and his wife Adeline Lee (née Younger).









James Warren Jones
(May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)

was an American preacher, political activist, and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple,
a doomsday cult, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones
and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle
commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events that occurred
at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults. James Warren Jones
was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman Jones
(October 21, 1887 – May 29, 1951) and Lynetta Jones née Putnam
(April 16, 1902 – December 10, 1977). Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent; he and his
mother both claimed to also have some Cherokee ancestry, but there is no evidence of this.









Stevland Hardaway Morris
(né Judkins; May 13, 1950),

known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter. He is credited as a
pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues,
pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and
other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B. He
also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive and consistent,
in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Blind since shortly
after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age
of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder was born
Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, on May 13, 1950, the third of five children
born to Lula Mae Hardaway, and the second of Hardaway's two children with Calvin Judkins.









Dennis Keith Rodman
(born May 13, 1961)

is an American former professional basketball player. Known for his fierce defensive and
rebounding abilities, his biography on the official NBA website states that he is "arguably
the best rebounding forward in NBA history". Nicknamed "the Worm", he played for the
Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks
of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rodman played at the small forward position
in his early years before becoming a power forward. Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey,
the son of Shirley and Philander Rodman, Jr., an Air Force enlisted member, who later fought
in the Vietnam War. When he was young, his father left his family, eventually settling in the
Philippines. Rodman has many brothers and sisters: according to his father, he has either
26 or 28 siblings on his father's side. However, Rodman has stated that he is the oldest
of a total of 47 children.