Today's Famous Birthdays

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Dennis Lee Hopper
(May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010)

was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first
television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two of the films that made James Dean
famous, Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956) as well as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).
In the next ten years he made a name for himself in television, and by the end of the 1960s had
appeared in several films, notably The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967),
Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography
career in the 1960s. Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, to Marjorie Mae
(July 12, 1917 – January 12, 2007) and James Millard Hopper (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982).
He had Scottish ancestors. Hopper had two younger brothers, Marvin and David.








Robert Lane Saget
(May 17, 1956 – January 9, 2022)

was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. Saget portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom
Full House (1987–1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016–2020). He was the original host of America's
Funniest Home Videos (1989–1997), and the voice of narrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom
How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). He was also known for his adult-oriented stand-up comedy,
and his 2014 album That's What I'm Talkin' About was nominated for the Grammy Award for
Best Comedy Album. Robert Lane Saget was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on
May 17, 1956, the son of hospital administrator Rosalyn[4] and supermarket chain executive Benjamin Saget.










Craig Ferguson
(born 17 May 1962)

is a Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host. He is best known for hosting the CBS late-night
talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014), for which he won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his
interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu that year. He also hosted the syndicated game show
Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017), for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards, and Join or Die with
Craig Ferguson (2016) on History. In 2017 he released a six-episode web show with his wife,
Megan Wallace Cunningham, titled Couple Thinkers. Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn
community district of Glasgow, to Robert, a post office worker and Scottish Nationalist and Janet Ferguson,
a primary school teacher on 17 May 1962.









Michael Trent Reznor
(born May 17, 1965)

is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist,
multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded
in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. The first Nine Inch Nails album,
Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success. Reznor has since released 11 more
Nine Inch Nails studio albums. Reznor was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, on May 17, 1965, the son
of Nancy Lou  and Michael Reznor. He grew up in Mercer, Pennsylvania, and is of German and Irish descent.










Maureen O'Sullivan
(May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998)

was an Irish actress, who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
She starred in dozens of feature films across a span of more than half a century and performed with
such actors as Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler,
Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, the Marx Bros. (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and Woody Allen. In 2020,
she was listed at number eight on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1911, the daughter of Mary Eva Lovatt 
and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I.










Ray Charles Leonard
(born May 17, 1956),

best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and
occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally
between 1977 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight
classes; as well as the undisputed welterweight championship. Leonard was part of the "Four Kings", a
group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán,
Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. Leonard also won a light welterweight gold medal at the
1976 Summer Olympics. Leonard, the fifth of seven children of Cicero and Getha Leonard, was born in
Wilmington, North Carolina. He was named after Ray Charles, his mother's favorite singer.