Today's Famous Birthdays

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Raymond William Stacy Burr
(May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993)

was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas
Perry Mason and Ironside. Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television, and film,
usually as the villain. His portrayal of the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window
(1954) is his best-known film role, although he is also remembered for his role in the 1956 film Godzilla,
King of the Monsters!, which he reprised in the 1985 film Godzilla 1985. He won Emmy Awards for acting
in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised
in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy
and two Golden Globe nominations. Raymond William Stacy Burr: 1  was born May 21, 1917,
in New Westminster, British Columbia.[4] His father William Johnston Burr (1889–1985) was a hardware
salesman; his mother Minerva Annette (née Smith, 1892–1974) was a pianist and music teacher.










Rick Jason
(born Richard Jacobson; May 21, 1923 – October 16, 2000)

was an American actor, born in New York City, and most remembered for starring in the ABC television
drama Combat! (1962–1967). An only child of Jewish parents, Jason was expelled from several prep
schools before graduating from Rhodes Preparatory School in Manhattan. Rick Jason served from
1943 to 1945 in the U.S. Army Air Corps, during World War II. In the late 1960s and early 1970s,
he visited American troops serving in Vietnam on several USO tours.









Alan Stuart Franken
(born May 21, 1951)

is an American politician, comedian, writer, actor, and media personality who served as a United States
senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. Franken first gained fame as a writer and performer on the
NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he worked for three stints. He first served as a
writer for the show from 1975 to 1980, and returned in his final stint from 1985 to 1995, Franken served
as a writer and, briefly, a cast member. After decades as an entertainer, he became a prominent liberal
political activist, hosting The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Franken was born in New York City
to Joseph P. Franken (1908–1993), a printing salesman, and Phoebe Franken (née Kunst) (1918–2003),
a real estate agent.










Mr. T
(born Laurence Tureaud, May 21, 1952),

is an American actor. He is known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team
and as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III. He is also known for his distinctive hairstyle inspired
by Mandinka warriors in West Africa, his copious gold jewelry, his tough-guy persona and his catchphrase
"I pity the fool!", first uttered as Clubber Lang in Rocky III, then turned into a trademark used in slogans
or titles, like the reality show I Pity the Fool in 2006. Mr. T was born Laurence Tureaud in Chicago, Illinois,
the youngest son in a family with twelve children. Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers,
grew up in a three-room apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes. His father, Nathaniel Tureaud, was a minister.










Bruce Anthony Buffer
(born May 21, 1957)

is an American professional mixed martial arts ring announcer and the official octagon announcer for
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events, introduced on broadcasts as the "Veteran Voice of the Octagon".
Buffer's catchphrase is "It's time!", which he announces before the main event of the UFC. He is the
half brother of boxing and professional wrestling ring announcer Michael Buffer, and is the President
and CEO of their company, The Buffer Partnership. Buffer holds a black belt in Tang Soo Do and has
fought as a kickboxer. Buffer first ventured into martial arts when he was thirteen years old and living
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studying judo and achieving the rank of green belt. He moved to
Malibu, California with his family at the age of fifteen and befriended two of the students of Chuck Norris,
who introduced him to Tang Soo Do, in which he holds a second degree black belt. He began kickboxing
in his twenties but was forced to give the sport up at 32 after suffering his second concussion.










Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold Jr.
(born May 21, 1957)

is an American actor. He has starred in several films such as Stripes (1981),
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins (1984) and Ruthless People (1986).
He has co-starred in all of the films in the Beverly Hills Cop (1984, 1987, and 1994) and
The Santa Clause franchises (1994, 2002 and 2006). Reinhold was born in Wilmington, Delaware,
the son of Regina Celeste (née Fleming; born 1923) and Edward Ernest Reinhold (1907–1977),
a trial lawyer. He was raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia and attended Alexis I. duPont High School
until his family moved to Martin County, Florida prior to his junior year in high school. He attended
Mary Washington College and Palm Beach Community College.[4] His maternal grandfather was
from County Meath, Ireland.









Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
(May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994),

also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and
sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later
murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically
all or part of the skeleton. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver,
a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. Jeffrey Dahmer was born
May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first of two sons to Lionel Herbert Dahmer, a
Marquette University chemistry student and later a research chemist, and Joyce Annette Dahmer (Flint),
a teletype machine instructor. Lionel is of German and Welsh ancestry, and Joyce was of
Norwegian and Irish ancestry.










Christopher George Latore Wallace
(May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997),

better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper.
Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap, he is cited in various media lists as one of the greatest
rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his distinctive laid-back lyrical delivery, offsetting the lyrics' often
grim content. His music was often semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality, but also of debauchery
and celebration. Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the New York City borough
of Brooklyn on May 21, 1972, the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents. His mother, Voletta Wallace, was
a preschool teacher, while his father, Selwyn George Latore, was a welder and politician. He was nicknamed "Big"
because he was overweight by the age of 10. Wallace claimed to have begun dealing drugs at about age 12.
His mother, often at work, first learned of this during his adulthood.