Today's Famous Birthdays

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier OM
( 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989)

was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud,
was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked
in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable
success in television roles. Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of
Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier. He had two older siblings:
Sybille and Gerard Dacres "Dickie".








Naomi Elaine Campbell
(born 22 May 1970)

is an English model. She began her career at the age of 15, and established herself amongst the most
recognizable and in-demand models of the past four decades. Campbell was one of six models of her
generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. Naomi Elaine Campbell
was born in Lambeth, South London to Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris on 22 May 1970. In
accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother
when she was four months pregnant and went unnamed on her birth certificate.








Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL
(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)

was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet,
the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories
are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place,
Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent,
and his mother, Mary (Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855.









Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.
(May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019)

was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management.
He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016,
Pickens had a net worth of $500 million. Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of
Grace Marcaline (Molonson), and Thomas Boone Sibley Pickens. His father worked as an oil and mineral
landman (rights leaser). During World War II, his mother ran the local Office of Price Administration,
rationing gasoline and other goods in three counties.








Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American
domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned
his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski
killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he
believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He authored
Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique opposing industrialization,
rejecting leftism, and advocating for a nature-centered form of anarchism. In 1971, Kaczynski moved
to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a
recluse while learning survival skills to become self-sufficient. Theodore John Kaczynski was born in
Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (Dombek) and
Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. The two were Polish Americans who were raised as
Catholics but later became atheists.










Bernard John Taupin CBE
(born 22 May 1950)

is an English-American songwriter, singer and visual artist. He is best known for his long-term collaboration
with musician Elton John, a songwriting partnership that is one of the most successful in history. Taupin
has written the lyrics for most of John's songs. Taupin was born at Flatters House, a farmhouse located
between the village of Anwick and the town of Sleaford, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, England,
the son of Robert Taupin and Daphne, daughter of John Leonard Palchett "Poppy" Cort, a University of
Cambridge-educated classics teacher and former rector at Sale, Cheshire.