Today's Famous Birthdays

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Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
(May 24, 1925 – February 6, 2006)

was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies.
His father was a trumpet player, and his mother was a dancer. His brother was actor
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (1922-2000). He left school at the age of seven to join a family act called
"Las Perlitas" that toured southwest Texas. As a result, he was functionally illiterate for all of his life.
As a result of his illiteracy, he memorized scripts by having his wife read them to him. Gonzalez Gonzalez
married at the age of seventeen and served in the Army during World War II as a driver in the United States.
After the war he performed stand-up comedy for Spanish-speaking audiences.









Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938)

is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician and activist. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong
comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show.
He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s. Thomas B. Kin Chong was born on May 24, 1938,
in Edmonton, Alberta. His mother was a Canadian of Scottish and Irish ancestry,[5] and his father was Chinese
who immigrated in the 1930s. He had an older brother, Stan (1936–2018). After arriving in Canada, the
senior Chong had first lived with an aunt in Vancouver. As a youth, Tommy Chong moved with his family to
Calgary, settling in a conservative neighbourhood Chong has referred to as "Dog Patch". He has said that his
father had "been wounded in World War II and there was a veterans' hospital in Calgary. He bought a
$500 house in Dog Patch and raised his family on $50 a week." In an interview, Chong later described
how he dropped out of Crescent Heights High School "when I was 16 but probably just before they were
going to throw me out anyway." He played guitar to make money. "I discovered that music could get you
laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.









Gary Rich Burghoff
(born May 24, 1943)

is an American actor who is known for originating the role of Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway
musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly
in the film M*A*S*H, as well as the TV series. He was a regular on television game show Match Game
from 1974 to 1975 for 140 episodes, standing in for Charles Nelson Reilly, who was in New York doing
a Broadway play, and continued to make recurring appearances afterwards. Burghoff was born in
Bristol, Connecticut, moved to Clinton, Connecticut, and then later moved to Delavan, Wisconsin.








John Christopher Reilly
(born May 24, 1965)

is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and writer. After his film debut in Casualties of
War (1989), he gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder (1990),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and The River Wild (1994). He also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's
films Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), as well as Terrence Malick's
The Thin Red Line (1998). For his performance in Chicago (2002), Reilly was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He worked
with director Martin Scorsese on both Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004).
Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children. His father was of Irish and Scottish descent,
and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry.









Bob Dylan
(legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941)

is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time,
Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years.
Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963)
and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar
movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical,
and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) in St. Mary's Hospital
on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of
Lake Superior. Dylan's paternal grandparents, Anna Kirghiz and Zigman Zimmerman, emigrated from
Odesa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States, following the pogroms against Jews of 1905.









Patricia Louise Holt
(born May 24, 1944),

known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress. She has been referred
to as the "Godmother of Soul". LaBelle was born Patricia Louise Holte in the Eastwick section of
Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born the second youngest child of Henry (1919–1989)
and Bertha (Robinson; 1916–1978) Holte's three children, and the next-to-youngest of five children
overall. Her siblings were Thomas Hogan Jr. (1930-2013), Vivian Hogan (1932–1975),
Barbara (1942–1982) and Jacqueline "Jackie" (1945–1989). Her father was a railroad worker and
club performer and her mother was a domestic. Despite enjoying her childhood, LaBelle would later
write in her memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, that her parents' marriage was abusive. Shortly
after her parents' divorce, when LaBelle was twelve, she was sexually molested by a family friend.
She joined a local church choir at the Beulah Baptist Church at ten and performed her first solo
two years later. While she was growing up, she listened to secular music styles such as
R&B and jazz music as well.











Priscilla Ann Presley
(née Wagner, changed by adoption to Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945)

is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the former wife of American singer Elvis Presley,
as well as co-founder and former chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), the company that
turned Graceland into one of the top tourist attractions in the United States. In her acting career,
Presley co-starred with Leslie Nielsen in the three Naked Gun films and played the role of
Jenna Wade on the long-running television series Dallas. Priscilla Ann Wagner was born at
Brooklyn Naval Hospital in Brooklyn on May 24, 1945. Her maternal grandfather,
Albert Henry Iversen (1899–1971), was born in Egersund, Norway. He immigrated to the
United States, where he married Lorraine Davis (1903–1984), who was of Scots-Irish and
English descent. Their only daughter was Anna Lillian Iversen (1926–2021), who later was called,
or her name was changed to, Ann. She gave birth to Priscilla when she was 19 years old.












Rosanne Cash
(born May 24, 1955)

is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash
and Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife. Although she is often classified as a country artist,
her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues, and most notably Americana. In the
1980s, she had a string of genre-crossing singles that entered both the country and pop charts, the most
commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache", which topped the U.S. country
singles chart and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop chart. Cash was born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee,
to Vivian and Johnny Cash, when Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records. Cash's mother was
Vivian Cash (née Liberto), a half Irish, African American and German, and half Sicilian whose Italian
grandparents were from Cefalù, Palermo










Héctor Luís Camacho Matías
(May 24, 1962 – November 24, 2012),

commonly known by his nickname "Macho" Camacho, was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and entertainer.
Known for his quickness in the ring and flamboyant style, Camacho competed professionally from 1980 to 2010,
and was a world champion in three weight classes. He held the WBC super featherweight title from 1983 to 1984,
the WBC lightweight title from 1985 to 1987, and the WBO junior welterweight title twice between 1989 and 1992.
Camacho was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, to Héctor Luis Camacho Sr. and his wife María Matías. He was the
second youngest of five children, which included a younger brother, Felix and sisters Raquel, Estrella, and Esperanza.