Today's Famous Birthdays

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Sandra Louise Anderson
(née Smith; May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018),

professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She achieved recognition
for her relationship with Clint Eastwood and the six hit films they made together. Sandra Louise Smith
was born on May 28, 1944, the daughter of New York City native Raymond Smith, then a soldier
stationed at Camp Forrest, and Pauline Bayne, a pencil factory worker from Huntsville, Alabama, who
was of mostly Scottish descent, with matrilineages in South Carolina extending back to the late 18th
century. Locke's parents separated before her birth. In her autobiography, Locke noted that "although
Momma would not admit it, I knew Mr. Smith never married my mother."








Rudolph William Louis Giuliani
(born May 28, 1944)

is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s
federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Giuliani was born in 1944 in the East Flatbush section during the time it was an Italian-American enclave
in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, the only child of working-class parents Helen (1909–2002) and
Harold Angelo Giuliani (1908–1981), both children of Italian immigrants.









John Cameron Fogerty
(born May 28, 1945)

is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother
Tom Fogerty, he founded the band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer,
lead guitarist, and principal songwriter. CCR had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between
1968 and 1972, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Fogerty was born in
Berkeley, California, and grew up in El Cerrito, California, the third of five boys born to Galen Robert
and Edith Lucile (Lytle) Fogerty. His father was born in Iowa, and worked as a Linotype operator for
the Berkeley Gazette in California.









Wendy Orlean Williams
(May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998)

was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was
noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun,
and chainsawing guitars. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle.
In 1985, during the height of her popularity as a solo artist, she was nominated for a Grammy Award
for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Williams was born to Robert F. Williams, a chemist at
Eastman Kodak, and Audrey Stauber Williams (1921–2008) on May 28, 1949, in Webster, New York.
She studied clarinet at the Community Music School program of the University of Rochester's Eastman
School of Music, and later was a clarinetist in her high school's concert band. At the age of six,
she appeared tap-dancing on the Howdy Doody show as a member of the "Peanut Gallery".