Today's Famous Birthdays

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Melvin Jerome Blanc
(born Blank May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the
Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs,
including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova,
and his own short-lived sitcom. Blanc was born on May 30, 1908 in San Francisco, California, to Eva (née Katz),
a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, and Frederick Blank (born in New York to German Jewish parents), the
younger of two children. He grew up in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, and later in
Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lincoln High School.








Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker
(May 30, 1927 – May 21, 2018)

was an American actor. He played cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series
Cheyenne from 1955 to 1963. Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois, on May 30, 1927;
the son of Gladys Huldah (née Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker. His mother was Czech.
He had a twin sister named Lucy. Walker left school to work at a factory and on a riverboat, then joined the
United States Merchant Marine at the age of 17 in the last months of World War II. After leaving the
Merchant Marine, he did odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas; Long Beach, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada,
where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel. Walker was also employed as a sheet metal worker
and a nightclub bouncer.









Michael J. Pollard
(born Michael John Pollack Jr.; May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019)

was an American actor. He is best known for his role as C.W. Moss in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which earned
him critical acclaim along with nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award,
and two Golden Globe Awards. Pollard was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and brought up in the nearby North Jersey
communities of Garfield and Clifton. He was the son of Sonia V. (née Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack,
a bar manager. His parents were both of Polish descent. His mother was born in New York and his father was born
in New Jersey. Pollard's father supported his wife and Michael Jr. by working 60 hours a week as a barman at
O'Rourke's Tap Room.








Meredith Lynn MacRae
(May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000)

was an American actress, singer and talk show host. She is most remembered for her roles as Sally Morrison
on My Three Sons (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction (1966–1970). MacRae was born
in Houston, Texas, to parents Gordon and Sheila MacRae. Her father was stationed with the Army Air Corps in
Houston at the time of her birth. Both of her parents went on to be actors. She is the sister of
William Gordon MacRae, Robert Bruce MacRae, and Heather MacRae.









Ted McGinley
(born May 30, 1958)

is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom Married... with Children
and as Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith. He was a late regular on Happy Days, Dynasty and
The Love Boat and is known for playing the villainous role of Stan Gable in the film Revenge of the Nerds and
several made-for-television sequels. McGinley grew up in Newport Beach, California. His paternal grandfather was
an Irish immigrant. At Newport Harbor High School, he focused on athletics and swimming and was a star player
on the water polo team.









Benjamin David Goodman
(May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)

was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman
led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on
January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in
history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born
to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. His father, David Goodman (1873–1926), came to the United States
in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, (1873–1964), came
from Kaunas. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman's birth. With little income
and a large family, they moved to the Maxwell Street neighborhood, an overcrowded slum near railroad yards and
factories that was populated by German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Jewish immigrants.









Wynonna Ellen Judd, or simply Wynonna
(born Christina Claire Ciminella; May 30, 1964),

is an American country music singer. She is one of the most widely recognized and awarded female country singers.
In all, she has had 19 No. 1 singles, including those with The Judds, making her one of the best-selling country artists
of all time. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna. She first rose to fame in the
1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records,
in addition to 26 singles of which fourteen were No. 1 hits. Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in
Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964. Her mother (then known as Diana) had quickly married Michael Ciminella after
being abandoned by Charles Jordan, her boyfriend and Judd's biological father. Jordan died in 2000.