Today's Famous Birthdays

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Louis Francis Cristillo
(March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959),

better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known
for his double act with straight man Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?".

Abbott and Costello, who teamed in burlesque in 1936, were among the most popular and highest-paid
entertainers in the world during World War II. During a national tour in 1942, they sold $85 million in
war bonds in 35 days. By 1955, their popularity waned from overexposure, and their film and
television contracts lapsed. Their partnership ended in 1957.









Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr.
(March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009)

was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator.
McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game
show Who Do You Trust?, running from 1957 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous
thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick, announcer and second banana on NBC's
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.









Robert Norman Reiner
(born March 6, 1947)

is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with
the role of Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the CBS sitcom All in the Family (1971–1979), a
performance that earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards.









Thomas Duane Arnold
(born March 6, 1959)

is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Arnie Thomas on Roseanne
(1989–1993), Jackie Thomas on The Jackie Thomas Show (1992–1993), Tom Graham on Tom
(1994), and Tom Amross on The Tom Show (1997–1998).

He has appeared in several films, including True Lies (1994), Nine Months (1995),
McHale's Navy (1997), Animal Factory (2000), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Mr. 3000 (2004),
Happy Endings (2005), Pride (2007), The Great Buck Howard (2008), and
Madea's Witness Protection (2011). He was also the host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period
for four years, and appeared on Sons of Anarchy.










Darryl Lynn Hughley
(born March 6, 1963)

is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of
BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom
The Hughleys, and as one of the "Big Four" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy.
Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent
for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City.
In early 2013, D.L. Hughley landed in 9th place on Dancing with the Stars.











Suzanne J. Crough
(March 6, 1963 – April 27, 2015)

was an American child actress best known for her role as Tracy Partridge on The Partridge Family.
On The Partridge Family, a musical sitcom TV show which ran from 1970 to 1974, Crough played
Tracy Partridge, the youngest Partridge sibling, who played the tambourine. After The Partridge
Family, she made several TV movies and made guest appearances on television shows, including
Mulligan's Stew. Her last credited on-screen role was as Kate in the 1980 TV movie Children of Divorce.











Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564),

known as Michelangelo , was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and
had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range
of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder
contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches,
and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century.
He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.










Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac,
(born March 6, 1619, Paris—died July 28, 1655, Paris),

French satirist and dramatist whose works combining political satire and science-fantasy inspired a
number of later writers. He has been the basis of many romantic but unhistorical legends, of which
the best known is Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), in which he is portrayed as
a gallant and brilliant but shy and ugly lover, possessed (as in fact he was) of a remarkably large nose.









Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861)

was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven.
Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any
English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life.
Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the
pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.











George Draper Dayton
(March 6, 1857 – February 18, 1938)

was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founder of Dayton's
department store, which later became Target Corporation.










James Robert Wills
(March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975)

was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities
as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing
(although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).