Today's Famous Birthdays

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William Clement Frawley
(February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966)

was an American vaudevillian and actor best remembered for playing landlord Fred Mertz in
the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, "Bub" O'Casey in the television comedy series
My Three Sons, and the political advisor to the judge character in the film Miracle on 34th Street.









Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr.
(February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994)

was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films
and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and
painter Buck Taylor.











John Herbert Gleason
(February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987)

was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer known affectionately as "The Great One".
Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for
his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city-bus-driver character Ralph Kramden
in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which
maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. After originating in New York City,
videotaping moved to Miami Beach, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there.

Among his notable film roles were Minnesota Fats in 1961's The Hustler (co-starring with Paul Newman)
and Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit series from 1977 to 1983 (co-starring Burt Reynolds).











Anthony Leonard Randall
(born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004)

was an American actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in a television adaptation
of the 1965 play The Odd Couple by Neil Simon. In a career spanning six decades, Randall
received six Golden Globe Award nominations and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations,
winning one Emmy.











Antoine Dominique Domino Jr.
(February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017),

known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of
rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a
French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949. His first single "The Fat Man"
is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million
copies. Domino continued to work with the song's co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his
distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (1952) and scoring a string of
mainstream hits beginning with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had
eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies,
being certified gold.














John R. Cash
(born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)

was an American country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow,
moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. He was known for
his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band
characterized by train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly
somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark all-black stage wardrobe,
which earned him the nickname the "Man in Black".











Michael Bolotin
(born February 26, 1953),

known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton performed in
the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo
albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He became better known for
his series of pop rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s.

Bolton has sold more than 75 million records, and recorded eight top 10 albums and two number-one
singles on the Billboard charts, as well as winning six American Music Awards and two Grammy Awards.

He represented Connecticut at the American Song Contest 2022 with the song, "Beautiful World"














Victor-Marie Hugo
(26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885)

was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than
sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest
French writers of all time.

His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations)
and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary
movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both
during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables
and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for
social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.















Levi Strauss
(born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs];
February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902)

was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.











Herbert Henry Dow
(February 26, 1866 – October 15, 1930)

was a Canadian-born American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational
conglomerate Dow Chemical. He was a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products,
and was a successful businessman.













James Edward Narz
(February 26, 1927 – October 7, 2020),

known professionally as Tom Kennedy, was an American television host best known for his work
in game shows. Game shows Kennedy hosted included
Password Plus, Split Second, Name That Tune, and You Don't Say!

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Carl William Demarest
(February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983)

was an American character actor, known especially for his roles in screwball comedies by
Preston Sturges and for playing Uncle Charley in the sitcom My Three Sons Demarest, who
frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles, was a prolific film and television actor,
appearing in over 140 films, beginning in 1926 and ending in the late 1970s. Before his
career in motion pictures, he performed in vaudeville for two decades.









Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward
(born February 27, 1930)

is an American actress. A star since the Golden Age of Hollywood, Woodward made her
career breakthrough in the 1950s and earned esteem and respect playing complex
women with a characteristic nuance and depth of character. She is one of the first film
stars to have an equal presence in television. Her accolades include an Academy Award,
three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe
Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.









Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE
(February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)

was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early
1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.
She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known
public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the
seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.










Howard Hesseman
(February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022)

was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever
on WKRP in Cincinnati, and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.
He appeared regularly on television and in film from the 1970s to 2010s, with other noteworthy
roles including Sam Royer (the husband of lead character Ann Romano) in the last two seasons
of One Day at a Time, and a supporting role as Captain Pete Lassard in the film
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment.









Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882)

was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride",
The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.









John Bowden Connally Jr.
(February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993)

was an American politician. He served as the 39th governor of Texas and as the 61st
United States secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later
became a Republican in 1973.

Born in Floresville, Texas, Connally pursued a legal career after graduating from the
University of Texas at Austin. During World War II, he served on the staff of James Forrestal
and Dwight D. Eisenhower before transferring to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. After the war,
he became an aide to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. When Johnson assumed the vice presidency
in 1961, he convinced President John F. Kennedy to appoint Connally to the position of
United States Secretary of the Navy. Connally left the Kennedy Administration in
December 1961 to run for Governor of Texas, and he held that position from 1963 to 1969.
In 1963, Connally was riding in the presidential limousine when Kennedy was assassinated,
and was seriously wounded. During his governorship, he was a conservative Democrat.









Ralph Nader
(born February 27, 1934)

is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in
consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes.









John Roy Van Zant
(born February 27, 1959),

also known as Johnny Van Zant, is an American singer and the current lead vocalist of Southern
rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former
lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, and of the 38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.

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Jeffrey Bruce Atkins
(born February 29, 1976),

better known by his stage name Ja Rule ,is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, record producer
and actor. Born and raised in New York City, he debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its lead
single "Holla Holla". During the 2000s, Ja Rule was signed to Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records, formerly
known as The Inc. From 1999 to 2005, Ja Rule had multiple hits that made the top 20 of the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 chart, including "Between Me and You" (featuring Christina Milian), "I'm Real
(Murder Remix)" and "Ain't It Funny" (both with Jennifer Lopez)—which both topped the Hot 100—the
number 1 hit "Always on Time" (featuring Ashanti), "Mesmerize" (featuring Ashanti), and "Wonderful"
(featuring R. Kelly and Ashanti).











Gioachino Rossini
(born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868)

was an Italian composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in his time. His operas had lots
of new ideas. Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers such as Cimarosa and
Paisiello writing the same sort of thing each time. Rossini made his operas interesting by writing skillfully
for the singers, giving them good tunes, as well as giving the orchestra interesting music, and by
choosing a variety of stories for his operas. The opera for which he is best known today is the Il
Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Many of the overtures to his operas are played at orchestral
concerts. The most popular is the overture to his opera Guillaume Tell (William Tell) with its feature in
the British TV show The Adventures of William Tell.










John Philip Holland
(24 February 1841 – 12 August 1914)

was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy,
and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1











James Francis Dorsey
(February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957)

was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and
composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)"
and "It's The Dreamer In Me". His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John Silver",
"So Many Times", "Amapola", "Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby,
Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare". He played
clarinet on the seminal jazz standards "Singin' the Blues" in 1927 and the original 1930 recording
of "Georgia on My Mind", which were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.










Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez
(February 28, 1960 – June 7, 2013),

dubbed the Night Stalker, the Valley Intruder (as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley),
and the Walk-In Killer was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in
California between June 1984 and August 1985. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989.
He died in 2013 while awaiting execution.

Ramirez's childhood is considered an influence on his crimes. Frequently abused by his father, Ramirez
began developing gruesome and macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin,
Miguel ("Mike") Ramirez, who also taught him some of the military skills that he would go on to use
during his year-long killing spree. Ramirez also cultivated a strong interest in Satanism and the occult.
By the time he had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22, he had begun
frequently using cocaine. Ramirez would often commit burglaries to support his drug addiction, many
of which were later frequently accompanied by murders, attempted murders, rapes,
attempted rapes, and assaults.












Anthony Jay Robbins
(born February 29, 1960)

is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials,
seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within.

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Paul Hartman
(March 1, 1904 – October 2, 1973)

was an American dancer, stage performer and television actor. He continued to play bit parts
in movies and television throughout the rest of his life, most famously as handyman
Emmett Clark on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. In a nod to his earlier life,
he is seen doing a dance routine at Howard Sprague's party in the Andy Griffith episode
"The Wedding", and in the Mayberry, RFD episode "All for Charity", he can be seen doing
a soft shoe routine with costar Ken Berry. In addition, he had small parts on Petticoat Junction;
Love, American Style; The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Hazel; Ben Casey;
The Twilight Zone; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; Our Man Higgins; and Family Affair.











Lieutenant Colonel James David Graham Niven
(1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983)

was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor
for his performance as Major Pollock in Separate Tables (1958). Niven's other roles included
Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Phileas Fogg in Around
the World in 80 Days (1956), Sir Charles Lytton ("the Phantom") in The Pink Panther (1963),
James Bond in Casino Royale (1967), and Colonel Race in Death on the Nile (1978).










Dinah Shore
(born Frances ‘Fanny’ Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994)

was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist
of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved
even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety
programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.











Harry Belafonte
(born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927)

is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American
pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an international audience
in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Belafonte is best known for his recordings of "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature "Day-O" lyric,
"Jump in the Line", and "Jamaica Farewell". He has recorded and performed in many genres, including
blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He has also starred in several films, including
Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)











Robert Conrad
(born Conrad Robert Falk; March 1, 1935 – February 8, 2020)

was an American film and television actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the
1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent
James T. West. He portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series
Baa Baa Black Sheep (later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron). In addition to acting, he was
a singer and recorded several pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad.
He hosted a weekly two-hour national radio show (The PM Show with Robert Conrad) on
CRN Digital Talk Radio beginning in 2008.











Dirk Benedict
(born Dirk Niewoehner; March 1, 1945)

is an American film, television and stage actor, and author. He is best known for playing the
characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series
and Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series. He is the author
of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.









Alan Thicke
(born Alan Willis Jeffrey; March 1, 1947 – December 13, 2016)

was a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is the father of singer
Robin Thicke. In 2013, Thicke was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Thicke was best
known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains on ABC.











Catherine Bach
(born Catherine Bachman; March 1, 1954)

is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series
The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of
the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.











Ronald William Howard
(born March 1, 1954)

is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He first came to prominence as a
child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone.
He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor
(played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968.
During this time, he also appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), a critical and
commercial success. He was credited as Ronny Howard in his film and television appearances
from 1959 to 1973. Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film
American Graffiti (1973), and became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in
the sitcom Happy Days, a role he would play from 1974 to 1980.












Booker T. Huffman Jr. (born March 1, 1965),

better known by his ring name Booker T, is an American color commentator and retired
professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE where he serves as a commentator
on the NXT brand, and is also the owner and founder of the independent promotion
Reality of Wrestling (ROW) in Texas City, Texas. Booker has been frequently named by
peers and industry commentators as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time;
he was voted WWE's greatest World Heavyweight Champion in a 2013 viewer poll.











Frédéric François Chopin
( 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849)

was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for
solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose
"poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation"

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Harry Christopher Caray
(March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998)

was an American radio and television sportscaster. During his career he called the play-by-play
for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the
St. Louis Cardinals (with two of those years also spent calling games for the St. Louis Browns).
After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox,
Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.











Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto
(1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973)

was a British actor. He played many roles on television, radio and in films, and had "a long history of
playing minor villains" before becoming best known as the first actor to play the
Master in Doctor Who (1971–73).











Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle
(March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996)

was an American businessman and executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the
National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in
November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at just the age of 33.
He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.

During his tenure, Rozelle saw the NFL grow from 12 teams to 28, oversaw the creation of large
television-rights deals and the creation of Monday Night Football in 1970, oversaw the 1970
AFL–NFL merger and the creation of the Super Bowl, and helped the NFL move from a twelve-game
schedule to a sixteen-game schedule. By the time of his retirement, many people considered him
the most powerful commissioner in sports. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.













Roger Harry Daltrey CBE
(born 1 March 1944)

is an English singer, musician and actor. He is a co-founder and the lead singer of the rock band The Who.
Daltrey's hit songs with The Who include "My Generation", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again",
"Baba O'Riley" and "You Better You Bet". He began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of The Who.
Since then he has released ten solo studio albums, five compilation albums, and one live album. His solo
hits include "Giving It All Away", "Walking the Dog", "Written on the Wind", "Free Me", "Without Your Love"
and "Under a Raging Moon".











Elvin Lamont Bethea
(born March 1, 1946)

is an American former professional football player who pent his entire career as a defensive end with
the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He
played college football at North Carolina A&T State University and was the first person from the school
to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2003.











Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson
(born March 1, 1953)

is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys,
San Francisco 49ers, Houston Oilers, and Miami Dolphins. He played college football at Langston University.












Jimmy Fortune
(born March 11, 1955)

is an American country music singer from Nelson County, Virginia. Fortune sang tenor for The Statler Brothers
for 21 years, and wrote the song "Elizabeth" for the group. After The Statler Brothers retired,
he continued to perform as a solo artist.













Michael T. Rozier
(born March 1, 1961)

is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the United States Football
League (USFL) for two seasons and the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons during the
1980s and early 1990s. Rozier played college football for the University of Nebraska, and won the
Heisman Trophy in 1983. Afterward, he played professionally for the Pittsburgh Maulers and
Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL and the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. He is a member
of the College Football Hall of Fame.












Robert James Affuso (born March 1, 1963, in Newburgh, New York)

is an American heavy metal drummer best known as a member of the band Skid Row from 1987 to 1996.











Justin Drew Bieber
(born March 1, 1994)

is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and global influence
in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter Braun
and signed with RBMG Records in 2008, gaining recognition with the release of his debut
seven-track EP My World (2009) and soon establishing himself as a teen idol.

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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
(March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986)

was a Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, and film and television producer.
He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which
he co-starred with his then-wife Lucille Ball. Arnaz and Ball are credited as the
innovators of the syndicated rerun, which they pioneered with the I Love Lucy series.











Porky Pig
(1935)

is an animated character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences
based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed
shorts featuring the character. Even after he was supplanted by later characters,
Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the
Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles.

He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts, "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"











John Cornell
(2 March 1941 – 23 July 2021)

was an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, and businessman. He was best
known for his role as "Strop" on The Paul Hogan Show, and he was instrumental
in the introduction of World Series Cricket in 1977.

In 1971, while working as a producer for the television show A Current Affair,
Cornell recognised the talents of a Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger, Paul Hogan
(who had been the subject of an interview by the station). Cornell became
Hogan's manager and often appeared alongside him in his popular television
show, The Paul Hogan Show, as a character called "Strop" (a dim-witted
dinkum Australian surf lifesaver). He produced and co-wrote the screenplay for
Hogan's 1986 film Crocodile Dundee[4] which became the highest grossing
Australian film. He also produced and directed the successful 1988 sequel,
Crocodile Dundee II.












Cheryl Gates McFadden
(born March 2, 1949)

is an American actress and choreographer. She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden
when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress.
She played Dr. Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television
series and in the four subsequent films.











Laraine Newman
(born March 2, 1952)

is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Newman was part of the original
cast of NBC's long-running sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its
inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980. She took an interest at improv
in high school. After graduating, she studied mime with Marcel Marceau for a
year in Paris. She then moved to Los Angeles and became a founding member
of comedy improvisational group The Groundlings.











Daniel Wroughton Craig CMG
(born 2 March 1968)

is an English actor. He gained international fame playing the secret agent James Bond
in five installments in the film series, from Casino Royale (2006) up to No Time to Die (2021).

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Jean Harlow
(born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937)

was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading
sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American
cinema. Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", Harlow was popular
for her "Laughing Vamp" screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years,
but she became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, whose image in the public eye has
endured. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow No. 22 on its greatest female
screen legends of classical Hollywood cinema list











James Montgomery Doohan
(/ˈduːən/; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005)

was a Canadian actor and author, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the
Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable
elements in the Star Trek franchise, and inspired many fans to pursue careers in
engineering and other technical fields. He also made contributions behind the scenes,
such as the initial development of the Klingon and Vulcan languages.










Barney Martin
(March 3, 1923 – March 21, 2005)

was an American actor, best known for playing Morty Seinfeld, father of Jerry, on the sitcom
Seinfeld (1991-1998). He also played supporting roles in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967),
and the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur (1981). He also originated the role of
Amos Hart (Mr. Cellophane) in the 1976 Broadway production of Chicago.











Timothy James Kazurinsky
(born March 3, 1950)

is an American actor and screenwriter best known as a cast member and writer on
Saturday Night Live and for his role as Carl Sweetchuck in the Police Academy films.

On SNL, Kazurinsky played many recurring characters such as Dr. Jack Badofsky on
Weekend Update, Madge the Chimp's husband in "I Married A Monkey", and Mr. Landlord
opposite Eddie Murphy's "Mr. Robinson." His range of celebrity impersonations included
everyone from Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler to Ozzy Osbourne and Billie Jean King.
As part of the writing team, Kazurinsky received an Emmy nomination for
Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program.











David Anthony Faustino
(born March 3, 1974)

is an American actor and radio personality primarily known for his role as Bud Bundy on the
Fox sitcom Married... with Children. He has also voiced animated characters for Nickelodeon,
including Mako on The Legend of Korra and Helia on Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club.










Jessica Claire Timberlake
(born March 3, 1982)

is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award,
and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Biel began her career as a vocalist appearing in musical productions until she was cast as
Mary Camden in the family drama series 7th Heaven (1996–2006),
in which she achieved recognition.










Alexander Graham Bell
(born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)

was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the
first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
(AT&T) in 1885.

Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution
and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf; profoundly influencing Bell's life's
work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing
devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the
telephone, on March 7, 1876. Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work
as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.










Terence Charles "Snowy" White
(born 3 March 1948, Barnstaple, Devon)

is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy (permanent member from
1980 to 1982) and with Pink Floyd (as a backing guitarist; he was first invited to tour
with the band through Europe and the United States in 1977, and during The Wall shows
in 1980), and more recently, for Roger Waters' band. He is also known for his 1983
solo offering "Bird of Paradise", which became a UK Singles Chart Top 10 hit single.











Herschel Junior Walker
(born March 3, 1962)

is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the
National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He was also the Republican nominee
in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia.

Walker played college football at the University of Georgia, where he won the
Heisman Trophy as a junior. He spent the first three seasons of his professional
career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL)
and was the league's MVP during its final season in 1985. After the USFL folded,
Walker joined the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys, earning consecutive Pro Bowl and
second-team All-Pro honors from 1987 to 1988.












Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee
(born March 3, 1962)

is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes
in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze
Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated
for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time.
She is on the board of directors for USA Track & Field (U.S.A.T.F.),
the national governing body of the sport.

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Paula Prentiss
(born March 4, 1938)

is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960),
What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975).

From 1967 to 1968, Prentiss co-starred with her husband Richard Benjamin in the CBS sitcom
He & She, for which she received a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress
in a Comedy Series.









Gunnar Milton Hansen
(March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015)

was an Icelandic-born American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired
cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

He was also a football player during high school and for a while a bar bouncer. In 1973, just after
finishing graduate school, Hansen heard that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was being filmed in
Austin and decided to audition. He got the part of Leatherface, the masked killer in the movie.











Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954)

is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her comedy work on Second City Television (1976–84)
and Schitt's Creek (2015–2020) and in films such as After Hours (1985), Beetlejuice (1988),
Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Her other film appearances include the mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest;
Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).











Chaz Salvatore Bono
(born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969)

is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher, and
he became widely known in appearances as a child on their television show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.

Bono is a trans man. In 1995, while then identifying as a woman, and several years after being
outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, Bono publicly self-identified as a lesbian in a cover story in
a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate.











Andrea Bowen
(born March 4, 1990)

is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing on Broadway musicals, including
Les Misérables and The Sound of Music. In 2004, she began playing the role of Julie Mayer on the
ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, a role she played on a regular basis until 2008.
She later appeared on a recurring basis until the show ended in 2012. Bowen later went on to star
in a number of Lifetime television movies.










Knute Kenneth Rockne
(March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931)

was a Norwegian-American player and coach of American football at the University of Notre Dame.
Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne would accumulate over 100 wins and three national
championships.

Rockne is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history.










Chief Tahachee
(born Jeff Davis "Tahchee" Cypert, March 4, 1904 – June 9, 1978)

was a writer, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer. He claimed to be a descendant of
the Old Settler Cherokees.

Chief Tahachee wrote four books: Poems of Dreams (1942), Drifting Sands (1950),
An American Indian Climb Toward Truth & Wisdom (1955), and The Rough and Rowdy Ways
of an American Indian Cowboy (1957). Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed
the copyright on it October 1972.











Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr.
(March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007)

was the president of Walgreens from 1939 until 1963 and the chairman of the board from 1963 until 1976.

He was born on March 4, 1906, in Chicago, Illinois, to Charles Rudolph Walgreen and Myrtle Norton.
He attended the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Walgreen Jr. started out as a buyer for the company. As head of the company he increased the profit
and size of the drug store, encouraged new lines of products to be sold and changed the format from
counter service to self-service. He relinquished his role in company in 1969 to his son Charles R. Walgreen III.

He died in 2007 at age 100.










Richard Marvin DeVos Sr.
(March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018)

was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel
(company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team.
In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th wealthiest person in the United States,
and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion.











Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
(March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001)

was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder
who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern
California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.











James Richard Perry
(born March 4, 1950)

is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019
and as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015. Perry also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican
nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections, losing to Mitt Romney
and Donald Trump, respectively.

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Ray Mancini
(born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961),

best known as "Boom Boom" Mancini, is an American former professional boxer who competed
professionally from 1979 to 1992 and who has since worked as an actor and sports commentator.
He held the WBA lightweight title from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his nickname from his
father, boxer Lenny Mancini. In 2015, Ray was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

On November 13, 1982, a 21-year-old Mancini met 27-year-old South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim.
Kim had struggled to make the 135 pounds (61 kg) weight limit, and had to lose several pounds shortly
before the fight. The title bout, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, was televised live on CBS Sports. Mancini
won by TKO in the 14th round. Moments after the fight ended, Kim collapsed and fell into a coma,
having suffered a subdural hematoma, and died four days later. The week after his death, the cover
of Sports Illustrated magazine showed Mancini and Kim battling, under the title "Tragedy in the Ring"

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Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison
(5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990)

was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He made his West End
debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his
breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in the play
Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He won his second Tony for the role of Professor Henry Higgins
in the stage production of My Fair Lady in 1957.










Marsha Francine Warfield
(born March 5, 1954)

is an American actress and comedian. She grew up on Chicago's South Side, graduating from
Calumet High School. She is best known for her 1986–92 role of Roz Russell on the Top 10 rated
NBC sitcom Night Court. Roz was the tough, no-nonsense bailiff in Judge Stone's court. Warfield
also starred in the sitcom Empty Nest as Dr. Maxine Douglas (1993–95). Before Night Court,
she was a writer and performer on the short-lived Richard Pryor Show









Penn Fraser Jillette
(born March 5, 1955)

is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known
for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. The duo has been featured
in numerous stage and television shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!,
and is currently headlining in Las Vegas at The Rio. Jillette serves as the act's orator and raconteur.










Andrew Roy Gibb
(5 March 1958 – 10 March 1988)

was an English singer, songwriter, and actor.[3] He was the younger brother of Barry, Robin and Maurice,
who went on to form the Bee Gees.

Gibb came to prominence in the late 1970s through the early 1980s with eight singles reaching the
Top 20 of the US Hot 100, three of which went to number-one: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" (1977),
"(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" (1977), and "Shadow Dancing" (1978). In the early 1980s, he co-hosted
the American music television series Solid Gold. He also performed in a production of The Pirates of
Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Gibb would later have issues with drug
addiction and depression. He died on 10 March 1988, five days after his 30th birthday.











Charles Goodnight
(March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929),

also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into
the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Goodnight moved to Texas in 1846 with his mother and stepfather, Hiram Daugherty. In 1856, he
became a cowboy and served with the local militia, fighting against Comanche raiders. A year later,
in 1857, Goodnight joined the Texas Rangers. Goodnight is also known for raising and leading a
posse against the Comanche in 1860 that located the Indian camp where Cynthia Ann Parker was
living with her husband, Peta Nocona, then guiding Texas Rangers to the camp, leading to
Cynthia Ann's recapture. He later made a treaty with her son, Quanah Parker. His father owned a
ranch that expanded to 500 acres (200 ha)