Today's Famous Birthdays

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Justin Elmer Wilson
(April 24, 1914 – September 5, 2001)

was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine,
humor and storytelling. Wilson began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled
throughout Acadiana. Wilson later recorded several comedy albums, beginning with The
Humorous World of Justin Wilson on Ember Records. He also recorded several albums for
Jewel Records on the Paula label and a few for Capitol Records. He later appeared as a guest
on the popular CBS series The Ed Sullivan Show. He was known for the catchphrase,
"I gar-on-tee!" (I guarantee). As a comedian, Wilson was enormously popular in Louisiana,
and to a lesser degree in neighboring states, but his humor may have been a little too specifically
regional to enjoy the wider popularity of Southern comics such as Jerry Clower or Archie Campbell.










John Donovan Cannon
(April 24, 1922 – May 20, 2005)

was an American actor. An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, he
is best known for his co-starring role of Chief of Detectives Peter B. Clifford in the television series
McCloud with Dennis Weaver from 1970 until 1977, and for his part as the witness Lloyd Chandler
who cleared Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) in "The Judgment", the series finale of The Fugitive.









Shirley MacLaine
(born Shirley MacLean Beaty, April 24, 1934)

is an American actress, author and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed
and eccentric women, she has received numerous accolades over her seven-decade career, including
an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards,
two Volpi Cups and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with a Gala Tribute from the Film Society
of Lincoln Center in 1995, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement
Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2013. MacLaine is one of the last remaining stars
from the Golden Age of Hollywood.










Jill Dorothy Ireland
(24 April 1936 – 18 May 1990)

was an English actress and singer. She appeared in 16 films with her second husband,
Charles Bronson, and was involved in two other of Bronson’s films as a producer. Ireland
began her acting career in the 1950s. She married actor David McCallum in 1957, with
whom she had three sons and appeared in five episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
They divorced in 1967, and she later married Charles Bronson in 1968, having a daughter
and adopting another together. Ireland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984, and
went on to write two books about her battle, even becoming a spokeswoman for the
American Cancer Society. She received the Courage Award from President Ronald Reagan
in 1988. Ireland died in 1990, and her contributions to the film industry earned her a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A made-for-television film about her life,
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story, was released in 1991.










Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand
(born April 24, 1942)

is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she
has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers
awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Streisand began her career by
performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest
appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she
retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that
continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963),
which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career,
Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a
woman—including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and
The Broadway Album (1985). She also achieved five number-one singles on the
US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers",
"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".










Michael O'Keefe
(born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr.; April 24, 1955)

is an American actor, known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum
in The Great Santini, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor, and Darryl Palmer in the Neil Simon movie The Slugger's Wife.
He also appeared as Fred on the television sitcom Roseanne from 1993 to 1995.









Cedric Antonio Kyles
(born April 24, 1964),

better known by his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, is an American stand-up comedian
and actor. He hosted BET's ComicView during the 1993–1994 season and Def Comedy Jam
in 1995. He is best known for co-starring with Steve Harvey on The WB sitcom The Steve
Harvey Show, as one of The Original Kings of Comedy, and for starring as Eddie Walker in
Barbershop. He hosted the 12th season of the daytime version of Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire in 2013–14 and starred in the TV Land original series The Soul Man, which aired
from 2012 to 2016. He has also done voice work for Ice Age, the Madagascar film series,
Charlotte's Web, Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue. He currently stars on the CBS sitcom
The Neighborhood. In 2019, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.









Kelly Brianne
(born April 24, 1982),

known professionally as Kelly Clarkson, is an American singer, songwriter, author and television
personality. She rose to fame after winning the first season of American Idol in 2002, which
earned her a record deal with RCA. Her debut single, "A Moment Like This", topped the US
Billboard Hot 100, and became the country's best selling single of 2002. It was included on
her debut studio album, Thankful (2003), which debuted atop the Billboard 200. Trying to
reinvent her image, Clarkson parted ways with Idol management and shifted to pop rock for
her second studio album, Breakaway (2004). Supported by four US top-ten singles – the title track,
"Since U Been Gone", "Behind These Hazel Eyes", and "Because of You" – Breakaway sold
over 12 million copies worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.









Douglas Raymond Clifford
(born April 24, 1945)

is an American drummer, best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival
for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. After the group disbanded
in late 1972, Clifford released a solo album and later joined CCR bassist Stu Cook in the
Don Harrison Band. In 1995, Clifford and Cook formed the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited,
performing live versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs.








Jack Martin Blades
(born April 24, 1954)

is an American rock musician. He has worked in the bands Rubicon, Night Ranger
(as bassist and one of the lead vocalists), and Damn Yankees (as one of the founding members).
He has also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw Blades, and has done
work alongside the Tak Matsumoto Group. Blades' most recent efforts include a second
solo CD. He is also a member of the band Revolution Saints.

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Edward Roscoe Murrow
(born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)

was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence
during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division
of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents
who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting,
Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead
to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs,
Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures.









Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940)

is an American actor. Considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century,
Pacino has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two
Primetime Emmy Awards, making him one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown
of Acting. He has also been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001, the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 2007, the National Medal of Arts in 2011, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2016.
A method actor, Pacino studied at HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by
Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. Pacino went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor
for his role in Scent of a Woman (1992). His other Oscar-nominated roles include The Godfather (1972),
Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979),
Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019). Other notable films
include The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Author! Author! (1982), Scarface (1983),
The Godfather Part III (1990), Carlito's Way (1993), Heat (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997),
The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Insider (1999), Insomnia (2002), Jack and Jill (2011),
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and House of Gucci (2021).








Renée Kathleen Zellweger
(born April 25, 1969)

is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards,
two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's
highest-paid actresses by 2007. Zellweger was born and raised in Katy, Texas. She studied
English literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Initially aspiring for a career in journalism,
she was drawn to acting following her brief work on stage while in college. Following her
minor roles in the films Dazed and Confused and Reality Bites, Zellweger made her debut
starring role came with the slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.
She rose to prominence in the late 1990s for her starring roles in the films Jerry Maguire,
One True Thing, and Nurse Betty, winning a Golden Globe Award for the last of these.









Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA
(25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937)

was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio
wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor
of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun
"in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless Telegraph &
Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897
(which became the Marconi Company).
In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy,
and, in 1931, he set up Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI.








Ella Jane Fitzgerald
(April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)

was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz",
and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing,
intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. While
Fitzgerald appeared in films and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half
of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside her solo career. These
partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me",
"Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, after a career of nearly
sixty years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at age 79
after years of declining health. Her accolades included 14 Grammy Awards,
the National Medal of Arts, the NAACP's inaugural President's Award,
and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Carol Creighton Burnett
(born April 26, 1933)

is an American actress, comedienne, singer, and writer. Her groundbreaking comedy
variety show The Carol Burnett Show, which originally aired on CBS, was one of the
first to be hosted by a woman. She has performed on stage, television and film in
varying genres including dramatic and comedic roles. She has received numerous
accolades including six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, a Grammy Award,
and seven Golden Globe Awards. Burnett was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013 and the Screen Actors
Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, her
family moved to California where she lived in the Hollywood area. She attended
Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA.









Li Lianjie
(courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963),

better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist,
and retired Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen. He is widely regarded
as one of the most iconic Chinese film stars and one of the most renowned martial arts stars
of his generation. Li's first role in a non-Chinese film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998),
and his first leading role in a Hollywood film was as Han Sing in Romeo Must Die (2000).
He has gone on to star in many international action films, including in French cinema with
the Luc Besson-produced films Kiss of the Dragon (2001) and Unleashed (2005). He co-starred
in The One (2001) and War (2007) with Jason Statham, The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
with Jackie Chan, all three of The Expendables films with Sylvester Stallone, and as the title
character villain in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).









Kevin George Knipfing
(born April 26, 1965),

better known by his stage name Kevin James, is an American comedian and actor. He is best
known for his role as Doug Heffernan on the sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), for which
he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination
in 2006. He also was nominated for a People's Choice Award in 2017 for his role on the sitcom
Kevin Can Wait (2016–2018). James has appeared in the films Hitch (2005),
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010),
Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Pixels (2015). He has also done
voice work for Monster House, Barnyard (both 2006), and the first three films of the
Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018).









Melania Trump
(born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970; Germanized as Melania Knauss)

is a Slovenian American former model and businesswoman who served as the First Lady
of the United States from 2017 to 2021, as the wife of President Donald Trump.
Melania Trump grew up in Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and worked as a fashion
model through agencies in the European fashion capitals of Milan and Paris, before
moving to New York City in 1996. She was represented by Irene Marie Models and
Trump Model Management. In 2005, she married the real estate developer and
TV personality Donald Trump and gave birth to their son Barron in 2006. Later that
year, she became an American naturalized citizen. She is the second naturalized
woman—after Louisa Adams—and the first non-native English speaker to become First Lady.









Duane Eddy
(born April 26, 1938)

is an American rock and roll guitarist. In the late 1950s
and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were
noted for their characteristically "twangy" sound, including "Rebel-'Rouser", "Peter Gunn",
and "Because They're Young". He had sold 12 million records by 1963. He was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008

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Walter Lantz
(April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994)

was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding
Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Lantz was born in
New Rochelle, New York, to Italian immigrant parents Francesco Paolo Lantz
(formerly Lanza) from Castiglione, Cosentino, Italy and Maria Gervasi
(changed to Jarvis to avoid prejudice) from Calitri.








Jack Klugman
(April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012)

was an American actor of stage, film, and television. He began his career in 1950 and
started television and film work with roles in 12 Angry Men (1957) and Cry Terror! (1958).
During the 1960s, he guest-starred on numerous television series. Klugman won his first
Primetime Emmy Award for his guest-starring role on The Defenders in 1964. He also
made a total of four appearances on The Twilight Zone from 1960 to 1963. In 1965,
Klugman replaced Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison in the Broadway play The Odd Couple.
Five years later, he reprised that role in the television adaptation of The Odd Couple
opposite Tony Randall. The series aired from 1970 to 1975. Klugman won his second and
third Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the series.
From 1976 to 1983, he starred in the title role in Quincy, M.E., for which he earned
four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.









Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem
(April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014)

was an American disc jockey, actor and radio presenter, who created and hosted several radio
countdown programs, notably American Top 40. He was the first actor to voice
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009)
and as Dick Grayson/Robin in Super Friends (1973–1985).










Joyce Audrey Botterill
(27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015),

known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress best remembered for the phrase
"Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
(Monday nights, 1968–1970), Carne gained stardom. Her most popular routine ended with
her saying "Sock it to me!," at which point she was doused with water or assaulted in some
other way. Carne was a regular in the first two seasons (1968–1969); then, having decided
the show had become "a big, bloody bore," made occasional guest appearances in the
remaining 1969–1970 seasons.










Samuel Finley Breese Morse
(April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872)

was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait
painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system
based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop
the commercial use of telegraphy. Samuel F. B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), who was also a geographer, and his
wife Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese (1766–1828). His father was a great preacher of the Calvinist
faith and supporter of the Federalist Party. He thought it helped preserve Puritan traditions
(strict observance of Sabbath, among other things), and believed in the Federalist support of
an alliance with Britain and a strong central government. Morse strongly believed in education
within a Federalist framework, alongside the instillation of Calvinist virtues, morals,
and prayers for his first son.









Ulysses S. Grant
(born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)

was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the
United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to
victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as U.S. Secretary
of War. Later, as president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who signed the
bill that created the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect
African Americans during Reconstruction.









Sheila Christine Scott OBE
(27 April 1922 – 20 October 1988)

was an English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long-distance flight
endeavors, which included a 34,000-mile (55,000 km) "world and a half" flight in 1971.
On this flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft.
Born Sheila Christine Hopkins in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, she had a turbulent
childhood and did not do well at the Alice Ottley School, nearly being expelled several times.
During World War II, she joined the services as a nurse in a naval hospital.








Catherine Elizabeth Pierson
(born April 27, 1948)

is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52's. She plays guitar, bass
and various keyboard instruments. In the B-52s, she has performed alongside Cindy Wilson,
Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson, and Keith Strickland. In the early years, as well as being a
vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during
live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a
bass guitar player, which differentiated the band from their contemporaries. This, along
with Pierson's distinctive wide-ranging singing voice, remains a trademark of the B-52's'
unique sound. Pierson has also collaborated with many other artists including the
Ramones, Iggy Pop and R.E.M. Pierson possesses a soprano vocal range.









Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley
(born April 27, 1951)

is an American musician, best known as the original lead guitarist and co-founding member
of the hard rock band Kiss. He invented the persona of The Spaceman (a.k.a. Space Ace) and
played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982. After leaving Kiss,
Frehley formed his own band named Frehley's Comet and released two albums with this group.
He subsequently embarked on a solo career, which was put on hold when he rejoined Kiss in
1996 for a highly successful reunion tour.








Laurence Allen Elder
(born April 27, 1952)

is an American right-wing political commentator and conservative talk radio host. Elder hosts
The Larry Elder Show, based in California. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles
radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from
2010 to 2014. The show is nationally syndicated, first through ABC Radio Networks from
2002 to 2007 and then Salem Media Group from 2015 to 2022. He maintains ties to
The Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper published by the Falun Gong movement.








Sheena Shirley Easton
(born 27 April 1959)

is a Scottish singer and actress. She came into the public eye in an episode of the first British
musical reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain
a record deal and her eventual signing with the EMI label. Easton's first two singles, "Modern Girl"
and "9 to 5" (later released as "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" in the United States), both entered
the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart simultaneously. She became one of the most successful
British female recording artists of the 1980s. Easton's other hit singles include the
James Bond-theme "For Your Eyes Only", "You Could Have Been with Me", "Telefone
(Long Distance Love Affair)", "Almost Over You", "Strut", "U Got the Look" and
"The Arms of Orion" with Prince, "The Lover in Me" and "What Comes Naturally". She has
worked with prominent singers, writers and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil,
Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid, Babyface, Patrice Rushen and Nile Rodgers.

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Lionel Barrymore
(born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954)

was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences
for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly
remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades.
He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a
further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled The Story of Dr. Kildare. He was
a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.








Carolyn Sue Jones
(April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983)

was an American actress of television and film. Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by
the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most
promising new actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, she began
playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the original 1964 black and white television series
The Addams Family. Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Chloe Jeanette Southern,
a housewife, and Julius Alfred Jones, a barber. After their father abandoned the family in 1934, Carolyn
and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, moved with their mother into her maternal grandparents' Amarillo home.









Ann-Margret Olsson
(born April 28, 1941)

is a Swedish-American actress and singer credited as Ann-Margret. She has won five Golden Globe Awards
and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six
Emmy Awards, winning in 2010 for a guest role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She is known for her
roles in Pocketful of Miracles (1961), State Fair (1962), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964),
The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Train Robbers (1973), Tommy (1975), Magic (1978),
The Villain (1979), The Return of the Soldier (1982), Who Will Love My Children? (1983), 52 Pick-Up (1986),
Newsies (1992), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Grumpier Old Men (1995), Any Given Sunday (1999), Taxi (2004),
The Break-Up (2006) and Going in Style (2017). Her singing and acting careers span seven decades, starting
in 1961. Initially, she was billed as a female version of Elvis Presley. She has a sultry, vibrant contralto voice.
She had a Top 20 hit song in 1961 and a charting album in 1964, and she scored a disco hit in 1979. She
recorded a critically acclaimed gospel album in 2001 and an album of Christmas songs in 2004.









Marcia Ann Strassman
(April 28, 1948 – October 24, 2014)

was an American actress and singer. She played Nurse Margie Cutler on M*A*S*H, Julie Kotter on
Welcome Back, Kotter, and Diane Szalinski in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). Strassman was born
in New York City and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. Among her earliest acting credits was an appearance
in an episode of The Patty Duke Show. In 1963, at age 15, she succeeded Liza Minnelli in the role of
Ethel Hofflinger in the Off-Broadway musical Best Foot Forward.









James Douglas Muir Leno
(born April 28, 1950)

is an American television host, comedian, writer, actor, and automotive historian. After doing stand-up
comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show from 1992 until 2009 when
Conan O'Brien took over as host. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show,
The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ET, also on NBC. When O'Brien turned
down NBC's offer to have Leno host a half hour monologue show before The Tonight Show to boost
ratings amid reported viewership diminishing, Leno returned to hosting the show on March 1, 2010.
He hosted his last episode of his second tenure on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted
into the Television Hall of Fame. From 2014 to 2022, he has hosted Jay Leno's Garage, and since
2021, has hosted the revival of You Bet Your Life.









Penélope Cruz Sánchez
( born 28 April 1974)

is a Spanish actress. Known for her roles in films of several genres, particularly those in the Spanish
language, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy
Film Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and
five Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award,
as well as the only one to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Signed by an agent at the age of 15, Cruz made her acting debut on television at 16, and her feature
film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles included Belle Époque (1992),
Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000),
and Woman on Top (2000). She is known for her frequent collaborations with Spanish director
Pedro Almodóvar in Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009),
I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021), as well as for her work
with director Woody Allen in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and To Rome with Love (2012).









Jessica Marie Alba
(born April 28, 1981)

is an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and film appearances at age 13
in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994), and rose to prominence at age 19 as the
lead actress of the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.
Her big screen breakthrough came in Honey (2003). She soon established herself as a Hollywood actress,
and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career, including Fantastic Four (2005),
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Good Luck Chuck (2007), The Eye (2008),
Valentine's Day (2010), Little Fockers (2010), and Mechanic: Resurrection (2016).
She is a frequent collaborator of director Robert Rodriguez, having starred in Sin City (2005),
Machete (2010), Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011), Machete Kills (2013), and
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). From 2019 to 2020,
Alba starred in the Spectrum action crime series L.A.'s Finest.









Nelle Harper Lee
(April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016)

was an American novelist. She wrote the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize
and became a classic of modern American literature. Lee received numerous accolades and honorary degrees,
including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 which was awarded for her contribution to literature.
She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was
the basis for the character Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird. The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird
are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near
her hometown in 1936 when she was 10. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race
and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. It was inspired by
racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid 1950s,
was published in July 2015 as a sequel to Mockingbird
but was later confirmed to be an earlier draft of Mockingbird.









James Addison Baker III
(born April 28, 1930)

is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the
10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President
Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. Secretary of State before returning as the 16th White House Chief
of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Houston, Baker attended The Hill School and
Princeton University before serving in the United States Marine Corps. After graduating from the
University of Texas School of Law, he pursued a legal career. He became a close friend of
George H. W. Bush and worked for Bush's unsuccessful 1970 campaign for the United States Senate.
After the campaign, he served in various positions for President Richard Nixon. In 1975, he was
appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Gerald Ford. He served until May 1976, ran Ford's 1976
presidential campaign, and unsuccessfully sought election as the Attorney General of Texas.









Saddam Hussein
(28 April 1937– 30 December 2006)

was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who was the fifth president of Iraq, from 16 July 1979
until 9 April 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq, first from 16 July 1979 until
23 March 1991, and later from 29 May 1994 to 9 April 2003. He was a leading member of the
revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its
regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism
and Arab socialism.

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Leonard Weinrib
(April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006)

was an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the
children's television show H.R. Pufnstuf, Grimace in McDonaldland commercials, the title role
in Inch High, Private Eye, the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo,
Hunk and Prince Lotor on Voltron, and Bigmouth on The Smurfs. He also was the voice for
Timer in the "Time for Timer" ABC public service announcements in the early 1970s. He was
most notable for his voice acting work. Starting with The Jetsons, Weinrib provided numerous
voices for such animated series as Inch High, Private Eye, The New Adventures of Batman,
Tarzan and the Super 7, and Hong Kong Phooey. He was the voice for both Roland and Ratfink
in that series of cartoon shorts. He also provided the voice of Timer in the 1970s "Time for Timer"
series of educational spots shown on the ABC network. In Voltron: Defender of the Universe,
he voiced both Hunk and the villain Prince Lotor in the "Lion Voltron series", as well as
Captain Newley and Cliff in the "Vehicle Voltron" series. He also voiced a secretary bird and king
Leonidas the lion in the animated sequence of the film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Another
Disney role Weinrib voiced was an evil sorcerer named Zorlok for an episode of Disney's Adventures
of the Gummi Bears. He also voices the school bully Lenny Warthog on the NBC series Kissyfur.









Jerome Allen Seinfeld
(born April 29, 1954)

is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing a
semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he created and
wrote with Larry David. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of the most
acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in
observational comedy. In 2004, Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest stand-up comedian
of all time. Seinfeld produced, co-wrote, and starred in the 2007 film Bee Movie, which was
nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. In 2010, he premiered a
reality series called The Marriage Ref, which aired for two seasons on NBC. Seinfeld is the creator
and host of the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019). He is married to author
and philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, with whom he has three children. Seinfeld has received twenty
Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on Seinfeld and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as well as four Grammy Award nominations for his comedy albums.










Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew
(born April 29, 1955)

is an American actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway on
Star Trek: Voyager and Red on Orange Is the New Black. She first came to attention in the role of
Mary Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope. Mulgrew is the recipient of a Critics' Choice
Award, a Saturn Award, and an Obie Award, and has also received Golden Globe Award and
Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She is a member of the Alzheimer's Association National
Advisory Council and the voice of Cleveland's MetroHealth System. Beginning in 2021, Mulgrew
reprised her role as Janeway in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. Mulgrew was born in 1955
in Dubuque, Iowa, to Thomas James "T.J." Mulgrew Jr., a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew ,
an artist and painter. She was the second of eight children.
She attended Wahlert High School in Dubuque.
Mulgrew was born with a full set of teeth.










Eve Aline Plumb
(born April 29, 1958)

is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter
Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. A native of Southern California, Plumb began
appearing in commercials at age seven, and also had guest roles on the televisions series
Family Affair, The Big Valley and The Virginian between 1966 and 1967. She was cast as Jan Brady
on The Brady Bunch in 1969, and portrayed the role until the series' end in 1974. After, Plumb
continued to work in television, portraying a teenage prostitute in the NBC television film
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), and as Elizabeth March in the 1978 miniseries
Little Women. Plumb was born in Burbank, California, to Flora June and Neely Ben Plumb.
She has one sister, Flora, and a brother, Ben.










Uma Karuna Thurman
(born April 29, 1970)

is an American actress and former model. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic
comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Following her appearances on the
December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British Vogue, Thurman starred in Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
She rose to international prominence with her performance as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's
1994 film Pulp Fiction, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award,
the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Often
hailed as Tarantino's muse, she reunited with the director to play the main role in
Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 (2003, 2004), which brought her two additional
Golden Globe Award nominations.









Megan Boone
(born April 29, 1983)

is an American actress. She is best known for her role as FBI agent and profiler Elizabeth Keen on
the NBC drama series The Blacklist. She had a recurring role in Law & Order: LA and an episodic
appearance in Blue Bloods. She has appeared in films such as My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) and
Step Up Revolution (2012). Boone was born in Petoskey, Michigan, and raised in The Villages, Florida.
Her parents relocated there when she was a child to be closer to her grandparents.










William Randolph Hearst Sr.
(April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951)

was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's
largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of
yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human
interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after being given
control of The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father, Senator George Hearst. Hearst was born
in San Francisco to George Hearst, a millionaire mining engineer, owner of gold and other mines
through his corporation, and his much younger wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst, from a small town in
Missouri. The elder Hearst later entered politics. He served as a U.S. Senator, first appointed for a
brief period in 1886 and was then elected later that year.
He served from 1887 to his death in 1891.

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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
(April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)

was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923
through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City
from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the
Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format,
Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of
work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards.
He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan", which brought
a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.










Willie Hugh Nelson
(born April 29, 1933)

is an American singer, songwriter, musician, political activist and actor. He was one of the main figures
of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the
conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. The critical success of his album Shotgun Willie (1973),
combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978),
made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. Nelson has acted in over 30 films,
co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and
the legalization of marijuana. Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, the son of
Ira Doyle Nelson and Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw). His birthday was incorrectly recorded by
Dr. F. D. Sims as April 30. In 1990, Nelson's assets were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, which
claimed that he owed $32 million. The difficulty of paying his outstanding debt was aggravated by
weak investments he had made during the 1980s. In 1992, Nelson released The IRS Tapes:
Who'll Buy My Memories?; the profits of the double album—destined to the IRS—and the auction
of Nelson's assets cleared his debt.

*Footnote
After the auction, everyone "donated" what they bought back to Willie. I was there










Bernard Lawrence Madoff
(April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021)

was an American fraudster and financier who was the mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in
history, worth about $64.8 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the
Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.









Tommy James
(born Thomas Gregory Jackson; April 29, 1947),

also known as Tommy Tadger, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer,
widely known as frontman of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, who were
known for their hits including "Mony Mony" and "Crimson and Clover". Born in Dayton, Ohio,
James and his family later moved to Niles, Michigan. He was a child model at the age of four.
In 1959, at the age of twelve, he formed the band "The Echoes", which eventually became
"Tom and the Tornadoes". In 1964 the band changed its name to The Shondells.










Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr.
(April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)

was an American professional stock car driver and team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in
the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving
the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. His aggressive driving style earned him the
nicknames "The Intimidator", "The Man in Black" and "Ironhead"; after his son Dale Earnhardt Jr.
joined the Cup Series circuit in 1999, Earnhardt was generally known by the retronym
Dale Earnhardt Sr. He is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt was born on April 29, 1951, in the Charlotte suburb of Kannapolis, North Carolina,
as the third child of Martha (née Coleman, 1930–2021) and Ralph Earnhardt (1928-1973).








David Vaughan Icke
(born 29 April 1952)

is an English conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster. He has written
over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.
The middle son of three boys born seven years apart, Icke was born in Leicester General Hospital
to Beric Vaughan Icke and Barbara J. Cooke, who were married in Leicester in 1951. Beric Icke
served in the Royal Air Force as a medical orderly during World War II, and after the war
became a clerk in the Gents clock factory.










Michelle Marie Pfeiffer
(born April 29, 1958)

is an American actress. A prolific performer whose screen career spans over four decades, she
became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars during the 1980s and 1990s, as well as one of
the era's most popular sex symbols. The recipient of various accolades, she has received a
Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three
Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2007, she was awarded a motion picture
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Michelle Marie Pfeiffer was born on April 29, 1958, in
Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of Donna Jean (née Taverna; 1932–2018),
a housewife, and Richard Pfeiffer (1933–1998), an air-conditioning contractor.










Mike Hogan
born April 29, 1973.

He is an actor, known for A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), Mix Tape (2003) and The Cranberries:
Promises (1999). He has been married to Siobhan since July 6, 1998. They have two children.
The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick, Ireland. Originally named the
Cranberry Saw Us, the band were formed in 1989 by lead singer Niall Quinn, guitarist Noel Hogan,
bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler. Quinn was replaced as lead singer by
Dolores O'Riordan in 1990 and they changed their name to the Cranberries. The band classified
themselves as an alternative rock group, but incorporated aspects of indie rock, jangle pop,
dream pop, folk rock, post-punk and pop rock into their sound.

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Eve Arden
(born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990)

was an American film, radio, stage and television actress. She performed in leading and
supporting roles for nearly six decades. Beginning her film career in 1929 and on Broadway
in the early 1930s, Arden's first major role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama
Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed by roles in the comedies
Having Wonderful Time (1938) and the Marx Brothers' At the Circus (1939).
She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role
in Mildred Pierce (1945). Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in
Mill Valley, California, to Charles Peter Quedens, the son of Charles Henry Augustus
Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks; and Lucille Frank, the daughter of Bernard Frank and
Louisa Mertens. Lucille, a milliner, divorced Charles over his gambling and went into
business for herself.









Gerald Tommaso DeLouise
(born April 30, 1940),

known professionally as Burt Young, is an American actor, author, and painter. He played
Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series, his
performance in the first installment of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974),
The Killer Elite (1975), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe Shannon (1978),
Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984),
A Summer to Remember (1985), Back to School (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990),
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), Transamerica (2005), Win Win (2011), Bottom of the 9th (2019),
Beckman (2020) and the documentary film Stallone: Frank, That Is (2021) and had a guest
appearance on The Sopranos in 2001. Young was born and raised in Corona, Queens, New York,
the son of Josephine and Michael DeLouise, a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent.









John Mark Galecki
(born April 30, 1975)

is an American actor. He played Leonard Hofstadter in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and David Healy in the ABC sitcoms
Roseanne (1992–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–2019). Galecki also appeared in the films
Prancer (1989), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Suicide Kings (1997),
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Bookies (2003), In Time (2011), and Rings (2017).
Galecki was one of the highest paid television actors in the world, with his role in The Big Bang Theory
earning him approximately US$900,000 per episode between 2017 and 2019. In 2018, he was
estimated to be the world's second highest-paid male TV actor by Forbes (behind only his
The Big Bang Theory co-star Jim Parsons), earning $25 million. Galecki was born in Bree, Limburg,
Belgium to American parents of Polish, Irish, and Italian descent.










Kirsten Caroline Dunst
(born April 30, 1982)

is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the short Oedipus Wrecks directed by Woody Allen
in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). She then gained recognition for her role as child
vampiress Claudia in the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), which earned her a
Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also had roles in her youth in
Little Women (1994) and the fantasy films Jumanji (1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). In the late 1990s,
Dunst transitioned to leading roles in a number of teen films, including the satires Dick and
Drop Dead Gorgeous and the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides (all in 1999). In 2000,
she starred in the lead role in the cheerleading film Bring It On, which has become a cult classic.
She gained further wide attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy
(2002–2007). Her career progressed with a supporting role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
followed by a lead role in Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005), and as the title character
in Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). Dunst was born on April 30, 1982, at Point Pleasant Hospital in
Point Pleasant, New Jersey.








Al Lewis
(born Abraham Meister; April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006)

was an American actor and activist, best known for his role as Count Dracula-lookalike Grandpa on the
television series The Munsters from 1964 to 1966 and its film versions. He previously also co-starred
with The Munsters’s Fred Gwynne in the television show Car 54, Where Are You? from 1961–1963.
Later in life, he was a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster. Lewis was born
Abraham Meister on April 30, 1923 in Manhattan.









Cloris Leachman
(April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021)

was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many
accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated
and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. She won an Academy Award,
a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Leachman was born on
April 30, 1926, in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters.

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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford
(May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006)

was a Canadian-American actor who often portrayed ordinary men in unusual circumstances.
Ford was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws
of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, who had a career that lasted more than 50 years. Although he
played in many genres of movies, some of his most significant roles were in the film noirs
Gilda (1946) and The Big Heat (1953), and the high school angst film Blackboard Jungle (1955).
However, it was for comedies or westerns which he received acting laurels, including three
Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy movie, winning for Pocketful of Miracles (1961).
He also played a supporting role as Clark Kent's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, in Superman (1978).
Five of his films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being
"culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953),
Blackboard Jungle (1955), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and Superman (1978). Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford
was born on May 1, 1916, in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec,[2][3] the son of Hannah Wood
(née Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway.










Jack Harold Paar
(May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004)

was an American talk show host, author, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the
second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly,
"His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras:
Before Paar and Below Paar."  Paar was born in 1918 in Canton, Ohio, the son of Lillian M. (Hein) and
Howard Paar. He moved with his family to Jackson, Michigan, about 40 miles (64 km) south of
Lansing, as a child. As a child, he developed a stutter, which he learned to manage. He contracted
tuberculosis when he was 14 and left school at 16.










Arthur Fleming Fazzin
(May 1, 1924 – April 25, 1995)

was an American actor and television host. He hosted the first version of the television game show
Jeopardy!, which aired on NBC from 1964 until 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979. Fleming was born
in New York City. His parents, William and Marie Fazzin, had immigrated to the United States from Austria.









Samuel Timothy McGraw
(born May 1, 1967)

is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released 16 studio albums
(11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those albums
have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not
a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. In total, McGraw's albums have produced
65 singles, 25 of which have reached number one on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts.
Three of these singles – "It's Your Love", "Just to See You Smile", and "Live Like You Were Dying" – were
respectively the top country songs of 1997, 1998, and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End. He has
also won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA)
awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour, which
was done in partnership with his wife, Faith Hill, is one of the highest-grossing tours in country music history,
and one of the top five among all genres of music. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide,
making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Samuel Timothy McGraw was born in
Delhi, Louisiana, the only child of Elizabeth "Betty" Ann D'Agostino, a waitress from Jacksonville, Florida,
and Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr., a pitcher for the minor league Jacksonville Suns and future star pitcher
for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies.









Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American
frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits she was known for being an
acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the
1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick
and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted
frontier figure. She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire. Calamity Jane was born on May 1, 1852,
as Martha Jane Canary (or Cannary) in Princeton, within Mercer County, Missouri.









Louis Nye
(May 1, 1913 – October 9, 2005)

was an American comedic actor. He was an entertainer to the troops during World War II and is best known
for his work on countless television, film and radio programs. He was born Louis Neistat in Hartford, Connecticut,
son of Joseph Neistat and Jennie Sherman. His sister Rose Neistat was born in 1917. Although Nye, who
pronounced his given name as Louie, later claimed he was born in 1922, he is listed as age six in the 1920
Hartford County, Connecticut, Federal Census. Nye's parents were both Yiddish speaking Jews from the
Russian Empire.









James Patrick Clench
(May 1, 1949 – November 3, 2010)

was a Canadian bassist, vocalist and songwriter known for his roles in the rock bands April Wine and
Bachman–Turner Overdrive.









Paul John Teutul
(born May 1, 1949)

is the founder of Orange County Choppers, a manufacturer of custom motorcycles and the focus of the
reality television series American Chopper. Teutul first appeared on the show with his sons Paul Teutul Jr.
and Michael Teutul. In 2013, his new show Orange County Choppers premiered on CMT. Teutul was born
in Yonkers, New York and grew up in Pearl River, New York. He sailed as a member of the
United States Merchant Marine during the Vietnam War.









Marilyn Milian
(born May 1, 1961),

better known as Judge Milian, is an American television personality, lecturer, and retired Florida Circuit Court
judge. Since March 12, 2001, Milian has presided over the long-running American courtroom television series
The People's Court, replacing Jerry Sheindlin, and has been with the program ever since. Milian is the first
Hispanic arbitrator to preside over a court show and during The People's Court's 2012-2013 season she became
the show's longest-serving judge, surpassing Joseph Wapner, the show's inaugural jurist. Milian was born in
Manhattan to Cuban parents Jorge, a general contractor, and Georgina Milian. She spoke Spanish before
learning English and is fluent in both languages. The family moved from Astoria, Queens, to Miami when
she was eight years old.










Johnny Colt
(born Charles Brandt; May 1, 1966)

is an American bass guitar player who formerly played with the southern rock bands Lynyrd Skynyrd
and The Black Crowes. From 1989 he was the original bassist for The Black Crowes which formed in
Atlanta, Georgia. Colt played on four full-length albums with the band and toured extensively. After
leaving the Black Crowes in 1997 he went on to form the Brand New Immortals with guitarist
David Ryan Harris and drummer Kenny Cresswell. Colt played bass for the American modern rock band
Train from 2003–2006. In addition he joined Tommy Lee, becoming the permanent replacement for
Jason Newsted (formerly of Metallica) in the band Rock Star Supernova. Colt has made numerous DJ
performances with Tommy Lee, Rob Wonder and DJ MB3. In 2012, he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd as their
new bassist before departing from the band in 2017.