Today's Famous Birthdays

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

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

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









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

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









Robert Norman Reiner
(born March 6, 1947)

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









Thomas Duane Arnold
(born March 6, 1959)

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

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










Darryl Lynn Hughley
(born March 6, 1963)

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











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

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











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

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










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

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









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

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

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











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

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










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

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

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William Hedgcock Webster
(born March 6, 1924)

is an American attorney and jurist who most recently served as chair of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before becoming director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991.
He is the only person to have held both positions.









Alan Greenspan
(born March 6, 1926)

is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
He works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company,
Greenspan Associates LLC.

First nominated to the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was
reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, after the
second-longest tenure in the position, behind only William McChesney Martin. President George W. Bush
appointed Ben Bernanke as his successor. Greenspan came to the Federal Reserve Board from a
consulting career. Although he was subdued in his public appearances, favorable media coverage raised
his profile to a point that several observers likened him to a "rock star". Democratic leaders of Congress
criticized him for politicizing his office because of his support for Social Security privatization and tax cuts











Marion Shepilov Barry
(born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014)

was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and
1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia,
representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979, in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995,
and again from 2005 to 2014.

His celebrity was transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when he was videotaped
during a sting operation smoking crack cocaine and was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
officials on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry from seeking re-election,
and he served six months in a federal prison. After his release, he was elected to the Council of the
District of Columbia in 1992. He was elected again as mayor in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999.











David Jon Gilmour
(born 6 March 1946)

is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined as
guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett.
Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973),
Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). By the
early 1980s, they had become one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history;
by 2012, they had sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million in the
United States. Following the departure of Roger Waters in 1985, Pink Floyd continued under Gilmour's
leadership and released three more studio albums.










Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal
(born March 6, 1972),

known commonly as "Shaq" (SHAK), is an American former professional basketball player who is a
sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. O'Neal is regarded as one of the greatest
basketball players and centers of all time. He is a 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) and 325-pound (147 kg)
center who played for six teams over his 19-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
and is a four-time NBA champion.

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Robert Roy MacGregor
(Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair;
7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734)

was a Scottish outlaw, who later became a folk hero.
Rob Roy was born in the Kingdom of Scotland at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine, as recorded
in the baptismal register of Buchanan, Stirling. His parents were the local Clan MacGregor Tacksman,
Donald Glas MacGregor, and Margaret Campbell. He was also descended from the Clan MacDonald of
Keppoch through his paternal grandmother.

In January 1693, at Corrie Arklet farm near Inversnaid, he married Mary MacGregor of Comar
(1671–1745), who was born at Leny Farm, Strathyre. The couple had four sons: James Mor MacGregor
(1695–1754), Ranald (1706–1786), Coll (died 1735) and Robert (1715–1754)—known as Robìn Òig
or Young Rob. It has been argued that they also adopted a cousin named Duncan, but this is not certain.









Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich
(7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942)

was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.

Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was
also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia.
He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, now known as Interpol)
and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised plans for the
"Final Solution to the Jewish question"—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in
German-occupied Europe

Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime; Adolf Hitler described him as
"the man with the iron heart"












Matthew Charles Fisher
(born 7 March 1946)

is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with
the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single
"A Whiter Shade of Pale", for which he subsequently won a songwriting credit. In his later life he became
a computer programmer, having qualified from Cambridge University.










Peter Wolf
(born March 7, 1946)

is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of the J. Geils Band
from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist.











Lynn Curtis Swann
(born March 7, 1952)

is an American former football player, broadcaster, politician, and athletic director, best known for his
association with the University of Southern California and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He served on the
President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition from 2002 to 2005.
In 2006, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania.

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Alan Hale Jr.
(born Alan Hale MacKahan; (March 8, 1921 - January 2, 1990)

was an American actor and restaurateur. He was the son of actor Alan Hale Sr. His television career
spanned four decades, but he was best known for his secondary lead role as Captain Jonas Grumby,
better known as The Skipper, on the 1960s CBS comedy series Gilligan's Island (1964–1967), a role
he reprised in three Gilligan's Island television films and two spin-off cartoon series.

Hale appeared in more than 200 films and television roles from 1941. He appeared primarily in Westerns,
portraying the Sundance Kid in The Three Outlaws (1956) opposite Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy,
performing with Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees (1952), Audie Murphy in Destry (1954), Ray Milland
in A Man Alone (1955), Robert Wagner in The True Story of Jesse James (1957), and Hugh Marlowe
in The Long Rope (1961). He also appeared in musical comedies opposite Don DeFore in It Happened
on Fifth Avenue (1947), James Cagney in The West Point Story (1950), and Judy Canova in
Honeychile (1951). He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.











Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE
(8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010)

was an English actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards throughout her career.

A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making
her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films,
including Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966), which won her a New York Film
Critics Award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well
as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.











George Michael Dolenz Jr.
(born March 8, 1945)

is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He was the drummer and one
of two primary vocalists for the pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and multiple reunions
through 2021), and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). Following the death
of Michael Nesmith in 2021, Dolenz is the only surviving member of the band.










Lester Don Holt Jr.
(born March 8, 1959)

is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly
News Kids Edition and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of
NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams. Holt followed in the career footsteps
of Max Robinson, an ABC News evening co-anchor, and Holt became the first African-American to
solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.











Frederick James Prinze Sr.
(born Frederick Karl Pruetzel; June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977)

was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Prinze was the star of the NBC-TV sitcom Chico and the Man
from 1974 until his death in 1977. Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr.










Anne Bonny
(8 March 1697 – disappeared April 1721),

sometimes Anne Bonney, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates
in recorded history. What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724
book A General History of the Pirates.











Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935)

was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and
most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly
those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy—and deference to the decisions of elected
legislatures. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on
the Supreme Court. He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he
was wounded three times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive personality,
and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.










Katherine von Drachenberg
(born March 8, 1982),

known professionally as Kat Von D, is a Mexican-born American tattoo artist, model, entrepreneur and
recording artist. She is best known for her work as a tattoo artist on the TLC reality television show LA Ink,
which premiered in the United States on August 7, 2007, and ran for four seasons. She is also known for
being the former head of Kat Von D Beauty (renamed KVD Vegan Beauty). In May 2021, Kat Von D
released her first single "Exorcism" from her album Love Made Me Do It.

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Will Geer
(born William Aughe Ghere; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978)

was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and
other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California
he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the 1940s.
He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Hollywood after refusing, in testimony before Congress,
to name persons who had joined the Communist Party.

In his later years, he was well known for his role as the grandfather figure Zebulon Walton
in the TV series The Waltons until his death.











Carl Lawrence Betz
(March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978)

was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series,
including the CBS soap opera Love of Life; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's
television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show.
Then between 1967 and 1969, Betz played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABC's courtroom
drama Judd, for the Defense, winning an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work on that series.










Charles Alan Siebert
(March 9, 1938 – May 1, 2022)

was an American actor and television director. As an actor, he is probably best known for his role
as Dr. Stanley Riverside II on the television series Trapper John, M.D., a role he portrayed from
1979 to 1986, and for his numerous appearances on the $25,000 Pyramid. After 1986, although
he continued working as an actor, Siebert's career was focused on working as a director for
episodic television for such shows as Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.











Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay
(March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994)

was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, he took an interest in acting while still in school and
pursued the career upon completion of his studies. After performing locally for some time, he was
convinced by actor and entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City.
Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and Off-Broadway
plays. He took over the role of Orson in the Off-Broadway hit Your Own Thing, a rock musical
update of Twelfth Night. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.

He is also known for his performances in films; his film debut came in 1971 acting alongside Al Pacino
in The Panic in Needle Park. During the 1980s, he worked in several films; he received two nominations
for the Golden Globe Awards, for his performances in Tempest and Kiss of the Spider Woman; he won
the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for the latter. He also appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's
One from the Heart (1982), Sidney Lumet's The Morning After (1986), Romero (1989) and Clint Eastwood's
The Rookie (1990). In 1991 and 1993, Julia portrayed Gomez Addams in two film adaptations of
The Addams Family. In 1994, he filmed The Burning Season and a film adaptation of the
Street Fighter video games. The same year, Juliá suffered several health afflictions, eventually dying
after suffering a stroke. His funeral was held in Puerto Rico, attended by thousands. For his work
in The Burning Season, Juliá won a posthumous Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award,
and Screen Actors Guild Award











Brian Gerard Kaelin
(born March 9, 1959),

known as Kato Kaelin, is an American actor and radio and television personality, who was a witness
in the O. J. Simpson murder case.

Kaelin was born on March 9, 1959, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kaelin was nicknamed "Kato" as a child
after the character played by Bruce Lee on the television series The Green Hornet. He graduated from
Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin, in 1977.









Emmanuel Lewis
(born March 9, 1971)
is an American actor, best known for playing the title character in the 1980s television sitcom Webster.

Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Midwood High School in 1989. He earned
a bachelor's degree from Clark Atlanta University in 1997. He would only attend the fall semester so
he could continue his career in the winter, spring and summer.










Amasa Leland Stanford
(March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893)

was an American industrialist and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the
8th governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented California in the United States Senate
from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane were also the founders of Stanford University,
which they named after their late son. Prior to his political career, Stanford was a successful
merchant and wholesaler who built his business empire after migrating to California during the
Gold Rush. As president of the Central Pacific Railroad and later the Southern Pacific from
1885 to 1890, he held tremendous power in the region and a lasting impact on California.

Stanford is widely considered a robber baron.










Margaret Murray Washington
(March 9, 1865 - June 4, 1925)

was an American educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,
which later became Tuskegee University. She also led women’s clubs. She was the third wife of
Booker T. Washington. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1972.










Mickey Leroy Gilley
(March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022)

was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he started out singing straight-up
country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in
the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well.

Among his biggest hits are "Room Full of Roses", "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time",
and the remake of the Soul hit "Stand by Me". Gilley charted 42 singles in the top 40 on the
US Country chart. He was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, and Jimmy Swaggart.

For many years, Gilley lived in the shadow of his well-known cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, a successful
rock and roll singer and musician in the 1950s and early 1960s. Gilley grew up in Louisiana, just
across the Mississippi River from where Lewis grew up. Gilley's family moved to the east side of
Houston, Texas, in the 1940s, where he attended Galena Park Highschool. He was primarily a
guitarist at the time and took his guitar to school to entertain classmates.

Gilley, Lewis, and their cousin, Jimmy Swaggart, played together as children.
Lewis taught them his piano style.










Robert James Fischer
(March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008)

was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,
he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an
11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972
World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores.
After another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against
Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation
between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess
championship before or since.











Charles deWolf Gibson
(born March 9, 1943)

is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist and podcaster. Gibson was a host of
Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of
World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009.

In 1965, Gibson worked as the news director for Princeton University's student-run radio station,
a radio producer for RKO, and a reporter for local television stations. In 1975, he joined
ABC News, where he worked as a general assignment reporter and a
correspondent from Washington, D.C.

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Dennis Lynn Rader
(born March 9, 1945)

is an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"),
the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and
Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of
his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his
2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences
at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.











Robin Leonard Trower
(born 9 March 1945)

is an English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum throughout 1967–1971,
and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as the Robin Trower Band.











Christopher Hamlet Thompson
(born 9 March 1948)

is an English singer and guitarist known both for his work with Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
specifically for his lead vocal on the classic hit "Blinded By the Light" and for his solo accomplishments.










Jerry Eubanks
(born March 9, 1950)

is an American musician best known as the original saxophonist, keyboardist and flautist for
The Marshall Tucker Band. His flute and sax solos were a signature of the band. Eubanks left
the Marshall Tucker Band in 1996, outlasting most of the surviving original members. As of 2005,
he was running a company called Flatwoods Soaps, in Spartanburg, SC.

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Shalom "Sam" Jaffe
(March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984)

was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
He appeared in other classic films such as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and
Ben-Hur (1959). Besides, Jaffe is remembered for other outstanding performances such as
the title role in Gunga Din (1939) and his role as the "High Lama" in Lost Horizon (1937).









Barbara Ann Blakeley Oliver Marx Sinatra
(March 10, 1927 – July 25, 2017)

was an American model, showgirl, socialite and the fourth wife of Frank Sinatra.

She married Robert Oliver in September 1948 and had a son, Robert Blake "Bobby" Oliver
on October 10, 1950. She divorced Oliver in 1952.

She married Zeppo Marx on September 18, 1959. Despite their divorce in 1973,
she was thenceforth known as Barbara Marx.

She married Frank Sinatra on July 11, 1976. It was his fourth and final marriage, and
her third and final marriage. It was also the longest-lasting marriage for both.
She converted to Catholicism. According to her book, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank,
"He [Frank] never asked me to change faith for him, but I could tell he was pleased
that I'd consider it."

Upon his death in 1998, Frank Sinatra left her $3.5 million in assets, along with mansions
in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Palm Springs. She also inherited the rights to
Sinatra's Trilogy recordings, most of his material possessions and
control over his name and likeness.









Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris
(born March 10, 1940) i4

s an American martial artist and actor. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo.
After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and
later founded his own discipline Chun Kuk Do. Shortly after, in Hollywood, Norris trained celebrities
in martial arts. Norris went on to appear in a minor role in the spy film The Wrecking Crew (1969).
Friend and fellow martial artist Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in
Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen
suggested he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977),
which turned a profit. His second lead Good Guys Wear Black (1978) became a hit, and he soon
became a popular action film star.

Norris went on to star in a streak of bankable independently-made action and martial arts films,
with A Force of One (1979), The Octagon (1980), and An Eye for an Eye (1981). This made Norris
an international celebrity. He went on to make studio films like Silent Rage (1982) with Columbia,
Forced Vengeance (1982) with MGM, and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) with Orion. This led
Cannon Films to sign Norris into a multiple film deal, starting with Missing in Action (1984),
which proved to be very successful and launched a trilogy. Norris started to work almost exclusively
on high-profile action films with Cannon, becoming their leading star during the 1980s. Films
with Cannon included Invasion U.S.A (1985), The Delta Force (1986), Firewalker (1986), etc.
Apart from the Cannon films, Norris made Code of Silence (1985), which was received as one
of his best films. In the 1990s, he played the title role in the long running CBS television series
Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001. Until 2006, Norris continued taking lead roles in
action movies, including Delta Force 2 (1990), The Hitman (1991), Sidekicks (1992),
Forest Warrior (1996), The President's Man (2000) and its sequel (2002). Norris made his
last film appearance to date in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2 (2012).










Sharon Vonne Stone
(born March 10, 1958)

is an American actress. Known for primarily playing femme fatales and women of mystery on film
and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s. She is the recipient
of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination
for an Academy Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995 and was
named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2005 (Commander in 2021).











Richard Robert Segall III
(born March 10, 1969)

is an American film and television actor. He is best known for playing the singer Ricky Stevens in
the American sitcom television series The Partridge Family.

Segall was born on Long Island, New York, the son of Rick and Barbara Segall.
He and his family moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1973.










Olivia Jane Cockburn
(born March 10, 1984),

known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress and filmmaker.
She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012),
and has appeared in the films Tron: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011),
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and The Lazarus Effect (2015). Wilde made her
Broadway debut in 2017, playing Julia in 1984. In 2019, she directed her first film,
the teen comedy Booksmart, for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Wilde's second feature as director, Don't Worry Darling, was released in 2022.









Emily Jordan Osment
(born March 10, 1992)6

is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Osment began
her career as a child actress, appearing in numerous television shows and films, before
co-starring as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003). She played Lilly Truscott on the Disney Channel television
series Hannah Montana (2006–2011) and its film spinoff Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).










Kenneth Charles "Jethro" Burns
(March 10, 1920 – February 4, 1989)

was an American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro with Henry D. "Homer" Haynes.

Burns was born in Conasauga, Tennessee, on March 10, 1920. His family moved to Knoxville,
Tennessee when he was three. In 1936, he auditioned for a talent contest at Knoxville radio
station WNOX where he met Henry Haynes, also 16. The two formed a duo and WNOX program
director Lowell Blanchard gave them the stage names Homer and Jethro after
forgetting their names on the air.








Cecil Yekuthial Linder
(March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992)

was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. He was Jewish and managed to escape Poland
before the Holocaust. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often
playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.

In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass
and the Pit (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend,
CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared
was Lolita (1962), as Doctor Keegee.










James Earl Ray
(March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998)

was an American fugitive convicted for assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel
in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After this, Ray was on the run and was captured in the
UK. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the
possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment.

Ray was born on March 10, 1928, in Alton, Illinois, the son of Lucille Ray (née Maher) and
George Ellis Ray. He had Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry and had a Catholic upbringing.










Dean Ormsby Torrence
(born March 10, 1940).

In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized
by the Beach Boys.
Jan and Dean was an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004)

Among their most successful songs was 1963's "Surf City", the first surf song ever to reach the #1 spot.
Their other charting top 10 singles were "Drag City" (1963), "Dead Man's Curve"
(1964; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008[1]), and
"The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964).

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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
(March 1957 – 2 May 2011),

also transliterated as Usāmah bin Laden, was a Saudi Arabian-born militant and founder of the
Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. The group is designated as a terrorist group by the
United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union,
and various countries. Under bin Laden, al-Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 attacks
in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide










Jeffrey Allen Ament
(born March 10, 1963)

is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as the bassist of the American rock band
Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder.









Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, GCVO, CD, ADC
(Edward Antony Richard Louis; born 10 March 1964)

is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the youngest
sibling of King Charles III. Edward is 13th in line of succession to the British throne.










Pepsi Tate
(10 March 1965 – 18 September 2007)

was the bass guitarist of Welsh glam metal band Tigertailz, who made the Top 40 in the
UK Albums Chart in the early 1990s.

Born as Huw Justin Smith, son of Dempsey and Makepeace actor Ray Smith,
Pepsi Tate grew up in the village of Dinas Powys, just outside Cardiff.










Edie Arlisa Brickell
(born March 10, 1966)

is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars,
the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the
Billboard albums chart. She is married to singer-songwriter Paul Simon.










Carrie Marie Underwood
(born March 10, 1983)

is an American singer. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol
in 2005. Her single "Inside Your Heaven" made her the only country artist to debut atop the
Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song
on the Hot 100. Her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), was bolstered by the successful crossover
singles "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats", becoming the best-selling solo female
debut album in country music history. She won three Grammy Awards for the album, including
Best New Artist. The next studio album, Carnival Ride (2007) had one of the biggest opening weeks
of all time by a female artist and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, Play On (2009),
was preceded by the single "Cowboy Casanova", which had one of the biggest single-week
upward movements on the Hot 100.

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Samuel Horwitz
(March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955),

better known by his stage name Shemp Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was
called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent.

He is best known as the third Stooge in the Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began
in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it was still associated with Ted Healy and known as
"Ted Healy and his Stooges"; and again from 1946 until his death in 1955. During the fourteen
years between his times with the Stooges, he had a successful solo career as a film comedian,
including a series of shorts by himself and with partners. He reluctantly returned to the Stooges
as a favor to his brother Moe and friend Larry Fine to replace his brother Curly as the third Stooge
after Curly's illness.










Philip John Clapp
(born March 11, 1971),

best known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, actor, writer,
producer, and professional wrestler. He is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV
reality stunt show Jackass, which aired for three seasons from 2000 to 2001. A year later,
Knoxville and his co-stars returned for the first installment in the Jackass film series, with
a second and third installment being released in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), the first film in the series with a storyline,
saw him star as his Jackass character Irving Zisman. Jackass Forever was released in 2022,
it is said to be his final installment of the Jackass franchise.









Lawrence Welk
(March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992)

was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted
The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known as
"champagne music" to his radio, television, and live-performance audiences.










Antonin Gregory Scalia
(March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016)

was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist
and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist
and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists
of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump,
and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.









Mark Stein
(born March 11, 1947)

is an American keyboardist, composer and arranger, who is a member of the Psychedelic rock group
Vanilla Fudge. Stein also worked in the Tommy Bolin band and Alice Cooper's band during 1978 and 1979.










George Jan Kooymans
(born 11 March 1948, The Hague, Netherlands)

is a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring.
Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone", the group's only Top 10 Pop Single on the US Billboard Hot 100,
which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart.









Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
(born March 11, 1950)

is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly
but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also
rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone
singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. He is widely known for performing and recording
regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist. He has frequently collaborated with other artists
from both the jazz and classical scenes.

McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a No. 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year
and Record of the Year honors at the 1989 Grammy Awards.










Rami Jaffee
(born March 11, 1969)

is an American musician. He is best known as the keyboardist for the rock band Foo Fighters, whom
he initially joined in a touring and session capacity in 2005. Jaffee has contributed to six of the band's
studio albums, and in 2017 formally joined the band as a full-time member.

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William "Billie" Thomas Jr.
(March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980)

was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat
in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944.
He was a native of Los Angeles.








Barbara Feldon
(born Barbara Anne Hall March 12, 1933)

is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role
was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom Get Smart.









Liza May Minnelli
(born March 12, 1946)

is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage
presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli is one of the very few performers awarded
an Emmy, Grammy (Grammy Legend Award), Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Minnelli is a Knight of
the French Legion of Honour.

Daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, Minnelli was born
in Los Angeles, spent part of her childhood in Scarsdale, New York, and moved to New York City
in 1961 where she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer,
and traditional pop music artist.










Jonathan Bion Provost
(born March 12, 1950)

is an American actor, best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS series Lassie.

In 1957, Provost won the role of Timmy Martin in the CBS television series Lassie. He joined the
show at the top of the fourth season as co-star with Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, and
George Cleveland. Midway through the season, George Cleveland died and Rettig and Clayton
departed. The show was revamped to focus on Provost as Timmy. The following year, he met
June Lockhart on the set, who would play his mother, Ruth Martin, and would remain close
friends. On December 25, 1958, Provost and Lassie were holiday guests on NBC's The Ford Show,
Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.










Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano
(born March 12, 1945)

is an American former mobster who became underboss of the Gambino crime family. Gravano
played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify
as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal in which he confessed
to involvement in 19 murders.

Originally a mobster for the Colombo crime family, and later for the Brooklyn faction of the
Gambino family, Gravano was part of the group that conspired to murder Gambino boss
Paul Castellano in 1985. Gravano played a key role in planning and executing Castellano's
murder, along with John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero, Frank DeCicco, and Joseph Armone.

Soon after Castellano's murder, Gotti elevated Gravano to become an official captain after
Salvatore "Toddo" Aurelio retired, a position Gravano held until 1987 when he became consigliere.
In 1990 he became underboss, a position he held at the time he became a government witness.
In 1991, Gravano agreed to turn state's evidence and testify for the prosecution against Gotti
after hearing the boss making several disparaging remarks about Gravano on a wiretap that
implicated them both in several murders.









Willard Mitt Romney
(born March 12, 1947)

is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who has served as the junior United States
senator from Utah since 2019. He previously served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from
2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the
2012 election, losing to Barack Obama.











James Vernon Taylor
(born March 12, 1948)
is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor is one of the best-selling music artists of all time,
having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first
No. 1 hit in 1971 with his recording of "You've Got a Friend", written by Carole King in the same
year. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million copies in the
US alone. Following his 1977 album JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every
album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over 1 million copies. He enjoyed a resurgence in
chart performance during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded
work (including Hourglass, October Road, and Covers). He achieved his first number-one album
in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World.

Taylor is also known for his covers, such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" and "Handy Man",
as well as originals such as "Sweet Baby James". He played the leading role in
Monte Hellman's 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop.










Jack Green
(born 12 March 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland)
is a Scottish musician and songwriter.

Green played with T. Rex between 1973 and 1974, then with Pretty Things between 1974 and 1976,
recording Silk Torpedo and Savage Eye. After Phil May walked out on the Pretty Things he carried
on with Peter Tolson, Gordon Edwards and Skip Alan in Metropolis.
He also was a member of Rainbow for three weeks in late 1978.










Stephen Percy Harris
(born 12 March 1956)

is an English musician who is the bassist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, primary songwriter and
founder/leader of heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He has been the band's only constant member
since their inception in 1975 and, along with guitarist Dave Murray, the only member to appear
on every album.

Harris has a recognisable and popular style of bass playing, particularly the "gallop" which can
be found on many Iron Maiden recordings, such as the singles "Run to the Hills" and "The Trooper".
In addition to his role as the band's bass player, writer and backing vocalist, he has undertaken
many other roles for the group, such as producing and co-producing their albums, directing and
editing their live videos and performing studio keyboards and synthesizers. He has been cited
as one of the greatest heavy metal bassists.

In 2012, Harris released his debut solo album,
British Lion, which was followed by The Burning in 2020.









Marlon David Jackson
(born March 12, 1957)

is an American entertainer, singer, and dancer best known as a member of the Jackson 5.
He is the sixth child of the Jackson family. Marlon now runs Study Peace Foundation to
promote peace and unity worldwide.