Today's Famous Birthdays

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Paula Prentiss
(born March 4, 1938)

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

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









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

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

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











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

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











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

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

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











Andrea Bowen
(born March 4, 1990)

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










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

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

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










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

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

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











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

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

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

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

He died in 2007 at age 100.










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

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











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

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











James Richard Perry
(born March 4, 1950)

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