Today's Famous Birthdays

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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).