Today's Famous Birthdays

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William Edgar Buchanan II
(March 20, 1903  – April 4, 1979)

was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. 

He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from 

the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and 

The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.









Oswald George Nelson
(March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975)

was an American actor, filmmaker, musician and bandleader. He originated and starred in
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series with his wife Harriet and
two sons David and Ricky Nelson.









Fred McFeely Rogers
(March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003),

better known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer,
and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool
television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.









Hal Linden
(born Harold Lipshitz, March 20, 1931)

is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician.

Linden began his career as a big band musician and singer in the 1950s. After a stint in the
United States Army, he began an acting career, first working in summer stock and off-Broadway
productions. Linden found success on Broadway when he replaced Sydney Chaplin in the musical
Bells Are Ringing. In 1962, he starred as Billy Crocker in the off-Broadway revival of the Cole Porter
musical Anything Goes. In 1971, he won a Best Actor Tony Award for his portrayal of Mayer Rothschild
in the musical The Rothschilds. In 1974, Linden landed his best-known role as the title character in
the television comedy series Barney Miller.










Jerry Reed Hubbard
(March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008)

was an American singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter and actor who appeared in more than a dozen
films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man",
"Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
(which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male), 

"Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" 

(the theme song for the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit,
in which Reed co-starred), 

"The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".










John Sherwood de Lancie Jr.
(born March 20, 1948)

is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and comedian, best known for his role as Q in various
Star Trek series (1987–present); beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation and leading right up
to the second season of Star Trek: Picard in 2022.











Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee
(born March 20, 1957)

is an American filmmaker and actor. Lee's work has continually explored race relations, issues within
the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other
political issues. He has won numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award,
a Student Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Peabody Awards.
He has also been honored with an Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003,
the Academy Honorary Award in 2019, and a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center
as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.










John Daniel Ehrlichman
(March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999)

was an American political aide who served as the White House Counsel and Assistant to the President
for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's
domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives.
Ehrlichman was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal,
for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury, and served a year and a half in prison.
Ehrlichman was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Lillian Catherine  and Rudolph Irwin Ehrlichman.
His family practiced Christian Science.











Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934)

is a retired American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco
from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold that office.

Born in Mineola, Texas, where he graduated from high school, Brown moved to San Francisco in 1951.
He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1955 and earned a J.D. from the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law in 1958, after which he worked as an attorney and
was involved in the Civil rights movement.