Today's Famous Birthdays

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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.