Today's Famous Birthdays

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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr.
(May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular
and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a leader in record sales,
radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global
cultural icons. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. Crosby
was born on May 3, 1903, in Tacoma, Washington, in a house his father built at
1112 North J Street. In 1906, his family moved to Spokane in Eastern Washington state,
where he was raised. In 1913, his father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue.










Mary Astor
(born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987)
was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best
remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Astor was born in Quincy, Illinois, the only child of Otto Ludwig Langhanke and
Helen Marie de Vasconcellos. Her parents were teachers. Her German father
emigrated to the United States from Berlin in 1891 and became a naturalized
U.S. citizen; her American mother was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and had
Portuguese roots. They married on August 3, 1904, in Lyons, Kansas.









Golda Meir
(born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978)

was an Israeli politician, teacher, and kibbutznikit who served as the fourth Prime Minister
of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government,
the first female head of government in the Middle East, and the fourth elected female
head of government or state in the world. Meir also served as labor minister and
foreign minister. Golda Mabovitch was born to a Jewish family in downtown Kyiv,
Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) on May 3, 1898 to Blume Neiditch (died 1951)
and Moshe Mabovitch (died 1944), a carpenter. Meir wrote in her autobiography that
her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to
rumours of an imminent pogrom. She had two sisters, Sheyna (born 1889) and Tzipke
(born 1902), as well as five other siblings who died in childhood.










James Joseph Brown
(May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

was an American musician. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of
20th century music, he is referred to by various honorific nicknames, some of which
include "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business", "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite",
and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced
the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on
January 23, 1986. Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to
16-year-old Susie (née Behling; 1916–2004) and 21-year-old Joseph Gardner Brown
(1912–1993) in a small wooden shack.









Francesco Stephen Castelluccio
(born May 3, 1934),

better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, known as the
frontman of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is known for his unusually
powerful lead falsetto voice. Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, on
May 3, 1934, to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he was
the eldest of three sons. His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display
designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker
and beer company employee.