Today's Famous Birthdays

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Henry Jaynes Fonda
(May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.
He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born in
Grand Island, Nebraska, on May 16, 1905, Henry Jaynes Fonda was the son of printer
William Brace Fonda, and his wife, Herberta (Jaynes). The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906.








Władziu Valentino Liberace
(May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)

was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian
and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television,
motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was
the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and
an international touring schedule. He embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage.
Władziu Valentino Liberace (known as "Lee" to his friends and "Walter" to family) was born in
West Allis, Wisconsin, on May 16, 1919. Liberace had an identical twin who died at birth.








Henry George Carey Jr.
(May 16, 1921 – December 27, 2012)

was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns,
as well as numerous television series. Carey was born on a ranch near the Saugus neighborhood
of Santa Clarita, California, the son of actor Harry Carey (1878–1947) and actress Olive Carey
(1896–1988). As a child, he learned to speak Navajo.[citation needed] His maternal grandfather
was vaudeville entertainer George Fuller Golden. As a boy, he was nicknamed "Dobe", short for
adobe, because of the color of his hair. He grew up on his parents' ranch in Santa Clarita; they
had horses and cattle. His family ranch was later turned into a historic park by the
Los Angeles County and was named Tesoro Adobe Park.








Daniel Trejo
(born May 16, 1944)

is an American actor. He has appeared in films including Desperado, Heat, and the
From Dusk Till Dawn film series. With frequent collaborator and his second cousin Robert Rodriguez,
he portrayed the character of Isador "Machete" Cortez, which was originally developed for the
Spy Kids series and was later expanded into its own franchise of the same name. Trejo was born on
May 16, 1944, on Temple Street in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, to
Mexican-American parents. He is the son of Delores Rivera King and Dionisio "Dan" Trejo (1922–1981),
a construction worker. Trejo was the result of an extramarital affair;







Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE
(born 16 May 1953)

is an Irish actor and film producer. He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond
in the Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies,
The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day) and in multiple video games. He also played alias
Remington Steele. Brosnan was born on 16 May 1953 in Drogheda, County Louth, the only child of
May (née Smith) and carpenter Thomas Brosnan.










Debra Lynn Winger
(born May 16, 1955)

is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982),
Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination
for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award
for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for
Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993). Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into
an Orthodox Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager.








Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson
(born May 16, 1969)

is an American political commentator, writer, and television personality, who hosted the nightly
political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023. Carlson was born
Tucker McNear Carlson at the Children's Hospital in San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969.