Today's Famous Birthdays

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Marilyn Monroe
(born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

was an American actress, model, and singer. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters,
she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem
of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200
million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2022) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death,
Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the
sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe was born
Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, at the Los Angeles General Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe; 1902–1984), was born in Piedras Negras,
Coahuila, Mexico to a poor Midwestern family who migrated to California at the turn of the century.
At age 15, Gladys married John Newton Baker, an abusive man nine years her senior. They had two
children, Robert (1918–1933) and Berniece (1919–2014). She successfully filed for divorce and
sole custody in 1923, but Baker kidnapped the children soon after and moved with them
to his native Kentucky










Patrick Charles Eugene Boone
(born June 1, 1934)

is an American singer, actor, and composer. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during
the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in
more than 12 Hollywood films. According to Billboard, Boone was the second-biggest-charting artist of
the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40
Artists 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive
weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week. Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in
Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margaret Virginia (née Pritchard) and Archie Altman Boone.









Morgan Freeman
(born June 1, 1937)

is an American actor, producer, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and various
roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has
received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a
Golden Globe Award. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and the Screen Actors Guild
Life Achievement Award in 2018. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi
where he began acting in school plays. He studied theater arts in Los Angeles and appeared in
stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's
television series The Electric Company.










René Murat Auberjonois
(June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019)

was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in
a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan
Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's
The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won
a Drama Desk Award for Big River. Auberjonois was born June 1, 1940, in New York City. His father,
Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated
writer. Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter
of Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire),
and his wife—Napoleon's youngest sister—Caroline Bonaparte.










Powers Allen Boothe
(June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017)

was an American actor known for his commanding character actor roles on film and television. He received
a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is also known for his
performances as "Curly Bill" Brocius in the western Tombstone (1993) and Alexander Haig in historical
drama Nixon (1995). Other notable film roles include Cruising (1980), Red Dawn (1984), Blue Sky (1994),
Sudden Death (1995), Sin City (2005), and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). Boothe, the youngest of
three boys, was born June 1, 1948, at home on a cotton farm in Snyder, Texas, to Merrill Vestal Boothe
(1924–1985), a rancher, and his wife Emily (née Reeves) Boothe (1924–1999). His father named him
after his best friend, who had been killed in the Second World War.









Heidi Klum
(born 1 June 1973)

is a German and American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the
cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a
Victoria's Secret Angel. Klum was born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, a city near Cologne, West Germany.
She is the daughter of Erna Klum (née Berger), a hairdresser, and Günther Klum, a cosmetics company executive.










Michael Stephen Levine
(born 1 June 1949)

is the bassist and keyboardist for the Canadian hard rock band Triumph. Levine was born in Toronto, Ontario.
He attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in Scarborough. In 1970 Levine helped to bring back
together the band Motherlode, which had broken up after releasing one hit single and a couple of less
popular recordings. They toured around northern and western Ontario before disbanding once again.
Although he did not sing lead on any of Triumph's music, Levine contributed backing vocals, bass, keyboard
work, as well as songwriting. He also produced much of the band's early work, and performed on
all of the band's ten studio albums.











Alanis Nadine Morissette
(born June 1, 1974)

is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and
confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop
albums. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, an alternative rock-oriented album with elements of
post-grunge, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and made her a cultural phenomenon.
Morissette was born June 1, 1974, at Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to teacher
Georgia Mary Ann (née Feuerstein) and high-school principal and French teacher Alan Richard Morissette.