Today's Famous Birthdays

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Sir Michael Caine CBE
(born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933)

is an English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than
160 films in a career spanning seven decades and is considered a British film icon. He has
received various awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA, three Golden Globe Awards,
and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have
grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated
for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received a BAFTA
Fellowship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to cinema.










William Edward Crystal
(born March 14, 1948)

is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s
for television roles as Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and as a cast member and frequent
host of Saturday Night Live. Crystal then became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s
and 1990s, appearing in Running Scared (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), Throw Momma from
the Train (1987), Memories of Me (1988), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), City Slickers (1991),
Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Hamlet (1996), Analyze This (1999), and Parental Guidance (2012).
He provided the voice of Mike Wazowski in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. He also starred on the
Broadway stage in 700 Sundays in 2004 and again in 2014 and in Mr. Saturday Night in 2022.









Rigdon Osmond Dees III
(born March 14, 1950),

best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and
voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly
Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song "Disco Duck".

Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and
Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He performed the title song for the film Meatballs. He
co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking Channel,
and has hosted Rick Dees in the Morning at 102.7 KIIS FM and Hot 92.3 in Los Angeles.
Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees and the syndicated
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown.









Albert Einstein
(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest
and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory
of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory
of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are the two pillars of modern
physics. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory,
has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation".  His work is also known for its
influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for
his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the
photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His intellectual
achievements and originality resulted in "Einstein" becoming synonymous with "genius".
Einsteinium, one of the synthetic elements in the periodic table, was named in his honor.









Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
(born March 14, 1933)

is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television
producer. His career spans 70 years, with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys,
and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.










Simone Arianne Biles
(born March 14, 1997)

is an American artistic gymnast. Her seven Olympic medals tied with Shannon Miller for the most
Olympic medals won by an American gymnast and is the equal ninth-most overall. Having won 25
World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in the history of the Gymnastics
World Championships, and is considered by many sources to be the greatest gymnast of all time.
In 2022, Biles was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden.