June 3: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is June 3rd your birthday? Was someone special to you born on June 3rd? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. June 3rd was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

June 3rd Birthdays: Famous Artists

Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (Hommage a Mozart), was born on June 3, 1877.

Charles Lecocq, French operatic composer, was born on June 3, 1832.

June 3rd Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Tamas Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1988), was born on June 3, 1967.

Edith McGuire, American track star and Olympic gold medalist (1964), was born on June 3, 1944.

Suren Nalbandyan, Russian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on June 3, 1956.

Peter Glen Vidmar, American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (1984), was born on June 3, 1961.

June 3rd Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American Beat poet and anti-war activist Allen Ginsberg, was born on June 3, 1926.

Larry McMurtry, American novelist, scriptwriter (Brokeback Mountain, Buffalo Girls, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1986), was born on June 3, 1936.

June 3rd Birthday: Famous Business Leaders

Ransom Eli Olds, American automotive engineer and inventor, was born on June 3, 1864. The REO and Oldsmobile were named for him.

June 3rd Birthdays: Famous Performers

Tom Arnold, American actor (Coneheads, McHales' Navy, Roseanne, The Stupids and True Lies), was born on June 3, 1959.

Canadian actress Colleen Dewhurst (Anne of Green Gables, Annie Hall, The Crucible, Dying Young, Ice Castles, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Road to Avonlea) was born on June 3, 1926.

Curtis Mayfield, American musician ("A Dozen Roses," "Freddie's Dead," "Move on Up," "People Get Ready," "Short Eyes," and "Superfly"), was born on June 3, 1942.