Famous Birthdays Today- Floyd Mayweather Jr. Is 43

By Seth Williams

February 24th

Actors:

  • Barry Bostwick is 75 (“The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “What I Like About You,” “Spin City,” “Scandal”)
  • Beth Broderick is 61 (“Sabrina, The Teenage Witch,” “Under The Dome,” “Lost”)
  • Alexander Koch is 32 (“Under the Dome”)
  • Ramona Marquez is 19 (“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “The King’s Speech”)
  • Mark Moses is 62 (“Desperate Housewives,” “Mad Men”)
  • Edward James Olmos is 73 (“Stand and Deliver,” “Blade Runner,” “Zoot Suit,” “Selena,” “Miami Vice,” “American Family,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Urban Cowboy”)
  • Debra Jo Rupp is 69 (“Big,” “Friends,” “That '70s Show,” “Better With You,” “Hart of Dixie”)
  • Billy Zane is 54 (“Dead Calm,” “Titanic,” “The Phantom,” “Twin Peaks”)
  • The late James Farentino(1938 – 2012)…he would have been 82(“The Final Countdown,” “Jesus of Nazareth,” “Dynasty”)
  • The late Abe Vigoda(1921 – 2016)…he would have been 99(“The Godfather,” “Barney Miller”) 

Musicians:

  • Trace Cyrus is 31
  • Rupert Holmes is 73 (his birth name? David Goldstein)
  • Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones is 78
  • Michelle Shocked is 58
  • Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt is 26 (born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile)
  • The late Lonnie Turner (Steve Miller Band)(1947-2013)…he would have been 73

Plus:

  • Director Todd Field is 56 ("In the Bedroom," “Little Children”)
  • Boxing Champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is 43 (Widely considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won fifteen world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes twice at welterweight)
  • Newswoman Paula Zahn is 64 (Investigation Discovery’s “On The Case with Paula Zahn”)
  • The late author Wilhelm Grimm (half of the Brothers Grimm)(1786 – 1859)(Their first collection of folk tales,Children's and Household Tales(Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories including "Cinderella,” “The Frog Prince,” "Hansel and Gretel,” "Rapunzel,” "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Snow White.”)
  • The late entrepreneur Steve Jobs(1955-2011)…he would have been 65(He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.)

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