Cynthia Jane "Cindy" Williams was born in Van
Nuys, Los Angeles,California.

Cindy Williams starred as Shirley Feeney on the ABC-TV
series Laverne and Shirley from 1976 to 1983. She also
portrayed Laurie Henderson in the hit 1973 coming of age
film American Graffiti. She debuted as an actress through
a variety of commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses and 
and made her big screen debut in the 1970 Roger Corman
movie Gas-s-s-s. Williams co-produced the 1990s Steve
Martin comedies Father of the Bride and Father of the
Bride Part II.

Cindy Williams in American Graffiti.

Duane Eddy turned 78 in April.

 William Seward Burroughs I
(January 28, 1855 – September 15, 1898)

Burroughs was an inventor born in Rochester, New York 
who invented a "calculating machine" designed to ease
the monotony of clerical work. He was a founder of the
American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later
became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company
(1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953)
and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to
form Unisys.

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is 78 today.

Kenny Rogers attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston
and joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the
band dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He starred as
race car driver Brewster Baker in the 1982 comedy/drama film
Six Pack. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2013.

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Robert Anthony Plant is 68 today.

Plant quit his training as a chartered accountant and became
deeply involved in the England Midlands blues scene. After
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, he began working as a solo
artist. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed duet album
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss called Raising Sand.