Ron Howard as the young boy Jamie with James Arness as
Dodge City Marshal Matt Dillon in the 1969 episode “Charlie
Noon” on Gunsmoke (CBS-TV).

Ronald William Howard turned 68 in March.

Gladys Maria Knight is a singer/songwriter,actress,
businesswoman,  and author. A seven-time Grammy
Award–winner. Knight is known  for the hits she
recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with       
her group The Pips, which also included her brother
Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest
and Edward Patten.
       

Royal Crown Cola is a brand of cola invented by pharmacist Claud
A. Hatcher of Columbus, Georgia in 1905 and was originally created
for Cole-Hampton-Hatcher Grocery Store as an early generic brand,
to avoid the high cost of purchasing Coca-Cola syrup.

RC Cola is owned and distributed in the U.S. by Keurig Dr Pepper.
In the rest of the world, it is distributed by RC Cola International.

Claud Adkins Hatcher
(August 20, 1876 – December 31, 1933)

Freddie Joe Ward (December 30, 1942 – May 8, 2022)

NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a
gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as "The Right
Stuff," "The Player" and "Tremors," has died.

Ward died Sunday, his publicist Ron Hofmann said Friday. No
cause or place of death was disclosed per the family’s wishes.

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Blind since shortly after his birth, Stevie Wonder was a child
prodigy who signed with Motown‘s Tamla label at the age of
11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie
Wonder. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one
hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making
him the youngest artist ever to top the chart.

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris)