May 21

This day in birthdays, and other completely useless and trivial information:

Today is the birthday of:

Richard Hatch (the original Battlestar Galactica)
Mr. T (aka Laurence Tureaud)
Al Franken (Go, Al!)
Richard Libertini
Peggy Cass
Evelyn Ward (Jack Cassidy's first wife, and mother of David Cassidy)
Raymond Burr
Bill Williams

Both Bill Williams and Raymond Burr, strangely enough, have ties to Barbara Hale: Burr, of course, played Barbara Hale's TV boss, Perry Mason, for many years, and she was married to Bill Williams for 46 years. She has three children with Williams, the most well-known being son William Katt, TV actor, and the "Greatest American Hero."

Also born today: serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer.