Don Payne (writer)

William Donald Payne was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and co-wrote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013). Payne died from heart failure caused by bone cancer in March 2013.

5 May 1964

Born on the same birth date (5 May 1964): Heike Henkel • Jean-François Copé • Minami Takayama

Born on the same birth day (5 May): Duane Carter • Fabián de la Rosa • Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné • Georgios Papadopoulos • Guru Amar Das • Hubert Howe Bancroft • Jim Kelly (martial artist) • Karl Marx • Mervyn S. Bennion • Michael Murphy (actor) • Tiffany Roberts

Born in the same month (May 1964): Andrea Montermini • Argyris Pedoulakis • Bobby Labonte • Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer • Danny Bailey • Ignasi Guardans • Isidro Pérez • Jean-François Copé • Jeff Fenech • John Lee (placekicker) • Miloslav Mečíř • Minami Takayama • Oswaldo Negri Jr. • Pete Sandoval • Phil Vassar