Ron Popeil

Ronald Martin Popeil, was an American inventor and marketing personality, and founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco. He made appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and coined the phrase "Set it, and forget it!" as well as popularizing the phrase, "But wait, there's more!" on television as early as the mid-1950s.

3 May 1935

Born on the same birth day (3 May): Anna Roosevelt Halsted • Anwar El Ghazi • Ben Elton • Brad Scott (Australian footballer) • Chris Scott (Australian footballer) • Doug Henning • Jamie Baulch • Joseph Addai • Liam Donaldson • Mikhail Prokhorov • Norman Corwin • Paddy Holohan • Pavlo Skoropadskyi • Pom Klementieff • Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein • Ron Wyden • Ryan Dempster • Willie Geist

Born in the same month (May 1935): Bernard Pivot • Dennis Potter • Don Bragg • Eddie Linden • Ethel Johnson (wrestler) • Felipe Alou • Floyd Smith • Jack Charlton • José Mujica • Lasse Strömstedt • Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935) • Mal Evans • Ramsey Lewis • Ted Dexter • Terry Lightfoot • Utah Phillips