Those born on this date include:
–Leland Stanford, railroad builder and founder of California’s Stanford University, in 1824
–English novelist and poet Victoria Sackville-West in 1892
–Composer Samuel Barber in 1910
–Detective novelist Mickey Spillane in 1918
–Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in 1934
–Actress Joyce Van Patten in 1934 (age 76)
–Actor Marty Ingels in 1936 (age 74)
–Actor Raul Julia in 1940
–Actress Trish Van Devere in 1943 (age 67)
–Country singer Mickey Gilley in 1936 (age 74)
–Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1943
–Rock musician Robin Trower in 1945 (age 65)
–Actors Linda Fiorentino in 1960 (age 50)
–Actress Juliette Binoche in 1964 (age 46)
–Actor Emmanuel Lewis in 1971 (age 39)
Olympic gold medal skier Julia Mancuso in
1984 (age 26)
Rapper and actor Bow Wow in 1987 (age 23)
