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Those born on this date include:

• - Musician Dick Burnett in 1883
• World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in 1890
• Argentine dictator Juan Peron in 1895
• Gossip columnist Rona Barrett in 1936 (age 74)
• Tennis Hall of Fame member Fred Stolle in 1938 (age 72)
• Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1941 (age 69)
  - Goosebumps author R.L. Stine in 1943 (age 67)
• Rock musician Johnny Ramone in 1948
• Rock musician C-Jay Ramone in 1965 (age 45)
• Political commentator Steve Coll in 1958 (age 52)
• Olympic gold medal swimmer Matt Biondi in 1965 (age 45)
• Actor Paul Hogan in 1939 (age 71)
• Actor Chevy Chase in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Sigourney Weaver in 1949 (age 61)
• Actor Darrell Hammond in 1955 (age 55)
• Stephanie Zimbalist in 1956 (age 54)
• Actor Matt Damon in 1970 (age 40)
• Actor Nick Cannon in 1980 (age 30)

Those born on this date include:

• French philosopher Denis Diderot in 1713
• Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States, in 1829
• Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in 1882
• Restaurant entrepreneur Ray Kroc (McDonald’s) in 1902
• Comic Larry Fine of The Three Stooges (the one with the wild wavy hair) in 1902
• Actor Donald Pleasence in 1919
• Political activist and defrocked priest Philip Berrigan in 1923
• Actor Glynis Johns in 1923 (age 87)
• Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane in 1922 (age 88)
• Actor/comedian Bill Dana in 1924 (age 86)
• Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in 1936 (age 74)
• Football Hall of fame member Barry Switzer in 1937 (age 73)
• Rock singer/songwriter Steve Miller in 1943 (age 67)
• Baseball writer and theorist Bill James in 1949 (age 61)
• Actor Karen Allen in 1951 (age 59)
• Irish rock musician Bob Geldof, organizer of the 1985 Live Aid famine relief concert, in 1951 (age 59)
• Comedian Bernie Mack in 1957
• Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in 1958 (age 52)
• Architect Maya Lin in 1959 (age 51)
• Race car driver Michael Andretti in 1962 (age 48)
• Hockey Hall of Fame member Mario Lemieux in 1965 (age 45)
• Hockey Hall of Fame member Patrick Roy in 1965 (age 45)
• Actor Kate Winslet in 1975 (age 35)

Those born on this date include:

• Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in 1822
• Frederic Remington, painter of the American West, in 1861
• Journalist/author Damon Runyon in 1880
• Pioneer movie comedian Buster Keaton in 1895
• Actor Charlton Heston in 1923
• Actor Clifton Davis in 1945 (age 65)
• Actor Susan Sarandon in 1946 (age 64)
• Actor Armand Assante in 1949 (age 61)
• Actor Liev Schreiber in 1967 (age 43)
• Football Hall of Fame member Sam Huff in 1834 (age 76)
• Author Jackie Collins in 1937 (age 73) – Author Anne Rice in 1941 (age 69)
• Author Roy Blount Jr. in 1941 (age 69)
• Civil rights activist H. Rap Brown in 1943 (age 67)
• Baseball Manager Tony La Russa in 1944 (age 66)
• Recording executive and businessman Russell Simmons in 1957 (age 53)
• Singer Jon Secada in 1962 (age 48)
• Actor Alicia Silverstone in 1976 (age 34)
• Actor Rachael Leigh Cook in 1979 (age 31)

Those born on this date include:

• - Frances Willard, founder of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, in 1839
• CBS Chairman William Paley in 1901
• TV variety show host and columnist Ed Sullivan in 1901
• Heavyweight boxing champ Max Schmeling in 1905
• Cartoonist Al Capp in 1909
• Actor William Windom in 1923 (age 87)
• Actor Marcello Mastroianni in 1924
• Actress and animal rights advocate Brigitte Bardot in 1934 (age 76)
• Musician Ben E. King in 1938 (age 72)
• Actor Jeffrey Jones in 1946 (age 64)
• Actress Janeane Garofalo in 1964 (age 46)
• Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 1972 (age 38)

Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include:

• Novelist Upton Sinclair in 1878
• Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who pioneered the care of polio victims, in 1880
• Musician Jelly Roll Morton in 1885
• Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Arnold Jacob “Red” Auerbach and actor Fernando Rey,
  both in 1917
• Fashion designer James Galanos in 1924 (age 86)
• Actress Anne Meara in 1929 (age 81)
• Actress Sophia Loren in 1934 (age 76)
• Hocket Hall of Fame
  member Guy Lafleur in 1951 (age 59)
• Actor Gary Cole in 1956 (age 54)
• Actress Kristen Johnston in 1967 (age 43)
• Musicians Gunnar and Matthew Nelson in
  1967 (age 43)

Those born on this date include:

• Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski in 1905
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in 1907
• Author William Golding ( Lord of the Flies ) in 1911
• Writer Roger Angell in 1920
• Actor and writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio James Lipton in 1926 (age 84)
• Baseball Hall of Fame member Duke Snider in 1926 (age 84)
• Singer Brook Benton in 1931
• Actor Adam West (TV’s Batman) in 1928 (age 82)
• Actor David McCallum in 1933 (age 77)
• Four-time Olympic gold medal discus thrower Al Oerter in 1936
• Singer/songwriter Paul Williams in 1940 (age 70)
• Singer Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers in 1940 (age 70)
• Singer Mama Cass Elliot in 1941
• Singer Freda Payne in 1942 (age 68)
• Baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Morgan in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Randolph Mantooth in 1945 (age 65)
• Actor Jeremy Irons in 1948 (age 62)
• Model and actor Twiggy, whose real name is Lesley Hornby, in 1949 (age 61)
• Television personality Joan Lunden in 1950 (age 60)
• Actor/director Kevin Hooks in 1958 (age 52)
• Country singer Trisha Yearwood in 1964 (age 46)
• Comedian Jimmy Fallon in 1974 (age 36)

Those born on this date include:

• English poet and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, writer of the first English dictionary, in 1709
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story in 1779
• French physicist Jean Foucault, inventor of the gyroscope, in 1819
• Choreographer Agnes de Mille in 1905
• Actor Greta Garbo in 1905
• Actor Leon Askin in 1907
• Actor Jack Warden in 1920
• Actor Robert Blake in 1933 (age 77)
• Film producer Bud Greenspan in 1926 (age 84)
• Singer/actor Frankie Avalon in 1939 (age 71)
• Comedian Fred Willard in 1939 (age 71)
• Basketball coach Rick Pitano in 1952 (age 58)
• Rock ‘n’ roll musician Dee Dee Ramone in 1952
• Baseball Hall of Fame member Ryne Sandberg in 1959 (age 51)
• Actor Holly Robinson Peete in 1964 (age 46)
• Actor Jada Pinkett Smith in 1971 (age 39)
• Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong in 1971 (age 39)

Those born on this date include:

• 1940s radio news commentator Gabriel Heatter in 1890
• Irvin Westheimer, who founded the American Big Brothers movement, in 1879
• Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1907
• Country music pioneer Hank Williams Sr. in 1923
• Football Hall of Fame member George Blanda in 1927 (age 83)
• Racecar driver Stirling Moss in 1929 (age 81)
• Actor Roddy McDowall in 1928
• Actor David Huddleston in 1930 (age 80)
• Actor Anne Bancroft in 1931
• Actor Dorothy Loudon in 1933
• Tennis champion Maureen Connolly in 1934
• Author Ken Kesey in 1935
• Baseball Hall of Fame member Orlando Cepeda in 1937 (age 73)
• Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter in 1939 (age 71)
• Basketball Hall of Fame member Phil Jackson in 1945 (age 65)
• Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly in 1947
• Actor John Ritter in 1948
• Spooky movie hostess Elvira, whose real name is Cassandra Peterson, in 1951 (age 59)
• Actor/comedian Rita Rudner in 1953 (age 57)
• Rapper Flo Rida in 1979 (age 31)

Those born on this date include:

• The Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War, in 1757
• Pioneer social worker Jane Addams in 1860
• Financier-diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy in 1888
• Theatrical producer Billy Rose in 1899
• Comedienne Jo Anne Worley in 1937 (age 73)
• Singer-songwriter David Allen Coe in 1939 (age 71)
• Rock musiciain Rogers Waters in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Swoosie Kurtz in 1944 (age 66)
• Actor Jane Curtin in 1947 (age 63)
• Comedian Jeff Foxworthy in 1958 (age 52)
• Comedian Michael Winslow in 1958 (age 52)
• Actor Rosie Perez in 1964 (age 46)
• Actor Justin Whalin in 1974 (age 36)
• Rapper Foxy Brown in 1979 (age 31)