; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=7,8 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: lives4,v 1.1 91/03/07 16:18:57 billr Exp $ ;# (July-Aug) ;# Famous people's births, deaths and marriages file for calentool ;# extracted from ProLine's today file and Today in History provided ;# by Robert Heckendorn at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# converted to calentool format by lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu. ;# ;# There may be duplicates where I don't have a definitive correct ;# date. billr@saab.cna.tek.com ;# 00000701 Dan Aykroyd, Actor (1952)%s19520701 00000701 Diana, the Princess of Wales (Princess Di) is born (1961)%s19610701 00000701 Evelyn "Champagne" King, Singer (1960)%s19600701 00000701 Genevieve Bujold, Actress (1942)%s19420701 00000701 George Sand, Amadine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, French author, is born (1804)%s18040701 00000701 Jamie Farr, Actor (1934)%s19340701 00000701 Karen Black, Actress (1942)%s19420701 00000701 Lerna Patterson, Actress (1963)%s19630701 00000701 Olivia de Haviland, Actress (1916)%s19160701 00000701 Sydney Pollack, Movie driector (1934)%s19340701 00000701 Twyla Tharp, Dancer-choreographer (1941)%s19410701 00000702 Cheryl Ladd, Actress (1951)%s19510702 00000702 Ernest Hemingway, the writer, commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (1961)%s19610702 00000702 Imelda Marcos, Former Philippine first lady (1929)%s19290702 00000702 Jimmy McNichol, Actor (1961)%s19610702 00000702 Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, Former Pres. L. B. Johnson's daughter (1947)%s19470702 00000702 Polly Holliday, Actress (1937)%s19370702 00000702 Michel de Nostradamus (the "prophet") dies in Salon (1566)%s15660702 00000702 Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice (1918)%s19180702 00000703 Betty Buckley, Actress (1947)%s19470703 00000703 Dave Barry, Humor columnist (1947)%s19470703 00000703 Franz Kafka born (1883)%s18830703 00000703 Jim Morrison, rock singer with the Doors, dies of drug overdose in Paris (1971)%s19710703 00000703 Ken Russell, movie director (1927)%s19270703 00000703 Louis XI of France is born (1423)%s14230703 00000703 Mary Johnson, Orlando City Council Member (1933)%s19330703 00000703 St. Phocas beheaded by Roman executioners in his own home (303)%s03030703 00000703 Tom Cruise, Actor (1962)%s19620703 00000704 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929) (1872)%s18720704 00000704 Eva Marie Saint, Actress (1924)%s19240704 00000704 Gene McDowell, UCF football coach (1940)%s19400704 00000704 George M. Cohan (1878)%s18780704 00000704 James Monroe, 5th President, dies. (1831)%s18310704 00000704 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US (1753)%s17530704 00000704 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day (1826)%s18260704 00000704 Louis Armstrong is born (1900)%s19000704 00000704 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, born in Salem, MA (1804)%s18040704 00000704 Neil Simon, Playwight (1927)%s19270704 00000704 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult. (1883)%s18830704 00000704 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna" (1826)%s18260704 00000705 Henry Rhodes, statesman, born (1853)%s18530705 00000705 Huey Lewis, Pop musician (1951)%s19510705 00000705 Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1948)%s19480705 00000705 Magdalen tragically dies soon after becoming the Scottish queen of James V (1536)%s15360705 00000705 P.T. Barnum, circus promoter (1810)%s18100705 00000705 Rich "Goose" Gossage, Baseball pitcher (1951)%s19510705 00000705 Shirley Knight, Actress (1937)%s19370705 00000705 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker (1794)%s17940705 00000706 (Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born (1866)%s18660706 00000706 Bill Frederick, City of Orlando's Mayor (1934)%s19340706 00000706 English chancellor Thomas More beheaded for refusal to sanction Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn (1535)%s15350706 00000706 Janet Leigh, Actress (1927)%s19270706 00000706 John Paul Jones is born (1747)%s17470706 00000706 King George V of England and Victoria Mary of Teck are wed (1893)%s18930706 00000706 Mexican Emperor Maximilian is born (1832)%s18320706 00000706 Nancy Reagan, wife of former President Reagan, is born (1926)%s19260706 00000706 Sylvester Stallone, Actor (1946)%s19460706 00000707 Gustave Mahler, the composer, is born in Bohemia (1860)%s18600707 00000707 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the punch card weaving machine, is born in Lyons, France (1752)%s17520707 00000707 Marc Chagall, the painter, is born in Russia (1887)%s18870707 00000707 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), of the Rock Group The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England (1940)%s19400707 00000707 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression (1907)%s19070707 00000707 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies (1930)%s19300707 00000708 Admiral Parry, the Arctic explorer, dies (1855)%s18550708 00000708 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born (1838)%s18380708 00000708 John D. Rockefeller (1839)%s18390708 00000708 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, dies off the coast of Italy (1822)%s18220708 00000709 Edward Heath, Former British Prime Minister (1916)%s19160709 00000709 Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves (1540)%s15400709 00000709 James Hampton, Actor (1936)%s19360709 00000709 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, dies (1932)%s19320709 00000709 O.J. Simpson, Football great (1947)%s19470709 00000709 Ottorino Respighi, composer of "Pines of Rome", is born (1879)%s18790709 00000709 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor (1802)%s18020709 00000709 Tom Hanks, Actor (1956)%s19560709 00000709 Zachary Taylor, U.S. president and general in Indian and Mexican Wars, dies (1850)%s18500709 00000710 Chief Justice Earl Warren dies (1974)%s19740710 00000710 Davis Phinney, American cyclist, was born (1959)%s19590710 00000710 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley. (1867)%s18670710 00000710 James Whistler, mama's boy (1834)%s18340710 00000710 John Calvin, Protestant theologian, born (1509)%s15090710 00000710 Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman, is born (1914)%s19140710 00000710 Marcel Proust, French author, is born (1871)%s18710710 00000710 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, dies (1989)%s19890710 00000710 Robert Goddard dies (1945)%s19450710 00000711 Yul Brynner, actor, is born (1920)%s19200711 00000711 Alfred Dreyfus, the wrongly imprisoned French army officer, dies (1935)%s19350711 00000711 Bonnie Pointer, Singer (1951)%s19510711 00000711 George Gershwin, the composer, dies (1937)%s19370711 00000711 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829), is born (1767)%s17670711 00000711 Leon Spinks, Boxer (1953)%s19530711 00000711 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, is born (1274)%s12740711 00000711 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, dies (1989)%s19890711 00000711 Tab Hunter, Actor (1931)%s19310711 00000712 Andrew Wyeth, artist and illustrator, is born (1917)%s19170712 00000712 Bill Cosby, comedian, is born (1937)%s19370712 00000712 Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, dies. She was known for her social skills as hostess of the white house (1849)%s18490712 00000712 George Eastman, inventor, is born in Waterville, New York (1854)%s18540712 00000712 Henry David Thoreau, author, is born (1817)%s18170712 00000712 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife) (1543)%s15430712 00000712 Julius Caeser is born (100 BC) 00000712 Milton Berle, entertainer, is born (1908)%s19080712 00000712 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, is born (1895)%s18950712 00000712 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome (1895)%s18950712 00000712 Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. (1922)%s19220712 00000712 U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs, FL (1944)%s19440712 00000712 Van Cliburn, Pianist (1934)%s19340712 00000713 Harrison Ford, Actor (1942)%s19420713 00000713 Jean-Paul Marat stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday (1793)%s17930713 00000713 John Charles Fremont, American soldier, explorer and politician, dies (1890)%s18900713 00000713 Louise Mandrell, Singer (1954)%s19540713 00000714 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman, dies (1965)%s19650714 00000714 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976), is born (1913)%s19130714 00000714 James Cagney, movie actor and notorious screen gangster, is born (1899)%s18990714 00000714 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory. (1918)%s19180714 00000714 Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie, folk singer, is born (1912)%s19120714 00000715 Clement Clarke Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", is born (1779)%s17790715 00000715 Inigo Jones, architect, lancscape designer and antiquary, is born (1573)%s15730715 00000715 James, Duke of Monmouth, executed for treason at Tower Hill, London (1685)%s16850715 00000715 Linda Ronstadt, singer, born in Tucson, AZ (1946)%s19460715 00000715 Rembrandt van Rijn, painter, born in Leiden Netherlands (1606)%s16060715 00000715 Rose Kennedy, Grand Dame of the Kennedy family is born (1890)%s18900715 00000716 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, is born (1907)%s19070716 00000716 Barnard Hughes, actor (1915)%s19150716 00000716 Czar Nicholas II, family and servants are killed by Bolsheviks (1918)%s19180716 00000716 Dick Thornburgh, Attorney General (1932)%s19320716 00000716 Ginger Rogers, actress-dancer (1911)%s19110716 00000716 Harry Chapin dies (Long Island Expressway, 1981)%s19810716 00000716 Margaret Court, tennis player (1942)%s19420716 00000716 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, born (1821)%s18210716 00000716 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist (1948)%s19480716 00000716 Stewart Copeland, rock composer-musician (1952)%s19520716 00000717 Art Linkletter, TV personality (1912)%s19120717 00000717 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesman and Prime Minister, dies (1845)%s18450717 00000717 David Hasselhoff, actor (1952)%s19520717 00000717 Diahann Carroll, actress-singer (1935)%s19350717 00000717 Donald Sutherland, actor (1934)%s19340717 00000717 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander" (1744)%s17440717 00000717 Erle Stanley Gardner, author and creator of Perry Mason, was born (1889)%s18890717 00000717 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit (1900)%s19000717 00000717 James Whistler, painter, lithographer, dies (1903)%s19030717 00000717 John Jacob Astor, millionaire in North American trapping industry, is born in Germany (1763)%s17630717 00000717 Lucie Arnaz, actress (1951)%s19510717 00000717 Nicolette Larson, singer (1952)%s19520717 00000717 Pat McCormick, comedy writer (1934)%s19340717 00000717 Phoebe Snow, singer (1952)%s19520717 00000717 Phyllis Diller, comedian, is born in Lima, OH (1917)%s19170717 00000718 Brian Auger born (London, 1939)%s19390718 00000718 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed, dies (1899)%s18990718 00000718 Hume Cronyn, actor (1911)%s19110718 00000718 Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter, dies (1721)%s17210718 00000718 John Glenn Jr., astronaut, is born in Ohio (1921)%s19210718 00000718 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies (1610)%s16100718 00000718 Red Skelton. comedian (1913)%s19130718 00000718 S. I. Hayakawa (1906)%s19060718 00000718 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer (1848)%s18480718 00000718 William Makepeach Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, is born (1811)%s18110718 00000719 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President Kennedy, married Edwin A. (1986)Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.%s19860719 00000719 Dennis Cole, actor (1943)%s19430719 00000719 Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter, is born (1843)%s18430719 00000719 Lizzie Borden, reputed but acquitted ax murderess, is born (1860)%s18600719 00000719 Peter Barton, actor (1959)%s19590719 00000719 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), poet and scholar, dies near Padua, Italy (1374)%s13740719 00000719 Samuel Colt, American gunsmith and inventor, is born (1814)%s18140719 00000719 Vikki Carr, singer (1941)%s19410719 00000720 Butch Cassidy, outlaw, dies in Spokane, Washington (1937)%s19370720 00000720 Carlos Santana born (Autlan, Mexico, 1947)%s19470720 00000720 Diana Rigg, actress (1938)%s19380720 00000720 Kim Carnes, singer (1946)%s19460720 00000720 Larry Rinker, golfer and Winter Park resident (1957)%s19570720 00000720 Natalie Wood, actress, is born in San Francisco (1938)%s19380720 00000720 Robert II, King of France, dies (1031)%s10310720 00000720 Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, is born (1919)%s19190720 00000720 Theda Bara, American actress and vamp, is born (1890)%s18900720 00000721 Don Knotts, actor-comedian (1924)%s19240721 00000721 Edward Herrmann, actor (1943)%s19430721 00000721 Ernest Hemingway, author, is born (1899)%s18990721 00000721 Isaac Stern, violinist, is born (1920)%s19200721 00000721 Norman Jewison, movie director (1926)%s19260721 00000721 Poet Robert Burns dies in Scotland of a lingering illness brought on by excessive drinking (1796)%s17960721 00000721 Robin Williams, comedian-actor (1952)%s19520721 00000722 Albert Brooks, actor-comedian-director (1947)%s19470722 00000722 Alex Trebek, game show host (1940)%s19400722 00000722 Alexander Calder, sculptor, is born (1898)%s18980722 00000722 Carl Sandburg, poet, dies at Flat Rock, North Carolina (1967)%s19670722 00000722 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty (1849)%s18490722 00000722 John Dillinger, bank robber, was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater (1934)%s19340722 00000722 Mary Magdalen dies at St. Beaume. (1st c. BC) 00000722 Orson Bean, actor-comedian (1928)%s19280722 00000722 Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer (1932)%s19320722 00000722 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms' (1844)%s18440722 00000722 Rose Kennedy (1890)%s18900722 00000722 Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet, is born (1898)%s18980722 00000722 Terence Stamp, actor (1940)%s19400722 00000723 Belinda Montgomery, actress (1950)%s19500723 00000723 Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London (1986)%s19860723 00000723 C.R. Smith, Frontline Outreach founder (1929)%s19290723 00000723 Coral Browne, actress (1913)%s19130723 00000723 Don Drysdale, baseball hall-of-famer (1936)%s19360723 00000723 Gloria DeHaven, actress (1925)%s19250723 00000723 Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, dies (1875)%s18750723 00000723 Raymond Chandler, American author, is born (1888)%s18880723 00000724 Alexandre Dumas, novelist and dramatist, author of "The Three Musketeers", is born (1802)%s18020724 00000724 Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator, is born in Kansas (1898)%s18980724 00000724 Joe Oliver, Cincinnati Reds catcher and Orlando native (1965)%s19650724 00000724 John Dyer, poet, dies (1758)%s17580724 00000724 Lynda Carter, actress, is born in Pheonix, AZ (1951)%s19510724 00000724 Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist (1935)%s19350724 00000724 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule. (1783)%s17830724 00000725 Janet Margolin, actress (1943)%s19430725 00000725 Louise Brown, first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, is born (1978)%s19780725 00000725 Maxfield Parrish, American artist, is born (1879)%s18790725 00000725 Queen Mary of England marries King Philip of Spain (1554)%s15540725 00000725 St James beheaded by Herod in Jerusalem (44)%s00440725 00000725 Steve Goodman born (Chicago, 1948)%s19480725 00000725 Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, is born (1844)%s18440725 00000725 Walter Payton, former football player (1954)%s19540725 00000726 Aldous Huxley, English author of Brave New World, is born (1894)%s18940726 00000726 Blake Edwards, movie director (1922)%s19220726 00000726 Carl Jung, the psychologist, is born (1875)%s18750726 00000726 George Bernard Shaw born (1856)%s18560726 00000726 Mick Jagger born (Kent, England, 1943)%s19430726 00000726 Robert Graves, English-born American author and critic, is born (1895)%s18950726 00000726 Stanley Kubrick, movie director (1928)%s19280726 00000726 Susan George, actress (1950)%s19500726 00000726 Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis player (1954)%s19540726 00000727 Bugs Bunny (1940)%s19400727 00000727 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, dies (1946)%s19460727 00000727 James Mason, actor, dies in Lausanne, Switzerland (1984)%s19840727 00000727 Johann Bernoulli, mathematician, is born (1667)%s16670727 00000727 John Dalton, English chemist and physicist, dies (1844)%s18440727 00000727 Peggy Fleming, ice skater, is born (1948)%s19480727 00000727 The deposed Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt (1980)%s19800727 00000727 Walt Gallagher, Orange County Sheriff (1940)%s19400727 00000728 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former wife of President Kennedy, is born (1929)%s19290728 00000728 Jim Davis, "Garfield" creator (1945)%s19450728 00000728 Johann Sebastian Bach, organist and composer, dies in Leipzig Germany (1750)%s17500728 00000728 Richard Wright born (London, 1945)%s19450728 00000728 Robespierre dies on the guillotine like those he sent before him (1794)%s17940728 00000728 Sally Struthers, actress (1948)%s19480728 00000729 Booth Tarkington, novelist (1869)%s18690729 00000729 David Niven, actor, dies (1983)%s19830729 00000729 King Olaf II of Norway was killed in battle (1030)%s10300729 00000729 Marilyn Quayle (1949)%s19490729 00000729 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts' (1907)%s19070729 00000729 Mussolini, Italian dictator, is born (1883)%s18830729 00000729 Peter Jennings, national news anchorman, is born (1938)%s19380729 00000729 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in St. Paul's Cathedral (1981)%s19810729 00000729 Raymond Massey, actor, dies (1983)%s19830729 00000729 Robert Fuller, actor (1934)%s19340729 00000729 Siberian peasant, Grigori Rasputin, powerful influence on Nicolas II, is born (1871)%s18710729 00000729 Sigmund Romberg, operetta composer, was born in Hungary (1887)%s18870729 00000729 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, dies in Auvers, France (1890)%s18900729 00000730 Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor (1947)%s19470730 00000730 Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, baseball great, is born (1891)%s18910730 00000730 Delta Burke, actress (1956)%s19560730 00000730 Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist (1939)%s19390730 00000730 Emily Bronte, author of "Wuthering Heights", is born (1818)%s18180730 00000730 Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, is born (1863)%s18630730 00000730 Kate Bush, singer (1958)%s19580730 00000730 Paul Anka, singer (1941)%s19410730 00000730 Peter Bogdanovich, director (1939)%s19390730 00000731 Curt Gowdy, national sportscaster, is born (1919)%s19190731 00000731 Geraldine Chaplin, actress (1944)%s19440731 00000731 Ignatius Loyola, Jesuit founder, dies (1556)%s15560731 00000731 Milton Friedman, economist, is born (1912)%s19120731 00000801 Arthur Hill, actor (1922)%s19220801 00000801 Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian, is born (1933)%s19330801 00000801 Francis Gary Powers, the once captured U-2 pilot, was killed while flying a helicopter for a Los Angeles television station (1977)%s19770801 00000801 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner', is born (1779)%s17790801 00000801 Herman Melville, author, born (1819)%s18190801 00000801 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck is born in France (1744)%s17440801 00000801 Jerry Garcia, rock musician, is born (1942)%s19420801 00000801 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast. (1815)%s18150801 00000801 St. Peter is executed (67)%s00670801 00000801 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis. (1770)%s17700801 00000801 Yves St. Laurent, fashion designer, is born (1936)%s19360801 00000802 "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed in Deadwood, S.D. (1876)%s18760802 00000802 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, dies (1922)%s19220802 00000802 Beatrice Straight, actress (1918)%s19180802 00000802 Carroll O'Connor, actor (1924)%s19240802 00000802 Enrico Caruso dies of pleurisy (1921)%s19210802 00000802 Fritz Lang, film director, dies (1976)%s19760802 00000802 Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist and paper manufacturer, dies (1799)%s17990802 00000802 Joanna Cassidy, actress (1945)%s19450802 00000802 Myrna Loy, actress (1905)%s19050802 00000802 Peter O'Toole, actor (1932)%s19320802 00000802 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel. (1923)%s19230802 00000802 William II of England was killed in a hunting accident (1100)%s11000802 00000803 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator. (1811)%s18110803 00000803 John Landis, movie director (1940)%s19400803 00000803 John Stennis, Former Sen.(D-Miss.) (1901)%s19010803 00000803 Lenny Bruce dies of morphine overdose (1966)%s19660803 00000803 Leon Uris, author (1924)%s19240803 00000803 Martin Sheen, actor (1940)%s19400803 00000803 Tony Bennett, singer (1926)%s19260803 00000804 Hans Christian Andersen dies (1875)%s18750804 00000804 Mary Decker Slaney, track star (1958)%s19580804 00000804 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil. (1755)%s17550804 00000804 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was born (1792)%s17920804 00000804 The Queen Mother Elizabeth is born (1900)%s19000804 00000805 Guy de Maupassant is born (1850)%s18500805 00000805 John Houston, film maker, born (1906)%s19060805 00000805 John Saxon, actor (1935)%s19350805 00000805 Loni Anderson, the actress and beauty, is born in St. Paul, Minn. (1945)%s19450805 00000805 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in Los Angeles. (1962)%s19620805 00000805 Neil Armstrong, 1st Moonwalker (1930)%s19300805 00000805 Samantha Sang, singer (1953)%s19530805 00000805 Xerxes I of Persia dies (465 BC) 00000806 Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, dies at age of 67 (1623)%s16230806 00000806 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies (1637)%s16370806 00000806 Dave Marsh, WESH-Channel 2 meteorologist (1942)%s19420806 00000806 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England. (1809)%s18090806 00000806 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, is born (1911)%s19110806 00000806 Peter Bonerz, actor (1938)%s19380806 00000806 Richard Burton, the actor, dies (1984)%s19840806 00000806 Robert Mitchum, actor (1917)%s19170806 00000806 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin (1881)%s18810806 00000806 Soleil Moon Frye, actress (1976)%s19760806 00000807 Alberto Salazar, marathon runner (1958)%s19580807 00000807 B.J. Thomas, singer (1942)%s19420807 00000807 Garrison Keillor, humorist (1942)%s19420807 00000807 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery (1783)%s17830807 00000807 King Herod, persecutor of the Apostles, dies (44)%s00440807 00000807 Lana Cantrell, singer (1943)%s19430807 00000807 Leonidas of Sparta, Greek hero, dies (480 BC) 00000807 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible, is born (1886)%s18860807 00000807 Mata Hari, the spy, is born (1876)%s18760807 00000807 Stan Freberg, writer-producer (1926)%s19260807 00000808 Beatrice, Britain's Princess (1988)%s19880808 00000808 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect (1763)%s17630808 00000808 Connie Stevens, actress (1938)%s19380808 00000808 Donny Most, actor (1953)%s19530808 00000808 Dustin Hoffman, actor, is born in Los Angeles (1937)%s19370808 00000808 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, is born (1880)%s18800808 00000808 Esther Williams, actress (1923)%s19230808 00000808 Keith Carradine, actor (1950)%s19500808 00000808 Mel Tillis, singer (1932)%s19320808 00000808 Peter Weir, movie director (1944)%s19440808 00000808 Rudi Gernreich, designed 1st women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt (1922)%s19220808 00000808 Sara Teasdale, American poet, is born (1884)%s18840808 00000808 Sylvia Sidney, actress (1910)%s19100808 00000809 Betty Boop (1930)%s19300809 00000809 David Steinberg, comedian-director (1942)%s19420809 00000809 Doug Williams, quarterback (1955)%s19550809 00000809 Herman Talmadge, former Georgia Senator (1913)%s19130809 00000809 Ken Norton, boxer (1945)%s19450809 00000809 Melanie Griffith, actor (1957)%s19570809 00000809 Ralph Houk, former baseball manager (1919)%s19190809 00000809 Sam Elliott, actor (1944)%s19440809 00000809 Sammy Duvall, water-skier and Windermere, FL resident (1962)%s19620809 00000809 Whitney Houston, singer (1963)%s19630809 00000810 Eddie Fisher, singer (1928)%s19280810 00000810 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933) (1874)%s18740810 00000810 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) born (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947)%s19470810 00000810 Jimmy Dean, singer (1928)%s19280810 00000810 Patti Austin, singer (1948)%s19480810 00000810 Rhonda Fleming, actress (1923)%s19230810 00000810 Rosanna Arquette, actress (1959)%s19590810 00000810 The original Rin Tin Tin dies (1932)%s19320810 00000811 Alex Haley, author (1921)%s19210811 00000811 Eric Carmen, singer (1949)%s19490811 00000811 Mike Douglas, former TV talk show host (1925)%s19250811 00000811 Rev. Jerry Falwell (1933)%s19330811 00000811 Steve Rondinaro, WESH-Channel 2 news anchor (1954)%s19540811 00000812 B. Kliban, cartoonist best known for his "CAT" character, dies (1990)%s19900812 00000812 Cecil B. deMille, directed God. (1881)%s18810812 00000812 Dale Bumpers, politician (1925)%s19250812 00000812 George Hamilton, actor (1939)%s19390812 00000812 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. (1851)%s18510812 00000812 John Derek, director (1926)%s19260812 00000812 Larry Ziegler, golfer (1939)%s19390812 00000812 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas. (1911)%s19110812 00000812 Thomas Mann, American author, dies (1955)%s19550812 00000812 William Blake, English poet, dies (1827)%s18270812 00000813 Alfred Hitchcock, film producer, born (1899)%s18990813 00000813 Anders Jonas Angstrom born (1814)%s18140813 00000813 Annie Oakley born (1860)%s18600813 00000813 Dan Fogelberg, singer, is born (Peoria, IL, 1951)%s19510813 00000813 Don Ho, singer (1930)%s19300813 00000813 Fidel Castro, Cuban leader, born (1926)%s19260813 00000813 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet. (1655)%s16550813 00000813 Kenneth Ernst, "Mary Worth" artist since 1942, dies at age 67 (1985)%s19850813 00000813 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights. (1818)%s18180813 00000813 Pat Harrington, actor (1929)%s19290813 00000814 Alice Ghostley, actress, is born (1926)%s19260814 00000814 Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and theatrical director dies (1956)%s19560814 00000814 Buddy Greco, singer (1926)%s19260814 00000814 David Crosby, singer, is born in Los Angeles (1941)%s19410814 00000814 Earl Weaver, baseball manager (1930)%s19300814 00000814 Robyn Smith, jockey (1944)%s19440814 00000814 Russell Baker, newspaper columnist (1925)%s19250814 00000814 Susan Saint James, actress, is born (1946)%s19460814 00000814 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills (1951)%s19510814 00000815 Janice Rule, actress (1931)%s19310815 00000815 Jim Dale, actor (1935)%s19350815 00000815 Julia Child, chef. (1912)%s19120815 00000815 Linda Ellerbee, author-journalist (1944)%s19440815 00000815 Macbeth, King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan. (1057)%s10570815 00000815 Mary Queen of Scots was married to the Dauphin. She was 6 years old (1548)%s15480815 00000815 Mike Connors, actor (1925)%s19250815 00000815 Napoleon Bonaparte was born (1769)%s17690815 00000815 Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum president (1924)%s19240815 00000815 Princess Anne of England was born (1950)%s19500815 00000815 Robert Bolt, playwright (1924)%s19240815 00000815 Rose Marie, actress (1925)%s19250815 00000815 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia. (1803)%s18030815 00000815 Sir Walter Scott is born (1771)%s17710815 00000815 Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, archaeologist, adventurer, and author, is born in Wales (1877)%s18770815 00000815 Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist (1935)%s19350815 00000815 Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska (1935)%s19350815 00000816 Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, is born (1809)%s18090816 00000816 Anita Gillette, actress (1936)%s19360816 00000816 Ann Blyth, actress (1928)%s19280816 00000816 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies (1821)%s18210816 00000816 Babe Ruth, baseball player, dies (1948)%s19480816 00000816 Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis at age 42. (1977)%s19770816 00000816 Eydie Gorme, singer (1932)%s19320816 00000816 Fess Parker, actor (1925)%s19250816 00000816 Frank Gifford, sportscaster (1930)%s19300816 00000816 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for it's fine drawing and historical detail, is born (1892)%s18920816 00000816 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form, is born (1884)%s18840816 00000816 Julie Newmar, tall and beautiful Scandinavian actress, is born (1935)%s19350816 00000816 Lesley Ann Warren, actress (1946)%s19460816 00000816 Madonna, singer (1958)%s19580816 00000816 Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister (1913)%s19130816 00000816 Robert Culp, actor (1930)%s19300816 00000816 Timothy Hutton, actor (1960)%s19600816 00000817 Belinda Carlisle, singer (1958)%s19580817 00000817 Davy Crockett, American folk hero, is born (1786)%s17860817 00000817 Donnie Wahlberg, singer (1969)%s19690817 00000817 Ira Gershwin, lyricist and brother of George Gershwin, dies (1983)%s19830817 00000817 Mae West, actress, is born (1892)%s18920817 00000817 Pearl Bailey, Singer with the sexy, throaty drawl, died at age 72. (1990)%s19900817 00000817 Robert DeNiro, actor (1943)%s19430817 00000818 Gail Fisher, actress (1935)%s19350818 00000818 Genghis Khan, Mongol emperor, dies (1227)%s12270818 00000818 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor (1970)%s19700818 00000818 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain. (1834)%s18340818 00000818 Martin Mull, actor-comedian (1943)%s19430818 00000818 Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark, is born (1774)%s17740818 00000818 Pearl Baily, spiritual singer, dies (1990)%s19900818 00000818 Robert Redford, the actor, is born (1937)%s19370818 00000818 Roman Polanski, filmmaker (1933)%s19330818 00000818 Rosalynn Carter, former first lady, born (1927)%s19270818 00000818 Shelley Winters, actress (1922)%s19220818 00000818 Virginia Dare, the first woman to be born in America of English parents, is born in North Carolina (1587)%s15870818 00000819 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, dies (1990)%s19900819 00000819 Blaise Pascal, the mathematician and philosopher, died (1662)%s16620819 00000819 Count Rumford, aka Benjamin Thompson, Physicist, inventor and adventurer, dies (1814)%s18140819 00000819 Debra Paget, actress (1933)%s19330819 00000819 Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek producer (1921)%s19210819 00000819 Gerald McRaney, actor (1948)%s19480819 00000819 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England. (1646)%s16460819 00000819 Ogden Nash, humorist, born (1902)%s19020819 00000819 Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, born (1871)%s18710819 00000819 Ring Lardner Junior, author (1915)%s19150819 00000819 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks. (1785)%s17850819 00000819 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (1931)%s19310819 00000820 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893) (1833)%s18330820 00000820 Connie Chung, network newscaster, is born (1946)%s19460820 00000820 Isaac Hayes, singer (1942)%s19420820 00000820 Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940)%s19400820 00000820 Rajiv Gandhi, former prime minister of India (1944)%s19440820 00000820 Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) born (Worcestershire, England, 1948)%s19480820 00000821 Count Basie, jazz pianist and bandleader, is born (1906)%s19060821 00000821 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building. (1660)%s16600821 00000821 Jim McMahon, football quarterback (1959)%s19590821 00000821 Kenny Rogers, singer (1938)%s19380821 00000821 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, is born but the birth is not registered till three days later to avoid the registration number 13 (1930)%s19300821 00000822 Carl Yastrzemski, baseball great (1939)%s19390822 00000822 Cindy Williams, actress (1948)%s19480822 00000822 Claude Debussy, composer, born (1862)%s18620822 00000822 Huey Newton, was found shot to death in Oakland, California (1989)%s19890822 00000822 King Richard III of England, last of the Plantagenets, dies in the Battle of Bosworh Field ending the War of the Roses. (1485)%s14850822 00000822 Mats Wilander, tennis star (1964)%s19640822 00000822 Morton Dean, newsman (1935)%s19350822 00000822 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, is born (1920)%s19200822 00000822 Valerie Harper, actress, is born (1940)%s19400822 00000823 Barbara Eden, actress, is born (1934)%s19340823 00000823 Gene Kelly, dancer and actor, born (1912)%s19120823 00000823 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer. (1869)%s18690823 00000823 Keith Moon born (London, 1947)%s19470823 00000823 Louis XVI, future French king, is born at Versailes (1754)%s17540823 00000823 Mark Russell, political satirist, is born (1932)%s19320823 00000823 Mike Elliott, deejay WOMX-FM (105.1) Orlando, FL. (1959)%s19590823 00000823 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, was born in Rhode Island (1785)%s17850823 00000823 Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist, dies (1960)%s19600823 00000823 Patricia McBride, ballet dancer, is born (1942)%s19420823 00000823 Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan, is born (1952)%s19520823 00000823 Rudolph Valentino, silent film actor, dies at the age of 31 (1926)%s19260823 00000823 Shelley (sic) Long, actess, is born (1949)%s19490823 00000823 Terry Catledge, Orlando Magic forward (1963)%s19630823 00000823 Vera Miles, actress, is born (1930)%s19300823 00000824 Cal Ripken Jr., All-Star shortstop (1960)%s19600824 00000824 Dennis James, TV host (1917)%s19170824 00000824 Durward Kirby, TV personality (1912)%s19120824 00000824 Gerry Cooney, boxer (1956)%s19560824 00000824 Il Parmigianino, aka Francesco Mazzola, painter, dies Cremona, Italy (1540)%s15400824 00000824 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author, is born (1899)%s18990824 00000824 Marlee Matlin, actress (1965)%s19650824 00000824 Pliny the Elder, naturalist and author, dies during the Vesuvius eruption (79)%s00790824 00000824 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables (1816)%s18160824 00000824 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships (1886)%s18860824 00000825 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event) (1927)%s19270825 00000825 Anne Archer, actress (1947)%s19470825 00000825 David Hume, philosopher, dies (1776)%s17760825 00000825 Francis Bret Harte, American author, is born (1836)%s18360825 00000825 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies (1900)%s19000825 00000825 Gene Simmons, rock singer-actor (1949)%s19490825 00000825 Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, is born (1530)%s15300825 00000825 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, is born (1918)%s19180825 00000825 Pat Clarke, WFTV-Channel 9 sports anchor, Orlando, Fl. (1959)%s19590825 00000825 Sean Connery, actor most famous for his roles as James Bond, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1930)%s19300825 00000825 Tom Skerritt, actor (1933)%s19330825 00000825 Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo comic strip, is born (1913)%s19130825 00000825 William Herschel dies (1822)%s18220825 00000826 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, dies (1723)%s17230826 00000826 Ben J. Wattenberg, author (1933)%s19330826 00000826 Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post Executive Editor (1921)%s19210826 00000826 Charlie Parker, jazz guitarist, is born (1920)%s19200826 00000826 Geraldine Ferraro, former Democratic vice-presidential nominee (1935)%s19350826 00000826 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube) (1873)%s18730826 00000826 Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband) born (not in a can) in Bavaria (1819)%s18190826 00000826 Sir Robert Walpole, Whig statesman and British Prime Minister, is born (1676)%s16760826 00000826 Valerie Simpson, singer (1948)%s19480826 00000827 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower (1899)%s18990827 00000827 Daryl Dragon, the "captain" of Captain and Tenille (1942)%s19420827 00000827 Linda Chapin, Orange County Commissioner, Orlando, FL. (1941)%s19410827 00000827 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969) (1908)%s19080827 00000827 Martha Raye, actress-comedian (1916)%s19160827 00000827 Mother Teresa, Nobel peace laureate (1910)%s19100827 00000827 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker (1882)%s18820827 00000827 Stevie Ray Vaughn dies in helicopter crash (East Troy, WI, 1990)%s19900827 00000827 Titian, the Venetian painter, dies (1576)%s15760827 00000827 Tommy Sands, actor (1937)%s19370827 00000827 Tuesday Weld, actress (1943)%s19430827 00000828 Ben Gazzara, actor (1930)%s19300828 00000828 David Soul, actor (1943)%s19430828 00000828 Donald O'Connor, actor-dancer (1925)%s19250828 00000828 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, novelist, is born (1749)%s17490828 00000828 Leo Tolstoy was born (1828)%s18280828 00000828 Nancy Kulp, actress (1921)%s19210828 00000828 Richard Sanders, actor (1940)%s19400828 00000828 Roger Tory Peterson, bird lover and naturalist author, was born (1908)%s19080828 00000828 Scott Hamilton, skating champion (1958)%s19580828 00000828 The poet Shelley elopes with Harriet Westbrook (1811)%s18110828 00000829 Barry Sullivan, actor (1912)%s19120829 00000829 Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Morman Church, died in Utah. (1877)%s18770829 00000829 Edmond Hoyle, the games master, dies at 97 (1769)%s17690829 00000829 Elliott Gould, actor (1938)%s19380829 00000829 George Montgomery, actor (1916)%s19160829 00000829 Jean Ingres, the artist, is born (1780)%s17800829 00000829 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, is born (1632)%s16320829 00000829 Lee Marvin, actor, dies (1987)%s19870829 00000829 Michael Jackson, singer and dancer, born in Gary, Indiana (1958)%s19580829 00000829 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, physician and father of the jurist (1809)%s18090829 00000829 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor-director (1923)%s19230829 00000829 St. John the Baptist beheaded by Herod rewarding Salome for dance (30)%s00300829 00000829 William Friedkin, director (1939)%s19390829 00000830 Cleopatra commits suicide with a snake (30 BC) 00000830 Fred MacMurray, actor (1908)%s19080830 00000830 John W. Mauchly born (1907)%s19070830 00000830 Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, English author ("Frankenstein") is born (1797)%s17970830 00000830 Regina Resnik, opera singer (1922)%s19220830 00000830 Shirley Booth, actress (1907)%s19070830 00000830 Ted Williams, Hall-of-Famer (1918)%s19180830 00000831 Buddy Hackett, comedian (1924)%s19240831 00000831 Debbie Gibson, singer (1970)%s19700831 00000831 Frank Robinson, baseball great (1935)%s19350831 00000831 Itzhak Perlman, violinist (1945)%s19450831