Happy Birthday Carol Burnett–92 Jet Li Lian Jie( 李連杰)–62 Kevin “James” Knipfing–60 Thomas “Tom” Welling–48 Stana Katic–47 Channing Tatum–45 ; 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 people died instantly