Happy Birthday RIP “Mark Twain”(Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835–1910) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1874–1965) Gordon Parks(1912–2006) Richard “Dick” Clark Jr(1929–2012) Martin E. Brooks(Baum 1925–2015) Robert Guillaume(Williams 1927–2017) Sir Ridley Scott–80 Mandel “Mandy” Patinkin–65 “Billy Idol”(William Broad)–62 “Stacey Q” Swain–59 Benjamin Stiller–52 “Clay Aiken”(Clayton Grissom)–39 Kaley Cuoco–32 ; 1982 – Michael Jackson’s second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history

Happy Birthday RIP Garry Shandling(1949–2016) ; Jacqueline “Jackie” Stallone(Labofish)–96 Vincent Scully–90 Jacques Chirac–85 “Diane Ladd”(Rose Ladnier)–82 Chuck Mangione–77 Suzanne “Suzy” Chaffee–71 Joel Coen–63 Howard Mandel–62 Cathy Moriarty–57 Thomas Sizemore–56 Andrew McCarthy–55 Donald Cheadle Jr–53 Jonathan Knight–49 Anna Faris–41 Lucas Black–35 ; 1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California ; 1877 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time with the words “Mary Had A Little Lamb” reproduced.

Happy Birthday RIP Bruce Lee(李小龍 1940–1973) Edward “Eddie” Rabbitt(1941–1998) Johnny “Jimi” Hendrix(1942–1970) James Avery(1945–2013) ; Heidemarie Jiline “Jil” Sander–74 William “Bill” Nye–62 William Fichtner–61 Caroline Kennedy–60 Robin Givens–53 Michael Vartan–49 Jaleel White–41 ; 1910 – New York’s Penn Station opened ; 1924 – 1st Macys Thanksgiving Parade in NYC. ; 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White #History

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Monroe Schulz(1922–2000) Robert Goulet(1933–2007) Marian Mercer(1935–2011) ; Richard “Rich” Little–79 “Tina Turner”(Anna Mae Bullock)–78 Mark Margolis–78 Daniel Davis–72 Ryan Currier(Robbins)–45 Adam Harrington–45 Peter Facinelli–44 Natasha Bedingfield–36 ; 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded

Happy Birthday RIP John Kennedy Jr(1960–1999) Ricardo Montalbán y Merino(1920–2009) Giuseppe “Joe” DiMaggio Jr(1914–1999) ; Benjamin Stein–72 John Larroquette Jr–69 Amy Grant–56 William Burke–50 Stacy Lattisaw–50 Jillian Hennessy–48 Christina Applegate–45 Jerry Ferrara–37 ; 1952 – Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play “The Mousetrap” opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history. It is still playing at St Martin’s Theatre in London.

Happy Birthday RIP Geraldine Fitzgerald(1913–2005) William Frank Buckley, Jr(1925–2008) ; William “Billy” Connolly–75 William Dwight Schultz–70 Denise Crosby–60 Amanda Wyss–57 Garret Dillahunt–53 Colin Hanks(Dillingham)–40 Katherine Heigl–39 ; 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”, which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology ; 1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters

Happy Birthday RIP “Boris Karloff”(William Pratt 1887–1969) Adolph “Harpo” Marx(1888–1964) Francis Michael Gough(1916–2011) Steven Landesberg(1936–2010) ; Bruce Vilanch–69 Bruce Hornsby–63 Robin Roberts–57 Vincent Cassel(Crochon)–51 Christopher Hardwick–46 Destiny “Miley” Cyrus–25 ; 1889 – The first jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco

Happy Birthday RIP “Rodney Dangerfield”(Jacob Cohen 1921–2004) ; Robert Vaughn(1932–2016) ; Billie Jean King(Moffit)–74 Jamie Leigh Curtis–59 Mariel Hemingway–56 Stephen Geoffreys(Miller)–53 Boris Becker–50 Mark Ruffalo–50 Scarlett Johansson–33 ; 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested that day

Happy Birthday RIP François-Marie Arouet(“Voltaire” 1694–1778) Corinne Griffith(Griffin 1894–1979) Stan Musial(1920–2013) Harold Ramis(1944–2014) ; Margaret “Marlo” Thomas–80 Goldie Hawn–72 Lorna Luft–65 Brian McNamara–57 Colette “Nicollette” Sheridan–54 Björk Guðmundsdóttir–52 Robert “Rib” Hillis–47 Jena Malone–33 ; 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sounds ; 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI (infancy of Internet which started in military as DARPA)

Happy Birthday RIP Robert F. Kennedy(1925–1968) Franklin Cover(1928–2006) “Richard Dawson”(Colin Emm 1932–2012) ; Richard “Dick” Smothers–78 Joseph Biden Jr–75 Veronica Hamel–74 Joseph Walsh–70 “Bo Derek”(Mary Collins)–61 Joel McHale–46 David O’Donnell–43 ; 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London (later Queen Elizabeth II) ; 1966 – The musical “Cabaret,” with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway ; 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System