Happy Birthday RIP Raymond Charles Robinson(1930–2004) “Mickey Rooney”(Joseph Yule Jr 1920–2014) ; Julio Iglesias de la Cueva–74 Mary Kay Place–70 Bruce Springsteen–68 “Rosalind” Chao( 赵家玲)–60 Jason Alexander(Greenspan)–58 Kenneth “Chi” McBride–56 Alexander Proyas–54 Anthony Mackie–39 ; 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune ; 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released which was based on Gecko and HTML4 and successor to Netscape Navigator

Happy Birthday RIP Erich von Stroheim(1885–1957) John Houseman(Jacques Haussmann 1902–1988) ; Thomas “Tommy” Lasorda–90 Antonia Basilotta(“Toni Basil”)–74 David Coverdale–66 Shari Belafonte–63 Deborah “Debby” Boone–61 Joan Jett(Larkin)–59 Bonnie Hunt–56 Laura Vandervoort–33 ; 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published

Happy Birthday RIP Upton Sinclair(1878–1968) Jonathan Hardy(1940–2012) Anne Meara(1929–2015) ; “Sophia Loren”(Sofia Scicolone)–83 Karen Sharpe–83 Carole “Candy” Spelling–72 George Raymond Martin–69 Gary Cole–61 Robert Rusler–52 Kristen Johnston–50 Michelle Visage(Shupack)–49 Bradford Beyer Jr–44 Jon Bernthal–41 ; 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother Frank road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts ; 2011 – The United States military ends its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time

​Happy Birthday RIP Dolores Costello(1903–1979) Hiram “Hank” Williams(1923–1953) Roderick “Roddy” McDowall(1928–1998) Anne Bancroft(Anna Italiano 1931–2005) Paul Benedict(1938–2008) “Lupe Ontiveros”(Guadalupe Moreno 1942–2012) Johnathan Ritter(1948–2003) ; John “Fee” Waybill–67 Cassandra Peterson(“Elvira”)–66 Rita Rudner–64 Wendy Worthington–63 Bryan Singer–52 Kyle Chandler–52 Jeffrey Matthew Settle–48 Nathan “Nate” Berkus–46 Griffith Feuerstein(“Griff Furst”)–36 ; 1972 – The comedy series “M.A.S.H.” standing for “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” premiered on CBS ; 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Happy Birthday RIP Agatha Christie(Miller 1890–1976) Vina Fay Wray(1907–2004) Julius “Nipsey” Russell(1918–2005) John “Jackie” Cooper Jr(1922–2011) Roy Brocksmith(1945–2001) Wendie Jo Sperber(1958–2005) ; Norman Crosby–90 Tommy Lee Jones–71 Daniel Marino Jr–56 Joshua Charles–46 Edward Thomas Hardy–40 Tammie Brown(Keith Schubert)–37 Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor–33 Heidi Montag–31 ; 1963 – four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era

Happy Birthday RIP Amy Winehouse(1983–2011) ; Walter Koenig–81 Davenie “Joey” Heatherton–73 Jon “Bowzer” Bauman–70 Nigel “Sam” Neill–70 Alexis “Faith” Ford–53 Kimberly Payne Williams–46 Andrew Lincoln(Clutterbuck)–44 Jesse James–87 ; 1985 – The Golden Girls, a television sitcom, premieres on NBC

​Happy Birthday RIP Reta Shaw(1912–1982) Emilie Claudette Chauchoin(“Colbert” 1903–1996) Melvin Tormé (1925–1999) Nell Carter(Hardy 1948–2003) Richard Kiel(1939–2014) ; “Barbara Bain”(Millicent Fogel)–86 “Eileen Fulton”(Margaret McLarty)–84 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset–73 Peter Cetera–73 Jean Smart–66 Geraldine “Geri” Jewell–61 Dominic Fumusa–48 Fiona Apple Maggart–40 Bennett “Ben” Savage–37 Jason Cook–37 ; 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage (not only RAM memory)

​Happy Birthday RIP Maurice Chevalier(1888–1972) James “Jesse” Owens(1913–1980) “Barry White”(Barrence Carter 1944–2003) Paul Walker IV(1973–2013) ; Ian Holm Cuthbert–86 Linda Gray–77 Joseph Pantoliano–66 Peter Scolari–62 Louis Szekely(“CK”)–50 William Joshua Hopkins–47 Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan–39 Jennifer Hudson–36 Alfie Allen–31 ; 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit

Happy Birthday RIP Herbert Lom(Schluderpacheru 1917–2012) ; Henry Earl Holliman–89 Brian De Palma–77 Amy Madigan–67 Roxann Dawson(Caballero)–59 John Hawkes(Perkins)–58 Virginia Madsen–56 Christina “Kristy” McNichol–55 Richard “Moby” Hall–52 Joseph Harry Connick Jr.–50 Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges–40 ; 2001 – Al Qaida suicide hijackers crashed two jet airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City causing both 110-story twin towers to collapse killing nearly 3,000 people. #NeverForget

Happy Birthday Arnold Palmer(1929–2016) ; Karl Lagerfeldt–84 Jose Feliciano Garcia–72 Anthony Joseph Pereira(“Joe Perry”)–67 Harold “Harry” Groener–66 Amy Irving–64 Colin Firth–57 Guy Ritchie–49 James Duval–45 Matthew Ryan Phillippe–43 ; 1955 – “Gunsmoke” premiered on CBS (the second of the Western genre for Television, first being the “Lone Ranger”)