Happy Birthday RIP Marvin Hamlisch(1944–2012) ; Sally Kellerman–80 Walter Stacy Keach Jr–76 Charles Haid III–74 Lars “Lasse” Hallström–71 Gerald “Jerry” Mathers–69 Joanna Gleason(Hall)–67 Dana Carvey–62 Liam Cunningham–56 Wentworth Miller III–45 Zachary Quinto–40 Justin Long–39 Dominic Cooper–39 ; 1924 – Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians

Happy Birthday RIP “Frank Morgan”(Francis Wuppermann 1890–1949) “Marilyn Monroe”(Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926–1962) Cleavon Little(1939–1992) Andy Griffith(1926–2012) ; Charles “Pat” Boone–83 Morgan Freeman–80 Rene Auberjonois–77 Brian Cox–71 John Price(“Pryce”)–70 Lisa Hartman–61 Heidi Klum–44 Alanis Morissette–43 Amy Schumer–36 ; 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns ; 1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released ; 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting
 

Happy Birthday RIP Walter “Walt” Whitman(1819–1892) Denholm Elliott(1922–1992) Dominic “Don” Ameche(Amici 1908–1993) ; Clinton Eastwood Jr–87 Sharon Gless–74 Joseph “Joe” Namath–74 Thomas Berenger(Moore)–68 Christopher Elliott–57 Lea Thompson–56 Corey Hart–55 Brooke Shields–52 Colin Farrell–41 ; 1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid”, is released ; 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, the Watergate scandal’s whistleblower

Happy Birthday RIP Mel Blanc(Melvin Blank 1908–1989) Benjamin “Benny” Goodman(1909–1986) ; Ruta Kilmonis(“Lee”)–82 Stephen Tobolowsky–66 Colm Meaney–64 Theodore “Ted” McGinley–59 Ralph Carter–56 Mark Sheppard–53 “Wynonna Judd”(Christina Ciminella)–53 Idina Menzel–46 Omri Katz–41 ; 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race

Happy Birthday RIP John F. Kennedy(1917–1963) Leslie “Bob” Hope(1903–2003) ; George Clifton James–96 Anthony Geary–70 Daniel “Danny” Elfman–64 Frank “Ted” Levine–60 Annette Bening-Beaty–59 Rupert Everett–58 Adrian Paul Hewett–58 Melissa Etheridge–56 Lisa Whelchel–54 David Burtka–42 Daniel Tosh–42 (Roderick) Laverne Cox–33 ; 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history

Happy Birthday RIP Ian Fleming(1908–1964) Zelda Rubinstein(1933–2010) Elizabeth Howland(1941–2015) ; Gladys Knight–73 John Fogerty–72 Brandon Cruz(Williams)–55 Kylie Minogue–49 Justin Kirk–48 Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger–39  Jesse Bradford Watrouse–38 Carey Mulligan–32 Joseph Cross–31 ; 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club ; 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication

Happy Birthday RIP Hubert Humphrey Jr(1911–1978) Vincent Price Jr(1911–1993) Christopher Lee(1922–2015) ; Heinz “Henry” Kissinger–94 Lee Meriwether–82 Louis Gossett Jr–81 “Siouxsie Sioux”(Susan Ballion)–60 Peri Gilpin(Oldham)–56 Adam Carolla–53 Todd Bridges–52 Edward McClintock–50 Joseph Fiennes–47 Paul Bettany–46 Christopher Colfer–27 ; 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage ; 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A

Happy Birthday RIP “John Wayne”(Marion Morrison 1907–1979) Peter Cushing(1913–1994) Miles Davis(1926–1991) “Peggy Lee”(Norma Egstrom 1920–2002) James Aurness(1923–2011) ; Brent Musburger–78 Stephanie “Stevie” Nicks–69 Philip Michael Thomas–68 Pamela Grier–68 Randall Hank Williams–68 Eugenie “Genie” Francis–55 Robert “Bobcat” Goldthwait–55 Leonard “Lenny” Kravitz–53 Helena Bonham Carter–51 Matthew Stone–46 Lauryn Hill–42 ; 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was $40.94. Today it’s value =  21,012.42

Happy Birthday RIP Ernest Hemingway(1899–1961) Jesse Donald Knotts(1924–2006) Robin Williams(1951–2014) ; Janet Reno–77 “Cat Stevens”(Steven Georgiou)–67 Garretson “Garry” Trudeau–67 Taco Ockerse–60 Jonathan Lovitz–58 Ike Eisenmann–53 Joshua Hartnett–37 Rory Culkin–26 ; 1925 – In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100

Happy Birthday RIP Natalia Zakharenko(“Natalie Wood” 1938–1981) ; Kimberly Carnes–70 Carlos Santana–68 Sandra Oh–44 Simon Rex Cutright–41 ; 1969 – Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon.