Happy Birthday RIP Eugene “Gore” Vidal(1925–2012) ; “Chubby Checker”(Ernest Evans)–73 Uwe “Roy” Horn–70 Lindsey Buckingham–65 Pamela Hensley–64 Peter “Jack” Wagner–55 “Tommy Lee”(Thomas Bass)–52 Clive Owen–50 Gwen Stefani–45 Neve Campbell–41 Lena Headey–41 Sean William Scott–38 “Jake Shears”(Jason Sellards)–36 Ashley Simpson–30 ; 1955 – “Captain Kangaroo” premiered on CBS and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on ABC. ‪

Happy Birthday RIP Mohandas Gandhi(1869–1948) William “Bud” Abbott(1895–1974) Henry Graham Greene(1904–1991) Julius “Groucho” Marx(1890–1977) ; Rex Reed–76 Donna Karan–66 Avery Brooks–66 Anna-Lou “Annie” Leibovitz–65 Mike Rutherford–64 “Sting”(Gordon Sumner)–63 Lorraine Bracco–60 Robbie Nevil–56 Kelly Ripa–44 Tiffany Darwisch–43 ; 1950 The comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz was first published. ; 1959 “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS.

Happy Birthday RIP George Peppard(1928–1994) Walter Matthow(1920–2000) Thomas Bosley(1927–2010) ; James Earl Carter Jr.–90 Julie Andrews(Julia Wells)–79 Randall Quaid–64 Elizabeth Dennehy–54 Mark McGwire–51 Theodore King–49 Cindy Margolis–49 Zacharius Galifianakis–45 Rupert Friend–33 ; 1908 – Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825.

Happy Birthday RIP Truman Capote(Persons 1924–1984) ; Angie Dickinson(Angeline Brown)–83  Johnny Mathis–78 Marilyn McCoo–70 Countess Roza-Marie Lubienska(“Rula Lenska”)–67 Barry Williams(Blenkhorn)–60 Patrice Rushen–60 Francine Drescher–57 Eric Stoltz–53 Marion Cotillard–40 ; 1960 – The Flintstones premieres on ABC TV (Originally called “Flagstones” in 1959 pilot).

Happy Birthday RIP Orvon “Gene” Autry(1907–1998) Madeline Kahn(Wolfson 1942–1999) Larry Linville(1939–2000) ; Jerry Lee Lewis–79 Ian McShane–72 Bryant Gumbel–66 Andrew “Dice” Clay Silverstein–57 Roger Bart–52 Jill Whelan–48 Luke Goss–46 Zachary Levi Pugh–34 ; 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

Happy Birthday RIP Seymour Cray (1925–1996) Edward “Ed” Sullivan(1901–1974) James “J.T.” Walsh(1943–1998) ; Brigitte Bardot–80 Jeffrey Jones–68 Jane “Janeane” Garofalo–50 Leilani Sarelle Figalan–48 Mira Sorvino–47 Naomi Watts–46 Daniel Bonjour–33 Hilary Duff–27 ; 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

Happy Birthday RIP Will Sampson(1933–1987) Donald Cornelius(1936–2012) “William Conrad”(John Cann 1920–1994) ; “Jayne Meadows”(Jane Cotter)–94 Anthony Wilford Brimley–80 Marvin Aday(“Meatloaf”)–67 Elizabeth “Liz” Torres–67  Shaun Cassidy–56 Christopher Cousins–54 William Patrick Muldoon III–46 Phoebe Price–42 Gwyneth Paltrow–42 Avril Lavigne–30 ; 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

Happy Birthday RIP Patrick O’Neal(1927–1994) Joyce Jameson(1932–1987) ; “Donna Douglas”(Dorothy Smith)–81 Anne Robinson–70 Olivia Newton-John–66 Linda Hamilton–58 Melissa Sue Anderson–52 James Caviezel–46 Mark Famiglietti–35 Jessie Pavelka–32 ; 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General. ‪#‎YouAreTheWeakestLink‬

Happy Birthday RIP Christopher Reeve(1952–2004) Juliet Prowse(1936–1996) William Faulkner(1897–1962) ; Barbara Walters–85 Michael Douglas–70 Cheryl Tiegs–67 Anson William Heimlich–65 Mark Hamill–63 Michael Madsen–57 Heather Locklear–53 Tate Donovan–51 Willard “Will” Smith–46 Catherine Jones(Douglas)–45 Hal Harry Sparks III–45 ; 1493 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

Happy Birthday RIP Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald(1896–1940) Audra Lindley(1918–1997) Phillip Hartmann(1948–1998) Jim Henson(1936–1990) ; Antonia “Nia” Vardalos–52 Kevin Sorbo–56 Andrew Leeds–36 Jason Sarcinelli–36 Justin Bruening–35 ; 1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS. ; 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service(“email”).