Happy Birthday RIP George “Babe” Ruth(1895–1948) Bob Marley(1945–1981) Ronald Reagan(1911–2004);  Sári “Zsa Zsa” Gábor–97 “Mamie Van Doren”(Joan Olander)–83 Elmore “Rip” Torn–83 Mike Farrell–75 Tom Brokaw–74 Fabiano Forte(“Fabian”)–72 Natalie Cole–64 Kathy Najimy–57 William “Axl” Rose–53 Rick Astley–48 Joshua Stewart–37 Ben Lawson–34 ; 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens ; 1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.

Happy Birthday RIP Richmond “John” Carradine(1906–1988) Red Buttons(Aaron Chwatt 1919–2006) ; Henry “Hank” Aaron–79 David Selby–73 Barbara Hershey(Herzstein)–66 Thomas “Tom” Wilkinson–66 Timothy “Tim” Meadows–53 Jennifer Jason Leigh(Morrow)–52 Laura Linney–50 Thomas “Chris” Parnell–47 Robert “Bobby” Brown–45 Paul Vandervort–29 ; 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Lindbergh(1902–1974) Rosa McCauley Parks(1913–2005) Bettye Goldstein(“Betty Friedan” 1921–2006) Conrad Bain(1923–2013) ; David Brenner–78 Conrad John Schuck–74 Vincent Furnier(“Alice Cooper”)–66 Masanori Takahashi(“Kitaro”)–61 Oscar De La Hoya–41 Brandon “Bug” Hall–29 ; 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. ; 1974 – Patricia Hearst is thrown into a chevy sedan trunk and kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Happy Birthday RIP John Fiedler(1925–2005) ; Dr. Henry Heimlich–94 Fran Tarkenton–74 Blythe Danner–71 “Morgan Fairchild”(Patsy McClenny)–64 Joseph “Nathan” Lane–58 Maura Tierney–49 Isla Fisher–38 ; 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

Happy Birthday RIP Howard Johnson(1897–1972) Farrah Fawcett(1947–2009) ; Tom Smothers–77 Graham Nash–72 Brent Spiner–65 Christie Brinkley(Hudson)–60 Shakira Ripoll–37 ; 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated ; 1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.

Happy Birthday RIP William “Clark” Gable(1901–1960) Boris Yeltsin(Борис Ельцин 1931–2007) “Rick James”(James Johnson 1948–2004) Sherman Hemsley(1938–2012) ; Garrett Morris–77 Joseph “Joe” Sample–75 Lisa Marie Presley–46 Brian Krause–45 Michael C. Hall–43 Ronnie Kroell–31 ; 1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

Happy Birthday RIP Tallulah Bankhead(1902–1968) Jackie Robinson(1919–1972) Jean Simmons(1929–2010) Suzanne Pleshette(1937–2008) ; Carol Channing–93 Philip Glass–77 Harry Wayne Casey(“KC”)–63 Anthony LaPaglia–55 Kelly Lynch–55 Amelia “Minnie” Driver–44 “Portia de Rossi”(Amanda Rogers)–41 Kerry Washington–37 “Johnny Castle”(Rocco Santini)–34 Justin Timberlake–33 ; 1865 –  The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification ; 1949 – The first TV daytime soap opera, “These Are My Children,” was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

Happy Birthday RIP Franklin Roosevelt(1882–1945) Thomas “Dick” Martin(1922–2008) ; Eugene “Gene” Hackman–84 Vanessa Redgrave–77 Charles S. Dutton–63 Phil Collins–63 Jody Watley–55 Christian Bale–40 Wilmer Valderrama–34 ; 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.

Happy Birthday RIP John Forsythe(Freund 1918–2010) ; Tom Selleck–69 Ann Jillian(Nauseda)–64 Oprah Winfrey–60 Greg Louganis–54 Nicholas Turturro–52 Heather Graham–44 Sara Gilbert(Abeles)–39 Justin Hartley–37 Adam Lambert–32 ; 1845 – “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.

Happy Birthday “Alan Alda”(Alphonso D’Abruzzo)–78 Barbi Benton(Barbara Klein)–64 Sarah McLachlan–46 Joey Fatone Jr.–37 Nickolas “Nick” Carter–34 Elijah Wood–33 ; 1915 – The Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress ; 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.