Happy Birthday RIP Rodney Dangerfield(Jacob Cohen 1921–2004) ; Robert Vaughn–80 Billie Jean King(Moffit)–69 Jamie Leigh Curtis–54 Mariel Hemingway–51 Boris Becker–45 Mark Ruffalo–45 Scarlett Johansson–28 ; 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.

Happy Birthday Stan Musial–92 Margaret “Marlo” Thomas–75 Harold Ramis–68 Goldie Hawn–67 Lorna Luft–60 Colette “Nicollette” Sheridan–48 Björk Guðmundsdóttir–47 ; 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound ; 1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal “Annalen der Physik”. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

Happy Birthday RIP Robert F. Kennedy(1925–1968) Richard Dawson(Colin Emm 1932–2012) ; Dick Smothers–74 Joe Biden–70 Veronica Hamel–69 Joe Walsh–65 Bo Derek(Mary Collins)–56 Joel McHale–41 David O’Donnell–38 ; 1966 The musical “Cabaret,” with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway ; 1985 The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released

Happy Birthday RIP Gene Tierney(1920–1991) ; Larry King(Lawrence Zeiger)–79 Richard “Dick” Cavett–76 Robert “Ted” Turner III–74 Richard “Calvin” Klein–70 Robert Beltran–58 Allison Janney–53 Meg Ryan(Margaret Hyra)–51 Ann Curry–56 Alicia “Jodie” Foster–50 Jack Dorsey–35 ; 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. 

Happy Birthday RIP Louis Daguerre(1787–1851) Imogene Fernandez de Coca(1908–2001) ; Brenda Vaccaro–73 Linda Evans(Linda Evanstad)–70 Kevin Nealon–59 Kim Wilde(Kim Smith)–52 Owen Wilson–44 Chloë Sevigny–38 ; 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. ; 1928 – The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York City.

Happy Birthday RIP Rock Hudson(Roy Scherer 1925–1985) ; Gordon Lightfoot–74 Martin Scorsese–70 Mary “Lauren” Hutton–69 Danny DeVito–68 Lorne Michaels(Lipowitz)–68 RuPaul(Andre Charles)–52 Rachel McAdams–34 Isaac Hanson–32 ; 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

Happy Birthday RIP Oliver Burgess Meredith(1907–1997) ; David Leisure–62 Diana Krall–48 Lisa Bonet(Boney)–45 Margaret “Maggie” Gyllenhaal–35 ; 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Happy Birthday RIP Georgia O’Keeffe(1887–1986) ; Joseph Wapner–93 Ed Asner–83 Petula Clark–80 Sam Waterston–72 Anni-Frid Lyngstad–67 Jonny Lee Miller–40 Sean Murray–35 ; 1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.

Happy Birthday RIP Constance Ockelman(Veronica Lake 1922–1973) Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.(1927–1996) ; Peter Norton-69 Prince Charles Philip Mountbatten-Windsor–64 Condoleezza Rice–58 Yiànnis Hryssomàllis–58  Daniel Bernard Sweeney–51 Josh Duhamel–40 Russell Tovey–31 ; 1851 – Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was published.

Happy Birthday RIP Richard Mulligan(1932–2000) ; Garry Marshall(Garry Maschiarelli)–78 Joe Mantegna–65 Frances Conroy–59 Tracy Scoggins–59 Whoopi Goldberg(Caryn Johnson)–57 Jimmy Kimmel–45 Gerard Butler–43 Jordan Bridges–39 Michael Copon–30; 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. ; 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.