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July 12

Happy Birthday Bill Cosby-75  Christine “McVie” Perfect-69 Milton “Richard” Simmons-64 Cheryl “Ladd” Stoppelmoor-61 John “Topher” Grace-34 ; 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their  ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.

July 11

Happy Birthday Tab Hunter(Arthur Kelm)-81 Patricia “Bonnie” Pointer-62 Leon Spinks-59 Sela Ward-56 Suzanne “Vega” Peck-53 Greg Grunberg-46 Justin Chambers-42 Michael Rosenbaum-40 ; 1798 The U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress.

July 10

Happy Birthday RIP Fred Gwynne(1926 -1993) ; Ron Glass-67 Arlo Guthrie-65 Alejandro “Alec” Mapa-47 Gale Harold-43 Sofia Vergara-40 Jessica Simpson-32 ; 1964 – The album “A Hard Day’s Night” by the Beatles was released

July 9

Happy Birthday Brian Dennehy-74 Richard Roundtree-70 Dean Koontz-67 O.J. Simpson-65 Chris Cooper-61 John Tesh-60 Jimmy Smits-57 Tom Hanks-56 Kelly McGillis-55 Courtney Love Harrison-48 Scott Grimes-41 Fred Savage-36 ; 1816 – Argentina declared independence from Spain (Argentine Republic Independence Day)

July 8

Happy Birthday Jerry Vale(Gennaro Luigi Vitaliano)-80 Steve Lawrence(Sidney Leibowitz)-77 Jeffrey Tambor-68 Wolfgang Puck Topfschnig-49 Anjelica Huston-61 Kevin Bacon-54  Toby Keith Covel-51 Billy Crudup-44 Beck Campbell-42 Milo Ventimiglia-35 ; 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

July 7

Happy Birthday Carl “Doc” Severinsen-85 Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr)-72 Shelley Duvall-63 Barry “Cassidy” Reese-30 ; 1898 – The United States annexed Hawaii.

July 6

Happy Birthday RIP Janet Leigh(1927–2004) Merv Griffin (1925–2007) ; Nancy Reagan-91 Delloreese Early(Della Reese)-81 Ned Beatty-75  Bert Gervis(Burt Ward)-67 Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone-66 Geoffrey Rush-61 Grant Goodeve-60 Alice Tannenberg(Allyce Beasley-54) Jennifer Saunders-54 Christian J. Meoli-40 Gregory Smith-29 ; 1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.

July 5

Happy Birthday RIP Phineas Taylor Barnum(1810-1891) ; Katherine Helmond-83 Shirley Knight-76 Hugh Cregg(Huey Lewis)-62 Edith Falco-49 Kathryn Erbe-47 ; 1946 – The bikini made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris France 

July 4

Happy Birthday Eva Marie Saint-88 LuiGina Lollobrigida-85 Marvin Neil Simon-85 Geraldo Rivera-69 John Waite-57 ; 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence ; 1802 The U.S. Military Academy opened at West Point, N.Y

July 3

Happy Birthday Betty Buckley-65 Karin Jan Smithers-63 Montel Williams-56 Thomas Gibson-50 Martha Yeardley Smith-48 ; 1930 – Congress created the Veterans Administation.