Happy Birthday RIP George “Babe” Ruth Jr (1895–1948) Robert “Bob” Marley (1945–1981) Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) Natalie Cole (1950–2015) Sári “Zsa Zsa” Gábor (1917–2016) Elmore “Rip” Torn Jr (1931–2019) ; “Mamie Van Doren”(Joan Olander)–92 Michael “Mike” Farrell–84 Thomas “Tom” Brokaw–83 Fabiano Forte(“Fabian”)–80 Kathy Najimy–66 William “Axl” Rose–61 Richard “Rick” Astley–57 Joshua Stewart–46 Alice Eve–41 ; 1952 – Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (Windsor) becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI.

Happy Birthday RIP Richmond “John” Carradine(1906–1988) “Red Buttons”(Aaron Chwatt 1919–2006) Henry “Hank” Aaron (1934–2020); David Selby–82 Barbara Hershey(Herzstein)–75 Thomas “Tom” Wilkinson–75 Timothy “Tim” Meadows–62 Jennifer Jason Leigh(Morrow)–61 Laura Linney–59 Thomas Christopher Parnell–56 Robert “Bobby” Brown–54 Paul Vandervort–38 Darren Criss–36 ; 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists studio (UA)

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) Rosa McCauley Parks (1913–2005) Bettye Goldstein(“Betty Friedan” 1921–2006) Conrad Bain (1923–2013) David Brenner (1936–2014) ; Conrad John Schuck–83 Vincent Furnier(“Alice Cooper”)–75 Masanori Takahashi(“Kitaro”)–70 Vincent Walsh–51 Oscar De La Hoya–50 Brandon “Bug” Hall–38 ; 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg

Happy Birthday RIP Norman Perceval Rockwell(1894–1978) Charles Victor Bruno(1938–1982) John Fiedler(1925–2005) Joey Bishop(Joseph Gottlieb 1918–2007) Dr. Henry Heimlich(1920–2016) ; Francis “Fran” Tarkenton–83 Blythe Danner–80 “Morgan Fairchild”(Patsy McClenny)–73 Joseph “Nathan” Lane–67 Maura Tierney–58 Isla Fisher–47 ; 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax

Happy Birthday RIP Samuel “Zero” Mostel(1915–1977) Charles Durning(1923–2012) Gavin MacLeod(Allan See 1931–2021) Gilbert Gottfried(1955–2022) ; Mario Andretti–82 Bernadette Peters(Lazzara)–75 John Turturro–66 Cynthia “Cindy” Wilson–66 Alison “Ali” Larter–47 ; 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight ; 1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents Nylon ; 1954 –The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. Analog signals were phased out in 2011 but digital standard definition television continues to use the frame rate and number of lines of resolution established by the analog NTSC standard.

Happy Birthday RIP William Clark Gable(1901–1960) Boris Yeltsin(Борис Ельцин 1931–2007) “Rick James”(James Johnson Jr 1948–2004) Sherman Hemsley(1938–2012) Joseph “Joe” Sample(1939–2014) Stuart Whitman(1928–2020) Isaac Donald Everly(1937–2021) Lisa Marie Presley(1968–2023) ; Garrett Morris–86 Sheryl Ann Fenn–58 Brian Krause–54 Michael C. Hall–52 ; 1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published ; 2004 – Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines

Happy Birthday RIP Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) Jackie Robinson (1919–1972) Jean Simmons (1929–2010) Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008) Carol Channing (1922–2019) ; Philip Glass–86 Harry Wayne Casey(“KC”)–72 Anthony LaPaglia–64 Kelly Lynch–64 Amelia “Minnie” Driver–53 Patricia Velasquez–52 “Portia de Rossi”(Amanda Rogers)–50 Kerry Washington–46 Justin Timberlake–42 Joel Courtney–27 ; 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) Dorothy Maloney(1924–2018) ; Eugene “Gene” Hackman–93 Vanessa Redgrave–86 Charles S. Dutton–72 Philip Collins–72 Jody Watley–64 Christian Bale–49 Wilmer Valderrama–43 ; 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 “W.C. Fields”(William Claude Dukenfield 1880–1946) “John Forsythe”(Jacob Freund 1918–2010) ; Thomas “Tom” Selleck–78 Marc Singer–75 Ann Jillian(Nauseda)–73 Oprah Gail Winfrey–69 Gregory Louganis–63 Nicholas Turturro–61 Heather Graham–53 Sara Gilbert(Abeles)–48 Justin Hartley–46 Adam Lambert–41 ; 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 RIP “Soupy Sales”(Milton Supman 1926–2009) ; “Alan Alda”(Alphonso D’Abruzzo)–87 Susan Howard(Jeri Mooney)–79 Barbi Benton(Barbara Klein)–73 Sarah McLachlan–55 Joseph “Joey” Fatone Jr.–46 Nickolas “Nick” Carter–43 Elijah Wood–42 ; 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