Happy Birthday Jacques René Chirac–80 Diane Ladd(Rose Ladnier)–77 Chuck Mangione–72 Suzy Chaffee–66 Garry Shandling–63 Joel Coen–58 Howie Mandel–57 Andrew McCarthy–50 Tom Sizemore–51 Don Cheadle–48 Jonathan Knight–44 ; 1877 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time with the words “Mary Had A Little Lamb” reproduced.

Happy Birthday RIP Anna Nicole Smith(Vickie Hogan 1967–2007) ; Randy Newman–69 Paul Shaffer–63 Ed Harris–62 Judd Nelson–53 Jon Stewart(Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz)–50 Ryan Kwanten–36 ; 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.

Happy Birthday RIP Bruce Lee(李小龍 1940–1973) Johnny “Jimi” Hendrix(1942–1970) ; William Fichtner–56 Robin Givens–48 Michael Vartan–44 Jaleel White–36 ; 1910 – New York’s Penn Station opened.

Happy Birthday RIP Charles M Schulz(1922–2000) ; Tina Turner(Anna Bullock)–73 Rich Little–74 Adam Harrington–40 Peter Facinelli–39 Natasha Bedingfield–31 ; 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.

Happy Birthday RIP Ricardo Montalbán y Merino(1920–2009) Giuseppe “Joe” DiMaggio(1914–1999) ; Ben Stein–68 John Larroquette–65 Amy Grant–52 Stacy Lattisaw–46 Christina Applegate–41

Happy Birthday RIP Geraldine Fitzgerald(1913–2005) ; William “Billy” Connolly–70 William “Dwight” Schultz–65 Denise Crosby–55 Garret Dillahunt–48 Colin Hanks(Colin Dillingham)–35 Katherine Heigl–34 ; 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”, which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

Happy Birthday RIP Adolph “Harpo” Marx(1888–1964) Steve Landesberg(1936–2010) ; Bruce Vilanch–64 Bruce Hornsby–58 Destiny “Miley” Cyrus–20 ; 1889 The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

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