Happy Birthday RIP Marvin Hamlisch(1944–2012) ; Sally Kellerman–83 Walter Stacy Keach Jr–79 Charles Haid III–77 Lars “Lasse” Hallström–74 Gerald “Jerry” Mathers–72 Joanna Gleason(Hall)–70 Dana Carvey–65 Liam Cunningham–59 Wentworth Miller III–48 Zachary Quinto–43 Justin Long–42 Dominic Cooper–42 ; 1924 – Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians

Happy Birthday RIP “Frank Morgan”(Francis Wuppermann 1890–1949) “Marilyn Monroe”(Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926–1962) Cleavon Little(1939–1992) Andy Griffith(1926–2012) Rene Auberjonois (1940– 2019); Charles “Pat” Boone–86 Morgan Freeman–83 Brian Cox–74 John Pryce–73 Lisa Hartman–64 Heidi Klum–47 Alanis Morissette–46 Amy Schumer–39 ; 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns ; 1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released ; 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting

Happy Birthday RIP Walter “Walt” Whitman(1819–1892) Denholm Elliott(1922–1992) Dominic “Don” Ameche(Amici 1908–1993) ; Clinton Eastwood Jr–90 Sharon Gless–77 Joseph “Joe” Namath–77 Thomas Berenger(Moore)–71 Christopher Elliott–60 Lea Thompson–59 Corey Hart–58 Brooke Shields–55 Colin Farrell–44 Johnathan Tucker–38 ; 1929–The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid”, is released ; 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, the Watergate scandal’s whistleblower

Happy Birthday RIP Mel Blanc(Melvin Blank 1908–1989) Benjamin “Benny” Goodman(1909–1986) ; Ruta Kilmonis(“Lee”)–85 Stephen Tobolowsky–69 Colm Meaney–67 Theodore “Ted” McGinley–62 Ralph Carter–59 Mark Sheppard–56 “Wynonna Judd”(Christina Ciminella)–56 Idina Menzel–49 Omri Katz–44 ; 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race

Happy Birthday RIP John Fitzgerald Kennedy(1917–1963) Leslie “Bob” Hope(1903–2003) George Clifton James(1920–2017) ; Anthony Geary–73 Daniel “Danny” Elfman–67 LaToya Jackson–64 Frank “Ted” Levine–63 Annette Bening-Beaty–62 Rupert Everett–61 Adrian Paul Hewett–61 Melissa Etheridge–59 Lisa Whelchel–57 Laverne Cox–48 David Burtka–45 Daniel Tosh–45 ; 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history

Happy Birthday RIP Ian Fleming(1908–1964) Zelda Rubinstein(1933–2010) Elizabeth Howland(1941–2015) ; Gladys Knight–76 John Fogerty–75 Brandon Cruz(Williams)–58 Kylie Minogue–52 Justin Kirk–51 Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger–42 Jesse Bradford Watrouse–41 Carey Mulligan–35 Joseph Cross–34 ; 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club ; 1936 – Alan Turing submits “On Computable Numbers” for publication

Happy Birthday RIP Hubert Humphrey Jr(1911–1978) Vincent Price Jr(1911–1993) Christopher Lee(1922–2015) ; Heinz “Henry” Kissinger–97 Lee Meriwether–85 Louis Gossett Jr–84 Bruce Weitz–77 “Siouxsie Sioux”(Susan Ballion)–63 Peri Gilpin(Oldham)–59 Adam Carolla–56 Todd Bridges–55 Edward McClintock–53 Joseph Fiennes–50 Paul Bettany–49 Christopher Colfer–30 ; 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage ; 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A

Happy Birthday RIP “John Wayne”(Marion Morrison 1907–1979) Peter Cushing(1913–1994)  “Jay Silverheels”(Harold Smith 1912–1980) “Peggy Lee”(Norma Egstrom 1920–2002) James Aurness(1923–2011) ; Brent Musburger–81 Stephanie “Stevie” Nicks–72 Philip Michael Thomas–71 Pamela Grier–71 Randall Hank Williams–71 Eugenie “Genie” Francis–58 Robert “Bobcat” Goldthwait–58 Leonard “Lenny” Kravitz–56 Helena Bonham Carter–54 Matthew Stone–49 Lauryn Hill–45 ; 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was $40.94. Today it’s value = 25,585.69 as of closing bell Friday

Happy Birthday RIP Belle Miriam Silverman(“Beverly Sills” 1929–2007) Claude Akins(1926–1994) Dixie Carter(1939–2010) ; Ian McKellen–81 Leslie Uggams–77 Frank Oznowicz(“Oz”)–76 Karen Valentine–73 Concetta Sellecchia(“Connie Sellecca”)–65 Michael Myers–57 Anne Heche–51 James “Jamie” Kennedy–50 Octavia Spencer–48 Cillian Murphy–44 ; 1953 – The first public television station(Public Broadcast) in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston ; 1968 – The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated http://bit.ly/2qXvmu6

Happy Birthday RIP Queen Victoria(Alexandrina Hanover 1819–1901) ; “Bob Dylan”(Robert Zimmerman)–79 Gary Burghoff–77 Patricia “Patti” LaBelle (Holte-Edwards)–76 Priscilla Wagner-Presley–75 James “Jim” Broadbent–71 Alfred Molina–67 Kristin Scott Thomas–60 John C. Reilly–55 Eric Close–53 ; 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction