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) ; “Mamie Van Doren”(Joan Olander)–87 Elmore “Rip” Torn Jr–87 Michael “Mike” Farrell–79 Thomas “Tom” Brokaw–78 Fabiano Forte(“Fabian”)–75 Kathy Najimy–61 William “Axl” Rose–56 Richard “Rick” Astley–52 Joshua Stewart–41 Alice Eve–36 ; 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.
February 5
Happy Birthday RIP Richmond “John” Carradine(1906–1988) “Red Buttons”(Aaron Chwatt 1919–2006) ; Henry “Hank” Aaron–84 David Selby–76 Barbara Hershey(Herzstein)–70 Thomas “Tom” Wilkinson–70 Timothy “Tim” Meadows–57 Jennifer Jason Leigh(Morrow)–56 Laura Linney–54 Thomas Christopher Parnell–51 Robert “Bobby” Brown–48 Paul Vandervort–34 Darren Criss–31 ; 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
February 4
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–78 Vincent Furnier(“Alice Cooper”)–70 Masanori Takahashi(“Kitaro”)–65 Vincent Walsh–46 Oscar De La Hoya–45 Brandon “Bug” Hall–33 ; 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg
February 3
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–78 Blythe Danner–75 “Morgan Fairchild”(Patsy McClenny)–68 Joseph “Nathan” Lane–62 Maura Tierney–53 Isla Fisher–42 ; 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax
February 2
Happy Birthday RIP Howard Johnson(1897–1972) Elaine Stritch(1925–2014) Farrah Fawcett(1947–2009) Carol Ann Susi(1952–2014); Thomas Smothers III–81 Graham Nash–76 Brent Spiner–69 Christie Brinkley(Hudson)–64 Adam Ferrara–52 Shakira Ripoll–41 ; 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated ; 1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed
January 31
Happy Birthday RIP Tallulah Bankhead(1902–1968) Jackie Robinson(1919–1972) Jean Simmons(1929–2010) Suzanne Pleshette(1937–2008) ; Carol Channing–97 Philip Glass–81 Harry Wayne Casey(“KC”)–67 Anthony LaPaglia–59 Kelly Lynch–59 Amelia “Minnie” Driver–48 Patricia Velasquez–46 “Portia de Rossi”(Amanda Rogers)–45 Kerry Washington–41 Justin Timberlake–37 Joel Courtney–22 ; 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.
January 30
Happy Birthday RIP Franklin Roosevelt(1882–1945) Thomas “Dick” Martin(1922–2008) Dorothy Maloney(1924–2018) ; Eugene “Gene” Hackman–88 Vanessa Redgrave–81 Charles S. Dutton–67 Philip Collins–67 Jody Watley–59 Christian Bale–44 Wilmer Valderrama–38 ; 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
January 29
Happy Birthday RIP “W.C. Fields”(William Claude Dukenfield 1880–1946) “John Forsythe”(Jacob Freund 1918–2010) ; Thomas “Tom” Selleck–73 Marc Singer–68 Ann Jillian(Nauseda)–67 Oprah Winfrey–64 Gregory Louganis–58 Nicholas Turturro–56 Heather Graham–48 Sara Gilbert(Abeles)–43 Justin Hartley–41 Adam Lambert–36 ; 1845 – “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe