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** 07 01 99 99 00 Dan Aykroyd, Actor (1952)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Diana, the Princess of Wales (Princess Di) is born (1961)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Evelyn "Champagne" King, Singer (1960)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Genevieve Bujold, Actress (1942)
** 07 01 99 99 00 George Sand, Amadine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, French author, is born (1804)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Jamie Farr, Actor (1934)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Karen Black, Actress (1942)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Lerna Patterson, Actress (1963)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Olivia de Haviland, Actress (1916)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Sydney Pollack, Movie driector (1934)
** 07 01 99 99 00 Twyla Tharp, Dancer-choreographer (1941)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Cheryl Ladd, Actress (1951)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Ernest Hemingway, the writer, commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (1961)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Imelda Marcos, Former Philippine first lady (1929)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Jimmy McNichol, Actor (1961)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, Former Pres. L. B. Johnson's daughter (1947)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Polly Holliday, Actress (1937)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Michel de Nostradamus (the "prophet") dies in Salon (1566)
** 07 02 99 99 00 Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice (1918)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Betty Buckley, Actress (1947)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Dave Barry, Humor columnist (1947)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Franz Kafka born (1883)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Jim Morrison, rock singer with the Doors, dies of drug overdose in Paris (1971)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Ken Russell, movie director (1927)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Louis XI of France is born (1423)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Mary Johnson, Orlando City Council Member (1933)
** 07 03 99 99 00 St. Phocas beheaded by Roman executioners in his own home (303)
** 07 03 99 99 00 Tom Cruise, Actor (1962)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929) (1872)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Eva Marie Saint, Actress (1924)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Gene McDowell, UCF football coach (1940)
** 07 04 99 99 00 George M. Cohan (1878)
** 07 04 99 99 00 James Monroe, 5th President, dies. (1831)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US (1753)
** 07 04 99 99 00 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day (1826)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Louis Armstrong is born (1900)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, born in Salem, MA (1804)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Neil Simon, Playwight (1927)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult. (1883)
** 07 04 99 99 00 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna" (1826)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Henry Rhodes, statesman, born (1853)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Huey Lewis, Pop musician (1951)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1948)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Magdalen tragically dies soon after becoming the Scottish queen of James V (1536)
** 07 05 99 99 00 P.T. Barnum, circus promoter (1810)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Rich "Goose" Gossage, Baseball pitcher (1951)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Shirley Knight, Actress (1937)
** 07 05 99 99 00 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker (1794)
** 07 06 99 99 00 (Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born (1866)
** 07 06 99 99 00 Bill Frederick, City of Orlando's Mayor (1934)
** 07 06 99 99 00 English chancellor Thomas More beheaded for refusal to sanction Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn (1535)
** 07 06 99 99 00 Janet Leigh, Actress (1927)
** 07 06 99 99 00 John Paul Jones is born (1747)
** 07 06 99 99 00 King George V of England and Victoria Mary of Teck are wed (1893)
** 07 06 99 99 00 Mexican Emperor Maximilian is born (1832)
** 07 06 99 99 00 Nancy Reagan, wife of former President Reagan, is born (1926)
** 07 06 99 99 00 Sylvester Stallone, Actor (1946)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Gustave Mahler, the composer, is born in Bohemia (1860)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the punch card weaving machine, is born in Lyons, France (1752)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Marc Chagall, the painter, is born in Russia (1887)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), of the Rock Group The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England (1940)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression (1907)
** 07 07 99 99 00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies (1930)
** 07 08 99 99 00 Admiral Parry, the Arctic explorer, dies (1855)
** 07 08 99 99 00 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born (1838)
** 07 08 99 99 00 John D. Rockefeller (1839)
** 07 08 99 99 00 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, dies off the coast of Italy (1822)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Edward Heath, Former British Prime Minister (1916)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves (1540)
** 07 09 99 99 00 James Hampton, Actor (1936)
** 07 09 99 99 00 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, dies (1932)
** 07 09 99 99 00 O.J. Simpson, Football great (1947)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Ottorino Respighi, composer of "Pines of Rome", is born (1879)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor (1802)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Tom Hanks, Actor (1956)
** 07 09 99 99 00 Zachary Taylor, U.S. president and general in Indian and Mexican Wars, dies (1850)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Chief Justice Earl Warren dies (1974)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Davis Phinney, American cyclist, was born (1959)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley. (1867)
** 07 10 99 99 00 James Whistler, mama's boy (1834)
** 07 10 99 99 00 John Calvin, Protestant theologian, born (1509)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman, is born (1914)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Marcel Proust, French author, is born (1871)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, dies (1989)
** 07 10 99 99 00 Robert Goddard dies (1945)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Yul Brynner, actor, is born (1920)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Alfred Dreyfus, the wrongly imprisoned French army officer, dies (1935)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Bonnie Pointer, Singer (1951)
** 07 11 99 99 00 George Gershwin, the composer, dies (1937)
** 07 11 99 99 00 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829), is born (1767)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Leon Spinks, Boxer (1953)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, is born (1274)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, dies (1989)
** 07 11 99 99 00 Tab Hunter, Actor (1931)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Andrew Wyeth, artist and illustrator, is born (1917)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Bill Cosby, comedian, is born (1937)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, dies. She was known for her social skills as hostess of the white house (1849)
** 07 12 99 99 00 George Eastman, inventor, is born in Waterville, New York (1854)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Henry David Thoreau, author, is born (1817)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife) (1543)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Julius Caeser is born (100 BC)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Milton Berle, entertainer, is born (1908)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, is born (1895)
** 07 12 99 99 00 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome (1895)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. (1922)
** 07 12 99 99 00 U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs, FL (1944)
** 07 12 99 99 00 Van Cliburn, Pianist (1934)
** 07 13 99 99 00 Harrison Ford, Actor (1942)
** 07 13 99 99 00 Jean-Paul Marat stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday (1793)
** 07 13 99 99 00 John Charles Fremont, American soldier, explorer and politician, dies (1890)
** 07 13 99 99 00 Louise Mandrell, Singer (1954)
** 07 14 99 99 00 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman, dies (1965)
** 07 14 99 99 00 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976), is born (1913)
** 07 14 99 99 00 James Cagney, movie actor and notorious screen gangster, is born (1899)
** 07 14 99 99 00 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory. (1918)
** 07 14 99 99 00 Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie, folk singer, is born (1912)
** 07 15 99 99 00 Clement Clarke Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", is born (1779)
** 07 15 99 99 00 Inigo Jones, architect, lancscape designer and antiquary, is born (1573)
** 07 15 99 99 00 James, Duke of Monmouth, executed for treason at Tower Hill, London (1685)
** 07 15 99 99 00 Linda Ronstadt, singer, born in Tucson, AZ (1946)
** 07 15 99 99 00 Rembrandt van Rijn, painter, born in Leiden Netherlands (1606)
** 07 15 99 99 00 Rose Kennedy, Grand Dame of the Kennedy family is born (1890)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, is born (1907)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Barnard Hughes, actor (1915)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Czar Nicholas II, family and servants are killed by Bolsheviks (1918)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Dick Thornburgh, Attorney General (1932)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Ginger Rogers, actress-dancer (1911)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Harry Chapin dies (Long Island Expressway, 1981)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Margaret Court, tennis player (1942)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, born (1821)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist (1948)
** 07 16 99 99 00 Stewart Copeland, rock composer-musician (1952)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Art Linkletter, TV personality (1912)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesman and Prime Minister, dies (1845)
** 07 17 99 99 00 David Hasselhoff, actor (1952)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Diahann Carroll, actress-singer (1935)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Donald Sutherland, actor (1934)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander" (1744)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Erle Stanley Gardner, author and creator of Perry Mason, was born (1889)
** 07 17 99 99 00 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit (1900)
** 07 17 99 99 00 James Whistler, painter, lithographer, dies (1903)
** 07 17 99 99 00 John Jacob Astor, millionaire in North American trapping industry, is born in Germany (1763)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Lucie Arnaz, actress (1951)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Nicolette Larson, singer (1952)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Pat McCormick, comedy writer (1934)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Phoebe Snow, singer (1952)
** 07 17 99 99 00 Phyllis Diller, comedian, is born in Lima, OH (1917)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Brian Auger born (London, 1939)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed, dies (1899)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Hume Cronyn, actor (1911)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter, dies (1721)
** 07 18 99 99 00 John Glenn Jr., astronaut, is born in Ohio (1921)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies (1610)
** 07 18 99 99 00 Red Skelton. comedian (1913)
** 07 18 99 99 00 S. I. Hayakawa (1906)
** 07 18 99 99 00 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer (1848)
** 07 18 99 99 00 William Makepeach Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, is born (1811)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President Kennedy, married Edwin A. (1986)Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.
** 07 19 99 99 00 Dennis Cole, actor (1943)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter, is born (1843)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Lizzie Borden, reputed but acquitted ax murderess, is born (1860)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Peter Barton, actor (1959)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), poet and scholar, dies near Padua, Italy (1374)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Samuel Colt, American gunsmith and inventor, is born (1814)
** 07 19 99 99 00 Vikki Carr, singer (1941)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Butch Cassidy, outlaw, dies in Spokane, Washington (1937)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Carlos Santana born (Autlan, Mexico, 1947)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Diana Rigg, actress (1938)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Kim Carnes, singer (1946)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Larry Rinker, golfer and Winter Park resident (1957)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Natalie Wood, actress, is born in San Francisco (1938)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Robert II, King of France, dies (1031)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, is born (1919)
** 07 20 99 99 00 Theda Bara, American actress and vamp, is born (1890)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Don Knotts, actor-comedian (1924)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Edward Herrmann, actor (1943)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Ernest Hemingway, author, is born (1899)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Isaac Stern, violinist, is born (1920)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Norman Jewison, movie director (1926)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Poet Robert Burns dies in Scotland of a lingering illness brought on by excessive drinking (1796)
** 07 21 99 99 00 Robin Williams, comedian-actor (1952)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Albert Brooks, actor-comedian-director (1947)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Alex Trebek, game show host (1940)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Alexander Calder, sculptor, is born (1898)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Carl Sandburg, poet, dies at Flat Rock, North Carolina (1967)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty (1849)
** 07 22 99 99 00 John Dillinger, bank robber, was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater (1934)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Mary Magdalen dies at St. Beaume. (1st c. BC)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Orson Bean, actor-comedian (1928)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer (1932)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms' (1844)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Rose Kennedy (1890)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet, is born (1898)
** 07 22 99 99 00 Terence Stamp, actor (1940)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Belinda Montgomery, actress (1950)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London (1986)
** 07 23 99 99 00 C.R. Smith, Frontline Outreach founder (1929)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Coral Browne, actress (1913)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Don Drysdale, baseball hall-of-famer (1936)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Gloria DeHaven, actress (1925)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, dies (1875)
** 07 23 99 99 00 Raymond Chandler, American author, is born (1888)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Alexandre Dumas, novelist and dramatist, author of "The Three Musketeers", is born (1802)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator, is born in Kansas (1898)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Joe Oliver, Cincinnati Reds catcher and Orlando native (1965)
** 07 24 99 99 00 John Dyer, poet, dies (1758)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Lynda Carter, actress, is born in Pheonix, AZ (1951)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist (1935)
** 07 24 99 99 00 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule. (1783)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Janet Margolin, actress (1943)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Louise Brown, first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, is born (1978)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Maxfield Parrish, American artist, is born (1879)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Queen Mary of England marries King Philip of Spain (1554)
** 07 25 99 99 00 St James beheaded by Herod in Jerusalem (44)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Steve Goodman born (Chicago, 1948)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, is born (1844)
** 07 25 99 99 00 Walter Payton, former football player (1954)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Aldous Huxley, English author of Brave New World, is born (1894)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Blake Edwards, movie director (1922)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Carl Jung, the psychologist, is born (1875)
** 07 26 99 99 00 George Bernard Shaw born (1856)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Mick Jagger born (Kent, England, 1943)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Robert Graves, English-born American author and critic, is born (1895)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Stanley Kubrick, movie director (1928)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Susan George, actress (1950)
** 07 26 99 99 00 Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis player (1954)
** 07 27 99 99 00 Bugs Bunny (1940)
** 07 27 99 99 00 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, dies (1946)
** 07 27 99 99 00 James Mason, actor, dies in Lausanne, Switzerland (1984)
** 07 27 99 99 00 Johann Bernoulli, mathematician, is born (1667)
** 07 27 99 99 00 John Dalton, English chemist and physicist, dies (1844)
** 07 27 99 99 00 Peggy Fleming, ice skater, is born (1948)
** 07 27 99 99 00 The deposed Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt (1980)
** 07 27 99 99 00 Walt Gallagher, Orange County Sheriff (1940)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former wife of President Kennedy, is born (1929)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Jim Davis, "Garfield" creator (1945)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Johann Sebastian Bach, organist and composer, dies in Leipzig Germany (1750)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Richard Wright born (London, 1945)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Robespierre dies on the guillotine like those he sent before him (1794)
** 07 28 99 99 00 Sally Struthers, actress (1948)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Booth Tarkington, novelist (1869)
** 07 29 99 99 00 David Niven, actor, dies (1983)
** 07 29 99 99 00 King Olaf II of Norway was killed in battle (1030)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Marilyn Quayle (1949)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts' (1907)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Mussolini, Italian dictator, is born (1883)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Peter Jennings, national news anchorman, is born (1938)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in St. Paul's Cathedral (1981)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Raymond Massey, actor, dies (1983)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Robert Fuller, actor (1934)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Siberian peasant, Grigori Rasputin, powerful influence on Nicolas II, is born (1871)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Sigmund Romberg, operetta composer, was born in Hungary (1887)
** 07 29 99 99 00 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, dies in Auvers, France (1890)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor (1947)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, baseball great, is born (1891)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Delta Burke, actress (1956)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist (1939)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Emily Bronte, author of "Wuthering Heights", is born (1818)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, is born (1863)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Kate Bush, singer (1958)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Paul Anka, singer (1941)
** 07 30 99 99 00 Peter Bogdanovich, director (1939)
** 07 31 99 99 00 Curt Gowdy, national sportscaster, is born (1919)
** 07 31 99 99 00 Geraldine Chaplin, actress (1944)
** 07 31 99 99 00 Ignatius Loyola, Jesuit founder, dies (1556)
** 07 31 99 99 00 Milton Friedman, economist, is born (1912)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Arthur Hill, actor (1922)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian, is born (1933)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Francis Gary Powers, the once captured U-2 pilot, was killed while flying a helicopter for a Los Angeles television station (1977)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner', is born (1779)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Herman Melville, author, born (1819)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck is born in France (1744)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Jerry Garcia, rock musician, is born (1942)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast. (1815)
** 08 01 99 99 00 St. Peter is executed (67)
** 08 01 99 99 00 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis. (1770)
** 08 01 99 99 00 Yves St. Laurent, fashion designer, is born (1936)
** 08 02 99 99 00 "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed in Deadwood, S.D. (1876)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, dies (1922)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Beatrice Straight, actress (1918)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Carroll O'Connor, actor (1924)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Enrico Caruso dies of pleurisy (1921)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Fritz Lang, film director, dies (1976)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist and paper manufacturer, dies (1799)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Joanna Cassidy, actress (1945)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Myrna Loy, actress (1905)
** 08 02 99 99 00 Peter O'Toole, actor (1932)
** 08 02 99 99 00 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel. (1923)
** 08 02 99 99 00 William II of England was killed in a hunting accident (1100)
** 08 03 99 99 00 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator. (1811)
** 08 03 99 99 00 John Landis, movie director (1940)
** 08 03 99 99 00 John Stennis, Former Sen.(D-Miss.) (1901)
** 08 03 99 99 00 Lenny Bruce dies of morphine overdose (1966)
** 08 03 99 99 00 Leon Uris, author (1924)
** 08 03 99 99 00 Martin Sheen, actor (1940)
** 08 03 99 99 00 Tony Bennett, singer (1926)
** 08 04 99 99 00 Hans Christian Andersen dies (1875)
** 08 04 99 99 00 Mary Decker Slaney, track star (1958)
** 08 04 99 99 00 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil. (1755)
** 08 04 99 99 00 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was born (1792)
** 08 04 99 99 00 The Queen Mother Elizabeth is born (1900)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Guy de Maupassant is born (1850)
** 08 05 99 99 00 John Houston, film maker, born (1906)
** 08 05 99 99 00 John Saxon, actor (1935)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Loni Anderson, the actress and beauty, is born in St. Paul, Minn. (1945)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in Los Angeles. (1962)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Neil Armstrong, 1st Moonwalker (1930)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Samantha Sang, singer (1953)
** 08 05 99 99 00 Xerxes I of Persia dies (465 BC)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, dies at age of 67 (1623)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies (1637)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Dave Marsh, WESH-Channel 2 meteorologist (1942)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England. (1809)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, is born (1911)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Peter Bonerz, actor (1938)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Richard Burton, the actor, dies (1984)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Robert Mitchum, actor (1917)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin (1881)
** 08 06 99 99 00 Soleil Moon Frye, actress (1976)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Alberto Salazar, marathon runner (1958)
** 08 07 99 99 00 B.J. Thomas, singer (1942)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Garrison Keillor, humorist (1942)
** 08 07 99 99 00 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery (1783)
** 08 07 99 99 00 King Herod, persecutor of the Apostles, dies (44)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Lana Cantrell, singer (1943)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Leonidas of Sparta, Greek hero, dies (480 BC)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible, is born (1886)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Mata Hari, the spy, is born (1876)
** 08 07 99 99 00 Stan Freberg, writer-producer (1926)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Beatrice, Britain's Princess (1988)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect (1763)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Connie Stevens, actress (1938)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Donny Most, actor (1953)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Dustin Hoffman, actor, is born in Los Angeles (1937)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, is born (1880)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Esther Williams, actress (1923)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Keith Carradine, actor (1950)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Mel Tillis, singer (1932)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Peter Weir, movie director (1944)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Rudi Gernreich, designed 1st women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt (1922)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Sara Teasdale, American poet, is born (1884)
** 08 08 99 99 00 Sylvia Sidney, actress (1910)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Betty Boop (1930)
** 08 09 99 99 00 David Steinberg, comedian-director (1942)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Doug Williams, quarterback (1955)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Herman Talmadge, former Georgia Senator (1913)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Ken Norton, boxer (1945)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Melanie Griffith, actor (1957)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Ralph Houk, former baseball manager (1919)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Sam Elliott, actor (1944)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Sammy Duvall, water-skier and Windermere, FL resident (1962)
** 08 09 99 99 00 Whitney Houston, singer (1963)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Eddie Fisher, singer (1928)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933) (1874)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) born (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Jimmy Dean, singer (1928)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Patti Austin, singer (1948)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Rhonda Fleming, actress (1923)
** 08 10 99 99 00 Rosanna Arquette, actress (1959)
** 08 10 99 99 00 The original Rin Tin Tin dies (1932)
** 08 11 99 99 00 Alex Haley, author (1921)
** 08 11 99 99 00 Eric Carmen, singer (1949)
** 08 11 99 99 00 Mike Douglas, former TV talk show host (1925)
** 08 11 99 99 00 Rev. Jerry Falwell (1933)
** 08 11 99 99 00 Steve Rondinaro, WESH-Channel 2 news anchor (1954)
** 08 12 99 99 00 B. Kliban, cartoonist best known for his "CAT" character, dies (1990)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Cecil B. deMille, directed God. (1881)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Dale Bumpers, politician (1925)
** 08 12 99 99 00 George Hamilton, actor (1939)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. (1851)
** 08 12 99 99 00 John Derek, director (1926)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Larry Ziegler, golfer (1939)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas. (1911)
** 08 12 99 99 00 Thomas Mann, American author, dies (1955)
** 08 12 99 99 00 William Blake, English poet, dies (1827)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Alfred Hitchcock, film producer, born (1899)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Anders Jonas Angstrom born (1814)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Annie Oakley born (1860)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Dan Fogelberg, singer, is born (Peoria, IL, 1951)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Don Ho, singer (1930)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Fidel Castro, Cuban leader, born (1926)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet. (1655)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Kenneth Ernst, "Mary Worth" artist since 1942, dies at age 67 (1985)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights. (1818)
** 08 13 99 99 00 Pat Harrington, actor (1929)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Alice Ghostley, actress, is born (1926)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and theatrical director dies (1956)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Buddy Greco, singer (1926)
** 08 14 99 99 00 David Crosby, singer, is born in Los Angeles (1941)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Earl Weaver, baseball manager (1930)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Robyn Smith, jockey (1944)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Russell Baker, newspaper columnist (1925)
** 08 14 99 99 00 Susan Saint James, actress, is born (1946)
** 08 14 99 99 00 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills (1951)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Janice Rule, actress (1931)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Jim Dale, actor (1935)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Julia Child, chef. (1912)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Linda Ellerbee, author-journalist (1944)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Macbeth, King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan. (1057)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Mary Queen of Scots was married to the Dauphin. She was 6 years old (1548)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Mike Connors, actor (1925)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Napoleon Bonaparte was born (1769)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum president (1924)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Princess Anne of England was born (1950)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Robert Bolt, playwright (1924)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Rose Marie, actress (1925)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia. (1803)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Sir Walter Scott is born (1771)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, archaeologist, adventurer, and author, is born in Wales (1877)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist (1935)
** 08 15 99 99 00 Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska (1935)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, is born (1809)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Anita Gillette, actress (1936)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Ann Blyth, actress (1928)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies (1821)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Babe Ruth, baseball player, dies (1948)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis at age 42. (1977)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Eydie Gorme, singer (1932)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Fess Parker, actor (1925)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Frank Gifford, sportscaster (1930)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for it's fine drawing and historical detail, is born (1892)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form, is born (1884)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Julie Newmar, tall and beautiful Scandinavian actress, is born (1935)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Lesley Ann Warren, actress (1946)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Madonna, singer (1958)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister (1913)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Robert Culp, actor (1930)
** 08 16 99 99 00 Timothy Hutton, actor (1960)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Belinda Carlisle, singer (1958)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Davy Crockett, American folk hero, is born (1786)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Donnie Wahlberg, singer (1969)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Ira Gershwin, lyricist and brother of George Gershwin, dies (1983)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Mae West, actress, is born (1892)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Pearl Bailey, Singer with the sexy, throaty drawl, died at age 72. (1990)
** 08 17 99 99 00 Robert DeNiro, actor (1943)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Gail Fisher, actress (1935)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Genghis Khan, Mongol emperor, dies (1227)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor (1970)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain. (1834)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Martin Mull, actor-comedian (1943)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark, is born (1774)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Pearl Baily, spiritual singer, dies (1990)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Robert Redford, the actor, is born (1937)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Roman Polanski, filmmaker (1933)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Rosalynn Carter, former first lady, born (1927)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Shelley Winters, actress (1922)
** 08 18 99 99 00 Virginia Dare, the first woman to be born in America of English parents, is born in North Carolina (1587)
** 08 19 99 99 00 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, dies (1990)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Blaise Pascal, the mathematician and philosopher, died (1662)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Count Rumford, aka Benjamin Thompson, Physicist, inventor and adventurer, dies (1814)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Debra Paget, actress (1933)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek producer (1921)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Gerald McRaney, actor (1948)
** 08 19 99 99 00 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England. (1646)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Ogden Nash, humorist, born (1902)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, born (1871)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Ring Lardner Junior, author (1915)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks. (1785)
** 08 19 99 99 00 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (1931)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893) (1833)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Connie Chung, network newscaster, is born (1946)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Isaac Hayes, singer (1942)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Rajiv Gandhi, former prime minister of India (1944)
** 08 20 99 99 00 Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) born (Worcestershire, England, 1948)
** 08 21 99 99 00 Count Basie, jazz pianist and bandleader, is born (1906)
** 08 21 99 99 00 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building. (1660)
** 08 21 99 99 00 Jim McMahon, football quarterback (1959)
** 08 21 99 99 00 Kenny Rogers, singer (1938)
** 08 21 99 99 00 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, is born but the birth is not registered till three days later to avoid the registration number 13 (1930)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Carl Yastrzemski, baseball great (1939)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Cindy Williams, actress (1948)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Claude Debussy, composer, born (1862)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Huey Newton, was found shot to death in Oakland, California (1989)
** 08 22 99 99 00 King Richard III of England, last of the Plantagenets, dies in the Battle of Bosworh Field ending the War of the Roses. (1485)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Mats Wilander, tennis star (1964)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Morton Dean, newsman (1935)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, is born (1920)
** 08 22 99 99 00 Valerie Harper, actress, is born (1940)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Barbara Eden, actress, is born (1934)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Gene Kelly, dancer and actor, born (1912)
** 08 23 99 99 00 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer. (1869)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Keith Moon born (London, 1947)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Louis XVI, future French king, is born at Versailes (1754)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Mark Russell, political satirist, is born (1932)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Mike Elliott, deejay WOMX-FM (105.1) Orlando, FL. (1959)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, was born in Rhode Island (1785)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist, dies (1960)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Patricia McBride, ballet dancer, is born (1942)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan, is born (1952)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Rudolph Valentino, silent film actor, dies at the age of 31 (1926)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Shelley (sic) Long, actess, is born (1949)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Terry Catledge, Orlando Magic forward (1963)
** 08 23 99 99 00 Vera Miles, actress, is born (1930)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Cal Ripken Jr., All-Star shortstop (1960)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Dennis James, TV host (1917)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Durward Kirby, TV personality (1912)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Gerry Cooney, boxer (1956)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Il Parmigianino, aka Francesco Mazzola, painter, dies Cremona, Italy (1540)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author, is born (1899)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Marlee Matlin, actress (1965)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Pliny the Elder, naturalist and author, dies during the Vesuvius eruption (79)
** 08 24 99 99 00 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables (1816)
** 08 24 99 99 00 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships (1886)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event) (1927)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Anne Archer, actress (1947)
** 08 25 99 99 00 David Hume, philosopher, dies (1776)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Francis Bret Harte, American author, is born (1836)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies (1900)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Gene Simmons, rock singer-actor (1949)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, is born (1530)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, is born (1918)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Pat Clarke, WFTV-Channel 9 sports anchor, Orlando, Fl. (1959)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Sean Connery, actor most famous for his roles as James Bond, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1930)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Tom Skerritt, actor (1933)
** 08 25 99 99 00 Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo comic strip, is born (1913)
** 08 25 99 99 00 William Herschel dies (1822)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, dies (1723)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Ben J. Wattenberg, author (1933)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post Executive Editor (1921)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Charlie Parker, jazz guitarist, is born (1920)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Geraldine Ferraro, former Democratic vice-presidential nominee (1935)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube) (1873)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband) born (not in a can) in Bavaria (1819)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Sir Robert Walpole, Whig statesman and British Prime Minister, is born (1676)
** 08 26 99 99 00 Valerie Simpson, singer (1948)
** 08 27 99 99 00 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower (1899)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Daryl Dragon, the "captain" of Captain and Tenille (1942)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Linda Chapin, Orange County Commissioner, Orlando, FL. (1941)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969) (1908)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Martha Raye, actress-comedian (1916)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Mother Teresa, Nobel peace laureate (1910)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker (1882)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Stevie Ray Vaughn dies in helicopter crash (East Troy, WI, 1990)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Titian, the Venetian painter, dies (1576)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Tommy Sands, actor (1937)
** 08 27 99 99 00 Tuesday Weld, actress (1943)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Ben Gazzara, actor (1930)
** 08 28 99 99 00 David Soul, actor (1943)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Donald O'Connor, actor-dancer (1925)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, novelist, is born (1749)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Leo Tolstoy was born (1828)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Nancy Kulp, actress (1921)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Richard Sanders, actor (1940)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Roger Tory Peterson, bird lover and naturalist author, was born (1908)
** 08 28 99 99 00 Scott Hamilton, skating champion (1958)
** 08 28 99 99 00 The poet Shelley elopes with Harriet Westbrook (1811)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Barry Sullivan, actor (1912)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Morman Church, died in Utah. (1877)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Edmond Hoyle, the games master, dies at 97 (1769)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Elliott Gould, actor (1938)
** 08 29 99 99 00 George Montgomery, actor (1916)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Jean Ingres, the artist, is born (1780)
** 08 29 99 99 00 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, is born (1632)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Lee Marvin, actor, dies (1987)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Michael Jackson, singer and dancer, born in Gary, Indiana (1958)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, physician and father of the jurist (1809)
** 08 29 99 99 00 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor-director (1923)
** 08 29 99 99 00 St. John the Baptist beheaded by Herod rewarding Salome for dance (30)
** 08 29 99 99 00 William Friedkin, director (1939)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Cleopatra commits suicide with a snake (30 BC)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Fred MacMurray, actor (1908)
** 08 30 99 99 00 John W. Mauchly born (1907)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, English author ("Frankenstein") is born (1797)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Regina Resnik, opera singer (1922)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Shirley Booth, actress (1907)
** 08 30 99 99 00 Ted Williams, Hall-of-Famer (1918)
** 08 31 99 99 00 Buddy Hackett, comedian (1924)
** 08 31 99 99 00 Debbie Gibson, singer (1970)
** 08 31 99 99 00 Frank Robinson, baseball great (1935)
** 08 31 99 99 00 Itzhak Perlman, violinist (1945)
