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On this day for the United States
Events
Births
1831 -
George Pullman , American inventor and industrialist (d.
1897 )
1860 -
John Montgomery Ward , American baseball player (d.
1925 )
1866 -
Fred A. Busse , Mayor of Chicago (d.
1914 )
1873 -
William Green , American labor union leader (d.
1952 )
1880 -
Florence Auer , American actress (d.
1962 )
1893 -
Beatrice Wood , American artist and ceramicist (d.
1998 )
1895 -
Matthew Ridgway , Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d.
1993 )
1910 -
Kittens Reichert , American silent screen child actor (d.
1990 )
1911 -
Jean Harlow , American actress (d.
1937 )
1920 -
Julius Boros , American golfer (d.
1994 )
1923 -
Barney Martin , American actor (d.
2005 )
1923 -
Doc Watson , American musician
1926 -
Joseph Anthony Ferrario , American Catholic prelate (d.
2003 )
1926 -
James Merrill , American poet (d.
1995 )
1933 -
Lee Radziwill , American fashion executive
1937 -
Bobby Driscoll , American actor (d.
1968 )
1947 -
Jennifer Warnes , American singer and songwriter
1949 -
Gloria Hendry , American actress
1949 -
Jesse Jefferson , American baseball player
1950 -
Tim Kazurinsky , American actor and comedian
1955 -
Andy Breckman , American comedian and radio personality
1958 -
Marc Silvestri , American comic book artist and publisher (
Top Cow Productions )
1959 -
Ira Glass , American radio host
1960 -
Neal Heaton , American baseball player
1962 -
Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American athlete
1962 -
Glen E. Friedman , American photographer and artist
1962 -
Herschel Walker , American football player
1966 -
Tone Lōc , American rapper and actor
1968 -
Brian Leetch , American ice hockey player
1970 -
Julie Bowen , American actress
1974 -
David Faustino , American actor
1978 -
Matt Diaz , American baseball player
1979 -
Patrick Renna , American actor
1980 -
Mason Unck , American football player
1981 -
Dusty Dvoracek , American football player
1981 -
Lil' Flip , American rapper
1982 -
Jessica Biel , American actress
1986 -
Stacie Orrico , American singer
1992 -
Madison Cross , American singer and actress
Deaths
1850 -
Oliver Cowdery , American religious leader (b.
1806 )
1894 -
Ned Williamson , American baseball player (b.
1857 )
1899 -
William P. Sprague , American politician from Ohio (b.
1827 )
1953 -
James J. Jeffries , American heavyweight boxer (b.
1875 )
1959 -
Lou Costello , American actor and comedian (b.
1906 )
1966 -
William Frawley , American actor (b.
1887 )
1966 -
Alice Pearce , American actress (b.
1917 )
1987 -
Danny Kaye , American actor, singer, and comedian (b.
1913 )
1988 -
Sewall Wright , American biologist (b.
1889 )
1990 -
Gérard Blitz , Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b.
1912 )
1991 -
Arthur Murray , American dancer and dance instructor (b.
1895 )
1995 -
Howard W. Hunter , president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1907 )
1996 -
John Krol , American cardinal (b.
1910 )
1998 -
Fred Friendly , American broadcast executive (b.
1915 )
2001 -
Louis Edmonds , American actor (b.
1923 )
2002 -
Harlan Howard , American musician (b.
1927 )
2003 -
Luis Marden , American photojournalist (b.
1913 )
2004 -
Cecily Adams , American actress and casting director (b.
1958 )
2005 -
Max M. Fisher , American philanthropist (b.
1928 )