Estelle Getty of The Golden Girls is 82.
Matt LeBlanc, aka Joey, is 38.
The San Francisco-based longshoreman, philosopher and writer Eric Hoffer was born on this date in 1902.
Henry Knox, a book-seller turned army general during the American Revolution, and America’s first secretary of war, was born on this date in 1750. It was Knox who brought 50 cannon from captured Fort Ticonderoga to Boston via ox-cart in the winter of 1775-1776 and thus assured the British withdrawal.
Today is also the birthday of NewMexiKen’s dad. Happy birthday, Dad.