June 5th

Bill Moyers is 73 today.

Author Ken Follet is 58.

Suze Orman is 56.

Supporting Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg is 36.

Richard Scarry was born on June 5, 1919. Scarry has written more than 300 books for children and, according to The Writer’s Almanac, “said that what made him happiest as an author was getting letters from people telling him that their copies of his books were all worn out and held together with Scotch tape.” Scarry died in 1994.

Doroteo Arango was born on June 5, 1878. We know him as Pancho Villa.

Adam Smith was baptized on June 5, 1723. His An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was published in 1776.

Another immortal economist, John Maynard Keynes was born on June 5, 1883.