… is the birthday of Fess Parker, the actor who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. He’s 83.
Actor Robert Culp is 77 today. He was Bill Cosby’s sidekick (or Cosby was his) in the first TV series to feature an African-American, I Spy.
Frank Gifford is 77 today. Kathie Lee Gifford is 54 today.
Oscar-winner James Cameron is 53. Cameron won, of course, for Titanic — writer, director, best picture.
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone is 49.
Supporting actor Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton is 47.
Steve Carrell is 44.
Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks is 35. Originally Emily Erwin (Robison is her married name), she and her sister Martie (now Maguire) founded the group with two other classmates. The other two left and the group added Natalie Maines as the lead singer in 1995.
Football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg was born on this date in 1862. Stagg, Skull and Bones at Yale, was on the first All-America team ever (1889). He coached most famously at the University of Chicago, 1892-1932. Stagg developed the man-in-motion and the lateral pass — and developed basketball as a five man game. He is in both the college football and basketball halls of fame.
Elvis Presley died 30 years ago today, he was 42. Babe Ruth died 59 years ago today, he was 53. Robert Johnson died 69 years ago today, he was 27.