Wednesday 6th of April 1892 (+) — Aircraft designer Donald Douglas is born
Friday 10th of February 1893 (+) — Comedian and actor Jimmy Durante is born
Monday 26th of September 1898 (+) — Composer George Gershwin is born
Tuesday 17th of January 1899 (+) — Gangster, bootlegger and racketeer Al Capone is born
Wednesday 14th of November 1900 (+) — Composer Aaron Copland is born
Wednesday 28th of February 1906 (+) — Mobster Bugsy Siegel is born
Saturday 27th of July 1907 (+) — Actor Ross Alexander is born
Wednesday 1st of April 1908 (+) — Psychologist Abraham Maslow is born
Friday 18th of March 1910 (+) — Cardiologist Herman Tarnower is born
Wednesday 18th of January 1911 (+) — Actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician Danny Kaye is born
Monday 8th of December 1913 (+) — Poet Delmore Schwartz is born
Friday 8th of December 1916 (+) — Film director Richard Fleischer is born
Saturday 9th of March 1918 (+) — Writer Mickey Spillane is born
Thursday 17th of October 1918 (+) — Actress and pin-up model Rita Hayworth is born
Wednesday 1st of January 1919 (+) — Boxer Rocky Graziano is born
Thursday 23rd of September 1920 (+) — Vaudeville performer and actor Mickey Rooney is born
Saturday 16th of June 1923 (+) — Mobster and crime boss Joseph Colombo is born
Tuesday 1st of May 1923 (+) — Writer and playwright Joseph Heller is born
Monday 28th of June 1926 (+) — Film director, actor and comedian Mel Brooks is born
Wednesday 20th of June 1928 (+) — Actor Martin Landau is born
Monday 23rd of July 1928 (+) — Writer Hubert Selby is born
Saturday 21st of July 1928 (x) — Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish is arrested for grand larceny
Sunday 19th of November 1933 (+) — Television host Larry King is born
Friday 9th of November 1934 (+) — Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and futurologist Carl Sagan is born
Sunday 7th of July 1935 (+) — Bar manager Kitty Genovese is born
Friday 3rd of January 1936 (+) — Post-minimalist sculptor Richard Nonas is born
Tuesday 29th of December 1936 (+) — Actress Mary Tyler Moore is born
Monday 22nd of March 1937 (+) — Composer Angelo Badalamenti is born
Wednesday 16th of June 1937 (+) — Writer Erich Segal is born
Saturday 5th of November 1938 (+) — Singer-songwriter Joe Dassin is born
Thursday 23rd of June 1938 (+) — Musician Alan Vega is born
Friday 21st of January 1938 (+) — Disc jockey and radio presenter Robert Weston Smith is born
Saturday 13th of May 1939 (+) — Actor Harvey Keitel is born
Monday 13th of March 1939 (+) — Musician Neil Sedaka is born
Tuesday 14th of January 1941 (+) — Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond is born
Friday 24th of April 1942 (+) — Singer-songwriter and actress Barbra Streisand is born
Thursday 17th of June 1943 (+) — Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is born
Thursday 24th of May 1945 (+) — Priscilla Presley is born
Thursday 10th of July 1947 (+) — Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie is born
Monday 1st of June 1953 (+) — Serial killer David Berkowitz is born
Sunday 15th of July 1956 (+) — Musician Marky Ramone is born
Sunday 9th of December 1956 (+) — Religious extremist and mass murderer Baruch Goldstein is born
Friday 25th of October 1957 (+) — Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Donna Lauria is born
Thursday 6th of June 1957 (+) — Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Stacy Moskowitz is born
Monday 1st of August 1977 (-) — Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Stacy Moskowitz is shot in the head by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam
Moskowitz' 20-year-old boyfriend Robert Violante was also shot. Violante lost one eye but survived.
Monday 6th of April 1992 (-) — Science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov dies of HIV
In December 1983 Asimov had triple bypass surgery during which he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion.
Sunday 28th of January 1996 (-) — Poet Joseph Brodsky dies of a heart attack
