Born On This Day: Ewan McGregor turns 41 today A Scottish actor who has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. He is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting and Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

In Memoriam: Sir Isaac Newton died 285 years ago An English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."

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Born On This Day: Warren Beatty turns 75 today An American actor, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982.

Born On This Day: Vincent van Gogh was born 159 years ago A Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

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Born On This Day: Lucy Lawless turns 44 today A New Zealander actress best known for playing the title character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

In Memoriam: Mitch Hedberg died 7 years ago today An American comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery.

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Born On This Day: Lady Gaga turns 26 today Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter.

In Memoriam: Sergei Rachmaninoff died 69 years ago today A Russian composer and pianist, widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

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Born On This Day: Quentin Tarantino turns 49 today An American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.

In Memoriam: Yuri Gagarin died 44 years ago today A Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

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Born On This Day: Leonard Nimoy turns 81 today An American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the series Star Trek.

In Memoriam: Alex Comfort died 12 years ago today A British medical professional, gerontologist and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution.

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Born On This Day: Sarah Jessica Parker turns 47 today An American film, television, and theater actress, best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the series Sex and the City.

In Memoriam: Buck Owens died 6 years ago today An American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos.

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Born On This Day: Mark "Undertaker" Calaway turns 50 today An American professional wrestler better known by his ring name "The Undertaker". He is signed to WWE and is the company's most tenured competitor.

In Memoriam: Horace Day died 28 years ago today A painter of the American scene, born in China, who came to maturity during the Thirties and was active as a painter over the next 50 years.

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Born On This Day: Keri Russell turns 36 today An American actress best known for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity.

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Taylor died 1 year ago today A British-American actress, she was one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Born On This Day: William Shatner turns 81 today A Canadian actor and musician. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of captain James T. Kirk, in the science fiction television series Star Trek.

In Memoriam: Walter Lantz died 18 years ago today An American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

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Born On This Day: Matthew Broderick turns 50 today An American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

In Memoriam: Barney Martin died 7 years ago today An American actor, best known for playing Morty Seinfeld, father of Jerry, on the sitcom Seinfeld.

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Born On This Day: Spike Lee turns 55 today An American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

In Memoriam: Julius Robert von Mayer died 134 years ago today A German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.

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Born On This Day: Bruce Willis turns 57 today An American actor, producer, and musician. He is best known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series.

In Memoriam: Arthur C. Clarke died 4 years ago today A British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Born On This Day: Dane Cook turns 40 today An American stand-up comedian and film actor. The comedy album Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28 years and went platinum.

In Memoriam: Ivan the Terrible died 428 years ago today Ivan IV Vasilyevich was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. He was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental illness.

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Born On This Day: Gary Sinise turns 57 today An American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.

In Memoriam: Fred Allen died 56 years ago today An American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show made him one of the most popular humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio.

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Born On This Day: Judah Friedlander turns 43 today An American actor and comedian, known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance. Best known for his character Frank Rossitano on 30 Rock.

In Memoriam: T-Bone Walker died 37 years ago today A critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound.

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Born On This Day: Fabio Lanzoni turns 53 today A famous international Italian fashion model, spokesperson, author, actor, and recording artist.

In Memoriam: Julius Caesar died in 44 BC today A Roman general, statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose.

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Born On This Day: Michael Caine turns 79 today An English actor, one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award in every decade from the 1960s to 2000.

In Memoriam: Karl Marx died 129 years ago today A German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Born On This Day: William H. Macy turns 62 today An American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo.

In Memoriam: Susan B. Anthony died 106 years ago today A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.

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Born On This Day: James Taylor turns 64 today An American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He achieved his major breakthrough in 1970 with the #3 single "Fire and Rain".

In Memoriam: Anne Frank died 67 years ago today One of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books.

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Born On This Day: Terrence Howard turns 43 today An American actor, having his first major role in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus.

In Memoriam: Ole Kirk Christiansen died 54 years ago He was the founder of the Danish toy company, and inventor of, Lego.

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Canadian ski cross skier Nick Zoricic died today following a sever crash during the skicross world cup finals. He was 29.

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Born On This Day: Chuck Norris turns 72 today An American martial artist and actor, best known for being The #@$%ing Man!

In Memoriam: Lloyd Bridges died 14 years ago today An American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films.

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Born On This Day: Bow Wow turns 25 today An American rapper and actor. He released his first album, Beware of Dog in 2000 at age 13.

In Memoriam: Johann Pachelbel died 306 years ago today A German Baroque composer who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, best known for the Canon in D.

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Born On This Day: James Van Der Beek turns 35 today An American television, film, and stage actor, known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in The WB series Dawson's Creek.

In Memoriam: Joe DiMaggio died 13 years ago today Nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," he was an American Major League Baseball center fielder best known for his 56-game hitting streak.

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