Born On This Day: Mike Tyson turns 46 today An American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.

In Memoriam: Chet Atkins died 11 years ago today An American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well. Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally. Atkins produced records for The Browns, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.

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Born On This Day: Gary Busey turns 68 today An American film and stage actor, and artist. He has appeared in a variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Law & Order and Entourage. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in The Buddy Holly Story.

In Memoriam: Bob Crane died 34 years ago today An American actor and disc jockey, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his 1978 murder, which remains officially unsolved.

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Born On This Day: John Cusack turns 46 today An American actor, producer and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 50 films, including The Journey of Natty Gann, Say Anything..., Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, The Thin Red Line, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, 1408 and Hot Tub Time Machine. Cusack gained fame in the mid-1980s after appearing in teen movies such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing and Sixteen Candles.

In Memoriam: Terry Fox died 31 years ago today A Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi), and ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy.

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Born On This Day: Tobey Maguire turns 37 today An merican actor and producer. He began his career in the late 1980s. While perhaps best known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), he has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville (1998), Ride with the Devil (1999), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), and Brothers (2009). He has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards and received two Saturn Awards.

In Memoriam: Jack Lemmon died 11 years ago today An American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

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Born On This Day: Chris Isaak turns 56 today An American rock musician and occasional actor. Isaak signed a contract to Warner Bros. Records in 1984 for his first album Silvertone. The tracks "Gone Ridin'" and "Livin' for Your Lover", from this album, were featured in David Lynch's cult classic Blue Velvet. Isaak's contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label. His best-known song is "Wicked Game."

In Memoriam: Walter O'Keefe died 29 years ago today An American songwriter, actor, syndicated columnist, radio legend, screenwriter and TV host.  O'Keefe began as a vaudeville performer in the midwest for several years. In 1925, he went to New York and became a Broadway performer. By 1937, he wrote a syndicated humor column and filled-in for such radio personalities as Walter Winchell, Edgar Bergen, Don McNeill and Garry Moore.

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Born On This Day: Ricky Gervais turns 51 today An English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former radio presenter. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.

In Memoriam: Michael Jackson died 3 years ago today An American recording artist, dancer, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

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Born On This Day: Mick Fleetwood turns 70 today A British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac.

In Memoriam: Jackie Gleason died 25 years ago today AnAmerican comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The Hustler (1961) starring Paul Newman, and as Buford T.

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Born On This Day: Frances McDormand turns 55 today An American film and stage actress. She has starred in a number of films, including her Academy Award-winning performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, in 1996. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2011 for her performance in Good People as Margie Walsh, having been nominated for the same category in 1988 for the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.

In Memoriam: Ed McMahon died 3 years ago today An American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995. He co-hosted TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with Dick Clark from 1982 to 1998.

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Born On This Day: Meryl Streep turns 63 today An American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer, the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win.

In Memoriam: George Carlin died 4 years ago today An American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.

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Born On This Day: Michael Gross turns 65 today An American television, movie, and stage actor who plays both comedic and dramatic roles. His most notable roles are as the father Steven Keaton from Family Ties and the Graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the Tremors franchise. Coincidentally, Gross and his Family Ties co-star Meredith Baxter (who played his wife Elyse Keaton), were born on the same date, June 21, 1947.

In Memoriam: John Lee Hooker died 11 years ago today A highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing.

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Born On This Day: Nicole Kidman turns 45 today An Australian and American actress. She made her first appearance in the Australian movie "Bush Christmas" with a small role in 1983. She made her debut in the United States when she starred in the hit thriller "Dead Calm".  She is known for her roles in "The others", "The Hours" which made her an Academy Award Winner in year 2003, "Cold Mountain" and others.

In Memoriam: Bugsy Siegel died 65 years ago today An American gangster who was involved with the Genovese crime family. Because of his notoriously quick and violent temper, the ruthless Siegel became one of the most infamous and feared gangsters of his day. Along the way, he became one of the first page-one "celebrity" gangsters. Siegel was also a major driving force behind large-scale development of the Las Vegas Valley.

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Born On This Day: Mia Sara turns 45 today An American actress best known for her roles in films such as Legend (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Timecop (1994). Sara's breakthrough roles came in the mid-1980's as Princess Lily, playing opposite Tom Cruise in Legend and as Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, Sloane in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

In Memoriam: William Golding died 19 years ago today A British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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Born On This Day: Paul McCartney turns 70 today An English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

In Memoriam: Maxim Gorky died 76 years ago today A Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod and became an orphan at the age of nine. In 1880, at the age of twelve, he ran away from home in an effort to find his grandmother. Gorky was brought up by his grandmother. Her death deeply affected him, and after an attempt at suicide in December 1887, he travelled on foot across the Russian Empire for five years, changing jobs and accumulating impressions used later in his writing.

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Born On This Day: Barry Manilow turns 69 today An American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)." In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis.

In Memoriam: Kate Smith died 26 years ago today An American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s. Her professional musical career began in 1930, when she was discovered by Columbia Records vice president Ted Collins.

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Born On This Day: John Cho turns 40 today A Korean-American actor and musician, best known for his roles and as Harold Lee in the Harold & Kumar films and as the character who coins the term "MILF" in the American Pie films. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed hit films Better Luck Tomorrow and American Beauty. Recently Cho's fame has increased with his portrayal of the iconic Star Trek character Hikaru Sulu in the 2009 film Star Trek.

In Memoriam: Wernher von Braun died 35 years ago A German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and, subsequently, the United States. In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II.

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Born On This Day: Neil Patrick Harris turns 39 today An American actor, singer, director, and magician. He is best known for the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar series, and the title role in Joss Whedon's musical web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

In Memoriam: Ella Fitzgerald died 16 years ago today An American jazz and song vocalist. Also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

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Born On This Day: Donald Trump turns 66 today An American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump  was No. 17 on the 2011 Forbes Celebrity 100 list.

In Memoriam: Salvatore Quasimodo died 44 years ago An Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

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Born On This Day: Malcolm McDowell turns 69 today An English actor, whose career spans more than four decades. McDowell is known for his early roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange, and Caligula. Since then, his versatility as an actor has led to varied roles in films and television series, including Star Trek Generations, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, the animated movie Bolt, the 2007 remake of Halloween, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.

In Memoriam: Benny Goodman died 26 years ago today An American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing". In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."

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Born On This Day: George Bush turns 88 today An American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and currently the oldest surviving president.

In Memoriam: Nicole Simpson died 18 years ago today The former wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson. She was murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman allegedly by her ex-husband O. J. Simpson, he was arrested and found not guilty of murdering both her and Goldman in a controversial criminal trial.

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Born On This Day: Hugh Laurie turns 53 today An English actor, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. He first became well known in the media as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder. Since 2004, he has played Dr Gregory House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards and six Emmy nominations.

In Memoriam: John Wayne died 33 years ago today An American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.

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Born On This Day: Elizabeth Hurley turns 47 today An English model and actress. In the 1990s, Hurley became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant. Hurley has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder for over 15 years since the company awarded Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29. It has featured her as a representative and model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995.

In Memoriam: Ray Charles died 8 years ago today An American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records. Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.

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Born On This Day: Johnny Depp turns 49 today An American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series, 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

In Memoriam: Charles Dickens died 142 years ago today An English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and the creator of some of the world's most memorable fictional characters. During his lifetime Dickens' works enjoyed unprecedented popularity and fame, but it was in the twentieth century that his literary genius was fully recognized by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to enjoy an enduring popularity among the general reading public.

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Born On This Day: Kanye West turns 35 today An American musician, who rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments.

In Memoriam: George Mallory died 88 years ago today An English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. During the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain.

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Born On This Day: Liam Neeson turns 60 today An Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins, and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.

In Memoriam: Dorothy Parker died 45 years ago today An American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.

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Born On This Day: Robert Englund turns 65 today An American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

In Memoriam: Carl Jung died 51 years ago today A Swiss psychiatrist, the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization.

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