Jim Belushi, younger brother of the late John Belushi, starred on his own TV sitcom, According to Jim, as well as in several theater and film productions.
1954-
1953-
Courteney Cox is an actress best known for her role on the hit TV series Friends and Cougar Town.
1964-
Singer Nadine Coyle was part of top-selling British girl group Girls Aloud.
1985-
Personality development, in Erik H. Erikson's view, occurs through a series of identity crises that occur in stages that must be overcome and internalized.
1902-1994
Erroll Garner was a virtuosic and popular jazz pianist known for creating one of the best-selling albums in jazz, Concert by the Sea (1958).
1921-1977
Bernice Gera became the first female umpire of a baseball game in 1972, but later resigned, reportedly because other umpires refused to work with her.
1931-1992
Organized crime boss, Sam Giancana climbed to the top of Chicago's underworld and became a player on the national stage through shadowy ties to the Kennedys.
1908-1975
Actor Neil Patrick Harris starred in TV sitcom Doogie Howser, M.D., and performed on stage in Rent and Cabaret.
1973-
Escaped slave and minister Josiah Henson became involved in the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom and developed his own Afro-Canadian community.
1789-1883
Helen Hunt in an Emmy and Academy Award-winning actress best known for her roles in the sitcom Mad About You and the film As Good As It Gets.
1963-
Rachel Jackson was the wife of President Andrew Jackson and is best known for the smears about her honor during her husband's election campaign.
1767-1828
Musical rebel Waylon Jennings is best remembered for helping to popularize a grittier and more rock-influenced style of outlaw country music.
1937-2002
Bob McDonnell, a prominent Republican politician, became governor of Virginia in 2010.
1954-
Sri Lankan billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was arrested for insider trading in 2009 as part of the largest ever SEC case against a hedge fund.
1957-
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles on the show Grey's Anatomy and in the Twilight film series.
1975-
Comedic actor Jim Varney played his signature character Ernest P. Worrell in hundreds of commercials and five Disney films including Ernest goes to Camp (1987).
1949-2000