CEO Tim Cook apologized for Apple slowing down iPhones with degraded batteries. Meanwhile, Apple has pledged a $350 billion U.S. investment over 5 years. The “Paradise Papers” leak last November revealed the company paid a tax rate as low as 0.005% for its extensive holdings in Ireland.

• Business Leader
  (1960–)

Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer will star in a new Reese Witherspoon-produced TV show, ‘Are You Sleeping,’ a story about America’s obsession with true crime podcasts. The series is reportedly the fourth Apple is working on and will be in consultation with the producer of ‘Serial.’

• Television Actress, Film Actress
  (1972–)

American football quarterback Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy at Auburn University and became an NFL MVP with the Carolina Panthers.

• Football Player
  (1989–)

Frederick D. Reese is a civil rights activist who advocated African-American voters' rights in Selma, Alabama, and marched with Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

• Civil Rights Activist
  (1929–)

Taylor Hicks is an American singer-songwriter who rose to fame after his win on the fifth season of American Idol.

• Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
  (1976–)

Retired NBA player Charles Barkley was part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team" and was named one of the league's 50 greatest players in 1996.

• Famous Basketball Players, Television Personality
  (1963–)

Bo Jackson came to fame in the 1980s as a multitalented athlete, who excelled in baseball, football, and track at an early age.

• Football Player, Famous Baseball Players
  (1962–)

Jimmy is an internet entrepreneur best known for founding the open-content reference site Wikipedia.

• Entrepreneur
  (1966–)