Tuesday 15th of September 1857 (+) — 27th President of the United States William Howard Taft is born
Wednesday 29th of July 1885 (+) — Actress and sex symbol Theda Bara is born
Tuesday 5th of May 1914 (+) — Actor Tyrone Power is born
Thursday 3rd of April 1924 (+) — Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day is born
Monday 23rd of February 1931 (+) — Pop artist Tom Wesselmann is born
Sunday 16th of June 1935 (+) — Pop artist Jim Dine is born
Wednesday 13th of October 1937 (x) — On the night of her going-away party to Hollywood Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day is involved in a car accident shattering her right leg
"I had to lie down, and I was just laying down all the time, and a couple of years went by. And the bones in my right leg from the knee down were not healing."
Saturday 19th of November 1938 (+) — Media tycoon Ted Turner is born
Sunday 20th of January 1946 (+) — Mass murderer John Linley Frazier is born
Thursday 18th of December 1947 (+) — Film director Steven Spielberg is born
Wednesday 18th of December 1963 (+) — Murderer John William Byrd is born
Saturday 25th of August 2012 (-) — Astronaut Neil Armstrong dies of complications from vascular bypass surgery
