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11-12-06
August 22
1834 Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer/physicist and aviation pioneer (Roxbury, MA; died 1906)
1862 Claude Debussy, composer/musician (St. Germain-en-Laye, France; died 1918)
1893 Dorothy Parker, author (West End, NJ; died 1967)
1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer (Waukegan, IL)
1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Operation Desert Storm military leader (Trenton, NJ)
1935 E. Annie Proulx, novelist/short-story writer (Norwich, CT)
1939 Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player (Southampton, NY)
1940 Valerie Harper, actress (Suffern, NY)
1941 Bill Parcells, football coach (Englewood, NJ)
1945 Steve Kroft, TV journalist (Kokomo, IN)
1947 Cindy Williams, actress (Van Nuys, CA)
1956 Paul Molitor, baseball player (St. Paul, MN)
1964 Tori Amos, singer/songwriter/musician (North Carolina)
1973 Howie Dorough, singer and member of the Backstreet Boys (Orlando, FL) |