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1900 - Natalie Schafer - actress on Gilligan’s Island (Mrs. Howell), The Survivors, Forever Darling, The Time of Your Life; died Apr 10, 1991

1911 - Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) - ‘King of the Cowboys’: actor: 85+ westerns, The Roy Rogers Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show; singer: Happy Trails to You; died July 6, 1998

1913 - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) - Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939], A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina; died July 7, 1967

1936 - Billy Sherrill (77) - songwriter, musician: saxophone: Tipsy; record producer: Almost Persuaded; VP/Executive Producer: CBS Nashville

1941 - Art Garfunkel (72) - singer: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; solo:All I Know, Second Avenue, I Only Have Eyes for You, Wonderful World [w/James Taylor, Paul Simon]; actor: Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Bad Timing

1943 - Sam Shepard (70) (Sam Shepard Rogers) - actor: Days of Heaven, The Pelican Brief, The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Voyager; playwright: Silent Tongue, Far North, Fool for Love, Zabriskie Point, Paris Texas

1952 - Bill Walton (61) - Basketball Hall of Famer: UCLA: NCAA championship [1972, 1973]: MVP, Sullivan Award [1973]; Portland Trail Blazers: NBA Championship title [1977], MVP [1978]; San Diego Clippers; Boston Celtics: 1986 NBA championship

1963 - Tatum O’Neal (50) - Academy Award-winning actress: Paper Moon [1973]; Bad News Bears, Little Darlings

Tabloid News

Man Shot "Hunting For Bigfoot"

From The Huffington Post -

Three people in Oklahoma were arrested over a bogus hunt for Bigfoot that authorities say wasted their time and put a man in the hospital with a nasty gunshot wound. Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton said, "If they had just been factual, upfront and truthful with us and explained that this was truly an accident, as strange as it might sound, we would have went ahead and investigated and probably nobody would have gone to jail. But how do you believe anything after that?" Omar Pineda, 21, was arrested after he told Rogers County deputies that he shot his friend in the back when a "barking noise" spooked him during a hunt for Bigfoot late Saturday night. The victim underwent surgery and is expected to survive. Oklahoma is not exactly known as a hotspot for Bigfoot sightings in the U.S., although more than a few encounters have been reported there over the years.

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