Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago.

            1993

A Comedic actor whose versatile range included "Aladdin’s"
Genie, an alien named Mork and Scottish nanny named "Mrs.
Doubtfire."        

Williams received numerous accolades including an Academy
Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards,
five Grammy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He
was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005.

1987

On July 20, 1988, Die Hard, an action film starring Bruce
Willis as wisecracking New York City cop John McClane,
opened in theaters across the United States.

A huge box-office hit, the film established Willis as a movie
star and spawned three sequels. Die Hard also became
Hollywood shorthand for describing the plot of other
actions films, as in “Speed is Die Hard on a bus.”

Bruce Willis (70) was spotted in public for the second time
since announcing his battle with frontotemporal dementia
and aphasia, on January 22.

On July 6, 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opened in theaters. A
huge box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title
role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds
up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the
second half of the 20th century.

The film also won an Oscar for its then-cutting-edge computer-
generated imagery (CGI) special effects, which incorporated
Forrest Gump into existing news footage with famous world
figures including John F. Kennedy, John Lennon and Richard
Nixon.

Tom Hanks will be 69 years old on July 9th.

High School ~ 1965

Sylvester Gardenzio "Sly" Stallone is a actor and filmmaker with
a movie career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has
received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award
and a Critics’ Choice Award, as well as nominations for three
Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards.

Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison
Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six
consecutive decades. Films in which he has appeared in have
grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.

(FOX NEWS) – Michael Madsen, best known for his roles in
Quentin Tarantino’s films "Reservoir Dogs," "Kill Bill: Vol. 2,
" "The Hateful Eight" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,"
has died.

The actor suffered a cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive
in his Malibu home earlier this morning. 

1992