Tim Maguire

Michael Kirk Douglas is 71 today.

1979

Camille Bohannon

James Maury "Jim" Henson  (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990)

Henson created puppets for a children’s show on local TV called The Junior
Morning Show. Another early show was Sam and Friends, which featured
prototypes of The Muppets. He was honored on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame as both himself and Kermit the Frog.

Oliver Wolf Sacks (July 9, 1933 – August 30, 2015)

(FoxNews) – Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and acclaimed best-
selling author, died Sunday of cancer at his home in New York City.

His career included a number of hugely popular books, including
“Awakenings” (1990) which became an Academy Award-nominated
movie starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

Mike Gracia

Ann Rule (Stackhouse)  (October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015)

Rule was an true crime author of The Stranger Beside Me, about
serial killer and Rule’s co-worker Ted Bundy. She was also known
for her book Small Sacrifices, about Oregon child murderer Diane
Downs. Many of Rule’s books centered on murder cases that
occurred in her adopted home state of Washington and the
Pacific Northwest. The popular author died on Sunday, only a
few days after an emergency room visit and subsequent cardiac
arrest. She had been moved to hospice care one day before her
death.