Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On February 5, 1934, Henry Louis Aaron Jr., the baseball slugger
who broke Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers, was
born in Mobile, Alabama.

Aaron began his professional baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the Milwaukee Braves of the major league in
1954, eight years after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball.

Aaron was the last Negro League player to compete in the majors
and established himself as an important player for the Braves
winning the National League batting title in 1956. The following
season, he took home the league’s MVP award and helped the
Braves beat Mickey Mantle and the heavily favored New York
Yankees in the World Series.

In 1959, Aaron won his second league batting title.  Season after
season, he turned in strong batting performances.

Stanley Rubin (second from the right) holds his Emmy award
for "The Necklace" at the first Emmy Awards, Los Angeles.

The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The awards recognize excellence
in television (which in the 1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sid Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank Capra
who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and an
entertainment journalist.

Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000)

Fisher was a actress who was one of the first black
women to play substantive roles in American television.

She was best known for playing the role of secretary
Peggy Fair on the television detective series Mannix
from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two
Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; Fisher was
the first African-American woman to win those awards     
along with a NAACP Image Award in 1969.   

Fisher died in Los Angeles in 2000, reportedly from 
kidney failure. She was 65. Twelve hours later, her
brother Clifton died from heart failure.

William W. (Bill) Schonely (June 1, 1929 – January 21, 2023) 

Bill Schonely was local sports broadcaster who was the play-
by-play announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers for almost
three decades, from the team’s launch in 1970 until 1998.

The Trail Blazers organization retired Schonely’s microphone
on November 3, 2003.

In 1999, Schonely was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of
Fame for Broadcasting.

In 2012, Schonely was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award
from the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Breakfast at tiffany’s (1961)

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston)
4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)

Recognized as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked
by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female
screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was
inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Hepburn’s grave in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.