Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

Actress and comedienne Lucille Ball became immortalized on
TV’s I Love Lucy, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the Living Legacy Award posthumously. 

Lucille Ball briefly worked under the stage name of Diane
Belmont, but was unable to keep a job as a chorus girl on
Broadway. She appeared in over 80 films from 1933 to 1989,
including Panama Lady, Too Many Girls, and Dubarry Was a
Lady. She was married to co-star Desi Arnaz from 1940-1960.

 
Jeff’s 6th grade photo.

Jeff Gordon high school yearbook, 1989.

Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon was born in Vallejo, California.

Jef Gordon is a semi-retired professional stock car racing driver
and currently an announcer for Fox NASCAR. He formerly drove
the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in 23 full-time
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series seasons between 1993 and 2015,
and currently serves as a substitute driver for Dale Earnhardt Jr.
in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

He is the first driver to reach $100 million in career earnings
in the Cup series.

Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Estelle Louise Fletcher was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Louise Fletcher won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Nurse
Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). She worked as a secretary
by day and took acting lessons by night.

Jack Nicholson from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Natalie Wood (Natalia Zacharenko) born in San Francisco, California.
(July 20, 1938 – missing November 28, found November 29, 1981)

Natalie Wood played Maria in West Side Story in 1961 and won a Golden Globe
Award for her role in the 1979 remake of From Here to Eternity. As a teenager,
she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her
work in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). She made her film debut at age four in
a fifteen-second scene in the film, Happy Land (1943). During the making of the
film Brainstorm, Wood drowned while on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina
Island with her husband Robert Wagner.

The song "Ode to Billie Joe" was written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a
singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It became a number-
one hit in the U.S., and a big international seller. Billboard ranked the record
as the No. 3 song for 1967. The song is ranked #412 on Rolling Stone‘s list
of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It also generated eight Grammy
nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one win for arranger
Jimmie Haskell.

Bobby Gentry in Capitol Studio C, Hollywood, CA.

Bobby Gentry (Roberta Lee Streeter) will be 72
on July 27.