Best known to his many fans for one of his most memorable
screen incarnations—San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty”
Harry Callahan—the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint
Eastwood is born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California.

With his father, Eastwood wandered the West Coast as a boy
during the Depression. Then, after four years in the Army
Special Services, Eastwood went to Hollywood, where he got
his start in a string of B-movies.

For eight years, Eastwood played Rowdy Yates in the popular
TV Western series Rawhide, before emerging as a leading man
in a string of low-budget “spaghetti” Westerns directed by
Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More
(1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

SANDY KOZEL

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

James Francis Thorpe (1887 – 1953) was an American athlete
who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball.

A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native
American to win a gold medal for the United States in the
Olympics.

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports,
he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics
(one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon).

John Wayne, an actor who came to epitomize the American
West,was born in Winterset, Iowa.

Born Marion Robert Morrison, Wayne’s family moved to
Glendale, California, when he was six years old. As a teen,
he rose at four in the morning to deliver newspapers, and
after school he played football and made deliveries for local
stores.

When he graduated from high school, he hoped to attend the
U.S. Naval Academy. However, after the school rejected him,
he accepted a full scholarship to play football at the University
of Southern California in Los Angeles.

In the summer of 1926, Wayne’s football coach found him a job
as an assistant prop man on the set of a movie directed by John
Ford. Ford started to use Wayne as an extra, and he eventually
began to trust him with some larger roles.

1954

1969

Wayne won the Academy Award for Best
Actor and the Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama,
his only competitive win for either
institution.

He revolutionized rock and folk music with songs like
"Blowin’ in the Wind."

With an estimated more than 125 million records sold
worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians of all
time and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is 84
years old today