The Mariner 4 spacecraft.

Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth
in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct close up scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet
Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. On December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.
 

                  
                     Launch of Mariner 4.

The clearest Mariner 4 image showing craters.

    
    TIM MAGUIRE

TIM MAGUIRE

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
(December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997)

Home video clip of John Denver’s last public performance, Oct 5 1997.

ED DANAHUE

Sophia Loren  (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is 82 years young today.

Sophia Loren was a finalist for a beauty pageant in Naples at the age of
fourteen. She voiced the character Mama Topolino in the 2011 Disney
feature Cars 2 (below).

JOHN BELMONT

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings
(July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005)