Michael Joseph Jackson  (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

Known as The King of Pop, Jackson became the most successful singer
in American history for releasing award-winning hits like "Billie Jean" and
"Beat It."

David Soul (born David Richard Solberg in Chicago, Illinois)

Soul teamed up with Paul Michael Glaser in the role of Hutch as part of
the famed duo Starsky & Hutch on ABC television (1975 to 1979). He
studied political science when he was 19 years old and later turned to 
music. Soul was offered a professional baseball contract in 1962 to play
for the Chicago White Sox, but he turned it down.

Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld in New York City)

Teen flick actress Tuesday Weld starred in Wild in the Country (1961) with
Elvis Presley, and began a romance with him shortly after.

She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Play
It As It Lays (1972). She modeled as a child to help with her family’s financial
troubles.

SANDY KOZEL

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is 85 today.

Connery worked as a milkman, a truck driver, and a body builder. The U.S.
Navy discharged him due to his being afflicted with a duodenal ulcer. In July
2000, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1962

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
(August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996)

Gene Kelly choreographed his own dance routines in such hit 1940s and ’50s
films as Singin’ in the Rain, Anchors Aweigh, An American in Paris and On the
Town. He was ranked 15th on the American Film Institute’s list of the Greatest
Male Stars of All Time in 1999.

1952