Marilyn Monroe  (Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – It’s no secret Joe DiMaggio loved Marilyn
Monroe. The baseball great cried at her funeral and for 20 years had
flowers placed at her crypt several times a week.

The public displays were unusual for the famously stoic and private
DiMaggio. Now, his heartbreak over the breakup of their marriage will
get a rare public airing when "Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives" goes up
for bid at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills next month.

The 300 items also include love letters from Monroe’s third and final
husband, playwright Arthur Miller.

Camille Bohannon

Neil Percival Young is 69 years old today

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as
"one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers".

The title track from the 1999 album of the same name, Harvest Moon
is kind of an unofficial sequel to Young’s 1972’s album Harvest.

Tim Maguire

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is  40 years old today

DiCaprio began his career by acting in commercials and
educational films under the name Lenny Williams.

Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000

Lamarr appeared in Ecstasy in 1933 and Samson and Delilah in
1949. She also appeared in Boom Town and Comrade X with
Clark Gable (1940). She was born in Austria and studied theatre
in Berlin.

At the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Sixth Pioneer Awards in
1997, Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil were honored with special
awards for their "trail-blazing development of a technology that has
become a key component of wireless data systems used for radio-
controlled torpedoes.

Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah

Tim Maguire

Mike Nichols (Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky)

Nichols was briefly enrolled in the pre-medical program at 
the University of Chicago. His third cousin twice removed
is prestigious scientist, Albert Einstein.