Kim Basinger won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen
Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in L.A. 
Confidential (1997).

Kim with her Oscar in 1998

William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1864 – June 23, 1946)

William S, Hart was a silent film actor, screenwriter, director and
producer.who was one to the first great stars of western motion
pictures. He was fascinated by the history of the Old West and
acquired Billy the Kid’s pistols and was a friend of legendary
lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. He entered the film
industry in 1914 playing supporting roles .

After Tumbleweeds, Hart’s final film, he retired to his California, ranch
home,“La Loma de los Vientos”.

William Hart (second from left) and a film crew on the set in the early 1900s

Little Richard ("the architect of rock and roll")
is 80 today and still performing and recording.

Ray (Herman) Walston (December 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001)

Walston was an stage, television and film actor best known as the
title character on the CBS situation comedy My Favorite Martian from
1963 to 1966.

 
High school yearbook picture

 
Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is 77 today

The group’s first American number one, entered the Billboard  Hot
100 chart on 18 January 1964 at number forty-five and started, what
the music industry called, the British invasion. By 1 February it held 
the number one spot — for seven weeks.