Milton Hershey(founder of Hershey Chocolate Company)–
Adolf Meyer(psychiatrist)–
Sherwood Anderson(writer)–
Leland Hayward(producer)–
Claudette Colbert(actress)–
Horace Babcock(astronomer)–
Roald Dahl(author)–
Else Holmelund Minarik(children’s author; Little Bear” series”)–
Mel Torme(singer)–
Jacqueline Bisset(actress)–
Peter Cetera(musician)–
Nell Carter(actress & singer)–
Anne Geddes(photographer)–
Michael Johnson(Olympic athlete)–
Tyler Perry(actor and screenwriter)–
Stella McCartney(fashion designer)–
Fiona Apple(singer)–
Ben Savage(actor)–
Died
John Barry(commodore, father of the American navy)–
Richard Merrell(television writer & actor)–
George Wallace(politician)–
Dorothy McGuire(actress)–
Dilhan Eryurt(Turkish astrophysicist)–
Frank Vincent(actor)–
Eddie Money(singer)–
Events
Halford Mackinder’s team became the first Europeans to summit Mount Kenya –
Henry Bliss walked off a trolley and was hit by a speeding driver. The following day when he died from his injuries, he became the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile –
The Chocolate Soldier opened in N.Y.C. –
Chiang Kai-shek became president of China –
Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress –
IBM introduced the first computer with a disk storage system –
A protester dressed as Batman scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace –
Weather
Frost hit Albany, New York, ending the shortest growing season ever –
