Happy Birthday, Everyone

1564 – Christopher Marlowe, playwright (d. 1593)
1665 – Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom (d. 1714)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
1756 – Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1895 – Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)
1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler’s mistress (d. 1945)
1913 – Mary Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor (“Tony the Tiger”)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
1931 – Rip Torn, actor, director
1940 – Tom Brokaw, news anchorman
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician, (d. 1981)
1950 – Natalie Cole, singer
1951 РPrincess Daphn̩ of Belgium
1957 – Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
1957 – Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer
1962 – Axl Rose, musician (“Guns N’Roses”)

And Massachusetts (my home state) became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Thanks to Wikipedia for the dates and references.