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Born in 1945 – Annie Dillard, American author and poet.

“After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”
                                                      ― from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Born in 1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer.

In 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union.

Above: A hospital building in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine–three kilometers from the Chernobyl plant.

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Born in 2009 – American boy, Nicolas West. Also known as Nickle Pickle.

Born in 1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright.

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”

–Miranda in The Tempest

In 1987, the first Simpsons short, “Good Night”, aired on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Have a look:

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Born in 1918 – André Bazin, French film critic and theorist.

“Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.”

Born in 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host.