Born in 1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor. 

Above: Baker with one of the costumes for his role of R2-D2.

Baker died on the 13th of August, 2016.

Born in 1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer.

Born in 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer.

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Born in 1944 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Still from Weir’s 1975 film, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Born in 1946 – Connie Chung, American journalist.

Above: Robert Heinecken image, Connie Chung, 1986.

Born in 1957 – Martin Donovan, American actor and director.

Above: Donovan, center, as Jude in Hal Hartley’s Surviving Desire.

“Henry: You can’t beat up students because they don’t like Dostoevsky.

Jude: Perhaps.”

Born in 1934 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player.

In 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis was released.

Born in 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

Previously: E.F. Schumacher

Born in 1952 – Gus Van Sant, American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Still from the 2002 film, Gerry.