Born in1908 – Minor White, American photographer.

Above: Windowsill Dreaming, 1958.

Previously: South Sudan Declares Independance

Born in 1887 – Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter.

Above: Chagall”s  stained glass windows at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem.

Previously: Jan Hus burned at stake.

Born in 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player.

Previously: Slim Pickens

Born in 1958 – Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

In 1997, the US Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.

Previously: I was born.

Born in 1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Wilder directing Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment (1960)

Born in 1919 – Pauline Kael, American author and film critic.

“Men are now beginning their careers as directors by working on commercials — which, if one cares to speculate on it, may be almost a one-sentence résumé of the future of American motion pictures.”

-from Kael’s 1969 essay, “Trash, Art and the Movies” 

Born in 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator.

Above: Page from Van Allsburg’s 1984 book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.

Born in 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer.

Born in 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor.

Above: As Doughboy, in John Singleton’s Boyz N The Hood.