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William H. Macy is 73.

34 2 Unlimited – No Limit 30 Shakespeares Sister — Stay 30 Ace of Base – All That She Wants +4 24 The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode 24 Culture Beat – Mr. Vain 22 Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite 22 Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer 20 Wet Wet Wet – Goodnight Girl 20 KWS – Please Don´t Go/Game Boy 20 Erasure – ABBA-Esque (EP) 20 Jimmy Nail – Ain´t No Doubt 20 Boyz II Men – End Of The Road 20 Bluebells – Young At Heart 20 George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield – Five Live (EP) 20 Gabrielle – Dreams 20 Take That – Pray 20 DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake The Room! 20 Take That ft. Lulu – Relight My Fire 18 Shaggy – Oh Carolina 18 Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own (Remix) 14 Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy 14 Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) 12 Mr. Blobby – Mr. Blobby -6 10 Charles and Eddie — Would I Lie To You 08 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 08 UB40 – (I Can´t Help) Falling In Love With You 

Lynne Thigpen died on this day 20 years ago, aged 54. - Thigpen's first role was in the musical Godspell, reprising her role in the 1973 film adaptation. She won a Tony Award in 1997 for her role as Judith Kaufman in An American Daughter. - In 1991, Thigpen became the announcer- known as "The Chief"- of the children's geography game show Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego. She would return as this role for its history-oriented spinoff Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. - Perhaps her most well-known role was as Luna in Bear in the Big Blue House, who ended each episode by asking Bear about his day and sing the goodbye song with him. - Thigpen's death from a stroke led to Bear entering a three-year hiatus, and her character (Ella Mae Farmer) in The District was killed off. Thigpen was posthumously nominated for an Emmy for her role as Luna.

Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) is 90.

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Charles Sumner died on this day 149 years ago, aged 63. - Sumner's father Charles Sr. was an abolitionist, who told him that freeing the slaves was not enough and that they needed to be treated as equals. - Sumner was a close friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and would entertain Longfellow's children by opening doors in an elegant manner. - Sumner was elected to the US Senate in 1850, and would remain there until his death. He became the Dean of the Senate in 1869 after Benjamin Wade lost re-election. - In May of 1856, Sumner gave a speech condemning slavery, where he namedropped senator Andrew Butler as a defender of it. Congressman Preston Brooks, who was Butler's first cousin once removed, was infuriated by this, and severely caned him two days later (to the point where the cane broke, and Brooks continued with the fragment). Sumner would not be able to return to the Senate for three years, during which time he developed PTSD from the incident. Massachusetts voters re-elected him later in 1856, citing his empty chair as symbolic of free speech and the anti-slavery movement. - Following his death from a heart attack, Sumner became the second US senator (after Henry Clay) and fourth person to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda.

Bobby McFerrin is 73.

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Wilbur Scoville died on this day 81 years ago, aged 77. - Scoville was a pharmacist, but he had an affinity for peppers. - In 1895, he wrote The Art of Compounding, in which he listed milk as an antidote to heat-related reactions from eating spicy peppers. - Scoville's most famous work came in 1912, when he devised a scale measuring said spiciness, based on the amount of capsaicin in the pepper. The units were named after him as well. - There is competition to breed peppers to top Scoville's chart. Among the contenders include the Dragon's Breath pepper (unofficially 2,480,000 Scoville units) and Pepper X (unofficially 3,180,000 Scoville units), both of which were first cultivated in 2017.

Chuck Norris is 83.

49 The Beautiful South – A Little Time +4 38 Adamski – Killer 38 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me 38 Madonna – Vogue 34 Snap! – The Power 30 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution - 3 a.m. Eternal 25 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven -2 20 Queen – These are the Days of our Lives +4 19 The Clash – Should I stay or should I go -4 14 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 9 Michael Jackson – Black or White

Biggie Smalls/The Notorious BIG died on this day 26 years ago, aged 24. - Biggie took his stage name from the character Calvin Lockhart played in Let's Do It Again. This led to a lawsuit where he had to sell his records as The Notorious BIG, but the name stuck with him. - Biggie was imprisoned in 1991 for dealing crack cocaine. He would continue to sell drugs until P. Diddy told him to stop. - Biggie's first demo tape was called Microphone Murderer. - Biggie married fellow Big Boy Records artist Faith Evans a few months after meeting her, and their son CJ would go on to portray his father (in his teenage years) in the 2009 biopic Notorious. - Shortly after the drive-by murder of his colleague and friend 2Pac, Biggie was involved in a car accident that temporarily forced him into a wheelchair (during the time he was working on his album Life After Death). - Only the final bullet in Biggie's shooting was fatal (it passed through his heart and left lung). - Biggie became the first singer to top the US charts posthumously ("Hypnotize" and "Mo Money Mo Problems") and would be the only one to do so until 2008 (Static Major as a featured artist on Lil Wayne's "Lollipop").

James L. Buckley, the oldest living (former) US senator, is 100. Still an active judge on Washington DC's Court of Appeals.

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Millard Fillmore died on this day 149 years ago, aged 74. - Fillmore was the first US president born in the 1800s, exactly one week in. - Fillmore's unusual first name was his mother Phoebe's maiden name. - Fillmore's wife Abigail was also his teacher- she was less than two years his senior. - Fillmore entered politics in 1828 as a member of the Anti-Masonic party. - Fillmore was a US Representative from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1843. By the time he was elected VP in 1848, he was the comptroller of New York. - Despite being from a free state, Fillmore supported slavery and passed the infamous Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 (that led to the enslavement of many already-free Blacks). These views are seen as one of the main causes of the collapse of the Whig Party (due to the abolitionist Republican Party splitting from it), as well as reasons why Fillmore often tops lists of the worst US presidents. - Fillmore was the one who ordered the Perry Expedition that opened up Japan to trade. - During his presidency, France showed signs of wanting to annex Hawaii- Fillmore sent Napoleon III a letter ordering him to back off. - Fillmore ran for president in 1856 as a member of the anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party, only winning Maryland (and receiving 21.5% of the votes). - Fillmore's house was vandalized with ink following Abraham Lincoln's assassination as he had not put black drapes on it. This was due to Fillmore being out of town, and he put them up when he returned. - Fillmore died from a stroke shortly after his last meal- soup; his last words were "the nourishment is palatable".

Douglas Hurd is 93.

45 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 43 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 40 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 38 Adamski – Killer 36 Queen – These are the Days of our Lives +4 35 Madonna – Vogue -2 33 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go 31 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 29 Snap! – The Power 27 Enigma – Sadness (Part 1) 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 16 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only -3 14 Michael Jackson – Black or White 3 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow -1

Antoninus Pius died on this day 1862 years ago, aged 74. - Antoninus was born as "Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius Antoninus". - Antoninus married Faustina the Elder, the niece of the emperor Hadrian, around the year 110. Hadrian adopted Antoninus in 138, therefore he married his adoptive cousin. - Antoninus ordered the construction of the Antonine Wall in modern-day Scotland in 142. It took twelve years to complete, and marked the northernmost border of the Roman Empire; it would later be abandoned in 162 and the Romans retreated to Hadrian's Wall. - With a reign of over 22 years, Antoninus was the second-longest reigning Roman emperor at the time, after Augustus (his length would be surpassed by Constantine the Great in 329). - As Antoninus entered old age, he began to wear corsets to maintain his balance. - Antoninus' last meal before his death was a plate of Gruyere cheese.

Bryan Cranston is 67.

44 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 43 Adamski – Killer 43 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 36 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 33 Snap! – The Power 33 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 32 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go -2 27 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody/These are the Days of our Lives +1 26 Madonna – Vogue 24 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only -4 23 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 20 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 18 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 16 Queen – Innuendo +3 11 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me 11 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow

Ernest Gallo died on this day 16 years ago, aged 97. - Gallo founded his winery with his brother Julio in 1933- that year marked the end of Prohibition and the murder-suicide of his parents. - Gallo's brother Joseph founded a cheese factory and used the family name for his company- Ernest and Julio sued him for trademark infringement. - Among the brands of wine Ernest and his brother introduced included Boone's Farm, Thunderbird, and Hearty Burgundy. At one point, they owned 25% of the wine market in the US. - By 2006, Gallo was ranked the 297th wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. - Gallo first appeared on the DeathList in 2001, and he went on to make five more appearances (only being dropped in 2003). He was the first death of 2007 (and that year's only hit until mid-June). - After his death, over $5 million of his fortune was donated to universities.

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to outer space, is 86.

RIP to the guy who made one of the greatest guitar solos of all time:

42 Adamski – Killer 42 The Beautiful South – A Little Time 35 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 34 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 34 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go 30 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only -4 30 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 29 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 27 Snap! – The Power 25 Queen – These Are the Days of our Lives +4 24 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 23 Madonna – Vogue 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 21 Queen – Innuendo 20 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me 18 Sinéad O´Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U -2 16 England New Order – World In Motion 15 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 12 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 11 U2 – The Fly

Joseph Stalin died on this day 70 years ago, aged 74. - Stalin was born as "Ioseb Jughashvili". He took the name "Stalin" ("Man of Steel") in 1912, though his descendants still use variants of his legal name. - Despite his reputation as a murderer of millions, Stalin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1945 and 1948. - Stalin was 5'4" (1.63m)- two inches shorter than Napoleon. - Stalin was a fan of Western movies, and it has been noted that his favorite actors were Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. - Stalin's left arm was shorter than his right, stemming from a horse carriage accident he was in as a child. - Stalin died four days after suffering a stroke- among the treatments in his final days included leeching (to decrease his blood pressure). He died on the same day as Sergei Prokofiev, whose death barely made the news in his home country and his coffin had to be moved in the opposite direction as Stalin's funeral procession (only 30 people attended Prokofiev's funeral). - Stalin's body was embalmed and displayed with Vladimir Lenin's mummy; he would later be buried in 1961 at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.