Born on This Day
Oscar-winning British actor best known for 1960s films like "My Fair Lady" and "Doctor Dolittle."
1970s pop idol and youngest of the Gibb brothers. Scored hits with "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" and "Shadow Dancing."
Cuban-American actress in "Training Day" and "The Place Beyond the Pines" (where she met husband Ryan Gosling).
Michael Anderson Godwin, sentenced to death by electric chair for a 1980 murder, accidentally electrocutes himself on his jail cell’s steel toilet. The 28-year-old died biting into a wire while trying to fix some earphones.
Timeline
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