1884 Harry S. Truman - 33rd US President, born near Lamar, Missouri

Thank God we had him to have enough guts to drop the Bomb! Who know how much longer the war would have gone and how many more American lives would have been lost?







1940 Peter Benchley - Author (Jaws, The Deep, The Island)

I've read all of those listed. It's unusual but the movies were better than the books. Jaws had Hooper and Brody's wife having an affair on the same day the met. The way the shark was delt with in the end was horrible. Nothing like the movie. There were several other things that were just wrong, in my opinion.







1941 James Mitchum - Actor (In Harm's Way, Code Name: Zebra, Hollywood Cop, Marked for Murder, Ride the Wild Surf) He is the son of Robert Mitchum

He was in several John Wayne movies but he did something (no one seems to know what) and John Refused to use him again. That pretty much put an end to his acting career.