1924 Fess Parker - Actor (Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Old Yeller, Westward Ho the Wagons!, Annie Oakley, Them!) and singer (The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle Wrangle)

He was such a big deal in the 50s. Every little boy, my little brother included, wanted a Davy Crockett coon-skin cap. Did Patti say if she'd ever met him?

1929 Lois Nettleton - Actress (The Best Little #####house in Texas, You Can't Take It with You, In the Heat of the Night, Centennial)

I always liked her. I didn't know she was that old. She was in one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. It was getting increasing l hot, and everyone was saying the earth was getting closer to the sun. It was getting sweltering hotter and turns out just the opposite. The earth was moving away from the sun, and everyone was experiencing hypothermia and imagined it getting hotter and hotter. Really a twist at the end.

1861 President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy

The extreme poorer conditions in the South showed in GWTW.