1914 Ray Walston – Actor (My Favourite Martian, Damn Yankees, South Pacific, Picket Fences, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Apartment, Of Mice and Men, Popeye, The Silver Streak, The Sting)

I first saw him in My favorite Martian and hen in Damn Yankees. He was the best.

1924 Jonathan Frid – Canadian actor (Dark Shadows, Seizure, The Devil's Daughter)

Barnabas Collins

1902 The first working V-8 engine was patented in France by French engine designer Leon-Marie-Joseph-Clement Levavasseur. The engine block was the first to arrange eight pistons in the V-formation that allowed a crankshaft with only four throws to be turned by eight pistons

Jay, is your pride and joy a V-8? My husband's Road Runner was, and it was a horrible gas-guzzler that took the most expensive gas per gallon.