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August
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1st
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- start of
Romance Awareness Month
- 1936 birthday
of designer Yves Saint Laurent
- 2002 wedding
of comedian Dave Foley and Crissy Guerrero
- 2002 wedding
of Andre Previn and Anne-Sophie Mutter
- 1986 wedding
of actress Tatum O'Neal and tennis star John McEnroe
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2nd
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- World Friendship
Day
- 1905 birthday
of actress Myrna Loy
- 1999 wedding
of Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey
- 1998 wedding
of actor Edward Asner and Cindy Gilmore
- 1997 wedding
of "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and Camille
Grammer
- 1982 wedding
of actor John Malkovich ("Dangerous Liaisons")
and Glenne Headly
- 1978 wedding
of singer Neil Young and Pegi Morton
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3rd
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- 1926 birthday
of crooner Tony Bennett ("I Left My Heart In San
Francisco")
- 1932 wedding
of Otto Preminger and Marion Mill
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4th
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- 1955 birthday
of actor Billy Bob Thornton
- 1901 birthday
of Louis Armstrong
- 1900 birthday
of Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
- 1792 birthday
of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 2001 wedding
of 007 Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith
- 2001 wedding
of "Northern Exposure" star Joshua Morrow and
Tobe Keeney
- 1994 wedding
of rapper The Notorious B.I.G and Faith Evans
- 1970 wedding
of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson and Barbara Charren
- 1964 wedding
of jazz great John Coltrane and Alice Macleod
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5th
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- 1934 birthday
of Cammie King, who played Bonnie Blue Butler in "Gone
With The Wind"
- 1905 birthday
of director John Huston
- 1977 wedding
of actress Julie Newmar and J. Holt Smith
- 1975 wedding
of Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and Elissa Jerret
- 1972 wedding
of actors John Astin and Patty Duke
- 1964 wedding
of director Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft ("The
Graduate")
- 1956 wedding
of actors Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy
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6th
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- start of
National Smile Week
- 1972 birthday
of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell
- 1928 birthday
of artist Andy Warhol
- 1809 birthday
of Alfred Lord Tennyson
- 1968 wedding
of children's author Dr. Seuss and Audrey Geisel
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7th
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- 1975 birthday
of actress Charlize Theron ("Sweet November")
- 1960 birthday
of actor David Duchovny ("The X-Files", "Return
To Me")
- 1943 birthday
of writer Garrison Keillor
- 1876 birthday
of Mata Hari
- 1987 wedding
of actor Tom Selleck and Jillie Mack
- 1974 wedding
of actress Faye Dunaway ("Bonnie and Clyde")
and singer Peter Wolf
- 1966 wedding
of entertainer Charo and Xavier Cugat
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8th
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- 1976 birthday
of 'NSync member J.C. Chasez
- 1961 birthday
of Dave "The Edge" Evans, guitarist for U2
- 1953 birthday
of "Happy Days" Ralph Malph, Donny Most
- 1937 birthday
of actor Dustin Hoffman
- 1932 birthday
of country entertainer Mel Tillis
- 1923 birthday
of Esther Williams
- 1995 wedding
of actress Kathy Najimy and Dan Finnerty
- 1900 wedding
of W.C. Fields and Harriet Hughes
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9th
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- 1963 birthday
of singer Whitney Houston
- 1957 birthday
of actress Melanie Griffith ("Working Girl")
- 1949 wedding
of actor Jimmy Stewart and Gloria Hatrick McLean
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10th
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- start of
Elvis Week in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1960 birthday
of actor Antonio Banderas
- 1959 birthday
of actress Rosanna Arquette
- 1928 birthday
of Eddie Fisher
- 1902 birthday
of actress Norma Shearer
- 2002 wedding
of actor Nicolas Cage ("City of Angels") and
Lisa Marie Presley
- 1946 wedding
of L. Ron Hubbard and Sara Elizabeth Northrup
- 1933 wedding
of actress Hedy Lamarr and Fritz Mandl
- 1912 wedding
of author Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf
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11th
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- 1964 The
Beatles first movie, "A Hard Day's Night", is
released
- 1990 wedding
of "General Hospital" actor Maurice Benard and
Paula Smith
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12th
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- 1939 birthday
of actor George Hamilton ("Love At First Bite")
- 1931 birthday
of screenwriter William Goldman ("The Princess Bride")
- 1926 birthday
of director John Derek
- 1912 birthday
of actress Jane Wyatt ("Magnificent Obsession")
- 1881 birthday
of director Cecil B. DeMille
- 2000 wedding
of comedial Will Ferrell and Viveca Paulin
- 1984 wedding
of former Duran Duran member Nick Rhodes and Julie Anne
Friedman
- 1949 wedding
of actress Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw
- 1941 wedding
of "I Love Lucy" costar Vivan Vance and Philip
Ober
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13th
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- start of
Resurrect Romance Week
- 1951 birthday
of singer Dan Fogelberg ("Longer")
- 1930 birthday
of entertainer Don Ho
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14th
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- 1968 birthday
of actress Halle Berry
- 1947 birthday
of author Danielle Steel
- 1945 birthday
of actor/comedian Steve Martin ("Roxanne")
- 1941 birthday
of Crosby, Stills, and Nash member David Crosby
- 1965 wedding
of actress Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim
- 1964 wedding
of Muhammad Ali and Sonja Roi
- 1939 wedding
of actress Janet Gaynor ("A Star Is Born") and
Adrian
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15th
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- 1972 birthday
of actor Ben Affleck ("Pearl Harbor", "Bounce")
- 1968 birthday
of "Will and Grace" star Debra Messing
- 1950 birthday
of Princess Anne of England
- 1912 birthday
of Julia Child
- 1557 birthday
of Baroque era artist Agostino Carracci
- 1958 wedding
of singer Buddy Holly and Maria Elena Santiago
- 1835 wedding
of author Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm
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16th
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- 1980 birthday
of singer Vanessa Carlton ("A Thousand Miles")
- 1972 birthday
of Dixie Chick Emily Robison
- 1960 birthday
of actor Timothy Hutton
- 1958 birthday
of actress Angela Bassett ("How Stella Got Her Groove
Back")
- 1958 birthday
of singer Madonna
- 1954 birthday
of "Titanic" director James Cameron
- 1953 birthday
of Kathie Lee Gifford
- 1985 wedding
of Sean Penn and Madonna
- 1983 wedding
of singer Paul Simon and actress/writer Carrie Fisher
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17th
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- 1960 birthday
of actor Sean Penn
- 1943 birthday
of actor Robert DeNiro
- 1920 birthday
of actress Maureen O'Hara
- 1892 birthday
of screen legend Mae West
- 1967 wedding
of boxing great Muhammad Ali and Belinda Boyd
- 1964 wedding
of Bruce Lee and Linda Lee
- 1963 wedding
of Johnny Carson and Joanne Copeland
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18th
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- 1962 Ringo
Starr joins The Bealtes
- 1969 birthday
of actor Christian Slater ("Untamed Heart")
- 1954 birthday
of actor Patrick Swayze ("Dirty Dancing")
- 1937 birthday
of actor Robert Redford ("The Way We Were")
- 1933 birthday
of director Roman Polanski
- 1904 birthday
of cosmetics designer Max Factor
- 1848 birthday
of artist Gustave Caillebotte
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19th
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- 1969 birthday
of "Friends" star Matthew Perry
- 1966 birthday
of country singer LeAnn Womack
- 1963 birthday
of "Full House" star John Stamos
- 1993 wedding
of actors Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin
- 1945 wedding
of actors June Allyson and Dick Powell
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20th
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- 1948 birthday
of Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant
- 1942 birthday
of singer Isaac Hayes
- 1921 birthday
of author Jacqueline Susann
- 1992 wedding
of singer Sting and Trudie Styler
- 1989 wedding
of actors Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson ("Sense
and Sensibility")
- 1939 wedding
of actress Joan Fontaine ("Rebecca") and Brian
Aherne
- 1918 wedding
of Enrico Caruso and Dorothy Benjamin
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21st
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- 1956 birthday
of "Sex and The City" star Kim Cattrall
- 1938 birthday
of country entertainer Kenny Rogers
- 1904 birthday
of Count Basie
- 1872 birthday
of artist Aubrey Beardsley
- 1982 wedding
of U2 frontman Bono and Alison Stewart
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22nd
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- 1973 birthday
of Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough
- 1963 birthday
of singer Tori Amos ("A Sort OF Fairy Tale")
- 1947 birthday
of actress Cindy Williams ("American Graffiti"
)
- 1917 birthday
of John Lee Hooker
- 1893 birthday
of writer Dorothy Parker
- 1862 birthday
of Claude Debussy
- 2002 wedding
of The Corrs Caroline Corr and Frank Woods
- 1944 wedding
of writer Jack Kerouac and Edie Kerouac
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23rd
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- 1965 The
Beatles' second movie "Help!" is released
- 1970 birthday
of actor River Phoenix
- 1949 birthday
of singer Rick Springfield ("Jessie's Girl")
- 1934 birthday
of "I Dream of Jeanie" star Barbara Eden
- 1912 birthday
of actor/dancer Gene Kelly ("An American In Paris")
- 1846 birthday
of artist Alexander Milne Calder
- 1989 wedding
of The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek and model Paulina Porizkova
- 1962 wedding
of John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon
- 1942 wedding
of "King Kong"'s Fay Wray and Robert Riskin
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24th
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- 1965 birthday
of actress Marlee Matlin ("Children of A Lesser God")
- 2002 wedding
of Bryant Gumbel and Hilary Quinlan
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25th
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- 1970 birthday
of model Claudia Schiffer
- 1961 birthday
of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus ("Achy Breaky Heart")
- 1954 birthday
of singer Elvis Costello ("Allison")
- 1930 birthday
of actor Sean Connery
- 1917 birthday
of actor Mel Ferrer
- 1905 birthday
of the silent screen's "It" girl, Clara Bow
- 2001 wedding
of Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway and Crown Princess
Mette Marit
- 2000 wedding
of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" star Patrick
Stewart and Wendy Neuss
- 1968 wedding
of actress Jane Russell and Roger Barrett
- 1955 wedding
of Bela Lugosi and Hope Lininger
- 1885 wedding
of "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura
Ingells Wilder and Almonzo James Wilder
- 1870 wedding
of composer Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt
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26th
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- 1971 birthday
of Latin pop singer Thalia
- 1960 birthday
of jazz musician Branford Marsalis
- 1996 wedding
of "NYPD Blue" star Mark-Paul Gosselaar and
Lisa Ann Russell
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27th
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- 1947 birthday
of actress Barbara Bach
- 1942 birthday
of The Captain and Tennille's Daryl Dragon
- 1890 birthday
of photographer Man Ray
- 1977 wedding
of singer Jimmy Buffett and Jane Slagsvol
- 1956 wedding
of Gloria Vanderbuilt and Sidney Lumet
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28th
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- 1982 birthday
of country singer LeAnn Rimes
- 1969 birthday
of former "Beverly Hills 90210" actor Jason
Priestley
- 1965 birthday
of country singer Shania Twain ("Still The One")
- 1958 birthday
of Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton
- 1925 birthday
of acotr/dancer Donald O'Connor ("Singing In The
Rain")
- 1899 birthday
of actor Charles Boyer ("Love Affair")
- 1928 birthday
of author Leo Tolstoy
- 1997 wedding
of author Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West
- 1955 wedding
of actress Veronica Lake and Joseph A. McCarthy
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29th
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- 1958 birthday
of singer Michael Jackson
- 1923 birthday
of director Sir Richard Attenborough ("In Love and
War")
- 1920 birthday
of jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker
- 1915 birthday
of actress Ingrid Bergman ("Casablanca")
- 1780 birthday
of artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- 1993 wedding
of "Children of A Lesser God" actress Marlee
Matlin and Kevin Grandalski
- 1968 wedding
of Queen Sonja of Norway and King Harald V
- 1964 wedding
of Dick and Lynne Cheney
- 1955 wedding
of actress Mamie Van Doren and Ray Anthony
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30th
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- 1973 birthday
of actress Cameron Diaz
- 1980 wedding
of singer Karen Carpenter and Stephen Monaco
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31st
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- 1970 birthday
of '80's pop star Debbie Gibson ("Only In My Dreams")
- 1949 birthday
of actor Richard Gere ("An Officer and A Gentleman")
- 1945 birthday
of singer Van Morrison
- 1945 birthday
of Itzhak Perlman
- 1940 wedding
of actors Sir Laurence Olivier ("Wuthering Heights")
and Vivien Leigh ("Gone With The Wind")
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