Famous July 4th births and deaths

BIRTHS
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• 1998 Malia Obama (daughter of Barack Obama current US President)
• 1955 John Waite (singer)
• 1943 Geraldo Rivera (investigative reporter, talk show host)
• 1938 Bill Withers (singer, songwriter "Lean On Me")
• 1937 Thomas Nagel (American philosopher)
• 1930 George Steinbrenner (owner of NY Yankees, ship builder, horse owner, shipping magnate)
• 1927 Neil (Marvin) Simon (playwright "Biloxi Blues")
• 1924 Eva Marie Saint (actress "On the Waterfront")
• 1918 Abigail Van Buren [Mrs Morton Phillips] (columnist "Dear Abby")
• 1918 Ann Landers ("Dear Abby's " twin sister, advice columnist, author)
• 1911 Mitch Miller (record company executive, producer, arranger, musician & instrumentalist) 
• 1910 Gloria Stuart (actress, Rose "Titanic", founder of Screen Actors Guild)
• 1883 Rube Goldberg (inventor "The Rube Goldberg Machine" [made the easy outrageously difficult], cartoonist)
• 1881 Ulysses S. Grant III (American soldier), died in 1968
• 1872 Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (30th U.S. President 1923-29)
• 1828 James Johnston Pettigrew (Brig General of the Confederate Army)
• 1826 Green Clay Smith (Bvt Major General of the Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1826 Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa (composer of "Oh! Susanna", and "Swanee River")
• 1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton (Governor of the Union), died in 1885
• 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)

 DEATHS
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• 2009 Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
• 2009 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
• 2009 Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
• 2009 Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
• 2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921) 
• 2008 Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980) 
• 2008 Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
• 2008 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2007 Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
• 2003 Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
• 2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
  
• 1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
• 1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
  
• 1995 Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
• 1994 Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
• 1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
• 1993 Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
• 1957 Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
• 1934 Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist and two Nobel Prizes winner (in physics and chemistry).
• 1910 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1901 John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
• 1891 Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
• 1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
• 1826 John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
• 1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83