This Week’s Birthdays

August 16, 1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress

August 17, 1786 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)

August 18, 1952 – Patrick Swayze, American actor (d. 2009)

August 19, 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)

August 20, 1833 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)

August 21, 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor

August 22, 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer