Birthday Meme from everybody

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

July 4th (I am avoiding the obvious)

FACTS
1054 - A supernova is observed by the Chinese and Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.

1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island forms. Later, would be place of birth, home and place of death to one of my favorite writers.

1862 - Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. It is followed on the same date in 1865 with the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

BIRTHS
1883 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970) and he died the year I was born, even cooler

1900 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)

DEATH
2003 - Barry White, American singer and record producer (b. 1944) Ain't no good lovin' without Barry White.