Appelate Judge Shelvin Louise Hall is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Dancer and choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson is born in Denver, Colorado.

Political Activist & Organization Founder Aaron Lloyd Dixon is born.

Business & Civic Leader Sheila C. Johnson is born.

Entrepreneur Paul McDonald is born.

Television Producer & Journalist Rochelle Brown is born.

Corporate Executive Juanita Baranco is born

Radio talk show host and former Atlanta First Lady Valerie Richardson Jackson is born on this date in Richmond, Virginia.

Attorney & Government Official Jack Johnson is born.

Retired Educator 1801">Irma Daniels is born.

Retired Pilot & Foundation Founder Capt. Avis T. Bailey is born.

Historian and archivist Walter Hill is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Journalist Mary Mitchell is born on this date in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Wesley A. Brown becomes the first African American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He is the sixth black man to enroll. He will spend twenty years in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps.

R&B singer and songwriter Lionel Richie was born on this date in Tuskegee, Alabama. Richie began his professional music career with the Commodores. As a solo act, he has won 5 Grammy Awards, one Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Golden Globe. Some of his solo hits include Say You, Say Me, All Night Long, and Three Times a Lady.

Family Court Commissioner Anne-Marie Clarke is born.

Corporate executive H. Marrel Foushee is born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Management and human resources consulting firm owner Yvonne Ruth Jackson is born on this date in Los Angeles, California.

Business Consultant Ralph G. Moore is born

Artist, educator and curator Amalia Amaki is born on this date in Atlanta, Georgia.

Attorney Riley Temple is born in Richmond, Virginia.

Corporate Lawyer 1956">Michele Coleman Mayes is born.

Frederick M. Jones patented his cooling system for food transportation vehicles on this date.

Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the Reverend Calvin Butts III is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Corporate Executive Brenda Gaines is born

President of Muntu Dance Theatre, Joan Gray is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Illinois Federal Judge Ann Williams is born in Detroit, Michigan.

Investigative Reporter Renee Ferguson is born

Reverend Charles Stith, director of the African Presidential archives and Research Center at Boston University, is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Director & Producer Oz Scott is born

Newspaper publisher Jerry Mondesire was born on this date in Harlem, New York.

Artist, Art Historian & Curator Kenneth G. Rodgers is born.

Dr. Raphael Lee, labeled as one of the outstanding scientists in the country, is born in Sumter, South Carolina

Alonzo G. Moron became the first Black president of Hampton Institute on this date in the state of Virginia.

Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Larry Holmes was born on this date in Cuthbert, Georgia. Holmes held his heavyweight boxing title from 1978 to 1985. He defeated Ken Norton to win the title in 1978 and successfully defended his title 20 times.

Dancer Luther "Bill" Robinson dies at the age of 71.

Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke is born.

Pediatrician and religious leader Dr. Horace E. Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois.