* 1984 – Manila Luzon, American drag queen performer

The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

* 1871 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer ( d. 1932 )

* 1928 – Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer

* 1885 – Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer ( d. 1965 )

It starred his wife, Lyubov Orlova ( an operatic singer who had also appeared in The Jolly Fellows ) as an American circus performer who has to immigrate to the USSR from the U. S. because she has a mixed race child, whom she had with a black man.

* 1972 – Pandora Boxx, American drag performer

In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.

* Meredith Monk ( born 1942 ), American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer

Sheryl Suzanne Crow ( born February 11, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer, record producer, actress, and political activist.

** Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright ( 3OH! 3 )

The American performer and recording artist Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, creating the largest public mourning since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.

* August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer ( b. 1885 )

* May 6-Bill Quinn, American radio performer ( d. 1994 )

* July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer ( b. 1867 )

* December 16 – Sylvester James, American R & B singer, disco performer ( b. 1948 )

** Emily Robison, American country music performer ( Dixie Chicks )

** Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer ( d. 1975 )

* April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer ( b. 1911 )

** Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer ( d. 1965 )

* December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer

** Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( b. 1892 )

* March 22 – Karl Wallenda, American circus performer ( b. 1905 )

** J. Homer Tutt, American vaudeville producer and performer ( d. 1951 )

* August 13 – Annie Oakley, American west show performer ( d. 1926 )

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* 1956 – Jackée Harry, American actress

* 1951 – Harry Smith, American journalist

* 1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday ( d. 1971 )

* 1923 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist ( d. 1991 )

* 1957 – Harry McClintock, American singer, author, and poet ( b. 1882 )

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

In 1950 American president Harry S. Truman said that atomic weapons may be used in the Korean War.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

* 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player ( d. 1906 )

* 1866 – Harry Burleigh, African American composer, arranger, and professional singer ( d. 1949 )

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer ( d. 1949 )

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1893 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist ( Chattanooga Choo Choo – I Only Have Eyes for You ) ( d. 1981 )

Extended or special editions can also apply to films that have been extended for television and video against the wishes of the director, such as the TV versions of Dune ( 1984 ) and the Harry Potter films, and the DVD editions of Ridley Scott films Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and American Gangster.

* 1914 – Harry F. Byrd Jr, American politician

* 1962 – Harry Barris, American popular singer ( b. 1905 )

* Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson, A History of African American Artists from 1792 to the Present, ( Pantheon, 1993 ).

* 1969 – Harry Colon, American football player