On This Day April 2
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1959 – The Platters are perched on top of the singles chart with “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.”
1963 – The Rooftop Singers mark their second and final week as chart toppers with “Walk Right In.”
2002 – Usher is in the middle of a five-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “U Got It Bad.”
2008 – “Low,” by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, is the No. 1 single.
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1734 – American pioneer-explorer-frontiersman Daniel Boone (d. 1820)
1914 – Actor Ray Walston (“My Favorite Martian,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) (d. 2001)
1938 – Journalist and conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan
1942 – Actress Stefanie Powers (“Hart to Hart”)
1961 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter k.d. lang (“Constant Craving,” “Miss Chatelaine”)
1966 – Actor David Schwimmer, best known for playing Ross Geller in the popular NBC sitcom “Friends”
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1890 – Comedian Groucho Marx, born Julius Henry Marx (d. 1977)
1945 – Singer Don McLean, best known for his smash single “American Pie”
1948 – Fashion designer Donna Karan
1949 – Acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, known for her celebrity portraits
1954 – Actress Lorraine Bracco (“Goodfellas,” “The Sopranos,” “Rizzoli & Isles”)
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1908 – Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (d. 1993)
1922 – Fashion designer Pierre Cardin
1925 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers (d. 1963)
1947 – Comedian-actor-writer Larry David (“Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
1956 – Supermodel-actress Jerry Hall, who was once married to The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger