On This Day March 17
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1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), 36th U.S. president (d. 1973)
1942 – Daryl Dragon, the keyboard-playing half of the Captain & Tennille (d. 2019)
1952 – Actor Paul Reubens, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman (d. 2023)
1963 – Actress, former MTV VJ and current Sirius/XM “90s on 9” host ‘Downtown’ Julie Brown
1976 – Actress Sarah Chalke (“Roseanne,” “Scrubs, “How I Met Your Mother”)
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1833 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. president (d. 1901)
1931 – Boxing promoter Don King
1946 – Journalist and former network TV anchor Connie Chung
1948 – Former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant
1952 – Rock singer-songwriter John Hiatt
1954 – Emmy-winning NBC News “Today” show co-host and weather anchor Al Roker
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1860 – Markswoman and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show star Annie Oakley (d. 1926)
1926 – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro (d. 2016)
1949 – French high wire artist Philippe Petit, famous for his 1974 World Trade Center high-wire walk
1951- Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg (“The Power of Gold,” “Longer”) (d. 2007)
1959 – Former “Partridge Family” co-star and talk show host Danny Bonaduce