1937: Dustin Hoffman, actor who gained fame for his role in the 1960s film, The Graduate, and then went on to win an Oscar for his performance in The Rain Man, was born in Los Angeles, California.

1896: Library of Congress: Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born in Washington, D.C. Rawlings is best known for her novel, The Yearling (1938), the story of young Jody Baxter's coming of age in the big scrub country which is now the Ocala National Forest in Florida. Rawlings began her career as a journalist, working for the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Rochester Journal.  In 1926 she began writing a daily poetry column, "Songs of a Housewife," for the Rochester Times-Union. The column was soon syndicated by United Features and ran in approximately fifty newspapers.