MILESTONES: August 17, birthdays for Donnie Walhberg, Lil Pump, Paige
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer BELINDA CARLISLE, who was born on this day in 1958; Oscar Award-winning actor ROBERT DE NIRO, who was born in 1943; producer and writer JULIAN FELLOWES, who was born in 1949; author JONATHAN FRANZEN, who was born in 1959; former soccer player THIERRY HENRY, who was born in 1977; actor ROBERT JOY, who was born in 1951; Oscar Award-winning actor SEAN PENN, who was born in 1960; former auto racer NELSON PIQUET, who was born in 1952; actor MARK SALLING, who was born in 1982; Hall of Fame tennis player GUILLERMO VILAS, who was born in 1952; and actor and singer DONNIE WAHLBERG, who was born in 1969.
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DAVY CROCKETT WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1786. The American frontiersman, bear hunter, soldier and politician was born in Greene County, Tennessee. After losing a reelection bid to represent Tennessee in Congress, Crockett moved to the colony of Texas and joined the settlers’ effort to gain independence from Mexico. He died during the final heroic defense of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, in San Antonio. The larger-than-life figure once boasted: “I can run faster, walk longer, leap higher, speak better and tell more and bigger lies.”