Born December 1940

He starred in the Disney movie “The Shaggy Dog.”

Granelli played on the Grammy-winning “You Were on My Mind” by We Five.

Willie Brown was the Hall of Fame legendary Oakland Raiders cornerback whose 75-yard interception return for a touchdown helped the franchise win their first Super Bowl in the 1976 season. Brown played …

He was a leading advocate for football safety.

Frank Zappa was a prolific composer and musician. When he died 20 years ago, the New York Times called him “rock’s most committed iconoclast.”

At the very top of Comedy Central’s list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians, the funniest of them all, is Richard Pryor.

Though he’s remembered as a protest singer, Phil Ochs preferred to think of himself as a ‘singing journalist.’ On what would have been his 70th birthday, we share some of …