Born June 18

She typed early drafts of The Lord of the Rings and was VP of The Tolkien Society.

Carrá had European hit songs including “Tuca Tuca” and “Tanti Auguri.”

Greene won the Newbery Honor for her 1974 book “Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe.”

The speedy Brock had the second most career stolen bases.

Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a highly decorated U.S. infantry soldier decades after the Korean War, has died in California, according to multiple news sources. …

Sammy Cahn was born to write for Frank Sinatra…

Intellectual and gifted writer though he was, Roger Ebert was a movie critic of the people.