Born June 1937

Tom Magliozzi and his brother Ray were the co-hosts of NPR’s weekly radio show, Car Talk, where they were known as “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.”

Freddy Fender was one of the kings of Tejano music and a rare Mexican-American crossover success on the country music charts.

Sometimes the country singer was just a little bit more than the law would allow.

He was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students — preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny — into a novel.