Born September 29

“So You Think You Can Dance” runner-up in 2008.

He helped shape rock n’ roll with hits including “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On.”

He was a member of the team’s famed 1980 defensive line, the “Bruise Brothers.”

Signed by the Giants as a bonus baby out of high school in 1956.

The British crime writer’s character Inspector Morse inhabited more than a dozen novels and was the basis for two popular television series.

Veteran journalist co-hosted “PBS NewsHour”…

Her curvaceous body and glamorous social life made her a favorite of tabloid press in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Comets are credited by some music historians with having recorded the first rock and roll song in 1953 with “Crazy Man, Crazy.”

Phillips was a Texas original in his blue jeans, boots and trademark white Stetson.

Gene Autry was known as “The Singing Cowboy” and that was long before he was singing all the way to the bank.