MILESTONES: March 12, birthdays for Mitt Romney, Jaime Alexander, Jake Tapper
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress Jaimie Alexander, who was born in 1984; actor Jason Beghe, who was born in 1960; producer and director Rob Cohen, who was born in 1949; opera singer David Daniels, who was born in 1966; actor Aaron Eckhart, who was born in 1968; actress Barbara Feldon, who was born in 1933; singer Marlon Jackson, who was born in 1957; singer and Oscar Award-winning actress Liza Minnelli, who was born in 1946; former baseball player Raul Mondesi, who was born in 1971; former baseball player Dale Murphy, who was born in 1956; 2012 presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, who was born in 1947; former baseball player Darryl Strawberry, who was born in 1962; journalist and anchor Jake Tapper, who was born in 1969; singer and musician James Taylor, who was born in 1948; actor Courtney B. Vance, who was born in 1960; and civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was born in 1932.
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JACK KEROUAC WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1922. The American poet and novelist, leader and spokesman for the Beat movement is best known for his 1957 novel “On the Road,” which celebrates the Beat ideal of nonconformity. Kerouac published “The Dharma Bums” in 1958, followed by “The Subterraneans” the same year, “Doctor Sax” and its sequel “Maggie Cassidy” in 1959, “Lonesome Traveler” in 1960, “Big Sur” in 1962 and “Desolation Angels” in 1965. Kerouac died in Florfiain 1969. A previously unpublished part of “On the Road” called “Visions of Cody” was published posthumously in 1972.