MILESTONES: August 14, birthdays for Steve Martin, Magic Johnson, Tim Tebow

August 14, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Steve Martin. Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 226th day of the year.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include journalist, author and TV host RUSSELL BAKER, who was born in 1925; actress CATHERINE BELL, who was born in 1968; actress HALLE BERRY, who was born in 1966; singer and songwriter DAVID CROSBY, who was born in 1941; actor ANTONIO FARGAS, who was born in 1946; Oscar Award-winning actress MARCIA GAY HARDEN, who was born in 1959; Olympic gymnast TERIN HUMPHREY, who was born in 1986; Hall of Fame basketball player MAGIC JOHNSON, who was born in 1959; actress MILA KUNIS, who was born in 1983; economist ARTHUR BETZ LAFFER, who was born in 1940; cartoonist GARY LARSON, who was born in 1950; photographer, makeup artist and TV personality JAY MANUEL, who was born in 1972; comedian and actor STEVE MARTIN, who was born in 1945; TV personality SPENCER PRATT, who was born in 1983; actress SUSAN SAINT JAMES, who was born in 1946; tennis player ROBIN SODERLING, who was born in 1984; author DANIELLE STEEL, who was born in 1947; football player TIM TEBOW, who was born in 1987; and auto racer RUSTY WALLACE, who was born in 1956.

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ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1863. The man who wrote the famous comic baseball ballad “Casey at the Bat” wrote a series of comic poems for the San Francisco Examiner, of which “Casey at the Bat” was the last. It was published in 1888, and Thayer received $5 in payment for it. Thayer, who regarded the poem’s fame as a nuisance and whose other writings are largely forgotten, died in California in 1940.