August 31

1974 – Zach Ward, best known for playing the bully “Scut Farkus” in the film “A Christmas Story.” He appeared in “Freddy vs. Jason,” “Transformers”, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”, “Dark House”, and “Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys.”

1965 – Daniel Bernhardt who starred as “Agent Johnson” in “The Matrix” films and starred in “Children Of Wax.”

1949 – Richard Gere who starred in the films “Primal Fear” and “The Mothman Prophecies.”

1942 – Carole Wells who appeared in the film “House of the Seven Corpses.”

1932 – Roy Castle, who appeared in the films “Legend of the Werewolf,” “Dr. Who and the Daleks” and “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.”

1928 – The late James Coburn. He starred in the film “Looker,” the TV mini-series “The Dain Curse” and hosted the short lived TV anthology “Dark Room.”

1914 – Richard Basehart who appeared in the films “Mansion of the Doomed,” the 1977 version of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and starred in the TV series “Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea.”

1897 – Fredric March who played the title role in the 1932 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’ and played “Death” in “Death Takes A Holiday.