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1905: Actor Andy Devine (Friar Tuck in Robin Hood) is born in Flagstaff, Arizona.
1907: Animator, and Disney Legend, Art Babbit (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio, Dumbo, and Goofy in his later shorts) is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1910: Writer Winston Hibler (the Disneyland TV series, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan) is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1918: Film editor, and Disney Legend, Norman [...]

1888: Actor Claud Allister (Rat in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Sir Giles in The Reluctant Dragon) is born in London, England.
1904: Actress Greer Garson (Mrs. Cordelia Biddle in The Happiest Millionaire) is born in London, England.
1906: Composer Charles Wolcott (The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Fun [...]

1902: Composer Al Hoffman (A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo) is born in Minsk, Russia.
1904: Author Alexander H. Key (Escape to Witch Mountain) is born in La Plata, Maryland. His novel is the inspiration of the Disney film of the same name and the remake-Race to Witch Mountain.
1920: Actor Mickey [...]

1904: Narrator Tom Conway (Peter Pan) is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1908: Writer Milt Banta (Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, The  Wonderful World of Disney) is born in London, England.
1917: Camera effects artist, and Disney Legend, Bob Broughton (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Black Hole, and Mary Poppins, among others) [...]

1892: Actor Pinto Colvig (voice of Goofy, Pluto, Sleepy, Grumpy, and the House of Bricks Pig from Three Little Pigs) is born in Jacksonville, Oregon.
1894: Actor Billy Gilbert (voice of Sneezy) is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1905: Layout artist Cornett Wood (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi) is born in Indiana.
1911: [...]

1902: Animator and Disney Legend William Norman Ferguson (created Pluto and the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) is born in New York City, NY.
1903: Animator Hugh Harman (worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) is born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
1905: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of the “Nine [...]

1908: Actor Fred MacMurray (The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, The Happiest Millionaire) is born in Kankakee, Illinois.
1913: Cartoonist Walt Kelly (Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1916: Actor Hal Smith (Phillipe in Beauty and the Beast, Owl in Winnie the Pooh, the voice of Goofy) is born in Petoskey, Michigan.
1933: Actor Regis [...]

1786: Congressman and explorer Davy Crockett is born in Greene County, Tennessee.
1905: Animator Robert W. Youngquist (Fantasia, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone) is born in Illinois.
1907: Radio actor Alan Reed (Boris in The Lady and the Tramp) is born Edward Bergman in New York City.
1922: Actress Shelley Winters (Lena Gogan in Pete’s [...]

1882: Actor Charles Judels (Stromboli in Pinocchio) is born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1901: Songwriter and Disney Legend Ned Washington (helped write When You Wish Upon A Star and Baby Mine) is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1914: Director and Disney Legend Ken Annakin (no, not Luke’s father-directed The Sword and the Rose, Swiss Family Robinson, The Story of [...]

1923: Actress Jean Hagen (Freeda Daniels in The Shaggy Dog) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1933: The Mickey Mouse Watch enters U.S. markets at a cost of $2.75.
1953: Animator Jim Jenkins (creator of Doug) is born in Virginia.
1955: The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit, a walk-through exhibit, opens in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland.
1955: Voice actor Corey Burton [...]

1916: Actor Keenan Wynn (John Slade in The Shaggy D.A., Alonzo P. Hawk in The Absent Minded Professor and in Son of Flubber) is born in New York City.
1932: The 29th Silly Symphony, Flowers and Trees, is the first full-color animated film.
1933: Actor Dom DeLuise (Bacchus in Hercules and Fagin in Oliver & Company) [...]

1890: Actress Verna Felton (Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice and Wonderland, and Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book) is born in Salinas, California.
1908: Actor Karl Swenson (Merlin in The Sword in the Stone) is born in Brooklyn, NY.
1911: Disney illustrator & Disney Legend Al Dempster (Fantasia, Dumbo, Song of [...]

1912: Imagineer Al Bertino (helped design Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, The Haunted Mansion, and The Country Bear Jamboree) is born in California.
1917: Comedienne Phyllis Diller (The Queen in A Bug’s Life) is born in Missouri.
1919: Actor Dal McKennon (Ben Franklin in The American Adventure, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Son of Flubber) is born in Oregon.
1925: Walt [...]

1894: Disney Legend Joseph Fowler is born in Lewiston, Maine. He oversaw the construction of both Disneyland and Disney World.
1909: Publisher and Disney Legend Mario Gentilini is born in Luzzara, Italy. He popularized Mickey Mouse in Italy through his “Topolino” magazine.
1913: Actor Bill Thompson (Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, King Hubert in [...]

1865: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson publishes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
1898: Actor Johnny Lee (the voice of Br’er Rabbit) is born in Los Angeles.
1908: Disney legend and artist, John Hench (Fantasia, Dumbo) is born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1910: Marcellite Garner (the voice of Minnie Mouse) is born in Redlands, California.
1914: Disney [...]