There are 2 entries for this date: Paul Newman and Jules Feiffer.

On this date in 1925, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman was born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father. Newman enlisted in the Naval Air Corps, but his career there was cut short due to color-blindness. He served in the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon his return from the war, Newman enrolled at Kenyon College, Ohio, and received his B.A. in 1949. He worked in summer stock, married Jackie Witte, with whom he had three children, enrolled at the Yale University grad program in acting, then left it for Broadway. His first Broadway success was playing the lead in "Picnic." Newman was admitted to the Actor's Studio, studying "method" acting. His first film, a biblio-epic flop, "The Silver Chalice," came out in 1954. Newman's breakthrough role was portraying Rocky Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956). He met actress Joanne Woodward while making "The Long, Hot Summer" (1957), and married her in 1958. They had three daughters. Newman has been nominated often for "best actor" Oscars for such movie classics as: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958), "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), and "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). He won for "The Color of Money" (1987). Other films include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting," in which he was paired with Robert Redford. Newman runs "Newman's Own" line of food, donating much of the proceeds to charity. Newman is listed on the website of the Unitarian Universalists, which is creedless, as one of their famous members. According to Who's Who in Hell, edited by Warren Allen Smith, Newman once told TV interviewer Barbara Walters that he doesn't believe in an afterlife. d. 2008

On this date in 1929, cartoonist, playwright and author Jules Feiffer was born in the Bronx, New York, and studied at Pratt Institute (1947-1951). His weekly editorial cartoon appeared in the Village Voice for 42 years. Feiffer won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1986. His cartoons have been published in 19 books. Feiffer's antimilitary animated cartoon, "Munro," won an Academy Award in 1961. Feiffer's comedy, "Little Murders" (1967), won an Obie. Among his other plays and revues is "Knock Knock" (1976), which had a 1976 Broadway run starring Lynn Redgrave. Feiffer wrote the screenplay for the film "Carnal Knowledge" (1971), which spawned censorship and lawsuits. His cartoons in particular skewered Presidents Johnson and Nixon. Feiffer retired from cartooning to devote more time to writing children's books. He is adjunct professor at Southampton College, and has taught at Yale and Northwestern.