NBC announced that Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland will join the cast of NBC's new landmark series "Crusoe,"

Happy Birthday to Ja Rule (1976), actor Antonio Sabato Jr. (1972), Law & Order actor Dennis Farina (1944), actor Joss Ackland (1928), singer Dinah Shore (1916; d. 1994), bandleader Jimmy Dorsey (1904; d. 1957), and Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini (1792; d. 1868).