Today is Monday, July 17, the 198th day of 2006 with 167 to follow.

Today is Monday, July 17, the 198th day of 2006 with 167 to follow.
| July 12, 2006 12:01:13 AM IST

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Pluto.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include English clergyman and author Isaac Watts in 1674; financier John Jacob Astor in 1763; mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner in 1889; actor James Cagney in 1899; Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish storyteller Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1904; TV personality Art Linkletter in 1912 (age 94); comedian Phyllis Diller in 1917 (age 89); actor Donald Sutherland in 1934 (age 72); actress/singer Diahann Carroll in 1935 (age 71); rock musician Spencer Davis in 1942 (age 64); actress Lucie Arnaz in 1951 (age 55); actor David Hasselhoff in 1952 (age 54); and singers Nicolette Larson and Phoebe Snow (age 54), both in 1952.

(UPI)

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