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71. Voiceover artist Don LaFontaine, whose distinctive baritone graced innumerable movie trailers, died in Los Angeles at age 68.
• One year ago: President Barack Obama ridiculed the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and "trickle-down, you're on your own" economics, and declared that Mitt Romney "did not offer a single new idea" for fixing the economy. Lyricist Hal David, 91, who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, died in Los Angeles.
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• Today's Birthdays: Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird is 91. Actor George Maharis is 85. Conductor Seiji Ozawa (SAY'-jee oh-ZAH'-wah) is 78. Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is 75. Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin is 74. Actor Don Stroud is 70. Conductor Leonard Slatkin is 69. Singer Archie Bell is 69. Singer Barry Gibb is 67. Rock musician Greg Errico is 65. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is 63. Singer Gloria Estefan is 56. Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers is 52. Jazz musician Boney James is 52. Singer-musician Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo) is 50. Country singer-songwriter Charlie Robison is 49. Retired NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway is 47. Rap DJ Spigg Nice (Lost Boyz) is 43. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira is 42. Rock singer JD Fortune is 40. Actor Scott Speedman is 38. Country singer Angaleena Presley (Pistol Annies) is 37. Rock musician Joe Trohman is 29.
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• Thought for Today: "When nothing is sure, everything is possible." - Margaret Drabble, British author.
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