 Born on this day in history, former president John Quincy Adams, born in 1767. Author E.B. White, born in 1899. He penned Charlotte's Web. Academy Award winning actor Yul Brynner, born in 1920. Singer Bonnie Pointer, born in 1950. She was a Grammy winning singer and songwriter and a founding member of the Pointer Sisters. And boxer Leon Spinks, born in 1953. Those are your celebrity birthdays for today.