 Born on this day in history, former president John Quincy Adams, born in 1761, he was the sixth president of the United States. Author E.B. White, born in 1899, he penned Charlotte's Web. Academy Award winning actor Yul Brynner, born in 1920, he won the Oscar for the movie The King and I. His other credits include the movies Solomon and Sheba and The Magnificent Seven.