Jim Carroll
James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
1 August 1949
Born on the same birth date (1 August 1949): Bettina Arndt • Kurmanbek Bakiyev • Ray Nettles
Born on the same birth day (1 August): Al D'Amato • Alan Moore (war artist) • Arthur Hill (Canadian actor) • Basem Fathi • Bastian Schweinsteiger • Damien Saez • David Brand • Francis Scott Key • Hasan Şaş • James Mourilyan Tanner • Lorna Goodison • Meena Kumari • Michael Penn • Stacey Augmon • Søren Jochumsen • T. J. Jemison • Tyron Henderson • Étienne Roda-Gil
Born in the same month (August 1949): Bettina Arndt • Bobby Clarke • Darnell Hillman • Hugh Cornwell • John Riggins • Joop Donkervoort • Kurmanbek Bakiyev • Leon Redbone • Paul Pasqualoni • Scott Asheton • Stephen Paulus • Svetislav Pešić • Ted Simmons • Vicky Leandros • War (band) • Willy Rey