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): Dmitry Filippov (politician) • Dom DeLuise • Emperor Kōgon • Francesco Gavazzi • Grant Wooden • Isobel Lilian Gloag • Koichi Wakata • Lorna Goodison • Mustafa Abdellaoue • Piotr Malarczyk • Shigetoshi Hasegawa • Stephen Hunt (footballer, born 1981) • Sugawara no Michizane
Born in the same month (August 1949): Darnell Hillman • Jeff Cook • John Savage (actor) • Matthew Parris • Nikolas Asimos • Panagiotis Chinofotis • Ray Nettles • Richard Gere • Scott Asheton • Sue Slipman • Vicky Leandros • Willy Rey