Comedian Bernie Mac born

Comedian Bernie Mac born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, Illinois. He has also acted in several films including "Ocean's Thirteen", "Guess Who", "Ocean's Eleven", "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Friday". He was nominated for several Emmy Awards for his televsion series titled "The Bernie Mac Show."

On August 9th, 2008 Mac died from complications of pneeumonia. He was working on the movie Soul Men with Issac Hayes who coincidentally died the following day.