Ronald Reagan // #40

• Saved 78 people as a life guard (the last one at a July 4th garden party he and Nancy hosted)

• LA students voted him “most nearly perfect male body” in Hollywood

• In 1947, he nearly died from acute viral pneumonia; six months later his wife (actress Jane Wyman) gave birth to a premature baby girl who tragically died a few hours later

• There marriage crumbled soon after

• Lost more than half his blood supply when he was shot

• His Secret Service agent, Jerry Parr, saved his life. (The story is bananas.)

• Gore Vidal called him “Hollywood’s Most Grinding Bore”