Events in Film & TV
- 1908 Booth Tarkington & Harry Leon Wilson's play "Man from Home" premieres in New York
- 1908 Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl
Film Premier
1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese premieres
John Cleese
Michael Palin
Film Premier
1990 "Exorcist 3" film written and directed by William Peter Blatty, premieres
William Peter Blatty
Birthdays in Film & TV
- 1866 Julia Marlowe [Sarah Frances Frost], English-American Shakespearean actress, born in Cumberland, England (d. 1950)
Samuel Goldwyn
1882 Samuel Goldwyn [Shmuel Gelbfisz], Jewish Polish American movie producer (MGM), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1974)
Samuel Goldwyn
- 1888 Monty Wooley, American actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in NYC, New York (d. 1963)
- 1900 Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1918 Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings), born in NYC, New York (d. 1979)
- 1921 Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons], Irish actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man), Ranelagh, County Dublin (d. 2015)
- 1926 Jean Poiret [Jean-Gustave Poiré], French actor, director, and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles), born in Paris, France (d. 1992)
- 1927 Robert Moore, American director and actor (Murder by Death, Marshall-Diana), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1984)
- 1928 Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
- 1933 Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg], El Monte, California, American actor (Route 66, Shenandoah)
- 1935 Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), born in Saratov, Russian SFSR (d. 2018)
- 1936 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
- 1939 Anthony Valentine, British actor (Colditz), born in Blackburn, Lancashire (d. 2015)
- 1943 Koos Postema, editor-in-chief (Vrije Volk)/Dutch TV host
Robert De Niro
1943 Robert De Niro, American actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), born in NYC, New York
Robert De Niro
- 1948 Bo Rucker, actor (Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up), born in Tampa, Florida
- 1951 Robert Joy, actor (Big Shots, Suicide Club), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1955 Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor (Thing Called Love)
- 1956 Gail Berman, American film executive
- 1958 Belinda Carlisle, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth), born in Hollywood, California
- 1960 Bruce Penhall, Balboa CA, actor (Savage Beach)
- 1962 Buddy Landel, American professional wrestler
- 1963 S. Shankar, Indian film director.
- 1963 Jon Gruden, American NFL coach (Super Bowl 2002, Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Oakland Raiders) and broadcaster (ESPN), born in Sandusky, Ohio
- 1968 Helen McCrory, English actress
- 1970 Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
- 1971 Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
- 1975 Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
- 1976 Scott Halberstadt, American actor
- 1977 Jake Patellis, American actor (Paul Bowman-Good Life), born in Santa Clarita, California
- 1979 Marcus Patric, British actor
- 1980 Shannon Lucio, American actress
- 1981 Kristin Holt, American television personality
- 1982 Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1982 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (Glee), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2018)
- 1985 Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
- 1986 Bryton McClure, American actor (Richie-Family Matters), born in Lakewood, California
- 1988 Brady Corbet, American actor
- 1988 Erika Toda, Japanese actress
- 1990 Colin Bates, American actor
- 1990 Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
- 1996 Ella Cruz, Filipina actress
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
1950 Short story writer Dorothy Parker (57) weds screenwriter Alan Campbell (46)
Dorothy Parker
Wedding of Interest
1962 Actor Jack Lemmon (37) weds actress and model Felicia Farr (29) in Paris, France
Jack Lemmon
Wedding of Interest
1989 Director Kathryn Bigelow (38) weds fellow director James Cameron (35)
Kathryn Bigelow
James Cameron
Wedding of Interest
2015 Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating (38) weds model Storm Uechtritz in East Lothian, Scotland
Ronan Keating
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1963 Richard Barthelmess, American actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose, Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
- 1970 Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker and cinematographer (Tang), dies at 62
- 1971 Horace McMahon, American actor (Detective Story, Martin Kane Private Eye), dies from a heart ailment at 65
- 1974 Edgar Dearing, American actor (Pollyanna, Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy), dies at 81
- 1975 Sig Arno [Siegfried Aron], German-Jewish actor (Holiday in Havana, My Friend Irma), dies at 80
- 1976 Murvyn Vye [Marvin], American actor (Road to Bali, Bob Cummings Show), dies of natural causes at 63
- 1976 William Redfield, American actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage), dies of leukaemia at 49
- 1979 Vivian Vance, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 70
- 1982 Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies from cancer at 68
- 1987 Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor, comedian and Israel's 1st mime (The Policeman, The Delta Force), dies of lung cancer at 57
- 1988 Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies at 53
- 1990 Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (Hello Dolly), dies of heart attack at 72
- 1990 Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
- 1991 Donald "Don" Dubbins, American actor (From Here to Eternity, The Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer at 63
- 1995 David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
- 1995 Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 92
- 2008 František Zvarík, Slovakian stage actor (Slovak National Theatre), dies at 87
- 2015 Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batgirl), dies at 78