Events in Film & TV
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
- 1932 Chet Allen, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
- 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 Janet Quist playmate (Dec, 1978), born in Austin, Texas
- 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 Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
- 1963 S. Shankar, Indian film director.
- 1963 Jon Gruden, American NFL coach/broadcaster (Super Bowl XXXVII Tampa Bay 2002), 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, actor (Paul Bowman-Good Life)
- 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/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
- 2015 Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating (38) weds model Storm Uechtritz in East Lothian, Scotland
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 (b. 1908)
- 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, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies
- 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, 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