Events in Film & TV
- 1932 BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
Event of Interest
1945 Noël Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London
Noël Coward
Film Release
1986 "Stand By Me" film based on the novella by Stephen King, directed by Rob Reiner starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell is released
River Phoenix
Stephen King
- 1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
Event of Interest
2018 Forbes say George Clooney made more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever ($239m), due to sale of alcohol company, followed by Dwayne Johnson ($124m)
George Clooney
The Rock
Birthdays in Film & TV
- 1888 Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1969)
- 1891 Francis McDonald, American actor (Will-Adv of Champion), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1968)
- 1894 Cecil Kellaway, South African-born American actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), born in Cape Town (d. 1973)
- 1897 Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (Catherine the Great), born in Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986)
- 1898 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), born in Verdun, France (d. 1975)
Leni Riefenstahl
1902 Leni Riefenstahl [Helene Bertha Amalie], German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2003)
Leni Riefenstahl
- 1905 Wade Crosby, American actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1975)
- 1907 Oliver McGowan, American actor (Banning, Stagecoach), born in Kipling, Alabama (d. 1971)
- 1909 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), born in NYC, New York (d. 2000)
- 1911 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
- 1915 Hugh Paddick, English actor (Round the Horne), born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2000)
- 1916 John Slater, British actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass), born in London, England (d. 1975)
- 1922 Micheline Presle [Chassagne], French actress (Nea, Donkey Skin), born in Paris, France
- 1924 James Kirkwood, American actor, author and playwright (A Chorus Line, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1989)
- 1925 Honor Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers), born in Plaistow, London (d. 2020)
- 1928 John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1993)
- 1933 Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (Jessica, Hercules), born in Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia (d. 1994)
- 1934 Diana Sands, American actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife), born in NYC, New York
- 1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC), born in London (d. 2008)
- 1935 Morton Dean, American TV newscaster (CBS, ABC), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
- 1939 Valerie Harper, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda), born in Suffern, New York
- 1940 George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- 1945 James G Richardson, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), born in Gainesville, Florida
- 1945 Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana
- 1947 Cindy Williams, American actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley), born in Van Nuys, California
- 1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster and actor (Pink Medicine Show), born in London
- 1948 Eleonora Brown, Italian actress (The Sailor from Gibraltar), born in Naples, Italy
- 1951 Gordon Liu [Chia-Hui Liu or Jin-Hsi Shin], Chinese actor (Kill Bill, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), born in Guangdong, China
- 1953 Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager, born in Melrose, Minnesota
- 1955 Chiranjeevi [Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad], Telugu film actor, dancer and producer, born in Mogalthur, India
- 1958 Colm Feore, American actor (The Chronicles of Riddick), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1958 Stevie Ray [Lane Huffman], American professional wrestler, born in Houston, Texas
- 1965 Tom Gibis, American voice actor (Shikamaru Nara-Naruto), born in West St. Paul, Minnesota
- 1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English-American actor (The Mummy Returns), born in Islington, London
- 1967 Ant [Anthony Steven Kalloniatis], American comedian, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1967 Ty Burrell, American actor (Modern Family, Evolution), born in Grants Pass, Oregon
- 1967 Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer, born in Leonardtown, Maryland
- 1968 Casper Christensen, Danish comedian (Hvaffor en hånd), born in Kerteminde, Denmark
- 1970 Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and television host, born in Rome, Italy
- 1971 Richard Armitage, English actor (The Hobbit, Robin Hood), born in Leicester, Leicestershire
- 1971 Rick Yune, American actor (Snow Falling on Cedars), born in Washington, D.C.
- 1972 Marliece Andrada, American actress (Baywatch) and Playboy playmate (March 1998), born in Manteca, California
- 1973 Kristen Wiig, American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York
- 1974 Brimstone, American professional wrestler, born in Mineola, New York
- 1975 Sheree Murphy, English actress (Emmerdale), born in Stoke Newington, London
- 1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Love Actually), born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1978 James Corden, British actor, comedian and television host (The Late Late Show with James Corden), born in Hillingdon, London
- 1979 Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor (The People Under the Stairs), born in Topeka, Kansas
- 1979 Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1980 Christi Shake, American model and actress, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1983 Laura Breckenridge, American actress (Rose Sorelli-Related), born in Flourtown, Pennsylvania
- 1986 Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress, born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
2003 Film director Leni Riefenstahl (101) weds cinematographer Horst Kettner (59)
Leni Riefenstahl
Wedding of Interest
2009 Actress and model Milla Jovovich (36) weds film director Paul W. S. Anderson (47) in Beverly Hills, California
Milla Jovovich
Divorces in Film & TV
Divorce of Interest
1927 Actor Charlie Chaplin divorces his 2nd wife Lita Grey after 3 years of marriage in the largest divorce settlement at the time (US$600,000, plus trusts for children )
Charlie Chaplin
Lita Grey
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1944 Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
- 1960 Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
- 1965 Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies
- 1973 Louise Huff, American actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77
- 1974 Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician and science writer best known as the presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, dies of a heart attack at 66
- 1977 Sebastian Cabot, British actor (Kismet, Family Affair, Time Machine), dies at 59
- 1989 Johannes "Jan" Teulings, Dutch actor (Lentelied, The Three Wishes), dies of natural causes at 84
- 1990 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
- 1991 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey), dies of cancer at 67
- 1993 Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
- 2003 Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
- 2004 Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director, dies at 83
- 2013 Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer and actress, dies at 62