Events in Film & TV
- 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
- 1933 First televised boxing match — 6-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri; aired by BBC-TV
Film Premier
1938 "You Can’t Take It With You" from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur premieres. Best Picture (1939)
Film Premier
1946 "The Big Sleep" directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall, premieres
Humphrey Bogart
Film Awards
1959 20th Venice Film Festival: "The Great War" directed by Mario Monicelli and "General della Rovere" directed by Roberto Rossellini jointly awarded Golden Lion
Roberto Rossellini
Presidential Convention
1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates Vice President Spiro Agnew but not unanimously: 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley
Spiro Agnew
David Brinkley
Event of Interest
1995 Actor Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
Larry Hagman
Birthdays in Film & TV
- 1884 Will Cuppy, American humorist (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody), born in Auburn, Indiana (d. 1949)
- 1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright (Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
- 1894 Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (Midnight Girl), born in Dafen, Carmarthenshire, Wales (d. 1965)
Gene Kelly
1912 Gene Kelly, American actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way) and dancer (Singin' in the Rain), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
Gene Kelly
- 1922 Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2015)
- 1922 Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter, television writer and producer, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2011)
- 1923 Humphrey Fisher, TV producer, born in England (d. 1996)
- 1924 Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2005)
- 1927 Peter Wyngarde [Cyril Goldbert], British actor (Department S and Jason King), born in Marseille, France (d. 2018)
- 1928 Marian Seldes, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Father's Day), born in Manhattan, NYC, New York (d. 2014)
Vera Miles
1929 Vera Miles, American actress (Lila Crane-Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), born in Boise City, Oklahoma
Vera Miles
- 1930 Jack Bannister, English cricket commentator (BBC; Talksport radio) and bowler (Warwickshire 1,198 wickets), born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands (d. 2016)
Barbara Eden
1931 Barbara Eden, American actress (Dream of Jeannie), born in Tucson, Arizona
Barbara Eden
- 1935 Roy Strong, English writer, art historian and director (Victoria & Albert Museum), born in Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England
- 1940 Richard Sanders, American actor (Les Nessman -WKRP), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- 1940 Tony Bill, American actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65), born in San Diego, California
- 1943 Bobby Diamond, American actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1944 Lena Tabori, Swedish actress model and daughter of Viveca Lindfors, born in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1947 David Robb, British actor (I, Claudius), born in London
- 1949 Rick Springfield [Springthorpe], Australian singer ("Speak to the Sky"; "Jessie's Girl") and actor (General Hospital), born in Balmain, New South Wales
- 1949 Christopher Blake, English actor (Alexa), born in Chingford, London
- 1949 Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- 1951 Mark Hudson, American comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show), born in Portland, Oregon
- 1954 Charles Busch, American actor, screenwriter, playwright and drag queen (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife), in Hartsdale, New York
- 1956 Skipp Sudduth, American actor (Third Watch), born in Wareham, Massachusetts
- 1960 Chris Potter, Canadian actor (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues), born in Toronto, Ontario
- 1961 Alexandre Desplat, French film composer (The Grand Budapest Hotel), born in Paris, France
- 1963 Park Chan-wook, South Korean filmmaker (Joint Security Area, Thirst), born in Seoul
- 1964 Ray Ferraro, Canadian ice hockey center (Hartford Whalers, New York Islanders) and broadcaster (TSN Radio, TSN, NBCSN), born in Trail, British Columbia
- 1965 Roger Avary, Canadian-American screenwriter, director, and producer (Pulp Fiction), born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
River Phoenix
1970 River Phoenix, American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me), born in Madras, Oregon (d. 1993)
River Phoenix
- 1970 Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian, born in Verona, New Jersey
- 1973 Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model, born in Thane, India
- 1974 Ray Park, Scottish actor, born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- 1974 Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa
- 1976 Scott Caan, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California
- 1987 Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer, born in Manila, Philippines
Weddings in Film & TV
- 1942 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
Wedding of Interest
1975 Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England
Maggie Smith
Wedding of Interest
1978 Actress Kate Jackson (29) weds actor Andrew Stevens (23) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Kate Jackson
- 1989 "The Cars" lead singer and guitarist Ric Ocasek (40) weds model Paulina Porizkova (24)
Wedding of Interest
1998 YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (30) weds Google executive Dennis Troper in Belmont, California
Susan Wojcicki
- 2000 "7th Heaven" actor Ed Begley Jr. (51) weds actress Rachelle Carson (40) in Las Vegas
Wedding of Interest
2003 "The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart Freundlich (33) in New York
Julianne Moore
- 2010 Spanish singer Julio Iglesias (66) weds Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger (44) at Virgen del Carmen Church in Marbella, Spain
Wedding of Interest
2014 Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France
Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
- 2015 Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan (46) weds model Megan Wollover (28) in NYC
Divorces in Film & TV
Divorce of Interest
2010 Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage
Tiger Woods
Deaths in Film & TV
Rudolph Valentino
1926 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor and silent movie idol (The Sheik, Eagle), dies of a relapse of pleuritis in NY at 31
Rudolph Valentino
- 1955 Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
- 1962 Edmund "Hoot" Gibson, American rodeo champion, western actor, director, and producer (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw), dies from cancer at 70
- 1966 Francis X. Bushman, American silent film actor (Sabrina, Ben-Hur), dies at 83
- 1971 Oliver McGowan, American actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
- 1975 Hank Patterson, American actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
- 1979 Richard Hearne, British actor (Tons of Trouble, The Time of His Life), dies at 71
- 1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
- 1986 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
- 1992 Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way), dies at 85
- 1993 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
- 1993 Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
- 1995 Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), dies of AIDS at 35
- 1999 Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
- 2001 Kathleen Freeman, American actress (Beverly Hillbillies, 3 Ring Circus), dies of lung cancer at 82
- 2005 Brock Peters [George Fisher], American actor and singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), dies at 78
- 2007 Robert Symonds, American actor and associate director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, dies at 80
- 2015 Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93
- 2016 Steven Hill, American actor (Mission Impossible, Law & Order), dies at 94
- 2019 Sheila Steafel, South African British actress (The Frost Report), dies at 84