Events in Film & TV
Film Premier
1981 "Escape from New York" directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, premieres in the US
Kurt Russell
John Carpenter
Birthdays in Film & TV
- 1854 James T. Kelley, Irish actor (The Rink, The Immigrant), born in Castlebar, Ireland (d. 1933)
- 1867 Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist (Mr Dooley), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1936)
- 1883 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)
- 1889 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, American actor (Bad Lands, Go West, Distant Drums), born in NYC, New York (d. 1970)
- 1892 George "Slim" Summerville, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Keystone Cops), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico (d. 1946)
- 1899 John Gilbert, American actor, screenwriter and director (The Hater of Men, Man, Woman and Sin), born in Logan, Utah (d. 1936)
- 1900 [Elsie] Evelyn Laye, English singer and actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow), born in London, England (d. 1996)
- 1905 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), born in NYC, New York (d. 1971)
- 1910 Ronald Fletcher, British broadcaster (Barbara with Braden, Bomber Harris), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (d. 1996)
- 1911 Terry-Thomas [Thomas Terry Stevens], British actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), born in Finchley, London, England (d. 1990)
- 1917 Don Herbert, American scientist and TV host (Watch Mr Wizard), born in Waconia, Minnesota (d. 2007)
- 1920 David Brinkley, American NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 2003)
- 1921 Jean "Jeff" Donnell, American actress (Gidget Goes to Rome, Hoedown, 9 Girls), born in Windham, Maine (d. 1988)
- 1923 Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actress (Othello), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 2003)
- 1924 Bobo Brazil [Houston Harris], American professional wrestler, born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1998)
- 1926 Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (Up Periscope, Summer Stock), born in Bennington, Vermont
- 1926 Fred Gwynne, American actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters), born in NYC, New York (d. 1993)
- 1927 William Smithers, American actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!), born in Richmond, Virginia
- 1931 Nick Adams [Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock], American actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel), born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (d. 1968)
- 1935 Tura Satana, Japanese-American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), born in Hokkaidō, Japan (d. 2012)
- 1939 Lawrence Pressman, American actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle), born in Cynthiana, Kentucky
- 1940 Mills Watson, American actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear), born in Oakland, California
- 1941 Robert Pine, American actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs), born in Scarsdale, New York
- 1941 Jake Eberts, film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2012)
- 1945 Ron Glass, American actor (Barney Miller, Frank's Place), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 2016)
- 1945 Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director, born in Paris
- 1946 Sue Lyon, American actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana), born in Davenport, Iowa
- 1949 Mark Shera, American actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones), born in Bayonne, New Jersey
- 1951 Phyllis Smith, American actress (Phyllis Vance-The Office), born in The Hill, St. Louis, Missouri
- 1958 Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and theatre and opera director, born in County Cork, Munster, Ireland
- 1961 Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (Bullet in the Head), born in Hong Kong
- 1965 Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
- 1966 Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1968 Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
- 1969 Gale Harold, American actor
- 1969 Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1970 Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
- 1970 John Simm, British actor
- 1972 Damon Sharpe, actor/musician (Guys Next Door), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1972 Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
- 1972 Sofia Vergara, Colombian-American actress (Modern Family), born in Barranquilla, Colombia
- 1974 IMarina Vidal, American actress, journalist and Miss Florida 1996
- 1974 Jennifer Montica Curry, Muscatine Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1996)
- 1974 Chiwetel Ejiofor, English film and theatre actor ("Twelve Years a Slave"), born in London
- 1975 Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
- 1976 Adrian Grenier, American actor
- 1977 Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
- 1980 Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor (American Pie, Rookie of the Year), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
- 1984 Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
1937 Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström
Ingrid Bergman
Wedding of Interest
2010 Actress and fourth season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood (29) weds Nashville Predators ice hockey player Mike Fisher (32) at Ritz Carlton Lodge in Greensboro, Georgia
Carrie Underwood
Wedding of Interest
2010 "Big Momma's House" actor Martin Lawrence (45) weds longtime girlfriend Shamicka Gibbs (35) on an intimate wedding in Beverly Hills
Martin Lawrence
- 2015 Fashion model Nicky Hilton (31) weds banker James Rothschild at Kensington Palace in London
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1963 John Sutton, British actor (The Three Musketeers, Tower of London, Return of Fly), dies of heart attack at 54
- 1988 Errol John, Trinidadian actor and playwright (A Man from the Sun, The Nun's Story, Assault on a Queen), dies at 63
- 1989 Mel Blanc, American voice actor, comedian best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), dies at 81
- 1989 Thomas "Tommy" Trinder, British radio comedian and actor (Save a Little Sunshine, Phoenix), dies at 80
- 1993 Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2000 Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
- 2005 Richard Eastham, American actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Falcon Crest), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- 2005 Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2015 Omar Sharif [Michel Dimitri Shalhoub], Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), dies at 83
- 2015 Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers), dies at 71