Events in Film & TV
- 1928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
Event of Interest
1952 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Orson Welles
Event of Interest
1956 9th Cannes Film Festival: "The Silent World" directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle wins the Palme d'Or
Jacques Cousteau
Event of Interest
1982 WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's "Imagine")
John Lennon
- 1982 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
Event of Interest
1983 TV sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV
Penny Marshall
Music Concert
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
Barbra Streisand
Event of Interest
1996 "Twister" disaster film written by Michael Crichton starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton premieres
Helen Hunt
Michael Crichton
Event of Interest
2010 Flavor Flav guest hosts the wrestling show WWE Raw
Flavor Flav
Event of Interest
2015 61st British Academy Television Awards: "The Graham Norton Show" Best Comedy, "Happy Valley" Best Drama
Graham Norton
- 2019 YouTube dispute between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook viewed more than 40 million times
Birthdays in Film & TV
John Wilkes Booth
1838 John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)
John Wilkes Booth
- 1882 Thurston Hall, American actor (Roaming Lady, In Society), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- 1889 Mae Murray, American silent screen actress, born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 1965)
- 1894 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-American film score composer and conductor (Academy Award 1954-High & Mighty), born in Kremenchuk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1979)
Fred Astaire
1899 Fred Astaire [Austerlitz], American stage and screen tap dancer, singer ("Night And Day"; "Cheek To Cheek"; "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1987)
Fred Astaire
- 1902 Anatole Litvak, Russian-born American film director, writer and producer (Mayerling, Anastasia, The Snake Pit), born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
- 1912 Harold Myers, film journalist
- 1914 Charles McGraw [Butters], American actor (Spartacus, The Birds, The Killers, Smith Family), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1980)
- 1915 Bert van Dongen [Albert Cohen], Dutch singer, impressionist and actor (Het meisje met den blauwen hoed), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1982)
- 1915 Salah Abou Seif [Salah Abu Saif], Egyptian film director (Bidaya wa Nihaya), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1996)
- 1918 Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2018)
- 1922 Nancy Walker, American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1992)
Pat Summerall
1930 Pat Summerall, American NFL player (NY Giants) and CBS sportscaster, born in Lake City, Florida (d. 2013)
Pat Summerall
- 1931 Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (A Special Day), born in Trevico, Campania (d. 2016)
- 1932 Francoise Fabian, French actress (Happy New Year), born in Algiers, French Algeria
- 1934 Gary Owens, American disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show), born in Mitchell, South Dakota
- 1934 Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
- 1938 Peter Davies, Major-General/Director-General (RSPCA)
- 1938 Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1940 Taurean Blacque, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues), born in Newark, New Jersey
- 1943 David Clennon, American actor
- 1944 Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, French actress and writer (Love on the Run, Cousin cousine)
- 1946 Maureen Lipman, actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
- 1947 Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
- 1953 Lawrence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
- 1953 Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
- 1954 Jeff Apple, American film producer (In the Line of Fire), born in Miami, Florida
- 1954 Michael Hagerty, American actor (Overboard, Inspector Gadget), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1955 Chris Berman, sportscaster (ESPN)
- 1960 Victoria Rowell, American actress (The Young & The Restless - "Drucilla"), born in Portland, Maine
- 1961 Teri Copley, Arcadia California, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
- 1961 Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
- 1965 Linda Evangelista, St Catherines Canada, supermodel (Elite)
- 1968 Erik Palladino, American actor
- 1968 Al Murray, British comedian
- 1969 Judson Mills, Purcellville Va, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
- 1970 Dallas Roberts, American actor
- 1970 Sally Phillips, English comedian and actress (Smack the Pony, Miranda), born in Hong Kong
- 1971 Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
- 1972 Emma Ridley, American actress (Return to Oz, Boy Meets World), born in Hampstead, England
- 1977 Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
- 1978 Kenan Thompson, American actor
- 1982 Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
- 1989 Lindsey Shaw, American actress
- 1993 Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
- 2000 Shyann McClure, American actress and model
Weddings in Film & TV
- 2003 "Broadway" singer-actress Carol Channing (82) weds Harry Kullijian at Big Valley Grace Community Church in Modesto, California
Wedding of Interest
2003 "Ocean's Eleven" director and producer Steven Soderbergh (40) weds former fashion model Jules Asner (35) in Manhattan, New York
Steven Soderbergh
Wedding of Interest
2005 Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) weds British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) in Costa Careyes, Mexico
Heidi Klum
Seal
Divorces in Film & TV
Divorce of Interest
1994 Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)
Drew Barrymore
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1733 Barton Booth, British actor (Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre), dies at approximately 52
- 1937 William Tedmarsh, British silent movie actor (Two Beds and No Sleep), dies at 61
- 1942 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74
- 1968 Philippa Bevans, British actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient), dies at 55
- 1968 Scotty Beckett, American actor (Our Gang, Listen Darling, Battleground), dies from either an overdose, or as a result from a beating at 38
- 1970 Mari Blanchard, American actress and femme fatale (Kathy-Klondike), dies of cancer at 47
- 1973 Jack E. Leonard, American comedian (Disorderly Orderly), dies at 62
- 1973 Loren Tindall, American actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost), dies of heart attack at 51
- 1974 Hal Mohr [Harold Leon Mohr], American Cinematographer and husband of Evelyn Venable (Captain Blood), dies at 74
Joan Crawford
1977 Joan Crawford, American actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 72
Joan Crawford
- 1984 Robert Moore, American director and actor (Murder by Death, Marshall-Diana), dies from AIDS-related pneumonia at 56
- 1990 Susan Oliver, American actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage), dies of cancer at 61
- 1992 John Lund, American actor (High Society, Wackiest Ship in the Army), dies at 81
- 1995 Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
- 1999 Shel Silverstein, American writer and cartoonist (Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Futilities; The Giving Tree) and songwriter ("A Boy Named Sue"; "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone"), dies at 68
- 2001 Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
- 2002 Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
- 2006 Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
- 2008 Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)
- 2016 Louis van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director (The House, De prijs van overleven), dies at 93