July 1 - Andre Braugher (1962) Pamela Anderson Lee (1967) Alan Ruck (1960) Dan Aykroyd (1952) Olivia de Havilland (1916) Liv Tyler (1977) Sydney Pollack (1934) Karen Black (1942) July 2 - Ron Silver (1946) July 3 - Tom Cruise (1962) 1967, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles hits #1 July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida (1928) Neil Simon (1927) Eva Marie Saint (1924) Ann Landers & Abigail Van Buren (1918, twins) Mitch Miller (1911) Louis Armstrong (1900) 1947, Motorcycle riders descend on Hollister, CA, for a convention. While 99% are peaceful & law-abiding, the remaining 1% go on a rampage. They call themselves the one-percenters when asked not to return. The following year they change their name to the Hell's Angels. 1942, Ten US planes headed for England are forced to land on Arctic ice and never takeoff from it. The eight P38s and two B17s are referred to by other pilots flying over during the war as The Lost Squadron 1992, A Korean War vet and volunteers located and brought back Glacier Girl, a P38 in the Lost Squadron 1054, Chinese astronomers note a light in the night sky brighter than the Moon, a supernove at the time now known as the Crab Nebula July 5 - Huey Lewis (1945) Katherine Helmond (1934) P T Barnum (1810) 1982, Inspector-General of the SBA was hit in the head & killed in a freak accident by a model airplane 1968, Keith Moon heard that guitarist Jimmy Page was forming a new group after the messy breakup of The Yardbirds. He says the new un-named group will probably also go over like a lead-zeppelin... 1865, Salvation Army founded in England by William Booth July 6 - Glenn Scarpelli (1966) Shelley Hack (1952) Sylvester Stallone (1946) Fred Dryer (1946) Burt Ward (1945) Ned Beatty (1937) Della Reese (1932) Janet Leigh (1927) Pat Paulsen (1927) Merv Griffin (1925) Bill Haley (1925) Nancy Reagan (1923) William Schallert (1922) 1964, British fans line up for the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night." The soundtrack album had already sold 1,500,000 copies in 9 days. 1957, British fan makes first known recording of John Lennon & The Quarrymen. Later the same day, Lennon met a fellow musician named Paul McCartney. 1944, The Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus tent catches fire. 168 people killed, half of them children. Due to wartime shortages, they had been water-proofing the tent with (flamable) parafin. John Paul Jones (1747) July 7 - Bill Campbell (1959) Shelley Duvall (1949) Ringo Starr (1940) Vince Edwards (1928) Doc Severinsen (1927) 1982, aircraft carrier USS Guam takes 800 US Marines to Lebanon 1958, Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill 1937, war declared between Japan and China 1898, Hawaii annexed by US 1846, California annexed by US July 8 - Kevin Bacon (1958) Kim Darby (1948) Steve Lawrence (1935) Jerry Vale (1932) Roone Arledge (1931) Craig Stevens (1918) Billy Eckstine (1914) aka Mr. B 1940, Nazis overrun Norway, King flees to England 1835, Liberty Bell cracked 1663, King Charles granted charter for Rhode Island July 9 - Fred Savage (1976) Kelly McGillis (1957) Tom Hanks (1956) Jimmy Smits (1955) John Tesh (1952) Anjelica Huston (1951) O J Simpson (1947) Brian Dennehy (1938) James Hampton (1936) Ed Ames (1927) Jester Hairston (1909) Barbara Cartland (1901) 1956, Dick Clark's debut as host of Bandstand 1776, George Washington read the Declaration of Independence to his troops. Mobs in New York pulled down a statue of King George & melted it down to 40,000 bullets.7-10-26, Birthday: Fred Gwynne (Died 1994), best known as Herman in The Munsters (the Family Channel, has "The Munster's Revenge" (1981)
7-10-62, Telestar launched, world's 1st communications satallite
7-10-29, First major change in US currency this century: paper money made much smaller in order to fit in wallets
7-10-1212, London Bridge caught fire, 3000 lives lost
7-11-62, First transAtlantic tv transmission by satallite, using Telestar 1
7-11-20, Birthday: Yul Brynner, Westworld, sequel "Futureworld", 10 Commandments
7-11-1899, Birthday: E.B.White, author of fantasy "Charlotte's Web"
7-11-1804, Vice President Aaron Burr fights duel with Alexander Hamilton, killing him
7-12-52, birthday: Robin Williams, actor: Mork & Mindy, Goodmorning Vietnam, Hook
7-12-51, birthday, Cheryl Ladd, actress: Charlie's Angels
7-12-100BC, birthday: Julius Caesar
7-13-82, NASA began using a deepsea robot to look for still-missing flight data recorder in wreckage of space shuttle Challenger. In the Middle East, Iran invaded its neighbor Iraq...
7-13-42, birthday: Harrison Ford, actor: Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Witness, American Gr.
7-13-40, birthday: Patrick Stewart, British actor originally cast as android Lt. Data in Star Trek, The Next Generation (1986, at the time Gene wanted a French actor to play Capt. Picard)
7-13-28, birthday: Bob Crane, before Hogan's Heroes, he was the announcer's voice in Twilight Zone ep "Static"
7-13-1894, birthday: Sidney Blackmer, actor: Rosemary's Baby
7-14-81, 1st sighting of "Titanic" debris on the ocean floor, a 500 pound chunk of metal
7-14-65, Mariner IV passed near Mars, sending back 20 photo, 1st Earth spaceship to Mars
7-14-38, Howard Hughs set a new record: around the world in 3 days, 19 hours
7-14-14, patent issued for first liquid-fueled rocket 7-26-26, birthday: Harry Dean Stanton, actor: "Repo Man"
7-14-11, birthday: Terry-Thomas, actor in comedy & fantasy films inc. Tom Thumb, Babes in Toyland
7-15-82, Iran & Iraq clashed with 100,000 troops each, the biggest single battle since World War 2
7-15-75, Apollo and Soyuz rockets were launched at the same time in US & Russia for Apollo-Soyuz Mission, 1st joint US-Russian space mission. Russians had never considered working with NASA, but were impressed with a scene in movie "Marooned," in which a cosmonaut is depicted trying to help a disabled US space craft, and contacted their US counterparts at NASA. The 3 astronauts and 2 cosmonauts later linked in orbit
7-15-41, birthday: Jan-Michael Vincent, actor: Airwolf
7-15-455 AD, The Vandals army looted & burned Rome
7-16-2186, A solar eclipse will be visible on Earth for 7-1/2 minutes, last solar eclipse that long for 1,469 years. Make your travel arrangements now...
7-16-82, Landsat IV launched to provide survey info to 100 nations. Meanwhile, Iran called on world's 20,000,000 Muslims to invade Iraq and Israel
7-16-71, birthday: Corey Feldman, actor: The Goonies
7-16-69, birthday: Rain Pryor, actress
7-16-69, Apollo 11 launched (see 7-20-69)
7-16-45, A mushroom atomic cloud appeared on Earth for 1st time, in a test near Alamogordo, NM. Albert Einstein believed it might be the end of the world and other physicists agreed that the atomic chain reaction might destroy every atom of Earth's atmosphere.
7-16-15, birthday: Bernard Hughes, tv actor: "Mr. Merlin"
7-16-1746, birthday: Italian astronomer Piazzi, who discovered the Asteroid Belt where he calculated a planet should be (maybe it was destroyed by a Deathstar)
7-17-68, The Beatles animated fantasy movie "Yellow Submarine" opens in London
7-17-67, a Russian rocket sets new speed record, complete orbit of Earth in 86 minutes
7-17-55, Disneyland opened, within 60 days had 1,000,000 visitors. Tomorrowland section has had to be completely overhauled 3 times when the Present caught up with it, though videophones there were predicted to completely replace non-video telephones within a decade
7-17-52, birthday: David Hasselhoff, actor: KnightRider
7-17-44, birthday: Donald Sutherland, actor: Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake, "Backdraft"
7-17-17, birthday: Phyllis Diller, witch in H.R. Puffenstuff tv series & on Broadway revival "The Wizard of Oz"
7-18-89, a stalker killed Rebecca Schaffer (Mindy's sister in Mork & Mindy)
7-18-69, Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge near Chappaquiddict
7-18-21, birthday: John Glenn, astronaut, Congressman & Senator from Ohio
7-18-11, birthday: Hume Cronyn, actor: Cocoon(1985, sequel 1988), Phantom of the Opera (1943)
7-19-28, 1st sound cartoon released, "Steamboat Willie," made by Walt Disney, who was also the voice
7-19-33, birthday: David McCallum, actor: Man From UNCLE (1960s), The Invisible Man (1975 tv series)
7-19-69, the single longest scheduled network tv broadcast up to then started, 163 hours nonstop coverage of the Apollo 11 broadcast, July 19 to 26
7-19-1692, 1st woman was hanged in the "Salem Witch Trials"
7-20-76, 1st photos of Mars were sent back by an Earth landing-craft on its surface, Viking 1
7-20-69, Neil Armstrong becomes the 1st man to step on the Moon, followed down the ladder by Edwin Aldrin
7-20-64, 1st test of an Ion rocket, by NASA, possible top speed of 100,000 miles per hour. Project abandoned as too expensive & impractical at the time. Incidentally, TIE fighter (in Star Wars) stands for "twin-ion engine"
7-20-38, birthday: Natalie Wood (died 1981), many movies, last was the eerie "Brainstorm" about a machine that records what the brain sees as it leaves the dying body of a researcher...
7-20-38, birthday: Diana Rigg, Steed's 2nd female partner in the original Avengers tv series.
7-20-59, movie premier, Plan 9 From Outer Space
7-21-24, birthday: Don Knotts, actor: The Reluctant Astronaut, Ghost & Mr.Chicken, Incredible Mr. Limpet
7-21-76, American Legionnaires at a convention in Philadelphia began dying of an unknown new disease
7-21-61, After successful flight & splashdown, astronaut Gus Grissom's space capsule fills with water. He's rescued but it sinks (it now may have been located by the team that found the RMS Titanic)
7-21-25, Teacher John Scopes convicted of teaching Evolution in violation of a state law
7-21-54, France signs truce dividing Vietnam in half
7-21-50, 1st successful rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, by a captured V-2 from Germany
7-21-1864, 1st description of radio, by Dr. Loomis, who was granted the US patent on it in 1872
7-22-28, birthday: Orson Bean, actor: Twilight Zone
7-23-80, Soviet Union launched the 1st Korean in space
7-23-65, Isaac Asimov finished writing Fantastic Voyage, his publisher at the time only sold non-fiction but agreed to give it a try. It was their best-seller and is the 1st-ever movie novelization 1st published in hardcover
7-23-38, birthday: Ronny Cox, actor: Robocop (as the bad guy)
7-23-1888, birthday: Raymond Chandler, mystery-thriller writer
7-24-1898, birthday: Amelia Earhart, 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932), 1st person to fly solo across the Pacific, Hawaii-California (1935), disappeared on a round-the-world attempt, never to be seen again until she was found on a distant planet (in a Star Trek Voyager ep)
7-24-51, birthday: Lynda Carter, actress: Wonder Woman
7-24-47, birthday: Robert Hayes, actor: Airplane 2 (as the space shuttle pilot)
7-24-98, A man shot & killed 2 policemen while trying to get into the Capital Building, said was trying to stop the voices in his head controlled by Congress
7-24-90, The SAC (Strategic Air Command) "doomsday command plane" landed for the last time, after collapse of the USSR government - had been one in the air with at least one General on board in case of nuclear attack, 24 hours a day, for 30 years
7-24-88, Steven Speilberg's million dollar house destroyed by fire in Malibu
7-24-69, Successful splashdown of Neil Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins
7-24-50, 1st multi-stage rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, by a W.A.C. missle fired in-flight from the nose of a German V-2, flying 48 miles in less than a minute before breaking up
7-24-1870, 1st US coast-to-coast railroad train from California reached New York, some people at the time are said to have suffered future-shock from the event
7-25-09, 1st airplane crosses the English Channel
7-25-1810, birthday: P.T. Barnum, founder of the wierdest museum of oddities in New York
7-25-78, 1st test-tube baby born, in England
7-25-52, Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth (the US has 45 states & 7 commonwealths, 5 of the original 13 became commonwealths instead of states)
7-25-43, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister & arrested on order of the King of Italy
7-26-28, birthday, Stanley Kubrick (see Recent Losses)
7-26-22, birthday: Jason Robards, many movies and star of recent radio version of George Pal's movie War of the Worlds
7-26-1775, US postal service founded, by Ben Franklin
7-27-09, Orvill Wright flying an airplane stayed in the air for 1 hour, a new record
7-27-1866, Messages exchanged between Queen Victoria & the US President via the 3rd Atlantic Cable
7-28-73, The 2nd Skylab space crew was launched, from Cape Canaveral
7-28-45, B-25 bomber plane crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building at 250 mph, setting fires over several city blocks, taking 41 fire departments to put out and leaving 14 dead. Repairs would take a year but due to wartime censorship, it was barely reported outside New York and the investigation classified secret until the 1970s
7-28-14, World War 1 started after an assassination in Serbia
7-28-16, birthday: Laird Cregar (died 1944), actor best known for role of Jack the Ripper
7-29-72, birthday: Wil Wheaton, actor: Star Trek:TNG, Monsters tv series
7-29-07, birthday: Melvin Belli, lawyer best known to Star Trek fans as either the Friendly Angel in an ep, or as the worst actor ever on Star Trek
7-29-24, birthday: Lloyd Bochner, actor: played the guy in Twilight Zone ep who found out too late what "To Serve Man" means
7-29-14, birthday: Professor Irwin Corey
7-29-1892, birthday: William Powell, star of the Thin Man movies
7-29-21, Billy Mitchell attacks & sinks a capsured German battleship to prove need for military aircraft. He is courtmartialed, resigns in 1925, and dies in 1936
7-29-50, 2nd launch of a multistage rocket from Cape Canaveral, Bumper 7. It would be 3 years until the next Cape launch. The current Kennedy Space Center and both space-shuttle launch pads are actually on Merritt Island, north of Cape Canaveral
7-29-82, After 5 years in orbit, the Russian space station was abandoned & fell from orbit to firey splashdown
7-29-82, died: Harold Sakata, "Oddjob" in movie Goldfinger
7-29-71, Apollo 15 at 34 tons became the heaviest spaceship to orbit the Moon
7-29-20, 1st US transcontinental Airmail service started, California-New York
7-29-14, 1st US transcontinental phone service
7-30-47, birthday: Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor (see Doc Savage News)
7-30-1889, birthday: Vladimer Zorrowekan, inventor of the TV tube in 1923, he says he's sorry
7-30-1863, birthday: Henry Ford, inventor of the first low-cost popular automobile
7-30-75, Teamster Union boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, he will always be a cornerstone of the Teamsters Bldg...
7-30-42, WAVES established, the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
7-30-28, George Eastman demonstrated the 1st color movies
7-30-09, US government buys its 1st airplane, the Wright Biplane, for $31,000
7-30-1780, US dollar devalued to $.02
7-30-1771, England outlawed a poison that was popular for getting rid of unwanted guests
7-1985, Unpopular "New Coke" intro by Coca-Cola
7-31-64, Ranger 7 (unmanned) photographed the Moon
7-31-1877, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph
7-31-01, Altitude record: 33,629 feet, Berson & Suring in a balloon
7-31-99, Lunar Prospector is scheduled to crash into the Moon. Launched 18 months ago, it is hoped the high-speed crash will raise a plume of particles visible to the Hubble Telescope & possibly confirm if there are water molecules under the surface.
August Birthdays & Important Dates
Note: to see the list of a person's movies, click their name. It will take me awhile to research & type in all the highlights here8-1-33, Dom De Luise, sometimes spelled Dom DeLuise, actor: The Secret of NIMH, Haunted Honeymoon, Failsafe
8-1-22, Arthur Hill, actor: Futureworld, The Killer Elite
8-1-12, Henry Jones, (died 1999, see Recent Losses), Arachnophobia, The Bad Seed, Hitchcock's Vertigo
8-1-58, US Postage raised from 3 to 4 cents per oz.
8-1-1834, Slavery abolished in all British possessions
8-1-42, Jerry Garcia, 8-1-42, (died 8-95), Grateful Dead
8-2-39, Wes Craven: as a child, he was so frightened by a man with long fingers he saw from his bedroom window one night (the man even turned & looked at him, as if sensing his stare) that he created Freddie Krueger when he grew up, as well as: Scream 1 & 2, Swamp Thing, the 1st & last Nightmare on Elmstreet movies (he wasn't involved in the middle ones)
8-2-64, Mary-Louise Parker, actress: Murder In Mind
8-2-05, Myrna Loy born, costar of Thin Man movies
8-2-24, Carroll O'Conner born, actor: "All In The Family"
8-2-33, Peter O'Toole born, actor
8-2-1819, 1st use of a parachute, by a balloonist 2 miles high in a storm
8-2-77, Edward Furlong, actor: Brainscan, Terminator 2, Pet Sematary 2
8-3-26, Tony Bennett, singer: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
8-3-40, Martin Sheen: Titanic, Spawn, Firestarter, The Dead Zone, Apocalypse Now, Missles of October, Outer Limits 1963: Nightmare
8-3-31, Alex Cord, actor: Airwolf tv series and the sci-fi/fantasy miniseries Goliath Awaits (1981)
8-3-50, John Landis, director: Twilight Zone Movie, and many others
8-3-29, The 1st Marx Brothers movie released: The Cocoanuts (1929)
8-3-1492, Columbus sets sail from Spain
8-4-66, Beatles music banned by US radio stations when John Lennon says they're more popular than Jesus Christ8-4-62, Wesley Snipes born: Rising Sun, Passenger 57, Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and recently as a vampire hunter in Blade (1998)
8-4-44, Richard Belzer born, actor: "The Invaders," Night Shift
8-4-55, Billy Bob Thornton born, actor: Armageddon, Sling Blade, Primary Colors
8-5-06, John Huston born, actor/director: The Dead (1988), Phobia, The Visitor, Mackintosh Man, Chinatown, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Bogart's movies
8-5-30, Neil Armstrong born, astronaut (see NASA page for books on astronauts)
8-5-50, Holly Palance born, actress daughter of Jack Palance and co-host of 1970s Ripley's Believe It Or Not
8-5-45, Loni Anderson born actress: Sorry, Wrong Number (1989), "Munchie," the WKRP (tv series), and "Whisper Kill"
8-5-36, John Saxon born, actor: "Black Christmas," Portrait In Black, "Night Caller from Outer Space," not to mention playing the villain in Bruce Lee movie Enter The Dragon
8-5-66, Air & sea nuclear weapon test ban treaty signed by US, Russia and UK. France and China refused to sign
8-5-1864, Admiral Farragut on his flagship at Battle of Mobile Bay said, "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead." (he won the battle)
8-6-45, Enola Gay (named for the pilot's mom) and 2 escort bombers take off for Hiroshima, Japan. They have 43 seconds after dropping the atom bomb to get away at full-power before it detonates
8-6-10, Charles Crichton born, director: Things To Come by H.G. Wells (1936, predicting WW2 & WW3), Dead of Night (1945), A Fish Called Wanda
8-6-11, Lucille Ball born (died 1989), see her fantasy movie Forever (color) this on TCM
8-6-17, Robert Mitchum, actor: Thunder Road, Cape Fear
8-6-57, Faith Prince, actress
8-7-42, Garrison Keillor, creator of radio's fantasy town "Lake Woebegone"
8-7-60, David Duchovny, actor: The X Files
8-8-37, Dustin Hoffman, actor: Sphere, Dick Tracy and Tootsie
8-8-49, Keith Carradine
8-8-51, Martin Brest
8-9-27, Robert Shaw
8-9-57, Melanie Griffith
8-9-63, Whitney Houston
8-9-68, Gillian Anderson, actress: The X Files
8-10-59, Rosanna Arquette
8-10-60, Antonio Banderas Fear me if you dare
8-11-53, Hulk Hogan 8-11-53, Hulk Hogan, body-builder/pro-wrestler turned actor, not the Governor of Minnesota or California
8-12-1881, Cecil B. DeMille, director: The 10 Commandments had the biggest special effects budget of its time
8-12-26, John Derek
8-12-39, George Hamilton
8-12-72, Ben Affleck
8-13-26, Fidel Castro, bearded dictator of Cuba vanquished before the opening credits of the latest "Naked Gun" movie
8-14-26, Alice Ghostly born. She is famous for portraying Esmerelda, the befuddled babysitter on Bewitched, and Bernice, the befuddled old lady on "Designing Women." I assume she's not as befuddled in real life.
8-14-41, David Crosby
8-14-45, Steve Martin actor: The Man With 2 Brains
8-14-45, Wim Wenders, not Steve Martin's twin
8-14-59, Magic Johnson
8-14-68, Halle Berry
8-15-12, Julia Child, tv cook seen bleeding to death on live-tv in a Saturday Night Live skit by Dan Aykroyd (before he did all those Ghostbusters movies)
8-16-30, Frank Gifford
, either an astronaut or Cathy Lee's husband, I forget which and it's late
8-16-35, Julie Newmar, one of 3 actresses to portray Catwoman in (1960s) Batman (the other 2 were Eartha Kitt, also in the series, and Lee Meriwether, in a 90-minute episode released theatrically)
8-16-45, Bob Balaban, actor and co-creator of tv-series "Out Of This World"
8-16-53, Kathie Lee Gifford, either an astronaut or the co-host of "Regis Live"
8-16-54, James Cameron
8-16-58, Madonna, breathless actress in music-videos & the fantasy movie Dick Tracy
8-16-58, Angela Bassett, not Madonna's twin
8-16-60, Timothy Hutton
8-17-1892, Mae West, actress banned from network broadcasting for over a decade after the infamous "Adam & Eve" sketch broadcast on live-radio, Don Adams' 1st job was as her opening act telling jokes in Las Vegas
8-17-43, Robert De Niro, or Robert DeNiro
8-17-60, Sean Penn, either an astronaut or Madonna's former husband (like I said, it's late)
8-18-22, Shelley Winters, actress in an upside-down ship
8-18-33, Roman Polanski, made the movie Rosemary's Baby
8-18-37, Robert Redford, actor best known to Twilight Zone fans as the Angel of Death
8-18-43, Martin Mull, humorist/actor, currently the Principal in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"
8-18-52, Patrick Swayze
8-18-57, Denis Leary
8-18-58, Madeleine Stowe
8-18-69, Christian Slater
8-18-69, Edward Norton
8-19-21, Gene Roddenberry, the Great Bird of the Universe
8-19-46, Bill Clinton, President of the United States
8-19-52, Jonathan Frakes, Riker in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" tv & movie series
8-19-56, Peter Gallagher
8-19-63, John Stamos, actor & founder of the "Beach Boys" (just wanted to see if you were paying attention)
8-19-65, Kevin Dillon
8-19-65, Kyra Sedgwick
8-19-69, Matthew L. Perry or Matthew Perry
8-20-1890, H.P. Lovecraft
8-20-48, Robert Plant
8-20-56, Joan Allen
8-21-38, Kenny Rogers
8-21-56, Kim Cattrall
8-22-20, Ray Bradbury, author: The Martian Chronicles, etc.
8-22-63, Tori Amos
8-22-70, River Phoenix, actor described as "the new James Dean" by columnists with too much time on their hands
8-23-12, Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly
8-23-40, Tony Bill
8-23-49, Shelley Long actress: Hello Again, Night Shift, TV-series Cheers
8-24-58, Steve Guttenberg actor: Police Academy movies
8-25-30, Sean Connery, remembered forever as James Bond whether he wants to be or not
8-25-34, Regis Philbin, either an astronaut or Cathy Lee's cohost
8-25-39, John Badham
8-25-43, Tom Skerritt
8-25-47, Anne Archer
8-25-49, Gene Simmons, rock star who can kiss with a really long tongue
8-25-50, John Savage, no relation to Doc Savage
8-25-54, Elvis Costello, no relation to Elvis Presley8-25-58, Tim Burton, movie maker: Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks and of course "Frankenweenie"
8-25-64, Joanne Whalley
8-26-41, Barbet Schroeder
8-26-80, Macaulay Culkin, child actor: Home Alone
8-27-16, Martha Raye, actress: "The Big Mouth"
8-27-43, Tuesday (Susan Ker) Weld, actress
8-27-47, Barbara Bach
8-27-52, Paul Reubens, as Pee-Wee Herman, actor with a lot of time on his hands
8-28-43, David Soul, actor
8-28-69, Jason Priestly
8-29-23, Richard Attenborough, sometimes spelled Richard Attenborough
8-29-38, Elliott Gould
8-29-39, William Friedkin
8-29-58, Michael Jackson
8-29-62, Rebecca De Mornay
8-30-72, Cameron Diaz
8-31-24, Buddy Hackett
8-31-28, James Coburnactor: "In Like Flint"
8-31-45, Van Morrison
8-31-49, Richard Gere
September Birthdays & Important Dates
September 1, 1959: Elizabeth Taylor agrees to make Cleopatra for $1 million, a sum she's sure is so high it will be refused so she can take a vacation without breaking contract (instead Fox agrees, it will be a costly mistake for them).
September 1; Lily Tomlin (1939)
Gloria Estefan (1957)
September 2; Mark Harmon (1951)
Keanu Reeves (1964)
Salma Hayek (1968)
September 3; Alan Ladd (1913)
Valerie Perrine (1944)
Charlie Sheen (1965) actor: Red Dawn
September 4; Mitzi Gaynor (1930)
Judith Ivey (1951)
Ione Skye (1971)
September 5; Jesse James (1847)
Bob Newhart (1929)
William Devane (1937)
Raquel Welch (1940)
September 6; Swoosie Kurtz (1944)
Jane Curtin (1947)
September 7; Peter Lawford (1923)
Samuel Goldwyn (1926)
Buddy Holly (1936)
Jerry Zaks (1946)
Julie Kavner (1951)
September 8; Sid Caesar (1922)
Peter Sellers (1925)
Frankie Avalon (1939)
David Arquette (1972)
September 9; Cliff Robertson (1925)
Otis Redding (1941)
Roger Waters (1943)
Hugh Grant (1960)
September 10; Robert Wise (1914)
Amy Irving (1953)
Chris Columbus (1958)
Colin Firth (1960)
September 11; O. Henry (1862)
D.H. Lawrence (1885)
Brian De Palma (1940)
Kristy McNichol (1962)
Virginia Madsen (1963)
Harry Connick (1967)
September 12; Maurice Chevalier (1888)
Ian Holm (1931)
Michael Ondaatje (1943)
September 13; Roald Dahl (1916) writer/creator of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Mel Torme (1925)
Frank Marshall (1943)
Jacqueline Bisset (1944)
Nell Carter (1948)
September 14; Walter Koenig (1936), of Star Trek
Sam Neill (1947)
September 15; James Cooper (1789), no relation to Alice Cooper
Agatha Christie (1890)
Ron Shelton (1945)
Tommy Lee Jones (1946) actor: Men In Black
Oliver Stone (1946)
Dan Marino (1961)
September 16; Lauren Bacall (1924)
B.B. King (1925)
Peter Falk (1927)
Ed Begley (1949)
David Copperfield (1956)
Mickey Rourke (1956)
Jennifer Tilly (1961)
September 17; Roddy McDowall (1928) actor Planet Of The Apes
Anne Bancroft (1931)
John Ritter (1948)
September 18; Jack Warden (1920)
Robert Blake (1933)
Greta Garbo (1965)
September 19; Adam West (1929), tv's Batman
Jeremy Irons (1948) creepy actor "You have no idea."
Trisha Yearwood (1964)
September 20; Joyce Brothers (1928)
Sophia Loren (1934)
September 21; H.G. Wells (1866)
Chuck Jones (1911)
Stephen King (1947)
Bill Murray (1950) Groundhog Day
Ethan Coen (1957)
Ricki Lake (1968)
September 22; Erich Von Stroheim (1885)
Paul Le Mat (1946)
Shari Belafonte-Harper (1954)
Joan Jett (1960)
Scott Baio (1961)
September 23; Mickey Rooney (1920)
John Coltrane (1926)
Bruce Springsteen (1949)
Jason Alexander (1959)
September 24; F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
Jim Henson (1936), creator of The Muppets
Linda McCartney (1941)
Julio Iglesias (1943)
Phil Hartman (1948)
September 25; William Faulkner (1897)
Michael Douglas (1944)
Mark Hamill (1951), original star of Star Wars
Christopher Reeve (1952), star of Superman
Michael Madsen (1959)
Heather Locklear (1961)
Catherine Zeta Jones (1969)
September 26; Olivia Newton-John (1948)
Linda Hamilton (1956) The Terminator
September 27; George Raft (1895)
William Conrad (1920)
Arthur Penn (1922)
Wilford Brimley (1934)
Meat Loaf (1951)
Shaun Cassidy (1958)
September 28; Marcello Mastroianni (1924)
Janeane Garofalo (1964)
Moon Unit Zappa (1967)
Mira Sorvino (1967)
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972)
September 29; Gene Autry (1907), the only man with 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (all 5 entertainment catagories)
Greer Garson (1908)
Robert Benton (1932)
Nelson Riddle (1935)
Madeline Kahn (1942) Young Frankenstein
Bryant Gumbel (1948)
Andrew Dice Clay (1957) Ford Fairlane
September 30; Truman Capote (1924)
Angie Dickinson (1931)
Johnny Mathis (1935)
Fran Drescher (1957)
Eric Stoltz (1961)
Jenna Elfman (1971) "Krippendorf's Tribe"
October Birthdays & Important Dates
October 1
Walter Matthau (1920)
Jimmy Carter (1924) past U.S. President
George Peppard (1928) Banacek, the A-Team
Julie Andrews (1935) Mary Poppins, Sound Of Music
Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943)
Randy Quaid (1950) Martians Go Home, Independance DayOctober 02
Groucho Marx (1890)
Bud Abbott (1895) "A & C Meet Frankenstein"
Don McLean (1945)
Sting (1951)October 03
Gore Vidal (1925)
Chubby Checker (1941)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954)
Jack Wagner (1959)
Tommy Lee (1962)
Neve Campbell (1973)October 04
Buster Keaton (1895)
Charlton Heston (1924) Omega Man, Naked Jungle (surrounded by army ants)
Armand Assante (1949)
Alicia Silverstone (1976)October 05
Donald Pleasence (1919) Halloween
Karen Allen (1951)
Bob Geldof (1951)
Josie Bissett (1970)
Kate Winslet (1975)October 07
John Mellencamp (1951)
Bobby Brown (1969)October 08
Paul Hogan (1939)
Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941)
Chevy Chase (1943)
Sigourney Weaver (1949)
Edward Zwick (1952)
Matt Damon (1970)October 09 John Lennon (1940)
Jackson Browne (1948)
Tony Shalhoub (1953)
Scott Bakula (1954)
Michael Pare (1959)October 10 Ed Wood (1924)
Harold Pinter (1930)
Peter Coyote (1941)
Ben Vereen (1946)October 11 Elmore Leonard (1925)
Joan Cusack (1962)
Luke Perry (1966)October 12 Luciano Pavarotti (1935)
Susan Anton (1950)
Kirk Cameron (1970)October 13 Yves Montand (1921)
Nipsey Russell (1924)
Lenny Bruce (1925)
Paul Simon (1941)
Chris Carter (1957)
Marie Osmond (1959)
Kelly Preston (1962)
Nancy Kerrigan (1969)October 14 Roger Moore (1927)
Thomas Dolby (1958)October 15 Mario Puzo (1920)
Penny Marshall (1943)October 16 Angela Lansbury (1925)
Tim Robbins (1958)
Flea (1962)October 17 Arthur Miller (1915)
Rita Hayworth (1918)
Montgomery Clift (1920)
Evel Knievel (1938)
Margot Kidder (1948)
George Wendt (1948)October 18 Chuck Berry (1926)
George C. Scott (1927)
Peter Boyle (1933)
Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960)
Wynton Marsalis (1961)October 19 Divine (1945)
John Lithgow (1945)October 20 Bela Lugosi (1882)
Mickey Mantle (1931)
Jerry Orbach (1935)
Tom Petty (1950)
Snoop Doggy Dogg (1972)October 21 Dizzy Gillespie (1917)
Manfred Mann (1940)
Patricia Davis (1952)
Carrie Fisher (1956)October 22 Three Stooges (1903)
Christopher Lloyd (1938)
Annette Funicello (1942)
Catherine Deneuve (1943)
Jeff Goldblum (1952)October 23 Johnny Carson (1925)
Pele (1940)
Michael Crichton (1942)October 24 F. Murray Abraham (1939)
Kevin Kline (1947)
B.D. Wong (1962)October 25 Minnie Pearl (1912)
Marion Ross (1928)October 26 Ralph Bakshi (1938)
Bob Hoskins (1942)
Jaclyn Smith (1947)
Hillary Clinton (1947)
Cary Elwes (1962)
Dylan McDermott (1962)October 27 John Cleese (1939)
October 28 Charlie Daniels (1936)
Dennis Franz (1944)
Bruce Jenner (1949)
Annie Potts (1952)
Daphne Zuniga (1962)
Lynn Holly-Johnson (1963)
Jami Gertz (1965)
Julia Roberts (1967)October 29 Melba Moore (1945)
Richard Dreyfuss (1947)
Rufus Sewell (1967)
Winona Ryder (1971)October 30 Ruth Gordon (1896)
Louis Malle (1932)
Grace Slick (1939)
Henry Winkler (1945)
Harry Hamlin (1951)
Charles Martin Smith (1953)October 31 Dale Evans (1912)
Sally Kirkland (1944)
John Candy (1950)
Jane Pauley (1950)
Dermot Mulroney (1963)
Vanilla Ice (1967)
November Birthdays & Important Dates
November 1
Lyle Lovett (1957)
Rachel Ticotin (1958)
Jenny McCarthy (1972)
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