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# (Sept-Oct)
# Famous people's births, deaths and marriages file for calentool
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** 09 01 99 99 00 Barry Gibb, singer (1946)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Conway Twitty, country singer (1933)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Edgar Rice Burroughs is born (1875)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Gloria Estefan, Miami singer (1957)
** 09 01 99 99 00 James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), pugilist and prize fighter, is born in San Francisco (1866)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Lily Tomlin, comedian-actress (1939)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Louis XIV, king of France, dies (1715)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Molly Pesce Scott, actress; former Miss FL. from Altamonte Sprs. (1957)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Rocky Marciano, boxer, is born (1924)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Seiji Ozawa, conductor (1935)
** 09 01 99 99 00 Yvonne De Carlo, actress (1924)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive. (1866)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat (1952)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Linda Purl, actress (1955)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Mark Harmon, actor (1951)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii) (1838)
** 09 02 99 99 00 Thomas Gainsborough, artist, portrait painter, dies (1788)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president, dies (1969)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture. (1856)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Mort Walker, cartoonist and originator of Beetle Bailey, is born (1923)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Oliver Cromwell, the British "politician" and destroyer of English heritage dies (1658)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Valerie Perrine, the actress, is born in Galveston, Texas (1943)
** 09 03 99 99 00 Vince Lombardi, football coach, dies in Washington D.C. (1970)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple (1824)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Craig Claiborne, cooking expert (1920)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Dick York, actor (1928)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Edvard Grieg, the composer, dies (1907)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Mitzi Gaynor, actress (1931)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Paul Harvey, ABC Radio commentator (1918)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Pindar the Greek Poet is born (518 BC)
** 09 04 99 99 00 Tom Watson, golfer (1949)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Bob Newhart, comedian and actor, is born (1929)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Cathy Guisewite, "Cathy" cartoonist (1950)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Crazy Horse, the Sioux Indian chief, died (1877)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive (1902)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Jesse James, credited with inventing the train robbery, is born (1847)
** 09 05 99 99 00 John Cage, composer (1912)
** 09 05 99 99 00 King Louis XIV of France born (1638)
** 09 05 99 99 00 Raquel Welch, actress and beauty, is born (1940)
** 09 05 99 99 00 William Devane, actor (1939)
** 09 06 99 99 00 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies (1984)
** 09 06 99 99 00 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington (1811)
** 09 06 99 99 00 Jane Curtin, comedian-actress (1947)
** 09 06 99 99 00 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter (1766)
** 09 06 99 99 00 Lafayette, French hero of the American revolution, is born (1757)
** 09 06 99 99 00 President William McKinley shot. He dies 9 days later. (1901)
** 09 06 99 99 00 Roger Waters born (Surrey, England, 1944)
** 09 06 99 99 00 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (1944)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Buddy Holly, rock singer, is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas (1936)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII, dies (1548)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Dr. Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon (1908)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Elia Kazan, producer-director (1909)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Elizabeth I born of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII at Greenwich (1533)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Grandma Moses, American Primitive painter, is born (1860)
** 09 07 99 99 00 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ (1789)
** 09 07 99 99 00 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts. (1914)
** 09 07 99 99 00 John Philip Law, actor (1937)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Julie Kavner, actress (1951)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Keith Moon (The Who) dies of drug overdose (London, 1978)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Leonard Euler, the mathematician, dies (1799)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Queen Elizabeth I of England born (1533)
** 09 07 99 99 00 Susan Blakely, actress (1948)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Ann Beattie, author (1947)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia (1841)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Hillary Brooke, actress (1914)
** 09 08 99 99 00 King Richard I of England born (1157)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Peter Sellers, actor, born in Southsea, England (1925)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (GD) born (San Bruno, CA, 1945)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Samuel Pierce Jr., former sec. of housing and urban development (1922)
** 09 08 99 99 00 Sid Caesar, comedian (1922)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Angela Cartwright, actress (1952)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Billy Preston, singer (1946)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 (1976)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Cliff Robertson, actor (1925)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Colonel Harlan (Kentucky Fried) Sanders is born (1890)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Harris Rosen, hotelier (1951)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist, dies (1901)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Jane Greer, actress (1924)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Joe Theismann, football commentator (1949)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Kristy McNichol, actress (1962)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Mary Hunter Austin, American author and feminist, is born (1868)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Michael Keaton, actor-comedian (1951)
** 09 09 99 99 00 Tom Wopat, actor (1951)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Amy Irving, actress (1953)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Arnold Palmer, golfer and Bay Hill resident (1929)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS. (1934)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Greg Mullavey, actor (1939)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Hilda (H.D.) Doolittle, American poet, is born (1886)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Jose Feliciano, singer (1945)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Judy Geeson, actress (1948)
** 09 10 99 99 00 Robert Wise, movie director (1914)
** 09 10 99 99 00 William the Conqueror dies at 61 from an earlier fall from his horse. He was too obese to fit in his coffin and in forcing him to fit the monks accidentally ruptured him giving off a terrible smell that drove mourners away. (1087)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Bear Bryant, Crimson Tide football coach, (1913)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Brian De Palma, movie director (1940)
** 09 11 99 99 00 D.H. Lawrence, Taos pioneer (1885)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Earl Holliman, actor (1928)
** 09 11 99 99 00 James Jeans born (1877)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Ken Kesey, American author, is born (1935)
** 09 11 99 99 00 O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), the writer, is born (1862)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Robert Service, Canadian Poet, dies (1958)
** 09 11 99 99 00 The assassination of President Allende of Chile during a military coup (1973)
** 09 11 99 99 00 Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys football coach (1924)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Alfred Abraham Knopf, American publisher, is born (1892)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Barry White, singer (1944)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Elizabeth Barrett secretly weds Robert Browning at St. Marylebone Parish Church (1846)
** 09 12 99 99 00 H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, American editor and critic, is born (1880)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Jesse Owens, Gold medal winner at 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, born (1913)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Linda Gray, actress (1940)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Maria Muldaur, singer (1943)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls. (1888)
** 09 12 99 99 00 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun (1818)
** 09 13 99 99 00 Jaqueline Bisset, actress, is born in Weybridge England (1946)
** 09 13 99 99 00 Mel Torme, singer (1925)
** 09 13 99 99 00 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine. (1755)
** 09 13 99 99 00 Walter Reed, American physician and army surgeon, is born (1851)
** 09 14 99 99 00 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo. (1892)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl" (1867)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, is born (1914)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster (1921)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, dies when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car (1927)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Joey Heatherton, actress and singer, is born (1944)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, is born (604 BC)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, dies (1990)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Margaret Sanger, feminist. (1883)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Nicol Williamson, actor, is born (1938)
** 09 14 99 99 00 President William McKinley dies (1901)
** 09 14 99 99 00 Zoe Caldwell, actress (1933)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Dame Agatha Christie, author, born in Torquay, England (1890)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins quarterback (1961)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder (1881)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Hank Williams, country-western music singer, is born (1923)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Jackie Cooper, actor (1922)
** 09 15 99 99 00 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist. (1789)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Jean Renoir, son of August Renoir and film director, is born (1894)
** 09 15 99 99 00 Prince Harry is born to Prince Charles and Lady Diana (1984)
** 09 15 99 99 00 William Howard Taft, 27th President (1909-1913) (1857)
** 09 16 99 99 00 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY (1914)
** 09 16 99 99 00 B. B. King, blues singer, born (Itta Bena, MS, 1925)
** 09 16 99 99 00 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame. (1822)
** 09 16 99 99 00 James Jeans die (1946)
** 09 16 99 99 00 Lauren Bacall, actress, is born in New York City (1924)
** 09 16 99 99 00 Peter Falk, actor (1927)
** 09 16 99 99 00 Tomas de Torquemada, Dominican monk largely responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, is born (1498)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Anne Bancroft, actress (1931)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners. (1730)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Dorothy Loudon, actress (1933)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Jeff NacNelly, cartoonist (1947)
** 09 17 99 99 00 John Ritter, actor (1948)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Ken Kesey, author (1935)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Paul Benedict, actor (1938)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Roddy McDowall, actor (1928)
** 09 17 99 99 00 Warren Burger, former U.S. Chief Justice (1907)
** 09 17 99 99 00 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet, is born (1883)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Elmer Maytag born (1883)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Frankie Avalon, singer (1940)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Greta Garbo, renowned World War II pinup, born (1905)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Jack Warden, actor (1920)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist, dies of drug overdose (1970)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Peter Sellers, the actor, is born (1925)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. (1970)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Rossano Brazzi, actor (1916)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Ryne Sandberg, baseball player (1959)
** 09 18 99 99 00 Samuel Johnson, the writer, is born (1709)
** 09 19 99 99 00 Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning run off to Paris together (1846)
** 09 19 99 99 00 James Garfield, 20th president, finally dies of wounds from an assassination attempt (Baltimore, 1881)
** 09 19 99 99 00 Joan Lunden, TV personality (1950)
** 09 19 99 99 00 Twiggy, actress (1949)
** 09 19 99 99 00 William Golding, author (1911)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Anne Meara, actress-comedian (1929)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Dr. Joyce Brothers, Psychologist (1928)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (Jelly Roll) Morton, American jazz musician and composer, is born (1885)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Gogi Grant, singer (1924)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Guy LaFleur, former hockey player (1951)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Jim Croce, singer, dies in plane crash (1973)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Sophia Loren, actress, is born in Rome, Italy (1934)
** 09 20 99 99 00 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born (1878)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dies in exile (1904)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets' (1874)
** 09 21 99 99 00 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England (1866)
** 09 21 99 99 00 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt) (1756)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Larry Hagman, actor (1959)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Leonard Cohen born (Montreal, 1934)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Louis Joliet, explorer and discoverer of the Mississippi River, is born (1645)
** 09 21 99 99 00 Stephen King, author (1947)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Captain Nathan Hale is captured by the British on Long Island. He is denied a clergyman and hung. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." (1776)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Erich von Stroheim, early film director (1885)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at the age of 101 (1989)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Joan Jett, singer-musician (1960)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Martha Scott, actress (1914)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor. (1791)
** 09 22 99 99 00 Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager (1927)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born (Rome, 63 BC)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, singer, born (Freehold, NJ, 1949)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece (480 BC)
** 09 23 99 99 00 John Coltrane, saxophonist (1926)
** 09 23 99 99 00 John Wesley Powell, the explorer, dies (1902)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Julio Iglesias, singer (1943)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Mary Kay Place, actress-singer (1947)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Mickey Rooney, actor (1920)
** 09 23 99 99 00 Ray Charles (1930)
** 09 23 99 99 00 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US (1852)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Anthony Newley, actor-singer (1931)
** 09 24 99 99 00 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, is born (1896)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light. (1870)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Horace Walpole, the English novelist, is born (1717)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, is born in Greenville, Mississippi (1936)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Jim McKay, sportscaster, is born (1921)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Paracelsus, the alchemist and physician, dies in Salzburg, Austria (1541)
** 09 24 99 99 00 Shelia MacRae, actress (1924)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Barbara Walters, ABC news correspondent (1931)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Christopher Reeve, actor (1952)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Emily Dickinson born (1830)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Heather Locklear, actress (1961)
** 09 25 99 99 00 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning (1980)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Mark Rothko, the American Painter, is born in Dvinsk, Russia (1903)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Michael Douglas, actor-producer (1944)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile. (1725)
** 09 25 99 99 00 Samuel Butler, poet and author, dies (1680)
** 09 25 99 99 00 William Faulkner, the author, is born (1897)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Edgar Degas, French artist, dies (1917)
** 09 26 99 99 00 George Gershwin, composer, born in Brooklyn, NY (1898)
** 09 26 99 99 00 J.J. Parrish III, citrus baron (1953)
** 09 26 99 99 00 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) born (1774)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Julie London, actress (1926)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Kent McCord, actor (1942)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Lynn Anderson, singer (1947)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (1962)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Olivia Newton-John, singer, is born in Cambridge England (1948)
** 09 26 99 99 00 Patrick O'Neal, actor (1927)
** 09 26 99 99 00 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis (1888)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Arthur Penn, movie director (1922)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Barbara Howar, author (1934)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Clara Bow, silent-film actress, dies (1965)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Dick Schaap, sportscaster (1934)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Edward II is assassinated (1327)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Greg Morris, actor (1934)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Kathleen Nolan, actress (1933)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Meat Loaf, singer (1947)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Mike Schmidt, former baseball player (1949)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Sada Thompson, actress (1929)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Samuel Adams, American patriot, is born (1722)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Shaun Cassidy, singer (1958)
** 09 27 99 99 00 Thomas Nast, cartoonist, born (1840)
** 09 27 99 99 00 William Conrad, actor (1920)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Al Capp, cartoonist, (1909)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Brigitte Bardot, French beauty and actress, is born (1934)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Ed Sullivan (the great stone face), TV personality, is born (1902)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Edwin Hubble dies (1953)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Ferdinand Marcos, Phillippine hero and dictator, dies (1989)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Louis Pasteur, French scientist, dies (1895)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Marcello Mastroianni, actor (1924)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Michelangelo Buanarroti born (Caprese, Italy, 1573)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome (106 BC)
** 09 28 99 99 00 Seymour Cray, computer genius, born (1925)
** 09 28 99 99 00 William S. Paley, CBS founder (1901)
** 09 28 99 99 00 William Windom, actor, is born (1923)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Bryant Gumbel, "Today" show host (1948)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, dies (1975)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Enrico Fermi, physicist, is born in Rome (1901)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Gene Autry, cowboy and actor,is born (1911)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Greer Garson, actress, is born (1908)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Horatio Nelson, British naval commander, is born in Burnham Thorpe (1758)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Lech Walesa, founder of the Polish Solidarity movement, is born (1943)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Madeline Kahn, actress (1942)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), the Great, died in Egypt (48 BC)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment. (1978)
** 09 29 99 99 00 Winslow Homer, American painter, dies in Maine (1910)
** 09 30 99 99 00 Angie Dickinson, actress, was born (1931)
** 09 30 99 99 00 Deborah Kerr, actress (1921)
** 09 30 99 99 00 James Dean, film actor, dies in two car crash in California (1955)
** 09 30 99 99 00 Lester Maddox, former Georgia Gov. (1915)
** 09 30 99 99 00 Marilyn McCoo, singer (1943)
** 09 30 99 99 00 Truman Capote, a short short story writer. (1924)
** 10 01 99 99 00 Bob Opsahl, WFTV-Channel 9 news anchor, Orlando, FL. (1947)
** 10 01 99 99 00 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980) (1924)
** 10 01 99 99 00 Julie Andrews, singer and actress, is born (1935)
** 10 01 99 99 00 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, is born (1904)
** 10 01 99 99 00 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company. (1881)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Aristotle dies of indigestion (322 BC)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Don McLean, singer-songwriter (1945)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I (1851)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Groucho Marx, comedian, is born (1895)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India (1869)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Richard III is born in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire (1452)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Rock Hudson, actor, dies of complications of AIDS (1985)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Samuel Adams, American patriot, dies (1803)
** 10 02 99 99 00 Sting, singer-actor (1951)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Chubby Checker, rock 'n' roller (1941)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Dave Winfield, All-Star outfielder (1951)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Gore Vidal, writer. (1925)
** 10 03 99 99 00 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration (1803)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Lindsey Buckingham, singer (1947)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Madlyn Rhue, actress (1934)
** 10 03 99 99 00 St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, dies in a small chapel at Portiuncula (1226)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American novelist and playwright, was born (1900)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan (1804)
** 10 03 99 99 00 Woody Guthrie, folk singer, dies (1967)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Armand Assante, actor (1949)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Buster Keaton, film comedian, is born (1895)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Charlton Heston, actor (1923)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Clifton Davis, actor (1945)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Frederic Remington, American Western painter, sculptor and author, is born (1861)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Graham Chapman, of Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies of cancer (1989)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Jan Murray, comedian (1917)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Janis Joplin dies of heroin overdose (Hollywood, 1970)
** 10 04 99 99 00 John V. Atanasoff born (1903)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Max Planck, German physicist and creator of Quantum Physics, dies (1947)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Rembrandt Van Rijn, the Dutch painter, dies (1669)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881) (1822)
** 10 04 99 99 00 St. Francis of Assisi (even though he died the day before) (1182-1226)
** 10 04 99 99 00 Susan Sarandon, actress (1946)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Bill Dana, comedian (1924)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Bob Geldof, rock singer and famine-relief organizer (1954)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884) (1829)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Donald Pleasence, actor (1919)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Glynis Johns, actress (1923)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Karen Allen, actress (1951)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Pablo Picasso born (Malaga, Spain, 1881)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's fast food restaurants, is born (1902)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry (1882)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Steve Miller, singer-musician, is born in Dallas (1943)
** 10 05 99 99 00 Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian chief, is killed (1813)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet, dies (1892)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Britt Ekland, actress (1942)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo (1981)
** 10 06 99 99 00 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. (1846)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Hafez Assad, president of Syria (1930)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Jenny Lind, nightengale (1820)
** 10 06 99 99 00 John W. Griffiths, the developer of the Clipper ship, is born (1809)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music (1866)
** 10 06 99 99 00 Shana Alexander, author-journalist (1925)
** 10 06 99 99 00 St. Faith, who was a virgin, and several of her companions were martyred (4C)
** 10 06 99 99 00 William Tyndale, a Protestant theologian, is burned at the stake (1536)
** 10 07 99 99 00 Al Martino, singer (1927)
** 10 07 99 99 00 Desmond Tutu, South African Archbishop (1931)
** 10 07 99 99 00 Edgar Allen Poe, mystery and horror writer, dies (1849)
** 10 07 99 99 00 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer (1951)
** 10 07 99 99 00 June Allyson, actress (1917)
** 10 07 99 99 00 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics. (1885)
** 10 07 99 99 00 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist (1955)
** 10 07 99 99 00 the German painter Hans Holbein is born (1543)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Chevy Chase, comedian-actor (1940)
** 10 08 99 99 00 David Carradine, actor (1940)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Ejnar Hertzsprung born (1873)
** 10 08 99 99 00 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US (1869)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Johnny Ramone, rock singer (1951)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Rona Barrett, Entertainment reporter (1936)
** 10 08 99 99 00 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (1956)
** 10 09 99 99 00 Charles Millican, founding Univ. of Central Fl. President (1916)
** 10 09 99 99 00 Dr. Ernesto (Che) Guevara is executed (1967)
** 10 09 99 99 00 Jackson Browne, singer (1949)
** 10 09 99 99 00 John Alec Entwistle born (London, England, 1944)
** 10 09 99 99 00 John Lennon, singer songwriter and member of the rock band "The Beatles", born in Liverpool, England (1940)
** 10 09 99 99 00 Peter Tosh born Winston Hubert MacIntosh (West Morland, Jamaica, 1944)
** 10 09 99 99 00 Steven Lew, Universal Studios Hollywood president and resident of Winter Park, Fl. (1940)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Ben Vereen, entertainer (1946)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Benjamin West, painter. (1738)
** 10 10 99 99 00 David Lee Roth, singer (1955)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas. (1813)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Glen Rinker, WCPX-Channel 6 news anchor, Orlando, FL. (1933)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Harold Pinter, playwright (1930)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Helen Hayes, actress, is born in Washington D.C. (1900)
** 10 10 99 99 00 James Clavell, author (1924)
** 10 10 99 99 00 John Prine born (Maywood, IL, 1946)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author of Don Quixote, is born (1547)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Orson Welles, radio and movie star, dies (1985)
** 10 10 99 99 00 Yul Brynner, the King in "The King and I" on stage and screen, dies of lung cancer (1985)
** 10 11 99 99 00 Daryl Hill, singer-musician (1948)
** 10 11 99 99 00 Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, is born (1884)
** 10 11 99 99 00 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company (1844)
** 10 11 99 99 00 Jerome Robbins, choreographer (1918)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Chris Wallace, reporter (1948)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Dick Gregory, activist-comedian (1932)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Edith Cavell, English nurse, is executed by Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I (1915)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Kirk Cameron, actor (1970)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer, is born (1935)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Sid Fernandez, baseball player (1962)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Susan Anton, actress and singer, is born (1950)
** 10 12 99 99 00 Tony Kubek, sportscaster (1935)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Frank D. Gilroy, playwright (1925)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college (1769)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Lenny Bruce born (New York City, 1925)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Margaret Thatcher, Former Britsh Prime Minister, is born (1925)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Marie Osmond, singer, is born (1959)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, musician, is born (1941)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) born (near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Roman Emperor Claudius dies (54)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Tycho Brahe dies (1601)
** 10 13 99 99 00 Yves Montand, actor-singer (1921)
** 10 14 99 99 00 C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General (1916)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961) (1890)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos (1857)
** 10 14 99 99 00 King Harold, the last Saxon king of England is killed at the Battle of Hastings (1066)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Lillian Gish, actress, is born (1896)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Ralph Lauren, fashion designer (1939)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Roger Moore, actor (1927)
** 10 14 99 99 00 Singer Bing Crosby died of a heart attack after a round of golf at a club outside Madrid, Spain (1977)
** 10 14 99 99 00 William Penn born in London (1644)
** 10 14 99 99 00 e.e. cummings, poet, is born (1894)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos (1829)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Britain's Duchess of York (formerly Sarah Ferguson) (1959)
** 10 15 99 99 00 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist. (1905)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher, is born (1844)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Herman Goering commits suicide (1946)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Jacqueline Picasso, wife of the painter, found dead of gunshot wound. Suicide is the cause (1986)
** 10 15 99 99 00 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist. (1858)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Lee Iacocca, Chrysler chairman (1924)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Mario Puzo, author (1920)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Mata Hari dies by firing squad outside Paris (1917)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, playwright, is born (1881)
** 10 15 99 99 00 Richard Carpenter, singer and songwriter, is born in New Haven Conn. (1946)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology (1708)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Angela Lansbury, actress (1925)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Bob Weir born Robert Hall (San Francisco, 1947)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Charles W. Colson, former presidential adviser (1931)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Eugene O'Neill, playwright, is born (1888)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in N.Y. (1916)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Marie Antoinette is guillotined almost nine months after Louis XVI (1793)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Noah Webster, author of dictionary, is born (1758)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills), author, born in Dublin (1854)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Paul Strand, photographer (1890)
** 10 16 99 99 00 Suzanne Somers, actress (1946)
** 10 16 99 99 00 William Orville Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, is born (1898)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Akbar the Great, Muslim ruler of Northern India, dies (1605)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Arthur Miller, American playwright, is born (1915)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Evel Knievel, daredevil (1938)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish master of short piano composition, dies of tuberculosis (1849)
** 10 17 99 99 00 George Wendt, actor (1948)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Jean Arthur, actress (1908)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Jimmy Breslin, columnist (1930)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 9th V.P. of U.S. (1780)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Rita Hayworth, actress and beauty, is born (1918)
** 10 17 99 99 00 Tom Poston, actor, is born (1927)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Charles Babbage, inventor, dies (1871)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll star, born in San Jose, CA (1926)
** 10 18 99 99 00 George C. Scott, actor (1927)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Mike Ditka, football coach (1939)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Pam Dawber, actress (1951)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and writer of "Les Liaisons dangereuses", is born (1741)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Pierre Trudeau, Canadien (1919)
** 10 18 99 99 00 St Luke is crucified on an olive tree (63)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies (1931)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Walt Kelly (Walter Crawford Kelly), American cartoonist and illustrator (Pogo author), dies (1973)
** 10 18 99 99 00 Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter (1961)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, dies (1950)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Ernest, Lord Rutherford, physicist, dies (1937)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Jack Anderson, columnist (1922)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Jeannie C. Riley, singer (1945)
** 10 19 99 99 00 John Le Carre, author (1931)
** 10 19 99 99 00 John Lithgow, actor (1945)
** 10 19 99 99 00 King John of England dies (1216)
** 10 19 99 99 00 LaWanda Page, actress (1920)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Robert Reed, actor (1932)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Thomas Browne, philosopher, is born (1605)
** 10 19 99 99 00 Thomas Browne, philosopher, dies (1682)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Arlene Francis, radio-television personality (1908)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Art Buchwald, columnist (1925)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research (1812)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Charles Ives, composer (1874)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Christopher Wren, the English architect, is born (1632)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. (1968)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, is born (1854)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Jerry Orbach, actor (1935)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Keith Hernandez, All-star first baseman (1953)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Mickey Mantle, baseball Hall-of Famer (1931)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London (1632)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, dies (1890)
** 10 20 99 99 00 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in plane crash (1977)
** 10 20 99 99 00 William Christopher, actor (1932)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes, born in Stockholm (1833)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Carrie Fisher, actress (1956)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, is born (1917)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Horatio Nelson dies (1805)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Jack Kerouac, American "beat" poet, dies (1969)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Manfred Mann, rock singer (1940)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic and theologian, is born (1772)
** 10 21 99 99 00 Sir Georg Solti, conductor (1912)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Annette Funicello, actress and Mouseketeer, is born in Utica NY (1942)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Catherine Deneuve, actress (1943)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Christopher Lloyd, actor (1938)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Derek Jacobi, actor (1938)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, born (1811)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Jeff Goldblum, actor (1952)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Joan Fontaine, actress (1917)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Pablo Casals, cellist, dies (1973)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Sarah Bernhardt, "the Divine Sarah" French actress, is born Rosine Bernard, in Paris (1844)
** 10 22 99 99 00 Tony Roberts, actor (1939)
** 10 23 99 99 00 "Weird Al" Yankovic, parodist (1959)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Adlai Stevenson, Vice President (1835)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Al Jolson, American singer and entertainer, dies (1950)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Gore Vidal, the writer, was born (1925)
** 10 23 99 99 00 John Dunlop, the inventor of the pneumatic tire, dies (1921)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Johnny Carson, TV personality, was born (1925)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Michael Crichton, author-movie director (1942)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Pele, the Brazilian soccer player, is born (1940)
** 10 23 99 99 00 Zane Grey, writer of westerns, dies (1939)
** 10 24 99 99 00 David Nelson, actor-producer (1936)
** 10 24 99 99 00 Kevin Kline, actor (1947)
** 10 24 99 99 00 Steven Altman, University of Central Florida President (1945)
** 10 24 99 99 00 Y.A. Tittle, football Hall-of-Famer (1926)
** 10 25 99 99 00 Helen Reddy, singer (1941)
** 10 25 99 99 00 Henry Norris Russell born (1877)
** 10 25 99 99 00 Jon Anderson (Yes) born (Lancashire, England, 1944)
** 10 25 99 99 00 Kenneth Jean, Florida Symphony Orchestra conductor (1952)
** 10 25 99 99 00 Pablo Picasso, artist, born in Malaga, Spain (1881)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Bob Hoskins, actor (1942)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals. (1855)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Domenico Scarlatti, virtuoso harpsichordist and composer, is born in Naples (1685)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, dies (1972)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Jaclyn Smith, actress (1947)
** 10 26 99 99 00 Pat Sajak, TV host (1946)
** 10 26 99 99 00 William Hogarth, artist and engraver, dies in London (1764)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Captain James Cook, explorer, is born in Yorkshire, England (1466)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Carrie Snodgress, actress (1946)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh romantic poet, is born (1914)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Gerald M. Weinberg, computer scientist-author, born (1933)
** 10 27 99 99 00 H.R. Halderman, former White House chief of staff (1926)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine (1811)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Jayne Kennedy-Overton, actress and beauty, is born (1951)
** 10 27 99 99 00 John Cleese, actor and comedian of Monty Python, is born (1939)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Nanette Fabray, actress (1920)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Ralph Kiner, sportscaster and Hall-of-Famer (1922)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Ruby Dee, actress (1924)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Simon Le Bon, singer (1958)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Teresa Wright, actress (1918)
** 10 27 99 99 00 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-1909) (1858)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings" (1846)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Charlie Daniels, musician-songwriter (1936)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Renaissance scholar and theologian, is born (1469)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past. (1914)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly" (1466)
** 10 28 99 99 00 Jane Alexander, actress (1939)
** 10 28 99 99 00 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, dies (1704)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, best known for "Willie and Joe", is born (1922)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash (near Macon, GA, 1971)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Edmund Halley born (1656)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Fanny Brice, actress, dancer, singer, is born (1891)
** 10 29 99 99 00 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer. (1740)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, dies (1911)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Kate Jackson, actress (1948)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for assassination of President McKinley (1901)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Melba Moore, singer (1945)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Richard Dreyfuss, actor (1947)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer, writer and courtier, dies (1618)
** 10 29 99 99 00 Woody Herman, jazz musician, dies (1987)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Charles Atlas, Italian-born American physical culturist, is born (1893)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator, is born (1451)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Claude Lelouch, movie director (1937)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Dostoyevsky, author, is born (1821)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Ezra Loomis Pound, American poet and critic, is born (1885)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Grace Slick, rock singer, born (Chicago, 1939)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Harry Hamlin, actor (1951)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Henry Winkler, actor (1945)
** 10 30 99 99 00 John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801) (1735)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Louis Malle, movie director (1932)
** 10 30 99 99 00 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikhs who had infiltrated her personal guard (1984)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (1922)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Chiang Kai-Shek born (1887)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Dale Evans, actress-singer (1912)
** 10 31 99 99 00 David Ogden Stiers, actor (1942)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Deidre Hall, actress (1948)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, dies in Detroit (1926)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, is born in Delft Netherlands (1632)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Jane Pauley, NBC newsoman (1950)
** 10 31 99 99 00 John Keats, the poet, is born (1795)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Max Reinhardt, stage and film director, dies (1943)
** 10 31 99 99 00 Michael Landon, actor-director (1937)