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2004 Larry Brown, writer, Big Bad Love, dies at 53

2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer

1995 Nancy Kelly, U.S. actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73

1989 Lee Van Cleef, U.S. actor (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 64

1989 Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad and Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64

1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60

1987 Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV

1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence

1987 Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies

1987 Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65

1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)

1986 STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy

1985 STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather

1984 Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure

1983 Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30

1982 Lil' Dave, Davis Shelton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1982 Mark Mizzark, Marlis Pugh, born in Akron, Ohio, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1979 "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

1978 Chris Sellers, born in Cleveland, Ohio, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1978 General Austin, born in Columbus, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"

1978 RoRo, Romell Chapman, born in Atlanta, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1977 James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55

1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87

1974 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83

1970 Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer, European Amat champ 1994

1970 Meeno Peluce, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Bad News Bears

1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81

1969 Danielle Brisebois, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2

1969 Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1968 Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54

1968 Whitfield Crane, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad

1967 Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39

1966 Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress, Ugly Dirty and Bad

1965 Cordell Crockett, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad

1963 Carola Smit, Dutch singer, BZN-Bad bad woman

1962 Esai Morales, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Bad Boys, La Bamba

1962 David Bryan, rock keyboardist, Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name

1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller

1961 Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51

1961 John Clark Gable, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Bad Jim

1960 Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka, Florida, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1959 Richie Sambora, guitarist, Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name

1959 Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69

1958 Michael Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, singer, Thriller, Bad

1958 Madeleine Stowe, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Tropical Snow, Bad Girls

1957 "Curley" Joe Smyth, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1957 Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria

1956 Scott Jacoby, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High

1955 John Waite, vocalist, Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You

1954 Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in New York City

1954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist, Journey-Open Arms, Bad English

1954 Howard Stern, born in Roosevelt, New York, Radio's Bad Boy

1952 Vicki Morgan, Colorado Springs Colo, mistress, Beautiful Bad Girl

1952 Jim Scholten, Midland, Michigan, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm

1949 Simon Kirke, rocker, Bad Company

1949 Simon Kirke, rock drummer, Bad Company

1948 Perry King, Alliance, Ohio, actor, Andy Warhol's "Bad"

1947 Kurt Mann, Roslyn, New York, actor, Bad Penny

1945 Patty McCormack, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers

1944 Sally Kirkland, New York City, actress, Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama

1944 Mick Ralphs, born in Hereford, England, born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of music bands Mott the Hopple and Bad Company

1944 Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover

1943 Martin Mull, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/comedian, Bad Manners, Flick, Serial

1943 Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck

1940 Sammy Strain, U.S. singer, Imperials-Hurt So Bad

1940 Susan Sennett, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Big Bad Mama

1939 Terrence McNally, St. Petersburg, Florida, playwright, Bad Habits

1939 Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming

1933 Tom Skerritt, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama

1932 Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine

1931 Carroll Baker, Penn, actress, Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow

1927 Barbara Payton, Cloquet, Minnesota, actress, Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde

1927 Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad

1923 Albert King, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Bad Look Blues

1920 Walter Matthau, New York City, actor, Odd Couple, Bad News Bears

1917 Marsha Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw

1916 Walker Percy, Birmingham, Alabama, writer, Adventures of a Bad Catholic

1914 Wendell Corey, born in Dracut, Massachusetts, actor, 11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl

1896 Dick Ryan, CT, actor, For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad

1894 Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director, Obsession, The Bad Seed

1892 Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister

1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah

1844 [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress, Bad Herders

1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin

1775 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread

1166 Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)


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