1987 Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
1984 Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85
1982 Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97
1977 "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances
1976 "Porgy and Bess" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 122 performances
1968 Bess Singh, [Lennart Bes], Dutch pop drummer, Burma Shop-Hippies
1953 Bess Armstrong, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws
1943 "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan
1942 Rex Thompson, New York City, actor, Young Bess, King and I, Her 12 Men
1935 "Porgy and Bess," by George Gershwin, New York premiere
1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston
1927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess
1924 Bess Myerson, born in Bronx, New York, 1st Jewish Miss America, 1945
1924 Sidney Poitier, actor, Porgy and Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, or 1927
1923 Dorothy Dandridge, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress/singer/dancer, Porgy and Bess
1885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady, 1945-52
1875 Lumsden Hare, Ireland, actor, Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess
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