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2001 Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64

1998 Cleveland Amory, writer, The Compleat Cat, dies at 81

1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85

1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8

1994 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4

1993 Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77

1993 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test

1990 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84

1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances

1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances

1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live

1987 Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63

1984 John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery

1983 Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71

1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)

1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque

1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated

1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80

1974 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84

1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73

1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92

1965 "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 8 performances

1965 "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances

1965 Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83

1962 "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric and His Piano peaks at #7

1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy

1960 Nastassja Kinski, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Tess, Cat People

1960 Greg Ritchie, cricketer, Qld and Australia batsman Fat Cat Mahatma Cote

1959 Britt Helfer, Clearfield Utah, actress, Lily-Loving, Alley Cat

1959 Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star

1958 Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star

1958 Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85

1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)

1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances

1954 Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler, AAA/NJPW, Black Cat

1953 Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star

1952 Annette O'Toole, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Cat People, Superman III

1948 Ted Nugent, born in Detroit, guitarist, Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees

1947 Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies

1947 Cat Stevens, Yusaf Islam, rock vocalist, Peace Train, Father and Son

1946 Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore

1945 Al Stewart, born in Glasgow, Scotland, rocker, Year of the Cat

1945 John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD

1943 Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer, Cats-Sure He's a Cat

1943 Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat

1942 Harry Chapin, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle

1940 Giorgio Moroder, born in Ortisei, Italy, composer, Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun

1938 Ralph Bakshi, animator, Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse

1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army

1937 Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero

1937 Dorothy Provine, Deadwood, South Dakota, actress, Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat

1936 Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer

1932 Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author, Cat Karina

1931 John Gabriel, Niagara Falls, New York, actor, Cat Gang, Fantasies

1931 Rip Torn, born in Texas, actor, Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1930 Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor, Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat

1927 Sunset Carson, Michael Harrison, Plainview, Texas, actor, Cat of Rockies

1925 Arnold Stang, Massachusetts, comedian/actor, Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat

1924 Lee Marvin, born in New York City, actor, Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou

1924 Marvin Kaplan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Top Cat, Henry-Alice

1923 Ruby Dee, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots

1922 John Willard's "Cat and the Canary," premieres in New York City

1918 Stubby Kaye, New York City, actor, Guys and Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou

1917 Felix the Cat, cartoon character

1917 R G Armstrong, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actor, T.H.E. Cat

1911 Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

1910 Eve March, California, actress, Curse of the Cat People

1909 Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1909 Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris, France, actor, Cat and Mouse, Happy Hooker

1906 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962

1905 Frederic Dannay, of Ellery Queen and Barnaby Ross, Cat of Many Tales

1904 Laura Laplante, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cat and Canary

1899 Gale Sondergard, Litchfield, Minnesota, actress, Cat and Canary, Road to Rio

1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great

1891 Reginald Denny Richmond England, actor, Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman

1890 Ernest Milton, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three

1888 Jack Holt, U.S., golddigger/actor, Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone

1887 John Davidson, New York City, actor, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat

1887 Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat

1872 Paul Panzer, actor, Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin

1871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)


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