2011 Event Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy 2000 Death Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 1987 Event 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood, Comfort, Texas 1958 Birthday Lydia Cornell, born in El Paso, Texas, actress, Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort 1955 Birthday Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor, Monroe-Too Close for Comfort 1952 Birthday Deborah Van Valkenburgh, born in Schnectady, actress, Too Close for Comfort 1936 Birthday Nancy Dussault, born in Pensacola, Florida, actress, Muriel-Too Close for Comfort 1933 Birthday Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm 1923 Birthday Ted Knight, born in Terryville, Connecticut, Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort 1920 Birthday Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior 1902 Birthday Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm 1848 Birthday Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker, stained glass windows 1615 Death Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies