2000 Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74
2000 Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90
1993 Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96
1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies
1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1984 William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
1976 Romney Brent, actor and writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1973 Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
1963 Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City
1956 John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1954 TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons
1953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"
1945 George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1945 Katharine Houghton, born in Hartford, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1943 Wallace Shawn, New York City, actor, My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride
1942 John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60
1939 George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City
1939 Judy Chicago, [Cohen], Chicago, artist, Dinner Party
1934 Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64
1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
1932 George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in New York City
1911 Jean Harlow, aka Harlean Carpentier, born in Kansas, 30s' sex goddess, in Dinner at 8
1909 Suzanne G Charpentier, born in Paris, actress, Dinner at Ritz
1907 Marie Dressler, actress, Anna Christie, Dinner at 8
1902 Nora Swinburne, born in England, actress, Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River
1902 Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor and writer, Dinner at the Ritz
1888 Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner
1887 Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner
1886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo)
1886 Wallace Beery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8
1885 Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine
1874 Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner
1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
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