1995 Frank Perry, U.S. dir (Diary of Mad Housewife, David and Lisa), dies at 65
1994 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
1994 Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79
1993 Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1993 Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread and Chocolate), dies at 70
1992 Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
1992 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
1991 Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
1991 Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1990 Raymond St. Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
1989 Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1987 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90
1986 Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1985 Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1984 Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1984 William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
1983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65
1982 Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
1981 Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1980 Alf Sjoberg, dir (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76
1976 Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1973 Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
1973 Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies
1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
1968 Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64
1966 Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
1965 John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52
1961 Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1960 Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60
1959 Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36
1954 Joel Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor/dir, Spies Like Us, Barton Fink
1954 James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer/dir, True Lies, Titanic
1954 Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1952 Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless
1947 David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games
1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 James Levine, musical conductor, Tosca, /dir, Metropolitan Opera
1942 Rosa Von Praunheim, [Holger Mischwitzky], Riga Latvia, dir, Affengeil
1942 Martin Scorsese, Queens, dir, Mean Streets, Last Temptation of Christ
1941 Stephen Frears, born in England, dir, Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons
1940 Adriaan J Enschede, dir (Dutch printers Joh Enschede), dies at 50
1939 William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection
1935 Burt Metcalfe, born in Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir, Father of the Bride
1933 John Boorman, producer/dir, Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz
1932 George Furth, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/dir, Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings
1932 Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
1928 Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1923 Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services
1922 George Roy Hill, dir, Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance
1920 Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, dir, 8, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita
1919 John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston
1918 Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat
1914 Guus Verstraete Sr, [August de Graef], Dutch actor/dir, Black Magic
1908 Dennis O'Keefe, born in Fort Madison, Iowa, actor/dir, T-Men, Fighting Seabees
1904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon, New York, actor/dir, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack
1902 Arnold J d'Ailly, dir, Nederlandsche Bank, /mayor, Amsterdam, 1946-56
1902 Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman
1897 Otto, von, Struve, German/US dir, Yerkes/MacDonald observatory
1896 Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir, Theatre Seraphin
1894 Yakima Canutt, [Enos Edward], Colfax, Washington, actor/dir, Texas Terror
1893 Guthrie McClintic, born in Seattle, Washington Broadway producer/dir, Winterset
1892 Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], dir, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse
1891 Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man
1889 Ricardo Cortez, [Jack Krantz], Vienna Austria, actor/dir, Blackmail
1886 Crane Wilbur, Athens, New York, dir/writer, Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo
1882 Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir, Willem van Oranje
1869 Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906-22, /Dir, League of Nations
1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
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