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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 (Captain 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 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/U.S. 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/U.S. 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 - 1922, Dir, League of Nations 1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 |
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