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2005 Greg Garrison, American Director

2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director

2004 Larry Buchanan, American Director

2004 Philippe de Broca, director, King of Hearts, dies at 69

2004 Margaret Hassan, humanitarian, director of Care in Iraq who was murdered by terrorists, dies at 59

2004 Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director murdered by terrorists, Submission

2004 Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47

2004 Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52

2004 Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director

2004 Cecily Adams, casting director/actress, Deep Space Nine, dies at 46

2003 Elia Kazan, director, On the Waterfront, dies at 94

2003 Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101

2003 John Schlesinger, director, Midnight Cowboy, dies at 77

2003 Stan Brakhage, American Director

2002 George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80

2002 Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76

2002 Charles Guggenheim, American Director

2002 J. Lee Thompson, British Director

2002 John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72

2002 George Sidney, American Director

2002 Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95

2002 Ted Demme, director, Beautiful Girls, dies at 38

2001 Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74

2001 Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90

2001 Michael Ritchie, American Director

2001 Stanley Kramer, director, Judgment at Nuremberg, dies at 87

2000 David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88

2000 Edward L. Bernds, director, The Three Stooges shorts, dies at 94

2000 Paul Bartel, director/actor, Eating Raoul, dies at 61

2000 Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72

2000 Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79

1999 Robert Bresson, French Director

1999 James Broughton, American Director

1999 Garson Kanin, writer/director, Born Yesterday, dies at 86

1999 Stanley Kubrick, director, -2001, dies at 70

1999 Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75

1999 Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82

1998 Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70

1998 Akira Kurosawa, director, Rashomon, dies at 88

1998 John Derek, actor/director, dies at 71

1997 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76

1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64

1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68

1997 Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85

1997 Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86

1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43

1997 Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89

1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91

1997 King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64

1997 Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71

1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89

1996 Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74

1996 Marcel Carne, French Director

1996 Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61

1996 Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43

1996 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83

1996 Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera

1996 Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81

1996 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78

1996 Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82

1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83

1996 Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84

1996 William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies

1996 William Egan Colby, cIA Director, dies at 76

1996 Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62

1996 David Keylsey, actor and director, dies at 63

1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51

1996 Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83

1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54

1996 Lucio Fulci, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, dies at 68

1996 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60

1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday

1996 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68

1995 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54

1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90

1995 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79

1995 Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63

1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88

1995 Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65

1995 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69

1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66

1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77

1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51

1995 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63

1995 Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84

1995 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71

1995 Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88

1995 Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95

1995 Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32

1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. Ed), dies at 96

1995 Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89

1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80

1995 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70

1995 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56

1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73

1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80

1995 Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45

1995 Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies

1995 George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107

1995 James P Grant, U.S. director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72

1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57

1995 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86

1995 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81

1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87

1994 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71

1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64

1994 George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85

1994 Harry Horner, Czechoslovakian/U.S. set designer/director, 'Our Town', dies at 84

1994 Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92

1994 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83

1994 Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74

1994 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57

1994 Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82

1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75

1994 James Hill, director, dies at 75

1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94

1994 Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies

1994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79

1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67

1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69

1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55

1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71

1994 Zoltan Fabri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76

1994 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65

1994 Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies

1994 Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies

1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83

1994 Bart Scheepens, actor and director, dies of AIDS at 50

1994 Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies

1994 Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56

1994 William Marshall, actor and director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86

1994 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41

1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86

1994 Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65

1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82

1994 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82

1994 Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63

1994 Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64

1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67

1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87

1994 Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37

1994 Frank G Wells, U.S. director (Walt Disney), dies at 62

1994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52

1994 Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52

1994 Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92

1994 Richard Bissell, U.S. under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84

1994 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84

1994 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies

1994 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81

1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85

1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81

1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81

1993 Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42

1993 Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75

1993 Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50

1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50

1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs

1993 Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72

1993 Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41

1993 Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73

1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65

1993 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered

1993 Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85

1993 Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85

1993 Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80

1993 Charles Lamont, actor and director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95

1993 Hall Bartlett, U.S. director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70

1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71

1993 Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons debarras), dies at 49

1993 Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth

1993 Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50

1993 Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83

1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79

1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions

1993 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83

1993 Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93

1993 Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81

1993 James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57

1993 Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81

1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77

1993 Michael Gordon, actor and director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83

1993 Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies

1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80

1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47

1993 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69

1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35

1993 Richard Sale, writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80

1993 Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81

1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82

1993 John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies

1993 Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73

1993 Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82

1993 James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA

1993 Joseph L Mankiewicz, U.S. writer and director (All about Eve), dies at 83

1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA

1993 Francois Reichenbach, French director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70

1993 Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA

1993 Joseph Anthony [Deuster], U.S. director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80

1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA

1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies

1993 Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45

1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85

1992 Luis Alcoriza, actor/writer/director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema

1992 Clem Beauchamp, U.S. stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies

1992 Gregory Markopoulos, German/U.S. director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies

1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies

1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57

1992 Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies

1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48

1992 John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82

1992 David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia

1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies

1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns

1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies

1992 Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford

1992 Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies

1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73

1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70

1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44

1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88

1992 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70

1992 William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA

1992 Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79

1992 Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60

1992 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies

1992 Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80

1992 A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47

1991 Daniel Mann, U.S. director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79

1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63

1991 Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA

1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA

1991 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies

1991 Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51

1991 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies

1991 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94

1991 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA

1991 Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies)

1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1991 William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA

1991 Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76

1991 Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43

1991 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62

1991 Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92

1991 Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51

1991 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies

1991 CIA director William H. Webster resigns

1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies

1991 Don[ald] Siegel, U.S. director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78

1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83

1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95

1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88

1991 Jan Ode, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies

1990 Martin Ritt, U.S., director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70

1990 Ugo Tognazzi actor and director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68

1990 Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies

1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies

1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54

1990 Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71

1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87

1990 Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84

1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

1989 Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies

1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86

1989 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies

1989 Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90

1989 Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68

1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies

1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60

1989 Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA

1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83

1989 George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71

1989 John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59

1989 John Cassavetes, U.S. actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59

1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59

1988 Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59

1988 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60

1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84

1988 Henry Koster, director, dies

1988 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56

1988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78

1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies

1987 Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1987 Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81

1987 Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86

1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81

1987 King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies

1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor

1987 William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA

1987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78

1987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73

1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90

1987 Yves Allegret, French director (Such a lovely tiny beach), dies at 79

1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA

1987 Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86

1986 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54

1986 Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA

1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure

1986 Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82

1986 Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76

1986 Yakima Canutt, actor and director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91

1986 Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA

1986 Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60

1986 John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1985 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80

1985 Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86

1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59

1984 George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90

1984 Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84

1984 Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47

1984 Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75

1984 August "Guus" Oster, actor and director (Carrie), dies at 68

1984 Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77

1983 Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure

1983 Luis Bunuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83

1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday

1983 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director (Tijl), dies at 87

1983 Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89

1983 George Cukor, director, dies of stroke and heart attack at 83

1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53

1982 Jacques Tatischeff, French actor and director (Parade), dies at 74

1982 King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment

1982 Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67

1982 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89

1982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85

1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies

1982 Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58

1982 Henry King, U.S. director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies

1982 Henry King, director, dies at 86

1982 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies

1982 Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself

1982 John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA

1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36

1982 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60

1982 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69

1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director

1981 Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92

1981 Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68

1981 Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80

1981 Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies

1981 William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies

1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered

1981 Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82?

1981 Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA

1981 William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987)

1981 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA

1981 Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1980 Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88

1980 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director

1980 Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, doc?), dies at 72

1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80

1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

1979 Dorothy Arzner, American Director

1979 John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91

1979 Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

1979 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85

1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84

1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy

1978 Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62

1978 Edward D Wood, Jr., director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54

1978 Mark Robson, Canadian Director

1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA

1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

1977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81

1977 Richard Carlson, actor and director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65

1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1977 John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA

1977 Carter De Haven, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin, dies in Glendale, California, at age 90

1977 John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80

1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71

1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87

1977 Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80

1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche

1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA

1977 Mr. Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA

1977 Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69

1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP

1976 Bruno VeSota, actor and director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54

1976 Dalton Trumbo, U.S. writer and director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70

1976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85

1976 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director

1976 E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA

1976 Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony and Ecstasy), dies

1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69

1976 Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88

1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)

1976 William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA

1975 William A Wellman, U.S. director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79

1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland

1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53

1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap

1975 Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38

1975 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73

1975 George Stevens, U.S. director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70

1975 Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94

1975 Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73

1974 Pietro Germi, actor and director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60

1974 Clive Brook, actor and director (On Approval), dies at 87

1974 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies

1974 Harmony Korine, American Director

1974 Donald Crisp, actor and director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91

1973 Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72

1973 William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA

1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA

1973 John Ford, U.S. director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78

1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57

1973 H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF

1973 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA

1973 James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA

1973 George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53

1973 Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies

1973 James Haven, American Director

1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal

1973 James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA

1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA

1972 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain'

1972 Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon

1972 Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper

1972 Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1972 Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

1971 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1971 Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90

1971 Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28

1971 Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76

1971 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82

1971 Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67

1971 Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League

1971 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66

1971 Sofia Coppola, American Director

1971 Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria

1970 Morgan Spurlock, American Director

1970 M. Night Shyamalan, American Director

1970 Kevin Smith, director, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks

1970 Christopher Nolan, British Director

1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director

1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75

1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies

1969 Rex Ingram, actor and director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73

1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies

1969 Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered

1969 Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51

1969 Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA

1969 Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82

1969 Darren Aronofsky, American Director

1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75

1968 Hugo Haas, actor and director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66

1968 Erich Von Stroheim, actor and director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52

1968 Guy Ritchie, British Director

1968 Robert Rodriguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado

1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies

1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65

1968 Ed Burns, director/actor, Brothers McMullen

1968 John Singleton, director and screenwriter, Boyz in the Hood

1967 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor and director (Kritisch Theater), dies at 54

1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74

1967 Anthony Mann, U.S. director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60

1967 Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67

1967 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79

1966 Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies

1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA

1966 Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA

1966 Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA

1966 Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72

1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association

1966 Antoine Fuqua, American Director

1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50

1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE

1965 Gong Li, born in Shenyang, China, actress, appeared in director Zhang Yimou's film, Ju Dhou, Red Sorghum, received Golden Rooster award

1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres

1965 Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson

1965 Brigitte Rouan, Toulon France, director/actress, Outremer

1965 Bryan Singer, American Director

1965 Sam Mendes, British Director

1965 Uwe Boll, German Director

1965 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies

1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA

1965 Michael Bay, American Director

1965 Jan Sverak, Zatec Czechoslovakia, director, Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci

1965 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director, dies at 63

1964 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85

1964 Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

1964 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81

1964 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91

1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency

1963 Robert Hamer, British Director

1963 Gustaf Grundgens, actor, director and theatre director (M), dies at 63

1963 Cruys Voorbergh, actor and director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64

1963 Quentin Tarantino, director and screenwriter, Pulp Fiction

1963 Neil LaBute, American Director

1963 Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS

1963 John Farrow, actor and director (Botany Bay), dies at 58

1963 Dick Powell, actor and director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58

1962 Rebecca Miller, American Director

1962 Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69

1962 David Fincher, American Director

1962 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director

1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1962 Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California

1962 Stephen Sommers, American Director

1962 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1962 Joel Wyner, actor and director, Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club

1961 Reginald Hudlin, director, House Party

1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA

1961 Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director

1961 Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

1961 Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68

1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League

1961 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70

1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67

1961 Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director

1961 August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67

1961 Michael Winterbottom, British Director

1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59

1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82

1961 Alexander Payne, American Director

1960 Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again

1960 Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies

1960 Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71

1960 Helen Rees, director, Design Museum

1960 Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72

1960 Richard Linklater, American Director

1960 Atom Egoyan, born in Cairo, Egypt, director, Adjuster, Next of Kin

1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66

1960 Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra

1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39

1959 Charles Lotsy, Dutch insurance director/chief d'equipe, dies at 66

1959 Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60

1959 Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79

1959 Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58

1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70

1959 Luc Besson, French Director

1959 Frank Darabont, American Director

1959 Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR

1959 John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director, Boyz n The Hood

1958 Nick Park, British Director

1958 Chris Columbus, writer and director, Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months

1958 Tim Burton, American Director

1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44

1958 Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank

1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank

1958 Bobby Farrelly, American Director

1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank

1958 Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England

1957 Louis B. Mayer, American Director

1957 Mira Nair, Indian Director

1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72

1957 Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director, Submission

1957 Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1957 Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies

1957 Spike Lee, born in Atlanta, director, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X

1956 Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger, Josephine

1956 Peter Farrelly, American Director

1956 Hart Bochner, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Rich and Famous

1956 Danny Boyle, English Director

1956 Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79

1956 Lars von Trier, Danish Director

1956 Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

1955 Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God

1955 William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong), dies at 74

1955 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65

1955 Roland Emmerich, German Director

1955 Bill Condon, American Director

1955 Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank)

1955 Henry W. Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies

1955 Juliusz Machulski, born in Poland, director, writer and actor, Do It Yourself

1954 Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die'

1954 Emir Kusturica, Serbian Director

1954 Ang Lee, director, Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility

1954 James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer and director, True Lies, Titanic

1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70

1954 Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1954 Jane Campion, New Zealander Director

1954 Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

1954 Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor and director, American Graffiti, Happy Days

1954 Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient

1953 Jack Scalia, actor and director, Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force

1953 John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields

1953 Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director and writer, Leola, Night Zoo

1953 Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA

1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56

1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director, When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery

1953 Paul Haggis, Canadian Director

1953 Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA

1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA

1953 Jim Jarmusch, American Director

1952 Susan Seidelman, director, Desperately Seeking Susan

1952 Christine Pascal, actress/director, Smile, Nothing But Lies, Elsa

1952 Gus Van Sant, American Director

1952 David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia

1952 Matthew Bright, American Director

1952 Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic

1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

1951 Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered

1951 Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter, Kika, Matador

1951 William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1951 Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose'

1951 Robert J. Flaherty, Director

1951 Lis Howell, director of programs, GMTV

1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner

1950 Gillian Armstrong, born in Melbourne, Australia, director, High Tide, Mrs. Soffel

1950 Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor and director, Mister Cactus, Passion

1950 William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA

1950 Andre van de Berg, actor and director, Transport

1950 Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor and director, Love Potion

1950 Goutam Ghose, director, Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar

1950 Chantal Akerman, actor and director, Akermania, Je Tu II Elle

1950 Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet, Deutsche Opera Berlin

1950 Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun

1950 Neil Jordan, director, Crying Game

1950 John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller

1950 Lizzie Borden, director and writer, Love Crimes, Working Girls

1950 John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science

1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66

1949 Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director

1949 Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker

1949 Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association

1949 Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times

1949 Stuart Marshall, director, Desire

1949 Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer, director and writer

1949 D Watson, director, Brighton U

1949 Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1949 Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65

1949 Lawrence Kasdan, born in Miami, Florida, director and writer, Accidental Tourist

1949 Wayne Wang, director, Chan is Missing, Slamdance

1948 Marleen Gorris, Dutch director, Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island

1948 Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa

1948 Stanner E V Taylor, U.S. director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71

1948 Aline Issermann, director, Amant Magnifiquew

1948 Bille August, director, Best Intentions, Twist and Shout

1948 Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens

1948 Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73

1948 Don Boyd, director, Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock

1948 Sergei Bodrov, born in Khabarovsk, Russia, director, Katala, Somebody to Love

1948 D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, U.S. director/producer, dies

1948 D. W. Griffith, American Director

1948 Joe Roth, American Director

1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho

1948 Jacques Feyder, actor and director (kermesse heroique), dies at 59

1948 John Amiel, director, Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow

1948 Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor and director, Gekkenbriefje

1948 Robert Zemeckis, director, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future

1948 Bud Cort, New Rochelle, New York, actor and director, Electric Dreams, M*A*S*H

1948 Mike Figgis, English Director

1948 Bill Alexander, theatre director

1948 Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50

1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50

1948 Errol Morris, American Director

1948 Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor, Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss

1948 John Carpenter, born in Carthage, New York, director, Halloween, The Thing

1948 Gillies Mackinnon, director, Playboys

1947 Steven Spielberg, born in Cincinnati, director, ET, Close Encounters, Jaws

1947 Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies

1947 Jonathan Kaplan, Paris, France, director, Heart Like a Wheel

1947 Patrice Leconte, director, Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband

1947 Edward Yang, director, Tewrrorizers

1947 David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret

1947 Harry Carey Sr, actor and director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69

1947 David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo

1947 Ann Hui, director, Boat People

1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA

1947 David Leland, born in Cambridge, England, actor and director, Nothing But Trouble

1947 Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute

1947 David Gee, director, Friends of the Earth

1947 Hsiao-hsien Hou, director, Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster

1947 Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1947 Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke

1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74

1947 Israel Wetrin, managing director, Elonex

1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1946 Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins

1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered

1946 David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director

1946 Ivan Reitman, director/producer, Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave

1946 Richard Loncraine, director, Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman and True

1946 Jean-Jacques Beineix, director, Betty Blue, Diva

1946 Alasdair Fraser, QC/director, Public Prosecutions for N Ireland

1946 Oliver Stone, born in New York City, director, Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon

1946 Dennis Dugan, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor and director, Can't Buy Me Love, Howling

1946 Bill Forsyth, director, Local Hero, Breaking, Indiana, Housekeeping

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

1946 Randal Kleiser, American Director

1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1946 Sylvester Stallone, born in New York City, actor and director, Rocky, Rambo, Cobra

1946 Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA

1946 Lasse Hallstrom, director, Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA

1946 Earl of Cromer, managing director, Inchcape, China, Ltd

1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum

1946 Ronald Bear, actor and director, Havana, Make-up

1946 Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records

1946 John Woo, Chinese Director

1946 Franc Roddam, director, K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia

1946 John Waters, director, Hairspray

1946 Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena

1946 Robert E. McKee, CEO and managing director, Conoco-UK

1946 Bruce Weber, director, Broken Noses

1946 Bigas Luna, director and writer, Anguish

1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing

1946 Haile Gerima, director of Ashes and Embers

1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA

1946 Michael Radford, director, 1984, White Mischief

1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor, Ehe der Maria Braun

1946 Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57

1946 Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman

1946 Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA

1946 David Lynch, born in Missoula, Montana, actor and director, Dune, Eraserhead

1945 Taylor Hackford, director, Idolmaker, Officer and a Gentleman

1945 Lloyd Kaufman, American Director

1945 Nicholas Meyer, director, Star Trek II Wrath of Khan

1945 Penelope Spheeris, American Director

1945 Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields

1945 Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love

1945 Benoat Lamy, Belgian director

1945 Bruno Nuytten, director, Camille Claudel

1945 Robert Greenwald, American Director

1945 Bob Balaban, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 2010, Girlfriends

1945 Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett

1945 Jos Stelling, director, Pointsman

1945 Donna Deitch, director, Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place

1945 Clive Hollick, born in Britain, Labor Party, financier, youngest director of Hambros Bank, 1973, CEO, Mills & Allen International, MAI

1945 Rob Reiner, born in Bronx New York, actor and director, All in the Family, Stand By Me

1945 Curtis Hanson, American Director

1945 Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter, Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas

1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1945 K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail

1945 Vadim Abdrashitov, director, Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets

1945 Harun Farocki, actor and director, Nicht loeschbares Feur

1944 Taylor Hackford, director, Devil's Advocate

1944 Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60

1944 Harold Ramis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, SCTV, Stripes

1944 Merzak Allouache, director, Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris

1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991

1944 Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society

1944 Tony Scott, director, Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder

1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training

1944 George Lucas, Modesto, California, director, Star Wars, Indiana Jones

1944 Jim Abrahams, Shorewood, Wisconsin, director, Hot Shots, Top Secret

1944 Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold

1944 Charles Burnett, director, When it Rains, Glass Shield

1944 R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum

1944 David Melville, professor and director, Middlesex Polytechnic

1944 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79

1944 Jacques Doillon director and writer, La Fille de Quinze Ans

1944 ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz

1944 Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack

1944 Jonathan Demme, born in Baldwin, New York, actor and director, Caged Heat, Swing Shift

1944 Buddhadev Dasgupta, director, Charachar, Grihajuddha

1944 Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera

1944 Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor, Waaldrecht

1943 Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor and director, One Evening at Eva

1943 Stephen Wallace, director, For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride

1943 Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets

1943 Arturo Ripstein, director, El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot

1943 Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT

1943 Jim Mitchell, American Director

1943 Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands

1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina

1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, Bear, Black and White, Coup de Tete

1943 Udo Zimmermann, born in Dresden, Germany, composer, conductor, artistic director, music director, Leipzig Opera House

1943 Alain Corneau, director, Choice of Arms

1943 Peter Hyams, director, 2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop

1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed

1943 Jon Jost, director, All the Vermeers in New York

1943 Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director, All in the Family

1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies

1943 [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director, Pastorale 1943

1943 Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants, EPA

1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum

1943 Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck

1943 Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre

1943 David Cronenberg, Toronto, Ontario, director, Shivers, Fly, Brood

1943 Andre Techine, director and writer, Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous

1943 Roberto Faenza, director, Cop Killers, Corrupt

1943 Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies

1943 Michael Mann, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, Sexpot, Close Friends

1943 Tobe Hooper, American Director

1943 Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen, mime/director, Stinging Nettle King

1942 Mani Kaul, director, Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha

1942 Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58

1942 Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb

1942 Werner Herzog, director, Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck

1942 David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director, End

1942 Wilbert Bank, actor and director, On Hope of Blessing

1942 Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London

1942 Mario Brenta, writer and director, Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains

1942 Bill Bryden, theatre director

1942 Douglas Trumbull, director, Silent Running, Brainstorm

1942 Peter Greenaway, British Director

1942 Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio

1942 Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director, Marianne

1942 Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child

1942 Derek Jarman, actor and director, Angelic Conversation, Edward II

1942 Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1942 Walter Hill, director, 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice

1941 Daniel Schmid, actor and director, Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs

1941 Humberto Solas, director and writer, Lucia

1941 Vivian Stern, director, Nacros

1941 Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy

1941 Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More

1941 Patricio Guzman, director/actor, Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador

1941 Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director, Knock on the Door

1941 James Scott, director, Strike it Rich

1941 Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage

1941 Denys Arcand, director, Jesus of Montreal

1941 Allan Carr, Illinois, director, Grease, Happiest Millionaire

1941 Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn

1941 Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48

1941 Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre

1941 Hans W. Geissendorfer, born in Augsburg, Germany, director, Sternsteinhof

1941 Roman Balayan, born in Nerke, Azerbaijan, director, Filer, Biryuk

1941 Dick Top, Dutch actor and director, Witch of Haarlem

1941 Adrian Lyne, director, Fatal Attraction, 9 Weeks, Jacob's Ladder

1941 Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56

1941 Michael Apted, director/researcher, Granada TV

1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director

1940 James Burrows, TV producer/director, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers

1940 Kumar Shahani, writer and director, Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan

1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director, Apple Trees, Manoever

1940 Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill

1940 Brian De Palma, American Director

1940 Dario Argento, director, Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae

1940 Bruce Beresford, Austral director, Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies

1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions

1940 Karel Vachek, director, Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities

1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist

1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide

1940 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up

1940 Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director, Paradiso

1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma, Italy, director, 1900, Last Emperor

1940 James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic

1940 Souleymane Cisse, director, Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara

1940 Pilar Miro, director, Wether, Beltenebros

1940 Lino Brocka, born in San Jose, Philippines, director, Macho Dancer, Jaguar

1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris

1940 RA Weiss, director, Institute of Cancer Research

1940 George A. Romero, actor and director, Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes

1940 Harry Kumel, Flemish director, Monsieur Hawarden

1940 Trevor Nunn, English Director

1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57

1939 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Two Boys), dies at 67

1939 Joel Schumacher, American Director

1939 John Badham, Luton England, director, Dracula, Short Circuit

1939 H Onno C R Ruding, director, Amrobank, Dutch Financial minister, CDA

1939 Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream

1939 Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show

1939 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director, Emily

1939 Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier, 1982-94

1939 Francis Ford Coppola, born in Detroit, director, Godfather, Apocalypse Now

1939 Toni Cade Bambara, director

1939 Bertrand Blier, born in Paris, France, novelist and director, Going Places

1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director

1939 Kenzo Takada, Japanese director, Dream After Dream

1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind

1939 Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years

1939 John D Hancock, actor and director, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights

1939 Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72

1938 Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director, Avro

1938 Michael Ritchie, American Director

1938 Porter Goss, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Representative-R-Florida 1989 - 2004, Director of CIA 2004 - 2006

1938 H J de Royen, director, Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra

1938 Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director, Festival, Bix, Impiegati

1938 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director, Weevers' Duin

1938 Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75

1938 Paul Bartel, born in Brooklyn, New York, director/actor, Eating Raoul

1938 Paul Verhoeven, director, Basic Instinct, Total Recall

1938 Richard Benjamin, New York City, director/actor, Goodbye Columbus, He and She

1938 Michael Shea, director, Hanson Trust, Queen's press sect

1938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End

1938 Marlies van Alcmaer, Smal, Dutch actress/director, Bridge too Far

1937 Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus

1937 Ridley Scott, director, Alien, Blade Runner

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

1937 R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey

1937 Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother

1937 Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London

1937 Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company

1937 Richard Foreman, New York City, theatrical director, Daily Life

1937 Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric

1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director

1937 Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director, Berlin Affair

1936 Matt Clark, Washington D.C., actor and director, Return to Oz, Horror Show

1936 Philip Kaufman, director, Right Stuff, Henry and June

1936 Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, cabaret director, Capers

1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies

1936 Jan Nemec, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, Diamonds of the Night

1936 Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director, Baantjer

1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies

1936 Mark Burns, British director, Juggernaut

1936 Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52

1936 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator

1936 Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University

1936 Meindert Leerling, Dutch TV director/MP, RPF

1935 Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations

1935 Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director, Encoberto, Matar Saudades

1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish

1935 Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor, Witte Waan

1935 Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum

1935 Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp'

1935 Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies

1935 Patrick Garland, director, Doll House

1935 Hans H. Boswinkel, actor and director, Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love

1935 Barend Barendse, actor and director (Broken Lives), dies at 82

1935 Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra

1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president

1934 J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery

1934 Robert Lang, actor, Night Watch, director

1934 Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up

1934 Claude Berri, born in Paris, France, director, Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse

1934 Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films

1934 Simon Mackay, born in Scotland, born Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries, Lord Tannlaw, crossbench member of the House of Lords, director or family company Inchape

1934 Judith Jamison, artistic director, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

1934 David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director, Betrayal

1934 Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director, 1987-

1934 Donald Cammell, film director

1933 Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media

1933 Roman Polanski, born in Paris, France, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown

1933 Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates

1933 Chuck Cassey, born in Chicago, choral director, Jimmy Dean Show

1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office

1933 Darijan Bozic, born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, composer, conductor, manager, artistic director of The Slovene National Theater Opera and Ballet Ljubljana

1933 Richard Williams, Canadian Director

1933 Jorn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director, Anna, Tenderness

1933 Stan Brakhage, American Director

1933 Jean-Marie Straub, France, director, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

1932 Noam Pitlik, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor and director, Sanford and Son, Bob Newhart

1932 Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria

1932 Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird

1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

1932 Robert Benton, Texas, writer and director, Kramer vs Kramer

1932 Daphne Swallow, commandant/director, WRNS

1932 Melvin Van Peebles, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 'Sophisticated Gent'

1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan

1932 David Keylsey, actor and director

1932 Barry Levinson, born in Baltimore, Maryland, director, Rainman

1932 King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn'

1932 David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense

1932 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer

1932 Peter Moores, director, Littlewoods

1932 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director, Solaris, Stalker

1932 Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian Director

1932 Nagisa Oshima, born in Kyoto, Japan, director, Town of Love and Hope

1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris, France, opera director, Carmina Burana

1932 Milos Forman, Czechoslovakian/U.S. director, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Amadeus'

1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema

1932 Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office

1932 Francois Truffaut, Paris, director, Jules and Jim, Fahrenheit 451

1932 Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U

1932 Richard Lester, movie director, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia

1931 Evald Schorm, Prague Czechoslovakia, director, Courage for Every Day

1931 Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director, Sonja

1931 Mike Nichols, Peschowsky, director, Catch 22, Biloxi Blues

1931 David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92

1931 Ray Danton, New York City, actor and director, Longest Day, Psychic Killer

1931 Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director, New Land, Emigrants

1931 Ivo Petric, composer, classical music, toured with Slavko Osterc ensemble, Artistic Director, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 1979 - 1995

1931 Jacques Demy, born in France, director, Lola, Magic Donkey

1931 Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA

1931 Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation

1931 Martin Rogers, director, Farmington Institute for Christian Studies

1931 Ted Kotcheff, Canadian Director

1931 Denis Lawton, director, London University Institute of Educ

1931 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in Berlin, actor, director and writer, Solo Sunday

1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director, Royal Collection

1931 Cornelis T. "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press

1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist

1930 Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company

1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z

1930 Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor and director, Odessa File, Julia

1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French director, Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless

1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26

1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory

1930 Frank Perry, film director

1930 James Komack, born in New York City, writer/director/actor, Courtship of Eddie's Father

1930 Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown

1930 Claude Chabrol, born in Paris, France, director, Les Cousins, Ophelia

1930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, born in Malmo, Sweden, director, Elvira Madigan

1930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI

1930 Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham

1930 Paul Mazursky, born in Brooklyn, writer and director, Moscow on the Hudson

1930 Richard Donner, American Director

1930 Raymond St. Jacques, actor and director, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr. Moses

1930 Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35

1930 John Frankenheimer, New York City, director, Birdman of Alcatraz

1930 Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball

1930 Frederick Wiseman, American Director

1929 Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada

1929 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer

1929 Peter Yates, director, Breaking Away, Bullitt

1929 Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat and executive director, Barclays de Zoete Wedd

1929 Hugo Claus, Flemish writer and director, Cool Lover, Sugar

1929 Dennis Farr, director, Courtauld Institute Galleries

1929 James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director, Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley

1929 Elio Petri, Italy, director, Property is no theft

1929 Rita Gillespie, TV director

1929 Aleksander Petrovic, film director

1929 Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director, Nice Boys

1929 Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars

1928 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director (Streets of sin), dies at 45

1928 Johnny Mann, born in Baltimore, Maryland, music director, Johnny Mann Stand Up and Cheer

1928 Nicolas Roeg, born in London, England, cinematographer/director, Aria, Eureka

1928 Stanley Kubrick, born in Bronx, New York, director, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita

1928 Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer

1928 Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life

1928 Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies

1928 James Ivory, producer/director, Howard's End, Remains of the Day

1928 Tony Richardson, born in England, director, Delicate Balance

1928 Agnes Varda, French photograph/director, Cleo de 5 7, Le bonheur

1928 Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute

1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer and director, Hadimassa

1928 Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No

1928 Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita

1928 Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella

1928 William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist

1927 Michael Carreras, film director

1927 Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director, Cobra

1927 John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum

1927 Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director

1927 Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright, Knack

1927 Ken Russell, England, director, Tommy, Altered States, Gothic

1927 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director

1927 Bob Fosse, born in Chicago, Illinois, choreographer/director, Cabaret, Damn Yankees

1927 Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy

1927 Michael Walsh, major-general/director, Overseas Relations

1927 David Hobman, director, Age Concern England

1927 Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery

1927 James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs

1927 Herbert Ross, director/choreographer, Footloose

1927 Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department

1927 Frank Dunlop, director, Edinburgh International Festival

1927 Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office

1926 Alfred "Fred" Benavente, director/actor, Farce Majeur

1926 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72

1926 Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

1926 Pierre Janssen, art museum director

1926 John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story

1926 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director

1926 Bryan Forbes, director/producer, Endless Games, King Rat

1926 Karel Reisz, director, Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain

1926 Norman Jewison, director, Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All

1926 Mel Brooks, born in New York City, comedian/actor and director, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs

1926 Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director, Kew Gardens

1926 Dick Williams, born in Wall Lake, Iowa, choral director, Andy Williams Show

1926 Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company

1926 Roger Corman, born in Detroit, producer and director, Little Shop of Horrors

1926 Andre Delvaux, born in Heverie, Belgium, director and writer, Benvenuta

1926 Andrzej Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland, director, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna

1926 John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling

1925 Jordan Klein, born in Miami, Florida, cameraman/director, Thunderball

1925 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41

1925 Nanni Loy, film director

1925 Jerry Paris, born in San Francisco, California, director/actor, Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show

1925 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'odeon), dies at 64

1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt

1925 Jos Jacobs, Flemish director, Madonna of Nedermunster

1925 Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor and director, Surprise Attack, Elevator

1925 Richard C. Sarafian, New York City, director/actor, Foley Square

1925 Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director, Sea gulls die in the harbor

1925 Robert Cohan, artistic director, Contemporary Dance Trust

1925 Duncan Wood, TV director/producer

1925 Peter Brook, born in London, director, 1776, TV writer

1925 Michael Kaye, director, City of London Festival

1925 Sam Peckinpah, born in Fresno, California, film director, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs

1925 Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H

1925 David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates

1925 PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports

1924 Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director

1924 Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Hague Comedy

1924 Edward D Wood, Jr., Poughkeepsie, New York, director, Plan 9 from Outer Space

1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK

1924 Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer, Raisin, K2

1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office

1924 Howard Roberts, born in Burlington, New Jersey, choral director, Leslie Uggams Show

1924 Sidney Lumet, born in Philadelphia, director, Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe

1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter, l'Amour

1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child

1924 Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees

1924 Murray Dickie, opera singer and director

1924 Charles Guggenheim, American Director

1924 Sarah Caldwell, born in Maryville, Missouri, conductor/opera director, Flagstaff

1924 Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music

1923 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director

1923 Stansfield Turner, CIA director

1923 Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story

1923 Richard Attenborough, England, actor and director, Gandhi, Young Winston

1923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director

1923 Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England

1923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor, Derrick

1923 Irvin Kershner, Philadelphia, director, Never Say Never Again

1923 Lindsay Anderson, born in Bangalore, India, director, Thursday's Children

1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies

1923 Nancy Francy, director, Claire's Knee

1923 Lee Hale, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, The Entertainers

1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir

1923 Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director, Romeo and Juliet

1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels

1923 Larry Buchanan, American Director

1922 Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano

1922 Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel

1922 Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde

1922 Guy Hamilton, British Director

1922 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director

1922 Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue

1922 Blake Edwards, born in Oklahoma, writer and director, 10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's

1922 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czechoslovakian/Dutch actor and director, Billy Budd

1922 Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale

1922 Artie Malvin, U.S. music director, Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence

1922 Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village

1922 Michael Cacoyannis, director, Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women

1922 Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye

1922 Alain Resnais, born in France, director, Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour

1922 M. Alain Resnais, born in Vannes, France, director, Melo, I Want to Go Home

1922 Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic, Comicos

1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39

1922 Barry Levinson, director, Rain Man

1922 Bruno VeSota, born in Illinois, actor and director, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers

1922 Ugo Tognazzi, born in Cremona, Italy, actor and director, La Cage Aux Folles

1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna, Italy, director, Teorema, Pigsty

1922 William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49

1922 Ken Hughes, Liverpool England, director, Casino Royale

1921 Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave

1921 Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director, Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist

1921 Milos Jancso, Vac Hungary, director, My Way Home

1921 Jackie Cooper, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Hennesey, People's Choice

1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI

1921 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director

1921 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy

1921 Chris Marker, French Director

1921 Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance

1921 Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director, IMF

1921 Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director, Goddess, Adversary

1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO

1921 Joan Greenwood, born in London, actress and director, Amorous Mr. Prawn

1921 Jack Clayton, film director

1921 B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service

1921 Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck

1920 Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director

1920 Richard Quine, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor and director, Clay Pigeon

1920 Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor, Boris Godunov, Step, Otello

1920 Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace

1920 Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director, Assault

1920 Fons Rademakers, director, Assault, actor, Daughter of Darkness

1920 Bert Leysen, TV director, Belgian National TV

1920 Lewis Gilbert, born in London, England, director/actor, You Only Live Twice

1920 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA, 1961-72

1920 George Breakston, Paris, France, actor and director, Jungle Stampede

1920 William Egan Colby, CIA director, Nixon

1919 Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion

1919 Shirley Clarke, film director

1919 Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director, Persona, Devil's Eye

1919 Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Lucifer

1919 Beppie Nooij, actress/director, Bluejackets-Rooie Sien

1918 Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director, ANP/Reuter

1918 Robert Aldrich, U.S. director/producer, Dirty Dozen

1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner

1918 Buster Davis, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, choral director, Garry Moore Show

1918 Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1918 Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer, Jennifer

1918 Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat

1917 Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris, France, director, A Cop

1917 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, U.S.S.R., director, Taganka

1917 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director

1917 Mel Ferrer, born in New Jersey, actor in television, film and theater, film director and film producer

1917 John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace

1917 Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace

1917 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies

1917 Wieland Wagner, German opera director

1916 Ray Conniff, Attleboro, Massachusetts, chorus director, Ray Conniff Singers

1916 Bob de Lange, Jacob Bernard, Dutch actor and director, Daniel

1916 George Sidney, American Director

1916 Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor and director, Antaeus-Survivors

1916 Erich Von Stroheim, Jr., actor and director, Napoleon, Sunset Blvd

1916 David Brown, born in New York City, director, Jaws, Planet of the Apes

1916 Irwin Allen, born in New York City, director, Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure

1916 Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director, Fanfare

1916 Howard Koch, producer/director, Frankenstein, Airplane II

1916 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director, Bluejackets

1916 Gene Mitchell, museum director

1916 Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director, Joi-uchi

1916 Robert Parrish, Columbus, Georgia, director, Casino Royale

1915 Clay Warnick, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, Jimmie Rodgers Show

1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director, Matatabi, Money Talks

1915 Guus [August] Oster, Dutch actor and director, Carre

1915 Terence Young, born in Shanghai, China, director, Dr. No, Thunderball

1915 Salah Abou Seif, director

1914 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress, Jane Eyre

1914 Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style

1914 Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story

1914 J. Lee Thompson, British Director

1914 George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch

1914 Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation

1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co

1914 Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man

1914 Martin Ritt, actor and director for Slugger's Wife, End of the Game

1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum

1914 Marion Kettlewell, British director, WRNS

1913 Carlo Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director, 2 Women

1913 Mark Robson, Canadian Director

1913 James Broughton, American Director

1913 Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957

1913 Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket

1913 Walter Schumann, New York City, choral director, Ford Show, composer, Rhenish

1913 Stanley E Kramer, New York City, producer/director, Inherit the Wind

1913 Stanley Kramer, Argentinian Director

1913 Allan David, actor, director andproducer, Cry of the Children

1913 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Netherlands playwright/director, Albee/Pinter

1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp

1913 Nigel Patrick, London England, actor and director, Sapphire, Prize of Gold

1913 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA

1913 Rene Clement, born in Bordeaux, France, director and writer, Is Paris Burning

1913 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director

1913 Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director

1913 Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

1912 Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree

1912 Don[ald] Siegel, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist

1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert'

1912 Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director, Man in the White Suit, Mandy

1912 Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark

1912 Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director, Willard, Butterfield 8

1912 Ian Morrow, company director

1912 Joseph Anthony, Deuster, U.S. director/actor, Matchmaker, Tomorrow

1912 Richard Brooks, Philadelphia, director, Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood

1912 Georges Franju, born in France, director, Judex, L'homme sans visage

1912 Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director, Don Carlos

1912 Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director, Max-Planck-institute

1911 Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director, Circle of Two, Never on Sunday

1911 Charles Walters, U.S., actor/choreographer/director, Easter parade

1911 Carl Dolmetsch, director, Haslemere Festival

1911 R. Nicholas Ray, born in Galesville WI, director, Rebel Without a Cause

1911 Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64

1911 Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64

1911 Harry Simeone, Newark, New Jersey, choral director, Kate Smith Show

1911 Giles Grangier, film director

1911 Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director, Netherlands Opera

1911 Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure

1911 Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer

1911 Robert Hamer, British Director

1911 John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7

1910 Roy Rowland, film director

1910 Abraham L Polonsky, U.S. writer and director, Tell them Willie Boy is Here

1910 Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes

1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka, director, Godzilla

1910 Akira Kurosawa, born in Tokyo, Japan, director, 7 Samurai, Living

1910 Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, American in Paris, Gigi

1910 Michael Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, director/writer/actor, Woman of the Year

1910 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director, Adrift

1910 Willi Schmidt, Germany, director

1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80

1909 Don Large, Canada, choral director, Wayne King

1909 Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director, Streetcar Named Desire

1909 Jean Lancaster, director, WRNS

1909 John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century

1909 Mike Todd, Avrom Goldbogen, U.S. director, 80 days

1909 Jan Lewando, British director, Marks and Spencer

1909 John Arkell, director of administration, BBC

1909 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director, KNMI

1909 Abner Biberman, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director and actor, Imhook-Kodiak

1909 Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director, Warburg Institute

1909 George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director

1909 Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth

1909 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director

1909 Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident

1908 Jacques Tatischeff, born in La Pecq, France, director, Traffic, Playtime

1908 Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director, Nemo

1908 Edward Dmytryk, director, Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny

1908 David Lean, British director, Lawrence of Arabia

1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director

1908 David Lean, born in Croydon, England, director, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter

1908 Helmut Kautner, German director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick

1908 Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo

1908 Tex Avery, cartoon director, What's up, Doc?

1908 George Pal, Hungarian/U.S. director, When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons

1908 Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor, director and writer, Fear

1907 Michael Blankfort, U.S., writer/producer/director

1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director, Le salaire de la peur

1907 Yves Allegret, French director, Dedee d'Anvers, Lesson Orgueilleux

1907 William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer, Blackmail

1907 Robert Bresson, France, director, Pickpocket, Mouchette

1907 Fred Zinneman, born in Austria, director, From Here to Eternity, Julia

1907 Fred Zinnemann, American Director

1907 Cor Treslem, Cornelis L Melsert, actor and director, Willem van Oranje

1907 Sheldon Leonard, New York City, actor and director, Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie

1907 Owain Jenkins, company director

1906 Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man

1906 John Walker, museum director

1906 Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice

1906 Wolfgang Staudte, German director, Die Morder sind unter uns

1906 Marcel Carne, French Director

1906 John Huston, born in Nevada, Missouri, director and writer, African Queen, Chinatown

1906 Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17

1906 Richard Whorf, actor and director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame

1906 Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC

1906 Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City

1905 Joseph Heifitz, film director

1905 Dalton Trumbo, U.S., writer/film director, Johnny Got His Gun

1905 Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer, Laura, Exodus

1905 Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer, Red Shoes

1905 Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC

1905 Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City

1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director

1905 Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire

1905 Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor and director, That Joyous Eve

1905 Jean Vigo, born in France, actor and director, Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante

1905 Grigorij M. Kosinzev, Russian director

1905 Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear

1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director, Evil Eye

1904 Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya

1904 George Stevens, U.S. director, Alice Adams, Penny Serenade

1904 Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton

1904 Maudet Christian-Jacques, film director

1904 Jan van Axel, Dutch director, Overschotje

1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur

1904 Emilio Fernandez, born in El Seco, Mexico, director, La Choca, Flor Silvestre

1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood

1904 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director, Innocent Heart

1904 John Farrow, born in Sydney, Australia, director/actor, Botany Bay, Wake Island

1903 John Ringling North, circus director, Ringling Bros

1903 Alf Sjoberg, Stockholm Sweden, director, Fadern, Oen, Domaren

1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor and director, Im weissen Rossl

1903 Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director, Veselye Rebjata

1903 Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen

1903 Joris Diels, Flemish actor and director, Haagsche Comedy

1902 Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial,

1902 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director, Miraculous Life of Willem Parel

1902 Paul Guilfoyle, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor and director, Curiosity Kills

1902 Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor, 2 Women

1902 Billy Wyler, director, Ben Hur, Mrs. Miniver

1902 Carl-Heinz Schroth, born in Innsbruck, director, Reaching for the Stars

1902 David R Capriles, Curaeaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64

1902 Heinz Ruehmann, German actor and director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick

1902 Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor and director, 2 Smart People

1901 Hermann Abs, director, Deutsche Bank, Hitler's advisor

1901 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director

1901 Harold Clurman, producer/director, Deadline at Dawn

1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP

1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director, Tivoli

1901 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director, Fietsendieven

1901 Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct

1901 Arthur Pierson, born in Oslo, Norway, actor and director, Hat Check Girl

1901 Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother

1900 Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo

1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46

1900 Larry Kent, California, director, High Stakes

1900 Izak D du Plessis, South African writer and director, 3rd World

1900 Douglas Sirk, director, Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje

1900 Jed Harris, producer/director, Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball

1900 Luis Brunel, Calanda Spain, director, Tristana, Phantom of Liberty

1900 Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director, Plaisir

1900 Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda

1900 Dorothy Arnzer, director

1899 Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M

1899 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan

1899 Elliot Nugent, director, And so They were Married

1899 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director

1899 Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury, New Hampshire, actor and director, Those We Love

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, born in London, director, Psycho, Birds, Rear Window

1899 Arthur Lubin, film director

1899 George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story

1899 Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist, Po Zakonu

1898 Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director, Rain

1898 Rene Clair, director, I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow

1898 Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor and director, Flying Dutchman

1898 Preston Sturges, Edmund P Biden, Chic, director, Sullivan's Travels

1898 G Kraus, director Santpoort, Insanity in Netherlands

1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin,

1898 Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director, Alexandr Nevski,

1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera

1897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause

1897 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director

1897 Frank Capra, Italy, director, Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace

1897 Harold French, director, Encore, actor

1897 Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor and director, Corsican Brothers

1897 Jean Epstein, French director, Sa tate/Eau vive

1897 Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director, Nicholas Nickleby

1897 Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO

1897 Dorothy Arzner, American Director

1896 Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn,

1896 Howard Hawks, Goshen, Indiana, director/producer, Rio Bravo, Scarface

1896 Hal Walker, Ottumwa, Iowa, director, I Married Joan

1896 William W. Wellman, Brookline Massachusetts, director, Star is Born

1896 Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor and director, Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre

1896 Eva Le Gallienne, born in London, England, actress/director, Resurrection

1896 Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet!

1896 Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor and director, Jujiro, Jigoku-mon

1895 David Butler, born in San Francisco, California, director, April in Paris, Calamity Jane

1895 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director

1895 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74

1895 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director, God and the Worms

1895 Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

1895 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers

1895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire

1895 King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas

1895 John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man

1894 Jean Renoir, French director, Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion

1894 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director

1894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director, Der blaue Engel

1894 James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51

1894 Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director, Obsession, The Bad Seed

1893 Erwin Piscator, German stage director, Der Stellvertreter

1893 August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director, Uninhabited Island

1893 Charlie Chase, U.S. actor and director, Sons of Desert

1893 Roy Del Ruth, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show

1893 August Maes, Flemish actor and director, Shylock-Hamlet

1893 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director, Paul Vlaanderen

1893 Simon Delmonte, actor and director, Boemeladvocaat

1893 Frank Borzage, born in Salt Lake City, director, 7th Heaven, Strange Cargo

1893 Karel Lotsy, Dutch insurance director and Olympic-chief d'equipe

1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter

1892 Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene

1892 Ruth Stonehouse, born in Denver, Colorado, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance'

1892 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83

1892 Raoul Walsh, born in New York City, director, Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry

1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC

1891 Irving Pichel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor and director, Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist

1891 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director, Great Netherlands Stage

1890 Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis

1890 Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1890 Leslie Banks, English actor and director, Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours

1890 Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, U.S. actor and director, My Old Dutch

1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado

1890 Karl Freund, Czechoslovakian/Austrian cameraman/director

1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM

1889 Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story

1889 Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee

1889 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother

1889 Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director, Keystone Kops

1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union

1889 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director, Passion of Jeanne d'arc

1889 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child

1888 Irving Cummings Sr, New York City, silent screen star/director, Curly Top

1888 Jacques Feyder, Frederix, Belg/French actor and director, Anna Christie

1888 Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher

1888 Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor and director, Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist

1888 Henry King, U.S., director, Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High

1888 Joseph Henabery, born in Omaha, Nebraska, director, Cobra

1887 John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage

1887 Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director, Willem van Oranje

1887 Antonio Moreno, born in Madrid, Spain, actor and director, It, Careers

1887 Clive Brook, born in London, England, actor and director, List of Adrian Messenger

1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48

1887 Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74

1886 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director

1886 Carter De Haven, born in Woodland Hills, California, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin

1886 Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov

1886 Val Paul, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922

1886 Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director, Artis

1885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion

1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union

1885 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director

1884 Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company

1884 Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man

1884 Robert J. Flaherty, Director

1883 Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain

1883 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director, Hofstad Stage

1883 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director, Erotikon

1883 Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1883 Victor Fleming, born in Pasadena, California, director, Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind

1883 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, Eric XIV

1883 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor, 3 Drops of Water, theater director

1882 Louis B. Mayer, American Director

1882 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director, Pygmalion

1881 Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn

1881 William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director, Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong

1881 Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want?

1881 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer and director, Burg Theater

1880 Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director, Rotterdamsche Bank

1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band

1880 W Hupkes, engineer/director, Dutch Rail 1938

1880 Victor Schertzinger, composer and director, Uptown New York

1880 Oscar, Bachigaloupi, Tourniaire, actor and director, Pink Kate

1880 Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director

1879 King Baggot I, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director, Tumbleweeds

1879 Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director, Wind, Under the Red Robe

1879 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director, KNMI

1879 U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior

1878 Eduard R. Verkade, Dutch actor, director and critic, Pygmalion

1877 Stanner E V Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director and writer, Lucky Jim, Ramona

1877 British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown

1876 Walter S. Adams, U.S. astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, 1923 - 1946

1875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation

1875 D. W. Griffith, American Director

1874 Paul Wegener, German actor and director, Student of Prag

1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor, Houligan

1873 Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director, Oedipus Rex

1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount

1872 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director

1872 Tom Terriss, born in London, England, director, His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru

1872 Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director

1872 Edward G Craig, actor and director, On the art of theatre

1871 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor and director, Ghost Hotel

1868 Henry W. Methorst, lawyer/director, Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics

1867 Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist

1867 Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director, Summer Games

1866 Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin

1865 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, Black Haired Whore

1864 William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory

1863 Hermann Bahr, Austria writer and director, New Men

1863 Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director, Stanislavski Method

1862 William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer and director Lick Observatory

1861 Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt

1860 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director, l'Odeon

1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68

1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra

1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth

1853 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies

1853 Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director, Kathleen

1852 Barend Barendse, actor and director, Wandering Jew

1852 Teunis Stoel, actor and director, Small Theater, Rotterdam

1847 Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director, Imperial Theatre

1846 Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director

1841 Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82

1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67

1837 David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao

1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director Confederate Army

1827 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54

1823 John P Kemble, English actor and director (Covent Garden), dies at 66

1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director.

1812 Abraham I van Lier, theater director, Gran Theatre-van Lier

1808 Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son

1802 Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60

1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director

1785 William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens

1779 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71

1773 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director

1771 Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61

1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname

1771 Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director

1758 Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch Staatscourant

1757 John P Kemble, England, actor and director, Drury Lane, Covent Garden

1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56

1707 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens

1692 John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62

1685 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company

1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director

1629 John Commelin, director, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam

1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony


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