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2002 "Lisa ""Left Eye"" Lopes", singer, TLC, dies at 30

1999 The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel, opens by the banks of the Thames

1997 San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital

1986 Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76

1980 Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80

1975 Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98

1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74

1972 Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38

1971 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64

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

1970 Izabella Scorupco, born in Bialystok, Poland, actress, Golden Eye

1969 1st human eye transplant performed

1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

1968 Josh Brolin, actor, Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders

1968 Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69

1966 Shelley Michelle, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Golden Eye

1965 Christopher Nolan, born in Ireland, handicapped writer, Under Eye of Clock

1964 King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64

1956 Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss Amer, 76, /, Eye on Hollywood

1956 Bill Lagattuta, born in New York City, news correspondent, CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye

1952 Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer, Eye to Eye

1952 Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ire, actor, Remington Steele, Golden Eye

1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61

1951 Kate Nelligan, born in London, Ontario, actress, Bethune, Eye of the Needle

1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published

1939 Ken Follett, spy author, Eye of the Needle

1939 Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye

1938 Connie Stevens, born in Brooklyn, singer and actress, Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach

1938 1st use of seeing eye dog

1936 Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer, Eagle's Eye

1936 Troy Donahue, New York City, actor, Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye

1933 Poncie Ponce, actor, Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye

1930 Grant Williams, New York City, actor, Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man

1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms

1928 Ian Bannen, born in Airdrie, Scotland, actor, Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park

1920 Peter Jones, born in England, actor, From a Bird's Eye View

1919 Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director, Persona, Devil's Eye

1913 Barbara Pym, romantic author, Very Private Eye

1913 Russ Conway, born in Brandon, Manitoba, actor, Richard Diamond Private Eye

1912 William Sansom, English writer, Loving Eye

1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)

1907 Horace McMahon, South Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye

1906 George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967

1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director, Evil Eye

1898 Lee Tracy, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye

1897 Walter Greaza, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye

1889 Cyril Delevanti, England, actor, Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye

1879 Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye

1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology

1820 1st U.S. eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City

1752 Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation

1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye



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