2012 Event At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Haneke wins the Palm D'Or for 'Love' 2004 Death Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47 1997 Death Stefan Lorant, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, dies at 96 1996 Death Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80 1996 Death Saul Bass, graphic designer, filmmaker, dies at 74 1996 Death Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78 1995 Death Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56 1994 Death Guy Debord, born in Paris, France, filmmaker, hypergraphist, theorist, founding member of Lettrist International, Situationist International, dies at 63 1994 Death Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70 1994 Death Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57 1993 Death Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57 1968 Birthday Guy Ritchie, born in Hatfield, England, filmmaker, screenwriter, music video director, directed 'Snatch', 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' 1966 Birthday Sherman Alexie, born in Wellpinit, Washington, writer, filmmaker, Native American, known for book, 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven', and 'Smoke Signals' film 1954 Birthday Emir Kusturica, born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, filmmaker, actor, musician, appeared in films, 'Promise Me This', 'Maradona' 1950 Birthday Neil Jordan, born in Sligo, Ireland, director, filmmaker, novelist, won Academy-Award for movie, The Crying Game 1936 Birthday Manmohan Desai, filmmaker 1933 Birthday Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media 1933 Birthday Costantinos Gavras, born in Greece, known as Costa-Gavras, French filmmaker, created political-themed films, known for fast-paced thriller titled Z, first film titled Missing, 1982 1933 Birthday Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography' 1933 Birthday Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' 1931 Birthday Guy Debord, born in Paris, France, filmmaker, hypergraphist, theorist, founding member of Lettrist International, Situationist International 1928 Birthday Tomas Gutierrez Alea, filmmaker 1924 Birthday Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker 1921 Birthday James Houston, born in Toronto, author/filmmaker, Tikta'Liktak 1920 Birthday Saul Bass, born in New York City, New York, graphic designer, filmmaker, created title sequences for 40 years, famous for The Man with the Golden Arm, kinetic typography in North by Northwest, Vertigo 1917 Birthday Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist 1916 Birthday Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker 1901 Birthday Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner'
