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1994 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56

1994 Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83

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

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

1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor and writer (Friends of My Friends), dies

1989 Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and His Friends), dies at 69 of cancer

1989 Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends), dies at 79

1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1

1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75

1975 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London

1973 Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75

1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes

1969 Matthew L Perry, actor, Friends

1966 Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65

1961 John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies

1959 Albert King, actor, BB King and Friends, Blues Alive

1959 "Rocky and His Friends" debuts on ABC

1959 1st episode of "Rocky and His Friends" airs

1954 Craig Wasson, born in Oregon, actor, Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club

1954 Anicee Alvina, Paris, France, actress, Friends

1949 "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" premieres on CBS TV

1948 Jessica Cleaves, born in Los Angeles, California, singer, member, Friends of Distinction, performed with Earth, Wind & Fire

1947 Rula Lenska, St. Neots England, actress, Friends from Europe are here

1947 David Gee, director, Friends of the Earth

1946 Ron Silver, born in New York City, actor, Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends

1946 Lee Oskar, born in Denmark, rock harmonicist, War-Why Can't We Be Friends

1945 Tandy Cronyn, actress, Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends

1944 Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends

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

1939 Marion Marlowe, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Arthur Godfrey and Friends

1933 John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70

1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places

1920 Jay Ward, cartoonist, Rocky and his Friends, Bullwinkle

1915 Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills, New York, Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends

1914 John Berryman, American poet, Friends and Associates

1909 Leo Malet, born in Montpelier, France, writer, novelist, aligned with Surrealists, friends with Renee Magritte, Andre Breton, famous for crime novel character Nestor Burma

1888 Dale Carnegie, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People

1881 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations

1834 John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie

1790 Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery


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