1992 Event 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS) 1991 Death Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer 1990 Death Alan Hale, Jr., Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71 1989 Death Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia 1981 Event "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs 1978 Event 1st TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" 1962 Birthday Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer 1955 Birthday Frank Gilligan, Queens, New York, singer, Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around 1935 Birthday Bob Denver, born in New Rochelle, New York, actor, Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island 1924 Event South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 1916 Birthday Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic, New Jersey, TV creator, Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is 1894 Birthday Arthur Gilligan, cricketer, England captain in 1920's
