2015 Event Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million 2015 Event A 37-year-old man from South Carolina is rescued 500 miles from home after 66 days lost at sea; Louis Jordan had been in an antique 35-foot sailboat fishing in the open sea when the boat capsized in a storm, and he survived on fish and rainwater 2014 Event Tension increases for New York City police after a man kills two officers to avenge the killing of two unarmed black men by police in recent weeks; police have been ordered to work in pairs and to consider their own safety first while on patrol 2014 Event Protests erupt in New York and other U.S. cities after a grand jury does not indict a white police officer for choking to death an unarmed man, Eric Garner; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to retrain the police force in conflict resolution 2014 Event A mentally ill man is apprehended after jumping the White House fence and injuring the two police dogs that stopped him; the man had been previously arrested near the White House on a misdemeanor 2014 Event Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 2014 Event A Liberian man has been identified as the first U.S. case of Ebola; the man was initially misdiagnosed at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, but the virus was found after he was hospitalized for his worsening condition 2014 Event A man is apprehended inside the White House after scaling the fence and running into the building; U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were not there at the time of the incident 2014 Event A 21-year-old man is the first reported case of Ebola in Senegal; the man had recent contact with Ebola victims from Guinea 2014 Event Tobacco company R. J. Reynolds must pay over $23 billion in resolution of a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died from lung cancer at age 36; the suit accused the company of hiding the health risks and habit-forming nature of cigarettes 2014 Event The world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passes away at age 111 in New York; the oldest living woman is currently 116 years old and lives in Japan 2013 Event The 2013 Man Booker Prize is won by Eleanor Catton for her book, 'The Luminaries' 2013 Event At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles after beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets; he becomes the first British man to win since Fred Perry's Wimbleton 1936 win 2013 Event The oldest European remains of a white man are discovered in Australia; the Manning River Skull may belong to a man born in 1650, predating the country's history that Captain James Cook was the first to land on Australia's east coast in 1770 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Death The world's oldest living person and verified longest lived man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, dies in the city of Kyotango, Japan at age 116 2013 Event During the new swearing in ceremony of Enrico Letta, an Italian man shoots and wounds two policemen outside Palazzo Chigi 2013 Event A court grants Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use her own name; after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name, the Reykjavik court rules it could also be used as a girl's name 2012 Event A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert 2012 Event The writer of 'Carrie's War,' Nina Bawden, who was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, dies in London at age 87 2012 Event In the Najran Province of Saudi Arabia, a man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft 2011 Event Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation 2010 Event Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years 2010 Event Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function 2003 Death Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116 2003 Death Barry White, man with velvet voice, ", Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, ", dies at 58 2003 Death Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor, The Music Man, dies at 78 2003 Death "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 2002 Death William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82 2002 Death Jack Olsen, writer, Last Man Standing, dies at 77 2002 Death Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71 2002 Death Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79 2000 Death Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80 2000 Death Curt Siodmak, screenplay writer, The Wolf Man, dies at 98 1999 Death Pete Conrad, "astronaut, businessman", third man to walk on the moon, dies at 69 1999 Death Richard Kiley, actor, Man of La Mancha, dies at 76 1999 Death Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 1999 Death Michael Angelo Avallone, writer, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., novelization, dies at 73 1998 Event Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards 1998 Death Tammy Wynette, singer, Stand by Your Man, dies at 55 1997 Death Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 1997 Death Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92 1997 Death Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109 1997 Event "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 85 performances 1997 Death Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 1997 Event "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre New York City for 85 performances 1997 Death Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 1995 Event Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend) 1995 Death John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 1995 Event Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners 1995 Event Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world, worth$12.9 billion dollars 1995 Death William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 1995 Death Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83 1995 Death Calder Willingham, U.S. scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72 1995 Death Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49 1995 Death Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Event Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide 1994 Event Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal 1994 Death Paul Swift, U.S. actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 1994 Event Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station 1994 Death Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76 1994 Death Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 1994 Event "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances 1994 Event "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances 1993 Death Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88 1993 Death Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 1993 Death Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88 1993 Death Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday 1993 Death Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies 1993 Death Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91 1993 Death Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86 1992 Death Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies 1992 Death James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 1992 Death Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies 1992 Death Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51 1992 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances 1992 Death Maxine Audley, British actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69 1992 Death Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51 1992 Death Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies 1992 Event Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha" 1992 Event "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 108 performances 1992 Event Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini 1992 Death Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82 1992 Death Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62 1992 Death Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76 1992 Event Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man 1992 Death William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74 1991 Event Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year 1991 Death W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies 1991 Death Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 1991 Death Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58 1991 Event TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man 1991 Death Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73 1991 Death Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies 1991 Death Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49 1991 Event Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" 1991 Death Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 1990 Death Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90 1990 Death Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73 1990 Event Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977 1990 Event On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long 1990 Event Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London 1990 Death Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79 1989 Event 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football 1989 Death Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose 1989 Event Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning 1989 Event Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage 1988 Event Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City) 1988 Event Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame 1988 Death Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90 1988 Death David Prater, U.S. singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 1988 Event Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase 1988 Death Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67 1987 Event 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man 1987 Event 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) 1987 Event Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England 1987 Death O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 1987 Event 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match 1987 Event Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it 1987 Event Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 home run - 30 steal man 1987 Event Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains 1987 Death Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 1987 Death Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68 1986 Death Scatman Crothers, singer and actor (Shining, Chico and The Man), dies at 76 1986 Death Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63 1986 Death John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 1986 Death Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 1985 Event PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election 1985 Event St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man 1985 Death Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54 1985 Death George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66 1985 Birthday Tina Majorino, actress, Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman 1984 Event Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) and Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed 1984 Death Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 1984 Event John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" 1984 Event Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London 1984 Death William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94 1984 Death Irwin Shaw, U.S. writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 1984 Death Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68 1984 Death Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self 1984 Death William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91 1983 Event Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) 1983 Death Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1983 Event Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m) 1982 Event TIME's Man of the Year is a computer 1982 Death Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72 1982 Birthday Robert Anthony, born in Chicago, Illinois, ring name, 'Egotistico Fantastico', professional wrestler, athlete, World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Iron Man Champion, AAW Heavyweight Championship 1982 Death Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91 1981 Death Jack Albertson, actor (Chico and the Man), dies at 74 1981 Death Chief Dan George, actor (Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82 1981 Birthday Austin O'Brien, actor, Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man 1981 Death Nelson Algren, U.S. writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 1981 Event Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game 1981 Death Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86 1981 Death [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82 1980 Event David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver 1980 Death Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69 1979 Event British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1979 Birthday Anndi Lynn McAfee, actress, Ice Cream Man, Conagher 1979 Death Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75 1979 Event Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles 1979 Event 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win 1979 Death Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 1979 Event Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed 1978 Birthday Clay Aiken, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, singer, appeared on 'American Idol' television show, debut album, 'Measure of a Man' went multi-platinum 1978 Event Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man 1978 Event Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected 1978 Event 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii 1978 Death Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71 1977 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 124 performances 1977 Event Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London 1977 Death Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82 1977 Event "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances 1977 Death Don Blackman, actor (Old Man and Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65 1977 Event "I'm Your Boogie Man" by Kansas City and Sunshine Band peaks at #1 1977 Death Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63 1977 Death Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86 1977 Death Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico and the Man), shoots himself at 22 1976 Death Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43 1976 Death Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 1976 Event Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 1976 Death James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69 1976 Death Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy), dies at 65 1976 Event "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV 1976 Death Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man, Go-Between), dies at 53 1975 Birthday Scott E Weinger, New York City, actor, Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House 1975 Event Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK 1975 Event Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London 1975 Death Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60 1975 Death Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 1975 Death Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54 1975 Death Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72 1974 Event "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US 1974 Event Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) 1974 Event "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 1974 Event "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV 1973 Death Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71 1973 Death Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76 1973 Event Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK 1973 Event Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps 1973 Death Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66 1973 Death Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50 1973 Death Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 1972 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances 1972 Death Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 1972 Birthday Dennis Military man, soccer player, Sparta/Vitesse 1972 Event "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 140 performances 1971 Death Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 1971 Event John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of U.S. Open 1971 Event "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden New York City after 31 performances 1971 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City after 2329 performances 1971 Event "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances 1971 Death Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist (Nature and Destiny of Man), dies at 78 1971 Death John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70 1971 Birthday Method Man, American Musician 1971 Birthday John Buchanan, actor, Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man 1970 Death Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 1970 Birthday Natasha Ryan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Amy-Ladies' Man 1969 Birthday Gene Hunt, R&B musician, Acid Man 1969 Event 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft 1969 Death Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 1969 Death Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78 1968 Death Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 1968 Birthday Hugh Jackman, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, producer, movies include 'Kate & Leopold', 'The Prestige', 'X-Men', named 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine 1968 Death Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 1968 Birthday Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian, Totally Pauly, Encino Man 1968 Birthday Whitfield Crane, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad 1967 Death Francoise Dorleac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35 1967 Birthday Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk 1967 Death Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 1967 Death Henry C Rumke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74 1967 Birthday Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper/actor, Only the Strong 1967 Event 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win 1967 Event Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City 1967 Death Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack 1966 Birthday Bill Ranford, Brandon Man, NHL goalie, Team Canada, Boston 1966 Birthday C Thomas Howell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man 1966 Birthday Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress, Rain Man, Little Flames 1966 Birthday Mike Tyson, born in Brooklyn, New York, professional boxer, youngest man to win WBC, WBA IBF world heavyweight titles, nickname 'Iron Mike' 1966 Event 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha win 1966 Death Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75 1966 Birthday Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis 1966 Event Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London 1966 Death William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71 1965 Death Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64 1965 Event "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 performances 1965 Birthday Kadeem Hardison, actor, A Different World, The Sixth Man 1965 Event Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" 1965 Event Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs. Pakistan 1965 Death Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 1965 Birthday Cordell Crockett, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad 1965 Event Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" 1964 Event Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) 1964 Death Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79 1964 Event "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV 1964 Birthday Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law 1964 Death Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 1964 Birthday Biz Markie, rocker, Meteor Man, Townsend Television 1964 Death Frank Albertson, actor (Chico and Man, Room Service), dies at 55 1964 Event U.S. Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs. Sanders) 1964 Death A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 1963 Birthday Scott Ian, U.S. heavy metal guitarist, Anthrax-I'm the Man 1963 Birthday Brian Clark, Brandon Man, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Morden Pro-Am 1963 Death Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71 1963 Death Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies 1963 Death Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74 1962 Birthday Beatie Edney, born in London, England, actress, Diary of a Mad Old Man 1962 Death Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48 1962 Event 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed win 1962 Birthday Clint Black, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, country vocalist, A Better Man 1961 Death Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 1961 Event John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1961 Birthday Riaz Poonawalla, cricketer, Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy 1961 Event "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1375 performances 1961 Birthday Julia Louis-Dreyfus, born in New York City, comedienne, SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll 1961 Death Dashiell Hammett, U.S. detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66 1960 Birthday Rene Froger, Dutch singer, Everything Can Make a Man Happy 1960 Death Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72 1960 Event Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London 1960 Birthday Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker, Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man 1960 Event Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in New York City 1959 Birthday Danitra Vance, comedienne, SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up 1959 Death Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78 1958 Event 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win 1957 Event "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances 1957 Birthday Fran Drescher, Queens, New York, actress, Cadillac Man, Nanny 1957 Event David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon 1957 Event 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 1957 Birthday Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph 1957 Birthday Jenifer Lewis, actress, Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act 1956 Birthday Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet, Man and his Bag 1956 Birthday Randi Brooks, New York City, actress, Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope 1956 Birthday Dwight Yoakam, born in Pikeville, Kentucky, country singer, Honky Tonk Man 1956 Death Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50 1955 Birthday Bo Derek, Mary Collins, born in Long Beach, California, actress, 10, Tarzan the Ape Man 1955 Event Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th 1955 Birthday Kix Brooks, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, singer, Brooks and Dunn-Brand New Man 1954 Birthday Ullrich Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold 1954 Birthday Walter Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold 1954 Birthday 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 Birthday Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress, Celeste, Man Like Eva 1954 Death Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69 1954 Birthday Reed Birney, born in Alexandria, Virginia, actor, Greatest Man in the World 1954 Death Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65 1954 Birthday Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor, Funny Man 1954 Birthday Sam J Jones, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man 1954 Birthday Freddie Prinze, New York City, comedian/actor, Chico and the Man 1954 Birthday John Iles, dolby supervisor, Elephant Man, Richard III 1954 Birthday Gunther Tiersch, born in East Germany, 8 man cox, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1954 Birthday Norbert Hahn, born in East Germany, 2 man luge, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1953 Event "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax 1953 Death Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67 1953 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1953 Birthday Hans Rinn, born in East Germany, 2 man lugist, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1953 Birthday Kay Lenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man 1952 Birthday "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Poffo, Sarasota, Florida, wrestler, WWF/SMW/ICW 1952 Event Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published 1952 Birthday Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man 1952 Event 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 1952 Birthday Marilu Henner, born in Chicago, actress, Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade 1951 Birthday Jeff Altman, comedian/actor, Nurses, Pink Lady, Soul Man 1951 Birthday Penny Peyser, Irvington, New York, actress, Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing 1951 Birthday Charo, Murcia Spain, actress and singer, Chico and the Man, Love Boat 1951 Birthday John McTiernan, born in Albany, New York, actor, Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man 1950 Event Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1950 Birthday Belinda J Montgomery, born in Winnipeg, actress, Man From Atlantis 1950 Birthday John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor, Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man 1949 Event "One Man's Family" premieres on TV 1949 Birthday Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion 1949 Birthday Francis Rossi, guitarist, Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man 1949 Birthday Patrick Duffy, born in Townsend, Montana, actor, Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis 1948 Death Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53 1948 Death Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 1948 Birthday Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress, Rich Man Poor Man 1948 Birthday Kim Darby, N Hollywood, actress, True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man 1948 Death Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies 1948 Birthday Berry Oakley, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker, Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man 1948 Birthday Jacques Kloes, singer, Dizzy Man's Band 1948 Birthday Tony Iommi, rock guitarist, Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man 1947 Birthday Greg Lake, born in Dorset, England, singer, songwriter, guitarist, performed "Karn Evil 9" with the Trans Siberian Orchestra, played "Lucky Man" with Jethro Tull 1947 Death Man O' War, racehorse, dies 1947 Birthday Terje Rypdal, born in Oslo, Norway, composer, guitarist, works include 'Mystery Man', 'Last Nite', featured in the film 'Heat' 1947 Birthday Candy Clark, born in Oklahoma, actress, Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti 1947 Birthday Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress, Man Who be King, Miss Guyana, 1967 1947 Birthday John Lees, England, rock guitarist and vocalist, Medicine Man 1946 Death Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies 1946 Event Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels 1946 Birthday Erich Scharer, born in Switzerland, 2 man bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold 1946 Birthday John Conlee, Versailles, Kentucky, country singer, Common Man 1946 Birthday Brigitte Fossey, born in Tourcoing, France, actress, Man Who Died Twice 1946 Birthday Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist 1960 Olympics gold 1945 Birthday Paul Monette, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy 1945 Death Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 Death George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80 1945 Birthday Tim Hovey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid 1945 Birthday Laura Lee, Rundless, singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights 1945 Birthday Johnny Cymbal, rocker, Mr Bass Man 1945 Birthday Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord' 1944 Birthday Eddy Raven, Lafayette, Louisiana, country singer, Right Hand Man 1944 Birthday Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64 1944 Birthday Robert Powell, England, actor, Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets 1944 Birthday Katherine Crawford, actress, Captains and Kings, Gemini Man 1944 Birthday Alan Fudge, Wichita, Kansas, actor, Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls 1944 Death Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79 1944 Birthday Katherine Crawford, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Gemini Man, Captains and Kings 1943 Birthday Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach, Florida, guitarist, Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man 1943 Birthday Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands 1943 Birthday Joe Namath, Pennsylvania, NFL quarterback for the New York Jets, $400,000 man, 1969 Superbowl 1942 Event Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man 1942 Birthday Johnny Rivers, Ramistella, New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man 1942 Birthday Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Wicker Man, Asylum 1942 Birthday Donna Corcoran, Quincy Massachusetts, actress, Man Without a Star 1942 Birthday Giancarlo Giannini, born in Spezia, Italy,actor, New York Stories, Sensual Man 1942 Birthday Roger McGuinn, guitarist, Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr. Tambourine Man 1942 Birthday Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer, Stand by your Man 1942 Birthday Francoise Dorleac, born in Paris, France, actress, That Man From Rio 1942 Birthday Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, actor, Rich Man Poor Man 1941 Birthday Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress, Rich Man Poor Man 1941 Birthday David Porter, U.S. songwriter, Soul Man 1941 Event Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres 1941 Birthday Meinhard Nehmer, born in East Germany, 2 man bobsledder 1976 Olympics gold 1941 Birthday Susannah York, London, actress, A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones 1940 Birthday Percy Sledge, soul singer, When A Man Loves A Woman 1940 Birthday F Murray Abraham, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Amadeus, Mad Man 1940 Birthday Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor, $6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy 1940 Death Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 1940 Death Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70 1940 Birthday Mireille Darc, Toulo,n France, actor, Week End, Hurried Man 1940 Birthday Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man 1940 Event Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft 1940 Birthday Robby Mueller, cinematographer, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak 1940 Birthday John Hurt, England, actor, Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express 1939 Death Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 1939 Event George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City 1939 Birthday Corin Redgrave, born in London, actor, Excalibur, Man For All Seasons 1939 Birthday Lawrence Pressman, born in Kentucky, actor, Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle 1939 Death [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80 1939 Birthday Man Mohan Sood, cricketer, scored 0 and 3 in his only Test for India 1939 Event Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech 1939 Birthday Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots, 345 mph 1939 Birthday Robert Nye, writer, Facts of Life and other fiction, 3 Views of Man 1938 Birthday Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Omega Man, Wrong is Right 1938 Event Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) 1938 Death Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65 1938 Birthday Victor Buono, SD California, actor, Man from Atlantis, Untouchables 1937 Birthday Anthony Hopkins, born in Wales, actor, Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty 1937 Birthday Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 Birthday Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist, Ramblin' Man 1937 Birthday Jimmy Jones, born in Birmingham, Alabama, African-American rocker, singer, songwriter, performed with doo-wop group The Berliners, wrote 'Handy Man' recorded by the Sparks of Rhythm 1937 Birthday Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx 1936 Birthday Michael Stone, English broker/multi-millionaire, Man Group 1936 Birthday Alex Rocco, actor, Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man 1936 Birthday Virginia Maskell, actress, Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs 1935 Birthday Esther Phillips, EM Jones, U.S. singer, When a Woman Loves a Man 1935 Birthday Lou Rawls, born in Chicago, Illinois, vocalist, Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man 1934 Birthday Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer and songwriter, Death of Ladies Man 1934 Birthday Sam Trimble, cricketer, Queensland bat, 12th man for Australia, no Test 1934 Birthday Diane Cilento, Rabaul, actress, Hombre, Tom Jones, Wicker Man 1934 Birthday Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1 1934 Birthday Nick Nolte, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actor, Teachers, 48 hours, Rich Man Poor Man 1933 Birthday Diane Cilento, born in Australia, actress, Agony and Ecstasy, Wicker Man 1933 Birthday Clari Baruch, Clara C de Lieme, actress, Man With White Flower 1933 Birthday Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march 1932 Birthday Dimitra Arliss, actress, Rich Man Poor Man II 1932 Birthday Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird 1932 Event 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio 1932 Birthday William Smith, born in Columbia, Missouri, actor, Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0 1931 Birthday Mary Murphy, Washington D.C., actress, A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators 1931 Birthday James Earl Jones, Mississippi, actor, Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man 1931 Birthday Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author, Man of Earth 1930 Birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z 1930 Birthday Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park 1930 Birthday Grant Williams, New York City, actor, Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man 1930 Birthday Abbey Lincoln, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress and singer, Nothing But a Man 1930 Birthday Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1929 Birthday Bob Hawke, cricketer, no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954 1929 Event 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1929 Birthday James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death 1928 Event 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man 1928 Birthday Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s 1928 Birthday Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor, Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man 1928 Birthday Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse, New York, actress, Thin Man, Red Button's Show 1928 Birthday George Maharis, actor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66 1928 Birthday James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor, Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven 1928 Event Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records 1928 Birthday Mitch Leigh, born in Brooklyn, New York, Irwin Michnick, graduated from Yale, composer, musical theater composer, theatrical producer, known for show Man Of La Mancha, composed jingle 'Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee' 1927 Birthday Barbara Cook, born in Atlanta, Georgia, stage singer and actress, Music Man 1927 Birthday Carmen Zapata, born in New York City, actress, Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man and the City 1926 Event Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in New York City 1926 Birthday Richard Anderson, born in Long Beach, New Jersey, actor, Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man 1926 Birthday James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters 1926 Birthday Vera-Ellen, Westmeyr Rohe, Cincinnati, actress/dancer, Wonder Man 1925 Birthday Sammy Davis, Jr., New York City, singer/dancer/actor, Ocean's 11, Candy Man 1925 Death Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41 1925 Event George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in New York City 1925 Birthday Jimmy Reed, born in Mississippi, blues singer, Soulin', Big Boss Man 1925 Birthday Gloria DeHaven, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia 1925 Event Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy 1925 Birthday Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, actress, Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless 1925 Birthday Jeanne Crain, Barstow California, actress, Man Without a Star 1925 Birthday Rod Steiger, born in West Hampton, New York, actor, Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker 1925 Birthday Flannery O'Connor, born in Georgia, novelist, A Good Man is Hard to Find 1924 Birthday Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago 1924 Birthday Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man 1923 Birthday Peter Lawford, born in London, England, actor, Mrs Miniver, Thin Man 1923 Birthday Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress, Miniver Story, Man from Laramie 1923 Birthday John Compton, born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, actor, Shannon-D.A.'s Man 1923 Birthday Hugh Lloyd, actor, Punch and Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising 1923 Birthday Murray Hamilton, born in Washington, North Carolina, actor, Rich Man Poor Man 1923 Birthday Chuck Yeager, U.S. test pilot, 1st man to break sound barrier 1922 Birthday Adele Jergens, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man 1922 Birthday Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue 1922 Birthday Barry Levinson, director, Rain Man 1922 Birthday Richard Kiley, born in Chicago, actor, Man of La Mancha, Endless Love 1922 Birthday Carl Reiner, born in Bronx, comedian, 2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show 1922 Birthday William Sylvester, born in Oakland California, actor, 2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man 1921 Birthday Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress, Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man 1921 Event Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1921 Event British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1920 Event Man O'War's last race and win 1920 Death Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer 1920 Event 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2 1920 Event 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6 1920 Birthday Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist, Man in the Gray Flannal 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 1919 Birthday Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1919 Event White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series 1919 Birthday Ronny Graham, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor, Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man 1919 Event Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) 1919 Birthday Alex Nicol, Ossining, New York, actor, Man From Laramie, Air Cadet 1918 Birthday Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics 1918 Event Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 1918 Birthday Robert Preston, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actor, Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter 1917 Birthday Ossie Davis, born in Cogdell, Georgia, actor and playwright, Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam 1917 Birthday Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story 1917 Birthday Charles Kerruish, president, Tyndwald Isle of Man 1917 Birthday Glenn Langan, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Amazing Colossal Man, Margie 1917 Birthday Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 1917 Birthday Virginia Grey, born in Louisiana, actress, Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho 1917 Birthday Phyllis Calvert, London, actress, Man in Grey 1916 Birthday John Vivyan, actor, Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life 1916 Birthday Stanley Kauffmann, born in New York City, playwright, Red Handkerchief Man 1915 Birthday Muddy Waters, guitarist, Hoochie Coochie Man 1914 Birthday William John Phillips, actor, Nothing but a Man 1914 Birthday Clifford Irving, Chairman, Isle of Man Government 1914 Birthday Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw 1914 Birthday Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man 1914 Birthday Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer, Invisible Man, Shadow and Cast 1914 Birthday Jim Boles, Lubbock, Texas, actor, Joe-One Man's Family 1913 Birthday Stuart J[ames] Byrne, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Man, God Man 1913 Birthday John Cairncross, linguist, 5th Man 1913 Birthday Irwin Shaw, U.S., novelist, Rich Man Poor Man 1913 Birthday Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head 1912 Birthday Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director, Man in the White Suit, Mandy 1912 Birthday Barry Sullivan, New York City, actor, Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man 1912 Birthday Adriaan Morrien, Dutch literary, An Untidy Man 1911 Birthday Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor, Equus, Man of La Mancha 1911 Birthday Gail Patrick, Birmingham, Alabama, actress, My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy 1911 Event Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK 1911 Birthday John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1910 Event 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1910 Birthday Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled 1952 Olympics gold 1910 Birthday Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature 1910 Birthday Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor, Every Man is My Enemy 1910 Birthday Marc Lawrence, New York City, actor, Man With Golden Gun 1910 Event 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf vs. Eng) 1910 Birthday Russ Bender, actor and writer, Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster 1909 Birthday Carol Lombard, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, actress, My Man Godfrey, In Name Only 1909 Birthday Nelson Algren, U.S., novelist, Man with the Golden Arm 1908 Birthday Robert F Simon, Mansfield, Ohio, actor, Man who shot Liberty Valance 1908 Event B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City 1908 Birthday Inez Courtney, born in New York City, actress, 13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven 1907 Event David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in New York City 1907 Birthday Jack Albertson, born in Malden, Massachusetts, actor, Thin Man, Chico and the Man 1907 Birthday Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer, Man in the Moon 1907 Event Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph) 1907 Birthday Cesar Romero, born in New York City, actor, Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man 1906 Birthday Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man 1906 Birthday H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole 1906 Birthday Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor, One Man's Family 1906 Birthday James Flavin, Portland Me, actor, Man With a Camera 1905 Birthday Mischa Auer, Ounskowsky, St. Petersburg Rus, actor, My Man Godfrey 1905 Event Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in New York City 1905 Event RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man 1905 Birthday Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana, actress, Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair 1905 Birthday Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor, 3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse 1905 Birthday Henrich Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold 1905 Birthday Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist, Man's Search for Meaning 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Birthday Kermit Bloomgarden, producer, Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man 1904 Birthday Graham Greene, English journalist, 3rd Man 1904 Birthday William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, Policy Man, Blazing Saddles 1904 Birthday John Gielgud, born in London, England, actor, Arthur, Ages of Man 1904 Event Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1903 Birthday Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973 1903 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" 1903 Birthday Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers, New York, actress, Fast Workers, Hold Your Man 1902 Birthday Christina Stead, born in Australia, novelist, Man Who Loved Children 1902 Birthday David Burns, actor, Music Man, Hello Dolly! 1902 Birthday [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer, Music Man 1902 Birthday Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement 1901 Birthday Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct 1900 Birthday John Longden, West Indies, actor, Man From Interpol 1900 Birthday Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress, Man in Grey, Becket 1899 Birthday Frank Vosper, born in London, England, actor, Man Who Knew Too Much 1899 Birthday Chief Dan George, actor, Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith! 1899 Birthday John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man 1899 Birthday Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary, 1 Man Without Character 1898 Death Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 1898 Birthday Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, Dutch writer/Radio Orange 1898 Birthday Curtis Stevens, U.S., 2 man bobsled 1932 Olympics gold 1898 Birthday Paul Robeson, born in Philadelphia, singer, Old Man River 1898 Birthday Alfred Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled, Gold Medal 1924 Olympics 1897 Birthday Hermione Gingold, born in London, England, actress, Gigi, Music Man 1897 Birthday Billy Greene, actor, Burton-One Man's Family 1896 Birthday Roark Bradford, writer/humorist, Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun 1896 Death Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 1896 Birthday Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man 1895 Birthday Florence Vidor, Arto, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Jack Knife Man 1895 Birthday John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man 1895 Birthday John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man 1894 Event Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man 1894 Event George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," premieres in London 1893 Birthday Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man 1893 Birthday Daan Boens, Flemish poet, Man who sold his Wife 1893 Birthday Henry C Rumke, Dutch psychiatrist, Periods in Man's Life 1892 Birthday Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair 1892 Birthday Alice Brady, New York City, actress, My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia 1892 Birthday Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor, Topper, Man From Uncle 1892 Birthday William Powell, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Thin Man, My Man Godfrey 1892 Birthday Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man 1892 Birthday Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister 1891 Birthday Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man 1891 Birthday Marjorie Gateson, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, One Man's Family 1891 Birthday Storm Jameson, English novelist, The Green Man, Cousin Honore 1890 Death Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71 1890 Event John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1890 Birthday Stanley Holloway, born in London, England, actor, Higgins-Our Man Higgins 1890 Birthday Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man 1890 Birthday Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada 1890 Birthday Marjorie Main, Tomlinson, Action, Indiana, actress, Another Thin Man 1889 Birthday Claude Rains, London, actor, Invisible Man, Casablanca 1889 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" 1889 Birthday Bruce F Cummings, English author, Journal of a Disappointed Man 1889 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" 1888 Birthday Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner 1887 Birthday Lynn Fontanne, born in Woodford, England, Bdwy actress, Dulcy, Arms and the Man 1887 Birthday Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner 1887 Event Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) 1886 Birthday R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man, died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108 1885 Birthday Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party 1885 Birthday Bert Lytell, New York City, actor, Henry-One Man's Family 1885 Birthday Alfred Fuller, CEO, Fuller Brush Man 1884 Birthday Davidson Black, born in Canada, doctor of anatomy, identified Peking Man 1884 Birthday Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man 1884 Birthday John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands 1883 Death Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 1883 Birthday Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor, High Noon, Phantom of Opera 1883 Birthday Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor, Man With a Camera 1882 Birthday Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor, Gorilla Man, Way Down East 1881 Birthday Emil Ludwig, German biographer, Diana, Son of Man 1878 Birthday A. W. "Dave" Nourse, cricketer, "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket 1876 Birthday William Farnum, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone 1876 Death Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn 1876 Birthday Pauline Musters, smallest man, 1'11.2", 58.9 cm, 1875 Birthday Grazia Deledda, Italy, novelist, Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926 1874 Birthday Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man 1874 Birthday Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner 1874 Birthday Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist, Man Who Made Gold 1872 Death Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 1872 Birthday Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 1866 Birthday Emil Strauss, Germany, writer, Naked Man 1865 Event Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" 1865 Event S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed 1864 Birthday Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man 1861 Birthday Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War 1860 Event Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) 1860 Birthday Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man" 1859 Event Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 1858 Birthday Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist, Mind of Primitive Man 1858 Birthday Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature 1856 Birthday R G Nivelle, French military man 1854 Birthday Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man' 1853 Death Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/U.S. military man, murdered 1853 Birthday August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club 1850 Birthday Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor, Minute Man 1849 Birthday James Whitcomb Riley, U.S., poet, Raggedy Man 1845 Event Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour 1834 Event 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City 1822 Birthday Edward Everett Hale, U.S., clergyman/author, Man without a Country 1811 Birthday Horace Greeley, editor, "Go west, young man" 1804 Birthday Ludwig A. Feuerbach, German philosopher, Man is what he eats 1804 Birthday James Bridger, scout, fur trader and mountain man par excellance 1798 Death Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66 1797 Birthday Claude Ambroise Seurat, born in Troyes, France, World's skinniest man 1795 Birthday James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army 1795 Birthday Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters 1790 Death Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89 1789 Event French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" 1763 Birthday John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in U.S., banker/fur trader 1747 Death Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England 1726 Birthday Louise-Florence Depinay, born in France, writer, Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms 1703 Death Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies 1703 Death Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52 1567 Death Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 1547 Birthday Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland 1531 Death Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37
