1975 Birthday Karan Ashley Jackson, Odessa, Texas, actress, Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers 1974 Birthday Devon Odessa, actor, Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost 1971 Death Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43 1971 Birthday Elena Brioukhovets, born in Odessa, Ukraine, tennis star, finalist 1990 Moscow 1970 Birthday Alla Korot, Odessa U.S.S.R., actress, Jenna Norris-Another World 1956 Event KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Birthday Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa, Ukraine, disident poet, Beyond the Limit 1953 Event KMID TV channel 2 in Midland and Odessa, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting 1950 Birthday Mary Tamm, British actress, Odessa File 1944 Event Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis 1941 Event 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine 1941 Event Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia 1938 Birthday Frederick Forsyth, author, Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File 1935 Birthday Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, Odessa U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 6 1931 Birthday Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor, Odessa File, To Catch a Spy 1930 Birthday Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor and director, Odessa File, Julia 1928 Birthday Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut, Soyuz 11 1916 Birthday Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist, Brussels Competition-1938 1908 Birthday David Oistrakh, born in Odessa, Russia, violinist and professor, Moscow Conservatory 1904 Birthday Nathan Milstein, born in Odessa, Russia, concert violinist, Philadelphia Orchestra 1942 1902 Birthday Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor, Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen 1901 Birthday Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother 1897 Birthday Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled