1999 Paul Bowles, writer, The Sheltering Sky, dies at 88
1995 Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive
1992 George Lovi, U.S. columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
1991 John Russell, actor and writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
1990 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
1985 Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
1983 Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1979 Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68
1976 Sky Christopherson, Tucson Ariz, cyclist 1996 Olympics
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1967 Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63
1966 Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1962 Campbell Scott, born in New York City, actor, Singles, Dying Young, Sheltering Sky
1961 D B Sweeney, actor, Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Day in October
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, born in Dallas, Texas, guitarist, Sky is Crying, Texas Flood
1949 Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer, Riders in the Sky
1948 Tovah Feldshuh, New York City, actress, Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky
1945 Kathy Young, rocker, Thousand Stars in the Sky
1942 Norman Greenbaum, Massachusetts, folk singer, Spirit in the Sky
1942 Brandon De Wilde, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Jamie, Wild in the Sky
1939 George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist, Dark Sky Legacy
1926 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
1926 Lyndon Brook, actor, Invasion, Reach for the Sky
1924 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78
1923 Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author, Sky Music
1920 Hayes Gordon, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Sky Pirates, Dark Room
1911 Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor, Sky King
1911 Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor, Big Sky, Apache Uprising
1910 Paul Frederic Bowles, U.S. composer/writer, Shelting Sky
1904 Lyle Latell, born in Iowa, actor, Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon
1900 Louise Nevelson, U.S., sculptor, Sky Cathedral
1887 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1871 Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
1856 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
1846 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1843 An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston South Carolina thunderstorm
1832 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer
1797 1st sky diver (Andre-Jacques Trim, above Paris)
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