2004 Jan Miner, pitchwoman/stage actress, You're soaking in it, dies at 86
1997 Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97
1995 Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
1994 Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
1992 Francesca Primus, columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45
1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out
1987 Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57
1985 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
1984 Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses and dies on stage
1981 Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88
1980 Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
1980 John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title
1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"
1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1976 Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1973 Samuel N Behrman, U.S. stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1973 "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
1969 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
1968 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1965 Bob Dylan booed off stage in New York's Forest Hills
1965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage
1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1960 Leonard Warren, U.S. baritone, dies on stage at 48
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth
1959 Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1957 John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
1952 Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
1952 Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
1948 Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi, Japan (stage)writer (Tjitj kaeru), dies at 59
1947 Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor, Miss Saigon
1946 Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1945 Michael Joyce, stage manager
1945 Karen Akers, New York City, singer, On Stage at Wolf Trap
1943 Rick Danko, Canada, rocker, The Band-Islands, Stage Fright
1943 Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85
1943 Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies
1938 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64
1937 New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1935 Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1931 Carl Toms, stage designer
1931 James Dean, born in Marion, Indiana, stage/film actor, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause
1930 Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director, Pedestrian
1928 Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in "Night Hostess"
1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1927 Barbara Cook, born in Atlanta, Georgia, stage singer and actress, Music Man
1927 Carl Toms, stage designer, 1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two
1926 Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials
1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1923 Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress, Saint Joan
1921 Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance
1921 Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1918 Bob Carroll, singer and actor, Stage Two Revue, Stranger
1915 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor, Stage Door
1913 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager
1913 Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket
1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1911 Leonard Warren, born in New York City, baritone, Met 1939-60, died on stage
1910 Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1908 William Bakewell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show
1908 Ethel Merman, stage and screen actress, Anything Goes, Call Me Madam
1908 Abraham Goldfaden, U.S. Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Stage Show, Mahogany
1904 Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Stage Show
1900 Alastair Sims, Edinburgh Scot, actor, Christmas Carol, Stage Fright
1897 Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager, My Fair Lady
1896 Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress, Birth of a Nation
1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author, La Reine Morte
1893 Erwin Piscator, German stage director, Der Stellvertreter
1891 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician, stage, author/resistance fighter
1891 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director, Great Netherlands Stage
1890 Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish, stage, writer, Juudas, Sukeltaja
1890 Cor Ruys, Dutch actor, Princess Stage
1886 Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter
1883 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director, Hofstad Stage
1880 Donald Meek, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actor, Stage Fair, Stagecoach
1879 Ethel Barrymore, classic film and stage actress, Pinky, Moonrise
1879 Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish, stage, author, Tille
1873 Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star, Rotterdam Stage
1869 Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor/stage manager, La Parade
1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Virginia streetcars
1853 William H Gillette, actor, Sherlock Holmes on stage
1841 Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
1841 Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
1841 William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
1834 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1831 Victorien Sardou, French stage writer, Madame Sans-Gˆne
1831 Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1816 Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1805 Mihaly Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at 31
1691 George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
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