2002 Caroline Knapp, writer, Drinking: A Love Story, dies at 41
2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80
1998 Jerome Robbins, choreographer, West Side Story, dies at 79
1997 Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
1995 Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65
1995 Carl M Story, fiddler, dies at 78
1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83
1992 Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1991 Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75
1991 Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances
1990 Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies
1990 Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74
1990 "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert New York City for 225 performances
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72
1990 Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies
1988 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
1985 Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75
1983 Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1981 Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43 (suicide)
1981 Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1981 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)
1981 Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1980 "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 341 performances
1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances
1977 Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
1976 Mary Nash, actress (Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91
1975 Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68
1974 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
1973 John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81
1973 Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden
1972 Tami Stronach, born in Teheran, Iran, actress, Neverending Story
1971 CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
1971 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
1971 Noah Hathaway, actor, Troll, Neverending Story
1968 Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
1968 Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1966 Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, born in Nelsonville, Ohio, actress, Square Pegs, LA Story
1964 Drew Story, San Clemente, California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics
1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win
1961 Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1961 Imogen Stubbs, Rothbury England, actress, Summer Story
1959 Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin
1959 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 734 performances
1957 "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 734 performances
1957 Bernstein and Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in New York City
1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1956 Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress, Secret Rapture, Life Story
1956 Lena Olin, born in Stockholm, Sweden, actress, Enemies A Love Story
1955 Isabelle Adjani, born in Paris, actress, Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar
1950 Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress, Wagner, Story of Slipper and Rose
1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in New York City
1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1947 Vincent Baggetta, Paterson, New Jersey, actor, Lou-Chicago Story
1947 Ann Beattie, Washington D.C., short story writer, New Yorker Magazine
1947 Bill Smitrovich, actor, Crime Story, Miami Vice
1946 Bruce Robinson, actor, Story of Adele H
1945 Nicola Pagett, actress, Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade
1944 Don Stroud, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story
1944 Gary Busey, born in Goose Creek, Texas, actor, Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born
1944 Paul Sands, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian/actor, SCTV, Story Theater, St. Elsewhere
1944 Dennis Farina, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Mike Torello-Crime Story
1944 Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist
1941 Ryan O'Neal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story
1941 Ryan O'Neal, actor, Love Story, Paper Moon
1939 Ali MacGraw, born in Pound Ridge, New York, actress, Love Story, Goodbye Columbus
1939 Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in New York City
1939 Charles Fuller, U.S. writer, Zooman, Soldier Story
1939 Richard Beymer, Avoca, Iowa, actor, West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank
1938 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer, Furious Season
1937 Erich Segal, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, Love Story, Oliver's Story
1936 Susan Kohner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story
1936 Tony Lo Bianco, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!
1935 F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut, STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61, 80
1935 Story Musgrave, American Astronaut
1934 Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist, Annie, West Side Story
1934 Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress, West Side Story
1933 George Chakiris, born in Norwood, Ohio, actor, West Side Story
1933 Chita Rivera, Washington D.C., actress, West Side Story, Sweet Charity
1931 Rita Moreno, [Rosa Dolores Alverio], Humacao PR, West Side Story
1931 Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic
1930 Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown
1930 Stephen Sondheim, born in New York City, lyricist, West Side Story, Company
1928 Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story
1928 Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita
1928 Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, Flamingo Road, Different Story
1926 Diana Lynn, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go
1926 John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story
1924 Sieto Hoving, actor, Holiday in Havana, Palm Beach Story
1923 Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story
1923 Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress, Miniver Story, Man from Laramie
1922 Joan McCracken, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Claudie Story of a Marriage
1922 Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor, Story of a Love Story
1922 Eleanor Parker, born in Ohio, actress, Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker
1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse
1918 Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], New York, choreographer, Tony-West Side Story
1918 Paul Harvey, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, news commentator, Rest of the story
1918 Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence, Massachusetts, conductor and composer, West Side Story
1918 Arthur Laurents, born in New York City, playwright, West Side Story, Gypsy
1917 Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story
1916 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury, New York, actress, Poltergeist, Nun's Story
1916 Carl M Story, fiddler
1914 Samuel "Larry" K Parks, Olathe, Kansas, actor, Jolson-Jolson Story
1914 Charles Drake, Bayside New York City, actor, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story
1914 Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story
1913 Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah
1910 Jack Hawkins, London, actor, Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story
1910 Bill Goodwin, born in San Francisco, California, announcer, Jolson Story, Burns and Allen
1909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., New York City, actor, Ghost Story
1909 Josephine Hutchinson, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Story of Louis Pasteur
1908 Ben Grauer, New York City, newscaster, Big Story
1907 Howard Joslin, Georgia, actor, Quebec, Detective Story
1907 Richard Harkness, Artesian, South Dakota, newscaster, Story of the Week, NBC
1906 Bob Considine, sports columnist, Bob Feller Story
1906 William Bendix, New York City, actor, Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley
1905 Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor, Story of an Orch
1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur
1902 Kathryn Forbes, short story writer, mama's bank account
1901 Melvyn Douglas, born in Macon, Georgia, actor, Hud, Ghost Story
1900 Ludwig Donath, actor, Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again
1900 Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress, Baby Doll, Nun's Story
1899 Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems
1899 George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story
1898 Ariel Durant, writer, Story of Civilization
1896 Philip Barry, U.S., dramatist, Philadelphia Story
1894 Will Wright, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Living Christ Story
1894 Henry Daniell, born in London, actor, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers
1893 Roy Del Ruth, DE, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show
1893 Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian writer/poet/story teller
1893 English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1893 Dorothy Parker, New Jersey, short story writer, 1958 Marjorie Peabody Award
1891 Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist
1889 Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story
1889 Margery Allingham, detective story writer
1887 Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner
1885 Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization
1885 Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems
1885 Mary Nash, Troy, New York, actress, Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By
1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor and playwright, Story of a Cheat
1882 Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer
1882 Ludvig Nordstrom, Sweden, writer, Story of Peter Svensk
1882 Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor, Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro
1882 Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer, Story of America
1875 Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah, Tennessee, actress, Climax, Tall Story
1871 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1871 Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1861 Georges Melies, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy
1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1826 Alexander Aphanashev, Russ story teller, Narodnye roesskie skazki
1811 Samuel Story, Dutch rear Admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58
1798 Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends
1792 Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller, Rhymes and Tales
1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller, Grimm's Fairy Tales
1785 Arvir A. Afzelius, Swedish story teller
1779 Joseph Story, Massachusetts, 19th Supreme Court justice, 1812-45
1752 Samuel Story, Dutch Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin
1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
1608 John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
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