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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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