2000 Death Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80 1990 Event Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt 1988 Event Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1968 Death Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt 1952 Birthday Barry Champagne, born in Louisiana, stunt coorindator, Licence to Kill 1945 Birthday J. W. "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator, Octopussy 1940 Birthday Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man 1938 Death Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 1936 Birthday Alex Rocco, actor, Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man 1918 Death Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies 1912 Event Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) 1910 Event 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1889 Birthday Pearl White, Victoria, U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline
