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2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80

1990 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 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50

1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt

1952 Barry Champagne, born in Louisiana, stunt coorindator, Licence to Kill

1945 J. W. "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator, Octopussy

1940 Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man

1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49

1936 Alex Rocco, actor, Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man

1918 Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies

1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)

1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1889 Pearl White, Victoria, U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline


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