1968 Birthday Shannon Sturges, born in Hollywood, California, actress, daytime soap opera veteran, appeared in television shows Passions, Charmed, Savannah, Days of Our Lives 1959 Death Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 1949 Birthday Thomas Sturges Watson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1975 Byron Nelson 1929 Event Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City 1911 Birthday John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1898 Birthday Preston Sturges, Edmund P Biden, Chic, director, Sullivan's Travels