1995 Death Frank Perry, U.S. dir (Diary of Mad Housewife, David and Lisa), dies at 65 1994 Death Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64 1994 Death Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies 1994 Death Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 1994 Death Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79 1993 Death Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35 1993 Death Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread and Chocolate), dies at 70 1992 Death Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75 1992 Death Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94 1991 Death Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies 1991 Death Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73 1991 Death Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75 1990 Death Raymond St. Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60 1989 Death Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87 1989 Death Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72 1987 Death Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90 1986 Death Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79 1985 Death Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 1984 Death Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52 1984 Death William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94 1983 Death Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65 1982 Death Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70 1981 Death Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77 1980 Death Alf Sjoberg, dir (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76 1976 Death Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80 1973 Death Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86 1973 Death Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies 1970 Event Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus) 1968 Death Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 1966 Death Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94 1965 Death John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52 1961 Death Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53 1961 Death George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1960 Death Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60 1959 Death Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36 1954 Birthday Joel Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor/dir, Spies Like Us, Barton Fink 1954 Death Dziga Vertov, Kaufman, Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 1952 Birthday Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless 1947 Birthday David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games 1943 Death Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Birthday James Levine, musical conductor, Tosca, dir, Metropolitan Opera 1942 Birthday Rosa Von Praunheim, Holger Mischwitzky, Riga Latvia, dir, Affengeil 1942 Birthday Martin Scorsese, Queens, dir, Mean Streets, Last Temptation of Christ 1941 Birthday Stephen Frears, born in England, dir, Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons 1940 Death Adriaan J Enschede, dir (Dutch printers Joh Enschede), dies at 50 1939 Birthday William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection 1935 Birthday Burt Metcalfe, born in Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir, Father of the Bride 1933 Birthday John Boorman, producer/dir, Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz 1932 Birthday George Furth, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/dir, Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings 1932 Death Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51 1928 Death Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81 1923 Birthday Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services 1922 Birthday George Roy Hill, dir, Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance 1920 Birthday Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, dir, 8, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita 1919 Birthday John Cox, Flemish/U.S. painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston 1918 Birthday Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat 1914 Birthday Guus Verstraete Sr, August de Graef, Dutch actor/dir, Black Magic 1908 Birthday Dennis O'Keefe, born in Fort Madison, Iowa, actor/dir, T-Men, Fighting Seabees 1904 Birthday Robert Montgomery, Beacon, New York, actor/dir, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack 1902 Birthday Arnold J d'Ailly, dir, Nederlandsche Bank, mayor, Amsterdam, 1946-56 1902 Birthday Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman 1897 Birthday Otto, von, Struve, German/U.S. dir, Yerkes/MacDonald observatory 1896 Birthday Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir, Theatre Seraphin 1894 Birthday Yakima Canutt, Enos Edward, Colfax, Washington, actor/dir, Texas Terror 1893 Birthday Guthrie McClintic, born in Seattle, Washington Broadway producer/dir, Winterset 1892 Birthday Rex Ingram, Reginald IM Hitchcock, dir, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse 1891 Birthday Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man 1889 Birthday Ricardo Cortez, Jack Krantz, Vienna Austria, actor/dir, Blackmail 1886 Birthday Crane Wilbur, Athens, New York, dir/writer, Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo 1882 Birthday Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir, Willem van Oranje 1869 Birthday Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906 - 1922, Dir, League of Nations 1823 Death Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
