Happy Birthday RIP “Bob Kane”(Robert Kahn 1915–1998) ; Frederick Murray Abraham–85 Kevin Kline–77 Douglas Davidson–70 John Kassir–67 Casey Wilson–44 Oliver Jackson-Cohen–38 ; 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel ; 1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. After struggling through the performance with a 104 degree temperature, Houdini gave in to doctor’s orders and was rushed to Grace Hospital.

Happy Birthday RIP William “Hayden” Rorke(1910–1987) Frank Sutton(1923–1974) Johnny Carson(1925–2005) John Michael Crichton(1942–2008) ; Ang Lee( 李安 )–70 Weird Alfred Yankovic–65 Samuel Raimi–65 Ryan Reynolds–48 Emilia Clarke–38 ; 1915 – Women’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote ; 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine

Happy Birthday RIP “Curly Howard”(Jerome Horwitz 1903–1952) Joan Fontaine(Beauvoir de Havilland 1917–2013) Annette Funicello(1942–2013) ; Sir Derek Jacobi–86 Christopher Lloyd–86 David “Tony” Roberts–85 Catherine Deneuve(Dorléac)–81 Deepak Chopra–78 Jeffrey Goldblum–72 Robert Odenkirk–62 Brian Boitano–61 Ned “Carlos” Mencia–57 “Spike Jonze”(Adam Spiegel)–55 Michael Fishman–43 Zachary Hanson–39 Kyle Gallner–38 ; 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. ; 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera (“The Met”) House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust. It was direct competition for Academy of Music which folded 3 years after the Met opened.

Happy Birthday RIP John “Dizzy” Gillespie(1917–1993) Carrie Fisher(1956–2016) Joyce Randolph(Sirola 1924–2024) ; Manfred Mann(Lubowitz)–84 Judith “Judy” Sheindlin(Blum)–82 Kensaku Watanabe–65 Jade Jagger–53 Sasha Roiz–51 Jeremy Miller–48 William Estes Nipper–46 Matthew Dallas–42 Aaron Tveit–41 ; 1879 – Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be the start of the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light. Popular belief is that he invented the light bulb, which he did not. He invented the first bulb for which use was practical.

Happy Birthday RIP Bela Lugosi(Blaskó 1882–1956) John Dewey(1859–1952) Jerome Orbach(1935–2004) Dr. Joyce Brothers(Bauer 1927–2013) William Christopher(1932–2016) Thomas Petty(1950–2017) ; Thomas Newman–69 Viggo Mortensen Jr–66 Kamala Harris–60 Calvin Broadus(“Snoop Dogg”)–53 Samuel Witwer–47 John Krasinski–45 Niall Matter–44 Adam Butcher–36 ; 1803 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

Happy Birthday RIP “LaWanda Page”(Alberta Peal 1920–2002) “Robert Reed”(John Rietz Jr 1932–1992) Harris Glenn Milstead(“Divine” 1945–1988) David Cornwell(“John Le Carré” 1931–2020) Sir Michael Gambon(1940–2023) ; John Lithgow–79 Patricia Ireland–79 Jennifer Holliday–64 Amy Carter–57 Randolph “Trey” Parker III–55 Christopher Kattan–54 Desmond Harrington–48 ; 1987 – “Black Monday” the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or -22.6 percent in value, the largest one-day percentage drop (worse than 1929 at -12.82%)

Happy Birthday RIP George Campbell Scott(1927–1999) Peter Boyle Jr(1935–2006) Erin Moran(1960–2017) Charles “Chuck” Berry(1926–2017) Dawn Wells 1938–2020) ; Michael Ditka(Dyczko)–85 Pamela Dawber–73 Martina Navratilova–68 Jean-Claude Van Damme(Varenberg)–64 Zachary Efron–37 Tyler Posey–33 ; 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day ; 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service

Happy Birthday RIP Edward Montgomery Clift(1920–1966) “Rita Hayworth”(Margarita Cansino 1918–1987) Thomas Poston(1921–2007) Robert “Evil” Knievel(1938–2007) Margaret “Margot” Kidder(1948–2018) Norman Macdonald (1958–2021)James Seals(1941–2021) ; Michael McKean–77 George Wendt III–76 David “Ziggy” Marley–56 Marshall Mathers III(“Eminem”)–52 David Matthew Macfadyen–50 Chris Lowell–40 Maximillian Irons–39 ; 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America ; 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, Cumbria, England ; 2010 – Spirit Day is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on the third Thursday in October. Started in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan, it was initially created in response to a rash of widely publicized bullying-related suicides of gay school students in 2010

Happy Birthday RIP Oscar Wilde(1854–1900) Michael Conrad(1925–1983) Angela Lansbury(1925–2022) Suzanne Somers(Mahoney 1946–2023) ; Leonard Barrie Corbin–84 Timothy Robbins–66 Kim Wayans–63 Michael Balzary(“Flea”)–62 Paul Sparks–53 Johnathan Mayer–47 Brea Grant–43 ; 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy

Happy Birthday RIP “Mark Lenard”(Leonard Rosenson 1924–1996) Carole Penny Marshall(1943–2018) Tanya Roberts(Victoria Blum 1955–2021) ; Linda Lavin–87 Richard Carpenter–78 Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York–65 Emeril Lagasse III–65 Dominic West–55 William Brent Unger–29 ; 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation (later General Electric) in Schenectady New York ; 1951 – The first episode of “I Love Lucy”, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System(CBS)