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Historical Events
Results 1 - 79 of 79
1790-03-13 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1849-09-10 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
1895-09-18 - D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
1896-01-04 - AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC
1897-05-21 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1911-11-27 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1913-05-26 - Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1918-10-23 - Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
1920-01-04 - Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1920-03-28 - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1932-11-18 - 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1935-01-10 - Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
1936-01-16 - Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
1941-05-16 - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942-02-19 - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
1942-10-15 - German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die
1944-03-17 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945-03-25 - US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1947-11-17 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1948-03-05 - Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
1955-06-26 - Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1956-08-12 - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
1960-06-02 - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1966-11-08 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1973-03-27 - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1973-10-20 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1986-04-26 - Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986-07-07 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987-05-09 - Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
1987-05-29 - "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
1987-11-21 - Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis
1988-02-21 - Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
1988-10-01 - Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth
1988-11-01 - Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988-12-04 - Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1989-03-04 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1990-01-11 - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
1990-11-23 - Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1990-11-30 - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1991-02-22 - Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991-04-06 - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991-04-15 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991-05-01 - Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991-08-08 - Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
1991-09-05 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1991-10-05 - Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
1991-12-12 - Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
1992-01-16 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
1992-02-09 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
1992-06-18 - Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
1992-06-21 - Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
1992-07-29 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
1992-08-15 - Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
1992-10-10 - Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
1993-03-07 - Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1993-07-24 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993-07-24 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
1993-08-19 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
1993-09-27 - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges
1993-10-22 - Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
1993-11-02 - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
1993-11-06 - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993-12-05 - Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39)
1994-01-28 - Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
1994-02-03 - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
1994-02-18 - Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
1994-02-26 - Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
1994-04-24 - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1994-05-07 - Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1994-06-26 - Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
1994-09-06 - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1994-10-16 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
1994-12-26 - Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
1995-05-27 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1995-09-02 - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
1997-03-29 - Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1997-05-24 - Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich
1999-11-30 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2004-03-31 - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 7,148
1566-09-01 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1578-02-09 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)
1615-03-06 - Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)
1635-08-11 - Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus)
1661-11-01 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1693-02-24 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1703-11-26 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1710-02-01 - Konrad E Ackermann, German actor (Die Oberpfalz)
1710-12-02 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
1711-04-02 - Jan Punt, Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool)
1712-06-28 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1717-02-19 - David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
1719-11-23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1720-01-27 - Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist (Mirror)
1720-08-12 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1724-02-29 - Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick (d.1822)
1757-02-01 - John P Kemble, England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1765-03-04 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1777-11-02 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
1787-11-04 - Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career)
1789-03-17 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1791-06-09 - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
1793-03-03 - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
1798-01-24 - Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)
1801-12-07 - Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
1805-11-07 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1806-03-09 - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1807-05-11 - Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello)
1822-12-26 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle)
1833-11-13 - Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1837-11-17 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
1838-02-06 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
1838-05-10 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln)
1838-06-10 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
1841-05-11 - Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
1842-06-06 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1842-09-05 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)
1846-07-26 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1847-12-07 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
1847-12-09 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)
1848-08-30 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849-12-26 - Samuel E "Sam" van Beem, actor (Fanfan la Tulipe)
1850-08-14 - Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris & Roses)
1852-01-29 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
1852-02-02 - Teunis Stoel, actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam)
1852-08-08 - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Wandering Jew)
1853-01-16 - Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director (Kathleen)
1853-05-30 - Andries Andre, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853-07-23 - William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
1853-11-13 - John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)
1853-12-17 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
1854-02-20 - Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
1854-08-12 - Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer
1854-10-26 - August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)
1855-01-15 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
1856-09-05 - Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command)
1857-05-08 - Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
1858-06-19 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1860-08-25 - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
1860-12-13 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1861-09-28 - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur)
1861-10-08 - Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1862-01-01 - Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)
1863-07-21 - C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1864-01-16 - Frank Bacon, actor/author (Lightnin)
1864-05-31 - Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch)
1864-06-02 - Ben Webster, London England, actor (Old Curiosity Shop)
1864-08-08 - Henri de Vries, [Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo)
1864-11-19 - George Barbier, Phila, actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary)
1865-01-03 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
1865-01-23 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore)
1865-06-26 - George C Pearce, actor (Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant)
1865-11-12 - Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)
1866-01-19 - Harry Davenport, NYC, actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin)
1866-06-26 - Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
1866-08-06 - Chief Thundercloud, [Scott T Williams], MT, actor (Lone Ranger)
1866-11-28 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete
1867-01-21 - James Marcus, New York, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail)
1867-06-28 - William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1867-07-02 - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
1867-08-01 - William Orlamond, Denmark, actor (Flesh & Devil, Wind)
1867-08-11 - Hobart Bosworth, Marietta OH, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade)
1867-09-07 - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor (Foreign Correspondant)
1867-09-07 - Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
1868-01-01 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1868-04-10 - George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
1868-04-16 - Spottiswoode Aitken, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
1868-06-30 - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1869-02-01 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
1869-05-02 - Tyrone Power Sr, London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
1869-08-09 - Randle Ayrton, Chester England, actor (Manxman)
1869-10-30 - Lawrence Grant, Bournemouth England, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1869-12-20 - Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)
1870-11-13 - Henry Kolker, Quincy IL, actor (Real Glory, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry)
1870-12-06 - William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1870-12-13 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1870-12-18 - Andres Randolf, Denmark, actor (The Kiss)
1871-01-30 - Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
1871-01-30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
1871-04-18 - Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 100 of 2,894
1384-06-08 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1616-04-23 - William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (Julian calendar)
1619-03-13 - Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1626-11-25 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1654-06-07 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1673-03-15 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
1674-01-11 - Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58
1683-08-18 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1692-12-09 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1710-04-28 - Thomas Betterton, English actor
1721-09-20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1725-12-07 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1733-05-10 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
1766-01-21 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1771-11-13 - Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61
1777-01-10 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1777-10-21 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1778-06-16 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779-01-20 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
1779-12-18 - Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68
1783-09-06 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1788-08-14 - Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies
1822-09-11 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823-02-26 - John P Kemble, English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at 66
1833-05-15 - Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1852-04-09 - John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1862-05-21 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1862-05-25 - Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at 60
1867-08-07 - Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63
1867-08-10 - Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
1873-04-27 - William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1880-06-28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1887-01-07 - Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
1889-06-18 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1890-09-18 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1890-10-03 - Andries Andre, actor (Trumpeter-Major), dies at 36
1894-02-25 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
1903-04-13 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904-07-22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1905-03-26 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1905-10-13 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67
1907-08-30 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1912-03-01 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1912-09-01 - Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
1912-10-30 - Preston Lockwood, British(?) actor/writer, dies
1914-03-23 - Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
1915-04-17 - Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60
1917-07-02 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
1918-03-13 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1918-10-19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1919-03-23 - Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1920-09-05 - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1921-04-08 - Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1921-04-18 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
1922-02-01 - William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
1922-05-29 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
1923-01-18 - Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1924-03-06 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85
1925-04-28 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies
1925-08-05 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848)
1925-10-31 - Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41
1926-04-19 - Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
1926-09-09 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
1926-09-11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1926-11-01 - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
1927-07-09 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1927-09-20 - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
1928-06-22 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46
1928-08-10 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1928-11-08 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1928-12-05 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61
1928-12-14 - Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77
1930-07-02 - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
1930-08-26 - Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47
1930-09-15 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1930-10-24 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1930-12-27 - William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63
1931-01-04 - Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), dies at 40
1931-08-05 - Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43
1931-12-30 - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1932-01-07 - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1933-01-03 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1933-02-24 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1933-03-17 - Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
1933-04-28 - Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31
1933-05-15 - Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54
1933-06-29 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46
1934-03-21 - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1934-04-14 - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
1934-06-27 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56
1935-03-06 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1935-03-10 - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82
1936-01-09 - John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
1936-02-20 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1936-03-19 - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
1936-04-26 - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
1936-07-02 - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60
1936-07-11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937-01-02 - Ross Alexander, actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29
1937-03-06 - Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37
