1986 Birthday Brighton Hertford, actress, BJ Jones-General Hospital 1983 Event Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in New York City 1980 Birthday Benjamin Salisbury, Minneapolis, actor, Brighton Sheffield-Nanny 1979 Event English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1978 Birthday Katie Price, born in Brighton, England, Jordan, model, businesswoman, television personality, tabloid, celebrity magazine subject, topless model, appeared on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' show 1966 Birthday Jonathan Silverman, actor, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Single Guy 1965 Event Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton 1964 Birthday John Burkett, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Florida Marlins 1960 Birthday Brian Dillinger, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Brighton Beach Memoirs 1959 Birthday Simon Cowell, born in Brighton, England, entrepreneur, producer of television shows, 'Britain's Got Talent', 'American Idol', owner of publishing house, Syco 1959 Birthday Connie Brighton, Wichita Falls, Texas, playmate, Sept, 1982 1958 Death Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 1956 Birthday Nigel Kennedy, born in Brighton, English, violinist, jazz and classical music, boy prodigy, play Fats Waller tunes by ear at age 10, featured on Sarah Brightman's album Harem 1952 Birthday Joseph P. Kennedy II, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1987 - 1999 1949 Birthday D Watson, director, Brighton U 1945 Birthday John Bowis, born in Brighton, England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Battersea, member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly 1929 Birthday Richard Dysart, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, actor, Leland MacKenzie-LA Law 1921 Event Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) 1904 Birthday [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist, Brighton Rock 1896 Death Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton 1894 Birthday Arthur Treacher, born in Brighton, England, announcer, Merv Griffin Show 1861 Birthday Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator
