2015 Event Actor, director, photographer and writer Leonard Nimoy, most popularly known as Dr. Spock on 'Star Trek,' dies at age 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Nimoy had been suffering from the illness for about a year 2014 Event Mike Nichols, director of a long list of successful productions in TV, film and theater, dies at age 83 of a heart attack; Nichols was one of very few directors to earn all four major industry awards: the Emmy, Golden Globe, Oscar and Tony 2014 Event Botswana doctor Matshidiso Moeti will serve as new director of the World Health Organization office in Africa; Moeti will be instrumental in prevention of additional Ebola outbreaks and in restoration of health care facilities in Ebola-hit nations 2014 Event Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 2014 Event Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies in a congressional hearing to investigate the recent intrusion of the White House as well as other security breaches under her leadership; Pierson stated that such incidents will not happen again 2014 Event Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautions that the Ebola epidemic will soon be uncontrollable unless more workers are found to aid in treatment of victims and burial of contagious bodies 2014 Event French judicial officials are investigating IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde for her alleged role in fraudulent payments during her time as France's finance minister; LaGarde believe that the charges are unfounded 2014 Event Budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is nominated to replace Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services 2014 Event Award nominations are announced ahead of the 67th British Academy Film Awards; heading the list is Sandra Bullock for best actress in 'Gravity' by director Alfonso Cuaron 2014 Event A day before the U.S. Senate will vote on extending emergency unemployment benefits, Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council publicly promoted the case for extending benefits 2013 Event U.S. President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as the new director of the FBI 2013 Event In Los Angeles, California, the 85th Academy Awards is held; 'Argo' wins best picture, Ang Lee wins for best director, Daniel Day-Lewis wins for best actor, and Jennifer Lawrence wins for best actress 2013 Event At the 70th Golden Globe Awards, the Time Warner Inc. film 'Argo' wins for best drama and best director 2013 Event U.S. Republican Chuck Hagel is nominated to be the country's next Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama; John O. Brennan is nominated to be the next CIA Director 2012 Event The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer 2012 Event The BBC's George Entwistle steps down as Director-General, with Tim Davie replacing him Acting Director General 2012 Event Under intense media scrutiny for an extramarital affair, U.S. CIA Director David Petraeus submits his resignation to President Barack Obama 2012 Event International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA 2010 Event Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan 2005 Death Greg Garrison, American Director 2004 Event President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director 2004 Death Larry Buchanan, American Director 2004 Death Philippe de Broca, director, King of Hearts, dies at 69 2004 Death Margaret Hassan, humanitarian, director of Care in Iraq who was murdered by terrorists, dies at 59 2004 Death Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director murdered by terrorists, Submission 2004 Death Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47 2004 Death Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 2004 Death Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director 2004 Death Cecily Adams, casting director/actress, Deep Space Nine, dies at 46 2003 Death Elia Kazan, director, On the Waterfront, dies at 94 2003 Death Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101 2003 Death John Schlesinger, director, Midnight Cowboy, dies at 77 2003 Death Stan Brakhage, American Director 2002 Death George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 2002 Death Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76 2002 Death Charles Guggenheim, American Director 2002 Death J. Lee Thompson, British Director 2002 Death John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72 2002 Death George Sidney, American Director 2002 Death Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95 2002 Death Ted Demme, director, Beautiful Girls, dies at 38 2001 Death Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74 2001 Death Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90 2001 Death Michael Ritchie, American Director 2001 Death Stanley Kramer, director, Judgment at Nuremberg, dies at 87 2000 Death David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88 2000 Death Edward L. Bernds, director, The Three Stooges shorts, dies at 94 2000 Death Paul Bartel, director/actor, Eating Raoul, dies at 61 2000 Death Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 2000 Death Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79 1999 Death Robert Bresson, French Director 1999 Death James Broughton, American Director 1999 Death Garson Kanin, writer/director, Born Yesterday, dies at 86 1999 Death Stanley Kubrick, director, -2001, dies at 70 1999 Death Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75 1999 Death Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82 1998 Death Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70 1998 Death Akira Kurosawa, director, Rashomon, dies at 88 1998 Death John Derek, actor/director, dies at 71 1997 Death Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76 1997 Death Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 1997 Death Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68 1997 Death Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85 1997 Death Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86 1997 Death Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43 1997 Death Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 1997 Death Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 1997 Death King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64 1997 Death Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71 1997 Death Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 1996 Death Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74 1996 Death Marcel Carne, French Director 1996 Death Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61 1996 Death Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43 1996 Death Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83 1996 Event Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera 1996 Death Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81 1996 Death Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78 1996 Death Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82 1996 Death Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83 1996 Death Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84 1996 Death William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies 1996 Death William Egan Colby, cIA Director, dies at 76 1996 Death Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62 1996 Death David Keylsey, actor and director, dies at 63 1996 Death Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Death Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83 1996 Death Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54 1996 Death Lucio Fulci, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, dies at 68 1996 Death Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60 1996 Death Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1996 Death Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68 1995 Death Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54 1995 Death Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 1995 Death Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 1995 Death Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63 1995 Death John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 1995 Death Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65 1995 Death Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69 1995 Death James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 1995 Death Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77 1995 Death Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51 1995 Death Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63 1995 Death Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84 1995 Death Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71 1995 Death Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88 1995 Death Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95 1995 Death Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 1995 Death Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. Ed), dies at 96 1995 Death Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89 1995 Death Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80 1995 Death Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70 1995 Death Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56 1995 Death Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 1995 Death Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80 1995 Death Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45 1995 Death Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies 1995 Death George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107 1995 Death James P Grant, U.S. director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72 1995 Death Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57 1995 Death Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86 1995 Death Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 1994 Death Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 1994 Death Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71 1994 Death Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 1994 Death George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85 1994 Death Harry Horner, Czechoslovakian/U.S. set designer/director, 'Our Town', dies at 84 1994 Death Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 1994 Death Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83 1994 Death Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74 1994 Death Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57 1994 Death Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 1994 Death James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75 1994 Death James Hill, director, dies at 75 1994 Death Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94 1994 Death Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies 1994 Death Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79 1994 Death Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 1994 Death James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 1994 Death Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55 1994 Death Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 1994 Death Zoltan Fabri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76 1994 Death Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65 1994 Death Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies 1994 Death Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies 1994 Death Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83 1994 Death Bart Scheepens, actor and director, dies of AIDS at 50 1994 Death Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies 1994 Death Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56 1994 Death William Marshall, actor and director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86 1994 Death Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 1994 Death Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 1994 Death Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65 1994 Death Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 Death Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 1994 Death Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63 1994 Death Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64 1994 Death Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67 1994 Death Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 1994 Death Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37 1994 Death Frank G Wells, U.S. director (Walt Disney), dies at 62 1994 Death Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52 1994 Death Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52 1994 Death Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92 1994 Death Richard Bissell, U.S. under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84 1994 Death Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84 1994 Death Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies 1994 Death Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81 1993 Death Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85 1993 Death Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 1993 Death Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 1993 Death Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 1993 Death Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75 1993 Death Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50 1993 Death Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50 1993 Death Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs 1993 Death Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72 1993 Death Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41 1993 Death Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73 1993 Death Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65 1993 Death Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered 1993 Death Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85 1993 Death Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85 1993 Death Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80 1993 Death Charles Lamont, actor and director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95 1993 Death Hall Bartlett, U.S. director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70 1993 Death Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71 1993 Death Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons debarras), dies at 49 1993 Event Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth 1993 Death Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50 1993 Death Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83 1993 Death Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79 1993 Event President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 1993 Death Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 1993 Death Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93 1993 Death Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 1993 Death James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 1993 Death Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81 1993 Death Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77 1993 Death Michael Gordon, actor and director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83 1993 Death Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies 1993 Death Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 1993 Death Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 1993 Death Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69 1993 Death Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 1993 Death Richard Sale, writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80 1993 Death Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81 1993 Death Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 1993 Death John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies 1993 Death Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73 1993 Death Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82 1993 Event James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA 1993 Death Joseph L Mankiewicz, U.S. writer and director (All about Eve), dies at 83 1993 Event Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA 1993 Death Francois Reichenbach, French director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70 1993 Event Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA 1993 Death Joseph Anthony [Deuster], U.S. director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80 1993 Event Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA 1993 Death Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies 1993 Death Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 1993 Death George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 1992 Death Luis Alcoriza, actor/writer/director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema 1992 Death Clem Beauchamp, U.S. stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies 1992 Death Gregory Markopoulos, German/U.S. director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies 1992 Death Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies 1992 Death Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57 1992 Death Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies 1992 Death Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48 1992 Death John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 1992 Death David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia 1992 Death Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 1992 Death Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns 1992 Death Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies 1992 Event Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford 1992 Death Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies 1992 Death Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73 1992 Death John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 1992 Death Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44 1992 Death Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88 1992 Death Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70 1992 Event William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA 1992 Death Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 1992 Death Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60 1992 Death Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies 1992 Death Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80 1992 Death A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47 1991 Death Daniel Mann, U.S. director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79 1991 Death Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 1991 Event Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA 1991 Event Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA 1991 Death Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies 1991 Death Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51 1991 Death Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies 1991 Death Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94 1991 Event Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA 1991 Death Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies) 1991 Event Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1991 Event William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA 1991 Death Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 1991 Death Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43 1991 Death Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62 1991 Death Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 1991 Death Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51 1991 Death Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies 1991 Event CIA director William H. Webster resigns 1991 Death Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies 1991 Death Don[ald] Siegel, U.S. director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78 1991 Death David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 1991 Death Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 1991 Death Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 1991 Death Jan Ode, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies 1990 Death Martin Ritt, U.S., director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70 1990 Death Ugo Tognazzi actor and director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68 1990 Death Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies 1990 Death Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies 1990 Death Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 1990 Death Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71 1990 Death Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 1990 Death Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 1990 Event Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director 1989 Death Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies 1989 Death Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86 1989 Death F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies 1989 Death Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90 1989 Death Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68 1989 Death Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 1989 Death Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60 1989 Event Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA 1989 Death Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 1989 Death George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71 1989 Death John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 1989 Death John Cassavetes, U.S. actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59 1988 Death Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 1988 Death Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59 1988 Death Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60 1988 Death Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 1988 Death Henry Koster, director, dies 1988 Death Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56 1988 Death Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 1988 Death Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies 1987 Death Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1987 Death Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81 1987 Death Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86 1987 Death John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 1987 Death King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies 1987 Event "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1987 Event William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA 1987 Death John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 1987 Death William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73 1987 Death Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1987 Death Yves Allegret, French director (Such a lovely tiny beach), dies at 79 1987 Event William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA 1987 Death Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86 1986 Death Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 1986 Event Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA 1986 Event CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 1986 Death Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 1986 Death Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76 1986 Death Yakima Canutt, actor and director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 1986 Event Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA 1986 Death Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 1986 Event John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1985 Death Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80 1985 Death Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86 1984 Death Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 1984 Death George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90 1984 Death Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84 1984 Death Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47 1984 Death Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75 1984 Death August "Guus" Oster, actor and director (Carrie), dies at 68 1984 Death Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77 1983 Death Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure 1983 Death Luis Bunuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83 1983 Death George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday 1983 Death Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director (Tijl), dies at 87 1983 Death Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89 1983 Death George Cukor, director, dies of stroke and heart attack at 83 1982 Death Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 1982 Death Jacques Tatischeff, French actor and director (Parade), dies at 74 1982 Death King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment 1982 Death Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 1982 Death Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89 1982 Death Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85 1982 Death Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies 1982 Death Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58 1982 Death Henry King, U.S. director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies 1982 Death Henry King, director, dies at 86 1982 Death Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies 1982 Death Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself 1982 Event John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA 1982 Death Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36 1982 Death Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60 1982 Death Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69 1981 Death Allan Dwan, Canadian Director 1981 Death Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92 1981 Death Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68 1981 Death Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 1981 Death Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies 1981 Death William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies 1981 Death Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered 1981 Death Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? 1981 Event Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1981 Event William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987) 1981 Event Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA 1981 Event Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1980 Death Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88 1980 Death Lewis Milestone, Russian Director 1980 Death Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, doc?), dies at 72 1980 Death Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1980 Death Alfred Hitchcock, English Director 1979 Death Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1979 Death John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91 1979 Event Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab 1979 Death August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 1979 Death Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84 1978 Event CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy 1978 Death Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62 1978 Death Edward D Wood, Jr., director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54 1978 Birthday Gael Garcia Bernal, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, actor, director, former model, films include, 'The Motorcycle Diaries', 'Babel' 1978 Death Mark Robson, Canadian Director 1978 Event Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA 1978 Event Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl 1977 Death Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81 1977 Death Richard Carlson, actor and director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65 1977 Event E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1977 Event John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA 1977 Death Carter De Haven, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin, dies in Glendale, California, at age 90 1977 Death John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80 1977 Death Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 1977 Death Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 1977 Death Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80 1977 Event Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche 1977 Event George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA 1977 Event Mr. Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA 1977 Death Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69 1976 Event Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP 1976 Death Bruno VeSota, actor and director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54 1976 Death Dalton Trumbo, U.S. writer and director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70 1976 Death Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 1976 Death James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1976 Event E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA 1976 Event Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1976 Death Carol Reed, director (Agony and Ecstasy), dies 1976 Death Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 1976 Death Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88 1976 Event George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) 1976 Event William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1975 Death William A Wellman, U.S. director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79 1975 Event Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland 1975 Death Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1975 Event Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap 1975 Birthday Asia Argento, born in Rome, Italy, actress, director, films include, 'La Chiesa', 'Trauma', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Scarlet Diva', 'Red Siren' 1975 Death Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38 1975 Death Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 1975 Death George Stevens, U.S. director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70 1975 Death Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94 1975 Death Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 1974 Death Pietro Germi, actor and director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60 1974 Death Clive Brook, actor and director (On Approval), dies at 87 1974 Death Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies 1974 Birthday Harmony Korine, American Director 1974 Death Donald Crisp, actor and director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91 1973 Death Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72 1973 Event William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA 1973 Event General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 Death John Ford, U.S. director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78 1973 Death Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 1973 Event H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 1973 Event General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA 1973 Event James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA 1973 Death George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53 1973 Death Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies 1973 Event Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal 1973 Event James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA 1973 Event Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA 1972 Birthday Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain' 1972 Birthday Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon 1972 Birthday Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper 1972 Event Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1972 Birthday Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director 1971 Event Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1971 Death Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90 1971 Death Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28 1971 Death Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76 1971 Death Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82 1971 Death Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67 1971 Event Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League 1971 Death Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66 1971 Death Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria 1970 Birthday Morgan Spurlock, American Director 1970 Birthday M. Night Shyamalan, American Director 1970 Birthday Kevin Smith, director, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks 1970 Birthday Christopher Nolan, British Director 1970 Birthday Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director 1969 Death Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 1969 Death Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies 1969 Death Rex Ingram, actor and director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73 1969 Death Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies 1969 Death Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered 1969 Death Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51 1969 Event Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA 1969 Death Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 1969 Birthday Darren Aronofsky, American Director 1969 Event Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1969 Death Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75 1968 Death Hugo Haas, actor and director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66 1968 Death Erich Von Stroheim, actor and director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 1968 Birthday Guy Ritchie, born in Hatfield, England, filmmaker, screenwriter, music video director, directed 'Snatch', 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' 1968 Birthday Robert Rodriguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado 1968 Death Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies 1968 Birthday Moira Kelly, born in Queens, New York, actress, director, played Mandy Hampton in the television series, The West Wing, and Karen Roe on the show, One Tree Hill 1968 Death Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 1968 Birthday Ed Burns, director/actor, Brothers McMullen 1967 Death Fred Engelen, Flemish actor and director (Kritisch Theater), dies at 54 1967 Birthday Liev Schreiber, born in San Francisco, California, actor, director, screenwriter, appeared in 'X-Men Origins', 'The Manchurian Candidate', 'Salt' 1967 Birthday Vin Diesel, born in New York City, New York, actor, director, producer, appeared in 'The Fast and the Furious', 'Pitch Black', founder of One Race Films production company 1967 Death Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 1967 Death Anthony Mann, U.S. director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60 1967 Death Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67 1967 Death Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79 1967 Birthday Laura Dern, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, film director, producer, Academy-Award nominated for film, 'Rambling Rose' 1966 Death Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies 1966 Event Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1966 Event Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA 1966 Event Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA 1966 Birthday Samuel West, born in England, actor, theater director, appeared in 'Howards End', 'Jane Eyre', Van Helsing', 'Notting Hill' , 'Complicity' films, among others 1966 Death Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 1966 Event Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association 1966 Birthday Antoine Fuqua, American Director 1966 Death Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50 1966 Event Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE 1965 Birthday Gong Li, born in Shenyang, China, actress, appeared in director Zhang Yimou's film, Ju Dhou, Red Sorghum, received Golden Rooster award 1965 Event Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres 1965 Birthday Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson 1965 Birthday Brigitte Rouan, Toulon France, director/actress, Outremer 1965 Birthday Bryan Singer, born in New York, New York, film director, producer, known for work on the 'X-Men', 'Superman Returns', 'The Usual Suspects' films 1965 Birthday Sam Mendes, British Director 1965 Birthday Uwe Boll, German Director 1965 Death Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies 1965 Event Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA 1965 Birthday Martin Lawrence, born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, comedian, actor, producer, director, appeared in his own hit series, Martin on FOX 1965 Birthday Michael Bay, American Director 1965 Birthday Jan Sverak, Zatec Czechoslovakia, director, Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci 1965 Death Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director, dies at 63 1965 Birthday Alan Cumming, born in Aberfeldy, Scotland, actor, director, author, played Boris Ivanovich Grishenko in 'GoldenEye' James Bond film 1964 Death Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85 1964 Birthday Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director 1964 Birthday Joss Whedon, born in New York City, New York, screenwriter, producer, director, head writer for 'Dollhouse', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' 'Angel' television programs 1964 Death [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81 1964 Birthday Hank Azaria, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, director, voice actor in 'The Simpsons', appeared in films, 'Godzilla', 'The Birdcage', 'Huff' 1964 Birthday Peter Berg, born in New York City, New York, actor, film director, producer, known for role as Dr. Billy Kronk on television medical drama 'Chicago Hope', directed films 'The Kingdom', 'Hancock' 1964 Death Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91 1964 Event Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency 1963 Death Robert Hamer, British Director 1963 Death Gustaf Grundgens, actor, director and theatre director (M), dies at 63 1963 Death Cruys Voorbergh, actor and director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64 1963 Birthday Quentin Tarantino, director and screenwriter, Pulp Fiction 1963 Birthday Neil LaBute, American Director 1963 Birthday Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS 1963 Birthday Rob Andrew, born in Richmond, England, professional rugby player, director, played for Nottingham and Newcastle, nickname 'Squeaky' 1963 Death John Farrow, actor and director (Botany Bay), dies at 58 1963 Death Dick Powell, actor and director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58 1962 Birthday Rebecca Miller, American Director 1962 Death Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 1962 Birthday David Fincher, American Director 1962 Death Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director 1962 Event Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1962 Death Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California 1962 Birthday Stephen Sommers, American Director 1962 Event General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1962 Birthday Joel Wyner, actor and director, Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club 1961 Birthday Reginald Hudlin, director, House Party 1961 Event John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA 1961 Birthday Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director 1961 Birthday Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha' 1961 Death Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68 1961 Event Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League 1961 Birthday Laurence Fishburne, born in Augusta, Georgia, actor, director, producer, known for role of Morpheus in 'The Matrix' movie, stars on 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' television show 1961 Death Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70 1961 Death Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67 1961 Birthday Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director 1961 Death August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 1961 Birthday Michael Winterbottom, British Director 1961 Death Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59 1961 Death Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 1961 Birthday Alexander Payne, born in Omaha, Nebraska, film director, screenwriter, co-wrote, 'About Schmidt' and 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry' 1960 Birthday Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again 1960 Death Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies 1960 Death Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71 1960 Birthday Helen Rees, director, Design Museum 1960 Death Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 1960 Birthday Richard Linklater, American Director 1960 Birthday Atom Egoyan, born in Cairo, Egypt, director, Adjuster, Next of Kin 1960 Death Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 1960 Event Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra 1959 Death Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39 1959 Death Charles Lotsy, Dutch insurance director/chief d'equipe, dies at 66 1959 Death Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 1959 Death Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79 1959 Death Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58 1959 Death Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 1959 Birthday Luc Besson, French Director 1959 Birthday Frank Darabont, American Director 1959 Birthday Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR 1959 Birthday John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director and screenwriter, 'Boyz n The Hood' 1958 Birthday Nick Park, British Director 1958 Birthday Chris Columbus, writer and director, Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months 1958 Birthday Tim Burton, born in Burbank, California, film director, films include, 'Edward Scissorhands', 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Batman', 'Batman Returns' 1958 Death Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44 1958 Event Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank 1958 Event Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank 1958 Birthday Bobby Farrelly, American Director 1958 Event Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank 1958 Birthday Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England 1957 Death Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1957 Birthday Mira Nair, Indian Director 1957 Birthday David Bintley, born in Huddersfield, England, choreographer, artistic director, The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet 1957 Birthday Brad Bird, born in Kalispell, Montana, director, screenwriter, animator known for 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille', directed and animated the 2-D film, 'The Iron Giant' 1957 Birthday Stephen Fry, born in Hampstead, England, actor, comedian, film director, starred in comedy series, 'Absolute Power', film 'Wilde' 1957 Birthday Dennis Leary, born in Worchester, Massachusetts, actor, writer, director, comedian, co-creator of Rescue Me television show, known for sharp comedic style and chain smoking 1957 Death Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72 1957 Birthday Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director, Submission 1957 Birthday Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1957 Birthday Mukesh Ambani, born in Aden, Yemen, Indian business tycoon, largest shareholder and managing director of Reliance Industries, worth over $29 billion 1957 Death Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1957 Birthday Spike Lee, born in Atlanta, director, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X 1957 Birthday Mike Gatting, born in Kingsbury, England, cricketer, played for the Middlesex County Cricket Club, ECB Managing Director of Cricket Partnerships 1956 Birthday Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger, Josephine 1956 Birthday Peter Farrelly, American Director 1956 Birthday Hart Bochner, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Rich and Famous 1956 Birthday Danny Boyle, English Director 1956 Death Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 1956 Birthday Lars von Trier, Danish Director 1956 Birthday Walter Salles, Brazilian Director 1955 Birthday Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God 1955 Death William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong), dies at 74 1955 Death Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 1955 Birthday Roland Emmerich, German Director 1955 Birthday Bill Condon, American Director 1955 Event Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank) 1955 Death Henry W. Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies 1955 Birthday Juliusz Machulski, born in Poland, director, writer and actor, Do It Yourself 1954 Birthday Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die' 1954 Birthday Ang Lee, director, Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility 1954 Birthday James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer and director, True Lies, Titanic 1954 Death Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70 1954 Birthday Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1954 Birthday Jane Campion, New Zealander Director 1954 Birthday Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1954 Birthday Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor and director, American Graffiti, Happy Days 1954 Birthday Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient 1953 Birthday Jack Scalia, actor and director, Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force 1953 Birthday John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields 1953 Birthday Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director and writer, Leola, Night Zoo 1953 Birthday Yahoo Serious, Australian Director 1953 Event General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA 1953 Death Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 1953 Birthday Barry Sonnenfeld, director, When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery 1953 Birthday Paul Haggis, Canadian Director 1953 Event Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA 1953 Event General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA 1953 Birthday Jim Jarmusch, American Director 1952 Birthday Susan Seidelman, director, Desperately Seeking Susan 1952 Birthday Christine Pascal, actress/director, Smile, Nothing But Lies, Elsa 1952 Birthday Gus Van Sant, born in Louisville, Kentucky, film director, musician, author, Academy-Award winning director of film, 'Good Will Hunting', other movies include, 'Milk', 'Elephant' 1952 Birthday David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia 1952 Birthday Matthew Bright, American Director 1952 Birthday Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic 1951 Birthday Kathryn Bigelow, American Director 1951 Birthday Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director 1951 Death De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered 1951 Birthday Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter, Kika, Matador 1951 Event William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1951 Birthday Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose' 1951 Death Robert J. Flaherty, Director 1951 Birthday Lis Howell, director of programs, GMTV 1951 Event FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1950 Birthday Gillian Armstrong, born in Melbourne, Australia, director, High Tide, Mrs. Soffel 1950 Birthday Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor and director, Mister Cactus, Passion 1950 Event William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA 1950 Birthday Andre van de Berg, actor and director, Transport 1950 Birthday Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor and director, Love Potion 1950 Birthday Goutam Ghose, director, Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar 1950 Birthday Chantal Akerman, actor and director, Akermania, Je Tu II Elle 1950 Birthday Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet, Deutsche Opera Berlin 1950 Birthday Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun 1950 Birthday Neil Jordan, born in Sligo, Ireland, director, filmmaker, novelist, won Academy-Award for movie, The Crying Game 1950 Birthday John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller 1950 Birthday Lizzie Borden, director and writer, Love Crimes, Working Girls 1950 Birthday John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science 1949 Death Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1949 Birthday Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director 1949 Birthday Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker 1949 Birthday Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association 1949 Birthday Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times 1949 Birthday Stuart Marshall, director, Desire 1949 Birthday Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer, director and writer 1949 Birthday D Watson, director, Brighton U 1949 Event Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 Death Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65 1949 Birthday Lawrence Kasdan, born in Miami, Florida, director and writer, Accidental Tourist 1949 Birthday Wayne Wang, director, Chan is Missing, Slamdance 1948 Birthday Marleen Gorris, Dutch director, Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island 1948 Birthday Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa 1948 Death Stanner E V Taylor, U.S. director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71 1948 Birthday Aline Issermann, director, Amant Magnifiquew 1948 Birthday Bille August, director, Best Intentions, Twist and Shout 1948 Birthday Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens 1948 Death Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73 1948 Birthday Don Boyd, director, Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock 1948 Birthday Sergei Bodrov, born in Khabarovsk, Russia, director, Katala, Somebody to Love 1948 Death D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, U.S. director/producer, dies 1948 Death D. W. Griffith, American Director 1948 Birthday Joe Roth, American Director 1948 Birthday Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho 1948 Death Jacques Feyder, actor and director (kermesse heroique), dies at 59 1948 Birthday John Amiel, director, Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow 1948 Birthday Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor and director, Gekkenbriefje 1948 Birthday Robert Zemeckis, director, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future 1948 Birthday Bud Cort, New Rochelle, New York, actor and director, Electric Dreams, M*A*S*H 1948 Birthday Mike Figgis, English Director 1948 Birthday Bill Alexander, theatre director 1948 Death Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50 1948 Death Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50 1948 Birthday Errol Morris, American Director 1948 Birthday Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor, Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss 1948 Birthday John Carpenter, born in Carthage, New York, director, Halloween, The Thing 1948 Birthday Gillies Mackinnon, director, Playboys 1947 Birthday Steven Spielberg, born in Cincinnati, director, ET, Close Encounters, Jaws 1947 Death Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies 1947 Birthday Jonathan Kaplan, Paris, France, director, Heart Like a Wheel 1947 Birthday Patrice Leconte, director, Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband 1947 Birthday Edward Yang, director, Tewrrorizers 1947 Birthday David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret 1947 Death Harry Carey Sr, actor and director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69 1947 Birthday David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo 1947 Birthday Ann Hui, director, Boat People 1947 Event Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA 1947 Birthday David Leland, born in Cambridge, England, actor and director, Nothing But Trouble 1947 Birthday Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute 1947 Birthday David Gee, director, Friends of the Earth 1947 Birthday Hsiao-hsien Hou, director, Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster 1947 Birthday Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1947 Birthday Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke 1947 Death Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 1947 Birthday Israel Wetrin, managing director, Elonex 1947 Event Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1946 Birthday Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins 1946 Death Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered 1946 Birthday David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director 1946 Birthday Ivan Reitman, director/producer, Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave 1946 Birthday Richard Loncraine, director, Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman and True 1946 Birthday Jean-Jacques Beineix, director, Betty Blue, Diva 1946 Birthday Alasdair Fraser, QC/director, Public Prosecutions for N Ireland 1946 Birthday Oliver Stone, born in New York City, director, Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon 1946 Birthday Dennis Dugan, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor and director, Can't Buy Me Love, Howling 1946 Birthday Bill Forsyth, director, Local Hero, Breaking, Indiana, Housekeeping 1946 Birthday Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore 1946 Birthday Randal Kleiser, American Director 1946 Event Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1946 Birthday Sylvester Stallone, born in New York City, actor and director, Rocky, Rambo, Cobra 1946 Birthday Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery 1946 Event Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA 1946 Birthday Lasse Hallstrom, director, Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA 1946 Birthday Earl of Cromer, managing director, Inchcape, China, Ltd 1946 Birthday Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum 1946 Birthday Ronald Bear, actor and director, Havana, Make-up 1946 Birthday Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records 1946 Birthday John Woo, Chinese Director 1946 Birthday Franc Roddam, director, K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia 1946 Birthday John Waters, director, Hairspray 1946 Birthday Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena 1946 Birthday Robert E. McKee, CEO and managing director, Conoco-UK 1946 Birthday Bruce Weber, director, Broken Noses 1946 Birthday Bigas Luna, director and writer, Anguish 1946 Birthday David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1946 Birthday Haile Gerima, director of Ashes and Embers 1946 Event Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA 1946 Birthday Michael Radford, director, 1984, White Mischief 1946 Birthday Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor, Ehe der Maria Braun 1946 Death Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57 1946 Birthday Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1946 Birthday Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland 1946 Event Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA 1946 Birthday David Lynch, born in Missoula, Montana, actor and director, Dune, Eraserhead 1945 Birthday Taylor Hackford, director, Idolmaker, Officer and a Gentleman 1945 Birthday Lloyd Kaufman, American Director 1945 Birthday Nicholas Meyer, director, Star Trek II Wrath of Khan 1945 Birthday Penelope Spheeris, American Director 1945 Birthday Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields 1945 Birthday Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love 1945 Birthday Benoat Lamy, Belgian director 1945 Birthday Bruno Nuytten, director, Camille Claudel 1945 Birthday Robert Greenwald, American Director 1945 Birthday Bob Balaban, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 2010, Girlfriends 1945 Birthday Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett 1945 Birthday Jos Stelling, director, Pointsman 1945 Birthday Donna Deitch, director, Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place 1945 Birthday Clive Hollick, born in Britain, Labor Party, financier, youngest director of Hambros Bank, 1973, CEO, Mills & Allen International, MAI 1945 Birthday Rob Reiner, born in Bronx New York, actor and director, All in the Family, Stand By Me 1945 Birthday Curtis Hanson, American Director 1945 Birthday Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter, Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas 1945 Birthday Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1945 Birthday K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail 1945 Birthday Vadim Abdrashitov, director, Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets 1945 Birthday Harun Farocki, actor and director, Nicht loeschbares Feur 1944 Birthday Taylor Hackford, director, Devil's Advocate 1944 Death Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 1944 Birthday Harold Ramis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, SCTV, Stripes 1944 Birthday Merzak Allouache, director, Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris 1944 Birthday Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Birthday Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society 1944 Birthday Tony Scott, director, Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder 1944 Birthday Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 Birthday George Lucas, Modesto, California, director, Star Wars, Indiana Jones 1944 Birthday Jim Abrahams, Shorewood, Wisconsin, director, Hot Shots, Top Secret 1944 Birthday Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold 1944 Birthday Charles Burnett, director, When it Rains, Glass Shield 1944 Birthday R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum 1944 Birthday David Melville, professor and director, Middlesex Polytechnic 1944 Death Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79 1944 Birthday Jacques Doillon director and writer, La Fille de Quinze Ans 1944 Death ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz 1944 Birthday Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack 1944 Birthday Jonathan Demme, born in Baldwin, New York, actor and director, Caged Heat, Swing Shift 1944 Birthday Buddhadev Dasgupta, director, Charachar, Grihajuddha 1944 Birthday Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera 1944 Birthday Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor, Waaldrecht 1943 Birthday Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor and director, One Evening at Eva 1943 Birthday Stephen Wallace, director, For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride 1943 Birthday Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets 1943 Birthday Arturo Ripstein, director, El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot 1943 Birthday Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT 1943 Birthday Jim Mitchell, American Director 1943 Birthday Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands 1943 Event Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina 1943 Birthday Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, Bear, Black and White, Coup de Tete 1943 Birthday Udo Zimmermann, born in Dresden, Germany, composer, conductor, artistic director, music director, Leipzig Opera House 1943 Birthday Alain Corneau, director, Choice of Arms 1943 Birthday Peter Hyams, director, 2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop 1943 Death Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 Birthday Jon Jost, director, All the Vermeers in New York 1943 Birthday Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director, All in the Family 1943 Death Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 1943 Birthday [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director, Pastorale 1943 1943 Birthday Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants, EPA 1943 Birthday Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1943 Birthday Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck 1943 Birthday Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre 1943 Birthday David Cronenberg, Toronto, Ontario, director, Shivers, Fly, Brood 1943 Birthday Andre Techine, director and writer, Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous 1943 Birthday Roberto Faenza, director, Cop Killers, Corrupt 1943 Birthday Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies 1943 Birthday Michael Mann, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, Sexpot, Close Friends 1943 Birthday Tobe Hooper, American Director 1943 Birthday Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen, mime/director, Stinging Nettle King 1942 Birthday Mani Kaul, director, Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha 1942 Death Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58 1942 Birthday Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb 1942 Birthday Werner Herzog, director, Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck 1942 Birthday David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director, End 1942 Birthday Wilbert Bank, actor and director, On Hope of Blessing 1942 Birthday Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London 1942 Birthday Mario Brenta, writer and director, Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains 1942 Birthday Bill Bryden, theatre director 1942 Birthday Douglas Trumbull, director, Silent Running, Brainstorm 1942 Birthday Peter Greenaway, British Director 1942 Birthday Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio 1942 Birthday Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director, Marianne 1942 Birthday Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child 1942 Birthday Derek Jarman, actor and director, Angelic Conversation, Edward II 1942 Birthday Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1942 Birthday Walter Hill, director, 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice 1941 Birthday Daniel Schmid, actor and director, Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs 1941 Birthday Humberto Solas, director and writer, Lucia 1941 Birthday Vivian Stern, director, Nacros 1941 Birthday Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy 1941 Birthday Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More 1941 Birthday Patricio Guzman, director/actor, Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador 1941 Birthday Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director, Knock on the Door 1941 Birthday James Scott, director, Strike it Rich 1941 Birthday Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage 1941 Birthday Denys Arcand, director, Jesus of Montreal 1941 Birthday Allan Carr, Illinois, director, Grease, Happiest Millionaire 1941 Birthday Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn 1941 Death Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48 1941 Birthday Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre 1941 Birthday Hans W. Geissendorfer, born in Augsburg, Germany, director, Sternsteinhof 1941 Birthday Roman Balayan, born in Nerke, Azerbaijan, director, Filer, Biryuk 1941 Birthday Dick Top, Dutch actor and director, Witch of Haarlem 1941 Birthday Adrian Lyne, director, Fatal Attraction, 9 Weeks, Jacob's Ladder 1941 Death Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 1941 Birthday Michael Apted, director/researcher, Granada TV 1941 Birthday Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director 1940 Birthday James Burrows, TV producer/director, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers 1940 Birthday Kumar Shahani, writer and director, Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan 1940 Birthday Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director, Apple Trees, Manoever 1940 Birthday Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill 1940 Birthday Brian De Palma, American Director 1940 Birthday Dario Argento, director, Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae 1940 Birthday Bruce Beresford, Austral director, Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies 1940 Birthday Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions 1940 Birthday Karel Vachek, director, Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities 1940 Event Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 1940 Death Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 1940 Birthday Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up 1940 Birthday Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director, Paradiso 1940 Birthday Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma, Italy, director, 1900, Last Emperor 1940 Birthday James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic 1940 Birthday Souleymane Cisse, director, Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara 1940 Birthday Pilar Miro, director, Wether, Beltenebros 1940 Birthday Lino Brocka, born in San Jose, Philippines, director, Macho Dancer, Jaguar 1940 Birthday Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris 1940 Birthday RA Weiss, director, Institute of Cancer Research 1940 Birthday George A. Romero, actor and director, Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes 1940 Birthday Harry Kumel, Flemish director, Monsieur Hawarden 1940 Birthday Trevor Nunn, English Director 1939 Death Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57 1939 Death Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Two Boys), dies at 67 1939 Birthday Joel Schumacher, American Director 1939 Birthday John Badham, Luton England, director, Dracula, Short Circuit 1939 Birthday H Onno C R Ruding, director, Amrobank, Dutch Financial minister, CDA 1939 Birthday Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream 1939 Birthday Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show 1939 Birthday 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director, Emily 1939 Birthday Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier, 1982-94 1939 Birthday Francis Ford Coppola, born in Detroit, director, Godfather, Apocalypse Now 1939 Birthday Toni Cade Bambara, director 1939 Birthday Bertrand Blier, born in Paris, France, novelist and director, Going Places 1939 Birthday David Mlinaric, British interior director 1939 Birthday Kenzo Takada, Japanese director, Dream After Dream 1939 Event Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of 'Gone With the Wind' 1939 Birthday Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years 1939 Birthday John D Hancock, actor and director, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights 1939 Death Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72 1938 Birthday Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director, Avro 1938 Birthday Michael Ritchie, American Director 1938 Birthday Porter Goss, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Representative-R-Florida 1989 - 2004, Director of CIA 2004 - 2006 1938 Birthday H J de Royen, director, Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra 1938 Birthday Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director, Festival, Bix, Impiegati 1938 Birthday Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director, Weevers' Duin 1938 Death Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75 1938 Birthday Paul Bartel, born in Brooklyn, New York, director/actor, Eating Raoul 1938 Birthday Paul Verhoeven, director, Basic Instinct, Total Recall 1938 Birthday Richard Benjamin, New York City, director/actor, Goodbye Columbus, He and She 1938 Birthday Michael Shea, director, Hanson Trust, Queen's press sect 1938 Birthday Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End 1938 Birthday Marlies van Alcmaer, Smal, Dutch actress/director, Bridge too Far 1937 Birthday Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus 1937 Birthday Ridley Scott, director, Alien, Blade Runner 1937 Birthday Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 Birthday R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey 1937 Birthday Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother 1937 Birthday Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London 1937 Birthday Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company 1937 Birthday Richard Foreman, New York City, theatrical director, Daily Life 1937 Birthday Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1937 Birthday Ken Hill, playwright/director 1937 Birthday Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director, Berlin Affair 1936 Birthday Matt Clark, Washington D.C., actor and director, Return to Oz, Horror Show 1936 Birthday Philip Kaufman, director, Right Stuff, Henry and June 1936 Birthday Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, cabaret director, Capers 1936 Death Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies 1936 Birthday Jan Nemec, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, Diamonds of the Night 1936 Birthday Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director, Baantjer 1936 Death Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies 1936 Birthday Mark Burns, British director, Juggernaut 1936 Death Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 1936 Birthday Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator 1936 Birthday Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University 1936 Birthday Meindert Leerling, Dutch TV director/MP, RPF 1935 Birthday Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations 1935 Birthday Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director, Encoberto, Matar Saudades 1935 Birthday Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish 1935 Birthday Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor, Witte Waan 1935 Birthday Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum 1935 Birthday Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp' 1935 Death Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies 1935 Birthday Patrick Garland, director, Doll House 1935 Birthday Hans H. Boswinkel, actor and director, Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love 1935 Death Barend Barendse, actor and director (Broken Lives), dies at 82 1935 Birthday Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra 1934 Event Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1934 Birthday J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery 1934 Birthday Robert Lang, actor, Night Watch, director 1934 Birthday Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up 1934 Birthday Claude Berri, born in Paris, France, director, Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse 1934 Birthday Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films 1934 Birthday Simon Mackay, born in Scotland, born Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries, Lord Tannlaw, crossbench member of the House of Lords, director or family company Inchape 1934 Birthday Judith Jamison, artistic director, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater 1934 Birthday David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director, Betrayal 1934 Birthday Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director, 1987- 1934 Birthday Donald Cammell, film director 1933 Birthday Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine 1933 Birthday Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media 1933 Birthday Roman Polanski, born in Paris, France, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown 1933 Birthday Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates 1933 Birthday Chuck Cassey, born in Chicago, choral director, Jimmy Dean Show 1933 Event 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office 1933 Birthday Darijan Bozic, born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, composer, conductor, manager, artistic director of The Slovene National Theater Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 1933 Birthday Richard Williams, Canadian Director 1933 Birthday Jorn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director, Anna, Tenderness 1933 Birthday Stan Brakhage, American Director 1933 Birthday Jean-Marie Straub, France, director, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1932 Birthday Noam Pitlik, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor and director, Sanford and Son, Bob Newhart 1932 Birthday Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria 1932 Birthday Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird 1932 Birthday Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1932 Birthday Robert Benton, Texas, writer and director, Kramer vs Kramer 1932 Birthday Daphne Swallow, commandant/director, WRNS 1932 Birthday Melvin Van Peebles, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 'Sophisticated Gent' 1932 Birthday William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 Birthday David Keylsey, actor and director 1932 Birthday Barry Levinson, born in Baltimore, Maryland, director, Rainman 1932 Birthday King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn' 1932 Birthday David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1932 Birthday Barney Simon, theatre director/writer 1932 Birthday Peter Moores, director, Littlewoods 1932 Birthday Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director, Solaris, Stalker 1932 Birthday Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian Director 1932 Birthday Nagisa Oshima, born in Kyoto, Japan, director, Town of Love and Hope 1932 Birthday Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris, France, opera director, Carmina Burana 1932 Birthday Milos Forman, Czechoslovakian/U.S. director, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Amadeus' 1932 Birthday Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema 1932 Birthday Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office 1932 Birthday Francois Truffaut, Paris, director, Jules and Jim, Fahrenheit 451 1932 Birthday Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U 1932 Birthday Richard Lester, movie director, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia 1931 Birthday Evald Schorm, Prague Czechoslovakia, director, Courage for Every Day 1931 Birthday Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director, Sonja 1931 Birthday Mike Nichols, Peschowsky, director, Catch 22, Biloxi Blues 1931 Birthday David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92 1931 Birthday Ray Danton, New York City, actor and director, Longest Day, Psychic Killer 1931 Birthday Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director, New Land, Emigrants 1931 Birthday Ivo Petric, composer, classical music, toured with Slavko Osterc ensemble, Artistic Director, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 1979 - 1995 1931 Birthday Jacques Demy, born in France, director, Lola, Magic Donkey 1931 Birthday Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA 1931 Birthday Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation 1931 Birthday Martin Rogers, director, Farmington Institute for Christian Studies 1931 Birthday Ted Kotcheff, Canadian Director 1931 Birthday Denis Lawton, director, London University Institute of Educ 1931 Birthday Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in Berlin, actor, director and writer, Solo Sunday 1931 Birthday Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director, Royal Collection 1931 Birthday Cornelis T. "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press 1931 Birthday Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist 1930 Birthday Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1930 Birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z 1930 Birthday Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor and director, Odessa File, Julia 1930 Birthday Jean-Luc Godard, French director, Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless 1930 Death Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26 1930 Birthday Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory 1930 Birthday Frank Perry, film director 1930 Birthday James Komack, born in New York City, writer/director/actor, Courtship of Eddie's Father 1930 Birthday Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown 1930 Birthday Claude Chabrol, born in Paris, France, director, Les Cousins, Ophelia 1930 Birthday Bo Gunnar Widerberg, born in Malmo, Sweden, director, Elvira Madigan 1930 Birthday William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI 1930 Birthday Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham 1930 Birthday Paul Mazursky, born in Brooklyn, writer and director, Moscow on the Hudson 1930 Birthday Richard Donner, American Director 1930 Birthday Raymond St. Jacques, actor and director, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr. Moses 1930 Death Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35 1930 Birthday John Frankenheimer, New York City, director, Birdman of Alcatraz 1930 Birthday Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball 1930 Birthday Frederick Wiseman, American Director 1929 Birthday Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada 1929 Birthday Alan Mouncer, film director/producer 1929 Birthday Peter Yates, director, Breaking Away, Bullitt 1929 Birthday Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat and executive director, Barclays de Zoete Wedd 1929 Birthday Hugo Claus, Flemish writer and director, Cool Lover, Sugar 1929 Birthday Dennis Farr, director, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1929 Birthday James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director, Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley 1929 Birthday Elio Petri, Italy, director, Property is no theft 1929 Birthday Rita Gillespie, TV director 1929 Birthday Aleksander Petrovic, film director 1929 Birthday Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director, Nice Boys 1929 Birthday Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars 1928 Death Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director (Streets of sin), dies at 45 1928 Birthday Johnny Mann, born in Baltimore, Maryland, music director, Johnny Mann Stand Up and Cheer 1928 Birthday Nicolas Roeg, born in London, England, cinematographer/director, Aria, Eureka 1928 Birthday Stanley Kubrick, born in Bronx, New York, director, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita 1928 Birthday Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer 1928 Birthday Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life 1928 Birthday Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies 1928 Birthday James Ivory, producer/director, Howard's End, Remains of the Day 1928 Birthday Tony Richardson, born in England, director, Delicate Balance 1928 Birthday Agnes Varda, French photograph/director, Cleo de 5 7, Le bonheur 1928 Birthday Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute 1928 Birthday Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer and director, Hadimassa 1928 Birthday Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No 1928 Birthday Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita 1928 Birthday Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella 1928 Birthday William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist 1927 Birthday Michael Carreras, film director 1927 Birthday Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director, Cobra 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1927 Birthday Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director 1927 Birthday Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright, Knack 1927 Birthday Ken Russell, England, director, Tommy, Altered States, Gothic 1927 Birthday Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director 1927 Birthday Bob Fosse, born in Chicago, Illinois, choreographer/director, Cabaret, Damn Yankees 1927 Birthday Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy 1927 Birthday Michael Walsh, major-general/director, Overseas Relations 1927 Birthday David Hobman, director, Age Concern England 1927 Birthday Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery 1927 Birthday James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1927 Birthday Herbert Ross, director/choreographer, Footloose 1927 Birthday Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department 1927 Birthday Frank Dunlop, director, Edinburgh International Festival 1927 Birthday Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office 1926 Birthday Alfred "Fred" Benavente, director/actor, Farce Majeur 1926 Death Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72 1926 Birthday Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1926 Birthday Pierre Janssen, art museum director 1926 Birthday John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story 1926 Birthday Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1926 Birthday Bryan Forbes, director/producer, Endless Games, King Rat 1926 Birthday Karel Reisz, director, Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain 1926 Birthday Norman Jewison, director, Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All 1926 Birthday Mel Brooks, born in New York City, comedian/actor and director, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs 1926 Birthday Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director, Kew Gardens 1926 Birthday Dick Williams, born in Wall Lake, Iowa, choral director, Andy Williams Show 1926 Birthday Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1926 Birthday Roger Corman, born in Detroit, producer and director, Little Shop of Horrors 1926 Birthday Andre Delvaux, born in Heverie, Belgium, director and writer, Benvenuta 1926 Birthday Andrzej Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland, director, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna 1926 Birthday John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling 1925 Birthday Jordan Klein, born in Miami, Florida, cameraman/director, Thunderball 1925 Death Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 1925 Birthday Nanni Loy, film director 1925 Birthday Jerry Paris, born in San Francisco, California, director/actor, Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show 1925 Death Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'odeon), dies at 64 1925 Event George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 1925 Birthday Jos Jacobs, Flemish director, Madonna of Nedermunster 1925 Birthday Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor and director, Surprise Attack, Elevator 1925 Birthday Richard C. Sarafian, New York City, director/actor, Foley Square 1925 Birthday Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director, Sea gulls die in the harbor 1925 Birthday Robert Cohan, artistic director, Contemporary Dance Trust 1925 Birthday Duncan Wood, TV director/producer 1925 Birthday Peter Brook, born in London, director, 1776, TV writer 1925 Birthday Michael Kaye, director, City of London Festival 1925 Birthday Sam Peckinpah, born in Fresno, California, film director, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs 1925 Birthday Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H 1925 Birthday David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates 1925 Birthday PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports 1924 Birthday Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director 1924 Birthday Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Hague Comedy 1924 Birthday Edward D Wood, Jr., Poughkeepsie, New York, director, Plan 9 from Outer Space 1924 Birthday Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK 1924 Birthday Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer, Raisin, K2 1924 Birthday John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office 1924 Birthday Howard Roberts, born in Burlington, New Jersey, choral director, Leslie Uggams Show 1924 Birthday Sidney Lumet, born in Philadelphia, director, Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe 1924 Birthday Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter, l'Amour 1924 Birthday Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child 1924 Birthday Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees 1924 Birthday Murray Dickie, opera singer and director 1924 Birthday Charles Guggenheim, American Director 1924 Birthday Sarah Caldwell, born in Maryville, Missouri, conductor/opera director, Flagstaff 1924 Birthday Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music 1923 Birthday Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director 1923 Birthday Stansfield Turner, CIA director 1923 Birthday Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story 1923 Birthday Richard Attenborough, England, actor and director, Gandhi, Young Winston 1923 Birthday Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director 1923 Birthday Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England 1923 Birthday Horst Tapper, German director/actor, Derrick 1923 Birthday Irvin Kershner, Philadelphia, director, Never Say Never Again 1923 Birthday Lindsay Anderson, born in Bangalore, India, director, Thursday's Children 1923 Death Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies 1923 Birthday Nancy Francy, director, Claire's Knee 1923 Birthday Lee Hale, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, The Entertainers 1923 Birthday Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir 1923 Birthday Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director, Romeo and Juliet 1923 Birthday Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels 1923 Birthday Larry Buchanan, American Director 1922 Birthday Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano 1922 Birthday Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel 1922 Birthday Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde 1922 Birthday Guy Hamilton, British Director 1922 Birthday Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1922 Birthday Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue 1922 Birthday Blake Edwards, born in Oklahoma, writer and director, 10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's 1922 Birthday Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czechoslovakian/Dutch actor and director, Billy Budd 1922 Birthday Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale 1922 Birthday Artie Malvin, U.S. music director, Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence 1922 Birthday Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village 1922 Birthday Michael Cacoyannis, director, Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women 1922 Birthday Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye 1922 Birthday Alain Resnais, born in France, director, Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour 1922 Birthday M. Alain Resnais, born in Vannes, France, director, Melo, I Want to Go Home 1922 Birthday Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic, Comicos 1922 Death Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 1922 Birthday Barry Levinson, director, Rain Man 1922 Birthday Bruno VeSota, born in Illinois, actor and director, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers 1922 Birthday Ugo Tognazzi, born in Cremona, Italy, actor and director, La Cage Aux Folles 1922 Birthday Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna, Italy, director, Teorema, Pigsty 1922 Death William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49 1922 Birthday Ken Hughes, Liverpool England, director, Casino Royale 1921 Birthday Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave 1921 Birthday Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director, Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist 1921 Birthday Milos Jancso, Vac Hungary, director, My Way Home 1921 Birthday Jackie Cooper, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Hennesey, People's Choice 1921 Event J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI 1921 Birthday Giorgio Strehler, theatre director 1921 Birthday Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy 1921 Birthday Chris Marker, French Director 1921 Birthday Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance 1921 Birthday Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director, IMF 1921 Birthday Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director, Goddess, Adversary 1921 Birthday Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO 1921 Birthday Joan Greenwood, born in London, actress and director, Amorous Mr. Prawn 1921 Birthday Jack Clayton, film director 1921 Birthday B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1921 Birthday Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck 1920 Birthday Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director 1920 Birthday Richard Quine, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor and director, Clay Pigeon 1920 Birthday Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor, Boris Godunov, Step, Otello 1920 Birthday Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace 1920 Birthday Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director, Assault 1920 Birthday Fons Rademakers, director, Assault, actor, Daughter of Darkness 1920 Birthday Bert Leysen, TV director, Belgian National TV 1920 Birthday Lewis Gilbert, born in London, England, director/actor, You Only Live Twice 1920 Birthday Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA, 1961-72 1920 Birthday George Breakston, Paris, France, actor and director, Jungle Stampede 1920 Birthday William Egan Colby, CIA director, Nixon 1919 Birthday Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion 1919 Birthday Shirley Clarke, film director 1919 Birthday Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director, Persona, Devil's Eye 1919 Birthday Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Lucifer 1919 Birthday Beppie Nooij, actress/director, Bluejackets-Rooie Sien 1918 Birthday Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director, ANP/Reuter 1918 Birthday Robert Aldrich, U.S. director/producer, Dirty Dozen 1918 Birthday Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner 1918 Birthday Buster Davis, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, choral director, Garry Moore Show 1918 Birthday Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1918 Birthday Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer, Jennifer 1918 Birthday Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat 1917 Birthday Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris, France, director, A Cop 1917 Birthday Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, U.S.S.R., director, Taganka 1917 Birthday Alan Ande Anderson, opera director 1917 Birthday Mel Ferrer, born in New Jersey, actor in television, film and theater, film director and film producer 1917 Birthday John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Birthday Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Death Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies 1917 Birthday Wieland Wagner, German opera director 1916 Birthday Ray Conniff, Attleboro, Massachusetts, chorus director, Ray Conniff Singers 1916 Birthday Bob de Lange, Jacob Bernard, Dutch actor and director, Daniel 1916 Birthday George Sidney, American Director 1916 Birthday Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor and director, Antaeus-Survivors 1916 Birthday Erich Von Stroheim, Jr., actor and director, Napoleon, Sunset Blvd 1916 Birthday David Brown, born in New York City, director, Jaws, Planet of the Apes 1916 Birthday Irwin Allen, born in New York City, director, Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure 1916 Birthday Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director, Fanfare 1916 Birthday Howard Koch, producer/director, Frankenstein, Airplane II 1916 Birthday Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director, Bluejackets 1916 Birthday Gene Mitchell, museum director 1916 Birthday Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director, Joi-uchi 1916 Birthday Robert Parrish, Columbus, Georgia, director, Casino Royale 1915 Birthday Clay Warnick, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, Jimmie Rodgers Show 1915 Birthday Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director, Matatabi, Money Talks 1915 Birthday Guus [August] Oster, Dutch actor and director, Carre 1915 Birthday Terence Young, born in Shanghai, China, director, Dr. No, Thunderball 1915 Birthday Salah Abou Seif, director 1914 Birthday Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress, Jane Eyre 1914 Birthday Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1914 Birthday Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story 1914 Birthday J. Lee Thompson, British Director 1914 Birthday George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch 1914 Birthday Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation 1914 Event Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 Birthday Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man 1914 Birthday Martin Ritt, actor and director for Slugger's Wife, End of the Game 1914 Event Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1914 Birthday Marion Kettlewell, British director, WRNS 1913 Birthday Carlo Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director, 2 Women 1913 Birthday Mark Robson, Canadian Director 1913 Birthday James Broughton, American Director 1913 Birthday Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957 1913 Birthday Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket 1913 Birthday Walter Schumann, New York City, choral director, Ford Show, composer, Rhenish 1913 Birthday Stanley E Kramer, New York City, producer/director, Inherit the Wind 1913 Birthday Stanley Kramer, Argentinian Director 1913 Birthday Allan David, actor, director andproducer, Cry of the Children 1913 Birthday Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Netherlands playwright/director, Albee/Pinter 1913 Birthday John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp 1913 Birthday Nigel Patrick, London England, actor and director, Sapphire, Prize of Gold 1913 Birthday Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA 1913 Birthday Rene Clement, born in Bordeaux, France, director and writer, Is Paris Burning 1913 Birthday Rex Tucker, TV writer/director 1913 Birthday Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director 1913 Birthday Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 1912 Birthday Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree 1912 Birthday Don[ald] Siegel, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist 1912 Birthday Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert' 1912 Birthday Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director, Man in the White Suit, Mandy 1912 Birthday Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark 1912 Birthday Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director, Willard, Butterfield 8 1912 Birthday Ian Morrow, company director 1912 Birthday Joseph Anthony, Deuster, U.S. director/actor, Matchmaker, Tomorrow 1912 Birthday Richard Brooks, Philadelphia, director, Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood 1912 Birthday Georges Franju, born in France, director, Judex, L'homme sans visage 1912 Birthday Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director, Don Carlos 1912 Birthday Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director, Max-Planck-institute 1911 Birthday Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director, Circle of Two, Never on Sunday 1911 Birthday Charles Walters, U.S., actor/choreographer/director, Easter parade 1911 Birthday Carl Dolmetsch, director, Haslemere Festival 1911 Birthday R. Nicholas Ray, born in Galesville WI, director, Rebel Without a Cause 1911 Death Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 1911 Death Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 1911 Birthday Harry Simeone, Newark, New Jersey, choral director, Kate Smith Show 1911 Birthday Giles Grangier, film director 1911 Birthday Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director, Netherlands Opera 1911 Birthday Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure 1911 Birthday Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer 1911 Birthday Robert Hamer, British Director 1911 Birthday John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1910 Birthday Roy Rowland, film director 1910 Birthday Abraham L Polonsky, U.S. writer and director, Tell them Willie Boy is Here 1910 Birthday Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes 1910 Birthday Tomoyuki Tanaka, director, Godzilla 1910 Birthday Akira Kurosawa, born in Tokyo, Japan, director, 7 Samurai, Living 1910 Birthday Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, American in Paris, Gigi 1910 Birthday Michael Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, director/writer/actor, Woman of the Year 1910 Birthday Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director, Adrift 1910 Birthday Willi Schmidt, Germany, director 1909 Death Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 1909 Birthday Don Large, Canada, choral director, Wayne King 1909 Birthday Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director, Streetcar Named Desire 1909 Birthday Jean Lancaster, director, WRNS 1909 Birthday John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century 1909 Birthday Mike Todd, Avrom Goldbogen, U.S. director, 80 days 1909 Birthday Jan Lewando, British director, Marks and Spencer 1909 Birthday John Arkell, director of administration, BBC 1909 Birthday Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director, KNMI 1909 Birthday Abner Biberman, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director and actor, Imhook-Kodiak 1909 Birthday Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director, Warburg Institute 1909 Birthday George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director 1909 Birthday Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth 1909 Birthday Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director 1909 Birthday Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident 1908 Birthday Jacques Tatischeff, born in La Pecq, France, director, Traffic, Playtime 1908 Birthday Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director, Nemo 1908 Birthday Edward Dmytryk, director, Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny 1908 Birthday David Lean, British director, Lawrence of Arabia 1908 Birthday Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director 1908 Birthday David Lean, born in Croydon, England, director, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter 1908 Birthday Helmut Kautner, German director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1908 Birthday Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo 1908 Birthday Tex Avery, cartoon director, What's up, Doc? 1908 Birthday George Pal, Hungarian/U.S. director, When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons 1908 Birthday Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor, director and writer, Fear 1907 Birthday Michael Blankfort, U.S., writer/producer/director 1907 Birthday Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director, Le salaire de la peur 1907 Birthday Yves Allegret, French director, Dedee d'Anvers, Lesson Orgueilleux 1907 Birthday William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer, Blackmail 1907 Birthday Robert Bresson, France, director, Pickpocket, Mouchette 1907 Birthday Fred Zinneman, born in Austria, director, From Here to Eternity, Julia 1907 Birthday Fred Zinnemann, American Director 1907 Birthday Cor Treslem, Cornelis L Melsert, actor and director, Willem van Oranje 1907 Birthday Sheldon Leonard, New York City, actor and director, Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie 1907 Birthday Owain Jenkins, company director 1906 Birthday Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man 1906 Birthday John Walker, museum director 1906 Birthday Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice 1906 Birthday Wolfgang Staudte, German director, Die Morder sind unter uns 1906 Birthday Marcel Carne, French Director 1906 Birthday John Huston, born in Nevada, Missouri, director and writer, African Queen, Chinatown 1906 Birthday Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17 1906 Birthday Richard Whorf, actor and director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame 1906 Birthday Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC 1906 Birthday Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City 1905 Birthday Joseph Heifitz, film director 1905 Birthday Dalton Trumbo, U.S., writer/film director, Johnny Got His Gun 1905 Birthday Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer, Laura, Exodus 1905 Birthday Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer, Red Shoes 1905 Birthday Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC 1905 Birthday Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City 1905 Birthday Trenchard Cox, museum director 1905 Birthday Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire 1905 Birthday Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor and director, That Joyous Eve 1905 Birthday Jean Vigo, born in France, actor and director, Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante 1905 Birthday Grigorij M. Kosinzev, Russian director 1905 Birthday Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear 1905 Birthday Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director, Evil Eye 1904 Birthday Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya 1904 Birthday George Stevens, U.S. director, Alice Adams, Penny Serenade 1904 Birthday Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton 1904 Birthday Maudet Christian-Jacques, film director 1904 Birthday Jan van Axel, Dutch director, Overschotje 1904 Birthday Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur 1904 Birthday Emilio Fernandez, born in El Seco, Mexico, director, La Choca, Flor Silvestre 1904 Birthday Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood 1904 Birthday Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director, Innocent Heart 1904 Birthday John Farrow, born in Sydney, Australia, director/actor, Botany Bay, Wake Island 1903 Birthday John Ringling North, circus director, Ringling Bros 1903 Birthday Alf Sjoberg, Stockholm Sweden, director, Fadern, Oen, Domaren 1903 Birthday Willi Forst, Austrian actor and director, Im weissen Rossl 1903 Birthday Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director, Veselye Rebjata 1903 Birthday Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen 1903 Birthday Joris Diels, Flemish actor and director, Haagsche Comedy 1902 Birthday Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial, 1902 Birthday Gerard[us M] Rutten, director, Miraculous Life of Willem Parel 1902 Birthday Paul Guilfoyle, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor and director, Curiosity Kills 1902 Birthday Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor, 2 Women 1902 Birthday Billy Wyler, director, Ben Hur, Mrs. Miniver 1902 Birthday Carl-Heinz Schroth, born in Innsbruck, director, Reaching for the Stars 1902 Death David R Capriles, Curaeaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64 1902 Birthday Heinz Ruehmann, German actor and director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1902 Birthday Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor and director, 2 Smart People 1901 Birthday Hermann Abs, director, Deutsche Bank, Hitler's advisor 1901 Birthday Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director 1901 Birthday Harold Clurman, producer/director, Deadline at Dawn 1901 Birthday Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1901 Birthday Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director, Tivoli 1901 Birthday Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director, Fietsendieven 1901 Birthday Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct 1901 Birthday Arthur Pierson, born in Oslo, Norway, actor and director, Hat Check Girl 1901 Birthday Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother 1900 Birthday Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo 1900 Death Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 1900 Birthday Larry Kent, California, director, High Stakes 1900 Birthday Izak D du Plessis, South African writer and director, 3rd World 1900 Birthday Douglas Sirk, director, Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje 1900 Birthday Jed Harris, producer/director, Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball 1900 Birthday Luis Brunel, Calanda Spain, director, Tristana, Phantom of Liberty 1900 Birthday Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director, Plaisir 1900 Birthday Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda 1900 Birthday Dorothy Arnzer, director 1899 Birthday Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M 1899 Birthday Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan 1899 Birthday Elliot Nugent, director, And so They were Married 1899 Birthday James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1899 Birthday Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury, New Hampshire, actor and director, Those We Love 1899 Birthday Alfred Hitchcock, born in London, director, Psycho, Birds, Rear Window 1899 Birthday Arthur Lubin, film director 1899 Birthday George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story 1899 Birthday Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist, Po Zakonu 1898 Birthday Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director, Rain 1898 Birthday Rene Clair, director, I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow 1898 Birthday Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor and director, Flying Dutchman 1898 Birthday Preston Sturges, Edmund P Biden, Chic, director, Sullivan's Travels 1898 Birthday G Kraus, director Santpoort, Insanity in Netherlands 1898 Birthday Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin, 1898 Birthday Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director, Alexandr Nevski, 1897 Event Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera 1897 Birthday Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause 1897 Birthday Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director 1897 Birthday Frank Capra, Italy, director, Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace 1897 Birthday Harold French, director, Encore, actor 1897 Birthday Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor and director, Corsican Brothers 1897 Birthday Jean Epstein, French director, Sa tate/Eau vive 1897 Birthday Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director, Nicholas Nickleby 1897 Birthday Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO 1897 Birthday Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1896 Birthday Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn, 1896 Birthday Howard Hawks, Goshen, Indiana, director/producer, Rio Bravo, Scarface 1896 Birthday Hal Walker, Ottumwa, Iowa, director, I Married Joan 1896 Birthday William W. Wellman, Brookline Massachusetts, director, Star is Born 1896 Birthday Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor and director, Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre 1896 Birthday Eva Le Gallienne, born in London, England, actress/director, Resurrection 1896 Birthday Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet! 1896 Birthday Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor and director, Jujiro, Jigoku-mon 1895 Birthday David Butler, born in San Francisco, California, director, April in Paris, Calamity Jane 1895 Birthday Lewis Milestone, Russian Director 1895 Death John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 1895 Birthday Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director, God and the Worms 1895 Birthday Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 1895 Birthday Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers 1895 Birthday Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire 1895 Birthday King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas 1895 Birthday John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man 1894 Birthday Jean Renoir, French director, Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion 1894 Birthday Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director 1894 Birthday Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director, Der blaue Engel 1894 Death James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51 1894 Birthday Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director, Obsession, The Bad Seed 1893 Birthday Erwin Piscator, German stage director, Der Stellvertreter 1893 Birthday August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director, Uninhabited Island 1893 Birthday Charlie Chase, U.S. actor and director, Sons of Desert 1893 Birthday Roy Del Ruth, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show 1893 Birthday August Maes, Flemish actor and director, Shylock-Hamlet 1893 Birthday Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director, Paul Vlaanderen 1893 Birthday Simon Delmonte, actor and director, Boemeladvocaat 1893 Birthday Frank Borzage, born in Salt Lake City, director, 7th Heaven, Strange Cargo 1893 Birthday Karel Lotsy, Dutch insurance director and Olympic-chief d'equipe 1893 Birthday Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter 1892 Birthday Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene 1892 Birthday Ruth Stonehouse, born in Denver, Colorado, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance' 1892 Death Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1892 Birthday Raoul Walsh, born in New York City, director, Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry 1892 Birthday Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC 1891 Birthday Irving Pichel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor and director, Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist 1891 Birthday Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director, Great Netherlands Stage 1890 Birthday Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis 1890 Birthday Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1890 Birthday Leslie Banks, English actor and director, Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours 1890 Birthday Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, U.S. actor and director, My Old Dutch 1890 Birthday Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado 1890 Birthday Karl Freund, Czechoslovakian/Austrian cameraman/director 1889 Birthday Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM 1889 Birthday Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story 1889 Birthday Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee 1889 Birthday Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother 1889 Birthday Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director, Keystone Kops 1889 Birthday Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union 1889 Birthday Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director, Passion of Jeanne d'arc 1889 Birthday Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child 1888 Birthday Irving Cummings Sr, New York City, silent screen star/director, Curly Top 1888 Birthday Jacques Feyder, Frederix, Belg/French actor and director, Anna Christie 1888 Birthday Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher 1888 Birthday Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor and director, Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist 1888 Birthday Henry King, U.S., director, Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High 1888 Birthday Joseph Henabery, born in Omaha, Nebraska, director, Cobra 1887 Birthday John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage 1887 Birthday Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director, Willem van Oranje 1887 Birthday Antonio Moreno, born in Madrid, Spain, actor and director, It, Careers 1887 Birthday Clive Brook, born in London, England, actor and director, List of Adrian Messenger 1887 Birthday Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1887 Death Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74 1886 Birthday Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director 1886 Birthday Carter De Haven, born in Woodland Hills, California, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin 1886 Birthday Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov 1886 Birthday Val Paul, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922 1886 Birthday Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director, Artis 1885 Birthday Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion 1885 Birthday Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union 1885 Birthday Allan Dwan, Canadian Director 1884 Birthday Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company 1884 Birthday Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man 1884 Birthday Robert J. Flaherty, Director 1883 Birthday Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain 1883 Birthday Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director, Hofstad Stage 1883 Birthday Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director, Erotikon 1883 Birthday Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1883 Birthday Victor Fleming, born in Pasadena, California, director, Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind 1883 Birthday Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, Eric XIV 1883 Birthday [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor, 3 Drops of Water, theater director 1882 Birthday Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1882 Birthday Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director, Pygmalion 1881 Birthday Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn 1881 Birthday William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director, Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong 1881 Birthday Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want? 1881 Birthday Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer and director, Burg Theater 1880 Birthday Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director, Rotterdamsche Bank 1880 Event John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band 1880 Birthday W Hupkes, engineer/director, Dutch Rail 1938 1880 Birthday Victor Schertzinger, composer and director, Uptown New York 1880 Birthday Oscar, Bachigaloupi, Tourniaire, actor and director, Pink Kate 1880 Birthday Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director 1879 Birthday King Baggot I, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director, Tumbleweeds 1879 Birthday Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director, Wind, Under the Red Robe 1879 Birthday Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director, KNMI 1879 Event U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1878 Birthday Eduard R. Verkade, Dutch actor, director and critic, Pygmalion 1877 Birthday Stanner E V Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director and writer, Lucky Jim, Ramona 1877 Event British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1876 Birthday Walter S. Adams, U.S. astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, 1923 - 1946 1875 Birthday D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation 1875 Birthday D. W. Griffith, American Director 1874 Birthday Paul Wegener, German actor and director, Student of Prag 1874 Birthday Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor, Houligan 1873 Birthday Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director, Oedipus Rex 1873 Birthday Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount 1872 Birthday Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director 1872 Birthday Tom Terriss, born in London, England, director, His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru 1872 Birthday Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director 1872 Birthday Edward G Craig, actor and director, On the art of theatre 1871 Birthday Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor and director, Ghost Hotel 1868 Birthday Henry W. Methorst, lawyer/director, Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics 1867 Birthday Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist 1867 Birthday Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director, Summer Games 1866 Birthday Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin 1865 Birthday Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, Black Haired Whore 1864 Birthday William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory 1863 Birthday Hermann Bahr, Austria writer and director, New Men 1863 Birthday Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director, Stanislavski Method 1862 Birthday William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer and director Lick Observatory 1861 Birthday Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt 1860 Birthday Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director, l'Odeon 1856 Death Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 1854 Birthday Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra 1854 Birthday Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth 1853 Birthday Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies 1853 Birthday Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director, Kathleen 1852 Birthday Barend Barendse, actor and director, Wandering Jew 1852 Birthday Teunis Stoel, actor and director, Small Theater, Rotterdam 1847 Birthday Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director, Imperial Theatre 1846 Birthday Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director 1841 Death Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82 1838 Death Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 1837 Birthday David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao 1835 Birthday Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director Confederate Army 1827 Death Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54 1823 Death John P Kemble, English actor and director (Covent Garden), dies at 66 1821 Birthday John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. 1812 Birthday Abraham I van Lier, theater director, Gran Theatre-van Lier 1808 Birthday Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son 1802 Death Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 1788 Birthday Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director 1785 Birthday William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens 1779 Death John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71 1773 Birthday Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director 1771 Death Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61 1771 Birthday Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname 1771 Birthday Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director 1758 Birthday Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch Staatscourant 1757 Birthday John P Kemble, England, actor and director, Drury Lane, Covent Garden 1714 Death Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56 1707 Birthday John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens 1692 Death John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62 1685 Birthday Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company 1657 Birthday Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director 1629 Birthday John Commelin, director, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam 1619 Birthday John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony
