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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













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