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2013 Event - Scientists discover that a large amount of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles

2013 Event - The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes

2012 Event - NASA's Curiosity rover continues to make small discoveries as the organization works to discredit rumors of evidence of life on Mars

2012 Event - 2011 Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is given 7 consecutive life sentences

2012 Event - Former award-winning cyclist, American Lance Armstrong, is banned for life from participating in International Cycling Union-sanctioned events and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles based on the findings of a systematic doping investigation

2012 Event - After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles

2012 Event - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that minor's cannot be automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole

2012 Event - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, reported to be in a coma, is removed from life support

2012 Event - Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

2012 Event - Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Cabinet of Japan approves a bill placing a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors

2011 Event - The robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to Mars, is launched by NASA; the goal is to find evidence of past or present life on Mars

2010 Event - The Census of Marline Life 10-year study reports that 230,000 species of animal live in the world's oceans

2009 Event - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment

2009 Death - Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York

2005 Event - Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, receives 10 consecutive life sentences

2004 Death - Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies

2004 Death - Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97

2003 Death - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide

2002 Death - Eileen Farrell, singer, Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell, dies at 82

2000 Death - Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79

1998 Death - Rodney Harvey, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho', died at age 30, of a heroin overdose

1998 Event - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

1997 Event - "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater New York City

1997 Event - British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901

1997 Death - Jeffrey Bernard, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine, dies in Soho, England, after refusing dialysis treatment

1997 Death - James Stewart, actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, dies at 89

1997 Death - George Fenneman, announcer, 'You Bet Your Life', dies at 77

1997 Event - "Life," opens at Barrymore Theater New York City

1997 Event - 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

1996 Event - NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars

1994 Event - U.S. Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life

1994 Event - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime

1993 Death - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Netherlands actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34

1993 Death - Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56

1993 Event - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life

1993 Event - Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in New York City

1992 Event - Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)

1992 Event - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail

1992 Death - George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Captains and Kings), dies at 70

1991 Event - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live

1991 Event - Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode

1991 Event - Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement

1991 Death - Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94

1991 Death - Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61

1991 Event - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1991 Death - Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84

1991 Event - "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV

1990 Death - Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65

1990 Death - Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74

1990 Event - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV

1990 Death - Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84

1989 Death - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91

1989 Death - Irving Stone, U.S. writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies

1989 Event - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

1989 Birthday - Hayden Panettiere, actress, One Life to Live

1988 Death - Dick Clair, comedian (Clair and McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS

1988 Event - "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble

1988 Death - Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64

1987 Event - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison

1987 Birthday - Michael Roman, actor, Al-One Life to Live

1987 Event - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)

1987 Event - Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge

1985 Death - Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89

1985 Event - Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss) marries Robert Desiderio (One Life to Live)

1984 Death - David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12

1983 Event - "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France

1983 Event - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

1983 Event - Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

1982 Event - "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 5 performances

1982 Event - "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 5 performances

1982 Death - John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49

1982 Event - 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win

1982 Event - "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances

1982 Event - "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances

1981 Event - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City

1981 Birthday - Nicole Richie, actress, socialite, known for television series, 'The Simple Life' with Paris Hilton, author of 'The Truth About Diamonds'

1981 Event - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder

1981 Event - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life

1981 Death - William Saroyan, U.S. stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72

1981 Birthday - Paris Hilton, born in New York City, New York, model, actress, socialite, heiress, fashion designer, appeared in 'The Simple Life' television series

1981 Death - Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89

1981 Death - Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88

1980 Birthday - Eliza Dushku, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, This Boy's Life, True Lies, Journey

1980 Death - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53

1980 Event - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patented

1980 Death - Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies

1980 Event - Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run

1979 Death - Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67

1979 Death - Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84

1979 Event - Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin

1979 Event - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres

1979 Death - Emory Parnell, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85

1979 Event - Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?," premieres in London

1979 Birthday - Claire Danes, New York City, actress, Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo and Juliet

1978 Birthday - Devon Gummersall, born in Colorado, actor, 'Relativity', Brian in 'My So Called Life'

1978 Event - Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins

1978 Event - David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life

1978 Death - Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86

1977 Event - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1977 Event - David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in New York City

1977 Event - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks

1977 Birthday - Jake Patellis, actor, Paul Bowman-Good Life

1977 Event - Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

1977 Event - Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award

1977 Death - Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74

1976 Event - Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

1976 Death - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies

1976 Event - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

1975 Event - Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life

1975 Birthday - Kellie Martin, Riverside California, actress, Life Goes On, Cristy

1975 Death - William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67

1975 Death - Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies

1974 Birthday - Ryan Phillippe, born in New Castle, Delaware, actor, appeared in 'One Life to Live' soap opera, films include, 'Cruel Intentions', 'Crash'

1974 Event - Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"

1974 Birthday - Devon Odessa, actor, Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost

1973 Birthday - Wilson Cruz, actor, My So Called Life, Ally McBeal

1973 Birthday - Christie Clark, Louisiana, actress, Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life

1973 Death - Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67

1973 Birthday - MacKenzie Astin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids

1973 Event - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

1973 Event - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

1973 Event - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life

1972 Event - Life magazine ceases publication

1972 Birthday - Jared Leto, born in Bossier City, Louisiana, actor, Jordan-My So Called Life

1972 Death - Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65

1972 Event - Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep

1971 Birthday - Dido Armstrong, born in London, England, known as 'Dido', singer, songwriter, album, 'No Angel' sold over 16 million copies worldwide, 'Life for Rent' sold over 12 million copies

1971 Event - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"

1971 Birthday - Ricky Martin, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, singer, famous member of Menudo, Latin boy band, albums include 'Sound Loaded', 'Life'

1971 Birthday - Caprice Bourret, born in Whittier, California, lingerie model, actress, businesswoman, appeared on television's 'The Surreal Life', Wonderbra model

1971 Birthday - Trey Ames, born in Canton, Ohio, actor, David-A Year in the Life

1971 Event - Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1971 Event - 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana

1971 Event - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

1971 Event - U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life

1971 Event - William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre

1971 Death - Selmer Jackson, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82

1970 Event - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment

1970 Birthday - Macy Gray, born in Canton, Ohio, singer, songwriter, actress, Grammy-Award winner, films, 'Idlewild', 'Training Day', hit song, 'I Try', famous album, 'On How Life Is'

1969 Death - Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer and actor (Full of Life), dies at 69

1969 Birthday - Mark Brettschneider, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Jason-One Life to Live

1969 Birthday - Kim Fields Freeman, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Tootie-Facts of Life

1969 Death - Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43

1968 Event - "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show

1968 Event - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited

1968 Event - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV

1968 Event - Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres

1968 Birthday - Yasmine Bleeth, born in New York City, actress, Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch

1968 Birthday - Susan Haskell, actress, Marty-One Life to Live, Strictly Business

1968 Event - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1967 Birthday - Sean Moynihan, Burlington, Vermont, actor, Powell-One Life to Live

1967 Birthday - Rodney Harvey, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho'

1967 Event - BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)

1967 Event - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1967 Birthday - Jeff Bankett, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Tyler-1 Life to Live

1966 Birthday - Irene Jacob, born in Suresnes, France, actress, famous for lead role in film 'The Double Life of Veronique', 'Three Colores: Red', considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation

1966 Birthday - Mindy Cohn, Louisiana, actress, Facts of Life

1966 Birthday - Nancy McKeon, born in Westbury, New York, actress, Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life

1966 Death - Russel Crouse, U.S. stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73

1966 Birthday - Thorsten Kaye, soap actor, Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers

1966 Birthday - Bronwen Booth, London, actress, Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil

1965 Birthday - Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn, Michigan, guitarist, Signs of Life

1965 Event - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences

1965 Birthday - Lisa Rinna, born in Newport Beach, California, actress, Billie-Days of Our Life

1965 Event - Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

1965 Birthday - Fia Porter, Mexia, Texas, actress, Audrey Ames-One Life to Live

1965 Death - Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81

1964 Death - William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58

1964 Birthday - Cornelia Guest, debutante, Debutante's Guide to Life

1964 Birthday - Leonard Stabb, actor, Hunter Guthrie-One Life to Live, Guiding Light

1964 Birthday - Dave Parsons, rocker, Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life

1964 Event - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1963 Birthday - Lisa Howard, actress, Days of Our Life, Rolling Vengeance

1963 Death - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64

1963 Death - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65

1963 Birthday - Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress, Blair-Facts of Life

1963 Birthday - Tracey E. Bregman Recht, Munich Germany, actress, Days of Our Life

1963 Birthday - Joel Osteen, born in Houston, Texas, pastor, Lakewood Church, ministry reaches over seven million viewers per week in the U.S., author of 'Your Best Life Now'

1963 Birthday - Jessica Tuck, New York City, actress, Megan-1 Life to Live

1962 Birthday - Karen Witter, California, actress, Tina-One Life to Live, playmate, Mar, 1982

1962 Birthday - Holly Gagnier, Louisiana, actress, One Life to Live

1962 Birthday - Tonja Walker, Huntington, West Virginia, actress, Alex-One Life to Live

1962 Event - OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life

1962 Event - "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 113 performances

1962 Birthday - Robert Mailhouse, New Haven, Connecticut, actor, Brian-Days of our Life

1961 Event - "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 113 performances

1961 Death - Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg and I), dies at 71

1961 Birthday - John Viscardi, New York City, actor, Father Tony-One Life to Live

1961 Birthday - Roma Downey, Derry Ire, actress, 1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel

1961 Birthday - John Clarke, actor, Mickey-Days of Our Life

1961 Birthday - Kassie Wesley, born in Kentucky, actress, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live

1961 Death - Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59

1960 Death - Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55

1960 Birthday - Valerie Pettiford, New York City, actress, Sheila Price-One Life to Live

1960 Birthday - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian, Get a Life, David Letterman Show

1960 Birthday - Fiona Hutchison, born in Miami, Florida, actress, One Life to Live, Guiding Light

1959 Death - William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42

1959 Birthday - Basia Trzetrzelevska, Poland, jazz singer, Time and Life

1959 Birthday - Joyce Sims, born in Rochester, New York, singer, songwriter, released U.S. and UK hit single titled, 'Come Into My Life', 1987

1959 Birthday - Patricia Pease Jeffers, born in North Carolina, actress, Kimberly-Days of our Life

1959 Death - Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69

1959 Birthday - Eileen Davidson, born in Artesia, California, actress, Kristen-Days of our Life

1959 Birthday - Shelley Burch, born in Tucson, Arizona, actress, One Life to Live, Identity Crisis

1958 Birthday - Billy Hufsey, actor, Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life

1958 Event - 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K.

1957 Birthday - James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor, Max Holden-One Life to Live

1957 Birthday - Andrea Evans, actress, Young and Restless, Tina-One Life to Live

1957 Birthday - Hillary Bailey Smith, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Nora-One Life to Live

1956 Birthday - Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress, Secret Rapture, Life Story

1956 Birthday - Debby Boone, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, singer, You Light Up My Life

1956 Birthday - Sandra Guiboard, born in U.S. AFB West Germany, actress, Donna-One Life to Live

1956 Birthday - Julie Montgomery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Samantha-1 Life to Live, Kindred

1956 Birthday - Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor, Cliff-Facts of Life

1955 Birthday - Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero

1955 Birthday - Patti Weaver, West Virginia, actress, Days of our Life, Gina-Young and Restless

1955 Birthday - Michael Sabatino, born in California, actor, Days of Our Life, Bold and Beautiful

1955 Birthday - Marcia McCabe, actress, Alice-One Life to Live

1955 Birthday - Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life

1954 Birthday - Matt Groening, cartoonist, Life in Hell, Simpsons

1953 Birthday - Roy Firestone, sportscaster, Life's Most Embarrassing Moments

1953 Birthday - Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, One Life to Live, Guiding Light

1952 Birthday - Roberto Benigni, born in Manciano, Italy, actor, comedian, screenwriter, best known for movie, 'Life Is Beautiful', Academy-Award winner for Best Actor

1952 Birthday - Deborah Adair, actress, Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life

1951 Event - 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV

1951 Birthday - Gerald Anthony, actor, Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live

1951 Birthday - Peter Gordon, born in New York City, New York, Peter Laurence Gordon, experimental composer, musician, opera, world music, jazz, rock influences, founder, Love of Life Orchestra, composed for Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, worked on Desperate Housewives soundtrack

1951 Birthday - Tanya Boyd, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, Celeste-Days of our Life

1951 Birthday - Kim Zimmer, Michigan, actress, Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live

1951 Event - Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres

1950 Birthday - Karl Rove, born in Denver, Colorado, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, author, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight'

1950 Event - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

1950 Birthday - Nathan Purdee, actor, Nathan-Young and Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live

1950 Birthday - Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington

1950 Birthday - Robert S. Woods, born in California, actor, Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons

1949 Death - Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67

1949 Birthday - Jeremy Thomas, actor, Family Life

1949 Event - "Love Life" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 252 performances

1949 Birthday - Patti LuPone, born in Northport, New York, actress and singer, Evita, Life Goes On

1949 Birthday - John Shea, born in North Conway, New Hampshire, actor, Honeymoon, New Life, Lois and Clark

1949 Birthday - Helene Hayman, born in England, Baroness Helene Hayman, Helene Valerie Hayman, Member of Parliament, Life Peer, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

1949 Birthday - Ric Ocasek, born in Baltimore, rock vocalist, Cars-Double Life, Bye Bye Love

1949 Birthday - Denny Albee, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actor, Dr. Janssen-One Life to Live

1949 Birthday - Kalevi Aho, born in Forssa, Finland, composer, large-scale works, symphonies, vocal works, concertos, operas, including 'The Key', 'Insect Life'

1949 Birthday - Judith Light, Trenton, New Jersey, Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live

1949 Event - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

1948 Event - "Love Life" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 252 performances

1948 Event - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life

1948 Event - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine

1947 Event - "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio

1947 Birthday - Lyndon Harrison, born in Britain, Baron Harrison, life peer, House of Lords, Member of the European Parliament 1989 - 1999

1947 Birthday - Linda Thorson, born in Toronto, actress, Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live

1947 Birthday - Judy Loe, born in Urmston Manchester, United Kingdom, actress, Singles, Meaning of Life

1947 Birthday - Lewis Moonie, born in Dundee, England, Baron Moonie, politician, life peer, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Kircaldy

1947 Death - Grace Moore, U.S. soprano/actress (1 Night of Life), dies at 45

1946 Event - Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres

1946 Birthday - Gloria Loring, New York City, actress and singer, Days of our Life

1946 Birthday - Jacqueline Courtney, New Jersey, actress, Another World, One Life to Live

1946 Birthday - Alison Steadman, Liverpool England, actress, Life is Sweet

1946 Birthday - Erika Slezak, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Viki-One Life to Live

1946 Birthday - Lasse Hallstrom, director, Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA

1946 Birthday - Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live'

1945 Birthday - Thaao Penghlis, actor, Mission Impossible, Tony-Days of Our Life

1945 Birthday - Catherine Burns, New York City, actress, Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher

1945 Birthday - John Lodge, born in Birmingham, England, musician, singer, songwriter, bass guitar player, member of The Moody Blues rock band, created songs 'Candle of Life', 'Eyes of a Child', 'Send Me No Wine'

1945 Birthday - Tobias Wolff, U.S. writer, This Boy's Life

1945 Birthday - Robin Strasser, New York City, actress, Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World

1945 Birthday - Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1944 Death - Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75

1944 Birthday - Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack

1944 Birthday - E J Peaker, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress, That's Life

1943 Birthday - Winfred "Blue" Lovett, U.S. singer, Manhattans-One Life to Live

1943 Birthday - Susan Seaforth Hayes, actress, Days of our Life, Young and Restless

1943 Event - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase

1943 Birthday - Tom McNally, born in England, Thomas McNally, Baron McNally, politician, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, life peer, Baron of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire

1943 Event - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others

1943 Death - Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns

1943 Birthday - Kenneth Kelley, U.S. singer, Manhattans, One Life to Live

1942 Birthday - Tessa Blackstone, born in England, Baroness Blackstone, politician, university administrator, Labor Party, life peer, House of Lords, Baroness Blackstone of Stoke Newington in Greater London

1942 Birthday - Patricia Elliot, born in Gunnison, Colorado, actress, Renee-Empire, One Life to Live

1942 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)

1942 Birthday - Sandra Dee, Zuck, Bayonne, New Jersey, actress, Gidget, Imitation of Life

1941 Event - "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated

1941 Birthday - Robin Leach, born in London, England, TV host, Life Styles of Rich and Famous

1940 Death - Florence Scovel Shinn, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore, dies

1940 Birthday - George Reinholt, Philadelphia, actor, Steve-Another World, One Life to Live

1940 Death - Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies

1939 Event - H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City

1939 Event - William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in New York City

1939 Birthday - Volker Braun, born in Dresden, German, writer, poet, playwright, wrote 'Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts' or 'The Unrestrained Life of Kast'

1939 Birthday - Robert Nye, writer, Facts of Life and other fiction, 3 Views of Man

1939 Birthday - Gwen Taylor, British actress, Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming

1938 Event - Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in New York City

1938 Event - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, premieres

1937 Birthday - Richard Foreman, New York City, theatrical director, Daily Life

1937 Birthday - Elinor Donahue, born in Tacoma, Washington, actress, Father Knows Best, Get a Life

1936 Event - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

1936 Event - Life magazine hit newsstands

1936 Birthday - Susan Kohner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story

1936 Death - Harriet Monroe, U.S. poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75

1936 Birthday - Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes

1936 Birthday - Timothy Spall, actor, 1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance

1935 Death - Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies

1934 Birthday - Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater

1934 Birthday - Al Freeman, Jr., born in Texas, actor, One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie

1934 Event - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"

1933 Birthday - Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1932 Birthday - Gibson Kente, born in South Africa, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa

1932 Birthday - Jeffrey Bernard, born in London, England, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine

1931 Birthday - Robert Morse, Newton Massachusetts, actor, That's Life, Jack Frost

1931 Birthday - Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1930 Birthday - Ben Gazzara, New York City, actor, Run for Your Life, QB VII

1930 Birthday - Frank McCourt, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1928 Birthday - Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life

1927 Birthday - Martin Milner, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley

1927 Birthday - John Gilbert, born in England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Dudley East, life peer as Baron Gilbert, of Dudley in the County of West Midlands

1926 Birthday - Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1926 Birthday - Cranley Onslow, born in England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking, called for lower middle class taxes, life peer as Baron Onslow of Working in Surrey County

1926 Birthday - Charlotte Rae, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, actress, Edna-Facts of Life

1926 Birthday - Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life'

1926 Birthday - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author, My Life

1926 Birthday - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life'

1925 Birthday - Barbara Bates, born in Denver, Colorado, actress, Kathy-It's a Great Life

1925 Birthday - Phil Carey, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, actor, Asa Buchanan-One Life to Live

1925 Birthday - Bill Hayes, born in Harvey, Illinois, actor, Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life

1925 Birthday - Peter Lane, born in England, Baron Lane of Horsell, Lord Land of Horsell, politician, businessman, Conservative Party, served in Royal Navy, life peer, House of Lords

1923 Birthday - Douglas Wass, CEO, Equity and Law Life Assurance Company

1923 Birthday - Bob Elliot, born in Boston, Massachusetts, comedian, Bob and Ray, Get a Life

1923 Birthday - Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated

1922 Event - Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life

1922 Birthday - Erving Goffman, sociologist, presentation of self in everyday life

1922 Birthday - John Braine, English novelist, Life at the Top

1921 Birthday - Donna Reed, born in Denison, Iowa, From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life

1920 Birthday - Carmen McRae, Clark, U.S. jazz singer/pianist, Dream of Life

1920 Birthday - William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator

1919 Birthday - Steve Brodie, Eldorado, Kansas, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1919 Birthday - George Fenneman, born in in Peking, China, TV announcer, 'You Bet Your Life'

1919 Death - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30

1919 Event - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks

1918 Birthday - Mervyn Pike, born in England, Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, Conservative, Life Peerk, knighted, Member of Parliament for Melton, in the county of Leicestershire

1918 Birthday - Maurice Laing, life president, John Laing

1917 Birthday - William Bishop, born in Oak Park, Illinois, actor, Steve-It's a Great Life

1917 Birthday - Robert Conquest, English author, Back to Life

1917 Birthday - Glenn Reeves, Massillon, Ohio, actor, Defending Your Life

1917 Birthday - Joop Waasdorp, Dutch writer, Naked Life

1916 Birthday - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live

1916 Birthday - John Vivyan, actor, Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life

1916 Birthday - John Vivyan, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Imitation of Life, Mr. Lucky

1915 Event - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life

1915 Birthday - Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Johnny Angel, Double Life

1915 Event - U.S. Coast Guard created from Life Saving and Revenue Cutter services

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 Birthday - Harold Russell, actor, Best Years of Our Life

1913 Birthday - Ralph Edwards, born in Merino, Colorado, TV host, This is Your Life

1913 Birthday - MacDonald Carey, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, One Life to Live, Dream Girl

1913 Birthday - Ralph Edwards, born in Merino, Colorado, TV host, This is Your Life

1912 Birthday - Garson Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, playwright/producer, Double Life

1912 Birthday - Ann Dvorak, McKim, New York City, actress, G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface

1912 Birthday - Roy Winsor, born in Chicago, producer, Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life

1912 Birthday - Cuthbert Alport, born in England, born Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Lord Alport, Baron Alport, politician, Conservative Party, Cabinet Minister, life peer, Deputy Lieutenant for Essex

1910 Birthday - Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer

1908 Birthday - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer, Life Magazine

1908 Birthday - William Saroyan, U.S., novelist/playwright, Time of Your Life

1908 Birthday - Jimmy Stewart, Pennsylvania, actor, Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life

1907 Birthday - Sid Tomack, actor, Life of Riley

1906 Birthday - Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor, American in Paris, Dance of Life

1906 Birthday - Hermione Baddeley, England, actress, Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life

1906 Birthday - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet, Ongerijmde life

1906 Birthday - Belle Stewart, born near Bloirgowrie, Scotland, Scottish traditional singer, led life of a Scottish Traveler, daughter Sheila Stewart wrote her biography 'Queen Amang the Heather; the Life of Belle Stewart'

1906 Birthday - Frank Parker, born in New York City, actor, Shawn-Days of our Life

1906 Birthday - Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp

1906 Birthday - Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet, Life with JC Bloem

1906 Birthday - Michael O'Shea, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Denny-It's a Great Life

1906 Birthday - William Bendix, born in New York City, actor, Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley

1905 Event - Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms

1904 Birthday - Fifi D'Orsay, born in Montreal, actress, Life Jimmy Dolan, Girl from Calgary

1903 Birthday - Irving Stone, U.S., author, Love is Eternal, Lust for Life

1903 Birthday - Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer, Observer of Life

1902 Birthday - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director, Miraculous Life of Willem Parel

1902 Birthday - Onslow Stevens, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Mr Fisher-This is the Life

1901 Birthday - James Dunn, New York City, actor, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It's a Great Life

1901 Death - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever

1900 Birthday - Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist, Maria's Life

1900 Birthday - Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet, Life of Tchernyshevsky

1900 Birthday - William Haines, Staunton, Virginia, actor, Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney

1899 Birthday - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Massachusetts, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1899 Birthday - Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals

1898 Birthday - Henry R. Luce, born in Tengchow, China, publisher, Time, Fortune, Life

1898 Event - 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears

1898 Birthday - ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress, Life With Father, Dames

1897 Birthday - Frank Capra, Italy, director, Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace

1896 Birthday - Edna Purviance, Lovelock NV, Dog's Pleasure, Dog's Life

1895 Birthday - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life

1895 Birthday - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life

1895 Birthday - Fulton J Sheen, El Paso, Illinois, bishop, Life is Worth Living

1894 Death - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84

1893 Birthday - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father

1893 Birthday - Henry C Rumke, Dutch psychiatrist, Periods in Man's Life

1892 Birthday - Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress, It's a Wonderful Life

1892 Birthday - Peggy Wood, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, One Life to Live, Mama

1890 Birthday - Groucho Marx, born in New York City, comedian, Marx Bros, 'You Bet Your Life'

1890 Birthday - Billy House, Minnesota, actor, Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg and I

1888 Birthday - Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1887 Birthday - Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress, Happiest Days of Your Life

1887 Birthday - Juan Gris, born in Spain, cubist painter, Still Life Before an Open Window

1885 Event - Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands

1884 Event - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion

1883 Birthday - Scott Nearing, U.S. sociologist/pacifist/author, The Good Life

1881 Death - Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35

1879 Birthday - John Erskine, U.S., poet/pianist, Private Life of Helen of Troy

1879 Birthday - Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

1876 Birthday - Frank L Gillespie, Arkansas, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company

1874 Birthday - Clarence Shepard Day, New York City, author, Life with Father

1873 Birthday - Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew

1873 Birthday - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life

1871 Birthday - Florence Scovel Shinn, born in New Jersey, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore

1869 Birthday - Herbert David Croly, U.S. author, Promise of American Life

1868 Event - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms

1859 Birthday - Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet, A Buried Life

1859 Birthday - Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice

1858 Birthday - Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright, Life in Russian Theater

1858 Birthday - Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist and author, From Life

1858 Event - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed

1857 Birthday - George Gissing, English author, Thyrza, Crown of Life

1856 Birthday - Richard B. Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, Life of A Smith

1856 Birthday - Frank Harris, England, journalist and writer, My Life and Loves

1846 Birthday - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee

1843 Event - 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens

1841 Event - Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (New York City)

1841 Event - N E Guerin of New York patents cork-filled life preserver

1834 Death - Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies

1832 Birthday - Moncure Daniel Conway, U.S., abolitionist, Life of Thomas Paine

1817 Birthday - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer, Life of Goethe

1809 Birthday - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont, life cycle of tapeworms

1808 Birthday - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist, Jesus' Life

1802 Event - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"

1798 Death - Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73

1794 Birthday - John G Lockhart, Scorpion, biographer, Life of Sir Walter Scott

1792 Event - 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. in Philadelphia

1779 Death - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80

1761 Event - 1st life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia

1759 Event - 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia

1757 Birthday - ALF, alien life form, ALF

1755 Birthday - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country

1749 Death - Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66

1739 Event - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1725 Birthday - Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life

1710 Birthday - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet, Human Life

1699 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter

1695 Death - Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58

1693 Death - Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73

1687 Death - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried

1681 Death - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, writer, dramatist, Spanish Golden Age, works include, 'La vida es sueno', or, 'Life is a Dream', dies at 81

1679 Death - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38

1661 Death - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64

1640 Birthday - Abraham Mignon, still life painter

1620 Birthday - John Evelyn, British diarist, Life of Mrs. Godolphin

1619 Event - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1612 Death - Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76

1600 Birthday - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, born in Madrid, Spain, writer, dramatist, Spanish Golden Age, works include, 'La vida es sueno', or, 'Life is a Dream'

1583 Event - Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds

1253 Event - Clara van Assisi leads rules of life in order of Clarissen













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