Birthdays
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, American attorney and politician who served as the 21st president of the United States, from 1881 to 1885. Previously the 20th vice president, he succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President James A. Garfield in September 1881, two months after Garfield was shot by an assassin.
1902 - Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg), American actor, comedian, violinist, and boxer, best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges.
1902 - Ray Albert Kroc, American businessman, fast food entrepreneur, pioneer of MacDonald's chain of food. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, after the McDonald brothers had franchised six locations out from their original 1940 operation in San Bernardino. This set the stage for national expansion with the help of Kroc, eventually leading to a global franchise, making it the most successful fast food corporation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a multi-million dollar fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball team from 1974 until his death in 1984.
1919 - Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, English actor. He played supporting and character roles including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), SEN 5241 in THX 1138, and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971). Pleasence gained widespread recognition for his role as psychiatrist Dr Samuel Loomis in Halloween and four of its sequels, a role for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor. He collaborated with Halloween director, John Carpenter, twice more, as the President of the United States in Escape from New York, and as the Priest in Prince of Darkness.
1933 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress and producer, Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Molly Seagrim in Tom Jones. Her other films include: The Admirable Crichton, The Agony and the Ecstasy, and Hombre. Cilento studied at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her stage debut in 1953. She earned a Tony Award nomination (1956) on Broadway as Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux’s Tiger at the Gates. Cilento achieved minor celebrity status in the 1960s when her second husband, actor Sean Connery, starred in a series of James Bond movies. She later married (1985) playwright Anthony Shaffer, whom she met while filming The Wicker Man, for which he wrote the screenplay. The pair settled in Queensland, where she founded and ran the open-air Karnak Theatre. She also wrote two novels and an autobiography, My Nine Lives (2006). Cilento was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2001. (Diane Cilento brief biography.)
1951 - Bob Geldof, KBE (Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof), Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist, and occasional actor. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s. The band had UK number one hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall as "Pink". He is widely recognised for his activism, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa.
1967 - Guy Edward Pearce, British-Australian actor, musician, singer and songwriter. He starred in the role of Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and for appearing in films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, L.A. Confidential, Ravenous, Memento, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Time Machine, The Road, The King's Speech, 33 Postcards, Prometheus, and Iron Man 3. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award and received nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and AACTA Awards. Since 2012, he has played the title role in the TV adaptations of the Jack Irish stories by Australian crime writer Peter Temple.
1975 - Kate Elizabeth Winslet, English actress. She is known for her work in period dramas, and often portrays angst-ridden women. Winslet is the recipient of various accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the few performers to have won Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards. She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures, and received her first BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility. Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997). It was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point. For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and in 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Lefties:
Comedian and Actor Larry Fine
Musician and Political Activist Bob Geldof
More birthdays and historical events, October 5 - On This Day
1936 - The first installment of The Harvest Gypsies, a series of articles by John Steinbeck (famous for The Grapes of Wrath) about the migrant workers pouring into California - where armed guards often try to keep them out - is published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
1905 - Wilbur Wright sets a world record in Flyer III with 39 minutes in the air for a flight of 24 1/2 miles (39 km.)
1947 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman gives the first televised White House address, in which he asks citizens to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving Europeans.
2001 - A man from Boca Raton, Florida, dies of anthrax poisoning when he receives a contaminated mail.
Resources:
Historical Events
1936 - The first installment of The Harvest Gypsies, a series of articles by John Steinbeck (famous for The Grapes of Wrath) about the migrant workers pouring into California - where armed guards often try to keep them out - is published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
1905 - Wilbur Wright sets a world record in Flyer III with 39 minutes in the air for a flight of 24 1/2 miles (39 km.)
1947 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman gives the first televised White House address, in which he asks citizens to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving Europeans.
2001 - A man from Boca Raton, Florida, dies of anthrax poisoning when he receives a contaminated mail.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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