Birthdays: Thomas Edison, Leslie Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Tina Louise-Ginger on Gilligan’s Island is 85, Rudolph Firkusny, Joe Mankiewicz, Sidney Sheldon, Burt Reynolds, Sergio Mendes of the band Brazil 66, Al Eugster, Brandy Norwood, Bobby Picket -who recorded the Monster Mash, Jennifer Aniston is 50, Sheryl Crow is 57, Sarah Palin
1936- Famed German Expressionist animator Oscar Fishinger escaped Nazi Germany for the U.S.
1948- Famed Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein died of a heart attack.
1963- Bell Jar author Sylvia Plath laid out bread and butter and two glasses of milk for her children, then stuck her head into an oven and committed suicide. Her poet husband Ted Hughes who had abandoned her, waited until 1998 to tell his side of the story. Hughes wrote stories for his children explaining death like The Iron Giant.
1976- Chuck Jone’s TV special "Mowgli’s Brothers."
1995- Disney Studios planned neighborhood suburban community Celebration opened.
2000- Disney’s The Tigger Moviepremiered.
2005- Playwright Arthur Miller died at 90.
2012- Singer actress Whitney Houston was found dead in her bathtub. She was 48, She was preparing for the Grammy Awards when she had a heart attack and drowned in the water.
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