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Volume 2008 : Issue 244
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Today's Topics:
10-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:37:33 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-16 births/deaths
October 16th births
10-16-1854 - Oscar Wilde - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-30-1900
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
10-16-1886 - Will Harridge - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1971
american league president: "Memorial Program for Colonel Jocob Rupert"
10-16-1888 - Eugene O'Neill - NYC - d. 11-27-1953
playwright: "NBC Presents Eugene O'Neill"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays";
"Best Plays"
10-16-1891 - Wilfred Lytell - NYC - d. 9-10-1954
actor: Doc Barron "Just Plain Bill"; "Wings Over America"
10-16-1893 - Carl Carmer - Cortland, NY - d. 9-12-1976
historical advisor: "Cavalcade of America"
10-16-1899 - Mary Taylor - d. 8-18-1957
consumer advocate: "Consumer Time"
10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
11-26-1965
actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
10-16-1904 - Raymond Meurer - d. 10-15-1974
Part owner of WXYZ
10-16-1910 - Douglas Browning - Norwood, OH
announcer: "Douglas Browning Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"
10-16-1911 - Molly O'Day - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1998
actor: "Barnyard Jamboree"
10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
Sister"
10-16-1912 - Maidie Norman - Villa Rica, GA - d. 5-2-1998
character actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
10-16-1917 - Alice Pearce - NYC - d. 3-3-1966
actor: Daphne "Henry Morgan Show"
10-16-1917 - Rowena Clark - Staten Island, NY - d. 3-2-2004
actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
10-16-1920 - Gus Wayne - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-23-1998
actor: Little Johnny for Phillip Morris
10-16-1920 - Sharon Douglas - Stevens County, OK
actor: Mildred Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Joan Davis
Time"
10-16-1921 - Linda Darnell - Dallas, TX - d. 4-10-1965
actor: "Hollywood Premiere"; "So You Want to Lead a Band"
10-16-1924 - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-19-2004
press secretary to President JFK: "Meet the Press"
10-16-1924 - Robert Hall - Rochester, NY - d. 9-25-1967
actor, host: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Music 'til Dawn"
10-16-1925 - Angela Lansbury - London, England
actor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Suspense"
10-16-1925 - Lenka Peterson - Omaha, NE
actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-16-1926 - Paul Duke - Richmond, VA - d. 7-18-2005
newscaster: "News of the World"
October 16th deaths
01-09-1921 - Lister Sinclair - Mumbai, India - d. 10-16-2006
writer, actor: "American School of the Air"; "Stage Forty-Seven"
01-15-1909 - Gene Krupa - Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1973
drummer: "Rhythm Masters"; "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"
01-22-1951 - Steve J. Spears - Adelaide, Australia - d. 10-16-2007
writer: "King Richard"; "Maggie's Ear"
02-03-1907 - James Michener - NYC - d. 10-16-1997
author: "You and the World"
03-08-1911 - Eunice Hanger - Mount Chalmers, Australia - d. 10-16-1972
writer: "From the Diary of a Bush Schoolmaster"
03-25-1925 - Len Dressler - d. 10-16-2005
voice of the Jolly Green Giant
03-26-1907 - Claude Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 10-16-1985
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Chaarlie McCarthy Show"
05-04-1924 - Merrill Mael - d. 10-16-2000
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"
05-23-1901 - Arch McDonald - Hot Spring, AR - d. 10-16-1960
sportscaster: Washington Senators and Washington Redskins
07-10-1908 - Harry Golder - Detroit, MI - d. 10-16-1968
announcer: "The Lone Ranger"
07-16-1926 - Stanley Clements - Long Island, NY - d. 10-16-1981
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-26-1921 - Jean Sheperd - South Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1999
host: "The Jean Sheperd Show"
07-31-1911 - George Liberace - Menasha, WI - d. 10-16-1983
sideman: Orrin Tucker Band, Anson Weeks Band
08-21-1900 - Ken Carpenter - Avon, IL - d. 10-16-1984
announcer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "One Man's Family"; "Edgar Bergen/
Charlie McCarthy Show"
08-30-1898 - Shirley Booth - NYC - d. 10-16-1992
actor: Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hogan's Daughter"; "Strictly
Business"
09-12-1924 - Ella Mae Morse - Mansfield, TX - d. 10-16-1999
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Everything for the Boys"; "Jubilee"
09-30-1921 - Deborah Kerr - Helensburgh, Scotland - d. 10-16-2007
actor: "Hollywood Calling"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
10-07-1908 - Richard Caldicot - London, England - d. 10-16-1995
actor: "The Navy Lark"
10-11-1919 - Art Blakey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-16-1990
jazz drummer: "Music for Moderns"
10-18-1892 - Leo G. Carroll - Weedon Northants, England - d. 10-16-1972
actor: Lux Radio Theatre
10-31-1910 - Donovan Joyce - Melbourne, Australia - d. 10-16-1980
writer, producer, director: "T-Men"
11-23-1923 - Malcolm "Mel" Arter - d. 10-16-1998
disk jockey: WKOK Sunbury, Pennsylvania
12-03-1909 - Dana Suesse - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-16-1987
composer: "Good News of 1938"
12-14-1915 - Dan Dailey - NYC - d. 10-16-1978
singer, actor: "King's Men"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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