“Born Today”
- Amber Rose (33)
- Aaron Tveit (33)
- Matt Dallas (34)
- Kim Kardashian (36)
- Will Estes (38)
- Jeremy Miller (40)
- Jade Jagger (45)
- William Zabka (51)
- Melora Walters (57)
- Ken Watanabe (57)
- Charlotte Caffey (59)
- Julian Cope (59)
- Carrie Fisher (60) Featured Above
- Catherine Hardwicke (61)
- LaTanya Richardson (67)
- Judge Judy (74)
- Manfred Mann (76)
- Joyce Randolph (92)
- Celia Cruz (RIP)
- Alfred Nobel (RIP)
- Dizzy Gillespie (RIP)
“Died Today”
- Jack Kerouac (Born: March 12, 1922 / Died: October 21, 1961)
- Jesús Blasco (Born: November 3, 1919 / Died: October 21, 1995)
- Marty Ingels (Born: March 9, 1936 / Died: October 21, 2015)
“Movies”
- 1966 – Way…Way Out
- 1970 – Little Fauss and Big Halsy
- 1977 – Damnation Alley
- 1983 – All the Right Moves
- 1983 – The Dead Zone
- 1983 – The Right Stuff
- 1983 – Rumble Fish
- 1983 – Under Fire
- 1988 – Bat*21
- 1988 – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 1988 – Little Dorrit
- 1988 – Mystic Pizza
- 1988 – Tapeheads
- 1994 – Bullets Over Broadway
- 1994 – Love Affair
- 1994 – The Puppet Masters
- 1994 – Radioland Murders
“Music”
- 1967 – Lulu’s “To Sir with Love” was the #1 song
- 1967 – Vikki Carr’s “It Must Be Him” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
- 1972 – Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling” was the #1 song
- 1977 – Meatloaf released Bat Out of Hell
- 1978 – Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
- 1980 – Don Williams’s “I Believe In You” was the #1 Country song
- 1986 – Janet Jackson released “Control”
- 1988 – Michael Jackson released “Smooth Criminal”
-
- 1989 – Babyface’s Tender Love was the #1 R&B album
- 1989 – Ricky Van Shelton’s “Living Proof” was the #1 Country song
- 1995 – Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the #1 album and “Fantasy” was the #1 song
- 1995 – The #1 song on the Latin chart was Gloria Estefan’s “Abriendos Puertas”
“Other Important Events…”
- 1959 – The Guggenheim opened to the public
- 1976 – Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature