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“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