Monday, June 10, 2013
[1895 - Hattie McDaniel, Academy Award-winning actress, born in Wichita, Kansas]
[1898 - US Marines land and capture Guantanamo Bay, Cuba]
[1903 - Clyde Beatty, lion tamer, animal trainer, circus impresario, born in Bainbridge, Ohio]
[1901 - Frederick Loewe, Oscar-winning composer, born in Vienna, Austria]
[1908 - Robert Cummings, Emmy Award-winning actor, born in Joplin, Missouri]
[1910 - Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett), blues musician, born in White Station, Mississippi]
[1911 - Terence Rattigan, playwright, born in London]
[1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate writer, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada]
[1922 - Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], actress, singer, born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota]
[1926 - Lionel Jeffries, actor, director, screenwriter, born in London]
[1928 - Maurice Sendak, author, illustrator, born in Brooklyn]