On this day in music history - Synesthesia, by Sherry Finzer (2022):

The album Synesthesia,

by Sherry Finzer,

was released on October 21, 2022.

On this day in music history - City Blue, by 2002 (2022):

The album City Blue,

by 2002,

was released on October 21, 2022.

On this day in movie history - Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021):

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory,

a documentary directed and written by Inés Toharia Terán,

was released at the São Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil on October 21, 2021.
Narrated by Joseph Bohbot.
Music by Robert Marcel Lepage.

Cast:
Ann Adachi-Tasch, Laure Adler, Benjamin Chowkwan Ado, Janice Allen, Tina Anckarman, Peter Bagrov, Peter Becker, Steve Bloom, Margaret Bodde, Joseph Bohbot, Frédéric Bonnaud, Serge Bromberg, Kevin Brownlow, Jared Case, Luciano Castillo, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Te-Ling Chen, Bede Cheng, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Costa-Gavras, Grover Crisp, Rachel del Gaudio, Paula Felix Didier, Bryony Dixon, Dennis Doros, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Ray Edmondson, Lotte Eisner, Awad Eldaw, Dino Everett, Simon Fisher-Turner, Giovanna Fossati, David Francis, Mercedes de la Fuente, Lars Gaustad, Julia Gouin, Todd Gustavson, Sam Gustman, Patricio Guzmán, Mariano Gómez, Amy A. Heller, Jan-Christopher Horak, Anne Hubbell, Rob Hummel, Tessa Idlewine, Andrea Kalas, Ahmad Kiarostami, Anthony L'Abbate, Emmanuel Lefrant, Emily Leproust, Josef Lindner, Ken Loach, Patrick Loughney, Frédéric Maire, Ben Mankiewicz, Laurent Mannoni, Juan Mariné, Mike Mashon, Bob Mastronardi, Brian Meacham, Jonas Mekas, Bill Morrison, Jan Müller, Lourdes Odriozola, Hisashi Okajima, Maung Okkar, Bono Olgado, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Michael Pogorzelski, John Polito, Chema Prado, Rick Prelinger, Daniel Pérez, Javier Rellán, Nicolas Rey, Esteve Riambau, Ramón Rubio, Celine Ruivo, Aboubakar Sanogo, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Deborah Stoiber, Jeffrey Stoiber, Rob Stone, Vittorio Storaro, Ed Stratmann, Dan Streible, Linda Tadic, Mark Toscano, Katie Trainor, Fernando Trueba, Iván Trujillo, Benjamin Tucker, Chalida Uabumrungjit, Patricia Ubeda, Ernst van Velzen, Wim Wenders, Geo. Willeman, Adrian Wood, Caroline Yeager, Ishumael Zinyengere.

Born on this day – Carrie Fisher:

Carrie Fisher

Actress

Writer

October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016

Born on this day – Édith Scob:

Édith Scob

Actress

October 21, 1937 – June 26, 2019

Born on this day – Nicole Courcel:

Nicole Courcel

Actress

October 21, 1931 – June 25, 2016

Born on this day – Ursula K. Le Guin:

Ursula K. Le Guin

Writer

October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018

Credits:

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968); The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore (1972); Tehanu (1990); The Other Wind (2001); The Daughter of Odren (2014); Tales from Earthsea (2001); Dragonfly (2001); The Finder (2001); The Bones of the Earth (2001); Earthsea Revisioned (1993); Catwings (1988); Catwings Return (1989); Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994); Jane on Her Own (1999); Cat Dreams (2009); Tales of the Catwings (1996); More Tales of the Catwings (2000); Rocannon's World (1966); Planet of Exile (1966); City of Illusions (1967); The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); The Word for World is Forest (1972); The Dispossessed (1974); Four Ways to Forgiveness (1994); The Telling (2000); The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982); Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983); Gifts (2004); Voices (2006); Powers (2007); Orsinian Tales (1976); Malafrena (1979); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth (2012); The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012); April in Paris (1962); The Masters (1963); The Word of Unbinding (1964); Things (1970); The Good Trip (1970); A Trip to the Head (1970); The Stars Below (1974); Direction of the Road (2017); Darkness Box (2017); The Day Before the Revolution (2017); Semley's Necklace (2017); The Rule of Names (2017); Winter's King (2017); The Lathe of Heaven (1971); Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else) (1976); The Eye of the Heron (1978); The Beginning Place (aka Threshold) (1980); Always Coming Home (1985); Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991); Changing Planes (2003); Lavinia (2008); Nine Lives (1968); The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973); The Field of Vision (1973); The Water is Wide (1976); Leese Webster (1979); Gwilan's Harp (1981); Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983); The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (1984); Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987); Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) (1994); The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (1994); Forgiveness Day (1994); Solitude (in F&SF) (1994); A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (1995); A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (1995); Ether OR (1995); Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (1996); The Wild Girls (2011); Dangerous People (2019); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (1975); Wild Angels (1975); The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (1978); Hard Words and Other Poems (1981); The Compass Rose (1982); In the Red Zone (1983); Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987); Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988); Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (1994); A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994); Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994); Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996); Sixty Odd (1999); The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002); Science Fiction Stories (2002); Incredible Good Fortune (2006); Walking in Cornwall (2008); Finding My Elegy (2012); Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (2015); The Found and the Lost (2016); Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017); So Far, So Good (2018); A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988); Fire and Stone (1989); Fish Soup (1992); A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992); Tom Mouse (1998); From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973); Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975); The Language of the Night (1979); Way of the Water's Going (1989); Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009); Cheek by Jowl (2009); Words Are My Matter (2016); No Time to Spare (2017); Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (2018); Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989); Steering the Craft (1998); The Wave in the Mind (2004); Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (2008); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008); The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (2009); The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (2010); The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (2011); The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (2012); The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (2013); The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (2015); The WisCon Chronicles 11 (2017); Legends (1998); Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (1998); Legends 3 (1999); We Say No (1989); We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 (1989); Exiled from Almost Everywhere (1993); The Human Front (2001); The Left Left Behind (2009); Lucky Strike (2009); The Underbelly (2010); Mammoths of the Great Plains (2010); The Wild Girls (2011); Modem Times 2.0 (2011); The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (2011); Surfing the Gnarl (2012); Report from Planet Midnight (2012); The Science of Herself (2013); Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (2013); New Taboos (2013); Raising Hell (2014); My Life, My Body (2015); Gypsy (2015); Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (2016); Fire (2017); Totalitopia (2017); The Atheist in the Attic (2018); Thoreau's Microscope (2018); The Beatrix Gates (2019); A City Made of Words (2019).

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:

Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – Leonard Rossiter:

Leonard Rossiter

Actor

Writer

October 21, 1926 – October 5, 1984

Born on this day – Hy Averback:

Hy Averback

Actor

Producer

Director

October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997

Born on this day – Edna Purviance:

Edna Purviance

Actress

October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958

Credits:

Limelight (1952); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Éducation de prince (1927); A Woman of the Sea (1926); A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Pay Day (1922); The Idle Class (1921); The Kid (1921); A Day's Pleasure (1919); Sunnyside (1919); How to Make Movies (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Bond (1918); Triple Trouble (1918); A Dog's Life (1918); The Adventurer (1917); The Immigrant (1917); The Cure (1917); Easy Street (1917); The Rink (1916); Behind the Screen (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); The Count (1916); The Vagabond (1916); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); Police (1916); A Burlesque on Carmen (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); Shanghaied (1915); The Bank (1915); A Woman (1915); Work (1915); By the Sea (1915); The Tramp (1915); A Jitney Elopement (1915); In the Park (1915); The Champion (1915); A Night Out (1915).

Henry Rollins, on writing:

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light.

If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls.

I will always write.

I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

- Henry Rollins.