Born on this day – Beverly Cleary:

Beverly Cleary

Writer

April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021

Credits:

Books:

A Girl from Yamhill (1988); A Newbery Halloween (1993); Beaver and Wally (1961); Beezus and Ramona (1955); Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983); Ellen Tebbits (1951); Emily's Runaway Imagination (1961); Fifteen (1956); Golden Treasure (1976); Henry and Beezus (1952); Henry and Ribsy (1954); Henry and the Clubhouse (1962); Henry and the Paper Route (1957); Henry Huggins (1950); Here Come the Twins (1989); Here's Beaver! (1961); Janet's Thingamajigs (1987); Jean and Johnny (1959); Just for Me: My Ramona Quimby Journal (2013); Leave It to Beaver (1978); Lucky Chuck (1984); Mitch and Amy (1967); Mouse House Trio (1989); My Own Two Feet (1995); Otis Spofford (1953); Petey's Bedtime Story (1993); Ralph S. Mouse (1982); Ramona and Her Father (1977); Ramona and Her Mother (1979); Ramona Forever (1984); Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981); Ramona the Brave (1975); Ramona the Pest (1968); Ramona's World (1999); Ribsy (1964); Ribsy and the P.T.A (1963); Runaway Ralph (1970); School's In! (2001); Sister of the Bride (1963); Socks (1973); Strider (1991); The Beezus and Ramona Diary (1986); The Best of Ramona (2002); The Complete Ramona Collection (2009); The Growing-Up Feet (1987); The Hullabaloo ABC (1960); The Luckiest Girl (1958); The Mouse and the Motor Cycle (1965); The Ralph Mouse Collection (2001); The Ramona Collection: Vol 1 (2006); The Ramona Collection: Vol 2 (2009); The Real Hole (1962); The Trouble with Beezus and Ramona (2010); The Twins Again (1989); The Unstoppable Beezus and Ramona (2010); The World of Beverly Cleary Collection (2016); Two Dog Biscuits (1963); Two Times the Fun (2005); Young Love by Beverly Cleary (1982).

Movies and television:

ABC Weekend Specials (1986–1990); Ramona (1988–1989); Ramona and Beezus (2010); Today (2016).

Born on this day – Louise Larabee:

Louise Larabee

Actress

April 9, 1916 – March 1, 2002

Credits:

Act One (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1957); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1959); Brenner (1959); Climax! (1957); Curtain Call (1952); Every Night at Eight (1935); Fail Safe (1964); Front Row Center (1956); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); Goodyear Playhouse (1957); Hawk (1966); Hollywood Screen Test (1953); King of Burlesque (1936); Love of Life (1951–1980); Lux Video Theatre (1952); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Naked City (1961); Rocky King, Detective (1952–1953); Route 66 (1961); Rush It (1978); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Star for a Night (1936); Studio One (1952–1954); Suspense (1952–1953); Suspicion (1958); The Big Story (1955); The Challenge (1955); The Defenders (1962–1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1965); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Mask (1954); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); 'Way Out (1961); Wonder Bar (1934); You Are There (1954).

Born on this day – Anthony Caruso:

Anthony Caruso

Actor

April 7, 1916 – April 4, 2003

Born on this day – Gregory Peck:

Gregory Peck

Actor

April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003

Born on this day – Sterling Hayden:

Sterling Hayden

Actor

Writer

March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986

Credits:

The Blue and the Gray (1982); Venom (1981); Gas (1981); 9 to 5 (1980); The Outsider (1979); Winter Kills (1979); King of the Gypsies (1978); The Godfather Saga (1977); 1900 (1976); Is It Any Wonder? (1975); Cry, Onion (1975); Deadly Strangers (1975); Banacek (1972); The Final Programme (1973); The Starlost (1973); The Long Goodbye (1973); Le grand départ (1972); The Godfather (1972); Angel's Leap (1971); Loving (1970); Ternos Caçadores (1969); Hard Contract (1969); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); Goodyear Theatre (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957–1958); Ten Days to Tulara (1958); Terror in a Texas Town (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); General Electric Theater (1957); Zero Hour! (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Gun Battle at Monterey (1957); Valerie (1957); The Iron Sheriff (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1957); Crime of Passion (1956); 5 Steps to Danger (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Killing (1956); The Come On (1956); Top Gun (1955); The Last Command (1955); Shotgun (1955); The Eternal Sea (1955); Timberjack (1955); Battle Taxi (1955); Suddenly (1954); Naked Alibi (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Prince Valiant (1954); Fighter Attack (1953); So Big (1953); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); Crime Wave (1953); Take Me to Town (1953); Kansas Pacific (1953); The Star (1952); Flat Top (1952); The Golden Hawk (1952); Hellgate (1952); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Flaming Feather (1952); Journey Into Light (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Manhandled (1949); El Paso (1949); Variety Girl (1947); Blaze of Noon (1947); Bahama Passage (1941); Virginia (1941).

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost:

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost.
Published in 1916.
 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

Robert Frost
(1874 – 1963)

Born on this day – Jean Rogers:

Jean Rogers

Actress

March 25, 1916 – February 24, 1991

Credits:

8 Girls in a Boat (1934); A Stranger in Town (1943); Ace Drummond (1936); Always in Trouble (1938); American Experience (2013); Backlash (1947); Brigham Young (1940); Charlie Chan in Panama (1940); Cineficción Radio (2020); Conflict (1936); Crash Donovan (1936); Dames (1934); Deadly Ray from Mars (1966); Design for Scandal (1941); Don't Get Personal (1936); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Fighting Back (1948); Fighting Youth (1935); Flash Gordon (1936); Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938); Footlight Parade (1933); Gay Blades (1946); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); His Night Out (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hot Cargo (1946); Hotel for Women (1939); Inside Story (1939); Lady Tubbs (1935); Let's Make Music (1940); Manhattan Moon (1935); Mars Attacks the World (1938); My Man Godfrey (1936); Mysterious Crossing (1936); Night Key (1937); Pacific Rendezvous (1942); Personalities (1942); Reported Missing! (1937); Rocket Ship (1938); Rough, Tough and Ready (1945); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); Spaceship to the Unknown (1966); Speed to Spare (1948); Squadron of Doom (1949); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stop, Look and Love (1939); Stormy (1935); Sunday Punch (1942); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940); The Second Woman (1950); The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The Wildcatter (1937); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Time Out for Murder (1938); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); Viva Cisco Kid (1940); When Love Is Young (1937); While New York Sleeps (1938); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Yesterday's Heroes (1940).

Born on this day – Irving Wallace:

Irving Wallace

Writer

March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990

Born on this day – Mercedes McCambridge:

Mercedes McCambridge

Actress

March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004

Credits:

99 Women (1969); A Farewell to Arms (1957); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); All the King's Men (1949); Amazing Stories (1987); Angel Baby (1961); Bewitched (1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1962–1970); Cagney & Lacey (1988); Charlie's Angels (1978); Cimarron (1960); Climax! (1955); Dr. Kildare (1964); Echoes (1982); Flying High (1978); Front Row Center (1955–1956); Giant (1956); 'Giant' Stars Are Off to Texas (1955); Gunsmoke (1971); Hagen (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Illinois Special: I Remember Illinois (1968); Inside Straight (1951); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Johnny Guitar (1954); Killer by Night (1972); Lamp Unto My Feet (1963); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Lost in Space (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1952); Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures (1983); Magnum, P.I. (1981); Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969); Medical Center (1970); Night Line (1964); One Man's Family (1949); Overland Trail (1960); Panic! (1958); Rawhide (1959–1965); Riverboat (1959); Run Home, Slow (1965); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1951); Sixteen (1972); Spectrum (1958); Studio One (1953–1956); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); The 18th Annual Tony Awards (1964); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1952); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Alan Young Show (1951); The Bob Braun Show (1975–1981); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979); The Counterfeit Killer (1968); The Dakotas (1963); The David Frost Show (1972); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Exorcist (1973); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Girls of Huntington House (1973); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1974); The Name of the Game (1971); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1957–1959); The Sacketts (1979); The Scarf (1951); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Thieves (1977); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Touch of Evil (1958); Two for the Money (1972); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Wagon Train (1957); Warner Pathé News Issue # 87 (1955); What's My Line? (1951); Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975); Wire Service (1956–1957).

Born on this day – Rochelle Hudson:

Rochelle Hudson

Actress

March 6, 1916 – January 17, 1972

Credits:

Gallery of Horror (1967); Branded (1965); The Night Walker (1964); Strait-Jacket (1964); 77 Sunset Strip (1961); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Shower of Stars (1954); That's My Boy (1954); I'm the Law (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); The Unexpected (1952); Racket Squad (1951); Roots in the Soil (1949); Sky Liner (1949); Devil's Cargo (1948); Bush Pilot (1947); Queen of Broadway (1942); Rubber Racketeers (1942); The Officer and the Lady (1941); The Stork Pays Off (1941); Meet Boston Blackie (1941); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Girls Under 21 (1940); Babies for Sale (1940); Men Without Souls (1940); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Convicted Woman (1940); A Woman Is the Judge (1939); Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939); Smuggled Cargo (1939); Missing Daughters (1939); Pirates of the Skies (1939); Pride of the Navy (1939); Storm Over Bengal (1938); Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938); Rascals (1938); She Had to Eat (1937); Born Reckless (1937); That I May Live (1937); Woman-Wise (1937); Circus Daze (1937); Reunion (1936); Poppy (1936); The Country Beyond (1936); Everybody's Old Man (1936); The Music Goes 'Round (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Way Down East (1935); Curly Top (1935); Les Misérables (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); I've Been Around (1935); The Mighty Barnum (1934); Bosko's Parlor Pranks (1934); Imitation of Life (1934); Judge Priest (1934); Bachelor Bait (1934); Such Women Are Dangerous (1934); Harold Teen (1934); Mr. Skitch (1933); Walls of Gold (1933); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); Bosko's Picture Show (1933); Bosko the Musketeer (1933); Notorious But Nice (1933); Beau Bosko (1933); Bosko the Sheep-Herder (1933); Bosko's Knight-Mare (1933); Bosko the Speed King (1933); Love Is Dangerous (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Bosko in Person (1933); Lucky Devils (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Bosko in Dutch (1933); Screen Snapshots (1932); Penguin Pool Murder (1932); The Savage Girl (1932); Secrets of the French Police (1932); Bosko the Drawback (1932); Hell's Highway (1932); Ride Him, Bosko! (1932); Bosko the Lumberjack (1932); Bosko's Store (1932); Bosko at the Beach (1932); Beyond the Rockies (1932); Bosko's Dog Race (1932); Is My Face Red? (1932); Bosko's Party (1932); Girl Crazy (1932); Battling Bosko (1932); Bosko at the Zoo (1932); Bosko's Soda Fountain (1931); Are These Our Children (1931); Fanny Foley Herself (1931); Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! (1931); Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (1931); The Public Defender (1931); Everything's Rosie (1931); Yodeling Yokels (1931); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Hold Anything (1930); Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930).

Born on this day – Jackie Gleason:

Jackie Gleason

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Composer

February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987

Credits:

Nothing in Common (1986); Izzy & Moe (1985); Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983); Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983); The Sting II (1983); The Toy (1982); Smokey and the Bandit II (1980); Smokey and the Bandit (1977); Mr. Billion (1977); Three for Two (1975); How Do I Love Thee? (1970); Don't Drink the Water (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Skidoo (1968); Here's Lucy (1968); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1968); Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1965); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); Gigot (1962); The Hustler (1961); The Secret World of Eddie Hodges (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Studio One (1953–1955); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Life of Riley (1949–1950); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Orchestra Wives (1942); Escape from Crime (1942); Larceny, Inc (1942); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Lady Gangster (1942); All Through the Night (1942); Steel Against the Sky (1941); Navy Blues (1941).

Born on this day – Robert Alda:

Robert Alda

Actor

Singer

Dancer

Director

February 26, 1916 – May 3, 1986

Credits:

Amanda's (1983); Quincy M.E. (1977–1983); Matt Houston (1983); Trapper John, M.D. (1982); Private Benjamin (1982); Days of Our Lives (1981–1982); The Love Boat (1981); Code Red (1981); Beyond Westworld (1980); Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980); Lucy Moves to NBC (1980); M*A*S*H (1975–1980); The White Shadow (1980); The Dukes of Hazzard (1980); The Incredible Hulk (1978–1979); The Facts of Life (1979); But Mother! (1979); Laverne & Shirley (1979); Supertrain (1979); Every Girl Should Have One (1978); Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978); Fame (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); The Rockford Files (1978); Wonder Woman (1978); Sword of Justice (1978); The Squeeze (1978); The Rock Rainbow (1978); Fantasy Island (1978); The Amazing Spider-Man (1978); Perfect Gentlemen (1978); Police Story (1975–1978); The Tony Randall Show (1977); The Feather and Father Gang (1977); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); Phyllis (1977); Holiday Hookers (1976); Bittersweet Love (1976); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); I Will... I Will... For Now (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Kojak (1975); The Invisible Man (1975); Last Hours Before Morning (1975); The House of Exorcism (1975); Cagliostro (1975); Rhoda (1974); Get Christie Love! (1974); The Serpent (1973); Emergency! (1973); Here's Lucy (1970–1971); Julia (1970); Mission: Impossible (1970); The Name of the Game (1970); The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969); Ironside (1967–1969); N.Y.P.D. (1968); That Girl (1968); Judd for the Defense (1967); All Woman (1967); The Lucy Show (1964); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); Musketeers of the Sea (1962); Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962); La padrona di raggio di luna (1961); Force of Impulse (1961); The Devil's Hand (1961); Revenge of the Barbarians (1960); Daughter of Cleopatra (1960); Un militare e mezzo (1960); Tales of the Vikings (1959); Naked City (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); The Millionaire (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Pursuit (1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Playhouse 90 (1958); Matinee Theatre (1957); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953–1957); Can Do (1956); Secret File, U.S.A. (1955); Assignment Abroad (1955); The Robert Alda Show (1955); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); The Gulf Playhouse (1952); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Love of Life (1951); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); Two Gals and a Guy (1951); Your Story Theatre (1951); Mister Universe (1951); Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950); Holiday Rhythm (1950); Homicide (1949); Your Show Time (1949); April Showers (1948); Nora Prentiss (1947); The Man I Love (1946); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Rhapsody in Blue (1945).

Born on this day – Jay McShann:

Jay McShann

Blues singer

Pianist

Composer

Bandleader

January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

A Tribute to Fats Waller (1978); After Hours (1982); Airmail Special (1994); Al Casey, Jumpin' with Al (1974); Axel Zwingenberger, Swing the Boogie! (1996); Best of Friends with Al Casey (1982); Blowin' in from K.C. with Joe Thomas (1983); Blue Pianos with Axel Zwingenberger (1991); Claude Williams, Fiddler's Dream (1977); Cold Strange (1977); Confessin' the Blues (1970); Crazy Legs & Friday Strut with Buddy Tate (1977); Duke Robillard, The Acoustic Blues & Roots of (2015); Early Bird with Charlie Parker (1973); Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Kidney Stew is Fine (1969); Goin' to Kansas City Blues (1957); Goin' to Kansas City with Duke Robillard (2003); Going to Kansas City (1972); Helen Humes, Helen Comes Back (1973); Helen Humes, On the Sunny Side of the Street (1975); Hootie Blues (2006); Hootie! (2000); Hootie's Jumpin' Blues with Duke Robillard (1997); Jackie Washington, Keeping Out of Mischief (1995); Jim Galloway, Kansas City Nights (1993); Jim Galloway, Thou Swell (1981); Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann (1992); Julia Lee, Tonight's the Night (1982); Jumpin' the Blues with Milt Buckner (1972); Just a Lucky So and So (1984); Just Got Lucky (1993); Kansas City Hustle (1978); Kansas City Joys with Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette (1976); Kansas City Memories (1955); Kansas City Memories (1973); Kansas City On My Mind (1977); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1980); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1989); Live in France Vol. 2 with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (1984); McShann's Piano (1967); More Stuff (1985); My Baby with the Black Dress On (1998); Paris All-Star Blues: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (1991); Piano Playhouse (1996); Pressure Cooker (1985); Roll 'em (1987); Saturday Night Function with the Sackville All-Stars (1981); Slim Gaillard, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere! (1983); Some Blues (1993); Still Jumpin' the Blues with Duke Robillard, Maria Muldaur (1999); Stride Piano Summit with Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton (1991); Swingmatism with Don Thompson, Archie Alleyne (1994); T-Bone Walker, Feelin' the Blues (1999); The Band That Jumps the Blues! (1973); The Big Apple Bash (1979); The Early Bird Charlie Parker (1941–1943) (1982); The Last of the Blue Devils (1978); The Man from Muskogee with Claude Williams (1980); The Missouri Connection with John Hicks (1993); Tiny Grimes, Some Groovy Fours (1996); Tiny Grimes, Tiny Grimes (1970); Tuxedo Junction with Don Thompson (1980); Vine Street Boogie (1974); Walter Brown, Confessin' the Blues (1981); What a Wonderful World (1999).

Songs:

After Hours; Ain't Nobody's Business; Blue Devil Jump; Cherokee; Come on Over to My House; Confessin' the Blues; Confessin’ the Blues; Dexter Blues; 'Fore Day Rider; Georgia on My Mind; Get Me on Your Mind; Going To Kansas City; Hands Off; Hold'em Hootie; Hootie Blues; Hot Biscuits; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Just for You; Let It Be Me; McShann's Boogie-Blues; Moten Swing; Mr. Cleanhead Blues; My Chile; Red River Blues; Roll'em; Sepian Bounce; Swingmatism; T'Aint Nobody's Bizness; The Duke and the Brute; Vine Street Boogie; What a Wonderful World; When I Grow Too Old to Dream.

Movies and television:

American Horror Story (2014); American Masters (1989); American Splendor (2003); Better Call Saul (2020); Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022); Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010); Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1997); Hanging Up (2000); Independent Lens (2005); Jazz (2001); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Lovecraft Country (2020); Married Life (2007); Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian (1992); The Blues (2003); The Last of the Blue Devils (1979); Vine Street Blues (1943).

Born on this day – Maris Wrixon:

Maris Wrixon

Actress

December 28, 1916 – October 6, 1999

Born on this day – Carlo Rustichelli:

Carlo Rustichelli

Composer

December 24, 1916 – November 13, 2004

Born on this day – Dino Risi:

Dino Risi

Director

December 23, 1916 – June 7, 2008

Born on this day – Roy Ward Baker:

Roy Ward Baker

Director

December 19, 1916 – October 5, 2010

Born on this day – Betty Grable:

Betty Grable

Actress

Model

Dancer

Singer

December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973

Born on this day – Birgitta Valberg:

Birgitta Valberg

Actress

Director

December 16, 1916 – March 29, 2014

Born on this day – Ruth Johnson Colvin:

Ruth Johnson Colvin

Literacy Advocate

Writer

Teacher

Philanthropist

December 16, 1916 – August 18, 2024

Credits:

Founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America / renamed ProLiteracy Worldwide.

Awarded the Volunteer Action Award by President Ronald Reagan in 1987,

and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006 by President George W. Bush.

Books and educational videos:

Basic Reading Workshop (video); English as a Second Language Tutor Training Workshop; Great Traveling After 55 (1989); How to Add Family Literacy to Your Program; I Speak English (1962); LVA Works: A Guide to Workplace Education; Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50/50 Management; My Travels Through Life, Love, and Literacy: A Memoir (2020); Off the Beaten Path: Stories of People Around the World (2011); Reading to Children (video); Student Involvement Guidelines; Tutor (1962); Tutoring Small Groups Handbook.