Born on this day – Terry Jones:

Terry Jones

Comedian

Director

Historian

Actor

Writer

Member of Monty Python

February 1, 1942 – January 21, 2020

Born on this day – Brian Garfield:

Brian Garfield

Writer

Historian

January 26, 1939 – December 29, 2018

Credits:

A Badge for a Badman (1967); Apache Canyon (1963); Arizona (1968); Arizona Rider (1962); Big Country, Big Men (1969); Brand of the Gun (1968); Bugle and the Spur (1966); Call Me Hazard (1966); Checkpoint Charlie (1981); Complete Guide to Western Films (1980); Danger Money / Romanov Succession / Horn of Roland (1974); Death Sentence (1975); Death Wish (1972); Deep Cover (1972); Devil's Butte / Badge for a Badman (1967); Dragoon Pass (1963); Etruscan Smile / Slippery Step / Recoil (1976); Fear in a Handful of Dust (aka Fear) (1978); Gangway (1973); Gundown (1969); High Storm (1963); Hopscotch (1975); Hopscotch: Screenplay (1979); Justice at Spanish Flat (aka Range Justice) (1960); Kolchak's Gold (1973); Line Of Succession (1972); Lynch Law Canyon (1965); Manifest Destiny (1989); Massacre Basin (1961); Mr. Sixgun (1964); Necessity (1984); Rails West (1964); Recoil (1977); Relentless (1972); Rio Chama (1967); Rio Concho (1964); Savage Guns (1968); Seven Brave Men (1962); Shotgun Settlement (1969); Sliphammer (1970); Suspended Sentences (2012); Sweeny's Honor (1971); Target Manhattan (1975); The Arizonans (1961); The Big Snow (1962); The Bravos (1966); The Crime of My Life (1984); The Hit (1970); The Hit and The Marksman (2003); The Last Bridge (1966); The Last Hard Men (aka Gun Down) (1971); The Last Outlaw (1964); The Lawbringers (1962); The Lusty Breed (1966); The Marchand Woman (1979); The Meinertzhagen Mystery (2007); The Night It Rained Bullets (1965); The Paladin (1980); The Proud Riders (1967); The Rimfire Murders (1962); The Romanov Succession (1974); The Thousand Mile War (1969); The Threepersons Hunt (1974); The Vanquished (1964); The Villiers Touch (1970); The Wolf Pack (1966); Trail Drive (1962); Tripwire (1973); Valley of the Shadow (1970); Vultures in the Sun (1963); Western Films (1988); What of Terry Conniston? (1971); Wild Times (1978).

Born on this day – A. B. Guthrie Jr.:

A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Writer

Historian

January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991

Credits:

Wild Pitch (1973); The Genuine Article (1977); No Second Wind (1980); Playing Catch-Up (1985); Murder in the Cotswolds (1989); The Big Sky (1947); The Way West (1949); Fair Land, Fair Land (1982); Murders at Moon Dance (1943); Twenty-Six Years After (1949); Kentucky (1951); These Thousand Hills (1956); The West Is Our Great Adventure of the Spirit (1959); Arfive (1970); Once Upon a Pond (1973); The Last Valley (1975); Four Miles From Ear Mountain (1987); The Big It and Other Stories (1972); The Blue Hen's Chick (1965); Big Sky, Fair Land (1974); Images from the Great West (1990); A Field Guide to Writing Fiction (1991).