Born on this day – Erich Segal:

Erich Segal

Writer

June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010

Credits:

A Change of Seasons (1980); A Ilha (1990); Apostrophes (1977–1980); Arrivederci Roma (1990); Carnaval (1990); Coup de foudre (1990–1992); Damals war's (2023); Dinah! (1980); Donahue (1972); E:60 (2022); Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story (1995); In at the Deep End (1982); Inspiration (1991); Jennifer on My Mind (1971); Life with Linkletter (1970); Love (2008); Love Story (1970); Love Story: Musical (2016); Man, Woman and Child (1983); NET Journal (1966); Oliver's Story (1978); Only Love (1998); Pas de deux (1990); Puerto Verde (1990); R.P.M. (1970); Ransom (1990); Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (1990); Sunday Pursuit (1990); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1970); The Games (1970); The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1971); The Merv Griffin Show (1970–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1977); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1970–1980); The Write Stuff (1989); Today (1980); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Yellow Submarine (1968); Yellow Submarine: Interviews (1999).

Born on this day – Fred Karlin:

Fred Karlin

Composer

Writer

June 16, 1936 – March 26, 2004

Credits:

A Place to Call Home (1987); A Time for Miracles (1980); ABC Weekend Specials (1984); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); And Baby Makes Six (1979); ...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979); Baby Blue Marine (1976); Baby Comes Home (1980); Baby Sister (1983); Baby Songs Presents: Baby Rock (1991); Bad Ronald (1974); Believe in Me (1971); Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977); Bitter Harvest (1981); Blind Ambition (1979); Born Innocent (1974); Bridge to Silence (1989); Broken Promise (1981); Buck's Birthday (1977); Bud and Lou (1978); Calamity Jane (1984); California Dreaming (1979); Carpenters Very First Television Special (1976); Catalina C-Lab (1982); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990); Celebration Family (1987); Chosen Survivors (1974); Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977); Çildirtan Kadin (1979); Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters (1997); Cloud Dancer (1980); Cover Me Babe (1970); Cybill (1995); Dadah Is Death (1988); Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976); Deadly Encounter (1982); Deadman's Curve (1978); Death Be Not Proud (1975); Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993); Dream West (1986); E! True Hollywood Story (1997); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fear Stalk (1989); Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier (1980); Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (1995); Final Jeopardy (1985); Forever (1978); Friends (1979); Full House (1983); Futureworld (1976); Goodnight Jackie (1974); Greased Lightning (1977); Green Eyes (1977); Hardesty House (1986); Having Babies (1978–1979); Having Babies II (1977); Her Wicked Ways (1991); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Homeward Bound (1980); Hostage Flight (1985); Ike: The War Years (1979); In Defense of Kids (1983); Inside the Third Reich (1982); Inspector Perez (1983); Intimate Strangers (1977); It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974); Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); Jessica Novak (1981); Joe Panther (1976); Just Me and You (1978); Kaz (1978); Kids Don't Tell (1985); Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978); Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993); Lady Mobster (1988); Lady of the House (1978); Lawman Without a Gun (1978); Leadbelly (1976); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Goes to the Movies (1976); Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front (1977); Long Journey Back (1978); Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (1997); Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984); Lovers and Other Strangers (1970 / 1983); Loving Couples (1980); Lucan (1977); Made (1972); Man from Atlantis (1977–1978); Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980); Mastermind (1976); McLaren's Riders (1977); Mean Dog Blues (1978); Minstrel Man (1977); Miracle on Ice (1981); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); Mixed Company (1974); Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980); More Than Friends (1978); Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971); Murder C.O.D. (1990); My Kidnapper, My Love (1980); Night Partners (1983); Not in Front of the Children (1982); Off the Rack (1984); Once Upon a Family (1980); One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983); Paris (1979–1980); Policewoman Centerfold (1983); Punch and Jody (1974); Ravagers (1979); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978); Samurai (1979); Sex and the Single Parent (1979); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Strawberry Road (1991); Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987); Survive the Savage Sea (1992); The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974); The Awakening Land (1978); The Baby Maker (1970); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1977); The Death of Richie (1977); The Dion Brothers (1974); The Dream Makers (1975); The Facts of Life Down Under (1987); The First Time (1982); The Five of Me (1981); The Gift of Love (1978); The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983); The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977); The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990); The Hostage Heart (1977); The Karen Carpenter Story (1989); The Larry Sanders Show (1995); The Last Giraffe (1979); The Last Prostitute (1991); The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish (1977); The Little Ark (1972);  he Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man Who Could Talk to Kids (1973); The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971); The Marva Collins Story (1981); The Midnight Special (1980); The Pest (1997); The Plutonium Incident (1980); The Secret (1992); The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980); The Simpsons (2014); The Special London Bridge Special (1972); The Spikes Gang (1974); The Stalking Moon (1968); The Sterile Cuckoo (1969); The Take (1974); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The World Beyond (1978); The World of Darkness (1977); They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977); Thornwell (1981); Topper (1979); Transplant (1979); Up the Down Staircase (1967); Vampire (1979); Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986); Virgin Snow (1976); Walking Through the Fire (1979); Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976); We're Fighting Back (1981); Westworld (1973); What Price Victory (1988); White Palace (1990); Who'll Save Our Children? (1978); Wishman (1983); Woman of the Year (1976); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).

Born on this day – Faith Domergue:

Faith Domergue

Actress

June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Amore grande, amore libero (1976); Blues in the Night (1941); Bonanza (1961–1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Bronco (1960); California (1963); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cheyenne (1959); Colt .45 (1960); Combat! (1966); Cult of the Cobra (1955); Dancing in a Harem (1941); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1982); Escort West (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954); Garrison's Gorillas (1968); General Electric Theater (1954); Hardly a Criminal (1949); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); Il cielo brucia (1958); It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); Lo stato d'assedio (1969); Lock Up (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Michael Shayne (1960); Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996); One on Top of the Other (1969); Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Rogue for Hire (1960); Santa Fe Passage (1955); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); So Evil, My Sister (1974); Spin a Dark Web (1956); State Trooper (1959); Sugarfoot (1959); Svengoolie (1997); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Atomic Man (1955); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Gamblers (1970); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Horror Show (1979); The House of Seven Corpses (1974); The Man with Icy Eyes (1971); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Tall Man (1961); This Is My Love (1954); This Island Earth (1955); Track of Thunder (1967); Vendetta (1950); Violent Stranger (1957); Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965); War of the Planets (1958); Where Danger Lives (1950); Will to Die (1971); Young Widow (1946).

Born on this day – Frances Rafferty:

Frances Rafferty

Actress

Dancer, June 16, 1922 – April 18, 2004

Credits:

Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alcoa Theatre (1958); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Bad Bascomb (1946); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Big Town (1952); Broadway Rhythm (1944); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Cavalcade of America (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1955); Curley (1947); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Dave and Charley (1953); December Bride (1954–1959); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Dragnet (1953–1954); Dragon Seed (1944); Fingers at the Window (1942); Fireside Theatre (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl Crazy (1943); Half Nelson (1985); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Lady at Midnight (1948); Lassie (1957); Lost Honeymoon (1947); Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Matinee Theatre (1956); Money Madness (1948); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Three Sons (1964); Mystery Is My Business (1954–1957); Oboler Comedy Theatre (1949); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Personalities (1942); Pete and Gladys (1962); Pilot #5 (1943); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Public Defender (1954–1955); Racket Squad (1952–1953); Rodeo (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952–1955); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Stage 7 (1955); Stars Over Hollywood (1950); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Hidden Eye (1945); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1960); The Millionaire (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); The Shanghai Story (1954); The Streets of San Francisco (1975–1977); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); Thousands Cheer (1943); Topper (1954); Treasury Men in Action (1952–1955); Twenty Years After (1944); Wings of Chance (1961); Young Ideas (1943); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – Sidney Salkow:

Sidney Salkow

Director

Writer

June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); Along the Mohawk Trail (1957); Ang Vengador (1948); Behind the Mike (1937); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bronco (1962); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Cafe Hostess (1940); Casey Jones (1957); Cavalcade of America (1953–1954); Chicago Confidential (1957); City Without Men (1943); Come on, Leathernecks! (1938); Crusader (1956); Death Valley Days (1962–1964); Durango (1957); Ernestine (1962); Exclusive (1937); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939); Flight at Midnight (1939); Flight Lieutenant (1942); Flirtation (1934); Four Days Wonder (1936); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fury (1956–1958); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Overboard (1937); Gun Brothers (1956); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Karen (1964); La rivale dell'imperatrice (1951); La strada buia (1950); Lady Be Careful (1936); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lassie (1954–1955); Maverick (1962); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1959); Millie's Daughter (1947); Murder with Pictures (1936); Overland Trail (1960); Prince of Pirates (1953); Prison Nurse (1938); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Robbers' Roost (1955); Scarlet Angel (1952); Shadow of the Eagle (1950); She Married a Cop (1939); Shotgun Slade (1959–1960); Simon Lash: The Black Book (1960); Sitting Bull (1954); Soldiers of Fortune (1955–1956); State Trooper (1957–1959); Storm Over Bengal (1938); Street of Missing Men (1939); Supernatural (1933); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); Sword of the Avenger (1948); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1960); That's My Story! (1937); The Addams Family (1965–1966); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Big Night (1960); The Boy from Stalingrad (1943); The Comedy Spot (1962); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Sioux Massacre (1965); The Iron Sheriff (1957); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960–1961); The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940); The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964); The Murder Game (1965); The Night Hawk (1938); The Pathfinder (1952); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Quick Gun (1964); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Toughest Man Alive (1955); The Zero Hour (1939); This Is Alice (1958); Tillie the Toiler (1941); Time Out for Rhythm (1941); Twice-Told Tales (1963); Woman Doctor (1939); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953).

Born on this day – William K. Howard:

William K. Howard

Director

Writer

Producer

June 16, 1899 – February 21, 1954

Credits:

A Guy Could Change (1946); A Ship Comes In (1928); Bachelor Brides (1926); Back Door to Heaven (1939); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Captain Fly-by-Night (1922); Christina (1929); Code of the West (1925); Danger Ahead (1923); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Dillinger (1945); Don't Bet on Women (1931); East of Broadway (1924); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Extra! Extra! (1922); Fire Over England (1937); Get Your Man (1921); Gigolo (1926); Good Intentions (1930); Johnny Come Lately (1943); Klondike Fury (1942); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Let's Go (1923); Love, Live and Laugh (1929); Lucky Dan (1922); Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935); Money and the Woman (1940); Murder on Diamond Row (1937); Over the Moon (1939); Play Square (1921); Red Dice (1926); Rendezvous (1935); Round the Film Studios (1937); Scotland Yard (1930); Sherlock Holmes (1932); Sin Town (1929); Surrender (1931); The Adorable Savage (1920); The Border Legion (1924); The Cat and the Fiddle (1934); The Crusader (1922); The First Year (1932); The Fourth Musketeer (1923); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Light of Western Stars (1925); The Main Event (1927); The One-Man Trail (1921); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The River Pirate (1928); The Thundering Herd (1925); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Valiant (1929); This Side of Heaven (1934); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Top Gun Academy: The Real Story (1997); Transatlantic (1931); Trooper O'Neill (1922); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Volcano (1926); What Love Will Do (1921); When the Lights Go on Again (1944); White Gold (1927).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.

To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions.

To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.