Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

Born on this day – Penny Marshall:

Penny Marshall

Actress

Director

Producer

October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018

Born on this day – Linda Lavin:

Linda Lavin

Actress

Singer

October 15, 1937 – December 29, 2024

Credits:

20/20 (1986); 9JKL (2017–2018); A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995); A Matter of Life and Death (1981); A Place to Call Home (1987); A Short History of Decay (2014); A World of Love (1970); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Alan King and His Buddy (1969); Alice (1976–1985); American Playhouse (1991); American Television Icons (2000); Another Woman's Child (1983); At Home in Utopia (2008); B Positive (2020–2022); Bakery in Brooklyn (2016); Barney Miller (1975–1982); Battle of the Network Stars II (1977); Being the Ricardos (2021); Beneath the Airlie Oak (2008); Best Friends for Life (1998); Betty White: First Lady of Television (2018); Bob's Burgers (2013–2023); Bones (2015); Brockmire (2019); Call Me Back: The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch (2021); CBS All American Thanksgiving Day Parade (1980); CBS at 75 (2003); CBS Galaxy (1977); CBS Mornings (2024); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2020); CBS Playhouse (1969); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990); CBS: On the Air (1978); Celebrity Page (2019); Charlie Rose (1998); Collected Stories (2002); Comedy Is King (1968); Conrad Bloom (1998); Courage the Cowardly Dog (2002); Daily Blast Live (2024); Damn Yankees! (1967); Dean Martin's Christmas in California (1977); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022); Elsbeth (2024); Family (1977); Final Warning (1977); For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal (1996); Girl Talk (1967); Girls Weekend (2019); Good Morning America (1979); Great Performances (1987); Great Women of Television Comedy (2003); Harry O (1975); History of the Sitcom (2021); Holiday Road Trip (2013); Hollywood Squares (1999); Hour Magazine (1981); How to Be a Latin Lover (2017); I Want to Go Home (1989); In a New Light: A Call to Action in the War Against AIDS (1992); Independent Lens (2009); Intimate Portrait (1990–2005); Jerry (1974); Kaz (1979); Lauren Hutton and... (1996); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2002); Lena: My 100 Children (1987); Let Us Entertain You (2020); Like Mom, Like Me (1978); Lily for President? (1982); Linda in Wonderland (1980); Madam Secretary (2018); Maggie Tales (2010); Manhattan Night (2016); Maricela (1986); Mid-Century Modern (2025); Mom (2016); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); r. Prince (2009); Naked Singularity (2021); Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); No Good Deed (2024); On Stage (2020); One Big Happy Family (2025); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Phyllis (1976); Reading Rainbow (1994); Rhoda (1974); Room 104 (2020); Room for Two (1992–1993); Santa Clarita Diet (2019); Saturday Night Live (2001); Sean Saves the World (2013–2014); See You in the Morning (1989); Selected Shorts / Segment: Silver Water (2023); Spotlight on Broadway (2013); Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996); Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (2020); The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980); The 24th Annual Tony Awards (1970); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988); The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 5th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards (2015); The 64th Annual Tony Awards (2010); The 66th Annual Tony Awards (2012); The 76th Annual Drama League Awards (2010); The 78th Annual Drama League Awards (2012); The Alan King Show (1969); The Back-up Plan (2010); The Best of Everything (1983); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The Good Wife (2014–2015); The Great American Dream Machine (1971); The Hal Linden Special (1979); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1976–1980); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1978); The Intern (2015); The Joan Rivers Show (1992); The John Davidson Christmas Show (1978); The John Davidson Show (1980); The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch (2005); The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show (1976); The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979); The Merv Griffin Show (1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1980); The Morning After (1974); The Muppet Show (1979); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); The O.C. (2004–2005); The Ring (1996); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996–2000); The Sopranos (2002); The Talk (2018–2021); The Television Critics Circle Awards (1977); The Toni Tennille Show (1980–1981); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1980); Theater Talk (2010–2016); Touched by an Angel (1999); TV's 50 Funniest Catch Phrases (2009); Wanderlust (2012); Whitewash (1994); Working in the Theatre (1987–2012); Yvette Slosch, Agent (2020); Yvette Slosch, Agent: How It's Made (2020).

Born on this day – Ed McBain:

Ed McBain

Writer

October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005

Credits:

The 87th Precinct novel series: Cop Hater (1956); The Mugger (1956); The Pusher (1956); The Con Man (1957); Killer's Choice (1957); Lady Killer (1958); Killer's Wedge (1958); Killer's Payoff (1958); King's Ransom (1959); 'Til Death (1959); Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960); The Heckler (1960); See Them Die (1960); Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961); The Empty Hours (1962); Like Love (1962); Ten Plus One (1963); Ax (1963); He Who Hesitates (1965); Doll (1965); Eighty Million Eyes (1966); Fuzz (1968); Shotgun (1968); Jigsaw (1970); Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971); Sadie When She Died (1972); Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973); Hail to the Chief (1973); Bread (1974); Blood Relatives (1975); So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976); Long Time No See (1977); Calypso (1979); Ghosts (1980); Heat (1981); McBain Brief (1982); Ice (1983); Lightning (1984); And All Through The House (1984); Eight Black Horses (1985); Poison (1987); Lullaby (1989); Vespers (1989); Tricks (1989); Widows (1991); Kiss (1992); Mischief (1993); Romance (1995); Nocturne (1997); The Big Bad City (1998); The Last Dance (1999); Money, Money, Money (2001); Fat Ollie's Book (2002); The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003); Hark! (2004); Fiddlers (2005). The Matthew Hope novel series: Goldilocks (1976); Rumpelstiltskin (1981); Beauty And The Beast (1982); Jack and the Beanstalk (1984); Snow White and Rose Red (1985); Cinderella (1986); Puss in Boots (1987); The House That Jack Built (1988); Three Blind Mice (1990); Mary, Mary (1991); There Was A Little Girl (1994); Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996); The Last Best Hope (1998). Transgressions Books: Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions (2005); Transgressions (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006). Stand alone novels: Rocket To Luna (1953); Don't Crowd Me (1953); Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953); Cut Me In (1954); Runaway Black (1954); The Blackboard Jungle (1954); Death of a Nurse (1955); Murder in the Navy (1955); Tomorrow's World (1956); Second Ending (1956); Vanishing Ladies (1957); The Spiked Heel (1957); I'm Cannon--For Hire (1958); Strangers When We Met (1958); Even the Wicked (1958); The Gutter and the Grave (1958); Big Man (1959); A Matter of Conviction (1959); Buddwing (1964); The Sentries (1965); The Paper Dragon (1967); A Horse's Head (1967); Last Summer (1968); Sons (1969); Nobody Knew They Were There (1971); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Seven (1972); Come Winter (1973); Streets of Gold (1974); Doors (1975); Where There's Smoke (1975); Guns (1976); The Chisholms (1976); Love Dad (1981); Far from the Sea (1982); Lizzie (1984); Another Part of the City (1986); Downtown (1989); Gangs! (1989); Scimitar (1992); Criminal Conversation (1994); Privileged Conversation (1995); Driving Lessons (1998); Candyland (2000); The Moment She Was Gone (2002); Alice In Jeopardy (2004); So Nude, So Dead     (2015); Runaway (2016); Find the Feathered Serpent (1952); The Remarkable Harry (1961); The Wonderful Button (1961); Me and Mr. Stenner (1976); Let's Talk (2005); The McBain Brief (1982); Barking at Butterflies (2000); Running from Legs and Other Stories (2002); Learning to Kill (2006); Transgressions (2006); Keller's Adjustment; Forever (2006); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Jungle Kids (2016); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942); The Thursday Turkey Murders (1943); The April Robin Murders (1958); Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Crimes of Passion (1993); The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 (1995); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Crime After Crime (1999); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); Dangerous Women (2005); Transgressions (2005); Price of Desire (2005); Transgressions vol. 4 (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Masters of Noir, Volume Three (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

87. revír (1970); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1959); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blood Relatives (1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966–1967); Brokovnice (1992); Case Reopened (1999); CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1981); Climax! (1958); Columbo (1992–1994); Cop Hater (1958); Dream West (1986); Dzungle pred tabulí (1980); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Ed McBain möter Ulf Örnkloo (1988); Ed McBain: Satsui (2005); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fallen Angels (1995); Fuzz (1972); General Electric Theater (1958); High and Low (1963); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); Ironside (1968); Kao no nai onna: Kurushima keiji no hôkokusho yori (2007); Koho si vybral vrah (1974); Kraft Theatre (1958); La soupe aux poulets (1963); Last Summer (1969); Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971); Le Dernier Tour (2002); Living Famously (2003); Lonely Heart (1981); Midnight Journal (1990); Mike Hammer (1958); Mister Buddwing (1966); Of Men and Women (1973); Panenka (1980); Plus rien à perdre (1968); Read All About It (1979); Reputations (1999); Skládacka (1991); Spin (2012); Sposob ubiystva (1993); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Tanin no kankei (1989); Tengoku to jigoku (2007); The Birds (1963); The Bob Braun Show (1981); The Chisholms (1979–1980); The Culture Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980); The Mugger (1958); The Pusher (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The Write Stuff (1989); The Young Savages (1961); Three Blind Mice (2001); Walk Proud (1979); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Wogan (1986); Zabiják (1972).

Born on this day – Jean Peters:

Jean Peters

Actress

October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000

Born on this day – Tony Hart:

Tony Hart

Artist

Television presenter

October 15, 1925 – January 18, 2009

Born on this day – Virginia Leith:

Virginia Leith

Actress

October 15, 1925 – November 4, 2019