DYR Today, October 21

“Born Today”

• Amber Rose (33)
• Aaron Tveit (33)
• Matt Dallas (34)
• Kim Kardashian (36)
• Will Estes (38)
• Jeremy Miller (40)
• Jade Jagger (45)
• William Zabka (51)
• Melora Walters (57)
• Ken Watanabe (57)
• Charlotte Caffey (59)
• Julian Cope (59)
• Carrie Fisher (60) Featured Above
• Catherine Hardwicke (61)
• LaTanya Richardson (67)
• Judge Judy (74)
• Manfred Mann (76)
• Joyce Randolph (92)
• Celia Cruz (RIP)
• Alfred Nobel (RIP)
• Dizzy Gillespie (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Jack Kerouac (Born: March 12, 1922 / Died: October 21, 1961)
• Jesús Blasco (Born: November 3, 1919 / Died: October 21, 1995)
• Marty Ingels (Born: March 9, 1936 / Died: October 21, 2015)

“Movies”

• 1966 – Way…Way Out
• 1970 – Little Fauss and Big Halsy
• 1977 – Damnation Alley
• 1983 – All the Right Moves
• 1983 – The Dead Zone
• 1983 – The Right Stuff
• 1983 – Rumble Fish
• 1983 – Under Fire
• 1988 – Bat*21
• 1988 – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• 1988 – Little Dorrit
• 1988 – Mystic Pizza
• 1988 – Tapeheads
• 1994 – Bullets Over Broadway
• 1994 – Love Affair
• 1994 – The Puppet Masters
• 1994 – Radioland Murders

“Music”

• 1967 – Lulu’s “To Sir with Love” was the #1 song

• 1967 – Vikki Carr’s “It Must Be Him” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
• 1972 – Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling” was the #1 song

• 1977 – Meatloaf released Bat Out of Hell
• 1978 – Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
• 1980 – Don Williams’s “I Believe In You” was the #1 Country song

• 1986 – Janet Jackson released “Control”
• 1988 – Michael Jackson released “Smooth Criminal”

• 1989 – Babyface’s Tender Love was the #1 R&B album
• 1989 – Ricky Van Shelton’s “Living Proof” was the #1 Country song
• 1995 – Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the #1 album and “Fantasy” was the #1 song
• 1995 – The #1 song on the Latin chart was Gloria Estefan’s “Abriendos Puertas”

“Other Important Events…”

• 1959 – The Guggenheim opened to the public
• 1976 – Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature