Best was the original drummer of The Beatles prior to Ringo Starr. He
was a technical adviser for the 1979 biopic Birth of The Beatles.
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PETE BEST IS 72 TODAY
HORROR FILM ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1887
Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)
(November 23, 1887- February 2, 1969)
Boris Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films such as
Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein
(1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His best-known non-horror
portrayal is the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated TV
special of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966).
WESTERN ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1859
William H. Bonney (William Henry McCarty, Jr.)
(November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881)
Bonney became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend,
he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine
men. He himself was shot dead at age twenty-one by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett.
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