Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson)
(July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019)

Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis
"stunned" her because there was no family history of breast cancer and
she had always had a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of
radiation therapy, and was clear since. She died today in Los Angeles.

Her 1968 debut in Julia (NBC) the first series on American television to
star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in
her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of a mixed-
race diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty.

Julia, original release from September 17, 1968 – March 23, 1971

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Musician and actor Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 68 years
old today. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for
the new wave  rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a
solo career in 1985. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae,
classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  was born in  Paris, France

Known simply as "B.B.", Bardot was one of the best-known sex symbols
of the 1950s and 1960s. She first achieved fame in the 1957 film And God
Created Woman.

Before she retired in 1973, Bardot appeared in the 1963 film Le Mépris
and in the 1965 film Viva Maria!.

1968

TIM MAGUIRE

William Oliver Stone is 73 years old  today.

 1991

JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director for Stone and Best Supporting
Actor for Jones and won two for Best Cinematography and 
Best Film Editing. It was the most successful of three films 
Stone made about American presidents, followed by Nixon
(1995) with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and W. (2008)
with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush.

Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

Buddy Holly was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who formed The
Crickets and pioneered rock music with the hit "That’ll Be the Day,"
which topped the Billboard U.S. Best Sellers list.

He won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing "Have
You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)."

He died in a plane crash less than two years after his career took off.

Rolling Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of All Time."

Buddy Holly & The Crickets on the Ed Sullivan Show, January, 1958.