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What happened in history on this day: August 7?
On August 7 in ...
- 1941 - TV station WNBT, Channel 4 in New York City, broadcasts the first audience-participation show, as studio guests play charades.
Births on August 7
- 1885 - Birth of Billie Burke in Washington, DC, USA; actress/comedienne (Glinda the Good Witch - The Wizard of Oz movie, Eddie Cantor Radio Show, Playhouse 90).
- 1932 - Birth of Ann Harding; American actress (East is West, Janie).
- 1939 - Birth of Verna Bloom; actress (Animal House).
- 1940 - Birth of Marlyn Mason in San Fernando, California, USA; actress (Making It, Peyton Place).
- 1942 - Birth of Anjanette Comer in Dawson, Texas, USA; actress (Baby, Lepke).
- 1942 - Birth of B.J. Thomas; singer ("Raindrops", Growing Pains TV show theme).
- 1944 - Birth of John Glover in Kingston, New York, USA; actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special, Smallville).
- 1944 - Birth of David Rasche; actor (All My Children, Nurses).
- 1955 - Birth of Wayne Knight; actor (Seinfeld).
- 1960 - Birth of David Duchovny; actor (The X-Files).
- 1961 - Birth of DeLane Matthews; actress (Dave's World).
- 1963 - Birth of Harold Perrineau; actor (Lost, Oz).
- 1967 - Birth of Charlotte Lewis in Kensington, London, England; actress (Golden Child, Pirates).
- 1969 - Birth of David Hollander in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Lewis and Clark, What's Happenings?).
- 1971 - Birth of Sydney Penny; actress (Thorn Birds, All My Children, Saint Elsewhere).
- 1975 - Birth of Charlize Theron; actress (Arrested Development, Hollywood Confidential).
- 1983 - Birth of Tina O'Brien; actress (Coronation Street TV show).
Deaths on August 7
- 1957 - Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel and Hardy team, dies at age 65.
- 1972 - Death of Joi Lansing AKA Joyce Wassmansdoff at age 43 of breast cancer; actress (Bob Cummings Show, The Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1976 - Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at age 63.
- 1992 - Death of John Anderson of a heart attack at age 69; actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Gunsmoke).
- 2005 - Death of Peter Jennings at age 68 from lung cancer; news anchor (World News Tonight on ABC) (born 1938).
- 2022 - Death of Roger E. Mosley at age 83 of car accident injuries at Los Angeles hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Theodore Calvin - Magnum P.I. TV show)).
- 2022 - Death of Biyi Bandele at age 54; Nigerian novelist, playwright, film director.
- 2023 - Death of William Friedkin at age 87 of heart failure and pneumonia at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; director (The French Connection movie, The Exorcist movie, Oscar award winner).
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