1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau - French naval officer and oceanographer and commander of the Calypso, which travelled extensively to investigate the ocean. He was the co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus. He also devised a process for underwater television, and was therefore able to produce popular and educational films (The Living Sea, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau)

I never missed his TV shows.







1933 Gene Wilder - Actor (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, The Woman in Red, The Silver Streak, Bonnie and Clyde, The Electric Company, The Frisco Kid, Stir Crazy, Murder in a Small Town, The Lady in Question) He wrote, directed, and played Sigerson Holmes in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother

He's one of those people I wish I could have known.








1979 John Wayne - US actor known as The Duke and famous for his roles in western movies (True Grit, The Alamo, The Shootist, Hondo, Rio Bravo, Red River, Sands of Iwo Jima, Rooster Cogburn, The Green Berets) He died of cancer just over two weeks after his 72nd birthday

He has to be my all time favorite actor.