1904 Keye Luke - Actor (Kung Fu, The Good Earth, Harry O, Gremlins, The Green Hornet, Dead Heat) and artist. He painted many Hollywood movie posters, illustrated books and painted the Chinese murals in the lobby of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. He was Charlie Chan's #1 son in numerous Charlie Chan movies. He also appeared in the Perry Mason episodes The Case of the Weary Watchdog, and the Case of the Feather Cloak

He was an amazing person. It seems he could do anything he tried.







1917 Richard Boone - Actor

He could play a good guy or a bad guy equally well. He was in a couple of John Wayne movies (Big Jake) where he was the bad guy.







1815 At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.

I wish I could be exiled to a tropical Island.