1915 Yul Brynner – Russian born US actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Taras Bulba, Futureworld, Westworld) He had been a trapeze artist before finding fame in Hollywood

I remember him going on TV warning people to stay away from cigarettes. He'd been diagnosed with lung cancer and died not too long after that if I remember correctly. William Talman (Perry Mason's Hamilton Burger) did the same thing when he was diagnosed with the same thing.

1938 The radio drama, Mercury Theatre on the Air, debuted featuring Orson Welles and John Houseman, founders of the Mercury Theatre in New York. The show, a dramatic anthology program, is best remembered for its 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds, a fictional drama about a Martian invasion in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The program, which aired on Halloween, sparked a panic among listeners who believed the play was a real news broadcast

I'm sure my folks must have listened in the evenings after putting the kids to bed.