January 21

It's January 21st

On this day in 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.

In 1997 Pat Boone releases the album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, where he covers various hard rock classics.


Birthdays:

Vincent Laresca
as Raymond Comacho in "Flawless"


Jam Master Jay


Tony Dolan


Geena Davis
as Odette Balu in
Transylvania 6-5000


Jeff Koons
"Michael Jackson and Bubbles"

Wow, I guess it's not just me.
"I Hate Jeff Koons (And Why You Should Too)"

Billy Ocean


Pye Hastings


Uto Ughi


Michael G. Wilson

Edwin Starr


Wolfman Jack


Ann Wedgeworth
as Frenchy in "Scarecrow"


Audrey Dalton
as Gail MacKenzie in "The Monster That Challenged the World"


Yoshiko Kuga
in "The Idiot"



Steve Reeves
as Aeneas in "Avenger"


Clive Donner


Charles Aidman
as Bernstein in "Twilight's Last Gleaming"

as Detective Malcolm Toliver in "House of the Dead" aka "Alien Zone"


Paul Scofield as The Ghost in "Hamlet"

also here in the made for TV "The Curse of King Tut's Tomb"

Telly Savalas
as Ranko Drasovic in "The Killer is on the Phone"


William Lyon


Elof Ahrle

René Iché


J. Carrol Naish
as Dr. Frankenstein in


Itō Noe

Director Kijū Yoshida made "Eros + Massacre" in 1969, about Sakae Ōsugi; Itō features prominently in the film.


Pitirim Sorokin
"...on Crisis, Calamity, and Transition"

John M. Stahl


Duncan Grant


Grigori Rasputin



Eusapia Palladino

Harriet Backer
"By Lamplight"


Édouard Schuré
"The Work of Édouard Schuré with Sam Kunkel" on Hermitix Podcast

Joseph Wolf
the inscription reads "Highly learned makes a fool"


Moritz von Schwind
"Rübezahl"

("Rübezahl's Wedding")
("Rübezahl – The Lord of the Mountains")

Peter De Wint
"A Ruined House at Lincoln"


Adriaen van der Werff
"Diogenes with the lantern in the marketplace"


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