April 15

It's April 15th

On this day in 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.


In 1966 - The Rolling Stones releases "Aftermath"


In 2014 - The Oh Sees releases "Drop"


Birthdays:

Samantha Fox
Glenn Shadix
as Otho Fenlock in "Beetlejuice"

as Father Ripper in "Heathers"


Amy Wright
as Jackie in "The Amityville Horror"

Josiane Bolasko
as Viviane in "The Tenant"


Alla Pugacheva


Phil Mogg


Lois Chiles
as Jessica Drake in "Dark Mansions"


Dave Edmunds



Robert Walker
as Dominic in "The Ceremony"


Marty Wilde



Elizabeth Montgomery
as Darian Guinness in "Johnny Cool"


David Hamilton
was a photographer and film director best known for his photography of young women and girls, mostly nude.
Hamilton's images became part of an "Art or pornography?" debate.


Roy Clark


Georges Descrières
as Gérard Lalemand in "Come Dance With Me"

as Simon in "Lovers on a Tightrope"

as Guillaume in "Tonight or Never"


Jurriaan Schrofer


Neville Marriner


Michael Ansara
as John Singing Rock in "The Manitou"


Alberto Breccia
from "Dracula"


Elizabeth Catlett
"The Sharecropper"


William Congdon
"Pentacost 2"


eden ahbez


Hans Conried
as Dr. Heffel in "The Cat From Outer Space"

as Faerie King/Shadow (voice) in "Faeries"


John Williams
as Chief Inspector Hubbard in "Dial M For Murder"


Bessie Smith

as herself in "St. Louis Blues"

Thomas Hart Benton
"Again"


Georg Kolbe
"Dawn"


Henry James
"The Tragic Muse"


Wilhelm Busch
"Wooded Landscape with Haystack and Cows"


Charles Willson Peale
"Exhuming the First American Mastodon"


Johann Friedrich Fasch


Guru Nanak

Leonardo da Vinci
"Head of a Woman"

An apocalyptic deluge drawn in black chalk by Leonardo near the end of his life
(part of a series of 10, paired with written description in his notebooks)"