Today in History- September 30

Happy Birthday!
1861 William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon
1921 Deborah Kerr, actress (The King and I, From Here to Eternity, An Affair to Remember)
1924 Truman Capote, writer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood)
1931 Angie Dickinson, actress (Police Woman, Ocean's Eleven (60+ 2001)
1935 Johnny Mathis, singer ("How Deep Is Your Love", "Chances Are")
1942 Frankie Lymon, singer from the Teenagers ("Why Do Fools Fall in Love")
1943 Marilyn McCoo, singer from the Fifth Dimension ("Wedding Bell Blues")
1954 Barry Williams, actor (Greg from The Brady Bunch)
1957 Fran Drescher, actress ("The Nanny")
1961 Eric Stoltz, actor (Some Kind of Wonderful, Mask)
1961 Crystal Bernard, actress ("Wings", "It’s a Living", "Happy Days")
1964 Monica Bellucci, actress (Persephone from The Matrix Revolutions, Tears of the Sun, The Passion of the Christ)
1971 Jenna Elfman, actress ("Dharma & Greg", EdTv)
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress (Mean Girls, Claudia Salinger from "Party of Five")
1982 Kieran Culkin, actor (She's All That, The Cider House Rules)

Deaths:
1913 Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine
1955 James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause)
1977 Mary Ford, singer ("How High the Moon")
1985 Simone Signoret, actress (Les Diaboliques, Ship of Fools, The Crucible (57)

Events:
1962 Ole Miss riots about desegregation.