Famous People Born on Halloween

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HALLOWEEN. Oh what fun! My favorite of holidays. 

As long as you have the spirit- go trick or treating. I don't care if you are 35, if you are wearing a costume I will give you candy. If you are older try to only hit the homes with decorations those people still have spirit and won't say anything about your height or the fact that you shave. ENJOY!

Things I dressed up as as a child:

CAT, WITCH, GYPSY, HIPPIE, FRENCH MAID, COWGIRL,
PRINCESS, PUMPKIN, MORTICIA, OLD MAN, GANGSTER

Excellent Movies to Watch on Halloween:

"The Shining" 1980
"Psycho" 1960
"The Others"
"Halloween" 1978
"The Addams Family" 1991
"The Exorcist"
"Creepshow 1 and 2"
"Jaws"
"The Sixth Sense"
"The Village"
"Signs"
"Carrie" 1976
"Scary Movie, 1,2,3"
"Garfield's Halloween"
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."
"Stigmata"
"Ghostbusters"
"Nightmare on Elm Street"
"The Blair Witch Project"
"Zombieland"
"Beetlejuice"
"Seven"
"Silence of the Lambs"
"Poltergeist"
"The Omen" 2006

"Cujo"
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1978
"Saw 1, 2"
"Hocus Pocus"

"A Quiet Place"

"A Quiet Place II" 

"What We Do in the Shadows" 
"The Haunting of Hill House" series

"Penny Dreadful" series 

"Castle Rock" series 

"Midnight Mass" series

Random Facts About Halloween (All Hallows Eve)

In Alabama it is illegal to dress as a priest on Halloween

Originally in the "old world" they carved turnips instead of pumpkins

Allentown, PA had the first Halloween parade in this country in 1905.

It is illegal to use silly string in Hollywood, CA on Halloween.

Trick or Treating started in the 1930's when candy was being used to bribe children in order to stop them from breaking peoples windows.

Before candy, people gave out popcorn caramel balls and candy apples. (a lot of work!)

The first retail Halloween costumes were sold in the 1930's.

Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.

Salem, Massachusetts is considered the Halloween Capital of the world.

The Village Halloween parade in NYC is the largest Halloween parade in the world.


Great Short Stories to Read on Halloween:

"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" by Alvin Schwartz (any of the three volumes)
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Bottle Imp" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

The Famous Born on Halloween:

John Keats 10/31/1795
Douglas Woods 10/31/1880

Julia Peterkin 10/31/1880

Chiang Kai-shek 10/31/1975
Ethel Waters 10/31/1896

Margery Wilson 10/31/1896 

Eduard Franz 10/31/1902 

Victor Rothschild 10/31/1910

Sheila Bromley 10/31/1911

Richard H. Cutting 10/31/1912
Dale Evans 10/31/1912
Dick Francis 10/31/1920

Barbara Bel Geddes 10/31/1922

Talfryn Thomas 10/31/1922 

Guy Marks 10/31/1923
Cleo Moore 10/31/1924

Ivan Bonar 10/31/1924 
Lee Grant 10/31/1925

Richard Morris Hunt 10/31/1927 
Dianne Foster 10/31/1928
Michael Collins 10/31/1930
Dan Rather 10/31/1931
Katherine Paterson 10/31/1932

Joseph G. Giambra 10/31/1933 
Michael Landon 10/31/1936

James Mathers 10/31/1936 
Ron Rifkin 10/31/1939

Richard Bernstein 10/31/1939 

Dick Dinman 10/31/1940

Sally Kirkland 10/31/1941 

Corinne Camacho 10/31/1941 
David Ogden Stiers 10/31/1942
Kinky Friedman 10/31/1944
Brian Doyle-Murray 10/31/1945

Patricia Gaul 10/31/1945
Stephen Rea 10/31/1946

Bob Corff 10/31/1947 

John Cothran 10/31/1947
John Candy 10/31/1950
Jane Pauley 10/31/1950

Susan Orlean 10/31/1955 

Xavier Roberts 10/31/1955
Brian Stokes Mitchell 10/31/1957
Neal Stephenson 10/31/1959
Peter Jackson 10/31/1961
Rob Schneider 10/31/1963
Dermot Mulroney 10/31/1963

Adam Horovitz 10/31/1966 
Vanilla Ice 10/31/1967
Adam Schlesinger 10/31/1967

David Coburn 10/31/1969
Chris Tucker 10/31/1972
Piper Perabo 10/31/1976
Eddie Kaye Thomas 10/31/1980

Tay Strathairn 10/31/1980
Justin Chatwin 10/31/1982
Willow Smith 10/31/2000


The Famous Who Died on Halloween:

Blanche Walsh 10/31/1915
John H. Collins 10/31/1918
Egon Schiele 10/31/1918
Harry Houdini 10/31/1926
Robert Woolsey 10/31/1938
Henry Daniell 10/31/1963
Rita Johnson 10/31/1965

Grant Woods 10/31/1968

Maxwell Reed 10/31/1974
Joseph Calleia 10/31/1975

Linda Watkins 10/31/1976

Eva Taylor 10/31/1977 
Indira Gandhi 10/31/1984

Marcella Martin 10/31/1986 
John Houseman 10/31/1988
River Phoenix 10/31/1993

Alvin Hammer 10/31/1993 
Federico Fellini 10/31/1993

Rosalind Cash 10/31/1995
Arthur Peterson 10/31/1996
Ring Lardner Jr. 10/31/2000

Jenny Laird 10/31/2001 

Daphne Hardy-Henrion 10/31/2003 

Lali Sokolov 10/31/2006

Studs Terkel 10/31/2008 

Gregg Palmer 10/31/2015 
Charles Herbert 10/31/2015
Natalie Babbitt 10/31/2016

Sean Connery 10/31/2020 


The Famous Who Tied the Noose..I mean the Knot on Halloween:

Jack Hawkins and Doreen Lawrence 10/31/1947 

Mel Torme and Phyllis Arlene Miles 10/31/1956 (divorced) 

Davy Jones and Linda Haines 10/31/1968 (divorced) 

Michelle Phillips and Dennis Hopper 10/31/1970 (divorced)

Ed Begley Jr. and Ingrid Taylor 10/31/1976 (divorced) 
Al Sharpton and Kathy Jordan 10/31/1980

Matthew Modine and Caridad Rivera 10/31/1980

Jack Jones and Kim Ely 10/31/1982 (divorced) 

Rob Zombie and Sheri Skurkis 10/31/2002

Bryan Greenberg and Jamie Chung 10/31/2015 

Haunted Places in America:

The Winchester House, San Jose, California
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California
Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mount Misery Road, West Hills, New York
Salem Witch Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
The House of Seven Gables, Salem, Massachisetts
Amityville House, Amityville, New York
The Hollywood Sign, Hollywood, California
Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan, New York
The Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts
Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon
Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York