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Ellen Barkin is born (1954). Emmy Award-winning actor Ellen Rona Barkin has made appearances in genre movies The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and Switch (1991). Barkin was born in the Bronx, New York.

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Cy Endfield dies (1995). Cy Endfield is an American director and screenwriter who was blacklisted in the 1950s by the House Un-American Activities Commmittee (HUAC) during their search for Communists. Endfield and his family moved to England so he could continue to make a living as a writer and director. Endfield's most notable genre works include Mr. Hex (1946), Night of the Demon (1957, uncredited), and The Mysterious Island. Endfield was born November 10, 1914, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Lukas Haas is born (1976). After holding his own in his debut performance as an Amish boy opposite Harrison Ford's big-city cop in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), child actor Haas would go on to be haunted by a vengeful ghost in The Lady in White (1988). In recent years, Lukas has also been seen as an imprisoned teen in Solarbabies (1986), as one of the few survivors in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), and as part of a real-life party posse led by pal Leonardo DiCaprio. Lukas was born in West Hollywood, California.

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