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- 1850: Author Guy de Maupassant is born in France.
- 1939: Director Bob Clark is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1947: Actress Jan Francis is born in London, England.
- 1956: Director/producer Jerry Ciccoritti is born in Toronto, Canada.
- 1959: Test screenings for The Tingler are held in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1935: Actor John Saxon is born in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1960: The Little Shop of Horrors premieres in the United States.
- 1969: Dark Shadows episode 812 airs on ABC.
- 1973: Actor Paul Kasey is born.
- 1974: Actor Karim Prince is born in Oakland, California.
- 1981: Comic book artist Reilly Brown is born in New York.
- 1981: Actor Jesse Williams is born in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1991: Nudist Colony of the Dead is released direct-to-video by Artistic License Video.
- 1995: Actress Clarice Blackburn passes away in New York City, New York.
- 1995: The Mangler is released to home video (VHS format) for the first time.
- 1997: Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is re-released on VHS by New Line Home Video.
- 1998: Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later is released theatrically in the United States.
- 2007: Director Peter Graham Scott passes away in Windelsham, Surrey, England.
- 2012: True Blood episode "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" airs on HBO.
- 2014: Texas Chainsaw Massacre actress Marilyn Burns passes away in Houston, Texas.
- 2014: Oculus is released on Blu-ray by 20th Century Fox.
- 2015: Principal filming on Lights Out concludes.
- 2022: Bodies Bodies Bodies is released theatrically in the United States.
- 2022: Veteran actor Clu Gulager passes away in Los Angeles, California at the age of 93.