Born on this day – Fritz Weaver:

Actor

January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016

Born on this day – Guy Madison:

 

Actor

January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996

Credits:

Red River (1988); Crossbow (1987–1988); The Rebels (1979); Fantasy Island (1979); The Hughes Mystery (1979); Where's Willie? (1978); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Il baco da seta (1974); The Pacific Connection (1974); The Smith Family (1972); Reverend's Colt (1970); Lusty Brawlers (1970); The War Devils (1969); Hell Commandos (1969); A Place in Hell (1969); La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer (1969); Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (1968); Long Days of Hate (1968); Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968); Bang Bang Kid (1967); The Devil's Man (1967); Return of Django (1967); Payment in Blood (1967); LSD Flesh of Devil (1967); Lasciapassare per l'inferno (1966); Five for Revenge (1966); Legacy of the Incas (1965); L'avventuriero della Tortuga (1965); Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964); Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964); Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak (1964); Sandokan alla riscossa (1964); Old Shatterhand (1964); Il vendicatore mascherato (1963); The Executioner of Venice (1963); Women of Devil's Island (1962); Sword of the Conqueror (1961); Zane Grey Theatre (1961); Slave of Rome (1961); Death Valley Days (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958); Bullwhip (1958); General Electric Theater (1958); The 27th Day (1957); Not One Shall Die (1957); The Hard Man (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Climax! (1955–1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1955–1956); Reprisal! (1956); The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956); Hilda Crane (1956); On the Threshold of Space (1956); The Last Frontier (1955); 5 Against the House (1955); The Command (1954); The Charge at Feather River (1953); Red Snow (1952); Drums in the Deep South (1951); Massacre River (1949); Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948); Honeymoon (1947); Till the End of Time (1946); Since You Went Away (1944).

Born on this day – Patricia Highsmith:

Writer

January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995

Credits:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Dog's Ransom (1972); A Game for the Living (1958); A New Omnibus of Crime (2005); A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965); Books to Die For (2012); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Chillers (1990); Crime Never Pays (2001); Crime Story Collection (2000); Deep Water (1957); Edith's Diary (1977); Eleven / The Snail Watcher and Other Stories (1970); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); Found in the Street (1986); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Little Tales of Misogyny (1974); Mermaids on the Golf Course (1984); Murder Intercontinental (1996); Murder On The Railways (2003); Mystery Cats (1991); Nothing That Meets the Eye (1968); Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (2021); People Who Knock on the Door (1983); Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966); Ripley Under Ground (1970); Ripley Under Water (1991); Ripley's Game (1974); Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners (1970); Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979); Small g (1994); Sour Tales for Sweethearts (2015); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Strangers on a Train (1950); Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987); The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977); The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983); The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975); The Black House (1981); The Blunderer (1954); The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980); The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night (2003); The Cry of the Owl (1962); The Glass Cell (1964); The Price of Salt / Carol (1952); The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); The Tremor of Forgery (1969); The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971); The Two Faces of January (1964); The Web She Weaves (1983); This Sweet Sickness (1960); Those Who Walk Away (1967); Verdict of Thirteen (1979).

Born on this day – Edgar Allan Poe:

Writer

January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

Credits:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); 21 Great Stories (1969); 30 Press Presents: Classic Horror Poems Volume One (2023); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841); A Few Words on Secret Writing (2014); A Predicament (1838); A Tale of Jerusalem (1832); A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1843); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829); American Midnight (2019); Anastatic Printing (1845); Annabel Lee (1849); Behind the Mask - Tales from the Id (2018); Berenice (1835); Birds of Prey (2010); Books to Die For (2012); Classic Cat Stories (2020); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Dark (2000); Detective Duos (1997); Diddling (1843); Dreams and Wonders (2010); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories (2018); Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works (2007); Eerie Archives Volume 13 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 14 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 16 (2014); Eerie Archives Volume 2 (2009); Eerie Archives Volume 21 (2016); Eerie Archives Volume 22 (2016); Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 (2004); Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 (2013); Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 (2011); Eerie Archives, Vol. 9 (2012); Eleonora (1842); Eureka (1848); Fantastic, Fall 1952 (1952); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); Fossil Lake II (2015); Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Fantasy (1983); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Great Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); Great Tales of Terror (1845); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); King Pest (1835); Landor's Cottage (1845); Letters Until Now Unpublished (1973); Ligeia (1838); Maelzel's Chess-Player (1836); Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them (2000); Masters of the Macabre (1999); Mesmeric Revelation (1844); Metzengerstein (1832); Morella (1835); Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844); Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833); Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841); Night Frights Issue #2 (2021); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); Poetry Comix (2020); Politian: An Unfinished Tragedy (1923); Psychos (2012); Red Sky (2014); Sea Tales of Terror (1974); Sea-Cursed (1994); Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (2016); Shadow (1835); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); Some Words with a Mummy (1845); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008); Tales and Poems (2004); Tales of Mystery (1963); Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1908); Tales of Mystery and Terror (2008); Tales of the Devil (2020); Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827); The Angel of The Odd (1844); The Balloon-Hoax (1844); The Bells and Other Poems (2017); The Black Cat (1843); The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark (2000); The Cask of Amontillado (1846); The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1845); The Complete Stories (1993); The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1849); The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); The Devil in the Belfry (1839); The Domain of Arnheim (1846); The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (2023); The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845); The Fall of the House of Usher (2016); The Giant Book of Zombies (1993); The Gold-Bug (1843); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Imp of The Perverse (1845); The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840); The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq (1844); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1988); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Man of the Crowd (1840); The Masque of the Red Death (1842); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841); The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (1841); The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842); The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838); The Oblong Box (1844); The Oval Portrait (1845); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Philosophy of Composition (1846); The Philosophy of Furniture (1840); The Pit and the Pendulum (1842); The Poetic Principle (2000); The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843); The Purloined Letter (1844); The Rationale of Verse (2013); The Raven (1845); The Raven and Other Poems (1845); The Raven and Other Selected Poems (2015); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Spectacles (1844); The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (1843); The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall (1835); The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); Thrillers (1994); Weird Business (1995); Wickedest Show on Earth (1985); William Wilson (1839); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998); Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead (2013).