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1902: Actress Elsa Lanchester (Rascal, Blackbeard’s Ghost, That Darn Cat!, Mary Poppins) is born in London, England. 1911: Author Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (The Fox and the Hound) is born in Pennsylvania. 1912: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of Walt’s “Nine Old Men,” Ollie Johnston (Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Mary Poppins, The AristoCats, The Jungle Book, The Rescuers, The [...]

1880: Actor Scotty Mattraw (Bashful in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Town Crier in Babes in Toyland) is born in Evans Mills, New York. 1901: Composer, and Disney Legend, Frank Churchill (Peter Pan, Dumbo, Bambi, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”, “Whistle While You Work”, “Some Day My Prince Will Come”) is born in Rumford, [...]

1891: Director Burt Gillett (The Three Little Pigs, The Moth and the Flame, The Brave Little Tailor) is born in Elmira, New York. 1903: Director, and Disney Legend, Hamilton Luske (Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins) is born in Illinois. 1911: Producer, and Disney Legend, Bill Anderson (Disneyland TV series, The Barefoot Executive, The Apple [...]

1905: Actor Andy Devine (Friar Tuck in Robin Hood) is born in Flagstaff, Arizona. 1907: Animator, and Disney Legend, Art Babbit (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinnochio, Dumbo, and Goofy in his later shorts) is born in Omaha, Nebraska. 1910: Writer Winston Hibler (the Disneyland TV series, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan) is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1918: Film editor, and [...]

1888: Actor Claud Allister (Rat in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Sir Giles in The Reluctant Dragon) is born in London, England. 1904: Actress Greer Garson (Mrs. Cordelia Biddle in The Happiest Millionaire) is born in London, England. 1906: Composer Charles Wolcott (The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Fun [...]

1902: Composer Al Hoffman (A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo) is born in Minsk, Russia. 1904: Author Alexander H. Key (Escape to Witch Mountain) is born in La Plata, Maryland. His novel is the inspiration of the Disney film of the same name and the remake-Race to Witch Mountain. 1920: Actor Mickey [...]

1904: Narrator Tom Conway (Peter Pan) is born in St. Petersburg, Russia. 1908: Writer Milt Banta (Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, The  Wonderful World of Disney) is born in London, England. 1917: Camera effects artist, and Disney Legend, Bob Broughton (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Black Hole, and Mary Poppins, among others) [...]

1892: Actor Pinto Colvig (voice of Goofy, Pluto, Sleepy, Grumpy, and the House of Bricks Pig from Three Little Pigs) is born in Jacksonville, Oregon. 1894: Actor Billy Gilbert (voice of Sneezy) is born in Louisville, Kentucky. 1905: Layout artist Cornett Wood (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi) is born in Indiana. 1911: [...]

1902: Animator and Disney Legend William Norman Ferguson (created Pluto and the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) is born in New York City, NY. 1903: Animator Hugh Harman (worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) is born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. 1905: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of the [...]

1908: Actor Fred MacMurray (The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, The Happiest Millionaire) is born in Kankakee, Illinois. 1913: Cartoonist Walt Kelly (Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1916: Actor Hal Smith (Phillipe in Beauty and the Beast, Owl in Winnie the Pooh, the voice of Goofy) is born in Petoskey, Michigan. [...]

1786: Congressman and explorer Davy Crockett is born in Greene County, Tennessee. 1905: Animator Robert W. Youngquist (Fantasia, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone) is born in Illinois. 1907: Radio actor Alan Reed (Boris in The Lady and the Tramp) is born Edward Bergman in New York City. 1922: Actress Shelley Winters (Lena [...]

1882: Actor Charles Judels (Stromboli in Pinocchio) is born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1901: Songwriter and Disney Legend Ned Washington (helped write When You Wish Upon A Star and Baby Mine) is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 1914: Director and Disney Legend Ken Annakin (no, not Luke’s father-directed The Sword and the Rose, Swiss Family Robinson, The [...]

1923: Actress Jean Hagen (Freeda Daniels in The Shaggy Dog) is born in Chicago, Illinois. 1933: The Mickey Mouse Watch enters U.S. markets at a cost of $2.75. 1953: Animator Jim Jenkins (creator of Doug) is born in Virginia. 1955: The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit, a walk-through exhibit, opens in Disneyland‘s Tomorrowland. 1955: [...]

1916: Actor Keenan Wynn (John Slade in The Shaggy D.A., Alonzo P. Hawk in The Absent Minded Professor and in Son of Flubber) is born in New York City. 1932: The 29th Silly Symphony, Flowers and Trees, is the first full-color animated film. 1933: Actor Dom DeLuise (Bacchus in Hercules and Fagin in Oliver & [...]

1890: Actress Verna Felton (Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice and Wonderland, and Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book) is born in Salinas, California. 1908: Actor Karl Swenson (Merlin in The Sword in the Stone) is born in Brooklyn, NY. 1911: Disney illustrator & Disney Legend Al Dempster (Fantasia, Dumbo, [...]