** Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

** Eddie Sachs, auto racing driver ( b. 1927 )

** Eddie Collins, American baseball player ( b. 1887 )

** Eddie Money, American rock guitarist and singer

** Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.

** Eddie Rabbitt, American musician ( b. 1941 )

** Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist ( b. 1891 )

** Eddie Peabody, American musician ( d. 1970 )

** Eddie Robinson, American football coach ( d. 2007 )

** Eddie Fisher, American singer ( d. 2010 )

** Eddie Slovik, U. S. Army private ( executed ) ( d. 1945 )

** Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder ( d. 1967 )

** Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

** Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

** Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach

** Eddie Ilarde, Filipino broadcaster and politician

** Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player ( b. 1929 )

** Hoof and Mouth ( voiced by Eddie Deezen )-Bulba's lackeys, a ram and a mute donkey.

** Eddie Award – Best Edited Feature Film: Stuart Gilmore

** Eddie Van Halen makes a special guest appearance at a concert by The Jacksons in Dallas, Texas, playing the guitar solo for " Beat It " live.

** Eddie Heywood

** Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

** Eddie Palmieri for Sun of Latin Music

** Eddie Murphy for Eddie Murphy: Comedian

** Cantor Fitzgerald, financial services firm founded by him

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

His feature film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee!

Several hit songs were also recorded during the mahjong fad, most notably " Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong " by Eddie Cantor.

* October 10 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, comedian and dancer ( b. 1892 )

* Eddie Cantor

* January 31 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer ( d. 1964 )

* Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor

By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin ; the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of " Merrily We Roll Along " by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor.

Eddie Cantor had the biggest hit version of the ODJB classic, spending five weeks at no.

The song also was featured in the movie The Eddie Cantor Story and was the theme of the television series of the same name in 1961 – 1962.

President Calvin Coolidge, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, and vaudeville stars such as Phil Baker, Ben Bernie, Eddie Cantor, and Oscar Levant appeared in the firm's pictures.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Whites who performed in blackface in film included Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple and Judy Garland.

That same year she also appeared on screen with Eddie Cantor in Kid Millions, but it was her return to Broadway that would establish her as a major star and cement her image as a tough girl with a soft heart.

" Although Merman always had remained with a show until the end of its run, she left Anything Goes after eight months to appear with Eddie Cantor in the film Strike Me Pink.

In 1951 the duo became one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour ( Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others ) and the following year they inaugurated their own situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show.

( Eddie Cantor and Martin and Lewis were among the others.

In 1926, Bow appeared in eight releases: five for Paramount, including the film version of the musical Kid Boots with Eddie Cantor, and three others as an " out-loan ", shot in 1925.

Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman and Smith and Dale were among the top acts seen in Paramount shorts.

* Keefe Brasselle, actor, title role of the 1953 movie The Eddie Cantor Story

Lucille Ball had come to Hollywood in 1933, when, after a successful stint as a New York model, she was chosen by Sam Goldwyn to be one of sixteen Goldwyn Girls to co-star in the picture Roman Scandals with film star Eddie Cantor.

Eddie Cantor, host.

* Eddie Fisher is " discovered " by Eddie Cantor and signs with RCA.