* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

To New Yorkers of his generation, a " Damon Runyon character " evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.

Damon Runyon was born as Alfred Damon Runyan to a family of newspapermen in Manhattan, Kansas.

In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company and Runyon Lake are now named in his honor.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist, Walter Winchell, went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the “ Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund ” to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of cancer.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

* Each year the Denver Press Club assigns the Damon Runyon Award to a prominent journalist.

* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, is named after him.

* The Damon Runyon Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track.

* Damon Runyon Favorites ( 1942 )

* The Damon Runyon Omnibus ( 1944 )

* Damon Runyon from First to Last ( 1954 )

* A Treasury of Damon Runyon ( 1958 )

* Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball ( 2005 ; Jim Reisler, editor )

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955-56.

Hazel Albarn, originally from Lincolnshire, was a theatrical set designer for Joan Littlewood's theatre company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and was working on the satirical play, Mrs Wilson's Diary just before Damon was born.

: Artists Theatre Project presented a production in Phoenix at Soul Invictus for a six week run, with two alternating casts: Dusty Goltz as Jon, Kim Jeffries as Susan and Damon J. Bolling as Michael ; and Sam Wilkes as Jon, Jerome Lowe as Michael and Carly Vernon as Susan.

In 1949, it was dramatized on radio as part of a program called Damon Runyon Theatre.

The Coach House company, which owned the Galaxy Theatre, approached the band to release the recordings as a collected album on their independent label Coach House Records but the band was already in discussions with other labels and agreed on a version of the CD, with album cover artwork and graphic design by Damon Kidwell, which would expressly not include a bar code for retail sale.

* Damon Runyon Theatre ( 1955 )

* 1975 – Damon Pampolina, American musician and actor ( The Party )

* 1976 – Damon Jones, American basketball player

* 1973 – Damon Lindelof, American television writer and executive

* 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor

* Damon Runyon ( 1884 – 1946 ).

* 1971 – Damon Dash, American record executive

* 1970 – Damon Herriman, American actor

* 1880 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )

* 1970 – Matt Damon, American actor

Judith Merril's annual anthologies ( 1957 – 1968 ), Damon Knight's Orbit series, and Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions featured American writers inspired by British writers ( although some of the writers anthologized were British ).

* Damon Knight ( 1965 – 1967 )

* 1930 – Cathryn Damon, American actress ( d. 1987 )

* 1973 – Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player

* 1974 – Damon Jones, American football player

* 1922 – Damon Knight, American author ( d. 2002 )

* November 18 – Damon Wayans, Jr., American actor and comedian

* October 4 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )

Bassist Alex James later summarised, " After being the People's Hero, Damon was the People's Prick for a short period ... basically, he was a loser – very publicly.

Bassist Alex James later summarised, " After being the People's Hero, Damon was the People's Prick for a short period ... basically, he was a loser – very publicly.

* Damon E. Allen ( 1921 – 2009 ), a three-term president of the Kentucky Optometric Association who led the lobbying campaign to convince the Kentucky State Legislature to permit optometrists to prescribe medication to their patients, was born in Fordsville but later moved to Campbellsville.

He was married ( 1965 – 1995 ) to Adrienne Alpin, with whom he had two sons Damon Hart-Davis and Jason Hart-Davis, and now lives with psychologist Dr. Susan Blackmore, whom he married on 19 June 2010.

* Damon Johnson – guitar, backing vocals