* December 18 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer ( b. 1915 )

* January 14 – Mark Goodson, American television game show producer ( d. 1992 )

From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.

* Game show producer Mark Goodson used a six-pointed asterisk as his trademark.

Breaking into television as the original announcer on Steve Allen's Tonight, Gene Rayburn began a long association with game-show producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman in 1953.

Question writer Dick DeBartolo came up with a funnier set of questions, like " Mary liked to pour gravy on John's _____ ", and submitted it to Mark Goodson.

In the summer of 1973, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman resurrected the show as Match Game ' 73 for CBS, with Rayburn returning as host and Olson returning as announcer.

In 1983, producer Mark Goodson teamed up with Orion Television ( who had recently acquired the rights to Hollywood Squares ) and NBC to create The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour.

From 1994 until about 1997, the network aired pre-1972 classics as well as post-1972 game shows, most from the Mark Goodson – Bill Todman library.

Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

Television producer Mark Goodson used Sherman's idea and turned it into I've Got a Secret, which ran on CBS from 1952 to 1967.

* Mark Goodson, producer

In 1987, while still hosting Jeopardy !, Trebek returned to daytime television as host of NBC's Classic Concentration, his second show for Mark Goodson.

White instead did not attend and pre-recorded her comments that she was scheduled to make about Mark Goodson.

White did not appear at the ceremony, however taped a dedication to Mark Goodson.

Trivia Trap is an American game show produced by Mark Goodson Productions.

From then until the acquisition of Goodson's company by the predecessors of FremantleMedia ( and thus ceasing to exist ), all of the shows produced by Mark Goodson Productions were revivals of previous series.

He hosted at least 2 other pilots, TKO for Mark Goodson, and Two Heads Are Better Than One for PYL producer Bill Carruthers before the game show market stalled in the early 90's.

In 1988, game show producers Mark Goodson and Howard Felsher gave Combs a seven-year contract to host a new version of Family Feud.

Jonathan Goodson, who became chairman of Mark Goodson Productions after the death of his father, Mark Goodson, a year earlier, made the decision to replace Combs with original host Richard Dawson.

* 1969 – Mark Ealham, English cricketer

* 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer

* 1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer

* 1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver

* 2011 – A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1971 – Mark Povinelli, American actor

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Lemke, American baseball player

* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )

* 1983 – Mark Reynolds, American baseball player

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

* 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English Politician

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1985 – Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1962 – Mark Gubicza, American baseball player

* 1965 – Mark Collins, English guitarist and songwriter ( The Charlatans and The Waltones )

* 1971 – Mark Loretta, American baseball player

* 1949 – Mark B. Rosenberg, American academic

* 1949 – Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer ( Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies )

* 1961 – Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer

* 1972 – Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer

* 1983 – Mark Webster, Welsh darts player

* 1968 – Mark McGuinn, American singer-songwriter