The stamp is one of a block of four honoring " baseball sluggers ", the others being Mickey Mantle, Mel Ott, and Roy Campanella.

On June 4, 1972, the Dodgers retired his uniform number, 42, alongside those of Roy Campanella ( 39 ) and Sandy Koufax ( 32 ).

* 1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player ( d. 1993 )

* Roy Campanella

* June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player ( b. 1921 )

* January 28 – Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.

Other members of the Hall who played in both the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball are Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson.

The stamp is one of a series of four honoring baseball sluggers, the others being Mel Ott, Roy Campanella, and Hank Greenberg.

Willie Mays with Roy Campanella ( 1961 )

On May 7,, the Dodgers, then playing their second season in Los Angeles, honored Campanella with Roy Campanella Night at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

In September 2006, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced the creation of the Roy Campanella Award, which is voted among the club's players and coaches and is given to the Dodger who best exemplifies " Campy's " spirit and leadership.

On April 30, 1945, he married Ruthe Willis and had three children together ( including a son, television director Roy Campanella II ), though their relationship deteriorated after his accident ; they separated in 1960 and Ruthe died in January 1963.

The book is entitled Campy-The Two Lives of Roy Campanella.

Roy Campanella was interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on the CBS program Person to Person on October 2, 1953 and again on January 2, 1959.

* Campanella, Roy.

* Greenfield, Steven, " Roy Campanella ", BaseballLibrary. com

Other well-known players in the post-war years included: Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Carl Furillo, Sal Maglie, Vic Raschi, Roy Campanella, Dom DiMaggio, Ernie Lombardi, Joe Pepitone, Rico Petrocelli, Sal Bando, Rocky Colavito, and Tony Conigliaro.

" Brock grew up as a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team that included Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella.

* Roy Campanella, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer

* January 29 – The Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella suffers a broken neck in an early morning auto accident on Long Island.

He was one of five Indians selected by Boudreau and joined Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe as the first black players to be amongst those chosen to participate in the 1949 All-Star Game.

After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.

The feat had previously been accomplished by Mickey Cochrane, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Johnny Bench and Carlton Fisk, all in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

John Edward Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 17 June 1985 ) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 5 November 2001 ), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

John died on 17 June 1985 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and Roy on 5 November 2001.

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC ( 11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003 ) was a British politician.

* November 5 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor ( d. 1998 )

* November 28 – Roy Barcroft, American actor ( b. 1902 )

* November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist

* November 15 – Roy Burden, Canadian World War II pilot ( d. 2005 )

* November 23 – Roy Acuff, American singer ( b. 1903 )

* November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player

* November 15 – Normie Roy, American baseball player ( d. 2011 )

Wilson then moved Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Callaghan became the new Home Secretary on 30 November 1967.

Evanier speaking on a panel about Jack Kirby with ( from left to right ) Roy Thomas, Joe Sinnott and Stan Goldberg, at the Big Apple Con in Manhattan, November 15, 2008.

A clip of this broadcast, featuring Roy Kinnear, was shown in the David L. Wolper documentary film Four Days in November and more recently on the History Channel 2009 documentary JFK: 3 Shots that Changed America.

* Roy Douglas, " Pine Barren Pioneers ," Long Island Forum, October, November, December, 1982 ( West Islip Public Library )

The town held the election and Roy Dew was elected mayor of Tar Heel by write-in votes in November, 2011.

* Tripp Cromer ( Roy Bunyan Cromer ) was born on November 21, 1967 in Lake City.

Between 1919 and 1923 oil exploration began in the area, and on November 27, 1924, the Roy Simmons No. 1 well came in as a gusher.

He first appeared in More Fun Comics # 73 ( November 1941 ), where he was identified as the orphaned son of Roy Harper, Sr., a forest ranger who had died saving a Navajo medicine chief named " Brave Bow " from a fire.

Rock Hudson ( born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., November 17, 1925October 2, 1985 ), was an American film and television actor.

Roy Richard Scheider ( November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008 ) was an American actor.

Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye ( November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998 ), was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain.