American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress

* 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress

* 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress

* 1982 – Alana Austin, American actress

* 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress and model

* 1983 – Eliza Coupe, American actress

* 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American porn actress

* 1998 – Lily Jackson, American actress

* 1998 – Peyton List, American actress

* 1968 – Alicia Coppola, American actress

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1973 – Christina Moore, American actress

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress

* 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model

* 1987 – Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress

* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1973 – Kinna McInroe, American actress

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer ( d. 1992 )

* Sylvia E. Bowman, Edward Bellamy Abroad: An American Propher's Influence.

* 1861-Charles Francis Hall, an American, camps at the Sylvia Grinnell River and explores the waters of Koojesse Inlet, which he names after his Inuit guide

* 1913 – Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

In the 1980s, American and European dancers from California, New York, London and Sweden ( such as Sylvia Sykes, Erin Stevens, Steven Mitchell, Terry Monaghan and Warren Heyes who formed London's Jiving Lindy Hoppers performance troupe, and Stockholm's Rhythm Hot Shots / Harlem Hot Shots ) went about ' reviving ' Lindy Hop using archival films such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races and by contacting dancers such as Frankie Manning, Al Minns, Norma Miller, Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins.

* 1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer, musician and record producer ( Mickey & Sylvia ) ( d. 2011 )

American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in her essay " The Death of Lady Mondegreen ," published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.

* 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1925 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist ( Mickey & Sylvia )

* 1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player

Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30.

At the party he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship.

** Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( b. 1910 )

* January 3 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim ( d. 1965 )

** Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

* July 31 – Sylvia Field, American actress ( Mrs. Wilson ; Dennis the Menace )

* February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist, suicide ( b. 1932 )

** Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player

** Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist ( b. 1913 )

* October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist ( b. 1913 )

* November 5 – Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( b. 1885 )

** Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( d. 1940 )

** Sylvia Ashton, American actress ( d. 1940 )