American actress and model (born 1962)

Kelly Preston

Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, known professionally as Kelly Preston, was an American actress. She appeared in more than 60 television and film productions, including Mischief (1985), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996), and For Love of the Game (1999). She married John Travolta in 1991, and collaborated with him on the comedy film The Experts (1989) and the biographical film Gotti (2018). She also starred in the films SpaceCamp (1986), The Cat in the Hat (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), Sky High (2005), and Old Dogs (2009).

Born

1962

October 13

Died

2020

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1960s

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What else happened on this day, through history

54 Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
409 Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1269 The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1307 Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.

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The world in 1962

When Kelly arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 13

Conrad Richter 1890–1968 American journalist and novelist (died 1968) Jerry Rice 1962– American football player Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Justin Peroff 1977– Canadian drummer and actor Laraine Day 1920–2007 American actress (born 1920) Marco Travaglio 1964– Italian journalist and author Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013 English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1925) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1948–1997 Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (born 1948) Pharoah Sanders 1940–2022 American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2022)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1962

Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor

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