Robert Redford as Joseph "Joe" Turner (Condor) and Cliff Robertson as J. Higgins in Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Lame man in Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)

Today John Lennon’s 85th birthday! The Beatles’ founder welcomed his second son, Sean Ono Lennon, on his 35th birthday, October 9, 1975. Here John Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon photographed in 1977.

Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a communist revolutionary who played an important role in the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Fifty-eight years ago, on October 9, 1967, "Che" was executed in the hills of Bolivia after being captured by a U.S.-trained Bolivian military battalion.

Che Guevara appears on "Face the Nation" in 1964.

Remembering Yevgeny Yevstigneyev on his birthday (1926-1992), a Soviet theater and film actor.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Max Otto von Stierlitz and Oleg Tabakov as Walter Schellenberg in "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973)

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov in the film "We'll Live Till Monday" (1969)

Tatyana Ivanitskaya as Tanya Shchukina, daughter of Colonel Shchukin in The Adjutant of His Excellency (1970)

Yury Solomin as Pavel Andreevich Koltsov, adjutant of General Kovalevsky in The Adjutant of His Excellency (1970)

Mikhail Ulyanov in the film "The Flight" (1970) as general Gregory Lukyanovich Charnota.

Pavel Boriskin and Sergey Bondarchuk in the film "Fate of a Man." 1959.

Pyotr Shcherbakov as Fedot Fedotovich & Natalya Gundareva as Antonina Efimovna. And Life, and Tears, and Love. 1984

Remembering the legendary actor Leonid Kuravlyov on his birthday, here with Tatyana Rasputina in Afonya (1975)

French actor Roger Carel as Commissaire Honore Compana - Les grands moyens (1976)

Vitya Cherevichkin, a boy from Rostov-on-Don who was murdered by Nazis in Nov. 1941. He was shot by the Germans when they discovered he was hiding pigeons in his barn. The Nazi command had ordered the extermination of all pigeons, as they suspected the birds could carry messages

The coffin of Joseph Stalin is being carried out of the House of Unions to his tomb In Red Square, right to left: Beria, Premier Malenkov, General Vassily Stalin, Molotov, Marshal Bulganin, Kaganovich, Shvernik, Moscow, March 9, 1953.

𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗥𝗘𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 - 𝙂𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙮 𝙇𝙚𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨!

Brad Davis and dir. Alan Parker on the set "Midnight Express" (1978)

Oscar-winning prison break drama opened in the U.S. 47 ago, on October 6, 1978. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS