BORN ON THIS DAY

RIVER PHOENIx (1970-93). The U.S. actor (right) who died at 23 of a drug overdose. The star of Stand By Me played the younger version of Harrison Ford’s character in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. He was the son of vegan Christian missionaries, who named him after the river of life in Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha. KEITH MOON (1947-78). The drummer of The Who, who died at 32 from an overdose. Notorious for blowing up hotel toilets with dynamite and destroying his drum kits on stage, he once bribed a stagehand on a U.S. TV show to load gunpowder into his bass drum — but used ten times the amount needed. The huge explosion embedded a piece of cymbal in Moon’s arm and singed bandmate Pete Townshend’s hair.