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Maria Perego was born on 8 December 1923 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. She was a writer, known for The World of Topo Gigio (1961), Dillinger Is Dead (1969) and Le avventure di Cappuccetto a pois (1969). She was married to Federico Caldura. She died on 7 November 2019 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Actress
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Adelaide Louise Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved across the East River to Harlem, and it was here, among the rich and fertile renaissance of black culture in the 1920s, that Adelaide nurtured her dreams of becoming a star. Her first stage role was in 1921 in the chorus line of the all-black Broadway musical "Shuffle Along", which gave her a taste of the limelight. The show ran for 504 performances and then went on tour.
Her next stint on stage came in 1923, when she was featured in the all-black Broadway musical "Runnin' Wild." Of her performance, Variety wrote, " . . . picked from the chorus is Adelaide Hall, who can be termed a real find. She jazzes a number as Paul Whiteman would have it done, and her singing of 'Old Fashinoed Love' is a knockout." The show ran for 213 performances and then went on tour. In 1925 she toured Europe as lead in "The Chocolate Kiddies Revue". She introduced Europe to the Charleston dance and performed it to Duke Ellington's "Jig Walk" (the fact is that she was a sensation in Europe before the better known Josephine Baker--who always gets credited for introducing Europe to the Charleston--did.
In 1927 she recorded "Creole Love Call" on a record, backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The record caused a furore after its release because of its blatantly sexual overtones, but it went on to sell millions of copies and is still selling. It is widely regarded as among the most famous and important jazz recordings ever made. It introduced "scat singing" to the general public, and catapulted Adelaide and Ellington to international stardom. The next year Adelaide starred on Broadway in "Blackbirds of 1928" with Bill Robinson (aka "Bojangles"). The show went on to become the longest-running all-black revue ever to appear on Broadway, a record that remains unbroken. The show gave Adelaide three hit songs: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love", "Diga Diga Do" and "I Must Have That Man." She and Bojangles became the black equivalent to Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire and the show made her the first black international superstar (Josephine Baker at the time was only a star in Europe, not the US). In 1929 she performed in the "Blackbirds of 1928" revue in Paris, France, at the world-famous Moulin Rouge for three months. The New Amsterdan News reported that "Adelaide Hall takes Paris by storm." The next year she returned to Broaeway and co-starred with Bojangles in "Brown Buddies", to great acclaim. In 1931 she began a world tour that lasted for almost two years and took her to two continents, played to over a million people and made her the wealthiest black woman in America. During the tour she discovered the blind pianist Art Tatum, whom she employed as her pianist. In 1934 she starred at Harlem's Cotton Club for eight months in one of the club's most successful revue, during which she introduced Harold Arlen's timeless classic "Ill Wind" and the raunchy "Primitive Prima Donna", which were especially written for her. She made her film debut the next year in the musical short An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) for Vitaphone, which also starred The Nicholas Brothers.
She moved to Paris in 1936 and for the next three years toured extensively all over Europe. She starred in a production of "The Sun Never Sets" at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1938 with Todd Duncan, with music by Cole Porter. In 1939 she settled in Great Britain, where she spent the remainder of her life. She appeared in the classic fantasy The Thief of Bagdad (1940) in 1940, and during the war she joined ENSA and toured military facilities in Britain and abroad, entertaining the troops, and at the end of the war she was actually one of the first entertainers to perform in Germany.
For the next 20 years Adelaide was Britain's most famous and successful black female vocalist. She had numerous shows on the BBC, including "Harlem in Mayfair" (1939), "Dark Sohistication" (1943), "Starlight" (1947), "Variety in Sepia" (1949), "Black Magic" (1949), and "Old Songs for New". She also made over 50 recordings for Decca Records. In 1951 she starred in Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me Kate" at London's Coliseum Theatre, a show that ran for a year, then went on tour. The next year she starred in "Love from Judy" at London's Saville Theatre, which also ran fora year and then went on tour. In 1956 she starred in "Someone to Talk To" at London's Duchess Theatre. The next year she returned to the US and starred on Broadway in the musical "Jamaica" with Lena Horne.
The 1960s were not good career-wise for Adelaide, and her star faded considerably. Horever, in 1979 she appeared in the Newport Jazz Festival's production of "Black Broadway" and te next year she and Elisabeth Welch and Edith Wilson starred in a production of the show at New York's Town Hall. In 1983 she returned to New York City for a surprise guest appearance at Eubie Blakes 100th birthday concert. On April 1 of that year Adelaide starred in "Sacred Music Of Duke Ellington", which was performed at St Paul's Cathedral in London and televised. In 1985 she appeared on numerous British television shows including "A Royal Celebration . . . Forty Years of Peace", "Omnibus,The Cotton Club Comes to The Ritz" and an episode of The South Bank Show (1978) called "The Real Cotton Club". In 1986 Adelaide appeared on the British TV show "Chasing A Rainbow." Returning to New York two years later, she starred in a concert at the famed Carnegie Hall. In 1989 her biographical documentary Sophisticated Lady (1989) premiered at the London Film Festival and made its TV debut the next year.
In 1990 Adelaide recorded and released three albums: "I Touched a Star", "Hall of Memories" and "Live at the Riverside". She performed in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1991 at age 90 in "A Tribute to Adelaide Hall". On Mardch 4 of the following year she once more journeyed to New York, this time for a two-day appearance at Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, this was her last performance. She died of pneumonia in London, England, on November 7, 1993.- Alan Hewitt was born on 21 January 1915 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Follow That Dream (1962), That Touch of Mink (1962) and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964). He died on 7 November 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Alejandra Meyer was born on 26 February 1937 in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Marisol (1996), Por un beso (2000) and Vecinos (2005). She was married to Pepe Arévalo. She died on 7 November 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Amedeo Nazzari was born on 10 December 1907 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Nights of Cabiria (1957), The Bandit (1946) and Chains (1949). He was married to Irene Genna. He died on 5 November 1979 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
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Amparo Rivelles was born on 11 February 1925 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Fuenteovejuna (1947), La fe (1947) and Esquilache (1989). She died on 7 November 2013 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Stunts
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Stuntman and actor Bobby Bass was born on August 6, 1936 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Bobby not only was a Judo champion with a third degree black belt, but also was a paratrooper, Green Beret, and a Special Forces instructor in the military prior to being introduced to the stunt business by fellow stuntman and actor Gene LeBell in the mid-1960's. Outside of his extensive work as a stuntman, Bass also taught such people as Mel Gibson, Burt Reynolds, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Michael Douglas, and Kathleen Turner how to either fight and/or handle weapons (Bass helped popularize the use of the head butt in barroom fights). In addition, Bobby became a staunch advocate of safer working conditions in the stunt industry after stuntwoman and then girlfriend Heidi Von Beltz was paralyzed from the neck down in the wake of an automobile stunt going disastrously awry during the shooting of The Cannonball Run (1981) as well as the tragic helicopter accident that claimed the lives of Vic Morrow and two child actors that occurred during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Bass died at age 65 from Parkinson's disease on November 7, 2001.- Actor
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Born in St. Anthony, a small town in eastern Idaho, Bradford Harris attended UCLA in the early 1950s, where he played fullback on the football team while studying economics. His studies may have been intended as the groundwork for a career in his family's banking business, but Harris instead drifted into the fringes of Los Angeles' movie industry, and secured employment as a stunt man. In the late 1950s he traveled to Europe as the stunt co-ordinator for a German-Italian co-production. Soon he found himself working as a second-unit director, and that led to a starring role in Goliath Against the Giants (1961). His good looks and muscular build kept him in demand during the era of "sword and sandal" movies, and when this genre began to fade away, he moved into "spaghetti westerns" and a spate of action movies with an emphasis on spy thrillers. In 1967 he married actress Olga Schoberová.- He got his show business start at the age of two in 1944 in the Broadway play "A Member of the Wedding". His performance caught the eye of MGM, which brought him to Hollywood in 1946. He appeared in several feature films for MGM over the next five years. His formal education was squeezed in between takes at MGM's studio school, where other child stars of the period like Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Stockwell, Debbie Reynolds and Tommy Rettig all learned together. After signing with Disney, he was originally scheduled to be a "Mousketeer" but was pulled from the M-O-U-S-E show after six months to work on the Disney mini-series Spin & Marty. Although he had a top agent, his parents acted as his personal management team, which was common among child actors during that period. His younger brother, Scotty Morrow followed in his footsteps and became a popular featured film and television actor as well. As a young adult, Brad later toured with the stage version of both "West Side Story" and "The Diary of Anne Frank". When his acting days ended, he dedicated himself to the world of business management. In 1990, he became the president of CII Premium Finance in Burbank. He was forced to resign from the business in 1996 due to illness. He died on November 7, 1997.
- Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, in 1866, the outlaw later to become famous as Butch Cassidy (he took the name Butch because he was once a butcher and the name Cassidy in honor of a local rancher who had befriended him as a youth) started his criminal career at an early age, stealing livestock when he was just a teenager. He soon left the Beaver area and hooked up with other rustlers and thieves, eventually forming a gang known as The Wild Bunch, which included such well known desperadoes as The Sundance Kid and Harvey Logan. The gang began robbing banks, payrolls and trains all over Colorado and Utah, and became so proficient at it that the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hired to run them down, and in addition a $4000 bounty (a huge sum at the time) was placed on their heads. The gang soon broke up and Cassidy and his partner The Sundance Kid headed to Mexico. Even that wasn't far enough, however, as both the Pinkerton detectives and professional bounty hunters were soon in Mexico looking for them, so they fled to Argentina, where they set up shop--under assumed names--as cattle ranchers. The ruse worked for a while until one night The Sundance Kid, under the influence of too much alcohol, began to brag about the many robberies they had gotten away with. A few days later a bank in a nearby town was robbed by two English-speaking bandits, and suspicion immediately fell upon the two, who were forced to pull up stakes and flee again. They wound up in Chile, and though they made several attempts to settle down and give up their lives of crime, circumstances dictated otherwise. They eventually crossed into Bolivia with plans to rob a bank in the small town of San Vicente. A hotel worker, having heard that the police were on the lookout for two English-speaking bank robbers, became suspicious of the pair and informed the local police chief. The chief and two of his men approached them in a restaurant, whereupon the Sundance Kid opened fire, killing one of the officers. The two gunmen fled and the police requested help from an army cavalry regiment that happened to be in town, and the soldiers and police soon trapped Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in a small house, where, after an all-night siege and gun battle, the two were found dead the next morning of gunshot wounds. Although rumors have surfaced over the years claiming that the pair actually escaped the battle and returned to the US, so far no real evidence has surfaced to conclusively prove that story.
- American character actor noted for his deep, rich voice. Young made his Broadway debut in the early 1930s, appearing in such plays as "Page Pygmalion", "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head", "Late Wisdom" and "Yesterday's Orchids". Moving to Hollywood in 1936, he began getting small film roles and soon graduated to frequent appearances in B-Westerns and serials, occasionally as a supporting lead, but most often as a heavy. He was Dick Tracy's brother in Dick Tracy (1937) and was a familiar face in many oaters and serials at Republic, where he was a contract player, occasionally working under the stage name Gordon Robert. In 1941, Young returned to Broadway to star in "Cuckoos On the Hearth" by Parker Fennelly. Back in Hollywood, he made Westerns throughout the Forties, then began appearing in better roles in better films, becoming a late favorite of John Ford. His line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend", has become synonymous with Ford. Young retired in 1970 and died in 1994, at the age of 89. He is often confused with Carleton G. Young, a radio performer who made a few films and who was the father of actor Tony Young.
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Charles Aidman originally planned a career as an attorney, but was sidetracked during World War II and naval officer training at DePaul university. During a speech class the instructor, who also headed the drama department, saw Aidman as ideal for a role in an upcoming play. "I did the play and enjoyed it. It was the first play I was in, in my life...I've been acting ever since."- Dan McGrew was born on 7 April 1937 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA. He died on 7 November 2019 in the USA.
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Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Debra Chasnoff is a nationally recognized champion of using film as an organizing tool for social justice campaigns, and a pioneering leader in the international movement working to create safe and welcoming schools and communities. Debra's highly acclaimed documentaries addressing youth and bias issues are widely hailed by educators and advocates as among the best tools available today to help open up dialogue and activism around many of the most challenging issues affecting young people's lives and school environments.
Her films include Straightlaced-How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up, about the gender and sexuality pressures that teens and young adults face today. Her other award-winning films include It's Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School, Let's Get Real (about bias and bullying) That's a Family! (supporting youth growing up in diverse family structures) and the Academy Award-winning Deadly Deception-General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment. Her first film, Choosing Children, explored the once unheard of idea that lesbians and gay men could become parents after coming out.
In addition to dozens of film festival awards, Debra is the recipient of the Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation Fellowship for outstanding non-profit leadership, the Pathfinder Award from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, and the first-ever alumnae achievement award in documentary filmmaking from Wellesley College. Debra has been a featured speaker at dozens of colleges and conferences, and was recently named a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She is the founder of GroundSpark and co-creator of our renowned Respect For All Project. She has served the organization in a directing capacity since 1982.- Actress
Delia Garcés was born on 13 October 1919 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for El (1953), Casa de muñecas (1943) and El gran amor de Bécquer (1946). She was married to Alberto de Zavalía. She died on 7 November 2001 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Dolores Kendrick was born on 7 September 1927 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She died on 7 November 2017 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- An extremely versatile character actor and originator of several memorable characterizations in the horror film genre, Dwight Frye had a notable theatrical career in the 1920s, moving from juvenile parts to leads before entering film. A favorite actor of Broadway theatrical producer-director Brock Pemberton, he originated the part of "the Son" in his hit 1922 production of Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author". Pemberton would continue to employ Frye in Broadway productions throughout the decade. Cast with Bela Lugosi in a 1926 production of "The Devil and the Cheese", he ultimately appeared in at least two Lugosi films.
Despite (or perhaps because of) his memorable, impassioned portrayals of real estate agent-cum-madman Renfield in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) and Fritz the sadistic hunchbacked lab-assistant in James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), the industry seemed determined to typecast Frye, and his film career would be marked with frustration. The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) offered him billing second only to that of villain Erich von Stroheim, but all too soon, he was consigned to playing a lackluster array of crazies, spies, red herrings, grasping heirs and bit parts. He occasionally returned to the stage in comedies, musicals, and thrillers such as "Night Must Fall" and a stage version of "Dracula".
Frye was perplexed to find that his versatility in the theatre went unnoticed in Hollywood, where he was relegated to lunatic roles and often had his parts severely cut. Indeed, in Son of Frankenstein (1939) his role was deemed as unnecessary when an abrupt switch was made from Technicolor to black-and-white after his scenes were shot.
Dwight Frye, a devout Christian Scientist, had concealed a heart-condition from his friends and family. After the outbreak of WWII, unable to enlist, he worked nights (between films and local theatre-productions) as a draftsman for the Lockheed Aircraft Co. An uncanny physical resemblance to then-Secretary of War Newton Baker led his to being signed to a substantial role in Wilson (1944), directed by Henry King, based on the life of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, but Frye succumbed to a heart-attack on a crowded bus a few days after being cast while returning home from a movie with his son. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. - Writer
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She served as the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.- Florencio Sánchez was born on 17 January 1875 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer, known for Pasión imposible (1943), Barranca abajo (1937) and La tigra (1954). He was married to Catalina Raventos. He died on 7 November 1910 in Milan, Italy.
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Francis Lai was born on 26 April 1932 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Love Story (1970), Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and Kingpin (1996). He was married to Dagmar Puetz. He died on 7 November 2018 in Paris, France.- Gene Tunney's parents were Mary Jean (aka Rose) Lydon and John Tunney. Both of his parents were born in Mayo, Ireland, near Kiltimagh, and moved to New York City. He won the heavyweight boxing championship from Jack Dempsey in 1926 and successfully defended his title against Dempsey in 1927. In 1928, he successfully defended his title against Tom Heeney and then retired from the ring undefeated in 1928. He then married Andrew Carnegie's great niece, Mary Josephine Lauder (aka Polly) in October, 1928, went on an extensive honeymoon, then returned to the U.S. and had four children - three sons and one daughter. He enlisted as a Marine during World War I, and he joined the Navy during World War II and was made an officer. He wrote two autobiographies - 'A Man Must Fight' in 1932 and 'Arms for Living' in 1941. He was very successful with his business interests.
- Burly, craggy-faced tough guy actor George Mathews was brought up in Manhattan and educated in Brooklyn. He had an extensive career on stage, which began in the early 1930s, after he failed to get a job with the US Post Office. Instead, he joined the WPA (Works Progress Administration) Theatre Program, a government agency that provided jobs for the unemployed on public works projects during the Depression. He first appeared on Broadway in the key role of Dynamite Jim in "Processional" (1937). With his broad face, strong eyebrows, gravelly voice and jutting lower lip, Mathews was invariably cast as heavies or hard-as-nails military types. He appeared to great effect on stage in 1942-43 as Sgt. Ruby in "The Eve of St. Mark" on Broadway, and repeated his role in the film version (The Eve of St. Mark (1944)), a perfect showcase for his screen personae. Not just a one-note "plug ugly", he was equally as effective at portraying comic toughs, which he did in Pat and Mike (1952), becoming the recipient of some judo action meted out by Katharine Hepburn; and the Garson Kanin-directed musical comedy 'Do Re Mi' (1960-62), as Fatso O'Rear, starring Phil Silvers.
Mathews also acted in classical plays like "Antigone" (1946, as a guard) with Cedric Hardwicke and played Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1949-50), going on tour with fellow cast members Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn. This performance garnered some critical accolades from Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times. In 1950, he joined Tyrone Power in a sell-out London production of "Mister Roberts" at the Coliseum Theatre, playing the role of the captain. In films, he was notable as the gambler Williams in the powerhouse drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and as the sadistic Sheriff Bull Harper in the colorful western The Last Wagon (1956). Mathews also had a recurring role in the TV comedy series Glynis (1963), playing ex-cop Chick Rogers who aids and abets mystery writer and amateur sleuth Glynis Johns in solving a string of "whodunnits".
In private life, Mathews was the antithesis of the ruffians he often portrayed on screen: amicable and intelligent. Outside of his profession, he was an avid chess player and often participated in international tournaments. He retired from the acting profession in 1972 and died in South Carolina in November 1984. - José María Safigueroa was born on 28 February 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Camarero nocturno en Mar del Plata (1986), Johnny Tolengo, el majestuoso (1987) and Semana Nueve (1981). He died on 7 November 2008 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.Gogó Safigueroa
- He was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and moved to the United States at the age of 5. Gunnar lived in Maine till he was 11, his family then moving to Texas, where he went to high school before attending the University of Texas. At the university, he did some theater work and majored in English and mathematics before going on to graduate in English and Scandinavian Studies. Despite graduating in the aforementioned fields, his first job out of high school was as a computer operator.
In the summer of 1973, he heard that Tobe Hooper and others were in town to work on a movie and decided to try out for a part. After interviewing with Tobe Hooper and the writer of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Kim Henkel, he was cast in the role of the disturbed, mentally handicapped killer, Leatherface.
After Chainsaw, Hansen went on to work as a freelance writer for magazines for several years before going on to write books, one later being set in Iceland about purported serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas. He has gone on to write multiple screenplays - one co-written with his partner Gary Jones, director of Mosquito (1994)).
Gunnar also directed a documentary on Greenland and had a stint designing web pages for GTE. - Haitham Ahmed Zaki was born on 4 April 1984 in Cairo, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The Treasure (2017), The Treasure 2 (2019) and El-Bilyatshu (2007). He died on 7 November 2019 in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, Egypt.
- Hans Schäfer was born on 18 October 1927 in Zollstock, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for German Fried Movie (1992), 1954 FIFA World Cup (1954) and Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst! (1967). He was married to Isis Wolf. He died on 7 November 2017 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Hans-Michael Rehberg was born on 2 April 1938 in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Geography of the Heart (2016) and Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989). He was married to Barbara Sukowa. He died on 7 November 2017 in Berlin, Germany.- Héctor Tealdi was born in 1916 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Si se calla el cantor (1973), Casi no nos dimos cuenta (1990) and Buenos Aires, verano 1912 (1966). He died on 7 November 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Howard Keel was the Errol Flynn and Clark Gable of "golden age" movie musicals back in the 1950s. With a barrel-chested swagger and cocky, confident air, the 6'4" brawny baritone Keel had MGM's loveliest songbirds swooning helplessly for over a decade in what were some of the finest musical films ever produced.
Born Harry (or Harold) Clifford Keel in Gillespie, Illinois, in 1919 to Homer Charles Keel and Grace (Osterkamp) Keel, and the brother of Frederick William Keel, his childhood was unhappy, his father being a hard-drinking coal miner and his mother a stern, repressed Methodist homemaker. When Keel was 11 his father died, and the family moved to California. He later earned his living as a car mechanic, then found work during WWII at Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles. His naturally untrained voice was discovered by the staff of his aircraft company and soon he was performing at various entertainments for the company's clients. He was inspired to sing professionally one day while attending a Hollywood Bowl concert, and quickly advanced through the musical ranks from singing waiter to music festival contest winner to guest recitalist.
Oscar Hammerstein II discovered Keel in 1946 during John Raitt's understudy auditions for the role of Billy Bigelow in Broadway's popular musical "Carousel." He was cast on sight and the die was cast. Keel managed to understudy Alfred Drake as Curly in "Oklahoma!" as well, and in 1947 took over the rustic lead in the London production, earning great success. British audiences took to the charismatic singer and he remained there as a concert singer while making a non-singing film debut in the British crime drama The Hideout (1948) (aka "The Small Voice"). MGM was looking for an answer to Warner Bros.' Gordon MacRae when they came upon Keel in England. They made a great pitch for him and he returned to the US, changing his stage moniker to Howard Keel. He became a star with his very first musical, playing sharpshooter Frank Butler opposite brassy Betty Hutton's Annie Oakley in the film version of the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950). From then on Keel was showcased in several of MGM's biggest extravaganzas, with Show Boat (1951), Calamity Jane (1953), Kiss Me Kate (1953) and (reportedly his favorite) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) at the top of the list. Kismet (1955) opposite Ann Blyth would be his last, as the passion for movie musicals ran its course.
Keel managed to move into rugged (if routine) action fare, appearing in such 1960s films as Armored Command (1961), Waco (1966), Red Tomahawk (1967) and The War Wagon (1967), the last one starring John Wayne and featuring Keel as a wisecracking Indian, of all things. In the 1970s Keel kept his singing voice alive by returning full force to his musical roots. Some of his summer stock and touring productions, which included "Camelot," "South Pacific", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", "Man of La Mancha", and "Show Boat", often reunited him with his former MGM leading ladies, including Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell. He also worked up a Las Vegas nightclub act with Grayson in the 1970s.
Keel became an unexpected TV household name when he replaced Jim Davis as the upstanding family patriarch of the nighttime soap drama Dallas (1978) after Davis' untimely death. As Clayton Farlow, Miss Ellie's second husband, he enjoyed a decade of steady work. In later years he continued to appear in concerts. As a result of this renewed fame on TV, Keel landed his first solo recording contract with "And I Love You So" in 1983. Married three times, he died in 2004 of colon cancer, survived immediately by his third wife, three daughters and one son.- Ivan Maksimovic is known for Eurovision 2016: Montenegro Postcard (2016) and Montevision Contest 2018 (2018).
- Jack Kelly started acting at age two, modeling in soap ads and garnering a lifetime supply of soap for his pay. He continued to model until the age of nine when he appeared in his first play with Hope Emerson called "Swing Your Lady". Broadway shows and radio followed until his family moved to California in 1938. He attended St. John's Military Academy and spent two years as a law student at UCLA. For three years, he dropped acting to concentrate on school and making money. He worked as a shoe salesman, gas station attendant, lifeguard, grocery delivery boy, and men's clothing salesman. In 1945, Kelly was inducted into the army taking basic training at Camp Roberts in California. He was sent to Alaska as a weather observer and was on the first B-29 to fly over the Arctic Circle. After his discharge in 1946, Kelly returned to UCLA and worked nights on such radio programs as "Lux Radio theater", "Suspense", "Tell It Again", and "Romance of the Ranchos".
Upon leaving school he joined the Circle Theater in Los Angeles appearing in "Time of Your Life", "The Adding Machine", and "Love On The Dole". In 1949, he acted in "Anna Lucasta" at the coronet Theater. This performance brought Kelly to the attention of several Hollywood directors. He then made his film debut in "Fighting Man Of The Plains", starring Randolph Scott. In 1955, Kelly was signed by Warner Bros. to star as Dr. Parris Mitchell in the "King's Row" series of "Warner Bros. Presents". The show debuted in September 1955. Kelly was best known as Bart Maverick on Maverick (1957). His hobbies included ship models, reading historical literature, sculpting, and listening to show tunes records. He also enjoyed sailing, badminton, skin diving, golf, horseback riding and flying. - Jane Dudley was born on 6 January 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She was married to Guilford Dudley and Robert Dwayne Johnson. She died on 7 November 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Janet Reno was born on 21 July 1938 in Miami, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for The Simpsons (1989), Frontline (1983) and Mugshots (2000). She died on 7 November 2016 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Janette Sherman was born on 10 July 1930 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was married to Donald Nevinger, Howard Sherman in and John Bigelow . She died on 7 November 2019 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
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Joseph William Frazier, nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. He was known for his strength, durability, formidable punching power, and relentless pressure fighting style and was the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali. Frazier reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973 and as an amateur won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.- Joe Maross was born on 7 February 1923 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), The Time Tunnel (1966) and Dallas (1978). He was married to Lucille Rita Everin and Carol Kelly. He died on 7 November 2009 in Glendale, California, USA.
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Julie Gregg was born on 24 January 1937 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Saga (1977) and Man of La Mancha (1972). She died on 7 November 2016 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Music Artist
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Leonard Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a music artist and composer, known for Watchmen (2009), Night Magic (1985) and Natural Born Killers (1994). He died on 7 November 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Loren Hightower was born on 2 December 1927 in Belton, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Producers' Showcase (1954), Omnibus (1952) and Carmen (1952). He died on 7 November 2017 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.
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Nik Powell was born on 4 November 1950 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and executive, known for The Crying Game (1992), Brimstone (2016) and Living (2022). He was married to Sandie Shaw and Merrill Tomassi. He died on 7 November 2019 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.- Norman Erlich was born on 7 March 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Catch the Heat (1987), Policía corrupto (1996) and Las Muñecas Que Hacen ¡PUM! (1979). He died on 6 November 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Orlando Corradi was born on 18 February 1940 in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and producer, known for Sissi: The Young Empress (2015). He died on 7 November 2018 in Milan, Italy.- Actress
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Pat Hutchins was born on 18 June 1942 in Catterick Camp, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Titch (1997), Jackanory (1965) and Rosie & Jim (1990). She was married to Laurence Hutchins. She died on 8 November 2017 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.- Composer
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Paul Buckmaster was born on 13 June 1946 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Scream 2 (1997) and The World's Fastest Indian (2005). He died on 7 November 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Born in San Francisco, Paul Mantee started "pretending" when he was very young, playing at being people like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney. He toiled anonymously in the Hollywood vineyards for several years; it was this initial lack of success that worked in his favor when "an unfamiliar face" was sought for Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). Most famous for his role in this 1964 sci-fi adventure, Mantee has in more recent years begun writing magazine articles and novels.
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Margaret "Peg" Phillips was a retired accountant when she began taking acting classes at age 65. In 1990 she was cast in the role of Ruth-Anne Miller, the shop keeper in the series Northern Exposure (1990). The role was supposed to be only intermittent, but Peg's portrayal won the hearts of viewers, and Ruth-Anne became a regular role. In addition to Northern Exposure (1990), Peg appeared with Shirley MacLaine in Waiting for the Light (1990) and TV movies How the West Was Fun (1994) and Chase (1985), and guest appearances in 7th Heaven (1996), Touched by an Angel (1994), and ER (1994), and a number of commercials. Born in Everett, Washington, Peg overcame polio, peritonitis, a ruptured aorta, and, at age 81, a broken hip and wrist from being hit by a car. A smoker since age 13, Peg Phillips died of lung disease in a suburban Seattle care center. She was 84.- Actor
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Pentti Glan was born on 8 July 1946 in Finland. He was an actor, known for Foolproof (2003), The Rose (1979) and Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (1975). He died on 7 November 2017 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.- Remo Bodei was born on 3 August 1938 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. He was a writer, known for L'ultima salita - La Via Crucis di Bernardino Simoni a Cervero (2009), Singing Praise to Sun and Weapons and Con cuore puro (2012). He died on 7 November 2019 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
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Composer, conductor and arranger, educated at Juilliard. He taught at the Little Red Schoolhouse for six years, and conducted and arranged for Harry Belafonte, later founding the Robert De Cormier Singers, and making many records. He joined ASCAP in 1958, and arranged for the Broadway musicals "110 In the Shade" and "The Happiest Girl In the World". His popular-song compositions include "Walking Together Children".- Director
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Robert Freeman was born on 5 December 1936 in the UK. He was a director, known for The Touchables (1968), A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965). He was married to Sonny Spielhagen and Tiddy Rowan. He died on 7 November 2019 in England.- Mexican character actor Rodolfo Acosta (born Rodolfo Acosta Pérez) achieved his greatest success in the US, primarily as a villain in westerns. He was born in Chamizal, a section of land disputed by Mexico and Texas due to changes in the Rio Grande river which forms the border. At the time of Acosta's birth, the area was generally accepted by both Mexican and Texas governments as U.S. territory, and Acosta was born an American citizen, despite the fact that his birthplace is now in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. He served in the U.S. Navy in naval intelligence during World War II and married Jeanine Cohen, a woman he met in Casablanca during the North African campaign. They had four children. She filed for divorce when she found out Acosta was having an affair and sharing an apartment in Mexico City with actress Ann Sheridan in the 1950s.) They divorced in 1957. Rodolfo Acosta married again on September 18, 1971 to Vera Martinez and they had one child. She divorced him in 1974 a few weeks before his death at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. After the war, Acosta worked in Mexico in films of the great director Emilio Fernández, which led to a bit in John Ford's film The Fugitive (1947). He came to the US and was signed by Universal for a small role in One Way Street (1950). He stayed in the US and his sharp, ruthless features led him to a long succession of roles as bandits, Indian warriors and outlaws. In The Tijuana Story (1957), he actually had a sympathetic leading role, but in general he spent his career as a very familiar western bad guy.
- Roy Halladay was born on 14 May 1977 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was married to Brandy Gates. He died on 7 November 2017 in Gulf of Mexico near Holiday, Florida, USA.
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He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture.
McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, to mother Julian (Crawford) and father William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot. His first lead role was in the low-budget sci-fi film The Blob (1958), quickly followed by roles in The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) and Never So Few (1959). The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The Magnificent Seven (1960) and effectively hijacked the lead from the bigger star by ensuring he was nearly always doing something in every shot he and Brynner were in together, such as adjusting his hat or gun belt. He next scored with audiences with two interesting performances, first in the World War II drama Hell Is for Heroes (1962) and then in The War Lover (1962). Riding a wave of popularity, McQueen delivered another crowd pleaser as Hilts, the Cooler King, in the knockout World War II P.O.W. film The Great Escape (1963), featuring his famous leap over the barbed wire on a motorcycle while being pursued by Nazi troops (in fact, however, the stunt was actually performed by his good friend, stunt rider Bud Ekins).
McQueen next appeared in several films of mixed quality, including Soldier in the Rain (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) and Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965). However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movie fans filling theaters again to see the ice-cool McQueen they loved. He was back in another Western, Nevada Smith (1966), again with Malden, and then he gave what many consider to be his finest dramatic performance as loner US Navy sailor Jake Holman in the superb The Sand Pebbles (1966). McQueen was genuine hot property and next appeared with Faye Dunaway in the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), next in what many consider his signature role, that of a maverick, taciturn detective in the mega-hit Bullitt (1968), renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen's Ford Mustang GT and the killer's black Dodge Charger.
Interestingly, McQueen's next role was a total departure from the action genre, as he played Southerner Boon Hogganbeck in the family-oriented The Reivers (1969), based on the popular William Faulkner novel. Not surprisingly, the film didn't go over particularly well with audiences, even though it was an entertaining and well made production, and McQueen showed an interesting comedic side of his acting talents. He returned to more familiar territory, with the race film Le Mans (1971), a rather self-indulgent exercise, and its slow plot line contributed to its rather poor performance in theaters. It was not until many years later that it became something of a cult film, primarily because of the footage of Porsche 917s roaring around race tracks in France. McQueen then teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah to star in the modern Western Junior Bonner (1972), about a family of rodeo riders, and again with Peckinpah as bank robber Doc McCoy in the violent The Getaway (1972). Both did good business at the box office. McQueen's next role was a refreshing surprise and Papillon (1973), based on the Henri Charrière novel of the same name, was well received by fans and critics alike. He played a convict on a French penal colony in South America who persists in trying to escape from his captors and feels their wrath when his attempts fail.
The 1970s is a decade remembered for a slew of "disaster" movies and McQueen starred in arguably the biggest of the time, The Towering Inferno (1974). He shared equal top billing with Paul Newman and an impressive line-up of co-stars including Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn and Faye Dunaway. McQueen does not appear until roughly halfway into the film as San Francisco fire chief Mike O'Halloran, battling to extinguish an inferno in a 138-story skyscraper. The film was a monster hit and set the benchmark for other disaster movies that followed. However, it was McQueen's last film role for several years. After a four-year hiatus he surprised fans, and was almost unrecognizable under long hair and a beard, as a rabble-rousing early environmentalist in An Enemy of the People (1978), based on the Henrik Ibsen play.
McQueen's last two film performances were in the unusual Western Tom Horn (1980), then he portrayed real-life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa' Thorson (Ralph Thorson) in The Hunter (1980). In 1978, McQueen developed a persistent cough that would not go away. He quit smoking cigarettes and underwent antibiotic treatments without improvement. Shortness of breath grew more pronounced and on December 22, 1979, after he completed work on 'The Hunter', a biopsy revealed pleural mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure for which there is no known cure. The asbestos was thought to have been in the protective suits worn in his race car driving days, but in fact the auto racing suits McQueen wore were made of Nomex, a DuPont fire-resistant aramid fiber that contains no asbestos. McQueen later gave a medical interview in which he believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship while in the US Marines.
By February 1980, there was evidence of widespread metastasis. While he tried to keep the condition a secret, the National Enquirer disclosed that he had "terminal cancer" on March 11, 1980. In July, McQueen traveled to Rosarito Beach, Mexico for an unconventional treatment after American doctors told him they could do nothing to prolong his life. Controversy arose over McQueen's Mexican trip, because McQueen sought a non-traditional cancer treatment called the Gerson Therapy that used coffee enemas, frequent washing with shampoos, daily injections of fluid containing live cells from cows and sheep, massage and laetrile, a supposedly "natural" anti-cancer drug available in Mexico, but not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. McQueen paid for these unconventional medical treatments by himself in cash payments which was said to have cost an upwards of $40,000 per month during his three-month stay in Mexico. McQueen was treated by William Donald Kelley, whose only medical license had been (until revoked in 1976) for orthodontics.
McQueen returned to the United States in early October 1980. Despite metastasis of the cancer through McQueen's body, Kelley publicly announced that McQueen would be completely cured and return to normal life. McQueen's condition soon worsened and "huge" tumors developed in his abdomen. In late October, McQueen flew to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to have an abdominal tumor on his liver (weighing around five pounds) removed, despite warnings from his American doctors that the tumor was inoperable and his heart could not withstand the surgery. McQueen checked into a Juarez clinic under the alias "Sam Shepard" where the local Mexican doctors and staff at the small, low-income clinic were unaware of his actual identity.
Steve McQueen passed away on November 7, 1980, at age 50 after the cancer surgery which was said to be successful. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. He married three times and had a lifelong love of motor racing, once remarking, "Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.".- Actor
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A prolific character actor with steely-eyes and distinctively stern features, Marlo could be counted upon to portray tough cookies and villains with consummate ease. Among a bevy of supporting roles and bit parts in 60s and 70s films and TV were occasional leads in second features, such as in Irvin Kershner's thriller The Young Captives (1959) in which he played a homicidal maniac holding an eloping couple hostage. Among numerous appearances on the small screen he could be seen as Native Americans in Death Valley Days (1952), insidious Special Investigations Department officials in Land of the Giants (1968) and as a dapper, straw boater-wearing henchman in the A Piece of the Action (1968). About his career Marlo said in a 2014 interview "I wasn't a big star, but I worked. I made a living at it. It was up and down." An outspoken champion of equal rights and social justice, Marlo's celluloid reputation as a heel certainly did not extend into his personal life.
Steven Marlo was born Morris Miller in San Francisco. After serving in the Army Air Corps he attended acting school in L.A. on the G.I. Bill but dropped out and moved to New York, temporarily making ends meet as a cab driver and dish washer while auditioning for acting jobs. In 1951, he got his first break on Broadway in the comedy play "The Royal Family". Two years later he was in the cast of "Picnic" alongside a young stage newcomer named Paul Newman. As regular theatrical work became more and more difficult to come by, Marlo relocated to Hollywood, successfully auditioned for the role of a bodybuilder in the low budget crime drama Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) and subsequently adopted his new stage moniker. Around this time he completed drama studies at the Actor's Studio under Lee Strasberg. Until his retirement in 1990 he amassed some 79 acting credits on screen, having played anything from gangsters to police officers, from medics to a deformed hunchback in Terror in the Wax Museum (1973).- Actor
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Tod Andrews was born on 9 November 1914 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Heaven Can Wait (1943) and From Hell It Came (1957). He was married to Karolyn Rainwater, Valerie Veigel, Alice Kirby Hooker, Gloria Eleanor Folland and Isabelle Eilenberger (Christopher Curtis). He died on 7 November 1972 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Actor
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Tom Clancy was born on 29 October 1923 in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Swashbuckler (1976), The House of God (1984) and The DuPont Show of the Month (1957). He died on 7 November 1990 in County Waterford, Ireland.- Tom of Finland was born on 8 May 1920 in Finland. He is known for No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021), Independent Lens (1999) and Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1991). He died on 7 November 1991 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Rambunctious British leading man (contrary to popular belief, he was of Scottish ancestry, not Irish) and later character actor primarily in American films, Victor McLaglen was a vital presence in a number of great motion pictures, especially those of director John Ford. McLaglen (pronounced Muh-clog-len, not Mack-loff-len) was the son of the Right Reverend Andrew McLaglen, a Protestant clergyman who was at one time Bishop of Claremont in South Africa. The young McLaglen, eldest of eight brothers, attempted to serve in the Boer War by joining the Life Guards, though his father secured his release. The adventuresome young man traveled to Canada where he did farm labor and then directed his pugnacious nature into professional prizefighting. He toured in circuses, vaudeville shows, and Wild West shows, often as a fighter challenging all comers. His tours took him to the US, Australia (where he joined in the gold rush) and South Africa. In 1909 he was the first fighter to box newly-crowned heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, whom he fought in a six-round exhibition match in Vancouver (as an exhibition fight, it had no decision). When the First World War broke out, McLaglen joined the Irish Fusiliers and soldiered in the Middle East, eventually serving as Provost Marshal (head of Military Police) for the city of Baghdad. After the war he attempted to resume a boxing career, but was given a substantial acting role in The Call of the Road (1920) and was well received. He became a popular leading man in British silent films, and within a few years was offered the lead in an American film, The Beloved Brute (1924). He quickly became a most popular star of dramas as well as action films, playing tough or suave with equal ease. With the coming of sound, his ability to be persuasively debonair diminished by reason of his native speech patterns, but his popularity increased, particularly when cast by Ford as the tragic Gypo Nolan in The Informer (1935), for which McLaglen won the Best Actor Oscar. He continued to play heroes, villains and simple-minded thugs into the 1940s, when Ford gave his career a new impetus with a number of lovably roguish Irish parts in such films as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and The Quiet Man (1952). The latter film won McLaglen another Oscar nomination, the first time a Best Actor winner had been nominated subsequently in the Supporting category. McLaglen formed a semi-militaristic riding and polo club, the Light Horse Brigade, and a similarly arrayed precision motorcycle team, the Victor McLaglen Motorcycle Corps, both of which led to conclusions that he had fascist sympathies and was forming his own private army. McLaglen denied espousing the far right-wing sentiments that were often attributed to him. He continued to act in films into his 70s and died, from congestive heart failure, not long after appearing in a film directed by his son, Andrew V. McLaglen.- Wendell Eugene was born in 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He died on 7 November 2017 in Louisiana, USA.
- Yamil Jaled Hernandez was born on 10 November 1976 in Havana, Cuba. He was an actor, known for Sartre, Years of Passion (2006), El Rostro de la Venganza (2012) and Fearless Heart (2012). He died on 6 November 2018 in Miami, Florida, USA.Yamil Jaled