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Baldassare Galuppi was born on 18 October 1706 in Burano, Republic of Venice [now Veneto, Italy]. Baldassare is known for Valmont (1989), Camera Three (1955) and L'Olimpiade (2008). Baldassare died on 3 January 1785 in Venice, Republic of Venice [now Veneto, Italy].- Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos DE Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangerous (Dangerous Liaisons) (1782). A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis DE Sade or Restif DE La Bretonne. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangerous. It is one of the masterpieces of novelist literature of the 18th century, which explores the amorous intrigues of the aristocracy. It has inspired many critical and analytic commentaries, plays and films.
- Heinrich von Kleist was born on the 18th of October, 1777 in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany) as the son of a priest. His father died when Heinrich was 11 so he had to earn some money early. He managed to go to the High School until 15, but was forced then to join the Prussian army in their war in the west. He climbed up the ranks until he was lieutenant, but quit then in 1799 and studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and political sciences in the town where he was born. After stays at Weimar (where Kleist met Wieland, Goethe and Schiller, other famous writers of his time), he finally entered the Prussian state as a secretary. His writings were no success at all, political life was not satisfying, and his girlfriend was ill, going to die- after all, he decided to go with her. They both met their death together, using a gun on the 21st of November, 1811 (Kleist was, as you can see, only 34). It is rather difficult to describe Kleist's role in German literature. He wrote immortal pieces of literature, such as "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg". But especially this stage play, for which he is best known, was often used as a nationalist piece of propaganda. Kleist does not belong to any literary epoch at all, but stays between the Romantik, the Klassik and the upcoming Realismus. Often underrated, Kleist was a walker between the lines. Seen in this context, his death is nothing but consequent.
- Helen Hunt Jackson was born on 18 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer, known for Ramona (1916), Ramona (1946) and Ramona (1936). She was married to William Sharpless Jackson and Capt. Edward Bissell Hunt. She died on 12 August 1885 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
- King Frederick III of Prussia was born on 18 October 1831 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg, Germany]. He was married to Princess Royal Victoria. He died on 15 June 1888 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg], Germany.
- Máximo Gómez was born on 18 October 1836 in Bani, Dominican Republic. He died on 17 June 1905 in Havana, Cuba.
- Johannes Linnankoski was born on 18 October 1869 in Askola, Finland. He was a writer, known for Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919), The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1938) and The Milkmaid (1953). He was married to Ester Peltonen. He died on 10 August 1913 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Rocco Galdieri was born on 18 October 1877 in Naples, Campania, Italy. Rocco was a writer, known for Aniello a fede (1923) and Fatalità (1947). Rocco died on 16 February 1923 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Amleto Novelli was born on 18 October 1881 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Quo Vadis? (1913), Julius Caesar (1914) and Malombra (1917). He died on 16 April 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Eugen Nilsson was born on 18 October 1885. He was an actor, known for Löjen och tårar (1924), Samhällets dom (1912) and Dan, tant och lilla fröken Söderlund (1924). He died on 5 September 1924 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Paul Vermoyal was born on 18 October 1888 in Braye-en-Laonnois, Aisne, France. He was an actor, known for The Secret Spring (1923), Mathias Sandorf (1921) and Le costaud des Épinettes (1923). He died on 28 September 1925 in Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
- Ingeborg Rasmussen was born on 18 October 1868. She was an actress, known for Guldgossen (1912), The Nun (1911) and Den hvide Slavehandels sidste Offer (1911). She died on 4 October 1926.
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Hugh B. Evans Jr. was born on 18 October 1897 in Indianola, Iowa, USA. He was a producer, known for The Stranger (1920) and The Sagebrush Trail (1922). He was married to Ruth Allen. He died on 18 February 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his wife, who was an actress in Pathé films. In 1902 he became a concessionary for Pathé in Barcelona, distributing its product in Spanish-speaking countries and managing a factory for the coloring of Pathé films. He began shooting footage of Spanish locations for the company, then in 1905 moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist. The body of work he created over five years was outstanding. Films such as The Red Spectre (1907), Kiri-Kis (1907), The Invisible Thief (1909) and A Panicky Picnic (1909) are among the most imaginative and technically accomplished of their age.
De Chomón created fantastical narratives embellished with ingenious effects, gorgeous color, innovative hand-drawn and puppet animation, tricks of the eye that surprise and delight, and startling turns of surreal imagination. It is curious why he is not generally known as one of the early cinema masters, except among the cognoscenti in the field. Perhaps it is because there is a smaller body of work than that created by Georges Méliès (his works can perhaps be described as a cross between that of Méliès and another who combined trickery with animation, Émile Cohl); perhaps it's because he was a Spaniard working in France for the key part of his film career that has meant that neither side has championed him as much as they might have done. De Chomón carried on as a filmmaker, specializing in trick effects, working for Pathé, Itala and others, and contributing effects work to two of the most notable films of the silent era, Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914) and Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927).- Dutch Bauman was born on 18 October 1896 in Clifton, New Jersey, USA. He died on 19 August 1930 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA.
- Ernst Didring was born on 18 October 1868 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Två konungar (1925). He died on 13 October 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Olga Jensen was born on 18 October 1890 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Elskovsbarnet (1916), Det store Mørke (1917) and Dydsdragonen (1927). She died on 5 September 1932.
- Helen Carlyle was born on 18 October 1892 in Hollywood, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Hard Cider (1914), The Home Breakers (1915) and Gussle's Wayward Path (1915). She was married to Hampton Del Ruth. She died on 30 June 1933 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Norman 'Chubby' Chaney was born on 18 October 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Love Business (1931), Shivering Shakespeare (1930) and Pups Is Pups (1930). He died on 29 May 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Wadsworth Camp was born on 18 October 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Last Warning (1928), The House of Fear (1939) and Love Without Question (1920). He was married to Madeleine Barnett. He died on 30 October 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Martin Rázus was born on 18 October 1888 in Liptószentmiklós, Austria-Hungary [now Liptovský Mikulás, Slovakia]. Martin was a writer, known for Krcmarsky kral (1972) and Júlia (1990). Martin died on 8 August 1937 in Brezno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].
- Helen Reimensnyder Martin was born on 18 October 1868 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Erstwhile Susan (1919), The Snob (1924) and The Parasite (1925). She died on 29 June 1939 in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA.
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Carlo Bentsen was born on 18 October 1893 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was a cinematographer, known for Week-end (1935), Med fuld musik (1933) and 7-9-13 (1934). He died on 5 April 1940.- Jozef-Gregor Tajovsky was born on 18 October 1874 in Tajó, Austria-Hungary [now Tajov, Slovakia]. Jozef-Gregor was a writer, known for Dnes vecer hrám ja (1993), Zenský zákon (1967) and Statky zmatky (1973). Jozef-Gregor died on 20 May 1940 in Bratislava, Slovenský stát [now Slovakia].
- Russian-born Jewish advocate, author, and Zionist leader. Jabotinsky began a career as a journalist, but following the Russian pogroms began to devote himself to the cause of a Jewish homeland. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army during World War I, and led the struggle between the wars to gain acceptance of a Jewish right to the lands of Palestine. He also struggled unsuccessfully to arrange the exodus of the entire Jewish population of Poland in 1936, in view of his belief that annihilation awaited Jews there. He wrote numerous books, including a novel about Samson which served as the source for the Cecil B. DeMille movie Samson and Delilah (1949). Jabotinsky, who had changed his first name from Vladimir to Ze'ev in 1903, died of a heart attack in New York City in 1940. Although initially refused burial in Palestine and, later, the state of Israel, his body was reinterred in Jerusalem in 1964.
- Henri Bergson was born on 18 October 1859 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Film socialisme (2010), Snow (2020) and Origins of the 21st Century (2000). He was married to Louise Neuburger. He died on 3 January 1941 in Paris, France.
- Manuel Tamés was born on 18 October 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Cruz Diablo (1934), Hand to Hand (1932) and Tricks of Life (1934). He was married to Antonia Herrera Calleja. He died on 20 March 1941 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Jules Cowles was born on 18 October 1877 in Farmington, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Scarlet Letter (1926), The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923) and One Hysterical Night (1929). He died on 22 May 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Florence Wood was born on 18 October 1868 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Incomparable Mistress Bellairs (1914), The Law Divine (1920) and A Gentleman of Paris (1931). She was married to Ralph Lumley. She died on 30 May 1943 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Yuri Nikolaevich Tynyanov was born on October 18, 1894, in Rezhitsa, Vitebsk province, Russian Empire (now Rezekne, Latvia). His father, named Nikolai Tynyanov, was a Medical Doctor. From 1904-1912 Tynyanov studied at Pskov Classical Gymnasium, where his younger school-mate was Veniamin Kaverin. In 1916 Tynyanov married Kaverin's sister, Elena Silber. From 1912-1918 Tynyanov studied at St. Peterburg University, then carried post-graduate research on Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolay Gogol. From 1921-1931 Tynyanov was professor of Russian literature at the Institute of History of Arts. He also was among leading literary critics in Russia.
In 1922 Tynyanov took patronage over the literary group Serapionovy Bratya (The Serapion Brothers). The group was initiated by Yevgeni Zamyatin who professed that "true literature can be created only by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics" at his literary seminars with aspiring writers. They took their name from the story of E.T.A.Hoffmann titled 'Serapion Brothers', about artistic freedom. The group included Mikhail Zoschenko, Lev Lunts, Viktor Shklovskiy, Nikolai Tikhonov, Mikhail Slonimsky, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Veniamin Kaverin.They also attended seminars of Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy. They lived in the famous artistic community known as 'Dom Iskusstv' (House of Arts) in a former aristocratic palace on the Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg. The writers of the group were non-conformists and were in opposition to the official Soviet literature. Their leader Yevgeni Zamyatin fearlessly criticized Soviet policy of "Red Terror" and intimidation of intellectuals under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.
Tynyanov's best known work is 'Poruchik Kizhe' (Lieutenant Kije). It is a satire on Russian-Soviet bureaucracy, set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A non-existent Lieutenant Kije is created by a bureaucratic error and maintains existence as a file, while a real Lieutenant Sinyukhaev was "killed" in the file, and the Emperor had signed it. Kije is treated with attention in the file, though nobody ever saw him. Kije has a love affair; is sent to Siberia and brought back; marries and has children; makes a career and receives land and possessions; retires as a decorated General and receives a State Funeral when he "dies" - all in the file. All by the Emperor's command. Tynyanov collaborated with directors Grigoriy Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg in their film adaptation of 'Shinel' (The Overcoat) by Nikolay Gogol, and on the original production of 'C.V.D.'. Tynyanov also wrote important critical works on Alexander Pushkin and other Russian writers. He died on December 20, 1943, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. - H.N. Clugston was born on 18 October 1881 in Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for In the Palace of the King (1923). He died on 5 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Edward Locke was born on 18 October 1869 in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Climax (1930), The Case of Becky (1915) and The Case of Becky (1921). He was married to Martha Edna Christian. He died on 1 April 1945 in East Islip, New York, USA.- Anna Dodge was born on 18 October 1867 in River Falls, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The White Medicine Man (1911), The Kentucky Derby (1922) and The Rosary (1915). She was married to George Hernandez and Thomas Campbell Dodge. She died on 4 May 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mihail Sebastian was born on 18 October 1907 in Braila, Romania. He was a writer, known for Mona, l'étoile sans nom (1966), Al patrulea stol (1979) and Afacerea Protar (1956). He died on 29 May 1945 in Bucharest, Romania.
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Elroy G. Cline was born on 18 October 1894 in Iowa, USA. He died on 7 June 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Albert C. Winn was born on 18 October 1874 in City of London, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for 40,000 Horsemen (1940). He died on 30 July 1945 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Harry Claremont was born on 18 October 1895 in Albany, New York, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Esther J. Stillson. He died on 28 September 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Frank Ryan was born on 18 October 1907 in Urbana, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Can't Help Singing (1944), Patrick the Great (1944) and Call Out the Marines (1942). He died on 1 January 1948 in Otterville, Missouri, USA.- Josefina Romagnoli was born on 18 October 1920 in San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Al son de la marimba (1941), El recuerdo de aquella noche (1945) and El capitán Centellas (1941). She died on 24 June 1951 in Huachinango, Puebla, Mexico.
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Author and screenwriter, often preoccupied with American history as viewed from a Southern perspective. Born in Atlanta, Trotti studied writing at Columbia University and was also the first person to graduate from the University of Georgia's Henry Grady School of Journalism. In 1923, he became the youngest editor employed by a newspaper owned by the Hearst Press, The Georgian. From 1925, Trotti worked in New York for the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, moving on to Hollywood in 1932. He spent virtually his entire career at 20th Century Fox as writer/producer: from 1933 until his untimely death in 1952. He wrote screenplays for a wide range of genres, including war films, westerns, comedies and biopics. The majority of these were critical and box office hits.
Recurring motifs in Trotti's work are life in a romanticised Deep South (Steamboat Round the Bend (1935), Can This Be Dixie? (1936)), the Civil War (Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Belle Starr (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)), pioneering history (Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Brigham Young (1940), Hudson's Bay (1940)) and rustic, small town Americana (Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)). Invariably, his screenplays have benefited from a profound knowledge of American history and politics and his keen eye for characterisation.
His peers in the industry regarded Trotti as a man of considerable integrity. He was generally described as of quiet, self-effacing nature, possessed of strong moral convictions. His contributions were recognised thirty-one years after his death with a prestigious Screen Laurel Award from the Writer's Guild of America.- Actress
Rosa Palmese was born on 18 October 1870. She was an actress. She died on 21 March 1953 in Altadena, California, USA.- Composer
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Grzegorz Fitelberg was born on 18 October 1879 in Dvinsk, Russian Empire [now Daugavpils, Latvia]. He was a composer, known for Janko Muzykant (1930) and Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986). He died on 10 June 1953 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.- Countess De Chambrun was born on 18 October 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Countess was a writer, known for Playing with Souls (1925). Countess was married to Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun. Countess died on 31 May 1954 in Paris, France.
- Clemente Biondetti was born on 18 October 1898 in Budduso', Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. He died on 24 February 1955 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Clifford Thompson was born on 18 October 1904 in Rugby, North Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder in the Private Car (1934) and The Flame of Hellgate (1920). He died on 15 October 1955 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Jerome Hester was born on 18 October 1897 in Illinois, USA. He is known for Words and Music (1948). He died on 20 December 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gorman Hendricks started off as a well respected and award-winning reporter for the Washington "Times," married, the father of five and the owner of a home and property in neighboring Arlington, Va.; he wound up as a homeless, drunken derelict living in New York City on the Bowery, cadging nickels and dimes from the sympathetic and the clueless for a drink. While working on the film, Hendricks held off drinking until filming ended; the resulting bender killed him. He is buried in the Rosedale and Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, section 70, grave 807.
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Bert E. Friedlob was born on 18 October 1906 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. Bert E. was a producer, known for The Steel Trap (1952), While the City Sleeps (1956) and The Star (1952). Bert E. was married to Eleanor Parker, Jeanette Loff and Harriet Beatrice Annenberg. Bert E. died on 7 October 1956 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
Carl Ferdinand Fischer was born on 18 October 1889. He was a cinematographer, known for Værelse Nr. 17 (1916), Die Rose der Wildnis (1918) and Bytte Roller (1914). He died on 16 December 1957.- Bob Reel McKee was born on 18 October 1901 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Happy Days (1929) and Framed! (1931). He died on 30 May 1958 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.