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Richard B. Sheridan was born on 30 October 1751 in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland [now Ireland]. He was a writer, known for Bedlam (1946), Beryl Reid (1977) and The School for Scandal (1914). He died on 7 July 1816 in London, England, UK.- John Adams was born on 30 October 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Biography (1987). He was married to Abigail Smith. He died on 4 July 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
- John Adams was born on 30 October 1735 in Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America. He died on 4 July 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
- Writer
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children of Mikhail Andreevich and Maria Dostoevsky. His father, a doctor, was a member of the Russian nobility, owned serfs and had a considerable estate near Moscow where he lived with his family. It's believed that he was murdered by his own serfs in revenge for the violence he would commit against them while in drunken rages. As a child Fyodor was traumatized when he witnessed the rape of a young female serf and suffered from epileptic seizures. He was sent to a boarding school, where he studied sciences, languages and literature. He was devastated when his favorite writer, Alexander Pushkin, was killed in a duel in St. Petersburg in 1837. That same year Dostoevsky's mother died, and he moved to St. Petersburg. There he graduated from the Military Engineering Academy, and served in the Tsar's government for a year.
Dostoevsky was active in St. Petersburg literary life; he grew out of his early influence by Nikolay Gogol, translated "Eugenia Grande" by Honoré de Balzac in 1844 and published his own first novel, "Poor Folk", in 1845, and became friends with Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai A. Nekrasov, but it ended abruptly after they criticized his writing. At that time he became indirectly involved in a revolutionary movement, for which he was arrested in 1849, convicted of treason and sentenced to death. His execution was scheduled for a freezing winter day in St. Petersburg, and at the appointed hour he was blindfolded and ordered to stand before the firing squad, waiting to be shot. The execution was called off at the last minute, however, and his sentence was commuted to a prison term and exile in Siberia, where his health declined amid increased epileptic seizures. After serving ten years in prison and exile, he regained his title in the nobility and returned to St. Petersburg with permission from the Tsar. He abandoned his formerly liberal views and became increasingly conservative and religious. That, however, didn't stop him from developing an acute gambling problem, and he accumulated massive gambling debts.
In 1862, after returning from his first major tour of Western Europe, Dostoevsky wrote that "Russia needs to be reformed, by learning the new ideas that are developing in Europe." On his next trip to Europe, in 1863, he spent all of his money on a manipulative woman, A. Suslova, went on a losing gambling spree, returned home flat broke and sank into a depression. At that time he wrote "Notes from Underground" (1864), preceding existentialism in literature. His first wife died in 1864, after six years of a childless marriage, and he adopted her son from her previous marriage. Painful experiences caused him to fall further into depression, but it was during this period that he wrote what many consider his finest work: "Crime and Punishment" (1866).
After completion of "The Gambler" (1867), the 47-year-old Dostoevsky married his loyal friend and literary secretary, 20-year-old Anna Snitkina, and they had four children. His first baby died at three months of age, causing him to sink further into depression and triggering more epileptic seizures. At that time Dostoevsky expressed his disillusionment with the Utopian ideas in his novels "The Idiot" (1868) and "The Devils" (aka "The Possessed") (1871), where the "devils" are destructive people, such as revolutionaries and terrorists. Dostoevsky was the main speaker at the opening of the monument to Alexander Pushkin in 1880, calling Pushkin a "wandering Russian, searching for universal happiness". In his final great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880), Dostoevsky revealed the components of his own split personality, depicted in four main characters; humble monk Alyosha, compulsive gambler Dmitri, rebellious intellectual Ivan, and their cynical father Fyodor Karamazov.
Dostoevsky died on February 9, 1881, of a lung hemorrhage caused by emphysema and epileptic seizures. He lived his entire life under the pall of epilepsy, much like the mythical "Sword of Damocles", and was fearless in telling the truth. His writings are an uncanny reflection on his own life - the fate of a genius in Russia.- Arnaldo Gandolini was born on 30 October 1852 in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer, known for Policarpo 'ufficiale di scrittura' (1959). He died on 10 August 1906 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
- Georg Heym was born on 30 October 1887 in Hirschberg, Silesia, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Madman (2000). He died on 16 January 1912 in Berlin, Germany.
- Francisco I. Madero was born on 30 October 1873 in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico. He died on 22 February 1913 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- Randolph McCoy was born on 30 October 1825. He was married to Sarah McCoy. He died on 28 March 1914 in Pike County, Kentucky, USA.
- Camillo Boito was born on 30 October 1836 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Times Gone By (1952), Black Angel (2002) and Senso (1954). He died on 28 June 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Lena Christ was born on 30 October 1881 in Glonn, Bavaria, Germany. She was a writer, known for Madame Bäurin (1993), Die Rumplhanni (1981) and Der Fall Lena Christ (1970). She was married to Peter Benedix and Anton Leix. She died on 30 June 1920 in Munich, Germany.
- Duiliu Zamfirescu was born on 30 October 1858. Duiliu was a writer, known for Tanase Scatiu (1976). Duiliu died on 3 June 1922.
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Emil Albes was born on 30 October 1861 in Pyrmont, Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont [now Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was a director and actor, known for Seltsame Seelen (1918), Traue nie dem blossen Schein (1916) and Trick-Track (1921). He died on 22 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany.- Sukumar Ray was born on 30 October 1887 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. Sukumar died on 10 September 1923 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
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- Composer
- Soundtrack
Sam Sihvo was born on 30 October 1892 in Nurmes, Finland. Sam was a writer and composer, known for Jääkärin morsian (1931), Hevoshuijari (1943) and Soldier's Bride (1938). Sam died on 12 April 1927 in Helsinki, Finland.- Czeslaw Knapczynski was born on 30 October 1863 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Ludzie bez jutra (1921) and Tamten (1921). He was married to Zenobia Knapczynska and Maria Kordecka. He died on 4 June 1927 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Rex Cherryman was born on 30 October 1896 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Camille (1921), In for Thirty Days (1919) and Madame Peacock (1920). He was married to Esther Lamb. He died on 10 August 1928 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France.
- Emilio Materassi was born on 30 October 1894 in Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy. He died on 9 September 1928 in Monza, Milan, Lombardia, Italy.
- Composer
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Peter Warlock was born on 30 October 1894 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Voices from a Locked Room (1995), Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993) and Peter Warlock: Some Little Joy (2005). He died on 17 December 1930 in London, England, UK.- Ada Velický was born on 30 October 1883 in Plzen, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Chytte ho! (1925), Prazský kat (1927) and On a jeho sestra (1931). He died on 24 February 1931 in Praha, Czechoslovakia.
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- Music Department
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Miguel Hernández was born on 30 October 1910 in Orihuela, Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He was a writer, known for Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001), Música, maestro (1981) and Guernica (1937). He died on 28 March 1942 in Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.- Emma Meissner was born on 30 October 1866 in Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Den glada änkan (1907), Servant's Entrance (1932) and Eva går ombord (1934). She was married to Hjalmar Meissner and Robert Berg. She died on 20 November 1942.
- Günther von Kluge was born on 30 October 1882 in Posen, Prussia, Germany [now Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was married to Mathilde Marie von Briesen. He died on 19 August 1944 in near Metz, Lorraine, France.
- Actor
- Writer
Conrad Dreher was born on 30 October 1859 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Der kleine Muck (1921), Der Mann mit dem Affenkopf (1920) and In der Sommerfrisch'n (1920). He died on 6 December 1944.- Actor
Roy Smith was born on 30 October 1889 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 12 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Paul Wiecke was born on 30 October 1862 in Elberfeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der galante König - August der Starke (1920). He died on 18 December 1944 in Blankenburg, Germany.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Composer
Jean Féline was born on 30 October 1908 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Jean was a writer and composer, known for The Quiet American (2002), A Good Year (2006) and Place de la Concorde (1939). Jean was married to Paquerette Guinoiseau. Jean died on 17 January 1945 in Paris, France.- Roland Freisler rose from small-town lawyer to chief judge, prosecutor and jury at the Nazi Ministry of Justice, where he oversaw thousands of trials of opponents--both real and imagined--of the Nazi regime. A soldier in the German army during World War I, he was captured by the Russians and interned in Russia, where he embraced Communism and joined the German Communist Party upon his release after the war. He soon saw the writing on the wall, however, and switched allegiance to the Nazi Party, becoming one of its more brilliant legal minds. A well-regarded speaker with an innate grasp of the finer points of the law and the ability to use them to the party's advantage, he rose quickly through the ranks and was eventually appointed to head the Ministry of Justice. He became notorious for his unsparing use of the death penalty. Over 90% of all trials conducted by the Ministry of Justice during his reign ended in a death sentence--more than 5000 were handed down in trials conducted by the Ministry between 1942-45, 2600 of them by Freisler himself (many of which were decided upon before the trial was even held). He usually acted as not only the judge but also the prosecutor, and was infamous for his habit of leaping up, insulting, shouting, screaming at and otherwise humiliating defendants who appeared before him, and he often pronounced the death sentence with a wave of his hand and a dismissive "Off with his head". He had many of these trials filmed--often screaming so loudly at defendants that he would cause the microphones to blow out--so there is actually footage of him "in action".
Freisler was in the courthouse in Berlin on 2/3/1945 when waves of Allied bombers struck the city. He had taken refuge in the cellar when a bomb hit the courthouse. In what can only be regarded as poetic justice, the building in which he sentenced so many thousands to die collapsed on top of him, and a huge beam crushed him to death. - Hermann Fegelein was born in Ansbach, Germany, in 1906. In his youth he worked as a stable boy for Christian Weber, one of the original members of the German Nazi party. He enlisted in the German army in 1925, staying for three years, and when his service was up he joined the Bavarian State Police and was posted to Munich. In his capacity as a policeman he came into contact with many members of the Nazi party, found the party's philosophy to his liking, and quit the state police to join the party in 1930. In 1931 he transferred to the SS. His rise through the ranks of the SS was impressive, and in 1937 he was appointed by Heinrich Himmler as head of the SS Riding School, a prestigious institution restricted only to members of German royalty and wealthy industrialists (who, not coincidentally, were major financial backers of the Nazi party). In 1943 he was briefly posted to the Russian front--where his unit was accused of massacring thousands of civilians--but, after being wounded, he was transferred back to Germany and went to work as Himmler's personal assistant. In 1944 Fegelein married Gretl Braun, the sister of Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun. It was apparently a marriage of political and career expediency for Fegelein, as Hitler had been trying to marry off Gretl for some time so as to have a legitimate reason to present Eva to visitors and have her accompany him to official functions; Gretl had a reputation for being extremely promiscuous, and it was getting more and more difficult for Hitler to find a man who would want anything to do with her (she was, in fact, pregnant with another man's child when she married Fegelein). Now that Fegelein had performed such a valuable favor for "Der Fuhrer", though, his personal stock went up with Hitler and his professional stock went up with Himmler.
However, as the war began to turn against the Nazis, Fegelein's duties as commandant of the SS horse farm, headquartered in Fischhorn Castle near Zell am See, began to include the distribution to various high Nazi officials of large amounts of gold, works of art, jewelry and other valuables looted from most of occupied Europe, along with new ID papers that would allow them to escape capture after Germany's defeat and make their way to countries outside Europe. In April of 1945 Himmler, Fegelein's boss, tried to negotiate a secret surrender to the Allies, with himself as leader of postwar Germany. The Allies would have nothing to do with Himmler or his offer, but Hitler found out what Himmler had done and ordered his arrest. Although Himmler escaped capture by the SS, Fegelein didn't; he was caught trying to escape to Sweden with large amounts of cash and forged passports and brought back under arrest to the Chancellery bunker where Hitler and the remnants of his Nazi regime were making their last stand.
It is here where accounts of Fegelein's fate differ. He was charged with desertion--punishable by death--and tried by court-martial. Some of those present in the bunker say Fegelein apparently had a mental breakdown and was unable to defend himself at the court-martial, resulting in the trial being postponed, and an outraged Hitler then had him hanged by SS executioners. Others believe he was shot in his cell after he was returned there, and there are even some who claimed he escaped and made his way out of Berlin. Most knowledgeable sources, however, agree that he was indeed executed in the bunker, although it will probably never be known exactly how or when. - Paul Valéry was born on 30 October 1871 in Cette [now Sète], Herault, France. He was a writer, known for Auf der Lesebühne der Literarischen Illustrierten (1965), L'ippogrifo (1974) and Paul Valéry (1960). He was married to Jeannie Gobillard. He died on 20 July 1945 in Paris, France.
- Carl-Ivar Ytterman was born on 30 October 1888 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for När Bengt och Anders bytte hustrur (1925), Bröderna Östermans huskors (1925) and Halta Lena och vindögde Per (1933). He died on 6 February 1947 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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- Editor
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Arthur Johns was born on 30 October 1889 in Kansas, USA. He was an editor, known for The Stranger (1946), And Then There Were None (1945) and The Dark Mirror (1946). He died on 4 September 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gertrude Atherton, a famed author during the early 1900s, was always more a novelist than a screenwriter, but, amid her fame as a novelist, she was given major opportunities during the silent era when studios began turning to literary properties to adapt for the screen. A 1932 Los Angeles Times article says that after her husband died in 1887 and was shipped back to Chile in a barrel of rum, the writer left the Atherton estate and, dismissing her dead husband as 'the second rate offspring of the Athertons,' moved to San Francisco. Eventually, she relocated to New York with a completed novel that shocked publishers and was derided by critics, but immediately made Atherton famous.
The Los Angeles Times reported that in May 1919, Rex Beach, president of the Authors League, and Samuel Goldwyn announced the formation of the Eminent Authors Pictures Corporation, an organisation that owned exclusive picture rights to works by famed authors, one of whom was Gertrude Atherton. Each signed author was given supervision over the motion pictures that were being made from their source material, although they rarely wrote the screenplays for their projects. Atherton was no exception to this rule, although she did work closely with studios during the production of films based on her novels. In a 1921 Los Angeles Times article, she called her life on the studio lot 'intensive, unique, exciting, almost unreal' and referred to herself as being 'as temperamental as a prima donna'. Although she mainly supervised the adaptations of her work, in November 1920 the Los Angeles Times reported that Atherton was working on her first original screen story titled Noblesse Oblige . In April 1921, the same paper reported that the film opened under the title Don't Neglect Your Wife. Although it is possible these are different films, they are both referred to as Atherton's first original screen story, so it is more likely that the title changed over the course of the production.
In 1933, Gertrude Atherton became part of Woman Accused, a large-scale serial project initiated by Paramount Pictures. The sound film written by ten popular authors received a mixed reaction. Critics noted that Atherton's classic touches were less recognisable than others included in the project. Providing further evidence that Atherton continued working with studios during the sound era, is a 1933 Los Angeles Times article. While original stories were never her focus in production, Atherton blurred the line between novelist and screenwriter during the silent era when she worked in two worlds of writing-inside and outside of the major studios. - Harry Lash was born on 30 October 1901 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Headin' East (1937). He died on 29 May 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Set Decorator
Gustav A. Knauer was born on 30 October 1886 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Beggar from Cologne Cathedral (1927), The Gala Performance (1932) and The Barber of Seville (1938). He died on 12 June 1950 in Berlin, Germany.- John Christian was born on 30 October 1883 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Delinquent Daughters (1944). He was married to Dorothy Vernon. He died on 29 August 1950 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish mothers, landladies, neighborhood gossips and the like, although she is best remembered for playing Mrs. Morgan, the mother of a family of Welsh miners, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her sister Maire O'Neill was an actress in Ireland, and famed Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a family friend.
Sara Allgood died of a heart attack shortly after making her last film, Sierra (1950). - Lily Molloy was born on 30 October 1895 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for The Burgomeister (1935) and The Enemy Within (1918). She died on 6 February 1951 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Harry Stoddard was born on 30 October 1892 in Frytland, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer and composer, known for Happy Days (1929), Cheaters (1934) and Party Girl (1930). He died on 7 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Forrest Sherman was born on 30 October 1896 in Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA. He died on 22 July 1951 in Naples, Italy.
- Camera and Electrical Department
John Ellis was born on 30 October 1885 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is known for The Song of the Flame (1930). He was married to Margaret Mortland Von Hermann. He died on 11 October 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA.- F.C.S. Tudor was born on 30 October 1882 in Hastings, Sussex, England, UK. F.C.S. was a director, known for The Devil's Profession (1915), Island Jess (1914) and The Cripple of Ypres (1915). F.C.S. died on 14 November 1951 in Wraysbury, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
As a young boy in England, Lawrence Grant became a great admirer of the Native American peoples. He devoured every book or article he could get his hands on relating to their culture and history. Years later Grant got the opportunity to spend some months living with several Native American tribes in Wyoming and Montana. He filmed his experiences using an early motion picture color film process called Kinemacolor. Later, after editing the thousands of feet of film he shot, Grant embarked on a lecture tour that he named "Travels with Kinemacolor".
Grant first came to America in 1908 with a repertoire company that also starred Pauline Frederick. Within a few years he was able to launch a successful 25 year career as a Hollywood character actor.
Lawrence Grant died on 19 February 1952, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 81. His health began to fail him the previous year after four performances he gave at the Santa Barbara Lobero Theater during a major heat wave. Though married four times, the only immediate family he had at the time of his death was four nieces living in England.- Friedrich Meinecke was born on 30 October 1862 in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He was married to Antonie Delhaes. He died on 6 February 1954 in Berlin, Germany.
- Horace Annesley Vachell was born on 30 October 1861 in Sydenham, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Her Son (1920), Quinneys (1919) and Quinneys (1927). He was married to Lydie Phillips. He died on 10 January 1955 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Erik Baumann was born on 30 October 1889 in Vimmerby, Kalmar län, Sweden. He was a composer and actor, known for En flicka för mej (1943), Var sin väg (1948) and Foreign Intrigue (1951). He died on 25 November 1955.- Clifford Brown was born on 30 October 1930 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was married to LaRue Anderson. He died on 26 June 1956 in Pennsylvania, USA.
- Kenneth C. Beaton was born on 30 October 1871. He was an actor and writer, known for Song of the Caballero (1930), Under Four Flags (1918) and Souls for Sale (1923). He died on 27 August 1956 in Ventura County, California, USA.
- Victor Colani was born on 30 October 1895 in Zittau, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Echte Perlen (1919), Das Haus gegenüber (1918) and Die Blitzzentrale (1921). He died on 25 November 1957 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
Charles Phillips was born on 30 October 1904 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Twonky (1953), Gobs of Trouble (1935) and Oh, My Nerves (1935). He died on 25 May 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
- Actor
Charlie Phillips was born on 30 October 1903 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor. He died on 25 May 1958 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.