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Actor William Grannel was born on March 30, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. He's perhaps best known as Cheri Caffaro's likable and easygoing private investigator superior Jason Varone in the notoriously scuzzy early 70's "Ginger" exploitation movies. Grannel had a small role as a meek henpecked husband in the alarmingly awful micro-budget horror atrocity "Carnival of Blood." William also pops up in the soft-core features "The Love Object" and "Women Women Women Moira." He acted in the Off-Broadway plays "Pets" and "Good Woman of Setzuan." Grannel worked as an understudy for the 1969 Broadway stage production of "Fire!" and was featured as a cast member in a late 60's Broadway stage production of the comedy play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern." William Grannel died on January 23, 1986 in San Francisco, California.

Willard Van Dyke was born on 5 December 1906 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Skyscraper (1959), Omnibus (1952) and To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947). He was married to Barbara Millikin. He died on 23 January 1986 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.

Ann Andrews was born on 13 October 1890 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Girl by the Roadside (1917) and The Cheat (1931). She died on 23 January 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.

Beuys took part in the Second World War as a fighter pilot. During a mission in 1943 he crashed over the Crimea. During his sick bed, Beuys was treated with tallow and wrapped in felt. This experience was decisive for him and his later art materials, because alongside wax and copper, fat and felt were among his preferred materials from which he formed works of art. Between 1946 and 1955 he joined the Kleven Artists' Association. From 1947, Joseph Beuys studied painting and sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He was a student of Josef Enseling and later a master student of Ewald Mataré. In 1953 he had his first solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings in Wuppertal and Kranenburg. Beuys suffered from depression due to his war experiences. That's why he stayed in Kranenburg for a long time in 1957. In 1961 he was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He taught there until 1972. In 1964 he took part in the Kassel art exhibition documenta for the first time. From then on he exhibited there regularly.

In 1965 his first exhibition was organized in Alfred Schmeler's gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1967, Beuys founded the "German Student Party" on the occasion of the unrest surrounding the Shah's visit to Germany and the murder of the student Benno Ohnesorg. Beuys wanted to advocate for universities to operate autonomously and for a fairer admissions process. In 1970 he founded the "Organization of Non-Voters, Free Referendum". In the same year an exhibition took place in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. In addition to drawings and pictures, the so-called "Beuys Block", multi-part room installations, were also shown there. In 1971 Beuys founded the "Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendums". In a spectacular action that same year, Beuys and his students occupied the secretariat of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He also allowed students who had previously been rejected by the academy to take part in his lessons.

The following year he took part in documenta 5. There he exhibited an office of his "Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendum" and was present there every day of the hundred days of the exhibition. Once again, Beuys filled the academy secretariat with rejected university applicants. He received notice of termination from Johannes Rau, the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Science and Research. Public protests against the termination came from Martin Walser, Peter Handke, Heinrich Böll and Gerhard Richter, among others. In 1973 he founded the "Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research". Three years later he took part in the Venice Biennale and the Berlin Zeitgeist exhibition. In 1978, the legal dispute over Beuys' dismissal because of the occupation of the secretariat was ended. The artist had sued against the dismissal and was granted justice. The termination was unlawful. Beuys agreed to a compromise that granted him the title of professor and the rights to use the studio.

In 1978 he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A year later he received a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and he ran for the European Parliament. In 1980 he took up a visiting professorship at the Städel Art School in Frankfurt/M. true. He tried for a seat in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the Green Party. In 1984, Beuys exhibited his works at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo. His other exhibitions include the event "Cross and Sign - Religious Foundations in the Work of J.B." in 1985. and participation in "German Art in the Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985" in London. In addition to his efforts to unite nature and spirit in art, Beuys also valued the political commitment to which he used his work. The basis for the politicization of art was his idea of applying the artist's creativity to all areas of life.

In practical terms, he carried out actions such as planting 7,000 oak trees and setting up 7,000 basalt steels for dokomenta 7 (1982) in order to draw attention to the problems of environmental destruction. Beuys often used his variety of artistic forms of expression for counter-projects, which he equipped with magical-religious elements in order to demonstrate his rejection of a purpose-oriented rationalism.

Yvonne Lefébure was born on 29 June 1898 in Ermont, Val d'Oise, France. She was married to Fred Goldbeck. She died on 23 January 1986 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Hamilton Wright was born in 1901 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Fabulous Mexico (1962), Defiant Island (1963) and A Touch of Gold (1962). He died on 23 January 1986 in the USA.

Yuri Svirin was born on 29 January 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for The Lady with the Dog (1960), Tvoy sovremennik (1968) and The Living Corpse (1969). He died on 23 January 1986.

Franklin Grundeen was born on 12 February 1911 in New York, USA. He is known for Fantasia (1940). He died on 23 January 1986 in California, USA.