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- Queen Anne was born on 6 February 1665 in London, England. She was married to Prince George of Denmark. She died on 1 August 1714 in London, England.
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Josef Kajetán Tyl was born on 6 February 1808 in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Fidlovacka (1930), Palicova dcera (1923) and Prazský flamendr (1926). He was married to Magdalena Forchheimová. He died on 11 July 1856 in Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].- Jeb Stuart was born on 6 February 1833 in Patrick County, Virginia, U SA. He died on 12 May 1864 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
- Ernst Eckstein was born on 6 February 1845 in Gießen, Germany. He was a writer, known for Themis (1920) and Der Besuch im Karzer (1961). He was married to Elisabeth Bolle. He died on 18 November 1900 in Dresden, Germany.
- John B. Gordon was born on 6 February 1832. He died on 9 January 1904 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Henry Irving was born on 6 February 1838 in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Bells (1913). He was married to Florence O'Callaghan. He died on 13 October 1905 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Paulus was born on 6 February 1845 in Bayonne, France. He died on 1 June 1908 in Saint Mande, France.
- Rosalie Ida Straus was born on 6 February 1849 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. She was married to Isidor Straus. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Isidor Straus was born on 6 February 1845 in Otterberg, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. He was married to Rosalie Ida Straus. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- McKee Rankin was born on 6 February 1844 in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. McKee was a writer, known for The Runaway Wife (1915) and The Danites (1912). McKee was married to Kitty Blanchard (actress). McKee died on 17 March 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Lion Solser was born in Rotterdam as the son of Johannes Solser and the stage actress Engelina Florina Hartlooper on February 6, 1877. He had brothers and sisters (Louis, Michiel, Jeanette Johanna and Engelina Adriana). He married Adrienne Willemsens (Schaerbeek, Belgium, March 25, 1872 - Amsterdam, March 5, 1962), was a comedian and committed suicide in Rotterdam at the age of 38 on August 3, 1915. Lion was buried in Diemen.
Lion Solser came from a lineage of part variety performers and part stage actors. His mother was also an actress, but went across the country with his father to earn more money singing verse. Solser attended drama school from 1889 to 1892. His brother Michiel died at a young age and Lion took his place in the operetta, and he worked with Piet Hesse from 1896 until his death. He formed an ensemble with Hesse, which also included Adrienne Willemsens, his wife. Lion Solser was a director and comedian, often taking on female roles. For years he played the lead role in "Do you know about Schellevis-Mie?" and with Hesse as the cross-dressing duo Wip and Snip, probably the source of inspiration for the later duo Snip and Snap by Willy Walden and Piet Muijselaar. He also performs with Hesse in the silent film "Solser en Hesse" by director M H Laddé from 1900, a film that has unfortunately been lost and in the first Dutch film, "the deranged hengelaar". Abraham's sister was the variety artist and humorist Adrienne Solser.
When Lion died, Het Nieuws van de dag voor Nederlandsch-Indies read:
"Lion Solser" Our collaborator Vosmaer writes to us on 5 August: For a very large number of Indies people it will probably not be necessary to describe the person of the best transvesti, and one of the best duetists and genre comedians our country has known, who has a nervous disorder of took us away: Lion Solser. Most of my readers, I think, must have heard and seen at least once in their lives that little, elegant couple singer, so classy in the black skirt, and yet who in an instant transformed himself into the most slender Jordanian shark bay or maddened peasant girl. And in doing so have admired his expressive, expressive, powerful and the largest halls filling voice and crisp diction into the smallest corners.
Lion was a brother of Michel Solser, creator of the, so to speak, immortal figure of 'Flipje' from Reyding's 'Revue Artistique'. And he resembled that brother in many ways, who was again the son of an excellent comedian. That may not mean much to non-Amsterdammers, but those few lines say it all for us.
Lion Solser turned 38 years old. He began very early in the career that had been prescribed for him, if only out of respect for his ancestors. At the age of about 19 - - I could say it exactly if I went to ask his long-term friend and associate Hesse, who lives in the same house as me, but I dare not disturb him on this funeral day, because he is miserable, devastated -he set foot on the variety stage as a chansonnier, humorist, character comedian.
But only for a short time did he act alone. He was very fortunate to meet Piet Hesse, a few years older than him, who was also an excellent and cultured couple singer, and from that moment on their fortunes-if one can speak of that in our country with its narrow borders-was made. For Lion Solser could be an excellent humorist - he knew absolutely nothing about saving money, managing money, and in this precisely Piet Hesse was a matador, a genius - a born businessman.
"Eighteen years ago, I saw them both perform for the first time during a Groningen fair. They were a "number" of a specialty program, but what a! Usually they first sang a genre couplet, Hesse as an old gentleman, Solser as an old lady, and as a bis number one or two couplets 'with their own head', in the skirt. Even then it was striking how spry, 'mundane' and elegant those two duets presented themselves in the skirts, how funny their old man and wife couples were - and how the two were literally perfect for each other.
Hesse soon realized that his couplets were going in. Solser made many of them himself. And so they started to print and sell those things to amateurs, who wanted to recite them in a "closed circle", but also to professional comedians. But Piet Hesse conceived bigger plans. After some years of singing together at all the fairs in the country, and here in the capital with Frits van Haarlem or in "Flora" (I believe also with Mulder in the Kalverstraat, now long gone), the two partners formed a small troupe that would perform specific Amsterdam happy games, true genre pieces. But before that, Solser would first win laurels with his one-act play "Half an hour at the office of the Moderne Tooneel", in which, following Henri de Vries, he was the first Dutchman to "introduce" the genre here. alone performed six different roles in a truly exquisite manner. With this, Solser and Hesse - and with the greatest success - traveled all over our country about 1910.
That same year they formed their troop. And with that little group they performed Amsterdam sketches, mostly written by Tony Schmitz on the instructions of Lion Solser, in a way that I do not hesitate to call unsurpassable of its kind. One would perhaps not call their actors "first-class powers" everywhere. But preceded by Solser they all, down to the very least, managed to fit themselves so perfectly into the typical Amsterdam milieu that Schmitz portrayed us, that the spectators in many a scene had to admit that reality could not be more real.
Successively, from 1911 onwards, Solser and Hesse regaled us with: "Have you seen the child yet?" (Grandthéatre), "Are you also coming to the Wedding of Mietje T' (ditto), "The legacy of uncle Janus" (Hollandsche Schouwburg), "Have you heard of Schellevis Mie ?" (Panoptic).
With all those Amsterdam Sketches, in which Solser invariably played a female role, usually a splendor of a Jordanian, the partners have earned a lot of money, and no one begrudges them that, because they worked very hard to get the interplay as Solser did. especially absolutely wanted.
In this respect -and also as a 'piece' -- 'Mietje's wedding' suited me best personally. The 'pertij', the wedding guests, the furniture in the Jordanian house, the puppet show, where more benevolent amateurs than talented amateurs among the guests played their lectures - everything was so beautiful, 'real', so cut and copied from life, and so lifelike portrayed by all the actors, even if they had the smallest part to play, as I have seen it, frankly speaking, but very seldom on other, even the best, scenes.
And of the preparation of these performances the greatest credit goes to Lion Solser, who, in addition to being an excellent transvestite, was a sensitive and strict director, who personally took care of the smallest, apparently insignificant details.
Or that astonishing need for labor that being overwhelmingly busy has wrecked him?
Lately the already hot-blooded Solser has been very "troublesome." His friends had to keep a close eye on him after he once, for some futile reason, suddenly, in the middle of his part, began to lash out at the audience, something a man like Solser would never have done under normal circumstances. That was during a performance by Schellevis Mie, now about six months ago. Then things quickly, anxiously, quickly diminished with him. He started to rant for no reason, became quarrelsome, which also did not fit with his nature, took a month off to 'rest completely', seemed completely healed, suddenly collapsed again, until his inexorable nervous illness struck him down with one last blow.
Today Lion Solser is buried, under an interest that is hard to imagine. He leaves behind a wife and daughter - and an audience that will remember his idiosyncratic art for a long time to come. - Producer
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J.L. Frothingham was born on 6 February 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. J.L. was a producer, known for The Breaking Point (1921), Shattered Idols (1922) and The Ten Dollar Raise (1921). J.L. was married to Marcia Manon and Ethel Waterbury. J.L. died on 31 October 1925 in San Diego, California, USA.- Director
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Duc de Montpensier was born on 6 February 1869 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Jaripeo y fiestas en Jalapa (1910). He was married to Maria Dorothea of Austria. He died on 28 March 1926 in Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy.- Stjepan Bojnicic was born on 6 February 1884 in Agram, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Zagreb, Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Gricka vjestica (1920), Brcko u Zagrebu (1917) and Jeftina kosta (1917). He died on 27 February 1927 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
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Robert Misch was born on 6 February 1860 in Zarczyn, Bromberg, Posen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Das Geheimnis der Wera Baranska (1919), Wenn Du eine Tante hast (1925) and Die tugendhafte Tänzerin (1922). He was married to Margarete Kastner. He died on 27 November 1929 in Berlin, Germany.- William 'Cap' Anderson Hatfield was born on 6 February 1864 in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Smith. He died on 21 August 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Frank Nash was born on 6 February 1887 in Birdseye, Indiana, USA. He died on 17 June 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Rene Boucicault was born on 6 February 1898 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for His Picture in the Papers (1916). She was married to Howard Marks and Clarel Sellye. She died on 3 July 1935 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Christian Bummerstaedt was born on 6 February 1887 in Scharmbeck, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wallenstein, 2. Teil - Wallensteins Tod (1925), Wallenstein, 1. Teil - Wallensteins Macht (1925) and Slums of Berlin (1925). He died on 28 July 1935 in Berlin, Germany.
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J. Gordon Cooper was born on 6 February 1894 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an assistant director and director, known for Sin Town (1929), The Evil Eye (1920) and Broadway Gold (1923). He died on 27 June 1939 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Marie Pilská was born on 6 February 1899 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. She was an actress, known for Rozkosný príbeh (1937), Vyderac (1937) and Mravnost nade vse (1937). She died on 28 February 1940 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Henry Otho was born on 6 February 1888 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Clipped Wings (1937), It Happened Out West (1937) and Blazing Sixes (1937). He died on 6 June 1940 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
- Elias Disney was born on 6 February 1859 in Bluevale, Ontario, Canada. He was married to Flora Disney. He died on 13 September 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Gyöngyi Zádor was born on 6 February 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Életre ítéltek! (1941) and Egér a palotában (1943). She died on 14 November 1941 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Eva Stettiner was born on 6 February 1914 in Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany. She died on 26 March 1942 in Riga-Jungfernhof, Außenlager Ghetto Riga.
- Louis "Lepke" Buchalter--the nickname Lepke means "Little Louis" in Yiddish)--was one of the top Jewish-American gangsters of the Depression Era and the only major mob boss to ever have been executed by authorities for his crimes. He was born February 6, 1897, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His introduction to crime was pushcart shoplifting, and he had already served two prison terms by 1919. He and his friend Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro strong-armed their way to control of the unions representing garment workers on the Lower East Side, enabling him to shake down factory owners by threatening to hit them with strikes. Control of the unions also guaranteed income and capital by diverting union dues and bank accounts. From their base in the garment industry, Buchalter branched out into shaking down other area businesses with his protection racket. Though he was later to enjoy greater power and income from his ventures after becoming a major mob boss, he kept control over the garment industry unions as they were so highly lucrative.
In the early 1930s Buchalter and Italian-American gangsters Lucky Luciano and Johnny Torrio--the former boss of the Chicago mob and mentor of transplanted New Yorker Al Capone--allied themselves. Luciano's Jewish-American associates Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky formed "Murder Inc.", a group of professional killers who would be on call 24/7 to handle any "problems" that afflicted La Cosa Nostra. Murder Inc. originally was a group of mostly Jewish-American "torpedos" from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Opeating out of the back of a candy store, they proved highly effective in maintaining mob discipline and eliminating problems such as eyewitnesses, informants and "customers" unable or unwilling to pay loan sharks. The band of brothers-in-arms eventually were used to fulfill most murder "contracts." As Siegel and Lansky (the latter widely regarded as the financial brains of organized crime in America) had moved on to other, larger pastures, control over Murder Inc. was ceded to Buchalter and Albert Anastasia (known in underworld circles as "The Mad Hatter" and, more ominously, "The Lord High Executioner".)
The group of killers was credited with carrying out many contract killings throughout the country, including the slaying of Jewish-American bootlegger and northern New York State crime boss Dutch Schultz at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey, on October 23, 1935. The Schultz murder was a major event for Buchalter and Murder Inc., signaling their arrival as a major force in organized crime (another Jewish mobster, Louis Amberg, was murdered by the group the very same day). Among Jewish-American gangsters, Buchalter arguably was the most violent and the most feared. He reportedly killed as many as 100 men himself, and may have ordered 1000 or more hits, nationwide, from his underlings, which included 'Abe Kid Twist Reles' (played by Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (1960), which brought him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod) and Frank Carbo, who later established himself as "The Czar of Boxing" (the Mafia, via Anastasia, Carbo and Carbo's partner Blinky Palermo, took over the sport of boxing and manipulated the odds and fixed the fights to abet their bookmaking operations. Carbo ran New York boxing, which WAS boxing until the 1960s, when he and Palermo were convicted and sentenced to prison). The FBI--whose director J. Edgar Hoover denied the very existence of the Mafia until 1957, possibly due to their blackmailing him because of his alleged homosexual proclivities--investigated Buchalter during the early 1930s, but he managed to avoid arrest due to the bribing of federal judges and the Mafia's political connections (until the Richard Nixon administration, the Mafia was associated with the Democratic Party. Gore Vidal, in one of his essays, estimated that organized crime provided approximately 15% of the Democratic Party's budget in the 1960s. In mobbed-up cities like Chicago, a Democratic Party ward headquarters was synonymous with local Mafia headquarters/clubhouse). The FBI continued to hound Little Louis, anxious to convict him on a narcotics trafficking charge, while New York City special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey went after him as one of many targets of the "Syndicate" he was dedicated to obliterating. Fearing the implacable Dewey (who would use his fame as the country's most successful crimebuster, the man who put away Lucky Luciano and other organized crime bigwigs, to the state house in Albany and two bids for President as the Republican nominee in 1944 and '48), Buchalter was tricked by a childhood friend into surrendering to federal authorities on a narcotics trafficking charge on the stipulation he would not get turned over to Dewey. Convicted, he was sent to Leavenworth for 14 years, later extended to 30 because of Lepke's involvement in union racketeering.
After being arrested for murder, "Kid Twist" Reles turned informant for New York state authorities in 1940 and fingered Buchalter for four murders, including that of Brooklyn candy store owner Joseph Rosen, a former garment industry trucker, in 1936. Reles, himself a professional killer who was seeking to avoid the electric chair for his own crimes, said he overheard the order for the Rosen hit given by Buchalter himself. New York City District Attorney William O'Dwyer, who planned to run for mayor, arraigned Buchalter and other of his Murder Inc. associates on the basis of Kid Twist's testimony to the grand jury.
The trial of the Murder Inc. boss was scheduled for November 12, 1941, and Lepke was transported from Leavenworth to New York City to stand trial for the Rosen murder. However, on the morning of the trial, Reles--who was being by guarded by six New York City police officers in Room 623 of the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island--"fell" from the sixth-floor window to his death. The detectives said it was a suicide, but the angle of trajectory of his body indicated that he had been pushed or thrown out of the window. Albert Anastassia, the "Lord High Executioner" himself, had allegedly put a $100,000 bounty on the Kid's head, though it was widely believed that Mafia boss Frank Costello "touched" the detectives guarding the Kid, bribing them to ensure that Reles would never get to the courtroom to testify. What is known is that Kid Twist, the would-be "stool pigeon", became known after his death as "The canary who sang, but couldn't fly."
Lepke had run out of luck, however. O'Dwyer obtained a conviction based on the testimony of another Murder, Inc. turncoat, Albert Tannenbaum. In December 1941 the jury convicted Buchalter of first-degree murder four hours after being handed the case for their perusal and judgment. Buchalter was sentenced to death by electrocution in the electric chair. In October 1942, the conviction and sentence was upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals, and New York City requested that Buchalter be turned over by the federal government for execution of sentence.
Lepke put up the greatest fight of his life to avoid his fate, calling in favors from the Mafia's friends in the U.S. Justice Department and the court system and managed to remain at Leavenworth until January 1944, when he was turned over to New York. His execution was slated to take place on March 2, but it was postponed when the state's highest court of appeal decided on one final review. Gov. Dewey was forced to grant his former nemesis Buchalter, along with fellow defendants Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone, a 48-hour reprieve. Ultimately, the court confirmed the conviction and sentence. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, one of the most powerful figures in organized crime history, was executed at the state penitentiary in Ossining (the fabled Sing Sing) in the electric chair affectionately dubbed "Old Sparky" on March 4, 1944. He 47 years old.
After Lepke's conviction Albert Anastassia was the sole boss of Murder, Inc., but with the incarceration and deportation of Lucky Luciano he moved up in the Mafia ranks, eventually taking over the Mangano Family (later known as the Gambino Family), after the family don, Anastassia's nemesis Vincent Mangano, disappeared. With Frank Costello's support, he was elevated to boss of the Magano Family after The Mad Hatter successfully claimed he had hit Mangano in self-defense, as the don was determined to kill him. Costello wanted Anastassia as a don in order to counter the ambitions of Vito Genovese, the real-life model for Don Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
As a boss, Anastassia's brutal ways eventually worked against him. In 1952 he violated a cardinal rule of the mob--don't kill outsiders. Anastasia ordered the murder of one Arnold Schuster, a young tailor's assistant, after seeing Schuster on television taking credit for fingering fugitive bank robber Willie Sutton (the man who said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is"). In a rage, Anastasia ordered Schuster to be killed, telling his men, "I can't stand squealers! Hit that guy!"
The murder of an outsider opened up the Mafia to unwanted public scrutiny. Genovese used the incident to begin undermining Anastassia, but it wasn't until Anastasia's own ambitions alienated Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky (the inspiration for "Hyman Roth" in The Godfather Part II (1974)) that Genovese could act. When Anastasia horned in on Lansky's highly lucrative Cuban gambling operations, Lansky gave Genovese permission to eliminate the interloper, which Genovese arranged as part of his greater plan to undermine Frank Costello's role as "Prime Minister of the Mob" and establish himself as "Capo di tutti capi" ("Boss of Bosses").
On the morning of October 25, 1957, Anastasia was assassinated in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel (now the Park Central Hotel, on 56th Street and 7th Avenue) in New York City by two men wearing scarves. Anastasia's bodyguard was not on the scene, having decided to go for a walk after parking the boss's car in an underground garage. The Anastasia hit was carried out with an efficiency of which the Lord High Executioner's former Murder, Inc. partner, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, surely would have approved. - Franja Sotosek was born on 6 February 1881 in Agram, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Dvije sirotice (1919), Matija Gubec (1919) and Dvorovi u samoci (1925). He died on 10 February 1945 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
- Rudolf Värnlund was born on 6 February 1900 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Stål (1940), Ubåt 39 (1952) and Modern och stjärnan (1974). He died on 16 February 1945 in Österskär, Åkersberga, Österåker, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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Eva Braun was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a photographer, and she took many of the surviving color photographs and films of Hitler. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944.
As Nazi Germany was collapsing towards the end of the war, Eva Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. As Red Army troops fought their way into the neighborhood on 29 April 1945, she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide, and he by a gunshot to the head. The German public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after their deaths.- Russell Gleason was born on 6 February 1907 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Fury Below (1936) and A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936). He was married to Cynthia Lindsay. He died on 26 December 1945 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Nándor Liszt was born on 6 February 1899 in Tetétlen, Hungary. Nándor was a writer, known for I've Never Stolen in My Life (1939). Nándor died on 7 February 1946 in Vöcklabruck, Austria.
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Maurice Cammage was born on 6 February 1906 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was a director and producer, known for Bouquets from Nicholas (1938), Une femme qui se partage (1937) and L'Ordonnance malgré lui (1932). He died on 12 April 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.- Writer
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Francisque Poulbot was born on 6 February 1879 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was a writer and director, known for Montmartre's Kids (1916), The Kiddies in the Ruins (1918) and Dorville chauffeur (1930). He died on 16 September 1946 in Montmartre, Paris XVIII, Paris, France.- Vinegar Roan was born on 6 February 1895 in Pontotoc Mason County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Painted Stallion (1937) and Gunsmoke Ranch (1937). He was married to Cressy Jane Shelton and Mattie Harris. He died on 8 December 1946 in Sedona, Arizona, USA.
- Rezsö Inke was born on 6 February 1888 in Brassó (Brasov) Romania. He was an actor, known for A Vörös kérdöjel (1919), Izrael (1919) and A Megfagyott gyermek (1921). He died on 9 December 1946 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Dennis Reddy was born on 6 February 1947 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sand Castle (1961). He died on 19 February 1947 in California, USA.
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Lucile Gleason was born on 6 February 1888 in Pasadena, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Clock (1945), I Like It That Way (1934) and Should Husbands Work? (1939). She was married to James Gleason. She died on 18 May 1947 in Brentwood, California, USA.- Actor
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Charlie Joy was born on 6 February 1876 in Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Whispering Palms (1923), When Dr. Quackell Did Hide (1920) and Adam and Eve (1921). He died on 7 August 1947 in Virginia, USA.- Vasiliy Zaychikov was born on 6 February 1888 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Girl No. 217 (1945), Spring (1947) and Adventures in Bokhara (1943). He died on 18 August 1947 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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Most of Babe Ruth's records have been broken. In 1961, not only did Roger Maris break The Babe's 34-year-old record for most home runs in a season with 61* (2001), but Maris' teammate on the '61 Yankees, pitcher Whitey Ford broke the Babe's 43-year-old record for most scoreless innings pitched in a World Series when the Yankees dispatched the Reds that year in the postseason. (When asked how it felt to have beat the Babe's "other" record, Whitey responded, "It was a bad year for the Babe".)
Though Barry Bonds now holds the record for most home runs in a season (73), most home runs in a career (762), highest slugging percentage, most intentional walks, etc., The Babe still must be considered the greatest player who ever graced the game. In addition to his record 12 home run titles, his 13 slugging titles, his six R.B.I. titles, and his solo batting title (.378 in 1924; The Babe placed in the top five hitters in terms of batting average eight times, including a career high of .393 in 1923, when Harry Heilmann hit .403), The Babe won 18, 23 and 24 games as a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in 1915, 1916 and 1917, and won the American League E.R.A. title in '16. He set his first home run title in 1918, another year the Sox won the World Series, as a part-time position player and part-time pitcher, notching up 11 homers and nine wins. George Herman Ruth likely will remain the sole player in major league baseball history to win batting, home run, R.B.I., slugging *and* E.R.A. titles, plus eat a dozen hot dogs and drink the better part of a keg of bootleg "needle" beer before suiting up for a game.
From 1914 to 1919, The Babe played for the Boston Red Sox, with whom he appeared on three World's Championship teams. Sold to the New York Yankees by Red Sox owner and theatrical impresario Harry Frazee, he led the-then no pennant American League franchise in Gotham to seven A.L. pennants and four World Series titles from 1920-1934. He played out his string with the Boston Braves in 1935; even a washed-up Babe was still able to pole three circuit clouts in one game before calling it quits after 28 games and six in that last season. The following year, he was one of the inaugural inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Yes, the Babe was mighty, and he did prevail more often than naught except over one opponent: Father Time.
The Babe ended his 22 years in the Big Leagues with 2,873 hits good for a career batting average of .342, 714 home runs, 2,217 R.B.I.s, and 2,174 runs scored in 2,503 games. (From his debut in 1914 through the 1918 season, when he was making his transition to becoming a full time position player, Ruth only appeared in 261 ball games as he was considered the top left-handed pitcher in the American League.) In the record books, Ty Cobb scored more runs and Hank Aaron hit more homers and racked up more R.B.I.s (Interestingly, Hammerin' Hank and The Babe ended their careers with the exact same number of runs scored.), but they played in far more games than the The Babe, with 3,035 and 3,298 games, respectively. Among modern players, Rickey Henderson, who surpassed Cobb's record for runs after 25 years in The Show, played in 3,081 games, and Barry Bonds appeared in almost 3,000 games.
No player ever had the impact, both on and off the field, as did the charismatic Babe. When he died of cancer in 1948, the New York Times headline read, "Babe Ruth/Idol of Millions of Boys/Dead".- John Webb Dillion was born on 6 February 1877 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood (1913), The Darling of Paris (1917) and Romeo and Juliet (1916). He was married to Catherine V. Earl (stage/film actress). He died on 20 December 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Samuel Van Ronkel was born on 6 February 1877 in Arkansas, USA. Samuel was a producer, known for Uncle Bim's Gifts (1923), All Wet (1927) and Aggravatin' Mama (1923). Samuel died on 29 November 1951 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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Peter Creswell was born on 6 February 1895 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Showtime (1946), Who Killed Van Loon? (1948) and Bell-Bottom George (1944). He died on 5 January 1952 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Silvio D'Arzo was born on 6 February 1920 in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Anatomy of Love (1954). He died on 30 January 1952 in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Vadim Uraneff was born on 6 February 1895 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Sea Beast (1926), The Flame of the Yukon (1926) and The Blonde Saint (1926). He died on 5 April 1952 in Duarte, California, USA.
- He was the first Tarzan. A former Arkansas peace officer, Elmo Linkenhelt worked in D.W. Griffith's "The Battle of Elderbush Gulch" (1912). In a fight scene his shirt was partially torn off, displaying his powerful chest. Griffith noticed, called him over, and told him "That's quite a chest you have there". Griffith changed the name to Elmo Lincoln and featured him in several of his films. He got the role in "Tarzan of the Apes" when, a few days after production began, World War I broke out an the man originally contracted to play Tarzan (Stellan Windrow), a Naval Reserve officer, was recalled to active duty. The film was a box office smash, one of the first to earn over a million dollars. It's sequel, "Romance of Tarzan" just broke even. He did three successful serials and a feature for Universal Film Manufacturing before returning in "The Adventures of Tarzan" in 1921, his last Apeman performance. His final silent performance was in a cheap Rayart serial "King of the Jungle" (1927) after which he moved to Mexico and invested in mining. He came back to play a number of bit parts and appeared briefly in the Seal Brothers Circus as "The Original Tarzan in Person". In 1949 he had a part as a fisherman in "Tarzan's Magic Fountain". Just before his death he had a bit part in "Carrie" which starred one of his heroes, Lawrence Olivier.
- Wilhelm August Schmidtbonn was born on 6 February 1876 in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Souls on the Road (1921) and The Wanderer (1925). He was married to Liese Treuer. He died on 3 July 1952 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Sound Department
Arnold Poulsen was born on 6 February 1889 in Væggerløse, Denmark. He is known for Talende film (1925), Talende film (1928) and Talende film (1923). He died on 6 November 1952 in Denmark.- Actor
- Additional Crew
John Roche was born on 6 February 1893 in Penn Yan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Unholy Night (1929), A Lost Lady (1924) and The Awful Truth (1929). He died on 10 November 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- René Stern was born on 6 February 1890 in Bordeaux, France. He was an actor, known for Liliom (1934), I Accuse (1938) and Michel Strogoff (1936). He died on 27 November 1952 in Paris, France.