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- Dionisio Aguado was born on 8 April 1784 in Spain. Dionisio died on 29 December 1849 in Spain.
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Alfred Bunn was born on 8 April 1796 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Chaplin (1992), The Bohemian Girl (1922) and The Shadows (2011). He was married to Margaret Agnes Somerville. He died on 2 December 1860 in Boulogne, France.- Christian IX was born on 8 April 1818 in Schloß Gottorp, Schleswig, Germany. He was married to Louise Queen of Denmark. He died on 29 January 1906 in Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Enrique Rosas was born on 8 April 1875 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. He was a director and producer, known for The Grey Automobile (1919), La soñadora (1917) and La tigresa (1917). He was married to Guadalupe Priego Durán. He died on 9 August 1920 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Renato Fucini was born on 8 April 1843 in Monterotondo Marittimo, Grosseto, Grand Duchy of Tuscany [now Tuscany, Italy]. Renato was a writer, known for Times Gone By (1952). Renato died on 25 February 1921 in Empoli, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Andrew Irvine was born on 8 April 1902 in Birkenhead, England, UK. He died on 8 June 1924 in North Col, Mount Everest, Tibet.
- Charles Lee was born on 8 April 1870 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Absentee (1915), The Sable Lorcha (1915) and Hoodoo Ann (1916). He died on 14 March 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Franz Ludwig was born on 8 April 1876 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Bismarck 1862-1898 (1927), Bismarck (1914) and Bismarck, 1. Teil (1925). He died on 16 November 1927 in Bad Neuenahr, Germany.
- Frank Lockhart was born on 8 April 1903 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He died on 25 April 1928 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
- American actor who entered pictures when ill health forced him to reduce his active stage career. He was raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where his father was a department chairman at Williams College. His mother was the well-known classical composer Mary Turner Salter. He spent many years in vaudeville and stock, and made his Broadway debut in 1912. During a 1926 tour in which he played one of the leading roles in "What Price Glory?" Salter was stricken with influenza and forced to leave the show. His health did not allow him to return to the stage as actively as before, but he did manage a play in Australia, before returning to America and making a few pictures, primarily Westerns. But his health had declined drastically since the 1926 influenza bout. He died at 42 from complications of influenza.
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Frank was considered a "furniture actor" on stage. While on stage he was so often drunk that he had to lean on or hold onto furniture to keep from falling down. Known through the country for his stage work, he was ranked as one of the foremost stage artists prior to moving to Hollywood. Keenan's first wife of forty-four years, was watching him perform on stage when she suffered a stroke and died a few minutes later.- Actor
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S.E. Jennings was born on 8 April 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bat Whispers (1930), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and The Sea Hawk (1924). He was married to Neola Fuerst and Dorothy. He died on 3 February 1932.- Tôroku Makino was born on 8 April 1910 in Kyoto, Japan. He was an actor, known for Sunae shibari: Shûhen (1927), Pinkoro chôji (1931) and Shigekazû yaaî (1929). He died on 7 June 1932.
- Józef Weyssenhoff was born on 8 April 1860 in Kolano, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kolano, Lubelskie, Poland]. Józef was a writer, known for Puszcza (1932) and Soból i panna (1984). Józef died on 6 July 1932 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- King Albert I was born on 8 April 1875 in Brussels, Belgium. He was married to Koningin Elisabeth. He died on 17 February 1934 in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium.
- Luigi Hofman was born on 8 April 1879 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy (1925), Horské volání S.O.S. (1929) and Stíny (1922). He died on 23 June 1934 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Anna Müller-Lincke was born on 8 April 1868 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and producer, known for Traue nie dem blossen Schein (1916), Marriage in Name Only (1930) and Love Must Be Understood (1933). She was married to Paul Lincke. She died on 24 January 1935 in Berlin, Germany.- Oscar Textorius was born on 8 April 1864 in Kristianstad, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Farornas paradis (1931), Hennes lilla majestät (1925) and Ett skepp kommer lastat (1932). He died on 20 March 1938 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden.
- After finishing school, he studied natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna. He was a student of Carl Stumpf and Franz Brentano, among others. Husserl wrote his doctoral thesis on the calculus of variations. He then became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Halle. During this time he turned to the psychological foundations of mathematics. In "Philosophy of Arithmetic" (1891) he argued that the validity of mathematical truths is independent of the way in which people arrived at them. In the "Logical Investigations" (1900/01) Husserl rejected his philosophy of arithmetic as psychologism. Now he held that the task of the philosopher was to consider the nature of things. Husserl shows that consciousness is always directed towards something.
He calls this directedness intentionality and claims that consciousness contains ideal, unchanging structures and meanings that determine what the mind is directed toward at any given time. During his tenure at the University of Göttingen between 1901 and 1916, Husserl's philosophy attracted numerous students; a separate phenomenological school emerged. His probably most influential work, Ideas for a pure phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, appeared in 1913 as the opening article in the first volume of the "Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" that he edited. In it he introduced the concept of phenomenological reduction for his method of reflecting on the meanings that the mind attaches to a thing when it looks at it. This method refers to meanings that are present in the mind regardless of whether the thing present to consciousness actually exists. The question of the real existence of the thing under consideration is of no interest here.
This was followed by detailed analyzes of the mental structures involved in the perception of particular types of objects. For example, Husserl gave a detailed description of his perception of the apple tree in his garden. This is how phenomenology proceeds descriptively, even if it does not assume the existence of things. According to Husserl, it is not the development of theories that is the concern of phenomenology, but rather the description of things themselves. "To the things themselves!" was his call to the philosophy of his time. In his late writings, such as the 1936 work "The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" (complete edition by W. Biemel 1954), Husserl's theme is the "lifeworld" in its predetermined self-evidence.
Here, Husserl describes the connection of science to world life as the therapeutic task of phenomenology.
One of Husserl's students was Martin Heidegger, who, following his teacher, advocated an existential phenomenology and whose existential philosophy itself marked a similar new beginning in philosophy as his teacher's phenomenology. Husserl's and Heidegger's philosophies had an equal impact on Jean-Paul Sartre and French existentialism. - Actor
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Jack Osterman was born on 8 April 1902 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Wolves (1930), The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) and Umpa (1933). He was married to Mary Daly. He died on 8 June 1939 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
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Kaarlo Angerkoski was born on 8 April 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ja alla oli tulinen järvi (1937), VMV 6 (1936) and Rykmentin murheenkryyni (1938). He was married to Siiri Angerkoski. He died on 1 October 1939 in Kotka, Finland.- Producer
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Charles Goodwin Norton worked as a cabinet-maker but his left hand was partially paralysed in an accident, and he opened a stationers shop at St Pancras, London. He later recalled how he purchased a lantern and slides at a book sale, gave several private shows before buying a bi-unial and launching into public performances, while retaining his stationers business. He became well-known for his spectacular lantern entertainments - eventually with a triple lantern and featuring dissolving views - introducing films into his programme during the latter half of 1896. He then acquired a Velograph camera and produced quite a number of films through to the end of the century, some or all of which were processed by G.A. Smith of Hove; titles such as Street Panorama, Promenade and Circus. Other subjects included variations of the familiar Waves and The Gardener and the Hose, featuring Norton himself as the gardener, and his son Charles Douglas Norton as the mischievous boy. Norton also took the lead in The Postman and the Nursemaid; the maid being played by his daughter, Alice. More original were Shop, an advertising film in which a boy sticks a bill on the Norton's shop window announcing 'Animated Photographs C. Goodwin Norton', and Good Night, a scene outside the shop at closing time. As well as producing films he continued as an exhibitor. He adapted an early projector to take a reel containing about twenty short films, and gave shows for the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III (10 September 1896), the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace (8 January 1897) and at Cowes, Isle of Wight (3 January 1899), and King Edward VII and family on 14 December 1901. He may also have been a projectionist for Harrods department store at this period. Thanks to a donation by his daughter Alice to the National Film Archive, many of the films from Norton's shows, both his own productions and others, have survived, and those featuring the activities of children have a rare charm and distinctive 'home movie' style.- Albert Taylor was born on 8 April 1868 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for College Scandal (1935). He died on 9 April 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The name may have been forgotten, especially today (seven decades later), but the portly, apoplectic, exasperated figure on the 1930s screen wasn't. While his film career, save a couple of silents, lasted a paltry seven years (1932-1939), character actor Walter Connolly certainly ran the distance. While some film historians complain that a number of his performances were annoying or overbaked, he was for the most part applauded for his zesty contributions to a number of comedy classics. Frank Capra's Lady for a Day (1933), Broadway Bill (1934) and It Happened One Night (1934), not to mention the Carole Lombard/Fredric March screwball farce Nothing Sacred (1937) as news reporter March's hot-headed editor boss are sure-fire examples.
The Cincinnati, Ohio native was born on April 8, 1887 and schooled there. The son of the head of the Western Union relay office, he attended St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin in Ireland before making his New York debut in 1910 in an outdoor presentation of "As You Like It". For the next year or so he was a member of E.H. Sothern's touring company and played supporting roles in a number of Shakespearean shows on the road. After a few silent pictures left him unimpressed with film-making, he turned to the Broadway stage in the 1920s and scored quite well. Somewhat short and tubby, it was not difficult for the jowly, mustachioed actor to seize laughs and he found his share in such outings as "The Talking Parrot" (1923), "Applesauce" (1925), "The Springboard" (1927), "The Happy Husband" (1928), "Stepping Out" (1929), "Your Uncle Dudley" (1930), "Anatol" (1931), "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1931), "The Good Fairy" (1932) and "The Late Christopher Bean" (1932).
With his talents as a stage farceur firmly established, it was time to make a second attempt at a film career and Hollywood (specifically, Columbia) wisely opened their doors to him. Interestingly, his debut in a full-length talking picture came at age 45 in the form of a drama, Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932), where he was third-billed as a rather benign senator. For the next seven years Connolly, often playing older than he really was, could be found everywhere giving good fluster to the greatest and glossiest of stars -- Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Paul Muni, Spencer Tracy, and Ginger Rogers, among hordes of others.
Every now and then he was asked to hold up a film, as with his leading roles in the drama Whom the Gods Destroy (1934), the Hecht/MacArthur comedy/drama Soak the Rich (1936), and the whodunnits Father Brown, Detective (1934) (as the title priest/gumshoe) and The League of Frightened Men (1937) (as supersleuth Nero Wolfe). Connolly's archetypal fuming was on full display in the comedies She Couldn't Take It (1935) with George Raft and Joan Bennett and Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) with Ginger Rogers. His last role was as the great composer himself in the highly fictional The Great Victor Herbert (1939), although it wasn't the leading role.
Connolly married actress Nedda Harrigan in 1920. The two appeared together in the Broadway comedies "Treat 'Em Rough" (1926) and "Merry Andrew" (1929). They had one daughter, actress Ann Connolly (1924-2006), who also appeared on stage and played the grownup Wendy in the 'Mary Martin' /Cyril Ritchard Broadway production of "Peter Pan" in 1954. Ironically, Connolly, whose obesity was probably a contributing factor to his fatal stroke suffered on May 28, 1940, received his final divorce decree on the day he died. He was only 53.- Music Department
Frank S. Truda was born on 8 April 1871 in Massachusetts, USA. Frank S. died on 7 March 1941 in Massachusetts, USA.- Actor
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Handsome smart gentleman William Worthington born in Troy, New York in 1872. Well-known Broadway star of opera theatre, drama theatre and vaudeville from the late 1890's. He arrived in Hollywood in 1913 as a leading film performer making his movie debut in The Restless Spirit (1913) co-starring J. Warren Kerrigan and Jessalyn Van Trump at the Victor Film Co. His most memorable roles as Damon in Damon and Pythias (1914), as General George Washington in The Spy (1914), and as Eleanor's father in the comedy Kid Boots (1926) starring Eddie Cantor for the Famous Players-Lasky Film Co in 1926. Between 1917-1925 he concentrated on film directing and was head of a short-lived film production company called Multicolor which was bought by Cinecolor in 1932. He essayed scores of minor roles in many talkies often playing professional men, active in films up until his death in 1941.- Arthur Helmore was born on 8 April 1858 in Pimlico, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Kipps (1921) and The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1920). He died on 14 June 1941 in Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, UK.
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James May was born on 8 April 1857 in Dundee, Scotland, UK. He was an actor. He died on 23 August 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Pennsylvania-born Victor Schertzinger trained as a violinist and toured internationally, then became a symphonic conductor. His first film credit was for composing the orchestral accompaniment for Civilization (1915). He directed Charles Ray films, among others, during the silent era. He went back to composing when talkies came in, with many credits throughout the '30s, ending with The Fleet's In (1942), which appeared posthumously after his sudden death in 1941. This superb score included four hit songs, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. He also directed films during this era, including the sumptuous British production of The Mikado (1939) in Technicolor, which stands the test of time to this day. He also had close directorial relationships with James Cagney, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. He was unusually well-liked, and known for getting along with everyone.- Writer
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Walter Supper was born on 8 April 1887 in Hamm, Germany. He was a writer and production manager, known for Krach um Jolanthe (1934), Der Zigeunerbaron (1962) and The Gypsy Baron (1935). He died on 3 March 1943 in Berlin, Germany.- Ivar From was born on 8 April 1892 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Et Expres-Giftermaal (1917), Kvindehjerter (1912) and Tre indvendige Jomfruer (1914). He died on 5 April 1943.
- Josette Clotis was born on 8 April 1910 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. She died on 12 November 1944 in Tulle, Corrèze, France.
- Peggy O'Neill was born Barbara Jeanne O'Neill in San Francisco, California. When she was eighteen she won a beauty contest and moved to Hollywood. She met producer Charles Rogers who helped her get a screen test. Peggy was given a starring role in the 1944 comedy Song Of The Open Road. Columnist Louella Parsons called her "Hollywood's newest Cinderella". During the Summer of 1944 Peggy went in a bond selling tour of Texas with Adele Mera and Gale Storm. She had small parts in the movies It's A Pleasure and The Hoodlum Saint.
Peggy impulsively married Lloyd Miner, an Army officer, on January 16 1945. They separated shortly after the wedding and Peggy moved in with her mother. In the Spring of 1945 Peggy was offered a long term contract with Paramount. She started a serious romance with screenwriter Albert Mannheimer. On April 12, 1945 Peggy had an argument with Albert. That evening she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was only twenty-one years old. Peggy was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles. - Edith Erastoff was born on 8 April 1887 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919) and A Man There Was (1917). She was married to Victor Sjöström and Georg Erastoff. She died on 17 April 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Emil Frey was born on 8 April 1889 in Baden, Aargau, Switzerland. He died on 20 May 1946 in Zürich, Switzerland.
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Tom W. Bailey was born on 8 April 1901 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. Tom W. is known for The All-Star Bond Rally (1945). Tom W. died on 14 August 1946 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("Drifting and Dreaming"), author, cellist and publisher, educated in local public schools and in private music study. He was a cellist in the Toledo (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra and also in bands, then organized and directed several string ensembles and vocal quartets, and later became a publisher. Joining ASCAP in 1925, his other popular-song compositions include "Bo-Peep", "Heartaches and Dreams", "Just One More Chance", "Roses or Remembrance", "Arcady", "In Springtime", "Mary Jane", "Rose o' the Morn", and "What Is Love?".- Alfred Allen was born on 8 April 1866 in Alfred, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for An Old Fashioned Boy (1920), The Price of a Good Time (1917) and Burning Daylight (1920). He died on 18 June 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Arthur B. Allen was born on 8 April 1881 in Gowanda, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Our Town (1940) and Rangers of Fortune (1940). He died on 25 August 1947 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Lili Fehér was born on 8 April 1899 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Rotschild leánya (1934), Mámi (1937) and Vica, a vadevezös (1933). She was married to Sándor Peti. She died on 9 January 1948 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Portly, genial Will Dohm was born in the city of Cologne, the son of a postal worker. He survived the cataclysm of World War I as a lieutenant in the infantry and was fortunate to find employment in the economically depressed early Weimar Republic as a teller in a credit union. At the same time, he took acting lessons under Georg Kiesau, the chief director of the Cologne Schauspielhaus. In 1921, Dohm made his theatrical debut and then went on tour with provincial repertory companies until making a more or less permanent home in Munich. For the remaining decade, he honed his acting skills in classical plays. Dohm's film career began in 1927 with a part as a Russian naval officer, but did not rise to any particular heights until the arrival of sound. By the time he made his final picture (Die Fledermaus (1946)), he had became celebrated as one of Germany's most splendid character comedians. A master at playing affable (be they likeable rogues, or pompously ingratiating buffoons) middle-aged, middle-class figures, ranging from theatre directors, to barons, diplomats and consuls. Notable career highlights include Barcarole (1935) (as Motta), So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938) (as private detective Van Gaalen), Bel Ami (1939) (newspaper editor Forestier), Frau Luna (1941) (Direktor Koppe), and, best of all, as the wily Flemish town mayor Hendrick in Das Bad auf der Tenne (1943). Though offered a lucrative dual role in Helmut Käutner's satire The Original Sin (1948), Dohm was forced to turn down the part because of a serious heart ailment. If not for his early death at the age of 51, his screen popularity would have endured well into the succeeding decades. A street in Munich (Will Dohm-Weg in Ramersdorf-Perlach) is named in his memory.- Madge McIntosh was born on 8 April 1875 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. She was an actress, known for Tower of Strength (1919). She was married to W. Graham Brown. She died on 19 February 1950 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- Tyra Dörum was born on 8 April 1878 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Hans nåds testamente (1919), Dan, tant och lilla fröken Söderlund (1924) and Charles XII (1925). She died on 8 April 1951.
- Leonid Zhukov was born on 8 April 1890 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Lyubov statskogo sovetnika (1915) and Kogda my, myortvye, voskresnem? (1918). He died on 3 November 1951 in Moscow, Soviet Union [now Russia].
- Edmund Kennedy was born on 8 April 1873 in Derby, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Castle Sinister (1932) and Landslide (1937). He was married to Lillian Mason. He died on 28 January 1953 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
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Tasman Higgins was born on 8 April 1888 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was a cinematographer, known for Daughter of the East (1924), Environment (1927) and The Rushing Tide (1927). He died on 4 June 1953 in Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Christie had a difficult childhood growing up with stern and unaffectionate parents. He left school at 15. Christie initially worked as a police clerk but was fired for petty theft. He was disowned by his family when he was caught stealing from his father's carpet factory. During World War One he was wounded and gassed and blinded for 5 months with hysterical aphonia for about 3 years. In 1934 he was involved in an automobile accident and suffered some head injuries. He worked briefly in a post office but was sent to jail for stealing money orders. In 1938 Christie and his wife moved to 10 Rillington Place in London. In 1939 he joined the War Reserve Police. It was during the early part of the war that he began his serial homicides at 10 Rillington Place. Christie was a necrophiliac. His modus operandi was to gas his female victims (with carbon monoxide) claiming it had some health benefits and then have sex with the dead corpse. In November 1949 his tenant Timothy Evans an illiterate and mentally challenged truck driver confessed to police that he had 'disposed of' his wife Beryl Evans. Her body was found in a shed behind 10 Rillington along with the body of Evan's daughter Geraldine. Evans claimed that Beryl had died while Christie was giving her an abortion. Christie denied the accusations and Evans was charged with the murder of his wife and hanged. It would be later proven that this was a gross miscarriage of justice. In 1952 Christie killed his own wife and hid her body beneath the floorboards of his house. His victims tally reached 8 by the time he left Rillington on March 20, 1953. On 24 March 1953, the new tenants who were renovating the place found 3 bodies in a secret 'cupboard' hidden behind the wallpaper. On March 31, 1953 Christie, by this time a vagrant, was arrested after a vigilant police constable recognised him from a metropolitan police wanted poster. He confessed to the crimes including that of Beryl Evans although he never admitted to the murder of Geraldine, claiming that Evans himself had strangled the child with a tie. In 1953 the court rejected his plea of insanity and sentenced him to hang in Pentonville prison. It was always believed that Christie must have murdered the baby because the authorities thought it inconcievable that there could be two killers living at the same address. Because Evans had been convicted and hung for murdering his wife he was given a posthumous pardon.
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Harry Parkins was born on 8 April 1875 in Canada. He died on 30 January 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Max Afford was born on 8 April 1906 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Max was a writer, known for Pacific Adventure (1946) and Lady in Danger (1959). Max died on 2 November 1954 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- William B. Mack was born on 8 April 1872 in Bay City, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Backbone (1923), Missing Millions (1922) and Virtuous Men (1919). He was married to Gertrude O'Malley. He died on 13 September 1955 in Islip, Long Island, New York, USA.