Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-50 of 1,524
- Edward the First was born on 17 June 1239 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He died on 7 July 1307 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
John Wesley was born on 17 June 1703 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, UK. John is known for Feast of July (1995), Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). John was married to Molly Vazeille. John died on 2 March 1791 in London, England, UK.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Charles Gounod was born on 17 June 1818 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Chronicle (2012), The American (2010) and 28 Days Later (2002). He was married to Anna Zimmermann. He died on 18 October 1893 in Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Adolphe d'Ennery was born on 17 June 1811 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for The Adventurer (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921) and Le sette spade del vendicatore (1962). He was married to Josephine-Clémence Lecarpentier. He died on 25 January 1899 in Paris, France.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Paul Delmet was born on 17 June 1862 in Paris, France. Paul is known for French Cancan (1955), Full Moon in Paris (1984) and The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957). Paul died on 24 October 1904 in Paris, France.- Milutin Uskokovic was born on 17 June 1884 in Uzice, Serbia. He was a writer, known for Cedomir Ilic (1970), Dosljaci (1969) and Dosljaci (2015). He died on 15 October 1915 in Kursumlija, Serbia.
- Shelly Hull was born on 17 June 1884 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Sapho (1913) and An Honorable Cad (1919). He was married to Josephine Hull. He died on 14 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Max Rott was born on 17 June 1863 in Radymno, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Radymno, Podkarpackie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Maier zieht in den Krieg (1913). He died on 4 March 1922 in Vienna, Austria.
- Henry Lawson was born on 17 June 1867 in Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia. He was a writer, known for Three in One (1955), Joe (1924) and Where Dead Men Lie (1971). He was married to Bertha Marie Louise Bredt. He died on 2 September 1922 in Abbotsford, New South Wales, Australia.
- Victor Maurel was born on 17 June 1848 in Marseille, France. He was an actor, known for Falstaff (1900) and Don Juan (1900). He was married to Frédérique De Grésac. He died on 22 October 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Carlyle Moore was born on 17 June 1875 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Stop Thief (1920), Stop Thief! (1915) and The Unknown Purple (1923). He was married to Ethelyn Palmer. He died on 26 June 1924 in Milford, New Jersey, USA.- Claire Pauncefort was born on 17 June 1851 in Birmingham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Gay Lord Quex (1917), The House of Temperley (1913) and Adam Bede (1918). She died on 23 November 1924 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.
- Leopold Natzler was born on 17 June 1860 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Hypnose (1919) and Bruder Martin (1920). He died on 3 January 1926 in Vienna, Austria.
- Mary Baird Bryan was born on 17 June 1861 in Perry, Illinois, USA. She was married to William Jennings Bryan. She died on 21 January 1930 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Lóránd Fráter was born on 17 June 1872 in Érsemlyén, Hungary. He was a composer, known for Eladó birtok (1941) and Fráter Loránd (1942). He died on 12 March 1930 in Érsemlyén, Hungary [now Simian, Romania].
- Constance Elgin was born on 17 June 1872 in Paddington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Stronger Will (1916). She died on 10 July 1930 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Cardinal Cherrotte was born on 17 June 1872 in Italy. He died on 8 May 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Alwin Neuß was born on 17 June 1879 in Cologne, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Detective Brown (1914), Der Weg der Tränen (1916) and Streichhölzer, kauft Streichhölzer! (1916). He died on 30 October 1935 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Edwards Davis was born on 17 June 1867 in Santa Clara, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Daughter of MacGregor (1916), The Strength of the Weak (1916) and Wings of Pride (1920). He was married to Adele Blood and Jule Power. He died on 17 May 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Sergei Minin was born on 17 June 1901 in Vladivostok, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Vzryv (1928), Bolnye nervy (1929) and Za chornoye serdtse (1925). He died on 24 November 1937.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Composer
American poet, novelist and essayist James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, FL, in 1871. He came from a musically inclined family--his brother was noted composer and songwriter J. Rosamond Johnson--and received his B.A. from Atlanta University and his M.A. from that institution two years later, a significant accomplishment in an era when many blacks were prevented from getting any higher education at all.
He was hired as a teacher and the principal at an all-black school in Jacksonville. At the same time he was studying law and in 1897 he received his law degree and was admitted to the Florida bar, the first black attorney to do so since the end of the Civil War. In 1901 he relocated to New York City, where he joined his brother Rosamond and his partner in writing songs for both the stage and light opera, and the team was quite successful. One song was so popular that they cleared $13,000 from it--an astonishing sum at the time--and used that money to travel to France, where they spent several months partying and traveling before returning to the US.
He was soon appointed as the American Consul in Venezuela, and his tenure there was so productive he was appointed to the same position in Nicaragua, again with great success. In 1910 he married Grace Nail, and two years later produced his first novel, the (fictional) "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (the subject was so sensitive at the time that the book was published with no writer's credit; it wasn't until 1927 that he was acknowledged as the author). He continued writing essays, books and songs and wrote the English libretto for the opera "Goyescas", which was presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1915. In addition, he served for many years as secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He returned to teaching in 1930--while still continuing his writing--and became Professor of Creative Literature at Fisk University. In 1934 he was named Visiting Professor of Literature at New York University.
On June 26, 1938, Johnson was driving through a railroad crossing near his summer home in Bar Harbor, ME, when his car was struck by a train. His wife was seriously injured but survived. Johnson was killed instantly.- Actress
- Producer
Flora Finch was born in London, England, on June 17, 1867. After spending time on the legitimate stage, she began to make films, and was one of the early comedy stars of the silent-film era. Her first film was Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909). After making nine more films she began appearing with rotund comic John Bunny, and together they would make more than 250 shorts over the next five years, becoming the cinema's first popular comedy team. Among their more popular titles were The New Stenographer (1911), The Subduing of Mrs. Nag (1911) and A Cure for Pokeritis (1912). She made other films on her own in addition to those she made with Bunny, and after he died in 1915 she began her own series of comedy shorts, although not meeting with the kind of success she had with Bunny. By the time the sound era began she was relegated to minor supporting roles and bit parts, although she did have a fairly decent role in The Scarlet Letter (1934) with Colleen Moore, as one of the self-righteous women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of life in colonial America. Finch retired from acting after appearing in The Women (1939), ending a long and illustrious career. On January 4, 1940, she died of rheumatic fever, brought on by a streptococcus infection, in Los Angeles, California. She was 70 years old.- Although he occasionally played honest police officials or army officers, New York-born C. Henry Gordon excelled at playing oily, duplicitous villains, whether gangsters, businessmen or evil rulers. Among the many evildoers he portrayed, his most memorable would have to be the murderous Surat Khan, who massacred prisoners, women and children, in the classic Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936).
- Robert Welles Ritchie was born on 17 June 1879 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. Robert Welles was a writer, known for The Down Grade (1927), Cross Breed (1927) and The Three Pals (1916). Robert Welles died on 2 August 1942 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Reginald Barlow was born on 17 June 1866 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Big Cage (1933) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). He was married to Carol Brown and Selma Rose. He died on 6 July 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Willie Warde was born on 17 June 1857 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Tons of Money (1926) and Tons of Money (1930). He died on 18 August 1943 in Holborn, London, England, UK.
- Phil Hunt was born on 17 June 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Phil was a writer, known for The Broken Spur (1916). Phil was married to Fanny Rebecca Kurtz. Phil died on 18 September 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Bruno Winawer was born on 17 June 1882 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer and actor, known for Television Theater (1953), Kobieta, która sie smieje (1931) and Pan Twardowski (1921). He died on 11 April 1944 in Opole Lubelskie, Lubelskie, Poland.
- Rufino Blanco Fombona was born on 17 June 1874 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a writer, known for El hombre de hierro (1985). He died on 17 October 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Joseph Anthony Roach was born on 17 June 1886 in Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for The Black Book (1929), Jaws of Justice (1933) and Melting Millions (1927). He was married to Theresa P. Humphries and Ruth Stonehouse. He died on 15 April 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Composer
- Writer
Sidney Jones was born on 17 June 1861 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was a composer and writer, known for The Gaiety Girl (1924), A Gueixa (1909) and The Geisha (1914). He was married to Kate Linley. He died on 29 January 1946 in London, England, UK.- Edith Bristol was born on 17 June 1886 in California, USA. She was a writer, known for Mother Knows Best (1928). She died on 16 February 1946 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Georges Krier was born on 17 June 1872 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France. Georges died on 20 April 1946 in Paris, France.
- Visual Effects
- Additional Crew
Juan Larrinaga was born on 17 June 1885 in San Antonio, Mexico. Juan died on 3 November 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dale Fuller was born on 17 June 1885 in Santa Ana, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Twentieth Century (1934) and The Sacred Flame (1929). She died on 14 October 1948 in Pomona, California, USA.
- Harriet Ford was born on 17 June 1864 in Seymour, Connecticut, USA. She was a writer, known for The Case of the Black Parrot (1941), I Married a Doctor (1936) and The Argyle Case (1917). She was married to Dr. Fordé Morgan. She died on 12 December 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Composer
- Writer
Jyotiprasad Agarwala was born on 17 June 1903 in Tezpur, Assam, British India. Jyotiprasad was a director and composer, known for Joymati (1935) and Indramalati (1939). Jyotiprasad was married to Devajani Bhuyan. Jyotiprasad died on 17 January 1951 in Tezpur, Assam, India.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jack Jahries was born on 17 June 1905 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was an actor. He died on 1 July 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
John 'Spider Bruce' Mason was born on 17 June 1895 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Playing God (1997), Harlem Is Heaven (1932) and The Joint Is Jumpin' (1949). He died on 2 July 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Vincenzo Scarpetta was born on 17 June 1876 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Miseria e nobiltà (1940), Marito distratto e moglie manesca (1910) and Il suonatore di chitarra (1910). He died on 3 August 1952 in Naples, Italy.- Eric Taylor was born on 17 June 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Phantom of the Opera (1943), Black Friday (1940) and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947). He died on 8 September 1952 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Sergey Dybcho was born on 17 June 1894 in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Silva (1944). He died on 29 November 1952 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia].
- Elbert D. Thomas was born on 17 June 1883 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He died on 11 February 1953 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- B. van Sigtenhorst-Meyer was born on 17 June 1888 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. B. van was a composer, known for Willem van Oranje (1934). B. van died on 17 July 1953 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Born in Kulm, Germany--now Chelmno, Poland--in 1888, Heinz Guderian joined the German army and served as a staff officer during World War I. He stayed in the army after the war and took an interest in armored warfare. He had a talent for it, and his tactical innovations and revolutionary ideas brought him to the to the attention of German leader Adolf Hitler, and he was able to implement many of his ideas--such as the concept of the "blitzkrieg", or lightning war--into effect. He advocated for the formation of independent armored units backed with strong air and motorized infantry support in order to quickly break through enemy lines and encircle and destroy enemy troops and material behind those lines. Guderian's ideas and tactics proved themselves in 1939 when World War II broke out, and his tank outfits sliced through Poland, France and other allied countries like a hot knife through butter, handing Guderian victory after victory. In 1941 he was able to reach the gates of Moscow before the Russians finally managed to stop him. In the face of a fierce Russian counteroffensive, Guderian withdrew his forces in order to save them from annihilation, and a furious Hitler dismissed him.
He came back in 1943,however, and was made inspector general of armored troops. In that position he streamlined and accelerated the production of tanks, but constant interference from Hitler caused him to resign in 1945. He died in Germany in 1954. - David Blakely was born on 17 June 1929 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 10 April 1955 in Hampstead, Camden, London, England, UK.
- Tommy Burns was born on 17 June 1881 in Chesley, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 May 1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Herbert Standing Jr. was born on 17 June 1883 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Rich Slave (1921). He was married to Dulcie Clayton. He died on 23 September 1955 in New York, New York, USA.
- Erich Carow was born on 17 June 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Trichter Nr. 9 (1941). He died on 31 January 1956 in Berlin, Germany.
- Miklós Nyiszli was born on 17 June 1901 in Szilágysomlyó (Simleu Silvaniei) in Transylvania, at the time in the Austro-Hungarian empire. He studied medicine, first in Cluj in 1920, then in Kiel between 1921 and 1924. In 1926 he enrolled at the medical faculty of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau, completing his degree in 1929. In Germany, Nyiszli specialised in forensic pathology; his doctoral dissertation dealt with indications of causes of death in suicides. He studied and worked under the supervision of Karl Reuter, the director of the Breslau Institute of Forensic Medicine, and Georg Strassmann, pathologist and professor of forensic medicine at the University of Breslau. In 1930, Nyiszli returned to Transylvania and began practicing in the town of Oradea. He soon established himself as a forensic pathologist, often assisting the police and the courts in identifying unusual or disputed causes of death. In 1937, he moved with his wife and daughter to Maramures in northern Transylvania, to the small town of Viseul de Sus, where he opened a private practice. Following the Vienna Award of August 1940, Northern Transylvania was returned to Hungary. In 1942, Nyiszli was sent to the work camp in the village of Desze (Desesti), also in Maramures, from where in May 1944 he and his family were deported to Germany. First he worked on the construction site of the artificial rubber factory being built by IG Farben in nearby Monowitz (Auschwitz III); in June 1944 the Nyiszli family was transferred to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In Auschwitz he was tattooed with his camp number: A 8450. His studies at a prestigious German university with respected specialists impressed SS medical officer Dr. Josef Mengele, who was looking for an assistant. He became a Jewish inmate doctor and forensic pathologist who worked particularly for Mengele in the crematorium II in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He remained there until January 1945. After Auschwitz, came Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee in Upper Austria. In July 1945, upon his return to Transylvania, he offered his deposition before the Budapest Commission for the Welfare of Deported Hungarian Jews. Nyiszli's wife and daughter survived as well. The family settled again in Oradea, now Romania, where Nyiszli opened a private practice in 1946. Nyiszli finished writing his memoirs, which he published in 1946, in a serialised form in the Hungarian newspaper "Világ" ("The World"), and in March 1946 as a book under the title "Dr Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az Auschwitz-i [sic] krematóriumban" ("I was Dr Mengele's autopsy doctor at the Auschwitz crematorium"). Nyiszli's memoirs were at that time the first publication on the unknown subject of the 'Sonderkommandos' and it became an important document for historical research on Auschwitz, still highly recommended today by expert Dr. Gideon Greif. As an important witness Nyiszli travelled to the Nuremberg Trials and offered on 8 September 1947 his deposition to one of the interrogators in the Medical Trials, Benvenuto von Halle. By 1948, he could no longer practice as a private doctor. His daughter Susanna married in 1952 and had a daughter, Monica. Miklós Nyiszli died of a heart attack on 5 May 1956 in Oradea, Romania.