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John Gay was born on 30 June 1685 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Emma (1996), Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) and The Beggar's Opera (1953). He died on 4 December 1732 in London, England, UK.- Composer
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Hervé was born on 30 June 1825 in Houdain, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a composer, known for Frøken Nitouche (1963), Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931) and Heavenly Swallows (1976). He died on 3 November 1892 in Paris, France.- Paul Cinquevalli was born on 30 June 1859 in Lissa, Prussia, Germany [now Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He died on 14 July 1918 in Brixton, Devon, England, UK.
- Irène Hillel-Erlanger was born on 30 June 1878 in Paris, France. Irène was a writer, known for Les soeurs ennemies (1915), Venus Victrix (1917) and La belle dame sans merci (1921). Irène died on 21 March 1920 in Paris, France.
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Charles McEvoy was born on 30 June 1879 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Man in the Shadows (1915), Sally in Our Alley (1931) and The Third Generation (1915). He was married to Marjorie Gwendolyn Notley. He died on 16 February 1929 in Somerset, England, UK.- Music Department
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Riccardo Drigo was born on 30 June 1846 in Padua, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Veneto, Italy]. He is known for Let Freedom Ring (1939), Aizen katsura (1938) and Due South (1994). He died on 1 October 1930 in Padua, Veneto, Italy.- Sir Gilbert Parker--the popular Canadian novelist, short-story writer and poet who rose from backwoods obscurity to the seats of the mighty in the British Empire--was born on November 23, 1862, in Camden East, Addington, Ontario, to Royal Army Capt. J. Parker and his wife. After attending school in Ottawa and matriculating at Toronto's Trinity University, Parker moved to Australia in 1886, serving as an associate editor on the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. His travels took him throughout the Pacific. Subsequently, after his return to Canada, he extensively journeyed through northern Canada
Parker was a contemporary of the poet and short story writer Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, the first writer to express the new nationalism that resulted from the confederation of Britain's North American provinces into Canada in 1867. Roberts' work inspired a nationalist school of Canadian poets in the late 19th century.
Parker's works typically dealt with Canadian history, and later with England and the British Empire. Moving to England in 1889, he made his literary reputation with romantic novels and short stories "aboot" Canada, and with historical novels such as his 1896 depiction of the court of King Louis XV, "The Seats of the Mighty" (made into a film in 1914, The Seats of the Mighty (1914), starring Lionel Barrymore)). His finest works deal with French-Canadian life and history, such as "Pierre and His People" (1892) (dramatized on Broadway by Edgar Selwyn, and filmed in 1914 as Pierre of the Plains (1914), remade in 1942 as Pierre of the Plains (1942))). Though he wrote of England and the Empire, starting in 1898 with "The Battle of the Strong," it is for his Canadian stories that he is still remembered into the 21st century, due to their high quality, fine descriptions and gripping drama. The short story collection published in 1900, "The Lane that had no Turning," contains some of his finest work, including the title story.
In 1895 Parker married a wealthy American heiress of New York's Van Tine family. His politics were strongly imperial, and in 1900 he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative member for Gravesend on the Unionist ticket. Parker was knighted in 1902, and although he still kept writing, most of his energies became absorbed by politics. A champion of Imperial Preference Trade and Tariff Reform, his power in the House of Commons began to wax, and by 1910 he was a figure to be reckoned with. He was, according to political observers, one of the most powerful Unionist politicians not serving in the government. He would serve a total of 18 years in Parliament, being re-elected in 1906 and again in 1910.
The quality of his literary output suffered from devoting so much energy to politics, but he was influential by investing the Imperialist movement with a great deal of enthusiasm. Parker cracked the top 10 best sellers list in the U.S. after becoming an M.P., with "The Weavers", which ranked #2 in 1907 and #10 in 1908, and "The Judgement House," which made it to #7 in 1913. His contemporaries on the list included Winston Churchill (the American writer, not the English politician-writer who became Prime Minister in 1940), Edna Ferber and Booth Tarkington.
Sir Gilbert Parker died in his native Canada, of a heart attack, on September 6, 1932, in London, Ontario. - Actor
Jean Malin was born on 30 June 1908 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Lucille Helman. He died on 10 August 1933 in Venice, California, USA.- Actor
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Robin Williamson was born on 30 June 1889 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Feud Woman (1925), Prince of the Plains (1927) and A Wanderer of the West (1927). He died on 21 February 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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George De Carlton was born on 30 June 1868 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Life Without Soul (1915), Samson (1915) and The Plunderer (1915). He was married to Grace DeCarlton. He died on 15 May 1935 in Saranac, New York, USA.- Actor
Spider Matlock was born on 30 June 1901 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. He was an actor. He died on 25 January 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alice Berend was born on 30 June 1875 in Berlin, Germany. She was a writer, known for Frau Hempels Tochter (1919), Ich will Dich Liebe lehren (1933) and Die Bräutigame der Babette Bomberling (1927). She died on 2 April 1938 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Agostino Borgato was born on 30 June 1871 in Venice, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Il ponte dei sospiri (1921), Supremo olocausto (1918) and Il cuore di Musette (1919). He died on 14 March 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Oldrich Svoboda was born on 30 June 1872 in Nemecký Brod, Rakousko-Uhersko [now Havlíckuv Brod, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Osud trí srdcí (1930). He died on 1 December 1939 in Ceské Budejovice, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Isaak Babel was born on 30 June 1894 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Wandering Stars (1927), Jimmie Higgins (1928) and Jewish Luck (1925). He was married to Yevgenia Gronfein. He died on 27 January 1940 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Ugo Ceseri (Florence, 30 June 1893 - Rome, December 3, 1940) was an Italian actor. Born in Florence, he made his debut as a young actor in the theater, in the company of Hermes Novelli, then states with Ruggero Ruggeri, with Andreina Pagnani, Nino Besozzi and Armando Falconi. In 1931, Mario Camerini gives him a small part in the film "Figaro e la sua grande giornata", which will be his entry into the world of film, where he will appear in about 45 films, until the death in 1940.
- Paul Escoffier was born on 30 June 1875 in Cahors, France. He was an actor, known for Pépé le Moko (1937), Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor (1913) and The Reign of Terror (1914). He died on 30 July 1941 in Paris, France.
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Karel Melísek was born on 30 June 1905 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was a writer, known for Rozkosný príbeh (1937), Pozdní láska (1935) and Na Svatém Kopecku (1934). He died on 3 December 1942 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].- Rudolf Rittner was born on 30 June 1869 in Weißbach, Silesia, Germany [now Bílý Potok, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Master of Nuremberg (1927), Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924). He died on 4 February 1943 in Weißbach, Silesia, Germany [now Bílý Potok, Czech Republic].
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Leopold Jacobson was born on 30 June 1878 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), Married in Hollywood (1929) and The Chocolate Soldier (1914). He died on 23 February 1943 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].- Betty Lorraine was born Betty Cornelia Mumford on June 10, 1912 in Hartford, Connecticut. When she was a child she took dancing lessons and danced with the Arnold Lamon ballet. After her parents divorced her mother took her to California. Betty attended the Berkeley Hall School in Beverly Hills. At the age of sixteen she made her film debut as an extra in None But The Brave. The beautiful brunette was offered a contract with Sam Goldwyn and became one of the Goldwyn Girls. She sometimes used the screen name "Lorraine Marshall". In January of 1930 she married James Huston, a wealthy broker. The couple divorced two years later. Her second marriage, to Melville Peterson, also ended in divorce. Betty had small roles in A Bedtime Story, Dancing Lady, and Cain And Mabel.
Unfortunately by 1936 her acting career had stalled. She started working as a big band singer and appeared on numerous radio shows. Then she appeared on Broadway in the musical The Streets Of Paris. Betty impulsively married bandleader Charlie Barnet on November 21, 1938 after a two day courtship. Their marriage was annulled just forty- three days later. In 1940 she married her fourth husband singer Larry Stewart. She landed a bit part in the 1944 film Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves. Sadly she was suffering from severe depression. On September 29, 1944 she committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates. Betty was only thirty-two years old. She was cremated and buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Tragically her mother Bessie would also commit suicide in 1948. - Christa Tordy was born on 30 June 1904 in Bremen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927), The Countess of Sand (1928) and Potsdam, das Schicksal einer Residenz (1927). She was married to Harry Liedtke. She died on 28 April 1945 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Ernest Esdaile was born on 30 June 1860 in East Ilsley, Berkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Kilties Three (1918). He died on 10 February 1946 in Herne Hill, London, England, UK.
- Pass Le Noir was born on 30 June 1878 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Mixed Magic (1936). She died on 13 June 1946 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Willy Zeyn was born on 30 June 1876 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Kaliber fünf Komma zwei (1920), Die Tochter des Rajah (1918) and Die Stunde der Vergeltung (1918). He died on 9 August 1946 in Munich.- Thomas Mantell was born on 30 June 1922 in Franklin, Kentucky, USA. He was married to Peggy Mantell Bruckert. He died on 7 January 1948 in Franklin, Kentucky, USA.
- Maybelle Beringer was born on 30 June 1898 in New Mexico, USA. She was an actress, known for Luke Locates the Loot (1916), Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916) and Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917). She died on 22 February 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Lawson Harris was born on 30 June 1897 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Circumstance (1922), A Daughter of Australia (1922) and Law or Loyalty (1926). He was married to Dolores Johnson. He died on 31 March 1948 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Actor
John Warnack was born on 30 June 1881 in Tennessee, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Bertha Warnack. He died on 3 January 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Edward B. Anderson was born on 30 June 1889 in Ohio, USA. Edward B. is known for City Lights (1931). Edward B. died on 23 February 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- C.V. France was born on 30 June 1868 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Skin Game (1931), If I Were King (1938) and Went the Day Well? (1942). He died on 13 April 1949 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Emma Wiehe was born on 30 June 1864. She was an actress, known for Love in Exile (1923), The Tiger Countess (1914) and Den farlige leg (1911). She was married to Jacques Wiehe. She died on 5 May 1949.
- Clare Harris was born on 30 June 1889 in Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland. She was an actress, known for What Happened to Harkness? (1934) and The Jewel (1933). She was married to Wallett Waller. She died on 5 July 1949 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK.
- John P. Wade was born on 30 June 1876 in Madison, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Third Degree (1919), Life's Greatest Problem (1918) and Maniac (1934). He died on 14 July 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Endre Kruppka was born on 30 June 1878 in Nagyvárad, Hungary. He was an actor and director, known for A gyilkos (1912), Gazdag ember kabátja (1912) and Alraune (1919). He died on 24 May 1950.- Oswald Pohl was born on 30 June 1892 in Duisburg-Ruhrort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 7 June 1951 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany.
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Paul Guerin was born on 30 June 1886 in Louisiana, USA. He is known for A Small Town Idol (1921), The Crossroads of New York (1922) and The Road to Hollywood (1947). He died on 29 March 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Derek Bentley was born on 30 June 1933 in Southwark, London, England, UK. He died on 28 January 1953 in HMP Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
- Gerda Krum-Juncker had a tragic life. She was born into the theater, her father being Ballet Master Jacob Daniel Krum and her mother Johanne Krum-Hunderup. Debut at Folketeatret 1897. At Århus Teater 1901-1905 where she enjoyed great success in numerous operettas. Her father had committed suicide when she was only nine. Her first husband - also and actor - was 20 years her senior but with a fiercely jealous streak. When he saw Gerda's success on stage with her singing partner, he drew a gun on her back at their hotel room. He missed her twice but then turned the gun on himself and died mortally wounded. She enjoyed a few happy years with her second husband - a barrister - but that soon changed when their 15 year old daughter was killed in a motorbike accident. Her husband got so depressed that he put a gun to his head. The attempt failed and he lost his eye-sight. Gerda retired to nurse him for the rest of his life. Her career at Nordisk Film was very promising (she made two appearances with Valdemar Psilander) but this vivacious actress made only half a dozen films between 1911 and 1914.
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Famed wrestler Man Mountain Dean was born Frank Simmons Leavitt in New York City in 1891. Oversize almost from birth, he was able to lie about his age--and get away with it--to join the army at 14 years of age. He was posted to the US-Mexcian border, where he served in the unit commanded by Gen. John J. Pershing, and was later transferred to Europe during World War I and saw combat duty in France. After the war he tried a career as a professional football player--he had played, and excelled in, a number of sports during his high-school years--and played with the New York Giants team. He didn't meet with any particular success as a football player, and while recuperating from an injury in Florida he met and married Doris Dean. He left football to embark on a career as a professional wrestler, with his wife as his manager.
She booked him on an exhibition tour of Germany, which met with great success. He made another successful tour, this time in England, and while there he was hired as a double for star Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Upon his return to the US he was offered more work in pictures--he appeared in roughly 30 of them altogether--and became a favorite of the Hollywood crowd. He was able to command salaries of up to $1500 for a match--a substantial sum in the professional wrestling world--and used his enormous girth (300+ pounds) and his long, full beard as his trademarks.
After a successful wrestling career, he retired to his farm near Norcross, Georgia, in 1937. He got involved in local politics, and eventually studied journalism at the University of Georgia in Atlanta.
He died at his farm on May 29, 1953.- Writer
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Ernö Szép was born on 30 June 1884 in Huszt, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Khust, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Lila akác (1934), Völegény (1982) and Aranyóra (1946). He died on 2 October 1953 in Budapest, Hungary.- Sergei Antimonov was born on 30 June 1880 in Kursk, Kursk uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kursk Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Circus (1936), Volga - Volga (1938) and Na dalnem vostoke (1937). He died on 7 September 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Daisy Belmore was born on 30 June 1874 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Seven Days Leave (1930), The Seven Swans (1917) and Bab's Matinee Idol (1917). She was married to Samuel Waxman (importer). She died on 12 December 1954 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Had been out of work and was pretty much broke when he killed himself. He borrowed Buster Keaton's gun and after eating a meal that he could not pay for, shot himself. There are two stories; One says it was in the restroom of the cafe on Santa Monica Blvd, and the other story states he did it in the phone booth. His last real work was directing Buster Keaton on his local Los Angeles tv show on KTTV. This was in the early fifties and it was live. The show ran for just a year, but was popular. KTTV was having money problems and could not keep it on the air. The few tapes that survived show Keaton doing his typical gags, many that had been re-worked from his past glory.- Actor
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Arnold Sjöstrand was born on 30 June 1903 in Sundbyberg, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and director, known for Två kvinnor (1947), Synd (1948) and Starkare än lagen (1951). He died on 1 February 1955 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.- Actor
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Walter Hampden was one of the great American stage actors and the only performer, aside from Maurice Evans, to play Hamlet three times on Broadway in the post-World War I-era. Born Walter Hampden Dougherty on June 30, 1879, in Brooklyn, New York, he learned his craft in London, where he made his debut as a professional actor in 1901 with the Frank Benson Stock Company. He spent six years apprenticing in England, where he was thoroughly trained as a classical actor. When he returned to the US in 1907, he toured with the great Russian actress Alla Nazimova in a presentation of the plays of Henrik Ibsen.
Hampden played "Hamlet" on Broadway in 1918-1919, in 1925 (with Ethel Barrymore as his Ophelia at his own Hampden's Theatre), and in 1934. His greatest role was that of Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," a part he first performed in 1923 and that he repeated four more times on the Great White Way.
In 1925 he took over management of the Colonial Theatre, a vaudeville house on Upper Broadway, and renamed it Hampden's Theatre. After christening his house with his second Hamlet on October 10, 1925, he played there with his own company through 1930. Later, Hampden helped launch the American Repertory Theatre, playing Cardinal Wolsey in William Shakespeare's "Henry VIII."
Hampden became revered as the grand old man of the American theater. He was president of the Players' Club for 27 years. His last distinguished role on Broadway was in Arthur Millers parable of McCarthyism, "The Crucible," capping a career that spanned a half-century.
Walter Hampden died on June 11, 1955, just three weeks shy of his 76th birthday.- Actor
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Paul McAllister was born on 30 June 1875 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Noah's Ark (1928), Beau Geste (1926) and One Hour (1917). He was married to Margaret McKinney. He died on 8 July 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Actor
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Hans Mierendorff was born on 30 June 1882 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Der goldene Pol (1918), Der Gast aus der vierten Dimension (1918) and Die Einsame Insel (1920). He was married to Antonie Katsch, Hertha Katsch and Gertrud Schmidt. He died on 26 December 1955 in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Rose Tapley was born on June 30, 1881 in Salem, Massachusetts. She was primarily a stage actress when, in 1912, she was picked to play Queen Victoria in The Victoria Cross (1912). She was 31, an age that some producers would have bypassed an actress, but she was a seasoned performer so she made it rather easily. Rose was kept busy with forty more films in 1912 and many more in the years ahead. In 1931, at the age of 50, she played Princess Sophya in Resurrection (1931). On February 23, 1956 at the age of 75, she died in Woodland Hills, California.
- Zara Clinton was born on 30 June 1882 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sunrise (1926) and Painted Daughters (1925). She was married to F. Stuart Whyte. She died on 10 April 1956 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.