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Matthew Lewis was born on 9 July 1775 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Monk (2011), Le moine (1972) and The Monk (1990). He died on 16 May 1818 in Atlantic Ocean.- Ann Radcliffe was born on 9 July 1764 in Holborn, London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Le confessional des pénitents noirs (1977). She was married to William Radcliffe. She died on 7 February 1823 in London, England, UK.
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Philip P. Bliss was born on 9 July 1838 in Hollywood, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 29 December 1876 in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.- Jan Neruda was born on 9 July 1834 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. Jan was a writer, known for Vzhuru nohama (1938), Kam s ním? (1924) and Trhani (1936). Jan died on 22 August 1891 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
- Drottning Sophia was born on 9 July 1836 in Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau, German Confederation [now Hesse, Germany]. She was married to King Oscar II. She died on 30 December 1913 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Gilbert John Minto was born on 9 July 1845 in London, England, UK. He died on 1 March 1914 in Minto, Roxburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Carlotta Addison was born on 9 July 1849 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Blue Bird (1910). She was married to Charles A. La Trobe. She died on 15 June 1914 in London, England, UK.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Writer
The Lumiere Brothers began their career filming in locations relatively close to their home. After becoming comfortable with their instrument they began sending cameramen all over the world to direct films which they would produce. Alexandre Promio was one such cameraman. He witnessed Lumiere's first film show and became deeply interested in moving pictures and was hired as one of the Lumiere Brother's first cinematographers.
Promio traveled to Canada in order to film the Niagara Falls. He created the world's first moving shot when in Venice, Italy he set his camera in a gondola and traveled through the streets in order to capture the surrounding locations. Promio also made what may be world's first "phantom ride" shot when he traveled to Jerusalem and filmed footage on a train as it was leaving a station. Promio also filmed in other locations such as Geneva, New York, and London.
Promio later worked for the french Pathe Freres company, in 1907, and between 1914 and 1915 he also was a soldier as part of the first world's war. He died on 24 December, 1926.- Grand Duke of Baden Frederick II was born on 9 July 1857 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. He was married to Princess Hilda of Nassau. He died on 9 August 1928 in Badenweiler, Republic of Baden, Germany [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany].
- Daniel Guggenheim was born on 9 July 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 28 September 1930 in Port Washington, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Macklyn Arbuckle was born on 9 July 1866 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Thoroughbred (1925), That Old Gang of Mine (1925) and The County Chairman (1914). He was married to Mrs. Macklyn Arbuckle. He died on 1 April 1931 in Waddington, New York, USA.- Cecile Arnold was born Cecile Laval Arnoux on July 9, 1891 in Louisville, Kentucky (some sources say New York). Her parents divorced when she was a child. After her mother remarried the family lived in Missouri and Texas. She started her career as a chorus girl and joined the Ziegfeld Follies. Cecile was signed by Mack Sennett's Keystone studios in 1913. The beautiful blonde played vamps in comedies like The Masquerader and Gussie's Day Of Rest. She made eleven films with Charlie Chaplin including Those Love Pangs, His Musical Career, and The Face On The Barroom Floor. During her career she used the stage names Peaches Arnold and Cecile Arley. In 1915 she appeared in a New York stage production of Robinson Crusoe with Al Jolson.
She married director Frank "Duke" Reynolds in 1918 and quit making movies. The couple divorced two years later. Cecile moved to Shanghai, China where she worked as a stenographer in a real estate office. She married David Toeg, a wealthy stockbroker, but their relationship was rocky. On March 25, 1925 she gave birth to a son named Robert in San Francisco. Her son may have been the result of an affair with Nicolai Merkuloff, a Russian merchant. Robert was raised by Cecile's family in Texas. She returned to China and divorced her husband. Tragically on June 18, 1931 she died from a heart ailment. She was just thirty-nine years old. Cecile was buried at Happy Valley Roman Catholic Cemetery in Hong Kong. - Composer
- Producer
- Music Department
S.L. Rothafel was born on 9 July 1882 in Stillwater, Minnesota, USA. He was a composer and producer, known for Flying with the Marines (1918), Under Four Flags (1918) and False Gods (1919). He died on 13 January 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Italian composer who introduced Russian orchestral colour and some of the violence of Richard Strauss's harmonic techniques into Italian music. He studied at the Liceo of Bologna and later with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, where he was first violist in the Opera Orchestra. From his foreign masters Respighi acquired a command of orchestral colour and an interest in orchestral composition. A piano concerto by Respighi was performed at Bologna in 1902; a "notturno" for orchestra was played at a concert in the Metropolitan Opera House that year. His comic opera Re Enzo and the opera Semirama brought him recognition and an appointment in 1913 to the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome as professor of composition. He became director of the conservatory in 1924 but resigned in 1926. Respighi was drawn to the sensual, decadent climate of the Rome depicted by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, and in his celebrated suites--Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome, 1923-24) and Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome, 1914-16) especially--he sought to convey the subtlety and colour of the poet's imagination. Other suites include Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows, 1927); Gli ucelli (The Birds, 1927); Feste Romane (Roman Festivals, 1929); and Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych, 1927, for chamber orchestra)- Frank Lacey was born on 9 July 1867 in Penge, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Women Who Play (1932). He was married to Alexandra Nita Romili. He died on 10 August 1937 in London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Fascination", "By the Beautiful Sea"), composer, librettist, writer and author, educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.B). He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a staff writer for the Shuberts, and wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Whirl of Society"; "Honeymoon Express"; and "The Peasant Girl". He wrote the librettos for "Vera Violetta"; "The Passing Show" (12 editions); "The Whirl of the World"; "Dancing Around"; "Maid in America"; "A World of Pleasure"; "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."; "The Show of Wonders"; "Doing Our Bit"; "Sinbad"; "Monte Cristo, Jr."; "The Last Waltz"; "Bombo"; "The Rose of Stamboul"; "The Dancing Girl"; "Topics of 1923"; "Innocent Eyes"; "Pleasure Bound"; "The Midnight Rounders"; "Big Boy"; "Artists and Models"; "Gay Paree"; "A Night in Paris"; "A Night in Spain"; "Ziegfeld Follies of 1927"; "Greenwich Village Follies of 1928"; and "Everybody's Welcome". His chief musical collaborators included Al Jolson, Harry Carroll, Louis Hirsch, Otto Motzan, and Sigmund Romberg. His other popular-song compositions include "My Yellow Jacket Girl"; "Omar Khayyam"; "My Lady of the Telephone"; "Sister Susie Started Syncopation"; "The Ragtime of Pan"; "Lotus Flower"; "Galli Curci Rag"; "Broadway Butterfly"; "Jazza Da-Doo", and "Doing My Bit".- Art Director
Eikyû Matsuoka was born on 9 July 1881 in Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo, Japan. Eikyû was an art director, known for Princess Kaguya (1935). Eikyû died on 2 March 1938.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Raffaello Penso was born on 9 July 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Termites of 1938 (1938), Maurice Chevalier - Mistinguett: Un demi-siècle de chansons (2007) and Entertainment Tonight (1981). He died on 30 March 1938.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Frank McGlynn Jr. was born on 9 July 1904 in Marin County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Bar 20 Rides Again (1935), Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935) and America (1924). He died on 29 March 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Marbeth Wright was born on 9 July 1915 in Crawford, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Happy Days (1929) and The Bridge (1929). She died on 17 September 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
William Anthony McGuire was born on 9 July 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Rosalie (1937) and The Kid from Spain (1932). He was married to Lulu I. Cation. He died on 16 September 1940 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Alfred Gosden was born on 9 July 1873 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Power God (1925), Tonio, Son of the Sierras (1925) and The Canvas Kisser (1925). He died on 22 September 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Dr. Franz Boas was an anthropologist who helped establish anthropology in the United States on a scientific footing, while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. Many consider him the "Father of American Anthropology." He is recognized for his fight against racism, not only in the United States, but internationally. His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
- Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt was born on 9 July 1881 in Héricourt, Haute-Saône, France. Jacques was a producer, known for Deuxième bureau (1935), Le collier de chanvre (1940) and L'homme à abattre (1937). Jacques was married to Jenny SPIRA . Jacques died on 12 October 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Actor
Alan Paull was born on 9 July 1879 in Summerfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He died on 3 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
Zorka Janu was born on 9 July 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Cekanky (1940), Ohnivé léto (1939) and Minulost Jany Kosinové (1940). She died on 24 March 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Robert Sterner was born on 9 July 1899 in Arizona, USA. He was a writer, known for Fantasia (1940) and A World is Born (1955). He was married to Bonnie Cashin. He died on 11 November 1947.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Ludwig Schaschek was born on 9 July 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a cinematographer, known for Die Tochter der Frau von Larsac (1924), Die Ehe einer Nacht (1927) and Das weisse Paradies (1929). He died on 28 January 1948 in Vienna, Austria.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Wilbert Leroy Cosper was born on 9 July 1873 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Kingdom of Human Hearts (1921). He died on 10 April 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Frank Staples was born on 9 July 1867 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Under Northern Lights (1920), Felix Gets in Wrong (1916) and A Son of the North (1920). He died on 4 March 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Harry Lambart was born on 9 July 1876 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a director and actor, known for The Silent Witness (1917), The Crucible of Life (1918) and The Price of Vanity (1914). He died on 11 June 1949 in London, England, UK.- Josie Melville was born on 9 July 1880 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Treasure Island (1920). She was married to Harry De Vere and William Harris. She died on 19 March 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Althought most of her career was before the cameras, Mimí Derba is better remembered as the first woman director in Mexico (and perhaps in Latin America). On 1917, when Mexican screens were filled by italian melodramas of "divas", Derba organized one of the very first Mexican production companies: Azteca Films. Practically without previous experience on screen, the actress produced, wrote and performed in two box-office hits: Alma de sacrificio (1917) and En defensa propia (1917). The success of those films persuated her to take the director's chair in Tigresa, La (1917). There's a legend that Azteca Films was a cover-up for General Pablo González, a minister in the cabinet of President Venustiano Carranza and Derba's lover in those years. González was accused of being the mastermind behind a famous gang of robbers called La Banda del Automóvil Gris (The Grey Car Gang) whose assaults were very famous in the Mexico City of 1915. Those events inspired the famous Mexican episodic film Automóvil Gris, El (1919). The mysterious of the source of the incoming money for producing Derba's films was never discovered, but it is certain that, after the scandal of involving González with the gang, activities ceased on Azteca Films and the career of the first woman Mexican director was over. Derba continued acting and made a strong career as a supporting actress in a great number of famous Mexican films. One of her most notorious roles was the bitter grandmother of Evita Muñoz 'Chachita' in Ustedes los ricos (1947).- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Ellsworth H. Rumer was born on 9 July 1898 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for A Midnight Bell (1921), The Deuce of Spades (1922) and Gas, Oil and Water (1922). He was married to Alice May Jensen and Dessie Flynn. He died on 18 October 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.- Bernhard Bötel was born on 9 July 1883 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Trick-Track (1921), Rheinzauber (1920) and Martha (1916). He died on 3 November 1953 in Berlin, Germany.
- Knut Björlin was born on 9 July 1879 in Älvsbacka, Värmlands län, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Nobelpristagaren (1918). He died on 13 December 1953 in Sollefteå, Västernorrlands län, Sweden.
- Gilda Marchiò was born on 9 July 1884 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Spirit and the Flesh (1941), Cortocircuito (1943) and Two Orphans (1942). She died on 22 October 1954 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Gladys Ripley was born on 9 July 1908 in Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK. She was an actress. She was married to Squadron Leader F. Price and E.A. Dick. She died on 21 December 1955.- Cinematographer
Eddie Littell was born on 9 July 1881 in New York, USA. Eddie was a cinematographer, known for The Cycle of Fate (1916). Eddie died on 27 May 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
Hesperia was born on 9 July 1885 in Bertinoro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Camille (1915), Il figlio di Madame Sans Gêne (1921) and La fibra del dolore (1919). She was married to Baldassarre Negroni. She died on 30 May 1959 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
- Special Effects
- Director
Fred Jackman was born on 9 July 1881 in Tama, Iowa, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Call of the Wild (1923), The Timber Queen (1922) and Captain Blood (1935). He was married to Carrie T Hammond. He died on 27 August 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Bruce Bairnsfather was born on 9 July 1887 in Murree, Punjab, British India [now Pakistan]. He was a writer and director, known for Carry on, Sergeant! (1928), Old Bill and Son (1941) and The Better 'Ole (1926). He was married to Cecilia Agnes Bruton. He died on 29 September 1959 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK.- Richard Lund was born on 9 July 1885 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Klostret i Sendomir (1920), Hans hustrus förflutna (1915) and Kampen om hans hjärta (1916). He died on 27 September 1960 in Mölndal, Västra Götalands län, Sweden.
- Jerzy Horecki was born on 9 July 1924 in Przemysl, Podkarpackie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Bialy niedzwiedz (1959) and Decyzja (1960). He died on 15 October 1960 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
- John Powers was born on 9 July 1876 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for We Are Not Alone (1939), The Man Who Stood Still (1916) and Adam and Eva (1923). He died on 31 October 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Wendell Jones was born on 9 July 1895 in Minnesota, USA. Wendell is known for Inferno (1953). Wendell died on 1 November 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Margaret Smith was born on 9 July 1881. She was an actress, known for A Roaring Adventure (1925). She died on 9 December 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Dorothy Thompson was one of the most famous journalists of the 1930s & '40s, winning the sobriquet the "First Lady of American Journalism." In 1939, Time Magazine recognized her as being on par with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in terms of her political clout.
Born on July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914, having studied economics and political science. She became committed to the cause of women's suffrage and after that was achieved with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, she went overseas as a journalist. She became a foreign correspondent for the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" newspaper and, in 1927, became the had of the Berlin bureau of the "New York Post", becoming the first woman to head a foreign news bureau for a major newspaper. She became the doyenne of female foreign journalists.
Her career flourished in the 1930s, when she became one of the few female radio commentators. She first interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1931, then wrote a book, "I Met Hitler" (1932) claiming he would never come to power (Hitler became German Chancellor in January 1933). In 1934, her articles heralding the dangers of the man she once dismissed caused her to become the first women journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany.
She began writing her "On the Record" column for the "New York Tribune", the paper-of-record for America's Eastern WASP Establishment, in 1936. The thrice-weekly column was syndicated by the Tribune and, by June 1939, was carried by 196 newspapers, giving Thompson a readership of 7,555,000 readers. That same year, the National Broadcasting Co. hired Thompson her as a news commentator. In the years she was with NBC, her radio broadcasts were extremely popular. Appearing weekly on Monday at 9PM, she had 5.5 million listeners as of June 1939.
In 1937, she began a monthly column for the "Ladies' Home Journal" on women's interest tropics such as child-raising and gardening. She kept writing the column up until her death 24 years later.
Thompson made the cover of Time Magazine on June 12, 1939. Two and a half months later, she covered the Nazi invasion of Poland. Her journalism career continued until her death, though her influence waned after World War II.
She was married three times. In 1928, she married the writer Sinclair Lewis, who two years later became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. They divorced in 1942.
Dorothy Thompson died on January 30, 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was 66 years old. - Alan Lipscott was born on 9 July 1894 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Life of Riley (1948), The Bob Cummings Show (1961) and Willy (1954). He died on 20 November 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Music Department
Boris Ord was born on 9 July 1897 in Bristol, England, UK. He is known for A Festival of Lessons and Carols (1954). He died on 30 December 1961 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.