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- Carlo Gatti was born on 28 July 1817 in Marogno, Ticino, Switzerland. He was married to Maria Marioni. He died on 7 August 1878 in Marogno, Ticino, Switzerland.
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 - 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature. He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on 28 July 1844 in Stratford, London, England, UK. Gerard was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) and Spring: An Animation of the Hopkins Poem (2010). Gerard died on 8 June 1889 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
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William Cool White was born on 28 July 1821 in Pennsylvania, USA. William Cool is known for My Darling Clementine (1946), Her Lucky Night (1945) and Hoosier Holiday (1943). William Cool was married to Mrs. Eliza F. Foster, née Bonnet and ? (second). William Cool died on 23 April 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Eugene O'Rourke was born on 28 July 1863 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Within the Law (1917). He died on 30 October 1917 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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Barbara La Marr was born in Yakima, Washington, on July 28, 1896, as Reatha Watson. Her childhood was mostly uneventful, mainly because Yakima--today a medium-sized city with a population of over 50, 000-wasn't exactly a beehive of activity. Her parents eventually moved to the Los Angeles area, where she began to explore the show business lifestyle in whatever form she could. Barbara loved the L.A. way of living and was forced to grow up fast. She was still Reatha at the time, but her arrest for dancing in burlesque while still a teen caused her to change her name to Barbara La Marr to avoid being associated with her past. Her passion was dancing and writing, but the powers-that-be in the movie industry thought she was meant for other things--her dazzling beauty captured the imagination of all who came across her path. Moving to New York, she was ultimately lured into the film world, her first picture being Harriet and the Piper (1920). She was still going by her married name of Barbara Deely (already working to shed her fourth husband) and was being dubbed "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful." The next year she appeared in The Three Musketeers (1921) and Desperate Trails (1921). That same year, her role as Claudine Dupree in The Nut (1921) sent Barbara into super-stardom. Hordes of fans flocked to theaters to see this beautiful actress in movies such as Arabian Love (1922), Trifling Women (1922), Domestic Relations (1922) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) whose beauty kept them enthralled. In 1923, she kept up her frenzied filming pace with such pictures as Poor Men's Wives (1923), The Brass Bottle (1923) and Souls for Sale (1923). The public adored her, as evidenced by the volumes of fan mail she received, but Barbara was more interested in the late-night partying she was involved with. The combination of alcohol and drugs was, clearly, beginning to wear her down. She made four films in 1924 and three in 1925. Her last picture was The Girl from Montmartre (1926). On February 2, 1926, Barbara died of tuberculosis in Altadena, California. Her demise was, no doubt, brought about by her constant late-night partying. She had lived a lifetime and had made 30 films, but was only 29 when she died.- Kate Phillips was born on 28 July 1856 in Essex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Sands of Time (1919) and A Lowland Cinderella (1921). She was married to H.B. Conway (actor). She died on 9 September 1931 in London, England, UK.
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Aurélio Paz dos Reis was a Portuguese florist trader , amateur photographer who left a valuable photographic collection, republican revolutionary and a Freemason convinced, considered the pioneer of the cinema in Portugal by have produced the first Portuguese films, such as The Exit of the Operative Staff of Fábrica Confiança , which is in turn a replica of the first in the history of cinema , shot in France by the Lumière brothers in (1894 - 1895) La Sortie de LUsine Lumière to Lyon . The so-called "Kinematografo Portuguez", a designation used by Paz dos Reis to refer to the cinematographer invented by the Lumière brothers.- Lucille Desmond was born on 28 July 1888 in Manhattan, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Reckoning Day (1918). She died on 20 November 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Vihtori Kosola was born on 28 July 1884 in Ylihärmä, Finland. He died on 14 December 1936 in Lapua, Finland.
- Mary Navarro was born on 28 July 1859 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Hearts of Oak (1914), Eve's Daughter (1918) and The Battle of Ballots (1915). She was married to Antonio F. de Navarro. She died on 29 May 1940 in Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England, UK.
- Carl H. Christensen was born on 28 July 1887 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Klør Dame (1918). He died on 6 December 1940.
- Harry Strauss was born on 28 July 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 12 June 1941 in Ossining, New York, USA.
- Charles Mortimer Peck was born on 28 July 1872 in New York City, New York, USA. Charles Mortimer was a writer, known for The One-Way Trail (1920), Pants (1917) and Cheating Herself (1919). Charles Mortimer died on 4 November 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Galia Grandell was born on 28 July 1911 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. She was an actress. She died on 25 July 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Alice Duer Miller was born on 28 July 1874 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Roberta (1935), Lovely to Look At (1952) and And One Was Beautiful (1940). She was married to Henry Wise Miller. She died on 22 August 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.- Géza Örvössy was born on 28 July 1889 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A dollárkirálynö leánya (1913), Zoárd mester (1917) and Bánk bán (1915). He was married to Ilona Benes. He died on 12 May 1943 in Kolozsvár, Hungary [now Cluj, Romania].
- Writer
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Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist. She is famous for writing children's books with animal characters such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Potter was born in Kensington, London. Her family was quite rich. She was educated by governesses. She did not have many friends, but she had many pets, including Benjamin and Peter, two rabbits. She spent her holidays in Scotland and the Lake District. There, she began to learn to love nature, plants, and animals, which she carefully painted.
When she was around 30, Potter published The Tale of Peter Rabbit. It was very popular. She also became engaged to her publisher Norman Warne. Her parents became angry and separated with her because of this. They did not want her to marry someone who was socially lower than her. However, Warne died before he and Potter could marry.
Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full time. She did not have to ask her parents for money anymore because she had money from her books. In time, she bought Hill Top Farm and more land. In her forties, she married William Heelis, a local solicitor. She also began raising sheep and became a farmer, though she continued writing. She published 23 books.
Potter did not have any children. She died of heart disease and pneumonia in Near Sawrey, Lancashire on 22 December 1943. Almost all of her money was left to the National Trust. Her books continue to sell well around the world, in many different languages. Her widower died in August 1945.- Actor
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Georges Tréville was born on 28 July 1875 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Reigate Squires (1912), The Mystery of Boscombe Vale (1912) and The Stolen Papers (1912). He died on 30 May 1944 in Wy-dit-Joly-Village, Val-d'Oise, France.- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was born on 28 July 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 12 August 1944 in Blythburgh, Suffolk, England, UK.
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Seemingly suave, cultivated actor by nature, definitely huge in both talent and girth, and capable of playing much older than he was, Hollywood of the early '40s tragically lost Laird Cregar before it could fully comprehend on how to best utilize his obvious gifts. He was born Samuel Laird Cregar in a well-to-do section of Philadelphia, eventually dropping his first name after forging an acting career. At age eight his parents sent him to England and enrolled him at the Winchester Academy. During his school's off time, his pique in acting escalated after being employed as a page boy with the Stratford-on-Avon Players. Thereafter, his mind was set to become a professional actor. Returning to the U.S., he attended Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia and the Douglas Adams School in Longport, New Jersey. Again, he found meager jobs, such as an usher, in order to stay close to the theater. Awarded a scholarship to the Pasadena Community Playhouse, he trained there for two years before going out on his own and finding minor work on the bi-coastal stage and finding minuscule parts in films.
Laird's break came of his own making. After witnessing Robert Morley's triumph in the title role of "Oscar Wilde" on Broadway, Laird set upon finding backing for his own version of the play. Debuting in Los Angeles and finding resounding success there as well as in San Francisco, film studios began competing for his services with Twentieth Century-Fox winning out. He made his feature debut opposite Paul Muni in Hudson's Bay (1940) in the boisterous role of a fur trapper and solidified his movie standing by appearing flamboyantly as a bullfighting critic at odds with Tyrone Power's matador in the popular Technicolor classic Blood and Sand (1941). He then went on to show a scene-stealing prowess for stylish farce as one of Jack Benny "suitors" in the drag comedy Charley's Aunt (1941).
By the time Laird cut a mean, sinister path in I Wake Up Screaming (1941), playing a detective so insanely hung up on a murdered girl (Carole Landis) that he deliberately frames an innocent man (Victor Mature) for her crime, it was obvious films could rely on him for any of their comedic or dramatic ventures. There seemed nothing he couldn't do, but it was obvious audiences loved him as the 300 lb. man you love to hate - goaded on by his nefarious doings in the film noir classic This Gun for Hire (1942) starring Alan Ladd and Rings on Her Fingers (1942) with Gene Tierney.
On the Los Angeles theater front he gave Monty Woolley a run for the money in Woolley's signature stage role of Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner". Along with the good came some contrived roles in a few mediocre films ranging from training officers to hammy-styled pirates. Even so, he usually stood out among the other actors in some fashion. He even played the Devil himself in the exquisitely humor-laced Ernst Lubitsch comedy Heaven Can Wait (1943).
His film career was capped by his definitive Jack the Ripper in The Lodger (1944). Investing the psychotic role with an intense, gripping realism and off-putting, oily charm, he led a brilliantly seasoned cast and relished a death scene in the film (in truth, the real-life serial killer was never caught) that dared to forever stereotype him as a Sydney Greenstreet-like villain. Unfortunately, his early death robbed film audiences of seeing what course Laird's career would have taken. Sure enough, his last celluloid offering in Hangover Square (1945) was as another despicable character with murder on its maniacal mind. Top-lining a cast that included Linda Darnell (as an object of his affection), and George Sanders, he this time portrayed a temperamental composer who suffers from a split personality disorder and, prone to periodic blackouts, commits brutal murders. Another compelling death scene had his mad character wildly pounding out a concerto while the room around him goes up in flames and the ceiling crashes down on him.
Laird's obsession with avoiding the inevitable stereotype as a "heavy heavy" and wistful pursuit of a romantic leading man career compelled him to go on a reckless, unsupervised crash diet (from 300 lbs to 200 lbs), which is evident by his drastically trimmed-down look in his last film. This proved too strenuous on his system and he was forced to undergo surgery for a severe stomach disorder. His 30-year-old heart gave out on the morning of December 9, 1944, only days after his operation. He was survived by his mother.- Paul Bender was born on 28 July 1875 in Driedorf, Germany. He was an actor, known for Nerven (1919) and Martha (1907). He died on 27 November 1947 in München, Germany.
- Foster Williams was born on 28 July 1899 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for That's the Spirit (1937). He was married to Alice McDonald and Shirley Grey. He died on 19 May 1948.
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Roy Martin was born on 28 July 1895 in Michigan, USA. Roy is known for Rascals (1938). Roy died on 20 November 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Morgan D. Flowers was born in Eagle Lake, Texas, in July 1897. He attended Texas A&M College, and spent the next few years in Texas and New Mexico, working on ranches. He married Elizabeth Tweedy at San Angelo, Texas, on March 18, 1918. He began training polo ponies, and eventually began selling them. He also played polo, and through the game, met and became friends with Will Rogers. Rogers invited Flowers to come to California. According to his obituary, which was reprinted in his hometown newspaper, the Eagle Lake Headlight, on February 25, 1949, he was a large man, a "natural with horses," and "he did stunt riding in western movies." He died in Los Angeles, California, in late 1948 or early 1949.- Stuart Bull was born on 28 July 1874 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Libel! (1938). He died on 15 March 1949 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK.
- George Champion was born on 28 July 1881 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Down Lone Gap Way (1914) and By the Two Oak Trees (1913). He died on 1 July 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Angela Hitler was born on 28 July 1883 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. She was married to Martin Hammitzsch and Leo Raubal. She died on 30 October 1949 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Zofie Napravilova was born on 28 July 1910 in Mocidlany, Uhry, Austria-Hungary [now Slovakia]. She was an actress, known for Její hrích (1939). She died on 15 April 1950 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Dol Dauber was born on 28 July 1894 in Wijnitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Debt (2010), Klatovsti dragouni (1937) and Therapy for a Vampire (2014). He died on 15 September 1950 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Pearl Elmore was born on 28 July 1875 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Intolerance (1916), Sold for Marriage (1916) and Daphne and the Pirate (1916). She was married to John Chester Masterman. She died on 18 December 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Rafael Pihlaja was born on 28 July 1893 in Turku, Finland. He was an actor, known for Katupeilin takana (1949), Professori Masa (1949) and Elinan surma (1938). He was married to Elli Pihlaja and Katri Emilia Lähteinen. He died on 8 November 1951.
- Billy Mitchell was born on 28 July 1889 in Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Misbehaving Husbands (1940), The Bride Wore Crutches (1940) and The Panther's Claw (1942). He died on 9 July 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Beulah Hall Jones was born on 28 July 1899 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Cameo Kirby (1930) and The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916). She was married to Emitt Emanuel Wyndon and Dr. E.E. Wyndon. She died on 8 October 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Leonore Harris was born on 28 July 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for To-Day (1917), Human Driftwood (1916) and The Decoy (1916). She died on 27 September 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Emmy Arbous was born on 28 July 1897 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Gloria Fatalis (1922), De cabaret-prinses (1925) and Ontmaskerd (1915). She was married to Jan C. De Vos jr. She died on 11 January 1954 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Walter Brandt was born on 28 July 1889 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925), Die Unbesiegbaren (1953) and Bright Eyes (1929). He died on 28 April 1954 in East Berlin, East Germany.
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James Doolittle was born on 28 July 1889 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA. He is known for The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927), Square Dance Jubilee (1949) and Red Desert (1949). He died on 8 August 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- After completing secondary school in Berlin, he completed training in the textile industry. During this time he married Antonie Ewald (1884-1918). The first son Helmuth (1908-1927) was born in 1908. From 1909, Quandt was already running several cloth factories in his hometown and in Wittstock. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was promoted to head of Reichswolle AG in 1915. In 1918 his wife died of the Spanish flu. Until 1922, Quandt worked as a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Economics in the first German democracy. In the Weimar Republic he also worked for the "Reichsstelle für Textilwirtschaft". On January 4, 1921, Quandt married 19-year-old Magda Ritschel (1901-1945). Ten months later, on November 1, 1921, their son Harald was born. In 1922, Quandt switched to the potash industry to work for the Wintershall potash works and for the "Akkumulatoren-Fabrik AG" in Berlin and Hagen, initially called "AFA AG", then "Varta AG" from 1962. He was also now involved in the reorganization of the "German Weapons and Ammunition Factory".
Quandt rose to become one of the most active and influential entrepreneurs and economic officials in Germany during the Weimar Republic and after Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Quandt was the husband of Magda until 1929, who married the National Socialist propaganda minister Josef Goebbels two years later. A year earlier, in 1928, Quandt gained control of Berlin-Karlsruher Industrie-Werke AG. From 1931 he was part of the group of industrialists loyal to Hitler. In the same year he became a member of the Society for the Study of Fascism, which acted as a link between conservative circles and the NSDAP. On May 1, 1933 he joined the NSDAP. He now generously supports the party financially. While his companies became suppliers to the armaments industry, he himself became a model industrialist. His business activities included companies in the textile, potash and metallurgical industries as well as in the insurance industry. In 1937, Quandt took over the role of military economic leader within the National Socialist dictatorship.
The industrialist also had close personal ties to the Hitler regime. Among other things, he also became a member of the supervisory board of Daimler-Benz, Deutsche Bank and AEG. Meanwhile, the AFA main plant in Hagen became the lead production site for other AFA plants in Hanover, Vienna and Poznan. Here, in addition to battery systems for submarines, the company primarily produced special batteries for torpedoes and rockets, such as the "V2". Batteries for armored vehicles, radio and radar devices as well as for combat aircraft were also manufactured. To do this, he employs thousands of prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates. In the immediate post-war period, Quandt was declared a "follower" (1948) through a denazification process. Nevertheless, he managed to regain a recognized position as an entrepreneur in the wake of the upswing and economic miracle in the Federal Republic. The business activities of the Quandt empire were coordinated from Stuttgart by the family company "AG für Industrie Beteiligungen".
Günther Quandt died on December 20, 1954 while on vacation in Cairo.
The sons Harald Quandt (1921-1967), who subsequently took over the management of the metal division with the "Industriewerke Karlsruhe AG" group of companies, and Herbert Quandt had recently taken over the management of his company. - Actor
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Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher was born on 28 July 1891 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Idiot's Delight (1939), Possessed (1931) and Lightning Strikes Twice (1934). He was married to Pauline Mason and Irene Martin. He died on 22 May 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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William F. Adler was born on 28 July 1886 in Pennsylvania, USA. William F. was a cinematographer and producer, known for Shipwrecked Among Cannibals (1920), The Fire Bride (1922) and The Silent Voice (1915). William F. died on 9 January 1956 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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Hans Scheib was born on 28 July 1905 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for The Wedding of Palo (1934), La patria chica (1943) and Z dnia na dzien (1929). He died on 10 June 1957 in Madrid, Spain.- Clarence Malcolm Lowry was born in New Brighton, England on July 28, 1909. His parents were Arthur Lowry, a wealthy Liverpool businessman, and his wife Evelyn. Lowry was educated at Cambridge, and worked briefly as a merchant seaman. He was married twice. His first novel, 'Ultramarine', published in England, was heavily influenced by the poet Conrad Aiken. His breakthough novel was _Under The Volcano (1984)_ , an account of the last day of an alcoholic British ex-Consul to Mexico. Lowry died in England in 1957 after a drinking binge with wife Margerie.
- Florence Harwood was born on 28 July 1867 in Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sally in Our Alley (1931), Two Who Dared (1936) and The Show Goes On (1937). She died on 13 September 1957 in Friern Barnet, London, England, UK.
- Gösta Hillberg was born on 28 July 1877 in Finland. He was an actor, known for Där fyren blinkar (1924), The Blizzard (1923) and Kvarnen (1921). He died on 30 March 1958.
- Bill Goodwin was born on 28 July 1910 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Spellbound (1945), Tea for Two (1950) and House of Horrors (1946). He was married to Philippa Hilber and Paula Winslowe. He died on 9 May 1958 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
- Luigi Musso was born on 28 July 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He died on 6 July 1958 in Reims, France.
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- Actor
Gaetano Verna was born on 28 July 1900 in Faenza, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Young Caruso (1951), Atto di accusa (1950) and Il fornaretto di Venezia (1939). He died on 16 August 1958 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Franklyn Kelsey was born on 28 July 1891 in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Knight Without Armor (1937), Once in a New Moon (1934) and Little Miss Molly (1938). He died on 16 December 1958 in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
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Dewey Skipworth was born on 28 July 1899 in Alabama, USA. He was an actor. He died on 19 August 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.