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Kathy Leissner Facts

John Brown Facts

John Brown (September 12, 1757 – August 29, 1837) was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War.

Lee Garmes Facts

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he ha

Jean Tinguely Facts

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely’s art satirized the mindless overproducti

Joe Ward Facts

Joseph Aloysius Ward (September 7, 1884 – August 11, 1934) is a former Major League Baseball player who played second base for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1906 season. He also played for the Phillies in 1909-1910 seasons and also part of 1909

Alan Dossor Facts

Alan Dossor was born on September 19, 1941 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England as Alan John Dossor. He was a director and producer, known for First and Last (1989), The Missing Postman (1997) and The Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998). He

Sobhuza II Facts

Sobhuza II, (also known as Nkhotfotjeni, Mona ) (22 July 1899 – 21 August 1982) was the Paramount Chief and later King of Swaziland for 82 years, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in recorded history. Sobhuza was born on 22 July 1899 at

Fritz Lang Facts

Friedrich Christian Anton “Fritz” Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany’s school of Expressionism, he was dubbed

Joichiro Sanada Facts

Joichirō Sanada (真田 穣一郎, Joichirō Sanada, November 21, 1897 – August 3, 1957) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Throughout much of the war, Sanada was an important and influential officer on the staff of the I

Rosalía Mera Facts

Rosalía Mera Goyenechea (28 January 1944 – 15 August 2013) was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in Spain and the world’s richest self-made woman. In 1975, she co-founded the Zara retail

John Alderson Facts

John Alderson (April 10, 1916 – August 4, 2006) was a British-born actor noted for playing the lead in the 1957-1958 syndicated western television series, Boots and Saddles, which ran for thirty-eight episodes in a single season, and many supportin

Irving Fein Facts

Irving Fein (June 21, 1911 – August 10, 2012) was an American television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.