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Melitta Brunner Facts

Melitta Kreckow Brunner (née Brunner, 28 January 1907 – 26 May 2003) was an Austrian figure skater. As a single skater, she won the bronze medal at the 1929 World Championships. As a pair skater, she skated with Ludwig Wrede and won the bronze at

Basil Langton Facts

Basil Cedric Langton (9 January 1912–29 May 2003) was an English actor, director and photographer, who made a career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was an authority on the plays of George Bernard Shaw and compiled an archive of more than 400,000

Maria Cristina Facts

Won Kuk Lee Facts

Won Kuk Lee (Hangul: 이원국, Hanja: 李元國) (April 13, 1907 – February 2, 2002) was a martial artist, black belt in Japanese karate and pupil of Gichin Funakoshi. He introduced karate in the Republic of Korea (1944), creating his own style of

Aleksandr Miroshnichenko Facts

Aleksandr (“Alex”) Viktorovich Miroshnichenko (Russian: Александр Викторович Мирошниченко) (April 26, 1964 in Kostanai, Soviet Union – May 19, 2003) won a Super Heavyweight Bronze medal at 1988 Summer Olympics in Seou

Mongo Santamaría Facts

Ramón “Mongo” Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard “Afro Blue”, recorded by John Coltrane amon

John Schlesinger Facts

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling an

Andrew Heiskell Facts

Andrew Heiskell (September 13, 1915, Naples – July 6, 2003 Darien, Connecticut) was chairman and CEO of Time Inc. (1960–1980), and also known for his philanthropy, including for the New York Public Library. He was President of the Inter American Pr

Dernell Stenson Facts

Dernell Renauld Stenson (June 17, 1978 – November 5, 2003) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw left-handed. He was 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and weighed 230 lbs.

Leon Schwartzenberg Facts

Leon Schwartzenberg was born in Paris, but, being Jewish, in 1942 he and his family fled to Toulouse to avoid the Nazi occupation. Despite this escape to freedom, his medical studies were halted by L`Ordre des Medecins on account of his race. He join

Sylvi Salonen Facts

Sylvi Inkeri Salonen (1 March 1920 – 23 December 2003) was a Finnish actress. Most of her career, 1949−1985, she worked for Tampereen Työväen Teatteri while also appearing on television and in films. The term “diva” was often attached to her na

Yun Hyon seok Facts

Yun Hyon-seok (hangul: 윤현석 尹賢碩, August 7, 1984 – April 26, 2003) was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer and LGBT activist. He committed suicide in protest against discrimination against homosexuals in South Korea. During his life, he foug