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Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma (November 24, 1927 – December 11, 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
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Akihiko Hirata
(26 December 1927–25 July 1984) was a Japanese film actor. While Hirata starred in many movies (including Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy), he is most well known for his work in the kaiju genre, including such films as King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Mysterians, and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the brilliant but disturbed young scientist in the original Godzilla, released in 1954. Hirata died after a long battle with lung cancer in 1984, at age 56.
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Al Fairweather
Alastair (Al) Fairweather (June 12, 1927 – 21 June 1993) was a British jazz musician, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Educated at the city's Royal High School and Edinburgh College of Art, Fairweather served his National Service in Egypt.
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
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Alan MacDiarmid
Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ (April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007) was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.
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Albert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo (born 25 April 1927) is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.
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Albrecht Kossel
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German medical doctor.
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Alfredo Kraus
Alfredo Kraus Trujillo (24 November 192710 September 1999) was a distinguished Spanish tenor of partly Austrian descent, particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles. He was also considered an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Massenet's opera Werther, and especially of its famous aria, "Pourquoi me réveiller?"
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Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier. Gibson was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
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Andy Stanfield
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Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (born December 3, 1927) is an American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 Gold and three Platinum certified albums. He had his own TV variety show from 1962–71 in which he performed with Michael Jackson, Bobby Darin, Ray Charles, Elton John, Ella Fitzgerald, Simon & Garfunkel, Mama Cass, Shirley Bassey, Bing Crosby, The Osmonds, Dusty Springfield, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, The Carpenters, Jack Benny, Bette Davis, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan and many other superstars. He also owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri.
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Annastasia Batikis
Annastasia Batikis [Stash] (b. March 15, 1927) is a former female center fielder who played for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Listed at 4' 11", 125 lb., she batted and threw left-handed.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. A primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.
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Antony Grey
Antony Grey (real name Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright; 6 October 1927 – 30 April 2010) was a leading English lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activist. He lived with his partner, Eric Thompson, for 50 years. They had been together since before homosexuality was partially decriminalised in the UK in 1967, which was thanks in part to Grey's action. He was credited by Lord Arran to have “done more than any single man to bring this social problem to the notice of the public”.
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Arthur Holly Compton
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Arthur Malet
Arthur Malet (born 24 September 1927) is a English actor.
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Ashfaqulla Khan
Ashfaqulla Khan (Urdu: , Hindi: अशफ़ाक़ुल्ला ख़ान) (October 22, 1900 - December 19, 1927) was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement.
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Audrey Wagner
Genevieve Wagner [Audrey] (December 27, 1927 - August 31, 1984) was a female outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 145 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Bernard Fox (actor)
Bernard Fox (born 11 May 1927) is a Welsh film and television actor.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet; , ; see full title below; born 5 December 1927) is the current King of Thailand. Publicly declared "the Great" (Thai: มหาราช, Maharaja), he is also known as Rama IX. Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history. He was admitted to Siriraj Hospital in September 2009 for flu and pneumonia and has remained in the hospital since. Rumors about his ill-health caused Thai financial markets to tumble in October 2009.
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Bill Daily
:For other people with a similar name, see William Daley
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Blas Ople
Blas Fajardo Ople (; February 3, 1927–December 14, 2003) was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government, including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000, and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until his death. Perceived as a leftist-nationalist at the onset of his career in public service, Ople was, in his final years, a vocal supporter for allowing a limited United States military presence in the Philippines, and for American initiatives in the War on Terror including the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Bob Fosse
Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning for his direction of Cabaret. He was closely identified with his third wife, Broadway dancing star Gwen Verdon. She was both the dancer/collaborator/muse upon whom he choreographed much of his work and, together with dancer/choreographer Ann Reinking, a significant guardian of the Fosse legacy after his death.
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Bob Keeshan
Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. He is most famous as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955-1984.
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Boots Randolph
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax" (Benny Hill's signature tune). Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career.
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Borisav Stanković
Borisav "Bora" Stanković (Борисав Бора Станковић) (born in Vranje 31 March 1876, died in Belgrade October 22, 1927) was a Serbian writer belonging to the school of realism. His novels and short stories depict the life of people from Southern Serbia.
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Brock Adams
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993.
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Brooks Adams
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848, Quincy, Massachusetts - February 13, 1927, Boston), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871.
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Bud Grant
Harry Peter "Bud" Grant, Jr (born May 20, 1927) is the former longtime American football head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) for eighteen seasons. Grant was the second (1967–83) and fourth (1985) head coach of the team. Prior to coaching the Vikings, he was the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for ten seasons. Along with being the winningest coach in Vikings history, Grant is the third winningest professional football coach, behind Don Shula and George Halas, with a combined 290 wins in the NFL and CFL. Grant was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., (July 4, 1872 January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.
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Carl Stokes
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927–April 3, 1996) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office on Jan 1, 1968, he was the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city. Fellow Ohioan Robert C. Henry was the first African American mayor of any U.S. city (Springfield, elected 1966).
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Carl Switzer
Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer (August 7, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.
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Chao Li-Chi
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Charles Emmett Mack
Charles Emmett Mack (25 November 1900 – 17 March 1927), was an American film actor during the silent film era. He appeared in 17 films between 1916 and 1927. Born Charles Emmett McNerney in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mack was a protégé of pioneering film director D. W. Griffith.
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
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Charlie Callas
Charlie Callas (born December 20, 1924) is an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Clint Walker
Norman Eugene Walker, known as Clint Walker (born May 30, 1927), is an American actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the TV Western series, Cheyenne.
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Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (born 25 September 1927) is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Cristero War
The Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926 to 1929 was an uprising and counter-revolution against the Mexican government of the time, set off by religious persecution of the Catholic Church, specifically the strict enforcement of the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the expansion of further anti-clerical laws. Regarding this period, recent practicing Catholic President Vicente Fox stated, "After 1917, Mexico was led by anti-Catholic Freemasons who tried to evoke the anticlerical spirit of popular indigenous President Benito Juárez of the 1880s. But the military dictators of the 1920s were a lot more savage than Juárez."
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César Chávez
César Chávez Estrada (; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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César Milstein
César Milstein (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.
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Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season.
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Danny La Rue
Danny La Rue, OBE (26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish-born British entertainer known for his singing and drag impersonations.
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David Norman Dinkins
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Denis Quilley
Denis Clifford Quilley OBE (26 December 1927 - 5 October 2003) was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre.
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Dick Bruna
Dick Bruna (b. August 23, 1927 in Utrecht) is a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.
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Dick Savitt
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Doak Walker
Ewell Doak Walker, Jr. (January 1, 1927 – September 27, 1998) was an American football player who is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a teammate of Bobby Layne in high school and the NFL.
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Doris Sams
Doris Jane Sams [Sammye] (born February 2, 1927) is a former female outfielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 9", 145 lbs., she batted and threw right handed.
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Earle Williams
Earle Williams (b. February 28, 1880 in Sacramento, California - d. April 25, 1927 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star.
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Earlene Risinger
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Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season.
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Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).
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Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the "Thoreau of the American West".
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Erich Probst
Erich Probst (5 December 1927 – 16 March 1988) was an Austrian footballer.
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Erma Bombeck
Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life humorously from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.
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Ernest Ball
Ernest R. Ball (July 22, 1878 – May 3, 1927) was a United States singer and songwriter, most famous for composing the music for the song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in 1912.
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Ernest Starling
Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was an English physiologist. He worked mainly at University College London, although he also worked for many years in Germany and France. His main collaborator in London was his brother-in-law, Sir William Maddock Bayliss.
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Ferdinand Buisson
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (December 20, 1841 – February 16, 1932) was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, pacifist and Socialist politician. He presided over the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926.
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Ferdinand of Romania
Ferdinand (24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927) was the King of the Romanians from 10 October 1914 until his death.
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Ferenc Puskás
Football biography 2
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Florence Mills
Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey (January 25, 1896 - November 1, 1927), known as the "Queen of Happiness," was an American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty. A daughter of former enslaved parents, Nellie (Simon) and John Winfrey, she was born Florence Winfrey in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 1895.
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Fouad al-Tikerly
Fouad al-Tikerly (1927 - February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, who was, perhaps, best known for his groundbreaking novel, al-Rajea al-Baeed, which is translated to The Long Way Back. Al-Tikerly was one of the last surviving members of a group of well known Iraqi novelists from the 1970s era.
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Fritz Lang
Friedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic contribution to the film noir genre.
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G. David Schine
Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine (September 11, 1927 – June 19, 1996), was a wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who received national attention when he became a central figure in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".
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Gene Savoy
:"Eugene Savoy" redirects here. For the Austrian Habsburg military leader, see Prince Eugene of Savoy.
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George Andrew Olah
George Andrew Olah (born May 22, 1927 in Budapest, as Oláh György) is a Hungarian-born American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. He has also been awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society.
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George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and an early flamboyant film performance as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. He has also widely been known for his rather gravelly voice.
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George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (18 March 1927 – 25 September 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.
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Georgia Frontiere
Georgia Frontiere (born Violet Frances Irwin) (November 21, 1927 – January 18, 2008), sometimes referred to as Madame Ram, was the co-owner and chairwoman of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams from 1979 to 2008.
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.
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Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress and photojournalist. She was one of the most prominent actresses in Europe of the 1950s and early 1960s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2008, she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala.
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Gisele MacKenzie
Gisèle MacKenzie (January 10, 1927 – September 5, 2003) was a Canadian-American singer, most famous for her performances on the popular television program Your Hit Parade.
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Gordon Astall
Gordon Astall (born 22 September 1927) is a former English professional footballer. He played as an outside right and represented the Football League, the England B team and played twice for the full England side. At club level he made over 450 appearances in the Football League.
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Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., also known as Gordo Cooper, (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an engineer and American astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States. He was the first American to sleep in orbit, had flown the longest spaceflight of the Mercury project, and was the last American to be launched alone into Earth orbit and conduct an entire solo orbital mission.
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Gregor Mackenzie
James Gregor Mackenzie (15 November 1927 – 4 May 1992) was a British Labour Party politician.
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Gustave Whitehead
Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf (January 1, 1874 – October 10, 1927) was a German immigrant to the US and an aviation pioneer who designed and built engines and very early aircraft in which he reportedly made powered flights more than two years before the Wright brothers. He did most of his aviation work from about 1897 to 1911, but gained only modest attention. In 1901 a few newspapers reported that he made several flights in Connecticut that year, and he claimed a much longer flight in 1902. Publicity soon faded when he did not repeat the reported feats. His name and work lapsed into obscurity until a 1935 magazine article and subsequent books spotlighted his reported flights and sparked a vigorous "first flight" debate among aviation buffs, enthusiasts, historians and pioneers—including Orville Wright—that has lasted ever since. Publications in the 1960s and 1970s, and the research associated with those publications, have increased knowledge of and interest in Whitehead.
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Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
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Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright.
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Harold Geiger
Major Harold C. Geiger (October 7, 1884 - May 17, 1927) was a pioneer in Army aviation and ballooning born in East Orange, New Jersey and killed in a plane crash in 1927. The Spokane International Airport is designated with the International Air Transport Association airport code GEG in his memory.
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Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (originally Belafonete; born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso," a title which he was very reluctant to accept (according to the documentary Calypso Dreams) for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O." Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration. He also worked as an actor.
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Helen Watts
Helen Watts CBE (7 December 1927 - 7 October 2009) was a Welsh contralto. She was born in Milford Haven and educated at the School of S. Mary and S. Anne, Abbots Bromley and the Royal Academy of Music. She began her career with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, and was a regular broadcaster on the Welsh Home Service. She subsequently had a distinguished career as an opera singer. In 1978 she was awarded the CBE.
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Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson ( 18 October 1859–4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected President without electoral experience or high military rank. The nation was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
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Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker.
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Hubert de Givenchy
Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born February 20, 1927) is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Hubert Harrison
Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 - December 17, 1927) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by activist A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem radicalism” and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.”
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Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists.
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Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen (February 10, 1846 - March 4, 1927) was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
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İsmet İnönü
Mustafa İsmet İnönü (; 24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish Army General, Prime Minister and the second President of Turkey. In 1938, Republican People's Party gave him the title of "Milli Şef" (National Chief).
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Ivan Hrušovský
Ivan Hrušovský (February 23, 1927 – October 5, 2001) was a Slovak composer and educator.
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Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress.
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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.
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Jerry Stiller
Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian and actor.
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Jess Thomas
Jess Thomas (August 4, 1927, Hot Springs, South Dakota—October 11, 1993, San Francisco, California) was a Wagnerian tenor. As a child he took part in various musical activities and later studied psychology at the University of Nebraska and Stanford University. He was awarded the Wagner medal at Bayreuth, Germany in 1963. His many appearances in North America and Europe between the late 1950s and early 1980s included 15 seasons in 109 performances of 15 roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer.
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Joe Start
Joseph Start (October 14, 1842 – March 27, 1927), nicknamed "Old Reliable", was one of the biggest stars of baseball's earliest era, and certainly the top first baseman of his time. He started his career before the American Civil War and continued to play professionally until 1886, when he was 43.
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Joe Turkel
Joe Turkel (born July 15, 1927) is an American character actor. He is credited in several films as Joseph Turkel.
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John Drew, Jr.
John Drew, Jr. (November 13, 1853–July 9, 1927) was an American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies. He was the eldest son of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew, and the brother of Louisa Drew, Georgiana Drew & Sidney Drew. As such, he was also the uncle of John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore and also great-great uncle to Drew Barrymore. He was considered to be the leading matinee idol of his day, but unlike most matinee idols Drew's acting ability was largely undisputed. Drew had a long association with Charles Frohman and leading lady Maude Adams.
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John Hamman
Brother John Charles Hamman S.M. (September 3, 1927–December 5, 2000) was a Catholic Marianist Brother and professional close-up magician. The tricks he invented are still an integral part of every close-up magician's repertoire.
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system which was also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Philo Farnsworth), his early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention.
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John Robert Vane
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Johnnie Ray
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona.
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Johnny Temple
John Ellis Temple (August 8, 1927 – January 9, 1994) was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Redlegs/Reds (1952-59; 1964); Cleveland Indians (1960-61), Baltimore Orioles (1962) and Houston Colt .45s (1962-63). Temple was born in Lexington, North Carolina. He batted and threw right-handed.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union, which he ruled as a dictator.
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José Azcona del Hoyo
José Simón Azcona del Hoyo (26 January 1927 – 24 October 2005) was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH). He was born in La Ceiba in Honduras.
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Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism, creating several of the movement's most distinctive works.
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Juliette Greco
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June Brown
June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is a British actress, best known for her role as the busy-body, chain-smoking gossip Dot Cotton in the long running British soap opera EastEnders and for making other high profile television appearances on shows such as Doctor Who, Coronation Street, Minder, The Bill and The Sweeney.
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June Mathis
June Mathis (June 30, 1889 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter and one of the highest paid Hollywood executives in the 1920s. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. Today, she is best remembered for discovering Rudolph Valentino and writing such films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and Blood and Sand.
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Jupp Derwall
Josef "Jupp" Derwall (10 March 1927, Würselen, Rhine Province - 26 June 2007, St. Ingbert, Saarland) was a German football (soccer) player and coach. Derwall was manager of the Germany national football team between 1978 and 1984, winning the 1980 European Football Championship and reaching the final of the 1982 World Cup. His hairdo provided the basis for his nickname "Chieftain Silver Curl" (Häuptling Silberlocke).
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Jānis Čakste
Jānis Čakste (September 14, 1859 in Lielsesava (now Viesturi parish), Latvia - March 14, 1927 in Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian politician and the first President of Latvia.
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Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.
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Kevin O'Higgins
'''Kevin Christopher O'Higgins''' (; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice. He was part of early nationalist Sinn Féin, before going on to become a prominent member of Cumann na nGaedhael. O'Higgins initiated the An Garda Síochána police force. His brother Thomas and nephews Tom and Michael were also elected TDs.
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Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (born 18 July 1927) is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.
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L.Q. Jones
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Ladislao Kubala
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Lasse Pöysti
Lasse Pöysti (born 24 January 1927 in Sortavala) is a Finnish actor (acted both in Finnish and Swedish), director, theatre manager and writer.
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Lee Grant
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1927) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. Grant won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Carp in the film Shampoo (1975).
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Leon Daudet
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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (Russian: , (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) – 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Leszek Kolakowski
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Lewis Urry
Lewis Frederick Urry, ( – ), was a Canadian chemical engineer and inventor. He invented both the alkaline battery and lithium battery while working for the Eveready Battery company.
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Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States. The murders, subsequent trial, and ensuing trial by media became a cause célèbre. The fame of the incident has endured in American pop culture and criminology. Although Lizzie Borden was acquitted, no one else was ever arrested or tried, and she has remained a notorious figure in American folklore. Dispute over the identity of the killer or killers continues to this day.
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Lois Florreich
Kathleen Lois Florreich [Flash] (April 29, 1927 - September 11, 1991) was a female pitcher and utility who played from through for three different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 140 lb., Florreich batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Webster Groves, Missouri.
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Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell (14 February 1927 – 29 September 2007) was a Canadian actress.
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Lynn Cartwright
Lynn Cartwright (February 27, 1927 – January 2, 2004) was an American character actress probably best known for her performance as the older version of Geena Davis' character, Dottie Hinson, in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
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Ma Jir Bo
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Manfred Eigen
Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927) is a German biophysicist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.
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Marion Parker
Marion Parker (October 11, 1915 - December 17, 1927) was the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles. She had a twin sister named Marjorie. On December 15, 1927, Marion was abducted from her school by William Edward Hickman, who called himself "The Fox." Her murder has since become the subject of folk songs. Songs and some reports about Marion frequently misspell her name as Marian.
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Mark Lane (author)
Mark Lane (born February 24, 1927, New York City) is an American lawyer who has written many books, including Rush to Judgment. This book was one of two major books published in the immediate wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination which questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Another book, Plausible Denial, published in 1991, continued his interest in the JFK assassination. Lane was thought to be a screenwriter for the 1973 action movie, Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan,but in actuality he only worked on the first draft of the screenplay. He collaborated with Donald Freed on it and after seeing subsequent drafts, they complained both privately to the producer and publicly at press conferences, pointing out errors in the work.(ref.- Plausible Denial, Thunder's Mouth Press copyright 1991 page 326)
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Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
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Martin Walser
Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927 in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance) is a German writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and stories. In 1998 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt. He is the father of a daughter born in 1961, the writer-and-painter Alissa Walser.
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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
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Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (née Higgins; born December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York), known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her forty-two books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing. She is a minority owner of the New Jersey Nets.
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Mato Damjanović
Mato Damjanović (born March 23, 1927, Djeletovci) is a Croatian chess player who became a chess grandmaster representing Yugoslavia. In 1964 he became the second Croatian grandmaster, after Mijo Udovčić.
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McLean Stevenson
Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. (November 14, 1927 – February 15, 1996), better known as McLean Stevenson, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H.
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Michael Peter Ancher
Michael Peter Ancher (June 9, 1849 – September 19, 1927) was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists.
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Nalda Bird
Nalda Bird [Phillips] (born February 11, 1927) is a former female starting pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Listed at 5' 1", Bird batted right-handed and threw left-handed. She was affectively nicknamed Birdie.
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Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. His numerous Broadway successes have led to his work being among the most regularly performed in the world.
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Nicola Sacco
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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
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Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme () (30 January 1927 – 1 March 1986) was a Swedish politician.
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Oscar Miguez
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Otto Stich
Otto Stich (born 10 January 1927) is a Swiss politician.
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Pat Heywood
Patricia Heywood (born 1 January 1927 in Gretna Green, Scotland) is a British character actress who has appeared in stage productions, movies, and television.
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Pat Paulsen
Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen (July 6, 1927 – April 24, 1997) was an American comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers TV shows, and for his campaigns for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996, which had primarily comedic rather than political objectives, although his campaigns generated some protest votes for him.
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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (born November 8, 1927), known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records. Her nickname is ''The Singin' Rage''.
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Paul César Helleu
Paul César Helleu (December 17, 1859 – March 23, 1927) was a French artist best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of Greffulhe, the Marchesa Casati and Belle da Costa Greene, librarian to J. P. Morgan and one of the sharpest and most powerful women buyers of her time.
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Paul Eddington
Paul Eddington CBE (18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s, including The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
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Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall AM (born 1 April 1927 in Manchester, United Kingdom) is a horticulturalist and television personality in Australia. He currently lives in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and until the age of 81 continued to be a presenter of the ABC TV program Gardening Australia. His last show aired on 26 July 2008. He will continue his radio show from Tasmania, his appearances at the Gardening Australia Expos and continue work on his autobiography.
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Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh."
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Peter Mark Richman
Peter Mark Richman (born April 16, 1927) is an American actor who has starred in films and on television. He was frequently credited as Mark Richman.
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Peter Oakley
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Peter Voikov
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Phil Hill
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Philip Batt
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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully-functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector", the first fully-functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public.
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Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (born October 19, 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to Tachisme, Abstract expressionism, and Lyrical Abstraction.
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Pierre Aubert
Pierre Aubert (born 3 March 1927 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel) is a Swiss politician, lawyer and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978-1987).
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Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry (born 9 December 1927 in Paris, France) is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.
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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded John Paul II.
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Porter Wagoner
Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12, 1927 – October 28, 2007) was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. He introduced a young Dolly Parton on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known duet team throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954–1983; and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Rajendra Nath Lahiri
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Ralph Carmichael
Ralph Carmichael (born 28 May 1927, Quincy, Illinois) is a composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music, being regarded as one of the pioneers of the latter genre. Married to Marvella and father to composer and artist Carol Parks.
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Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan (; IAST: ; ) (born 25 December 1927), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularized the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.
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Ram Prasad Bismil
Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil (Hindi: पंडित राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल) (1897-18 December 1927) was an Indian revolutionary, who participated in the Kakori train robbery. Bismil was his pen name. He was a member of the Arya Samaj and also of the Hindustan Republican Association. He was a great poet and several inspiring patriotic verses are attributed him. The poem Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna is popularly attributed to him, although it has been suggested that Bismil Azimabadi actually wrote the poem whereas Ram Prasad "Bismil" immortalized it.
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Raúl Alfonsín
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (March 12, 1927 – March 31, 2009) was an Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, who served as the President of Argentina from December 10, 1983, to July 8, 1989. Alfonsín was the first democratically-elected president of Argentina following the military government known as the National Reorganization Process. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1985, among numerous other such recognitions.
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Robert Bork
Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is an American legal scholar who has advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject. Currently, Bork is a lawyer, law professor, and bestselling author.
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Robert Denning
Robert Denning (March 13, 1927 – August 26, 2005) was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.
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Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 25 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290-500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.
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Robert McKim (actor)
Robert McKim (26 August 1886 – 4 June 1927), was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 99 films between 1915 and 1927. He is best remembered for playing the arch villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks's Zorro in The Mark of Zorro in 1920. McKim also starred with Lon Chaney in the 1923 silent version of All The Brothers Were Valiant. One of his last roles was again as a villain in the unfinished silent The Mysterious Island starring Lionel Barrymore based on Jules Verne's novel. Though McKim shot silent sequences in 1927 the film wasn't released until 1929. McKim was uncredited, though he's recognizable in a lot of the footage, and by that time had been dead for two years.
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Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. While Kilby's invention was six months earlier, neither man rejected the title of co-inventor. Noyce was also a mentor and father-figure to an entire generation of entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs at Apple, Inc.
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Robert Orben
Robert Orben (born March 4, 1927) is an American magician and professional comedy writer. He is also an author of books for magicians. He wrote a book called "Speaker's Handbook of Humor".
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Roméo LeBlanc
Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc (December 18, 1927 June 24, 2009) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 25th since Canadian Confederation.
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Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter (née Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter born August 18, 1927), is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. As First Lady and after, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental health research. She was politically active in her White House years as her husband's closest adviser as well, and sat in on Cabinet and policy meetings. She also served as an envoy abroad, most prominently to Latin America.
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Roshan Singh
Thakur Roshan Singh (executed 20 December 1927 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh) was a great Indian revolutionary.
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Roy Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare. Cohn gained special prominence during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was also an important member of the U.S. Department of Justice's prosecution team at the espionage trials of Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Roy Stuart (actor)
Roy Stuart (July 17, 1927 – December 25, 2005) was an American character actor. He is perhaps best-known for playing Corporal Charles Boyle on television's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968.
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Roza Makagonova
Roza Ivanovna Makagonova (, October 28, 1927 – April 18, 1995) was a Soviet actress. Makagonova was awarded as a Meritorious Artist in 1976.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story". He committed suicide at age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.
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Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines. She went on to sing a wider repertoire that embraced Italian, French, German, Russian, and English opera from a variety of musical periods. In the early 1970s Crespin began experiencing vocal difficulties for the first time and ultimately began performing roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire. Throughout her career she was widely admired for the elegance, warmth and subtlety of her singing, especially in the French and German operatic repertories.
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Sabah (singer)
Sabah (Arabic: صباح) (born November 10, 1927) is a Lebanese singer and actress whose career stretches from 1943 to the present.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891–August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888–August 23, 1927) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.
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Samuel Roxy Rothafel
Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel (9 July 1882, Stillwater, Minnesota - 13 January 1936, New York City) was a showman of the 1920s silent film era and the impresario for many of the great New York movie palaces that he managed such as the Strand, Rialto, Rivoli, Capitol, and his eponymous Roxy Theatre in New York City (opened March 11, 1927, demolished October 1960). He also opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932, which featured the precision dance troupe, the "Roxyettes", later renamed the Rockettes.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (; Shanghainese: Zånhae ; ) is the most populous city in China and the most populous city proper in the world. A global city, Shanghai exerts influence over global commerce, finance, culture, art, fashion, research and entertainment. The city is located at the middle portion of the Chinese coast, and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( or ; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
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Squizzy Taylor
Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was a Melbourne-based gangster. He earned the nickname 'Squizzy' due to an ulcerated, droopy left eyelid and the fact that he ran in a 'squizzy' motion.
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Stan Getz
Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991), usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young.
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Steve Ditko
Stephen J. "Steve" Ditko (born November 2, 1927) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.
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Steve Stavro
Steve Atanas Stavro, CM (September 27, 1926 - April 24, 2006), born Manoli Stavroff Sholdas, was a Macedonian Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist.
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Svante Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. The Arrhenius equation, lunar crater Arrhenius and the Arrhenius Labs at Stockholm University are named after him.
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Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner, CH FRS (born January 13, 1927) is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston.
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Teddy Wakelam
Captain Henry Blythe Thornhill (Teddy) Wakelam (May 8, 1893 - July 10, 1963) was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player.
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Templin Potts
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Thakur Roshan Singh
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Thayer David
Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey, March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978) was a film, stage and television actor. He was best known for his work on the cult ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971) and as the fight promoter George Jergens in the Oscar-winning movie Rocky in 1976. He also appeared as Count Arne Saknussemm in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1959. His raspy distinctive voice narrated many voice-overs in commercials and narrations of instructional films and commercials.
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Tom Bosley
Thomas Edward "Tom" Bosley (born October 1, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his starring and supporting roles on the television shows Happy Days, Murder, She Wrote, and Father Dowling Mysteries, as well as the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello!.
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Tommy Lasorda
Thomas Charles Lasorda (born September 22, 1927 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a former Major League baseball pitcher and manager. marks his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
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Tony Beckley
Tony Beckley (7 October 1927 – 19 April 1980) was an English character actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Beckley went onto carve out a career on film and television throughout the 1960s and 1970s often playing villainous roles, as well as being a veteran of numerous stage productions.
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Vernon Corea
Vernon Corea (11 September 1927 - 23 September 2002) was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. During his time he presented some of the most popular radio shows in South Asia, including The Maliban Show, Dial-a-Disc, Holiday Choice, Two For the Money, Take It Or Leave It,Saturday Stars,To Each His Own,Kiddies Corner, and Old Folks at Home. He was well known not only in Sri Lanka, but right across the Indian Sub-Continent from the late 1950s to the 1970s - this was in the heyday of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was described by Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and spiritualism as she fought against corruption and for labor reforms. The authorship of many of her speeches and articles is disputed. Many of her speeches on these subjects were not written by Woodhull herself alone but also by her backers and husband. Either way, her role as a representative of these movements was nonetheless powerful and controversial. She was the first woman along with her sister to operate a brokerage firm in Wall Street and then open a weekly newspaper. She is most famous for her declaration and campaign to run as the first woman for the United States Presidency in 1872. Many of the reforms and ideals espoused by her for the common working class against the corrupt rich business elite were extremely controversial in her time though generations later many of those implemented are now taken for granted. Other ideas and reforms still remain controversial and debated today.
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Vin Scully
Vincent Edward Scully (born November 29, 1927) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL-TV and KABC radio. His 61 seasons with the Dodgers (1950–present) is the longest of any broadcaster with a single club in professional sports history, and he is second by a year to only Tommy Lasorda in terms of length of years with the Dodgers organization in any capacity.
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
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Vladimir Shatalov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (; born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
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W. S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin (New York City, September 30, 1927) is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s , Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from his interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in Hawaii, he writes prolifically and is dedicated to the restoration of the islands' rainforests.
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W.D. Amaradeva
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Wayne Wheeler
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (November 10, 1869 – September 5, 1927) was an American attorney and prohibitionist. Using deft political pressure and what might today be called a litmus test, he was able to influence many governments, and eventually the U.S. government, to prohibit alcohol.
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. In addition, he made important contributions to nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and particle physics.
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Wes Montgomery
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. He is unanimously considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Emily Remler, Kenny Burrell, Pat Metheny, and Jimi Hendrix.
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Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 – Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it.
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William J. Bell
William J. Bell (March 6, 1927 – April 29, 2005) was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. He was married to former talk show host Lee Phillip Bell, who co-created Y&R; and B&B; with him. Their three children, Bill Jr., Bradley, and Lauralee, and daughter-in-law Maria Arena Bell are all involved in their parents' soaps in some capacity.
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William Smithers
William Smithers (born 10 July 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jeremy Wendell in the television series Dallas. He appeared in the series in 1981 and from 1984 to 1989. He attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
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Albania
Albania ( , , Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia/Shqypnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (, pronounced ), is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
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Amman
Amman (; , ʿAmmān) is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. A city of about 2 million inhabitants (2008 estimate), it is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Amman is the administrative seat of the homonymous governorate.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Bath School disaster
The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, USA, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 primary school children and 7 adults, and injured at least 58 people. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–12 years of age) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history. The perpetrator was school board member Andrew Kehoe, who was upset by a property tax that had been levied to fund the construction of the school building. He blamed the additional tax for financial hardships which led to foreclosure proceedings against his farm. These events apparently provoked Kehoe to plan his attack.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13 million square miles (34 million km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo () is the second most populous city in the state of New York, behind New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area (which is the largest in Western New York and the larger Upstate New York). Downtown Buffalo is located 17 miles (27 km) south of Niagara Falls (a site drawing millions of tourists each year) and 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Toronto, Ontario (Canada's largest city). The city also lies adjacent to the rapidly growing Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, which has a population of more than 8 million. Buffalo itself has a population of 270,919 (July 1, 2009 Estimate), and the Buffalo–Niagara–Cattaraugus Combined Statistical Area is home to 1,203,997 residents. If the neighboring Regional Municipality of Niagara in Canada is included, the population of the Greater Buffalo-Niagara Region is 1,631,418 residents. Additionally, Buffalo-Niagara is considered to be a part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, which contains an estimated 54 million people.
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Burgenland
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Canberra
Canberra () is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran".
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Canton, Ohio
Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.
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Chile
Chile (, in English often pronounced //,), officially the Republic of Chile ( ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. With Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America which do not border Brazil. The Pacific coastline of Chile is 6,435 kilometres (4000 mi). Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Dublin
Dublin (; locally or ) is the primate and capital city of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath . The English name is derived from the Irish Dubh Linn (meaning "black pool"). The city has an urban population of over 1 million people and is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's primary city following the Norman invasion. It is currently ranked 29th in the Global Financial Centres Index, has one of the fastest growing populations of any European capital city, and is listed by the GaWC as a global city (with a ranking of Alpha), placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the country, as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Fort Erie, Ontario
Fort Erie (2006 population 29,925) is a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly across the river from Buffalo, New York.
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France
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Genoa
Genoa ( , ; in Genoese and Ligurian: Zena, ; in Latin and, archaically, in English: Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000. Genoa's Metropolitan Area has a population of about 1,400,000. It is also called la Superba ("the Superb one") due to its glorious past. Part of the old city of Genoa was inscribed on the World Heritage List (UNESCO) in 2006 (see below). The city's rich art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history, made it 2004's EU Capital of culture.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; pronounced ) is the second-largest city in Sweden (after Stockholm) and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the southwest coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 509,847, with 510,491 in the urban area and total of 922,938 inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (; , local pronunciation Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg ) is the second-largest city in Germany and the eighth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam), and the eighth largest in the world.
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Hubert Harrison
Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 - December 17, 1927) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by activist A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem radicalism” and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.”
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Hyogo Prefecture
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Irish Free State
The Irish Free State () (1922–1937) was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand. On the day the Irish Free State was established, it comprised the entire island of Ireland, but Northern Ireland almost immediately exercised its right under the Treaty to opt out of the new state. The Irish Free State effectively replaced the self-proclaimed Irish Republic (itself established on 21 January 1919). Similarly, the new government of the Irish Free State replaced both the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland and the Government of the Irish Republic although W. T. Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State had, in any event, led both governments since August 1922.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Lod
Lod (; , al-Ludd; Greco-Latin Lydda) is a city located on the Sharon Plain southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2007, it had a population of 67,000, roughly 80 percent Jewish and 20 percent Arab.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is a French corruption of the Ojibwe word mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
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Nablus
Nablus (sometimes Nābulus; ; ; , Šəḫem) (Biblical Shechem) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.
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New Jersey
New Jersey (, ) is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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Nijmegen
Nijmegen () is a municipality and a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is considered to be the oldest city in the Netherlands and celebrated its 2000th year of existence in 2005.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Ontario, Canada
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Oregon
Oregon ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern boundaries, respectively. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers, and settlers who formed an autonomous government in Oregon Country in 1843; the Oregon Territory was created in 1848, and Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Salem is the state's capital and third-most-populous city; Portland is the most populous. Portland is the 30th-largest U.S. city, with a population of 582,130 (2009 estimate) and a metro population of 2,241,841 (2009 estimate), the 23rd-largest U.S. metro area.
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Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania () is a U.S. state and Commonwealth located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to the east. The state's four most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie. The state capital is Harrisburg.
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Pittsburgh
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ALBUMS
The Very Best Of
(Released 1996)
- That's When I Think Of You
- You'll Never Know
- If I Could
- Tell Me A Story
- Don't Forget Me
- The Other Side
- It Ain't Love
- Scars
- To Love Me
- Compulsory Hero
- I'd Die For You
- Nothing I Can Do
1927
(Released 1992)
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The Other Side
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...ish
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1927 - If I Could
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- Duration: 3:44
- Published: 20 Jan 2010
- Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
- Author: ClipsFromRage
Aussie pop-rock band 1927 perform the simple yet effective love song "If I could" as featured on the album "...ish" which has recently been reissued on CD
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Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927
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- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 11 Jul 2007
- Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
- Author: thecatkeaton
Jazzopen Stuttgart 2006.
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Randy Newman "Louisiana 1927"
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- Duration: 3:02
- Published: 27 Nov 2008
- Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
- Author: WestHam712
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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The Open Road London (1927)
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- Duration: 10:12
- Published: 03 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
- Author: LondonsScreenArchive
London is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour. London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.
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Clara Bow scene from the ''IT'' 1927
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- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 21 Jul 2007
- Uploaded: 30 Dec 2011
- Author: alexegeviz
Clara as always is really charming.This movie gave her the name "The It girl".Let yourself emmerge into another era...enjoy!
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"Compulsory Hero" - 1927 (A Hiro Nakamura Heroes FanVid)
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- Duration: 4:45
- Published: 08 May 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
- Author: DecadentDream
A Heroes Fanvid for the Character Hiro set to 1927's "Compulsory Hero". Features ssn1 eps 1-20. Shows Hiro's desire to be a hero and what transition he faces in the future.
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Solvay Physics Conference 1927
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 03 May 2007
- Uploaded: 30 Dec 2011
- Author: FreeScienceLectures
www.FreeScienceLectures.com The most known people who participated in the conference were Ervin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Auguste Piccard, Paul Dirac, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein and others. The film opens with quick shots of Erwin Schrodinger and Niels Bohr. Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels follows and then the camera re-focuses on Schrodinger and Bohr. Schrodinger who developed wave mechanics never agreed with Bohr on quantum mechanics. Solvay gave Heisenberg an opportunity to discuss his new uncertainty principle theory. Max Born's statistical interpretation of the wave function ended determinism in atomic world. These men - Bohr, Heisenberg, Kramers, Dirac and Born together with Born represent the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. Louis de Broglie wrote his dissertation on the wave nature of matter which Schrodinger used as basis for wave mechanics. Albert Einstein whose famous response to Born's statistical interpretation of wave function was "God does not play dice." Twenty-nine physicists, the main quantum theorists of the day, came together to discuss the topic "Electrons and Photons". Seventeen of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Following is a "home movie" shot by Irving Langmuir, (the 1932 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry). It captures 2 minutes of an intermission in the proceedings. Twenty-one of the 29 attendees are on the film. --- It's Never <b>...</b>
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Tom Bosley, 1927-2010
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- Duration: 0:47
- Published: 19 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: AssociatedPress
Tom Bosley, the actor best known for his role as Howard Cunningham in the long-running TV hit 'Happy Days,' has died at the age of 83. (Oct. 19)
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Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run - Sept. 30,1927
Babe Ruth hits his 60th Home Run on September 30th 1927. I took different video clips and photos and pieced this together to create what Babe Ruth's 60th HR might have looked like. beauproductions. com
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Trolley Troubles - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - 1927
Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney drew cartoons of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Universal Pictures and Charles Mintz. This was the first of these films which was released to theaters. Other animators who were involved included Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Friz Freleng, Les Clark, Ben Clopton, Norm Blackburn and Rollin "Ham" Hamilton. Note that the original film was silent. The soundtrack was added when it was rereleased a few years later. ==================== Note that I am now moderating the comments because of some bad apples.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 1/9
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 18 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: silentfilmdemocracy
Directed by FW Murnau George O'Brien - The Man Janet Gaynor - The Wife A young farmer falls in love with a tempting woman from the city, who persuades him to try and kill his wife, so they can be together. What will happen when the man has a vision of what the city is really like..? Winner of the 1929 'Best Picture' Oscar for 'Unique and Artistic' Production, and 'Best Actress' for Janet Gaynor.
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Josephine Baker (1927)
Josephine Baker in Pathecolor, shot in 1927 for the french silent movie La Revue Des Revues.
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LOUISIANA 1927 - AARON NEVILLE
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 17 Apr 2010
- Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
- Author: makithecat
Written by the great Randy Newman (1st pic), and featured on the 1991 album "Warm Your Heart!!! If you enjoy please COMMENT and RATE - thanks!!!
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1927 Wings Trailer
Fan made trailer for William A. Wellman's Wings. Won oscar for best production. It is more melodramatic than this trailer let think and also a bit dated. In my opinion it is not a great great film, too melodramatic for my taste, there's a dozen of better films made that same year. But it is entertaining. If you think you can handle it, it's maybe worth a look. Music is Mars, Bringer Of War by Gustav Holst, from The Planets.
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Josephine Baker -2- (1927)
Another clip from La Revue Des Revues. Josephine Baker strutting her stuff... Not the original sound.
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Metropolis (restoration trailer)
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 29 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
- Author: Humanoidity
www.kino.com Metropolis is a 1927 silent science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and the story was novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. The film stars Alfred Abel as the leader of the city, Gustav Fröhlich as his son, who tries to mediate between the elite caste and the workers, Brigitte Helm as both the pure-at-heart worker Maria and the debased robot version of her, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the mad scientist who created the robot. Metropolis was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film AG (UFA) and released in 1927 during a stable period of the Weimar Republic. The most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make. The film was cut substantially after its German premiere, and there have been several efforts to restore it. Also, the American copyright lapsed in 1953, which eventually led to a proliferation of versions being released on video. en.wikipedia.org
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SEVENTH HEAVEN (1927) 1/12
Frank Borzage's SEVENTH HEAVEN starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This is an Italian version. I added the English subtitles myself so I hope they are fairly accurate. The video goes black for a few seconds on several occasions but returns.
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'Nobody's Fault But Mine' BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON (1927) Gospel Blues Guitar Legend
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- Duration: 3:12
- Published: 26 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
- Author: RagtimeDorianHenry
" Nobody's Fault But Mine " Saturday, 3 December 1927 DALLAS The "RED HOT BLUES " (1925-1945) Texas Alexander Pink Anderson Kokomo Arnold Barbecue Bob Scrapper Blackwell Black Ace Ed Bell Blind Blake Ishman Bracey Big Bill Broonzy Richard "Rabbit" Brown Willie Brown Bumble Bee Slim Gus Cannon Bo Carter Sam Collins Floyd Council Gary Davis Sleepy John Estes Blind Boy Fuller Son House Peg Leg Howell Mississippi John Hurt Papa Charlie Jackson Jim Jackson Skip James Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie Johnson Lonnie Johnson Robert Johnson Tommy Johnson Charley Jordan Luke Jordan Leadbelly Furry Lewis Cripple Clarence Lofton Tommy McClennan Robert Lee McCoy Blind Willie McTell The Memphis Jug Band Buddy Moss Memphis Minnie Hambone Willie Newbern Charley Patton Robert Petway Jimmie Rodgers Frank Stokes Sonny Terry Henry Thomas Ramblin Thomas Curley Weaver Casey Bill Weldon Peetie Wheatstraw Bukka White Josh White Robert Wilkins Big Joe Williams
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How To Use A Telephone (1927)
Attention Central California Residents: This film shows the actual cutover date from operator assistance to direct-dial (local only) in Fresno and Madera California.
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Sophie Tucker "SOME OF THESE DAYS" (1927)
"SOME OF THESE DAYS" Sophie Tucker Composed by Shelton Brooks Accompanied by Ted Shapiro, piano and unknown musicians Recorded September 2, 1927 Okeh unissued mx 81305-A This particular version of her theme song was released for the first time some 30 years after it was recorded in 1927 on Columbia's LP archive series "The Original Sound of the 20s." Sophie narrates the first part of the verse and tells how this trademark song describes the story of her life. She then finishes off this demonstration of sheer power with a full-voice chorus in the typical Tucker tradition. "Some of These Days" was Sophie Tucker's biggest hit, but she almost missed it. One day in Chicago, Tucker's maid took her to task: "See here, young lady," the servant said, "since when are you so important that you can't hear a song by a colored writer? Here's this boy, Shelton Brooks, hanging around, waiting, like a dog with his tongue hanging out, for you to hear his song." Tucker listened, and liked what she heard—as did audiences who kept demanding this song from her for the next half century. [Ted Gioia, Jazz.com]
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Gene Austin - My Blue Heaven (1927)
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 10 May 2008
- Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
- Author: edmundusrex
Gene Austin was a popular screen, radio & recording artist during the mid 1920's into the 1930's. He was known as "the voice of the south land" and a pioneer in the "crooning" style of singing. A jazz artist at heart, he was equally at home singing country ballads, blues and spirituals. His improvisational style apparent in his recordings, added a unique flavor to his interpretations.
http://wn.com/Gene_Austin__My_Blue_Heaven_1927
Metropolis (1927) pt 1 with Music by Nemtin / Scriabin
Powerful music brings a great movie to life! The music in this version of the 1927 German silent classic matches the action & emotion of the film better than any other I've heard. Music is by Alexander Nemtin, after Scriabin, for Preparation for the Final Mystery and Nuances. Metropolis, city of the future: In Part 1, we see the stark contrast between the lives of the workers and the rulers. All is about to change as the Ruler's son, Freder, falls in love with Maria. To hear more of this music, ask Decca to reissue its 3 CD set conducted by Ashkenazy. Buy the Kino DVD Metropolis to see the most complete version of this film available now.
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Provincetown. The very name resonates with the romanticized image of a retreat where artists gather, frolic and create. But this long-lived art colony has also been an incubator for the kind of...
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Synopsis ~ Wings is the story of two men who have gone to war and the girl they both leave behind. Director William A. Wellman makes one of his most humanistic statements as he explores the devastating results of war. Studio: Paramount Running Time: 144 minutes Rating: NR Number of Disks: 1 ...
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The Rev. J. Robert Sandman, 1927-2012
26 Jan 2012
Chicago Tribune
The Rev. J. Robert Sandman, a longtime United Church of Christ minister who helped establish scores of churches throughout...
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1927's 'Wings' soars again
23 Jan 2012
my SA
A milestone in San Antonio's movie history arrives on DVD today. Wings is a high-flying, breathtaking, emotional combination of war, romance, comedy, sentiment and amazing aerial stunt work. The spectacular battle and flying scenes in the 1927 blockbuster were shot in San Antonio. The Oscar-winning...
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Shale Baskin, 1927-2012
17 Jan 2012
Chicago Tribune
Shale Baskin grew up in a family of retailers but brought his own vision and a strong focus on...
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Overall column: Philbrook Museum gives peek at Phillips family life in 1927 Tulsa mansion
16 Jan 2012
Tulsa World
Behind locked doors in the basement of the Philbrook Museum, you'll find Tulsa's most luxurious broom closet, decorated floor-to-ceiling with an intricate floral-pattern tile. Cluttered with boxes and supplies, it used to be a sort of home spa for Waite Phillips and his family. "Now," the tour guide...
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Boeing’s Wichita history dates to 1927
05 Jan 2012
The Wichita Eagle
In Wichita’s 141 years of existence, there have been only 57 without a Boeing connection. And quite frankly, the 85 years it has been in Wichita have often been tumultuous. Boeing’s Wichita division began when Kansas native Lloyd Stearman moved his Stearman Aircraft Co. to the city in...
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Arthur Gartzman, 1927-2011
27 Dec 2011
Chicago Tribune
Arthur Gartzman never had a sense that as the owner of a dime store, he could make a difference in a person's life, much less the life of an entire neighborhood, said his son Marty. When his family told him the Chicago City Council passed a resolution in 2000 dedicating two blocks of Milwaukee...
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The Examiner
Along Central Park's border at 66th and Fifth is a riveting granite and bronze monument of seven World War One soldiers. The men charge into the heat of battle. The hard-faced squad leader, his helmet gone, grips his bayonet rifle. He is flanked on both sides by two more infantrymen also armed with...
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BOYNTON BEACH — More than one person has called the historic but run-down 1927 high school building a dinosaur. Now a long-necked one might stand in its former gym. This fall, the city put out a request for proposals to renovate the site across from city hall; it could cost up to $5.4 million....
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__NOTOC__
Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
January 1 – The Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack the government, which had banned the Catholic faith.
January 7 – The first transatlantic telephone call is made from New York City to London.
January 9 – A military rebellion is crushed in Lisbon, Portugal.
January 15 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on ''BBC Radio''.
January 19 – Britain sends troops to China.
January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the ''Republican Schutzbund'' clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots (see July 15).
February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen.
February 12 – The first British troops land in Shanghai.
February 14 – An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
February 19 – A general strike in Shanghai protests the presence of British troops.
February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
March 7 – A Richter Scale 7.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,925 at Toyooka and Mineyama area, western Honshu, Japan.
March 10 – Albania mobilizes in case of an attack by Yugoslavia.
March 11
* In New York City, the ''Roxy Theater'' is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
* The first armoured car robbery is committed by the Flatheads Gang near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
March 13 – Fritz Lang's culturally influential ''Metropolis (film)'' debuts in Germany.
April 1 – U.S. Bureau of Prohibition founded (under Department of the Treasury).
April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.
April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
April 12
* The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
* Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The incident is called the April 12 Incident, or Shanghai Massacre. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins.
April 14 – The first Volvo car rolls off the production line in Gothenburg, Sweden.
April 18 – The Kuomintang sets up a government in Nanking, China.
April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan.
April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history at that time.
April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup after beating Arsenal 1–0 at Wembley Stadium.
April 27
* The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
* João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a trans-Atlantic flight, from Genoa to Fernando de Noronha.
May – Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures.
May 5 – To The Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf.
May 7 – Civil war ends in Nicaragua.
May 9 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
May 11 – The ''Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'', the "Academy" in "Academy Awards", is founded.
May 12 – The British police raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation.
May 13 – George V proclaims the change of his title from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 14 – The ship ''Cap Arcona'' is launched at Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
May 17 – Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
May 18 – Bath School disaster: Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in Bath Township, Michigan.
May 20 – Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
May 20–May 21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.
May 22 – An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000.
May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York. This is over a year after John Logie Baird first demonstrated Television to members of the Royal Society in London.
May 24 – Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
June 4 – Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
June 7 – Peter Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, is assassinated.
June 9 – The Soviet Union executes 20 Britons for alleged espionage.
June 13
* Leon Daudet, leader of the French monarchists, is arrested in France.
* A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
June 29 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Northern England and Wales.
July 1 – Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration (FDIA).
July 10 – Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, is assassinated in Dublin.
July 11 – An earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Trans-Jordan such as Amman, Salt and Lydda.
July 15 – 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the Austrian police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See Massacre of July 15, 1927.
July 22 – The Italian football club A.S. Roma is founded.
July 24 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres, Belgium.
August 1 – The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed during the Nanchang Uprising.
August 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928."
August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 10 – Mount Rushmore is dedicated again. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the carving.
August 22 – In Hyde Park, London, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.
August 23 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
August 24–August 25 – A hurricane hits the Atlantic shore of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
August 26 – Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle (the crash site is never located).
September – Autumn Harvest Uprising in China.
September 7 – The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
September 14 – An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as ''CBS'') is formed and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.
September 25 – A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolished all types of slavery.
September 27 – 79 are killed and 550 are injured in the East St. Louis Tornado, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
October – The Fifth Solvay Conference held in the latter half of the month establishes the acceptance of the Copenhagen interpretation.
October 4 – Actual carving begins on Mount Rushmore.
October 6 – ''The Jazz Singer'' movie opens in the United States and becomes a huge success, although it will be a while before silent films are completely gone.
October 8 – ''Murderer's Row'': The New York Yankees complete a 4-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
October 9 – The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz.
October 27
* The Italian steamer ship ''Principessa Mafalda'' capsizes off Porto Seguro, Brazil; at least 314 are killed.
* Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen.
* At 5:50 a.m. a ground fault gives way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario, Canada. Nobody is injured in the incident, however, the area was evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
October 28 – Pan American Airways' first flight takes off from Key West, bound for Havana.
November 1 – İsmet İnönü forms the new government in Turkey. (5th government)
November 3–November 4 – Floods devastating Vermont incur the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".
November 4 – Frank Heath and his horse ''Gypsy Queen'' return to Washington, D.C., having completed a 2-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
November 10 – Unexplained explosions occur in Canton, Ohio.
November 12
* Mahatma Gandhi makes his first and last visit to Ceylon.
* Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
* The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
November 14 – The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion: Three ''Equitable Gas'' storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5 million.
November 21 – The Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing six.
December – Communist Party congress condemns all ''deviation from the general party line'' in the USSR.
December 2 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 12 – 1,600 people are hospitalized in London after hurting themselves on the icy streets.
December 15 – Marion Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
December 17 – The ''U.S. submarine S-4'' is accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard destroyer ''John Paulding'' off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise the sub.
December 19 –3 Indian Revolutionaries viz Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire 4th Rajendra Nath Lahiri was executed 2 day's before i.e. on December 17
December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play ''Show Boat'', based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
December 30 – The first Japanese metro line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
The ''British Broadcasting Corporation'' is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier.
The Voluntary Committee of Lawyers is founded to bring about the repeal of prohibition of alcohol in United States.
World population reaches 2 billion.
In Britain, 1,000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.
January 1
* Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
* Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Doak Walker, American football player (d. 1998)
January 5 – Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru (d. 2001)
January 10
* Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
* Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
* Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council
January 13
* Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
* Sydney Brenner, British biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 17
*Thomas Anthony Dooley, American physician (d. 1961)
*Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
January 23 – Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Radio Broadcaster (d. 1965)
January 24 – Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer and playwright
January 25 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
January 26 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
January 28
* Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
* Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
January 29
* Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
* Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
January 30
* Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
* Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
February 2
* Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
* Doris Sams, American female professional baseball player
February 3
* Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
* Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
February 7
* Juliette Greco, French singer and actress
* Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
February 10 – Leontyne Price, American soprano
February 11 – Nalda Bird, American female professional baseball player (d. 2004)
February 12 – Rita Meyer, American female professional baseball player (d. 1992)
February 14 – Lois Maxwell, British actress (d. 2007)
February 15 – Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
February 16 – June Brown, British actress
February 20
* Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. 1986)
* Sidney Poitier, American actor
February 21
* Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist (d. 1996)
* Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
February 23
* Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
* Ivan Hrušovský, Slovak composer (d. 2001)
February 24 – Mark Lane, American conspiracy theorist
February 26 – Tom Kennedy, American game show host
February 27 – Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
March 1
* Harry Belafonte, African-American musician and actor
* Robert Bork, American conservative law professor
March 3 – Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
March 4
* Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
* Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
* Robert Orben, American magician
* Dick Savitt, American tennis player
March 6
* Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author
* Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
* Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
* William J. Bell, American soap creator (d. 2005)
March 10 – Jupp Derwall, German football player and manager (d. 2007)
March 11 – Ron Todd, British trade union leader (d. 2005)
March 12 – Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (d. 2009)
March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
March 15 – Annastasia Batikis, Greek-American female professional baseball player
March 16
* Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
* Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
March 20
* John Joubert, South African–born British composer
* Earlene Risinger, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
March 21 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
March 23 – Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (d. 2011)
March 24 – Martin Walser, German author
March 25 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player (d. 1951)
March 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
March 29 – John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
March 31
* César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder (d. 1993)
* William Daniels, American actor
April 1 – Peter Cundall, Australian horticulturist and television presenter
April 2
* Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
* Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (d. 1980)
April 5 – Chao Li-Chi, Shanxi-born actor (d. 2010)
April 6 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
April 15 – Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
April 16
* Pope Benedict XVI
* Peter Mark Richman, American actor
April 18 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
April 20
* Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
* Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 27 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006)
April 29 – Lois Florreich, American female professional baseball player (d. 1991)
May 9 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
May 11
* Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
* Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2009)
* Bernard Fox, English actor
May 13 – Herbert Ross, American film director (d. 2001)
May 20 – Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
May 22 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
May 27 – Ralph Carmichael, American composer and arranger
May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor
June 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d. 2007)
June 8 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
June 10 – Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 2002)
June 12 – Al Fairweather, Scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
June 18 – Paul Eddington, British actor (d. 1995)
June 21 – Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
June 23 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer and director (d. 1987)
June 24 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 27 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and children's television show host (d. 2004)
June 28 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 4
* Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
* Neil Simon, American playwright
July 6
* Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (d. 2006)
* Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
* Pat Paulsen, American comedian and political satirist (d. 1997)
July 10
* David Norman Dinkins, African-American Mayor of New York City from 1989 through 1993
* William Smithers, American actor
July 15 – Joe Turkel, American actor
July 17 – Roy Stuart, American actor (d. 2005)
July 18 – Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
July 26 – Danny La Rue, Irish drag queen (d. 2009)
July 29 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realism oil painter (d. 1985)
July 30 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
August 4 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
August 7 – Carl Switzer, American actor (d. 1959)
August 8 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
August 9 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist, Turing Award winner (Artificial Intelligence)
August 12 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (d. 2007)
August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S. President Jimmy Carter
August 19 – L.Q. Jones, American actor
August 20 – Peter Oakley, also known as geriatric1927, British vlogger
August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
August 24 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 25 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
August 26 – Althea Gibson, African-American tennis player (d. 2003)
August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, prominent Iraqi novelist and writer (d. 2008)
August 30 – Bill Daily, American comedian and dramatic actor
September 3 – Br. John Hamman S.M. (d. 2000), close-up magician, inventor, Marianist brother
September 11
* Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster
* G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
September 16 – Peter Falk, American actor (d.2011)
September 21 – Owen Aspinall, 45th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
September 22
* Gordon Astall, English footballer
* Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers)
September 24 – Arthur Malet, English actor
September 25 – Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
September 27
* Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 2006)
* W. S. Merwin, American poet
September 30 – Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian athlete (d. 2001)
October 1 – Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
October 6 – Antony Grey, English gay rights activist (d. 2010)
October 7 – Tony Beckley, English character actor (d. 1980)
October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2002)
October 10 – Dana Elcar, American actor and director (d. 2005)
October 13 – Lee Konitz, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist
October 14 – Roger Moore, English actor
October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
October 18 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
October 19 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter
October 23 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
October 28 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
October 31 – Lee Grant, American actress
November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist
November 8 – Patti Page, American singer
November 10 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress
November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
November 15 – Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (d. 1992)
November 17 – Fenella Fielding, English actress
November 18 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
November 21
* Joseph Campanella, American actor
* Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
November 23 – Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
November 24
* Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
* Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
November 28 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
November 29 – Vin Scully, American baseball broadcaster
November 30 – Robert Guillaume, American actor
December 3 – Andy Williams, American singer
December 5
* HMK Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
* W.D. Amaradeva, Sri Lanka Maestro
* Erich Probst, Austrian football player (d. 1988)
* Oscar Miguez, Uruguayan football player (d. 2006)
December 7 – Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
December 8 – Vladimir Shatalov, Russian cosmonaut
December 9 – Pierre Henry, French composer
December 12 – Robert Noyce, Intel cofounder (d. 1990)
December 13 – James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
December 20 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and singer (d. 2011)
December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, famous American novelist
December 25
* Nellie Fox, American baseball player (d. 1975)
* Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
December 26
* Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004)
* Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
* Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor (d. 1984)
December 27 – Genevieve Audrey Wagner, American professional baseball player and Doctor of Medicine (d. 1984)
December 29
* Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
* Matt Murphy, blues guitarist
January 19 – Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
February 13 – Brooks Adams, American historian (b. 1848)
February 19 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
March 4 – Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846)
March 14 – Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic (b. 1859)
March 17 – Charles Emmett Mack, American actor (b. 1900)
March 22 – Templin Potts, American naval officer; 11th Naval Governor of Guam (b. 1855)
March 23 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
March 27 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
April 15 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
April 25 – Earle Williams, American actor (b. 1880)
May 2 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
May 3 – Ernest Ball, American singer and songwriter (b. 1878)
May 11 – Juan Gris, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
June 1
* Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
* J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
June 4 – Robert McKim, American actor (b. 1886)
June 9 – Victoria Woodhull, American feminist and spiritualist (b. 1838)
June 11 – William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (b. 1859)
July 5 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
July 9 – John Drew, Jr., American stage actor (b. 1853)
July 20 – Ferdinand of Romania, King of Romania (b. 1865)
July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1892)
July 26 – June Mathis, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, America novelist and conservationist (b. 1878)
August 23
* Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)
* Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)
August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (b. 1871)
September 5 – Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1868)
September 14
* Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
* Hugo Ball, German poet, founder of ''Dadaism'' (b. 1886)
September 5 – Marcus Loew, Theater chain founder (b. 1870)
September 19 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
September 29 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
October 2 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
October 5 – Sam Warner, Hollywood studio executive (b. 1887)
October 10 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
October 22 – Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
October 27 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (b. 1888)
November 1 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer (b. 1896)
November 4 – Valli Valli, actress (b. 1882)
December 17
*Hubert Harrison, African American writer, critic, and activist (b. 1883)
*Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b.1901)
December 19
*Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1897
*Thakur Roshan Singh, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b.1892)
*Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1900)
Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Chemistry – Heinrich Otto Wieland
Physiology or Medicine – Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Literature – Henri Bergson
Peace – Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
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Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on ''The Daily Show'' and for his Comedy Central show ''Important Things with Demetri Martin''.
Early life
Demetri Martin was born to a Greek American family in New York City, New York, and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. He is the son of Lillian, a nutritionist, and Dean C. Martin, a Greek Orthodox priest. Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995. Although he was accepted into Harvard Law School, he went to New York University School of Law after he received a full scholarship. In 1996 Martin interned for the Domestic Policy Council at the Clinton White House, then after completing his second year of law school he dropped out.
Career
In 2001, Martin caught his first big break in stand-up comedy when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase ''Premium Blend''. At the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe he won the Perrier award with his show ''If I...''. The show was turned into a British television special in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, Martin wrote for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. In 2004, Martin had his own ''Comedy Central Presents'' stand-up special. His special was divided into three parts. In the first, he performed in traditional stand-up comedy fashion. In the second segment, he used humorous drawings as visual aids, which would serve either as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played a guitar and put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons acted according to the story he was telling, detailing the magical land where his jokes came from. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.Since late 2005, he has been credited as a contributor on ''The Daily Show'', on which he has appeared as the named "Senior Youth Correspondent" and on which he hosts a segment called "Trendspotting". He has used this segment to talk about so-called hip trends among youth such as hookahs, wine, guerilla marketing and Xbox 360. A piece about social networking featured his profile on MySpace. On March 22, 2007, Demetri made another appearance on ''The Daily Show'', talking about the Viacom lawsuit against Google and YouTube.
He has recorded a comedy CD/DVD titled ''These Are Jokes'', which was released on September 26, 2006. This album also features ''Saturday Night Live'' member Will Forte and stand-up comedian Leo Allen.
Martin returned to ''The Daily Show'' on March 22, 2006, as the new Youth Correspondent, calling his segment "Professional Important News with Demetri Martin". In 2007, he starred in a Fountains of Wayne music video for "Someone to Love" as Seth Shapiro, a character in the song. He also starred in the video for the new Travis single "Selfish Jean", in which he wears multiple t-shirts with lyrics written on them.
On September 2, 2007, Martin appeared on the season finale of the HBO series ''Flight of the Conchords''. He appeared as a keytar player named Demetri.
He also had a part in the movie ''The Rocker'' (2008) starring Rainn Wilson. Martin played the part of the videographer when the band in the movie was making their first music video.
In 2009, he hosted and starred in his own television show called ''Important Things With Demetri Martin'' on Comedy Central. Later in June, it was announced his show had been renewed for a second season. The second season premiered, again on Comedy Central, on February 4, 2010. Martin has stated that ''Important Things'' will not return for a third season.
Prior to completing work on his second season, Martin starred in the comedy-drama film ''Taking Woodstock'' (2009), directed by Ang Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In the film Martin plays Elliot Tiber, a closeted gay artist who has given up his ambitions in the city to move upstate and help his old-world Jewish family run their Catskill Mountains motel. The film is based on the book written by Tiber.
On April 25, 2011, Martin released his first book, titled ''This Is a Book''.
Future plans
Martin sold his movie concept ''Will'' to DreamWorks; he is expected to play a key supporting role. He will play the lead in the film ''Moon People'', a pitch that he sold to Columbia Pictures.Martin also signed a blind script deal with CBS in October 2010 to produce, write, and star in his own television series.
After CBS was shown the pilot for the series, they decided not to air it.
On August 11, 2011, Fox ordered a presentation of a new animated show they might air.
''If I''
''If I'' is a Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedy one-man show written and performed by Demetri Martin at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was also aired on British television as a special. The show is an autobiographical examination of Martin's life, as seen through various definitions of the word "if."The title of the special comes from a lengthy palindromic poem that Martin wrote; the words "if I" are at the center of the poem.
Comedic style
Martin is known for being an unconventional stand-up comic. He uses extensive wordplay (particularly paraprosdokians), one-liners, and drawings on a "large pad", as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel, toy bells, ukulele, or tambourine, sometimes all at once. He has cited comedian Steven Wright as an important influence (both use deadpan one-liners in their acts) and he is also a fan of Bill Cosby.
Personal life
According to a July 2011 interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast , Demetri had a short-lived marriage to a girl he knew from high school. They began dating after high school and got married when he was in NYU Law School and she was attending NYU Medical School. He was aged 25 and in the end of his marriage/going through divorce when his stand-up career began .Martin moved to Santa Monica, California in 2009.
Discography
Filmography and television work
| Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
| 2002 | ''Analyze That'' | Personal Assistant | |
| 2003 | ''If I''| | Himself | British television special, also writer |
| 2004 | ''12:21''| | Himself | short film, also writer |
| 2004 | ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''| | Himself | 1 episode, series writer |
| 2007 | "''Someone to Love (Fountains of Wayne song)Someone to Love''" || | Seth Shapiro | ''Fountains of Wayne'' music video |
| 2007 | ''Flight of the Conchords (TV series)Flight of the Conchords'' || | Demetri | Season 1, Episode 12 |
| 2008 | ''The Rocker (film)The Rocker'' || | Kip (a music video producer) | |
| 2009 | ''Paper Heart''| | Himself | |
| 2009 | ''Post Grad''| | Ad Exec | |
| 2009 | ''Moon People''| | lead role and writer | |
| 2009 | ''Taking Woodstock''| | Elliot Tiber | lead role |
| 2009–2010 | ''Important Things with Demetri Martin''| | Himself / Various | lead role, writer, series creator, executive producer, and composer |
| 2011 | ''Take Me Home Tonight (film)Take Me Home Tonight'' || | Goldman Sachs Employee | supporting role |
| 2011 | ''Contagion (film)Contagion'' || | ||
| 2011 | ''Conan''| | Himself | guest |
Written works
''This Is a Book'', April 2011, .
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 12°2′36″N77°1′42″N |
|---|---|
| name | Clara Bow |
| birth name | Clara Gordon Bow |
| birth date | July 29, 1905 |
| birth place | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| death date | September 27, 1965 |
| death place | West Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| spouse | (his death) |
| children | Tony Beldam (1934-2011)George Beldam, Jr. (b. 1938) |
| years active | 1921–1933 |
| occupation | Actress }} |
Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a quintessential flapper in the film ''It'' that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. She appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as ''Mantrap'' (1926), It (1927) and ''Wings'' (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office draw in 1927 and 1930. Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost 2-to-1, a "safe return". In January 1929, at the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters. After marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow ended her career in 1933 with the film with ''Hoop-La'', becoming a rancher in Nevada.
Early life
Clara Bow was born in 1905 in a slum tenement in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York, where she was also raised. Bow was the third child; the first two, also daughters, born in 1903 and 1904, died in infancy. Her mother, Sarah Bow (1880–1923), was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again for fear the next baby might die as well. Despite the her doctor's warning, Sarah Bow became pregnant with Clara in the fall of 1904. In addition to the risky pregnancy, a Heat Wave besieged New York In July 1905 and temperatures peaked around 100F; the infant mortality rate rose to 80%. "I don't suppose two people ever looked death in the face more clearly than my mother and I the morning I was born. We were both given up, but somehow we struggled back to life".
At sixteen, Sarah fell from a second-story window and suffered a severe head injury. She was later diagnosed with "psychosis due to epilepsy", a condition apart from the seizures that is known to cause disordered thinking, delusional ideation, paranoia, and aggressive behavior.
From her earliest years, Bow learned how to care for her mother during the seizures as well as how to deal with the psychotic and hostile episodes. She said her mother could be "mean" to her, but "didn't mean to ... she couldn't help it". Still, Bow felt deprived of her childhood; "As a kid I took care of my mother, she didn't take care of me". Sarah worsened gradually, and when she realized her daughter was set for a movie career, Bow's mother told her she "would be much better off dead". One night in February 1922, Bow awoke to a butcher knife held against her throat by her mother. Bow was able to fend off the attack and locked her mother up. In the morning, Sarah had no recollection of the episode and was later committed to a charity hospital.
Bow said that her father, Robert (1874–1959), "had a quick, keen mind ... all the natural qualifications to make something of himself, but didn't". Robert seldom managed to hold on to a job and the family income varied drastically as a result. Between 1905 and 1923, the family lived at 14 different addresses. Robert was often absent, leaving his family without means to survive. "I do not think my mother ever loved my father. He knew it. And it made him very unhappy, for he worshiped her, always". }}
Sarah Bow died on January 5, 1923. When relatives gathered for the funeral, Bow accused them of not being supportive in the past. Reportedly, her anger led her to attempt jumping into her mother's open grave.
As Bow grew up she felt shy among other girls, who teased her for her worn-out clothes and "carrot-top" hair. From first grade, Bow preferred the company of boys her age, stating, "I could lick any boy my size. My right arm was quite famous. My right arm was developed from pitching so much ... Once I hopped a ride on behind a big fire engine. I got a lot of credit from the gang for that". Bow's athletic ability led her to becoming a track champion in high-school. Of her proposed arm strength, Louella Parsons noted, "... curiously enough, she has muscles on her arms that stand out like whip-cord".
Motion pictures
In the early 1920s, roughly 50 million Americans--half the population at that time--attended the movies every week. Bow discovered that as she grew into womanhood, her stature as a "boy" in her old gang would be "impossible". As well, she didn't have any girlfriends, school was a "heartache" and home "miserable". On the silver screen, however, she found consolation; "For the first time in my life I knew there was beauty in the world. For the first time I saw distant lands, serene, lovely homes, romance, nobility, glamor". And further; "I always had a queer feeling about actors and actresses on the screen ... I knew I would have done it differently. I couldn't analyze it, but I could always feel it". "I'd go home and be a one girl circus, taking the parts of everyone I'd seen, living them before the glass." At sixteen Bow "knew" she wanted to be a motion pictures actress, even if she was a "square, awkward, funny-faced kid".
The New York starlet (1921-1923)
The ''Fame and Fortune'' contest
Against her mother's wishes but with her father's support, Bow competed in Brewster publications' magazine's annual nationwide acting contest, Fame and Fortune in 1921. In previous years, several of the contest's winners had found work in movies after winning. In the contest's final screen test Bow was up against an already scene-experienced woman who did "a beautiful piece of acting". A set member later stated that when Bow did the scene she actually became her character and "lived it". In the January issues 1922 of ''Motion Picture Classics'' the contest jury, Howard Chandler Christy, Neysa Mcmein, and Harrison Fisher, concluded:
''Beyond the Rainbow'' (1922)
Bow won an evening gown and a silver trophy and the publisher committed to help her "gain a role in films". But nothing happened. Bow's father told her to "haunt" Brewster's office (located in Brooklyn) until they came up with something. "To get rid of me, or maybe they really meant to (give me) all the time and were just busy", Bow was introduced to director Christy Cabanne who cast her in ''Beyond the Rainbow'', produced late 1921 in New York City and released February 19, 1922. Bow did five scenes, impressed Cabanne with true theatrical tears, but was eventually cut from the print. Bow wasn't told, but found out when she saw the movie at a theater in Brooklyn. "I was sick to my stomach", she recalled and thought her mother was right about the movie business. Bow, who dropped out of school after she was notified about winning the contest, possibly in October 1921, got an ordinary office job. However, movie ads and newspaper editorial comments from 1922–1923 suggest that Bow was not cut from ''Beyond the Rainbow''. Her name is on the cast list among the other stars, usually tagged "Brewster magazine beauty contest winner" and sometimes even with a picture.
''Down to the Sea in Ships'' (1923)
Encouraged by her father, Bow started to run around studio agencies asking for parts. "But there was always something. I was too young, or too little, or too fat. Usually I was too fat." Eventually director Elmer Clifton needed a tomboy for his movie ''Down to the Sea in Ships'', saw Bow in ''Motion Picture Classic'' magazine and sent for her. In an attempt to overcome her youthful looks, Bow put her hair up and arrived in a dress she 'sneaked' from her mother. Clifton said she was too old, but broke into laughter as the stammering Bow made him believe she was the girl in the magazine. Clifton decided to bring Bow with him and offered her $50 a week, but added he couldn't say whether or not she would "fit the part".''Down to the Sea in Ships'' was shot on location in New Bedford, Massachusetts, produced by Independent 'The Whaling Film Corporation', and documented the life, love and work in the whale-hunter community. The production relied on a few less known actors and local talents. It premiered at 'Olympia', New Bedford, on September 25, and went on general distribution on March 4, 1923.
Bow was billed 10th, but shined through and critics sang her praise: "Miss Bow will undoubtedly gain fame as a screen comedienne". "She scored a tremendous hit in ''Down to the Sea in Ships''..(and)..has reached the front rank of motion picture principal players". "With her beauty, her brains, her personality and her genuine acting ability it should not be many moons before she enjoys stardom in the fullest sense of the word. You must see 'Down to the Sea in Ships'". "In movie parlance, she 'stole' the picture ... ".
WAMPAS Baby Star (1924)
Bow found herself walking time after time by a Broadway movie theater, staring at her name in shimmering electric light above the entrance. "I can never tell you what happiness I felt, life had been so terrible hard and it seemed to me that now all my troubles were to be in the past". By mid December 1923, primarily due to her merits in ''Down to the Sea in Ships'', Bow was chosen the most successful of the 1924 WAMPAS Baby Stars.
''Grit'' (1924)
Three months before ''Down to the Sea in Ships'' was released, Bow danced half nude, on a table, unaccredited in ''Enemies of Women'' (1923). In spring she got a part in ''The Daring Years (1923)'', were she befriended actress Mary Carr, who taught her how to use make-up.In the summer, she got a "tomboy" part in ''Grit'', a story, which dealt with juvenile crime and was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bow met her first boyfriend, cameraman Arthur Jacobson, and she got to know director Frank Tuttle, with whom she worked in five later productions. Tuttle remembered: ''Grit'' was released on January 7, 1924. ''Variety'' reviewed; "... Clara Bow lingers in the eye, long after the picture has gone."
While shooting ''Grit'' at Pyramid Studios, in Astoria, New York, Bow was approached by Jack Bachman of independent Hollywood studio Preferred Pictures. He wanted to contract her for a three months trial, fare paid and $50 a week. "It can't do any harm", he tried. "Why can't I stay in New York and make movies?", Bow asked her father, but he told her not to worry.
On July 21, 1923 she befriended Louella Parsons, who interviewed her for ''The New York Morning Telegraph''. In 1931 when Bow came under tabloid scrutiny, Parsons defended her and stuck to her first opinion on Bow:
The interview also revealed that Bow already was cast in ''Maytime'' and in great favor of Chinese cuisine.
Hollywood (1923-1933)
Preferred Pictures (1923-1925)
July 22, 1923, Bow left New York, her father and her boyfriend behind. As chaperon for the journey and stay in Hollywood, the studio appointed writer/agent Maxine Alton, who Bow later branded a liar. In late July Bow entered studio chief B. P. Schulberg's office wearing a simple high-school uniform in which she "had won several gold medals on the cinder track". She was tested and a press-release from early August says Bow had become a member of Preferred Picture's "permanent stock". She and Alton rented an apartment at The Hillview near Hollywood Boulevard. Preferred Pictures was run by Schulberg who started as a publicity manager at Famous Players-Lasky, but in the aftermath of the power struggle around the formation of United Artists ended up on the losing side and lost his job. In 1919, at age 27, he founded 'Preferred'.
''Maytime'' (1923)
Bow's first Hollywood picture was an adaptation of the popular operetta ''Maytime'', in which she essayed "Alice Tremaine". Before ''Maytime'' was finished, Schulberg announced that Bow was given the lead in the studio's biggest seasonal assessment, ''Poisoned Paradise'', but first she was lent to First National Pictures to co-star in the adaptation of Gertrude Atherton's 1923 bestseller ''Black Oxen'', shot in October, and to co-star with Colleen Moore in ''Painted People'', shot in November.
''Black Oxen'' (1923)
Director Frank Lloyd was casting for the part of high society flapper Janet Oglethorpe, and more than fifty women, most with previous screen experience, auditioned. Bow reminisced; "He had not found exactly what he wanted and finally somebody suggested me to him. When I came into his office a big smile came over his face and he looked just tickled to death". Lloyd told the press; "Bow is the personification of the ideal aristocratic flapper, mischievous, pretty, aggressive, quick-tempered and deeply sentimental". It was released on January 4, 1924.New York Times: "The flapper, impersonated by a young actress, Clara Bow, had five speaking titles, and every one of them was so entirely in accord with the character and the mood of the scene that it drew a laugh from what, in film circles, is termed a "hard-boiled" audience"
Los Angeles Times: "Clara Bow, the prize vulgarian of the lot...was amusing and spirited...but didn't belong in the picture".
Variety: "...the horrid little flapper is adorably played...".
''Painted People'' controversy
Colleen Moore made her flapper debut in a successful adaptation of the daring novel ''Flaming Youth'', released November 12, 1923, six weeks before ''Black Oxen''. Both films were produced by First National Pictures, and while ''Black Oxen'' was still being edited and ''Flaming Youth'' not yet released, Bow was requested to co-star Moore as her kid sister in ''Painted People'' (AKA ''The Swamp Angel'').Moore essayed the baseball-playing tomboy and Bow, according to Moore, said "I don't like my part, I wanna play yours". Moore, a well-established star earning $1200 a week — Bow got $200 — took offense and blocked the director from doing a close-up on Bow. Moore was married to a studio executive and Bow's protests fell short. "I'll get that bitch", she told her boyfriend Jacobson, who had arrived from New York. Bow had sinus problems and decided to have them attended to immediately. A bandaged Bow left the studio with no options but to recast her part.
1924
''The Perfect Flapper''
During 1924 Bow's "horrid" flapper raced against Moore's "whimsical". In May Moore renewed her efforts in ''The Perfect Flapper'', produced by her husband, but despite good reviews she suddenly withdrew. "No more flappers ... they have served their purpose ... people are tired of soda-pop love affairs", she told the ''Los Angeles Times'', In November 1933, Bow described the Hollywood years as a French Revolution picture, where "women are hollering and waving pitchforks twice as violently as any of the guys ... the only ladies in sight are the ones getting their heads cut off".
"If that's what my baby wants, that's what my baby does"
By New Year 1924, Bow defied the possessive Maxine Alton and brought her father to Hollywood. Bow remembered their reunion; "I didn't care a rap, for (Maxine Alton), or B. P. Schulberg, or my motion picture career, or Clara Bow, I just threw myself into his arms and kissed and kissed him, and we both cried like a couple of fool kids. Oh, it was wonderful". Bow felt Alton had misused her trust; "She wanted to keep a hold on me so she made me think I wasn't getting over and that nothing but her clever management kept me going". Bow and her father moved in at 1714 North Kingsley Drive in Beverly Hills, together with Jacobson, whom by then, also worked for Preferred. When Schulberg learned of this arrangement, he fired Jacobson for potentially getting "his big star" into a scandal. When Bow found out, "She tore up her contract and threw it in his face and told him he couldn't run her private life". Jacobson concluded, "[Clara] was the sweetest girl in the world, but you didn't cross her and you didn't do her wrong". On September 7, 1924, ''The Los Angeles Times'', in a significant article "A dangerous little devil is Clara, impish, appealing, but oh, how she can act!", her father is titled "business manager" and Jacobson referred to as her brother.Bow appeared in eight releases in 1924. In ''Poisoned Paradise'', released on February 29, 1924, Bow got her first lead. "... the clever little newcomer whose work wins fresh recommendations with every new picture in which she appears". In a scene, described as "original", Bow adds "devices", to "the modern flapper"; she fights a villain, using her fists, and significantly, does not "shrink back in fear". In ''Daughters of Pleasure'', also released on February 29, 1924, Bow and Marie Prevost, "flapped unhampered as flappers De luxe ... I wish somebody could star Clara Bow. I'm sure her 'infinite variety' would keep her from wearying us no matter how many scenes she was in".
''Wine'' (1924)
As an out-loan to Universal-Jewel, Bow top-starred, for the first time, in the prohibition, bootleg drama/comedy ''Wine'', released on August 20, 1924. The picture exposes the widespread liquor traffic in the upper-classes, and Bow portrays an innocent girl who develops into a wild "redhot mama". "If not taken as information, it is cracking good entertainment", Carl Sandburg reviewed September 29. "Don't miss ''Wine''. It's a thoroughly refreshing draught ... there are only about five actresses who give me a real thrill on the screen — and Clara is nearly five of them".Alma Whitaker of ''The Los Angeles Times'' observed on September 7, 1924: Bow remembered: "All this time I was "running wild", I guess, in the sense of trying to have a good time ... maybe this was a good thing, because I suppose a lot of that excitement, that joy of life, got onto the screen".
1925
1925 Bow appeared in fourteen productions: six for her contract owner, Preferred Pictures, and eight as an "out-loan". "Clara Bow ... shows alarming symptoms of becoming the sensation of the year ... ", Motion Picture Classic Magazine wrote in June, and featured her on the cover. Preferred Pictures rented Bow to producers "for sums ranging from $1500 to $2000 a week". The studio like any other independent studio or theater at that time, was under attack from "The Big Three", MPAA, who had formed a trust to block out Independents and enforce the monopolistic studio system. On October 21, 1925, Schulberg filled Preferred Pictures for bankruptcy, with debts at $820,774 and assets $1,420. Three days later, it was announced that Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor and became associate producer of Paramount Pictures, bringing his organization, including Bow. Adolph Zukor, Paramount Picture CEO in his memoirs: "All the skill of directors and all the booming of press-agent drums will not make a star. Only the audiences can do it. We study audience reactions with great care". Adela Rogers St. Johns had a different take, in 1950 she wrote: "If ever a star was made by public demand, it was Clara Bow". And Louise Brooks from 1980: "(Bow) became a star without nobody's help ... ".
''The Plastic Age'' (1925)
''The Plastic Age'' was Bow's final effort for Preferred Pictures and her biggest hit so far. Bow starred as the good-bad college-girl, Cynthia Day against Donald Keith. It was shot on location, at Pomona College, in the summer of 1925, and released on December 15, but due to block booking, not shown in New York until July 21, 1926. ''Photoplay'' was displeased: "The college atmosphere is implausible and Clara Bow is not our idea of a college girl". Theater owners however, were happy: "The picture is the biggest sensation we ever had in our theater ... It is 100 per cent at the box-office". Some critics felt Bow conquered new territory: "(Bow) presents a whimsical touch to her work that adds greater laurels to her fast ascending star of screen popularity". ''Time'' singled out Bow: "Only the amusing and facile acting of Clara Bow rescues the picture from the limbo of the impossible". Bow began to date her co-star Gilbert Roland, who became her first fiancee. In June 1925, Bow was credited for being the first to wear hand-painted legs in public and was reported to have many followers at the Californian beaches.
Paramount Pictures (1925-1931)
The free-wheeling actress
"Rehearsals sap my pep", Bow explained in November, 1929 and from the beginning of her career she relied on immediate direction: "Tell me what I have to do and I'll do it". Bow was keen on poetry and music but according to Rogers St. Johns, her attention-span didn't allow her to appreciate novels. Bow's focal point was the scene and her creativity made directors call in extra cameras to cover her spontaneous actions, rather than holding her down. Years after Bow left Hollywood, director Victor Fleming compared Bow to a Stradivarius violin: "Touch her and she responded with genius". Director William Wellman was less poetic: "Movie stardom isn't acting ability — it's personality and temperament ... I once directed Clara Bow ("Wings"). She was mad and crazy but WHAT a personality!". In 1981 Budd Schulberg described Bow as "a easy winner of the dumbbell award" who "couldn't act" and compared her to a puppy who his father B.P. Schulberg, "trained to become Lassie".
1926
In 1926 Bow appeared in eight releases: five for Paramount, and three as an "out-loan", shot in 1925.
''Dancing Mothers'' (1926)
In late 1925, Bow returns to New York to co-star in the Ibsenesque drama ''Dancing Mothers'', as the good/bad "flapperish" upper-class daughter "Kittens". Alice Joyce starred as her "dancing mother" with Conway Tearle as "bad-boy" Naughton. The picture was released on March 1, 1926. "Clara Bow known as the screen's perfect flapper, does her stuff as the child, and does it well". "... her remarkable performance in Dancing Mothers ... ". Louise Brooks remembered: "She was absolutely sensational in the United States ... in ''Dancing Mothers'' ... she just swept the country ... I know I saw her ... and I thought ... wonderful".On April 12, 1926, Bow signs her first contract with Paramount: "...to retain your services as an actress for the period of six months from June 6th, 1926 to December 6th, 1926, at a salary of $750.00 per week...".
''Mantrap'' (1926)
In Victor Fleming's comedy-triangle ''Mantrap'' Bow, as Alverna the manicurist, cures lonely hearts Joe Easter (Ernest Torrence), of the great northern, as well as pill-popping New York divorcee attorney runaway Ralph Prescott (Percy Marmont). Bow commented: "(Alverna)...was bad in the book, but - darn it! - of course, they couldn't make her that way in the picture. So I played her as a flirt".The film was released on July 24, 1926.
Variety: "Clara Bow just walks away with the picture from the moment she walks into camera range". Photoplay: "When she is on the screen nothing else matters. When she is off, the same is true". Carl Sandburg: "The smartest and swiftest work as yet seen from Miss Clara Bow". The Reel Journal: "Clara Bow is taking the place of Gloria Swanson...(and)...filling a long need for a popular taste movie actress".
On August 16, 1926, Bow's agreement with Paramount was renewed into a five year deal: "Her salary will start at $1700 a week and advance yearly to $4000 a week for the last year".
Notably Bow added that she intended to leave the motion picture business at the expiration of the contract, i.e. 1931.
1927
''It'' (1927)
In the Cinderella story ''It'', the poor shop-girl Betty Lou Spence (Bow) conquers the heart of her employer Cyrus Waltham (Antonio Moreno). The personal quality ''It'', provides the magic to make it happen. The film gave Bow her nickname "The It Girl." It was first shown in New York on February 5, 1927. New York Times: "(Bow)...is vivacious and, as Betty Lou, saucy, which perhaps is one of the ingredients of 'It'". The Film Daily: "Clara Bow gets a real chance and carries it off with honors...(and)...she is really the whole show". Carl Sandburg: "'It' is smart, funny and real. It makes a full-sized star of Clara Bow". Variety: "You can't get away from this Clara Bow girl. She certainly has that certain 'It'...and she just runs away with the film". Dorothy Parker: "It, hell: She had Those".
''Wings'' (1927)
In 1927, Bow starred in ''Wings,'' a war picture largely rewritten to accommodate her, as she was Paramount's biggest star. The film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!
A famous scenario writer, who had done a number of pictures with Bow said:Bow's bohemian lifestyle and "dreadful" manners were considered reminders of the Hollywood Elite's uneasy position in high society.
Bow fumed: "They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs ... I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!"
MGM executive Paul Bern said Bow was "the greatest emotional actress on the screen", "sentimental, simple, childish and sweet", and considered her "hard-boiled attitude" a "defense mechanism".
1929
Talkies
With "talkies" ''The Wild Party'', ''Dangerous Curves'', and ''The Saturday Night Kid'', Bow kept her position as the top box-office draw and queen of Hollywood.The quality of Bow's voice, her Brooklyn accent, was not an issue to Bow, her fans or Paramount. However, Bow, like Charlie Chaplin, Louise Brooks and most other silent film-stars didn't embrace the novelty: "I hate talkies", she said, "they're stiff and limiting. You lose a lot of your cuteness, because there's no chance for action, and action is the most important thing to me". The inventor of the motion picture camera, Thomas Edison himself, was so annoyed by the stiffness of the early "talkies" that he refused to see them and returned to his favorite "silents" with Bow and Mary Pickford. A visibly nervous Bow had to do a number of retakes in ''The Wild Party'' because her eyes kept wandering up to the microphone overhead. "I can't buck progress", Bow resigned, "I have to do the best I can".
In October 1929 Bow describes her nerves as "all shot", that she has reached "the breaking point" and Photoplay reports of "rows of bottles of sedatives" by her bed.
1930
According to census 1930, Bow lives at Bedford Drive 512, together with her secretary and hair-dresser, Daisy DeBoe, in a house valued $25,000 with neighbors titled "Horse-keeper", "Physician", "Builder". Bow states she is 23 years old, i.e. born 1906, contradicting Census of 1910 and 1920."Now they're having me sing. I sort of half-sing, half-talk, with hips-and-eye stuff. You know what I mean — like Maurice Chevalier. I used to sing at home and people would say, 'Pipe down! You're terrible!' But the studio thinks my voice is great". With ''Paramount on Parade'', "True to the Navy", "Love Among the Millionaires" and "Her Wedding Night", she was second at the box-office to her chum, Joan Crawford in 1930.
1931-1933
With ''No Limit'' and ''Kick In'', Bow held the position as fifth at box-office in 1931. But the pressures of fame, public scandals, overwork and a damaging court trial with her secretary, Daisy DeBoe, took their toll on Bow's fragile emotional health. As she slipped closer to a major breakdown, her manager B.P. Schulberg began referring to her as "Crisis-a-day-Clara". In April Bow was brought to a sanatorium, and at her request, Paramount released her from her final undertaking: ''City Streets''. She left Hollywood in June and got married to Rex Bell in December.In 1932 Bow signed a two-picture deal with Fox Film Corporation; ''Call Her Savage'' (1932) and ''Hoop-La'' (1933). Both successful, ''Variety'' favored the latter: "A more mature performance...she looks and photographs extremely well". Bow commented on her revealing costume in Hoop-La: "Rex accused me of enjoying showing myself off. Then I got a little sore. He knew darn well I was doing it because we could use a little money these days. Who can't?". Bow concluded her career:
Later life
Bow and cowboy actor Rex Bell, later a Lieutenant governor of Nevada, had two sons, Tony Beldam (born 1934, changed name to Rex Anthony Bell, Jr., died July 2011) and George Beldam, Jr. (born 1938). Bow retired from acting in 1933. In September 1937, she and Bell opened The 'It' Cafe on Vine Street near Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles. It was closed shortly thereafter. Her last public exposure, albeit fleeting, was a guest appearance on the radio show ''Truth or Consequences'' in March 1948; Bow provided the voice of "Mrs. Hush".
Health issues
In 1944, while Bell was running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Bow tried to commit suicide.A note was found in which Bow stated she preferred death to a public life.
In 1949 she checked into The Institute of Living to be treated for her chronic insomnia and diffuse abdominal pains. Shock treatment was tried and numerous psychological tests performed. Bow's IQ was measured "bright normal" (pp. 111–119), while others claimed she was unable to reason, had poor judgment and displayed inappropriate or even bizarre behavior. Her pains were considered delusional and she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, despite experiencing neither sound nor vision hallucinations or psychosis. The illness debut, or "onset", as well as her insomnia, the analysts tied to the "butcher knife episode" back in 1922, but Bow rejected psychological explanations and left the Institute.
In the permanent exhibition, "Myths, Minds and Medicine", the Institute addresses malpractice issues of the past, including lobotomy, which peaked in 1949, and "crude electroconvulsive therapy".
Later years
Bow spent her last years in Culver City, Los Angeles under the constant care of a nurse, living off an estate worth about $500,000 at the time of her death. She died on September 27, 1965, aged 60, of a heart attack. The autopsy revealed that she suffered from atherosclerosis, a heart disease established in early adolescence. Bow's heart bore scars from an earlier undiagnosed heart attack. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Her pallbearers were Harry Richman, Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jack Dempsey and Buddy Rogers.
Honors
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Bow was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994, she was honored with an image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
Urban myths
The book ''Hollywood Babylon'' spread the contemporary legend that Bow's friendship with members of the 1927 University of Southern California football team included group sex with the entire team. In the 1980s Morley Drury commented that his team was "too damn innocent" to be anything else.During her lifetime, Bow was the subject of wild rumors regarding her sex life; most of them were untrue. A tabloid called ''The Coast Reporter'' published lurid allegations about her in 1931, accusing her of exhibitionism, incest, lesbianism, bestiality, drug addiction, alcoholism, and having contracted venereal disease. The publisher of the tabloid then tried to blackmail Bow, offering to cease printing the stories for $25,000, which led to his arrest by federal agents and, later, an eight-year prison sentence.
In popular culture
Max Fleischer's cartoon character Betty Boop was modeled after Bow and entertainer Helen Kane (the "boop-boop-a-doop-girl"). Bow's mass of tangled red hair was one of her most famous features. When fans of the new star found out she put henna in her hair, sales of the dye tripled. An autographed picture of Bow is offered as a consolation prize of a beauty contest in the 1931 George Gershwin musical ''Of Thee I Sing''.
Filmography
| + Film | |||
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
| 1922 | ''Beyond the Rainbow'' | Virginia Gardener | |
| 1922 | ''Down to the Sea in Ships'' | Dot Morgan | Extant |
| 1923 | ''Enemies of Women'' | Girl dancing on table | Extant(incomplete) |
| 1923 | '''' | Mary | Lost film |
| 1923 | Alice Tremaine | Extant | |
| 1923 | ''Black Oxen'' | Janet Ogelthorpe | Extant |
| 1924 | ''Grit'' | Orchid McGonigle | Lost film |
| 1924 | ''Poisoned Paradise'' | Margot LeBlanc | Extant |
| 1924 | ''Daughters of Pleasure'' | Lila Millas | Extant |
| 1924 | Angela Warriner | Lost film | |
| 1924 | ''Empty Hearts'' | Rosalie | Extant |
| 1924 | Alice Mayton | Extant | |
| 1924 | ''This Woman'' | Aline Sturdevant | Lost film |
| 1924 | ''Black Lightning'' | Martha Larned | Extant |
| 1925 | ''Capital Punishment'' | Delia Tate | Extant |
| 1925 | '''' | The Girl | Lost film |
| 1925 | ''Eve's Lover'' | Rena D'Arcy | Lost film |
| 1925 | '''' | Molly Burns | Lost film |
| 1925 | '''' | Miriam | Lost film (trailer survives) |
| 1925 | ''My Lady's Lips'' | Lola Lombard | Extant |
| 1925 | ''Parisian Love'' | Marie | Extant |
| 1925 | Grizette | Lost film | |
| 1925 | '''' | Lolly Cameron | Lost film (Trailer exists) |
| 1925 | '''' | Marilyn Merrill | Extant (incomplete) |
| 1925 | ''Free to Love'' | Marie Anthony | Extant |
| 1925 | '''' | Peggy Swain | Extant |
| 1925 | '''' | Cynthia Day | Extant |
| 1925 | '''' | Doris | Lost film |
| 1925 | ''My Lady of Whims'' | Prudence Severn | Extant |
| 1926 | ''Shadow of the Law'' | Mary Brophy | Lost film |
| 1926 | ''Two Can Play'' | Dorothy Hammis | Lost film |
| 1926 | ''Dancing Mothers'' | Kittens Westcourt | Extant |
| 1926 | ''Fascinating Youth'' | Clara Bow | Lost film |
| 1926 | '''' | Cynthia Meade | Lost film |
| 1926 | Alverna | Extant | |
| 1926 | ''Kid Boots'' | Clara McCoy | Extant |
| 1927 | Betty Lou Spence | Extant | |
| 1927 | ''Children of Divorce'' | Kitty Flanders | Extant |
| 1927 | ''Rough House Rosie'' | Rosie O'Reilly | Lost film (trailer exists) |
| 1927 | Mary Preston | Extant | |
| 1927 | Hula Calhoun | Extant | |
| 1927 | ''Get Your Man'' | Nancy Worthington | Extant but incomplete;(missing at least 2 reels) |
| 1928 | Bubbles McCoy | Lost film (Fragments exist, including the only known color footage of Bow) | |
| 1928 | ''Ladies of the Mob'' | Yvonne | Lost film |
| 1928 | '''' | Trixie Deane | Lost film |
| 1928 | ''Three Weekends'' | Gladys O'Brien | Lost film(fragments survives) |
| 1929 | '''' | Stella Ames | Extant |
| 1929 | Pat Delaney | Extant | |
| 1929 | '''' | Mayme | Alternative title: ''Love 'Em and Leave 'Em''; Extant |
| 1930 | ''Paramount on Parade'' | herself | Extant |
| 1930 | ''True to the Navy'' | Ruby Nolan | Extant |
| 1930 | ''Love Among the Millionaires'' | Pepper Whipple | Extant |
| 1930 | ''Her Wedding Night'' | Norma Martin | Extant |
| 1931 | Helen "Bunny" O'Day | Extant | |
| 1931 | Molly Hewes | Extant | |
| 1932 | ''Call Her Savage'' | Nasa Springer | Extant |
| 1933 | ''Hoop-La'' | Lou | Extant |
| 1949 | ''Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner'' | Clara Bow – Resort Guest | Short subject |
References
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| name | Hiro Nakamura |
| series | Heroes |
| portrayer | Masi OkaGarrett Masuda (child, season 1)Sekai Murashige (child, seasons 2–3)Mikey Kawata (teenage) |
| first | "Genesis" |
| last | "Brave New World" |
| lbl21 | Ability |
| Data21 | Space-time manipulation, resulting in:
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| occupation | Hired hero }} |
is a fictional character on the NBC fantasy drama ''Heroes'' who possesses the ability of space-time manipulation. This means that Hiro is able to alter the flow of time. Previously, his ability allowed him to teleport, stop time, or travel through time, but recent events in the series have prevented him from regaining his full abilities. He is played by Japanese-American actor Masi Oka.
According to the online comic on NBC.com, Hiro is named after Hiroshima, so that his family will always remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tim Kring has been quoted as saying, "It's no coincidence we named him Hiro... he truly is on a hero's quest." To this end, his name is often used as a pun. His co-worker Ando once called him "Super-Hiro" in jest.
Character development
Hiro was one of the last main characters to be created by Tim Kring; he was added to the pilot episode after Kring's wife noticed none of the existing main characters were happy about their powers. During a panel session, Kring explained that he developed Hiro as a comic book geek "trapped in a life that was kind of not of his making". Thus, viewers were introduced to Hiro as an office worker in a sea of cubicles. In an interview, Tim Kring noted, "I didn't start off by saying I want a guy who can teleport. I started off by saying I wanted a guy who felt trapped in a life that was not his dream and what could be a power that would be most wish-fulfilling for that character? And that was the ability to teleport out of that life."
Fictional character synopsis
Hiro Nakamura is an office worker, specifically a level-3 programmer at Yamagato Industries, living in Tokyo, Japan who one day discovers he has the power to manipulate time and space (''The Crane''). An otaku (at least in the American sense of the word), Hiro is an avid fan of superheroes and science fiction. Naïve and over-eager, Hiro is the one character that aspires to the pure heroism of comic book crime fighters, shouldering the responsibility to use his powers for good. His best friend is the skeptical Ando Masahashi. At the start, Hiro is only able to speak Japanese, relying on Ando as his translator, but as the series progresses, his English slowly develops. Hiro's Blog, maintained by NBC and written from Hiro's point of view, is updated after each new episode is aired, usually about the events of the episode.
Genesis
At the start of the series, Hiro's power is developed enough for him to turn the second-hand of his clock back one second. It is later discovered that this same power made a train fourteen seconds late. Ecstatic at these accomplishments, Hiro confides in his friend, Ando, who is extremely skeptical of Hiro's new abilities. At Ando's suggestion, Hiro teleports himself into the women's bathroom of a local club, though Ando is not looking at the time. Seeing Hiro dragged out of the bathroom, Ando states that this only proves that he is a pervert, and a crestfallen Hiro walks away as Ando yells sarcastically that he is a "Super Hiro!" As Hiro returns home on the train, he sees a vacation ad for New York City. At this point, Hiro's power inadvertently activates, teleporting him to Times Square.Hiro appears extremely happy to have successfully used his ability. He soon discovers a comic book called ''9th Wonders!'' in a nearby newsstand that shows himself standing in Times Square with his hands up and yelling, "Yatta!" (meaning "I did it!"), an incredibly accurate depiction of Hiro's arrival in New York. He attempts to pay in Japanese yen, and runs off with the comic book. Hiro then discovers that the story includes what has already happened between himself and Ando, and his discovery of his abilities. Hiro decides to find the artist and writer, Isaac Mendez, by visiting his loft.
Hiro visits Isaac's loft, discovering the artist's dead body, partially decapitated with the brain removed. Hiro is arrested by the police and during the interrogation discovers he has traveled not only through space, but through time as well. It was October 2 when he left Tokyo, and he arrived in New York November 8. Just as Hiro discovers this, he witnesses a cataclysmic explosion. Before the blast reaches him, Hiro turns back time to the exact moment he left Tokyo and teleports himself back to the train he was standing on, still holding the comic he picked up in the future.
After going to the future, Hiro decides that he must save the world by preventing the explosion. Hiro then persuades Ando that his powers are genuine by saving a young girl from an oncoming car (as predicted by the comic book from the future).
They take a plane to Los Angeles, but go the rest of the way by car, because that is what the comic book says they do. Hiro and Ando then have several misadventures in Las Vegas, starting when Ando decides to hit the casinos. Ando convinces Hiro to use his powers to cheat, stopping time to give Ando winning hands in poker games. The two make a lot of money, but are later thrown out of the casino and then beaten up by a player they had cheated. Why Hiro doesn't use his power this time to get away is not explained.
After an argument, Hiro and Ando go their own separate ways. Hiro ends up in a diner near Las Vegas where he sees Nathan Petrelli literally fall from the sky like a meteorite. After Nathan enters the diner, Hiro briefly talks with the man, and Nathan decides to give Hiro a ride back to the casino, where he and Ando are reunited.
Their attempts to call Isaac Mendez are finally successful, as Peter Petrelli answers the phone, relaying a message from Hiro's future self, and tells them "Save the cheerleader, save the world" and to come to New York City. However, the pair are detained further when the same player they cheated earlier forces them to play a poker game to make money to repay what they gained before. Ando and Hiro manage to escape shortly before the other players are slaughtered by Jessica Sanders. Hiro is crestfallen that he is unable to prevent their deaths but is comforted by Ando, who claims Hiro is still beginning his journey to become a true hero.
Hiro exercises his power as a hero again when he and Ando run across D.L. Hawkins and his son, Micah, at the scene of a burning car wreck with a passenger trapped inside. As D.L. frees the passenger, the vehicle explodes and Hiro freezes time to save them. Hiro complains about not having super strength when he is forced to drag the pair away from the explosion. After he unfreezes time, he shows the future edition of ''9th Wonders!'' to Micah and speaks to him in English about his space-time manipulation powers.
Continuing their journey to New York, Hiro and Ando stop at a diner in Texas and meet a waitress named Charlie, who recently developed powers of her own. As Hiro talks to Charlie, who finds him to be "sweet," Sylar watches them talk. Charlie is later found murdered in the diner's storeroom with her brain removed, just as Hiro had found Isaac's body in New York. Not wanting to fail to save someone like he did in Las Vegas, Hiro goes back in time in an attempt to prevent her murder, promising Ando that he'll return in five seconds.
Hiro's attempt to teleport to the day before Charlie's death goes awry, landing him six months in the past, on the day of Charlie's birthday. Though he considers another time-travel attempt, the possibility of being eaten by a dinosaur dissuades him. Hiro tries to warn Charlie and protect her from the "very bad man", but ends up forming a close relationship with her after his attempts to convince her fail. Eventually, he asks her to come with him to Japan. As the date of their departure gets closer, Charlie reveals that she has a blood clot in her brain and will die no matter what. She says she was going to give up before Hiro came and that she has fallen in love with him. Just as they are about to kiss, Hiro inadvertently teleports to Japan some time after he and Ando had left for the United States. Unable to return via his own powers, he is forced to make his way back to the diner through normal means. Ando, happy to see Hiro again, assumes Hiro used his powers (not least because Hiro now appears in a photograph on the Diner's wall taken with Charlie six months previously) and was successful, but Hiro explains that he failed and made his way back through public transportation. After this incident, Hiro's powers appear to weaken.
The novel ''Heroes: Saving Charlie'' expands and changes the events of the history. Hiro's love story with Charlie is expanded, as is her own role in foretelling her demise. They dated and fell in love during the months Hiro teleported back to, and eventually he told her that her memory was a power like his own. He did convince her to go to Japan with him, and they ended up in the same bar where Hiro has first told Ando his mission was to save the cheerleader, and save the world. Charlie realized Hiro lied to her (he had told her his mission was to save her life) and went back to the U.S. because she believed saving the world was a more important destiny for Hiro than saving just her.
In "Fallout", Hiro and Ando find their way to Claire's high school, but arrive after Sylar's attack and believe her to have already been killed. Ando tries to be optimistic about the situation, claiming that "save the cheerleader, save the world," is just a progression of events — save the cheerleader ''and then'' save the world — and not a conditional statement. Hiro doesn't accept the claim, believing that he would have meant it as a conditional statement. While thinking about their next move, Hiro is called by Isaac Mendez, who arranges a meeting with them in Texas. Once they meet, Hiro shows Isaac the future ''9th Wonders!'' comic, much to the artist's surprise, then asks him to paint the future. At first, Isaac isn't convinced he can do so without drugs, but once he realizes that some of his rough sketches depict Hiro traveling back to save Charlie, he tries again. Hiro recommends that Isaac concentrate, using the same face he makes when activating his own powers, and Isaac manages to activate his power successfully. Isaac's painting depicts Hiro brandishing a sword while encountering a carnivorous theropod dinosaur, seemingly confirming Hiro's earlier fears. Hiro remarks, "I really need to find that sword."
Two weeks later, at the beginning of "Godsend", Hiro and Ando go to the Museum of Natural History, looking for the sword that Hiro saw in Isaac's painting. They find it in a glass case on the back of an ancient warrior, Takezo Kensei. On the hilt of the sword is the symbol that appears in various points throughout the series. Hiro recalls a story his father told him of Kensei and how the sword was believed to have benefited him. He decides to steal the sword, believing it will help him control his powers. While doing so, he brandishes it against a model dinosaur in the museum, mimicking the picture Isaac had drawn earlier. However, the museum's version of the sword is only a wooden replica made by the Linderman Group. He returns to Isaac's loft, where he meets Simone Deveaux. Hiro also happily re-encounters Nathan (whom he addresses as "flying man"). After introductions and brief discussions, Simone recommends Hiro go back to Las Vegas with the dinosaur painting and see Mr. Linderman, an avid collector of Isaac's paintings.
In "The Fix", Hiro and Ando are chased by unknown men. Eventually, they are captured by the men, and Hiro is told that the men work for someone "truly powerful." Hiro and Ando are then told to stop their quest. Hiro declines, even after being offered first class plane tickets back to Japan. The men state their boss won't be happy and bring the two to him. Hiro then realizes the men work for his father, Kaito.
In "Distractions", Hiro's father tries to convince him to go back to Tokyo, admitting that it was a bad idea to start him off at the bottom and offering him a job as Executive Vice President of the company. After Hiro's initial refusal, his father rips up Isaac's painting. Kimiko, Hiro's sister, admits to him that, though his father is too proud to admit it, the company has gone through hard times. Ando reminds him that his powers are declining and it might not be a bad idea. Hiro eventually convinces his father that his sister is a better candidate to take over the company. Mr. Nakamura then lets Hiro continue with the mission.
In "Run!", Hiro and Ando are again sidetracked by a weeping Las Vegas showgirl named Hope. Hiro and Ando get separated while trying to retrieve a bag for Hope. Hiro is locked in a closet by Hope, then later freed by a Gaming Commission agent, who is looking for her. After watching Ando get shot during a firefight between the agent and Hope in "Unexpected", Hiro feels his mission is too dangerous to bring Ando any further. Hiro defeats Hope by unexpectedly using his powers to reverse the bullet in time one second, sending it back into the gun, disarming Hope. She and the agent are arrested, but since Hiro had his eyes closed, he doesn't realize he used his powers (which haven't been working well lately). He leaves the Versa with Ando and boards a bus alone (greeted by comic icon Stan Lee playing the bus driver).
In "Parasite", Hiro tries to enter Linderman's casino, but becomes aware that he has been red flagged and is not to enter the casino. As Nathan Petrelli enters the casino to meet with Linderman, he uses his influence to help Hiro get inside. Hiro delivers the painting to Mr. Linderman's vault, where the vault curator accepts it. While the curator is in another room, Hiro locates the sword and steals it, with the help of Ando, disguised as a security guard. Hiro teleports them both out of the building to escape the other security guards, but they find themselves on top of the Deveaux building, in a post-apocalyptic New York five years after the explosion.
In ".07%", Hiro decides to learn as much as he can about the future to know what went wrong with his attempts to stop the bomb. He and Ando enter Isaac's apartment, but find it netted with newspaper articles suspended on strings, each article relating to the explosion and even the heroes themselves. Just then, Hiro and Ando hear a sound, and Hiro takes out his sword to confront whoever it is, but is shocked when he comes face to face with his future self.
In "Five Years Gone", Hiro learns from his future self that the bomb still went off. The younger Hiro in turn reveals to his future self that the present day Claire was rescued and Sylar got caught, but Sylar himself wasn't killed yet. This gives Future Hiro hope, but before they can do anything about it, Matt Parkman and his Homeland Security team break into Isaac's loft and begin a raid. Ando and Future Hiro manage to escape, but present day Hiro is apprehended by Matt and the Haitian. Hiro is brutally interrogated by Matt, who doesn't believe he is telling the truth about time traveling. Mohinder Suresh is called in to investigate Isaac's loft, where he is convinced about Hiro's story, but fails to convince the President, Nathan Petrelli (who is in fact Sylar in disguise). The President orders Mohinder to kill present day Hiro, but Mohinder finds he can't bring himself to do it. In the meantime, Ando and Future Hiro enlist the aid of future Peter Petrelli and they break into the building Present Hiro is captured in. They defeat all the guards and with the aid of Mohinder, manage to rescue Hiro. Unfortunately, before Hiro and Ando manage to travel back to their time, Future Hiro is shot by Matt Parkman, who is in turn stopped by Peter, who uses telekinesis to close the door on Parkman. Hiro is shocked to see his future self die, but when Ando confides he believes in Hiro now and shows him a copy of the ''9th Wonders!'' comic book in which Hiro stabs Sylar with his sword, Hiro gets his confidence back and travels back to the time from which they came.
In "The Hard Part", upon their return to the present time line, Hiro proudly vows to New York City that he'll do his best to save it. However, he does realize it will be the hard part of his destiny. Hiro and Ando return to Isaac's loft, hoping to fill in the gaps of the futuristic comic book. However, they arrive to find that Isaac has been killed by Sylar. When Hiro and Ando hear Sylar in the bathroom, they hide behind a painting. Sylar hears their heartbeats and uncovers their hiding spot. However, Hiro teleports Ando and himself to safety before they are found.
Hiro and Ando continue to follow Sylar and watch him meet with his mother, attempting to reconcile with her. After Sylar's mother is accidentally killed, Hiro stops time and approaches Sylar, sword drawn. However, as he swings, time resumes and Sylar grabs Hiro's sword. Sylar begins to freeze the sword, and – as Hiro teleports to safety with Ando – it breaks in two.
In "Landslide", after Ando looks in the Yellow Pages for someone who can repair the sword, he finds an ad bearing the helix symbol seen throughout the series. Upon arriving, they encounter Hiro's father Kaito, who tells Hiro that he is worthy of the family destiny. He also trains Hiro to fight and kill with a sword. When Hiro is done training, he and Kaito discover that Ando, thinking that Kaito had convinced Hiro to return to Japan, bought a sword and has left to confront Sylar alone.
In "How to Stop an Exploding Man" Hiro teleports to Isaac's loft to find Ando about to be killed by Sylar, but manages to teleport them both out of danger and back to Japan. Hiro returns with Ando's sword, leaving the Kensei sword with Ando, telling Ando that it is "so you know I'll be back." Upon returning, he stabs Sylar. Sylar uses the last of his strength to send Hiro flying toward a building, forcing Hiro to teleport to save himself. In doing so, however, he sends himself three centuries into the past to Kyoto, Japan, circa 1671. Upon collecting himself, he finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between a small group of samurai about to attack a figure on the horizon, who appears to be Kensei, the original owner of Hiro's blade. Before the battle begins, however, an eclipse shadows the scene.
Generations
In "Four Months Later...", the premiere episode of Season 2, Hiro freezes time as the archers from the battle scene at the end of "How to Stop an Exploding Man" are about to kill him. He then teleports who he believes to be Takezo Kensei away from the battle and into a small forest. There, he learns that the man is a decoy, and that the real Kensei, an Englishman in samurai armor, had been hiding in a tree in order to snipe the enemy with a crossbow. After some conversation, Hiro realizes that, by interfering in the battle, he has changed the past, and Otsu is razed. The swordsmith's daughter, a woman named Yaeko, who Kensei was supposed to wed according to the legend, grows angry at Kensei and takes back her father's sword given as payment, saying that she will go fight the bandits herself. Kensei reacts to this with general apathy.In "Lizards", Hiro impersonates Kensei by donning his armor in order to make sure the bandits don't kill Yaeko and to prove to her that Kensei is a hero. Scaring off the bandits using his powers, Hiro as Kensei wins the heart of Yaeko. Encountering the real Kensei afterwards, Hiro manages to convince him to help Yaeko rescue her father. However, as they are about to leave, the bandits return and fire arrows at Kensei, seemingly killing him. However, once the arrows are removed, Kensei regenerates in a fashion similar to Claire Bennet.
With Kensei's newly discovered power, Hiro realizes how he became the hero of legend. Since Kensei isn't quite ready to accept his destiny, Hiro forces him to play out another of his legends, this one the retrieval of the "fire scroll" from 90 angry ronin. The task convinces Kensei to take up his own mantle, and he likens Hiro to his conscience — except he pays attention to Hiro. Believing his task to be done, Hiro initially decides to return to his own time, but during the attempt, suddenly stops and returns to Kensei.
Hiro, determined to preserve the time line, decides to remain in feudal Japan until Kensei defeats White Beard and saves Japan. They locate White Beard's army camp and Hiro helps Kensei rescue Yaeko's father. However, in a moment of weakness, Hiro gives into his own desires and confesses his love to Yaeko and they kiss, unaware that Kensei is watching them. Hiro tries to apologize, but Kensei reverts back to his old ways and knocks Hiro unconscious and turns him, Yaeko, and her father over to White Beard's soldiers. According to Hiro's note to Ando, this causes a currently unknown alteration to the timeline.
Hiro is kept prisoner in White Beard's camp where they use opium to dull his senses, preventing him from using his powers. Yaeko manages to free herself from her shackles and removes the opium. Hiro is able to focus just enough to teleport them to safety. Later, Hiro returns to White Beard's camp to destroy the guns. Before he can set the gunpowder cache on fire, Kensei confronts him and the two engage in a sword fight. Hiro tries to persuade Kensei to join him to stop White Beard, but Kensei refuses, and vows to Hiro that as long as he lives, he will destroy everything he holds dear. Hiro teleports out right before the guns explode. He meets Yaeko under the cherry blossoms one last time, and tells her the final tale in the legend of Kensei, where he is forced to cut his heart out. Yaeko vows that as long as she has a breath in her body, she will tell his story as the story of Takezo Kensei. They share a final kiss, and Hiro teleports out, leaving Yaeko alone under the cherry blossoms.
Hiro then teleports back to the present day, effectively fulfilling the final task by leaving Yaeko behind, and he learns from Ando that his father has been killed. Hiro attempts to go back and prevent his death in "Cautionary Tales", but his father convinces him that they cannot play God with their gifts. Hiro accepts this advice, but uses the opportunity to learn that Kensei was the one responsible for murdering his father. In "Truth & Consequences", Hiro is able to learn more about Kensei and his new name, Adam Monroe. He travels back in time to 1977 and learns that Adam was imprisoned by his father after he almost releases a virus that could kill everything. He learns that the virus will be kept in the Primatech facility in Odessa, Texas. Determined to avenge his father's murder, he teleports to the facility with his sword and stops time. There, he sees Peter Petrelli for the first time since "How to Stop an Exploding Man". Hiro declares his intentions to Peter, but Peter refuses to let Hiro harm Adam. Peter's hand crackles with electricity as Hiro lets out a battle cry and charges with his sword drawn.
In "Powerless", Hiro confronts Peter, but is knocked unconscious. Later, he is reunited with Nathan Petrelli and Matt Parkman, who are there to stop Peter and Adam from getting the virus. Hiro teleports into the vault and confronts Adam for the first time since the tent in White Beard's camp. Hiro tells Adam he should not have let Adam live long ago, then grabs Adam and teleports him away. Hiro later reveals to Ando that Adam will not hurt anyone ever again. The scene cuts to Adam, locked in a casket, buried alive in a Japanese cemetery.
Villains
In the third volume, "Villains", Hiro has taken his father's place as head of Yamagato. His family's lawyer gives him a tape his father recorded, telling Hiro that in the office safe is one half of a formula that could destroy the world if it fell into the wrong hands. Out of curiosity, he opens the safe and the envelope containing the formula, which is then stolen by a speeding superhuman named Daphne. Her super speed negates his ability to freeze time, and she escapes by knocking him unconscious.Hiro travels to the future to validate his father's claim, where he sees Tokyo destroyed by some undefined cataclysm. He also witnesses his future self being killed by Ando, who now possesses some sort of electricity-based power (later found to be power amplification). This makes Hiro distrustful of Ando. To stop this future, Hiro and Ando follow Daphne to her home in France. However, Hiro is unable to capture her as she threatens to kill Ando. Using a tracking device, they follow Daphne to Berlin, Germany, where the other half of the formula is. The Haitian is holding it, so Hiro and Ando knock him unconscious to steal it, only to have Daphne speed in and steal it first. The Haitian awakens and captures them before they can pursue her.
Hiro and Ando are locked in Level 2 of the Company, where they resolve their differences over Ando killing Hiro in the future. They are released by Angela Petrelli, who scolds Hiro for losing both halves of the formula. Ando supports Hiro and declares they will get the formula back. To accomplish this, Hiro and Ando dig up Adam Monroe. Adam leads Hiro to a bar under the impression that they can find information there, but it is just a ruse for Adam to escape. He tricks the bartender into knocking Hiro out, then flees. Depressed, they decide to drink at a bar where they meet Daphne and Knox, who captured Adam. Knox says that he will let Hiro join them if he kills Ando, considering Ando, a normal human, useless to their causes. Hiro uses his powers to travel back in time, retrieving a packet of fake blood and a retractable sword to make it look as if he really killed Ando. This convinces Daphne and Knox.
Daphne sends Hiro to Africa to find a precognitive painter named Usutu. After two failed attempts to catch the painter using his powers, Hiro decides to use conventional methods, which Usutu had been waiting for him to do, as he had been overly reliant on his ability. He then shows Hiro a montage of those Hiro has to fight; namely Arthur Petrelli and his newly-assembled team of villains. Hiro and Ando are given food from Usutu to induce a spirit walk, which causes Hiro to witness Arthur Petrelli's past, among other things. Arthur discovers this and teleports to Africa, killing Usutu and wiping Hiro's mind, leaving him under the impression that he is only ten years old. Ando barely manages to get the mind-wiped Hiro to teleport them to safety.
With Hiro's memory gone, Ando is forced to reacquaint Hiro with his powers. After a series of tests (mixed with some of Hiro's childish pranks) in a Tokyo bowling alley, the duo teleport to Sam's Comics, which Hiro claims is the source of all knowledge. Ando finds yet another prophetic issue of ''9th Wonders!'' which depicts the very situation that he and Hiro are in. The book also depicts a solar eclipse, with the caption, "It's Coming...," in the corner. The comic directs the duo to Matt Parkman, who can presumably restore Hiro's memory. Matt, however, cannot even understand Hiro, much less fix him, and instead enlists Hiro's help in finding Daphne, which the comic also depicts. When the eclipse causes both Hiro and Matt to lose their powers, Matt loses faith in his ability to help Daphne. In his own childish way, Hiro successfully convinces Matt to save Daphne. While Matt goes to Daphne, Hiro and Ando track down the nearest Sam's Comics to find the new issue of ''9th Wonders!''.
The proprietors are surprised when the issue depicts Hiro and Ando asking for it. Wanting to read up on his life, Hiro uses his credit card to purchase all the back issues of the ''9th Wonders!'' comic; however, after seeing all the death that occurs when he tries to be a hero, he locks himself in the restroom. The shop owner talks him around and Hiro leaves the restroom. The other employee points out a panel in the first issue showing present-day Hiro and Claire Bennet looking through the glasshouse at Kaito Nakamura handing baby Claire over to Noah. Copying the comic, Hiro tracks down Claire, saving the Bennets in the process by teleporting Sylar and Elle to a beach, and takes Claire back to the moment the comic depicts. While watching their past selves, Hiro learns that his mother has the ability to heal, and possesses the "catalyst" that was intended for Claire. Hiro reveals himself to his mother, and she heals his memory. He convinces her to give him the catalyst, pledging to protect it. However, Arthur Petrelli appears, stealing his ability and the catalyst. He throws Hiro off the roof and returns to the present after sending Claire back to the future.
Hiro manages to climb up back to the balcony, he then seeks the help of his younger self to obtain the formula from his father. They're both caught in the act by his father who sends young Hiro to bed and then attacks present day Hiro believing he's just a thief. Hiro tears the formula in half just as his father strikes, accounting for it being torn in half in the present. He is rescued by Daphne and Ando, the latter having gained the power to supercharge the abilities of others; with Ando's help, Daphne can essentially run through time. Once in the present, Hiro and Daphne travel back to the Pinehearst Company to recover the formula. Tracy is about to leave with the formula, so Hiro apologizes to her in advance before punching her in the face and grabbing the formula. Daphne takes him back to their friends and he destroys the formula once and for all.
Fugitives
Hiro, powerless, is back in Japan with Ando. He bought an abandoned fire station from the city as their headquarters. After injecting him with a GPS device and revealing the Ando-cycle, Ando tells Hiro that he feels that he's trying to live through him since he is currently powerless. After Hiro denies this, Ando leaves frustrated. Later while talking to Ando on the phone, Hiro is captured by Nathan's agents. Then Hiro is awakened by Claire on a plane with other captured people with abilities. Due to a battle with Peter and the soldiers on it, the plane crashes with everyone inside. Hiro survives and runs for his life together with Mohinder Suresh and Matt Parkman. Meanwhile, Ando is getting worried and tries to get to Arkansas, where the plane crashed. He is visited by Daphne who worries about the kidnapped Matt and runs to Arkansas together with Ando. They are quickly reunited but Daphne gets shot by Hunter's agents. Hiro, Ando, Matt and Mohinder escape again from the soldiers and are also reunited with Peter Petrelli. Hiro gets handed some drawings of Matt which reveal that he and Ando are to go to India. On the dawning stand Hiro, an unknown blond girl and a man. Hiro believes he must find a sword there so he can regain his lost powers.In "Building 26", he and Ando travel to India and realize that the blond girl is a future bride who doesn´t want to get married but accepts it because of her grandfather´s wishes. Ando convinces the bride to stop the wedding which upsets Hiro because he is no longer the hero on a quest. While on the bride´s coffee house, Ando gets kidnapped by the groom and will kill him if the wedding is not celebrated. During the wedding Hiro stops it and defends the bride with a knife thus fulfilling Matt´s painting as he realizes that he doesn´t need powers to be a hero. The wedding is off and while he and Ando are reunited in the coffee house they receive a message from Rebel, telling them that they must save Matt Parkman.
As seen in "Shades of Gray", Hiro and Ando are directed to Los Angeles where they find that the Matt Parkman, Rebel was referring to, was only a baby also named Matt Parkman.
In "Cold Snap", Hiro and Ando discover that this is actually the son of the Matt Parkman they know. They also discover the baby possesses the ability to touch things and make them "go". When armed men break into baby Matt's house, Hiro discovers that the baby also is able to restart his powers, at least in part. After the baby touched Hiro, he is able to once again manipulate time, though he is still unable to bend space and teleport. After freezing time, Hiro takes baby Matt and the frozen Ando, whom he puts in a wheelbarrow, and walks twelve miles to a bus station. After restarting time, Hiro remarks to Ando, "Time is once again on our side."
In "Turn and Face the Strange", after escaping, Hiro and Ando, with baby Matt in tow, are in the way to find Matt Sr., but Matt Jr. keeps inactivating any vehicle they are on due to the noise they make, until Ando comes with a funny face to entertain the baby, and Hiro convinces him to keep it so the "cube" can go. They finally manage to track down Matt Sr. who has gone to confront Danko. Hiro freezes time just as Danko fires his gun at Matt and drags Matt out of the apartment. Hiro then unites Matt with the son he didn't know he had, giving Matt a reason to live again.
In "I Am Sylar", Hiro and Ando try to convince Matt to join them bringing down "Building 26", but he refuses because he has a son now to look for and he must retrieve Jr. to his mother in LA. Later, they arrive Reed Street Laboratory to set up a trap for HLS agents, using Ando as bait, although he refuses, as Hiro manages to not freeze him, telling him he is a hero too, but Hiro still keeps his plan going on, unfreezing the agents so they can take down Ando, and then freezing everybody again so he can take an agent's place as they carry Ando to the "Building 26". Once in motion, Hiro manages to awake Ando so he can be ready for action, but when he unfreezes time, an agent realizes Hiro is not one of them, and Ando shoots a big blast of red lightning, affecting everyone and saving Hiro. As plan B, they use the GPS signal of the agents to track the place, and once they are ready to fight, Hiro tries to freeze time, but instead he receives an strong headache and nosebleed as they realize he can't use his ability anymore.
In "An Invisible Thread", Hiro recovers from his headache and nosebleed and insists on continuing with the plan despite the danger. He stops time and he and Ando infiltrate Building 26 to free the trapped prisoners. They find and free Danko and Noah and find the drugged evolved humans, but Hiro's ear starts bleeding and he clearly hides the fact that he is in pain. The two free them and replace them with all of the members of the Building 26 unit and Hiro then unfreezes time and he and Ando showed the freed prisoners the way out. Mohinder checks Hiro out and determines that Hiro's body is rejecting his powers and he can't risk freezing time anymore. Hiro freezes time again to save Noah Bennet from being tranquilized by Danko and tranquilizes Danko, but faints afterwards and is apparently taken to a hospital. Later an apparently fully recovered (Though still suffering from headaches) Hiro and Ando witness the burning of Sylar's (really James Martin) body and Hiro tells Ando its time for them to return home to Tokyo.
Redemption
In "Orientation", Hiro still has headaches and effects of the illness he developed as a result of his restored powers and Ando insists he go see a doctor. Hiro reveals he has: he's dying of a terminal illness, news that shocks Ando. The two have started a Dial A Hero business as they want to be real heroes. Hiro's sister, Kimiko is unhappy and insists they pay rent if they're going to continue to operate out of the Yamagato conference room. They get their first call from a little girl that wants them to save her cat Muffin Man, and as neither of their powers are useful in the situation (Hiro still only being able to stop time), Hiro has Ando climb up and save the cat. Ando falls but Hiro stops time and saves him, however when he restarts time, as a side effect of his condition, Hiro is briefly frozen in time himself while the world continues on around him. Ando takes Hiro back to Yamagato and Hiro finally unfreezes and the two discuss a carnival they attended 14 years before: Hiro got his fortune told by a fortune teller, causing him to start on his path to being a hero and Ando accidentally spills a drink on Kimiko, causing her to hate him while he's in love with her. While in reflection about this, Hiro's time travel ability suddenly re-manifests and he teleports to the carnival 14 years in the past.In "Jump, Push, Fall", Hiro is at the carnival when his past self asks him to take the picture he was reflecting over in the present. While debating with himself if he should or shouldn't stop his past self from getting his fortune told, he runs into the Samuel Sullivan of his own time. Samuel shows him that he has powers too and tries to convince Hiro to make small changes to the past to fix small mistakes. He pushes Hiro in the way of the falling Slushy (which was Past Hiro's fault) and it spills all over him instead of Kimiko. Hiro suddenly teleports back to the present and finds a slight change: as a result of him getting hit with the Slushy instead of Kimiko, Kimiko never grew to hate Ando and the two fell in love at the carnival. As a result of this, Hiro decides his new mission is to change past mistakes even though he doesn't have full control over his time travel power yet.
In "Acceptance", Kimiko reveals she and Ando have gotten engaged and as she and Hiro are the last remaining members of their family, she wants him to give her away at the wedding which he accepts. Ando, learning of this, reminds Hiro that Hiro is dying and may not be alive for the wedding which is over a year away and pushes him to tell Kimiko the truth about his illness. Hiro gets a call from a former Yamagato accountant named Tadashi on the Dial a Hero line and learns the man is about to jump off the roof and commit suicide. On the roof, Tadashi explains why he's about to kill himself and although Hiro offers to fix things, Tadashi commits suicide. Hiro time travels to the past and apparently fixes things, but Tadashi jumps again having made the same mistake at another time. After 47 tries, Hiro visits Tadashi on the roof one last time and simply talks to him this time. He realizes Tadashi hated his job and purposly got himself fired and tells him too use the opportunity to find a job he likes. Hiro tells Tadashi to cherish the life he has and admits to him his own terminal illness and says not to keep his unhappiness a secret from his family. Promising to always be Tadashi's friend, Hiro successfully talks him off the roof and prevents him from jumping. After leaving the roof, Hiro decides to take his own advice and tells Kimiko the truth about his illness. Kimiko starts crying and embraces him, when one of his headaches hits and he seemingly freezes in time for a moment. Hiro unfreezes and suddenly teleports away to Peter Petrelli's apartment, where he collapses (''Hysterical Blindness'').
In "Tabula Rasa", once in the hospital, he reveals he is suffering from a brain tumor. While Peter tracks down healer Jeremy Greer in order to save his life, Hiro helps Emma Coolidge to come to terms with her own ability. Following this he is reminded of Charlie, and resolves to try and save her again. He later teleports three years back in time to the Burnt Toast Diner, seeing Charlie through the window.
In "Once Upon a Time in Texas", Hiro teleports to the day of Charlie's death and resolves to save her. He first steals some clothes as he teleported to Midland in just his hospital gown. He encounters a young boy and tells him about his love for Charlie and the Brain Man (Sylar). The two encounter Sylar outside the diner and inside, Hiro witnesses Sylar interact with Charlie, detecting her blood clot and claiming he can fix it. Hiro then encounters Samuel (teleported from the future by his dying friend Arnold who possessed the same powers as Hiro) who warns him that unlike him fixing Ando and Kimiko's relationship, meddling with things at this point in time is dangerous due to how many people's fates converged here. Hiro, realizing Sylar is about to attack Charlie, freezes time and stops Sylar just in time. He removes Sylar on a dolly (as he still can't control his teleportation) and puts him in a bus compartment. Hiro then realizes that if he never goes back in time, he will never fall in love with Charlie so he sends his past self back in time telling him that his job is to "save the waitress" and that "the cheerleader" will be fine. His past self teleports away and is in the picture of Charlie's birthday party, keeping that part of history on track. Upon a reminder by Samuel, Hiro, introducing himself as Future Hiro, informs Past Ando of what Past Hiro has done and convinces him to stay as his past self never informed Ando of where he was disappearing of to this time. Hiro then visits Charlie who remembers him and he tries to get her to start on the world tour she always wanted to go on and she agrees, however her blood clot starts to rupture into a fatal aneurism and Hiro becomes desperate to save her again. He remembers Sylar said he could fix the clot and rushes to the bus station in Odessa where he encounters a free and angry Sylar. He evades him by repeatedly stopping time and moving around, but due to his condition this tires him out and gives him a headache, however he succeeds in convincing Sylar by promising to reveal his personal future. At the diner, Sylar telekinetically removes Charie's blood clot through her eye and saves her. Hiro keeps up his end of the deal telling Sylar he will become a powerful villain who many people will gather to kill and he will die alone and unmissed. Hiro then freezes time and returns Sylar to the Odessa Bus Station via motor scooter. At the diner, Charlie is angry with Hiro for saving her and not everyone who Sylar kills and runs off. Hiro later chats with Noah Bennet about love and is relieved when Charlie returns, and apologizes for her actions and admits she loves him. He follows her outside and finds her gone and Samuel waiting for him. Samuel tells him that Charlie is at his carnival in the present and if Hiro wants to see her again, he has to take control of his powers and transport them there. Hiro realizes Samuel is evil and grabs him in anger before managing to teleport them to Samuel's carnival in the present. This causes Samuel to remark that Hiro is finally regaining control over his powers. Hiro searches for Charlie and finds her nametag outside a dead Arnold's trailer and Samuel reveals he had Arnold trap her somewhere in time and the only way he'll tell Hiro where to look is if he does what Samuel wants. Hiro reluctantly agrees and Samuel tells him he made a mistake eight weeks before.
In "Brother's Keeper", Samuel tells Hiro he needs to go back in time eight weeks and retrieve a film from Mohinder Suresh. Hiro offers to find him in the present as he's not sure about his ability to time travel, but Samuel tells him it has to be eight weeks before and that if he wants to see Charlie again he'll do it. Hiro, exercising control over his time travel and teleportation powers for the first time since got them back, teleports to Mohinder Suresh's hotel room eight weeks in the past, but his control is not perfect and he arrives ten minutes too late and finds Mohinder dead. He tries again and gets it right on the second try, arriving as Mohinder drops a lit match into a wastebasket with the film although doing so gives him a minor nosebleed. Hiro freezes time, exchanges the film for another one and puts a Kevlar vest on Mohinder to protect him from Samuel. After the fake film is burned and Samuel believes he killed Mohinder, Hiro reveals himself to Mohinder and tells him he's from the future and explains how he knew what was going to happen to Mohinder. Hiro tells Mohinder to disappear for eight weeks so Samuel will believe him dead and he can get Charlie back. Mohinder refuses so Hiro freezes time and teleports him away, displaying control of teleportation outside of time travel for the first time. He traps him in a mental institution in Florida so he'll be out of the way and then returns to the present where he gives Samuel the film and demands Charlie. Samuel says he will give her to him later before walking away.
In "Thanksgiving", Hiro still demands Charlie back, but Samuel refuses to give up the only leverage he has over Hiro. Lydia offers to help and after reading Hiro and seeing his desires, she has him take her back in time eight weeks to witness Joseph's death. Hiro is reluctant, but does so, although he indicates Lydia was responsible for the time travel. The two witness Samuel murder Joseph and desperately try to teleport back before Samuel finds them. With Lydia's help, Hiro manages to return the two to the present, but a suspicious Samuel figures out the truth. He tries to claim Edgar killed Joseph, but Hiro refuses to back up Edgar's claim that Samuel did it due to Charlie. Samuel goes to kill Edgar, but Hiro freezes time and helps Edgar get away instead. Later, in retaliation and in order to keep Hiro in the Carnival, Samuel has Damien try to erase Hiro's mind, but instead it just addles his brains, causing him to start to think he is fictional characters and teleport away to save "Watson".
In "Upon This Rock", Hiro teleports to Japan where he stops a purse snatcher, but uses various fictional references in regards to himself and everyone around him. Looking for his sidekick "Sancho Ponza", he is arrested and taken to Ando at Yamagato as the police found Ando's business card on him. Ando reveals Hiro has been missing for six weeks and has the cops let him go, although he is confused by Hiro's repeated calling him of "Sancho" and insisting that they must save "Watson" at "Arkham" in the land of the "swamp dragons." Ando thinks that Hiro's brain tumor is causing this, but uses Hiro's comics to decipher that Hiro is referring to him as his sidekick and when he mentions Curt Connors that the land of the "swamp dragons" (alligators) is Florida and that "Arkham" refers to an asylum although Ando is unable to figure out what he means by "Watson." Ando learns that in Florida there is an asylum on Arkham Road and realizes Hiro must want to go there. Hiro confirms this and claims Ando is the best sidekick he knows.
In "Close To You", Hiro has Ando check him into the asylum in order to infiltrate it. As he's led down a hallway, Hiro points out "Watson's" room to Ando who checks and realizes who he's talking about. Ando later visits Hiro and when Hiro reveals that the drugs that are being used on Mohinder are preventing his use of super-strength, Ando switches Mohinder's pills with aspirin, but accidentally swallows Mohinder's pills and falls into a drug-induced stupor. Hiro hides Ando in a closet and later that night wakes up Mohinder who, now no longer under the influence of the hospital's drugs, easily breaks free of his straight-jacket and cell. Hiro then leads the confused and angry Mohinder to Ando who they wheel to an outside door, but are confronted by orderlies who Hiro refers to as "stormtroopers." Ando snaps out of his daze and blasts the door open, allowing the three to escape into a swamp while the orderlies are distracted. Mohinder realizes that they can't outrun the orderlies and their dogs and wants Hiro to teleport them to safety, but in Hiro's addled state he is unable to. Mohinder suggests a reluctant Ando use his power like electro-shock therapy and try to shock Hiro back to normal and Ando tries. Ando's attempt works and Hiro is restored to normal. Hiro immediately teleports himself, Mohinder and Ando away to Noah Bennet's apartment, getting away seconds before the dogs and orderlies find the spot the three had been hiding in. Hiro teleporting into the apartment interrupts Noah and Lauren Gilmore kissing and Hiro asks for their help.
In ''Pass/Fail'', Hiro is starting to feel worse and collapses in Noah Bennet's apartment. Hiro is rushed to the hospital where he is now dying from his brain tumor. The doctors start to operate on him to attempt to remove the tumor and save him, while Hiro ends up in a hallucination where he is on trial for his acts of tampering with time during Redemption. Adam Monroe is the prosecutor, Kaito is the judge and Ando is the defense attorney. Young Ando, Kimiko and Sylar are brought in as witnesses for the prosecution and used against him and Hiro testifies for himself and is found guilty. While being led toward the light, he asks Kaito for a chance to redeem himself and is given it. Hiro sword-fights Adam and kills him with the real Ando's encouragement while in the real world he crashes on the operating table. Hiro's mother Ishi appears to him and in his mind heals him of his tumor, reviving him in the real world where the doctors successfully remove the tumor. Later, Hiro chats with Ando, now cured.
In "Brave New World", while testing out his renewed powers, a nurse comes in and gives him a battered origami swan. Hiro realizes its from Charlie and goes to her room to find her an old, dying, woman. Charlie explains that Arnold teleported her to Milwaukee on January 26, 1944 and she started a new life and a family there. Hiro initially wants to travel to that date and return her to her own time, but Charlie convinces him not to as she has lived a good life which will never exist if he interfers. With Charlie safe, Hiro finds himself purposless until Ando reminds him of Samuel Sullivan and Hiro teleports the two to the Carnival in Central Park after saying a final goodbye to Charlie. There, Claire asks Hiro to teleport dozens of specials away from the Carnival to strip Samuel of his powers. Hiro agrees to try, telling everyone to hold hands, but is unsure he can do it until Ando offers to supercharge him. With Ando supercharging him, Hiro successfully teleports everyone away, stripping Samuel of his immense powers and allowing Peter to defeat him. Hiro and Ando later return to the Carnival and witness Claire jumping from the Ferris Wheel and exposing her powers to the world.
Alternate futures
Powers and abilities
Hiro possessed the power to control the space-time continuum, giving him the power to manipulate the flow of time, travel through time, and teleport to any location at will, until Arthur Petrelli took it away when he traveled back to 1991. Specific examples of temporal manipulation include slowing time relative to himself and rewinding time specific to certain objects (a clock, a train, and a gun in various episodes). As demonstrated by his encounters with Daphne, a woman with the power of enhanced speed, Hiro does not stop time completely. Hiro has shown the ability to teleport both himself and others in physical contact with himself, both through space and time.Although stressful events and practice have helped Hiro to develop his abilities, Hiro initially has trouble with the more complicated teleportation and time travel abilities. For example, when he teleported to New York, he inadvertently traveled five weeks into the future as well. Although he was able to travel back to the same time and place from which he left, he was only able to do so when his life was in danger from a nuclear explosion. Later, when he attempted to save Charlie's life by traveling to the day before her death, Hiro accidentally traveled six months into the past. He also inadvertently teleported to present day Japan from Texas just as he and Charlie were about to kiss and then could not teleport back, no matter how hard he tried.
After the incident with Charlie, Hiro's powers began weakening, eventually becoming completely unusable. He seeks out Takezo Kensei's sword in the hope that it will focus his failing powers. After obtaining the sword, Hiro exhibits the ability to teleport other people along with himself, which he uses to rescue himself and Ando from an impending attack by casino guards in "Parasite", though this too resulted in an inadvertent trip five years into the future, after the explosion had occurred. The episode "Five Years Gone" marks his first successful use of teleportation and time travel. By "The Hard Part", Hiro has improved his skill in teleportation, as he uses it twice without traveling any discernible distance through time. His father attributes this to a matter of confidence rather than any effect caused by the sword. In addition to his power over time, Hiro is skilled with a katana, having been trained by his father.
In "It's Coming" and "The Eclipse", Hiro is mentally reverted into a ten year old, but still possesses his powers. After Ando teaches him how to use them again, Hiro shows great control over them even in his young mental state, being able to stop time with ease (and using it to play tricks), teleport himself and others and time-travel 16 years into the past with Claire Bennett.
In "Our Father", Hiro's abilities are stolen by Arthur Petrelli, rendering him a normal human.
In the episode, "Cold Snap", Hiro regains some of his ability when the son of Matt Parkman, whom he dubs "Baby Touch and Go," touches him and turns his ability on. At the moment Hiro has regained the ability to stop and restart time, but is still unable to teleport or travel through time. In "I Am Sylar", Hiro manages to regain more of his abilities from Parkman's son, allowing him to make Ando unaffected by his time-freezing. However problems have now arisen, when Hiro and Ando prepare to infiltrate Building 26, Hiro's powers falter and he instead receives a blistering headache and a nosebleed. After the two rescue all of the evolved humans, Mohinder states that for some reason Hiro's body is now rejecting his powers and he can't risk freezing time again. Hiro does it one more time to save Noah Bennet from Danko, but it proves to be too much of a strain on him and causes him to pass out.
Hiro appears to regain the full extent of his abilities in the fourth season episode "Orientation". After focusing on a photograph of himself, Ando, and his sister Kimiko taken at the Sullivan Bros. Carnival 14 years ago, he inadvertently travels there. By doing so, he used both his time-traveling and teleportation abilities. He seems to have little control over his power. He seems to travel through time when he's thinking of something from the past. As of Hysterical Blindness, Hiro has the ability to teleport back. However, like his ability to time travel, his first teleportation seemed accidental and instinctual. It took him from Yamagato to Peter Petrelli's apartment. He then collapsed from presumably the strain the teleport put on him in his condition.
His time-stopping ability, if he uses it too much, exhausts Hiro and causes him pain. As of "Tabula Rasa"", Hiro is beginning to have more control over his power. An unfortunate side effect of this ability is the strain it puts on the body can cause inoperable tumors.
As of "Once Upon a Time in Texas" and "Brother's Keeper", Hiro is regaining control over the other aspects of his ability, but he lacks perfect control. When Samuel provoked him, Hiro managed to teleport them both to Samuel's carnival, but later he was unsure if he could time travel eight weeks. Hiro managed to perform this task, but it took him two tries to get it right as he said the first time took him ten minutes too late. The time travel caused him to have a minor nosebleed, but besides that he seemed to suffer no ill effects. He later displays just teleportation, teleporting Mohinder to Florida where he checks him into a mental hospital under a fake name in order to keep him out of sight for eight weeks in order to preserve the timeline.
In "Thanksgiving", Lydia has him take her back eight weeks into the past to see Joseph Sullivan's death. He teleports them easily, but he indicates Lydia was responsible for it not him, but this is unclear. In the past he has trouble teleporting them back due to his lack of full control and probably the stress of the situation. However, with Lydia's help, he manages to bring them both back to the present.
In "Close to You", Hiro lacks the ability to properly use his powers due to his mind being messed up, but once Ando restores his mind, Hiro is instantly able to teleport at will with Mohinder Suresh and Ando, taking them both to Noah Bennet's apartment. Hiro shows no trouble teleporting at will this time and takes more than one person with him, something he hasn't done since before he lost his powers.
In "Brave New World," Hiro tests his powers out after his brain tumor is removed and learns that removing the brain tumor has restored full control over his powers to Hiro. Hiro is easily able to teleport himself and Ando to Central Park where the Carnival is with no issues. There, Hiro is asked to teleport over a dozen people away from the Carnival. Hiro has everyone hold hands and manages to succeed in teleporting everyone thanks to Ando supercharging his powers which give him the boost to his powers he needs to teleport such a large group of people.
Time alterations
Hiro's trips have given Hiro his own unique time line, which is reflected in some of Isaac Mendez's paintings of Hiro. Along with the existence of an alternate future version of himself, Hiro has come across or induced a few time paradoxes or alterations in the series.Ironically, in general, the future shown in "Don't Look Back" seems to be even more certain, as changes that have been or intended to have been made futile:
However, the future has proven itself to not be entirely certain, as the characters were able to stop the explosion from destroying New York City in "How to Stop an Exploding Man".
Starting at the end of Season 1 and through much of Season 2, Hiro was in 1671 Feudal Japan. There he becomes personally entwined in the history and events surrounding the warrior, Takezo Kensei. Recognizing the man is not as history portrays him, Hiro works to help Takezo fulfill his "destiny". This results in Hiro personally influencing many major events.
In Redemption, Hiro has regained the ability to time travel and has decided to use it to right mistakes. This results in apparently minor changes to the timeline:
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| Coordinates | 12°2′36″N77°1′42″N |
|---|---|
| name | Tom Bosley |
| birth name | Thomas Edward Bosley |
| birth date | October 01, 1927 |
| birth place | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| death date | October 19, 2010 |
| death place | Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
| death cause | Heart failure |
| years active | 1959–2010 |
| occupation | Actor |
| spouse | Jane Eliot (1962–1978)Patricia Carr (1980–2010) |
| signature | TomBosley.png }} |
Thomas Edward "Tom" Bosley (October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010) was an American actor. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom ''Happy Days''. He also was featured in recurring roles on ''Murder, She Wrote'', and ''Father Dowling Mysteries''. He originated the title role of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical ''Fiorello!'', earning the 1960 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical.
Early life
Bosley was born in Chicago, the son of Dora (née Heyman) and Benjamin Bosley. Although well known for playing a Catholic priest—and numerous Protestants—Bosley was actually Jewish. During World War II, Bosley served in the United States Navy. While attending DePaul University, in Chicago, in 1947, he made his stage debut in ''Our Town'' with the Canterbury Players at the Fine Arts Theatre. Bosley performed at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, in 1949 and 1950 alongside Paul Newman.
Career
Early roles and stage roles
Bosley played the Knave of Hearts in a Hallmark Hall of Fame telecast of Eva Le Gallienne's production of ''Alice in Wonderland'' in 1955. But his breakthrough stage role was New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in the long-running Broadway musical ''Fiorello!'' (1959), for which he won a Tony Award. In 1994, he originated the role of Maurice in the Broadway version of Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast''. Bosley also toured as Cap'n Andy in Harold Prince's 1994 revival of ''Show Boat''.His first motion picture role was in 1963, as the would-be suitor of Natalie Wood in ''Love with the Proper Stranger.'' Other films include ''The World of Henry Orient'', ''Divorce American Style'', ''Yours, Mine and Ours'', ''Gus'' and the made-for-television ''The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal''. Bosley shared a heartfelt story about his experience with the Holocaust in the documentary film ''Paper Clips''.
Among his early television appearances was in 1960 on the CBS summer replacement series, ''Diagnosis: Unknown'', with Patrick O'Neal. In 1962, he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ryan in the episode "The Man Who Wanted to Die" on James Whitmore's ABC legal drama ''The Law and Mr. Jones''. In 1969, he appeared in a comical episode of ''The Virginian''.
''Happy Days'' and other notable film and television roles
Bosley's best known role was the character Howard Cunningham, Richie and Joanie Cunningham's father, in the long-running sitcom ''Happy Days''. Bosley was also known for portraying Sheriff Amos Tupper on ''Murder, She Wrote''. He also portrayed the eponymous Father Frank Dowling on the TV mystery series, ''Father Dowling Mysteries''. Among myriad television appearances, one notable early performance was in the "Eyes" segment of the 1969 pilot episode of Rod Serling's ''Night Gallery'', directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Joan Crawford.Bosley also starred in the 2008 Hallmark Channel television movie ''Charlie & Me''. In 2010, he appeared in ''The Backup Plan'' starring Jennifer Lopez, which was his final film.
In 1984, Bosley guest-hosted the "Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular" with local newscaster Pat Harper.
Voice over roles
Also a voice actor, Bosley hosted ''The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater'', a 1977 radio drama series for children. He voiced many cartoon characters, including Harry Boyle in the animated series ''Wait Till Your Father Gets Home''. He provided the voice of the title character in the 1980s cartoon ''The World of David the Gnome'' and the shop owner Mr. Winkle in the children's Christmas special ''The Tangerine Bear''. He also narrated the movie documentary series ''That's Hollywood''. Additionally, he played the narrator B.A.H. Humbug in the Rankin/Bass animated Christmas special ''The Stingiest Man In Town''. Bosley was also the voice of Mister Geppetto, Pinocchio's 'dad' in Filmation's ''Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night'', released in 1987.
Commercials
During the 1970s and 1980s, Bosley did several commercials for the Glad Sandwich and Garbage Bags.Tom Bosley did radio commercials for the new Saturn Car Company a "different kind of car company," in 1990.
Later in life he was the television spokesman for SMC (Specialty Merchandise Corporation), a national wholesaler and dropshipper.
Bosley was also the “ face “ of LifeBack USA helping bring the benefits of Life Settlements to seniors, having himself sold an unwanted life insurance policy during his later life.
Death
Bosley died at 4 a.m. of heart failure on October 19, 2010, at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California near his home in Palm Springs, California. He was 83 years old. His agent, Sheryl Abrams, said Bosley had been battling lung cancer. His remains are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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