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- V.K. Krishna Menon was born on 3 May 1897 in Calicut, Malabar district, Madras Presidency, British India. He died on 6 October 1974 in New Delhi, Delhi, India.
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Henry W. Sanicola was born on 14 June 1914 in the USA. Henry W. was a producer, known for The Frank Sinatra Show (1957), X-15 (1961) and Needle in a Timestack (2021). Henry W. died on 6 October 1974 in Glendale, California, USA.- Helmuth Koinigg was born on 3 November 1948 in Vienna, Austria. He died on 6 October 1974 in Watkins Glen, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
British writer and historian Leonard Cottrell was born in 1913 in Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England. His father was an engineer at the local school, which Leonard attended when he reached school age. It was his father who stirred his interest in ancient history. One day while they were visiting ancient Tewkesbury Abbey, his father pointed to the roof and said, "Leonard, when those stories were laid men wore chain mail". It was that remark, Cottrell later said, that made him realize for the first time that "one could actually touch things which had been made some 900 or more years ago, that the people about whom I had been reading, such as William the Conqueror, were real people, as real as I was. I read prodigiously, and was totally uninterested in school activities such as football, cricket, athletics, etc. History and English were the only subjects which absorbed me".
He had hoped to become a journalist upon graduation, but since that would have involved moving quite a ways from home, his mother forbade it. Instead, he wound up taking a job as a copywriter at an ad agency, a job he hated. However, it gave him the opportunity in his spare time to immerse himself in the works of such 18th-century writers as Pope, Addison and Dryden. In the 1930s Cottrell hopped on his motorcycle and toured the English countryside, visiting ancient burial grounds, archaeological sites and medieval monuments. After writing several articles for motoring magazines, he finally got a chance to put together a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) in 1937. He did several others for the company prior to the outbreak of World War II. His attempt to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) fell through when he was rejected on medical grounds, so he joined the staff of the BBC, writing and producing documentaries about the war. In 1944 he was made a war correspondent for the BBC and covered operations of the RAF in Italy.
After the war he managed to convince the BBC to let him produce a series of documentaries on great archaeological discoveries, and he traveled to the pyramids, the Valley of the Kings and other historical sites in Egypt. His series of radio broadcasts was quite successful, and he later wrote a series of well-received books about ancient Egyptian and Greek history.
In 1956 he joined BBC Television, but was not able to make the kinds of archaeological programs he wished to, and left the network in 1960. He moved to Westmoreland and continued writing books, occasionally contributing documentaries to the BBC. He died in 1974.