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- Alex Bookston was born on 12 May 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Barb Wire (1996), Murder in the First (1995) and Toys (1992). He was married to Ruth Bookston. He died on 21 January 2003 in Granada Hills, California, USA.
- John Grieve was born on 14 June 1924 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Eye of the Needle (1981), Doctor at Sea (1974) and The Vital Spark (1959). He died on 21 January 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- At the time of her death, Irene Lee Diamond was president of the Irene Diamond fund, a foundation she set up in 1994 to support the performing arts and to fight the scourge of AIDS. This fund followed the Aaron Diamond fund which she and her husband established in the 1950s. Shortly before Aaron's death in 1984, the couple decided to pay out the remaining assets of the fund over the following ten years. Mrs. Diamond went on to oversee some 700 donations, amounting to 220 million dollars, 50 million of which went towards AIDS research. In 1999 President Clinton recognized her philanthropy by awarding her the National Medal of Arts. Two years later she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
Born Irene Levine on 7 May, 1910, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Russian immigrants, Horace M. and Leah D. Levine. Her father worked for the Duquesne Light Company as a records clerk. Later he would rise to the position of director of the Central Retail Service of the Duquesne Light Company.
After graduating from high school Irene moved to Manhattan to study acting. There she assumed the name Irene Lee and began modeling and some freelance reading for Warner Brothers. The latter led to a job in Hollywood as an assistant story editor for Warner's. Soon, a meeting with producer Hal B. Wallis led to a 25 year association where she oversaw scripts for many of Hollywood's classic films, including Dark Victory (1939) and The Maltese Falcon (1941).
In 1941 she convinced Wallis to let her buy the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Joan Alison and Murray Burnett. She thought the play would be a perfect fit for the day's news. She changed the title to Casablanca and by the time the film came out it coincided with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at Casablanca.
She and continued to work on films from New York after her marriage to real estate developer Aaron Diamond in 1942 and, except for a brief stint with Samuel Goldwyn, continued her collaboration with Hal Wallis.
She is also credited with helping advance the careers of Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Robert Redford.
Irene Lee Diamond died on 21 January, 2003, at her home on the upper East Side of Manhattan. She was survived by a daughter and two grandchildren. - Paul Kuusberg was born on 30 April 1916 in Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia]. Paul was a writer, known for Inimesed sõdurisinelis (1968), Mis juhtus Andres Lapeteusega? (1966) and Mees ja mänd (1980). Paul died on 21 January 2003 in Estonia.
- Eddie Johnson was born on 3 February 1959 in Albany, Georgia, USA. He died on 21 January 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Daniel McCoshan was born on 1 November 1920 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for On Such a Night (1956). He died on 21 January 2003 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK.