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- Vera Plevnik was born in 1955 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was an actress, known for Cop Shop (1977), Going Down (1982) and Monkey Grip (1982). She died on 27 January 1982 in Bateman's Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
- Actress, singer, lyricist, and composer, Anna Russell began as a folk singer on BBC radio in 1931, in Canada in 1940, and since 1943, has appeared as a soloist on the concert stage, making her New York City debut in a one-woman show in 1948 with which she has toured the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada; she wrote the lyrics and music for Anna Russell's Little Show (1953) and played the Witch in the opera Hansel and Gretel (1953); with Robert Paine Grose and Joan White, she founded Grow Productions, Inc. in 1963, which presented Lady Audley's Secret at the New York World's Fair in 1964; she has composed, written, and performed her own material on Columbia recordings, is the author of The Power of Being a Positive Stinker (1955) and the Anna Russell Songbook (1958), and was the President of the B & R Music Publishing Company. She received the Canadian Women's Press Club Award in 1956 as the best Canadian comedy writer of the year.