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- Thomas Hill was born on 2 June 1927 in Landour, Mussoorie, India. He was an actor, known for The NeverEnding Story (1984), The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and Firefox (1982). He died on 20 April 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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- Composer
Scott Weiland was born on 27 October 1967 in Santa Cruz, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Tank Girl (1995), Battleship (2012) and Hulk (2003). He was married to Jamie Wachtel, Mary Forsberg and Janina Castenada. He died on 3 December 2015 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.- Actor
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Brian Pillman makes the list of a long line of tragic deaths in wrestling. He had endured 36 throat operations as a child. Pillman played football in the NFL for the Cincinnati Bengals in 1984 and in the CFL for the Calgary Stampeders. It was in Calgary where he met Owen Hart (who also died at a relatively early age) and started his wrestling career for Stampede Wrestling. Pillman's major titles include the Tag Team Championship, the US Tag Team Championship, and the Light Heavyweight Championship. Pillman also suffered a terrible broken leg that deeply hurt his career. He died at the age of 35 while still being an active wrestler in the World Wrestling Federation.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Giorgio Tozzi was born on 8 January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1971), South Pacific (1958) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978). He was married to Monte Amundsen and Catherine Dieringer. He died on 30 May 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Bobby Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio. He began playing organized basketball at Orrville High School. Knight continued at Ohio State in 1958 when he played for Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor. Despite being a star player in high school, he played a reserve role as a forward on the 1960 Ohio State Buckeyes team that won the NCAA Championship and featured players John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas. After completion of graduation from Ohio State University in 1962, he coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year. Knight then enlisted in the United States Army and accepted an assistant coaching position. In six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
In 1979 Knight guided the United States Pan American team to a gold medal in Puerto Rico. In 1984 Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold medal in the Olympic Games as coach of the 1984 basketball team. - Producer
- Director
- Actor
An amateur and professional wrestling legend, Verne Gagne's career covers the entire period of wrestling from the "real" to "fake" to "entertainment" eras. Gagne won two NCAA wrestling championships while at the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the 1948 Olympic Wrestling team for the United States. He soon turned pro and became champion of the new American Wrestling Association (AWA). He was a nine-time heavyweight champion in the AWA, winning his first title in 1960, and retiring as champion in 1981. In between he also was a four-time AWA Tag-Team champion with various partners. One of the most beloved "scientific" i.e. "good guy" wrestlers in the AWA, Gagne had some legendary feuds with some of the greats in the sport including The Crusher, Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon (both of whom he later teamed with to win the tag-team belts), "Wicked" Nick Bockwinkel, Gene Kiniski, Mr. M, and Doctor X. Gagne was never flamboyent, but he didn't really need to be as he let his wrestling do the talking. After his career, he took over the promotion of the AWA, staying in that capacity until the league folded in 1990.- Actress
- Composer
Lil Bub is a celebrity cat who was born on June 21, 2011. The runt of her litter, she was born with several genetic mutations, including having a shorter lower jaw (causing her tongue to always hang out), no teeth, and dwarfism. She also suffers from the bone disorder osteopetrosis and is polydactyl, having an extra toe on each paw. She gained fame on the internet after her owner, Mike Bridavsky, posted pictures of her on Tumblr. She frequently makes appearances for charity and has traveled to promote her book "Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet", her documentary "Lil Bub & Friendz", and her record Science & Magic. A portion of all profits made on her merchandise sales goes to animal rescue groups.- Kinsey grew up with his parents in middle-class, conservative circumstances. After graduating from school, Kinsey studied at Bowdoin College and later at Harvard. From 1929 he was a professor of zoology at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, specializing in entomology (insect research), with his main focus being the cataloging of gall wasps. In 1936, the university planned a biological marriage counseling course and asked Kinsey to teach it. The existing publications at the time did not seem sufficient, realistic or representative to Kinsey, which led him to begin his own surveys.
It was important to develop a new interview technique and train employees accordingly so that the American population would willingly provide information on a previously taboo topic. The project, originally planned on a small scale, took on larger and larger dimensions over time until Alfred Kinsey founded the "Institute for Sex Research" at the University of Indiana in 1942, which in 1947 became "The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction" was unnamed. A survey of approximately 18,500 American citizens was undertaken over the course of 15 years. The method of questioning that was used is still used in sex therapy today.
The collected findings were published in two volumes: In 1948, "The Sexual Behavior of Men" appeared (in Germany from 1955) and in 1953 "The Sexual Behavior of Women" (in Germany from 1954), which became popular under the name "Kinsey Report". became. The books caused a storm of moral outrage. In particular, "the woman's sexual behavior" hit like an "atomic bomb," according to media reports at the time. Kinsey revealed, among other things, that one in four women have extramarital sex and far more than half do not go to the altar as virgins. The Kinsey Report reminded prudish society of its own double standards.
For the first time, masturbation, frigidity, ejaculation, fellatio, sexuality in old age or youth, anal sex and homosexuality were discussed in public. The latter was banned under criminal law in some states in the 1950s. Kinsey was of the opinion that "normal" sexual behavior should not be limited to the missionary position, but that everything is permitted as long as it is voluntary. The realization that women needed more to achieve sexual satisfaction than men had previously assumed was a real trigger for a new wave of feminism. However, there were also some influential women's groups that accused Kinsey of violating morals and values and therefore called for censorship.
Kinsey himself lived freely according to his convictions. He had himself, his wife Clara McMillen and a few volunteers filmed in various sexual activities and publicly acknowledged his preference for group sex and his bisexuality. However, this openness was not only met with tolerance. Kinsey was accused by his opponents of inducing subjects to engage in homosexual acts, masochism and pedophilia. However, these allegations were never substantiated. Although Kinsey's work was groundbreaking in removing taboos among the population and groundbreaking in the history of the Enlightenment, most of his scientific colleagues only recognized him much later. It was not until 1973 that homosexuality was recognized as a sexual attraction and no longer as a mental illness.
Alfred Charles Kinsey died of heart failure on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. He was the father of four children.
Kinsey's pioneering work inspired several researchers after him to address the topic of sexuality, including the German-American sex researcher Shere Hite ("The Sexual Experience of Women" 1976, "The Sexual Experience of Man" 1981). But his own life also provided impetus for re-examination: T. C. Boyle published the biographical novel "Dr. Sex" in 2004. His life was also made into a film and was shown in cinemas in 2004 under the title "Kinsey", played by Liam Neeson. Although one could assume that prudery should have disappeared from the Western world by today at the latest - that is not the case. In the US state of Florida, it is illegal to perform oral sex (and kiss your wife's breasts). - Glenn was born in Bloomington, Illinois, which is where most people from his hometown of LeRoy, Illinois were born. He left the family funeral home business for the glamour of Hollywood, landing mostly bit roles in TV shows and movies. He later regretted some of his decisions and returned to LeRoy at age 50 try and set about repairing and renewing old relationships.
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Joe Dowell was born on 23 January 1940 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Rock & Chips (2010), Kottan ermittelt (1976) and Schlager-Raketen (1960). He died on 4 February 2016 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.- Art Department
- Actor
Thomas Saccio was born on 16 May 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mercury Rising (1998), Ghost (1990) and Black Rain (1989). He was married to Stephanie. He died on 18 September 2014 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Actress
- Writer
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Violette Verdy was born on 1 December 1933 in Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Dream Ballerina (1950), Olivia (1951) and Deux maîtres pour un valet (1952). She was married to Colin Clark. She died on 8 February 2016 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Ross Lockridge Jr. was born on 25 April 1914 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Raintree County (1957). He was married to Vernice Baker. He died on 6 March 1948 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Actor
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Tom McConnell was born on 25 October 1923 in Cicero, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Hoosiers (1986) and Amazing Stories (1985). He was married to Doris Ann Hook. He died on 18 March 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Anita Shade was born on 30 May 1968 in the USA. She was an actress, known for 8 Wheels of Death (2010). She died on 10 April 2013 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born on 7 August 1935 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Licorice Pizza (2021), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and The Corruptor (1999). He was married to Edith. He died on 5 December 1977 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Additional Crew
Leanne Watson was born on 13 September 1967 in Bedford, Indiana, USA. Leanne is known for Walker, Texas Ranger (1993). Leanne died on 11 December 2008 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Music Department
Al Cobine was a tenor saxophonist and band leader for six decades. He originally came to Bloomington, Indiana to pursue a degree in political science, but his musical talent quickly led him to work with top-notch artists. Al created and arrangements and led bands for artists such as Perry Como, Tony Bennet, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Eddy Arnold, Tom Jones, Elvis Presley and Doc Severinsen. He worked with Henry Mancini and provided the unforgettable sound of the tenor sax on the Pink Panther.
Al was actively involved in music education and received an honorary Doctor of Music from Indiana University in 2001. He was a composer and an arranger with over 100 works to his credit, including the theme song to the 1960s series Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Despite being in high demand, Al still found time to fulfill his original political ambition by serving two terms on the Monroe City Council.- Born on a farm near Neche, North Dakota, to Mr & Mrs Calvin Cook. At age 6, won a declamatory contest for kids. Graduated from Fargo High School in the 1940's and headed East to study acting. Joined a road company and was booked a show at the Fargo Theater, Fargo, ND. The show did well, as many came to see the local girl.
Married Arthur Storch in June of 1958. - Kemberly Wenger was born on 25 September 1963 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. She died on 22 May 1993 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
- Fontaine Syer was born on 15 June 1947 in the USA. She was an actress, known for The Burden of Proof (1992). She died on 29 May 2015 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Composer
Walter Kaufmann was born on 1 April 1907 in Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Jagran (1936), Hillmen Go to War (1944) and This Modern Age (1946). He died on 9 September 1984 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Born in Constantinople of Russian and Italian parents, Nicola Rossi Lemeni had an illustrious career singing dozens of major bass roles at La Scala and other operatic houses, including Chicago Lyric, Covent Garden, San Francisco, the Metropolitan, Teatro Colón, and others. The title characters of Don Giovanni (Mozart) and Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) were among his favorites, and he performed and recorded with soprano Maria Callas and other great singers of the time.
He and his wife, soprano Virginia Zeani (10.21.1925 - 03.20.2023), married in 1957 and often performed together. They moved to Bloomington, IN in 1980 to teach at the acclaimed Indiana University School of Music. It was there in Bloomington that Rossi Lemeni died of liver cancer in March 1991. - Jerome Mintz was born on 29 March 1930 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director, known for Carnaval de Pueblo (1987). He died on 22 November 1997 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Dale Ballinger was born on 31 October 1929 in Sibley, Illinois, USA. He died on 24 January 2019 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
- William Wiggins was born on 30 May 1934 in Port Allen, Louisiana, USA. He was married to Janice Slaughter. He died on 24 December 2016 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Paul L. Feltus was born on 10 December 1889. Paul L. was a writer, known for Their Worldly Goods (1914), His Secret (1913) and The Abandoned Well (1913). Paul L. died on 2 February 1971 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Harold E. Stassen was born on 13 April 1907 in West St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Esther G. Glewwe. He died on 4 March 2001 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.
- Adeline Tevis was born on 20 April 1931 in Winner, South Dakota USA. She was an actress, known for Diabolical Tales: Project Agartha (2023). She died on 21 April 2023 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
- Juan Orrego Salas was born on 18 January 1919 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He was a composer, known for Confesiones al amanecer (1954) and La caleta olvidada (1958). He died on 24 November 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Brad Maxwell was born on 8 July 1957 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. He died on 3 September 2023 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.
- János Starker was born on 5 July 1924 in Budapest, Hungary. He died on 28 April 2013 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Walter Cassel (not to be confused with actor Wally Cassell), is best remembered as a leading baritone with the Metropolitan Opera (275 performances), and the New York City Opera Company (126 performances). His singular noteworthy film appearance is in Romance Road (1938), (filmed in 1937), a two-reel Warner Bros. Technicolor musical short, which is occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies.- Elinor Ostrom was born on 7 August 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was married to Vincent Ostrom and Charles Scott. She died on 12 June 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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Randall Behr was born on 27 March 1952 in Modesto, California, USA. He is known for The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 (1994), Orlando furioso (1990) and Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera (1994). He died on 8 September 2005 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Dan Turpen, best known for his roles in "Weaver's Crossing" and "After Dark," is a father and grandfather who lives with his wife in Indiana. The author was in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. After military service, he taught in a public high school, served as an insurance agent, automobile sales manger and newspaper columnist. Turpen, an experienced author, has written several books including "Ogden's Story" and "The Savvy Vehicle Buyer: The Consumer Drives the Deal."
- Jimmy Granato was a well-known Chicago clarinetist who played "traditonal" or "Dixieland revival" style jazz with Art Hodes, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Smoky Stover, and many others.
He has appeared on many records over the years, and has played in different orchestras featured in many films from the late 1920s and 1930s. - Louis Jenkins was born on 28 October 1942 in Enid, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Blood Stripe (2016). He was married to Ann Jacobson and Sandra Brashear. He died on 21 December 2019 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.
- Bob graduated from Linton-Stockton High School and obtained a BA and Master's in Education from Indiana University.
Bob was an Emmy Award winning writer and producer of videos and television. He started creating films in high school and began his professional career making educational films for IU's Motion Picture Department. He produced many award winning films on technology, communication, history, geography and medicine while working at the Agency for Instructional Technology, at Cook Inc., and on numerous free-lance projects. Bob also earned anonymous success as a Hollywood script doctor. In addition to authoring several treatments and screenplays, he contributed to a number of successful films, among them the 2005 release A History of Violence. He recently completed work on a series of videos that comprise the main display at the newly created U.S. Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.
In his spare time, Bob used his talent to write, produce, and act in several plays for the Bloomington Playwrights Project, including "Glengarry Glenross" and his own one man show, "Maximum Bob." This year, he also participated in The 48-Hour Film Project in Indianapolis, writing and acting in "I'm Not Talking to You," a short comedy that won the 2009 Audience Choice Award. - Mary Campbell was born on 18 February 1934 in Mount Sterling, Illinois, USA. Mary died on 19 October 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Terry Hoeppner was born on 19 August 1947 in Woodburn, Indiana, USA. He died on 19 June 2007 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Carl Barzilauskas was born on 19 March 1951 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He died on 20 December 2023 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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Rudolf Raff was born on 10 November 1941 in Shawinigan, Québec, Canada. Rudolf is known for The Shape of Life (2001). Rudolf died on 5 January 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Linda Degh was born on 18 March 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. She was married to Endre Vézsonyi . She died on 19 August 2014 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Milt Sunde was born on 1 February 1942 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Barbara. He died on 21 April 2020 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
An all-district athlete at Columbus (Texas) High School, Charles Harris attended college on a football scholarship. Encouraged to audition for a play by his college speech teacher, Harris discovered that he enjoyed acting. Over the next decade, he appeared in over forty college and regional theater productions, performing with such classic Hollywood stars as Pat O'Brien, Linda Darnell, John Kerr, and Carole Cook and such stars-to-be as Larry Pine and David Selby. After completing a PhD in English, Harris set aside acting and entered academia, where he professed for over three decades, chaired his department for fifteen years, and wrote the usual quota of scholarly books and articles. Upon his retirement from university life, he was encouraged by his daughter, the actor/playwright Kymberly Harris, to try his hand at film. Harris has become a familiar figure in the Chicago independent film world, acting in numerous films, Web series, and TV commercials.- Scott Halpin was born on 3 February 1954 in Muscatine, Iowa, USA. He died on 9 February 2008 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Zoilo Versalles was born on 18 December 1939 in Veldado, Cuba. He was married to Maria Josefa. He died on 9 June 1995 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.
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Robert O'Hearn was born on 19 June 1921 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Robert was a costume designer and production designer, known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006). Robert died on 26 May 2016 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Lotus Fragrance had a promising start as a young starlet in the British film industry of the 1930s, only to have it cut short by World War II. She was born in China as Rebecca Ho Hing Du around 1914 and grew up in Hong Kong. In her late teens, her family arranged for her marriage into the wealthy Ma family, with a move to London, and a society wedding in St. Martin in the Fields Church in 1932. Her natural beauty and grace led to her discovery by British talent scouts, and she acted in a few movies ("Incident in Shanghai" (Pinewood Studios, 1938), "The Wife of General Ling" (Shepperton Studios, 1937; available in DVD) as well as in a few plays, under the stage name "Lotus Fragrance". And she was glowingly mentioned in Paddy Carstairs' memoir, "Hadn't We the Gaity." During the London Blitz of 1940-41, Lotus volunteered in the war effort while her husband served in the British Army. However, the war effectively ended her budding acting career, as well as her marriage.
In early 1941, she fled London with her two children, Francis and Roxana, to return to her family in China. On their first attempt, their ship was bombed and torpedoed in the Atlantic. The second attempt took them by a circuitous route by ship via South Africa to Burma, overland into Chungking, and eventually by air to India, where she set up a fashionable beauty salon in Bombay. In late 1946, Lotus moved to Shanghai to emigrate with her daughter to the United States, arriving in Los Angeles, where she had Hollywood friends known from her London years, the Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, and his wife, the writer Sanora Babb.
Despite her LA film connections, Lotus set about to become an independent career woman, eventually settling into a 30-year successful career as translator, interpreter, and office associate for a private immigration lawyer specializing in Chinese clients, who fondly addressed her as "Ma Gu Neung." She remarried in the 1960s to Donald Lee, and was thereafter known professionally as Lotus Ma Lee. After Donald passed away, Lotus remained in west Los Angeles until 2011, when she relocated to Bloomington, Indiana to be near her daughter, Roxana Ma Newman, who has lived there since 1983 and recently retired from Indiana University. Lotus remains in good health; she celebrated her 99th birthday in July 2013.