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- Bill Zuckert was born on 18 December 1915 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) and Star Trek (1966). He was married to Gladys Holland and Margaret Lottie Wallace. He died on 23 January 1997 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
David Waller was born on 27 November 1920 in Street, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for All Passion Spent (1986), Cribb (1980) and Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978). He died on 23 January 1997 in London, England, UK.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Rolling Thunder was born on 10 September 1916 in Stamps, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Billy Jack (1971), The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) and Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977). He was married to Helen 'Spotted Fawn' and Carmen Sun Rising. He died on 23 January 1997 in Elko, Nevada, USA.- Hardy Rafn was born on 17 September 1930 in Slagelse, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Måske i morgen (1964), Europa (1991) and Når enden er go' (1964). He died on 23 January 1997 in Denmark.
- Soundtrack
Richard Berry was born on 11 April 1935 in Extension, Louisiana, USA. He died on 23 January 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Bahri Ates was born on 27 January 1916 in Nevsehir, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Kibar Feyzo (1978), Soysuzlar (1975) and My Dear Brother (1973). He died on 23 January 1997 in Turkey.
- Kay Lyell was born on 14 September 1905 in Perth, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Gypsy Girl (1966), Calling the Shots (1993) and The Flight of the Heron (1968). She died on 23 January 1997 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Lia Condrus was born in 1910. She was an actress, known for Stahlnetz (1958). She was married to Siegfried Breuer. She died on 23 January 1997 in Berlin, Germany.
- Edith Haisman was born Edith Eileen Brown on October 27, 1896 in Cape Colony, South Africa. She was the daughter of Thomas William Solomon Brown and Elizabeth Catherine Ford. Her father Thomas owned and operated a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa. Edith boarded the RMS Titanic as a second class passenger along with her parents in Southampton, England with an ultimate destination of Seattle, Washington, where her father planned to open a new hotel business. On that fateful night of April 15, 1912 Haisman and her mother Elizabeth survived the sinking of the Titanic by being placed together in Lifeboat 14. Her father Thomas sadly went down with the ship. In the wake of being rescued by the Carpathia, Edith and her mother Elizabeth briefly stayed at the Junior League House in New York before traveling to Seattle to live with Edith's aunt Josephine Acton. Haisman and her mother then returned to South Africa, where Edith lived with relatives in Cape Town after her mother remarried and moved to Rhodesia.
Edith met Frederick Thankful Haisman in May, 1917; the couple married on June 30, 1917. Haisman gave birth to a son in August, 1918 and went on to have nine more children altogether. Edith and her husband Frederick lived in both South Africa and Australia prior to settling down in Southampton (Frederick died in 1977). Haisman's popularity as a Titanic survivor grew as she got older and in her latter years she attended several ceremonies held to commemorate the tragic sinking of the ship. Edith died at age one hundred in a nursing home in Southampton on January 20, 1997. One of the oldest living survivors of the Titanic, Haisman at the time of her death was survived by four sons, two daughters, and over thirty grandchildren and great grandchildren. - Additional Crew
When 16-year-old Christopher Craig shot dead PC Sidney Miles in 1952, Iris Bentley's destiny was sealed. The shooting was the culmination of a failed burglary at a Croydon warehouse, and the following year her 19-year old brother Derek, an epileptic with a mental age of 11, was hanged for his part in the killing. Iris Bentley began a campaign for a posthumous pardon, a campaign whose momentum continued after her death. At 16 Craig was too young to be executed. Imprisoned as a minor until 1963, he has since led an uneventful life as a plumber. The evidence against Bentley hinged upon the allegation by police officers that immediately before Craig shot Miles, he had implored his young accomplice to "Let him have it, Chris". The defence claimed that Bentley had been trying to persuade Craig to hand over his weapon, and Bentley's testimony and subsequent evidence from both one of the arresting officers and from Craig himself suggest that the words were never spoken. Despite the jury's recommendation for mercy, Lord Chief Justice Goddard sentenced Bentley to death. Iris Bentley unsuccessfully presented petitions to the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, for a reprieve, and her brother was hanged in Wandsworth prison in January 1953. Her career as a campaigner had begun.
The symbolism of the clock in her home, stopped permanently to show the time of her brother's death, cannot be understated. Iris and Derek Bentley were close - they had both been buried in the rubble of their south London home during the Blitz that killed their 12-year-old sister. Derek's death marked the blossoming of a resolute and skilled campaigner, who was always ready to present anti-death penalty arguments during the routine clamour for state vengeance that regularly blights British politics.
Yet for many years her efforts on behalf of her brother were ignored, before Derek Bentley's story seeped into the public consciousness via three books and a film, Let Him Have It (1991). Ably assisted by her daughter Maria, and despite failing health, she forced the police to reopen the case in 1992, resulting in the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke's denying a reprieve. A year later, the Appeal Court ruled that Clarke had not fully considered all the options open to him, and his successor Michael Howard granted a partial pardon that upheld the conviction, while acknowledging that the execution had been wrong.
This was hardly enough to placate Iris Bentley's quest for justice, and she continued the fight. In April 1997 Derek Bentley's case will be reconsidered by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, and as the result of new evidence presented to the Home Office last September, it is possible that a full pardon could be announced before the commission hears the case.
Iris Bentley's very presence, amidst an increasingly punitive law-and- order debate that has raged across five decades, has served as a reminder both of the state's potential for barbarism, and the criminal justice system's inherent fallibility. Indeed, if amongst the frantic clamour for punishment that in contemporary society passes for a law-and-order debate, some moments of reflection are spent considering the last 44 years of Iris Bentley's life, a much wider definition of "victim of crime" becomes apparent.- Charles Craig was born on 3 December 1919 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was married to Dorothy Wilson. He died on 23 January 1997.
- Bob Goedhart was born on 15 June 1921 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Jane Eyre (1958), Deur haasken, dodelijk haasken (1963) and L'homme d'Amsterdam (1976). He was married to Marijke Bakker. He died on 23 January 1997.
- Champion gymnast Alois Hudec was born on July 12, 1908 in Racice in the Czech Republic. Hudec won a gold medal in men's rings at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. Moreover, Alois placed fourth in the men's parallel bars, men's team all-around, and men's individual all-around at the 1936 Olympics. Hudec died at age 88 on January 23, 1997 in Prague, Czech Republic.