An enormous island with 6 houses

 and ties to J.P. Morgan is on sale 

for a whopping $125 million

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For just the third time in nearly a century, the enormous Salutation Island has hit the market. For $125 million, you'd own the island's six homes and over 85 acres of land and water, according to Bloomberg.

The estate is located on the North Shore of Long Island and was first owned by J.P. Morgan's grandson, Junius Spencer Morgan III. Its most recent owner was socialite and real estate broker Margo Walker.

Below are highlights of the island and its amenities, which include a 27,000-square-foot mansion, 250-foot-long dock, horse stables, and an eight-car garage. The property is being sold by Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty. Let's take a look around.

Less than an hour from New York City, the island is more than 85 acres.

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The main residence is known as the "Manor House."

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It was built by Junius Spencer Morgan III in 1919.

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The main house is the largest on the island, at 27,000 square feet.

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It has 11 total bedrooms.

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The house featured prominently in the 1995 remake of the film "Sabrina."

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The main dining room (though not the one pictured here) can reportedly seat 100 people.

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The yard outside the house was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the architect behind Central Park.

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Naturally, there's a pool.

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After a few decades, Morgan started feeling a little lonely on the island, so he let some of his friends build houses there. This one is known as the "Creek House."

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Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy both spent time on the island.

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It's no surprise that the other residents also built pools.

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While the other homes are smaller than the Manor House, they were designed with a similar level of luxury in mind.

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Ornate furniture, carpets, and wood paneling are common throughout the island.

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The other homes tend to favor (slightly) more minimalist designs than the Manor House, however.

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And, in some cases, they opted for brighter colors and more natural light ...

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... as evidenced by the "Pond House."

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The island also contains three smaller cottages.

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Of course, they won't seem too small to anyone used to living in a cramped apartment.

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Here's the third cottage.

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This stable can hold eight horses.

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For just $125 million, it can all be yours.

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• 4004 BC – The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology.
• 362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
• 451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
• 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto).
• 906 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000–5,000 captives.^[1]
• 1383 – The 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
• 1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
• 1633 – Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
• 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
• 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
• 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
• 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
• 1790 – Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
• 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
• 1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
• 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before, on October 19.
• 1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
• 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
• 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
• 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
• 1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
• 1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
• 1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
• 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• 1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
• 1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
• 1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
• 1947 – Kashmir conflict starts, a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.
• 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
• 1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
• 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
• 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
• 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
• 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
• 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
• 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
• 1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
• 1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
• 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
• 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
• 2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
• 2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
• 2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
• 2013 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
• 2014 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
• 2015 – A teacher and a student are killed, and 2 students injured, in an attack at a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden.

Births[edit]

• 955 – Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (d. 991)
• 1071 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126)
• 1197 – Juntoku, Japanese emperor (d. 1242)
• 1511 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• 1592 – Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (d. 1657)
• 1659 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734)
• 1689 – John V, Portuguese king (d. 1750)
• 1701 – Maria Amalia of Austria (d. 1756)
• 1729 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (d. 1798)
• 1749 – Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch historian and bookseller (d. 1816)
• 1809 – Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Texas Attorney General (d. 1889)
• 1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
• 1818 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (d. 1894)
• 1821 – Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900)
• 1832 – August Labitzky, Czech composer and conductor (d. 1903)
• 1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (d. 1923)
• 1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician (d. 1885)
• 1847 – Koos de la Rey, South African general (d. 1914)
• 1858 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)
• 1865 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
• 1873 – Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1906)
• 1875 – David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician (d. 1962)
• 1878 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1967)
• 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908)
• 1882 – Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
• 1885 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 1969)
• 1886 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970)
• 1887 – John Reed, American journalist and poet (d. 1920)
• 1893 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
• 1894 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (d. 1961)
• 1895 – Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927)
• 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1970)
• 1907 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1967)
• 1908 – John Gould, American journalist and author (d. 2003)
• 1912 – George N. Leighton, American soldier and judge
• 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954)
• 1913 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976)
• 1919 – Kathleen Ankers, English-American actress and set designer (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
• 1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
• 1931 – Ann Rule, American police officer and author (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer
• 1936 – John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer
• 1936 – Peter Cook, English architect and academic
• 1936 – Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (d. 1982)
• 1938 – K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and academic
• 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor
• 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor, comedian and producer
• 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique
• 1939 – George Cohen, English footballer
• 1939 – Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic
• 1939 – Tony Roberts, American actor and singer
• 1941 – Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and earthquake scientist (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Charles Keating, English-American actor (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
• 1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Catherine E. Coulson, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
• 1943 – Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar
• 1945 – Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show host
• 1945 – Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
• 1945 – Michael Stoute, Barbadian-English horse trainer
• 1945 – Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician
• 1946 – Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist
• 1947 – Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1947 – Haley Barbour, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
• 1947 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
• 1948 – Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire
• 1948 – Debbie Macomber, American author
• 1949 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Manfred Trojahn, German flute player, composer, and conductor
• 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
• 1952 – Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer
• 1952 – Greg Hawkes, American rock musician (The Cars)
• 1954 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (d. 2014)
• 1956 – Frank DiPino, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 – Henry Lauterbach, German jumper
• 1958 – Bobby Blotzer, American rock drummer (Ratt)
• 1959 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (d. 2005)
• 1959 – Marc Shaiman, American composer and songwriter
• 1960 – Darryl Jenifer, American bass player
• 1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1961 – Takaaki Ishibashi, Japanese comedian, singer, and actor
• 1961 – Barbara Potter, American tennis player
• 1962 – Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian
• 1963 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater
• 1964 – Mick Hill, English javelin thrower and coach
• 1964 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
• 1964 – TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1965 – Valeria Golino, Italian actress
• 1965 – John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – A. L. Kennedy, Scottish comedian, journalist, and author
• 1965 – Otis Smith, American football player and coach
• 1965 – Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1966 – Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer
• 1967 – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
• 1967 – Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 – Oona King, Baroness King of Bow, English academic and politician
• 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – Stephanie Cutter, American lawyer and political consultant
• 1968 – Jay Johnston, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ
• 1969 – Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 – Spike Jonze, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer
• 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director, and producer
• 1971 – Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player
• 1971 – Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player
• 1971 – José Manuel Martínez, Spanish runner
• 1972 – D'Lo Brown, American wrestler and accountant
• 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English-American actress
• 1973 – Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 – Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
• 1974 – Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Jeff McInnis, American basketball player
• 1974 – Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1975 – Martín Cardetti, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1975 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
• 1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
• 1976 – Luke Adams, Australian race walker
• 1976 – Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player and coach
• 1978 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1978 – Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer
• 1979 – Doni, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer
• 1980 – Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 – Sonia Sui, Chinese and Taiwanese model
• 1981 – Michael Fishman, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Olivier Pla, French race car driver
• 1982 – Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Tim Erfen, German footballer
• 1982 – Heath Miller, American football player
• 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
• 1983 – Anton Müller, German footballer
• 1984 – Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
• 1985 – Hadise, Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1986 – Kenji Ebisawa, Japanese actor
• 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
• 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
• 1986 – Akihiro Sato, Japanese footballer
• 1987 – Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner
• 1987 – Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress
• 1987 – Reen Yu, Taiwanese actress
• 1988 – Sarah Barrow, English diver
• 1988 – Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
• 1988 – Elena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
• 1988 – Aykut Demir, Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Marco Restrepo, American musician
• 1989 – Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player
• 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
• 1992 – 21 Savage, American hip-hop artist
• 1995 – Saidy Janko, Swiss footballer
• 1996 – B.I, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Deaths[edit]

• 726 – Itzamnaaj K'awiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas
• 741 – Charles Martel, Frankish king (b. 688)
• 842 – Abo, Japanese prince (b. 792)
• 1383 – Ferdinand I of Portugal (b. 1345)
• 1455 – Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer
• 1493 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
• 1521 – Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)
• 1565 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French book collector (b. 1479)
• 1604 – Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (b. 1528)
• 1625 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (b. 1561)
• 1708 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1636)
• 1751 – William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
• 1761 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1702)
• 1755 – Elisha Williams, American minister, academic, and jurist (b. 1694)
• 1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
• 1847 – Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian ruler (b. 1795)
• 1853 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
• 1859 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
• 1883 – George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
• 1883 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
• 1885 – Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
• 1891 – Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 – Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 – Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1917 – Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)
• 1927 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)
• 1928 – Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1935 – Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
• 1941 – Guy Môquet, French militant (b. 1924)
• 1952 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1956 – Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
• 1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1973 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1979 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923)
• 1985 – Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
• 1986 – Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1943)
• 1986 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1987 – Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
• 1990 – Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Innes Ireland, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Geraldine of Albania (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Tony Adams, Irish-American actor and producer (b. 1953)
• 2006 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (b. 1904)
• 2009 – Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and talk show host (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Mike Morris, English talk show host (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Gabrielle Roth, American dancer, singer, and author (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1930)
• 2013 – William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2013 – James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (b. 1925)
• 2014 – George Francis, English footballer and soldier (b. 1934)
• 2014 – John-Roger Hinkins, American religious leader and author (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Ashok Kumar, Indian director and cinematographer (b. 1941)
• 2014 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Çetin Altan, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Arnold Klein, American dermatologist and author (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (b. 1975)

Κάρλα Μπρούνι: Αισθάνομαι πολύ κοντά

 στην Ελλάδα, ο σύζυγός μου 

είναι από τη Θεσσαλονίκη

Η Αθήνα θα είναι ο πρώτος σταθμός τής παγκόσμιας 

περιοδείας της πρώην Πρώτης Κυρίας της Γαλλίας, 

Κάρλα Μπρούνι όπου θα παρουσιάσει για πρώτη φορά το 

καινούργιο άλμπουμ της με τίτλο «French Τouch».

Οι εμφανίσεις στο Παλλάς θα είναι τη Δευτέρα 23 και την Τρίτη 24 Οκτωβρίου

 και το Αθηναϊκό - Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων μίλησε μαζί της για την 

απόφασή της να ξεκινήσει την περιοδεία της από την Ελλάδα, για τη νέα της 

δουλειά αλλά και για τα μελλοντικά της σχέδια.

Η σύζυγος του Νικολά Σαρκοζί τραγουδάει γνωστά αγγλικά τραγούδια με γαλλική

 προφορά, τραγούδια όπως το «Enjoy the Silence» των Depeche Mode, το 

«Miss Υou» των Rolling Stones, ακόμη και το «The Winner Τakes Ιt Αll» των

 Abba. Είναι τραγούδια που άκουγε όταν ήταν μικρή και αγαπάει και τα οποία

 διασκεύασε με τον διάσημο Καναδό μουσικοσυνθέτη και παραγωγό Ντέιβιντ

 Φόστερ.

Όπως λέει η κ. Μπρούνι  «Γεννήθηκα στην Ιταλία και αυτές οι δύο όμορφες χώρες 

έχουν πολλά κοινά, ξεκινώντας από τη Μεσόγειο Θάλασσα που λατρεύω και είναι 

μια σταθερή πηγή έμπνευσης και ευτυχίας. Έτσι ναι, η ιδέα της έναρξης αυτής

 της νέας περιοδείας μου από την Αθήνα με συνεπήρε αμέσως». Άλλωστε όπως

 λέει σ'αυτό συνετέλεσε και η ελληνική καταγωγή του πρώην Γάλλου Προέδρου. 

«Και ναι, ο σύζυγός μου που έχει ελληνικές ρίζες, είναι από τη Σαλονίκη,

 το έκανε ακόμα πιο ευχάριστο», λέει.

Όπως επισήμανε «το να κάνω αυτές τις διασκευές είναι κάτι το ιδιαίτερο για μένα. Είναι κάτι που δεν σκέφτηκα ότι θα μπορούσα να κάνω μία μέρα. Ξεκίνησα γράφοντας και συνθέτοντας τραγούδια για άλλους καλλιτέχνες. Ποτέ δεν πίστευα ότι είχα τη σωστή φωνή για να είμαι τραγουδίστρια. Στη συνέχεια πήρα θάρρος για να προσπαθήσω και έγραψα το "Quelqu'un m'a dit"».

Θεωρεί ότι «η επιτυχία ήρθε σαν θαύμα και ξεκίνησα να κάνω τα δικά μου άλμπουμ, ενώ συνέχισα να γράφω και για άλλους τραγουδιστές» και εξηγεί ότι «η ιδέα για τον French Touch ήταν του Ντέιβιντ Φόστερ. Ήρθε σε μία συναυλία μου στο Λος Άντζελες και μου είπε ότι θα ήθελε πολύ να είναι ο παραγωγός τού επόμενου άλμπουμ μου, αλλά θα έπρεπε να το γράψω στα αγγλικά».

Κάτι που όπως εξομολογείται στο ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ δεν κατάφερε τελικά. «Προσπάθησα πολλές φορές, αλλά δυστυχώς δεν μπορώ να γράψω στα αγγλικά. Τα γαλλικά είναι η μόνη γλώσσα στην οποία μπορώ πραγματικά να γράψω τραγούδια. Πιθανώς επειδή είναι η γλώσσα στην οποία διάβασα περισσότερο και πιστεύω ότι η γραφή προκύπτει από τη μελέτη».

Έτσι ο Ντέιβιντ Φόστερ επανήλθε με την ιδέα «να κάνουμε ένα άλμπουμ αποκλειστικά με διασκευές. Μερικούς μήνες αργότερα, ήρθε στο Παρίσι, του έπαιξα τραγούδια που αγαπάω και το σχέδιο μας άρχισε να παίρνει σάρκα και οστά. Το επόμενο βήμα ήταν ότι ηχογραφήσαμε στο Παρίσι και αργότερα στο Capitol Studio στο Λος Άντζελες. Αυτό το άλμπουμ το αγαπάω για πολλούς λόγους».

Και εξηγεί «Πρώτα απ'όλα γιατί ήταν φανταστική η συνεργασία με αυτόν τον απίστευτο παραγωγό. Ο Ντέιβιντ είναι φανταστικός μουσικός και το να είναι ο παραγωγός αυτού του άλμπουμ ήταν μια σπουδαία εμπειρία. Επίσης κατά κάποιον τρόπο με βοήθησε να εξελιχθώ ως τραγουδίστρια».

Η κ. Μπρούνι είπε ακόμα στο ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ ότι «κάνω μαθήματα τραγουδιού εδώ και χρόνια και μπορώ να δω την πρόοδό μου στα σίγουρα, αλλά εξακολουθώ να θεωρώ τον εαυτό μου τραγουδοποιό ακόμα κι όταν ερμηνεύω τα τραγούδια μου. Περιστασιακά είχα ερμηνεύσει 1-2 τραγούδια αγαπημένων μου καλλιτεχνών, αλλά είναι η πρώτη φορά που φτιάχνω ένα άλμπουμ ως τραγουδίστρια και είναι εντελώς μία διαφορετική δουλειά από αυτή που συνήθως κάνω».

Μιλώντας για τα μελλοντικά της σχέδια η πρώην «Première Dame» είπε στο ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ: «Το επόμενο εγχείρημα μου είναι να δώσω την καλύτερη δυνατή ζωή στο French Touch. Ξέρετε, αφού γεννήσεις ένα μωρό, δεν μπορείς να το αφήσεις να προχωρήσει μόνος του... Έτσι, μετά την Αθήνα θα υπάρξουν πολλές ακόμα συναυλίες, σε όλο τον κόσμο και αυτό θα με κρατήσει αρκετά απασχολημένη για λίγο!».

ΛΑΙΖΑ ΜΙΝΝΕΛΛΙ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

Tο 1972 ηταν η χρονια της Λαιζα Μιννελλι.Κερδιζει το Οσκαρ ερμηνειας για την εντυπωσιακη εμφανιση της στο"Καμπαρε"και δινει μια συναυλια αποκλειστικα για την τηλεοραση και αποσπα τεσσερα βραβεια Emmy.Αυτη η συναυλια,διαρκειας μιας ωρας,με την επωνυμια  Liza with a Z,ηταν για χρονια χαμενη,αλλα οχι ξεχασμενη, σε ενα κιβωτιο στο σπιτι της τραγουδιστριας.

Το προγραμμα  μετα απο προσπαθειες ενος παραγωγου εγινε πριν μερικα χρονια DVD και θα παρουσιαστει την Δευτερα,13 Νοεμβριου,8 μμ,στο Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης(5ος οροφος)στο πλαισιο του εκπαιδευτικου προγραμματος του Συλλογου Φιλων Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης, με εισηγητη τον δημοσιογραφο Λευτερη Κογκαλιδη και ελευθερη εισοδο για το κοινο.

Η σκηνοθεσια και η χορογραφια ειναι του Bob Fosse ενω η μουσικη και οι στιχοι των John Kander-Fred Ebb.Mεταξυ αλλων ακουγονται Son of a preacher man/I gotcha/Say Liza/Bye bye blackbird/My mammy/Willkommen/Money,money/Maybe this time/Cabaret

Κορη της Τζουντυ Γκαρλαντ και του σκηνοθετη Βινσεντε Μιννελλι η Λαιζα-και οχι Λιζα η Λισα-εμφανιστηκε για πρωτη φορα στον κινηματογραφο σε ηλικια 3 χρονων στην τελευταια σκηνη του μιουζικαλ του 1949 In the good old summertime,διπλα στην μητερα της και τον Βαν Τζονσον.Απο τοτε εμφανιστηκε σε 25 ταινιες κι ειναι απο τους ελαχιστους καλλιτεχνες που εχουν κερδισει Oscar,Emmy,Grammy,Tony.

Χορηγος επικοινωνιας ο ραδιοφωνικος σταθμος του Αθηναικου-Μακεδονικου Πρακτορειου Ειδησεων ΠΡΑΚΤΟΡΕΙΟ  FM 104,9 .

Τέλος για την Πρισίλα Πρίσλεϊ η Σαϊεντολογία -Μετά από τέσσερις δεκαετίες 

Άλλη μια διασημότητα μετά την Κέιτι Χολμς και τη Νικόλ

 Κίντμαν - τις πρώην συζύγους του Τομ Κρουζ- αποφάσισε 

να εγκαταλείψει την εκκλησία της Σαϊεντολογίας: Ο λόγος 

για την Πρισίλα Πρίσλεϊ, που ήταν μέλος της θρησκευτικής 

αίρεσης επί σχεδόν τέσσερις δεκαετίες.

«Φτάνει πια, αρκετά», είπε η 72χρονη χήρα του Έλβις, που εντάχθηκε στην 

οργάνωση μετά το θάνατο του «βασιλιά της Ροκ».

«Η Πρισίλα απευθύνθηκε στον Τζον Τραβόλτα μετά το θάνατο του Έλβις το 

1977 και έτσι κατέληξε στην Σαϊεντολογία», ανέφερε πηγή στη Mail on Sunday.

 «Έκτοτε ήταν μέλος της και μέσα σ’ αυτή μεγάλωσε και την κόρη της Λίζα Μαρί».

Η τελευταία είχε φύγει πρώτη πριν από τρία χρόνια από τη συγκεκριμένη 

θρησκευτική οργάνωση, που ίδρυσε το 1955 ο συγγραφέας επιστημονικής

 φαντασίας Ρον Χάμπαρντ.

«Η φυγή της Λίζα Μαρί δυσκόλεψε τα πράγματα για την Πρισίλα. Είναι πολύ 

κοντά οι δυο τους και η απόφαση ελήφθη από κοινού», είπε η ίδια πηγή.

Πρώην μέλος της οργάνωσης ήταν και η ηθοποιός Ντέμι Μουρ, αλλά και ο 

σκηνοθέτης Πολ Χάγκις, ο οποίος είχε κάνει λόγο για μια «σατανική αίρεση»

 προσθέτοντας: «όσοι έφυγαν το έκαναν σιωπηρά. Όλοι φοβούνται, όλοι οι

 διάσημοι. Οι σαϊεντολόγοι περνούν από μια διαδικασία “ακρόασης” κατά την 

οποία τους ρωτούν εντελώς προσωπικές ερωτήσεις για τις ζωές τους, 

περιλαμβανομένου και του σεξουαλικού τους προσανατολισμού.» 

Η Πρισίλα Πρίσλεϊ και η κόρη της Λίζα Μαρί στη Graceland τον 

Απρίλιο του 2015

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• 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
• 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
• 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
• 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
• 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
• 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
• 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
• 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
• 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.
• 1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
• 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
• 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
• 1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
• 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
• 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
• 1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
• 1980 – The 6.9 M_w Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
• 1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
• 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
• 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
• 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
• 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.
• 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
• 2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

Births[edit]

• 870 – Alexander, Byzantine emperor (d. 913)
• 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
• 1190 – Pope Clement IV (d. 1268)
• 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
• 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
• 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• 1496 – Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
• 1508 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549)
• 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
• 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
• 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
• 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1720)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730)
• 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)
• 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)
• 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
• 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
• 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
• 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
• 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
• 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (d. 1938)
• 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
• 1868 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
• 1871 – William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
• 1878 – Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
• 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
• 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
• 1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)
• 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
• 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (d. 1953)
• 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian, author, and critic (d. 1999)
• 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
• 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986)
• 1907 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d. 2014)
• 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author (d. 2006)
• 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)
• 1916 – P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)
• 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author and poet
• 1924 – Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player and educator (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)
• 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor
• 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author and educator (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
• 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
• 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
• 1928 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 1973)
• 1928 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer
• 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
• 1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
• 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French-American banker
• 1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
• 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
• 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
• 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 – Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer
• 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
• 1937 – Graham Hearne, English lawyer and businessman
• 1938 – Patrick Kelly, English archbishop
• 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• 1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager
• 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer
• 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
• 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
• 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach
• 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
• 1944 – Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director
• 1944 – James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and radio host
• 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
• 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
• 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
• 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
• 1946 – Bobby Rush, American activist and politician
• 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host
• 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager
• 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic
• 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic
• 1950 – Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player and educator
• 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author
• 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor
• 1953 – Martin Kent, Australian cricketer
• 1953 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1954 – Pete Allen, English clarinet player and saxophonist
• 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
• 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
• 1955 – Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author (Cats Laughing)
• 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
• 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician
• 1956 – Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer
• 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach
• 1958 – Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer
• 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor
• 1960 – Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist
• 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
• 1961 – Nicolas Bacri, French composer
• 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
• 1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Lance King, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1963 – Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX
• 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
• 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet
• 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer
• 1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
• 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach
• 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1968 – Robert Denmark, English runner and coach
• 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
• 1968 – Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union player
• 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 1969 – Olivier Beretta, Monégasque racing driver
• 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
• 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Zoë Ball, English radio and television host
• 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
• 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and author
• 1971 – Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
• 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host
• 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler and sportscaster
• 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
• 1976 – Cüneyt Çakır, Turkish footballer and referee
• 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper
• 1976 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
• 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1977 – David Lucas, English footballer
• 1978 – Ali Güneş, German-Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
• 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Kelly Brook, English model and actress
• 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier and American author
• 1980 – David Britz, American nanotechnologist and engineer
• 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
• 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
• 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Kevin Clancy, Scottish football referee
• 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer
• 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
• 1985 – Mike Tolbert, American football player
• 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
• 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
• 1990 – Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer
• 1990 – Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
• 1991 – Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 – Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1994 – Wes Burns, Welsh footballer
• 1995 – Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer
• 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer

Deaths[edit]

• 386 – Jin Feidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 342)
• 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
• 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
• 1161 – Adam, Abbot of Ebrach
• 1183 – William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116)
• 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
• 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
• 1464 – Blessed Margaret of Savoy (b. 1390)
• 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne (b. c. 1474)
• 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
• 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
• 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
• 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c.1505)
• 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
• 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)
• 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
• 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
• 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
• 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
• 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
• 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1762)
• 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1974 – notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
  • Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
  • Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
  • Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
  • Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
  • Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
• 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1982 – Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)
• 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
• 1994 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
• 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Brian Rawlinson, English actor and playwright (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
• 2007 – Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1936)
• 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Clive Palmer, English banjo player (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980)
• 2015 – Dan Fante, American author and playwright (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Jim Sochor, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2016 – Rita Barberá Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)