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Defeated in election
Court denies Steuer's motion for mistrial, based on objections to Buckner's methods, allows U S Atty to cross-examine Merton as witness for defense
Will go to Germany to christen Hamburg-Amer Liner New York
Fonck to hop off to Paris tomorrrow; Snody, ill, is out of crew; his place as navigator goes to Lt L W Curtin
Misses vote for first time in 31 yrs on doctor's order
1926Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)[â ]
ShÅhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards.
1926Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician and academic[â ]
Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.
1926Henry Silva, American actor (died 2022)[â ]
Henry Silva was an American actor, with a film and television career which spanned fifty years. A prolific character actor in over 140 productions, he was known for his "dark, sepulchral" looks and brooding screen presence that saw him often play criminals, gangsters, or other "tough guys" in crime and action films. He was also closely associated with the "Rat Pack".
1926Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)[â ]
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life", after he had been nominated by a member of the Swedish Academy.