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I M Gast, Class A stockholder, files application for equity receivership charging W Fox and 11 others with maladministration
Wounded by gunmen in Chez Madelon
Thompson again vetoes budget
London naval parley
1930Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist[†]
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren is a retired American actress. Initially a fashion model, appearing on the front covers of Life and Glamour magazines, she became an actress after being discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. Hedren achieved great praise for her work in two of his films, including the suspense-thriller The Birds (1963), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, and the psychological drama Marnie (1964). She performed in over 80 films and television shows, including Charlie Chaplin's final film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), the political satire Citizen Ruth (1996), and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004). Among other honors, her contributions to world cinema have been recognized with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1930John Waite, South African cricketer (died 2011)[†]
John Henry Bickford Waite was a South African cricketer who played in fifty Tests from 1951 to 1965.
1930Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)[†]
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921.