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February 6, 1931

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Rip Torn

1931Rip Torn, American actor (died 2019)[โ€ ]

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned roughly 60 years. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show (1992โ€“1998) received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. Torn is also known for his roles as Judas Iscariot in King of Kings (1961), Thomas J. Finley, Jr. in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Dr. Nathan Bryce in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bob Diamond in Defending Your Life (1991), Zeus in Hercules (1997), Zed in the Men in Black franchise, Jim Brody in Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), and Louis XV in Marie Antoinette (2006).

Fred Trueman

1931Fred Trueman, English cricketer (died 2006)[โ€ ]

Frederick Sewards Trueman, was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He had professional status and later became an author and broadcaster.

Mamie Van Doren

1931Mamie Van Doren, American actress and model[โ€ ]

Mamie Van Doren is an American actress. A blonde bombshell, she is one of the "Three M's" along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, who were friends and contemporaries. In 1953, Van Doren, then named Joan Lucille Olander, signed a seven-year contract with Universal, which hoped that she would be their version of Monroe. She starred in teen dramas, exploitation, musical, comedy and rock and roll films, amongst other genres, many of which have gone on to become cult classics. She was one of the leading sex symbols in the 1950s.

Ricardo Vidal

1931Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (died 2017)[โ€ ]

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Made a cardinal in 1985, he was Archbishop of Cebu from 1982 to 2010.

Notable Deaths

Motilal Nehru

1931Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)[โ€ ]

Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.