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Dem leaders planning to pass Hare bill quickly
Tardieu, A, visit
Japanese Overseas Ministry plans settlement of 500,000 families
Returns home after secret mission; Norfolk investigators continue negotations; Maj Schoeffel believed in Eng
1932Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records and J Records[†]
Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a non-performer, in 2000.
1932Richard Lugar, American lieutenant and politician, 44th Mayor of Indianapolis (died 2019)[†]
Richard Green Lugar was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.
1932Anthony Perkins, American actor (died 1992)[†]
Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress (1953). That same year, he debuted on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, a performance for which he received critical acclaim.
1932Johanna Reiss, Dutch-American author[†]
Johanna Reiss is a Dutch-American writer whose work focuses on her experiences as a Jewish child during the Second World War. Her books have been compared to the writing of Anne Frank.
1932Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and producer (died 1986)[†]
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
1932Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853)[†]
Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his scientific contributions to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.