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April 9, 1933

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Jean-Paul Belmondo

1933Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor and producer (died 2021)[†]

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981). An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funès and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982 he played four times in the most popular films of the year in France: The Brain (1969), Fear Over the City (1975), Animal (1977), Ace of Aces (1982), being surpassed on this point only by Louis de Funès.

René Burri

1933René Burri, Swiss photographer and journalist (died 2014)[†]

René Burri was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso as well as iconic pictures of São Paulo and Brasília.

1933Fern Michaels, American author[†]

Fern Michaels is an American writer of romance and thriller novels. Her books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series.

Richard Rose (political scientist)

1933Richard Rose, American political scientist and academic[†]

Richard Rose is a political scientist, author, and academic whose comparative studies in social science have significantly influenced political science and public policy in both practice and theory. He is a Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde (UOS) in Scotland, and is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Gian Maria Volonté

1933Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (died 1994)[†]

Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor and activist. He is best known for his roles in four Spaghetti Western films: Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964), El Indio in Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965), El Chuncho Munoz in Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General (1966) and Professor Brad Fletcher in Sergio Sollima's Face to Face (1967).

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Headlines from April 9, 1933

Party Standing Given.; WEST AUSTRALIA VOTES SECESSION

By Unknown Author

PERTH, Western Australia, April 8 (Canadian Press) -- The State of Western Australia today voted to secede from the Australian Commonwealth. Incomplete returns from the State-wide referendum indicated a majority for those in favor of breaking away from the five other States.

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South and West Are Courageous Amid Hard Times, Sauerwein Finds; Twelve-Day Tour Convinces Him President Is Sustaining Minds and Comforting Hearts -- Middle West Wants Tariff Barriers Lewered -- Return to Land in South. SAUERWEIN FINDS WEST COURAGEOUS

By Jules Sauerwein. Foreign Editor of le Paris Soir.by Jules Sauerwein

DETROIT -- Twelve days in which to run over certain cities of the Middle South and the Middle West and to end up finally in Chicago and Detroit is obviously not much time. But if these dozen days be fully employed in seeing and listening one may gather certain impressions to which a foreign observer is possibly more sensitive than an American.

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