Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale was an Italian actress. Regarded as one of the leading figures of Italian cinema, alongside Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, she achieved international recognition during a career spanning more than six decades. Celebrated in the 1960s as "the most beautiful woman in the world" and widely considered a sex symbol of the era, she appeared in more than 175 films, primarily in Italy and France, across genres including comedy, drama, spaghetti westerns, and historical epics. She collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, and Werner Herzog, and several of her films are regarded as significant works in the history of cinema. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of European cinema.

1938Hso Khan Pha, Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (died 2016)^[†]

Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe was a prince of Yawnghwe. He was a son of Sao Shwe Thaik, the last Saopha of Yawnghwe and Sao Nang Hearn Kham, the Mahadevi (consort). He was a consulting geologist based in Canada.

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1938César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1892)^[†]

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

Headlines from April 15, 1938

FEDERAL RESERVE REVERSES POLICY; Roosevelt Move to Ease Loans by Raising Excess Reserves Drops Two-Year Drive Details Wait Discussion FEDERAL RESERVE REVERSES POLICY

Jacob (Gurrah Jake) Shapiro Gives Up Here After Eluding World-Wide Hunt for a Year; SHAPIRO GIVES UP AFTER YEAR'S HUNT

$1,392,065,461 GOLD FREED FOR SPENDING; Treasury Shifts to Reserve Banks 'Sterilized' Fund Used as Money Stabilizer Fund Long Criticized Sterilization Policy Retained $1,392,065,461 GOLD IS 'DESTERILIZED' No Sterilization This Year Treasury to Save Interest

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