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drive starts to promote New Orleans Internatl Trade Mart as US-Latin Amer center
The growing scarcity of available space in both residential and commercial properties will temper the period of high activity in the general real estate market during the next year, according to a survey...
AMG study shows Gers lost more soldiers and civilians to western Allies than to Russians
1946Claude Lelièvre, Belgian activist[†]
Claude Lelièvre is the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French Community of Belgium, an office similar to the Children's Ombudsman agencies elsewhere.
1946Michele Placido, Italian actor and director[†]
Michele Placido is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco Bellocchio, winning the Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Actor for his performance in the 1979 film Ernesto. He is known internationally for portraying police inspector Corrado Cattani on the crime drama television series La piovra (1984–2001). Placido's directorial debut, Pummarò, was screened Un Certain Regard at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Three of his films have competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He is a five-time Nastro d'Argento and four-time David di Donatello winner. In 2021, Placido was appointed President of the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara.
1946André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (died 1993)[†]
André René Roussimoff, better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess human growth hormone.
1946Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (born 1869)[†]
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.