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C T Hoffman dies on st, NYC; $1/2million worth of stocks and bank books found in $7-a-wk rooming house; lived on old-age pension and unemployment ins
Japanese fear USSR will delay and alter pact, but see opportunity to prod USSR on Kuriles occupation and on Jap POWs still held by USSR; Jap pol parties reaction to USSR move
Dies, 88
Iran cool to proposals; end of talks seen unless proposals are modified; Varasteh uncertain; Stokes conf with Mossadegh after latter sees Cabinet and Nationalization Bd; Harriman visits Shah to urge caution; Stokes conf with E Mason on Brit workers demands; Mossadegh and Fatemi hold proposals disappointing
1951Ann Biderman, American screenwriter and producer[†]
Ann Biderman is an American film and television writer. She is the creator and executive producer of the NBC/TNT series Southland (2009–2013), and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of NYPD Blue. She created, wrote, and produced the Showtime drama Ray Donovan.
1951Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter (died 2023)[†]
Robert Hunter Caldwell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He released several albums spanning R&B, soul, jazz, and adult contemporary, and was known for his soulful and versatile vocals. Caldwell released the hit single and his signature song "What You Won't Do for Love" from his double platinum debut self-titled album in 1978.
1951John Childs, English cricketer[†]
John Henry Childs is a former cricketer who played in two Test matches for England in 1988. At the age of 36 years 320 days, Childs became the oldest player since Dick Howorth in 1947 to make his England debut. He was a left-arm spin bowler, and played his domestic cricket for Gloucestershire and Essex.
1951Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (born 1882)[†]
Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]