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1946
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. (see link for calendar)
Events
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Year in topic
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1946 in film
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1946 in literature
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1946 in music
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1946 in rail transport
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1946 in sports
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1946 in television
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February 4 – RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system.
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February 18 - The first Washington-New York telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers.
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April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington
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May 9 - The first variety show premieres, Hour Glass, on NBC.
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June 7 - The BBC begins broadcasting again and reshows the Mickey Mouse cartoon, that had been interrupted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II.
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June 19 - The first televised heavyweight title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight.
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October 2 - The first TV network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.
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December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
- ToKyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony
- Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens
Births
January
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January 3 - John Paul Jones, bassist from Led Zeppelin
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January 5 - Diane Keaton, actress
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January 6 - Syd Barrett, guitarist and singer
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January 8 - Robby Krieger, musician ("The Doors")
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January 11 - Naomi Judd, country music singer
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January 11 - John Piper, American theologian
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January 12 - George Duke, musician
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January 14 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer
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January 16 - Kabir Bedi, actor
- January 16 - Ronnie Milsap, singer
- January 16 - Katia Ricciarelli , opera singer
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January 18 - Joseph Deiss, member of the Swiss Federal Council
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January 19 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
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January 20 - David Lynch, film director
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January 21 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
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January 22 - Serge Savard, Hall of Fame ice hockey player, executive
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January 24 - Michael Ontkean , actor
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January 26 - Gene Siskel, film critic (d. 1999)
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January 31 - Terry Kath, musician (d. 1978)
February-March
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February 6 - Jim Turner, American politician
- February 11 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
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February 14 - Bernard Dowiyogo, president of Nauru (d. 2003)
- February 14 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003)
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February 20 - Jerome Geils of the J Geils band
- February 20 - Brenda Blethyn, actress
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February 21 - Tyne Daly, actress
- February 21 - Alan Rickman, actor
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February 24 - Barry Bostwick, actor
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February 25 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, dramatist
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February 27 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor
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February 28 - Robin Cook, British politician
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March 3 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
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March 6 - David Gilmour, musician ("Pink Floyd")
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March 7 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
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March 12 - Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
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March 21 - Timothy Dalton, actor ("James Bond")
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March 22 - André Heller , artist
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March 31 - Gonzalo Márquez, Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
April-June
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April 4 - Dave Hill, Slade, guitarist
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April 7 - Colette Besson, French runner
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April 12 - Ed O'Neill, actor
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April 25 - Talia Shire, actress
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April 30 - Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Swedish monarch (1973- )
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May 7 - Thelma Houston, singer
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May 9 - Candice Bergen, actress
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May 10 - Donovan Leitch, musician
- May 10 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic")
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May 11 - Robert Jarvik, physicist, inventor
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May 17 - Udo Lindenberg, musician
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May 18 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
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May 19 - André the Giant, wrestler (d. 1993)
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May 20 - Cher, American actress, singer
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May 22 - George Best, footballer
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May 23 - David Graham, golf champion
- May 23 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
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May 26 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d. 1993)
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June 6 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
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June 8 - Pearlette Louisy
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June 14 - Donald Trump, American real estate magnate
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June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade, singer
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June 23 - Kathy Wilkes
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June 24 - Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (d. 1986)
July-August
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July 2 - Richard Axel, scientist
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July 6 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
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July 6 - Sylvester Stallone, actor
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July 8 - Elizabeth Gomez , minister and poet
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July 9 - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC (d. 1980)
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July 10 - Robert W. Jones , Minister and Writer
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July 13 - Cheech Marin, actor, comedian
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July 14 - John Wood, actor
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July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, singer, songwriter
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July 16 - Ron Yary, Pro Football Hall of Famer
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July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
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July 25 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer, widow of Bob Marley
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July 30 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (d. 1994)
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August 3 - Jack Straw, British politician
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August 19 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
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August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
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August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
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August 25 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher
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August 29 - Bob Beamon, American long jumper
September
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September 5 - Freddie Mercury, British singer
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September 7 - Francisco Varela, biologist
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September 10 - Jim Hines, American athlete
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September 10 - Don Powell, Slade, drummer
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September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
- September 15 - Oliver Stone, American film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)
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September 21 - Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council
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September 23 - Franz Fischler, politician
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September 24 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
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September 26 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
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September 30 - Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer
October
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October 1 - Tim O'Brien, American author
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October 6 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
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October 7 - Catharine MacKinnon
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October 8 - Hanan Ashrawi
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October 9 - Tansu Ciller, Turkish politician
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October 13 - Edwina Currie
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October 16 - Suzanne Somers, actress
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October 17 - Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter and actor
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October 21 - Lyn Allison, Australian politician
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October 22 - Eileen Gordon, British politician
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October 23 - Graca Machel
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October 24 - Karen Silkwood
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October 26 - Pat Sajak, game show host
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October 27 - Ivan Reitman, movie director, producer
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October 29 - Kathryn J. Whitmire
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October 31 - Caroline Jackson, UK politician
November-December
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November 1 - Marina Abramovic
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November 2 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (d. 2001)
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November 4 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
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November 5 - Margot Adler
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November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist
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November 5 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
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November 8 - Monika Dannemann
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November 11 - Corrine Brown, US politician
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November 12 - Renate Holub
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November 13 - Ohara Reiko
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November 15 - M. Jodi Rell
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November 18 - Amanda Lear
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November 19 - Terry Baum
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November 20 - Greg Cook, American football quarterback
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November 20 - Judy Woodruff
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November 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer
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November 26 - Ottilia Borbath
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November 29 - Suzy Chaffee
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November 30 - Barbara Cubin
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December 4 - Angela Browning, British politician
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December 5 - Eva-Britt Svensson, politician
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December 9 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
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December 16 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor, harpsichordist
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December 18 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
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December 20 - Dick Wolf, American TV drama series creator
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December 26 - Joyce Jillson
Deaths
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January 29 - Harry Hopkins, politician
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February 5 - George Arliss, actor
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March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist.
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March 24 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
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April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., actor
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April 3 - Alf Common, first £1000 footballer
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April 22 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
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May 17 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton
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May 19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist
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June 1 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (b. 1882)
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June 10 - Jack Johnson, African-American boxer
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July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet and playwright
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July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, photographer (b. 1864)
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July 15 - Razor Smith, Surrey slow bowler who took 247 wickets in 1910 (b. 1877)
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Alfred Stock German chemist
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August 13 - H.G. Wells, English science fiction writer
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October 4 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (b. 1878)
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October 15 - Hermann Göring, Nazi leader, marshall of the Third Reich, head of the Airforce (suicide)
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October 16 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader, governor of The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-1945) (executed)
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November 14 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer
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December 10 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
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December 25 - W.C. Fields, British actor and comedian
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Last updated: 10-13-2005 00:58:30
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