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Hotel Chevalier (2007)

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Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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Almost Famous (2000)

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May 19th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention.

Births

1925 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (d. 1965)

1945 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Who, Deep End, and Thunderclap Newman)

1946 – André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993)

1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (Ramones and Sniper) (d. 2001)

1955 – James Gosling, Canadian-American computer scientist, created Java

1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base)

1979 – Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer

Deaths

1536 – Anne Boleyn, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501) Died at the age of 35 decapitated due to conspiracy.

1895 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1853)

1904 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (b. 1839)

1975 – Li Tobler, Swiss model and actress (b. 1948) Died at the age of 27. Suicided.

1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)

2003 – Camoflauge , American rapper (b. 1981) Died at the age of 21. Shot.

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May 18th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention.

Births

1897 – Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)

1909 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)

1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)

1960 – Yannick Noah, French tennis player and singer

1969 – Martika, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Deaths

1909 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)

1980 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (Joy Division) (b. 1956) Died at the age of 23. Killed himself hanged with a washing line. He didn’t want to live beyond his 20s.

1997 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975) Died at the age of 21. Accidental overdose of heroin and alcohol.

1999 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954) Died at the age of 44 due to a lung collapse.

2009 – Dolla, American rapper (b. 1987) Died at the age of 21. Shot by another rapper.

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May 17th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention 

Births

1845 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet and priest (d. 1902)

1866 – Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (d. 1925)

1886 – Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)

1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)

1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer and actor

1956 – Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host

1961 – Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Clannad)

1970 – Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter (New Kids on the Block)

1973 – Josh Homme, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures, and Kyuss)

1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (The Corrs)

1976 – Mayte Martínez, Spanish runner

1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player

Deaths

510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)

1886 – John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)

1966 – Randolph Turpin, English boxer (b. 1928) Died at the age of 37. He shot himself because he couldn’t cope with losing his world champion crown.

1996 – Kevin Gilbert (musician), American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966) Died at the age of 29, apparently as an accident during an autoerotic asphyxiation.

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May 16th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention

Births

1611 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)

1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1982)

1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor and producer

1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer

1965 – Krist Novoselic, American bass player and songwriter (Nirvana, Flipper, Sweet 75, The No WTO Combo, and Eyes Adrift)

1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress

1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player

1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress, reality television star, and author

1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

1986 – Megan Fox, American actress

Deaths

1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (b. 1910). His house was burned by accident and he lost 3 fingers, so he learnt how to play guitar with only two fingers.

1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

1984 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949). Died at the age of 35 by rare type of cancer.

1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, screenwriter, and producer, created The Muppets (b. 1936)

1992 – Chalino Sánchez, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1960). Died at the age of 31. Killed after a concert by a gang boss with two shots behind the head.

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May 15th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention

Births

1567 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1643)

1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)

1863 – Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, invented Meccano (d. 1936)

1948 – Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Roxy Music and 801)

1952 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1953 – Mike Oldfield, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Sallyangie)

1957 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Spanish politician

1970 – Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager

1970 – Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager

1987 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player

Deaths

1991– Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956). Died at the age of 34. Suicide.

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May 14th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention.

Births

1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)

1944 – George Lucas, American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm

1950 – Adolfo Domínguez, Spanish fashion designer

1951 – Robert Zemeckis, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Talking Heads)

1961 – Tim Roth, English actor and director

1966 – Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter and dancer (Milli Vanilli, Rob & Fab, and Empire Bizarre)

1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress

1971 – Sofia Coppola, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Cypriot-Australian actress.

1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Facebook

Deaths

1919 – Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)

1935 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868). First advocate for homosexuals and transgendered.

1945 – Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat ace of World War II (b. 1913). Died at the age of 31. Accidentally killed by another german soldier. He sunk more than 230.000 tons of material of the allies by sinking 46 merchant ships.

1976 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (The Yardbirds and Armageddon) (b. 1943). Died at the age of 33. Electrocuted when playing his ungrounded electrical guitar.

1985 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong-English actress (b. 1959). Died at the age of 26. Committed suicide by inhalating gas in her house.

1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)

1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

2014 – Stephen Sutton, English activist and blogger (b. 1994). Died at the age of 19 due to cancer. He maintained a blog and raised almost 5 million pounds for Cancer investigation.

2015 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925)

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May 13th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention.

Births

1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1988)

1923 – Red Garland, American pianist (Miles Davis Quintet) (d.1984)

1937 – Trevor Baylis, English inventor, invented the wind-up radio

1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor and producer

1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player, wrestler, and actor

1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter and producer (Goldfrapp)

1969 – Buckethead, American guitarist and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Praxis, and Deli Creeps)

1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, singer, and producer

1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer

Deaths

1835 – John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)

1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor and singer (b. 1901)

1977 – Mickey Spillane, American mobster (b. 1934). Died at the age of 42. Killed by another gangster. He was said to be the last of the gentleman gangsters of New York.

1988 – Chet Baker, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1929). Died at the age of 58 due to serious wounds at the head, possibly by an accident in a hotel room.

2014 – Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (b. 1977). Died at the age of 36. Committed suicide. He directed “Searching for Sugar Man” Sixto Rodriguez documentary.

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May 12th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention

Births

1767 – Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace (d. 1851)

1812 – Edward Lear, English author, poet, and illustrator (d. 1888)

1889 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman (d. 1980). Father of Anne Frank. Only survivor to holocaust in his family.

1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (d. 2003)

1918 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)

1928 – Burt Bacharach, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1950 – Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1962 – Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Bad Religion, Daredevils, and Error)

1963 – Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)

1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor, director, and producer

1966 – Bebel Gilberto, American-Brazilian singer-songwriter

1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor

1970 – Jim Furyk, American golfer

1981 – Lorena Bernal, Argentinian-Spanish model and actress

Deaths

1946 – Leopold Socha, Polish sewage inspector. Sheltered a group of Jews during the holocaust in the sewers of Lwów (b. 1909) Died killed by a soviet truck when riding a bicycle with his daughter. He saved her by cycling between the truck and her bicycle.

1966 – Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (b. 1896). He was the officer in charge of the defense of Berlin against the Soviet attack. He was the one who stated they couldn’t counter-attack. The reason of Adolf Hitler’s famous rage inside the bunker.

2009 – Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nacha Pop) (b. 1957) Died at the age of 51 due to lung cancer.

2013 – Constantino Romero, Spanish actor and game show host (b. 1947). Dubbed voice for Darth Vader in spanish.

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May 11th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention

Births

1720 – Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, German nobleman and storyteller (d. 1797)

1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)

1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist an author (d. 2007)

1941 – Eric Burdon, English singer-songwriter, actor, and painter (The Animals and War)

1961 – Luis Felipe, Cuban gang leader, founded the Latin Kings

1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress

1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer

Deaths

1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)

1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930). Died at the age of 36. He shot himself.

1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945)

1986 – Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953) Died at the age of 33 due to Acute Radiation Syndrome. He alerted plant director not to run the tests that led to the accident because of the wrong conditions of the reactor.Missing somebody? Tell me who and why they should be mentioned.

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May 10th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention.

Births

1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)

1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author (d. 1920)

1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971) (Casablanca, Gone with the Wind)

1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)

1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player

1940 – Wayne Dyer, American author

1949 – Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer

1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vicious White Kids, The Flowers of Romance) (d. 1979)

1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, humanitarian and activist (U2)

1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian model and actress

1966 – Jonathan Edwards, English triple jumper

1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and manager

1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer

Deaths

1692 – Sarah Osborne, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1643) Died at the age of 49. One of the three Salem Witches. First ones prosecuted for witchcraft.

1774 – Louis XV of France (b. 1710)

1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757). The island and city of Vancouver have been named after him.

1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter (b. 1760). Author of the Great Wave of Kanagawa.

1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889). Died at the age of 56 by committing suicide with a pill of potassium cyanide when losing the WWII. He was the head of all human medical experimentations those years, including the mass murder Zyklon-B gas.

2008 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (b. 1990). Died at the age of 17 when felt in a train station and was hit by a train.

2012 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist and composer (b. 1970) Died at the age of 41. He felt from a cliff when taking pictures for his next work.

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May 9th

These are the people who were born or died today I fancy to mention

Births

1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)

1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)

1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)

1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum

1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager

1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter (Depeche Mode)

1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bass player (Oasis and The Rain)

1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress and singer

Deaths

1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)

1942 – Blessed Józef Cebula, beatified Polish priest, murdered at concentration camp (b. 1902) Died at the age of 39 at a nazi concentration camp. They forced him to escape with a rock on his back and shot him because “he was trying to escape”.

1989 – Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1955). Died at the age of 34 by ethanolism, excess of alcohol. He had depression and his brother died short time before.

2007 – Edith Rodriguez, American medical patient (b. 1964). Died at the age of 43 due to a negligency when not correctly diagnosed of a gastrointestinal perforation. She is one of the cause celebres against health bureaucracy indifference in USA.

2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser (b. 1928)

2013 – Malcolm Shabazz, American criminal (b. 1984) First male descendent of Malcolm X (his grandfather). Died at the age of 28 in Mexico. Killed in unknown circumstances.

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“It’s about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself.”

Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

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