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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 10:24:01 GMT
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
Known publicly as Albert until his accession, and "Bertie" among his family and close friends, George VI was born in the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, and was named after his great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during the First World War. In 1920, he was made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. In the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame.
I remember when he died, there were few TVs then - everything was on the radio which went into days of mournful music and convinced me that the world was about to end. Over the years I have come to admire him, he seemed to have the common touch sadly lacking in his daughters Who can forget the film of him at the airport waving goodbye to his daughter who he knew he would never see again
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Post by ARENA on Dec 15, 2018 7:42:36 GMT
Bob Todd (born Brian Todd; 15 December 1921 – 21 October 1992) was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a straight man in the sketch shows of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan. For many years he lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Todd was born in Faversham, Kent. One of the great stooges of television comedy, Todd was best known for his lugubrious expression and talent for slapstick.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 16, 2018 8:06:20 GMT
Ronald John Allen (16 December 1930 [some sources say 1934] – 18 June 1991) was an English character actor who achieved the status of a soap opera star. Allen was born in Reading, Berkshire. He studied at Leighton Park School in Reading and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, worked in repertory theatre, had a season at the Old Vic, London and made several films.Allen lived with his partner Brian Hankins, who also appeared in Crossroads. He was also very close friends with his co-star and on-screen wife, Sue Lloyd. When the British media started to intrude into their private lives, they made it known they were a couple. After Allen was told that his cancer was terminal, they married. He died three months later, aged 60. Sue Lloyd died twenty years later in 2011, also of cancer.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 14:26:49 GMT
Ludwig van Beethoven ; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music, he remains one of the most recognised and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies; 5 piano concertos; 1 violin concerto; 32 piano sonatas; 16 string quartets; a mass, the Missa solemnis; and an opera, Fidelio. To wrote such incredible music whilst deaf defies belief
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Post by ARENA on Dec 17, 2018 7:59:58 GMT
Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove (17 December 1943 – 7 April 2010) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, the son of Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura (née Gurney, 1914–1994) in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset. He was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 10:25:04 GMT
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet PRS MRIA FGS FRS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. He also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. In 1799 Davy experimented with nitrous oxide and became astonished that it made him laugh, so he nicknamed it "laughing gas", and wrote about its potential anaesthetic properties in relieving pain during surgery.
Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), and Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS). He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.
He joked that his assistant Michael Faraday was his greatest discovery.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 18, 2018 8:08:50 GMT
Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 - 28 August 1972) was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of George V. A Cambridge graduate, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving in Lagos and Tokyo, before returning to take over Royal duties. At this time, he was diagnosed with porphyria, probably hereditary, but died at thirty in an air crash.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 9:52:09 GMT
Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and she set a record of 12 consecutive years in the top 10 of box office stars. The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried American woman; she earned more than $3 million during her career.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 19, 2018 7:17:01 GMT
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1926 – 1 January 2009) was a British actor. Purdom was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England and educated at St. Augustine's Abbey School, Ramsgate, then by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius Grammar School and Welwyn Garden City Grammar School. He began his acting career in 1946 by joining the Northampton Repertory Company,Purdom was married four times and divorced three times.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 9:57:01 GMT
Édith Pia ; born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French vocalist, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
Piaf's music was often autobiographical and she specialized in chanson and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include “La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "L'Accordéoniste" (1940), and "Padam, padam..." (1951).
Since her death in 1963, several biographies and films have studied her life, including 2007's Academy Award-winning La Vie en rose — and Piaf has become one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 20, 2018 7:15:21 GMT
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons was born in London. He resides in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife Lisa and her two daughters, Tabitha and Brittni, as well as numerous pets. He has two sons, Jeremy (Jerry) and Daniel, from his previous marriage.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 10:37:59 GMT
Irene Dunne (born Irene Marie Dunn, December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress – for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939), and I Remember Mama (1948). In 1985, Dunne was given Kennedy Center Honors for her services to the arts One of those faces from the old films of that era
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Post by ARENA on Dec 21, 2018 7:30:39 GMT
John "Jack" Russell (21 December 1795–28 April 1883), known as "The Sporting Parson", was an enthusiastic hunter and dog breeder as well as an ordained cleric. Russell was born in Dartmouth, England, the eldest son of John Russell and Nora (Jewell). He was educated at Plympton Grammar School, Blundell's School and Exeter College, Oxford.Vicar of Swimbridge and rector of Black Torrington in North Devon, was an enthusiastic fox-hunter and dog breeder, who developed the Jack Russell Terrier, a variety of the Fox Terrier breed.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 21, 2018 8:41:51 GMT
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
He is the one wearing the dark blue dress to the right of this picture; his wife Gail is beside him.
I was once in hospital having something done to me at 2AM, and all I could think of was that I had the following song coming up next on my MP3 player and that I wanted the procedure to be over so I could listen to it; I wept when I finally got to play it. There is a lovely solo that starts at about 2 minutes in, but the whole thing is great.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 10:10:54 GMT
To me he was always just weird, and his music just a jumble of noise. Pink Floyd were so much better
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