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- Akinari Ueda was born on 25 July 1734 in Osaka, Japan. Akinari was a writer, known for Untitled Sansho the Bailiff Remake, Ugetsu (1953) and Jasei no in (1921). Akinari died on 8 August 1809 in Kyoto, Japan.
- Eugène-François Vidocq was born on 25 July 1775 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Eugène-François was a writer, known for Vidocq (2001), A Scandal in Paris (1946) and Vidocq (1939). Eugène-François died on 11 May 1857 in Belgium.
- Philippe Dumanoir was born on 25 July 1806 in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. He was a writer, known for The Adventurer (1920), The Spanish Dancer (1923) and Don Cesare di Bazan (1942). He died on 13 November 1865 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
- Charles Major was born on 25 July 1856 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), Sweet Alyssum (1915) and Yolanda (1924). He was married to Alice Shaw. He died on 13 February 1913 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA.
- Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia Duchess of Connaught was born on 25 July 1860 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg, Germany]. She was married to Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught. She died on 14 March 1917 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Gavrilo Princip was born on 25 July 1894 in Obljaj, Grahovo, Bosnia. He died on 28 April 1918 in Theresienstadt, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Terezín, Czech Republic].
- Max Dauthendey was born on 25 July 1867 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer, known for Spielereien einer Kaiserin (1930). He was married to Annie Johanson. He died on 29 August 1918 in Malang, Java, Indonesia.
- Nat C. Goodwin was born on 25 July 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Marriage Bond (1916), Business Is Business (1915) and Oliver Twist (1912). He was married to Marjorie or Margaret Moreland, Edna Goodrich, Maxine Elliott, Nellie Baker Pease and Eliza Weatherby. He died on 31 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Emil Skjerne was born on 25 July 1881 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for Alperosen (1911), En Mesalliance (1912) and Fattig og rig (1915). He died on 22 May 1921.- Brilliant stage and screen actor Charles Eldridge was born in New York in 1854. Starred on the drama and comedy theatre from the 1870's. Occasionally known as Mr. Eldridge became a white haired gentleman who starred and supported in more than 160 melodrama, comedy and crime movies, with the Vitagraph Film Company from 1910, making his film debut as the old farmer in 'The Legacy' co-starring Mary Maurice. His most notable role was as Jabee Smith in many of the 'Mr. Jarr' comedies starring Harry Davenport in 1915. Mr. Eldridge left Vitagraph in 1916 to worked for several other film companies including IMP, Victor, Rolfe, Columbia, Stubert and last with Goldwyn and Fox until his death from cancer in 1922 age 68.
- Roland Rushton was born on 25 July 1878 in Australia. He was an actor, known for Doubling for Romeo (1921), Beau Brummel (1924) and The Old Nest (1921). He died on 5 November 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Emmi Elert was born on 25 July 1864 in Bremen, Germany. She was a writer, known for Tragödie einer Ehe (1927) and Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach (1917). She died on 27 October 1927 in Bad Bertrich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Austin Small was born on 25 July 1894 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Query (1945), Sailors Don't Care (1928) and Down River (1931). He died on 15 January 1929 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Production Manager
Tom Brooker was born on 25 July 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and production manager, known for The Thief Trapper (1927), Gun Law (1929) and A Wanderer of the West (1927). He died on 29 January 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.- Harry M. Rubey was born on 25 July 1865 in Macon, Missouri, USA. He was a producer, known for The Son of Tarzan (1920). He was married to Lucille Rubey. He died on 10 July 1929 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
Cecil Ward was born on 25 July 1859 in Poplar, London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for The Second Stain (1922), The Historian Paradox (2011) and The Lifeguardsman (1916). He died on 9 November 1929 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.- Lyall Swete was born on 25 July 1865 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Masks and Faces (1917). He was married to Ethel Mary Brough. He died on 19 February 1930 in London, England, UK.
- Arthur J. Balfour was born on 25 July 1848 in Wittinghame, Scotland, UK. He died on 19 March 1930 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
David Belasco was born on 25 July 1853 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Man Without a Face (1993), The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) and Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930). He was married to Cecilia Loverich. He died on 14 May 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Andrew Mack was born on 25 July 1863 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Unpardonable Sin (1915), The Ragged Earl (1914) and Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925). He was married to Katherine Humphrey (actress) and Alice V McAloon. He died on 21 May 1931 in Bayshore, Long Island, New York, USA.- Ángel Llorca was born on 25 July 1866 in Orcheta, Alicante, Spain. Ángel was a writer, known for Ángel Llorca: El último ensayo (2011). Ángel died on 13 December 1942 in Madrid, Spain.
- Alfred Wellesley was born on 25 July 1872 in Finsbury, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Charing Cross Road (1936), The Lucky Number (1932) and The New Hotel (1932). He died on 7 December 1943 in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- George Ferguson was born on 25 July 1878 in Newburgh, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Damaged Goods (1914) and The Bruiser (1916). He died on 24 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Larry Silverstone was born on 25 July 1904 in Russia. He was an actor, known for R.U.R. (1938), The Seventh Man (1938) and Cornelius (1938). He died on 3 July 1944 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Art Director
- Production Designer
Karl Haacker was born on 25 July 1890 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for Wir bitten zum Tanz (1941), Nanette (1940) and Der Weg zu Isabel (1940). He died on 15 December 1945 in Berlin, Germany.- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Challis Sanderson was born on 25 July 1899 in Chadwell Heath, Essex, England, UK. He was a director and editor, known for Scrags (1930), Cock o' the North (1935) and The Scallywag (1921). He died on 20 December 1945 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.- Darwin Karr was born on 25 July 1875 in Almond, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Eugene Wrayburn (1911), Blood and Water (1913) and The Village Homestead (1915). He was married to Florence Bindley. He died on 31 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Production Manager
Gene Layman was born on 25 July 1889 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and production manager, known for Twisted Rails (1934), The Broken Coin (1936) and The Forbidden Valley (1920). He died on 6 June 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tom O'Brien was born on 25 July 1890 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Big Parade (1925), Moby Dick (1930) and The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). He was married to Ina Mae Morehouse. He died on 8 June 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Very popular American star of silent films who left the business at the height of his career. While barely in his teens, he worked as a warehouse clerk until a chance arrived to appear in a vaudeville production. He continued to act in traveling stock productions, though he took a brief time away from the stage to attend the University of Illinois. By the time he was thirty, he had begun to make appearances in films for Essanay and Biograph. A contract with the American Film Corporation opened the door to leading roles, often as a well-dressed and elegant man-about-town. Universal Pictures lured him with a better deal and he quickly rose to stardom there. A glib remark about his refusal to enlist in the American army after the U.S. entry into World War I cost him both sympathy with audiences and the support of the studios. He began to work less frequently and for more minor studios. When director James Cruze cast him as the rugged lead in The Covered Wagon (1923), Kerrigan found himself back on top, appearing in dashing leads in several important pictures. However, within a year, he decided to abandon his film career while at its zenith. His stardom had given him the freedom to live freely and easily without working, which is how he lived out the rest of his life. Supposedly he made a few small appearances in supporting roles just before his death in June, 1947.- P. Munch was born on 25 July 1870 in Redsted, Mors, Denmark. He was married to Elna Sarauw. He died on 12 January 1948 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Frank Andrews was born on 25 July 1866 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Daddy of Them All (1914), The Rapids (1922) and The Warrens of Virginia (1924). He was married to Ethel B. Andrews. He died on 31 August 1948 in New York, New York, USA.
- Stoyan Bachvarov was born on 25 July 1878 in Medven, Sliven, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Bulgari ot staro vreme (1945), Boyka (1947) and Nastradin Hodzha i Hitar Petar (1939). He died on 6 January 1949 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Oswald Mitchell was born on 25 July 1897 in Swansea, Wales, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Cock o' the North (1935), Danny Boy (1934) and Music Hall Parade (1939). He died on 27 April 1949 in Fitzrovia, London, England, UK.- Lilli Molnar was born on 25 July 1897 in Hungary. She was an actress, known for No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and Kinder vor Gericht (1931). She died on 20 October 1950 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
- Boleslaw Horski was born on 25 July 1887 in Czestochowa, Poland, Russian Empire [now Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928) and Maly marynarz (1936). He died on 10 January 1951 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Actor
- Director
Mikhail Derzhavin was born on 25 July 1903 in village Aksinino, Zvenigorod uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Stupinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for The Turning Point (1945), The Great Glinka (1946) and Pervopechatnik Ivan Fedorov (1941). He died on 30 July 1951 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Benito Lynch was born on 25 July 1880 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer, known for El romance de un gaucho (1961), El inglés de los güesos (1940) and Los caranchos de la Florida (1938). He died on 23 December 1951 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- As Gordon Daviot, she was a famous well-known playwright during the 1930s, and, as Gordon Daviot, published her first mystery novel, "The Man In The Queue". For the second, "A Shilling For Candles", she took a family name, Josephine Tey, under which she published a further six.
- Actor
- Stunts
J.C. Fowler was born on 25 July 1869 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fighting Legion (1930), The Eagle's Talons (1923) and S.O.S. Perils of the Sea (1925). He died on 27 June 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
In her younger days, auburn-haired Alison Skipworth had been a celebrated patrician beauty. She was the favorite model of English artist Frank Markham Skipworth (1854-1929) who would later become her husband. A physician's daughter, Alison did not make her professional acting debut until the age of thirty-one, having been privately tutored by academics from Oxford University. Her eventual move to stage acting was ostensibly to supplement her husband's meagre income. Alison's first performance was in "A Gaiety Girl" at London's Daly Theatre (in 1894), but, before long, she forsook England for Broadway and subsequently joined Daniel Frohman's company at the Lyceum in New York. She toured in Shakespearean roles and eventually became prolific on the 'Great White Way' in comedy plays. Unfortunately for her, many of these turned out to be conspicuous flops. After a string of failures (twenty-one, she claimed, between 1925 and 1930 alone!), Alison jumped at the opportunity to impose herself on the screen. Now stately and plump, 'Skippy' went on to carve herself a niche in Hollywood as imperious or seedy grand dames, dowagers and matrons, characters she often imbued with her own adroit sense of humour. She is most fondly remembered as a formidable foil (and, indeed, the only one to stand up to) W.C. Fields in If I Had a Million (1932), Tillie and Gus (1933), Alice in Wonderland (1933) and Six of a Kind (1934). Other memorable turns included her Mrs. Mabel Jellyman, hired to tutor a shady speakeasy proprietor (played by George Raft) in manners in Night After Night (1932), culminating in a confrontation with Mae West (both on and off the set); and Madame Barabas in Satan Met a Lady (1936), loosely based on Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon", in which Alison played the female equivalent of the role later made famous by Sydney Greenstreet in the classic 1941 Warner Brothers version. Alison retired from acting in 1942 after her Broadway swansong in "Lily of the Valley" and passed away ten years later at the venerable age of 88.- Corliss Palmer was born Helen Caroline Palmer on July 25, 1899 in Edison, Georgia. Corliss was one of six siblings and sadly her father died when she was ten. After high school she worked at a grocery store and a movie theater in Macon. In 1920 she won a contest sponsored by Motion Picture Magazine and was named "the most beautiful girl in America" She moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in the 1922 short From Farm To Farm. Corliss began having an affair Eugene V. Brewster, the married publisher of Motion Picture Magazine. He promoted her career in his magazine and helped her land numerous endorsements. Despite all the publicity she did not get another role until 1926 when she appeared in Her Second Chance with Anna Q. Nilsson. When Eugene filed for divorce his wife filed a $200,00 lawsuit accusing Corliss of alienation of affection. She married Eugene in December of 1926 and they moved into a palatial California estate. The dazzling redhead landed supporting roles in the dramas A Man's Past, The Noose, and Into The Night. Unfortunately her promising career quickly stalled.
Her final film was the 1931 comedy Honeymoon Lane. Because of their lavish spending Eugene was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1931. Corliss left him soon after and started having an affair with Albert J. Cohen, a married film writer. His wife sued her for alienation of affection in 1932. By this time she was struggling with serious drinking problem. She made headlines again in 1933 when she caused a scene at a hotel and was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Then she worked at several low paying jobs including demonstrating make-up at a cosmetics counter. Corliss said "At heart I'm really a domestic sort of girl. I wasn't made for all this stuff I've been through." In 1939 she married William Taylor, a former rodeo performer. Her alcoholism continued to get worse and her mental health deteriorated. She entered a psychiatric hospital in 1950 where she was diagnosed with "alcoholic psychosis". Tragically on August 27, 1952 she died from Chronic Myocarditis at the age of fifty-three. Corliss was buried in an unmarked grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California. Her fans later paid for a headstone to be placed on her grave. - André Lefaur is undeniably part of the pantheon of French actors. One of those "eccentrics of the French Cinema" as Raymond Chirat and Olivier Barrot quite rightly dubbed them. One of these wonderful personalities of the stage and screen who alongside Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Saturnin Fabre, Raimu and several others have such a strong personality, such a personal style that they are absolutely inimitable. Just like the actors mentioned above, André Lefaur was first and foremost André Lefaur. Which does not mean that he did not make the character he played believable. Quite the contrary. But like Simon, Brasseur or Raimu, he made them bigger than life and- accordingly - unforgettable. It is to be noted that on the big screen was most of the time a nobleman (at lest twenty times: six times a marquis, four times a baron) and/or a figure of authority (four times a general, but also a colonel, a judge or a president). However, instead of causing the viewer to admire these figures of the elite, Lefaur invariably deflated the ego of those pompous empty windbags. Yes, André Lefaur was nearly always cast as a v.i.p. but this person was invariably starchy, tyrannical ('La Fleur d'Oranger'), weak, pretentious, ridiculous ('La Dixième Symphonie') or cuckolded ('L'Habit Vert'). On the other hand, he never made puppets of his characters. There was always humanity within them and the viewer tended to end up feeling sorry for them rather than despise them. Marc Allégret allowed Lefaur to display all his humanity in his final role, that of a loving father in 'Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs'), which was a nice farewell present to a man who will always be remembered for his ability to deliver witty lines by Louis Verneuil, Mirande, Deval, Flers and Caillavet like nobody else.
- Roman Cirin was born on 25 July 1902 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Pierwsze dni (1952). He died on 2 March 1953 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.
- Peter L. Shamray was born on 25 July 1893. He was an editor, known for Hearts and Fists (1926). He died on 12 May 1953.
- Julietta Brandt was born on 25 July 1870 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Pest in Florenz (1919), Nur einmal blüht im Jahr der Mai (1916) and Die Verworfenen (1917). She died on 1 January 1954 in Denmark.
- Marie Pio was born on 25 July 1867 in Helsingør, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Blind Justice (1916) and Søstrene Morelli (1917). She died on 16 August 1954.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
William Churchill de Mille, the older brother of Hollywood legend Cecil B. DeMille (W.C. retained the family spelling of his name) and father of Tony Award-winning choreographer Agnes de Mille, was born in Washington, North Carolina, on July 25, 1878. His father, Henry C. DeMille, was a playwright who had six plays produced on Broadway from 1887-90, while his mother, Beatrice DeMille, the former Matilda Beatrice Samuel, wrote one play in collaboration with Harriet Ford, "The Greatest Thing in the World," that played on Broadway in 1900. It was perhaps inevitable that after graduating from Columbia University W.C. would become a successful Broadway playwright
His first play, "Strongheart," debuted on January 30, 1905, at the Hudson Theatre and ran for 66 performances, closing on February 20th of that year. It was revived at the Savoy Theatre on August 28th and played for 32 performances before closing on September 20th. His farce "The Genius" played in repertory at the Bijou Theatre for 35 performances starting on Halloween Day 1906, while his next play, "Classmates," written in collaboration with Margaret Turnbull, was more successful, totaling 102 performances after opening at the Hudson on August 29, 1907.
His true first hit, "The Warrens of Virginia," debuted at the Belasco Theatre on December 3, 1907. Produced by legendary Broadway impresario David Belasco, the play--the cast of which included deMille's brother Cecil--featured the Broadway debut of a young Canadian actress named Mary Pickford. Transferring from the Belasco to the Stuyvesant Theatre on May 4, 1908, the play racked up a total of 380 performances. W.C. collaborated with brother C.B. on the writing of "The Royal Mounted," which debuted at the Garrick Theatre on April 6, 1908. Co-directed by C.B. and Cyril Scott, the play closed after only 32 performances.
Three years later W.C. had another hit play, "The Woman," which opened at the Republic Theatre on September 19, 1911. This was a political thriller about a group of representatives and the governor of New York who, like the scheming politicos in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), concoct a stratagem to discredit a representative who outspokenly opposes a piece of legislation they favor. The drama had everything--confrontation, negotiations, calumnies and double dealing. It is unique as W.C. focuses on how people themselves affect politics, not on how politics affects them. The power relations between the individual characters reflects their governmental machinations. W.C.'s handling of points of view is interesting in that he allows each of the characters' voices to come through clearly, without prejudice, so the audience is not tipped to which ones are right or wrong. He constantly turns the tables on the audience, forcing them to redefine their perceptions of the characters, as no character in the play is innocent, the heroes and villains in politics proving to be one and the same. Though "The Woman" was a hit, playing for 247 performances, it would be another two years before a play of his was back on the boards. "A Tragedy of the Future" played in repertory with four other plays at the Princess Theatre for 115 performances beginning on May 14, 1913. "After Five," his next play (written in collaboration with C.B.), debuted at the Fulton Theatre on October 29, 1913, but was a flop, lasting only 13 performances. He would not appear on Broadway again for almost 16 years.
W.C. might have remained a Broadway playwright all his life if he had not joined his kid brother in Hollywood. He launched his movie career in 1914 at Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount Pictures), eventually becoming a director of the corporation that his brother co-managed as part owner (their mother Beatrice wrote a dozen screenplays for the studio from 1916-17). Even among such monumental egos as Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, C.B. loomed over the Paramount lot, as he was the most successful director of his era, the Steven Spielberg of the first half of the 20th century. While at Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount W.C. fulfilled the roles of director, screenwriter and producer, evolving into a highly respected member of the Hollywood community.
Many in Hollywood considered him a first-rate director, as good as--or at times better than--his brother, but few of his silent pictures, the medium in which he did most of his work, survive. "Variety," the bible of show business, in its review of Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920), W.C.'s adaptation of 'Leonard Marrick''s highly regarded comic novel, proclaimed, "Here is a better picture than has been made by any director . . . at any time."
At Paramount C.B. was ennobled with the title Director-General, whereas W.C. was called, affectionately, "Pop" by his co-workers. Unlike his brother, W.C. focused on presenting intimate stories rooted in strong human values. He never earned a reputation for being a visual director, unlike C.B., who was a master of spectacle and mise en scene and had to be forced by the Paramount board of directors to address contemporary subjects.
Although by the late 1920s "talkies" were displacing silent films, W.C. disparaged them as inferior to silents, a not-uncommon prejudice at the time, and started making fewer films. Many critics and filmmakers believed that the moving picture had reached the apogee of its maturity as a lively art in the mid-'20s, and were not happy to see all the craft developed to convey meaning through pictures junked in favor of what they considered a novelty--sound. His last film, His Double Life (1933) (co-directed with Arthur Hopkins), was shot in New York in 1933.
W.C. attempted a return to the theater. "Poor Old Jim" played in repertory with three other plays as part of the 1929 Little Theatre Tournament, but that would prove to be his last stint as a Broadway playwright. He produced and staged Henry Myers comedy "Hallowe'en" in 1936, but the play lasted only 12 performances at the Vanderbilt Theatre. Broadway would soon belong to a new generation, including his daughter Agnes De Mille, who would achieve Broadway immortality for her revolutionary choreography for Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Oklahoma!" Agnes went on to win the 1947 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their "Brigadoon".
The combination of the advent of talking pictures and the onset of the Great Depression doomed the Great White Way as a venue for truly popular entertainment. In the 1920s there were over 70 Broadway theaters offering a minimum of eight shows a week. By the mid-'30s many of the palaces had been converted into movie theaters, as 42nd Street began its descent into a slum dominated by all-night-long grindhouses. With the advent of realism and social commitment displayed by such innovative theatrical companies such as the Group Theater, the stage would soon succumb to a revolution hostile to the old-time playwrights who had sparked the lights on Old Broadway. The musicals survived, but Broadway was no longer a place where crowds of theater-goers moved from theater to theater, shopping for a show.
William C. De Mille served as the second president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He died on March 8, 1955. He was 76 years old.- British hunter who spent most of his adult life in India. He was born in a hill station in India, the second youngest of thirteen children. One of his older stepsisters had survived the siege of Agra during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. His father died when he was 4, while serving at the 'volatile' Afghan border. He was brought up by his mother on their Naini Tal estate and their "Irish cottage" at Kaladhungi, fifteen miles away. He was fascinated with the jungles as a child and collected birds eggs, studied wildlife and learnt to hunt. From the age of 18 he worked for over twenty years for a railroad company in India. During World War I he was captain of the 500 man 70th Kumaon Labor Corps to France. After the war he was promoted to Major and sent to the North West Frontier as Commandant of the 114th Labor Battalion in the Third Afghan War. From 1920 to 1936 he spent half of each year in Tanganyika, Africa, where he hunted and tracked big game. He supervised growing of coffee and maize on his plantation on slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1930 he gave up hunting big game when he discovered the wonders of a 16 mm movie camera. Instead he began to 'shoot' animals with his camera. He continued, however, to hunt man-eaters who were disrupting human communities. Corbett shot the "Bachelor of Powalgarh," the most prized big-game trophy of the decade. His other famous kills included the "Champawat man-eater" and the "Man-eaters of Kumaon", the latter whom he killed in 1907 after they had killed nearly 436 victims. His last man-eater hunt was the Thak man-eater in 1938. His most famous book about his exploits in tracking and killing man-eating tigers, lions and leopards in India - Man-Eaters of Kumaon was published in 1944.
- Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois to Louis and Mamie Till. When Emmett was four, he and his mother got word that his father, a soldier stationed in Italy during World War II, had been executed by the government (it wasn't revealed until many years later that his father was convicted by a court martial of the rape and murder of three Italian women, sentenced to death and subsequently hanged). Emmett was raised by his mother and grandmother and, in his early years, was said to have been a happy, normal young man who excelled at science and art in school and was known to love jokes.
In 1955, his great-uncle Mose Wright came up from Mississippi for a funeral and, at that time, invited young Emmett back to Mississippi with him for a vacation. Unaware of the strict rules of segregation enforced in Mississippi, Emmett made the fatal mistake of paying improper attention to Carolyn Bryant, the wife of a white store owner. Though accounts vary, history has agreed that while visiting the store, Emmett directed a wolf whistle at Mrs. Bryant. After several days, her husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam tracked down young Till at his great-uncle's house in the middle of the night and took him away to a plantation, where they tortured him, then murdered him and threw the body in the Tallahatchie River. It was discovered days later and shipped back home to Chicago, where his mother decided to put her son's grossly bloated and disfigured corpse on display at an open-casket funeral so that all Chicago could see the full horror of her son's death.
The case made headlines worldwide, especially when Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury back in Mississippi, and then began giving interviews bragging about how they had gotten away with murder and describing how they had tortured and murdered Emmett. After failing to get President Dwight D. Eisenhower to reopen the case, Mrs. Till had the photos of her son's corpse published in Jet magazine. The response to such a horrible act would remain in the minds of a generation of black people, and was said to have been the spark that put the Civil Rights Movement into motion.