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- Fern Barry was born on 24 September 1909 in Fairview, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rifleman (1958), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Checkmate (1960). She was married to Donald E. Hill. She died on 9 September 1981 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Connie Georges was born on 13 October 1911 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Angel Pavement (1967), ...And Mother Makes Three (1971) and The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr (1964). She died on 9 September 1981 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK.
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1913, blues/pop singer Helen Humes is probably best known for her work with Count Basie and His Orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s.
As a child she took piano and vocal lessons, and at 14 years of age she was discovered by blues musician Sylvester Weaver, who signed her to a record contract and took her to St. Louis in 1927 to record. She later traveled to New York City for further recording sessions. She stayed in New York and sang in the city's renowned cabaret scene, and in 1938 she came to the attention of legendary musician/producer John Hammond, who liked what he heard and set her up with the Count Basie Orchestra, which was looking for a replacement for Billie Holiday, who had just left the band after having signed a recording contract (ironically, Basie had offered Humes the job a year earlier, and she had turned him down). Humes toured and recorded with the band until 1942, when she left to go out on her own. She later traveled to California and sang with the Norman Granz band in Los Angeles, and stayed with them until the early 1950s. In addition to recording albums, she also sang on the soundtrack of such films as Panic in the Streets (1950) and My Blue Heaven (1950), and later joined with vibraphonist Red Norvo's band.
In the early 1960s she toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival with such blues icons as T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker. Her career had begun to fade, however, and by the mid-'60s she had retired and returned to Louisville to be with her family. In 1973 she was invited to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival, and she was such a hit there that she began to record again and embarked on another European tour.
She died of cancer in Santa Monica, California, in 1981.- Writer
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Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was an influential and controversial French psychoanalyst, from a Catholic family, who were vinegar merchants. Witnessing the hideous suffering of World War I veterans prompted him to become a doctor.
Lacan's wife Sylvia Bataille was an acclaimed French actress (Renoir's Crime of Monsieur Lange and his A Day in the Country) whose first husband was the troubled surrealist novelist Georges Bataille (Ma mere, Story of the Eye - both filmed 2004). The Batailles' daughter Laurence (1930-1966) also became a psychiatrist and acted in Renoir's movie French Cancan.
Lacan himself was influenced by surrealists, including Spanish painter Salvador Dali, inspiring Lacan to devise a unique synthesis of psychiatry and Surrealism. He pushed for psychiatry to go "back to Freud's" basic principles, and his theories have been categorized as "post-structuralism." His interdisciplinary approach has been credited with his theories becoming influential outside of psychology, for example, in philosophy. His students include anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and philosopher Michel Foucault. His critics include the U.S. linguist Noam Chomsky.
Lacan much preferred public seminars to writing.- Grace Wilson was born on 13 December 1893 in Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for The Lonesome Miss Wiggs (1912) and Clouds in Sunshine Valley (1916). She was married to Tom Wilson. She died on 9 September 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Hermann Gruber was born on 19 July 1892. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Der Nachtkurier meldet... (1964), Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger (1965) and Immer wenn der Tag beginnt (1957). He died on 9 September 1981.- Johnny Stevens was born on 12 May 1912 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 9 September 1981 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Bob Askin was born on 4 April 1907 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was married to Mollie Isabelle Underhill. He died on 9 September 1981 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Sandra Tilley was born on 6 May 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She died on 9 September 1981 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.