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- Cecil Elliott was born on 25 October 1887 in Greenville, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Chinatown (1974), The Killing (1956) and The Lost Missile (1958). She died on 8 April 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
David Shelley was born on 18 July 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Martha Stewart and Libby Bennett. He died on 8 April 1982 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.- Producer
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Burt Shevelove was born on 19 September 1915 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Wrong Box (1966), ABC Stage 67 (1966) and Great Performances (1971). He died on 8 April 1982 in London, England, UK.- Champion swimmer and diver Katherine Louise Rawls was born on June 14, 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. The daughter of Bill and Sadie Rawls, Katherine learned to swim at age two in Saint Augustine, Florida and took up diving at seven in Tampa, Florida. Her sisters Evelyn and Dorothy were Florida state champion swimmers -- the sisters were known collectively as Rawls' Diving Trio -- while her brother Sonny was a champion diver. Katherine first gained national attention at age fourteen after she set a new world record in the 300-meter individual medley and beat champion swimmer Margaret Hoffman in the 220 yards breaststroke at the 1931 United States National Championships. Rawls won the silver medal in women's springboard diving at both the 1932 and 1936 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100 freestyle relay at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Moreover, Katherine was the first female athlete to win four national championships at a single meet: She won the 440 yard, 880 yard, the one mile freestyle, and the individual medley at the 1937 Amateur Athletic Union Championships. Rawls repeated this remarkable in 1938 and won an astounding thirty-three national championship titles altogether during her formidable career as a competitive athlete. Katherine was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937.
After retiring from competitive diving and swimming in 1939, Rawls went on to become a top pilot with the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, who ferried planes to combat zones for air transport command during World War II. In addition, Katherine worked as a swimming instructor for twenty years at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. In 1965 Rawls was one of the inaugural inductees into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and officially opened the organization's pool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Katherine died from cancer at age 64 on August 8, 1982. - Knud Lang was born on 7 October 1894 in Svendborg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Kys, klap og kommers (1929), Næste stop paradis (1980) and Belladonna (1981). He died on 8 April 1982.
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James Whitney was born on 27 December 1921 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Lapis (1966), Film Exercise 5 (1944) and Film Exercises 2-3 (1944). He died on 8 April 1982 in San Diego, California, USA.