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- Maynard Jackson was the son of a minister, Maynard Jackson, Sr. and a college professor, Irene Dobbs Jackson. Although born in Texas, he spent much of his youth growing up in his mother's native Atlanta. He became the first Black mayor of Atlanta at the age of thirty-five, making him the first Black mayor of a major city in the Deep South, and one of the youngest. Armed with an exceptional intellect and a Ford Foundation Fellowship, he left David T. Howard High School in the tenth grade, entering Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1952 at the age of fourteen. By the age of eighteen he was a Morehouse College graduate. Before he became mayor of Atlanta, he had run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1968. In 1973, with Atlanta's Black population then at slightly more than fifty percent, Jackson ousted then mayor Sam Massell with more than ninety percent of the Black vote and nearly twenty percent of the white vote. Only a few years before his untimely death, he had been appointed to a high-ranking position within the National Democratic Party. He continued to live in Atlanta and, along with his daughter Brooke, ran Jackson Securities, Inc.
- Vasiliy Bykov was born on 19 June 1924 in Bychki, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Alpiyskaya ballada (1966), Alpiyskaya ballada and Tretya raketa (1963). He was married to Irina Suvorov and Nadia. He died on 23 June 2003 in Minsk, Belarus.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Michael Kalmen was born on 1 February 1943 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Elevator Girls in Bondage (1972), Bar Time: A San Francisco Soap Opera (1979) and Hatifa (1960). He died on 23 June 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.- Bodo Krämer was born on 31 January 1945 in Marienwerder, East Prussia, Germany [now Kwidzyn, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Karriere N (1974), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) and Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1976). He died on 23 June 2003 in Berlin, Germany.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Oleg Bondarev was born on 11 February 1939 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. He was a director and actor, known for V lazorevoy stepi (1971), Almazy dlya Marii (1976) and Machekha (1973). He died on 23 June 2003.- Set Decorator
- Production Manager
- Sound Department
Markos Zervas was a Greek set designer, production manager and writer. His career is inextricably linked to the course of the Finos Film company, participating in 152 of its films, even as a technician and sound engineer, in addition to set designer and production manager. Zervas was born in Athens in 1920. He collaborated with Filopoimin Finos, from 1939, then with the company Hellenic Film Studios, which was newly established and is considered the forerunner of Finos Film. Since 1952, he participated in almost all of the company's films, as a set designer, and from 1958 to 1977, when the company ceased to function as a production manager. Among the most important films in which he participated as a set designer, the following should be considered: I oraia ton Athinon (1954), No Harm's Done (1955), Laterna, ftoheia kai filotimo (1955), The Auntie from Chicago (1957) etc. While as a production manager, the most famous films of the company can be found, such as The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (1959), Makrykostas and Kondogiorgis (1960), Maiden's Cheek (1959), The Wise Guy (1962) and many more. After the end of the company, Zervas was involved in various productions of television and cinema. Finally, he counts more than 200 film credits. Zervas was also involved in painting and collage. In fact, his works were exhibited twice in Athens in 1989, and once in Ermoupolis, Syros in 2001. While, in 2003, the book: Finos Film 1939-1977 (Myth and Reality) was published, a rare document on the first years of the company, and the efforts of Finos, pre-war and post-war. However, twenty days after the presentation of this book, he dies at the age of 83, from a heart attack.- Visual Effects
Kennard Betts was born on 29 April 1964. Kennard is known for The Iron Giant (1999), Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Kennard died on 23 June 2003 in Artesia, California, USA.