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- Pascale Audret was born on 12 October 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was an actress, known for Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1975), Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967) and Countdown to Doomsday (1966). She was married to Francis Dreyfus and Roger Coggio. She died on 17 July 2000 in Cressensac, Lot, France.
- Marilee Phelps was born on 19 August 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rifleman (1958), Without Warning! (1952) and Sea Hunt (1958). She was married to Johnny Thomas Beam and Adam Williams. She died on 17 July 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mathilda Loeser Calnan was the daughter of German Jewish parents Charles Alexander Loeser (died 1928) and Olga Loeser (née Kaufmann-Lebert) and heiress to a fortune derived from the Frederick Loeser Co. Department Store of Brooklyn, New York (founded by her paternal grandfather). Her father, a Harvard graduate, was an art collector of international stature and a wealthy American expatriate in Florence, Italy. The Loeser family donated eight Cézanne paintings (out of his collection of 15 such paintings) to the U.S. government, to be hung in the White House "Green Room".
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy signed a thank you letter to Matilda (Mrs. Ronald) Calnan, dated May 2, 1961. The following month, Calnan's daughter, Philippa Calnan (later a public affairs director at the J. Paul Getty Trust), responded to the First Lady's invitation and came, in her mother's place, to the White House to view the paintings in their new setting. However, John Walker III (died 1995), chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, had surreptitiously diverted some or most of the artwork from the White House to boost the collection of the National Gallery of Art, of which he was curator.
To get them, Walker admitted he had bamboozled Matilda Calnan and former President Harry S. Truman. Walker visited Mrs. Calnan in Florence in 1950 and quizzed her on whether the Cézannes were being properly cared for, and claimed if anything happened to valuable government property, she was liable, adding that, as National Gallery curator, failure to protect the federal government's art could cause him to "end up in Leavenworth prison" for negligence, prompting Mrs. Calnan to divest herself of the paintings. Today, three of the Cézannes hang in the National Gallery and five are in the White House family quarters.
According to the White House curator's office, the eight have never been installed together as an ensemble, as the Loeser bequest directs. Mrs. Kennedy herself wrote, in an eight page missive (which she requested "Please please this letter is always to be secret", underlining the first words twice), to the curator in her final days in the White House following her husband's assassination, about how Walker had "violated poor Mr. Loeser's will."
Walker's account is contained in a 14-page brief, "My Most Infamous Intrigue: The White House Cézannes", which is now kept in the archives of the National Gallery. The events were kept quiet until 2008, when Margaret Leslie Davis' "Mona Lisa in Camelot" revealed the affair in its entirety but it never became the nationwide scandal Mrs. Kennedy had feared. - Brown Derby was born on 5 May 1914 in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Omega Factor (1979), Redgauntlet (1959) and Starr and Company (1958). He died on 17 July 2000.
- Joan Heath also appeared in 'Coronation Street' in 1960 playing May Hardman who was the first character to be killed off in the show. Her character was referred to in episode two but was first seen in episode three and for the following four episodes making her final appearance in the show on 30th December 1960.
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Georgi Georgiev was born on 26 December 1926 in Smolyan, Bulgaria. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Osmiyat (1969), Sinyata lampa (1974) and Dve pobedi (1956). He died on 17 July 2000 in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Rémy Kirch was born on 29 November 1945 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France. He was an actor, known for Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (1988), The Three Musketeers or Fencing Does Not Pay (1979) and The Little Thief (1988). He died on 17 July 2000 in Cressensac, Lot, France.
- Benedek Tóth was born on 7 December 1941 in Debrecen, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Zöldár (1965), Nyáron egyszerü (1964) and The Confrontation (1969). He died on 17 July 2000 in Keszthely, Hungary.
- Lirong Zhao was born on 11 March 1927 in Tianjin, Republic of China. She was an actress, known for Guo nian (1991), Journey to the West (1986) and Hong lou meng (1988). She died on 17 July 2000 in Beijing, China.
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Gene Portwood was born on 16 September 1933 in the USA. He was a writer and director, known for Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985), Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego? and Mysterious Island (1996). He died on 17 July 2000 in Windsor, California, USA.- William R. Corson was born on 25 September 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Judith Ellen Crumlish and Charlotte Corson. He died on 17 July 2000 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Ugo Zatterin was born on 15 October 1920 in Venezia, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen (1952) and The Mattei Affair (1972). He died on 17 July 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Neal Hitchens was born in 1957 in Milford, Delaware, USA. He is known for Search for Haunted Hollywood (1989). He died on 17 July 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Designer
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Walter Dörfler was born on 30 June 1922 in Meiningen, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Es gibt immer drei Möglichkeiten (1959), Kurzer Prozeß (1967) and Der Zigeunerbaron (1962). He died on 17 July 2000 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.