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- King William IV was born on 21 August 1765 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK. He was married to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. He died on 20 June 1837 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Jules Michelet was born on 21 August 1798 in Paris, France. Jules was a writer, known for Sorcière (2019), Belladonna of Sadness (1973) and La sorcière (1982). Jules died on 9 February 1874 in Hyères, Var, France.
- Additional Crew
August Bournonville was born on 21 August 1805 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for I Am a Dancer (1972), Pas de deux romantiques (1964) and Åbning af Operaen (2005). He was married to Helena Frederika Håkansson. He died on 30 November 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Animation Department
Aubrey Beardsley was born on 21 August 1872 in Brighton, England, UK. Aubrey is known for Between Earth and the End of Time (1995). Aubrey died on 16 March 1898 in Cosmopolitan Hotel, Menton, France.- Emilio Salgari was born on 21 August 1862 in Verona, Austrian Empire [now Verona, Veneto, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Mystery of the Black Jungle (1954), Carthage in Flames (1960) and El corsario negro (1944). He was married to Ida Peruzzi. He died on 25 April 1911 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- James Moody was born on 21 August 1887 in Scarborough, England, UK. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Music Department
- Composer
Lili Boulanger was a French composer and the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
A Parisian-born child prodigy, Boulanger's talent was apparent at the age of two, when Gabriel Fauré, a friend of the family and later one of Boulanger's teachers, discovered she had perfect pitch. Her parents, both of whom were musicians, encouraged their daughter's musical education. Her father was 77 years old when Lili was born and she became very attached to him. Her mother, Raissa Myshetskaya (Mischetzky), was a Russian princess who married her Paris Conservatoire teacher, Ernest Boulanger. Her grandfather Frédéric Boulanger had been a noted cellist and her grandmother Juliette a singer. Boulanger accompanied her ten-year-old sister Nadia to classes at the Paris Conservatoire before she was five, shortly thereafter sitting in on classes on music theoryand studying organ with Louis Vierne. She also sang and played piano, violin, cello and harp.
In 1912 Boulanger competed in the Prix de Rome but during her performance she collapsed from illness. She returned in 1913 at the age of 19 to win the composition prize for her Faust et Hélène, becoming the first woman composer to win the prize. Nadia had given up entering after four unsuccessful attempts and had focused her efforts upon her sister Lili, first a student of Nadia and then of Paul Vidal, Georges Caussade and Gabriel Fauré-the last of whom was greatly impressed by the young woman's talents and frequently brought songs for her to read. Lili was greatly affected by the 1900 death of her father; many of her works touch on themes of grief and loss. Her work was noted for its colorful harmony and instrumentation and skillful text setting. Aspects of Fauré and Claude Debussy can be seen in her compositions, and Arthur Honegger was influenced by her innovative work.- Actress
- Producer
Ida Nielsen was born on 21 August 1887. She was an actress and producer, known for Indianer-Bruden (1915), Dockan eller Glödande kärlek (1912) and The Divine Law (1914). She died on 6 December 1918.- Leonid Andreev was born on August 21, 1871 in Orel, Russia. His father, named Nikolai Ivanovich Andreev, was a member of the provincial Russian Nobility and worked as a land inspector for the government. His mother, Named Anastasia Nikolaevna Andreeva (Pazkovska) belonged to the Polish Nobility. Andreev graduated from the Orel Gymnasium, went to study law at the St. Petersburg University, and graduated from the Moscow University. His work as a crime reporter for "Moscovski Vestnik" (Moscow daily paper) provided material for his stories. He was fond of reading Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. He also red then popular Friedrich Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. After the death of his father and a painful first love experience in 1894 he was depressed and tried to shoot himself in a suicide attempt. He survived and worked hard to support his mother and his two sisters and two younger brothers. He successfully passed the Russian Law Bar in 1897 and practiced law as an attorney for five years from 1897-1902.
Andreev published his first story "Bargamot and Garaska" in 1898. It was noticed by Maxim Gorky, who promoted Andreev to the circle of writers and publishers, called Znanie (Knowledge). In 1901 his first book of stories was published by Znanie. His story "Bezdna" (Abyss, 1902), about a teenager's experience with a prostitute ending in her murder and his suicide, was attacked by Lev Tolstoy. But Andreev became an instant celebrity in Russia. After his anti-war story "Krasny Smekh" (Red Laughter, 1904), written during the Russian-Japanese war, he got involved with anti-Czar revolutionaries. Andreev was arrested and jailed by the Czar's secret service in 1905, after that he emigrated to Europe and lived in Capri, Italy as a guest of Maxim Gorky. While developing his expressionist style, Andreev wrote a bluntly realistic anti-war story "Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh" (A Story About the Seven Hung, 1909) and a realist novel "Sashka Zhegulev" (1911). After the war and the first Russian revolution of 1905, Andreev was writing a play every year. His plays were staged at the Moscow Art Theatre and theatres in Vienna, Berlin, Odessa and Kazan by directors Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Vsevolod Meyerhold among others. His best plays "Anathema", "Tsar-Golod" (Czar-hunger), "Samson v okovakh" (Samson in Handcuffs, 1914) were banned by Russian censorship under the Czar. Andreev built a big villa in Kuokkala, Finland, where many Russian intellectuals lived, just 50 km. West of St. Petersburg. He was a regular member of the circle of Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy and maintained friendship with Maxim Gorky. Leonid Andreev also was a friend of writers Aleksandr Kuprin, Vladimir Korolenko, Ivan Bunin, Vikenti Veresaev, and singer Feodor Chaliapin Sr.. During WWI he was a strong critic of German aggression. In 1917 he opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.
Leonid Andreev was the founder of the Russian Expressionism in literature. He modernized his style through experiments with spiritualism, symbolism, eroticism and mysticism, and also studied a range of occult and religious traditions. His literary parallel was the American writer H.P. Lovecraft. Andreev remained in his villa in Finland after it's separation from Russia during the Russian revolution of 1917. He was a staunch critic of the Soviet communism and wrote powerful articles about the atrocities of communists in Russia. He died on September 12, 1919, at his home in Kuokkala, Finland, at the age of 48. Some mystery was haunting his burial; his grave in Finland was later on the Soviet territory since WWII. His magnificent villa was destroyed. In 1957 Leonid Andreev's remains were exhumed and moved to the prestigious "Poet's Alley" at the "Literatorskie Mostki" (Literary burials) near the graves of Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov and other Russian cultural luminaries at the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). - Enoch Aagaard was born on 21 August 1850 in Rungsted, Denmark. He was an actor, known for En stærkere magt (1914) and Arbejdet adler (1914). He died on 22 April 1921.
- Albert T. Gillespie was born on 21 August 1888 in Hancock, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Skirts (1921), The Village Blacksmith (1916) and Villa of the Movies (1917). He died on 13 May 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Renold Dewey Jones grew up in Redondo Beach, California. He and his younger brother John P. were raised by his mother Minnie and his stepfather George Horton. R.D., as he was called, married Vera Bennett, a daughter of one of the families that founded Inglewood, California. They had two sons, Walter "Wally" Clough Jones and Roy "Rusty" Bennett Jones. Mr. Andrew Bennett ran The Granada Theatre on Market Street in Inglewood. The Granada Theatre was later damaged in a fire and eventually sold to Fox, which changed its name to The Fox Theatre.
R.D. Jones drowned while performing a stunt in Coos, Oregon, for the Lasky Studios film The Ancient Highway (1925). He was a stunt man for Jack Holt while working at The Famous Players / Lasky Studios. He was also a cameraman for director Harry Beaumont, and worked with director Cecil B. DeMille on Manslaughter (1922) as both a stuntman and cameraman. The only known footage of him is a "screenshot" promotional, shot at Lasky Studios in the 1920s, part of the Rudolph Valentino Collection DVD, by Flicker Alley. - Dwight Cleveland was born on 21 August 1871 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. He was a writer, known for The Road to London (1921), The Face of the World (1921) and What Might Have Been (1915). He died on 5 January 1926 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Oscar Nielsen was born on 21 August 1858 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Kærlighedens Firkløver (1915), Mysteriet Blackville (1916) and Telefondamen (1917). He was married to Christine Petrine Lovise Nielsen. He died on 7 February 1926.
- The Honorable Elsie Mackay was born August 21, 1893 in Simla-Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape of Strathnaver, a British colonial administrator in India who became chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Jean Paterson Shanks. Her brother, Kenneth Mackay was the 2nd Lord Inchcape. Her sister Effie Mackay, married Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, who was the British Minister to Uraguay during the 1939 Battle of the River Plate (view the 1956 film). Elsie was reportedly disinherited by her family after eloping with actor Dennis Wyndham to be married on 23 May 1917. She appeared as silent film actress Poppy Wyndham from 1919 through 1920. In a historical photo from Grand Central Palace Bldg in New York, it states that as Poppy Wyndham she was the first woman jockey in England, and in her short career on the turf she piloted no less than a dozen winners under the barriers. In the few events from which her sex did not bar her, her colors - yellow and blue - were always present, and always were heavily backed. After the marriage to Wyndham was annulled in 1922 she returned to her family and developed a career as an interior decorator, creating lavish interiors, state rooms and public spaces for her father's shipping line, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). In 1923 she launched the RMS Maloja, and went on to design much of the interiors for the four P&O "R" class ships of 1925: SS Rawalpindi, SS Ranchi, SS Ranpura and SS Rajputana, plus the RMS Viceroy of India in 1927. In early March 1928 the Daily Express discovered that Captain Hinchliffe and Mackay were preparing for a transatlantic attempt by carrying out test flights at RAF Cranwell and were staying at the George Hotel in Leadenham near Grantham. The story was silenced by Mackay's threatened legal action as she intended to depart in secret while her father was in Egypt, having promised her family she would not make the attempt. At 8:35 am on 13 March 1928 Endeavour took off from RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, with minimal fuss as Hinchliffe had told only two friends he was going and Elsie registered under the pseudonym of 'Gordon Sinclair'. Approximately five hours later, at 1.30 pm the chief lighthouse keeper at Mizen Head on the south west coast of Cork, Ireland saw the monoplane over the village of Crookhaven. A French steamer later reported seeing them still on course, but nothing else is known. A crowd of 5,000 is reputed to have waited for them at Mitchel Field, Long Island. In December 1928, eight months later, a single piece of identifiable undercarriage (a wheel with a serial number on it) washed ashore in north west Ireland. Her body was never recovered and there is a memorial stained glass window, as well as an inscription underneath the bell at Glenapp Church on the family estate marking her death as 13th March 1928.
- Iisakki Lattu was born on 21 August 1857 in Kolpino, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Kihlaus (1922) and Kihlauskylpylä (1924). He was married to Josefina Pitkänen. He died on 7 May 1932.
- One of Australia's most popular early actors, Arthur William Tauchert was of German-Irish extraction. He initially gained recognition on the vaudeville circuits of Sydney and Melbourne, first as a 'parody' singer, later as a member of various different vaudeville troupes. By 1913 he had gained a high profile from touring around the country. He was engaged by producer Raymond Longford to play 'The Bloke' in an adaptation of C.J. Dennis' humorous poem 'The Sentimental Bloke'. This film, now regarded an Australian classic, was an enormous critical and popular success, and established Tauchert's widespread fame. He often made personal appearances before screenings, reciting passages from the original poem. Although he made a triumphant move into the talking era with movies such as 'Showgirl's Luck' (1931), the Australian industry itself was in a slump. He focused his energies on radio, until failing health led him to be hospitalised. He died in 1933. He was, both in real life and onstage, an accessible 'everyman' hero, with a rough exterior but a heart of gold - an image enhanced by the charitable work he participated in for many worthy causes.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Prior to acting on stage, Higby played professional baseball in Grand Rapids. Higby played stock with Otis Skinner, Wilton Lackaye and Marguerite Clark before entering films with Universal in 1914. Higby played on screen with Douglas Fairbanks and worked with Elmer Clifton and W. Christy Cabanne. He acted throughout the 1920s, often playing the father of the film heroine. Higby died of a heart attack.- Douglas Stevenson was born on 21 August 1882 in Versailles, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Janice Meredith (1924). He died on 31 December 1934 in Versailles, Kentucky, USA.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Harry T. Morey was born on 21 August 1873 in Charlotte, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for In Honor's Web (1919), Beating the Odds (1919) and A Man's Home (1921). He died on 24 January 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Mike Ready was born on 21 August 1858 in Troy, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Rough Ridin' (1924) and Warming Up (1928). He died on 26 March 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Antonio Corrado was born on 21 August 1906. He was an actor, known for Sombras porteñas (1936) and Canillita (1936). He died on 22 February 1937.
- Ernst Gronau was born on 21 August 1887 in Memel, East Prussia, Germany [now Klaipeda, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920), Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich (1934). He died on 10 August 1938.
- Actor
William Daunt was born on 21 August 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor. He was married to Altona Stafford (actress). He died on 1 October 1938 in Wraysbury, Berkshire, England, UK.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Herbert Mundin was born on 21 August 1898 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), David Copperfield (1935) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). He was married to Ann Shaw and Hilda Frances Hoyes. He died on 5 March 1939 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Frank Isbell was born on 21 August 1875 in Delevan, New York, USA. He died on 15 July 1941 in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
Burr McIntosh born William Burr McIntosh in Ohio in 1862. Son of the President of public utility and Cleveland Gas Coal Company William Ambrose. Burr was educated at Lafayette College in Princeton where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity in 1884. became a star on Broadway stage, perhaps his best-known stage role was in 'Trilby' in 1905. Hefty, bald, intelligent man who starred and supported in many drama and comedy films, his first was the starring role Jo Vernon in Lawrence B. McGill's In Mizzoura (1914) for the All Star Feature Film Co in 1914. While perhaps best remembered as Squire Bartlett in D.W. Griffith's Way Down East (1920) starring Lillian Gish in 1920, he also appeared in many early talkies, including his last The Richest Girl in the World (1934) starring Miriam Hopkins for the RKO Film Co in 1934. During the 1930s he devoted himself to charitable causes, particularly collecting toys for poor families. He his also known for publishing a well-known magazine (Burr McIntosh Monthly) and a lecturer characterizing himself as 'The Cheerful Philosopher' also a film production owner, author, reporter and pioneering radio actor. He died from a heart attack in Hollywood in 1942 age 80- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Edmund Mortimer was born on 21 August 1874 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Broad Road (1923), The Exiles (1923) and The Arizona Romeo (1925). He was married to Louise Bates. He died on 21 May 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Aleksey Klumov was born on 21 August 1907 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Aleksey was a composer, known for Belorusskie novelly (1943). Aleksey died on 5 September 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Art Director
Robert Georg Wiesengrund was born on 21 August 1888 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Robert Georg was an art director, known for Richtet nicht (1920), Das deutsche Lied. Henkerskarren und Königsthron (1920) and Das Geheimnis des Buddha (1920). Robert Georg was married to Luise Agnes Marx. Robert Georg died on 6 September 1944 in Munich, Germany.- Walter Brugman was born on 21 August 1884 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schlagende Wetter (1923) and Brigantenrache (1922). He died on 25 August 1945 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Henry Ainley was born on 21 August 1879 in Morley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1936), Sweet Lavender (1915) and Iris (1916). He was married to Suzanne Sheldon, Elaine Titus Fearon and Bettina von Hutton. He died on 31 October 1945 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
E.J. Tait was born on 21 August 1878 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor. He died on 12 July 1947 in Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Betty Alden was born on 21 August 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fountain (1934) and The Nut Farm (1935). She was married to Edwin Maxwell. She died on 7 April 1948 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Writer Roark Bradford was born Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford in Lauderdale County, Texas, on August 21, 1896. He was descended from the first Governor or Massacvhusetts, William Bradford. He joined the US Army during World War I and became an officer in the Artillery Corps, but was never sent overseas. He left the army in 1920 and went into the newspaper business, working on the Atlanta "Georgian". In 1922 he moved to New Orleans and joined the staff of the "New Orleans Times-Picayune", becoming the paper's night editor.
He wrote a series of stories for the New York "World" about black life in the South. Those stories were eventually combined into a book, "Ol' Man Adams and His Chillun", which was turned into a play on Broadway, "The Green Pastures"--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930--and later made into a movie, The Green Pastures (1936). - Zofie Cervená was born on 21 August 1896 in Frantiskov, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Tvoje srdce inkognito (1936). She died on 1 December 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Dwight Mitchell Wiley was born on 21 August 1891 in Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bride Wore Boots (1946). He died on 5 April 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
William H. Tuers was born on 21 August 1884 in New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Racing Romance (1926), The Scorcher (1927) and The Night Owl (1926). He died on 8 September 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Miklos Laurisin was born on 21 August 1899 in Kalocsa, Hungary. He was a composer, known for Pusztai királykisasszony (1939), Az elsö (1944) and Szeressük egymást (1941). He died on 6 November 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Bill Worth was born on 21 August 1884 in California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 May 1951 in Westwood, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Thank You, America") and author, educated in public schools. He wrote special material for films, and he wrote the Broadway stage score for "Linger Longer Letty". Joining ASCAP in 1922, his chief musical collaborator was Al Goodman, and his other popular-song compositions include "Little Grey Mother", "How I Love You, Mother Mine", "Too Beautiful for Words", "Wonder If She's Lonely, Too", "We're Going Over", "Buddy", and "You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me".- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
- Casting Director
Frank Heath was born on 21 August 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for Gun Crazy (1950), Roughly Speaking (1945) and The Son of Wallingford (1921). He died on 31 October 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Location Management
László Katona was born on 21 August 1905 in Kispest, Hungary. He was an assistant director, known for Afrikai völegény (1944) and Erzsébet királyné (1940). He was married to Masztics, Mária Terézia. He died on 12 January 1953 in Budapest, Hungary.- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Aubrey Scotto was born on 21 August 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Aubrey was a director and writer, known for Be Like Me (1931), Ticket to Paradise (1936) and Happy-Go-Lucky (1936). Aubrey was married to Natalie Hyatt and Anna Marie Sorensen. Aubrey died on 24 June 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Eric Adeney was born on 21 August 1888 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1913), The Merry Men of Sherwood (1932) and Heroes of the Mine (1932). He died on 4 November 1953 in Trethevy, Cornwall, England, UK.
- Victor de Cottens was born on 21 August 1862 in Eaux-Vives, Switzerland. He was a writer and actor, known for Trois cents à l'heure (1934), The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906) and An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905). He died on 24 February 1956 in Vichy, France.
- Chicago gangster George "Bugs" Moran was born to French immigrants on August 21, 1893 as Adelard Cunin in St. Paul, MN. He left St. Paul at age 19 and moved to Chicago, where he soon hooked up with several of the city's street gangs and got a taste of the criminal underworld. He took to it readily, and before he was 21 he had been jailed three times.
Moran, like most gang bosses of the 1920s, came into his own with the advent of Prohibition in 1920. He became the head of a very successful bootlegging outfit known as the North Side Gang. In that capacity he came into conflict with Chicago mobsters Johnny Torrio and Al Capone. Torrio, who only used violence when absolutely necessary, worked out an agreement with Moran and another gangster, Charles Dion O'Bannion, but that didn't last too long. Moran and O'Bannion detested Capone, often calling him by his nickname "Scarface"--Capone was extremely sensitive about the big knife scar on his face and was known to have killed men who used that nickname in his presence--and O'Bannion eventually paid the price for his defiance of Torrio and Capone: he was assassinated by Capone/Torrio gunmen. Moran attended O'Bannion's funeral--as did Capone and Torrio--and vowed to avenge his friend's murder.
Moran's mob, and the remnants of O'Bannion's gang, engaged in a bloody war with the Torrio/Capone outfit. They tried to kill both Torrio and Capone, once when Capone was spotted getting out of his car on the street and another time when he and his associates were dining in a restaurant. Capone escaped both attempts uninjured, but Torrio was not so luckily. A carload of Moran's gunmen spotted Torrio's car on the street and opened fire, hitting Torrio at least five times. He survived, but shortly afterward decided to retire and turned over the reins to Capone.
Capone and Moran eventually reached a truce, of sorts. While there were no bloody gun battles as there had been in the past, the two continued to take potshots at each other--Moran would hijack some of Capone's bootlegging trucks, Capone would burn down one of Moran's legitimate businesses, etc. However, it wasn't long before this escalated into full-scale violence, and Moran had several of Capone's friends and associates killed. Two of them were Antonio Lombardo and "Patsy" Lolordo, who had been longtime friends of Capone. He vowed to wipe out Moran once and for all. To that end, he engineered an elaborate assassination plot against Moran and his mob at their headquarters on Clark Street in Chicago. On Feb. 14, 1929, Capone sent a squad of killers dressed as police, complete with police car, to the building, expecting to find Moran and his gang there. Unfortunately, they mistook one of Moran's gangsters for him, not realizing that Moran was in fact walking toward the building when he saw the "police car" outside of it, and he turned around and walked away. Capone's killers lined up the seven men they found in the building and machine-gunned them to death, an incident that became known as The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Moran, when asked by reporters who he thought was behind it, replied, "Nobody but Capone kills like that". His organization remained intact, but when Prohibition was repealed, his gang's fortunes declined, and a few years later Moran decided to leave Chicago. He didn't completely forgo the gangster life, however. In 1936, seven years after the St. Valentine's massacre, a hitman named Jack McGurn--aka "Machine Gun" McGurn--who was widely suspected of being the main triggerman in the massacre was murdered in a bowling alley by a squad of gunmen, and a valentine's card was left near his body. A rhort rhyming limerick about McGurn was also left with the body, and since both Moran and his mentor O'Bannion were known to favor pranks and limericks, it was widely assumed that it was Moran who had McGurn killed as payback for the 1929 killings.
Moran's fortunes declined in the 1930s. He spent several stretches in prison, for relatively penny-ante crimes like mail fraud and robbery. He was eventually sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth Federal Prison on a bank-fraud charge, and it was in Leaenworth that he died of lung cancer on Feb. 25, 1957. He was buried in the pauper's section of the prison cemetery. - Thea Aichbichler was born on 21 August 1889 in Munich, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Hunter of Fall (1936), Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau (1952) and Geliebter Lügner (1950). She died on 25 June 1957 in Munich, West Germany.
- Per Hjern was born on 21 August 1899 in Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Skåningar (1944), Ebberöds bank (1946) and Blå himmel (1955). He died on 25 November 1957 in Malmo, Sweden.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Norman Houston was born on 21 August 1887 in Dennison, Texas, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Exposure (1932), Battle of Broadway (1938) and Hearts and Spangles (1926). He died on 26 October 1958 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.